The Breakfast Club - This Weeks Rewind with Ben Crump, Tezlyn Figaro and Nadia Hallgren

Episode Date: June 19, 2022

The Breakfast Club 30 is a rewind episode of the week. This week check out our interviews with Ben Crump, Tezlyn Figaro, Nadia Hallgren, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Find your next favorite podcast on iHeart Radio. This week, it's The Breakfast Club 30. Morning, everybody. It's DJ, MV, Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God, Tess as well. She's been here the last two days, so you part of the breakfast club. Yes! We got some special guests joining us today. Tess is back again and we also have Nadia Hall-Green, welcome. Thank you.

And of course, attorney Ben Crump, who has a new documentary called Civil. That's out June 19th. Well, good morning, guys, and thank you for joining us. Hey, thank you, King, for having us. Now, for people that don't know, break down what is Civil, what it's about, and tell us all about it. Certainly, Angie Lee, I am always an obvious, so I say that publicly. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.

Civil is a Netflix documentary coming out on Juneteenth. It was directed by the young, brilliant director Nadia Hallgren. This African Puerto Rican, all kind of flavors in there. Give it up for Nadia. Thank you. Thank you. She did Becoming also. Yeah.

And she did Ida's Fighting Words, Ida Rodriguez. Yes, thank you so much. I mean, she is it. Her vision is so incredible. I mean, it followed me for 18 months during a pandemic where we had not heard of George Floyd when they started filming. We had heard of Ahmaud Arbery, but hadn't heard of Breonna Taylor at the time. And she is capturing all this footage intensely while we're dealing with these families and so many other things like banking while black, environmental racism, fighting for the black farmers.

And she, more than anybody else, just just understood the moment this isn't just a documentary for today this is a documentary as kenya barris and i who's the producer uh created black and said this is a documentary for our children yet unborn i'm so glad you're here because there was a call that we got i don't't know if you were here, Envy, last week, but somebody called in. They were talking about Larry Nassar and how there's this lawsuit against the FBI because of Larry Nassar and how they knew about the cases against him, but they didn't act on it. And somebody called in and they were like, well, this is disgusting. What is money going to do? Why do victims need money if they're truly

victims and this is just a money grab so i know this is something that you as a civil rights attorney can speak to so i would love for you to talk about that when people try to say oh they're just trying to get some money or he's just chasing money and trying to fatten his wallet i try not to listen to the haters much because i understand my mission, my queen Tess, she said, no, you got to go back out on crump. I'm like, I don't have the time because I'm so focused on the mission. The mission is trying to say to people psychologically and consciously to American society that no, no, we matter. We deserve equal justice. When you have a wrong against us, we have a right, not only based on the Seventh Amendment of the United States Constitution, but just based on common sense.

We have a right to send the message that you can't do this to us and get away with it. I'm representing a lot of black and brown people in Los Angeles County at McLaren Hall which was a children's shelter in Los Angeles for 50 years black and brown children were being raped and sexually molested and the county just looked the other way it's been all these years and now California because of things that were happening in Boy Scouts and Catholic the Catholic Church said we're gonna give you three years. Anybody who was molested and those things

when you were seven or eight years old, you have a right to come forward. Think about those people. Yeah, the only thing you can get is money. You can't go back and give them their innocence back. But when you have that civil compensation, it makes the county pay. It makes the corporations pay and those type of things and like we say on

the trailer of civil if anything america understands it's money capitalism it's capitalism 101 and when you start making people pay then they change their conduct or you keep going until it becomes financially prohibited for them to be able to afford to treat black people and brown people like second-class citizens now let me chime in on that though right quick because he gave you the martin the the i always say i'm malcolm and he's martin before you go yeah because you know i'm about to go there on the money because a lot of times people don't have the knowledge right so sometimes people call here or i see articles and they say attorney benjamin crumb is an ambulance chaser right he chases just to make money or to fatten his pockets right and when tez came up here she spoke so eloquently about you don't solicit

