Hodgetwins - Protests After Lancaster police Shoot Knife-wielding Man
Aired: 2020-09-16
Duration: 08:30


=== Deadly Knife Charge (07:38) ===

[00:00:00]  Yeah let's start the show we got a damn good show for y'all unfortunately somebody did die So don't want to make light of his death, but it's still a damn good show The guy that died his name is uh Ricardo I was gonna say his name man.
[00:00:24]  Well say it.
[00:00:24]  Well I'm saying it and you start saying it.
[00:00:26]  I'm talking over here.
[00:00:28]  Well go ahead and do something.
[00:00:29]  The man's name was Ricardo Munoz, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
[00:00:33]  Yeah.
[00:00:34]  Long story short, don't even tell him.
[00:00:36]  Just show the video.
[00:00:39]  All right.
[00:00:39]  That's a good idea.
[00:00:41]  It's a damn good idea, ain't it?
[00:00:43]  Yeah.
[00:00:44]  Just watch the video.
[00:00:45]  Check it out.
[00:00:46]  Hundreds of protesters taking to the streets in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, just outside of Amish Country, after police fatally shot 27-year-old Ricardo Munoz.
[00:00:55]  The Lancaster District Attorney's Office now saying he threatened officers with a knife.
[00:01:00]  David Lee Miller is live with more on the investigation and the unrest.
[00:01:04]  David Lee.
[00:01:07]  Trace, let me give you something of a timeline.
[00:01:09]  This incident began Sunday afternoon at about 4.15.
[00:01:13]  Police were called to a home for what was described as a domestic dispute.
[00:01:17]  A woman said her brother was becoming aggressive with her mother, and that is when this incident began to unfold.
[00:01:26]  The first officer on the scene approached the home, and that's when the conflict occurred.
[00:01:31]  The officer's body camera captured what took place.
[00:01:34]  What you're about to see is disturbing.
[00:01:36]  It is also very brief.
[00:01:38]  We have frozen the video at the precise moment the officer fired his weapon.
[00:01:43]  A man identified as 27-year-old Ricardo Munez chased the officer.
[00:01:47]  Investigators say based on the video and preliminary information, he had a knife in his right hand.
[00:01:52]  The officer then fired a shot, killing Munez, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
[00:01:57]  The officer, who has not been identified, has been placed on administrative leave.
[00:02:00]  Protesters, angry about the shooting, soon took to the streets.
[00:02:04]  They gathered at a police station, locking arms, ignoring warnings to disperse.
[00:02:07]  Bricks were thrown and a county car damaged.
[00:02:10]  Police then used tear gas to break up the demonstrators.
[00:02:13]  The city's police chief appealed for people not to resort to violence.
[00:02:19]  Any loss of life, regardless of how it happens, is devastating.
[00:02:22]  It's devastating for everybody involved.
[00:02:24]  It's devastating for our police department, the families, and our community.
[00:02:28]  It's absolutely devastating.
[00:02:30]  And, you know, we need the community to come together and we want the community to stay calm, stay at peace.
[00:02:39]  And according to court documents, one year ago, Munez was arrested for stabbing at least two people.
[00:02:45]  And then apparently he held the knife to his own throat when the police tried to intervene.
[00:02:52]  He was now awaiting trial on four counts of aggravated assault.
[00:02:58]  If you're that police officer, you got two options.
[00:03:01]  You can either shoot the man or you can get on your knees and start praying.
[00:03:05]  I would shoot him, but that's just me, though.
[00:03:08]  A lot of people think I'm kind of crazy like that.
[00:03:14]  I mean, what else the officer is supposed to do?
[00:03:17]  Yeah, run, get away from me, and just take off running.
[00:03:22]  You know, just let's just narrow down the facts.
[00:03:25]  This is a domestic disturbance.
[00:03:28]  Majority of the time when cops are injured or killed, a majority of the time it's going to be a domestic disturbance call.
[00:03:34]  This guy was getting into with his mom from what his sister is saying.
[00:03:38]  They call it cops.
[00:03:39]  Cops show up.
[00:03:41]  His sister comes outside.
[00:03:43]  You could hear a little brief verbal response telling her to get back.
[00:03:47]  He comes out of the house running.
[00:03:49]  With a knife.
[00:03:50]  Red sprint.
[00:03:52]  Running.
[00:03:52]  The officer has a split second to make a decision.
[00:03:55]  Yeah, most people in this situation, if you got a gun, you're still dead because most people can't draw that weapon that fast.
[00:04:01]  Yeah.
[00:04:02]  So this officer's highly trained.
[00:04:05]  I mean, but okay, y'all protesting this man's death.
[00:04:08]  Yeah.
