Adam goes it alone to discuss and review a movie that’s so controversial, conspiracy theories persist to this day about the real reason it got shelved…the 2018 film City of Lies, starring Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker.
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Just hold on.
Hey everybody.
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Welcome to a very special
episode of conspiracy the show.
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I’m your host, Adam Todd Brown.
What makes this a special
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episode?
Two things for one?
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I’m by myself, it’s a solo
episode.
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There’s no one here but me and
you who us only, we can hear us
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scream right now.
It’s probably a weird way to put
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it.
But yeah, this is a solo episode
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1 of my co-hosts will be back
next week, I’m assuming unless
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this just goes really fucking
well and somehow I’m able to
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just do one solo podcast a week
and make a living at that.
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Then everyone can fend for
themselves but the other thing
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that makes this a very special
episode is it’s the first in
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what I hope will be a series of
solo episodes That I’m calling
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band media reports.
I’ve described what I do in the
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past as just getting paid to do
book reports and that’s mostly
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accurate.
But sometimes not just books,
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sometimes it’s documentaries and
movies and FBI, dot V dot gov
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archives or maybe it’s Vault
fbi.gov.
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One of the to check it out,
sometime my favorite website on
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the internet, enter your
favorite celebrities name today.
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The V will shock you anyway, one
thing I come across pretty
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regularly while researching
episodes of this podcast is that
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a lot of times there will be a
usually a book but sometimes
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just a video that not only
provides the basis for the
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conspiracy theory that I’m
researching.
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But also, for some reason is
mysteriously hard to find and on
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these episodes I’ll be Tracking
down those sources and telling
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you what they’re all about.
What’s in them?
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One example we did in episode
recently about a documentary
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called the origins of AIDS.
The reason the episode was based
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on that documentary is because
the book, the theory is based on
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is basically only available to
the Elites at this point.
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It’s called The River.
A journey to the source of HIV
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and AIDS.
It’s written by a guy named
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Edward Hooper on Amazon right
now the cheapest copy is $75 and
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that’s for a paperback.
Copy in acceptable condition
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elsewhere the cheapest copy is
closer to a hundred and thirty
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dollars so it’s like a goddamn
textbook so of course I bought a
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copy and I’ll be doing an
episode about it soon.
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I do need time to read it and if
you paid close attention to that
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entire last few sentences, there
it might Like I’m implying that
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by buying a copy of this book.
I am somehow myself an elite and
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I just want to make it clear
that?
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Yes, that is absolutely what I’m
saying.
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Write it down.
Anyway, this week, I’m not
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talking about a book.
I’m talking about a movie, a
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movie that I have wanted to see
for two years now.
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Ever since trailers, for it
started appearing in theaters
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back in May of 2008.
Eighteen that movie is called
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city of Lies.
It’s a 2018 film starring Johnny
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Depp and Forest Whitaker and
it’s about LAPD involvement in
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the murder of rapper notorious
b.i.g. real name, Christopher
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Wallace sidebar.
If you’re one of those people
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who only listens to conspiracy
the show and not any of my other
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podcasts.
First of all, you better not be
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fucking listening to other.
Cast by other people, it better,
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just be mine.
But also, I do host, a bunch of
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other podcast.
One of them is called the 90s
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sucked.
And for the past two episodes,
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we have been covering the lapd’s
notorious Rampart Scandal and
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the murder of Notorious BIG, and
it probably won’t surprise you
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at all to know that my
conspiracy theorist heart
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follows me to that podcast also.
So maybe check it out if you
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want.
More information about what It’s
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covered in the movie city of
Lies, but back to the movie.
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It’s based on the 2002 book
Labyrinth and it’s based on the
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files of former LAPD detective,
Russell Poole who was the lead
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detective on the notorious
b.i.g. murder case, produced and
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distributed by global Road
entertainment.
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At least it was supposed to be,
it was set to Premiere in the
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United States on September 7th,
2018.
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Like I said, Is for it in
theaters and everything.
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Then about a month before the
release date the movie was in
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definitely pulled from the
schedule.
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The reason given at the time was
Johnny Depp’s onset Behavior,
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specifically an incident in
which its alleged that he
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punched the film’s location
manager after a dispute over
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when they could and could not
film and right off the bat, does
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that sound right?
This movie was shot?
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Between December 2016 in May
2017.
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Meaning this incident would have
happened sometime between then a
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full year later in May 2018, the
trailer starts showing in
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theaters then out of the blue
with one month to go before the
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premiere.
It’s pulled because of a lawsuit
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over an on-set Fight Man.
The Twilight Zone movie still
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came out in three people died
while Make that the scene where
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those people were killed, is in
the movie.
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Granted, that was a different
time.
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So, how about some more recent
examples in 2015?
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Mia Jovovich has stunt double a
woman named Olivia Jackson filed
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a lawsuit.
After she lost an arm and was in
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a coma for 17 days.
As a result of an on-set injury,
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that suit was settled in 2020,
guess What happened between that
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injury and that lawsuit being
settled the Resident Evil movie?
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She was working on was released.
Another example, the 2018 horror
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movie incident in a ghost land
on the set of that film actress.
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Taylor Hickson suffered a
disfiguring, facial injury after
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she crashed through a glass door
during filming.