anybody yeah people have to reach out to you and many times people reach out to certain other attorneys or other other anywhere anybody else and nothing gets done yeah and they don't see it get done to until you step on the stage 500 calls a day so now yeah now talk your yeah i'm about to talk my so yeah so to the dumbos in the comments i'm speaking directly to them and again this is not a reflection of attorney crump these are my own statements when people say it's not about it's all about the money first of all that makes no sense only five percent of attorney crump's cases are police brutality that's number one nobody talks about the hundred million dollar lawsuits that he's been able to give for folks who are alive and well the 600 million dollar lawsuits he's been getting alive and well america or any government

has never paid uh for the value of black life and so i find it amazing that the same people in the comments that will sue mcdonald's for a slip and fall feel that so i find it amazing that the same people in the comments that will sue mcdonald's for a slip and fall feel that it is not it makes no sense if someone takes your life and you feel that that family should not deserve compensation for their children that's been left behind what are they supposed to do exchange roman noodles like in the pen the only thing we have is the money compensation but to ignore the fact that attorney crumb pushes for the criminal uh punishment to ignore the fact that policy actually comes out of these cases. When you talk about the Breonna Taylor law, when you talk about the Andrew Andre Hill

law, when you talk about 100 cities that have now enacted police reform since the murder of George Floyd, it has been because Attorney Crump and a few others, and I'm saying a few just to be generous, have brought these cases to light. There are billions of dollars every year that are settled based on police brutality i ask people why is it that your local attorney and your hometown never wants to take these cases why is it it's not certainly not for lack of advertisement every commercial you hear every day is if you've been injured in an accident if you've been in an accident so why don't they take those cases angela that's the question i ask people why don't you see them well the answer is in which you point this out in

the film they do not want to upset their da they don't want to upset the governor they don't want to upset their chief of police they do not want to be blackballed and send the death threats for pennies and i'm gonna say this and i'll be quiet when you look at these cases that attorney crump takes or any civil attorney these cases take years two three four five six years you don't earn a dollar so i would ask anybody in the comments are you willing to work for 40 hours a week for three four years straight maybe maybe not get compensation at the end it just makes zero sense it doesn't add up the math doesn't math so when you hear those comments ambulance chasing no everybody say that tells their loved one in the ambulance.

I'll use one story. My Robert, a case I worked on in 2015. The stepfather, my Robert said, do not. I don't want to be because the family called me first because their son was being dragged all through the media. They called me first. I don't want being cramped. I don't want none of that coming down because he's an ultra conservative. Tulsa, Oklahoma, ultra conservative black man, but a conservative.

But once his his his son got started getting dragged in the media then it was can you call attorney because nobody was willing to stand and change the narrative the narrative that has changed in the media affects the jury it affects how they make those decisions and so now seven years later they're passing the monroe bird law and that's the stuff that people don't keep up with the free iHeartRadio app has over 250,000 podcasts to explore. Yes.

This is The Breakfast Club 30, part of Sunday Night Podcast on iHeartRadio. We're still kicking it with Attorney Benjamin Crump, Teslin Figaro, and Nadia Hall-Green. Does that discourage you at all?

Yeah. Like, no matter what, you out there to do good, right? Yeah. And then, so when you got people and people that look like you that you're fighting for and they go at you does that discourage you at all envy i try to be a student of history thurgood marsh is my personal hero martin and malcolm these are

the people i emulate people don't understand that they were hated mostly by black people you know we have this revisionist history now that everybody loved them. But when they were at their peak, they were the most hated people in America by both white and black people. And so I always try to remember that and say, God, I know what mission you put on my shoulders, and I'm going to use these blessings, these influences to try to affect a better world for our children.

