The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 11.29 Why That Revolting UK Bullying Video Matters, Corrupt Cops Exposed, & More

Episode Date: November 29, 2018

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Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a fantastic Thursday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're gonna talk about today is why we had Southwest Airlines in the news. And the reason we're talking about this today is a woman by the name of Tracy Redford. Tracy and her daughter were reportedly flying from California to Texas when she says this happened. The gate agent started mocking my child's name, laughing, pointing at me and my daughter, and talking to other employees. So I turned around and just said like, "'Hey, I can hear you, so if I can hear you,

"'my daughter can too. "'Like, I'd appreciate if you just stop.'" And as far as the name in question for this five-year-old, it is this, ABCDE Redford. Although Tracy says her daughter's name is pronounced Ab-city. We'll touch on that in a second, but according to Tracy, the gate agent

wasn't just talking to other employees. Reportedly, she did this. She took a picture of my boarding pass and chose to post it on social media, mocking my daughter. It was actually brought to my attention by somebody who had seen it on Facebook and reported it to Southwest Airlines. And also adding that after two weeks

of filing a formal complaint, Southwest had not responded. Although Southwest has now reportedly given a statement saying we extend our sincere apology to the family. We take great pride in extending our Southwest hospitality to all of our customers, which includes living by the golden rule in treating every individual with respect in person or online.

Adding the post is not indicative of the care, respect, and civility we expect from all of our employees. And saying we have followed up with the employee involved and while we do not disclose personnel actions publicly, we are using this as an opportunity to reinforce our policies and emphasize our expectations for all employees. And so it's a little unclear right now if the employee was reprimanded, suspended, fired,

but as far as my takeaway from this, I am obviously not on board with the mocking and bullying of a five-year-old. And I think the taking and posting the photo is crossing a line. But at the same time, Tracy should realize that she has set her daughter up for a life year old. And I think the taking and posting the photo is crossing a line. But at the same time, Tracy should realize that she has set her daughter up for a life of this. You gave your daughter a ridiculously spelled name.

You named your daughter after a row of seats on an airplane. Just because you pronounce it like a normal name doesn't make it a normal name. If my name was spelled F-L-P, I would understand when people had a big reaction. I'm like, no, no, it's Philip. What you most likely found to be the unique and cutesy spelling of your daughter's name,

the rest of the world in general has found confusing and somewhat ridiculous. Now, I don't agree with how you and your child were treated by this employee who also decided to blast you out to the internet. But understand that this is very likely going to be the standard for the Apsities, the XYZs, the LMNOPs of the world. Also, quick note, while I'm kind of making up those other two names, Aby or Abcity, this isn't the only kid with that name I was looking into it and there was an article that came out in 2014 saying that there are

328 human people named Ab City in the United States, but also understand that's a story That's my personal thinking on it and I pass the question off to you. Am I am I being wrong? Am I being mean here? Then in some light entertainment news, we had entertainment weekly announcing their 2018 Entertainers of the Year and via their four four covers, they actually crowned ten people. We had Constance Wu and the Women of Crazy Rich Asians. We had Angela Bassett and the Women of Black Panther. Darren Criss getting that third cover. And Cardi B taking that last top position.

Also on their site, they go on to mention other honorees. This including Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Donald Glover, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Ariana Grande, the Queer Eyez Fab Five. But with all that said, it is important to know that whenever we talk about this, there is the question of, well, who the hell is actually picking who wins? And also, if we're being honest,

every outlet that does this, it's really just a grab for eyes and attention of that individual or individuals in this case. And so that's why I pass my question off to you. If you had a top five entertainers of the year, who would they be? And I'll join you on this journey. My personal top five, I'm gonna go pure digital. No particular order, I'm gonna say one, David Dobrik. Two, Shane Dawson. He's completely helped the storytelling game on YouTube evolve. Three, Sophia Nygaard. She's probably one of my favorite people to watch with my wife, although I think my wife loves her more than me. Four, oh shit, I realize why Entertainment Weekly combined groups of people, ah, Mikey, aka Glam and Gore. Her really weird stuff, like her Disney princess series, is fascinating to watch. Number five, even though once again, no particular order, the fantastic MKBHD.

