LEO Round Table is an internet based law enforcement talk show. This is episode 11, recorded on 01/25/2016, with the following on-air personalities: Chip DeBlock (Host), Luke Lirot (Attorney), Mark Hopper and Bret Bartlett. We produce two 30 minute shows each week that are normally released on our YouTube channel Tuesdays and Thursdays. In addition to your host, the other panelists (except for attorney Luke Lirot) are retired or active law enforcement officers as well.
Topic 1 concerns Black Lives Matter protesters shutting down the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California as they protest police violence and demand racial equality. The California Highway Patrol arrested 25 protesters on charges including false imprisonment, public nuisance, unlawful assembly and obstructing free passage. The protesters were from Black Seed and chained themselves and their vehicles across the westbound lanes of traffic during rush hour on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Protest organizer and spokeswoman Mia Birdsong was quoted in the article.
Topic 2 concerns a Facebook post made during the MLK holiday weekend. User J.R. Roth posted in reference to a Black Lives Matter MLK Justice Rally and urged drivers to run over Black Lives Matter protesters. The post also told drivers how to get away with it so that they would not be convicted by a jury. According to WCCO, complainant Andrew Henderson took screenshots of the post and complained to the St. Paul Police Department (Minnesota) Internal Affairs division because he believed the poster was Sgt. Jeff Rothecker.
Topic 3 concerns a user on REDDIT.COM known as Greggo325. In detailing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge protest by the Black Lives Matter movement, he decided to investigate the groups demands. Out of the 8 black men (Richard Perkins, Mario Woods, Yuvette Henderson, Amilcar Lopez, Alex Nieto, Demouriah Hogg, Richard Linyard and O’Shaine Evans) whom the group claims were murdered by Oakland police since 2015, he could not find one instance where someone was ruthlessly gunned down by police as protesters and many media sources portray.
Topic 4 concerns the Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime & Incarceration organization’s push for members of the House and Senate to adopt the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (S. 2123). The bill is sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and would reduce federal mandatory minimum sentences for some gun and drug crimes. Republican Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia) is sponsoring a similar measure known as the Sentencing Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 3713) in the House. Some of the supporters and member of the group are: Cook County (Illinois) Sheriff Thomas Dart; former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Robert B. Fiske Jr.; former Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives B. Todd Jones; Houston (Texas) Police Chief Charles A. McClelland Jr.; Seattle (Washington) Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole; former Attorney General Richard L. Thornburgh and Denver (Colorado) Police Chief Robert C. White.