And I'm never discouraged by anything. As we say in the film, don't be a spectator. If you feel you can do something, get in the arena. The easiest thing in the world to do is to sit home and be a critic and don't do anything else. The hero is the person who puts themselves out there, risk their reputation, their family safety, and even their life and say, this is about more than just me. We have these banking while black cases where we have recovered millions, hundreds of millions of dollars for black people. Over 200 million to be exact. Let's put the number out there so they can know in the comments and it's it's so astonishing to me envy and angie

that people will say oh it's just about the money what do you think banks and corporations are doing things for are they doing it just for uh charity are they doing it just because they had nothing better to do no they're doing it for the money. And so when we take on Wells Fargo, who we're currently fighting now because they were denying black people mortgages during a pandemic where the government had gave an opportunity. And I digress. I got to say this, y'all. Absolutely. During the pandemic, because they were worried about the economy, the government gave historic incentives to decrease the interest rate for home loans lower than they had been in 75 years. Y'all understand for poor people, middle class people, the quickest way to gain wealth and equity is to be able to purchase a home and pass something on to your children and their children. That's how you get wealth accumulated.

Well, even with all of this, Wells Fargo was denying black people. White people were getting incredible incentives to increase their wealth by saying you got a 2% interest rate. You might save a million to $2 million just because you were able to refinance. They said no to black people. And so now I can worry about the Negroes in the comments. So I can go say, no, Wells Fargo, you probably stopped black people from getting a billion dollars in equity. So guess what Ben Crump going to do? I don't care what you say.

I'm going to get those black people that billion dollars. But Nadia, let's talk to you because this is a spicy room. If you haven't seen this, right? I'm a white filmmaker in the corner as always. So let's talk about, you know, you directing this. And what made you want to do this film? Like most of us, I was sitting home during that time when everything was happening America the

pandemic George Floyd's murdered and I'm like I'm a filmmaker I need to be out there doing something and then I get a call from Kenya Barris and he's like I've been working on something with Ben Crump we want to make a documentary do you want to get involved so grab the camera and just got on the road with Ben and I just knew that this was a moment to document history and what was happening in America and you also show Ben Crump's family, his mom. Now, why was that important in framing this story? One thing I thought was so special when I met Attorney Crump was just who he is as a person, as an individual, his values, you know, at the highest standard and where that came from. Was that hard for you to expose that part of your life? Because that's not something you ever do.

It's very hard to expose your personal life. I will say this. My mom was here at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere. And we grew up in the projects. My mother raised me and my two brothers and her baby brother working two jobs. I mean, doing everything for us and uh it was so beautiful for my mother to see what she did i mean standing ovation and then out of times square they got netflix really has invested in this movie and they have a billboard 80 foot off the ground on 42nd and broadway and for my mama to say we started in

the projects and now we're here i mean it's just a testament to a strong black woman absolutely who said i won't let this world destroy my children and so my mom and my wife my daughter everybody in this film they just kept it real. They kept it too real. How does your family deal with it? Because it's like anything else. I mean, if you could just take all the negativity, it's all good. But it bleeds into your wife.

It bleeds into your kids. And then, you know, Tez was talking the other day about the death threats. Yeah. So how does your family deal with it? How are they okay? It's hard, obviously, as adults. We understand what we're doing. My nine-year-old daughter watched the film for the first time yesterday. And she said, Daddy, you got a death threat?

And she was very concerned about it. Nine years old. And so we had that conversation about, baby, Daddy's out here fighting for you to have a better world and sometimes people don't want to see our black children have an equal opportunity at life we have to fight for our rights we can never take stuff for granted and she was like but you didn't do anything wrong. I said, baby, I know that. And you will learn that some people feel that they're superior to us because the color of their skin. And that's always a difficult conversation to have with young people because they want to see the best in the world. She was asking me questions. Man, she is terrified by these school shootings.

I think we all are. Your children, they have to deal with that trauma. What happens, Daddy, if it happens in our school? You know, so we talk about those things. I think about how my wife, my brothers, everybody in their mind, they are prepared that it could happen and we have to protect your family when you're on the road so much i mean they're constantly checking on them and everything and that's the other side that tess was talking about my law partners now we don't make that much money doing police brutality we make our money from doing mass toys and class action work stuff

that you know is going up against these corporate titans this police brutality civil rights work is something you do because you care nobody does civil rights work to get rich it's the least profitable division in my law firm i pray so much that we can close down the police brutality division of the Ben Crump law firm because then that would mean Trayvon would get to live because somebody there profiled him. Ahmaud Arbery. I mean, all these young black people in the film.