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She filed a lawsuit that movie
still came out.
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So if the makers of fucking
incident in a ghost, Land can
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overcome a lawsuit to put their
movie out.
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I’m pretty confident the people
behind a big budget film
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starring, Johnny Depp.
And Forest Whitaker could
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probably do the same thing if
they really wanted to.
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Also the website, The Daily
Beast interviewed several people
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who were on set during the
making of city of Lies for an
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article called inside the
shocking.
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Death of Johnny Depp’s, biggie,
Murder movie city of Lies.
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It’s written by a guy named
Justin orlick will link to it on
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the website.
Here’s a quote from one of the
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people that they interview who
was on the set when this
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incident happened, they had a
little moment, there weren’t
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punches there, wasn’t anything?
Just where n each other’s faces
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for a second.
We shot for maybe another hour
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and a half.
After that, we went inside, we
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finished in the locations guy
came up to Johnny and they
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hugged and it was all cute.
And that was it.
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That’s a quote from Scripts.
Visor Emma danoff, who was
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sitting next to Johnny Depp.
When that alleged incident
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happened, they interviewed three
other crew members, who all
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backed up her version of events
city of Lies director.
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Brad Furman didn’t learn the
movie was pulled until August
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during a conference call with.
Producers, even though industry
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data shows.
It was shelved as early as July
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19th.
Randall.
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Sullivan, who co-wrote the book
the movie is based on said he
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was immediately suspicious.
Vicious on account of how hard
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Global Road was selling him on.
The reason why this movie had to
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be pulled, this is a quote from
him, also from that Daily Beast
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article.
She was trying so hard to sell
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the narrative.
That this was all about the bad
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publicity for Johnny.
And when someone’s trying too
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hard to sell, it comes through.
I thought, you know?
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Why is she trying so hard to
convince me?
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If that’s true, then she could
have just told me
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matter-of-factly, but she’s
going on and on.
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Are all the research they’ve
done and that has made me start
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thinking.
Is there something else to it?
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The movie is directed by a guy
named Brad Furman.
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And when making this movie, he
became one of very, very few
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people.
Law enforcement included who’ve
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actually seen the complete
unredacted case files from the
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investigation, and the federal
probe into the LAPD Rampart
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Division, and the murder of
Christopher Wallace and some of
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that non-public information does
make its way into this movie
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which if you’re looking for a
reason why it might have been
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pulled, there you go.
Even at the outset of filming
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firm and started receiving
veiled threats and suggestions
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that he shouldn’t make the movie
Perry Sanders, who is a lawyer
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for voletta Wallace.
Christopher Wallace, mom told
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Furman that making the movie
could be a risk, a friend with
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To the LA, underworld told him
not to make the movie and a cop
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friend who he hadn’t spoken to
in 15 years, contacted him out
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of the blue and told him not to
make the movie that same cop
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friend also told him to cover
the camera on his computer so no
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one could hijack his laptop and
figure out a way to frame him,
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The Daily Beast.
Also talked to an FBI agent for
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their article.
He said this as bad as the crime
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was in the bigge murder and all
the other Corruption the
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cover-up far exceeds.
I think what the crime was.
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I think when this movie comes
out, there’s going to be a lot
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of people scrambling and running
for the hills because they’re
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not going to want to have to
answer some questions about the
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corruption that was going on at
the LAPD.
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And he also told them that, the
main concern, which I think is
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pretty obvious, would be that if
this movie were to come out, it
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could revive the civil.
That voletta Wallace filed
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against the LAPD which as is
mentioned in the movie
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Christopher Wallace, his future
earnings, potential was through
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the roof like billions of
dollars, probably.
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So if you’re talking Financial
damages in terms of what was
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taken from voletta Wallace, it’s
going to be a lot of money and
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it’s a lawsuit that the LAPD
might not survive or as that
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same FBI agent in this article
puts it the lawsuit would
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absolutely completely Berry and
ruin the LAPD and more
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importantly would shut down all
the different task forces.
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That the LAPD head with the FBI
as well as other federal
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agencies from which they get all
that Federal grant money, not to
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overstate it it would basically
shut down the LAPD, they could
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not afford to take that hit as
I’ve Probably mentioned on this
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podcast before definitely on
other podcasts.
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This is the third attempt to
make this movie Sylvester.
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Stallone was the first person
attached to it.
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I’ll link to articles from back
in 2003 when it was announced
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that he was going to be making
this movie.
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It was supposed to be an HBO
movie.
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He was going to play Russell
Poole by 2006.
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He was quoted as saying this
about the project.
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The story was like a modern-day
Noir written from the point.
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Point of view of detective Poole
who basically was railroaded out
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of the police department because
the more he investigated the
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dirtier, the high rollers in
City Hall and police commissions
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and da offices.
All appeared to be part of a
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conspiracy.
To squash this case, I don’t
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think it’ll ever be done because
of the amount of lawsuits that
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would be filed.
It’s also well known.
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That Leonardo DiCaprio was lined
up to play Russell Poole in a
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version of this.
Be, that was being produced by
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fucking DreamWorks.
The official movie studio of the
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Illuminati.
Here’s what Randall Sullivan
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says, in that same Daily Beast
article about that, the Los
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Angeles Police Department.
