Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old Kansas City homeowner, faces felony charges for shooting 16-year-old Ralph Yarl twice after a mistaken doorbell ring. Represented by Ben Crump, Yarl's family confronts potential life sentences and a $200,000 bond while hosts debate the incident's racial motivations, cognitive decline theories, and broader implications for civil rights discourse. The episode concludes by questioning whether such tragedies stem from systemic bias or individual instability, leaving listeners to weigh the complexities of race, justice, and accountability in modern America. [Automatically generated summary]
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Kansas City Doorbell Shooting00:10:53
Yeah, gotta show for y'all.
You're a damn good show.
A sad show.
Somebody got shot twice and the person is 16.
Yeah.
So let's go to the news.
A homeowner in Kansas City is facing felony charges tonight for shooting a 16-year-old teenager who rang his doorbell by mistake.
The 84-year-old man now charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
It was around 10 p.m. on April 13th when Ralph Yarl was trying to pick up his younger brothers at their friend's house when he accidentally went to the wrong address about a block away.
When he rang the doorbell, Andrew Lester opened fire, hitting Yarl in the head and the arm.
The team managed to run to a nearby home for help.
He's now recovering at home after being released from the hospital yesterday.
His family, represented by civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
His family's number one priority, John, is the health of their 16-year-old child, Ralph, who had everything going for him.
He was a musician.
He was an honor role student.
He had dreams of going to Texas A ⁇ M University.
And then for simply ringing a doorbell and being profiled, he is shot in the head.
Bond is set at $200,000 to the homeowner.
The felony assault charge is punishable by up to life in prison.
That dude like fucking Slingblade.
Slingblade?
Yeah.
Hey, the Billy Ball Thornton.
I don't mean to cut nobody.
What the hell are you doing?
Is that you?
That's how he was.
Don't mean to hurt nobody.
Anyway, the dude had a machete in that movie.
Okay, let's remove it.
I don't mean to hurt nobody.
The dude just slicing people.
Yeah.
All right, so let's remove the whole racial component, which is hard because he's white and the kid's black.
Yeah, but let's try to be objective, right?
Okay, if a kid goes to a door.
Yeah, let's say he's green.
No, just he.
No, he's green.
He's the color green.
No, I'm green.
Let's do like Tom to Kill.
Time to what?
Remember that movie Time to Cool with Samuel Jackson?
Yeah.
Remember what he did?
He made everybody white.
That's how they got to jury to not send that nigga to jail.
Remember?
Man, ain't everybody seen Time to Kill?
Okay, let me start off.
Just say he's green.
Just remove the racial component.
If Say's pink, he's pink.
The boy's pink.
All right.
If somebody come to my door and they pink, I'm going to shoot the ass.
No, man, say the person at the door is pink and the guy inside the house is pink.
They both pink.
You take out the.
Just say they're both white.
Oh, no, no, no.
Say pink.
They both nobodies.
Just pick whatever race you want, all right?
Potpourri, Ravender.
And if he, if that, if that's how the store was reported, he just rang the doorbell.
And if you just ring a doorbell and Slingblade comes to the door and shoots you, once through the door, then open the door, then open the door and step out and shoot you again.
And that's what happened?
Yeah.
That's what happened.
Yeah, Slingblade needs to go to jail.
Yeah.
Nobody behaves that way.
I don't even open my door when no.
It sounds like he planned it.
He planned it.
The homeowner.
Yeah.
What's that term I'm looking for?
Premeditated?
Yeah, premeditated.
It sounds premeditated.
How is that premeditated?
Well, if a black kid comes to your, if, sorry, if a pink guy comes to your door and rings the doorbell, you look out, oh, there's a pink fella out there.
Let me get my gun.
You go get the gun, open the door, and you start shooting.
That's premeditated.
Who goes to the gore?
I mean, who goes to the door, open the door, and just start shooting?
I know you want to take out color, but there's a racial component to this story.
Yeah, it turns out, you know how when something happens to a black kid, oh, he was a good kid.
He didn't do nothing.
You know how they always say that?
Yeah, they always lying to him.
It's some badass kids.
Like what they said about Mike Brown.
This dude was robbing people for what happened to him in Missouri.
But anyway, I want to get back to this.
This kid is actually an honorable student, and he placed the curl in that.
And I think he's driving already.
He was going to go pick up his kids.
He's twin brothers.
He's going to go pick up us.
Yeah, he got a twin, right?
Yeah, you got twin brothers.
He's going to go pick up his twin brothers, man.
Oh, he wasn't a twin.
He wasn't twin.
His brothers were twins.
I think he's actually a twin.
No, you need to get your facts straight.
He was going over there to get his twin brothers.