Now he has a part in a 15-year-old, an 18-year-old, and a 19-year-old in a week's time. All get killed by the police. Completely unjustified. But if we can somehow have them look at our children like they look at their children,

then our children will get to live. And that's what I pray for, man. That's what I'm fighting I've made enough money I'm going to be okay my law firm would rather I just stop doing the civil rights they're like you did enough Crump

we can make money a lot easier and more of it if you would just quit doing this civil rights work but I'm like then I would be selling out my soul no it's about fighting for our children man i heart radio for podcast discovery this is the breakfast club 30 here we go your chance to hear the biggest trending podcast each week from the free i heart radio app as a kid i really do remember having these dreams and visions, but you just don't know what is going to come for you.

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we spoke about earlier, just this idea that civil law and criminal law are actually two different things. And we were surprised in this film when we showed it to people and they didn't understand it. So just to give people a basic understanding of how the law works as well. So it's an educational

tool. But it's really to bring people in and show behind the scenes of what these cases are really like other outside of the press conferences and the news cycle. Taz you want to curse anybody out anything else? I don't think I want to curse anybody out. You got to have the final word. I just think I'll just echo you know. Can I say this before you say the final word it is important that people understand civil law and criminal law. Yeah. Because the prosecutors, I think, intentionally sometimes lose these cases.

We have never lost a police brutality case, but people sometimes can't distinguish the two. And so I think Nadia does a good job of reminding people what we should have learned in seventh grade civics class, that the government is the only people who can prosecute you and put you in jail and then the seventh amendment says if you've had a wrong that you believe has been put upon you you have a right to sue them and if the jury agrees with you you are entitled to. And the law has some reason for that because they don't want people trying to solve their disputes in the street by shooting and killing one another. No, no. You come to the court of law.

And if a jury agrees, then the only thing we can give you is monetary damage. That's the accountability. That is the accountability. And before Tess gives her final word, I do want to say that I know you've been inspired by Thurgood Marshall and you speak on it all the time. But I feel like after seeing this, kids will be inspired by you. And that's the thing that will make the next generation want to become active, become attorneys, become civil rights attorneys and make sure that they do what's right. Absolutely. We appreciate you.

Thank you. Tess, Tess, Tess. I'll close this. It We appreciate you. Thank you. I drank a sip of the positivity water, so I will leave on a positive note. I'm encouraging me to be cuss cuss out. I will say this, and I talked about this in my last Breakfast Club interview on my push the line training that's coming up, politics until something happens. I want to give a quick shout out to Tex66866. Push the line to 66866 what is

that about it is about getting in the fight what people should get from this documentary at the end is ben crump says get into the arena i know who i am and i know whose i am and what does that really mean you got three ways to get involved now you can just be in the comments or you can get involved on the criminal side to push for that folks get arrested, to push to end qualified immunity, like what happened in New York City, by the way, like what happened in Colorado, by the way. You can talk about making sure folks get arrested. You can talk about the protest side. You can talk about the punitive damages side, which is what Attorney Crump does. Or you can talk about the policy, which is what I talk about, which is is over 100 cities have passed

some level of police reform that nobody talks about. We still have to push on the federal level for the George Floyd-Justin Policing Act, but over 100 cities have made some difference. The bottom line is you have every opportunity to be involved. My logo, Push the Line, it has each person pushing,

one pushing the P, the U, the S, and the H. Nobody's paying attention to what's going on beside them. There's a child on the side that is watching with their fist up watching what it is that we're doing so you can push or you can talk in the bible whether you are believing i'm only talking to the believers it says that at the end you know we talk about who's the goat who's the goat who's the greatest of all time we love throwing that around in hip-hop but in the end there is going to become a time where the goat will be separated from the sheep what is the sheep people say the sheep is who follows and who does what man does but in the word of god it says that the sheep is about the shepherd's business so you are either going to be about for the least of these are you going to be one of the

goat that are not here to serve those who have been in prison to serve those who have been disenfranchised to serve those who have been in prison, to serve those who have been disenfranchised, to serve those who have been marginalized. And when it's time to make that accountability, and if I'm wrong, then I don't have nothing to worry about. If I just disappear into existence, fine. But what if I'm right, DJ Envy? If I'm right, there's going to be the question, what did you do? And the answer won't be, well, I was in the DM.