Is the most politicized Police
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Department in the country and
its relationships with financial
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powers and political powers in
the city, and in the state.
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And even in the country are, I
think unprecedented.
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I saw the way they were able to
Marshal resources to oppose
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making.
This movie.
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There may have been other
things, I don’t think it was
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based mainly or entirely on
political pressure, but
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DreamWorks was clearly scared by
the things.
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They were getting told they were
getting scared off this project.
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I don’t know if I mentioned
earlier, but Randall, Sullivan
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is the guy who wrote Labyrinth,
which is the book based on
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Russell, pools investigation, or
maybe I did mention it and I
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just gave myself something new
to edit out either way I know
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what you’re probably thinking
but as There’s a whole USA
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Network television series based
on the murders of Notorious BIG
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and Tupac.
And it’s based on Russell.
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Pools investigation.
Sure.
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But a few things about that, for
one, it’s not based on Russell,
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pools investigation.
It references Russell pools
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investigation, but it’s based on
LAPD detective, Greg, Cadence
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investigation, and conveniently
his version of events,
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implicates the APD way, way
less.
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Also, if you watch that USA
series, his version of events
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are centered around.
What very much in the series.
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Looks like a coerced confession.
It also, again conveniently came
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out after Russell Poole died,
so, he wasn’t around to protest
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or dispute.
The show’s version of events,
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which kind of paint him as a
crazy person who was just wrong.
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So, yeah, there’s a TV, Show out
there about it and I don’t trust
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it one fucking bit, just the
fact that it got made when all
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of these other attempts to tell
a very similar story.
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All got mysteriously, shut down.
That alone makes me suspicious.
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All that said, the movie, city
of Lies did manage to make its
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way out into the world.
On January 10th, 2019, the film
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premiered out of competition as
The closing film of the Noir in
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Festival in Italy, which just
means it wasn’t part of the film
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festival.
Like there was no judging I
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guess note and it wasn’t
eligible for awards.
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It’s just the movie.
They chose to close that
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Festival out with.
It was also released on Blu-ray
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in Italy on June 19th, 2019.
So with this be in 2020 and all
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that means this movie can be
found if you It bad enough.
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How did I get it?
Obviously, I purchased illegal
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copy from Italy.
Along with a compatible Blu-ray
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player that would allow me to
watch it here in the United
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States.
And then I immediately set both
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of those things on fire because
I don’t want that kind of heat
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on me.
I don’t want to be in possession
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of such an inflammatory piece of
work.
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So I disposed of it right away,
prove?
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I didn’t bitch, I bought it with
Bitcoin.
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But also there’s Torrance all
over the Internet and you could
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probably just download it that
way.
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None of that matters.
What really matters is, I’ve
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seen this film and I’m going to
tell you about it.
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I don’t think we need to worry
too much about spoilers.
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You know the general way it ends
two young men in the prime of
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their respective lives are
murdered and no one has ever
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held accountable for it.
I guess the most important
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question should be addressed
right up front is city of Lies a
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good movie.
Yeah, it’s Can great and it
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probably would have killed at
the box office.
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Johnny Depp is great in it.
Forest Whitaker is great in it.
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Purely from an entertainment
standpoint, I recommend watching
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this movie, it’s a good movie of
all the movies made about
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Notorious BIG and Tupac city of
Lies is the best of those
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movies.
It opens with a depiction of a
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really famous incident.
A road rage incident between two
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off-duty, LAPD cop.
Ops Frank Liga and Kevin gains
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Liga shot and killed.
Gains neither of the two men
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knew the other was a cop Liga
was white gains was black.
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So this happened hot on the
heels of the Rodney King verdict
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and the subsequent LA riots.
So, this incident was well, on
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its way to being labeled as a
racist, cop killing a black man,
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for racism reasons.
And Russell Poole was the lead
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detective assigned to that case.
Incident in real life absolutely
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happened and it’s what
eventually brings the lapd’s
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infamous Rampart Scandal to
light.
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And if you’re unfamiliar again,
we just did an episode of the 90
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sucked about it.
But that was a massive police
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corruption scandal in which LAPD
officer Rafael Perez who’d
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recently been implicated in
stealing cocaine from the LAPD
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evidence room and selling it on
the street testified against as
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many as 70 of his fellow cops.
Cops for crimes, ranging
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anywhere from unjustified
shootings to drinking on the
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job.
It costs the city of La millions
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of dollars in settlements led to
a five-year period, where the
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Department of Justice over saw
police reforms within the LAPD.
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And this movie makes a really
shocking Claim about that
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Scandal.
And I think that might be the
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key to why this movie got shut
down, but we’ll get to that.
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So after the road rage incident,
Opening the movie turns to
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Forest, Whitaker’s character,
who is a journalist just named
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Jackson who shows up at Russell
pools.
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Apartment, hoping to get
information about the case they
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team up.
And I think Jackson is actually
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meant to represent another
theory and another investigation
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into notorious b.i.g., which was
by Chuck Philips, it appeared in
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the LA Times, I thinking, 2003
and his claim was that the
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notorious b.i.g.
Christopher Wallace actually
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paid for the hit on Tupac and
that he was killed out of
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Revenge over that and that
theory that Notorious BIG went
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to Las Vegas and paid for Tupac.