Easily does my favorite tech breakdown. I am 100% going to look back at this list and just remember 12 other people I would have put in contention. Ooh, Sean Evans is going to get angry. Naming people was probably a terrible idea for this part. But that is also why I pass the question off to you. Remind me or let the world know who you think your top five entertainers are.

You can go digital or mainstream as well. And then let's talk about social media slash YouTube news. As you may now be aware, if the way you watch these videos is via the YouTube app on your phone, there is now a stories feature. Although it's not completely new. It's just that YouTube has now given the capability

to any YouTuber that has over 10,000 subscribers. And YouTube stories are different than the stories feature that you see elsewhere. Still very short pictures or video, but instead of just only being up for a day, they're up for seven days. Also, each individual story has its own individual comment section, although that's a little bit weird because you can like something, but you can't reply to a text comment with another text comment. Instead, all you can really do is, as the creator, click video reply. And also, it lacks what I think is one of the best features of Instagram stories.

There is no kind of swipe up or click this to go to a video feature. Although I will say, it looks like they're already in a beta to make some of that work. There were some users like Josh Horton where you actually did have a clickable video link, but I've scrubbed through everything on my app

and there's no way for me to do it. And as far as if this will become a success or a massive fail, ultimately it comes down to the community long-term. through everything on my app and there's no way for me to do it. And as far as if this will become a success or a massive fail, ultimately it comes down to the community long term. Although I will say the initial reaction from the YouTube community is not super pumped. There's been two main reactions that I've seen.

The first being people wondering why they were being delivered stories from people that they do not follow. And two, some creators saying, is this really where YouTube should be focusing? With creators like CrankGameplays writing, I really love how YouTube spent their time making a story feature instead of fixing the things that are broken like sub boxes and recommended and just the site in general. And also and I guess this is like a third one I saw people talking about YouTube stealing this from Instagram, but actually on the note of Instagram

I think it's important to look back to when Instagram stories was launched and you might remember a lot of the reaction then was oh wow Instagram just trying to be Snapchat. Right, people saying this is stupid, it's just a rip off. And then Instagram Stories, unsurprisingly, because they already had more people, passed Snapchat's daily active users for a story like feature. But like with all big swings and big changes,

the market will eventually decide. I personally now love Instagram Stories, but I think Facebook Stories is the most idiotic thing ever. Different markets allow for different things. And I personally will be testing the YouTube stories feature as I have for the past two days. Partly because in the current YouTube system you don't know if the notifications for your videos are actually going to work. Are you going to pop up on someone's home page or no not

this video. And I also want to extend something that I do on Twitter to YouTube at least in this testing. And what I'm talking about there is essentially opening up a forum via the comments as far as what stories you would like me to talk about because we do include at least one viewer requested story in each video, usually. But ultimately with the situation we're gonna have to wait to see how the the hardcore user base of YouTube reacts, how the kind of normal never leave a comment YouTube base reacts. We'll go from there. I'm always hopeful but skeptical and that's why I want to pass the question off to you as far as what is your reaction to this movie. And then let's talk about Florida where all stories are possible. While I'm kind of laughing at the ridiculousness

that can come out of Florida, today's story is really no laughing matter. And that's because this story is about Raymundo Atesiano, the former police chief of Biscayne Park, Florida. And one of the biggest things of note about him is that during his time as chief, he was praised for keeping crime rates impressively low in his community.

And in fact, at a city council meeting in 2013, he announced this. We have a 100% clearance rate on burglary cases in the village of Biscayne Park. This is the first time that I've ever known that to happen in any department that I've ever been in. So 100% clearance rate on burglaries, which the question pops up, how did he do it?

Well, according to prosecutors, Atesiano directed his officers to pin unsolved crimes on innocent black people. An internal probe was ordered in 2014 after the former Biscayne Park village manager received a string of letters from disgruntled officers. And according to the report, four officers, which is a third of this police force,

told an outside investigator that they were under marching orders to file bogus charges on people in the community. And these victims were not randomly selected, but instead were known to police as having criminal pasts. And officer Anthony Della Torre said that the command staff was told, quote, "'If they have burglaries that are open cases

