LEO Round Table is an internet based law enforcement talk show. This is episode 57, recorded on 07/05/2016, with the following on-air personalities: Chip DeBlock (Host), Luke Lirot (Attorney), Mark Hopper, Charles Humphrey, David D’Agresta and Treena Lewis. We normally produce two 30 minute shows each week that are released on our YouTube channel Tuesdays and Thursdays. Due to the Independence Day holiday this week, this episode will be uploaded on Wednesday instead. In addition to your host, the other panelists (except for attorney Luke Lirot) are active or retired law enforcement officers as well.
Topic 1 concerns the 10-hour hostage crisis in Bangladesh with six (6) terrorist attackers armed with guns, machine guns and bombs. The conflict ended with twenty-eight (28) dead (including the six attackers). Among the victims were twenty (20) hostages and two (2) Bangladeshi police officers. Quoted in the story is Army Headquarters Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury
Topic 2 concerns a terrorist attack at the Istanbul Ataturk Airport where forty-one (41) people were killed and hundreds were injured. A police officer shot one of the terrorists who had an assault rifle, but the terrorist detonated explosives afterwards. There were more terrorists, more shootouts and more explosions.
Topic 3 concerns Durham (North Carolina) City Councilwoman Jillian Johnson posting on her Facebook page that “the most dangerous people with guns are cops and soldiers”. Quoted in the story is the Durham County Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge #2 and Mayor Bill Bell.
Topic 4 concerns California cops searching for the “Bikini Bandit” who is committing burglaries and stealing items while wearing a two-piece bathing suit.
Topic 5 concerns Brevard County (Florida) Sheriff’s Deputy Yousef Hafza being charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in the shooting death of Clarence Howard. This was reportedly a road rage incident. Quoted in the story is Brevard Sheriff Wayne Ivey.
Topic 6 concerns fentanyl’s growing risk to law enforcement officers and, as such, subsequent changes to drug investigations such as confiscations, testing, undercover operations, etc. Other drugs are being laced with fentanyl and a speck the size of a few grains of salt can kill a 250-pound man. Quoted in the story is Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Tommy Farmer and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) St. Louis Special Agent in Charge James Shroba.