To be killed, has actually been
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pretty heavily discredited.
And in this movie, it’s Forest
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Whitaker’s character who
represents that theory in Dead
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as opposed to it being Chuck
Philips.
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I think it’s the movie taking
some creative Liberties, to get
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all of the pertinent details in
without making it a six-hour
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Netflix series, which it will
probably be some day.
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And then they give us a brief
rundown of the events of
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Christopher.
Wallace’s murder.
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One of two times.
They do that in the movie.
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Is everyone familiar with how
that murder happened because
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it’s a really Plex murder for
something that history has tried
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to write off as a simple gang
shooting.
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Just another drive-by.
Here’s how it happened.
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Basically, Christopher Wallace
and Sean, Combs are leaving the
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Petersen Auto Museum in Los
Angeles.
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They were at a Soul Train Awards
after party and they’re in
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separate cars, the car that’s
carrying Sean, Combs, Puff.
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Daddy is in Front.
Christopher Wallace is cars
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behind him.
A security detail for Bad.
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Boy, Records is behind
Christopher.
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Wallace’s car.
Sean, Combs, blows through a
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yellow light for security
reasons.
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Like, any security person is
going to tell you that it’s
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better to be moving then stopped
in a situation where you’re
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concerned about your security so
they blow through this yellow
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light Christopher Wallace is car
stops at the red light, he’s got
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his His security detail behind
him at that point, a white
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Toyota Land Cruiser makes a
U-turn and tries to wedge itself
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in between his security detail
and notorious Big’s car at that
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moment a black Chevy Impala SS
comes.
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Driving up the street, really
fast pulls into the right lane.
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Next to Notorious Big’s car
empties the clip from a handgun
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into that car.
Notorious BIG instantly that car
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speeds off into the night.
Never to be seen or heard from
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again at that point that white
SUV backs out of traffic and
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gets the fuck out of there.
Also that is a hit, that’s a
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fucking execution and it clearly
took some coordination.
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You had to be in the right place
at the right time to pull that
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off and that’s why Russell Poole
always suspected that it was
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more than just a drive-by
shooting.
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Shooting it was an
assassination.
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So anyway back to the movie pool
shows up at the cabin gains
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shooting scene, great quote in
1997, everybody thought the LAPD
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was filled with only one thing
racist cops but it wasn’t.
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It also had politicians that’s a
reference to the gain shooting.
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And the idea that in the wake of
Rodney King, the LAPD was really
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determined to paint that road
rage incident as a rogue racist,
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cop, killing a black man, and
that all happened.
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In the course of his
investigation.
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Russell Poole not only finds
video evidence that exonerates
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Frank Liga, but also finds
evidence that Kevin Gaines was
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working for Suge Knight and
Death Row, Records weird.
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He also, this is in the movie
meets a Jamaican bodyguard for
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death row.
Who later reveals himself to be
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not only, not Jamaican, man, but
he’s actually an FBI special
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agent.
Who’s managed to infiltrate
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Death Row, Records everyone
knows about Death Row Records,
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right?
Suge Knight owned it huge rap
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label in the early to mid 90s,
dr.
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Dre’s, chronic album came out on
Death Row.
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The first Snoop Dogg album was a
death row album and Suge Knight
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is a real character.
He has come up on this podcast a
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few times.
I believe specifically we’ve
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talked about the FBI files that
are available on that same
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website.
Mentioned earlier V Dot fbi.gov,
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go there and type in Tupac.
Shakur, sometime pay special
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attention to the part about him
being targeted in an extortion
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scheme near the end of his life.
It’s redacted but give it a good
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read.
I think you’ll figure out the
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name of the person who was
complicit in targeting him in
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that.
Anyway Death Row Records was a
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record label that was suspected
of also being a criminal
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organization.
The owner of Death Row Records
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Suge Knight was a member of the
Bloods and what Russell Poole
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uncovers while investigating the
Kevin Gaines incident is that
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Kevin Gaines was working for
Death Row, Records.
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As a security guard in his off,
time when he wasn’t protecting
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and serving and what is
explained in this meeting with
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this FBI agent, who had
infiltrated death row in the
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movie, is that Suge Knight and
Death Row Records.
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Have the LAPD in their pocket
and we know that to be true.
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There were at least six LAPD
officers who worked as security
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guards for Death Row Records in
their off time and most of them
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did not report that they were
working for Death Row Records
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which is a crime.
You have to report what you’re
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doing in your off-duty as a cop.
So as to avoid conflict of
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interest in things, I don’t know
if it’s crime but cops are
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supposed to do it and And this
FBI agent also says that he’s
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heard rumors that Shook and
death row were involved in the
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murder of Notorious BIG.
So pool manages somehow to get
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promoted to LAPD Robbery,
Homicide division, which did
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happen in real life.
And his first assignment is the
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murder of Notorious BIG and the
first person he’s put in contact
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with is a gangster named Psycho
Mike who is a real-life figure
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from this case.
He says that Suge Knight also
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has The death row was involved
in the murder of Notorious BIG
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and that the hit was
orchestrated by a guy named
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DMACC.
He also describes the shooter
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and gives them a name.
Amir Muhammad, Amir Muhammad is
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a really important name.
In this case, there are two
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different composite sketches of
Biggie shooter and they both
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look like the man who was later.