[00:04:08]  Why?
[00:04:10]  I mean, what would you do?
[00:04:13]  Why are you protesting his death?
[00:04:14]  He's the reason why he's dead.
[00:04:16]  Not because of the police officer.
[00:04:18]  He put that police officer in a situation he had to defend his life.
[00:04:22]  Yeah.
[00:04:22]  I mean, seriously.
[00:04:24]  What could the police officer have done?
[00:04:27]  Throw a net on him.
[00:04:28]  Maybe he could have did that.
[00:04:29]  He could have went and just take a net and just throw it over.
[00:04:31]  Yeah, y'all think he predator?
[00:04:33]  He got one of them damn nets.
[00:04:34]  He can get shooting.
[00:04:37]  You think he's Spider-Man?
[00:04:39]  He just going to shoot a web over him?
[00:04:41]  The dude.
[00:04:42]  This is a human being.
[00:04:43]  He's mortal.
[00:04:44]  He's not a damn comic book.
[00:04:47]  Y'all protesting, attacking the police station?
[00:04:50]  I can see if the cop went in the house or the guy came outside and the dude had his hands up and the cop pulled up and shot him.
[00:04:57]  But no, that wasn't the case.
[00:04:58]  The cop was in danger of losing his life.
[00:05:02]  I could see if Mr. Ricardo Munoz was walking down the street walking his dog.
[00:05:09]  Yeah.
[00:05:10]  Just minding his own business.
[00:05:11]  Don't want to stick saying fetch.
[00:05:13]  Yeah, playing fetch with his dog, feeding pigeons in the park or something like that.
[00:05:19]  And then the cops come up there, gets into an altercation with him.
[00:05:23]  No.
[00:05:24]  His sister called the cops because he was getting aggressive with his mom.
[00:05:29]  If the sister called a cops on her brother, this has got to be bad in that house.
[00:05:35]  For me to call the cops on my son or my older brother or anybody, a close person of mine, it's got to be real bad because I don't like getting the cops involved for little petty stuff.
[00:05:44]  Yeah, it's got to be crazy in that damn house for the call.
[00:05:48]  And you can see how crazy it really was.
[00:05:51]  The cops get there.
[00:05:52]  This dude come out the damn house like Carl Lewis with a damn knife in his hand, holding it like it's a damn baton, like he on his damn last lap to the damn gold medal.
[00:06:05]  And did y'all see?
[00:06:06]  The cop was even reluctant into going to the house.
[00:06:09]  Yeah.
[00:06:10]  He didn't even want to go in there because he didn't have backup.
[00:06:12]  He was there by himself.
[00:06:14]  He didn't even go in the house.
[00:06:15]  Also, this guy had prior history.
[00:06:17]  I think it was within the last couple of years.
[00:06:18]  He stabbed like three or four people.
[00:06:20]  So this dude loves stabbing.
[00:06:23]  This dude has got a stabbing people.
[00:06:29]  He's prone to stabbing and he's still got that prone to stabbing.
[00:06:32]  He comes out of the house running.
[00:06:34]  And y'all here protesting, tying up the police station.
[00:06:37]  And you know what?
[00:06:38]  His police record has nothing to do with it.
[00:06:40]  He could have been a damn choir boy.
[00:06:41]  He could have been going to school to become a preacher.
[00:06:44]  If he comes out of the house with a knife and he's charging, you got two options.
[00:06:49]  You either can get on your knees and pray or you can put a couple rounds inside of him.
[00:06:55]  Yeah, because you know that cop has a life also.
[00:06:58]  I'm sure he has family, people that care about him.
[00:07:01]  You expect the cops to no, no, no.
[00:07:06]  Just take that knife?
[00:07:07]  No, he's got kids.
[00:07:08]  He's got a family.
[00:07:08]  He's got a wife.
[00:07:09]  He's got a mom, a dad.
[00:07:11]  His life matters too.
[00:07:14]  Crazy world.
[00:07:16]  And y'all out there protesting a man who charged a police officer with a damn butcher knife.
[00:07:23]  Does that make any sense to y'all?
[00:07:26]  I mean, does it?
[00:07:27]  I mean, it makes sense to me.
[00:07:30]  That's why they're out there protesting because the media's done a great job in making cops out to be the bad people.
[00:07:37]  Well, that's not necessarily true.

=== Media Frames The Narrative (00:50) ===

[00:07:39]  What?
[00:07:42]  It's some truth to that.
[00:07:43]  It's just a majority of people are intellectually weak and unable to think for themselves.
[00:07:48]  Well, the media knows that, so they frame stories.
[00:07:52]  Yeah, they frame stories.
[00:07:53]  They spend stories in a way to make them think that cops out there hunting down people.
[00:07:57]  Yeah.
[00:07:58]  I mean, if you just look at it.
[00:08:00]  That's why this election is so important.
[00:08:03]  We got to make sure we defend our police.
[00:08:05]  And the only way you can do that is vote for Trump.
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