"'that are not solved yet, "'if you see anybody black walking through our streets "'and they have somewhat of a record, "'arrest them so we can pin them for all the burglaries.'" Adding they were basically doing this to have a 100% clearance rate for the city. And the former chief's directions were followed by three officers who without probable cause or evidence

arrested people for the community's unsolved burglaries. And those officers were Guillermo Ravello, Charlie Dayou, and Raul Fernandez. And over the course of his 16 months on the job, Atesiano and his officers unjustly arrested a total of three black men. In January of 2013, two residential burglaries were pinned on a man identified as Clarence Desrouleaux. And that man who was arrested once again with no probable cause, no evidence, he ended up pleading guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison. He went for the guilty plea instead of taking his case to trial and risking decades behind bars. And later he was actually deported to Haiti. And in 2014, five vehicle burglaries at five different street locations were pinned on a man by the name of Erasmus Bannma.

And then finally, their youngest victim, the third victim who was identified in court documents by TD. He was just 16 years old. In June of 2013, he was blamed for the unsolved burglaries at four homes, despite officers, quote, "'knowing there was no evidence and no lawful basis "'to support such charges.'" And in fact, Atasiano bragged about the 100% clearance rate on burglaries at the council meeting just a few weeks after he had TD arrested.

Now, according to prosecutors, Atasiano initially denied all of these allegations, but eventually pled guilty in September to a conspiracy charge for depriving the three victims of their civil rights. And with all of this this he was facing a maximum 10 year sentence. As far as what he had to say for himself at a sentencing hearing this week he told a federal judge quote, when I took the job I was not prepared I made some very very bad decisions and for those quote bad decisions

the judge ultimately sentenced Atessiano to three years in prison. A sentence that will be due to start in two weeks because the judge allowed him extra time to care for his dying mother. Now as far as the other officers involved, reportedly they cooperated with the government and directly implicated Attenciano, but at the same time they did not get off scot-free. Ravello, who was responsible for the arrest of Desrouleau and Bonma, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in July. And actually also during that same hearing he pleaded guilty to assaulting a Hispanic driver during a traffic stop by striking him with his fist while the victim was handcuffed. And ultimately Ravello was sentenced to two years and three months in prison. Also, as far as the people he arrested,

the charges against Banma were dropped. And Deserlo, who had been deported to Haiti, had his wrongful conviction thrown out, but he has still not been allowed to return to the United States. As far as the other two officers, Deube and Fernandez, they entered guilty pleas in August for their part in falsely arresting the teenage boy.

And they were both sentenced in October to a year in prison. And the boy in question there eventually had his charges dropped. And for me personally, looking at this story, I'm left wondering, were those punishments really enough? I mean, what we are talking about here is absolutely insane. How do you only get three years when you are stripping away the civil rights

of numerous individuals, one of which was a minor? What message does that get across? Three years, a year per person? He was sentenced to less time than one of his victims. Like really think about that. I mean, how are communities really meant to trust the people that are supposed to be there protecting and serving when the law is not making examples of those

who were given power and then abused it profusely? Yeah, let me know what you're thinking and what you're feeling in those comments down below. And let's talk about this viral story that blew up over in England. And if you didn't see, over the last week, there was this video that had gone viral showing a 15-year-old Syrian refugee

named Jamal being bullied. According to reports, the incident actually took place over a month ago on October 25th at the Almondberry Community School in England. And in the video, we see a boy approach Jamal, grab him by the throat, force him to the ground, where he then pours water over Jamal's face and says, "'When does fast grocery delivery

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yet to face any punishment. So the story got bigger and bigger. On Tuesday, we saw the police announce that they were investigating reports of racially aggravated assault. And then on Wednesday, they announced they had actually charged the boy with assault, and they said that this came from an investigation that had started the day after the incident back in October. They also seemed to comment on the cast that Jamal is seen wearing in the video, explaining that it was connected to an incident involving three other students that they had interviewed at that time, but no other action was taken. That same day, we also saw Jamal in an interview with ITV say,