Identified as Amir Muhammad, but
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we’ll get there first.
There’s a really fun moment in
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the movie where Where Jackson is
demanding to run with the name
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of the shooter, Amir Muhammad,
and pool tells him not to and
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when Jackson says he’s going
forward, anyway, Poole says, no,
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no.
If you want a name, I’ll give
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you the real name and the name
he gives him Stanley, Kirk
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Burrell.
Everyone know who that is, MC
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Hammer and Forest Whitaker takes
this back to his Newsroom and
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starts glotón about scooping.
The name of Christopher Wallace
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is Jun’er and it turns out, it’s
just MC Hammer.
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So, how crazy is it that MC
Hammer killed Notorious BIG.
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What if that’s where this movie
was?
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Going this whole time?
That would be amazing.
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But no, it was just just a
little high Jinks, just a little
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joke.
Russell Poole pulled on him.
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I don’t know if that happened in
real life, but it seems to
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specific to not have happened,
right?
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I don’t know.
So then, there’s a scene where
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Russell Poole walks, Jackson,
through the time, he almost
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convinced his Partner in
robbery-homicide that the LAPD
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being involved in this murder
might be a thing worth pursuing
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and he says he had him convinced
for one night and then the guy
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made a trip to New York.
Came back and said, no, your
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story’s not, right.
We should just focus on gang
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members instead, and what they
end up finding is both police
434
00:28:21,100 –> 00:28:23,800
and gang members all in one
person.
435
00:28:24,000 –> 00:28:27,900
There’s a bank robbery that is
depicted in the movie that Also
436
00:28:27,900 –> 00:28:31,800
happened in real life and the
person who is eventually
437
00:28:31,800 –> 00:28:35,900
arrested for carrying out that
bank robbery in conjunction,
438
00:28:35,900 –> 00:28:37,700
with his girlfriend, who worked
at the bank.
439
00:28:37,700 –> 00:28:43,000
As a manager is guy named David
Mack, the DMACC named by Psycho
440
00:28:43,000 –> 00:28:47,000
Mike a few scenes earlier,
Psycho Mike also being a real
441
00:28:47,100 –> 00:28:49,700
person involved.
In this case, and it turns out
442
00:28:49,700 –> 00:28:55,900
DMACC is David Mack, an LAPD
officer who, in his spare time
443
00:28:56,100 –> 00:28:59,600
does security work for, Death
Row, Records also a member of
444
00:28:59,600 –> 00:29:02,500
the Bloods just like Kevin
gains.
445
00:29:02,700 –> 00:29:07,900
So they arrest David Mack.
And in his garage Russell Poole
446
00:29:07,900 –> 00:29:12,900
finds a shrine to Tupac a black
Chevy Impala SS.
447
00:29:13,000 –> 00:29:14,800
That looks just like the car
biggie.
448
00:29:14,800 –> 00:29:18,800
Shooter was driving and a bunch
of walkie-talkies that pool
449
00:29:18,800 –> 00:29:22,800
suspected were used by the
conspirators to communicate on
450
00:29:22,800 –> 00:29:26,700
the night of Christopher Wallace
is killing nevertheless, the
451
00:29:27,500 –> 00:29:31,800
Refuses to let Russell Poole
test that Impala for gunshot
452
00:29:31,800 –> 00:29:34,800
residue.
And why would that be if not
453
00:29:34,900 –> 00:29:39,300
just to avoid the impending
lawsuit that would result from
454
00:29:39,300 –> 00:29:44,000
an investigation of that nature?
Notorious BIG again was 24 years
455
00:29:44,000 –> 00:29:49,700
old future, earning potentials
were incalculable almost a civil
456
00:29:49,700 –> 00:29:55,800
lawsuit of that nature would
break the LAPD and this is one
457
00:29:55,800 –> 00:29:59,300
of the really interesting.
That’s in the movie because one
458
00:29:59,300 –> 00:30:02,900
of the holes in this theory, has
always been that no one ever
459
00:30:02,900 –> 00:30:07,200
identified David Mack or any of
the other death row Affiliated
460
00:30:07,200 –> 00:30:09,300
cops at the scene of Biggie’s
murder.
461
00:30:09,400 –> 00:30:14,000
I think that’s even mentioned in
the USA Network series but
462
00:30:14,000 –> 00:30:18,000
Russell Poole always contended
that because they were so intent
463
00:30:18,000 –> 00:30:20,700
on covering up officer
involvement in the murder.
464
00:30:20,800 –> 00:30:25,600
The LAPD refused to let the full
details of his investigation.
465
00:30:25,600 –> 00:30:29,500
Be made public, even file.
Lawsuit over it at one point.
466
00:30:29,500 –> 00:30:33,700
Well, in this movie, which is
based on those unredacted files.
467
00:30:34,100 –> 00:30:38,300
He does indeed talked to a
witness who identifies David
468
00:30:38,300 –> 00:30:41,000
Mack as having been present that
night.
469
00:30:41,100 –> 00:30:43,500
Not only does he say, Mack was
present.
470
00:30:43,500 –> 00:30:46,400
He says Mac was using a
walkie-talkie.