He was not doing anything nefarious, according to the news.
If that's what happened.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's attempted murder in my book.
Yeah, I know.
But you know what?
I mean, we have to, I mean, there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, a white man might be racist and he profiled that black kid.
You should be able to say that because I call out niggas on my channel all the time.
I hold black people accountable every day.
Every day I'm talking shit about it.
What happened in Chicago with the white girl?
Yeah, the white girl who got jumped by the black guys.
There was a racial component behind that.
They attacked her because she was white.
Those black kids were racist.
Same thing here.
This dude, I mean, when someone rings my doorbell, I don't even open my door.
Every time before I open the door, I look through the keyhole because we have a lot of home invasions in Vegas.
I never open my door for anybody.
I just don't go.
Somebody ring the doorbell and you just open the door.
Got the gun and you just shoot.
Yeah, what probably happened is he looked through his keyhole, saw a black kid right there.
I'm just speculating, but went and got his gun.
Maybe he'd been watching the first 48 too much.
That's a bad representation on black people.
He's a star on that show.
Tyrone and Alin and them just starring on that show.
I had to quit watching the first 48 because it was making me racist.
Oh, God, he's 85, 84.
He might have cognitive decline.
Well, it might be racist as hell.
It might be both.
Nobody opens that door and just starts shooting black kids.
Now, if it turns out the kid was aggressive, it was a home invasion robbery going wrong.
I seriously doubt that.
I'm just saying, if it turns out to be that, then he's...
He's justified.
He's justified.
But if the kid just rang the door and he's at the wrong house and he shoots him through the door.
Yeah.
That is.
That's wrong.
Yeah.
But you know what?
Chances are just going to go to trial.
This dude's going to be crazy.
Cognitive decline.
Yeah, cognitive decline and he's crazy.
But sounds like the kids going to be all right.
They raised like over $2.5 million to go and fund me, but I would not, man, what a way to earn a couple million dollars.
Yeah, he survived, man.
Yeah.
He deserves every penny.
I just can't stand that damn attorney they got, man.
I can't stand that dude, man.
That dude.
That's a bunch of Black Lives Matter supporters outside this dude's house talking shit.
It might be turned out.
Well.
He deserves every bit of that shit.
Come on.
I mean, I can't.
Y'all know how I feel about Black Lives Matter.
I can't stand that organization.
They divide this country.
It's pure hatred.
It's nonsense.
And they lie.
And they lie all the time.
But if the way the news portrayed this event is true.
Yeah.
I mean, it's hard not to look at this and say it wasn't a racial component.
Yeah, it had to have been.
I mean, I grew up in the South.
I've went to the house.
I mean, I was selling chocolate Santa Clauses for the basketball team.
Remember that?
Yeah.
Was little kids that raised money so we could have some uniforms.
I lived in Martinsville.
You're knocking on doors.
Martin, man, would you finish a word?
You didn't even say the complete city.
Martinsville, Virginia.
I remember knock on the door and say, hey, is it who is?
Oh, I'm selling chocolate.
Hey, boy, get your black ass off my porch.
I don't want no damn chocolate Santa Claus.
And don't you ever come back over here.
I've got, don't you remember that?
Yeah, I remember that shit.
I mean, that's traumatizing.
Get your black ass off my porch.
Don't you ever come back here here.
It's traumatized, man.
It hurts too, man.
I was crying like a little baby, man.
I hated white people for a long time.
So instead of selling the chocolate Santa Claus, we just sat at home and ate the bitch.
And I was so depressed I went home and ate all of them.
Damn, good chocolate Santa Claus, man.
I just want justice to prevail.
If the story was, if it went down, I don't think he supported it.
Yeah, but if it turns out he's got mental decline and he's got Joe Biden, then can you hold him accountable?
But he profiled me.
It was a racial.
It's racial.
He shot that kid because he's black, man.
Yep, probably.
I don't know.
Probably.
I can't read minds.
Kevin, that dude might have mental cognitive decline, too.
So you think that kid's white?
He would have handled it different.
White guy with a tight and suit on.
You don't think he would have shot him too?
That dude is racist.
He's got mental disease.
There's something wrong with him.
He's shooting 16-year-old kids.
There's something wrong with that motherfucker.
How many black?
Okay, how many people went up to his door and was white?
Nothing happened.
One black kid knocked on his door.
Boom, bam, bam!
That dude is racist.
You don't know that.
Thank God the kid is okay, man.
This could have been so much.
This could have been so.
That kid could have died, man.
I hope they put your ass under the prison.
I hope they put you under the prison with Bubba.
Man, that dude old as hell.
I hope they put you under the prison in jail with a transgender bubble.