When I saw everyone looking at this video, I felt ashamed of myself and why it happened. I was really upset about that. I was feeling like I couldn't study my homework and stuff. I woke up at night and just started crying because of this problem. They think I'm different, different from them. And Jamal has also said that the bullying has only increased as the video received

more and more attention. And in fact, according to reports, last week Jamal's sister had her hijab forcefully removed by another student, and then there was another video that came out showing Jamal's sister being bullied. And according to reports last week Jamal's sister had her hijab Forcibly removed by another student and then there was another video that came out showing Jamal sister being bullied according to police this incident happened On Tuesday also on Wednesday in a letter to parents We saw head teacher Trevor Bowen saying since the incident occurred in October the school the local authority and the police have all taken action We must allow the legal process to take its course But I want to be absolutely clear that we do not tolerate unacceptable behavior of any sort in our school

I can also assure you that we are working very hard to ensure it is business as usual across the school and that there is no disruption to the children's education. And along with this incident, we also saw a GoFundMe startup for Jamal and his family, which has raised over 140,000 pounds at this point. Now, that is not where this story ends because there are also reports that the boy

that attacked Jamal in the video has been receiving threats from people on social media despite not being identified. When this story began to blow up, some people online began to look for him, then reporting the bully's alleged Facebook page. And so with this, you had people pointing out that he had shared multiple posts from Tommy Robinson, the founder of the English Defense League, which is also of note because now Robinson has actually spoken out in defense of the alleged bully, saying in videos posted online that he had actually seen proof that Jamal had beaten up a girl. A young girl was beaten badly by Muslim girls.

While those Muslim girls were beating her up, Jamal was involved in kicking, in biting her. She was bitten. She was black and blue. She had to be taken out of school and homeschooled. Robinson saying that he was contacted by the mother of this girl that was beaten up and that she sent him photos.

He also claimed that the girl's family had taken this information to the local news and they refused to report it. Robinson also going on to say that Jamal isn't as innocent as the news is making him out to be and that he actually threatened to stab the alleged bully prior to the incident. And according, because I've heard from the child in question, he threatened to stab him. He was giving it to him. So at lunchtime, he's gone and grabbed him by his phone. This Jamal isn't innocent. He beat a girl black and blue.

But the thing is, after Robinson made these claims, others started sharing screenshots of messages with the mother that claimed that her messages had been misunderstood and Jamal was not involved. And that woman also appears to have since deleted her Facebook account. However, despite that, Robinson has continued to claim that Jamal was a bully and that there are actually

gangs of young Muslims attacking students. Robinson posting one screenshot of messages claiming that a group of five attacked her 13 year old son. However, the photo that was actually included in that message appears to be from an article about a boy in a different part of the UK that was beaten up in September of 2016. And as far as the police response to all of this,

they did address what they called rumors circulating on social media saying that they had not received any corroborating evidence of any of the accusations. And actually one of the last updates to this story is there are reports now that the family of the Syrian boy, they're actually going to sue Tommy Robinson. The lawyer from Jamal's family echoing the point

that the alleged mother said that Jamal had quote, "'Nothing to do with the attack on the girl at all.'" The lawyer also adding, "'These are clearly defamatory comments made by Tommy, "'so we're pursuing that. "'We will be communicating with Robinson "'and we will be taking legal action.'" And as far as my personal reaction to this, my feelings around this,

I feel like Tommy Robinson is just trying to fear monger. At first it was, ah, Jamal attacked a girl, although those claims seem to have fallen apart. Then it's this claim of, "'Oh, he threatened to stab the alleged bully.'" Trying to paint him as somehow this villain, but I mean, you just watch that video. You just watch this claim of, oh, he threatened to stab the alleged bully. They're trying to paint him as somehow this villain, but I mean, you just watch that video. You just watch that video of how his attacker

kind of stalked him down, just the body language between the two. What happened in the video? And the fact that you're trying to paint Jamal as the bad guy here is ludicrous to me. Then he tries to pivot from this specific story that his name was attached to because of that Facebook page into, oh, gangs of Muslims.

Meanwhile, while all of this is happening we then see his sister get attacked. And understand, I say this being completely open to there being more information out there but I'm not just gonna take the word from someone that seems to be scattershotting any sort of information that can take the heat off of them. Instead, I'd rather wait for the police. And everything coming from police right now just seems to confirm what our eyes and ears have been telling us with this story, and that is Jamal and his sister were attacked. And I truly hope the boy that has been charged with assault is punished. And that's where I'm going to end today's show. And to that said, to the three people still watching at this point, if you want to show support for this video, you can hit that like button. Also, if you're new here,

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