471
00:30:46,500 –> 00:30:49,700
And hey, maybe that’s all
circumstantial evidence, but
472
00:30:49,700 –> 00:30:53,300
people get convicted over
circumstantial evidence all the
473
00:30:53,300 –> 00:30:55,300
time.
If you believe Scott Peterson
474
00:30:55,300 –> 00:30:57,200
killed his wife, you can find
it.
475
00:30:57,400 –> 00:31:01,000
In your heart to believe the
LAPD was involved in the murder
476
00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:03,100
of Christopher Wallace.
Have you ever looked into the
477
00:31:03,100 –> 00:31:06,400
Peterson case?
There’s zero actual evidence, he
478
00:31:06,400 –> 00:31:10,400
killed his wife, just evidence
that he went fishing the day,
479
00:31:10,400 –> 00:31:14,300
she went missing, and then after
like a month of the media,
480
00:31:14,300 –> 00:31:17,900
drilling that detail into
people’s heads Lacey, Peterson’s
481
00:31:17,900 –> 00:31:20,600
body is found in the water and
that’s it.
482
00:31:20,700 –> 00:31:24,200
That’s the evidence.
And that dude is never getting
483
00:31:24,200 –> 00:31:27,200
out of prison.
In this case, they found a
484
00:31:27,400 –> 00:31:31,500
Trying to Tupac bullets.
That match the kind used to kill
485
00:31:31,500 –> 00:31:37,100
Notorious BIG walkie-talkies and
a car that’s identical to the
486
00:31:37,100 –> 00:31:39,900
car.
The shooter was driving all in
487
00:31:39,900 –> 00:31:45,400
the garage of a corrupt cop who
worked for notorious Big’s
488
00:31:45,400 –> 00:31:49,200
biggest rival.
In any other case that person at
489
00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:54,900
least gets arrested and or asked
a few questions but none of that
490
00:31:54,900 –> 00:31:58,300
ever happened another detail in
the movie that A I don’t think
491
00:31:58,300 –> 00:32:01,000
has been public knowledge up to
this point.
492
00:32:01,000 –> 00:32:03,900
Is that pool at one point gets a
copy?
493
00:32:03,900 –> 00:32:08,000
Of the official LAPD report
about the murder of a crypt
494
00:32:08,000 –> 00:32:11,500
named Kelly Jameson.
Kelly Jameson, was jumped by a
495
00:32:11,500 –> 00:32:15,800
group of Bloods at a death row
after party and subsequently
496
00:32:15,800 –> 00:32:19,200
beaten to death.
But in the report they receive
497
00:32:19,200 –> 00:32:22,100
about the incident, through a
Freedom of Information Act
498
00:32:22,100 –> 00:32:24,800
request.
All of the details of that
499
00:32:24,800 –> 00:32:28,500
incident are redacted even care.
Jameson’s name.
500
00:32:28,600 –> 00:32:31,500
And why?
Because as it turns out the
501
00:32:31,500 –> 00:32:34,800
three death row security guards
who watched the incident happen
502
00:32:35,200 –> 00:32:40,000
were off-duty LAPD officers.
So if that were to get out down
503
00:32:40,000 –> 00:32:42,400
the rabbit hole we go if nothing
else.
504
00:32:42,400 –> 00:32:46,900
It’s solid evidence that the
LAPD very much wanted to cover
505
00:32:46,900 –> 00:32:49,300
up their officers involvement
with Death Row.
506
00:32:49,300 –> 00:32:53,300
Records also side note just
because I have it at this point
507
00:32:53,300 –> 00:32:56,200
in my notes, the music in this
movie is great.
508
00:32:56,300 –> 00:32:59,800
It’s not just that they were
able to license notorious Big’s
509
00:32:59,800 –> 00:33:03,100
actual music but there are some
really cool remixes.
510
00:33:03,300 –> 00:33:06,000
If nothing else, this soundtrack
deserves to be out.
511
00:33:06,000 –> 00:33:11,600
Anyway, the movie also mentions
a thing that is confirmed to
512
00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:17,300
have happened that I think is
the Smoking Gun in the lapd’s
513
00:33:17,300 –> 00:33:20,200
involvement, in the murder of
Christopher Wallace.
514
00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:24,100
The entire time David Mack was
in prison for that bank robbery,
515
00:33:24,100 –> 00:33:28,300
which he was very cocky about,
by the way, because He’s he’s
516
00:33:28,300 –> 00:33:31,000
out of prison by now.
Like he was sentenced to I think
517
00:33:31,000 –> 00:33:33,600
15 years.
Good behavior got out in, like,
518
00:33:33,600 –> 00:33:37,900
eight money was never recovered
the entire time David Mack was
519
00:33:37,900 –> 00:33:40,200
in prison.
He got one visitor.
520
00:33:40,400 –> 00:33:46,300
That visitor was Amir Muhammad,
the man who was named by at
521
00:33:46,300 –> 00:33:50,700
least one source as the shooter
in Christopher Wallace’s death.
522
00:33:50,900 –> 00:33:53,600
That’s pretty weird, right?
Something that’s not mentioned
523
00:33:53,600 –> 00:33:57,200
in the movie, but for sure has
been mentioned in real life.
524
00:33:57,300 –> 00:34:01,100
Is that at one point someone
claimed Rafael Perez said in
525
00:34:01,100 –> 00:34:04,400
jail, that the robbery was
carried out to pay Amir
526
00:34:04,400 –> 00:34:07,100
Muhammad.