I told Ben he should do this. I told Tessa, she said, what did you do for the least of these? You've been challenged right now to do something. One of those three, four things. Don't worry about what Ben doing. Get in the arena and get your squad on. It's plenty of people that's talking from the stands. We talked about that Friday.

Everybody at the game. But guess what? We don't all play the same position. I've never once seen LeBron James turn around to the stands and say, what y'all think I should do? Should I go this way? Attorney Crump got to focus on playing the game. And then you got people like me

that's on the sideline, on the bench, cheering them on. Let's go, let's go, let's go. I was a cheerleader all through school. My job was to say, let's go, but to also challenge at the same time, say, Attorney Crump, I don't really like that. I'm not feeling that. But I'm on the court in the game. So if you just in the stands talking, you just in the stands talking, let's start walking

and let's be about our business. There you go. Civil is out this Sunday, Thursday, June 19th, Juneteenth. Definitely check it out. And we appreciate you guys for joining us. Hashtag civil and Twitter. There's only one phone call that when they call, we always come to work and open up. And that's when attorney Benjamin Crump calls.

It doesn't matter if we on vacation, if it's a pandemic, if none of the workers, if Angelique's out, I'm out, Charlamagne's out, you get here. Hey, Amber, we love you, King. We love you. Y'all are the voice for our people. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.

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It's the Breakfast Club, bitches. Bun B said hit me with the heat. Salute to Bun B, man. Donkey of the Day goes to 68-year-old Sheila Downey of Memphis, Tennessee. Salute to everybody who listens to us on K97 in Memphis. Drop on a Clues Bond for K97 in Memphis, Tennessee. Salute to everybody who listens to us on K97 in Memphis. Drop on a Clues Bond for K97 in Memphis, Tennessee. We appreciate you. Now, how do you like your coffee?

Common question a lot of people get asked. I've never been a coffee drinker. My wife is. Not my thing. I prefer a good ginger tea with some honey as a pick-me-up in the morning. Or my Carviva sports drink, one of the two. I'm actually sitting here deciding which one I want right now. But I respect all coffee drinkers. Okay, a lot of y'all heard me ask, how do you like your coffee? And you answered, I like it black, straight black, no cream or sugar.

Some of y'all want cream and sugar. Some of y'all like a dark roast. Some of y'all like it half-caff, watered down because it makes you too jittery. A little oat milk. A little oat milk, really? Okay. Some of y'all like a little lighter blonde roast. Some of y'all don't like the taste at all because it's too bitter.

Some folks like putting a little salt in their coffee. Have you heard of that, G? Nope. Put a little salt in their coffee because it blocks the bitterness. All right. There's a lot of ways to drink coffee. Personally, I don't dig it because I don't like the taste. And someone not liking the taste of coffee is why Sheila Downey is in jail today.

See, she had an 81-year-old husband, and her husband got into an argument with her over the taste of his coffee. Now, Angela Yee, you have a coffee business, right? Yes, coffee uplifts people. Coffee uplifts people. This is a story of coffee upsetting people, okay? If someone doesn't like the taste of their coffee, Yee, how do you handle it? Try to get them a new one.

Simple, right? Yeah. I would think if someone didn't like the taste of that coffee, you would simply fix them another cup. When you're married, you would probably tell said person, fix your own damn coffee then. Okay, if you don't like the way I made it. Well, Sheila didn't either. Let's go to Fox 13 for the report, please. Well, it started over the taste of coffee.

