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It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Today, I want to talk about the judicial system. Let's get started. Now, if you know me, you know I do not like things that are controversial.
I don't like talking politics. I don't like that yucky stuff. I am more of the light and airy fun and positive type person, because that's just who I am. I like to talk about those types of things.
But I could not get away from all of the stuff happening. And that's just, you know, for lack of other words, or better words to describe it. It's just a bunch of stuff happening out there dealing with the judicial system. Now, whether it's people in courtrooms or people in jail, it's a lot.
And so I want to talk about those things today. I'm going to start with the first one. I'm not going to mention the accuser's name. Instead, I'm going to speak in terms of the victims.
So Rosenbaum, Hubert, engage, whose last name I'm just not even going to begin to try to slice and dice. But these three men were shot by a 17-year-old who crossed state lines. So that kind of gives you an idea of who I'm talking about in this situation. Now, I don't understand why we just can't take this case and add a little bit of root cause analysis to it.
I'm sitting here and I'm listening to court drama, because I have no other way to describe it, other than just drama, to hear this drama where people are saying, I was afraid for my life. Well, let's use a little root cause analysis on this. OK? Let's sprinkle some on top.
Root cause analysis. We have three people that have been shot. Why were they shot? Because the 17-year-old shot them.
Why did the 17-year-old shoot them? Because he was coming to the state to try to defend people's property. Why was he coming to the state to defend people's property? Because there were some riots going on.
And for some reason, he felt like he needed to help people out, even though nobody asked him to. Now, let's go back some more. How did he get there to shoot those three people? His mother drove him there.
Why did his mother drive him there? Hey, if I know, that makes no sense to me. That one right there says, you know what? She needs to be on trial as well.
But it all boils down to the fact that if this 17-year-old had stayed in his state where he resided and not crossed state lines with an assault rifle, calling himself going to save people, I guess, in a sense. He's going to protect people's property. These three men would not have been shot by him. He wouldn't be in the courtroom right now.
And we would not be talking about this situation. So it's just one of those things where I don't understand how we get all the way down the line to now talk about, well, how did this take place? And did this person have a gun? And did they point at you to make you feel like you had to fear for your life, you to shoot them?
If you had not gotten in that car and gone there in the first place, we wouldn't be having this discussion. So let's go back to that and just call a spade a spade. The second situation that I'd like to bring to light here on today's episode is the one dealing with the three people who are involved in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Let's sprinkle some root cause analysis on this.
Let's get to the roots. One of the defendants had the nerve to say it was a life or death situation. The sad thing is, I agree with them. It was a life or death situation.
But this life or death situation was brought on by you because you brought the gun to the situation. You could have stayed at your house and picked up a phone instead of picking up your gun. You could have dialed 911. You could have told your dad and the other people, hey, this is a bad idea.
Let's not do this. Let's find a different way. If you so call have seen him in the neighborhood before, then why not tell the police, hey, keep an eye out. I've seen him this often.
And I think he might be doing this. You are not a policeman. So let's not pretend to be one. Yeah?
Root cause analysis. Why were you at that spot in the road fighting with him over the gun? Because you got in your truck and you followed him to that place and you approached him with a gun? If somebody is approaching you with a gun, are you gonna wait for them just to shoot you?
Because if I'm on foot, I can't move any faster than what my two feet can take me. So what is it that you expect me to do if you approach me with a gun? If we happen to be tussling over the gun and you pull the trigger, I sure is taking about to let go of the gun now because that tells me one, you got the courage to shoot the gun at close range, not knowing which one of us is gonna get shot. In this case, I'm out of our got shot in the chest twice.
So the first shot wasn't good enough when you shot me. You had to shoot me again. Yeah, root cause analysis. Let's go back to the beginning of this whole process of what happened.
If you stayed at home, you would not be in the courtroom right now. You would not have to explain what you did and why you did it because the only thing you would have done was pick up the phone and dialed 911. I don't understand why this is so complicated. The last one that I wanna talk about is Justice for Julius.
In the 11th hour, literally seems like, Governor Stitt makes the statement. After a prayerful consideration and reviewing materials presented by all sides of this case, I have determined to commute Julius Jones's sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Now, it's great that they're not going to take him and execute him today, but I'm listening to what the decision was and it was against what the pardon and parole board recommended. This decision that the governor made, the condition of granting this clemency, is that he's never going to be eligible to apply for or be considered for a commutation, a pardon or parole for the rest of his life.
And the whole idea of the situation is that people have been saying this man has been wrongly accused from the jump. So why is it that you would go this route other than the fact that they're saying that had he not done it this way, he would have been immediately up for being able to be paroled. And I can imagine as an elected official, you probably feel some type of way about your position and you wanna find a way to keep it. And so you kinda look at the scale and see like, well, who do I have on this side?
And who do I have on this side? And who am I going to upset the most if I say this? Well, what about if I say that? Okay, so I'm going to kind of make everybody feel a little bit better and I'm gonna say this for him, but I'm gonna say this for the people who are like, oh no, this can never happen.
A man died, he's in jail for the killing. So why are we even still talking about this? When the whole reason why we are still talking about this is because of that whole Innocence Project and it's come out on a number of occasions where people have come and said, and people don't even know each other, they've said that the other guy is the one that was like, yeah, I set him up, but nobody wants to hear that. And there are things where Julius, Julius is the lawyers that were working for him, how they didn't prosecute it the way that they should have.
They didn't ask the questions that they should have. They didn't put the right people on the stand to make the statements that they needed to corroborate the story and to get their point across. So it's like, man, so I guess this is a small win. And we just got to keep on fighting.
Still got to fight for justice for Julius because when you look at the different things that were said and you look at the evidence, it's kind of shaky. Thank you for joining me for today's episode. Guess what? I want to hear from you.
Am I oversimplifying things by wanting to apply root cause analysis to all of this or is there some validity to it and maybe we should change the court system? Let me know. Whether you are agreeing with me or disagreeing, I'd like to hear what you have to say because I like conversations. Now I don't want to pick her back and forth.
I'm not there for that, but if we want to talk, if we want to talk and have a conversation, I'm here for it. So you know where to find me, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube at hevat, that's at h-g-e-v-e-t-t-e-t-e or just look for the hashtag tweet trends. Have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing you back here again on Tuesday.