The other half of the money, he
527
00:34:07,100 –> 00:34:09,600
was owed for the shooting.
He didn’t get all of the money.
528
00:34:09,600 –> 00:34:13,400
He was owed because he was
supposed to kill Puff Daddy too.
529
00:34:13,500 –> 00:34:17,900
But that opportunity past when
the car puffy was riding in blew
530
00:34:17,900 –> 00:34:19,600
through that red light.
Anyway.
531
00:34:19,800 –> 00:34:23,400
At this point, the movie has to
take some creative Liberties
532
00:34:23,400 –> 00:34:25,300
when covering the rampart
Scandal.
533
00:34:25,400 –> 00:34:29,100
And I assume that’s because
Rampart Could be an entire movie
534
00:34:29,199 –> 00:34:32,300
of its own.
It is already a TV show of its
535
00:34:32,300 –> 00:34:35,800
own The Shield starring.
Michael Chiklis are seen it,
536
00:34:36,000 –> 00:34:37,699
it’s based on the rampart
Scandal.
537
00:34:37,800 –> 00:34:42,000
Also Denzel Washington’s
character in Training Day is
538
00:34:42,000 –> 00:34:46,199
based, on the central figure in
the rampart Scandal, Who is the
539
00:34:46,199 –> 00:34:49,500
aforementioned LAPD officer
Rafael Perez.
540
00:34:49,800 –> 00:34:52,400
The events leading up to the
rampart.
541
00:34:52,400 –> 00:34:56,800
Scandal are way more detailed
and drawn out than depicted in
542
00:34:56,800 –> 00:34:59,100
this Movie.
But they get the important part,
543
00:34:59,100 –> 00:35:01,800
right?
Which is as mentioned earlier
544
00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:07,500
that it ended with Perez, who
was also a blood who worked
545
00:35:07,500 –> 00:35:12,000
security for Death Row Records
implicating at least 70 LAPD
546
00:35:12,000 –> 00:35:16,900
officers in all sorts of crimes.
The way, Perez’s eventual arrest
547
00:35:16,900 –> 00:35:20,000
is depicted in the film.
Isn’t what actually happened.
548
00:35:20,000 –> 00:35:24,300
What it is, though, is a
composite of all the crimes.
549
00:35:24,300 –> 00:35:26,400
Perez is known to have
committed.
550
00:35:27,300 –> 00:35:32,200
Shooting an innocent man and
then planning a gun on him to
551
00:35:32,200 –> 00:35:37,400
make it seem like he was
attacked stealing cocaine and
552
00:35:37,400 –> 00:35:41,600
then reselling it on the street.
But in the movie It’s Made to
553
00:35:41,600 –> 00:35:46,600
seem that what happens after his
arrest is that Perez immediately
554
00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:50,400
agrees to implicate these other
cops and know what happened is,
555
00:35:50,400 –> 00:35:55,200
he went on trial for stealing
cocaine from the LAPD evidence
556
00:35:55,200 –> 00:35:58,900
room that ended in a hung jury.
Jury and a mistrial.
557
00:35:58,900 –> 00:36:03,100
And while the prosecution was
looking for more evidence to
558
00:36:03,100 –> 00:36:07,500
build a case for a second trial,
they found 11 more instances of
559
00:36:07,500 –> 00:36:11,400
him stealing cocaine.
So, to avoid that second trial,
560
00:36:11,500 –> 00:36:16,000
he agrees to talk and here’s
where the movie makes a really
561
00:36:16,000 –> 00:36:19,800
huge claim.
What it implies is that the
562
00:36:19,800 –> 00:36:26,000
rampart Scandal wasn’t the LAPD
finally coming clean about all
563
00:36:26,000 –> 00:36:28,700
of their wrongdoing.
The rampart Scandal was a
564
00:36:28,700 –> 00:36:32,600
diversion that allowed them to
take the bullet for a bunch of
565
00:36:32,600 –> 00:36:35,900
smaller crimes.
But avoid the disastrous
566
00:36:35,900 –> 00:36:39,900
consequences that would have
resulted from the murder of
567
00:36:39,900 –> 00:36:43,100
Christopher Wallace.
Being tied, to the LAPD, that’s
568
00:36:43,100 –> 00:36:48,400
a huge claim and it’s one that I
haven’t seen mentioned in any of
569
00:36:48,400 –> 00:36:52,200
the subsequent articles or
coverage of this Theory.
570
00:36:52,300 –> 00:36:55,500
Another Revelation from the
movie at one point, Russell
571
00:36:55,500 –> 00:36:59,700
Poole was going to testify Why
on behalf of the defense in a
572
00:36:59,707 –> 00:37:03,800
civil suit the family of Kevin
Gaines had filed against Frank
573
00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:06,200
Liga.
The point was to get his
574
00:37:06,200 –> 00:37:10,300
allegations of LAPD involvement
in the death of Christopher
575
00:37:10,300 –> 00:37:15,000
Wallace on the public record
Liga and his lawyer both were on
576
00:37:15,000 –> 00:37:18,100
board, but then the chief of
police shows up at the
577
00:37:18,100 –> 00:37:22,100
courthouse, a meeting of some
sort happens and the case ends
578
00:37:22,100 –> 00:37:27,100
up being settled without league
has knowledge and without anyone
579
00:37:27,300 –> 00:37:31,300
Ever being allowed to testify,
and that case was definitely
580
00:37:31,300 –> 00:37:33,000
settled.
