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So, Paul, we've got lots to get into this week, but wouldn't you mind a little review of the last few weeks? Last week we had a couple of guests on, Calvin Lawrence and Tom Juby, talking about, you know, police misconduct around the country.

And what are you seeing for updates or any news on the stories we're watching? Well, a

couple things.

One, Tom Juby and Calvin Lawrence were talking about the police shooting in West Vancouver the week before and the problems with that shooting.

And we still don't know who was shot.

We still don't know what force the shooter was from because he wasn't a Mountie.

And someone, an expert on these things who watched the show last week said a thing we missed was the guy who was shot wandered, you know, he was drunk or under the influence of drugs, wandered across this gas station lot and into the open door of an RCMP car, which likely had a gun inside it or mounted.

And he said, why was the car door not locked? That fit with what Calvin Lawrence was saying at the time, that they were in a rush, panicking, and didn't seem to know what they were doing.

But why was the car not locked?

Well, Paul, it connected to another thing that Calvin said, which was that many police officers seem to learn their tactics from watching television.

And one thing that always kind of I don't know, bugged me or I noticed about police officers in TV shows is that they leave their car doors open.

They get out of the car and they often just leave the door open.

And it always seemed very strange to do that.

Like why was it, like it wasn't not only unlocked, I think it was open.

And it was very strange, too.

Well, the other thing is they said, well, you know, this guy got in the car and, you know, he may have the police may make the argument that he could have started the car and driven away.

But there's no key in the car in modern cars.

They're fobs.

So presumably the car was off and there's no way for him to start it and drive away unless the police officer left the fob in the car.

So if they're going to argue he was a danger once he was inside the car, it doesn't sell.

So it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, so here we are a week later and still very little information, no new information about that.

No new information and the week

So, Paul, we've got lots to get into this week, but wouldn't you mind a little review of the last few weeks? Last week we had a couple of guests on, Calvin Lawrence and Tom Juby, talking about, you know, police misconduct around the country.

And what are you seeing for updates or any news on the stories we're watching? Well, a

couple things.

One, Tom Juby and Calvin Lawrence were talking about the police shooting in West Vancouver the week before and the problems with that shooting.

And we still don't know who was shot.

We still don't know what force the shooter was from because he wasn't a Mountie.

And someone, an expert on these things who watched the show last week said a thing we missed was the guy who was shot wandered, you know, he was drunk or under the influence of drugs, wandered across this gas station lot and into the open door of an RCMP car, which likely had a gun inside it or mounted.

And he said, why was the car door not locked? That fit with what Calvin Lawrence was saying at the time, that they were in a rush, panicking, and didn't seem to know what they were doing.

But why was the car not locked?

Well, Paul, it connected to another thing that Calvin said, which was that many police officers seem to learn their tactics from watching television.

And one thing that always kind of I don't know, bugged me or I noticed about police officers in TV shows is that they leave their car doors open.

They get out of the car and they often just leave the door open.

And it always seemed very strange to do that.

Like why was it, like it wasn't not only unlocked, I think it was open.

And it was very strange, too.

Well, the other thing is they said, well, you know, this guy got in the car and, you know, he may have the police may make the argument that he could have started the car and driven away.

But there's no key in the car in modern cars.

They're fobs.

So presumably the car was off and there's no way for him to start it and drive away unless the police officer left the fob in the car.

So if they're going to argue he was a danger once he was inside the car, it doesn't sell.

So it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, so here we are a week later and still very little information, no new information about that.

No new information and the week