But now one man is dead and his wife has been charged with his murder. Memphis police say Sheila Downey stabbed her husband to death yesterday at a home on Renwood Street. Now, before the victim died, police say he told them that the two got in an argument over the taste of his coffee. He says Downey got angry and tried to drink bleach. That's when he tried to stop her. She grabbed the knife and then stabbed him multiple times. Police say that Downey originally drove away from the scene, but it was arrested when she returned. The best part of waking up my ass.

OK, imagine getting killed because you're waking up your ass. I did not say that. OK, I said the best part of waking up my ass. Y'all know what I meant. What's the best part of that? You know they say the best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup. I said the best part of waking up my ass. Y'all know what I meant. Wake up.

Wake up the ass. All right. Are you smart? Open the door. Wake up. The door's always open. As I was saying, okay, imagine getting killed because you didn't like the taste of your coffee okay and what if that coffee you was drinking was deaf wish do y'all carry that brand no

deaf wish coffee company all right deaf wish coffee company better hope and pray this man wasn't drinking their brand because lord have mercy that would be terrible promotion listen one thing for sure two things for certain I would never let anyone who drinks bleach fix my coffee because if she can stand the taste of bleach then clearly her taste buds are questionable but the reality is she was probably drinking the bleach because she wanted to kill herself and when that didn't work she got pushed to kill her husband look man let's be clear about something because we do this all the time in regards to humans this woman sheila didn't kill her husband over no damn coffee okay when you get to the point where you kill someone over a cup of coffee you reached

your tipping point in life and with that person a long time ago and Folgers had absolutely nothing to do with it all right this woman was clearly in pain this woman was clearly hurting over something this is why I tell y'all constantly invest in your mental wealth all right deal with your emotional health fix what's in your head okay and in your heart all right your body wealth Deal with your emotional health Fix what's in your head And in your heart Your body is your temple Your body is your house And if you don't deal with what's in your mental wheelhouse You can possibly end up killing someone

Because of Maxwell House What's interesting about this Is Sheila probably could have used a cup of coffee or a damsel A lot of folks anxiety goes through the roof If they don't get their coffee in the morning My wife doesn't like to do anything and she will have an attitude until she gets a cup of coffee. And there has been some research that shows coffee and caffeine may decrease anxiety symptoms. So Sheila probably needed a couple of Seattle's best to take the

edge off. All right. No matter how strong a person is, they always have a breaking point. And Sheila clearly reached her breaking point and she will have to get the healing she needs in a state sponsored facility for the rest of her life. And I would like to note that this situation completely makes the quote a bad day with coffee is better than a good day without it. Null and void. A bad day with coffee is better than a good day without it. That quote is null and void. And that is complete BS. Sheila's husband had a bad day with coffee is better than a good day without it that quote is null and void and that is complete bs sheila's husband had a bad day he got stabbed multiple times and later died with his coffee i'm just here to make observations people okay everybody in line at starbucks duncan and ye spot coffee up flips people carry on please Please let Remy Ma give Sheila Downey the biggest hee-haw. Hee-haw, hee-haw.

You stupid mother f***er. You dumb. We still want to know what the best part of waking your ass up is. That's not what I said. How do you wake your ass up? I said the best part

of waking up my ass. All right? I don't even know why that sounds like that, but y'all know what I mean. You know how when somebody says like, such and such my ass.

No, I don't know why. No, nobody's such and such as my ass. I don't know what you're talking about. Y'all not going to gaslight me. Y'all not going to gaslight me this morning. It's not going to happen. We're not. We're not going to ask.

You're not going to do it. We're not going to let you do it. Not going to let you do it. Not going to let you gaslight me this morning. Nope. I got therapy today. Won't do it. That should be a good hashtag.

All right, everybody, hashtag the best part of waking up my ass. The best part of waking up my ass. It's Charlamagne's favorite thing. I said nothing about waking up in no ass. That's not what I said. We didn't even say that. That's what you think is Charlamagne's favorite thing. Nothing about waking up in no ass. That's not what I said. We didn't even say that. That's what you just said.

Maybe you just said that under your breath. I heard you and everybody heard you. Rewind the tape. You just said that. Nope, you kinky this morning, bro.

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