Kevin games family.
581
00:37:33,400 –> 00:37:37,100
I believe that two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars from the
582
00:37:37,100 –> 00:37:41,000
LAPD.
So there’s that and that is what
583
00:37:41,000 –> 00:37:45,100
this movie is about at its core.
Not just the murder of
584
00:37:45,100 –> 00:37:50,700
Christopher Wallace but more so
and more importantly about how
585
00:37:50,900 –> 00:37:56,500
every attempt at completely and
fully investigating the lapd’s.
586
00:37:57,200 –> 00:38:00,400
It in that murder is shut down
every time.
587
00:38:00,500 –> 00:38:04,200
So, basically, it’s a movie
about what happened to this
588
00:38:04,200 –> 00:38:06,700
movie.
How fucking meta is that movie
589
00:38:06,700 –> 00:38:11,300
also reveals another interesting
detail at the end at one point.
590
00:38:11,300 –> 00:38:15,400
After Russell, Poole was pushed
out of the LAPD and told his
591
00:38:15,400 –> 00:38:19,700
theory about David Mack was
false, the LAPD reopened the
592
00:38:19,700 –> 00:38:24,000
investigation to avoid a civil
suit, and did it by issuing a
593
00:38:24,000 –> 00:38:27,100
search warrant for David Mack’s
Impala in other.
594
00:38:27,300 –> 00:38:30,800
Words, the same lead, Russell
Poole brought them in the first
595
00:38:30,800 –> 00:38:35,000
place, is what they use to
justify that search warrant.
596
00:38:35,000 –> 00:38:37,800
So how invalid could the theory
really be?
597
00:38:37,900 –> 00:38:40,700
If that search warrant was
issued.
598
00:38:40,800 –> 00:38:44,200
Nothing ever came of that search
warrant probably because that
599
00:38:44,200 –> 00:38:47,600
wasn’t really the point issuing
that search warrant meant they
600
00:38:47,600 –> 00:38:51,800
were still investigating and
investigating a fellow cop, no
601
00:38:51,800 –> 00:38:54,000
less.
But also because it was an open
602
00:38:54,000 –> 00:38:57,100
investigation, the civil suit
filed by voletta Wallace.
603
00:38:57,200 –> 00:39:00,500
This couldn’t go forward.
Unfortunately, Russell pulled
604
00:39:00,500 –> 00:39:03,900
died before he could do anything
with that search warrant
605
00:39:03,900 –> 00:39:07,000
information.
And if I recall correctly, never
606
00:39:07,000 –> 00:39:09,000
mentioned in that USA Network
series.
607
00:39:09,200 –> 00:39:12,700
Imagine that.
And unfortunately, the movie
608
00:39:12,700 –> 00:39:18,200
ends as this story ends in real
life, with no resolution the
609
00:39:18,200 –> 00:39:21,500
murder of Christopher Wallace
has never been solved.
610
00:39:21,500 –> 00:39:25,100
The murder of Tupac Shakur
remains unsolved.
611
00:39:25,100 –> 00:39:30,400
Despite so Many people
witnessing those murders with
612
00:39:30,400 –> 00:39:33,800
their own eyes, but yeah, City
Eliza’s great fucking movie.
613
00:39:34,000 –> 00:39:38,300
If you are able to find it, I
would recommend giving it a
614
00:39:38,300 –> 00:39:41,400
watch.
Be wary about doing what I did
615
00:39:41,400 –> 00:39:46,400
and buying a legitimate copy of
it on Blu-ray and a whole other
616
00:39:46,700 –> 00:39:50,000
Blu-ray player to watch it with.
You’re going to have some Outlet
617
00:39:50,000 –> 00:39:53,200
concerns, just going to have to
be some adapters involved.
618
00:39:53,200 –> 00:39:57,800
There might have to rewire your
house and then all The text on
619
00:39:57,800 –> 00:40:00,700
the screen, it’s an Italian.
How am I supposed to know what?
620
00:40:00,700 –> 00:40:05,000
Maggio, 1997 means.
What a my Rosetta Stone.
621
00:40:05,100 –> 00:40:07,000
But beyond that really good
movie.
622
00:40:07,100 –> 00:40:10,000
Highly recommended just don’t
ask me for a copy.
623
00:40:10,300 –> 00:40:13,600
I will not give it to you.
I don’t have it anymore.
624
00:40:13,700 –> 00:40:20,200
Like I said, set it on fire.
Anyway, that is the episode.
625
00:40:20,200 –> 00:40:23,000
Like I said, I’ll be doing more
episodes like this in the
626
00:40:23,000 –> 00:40:25,200
future.
Most of them will probably be
627
00:40:25,200 –> 00:40:27,100
bonus episodes, but this one’s
free.
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00:40:27,500 –> 00:40:31,400
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I don’t know.
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If all included.
On the show but I might as long
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that’s it.
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Let’s get out of here.
Goodbye everybody.
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I love you.