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[Music] foreign to statistics reported to the FBI 106 law enforcement officers were killed in
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line of duty incidents in 2018. of these 55 officers died as a result of felonious acts and 51 officers died in
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accidents fbi.gov cites 19 different circumstances in which the 55 officers were
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feloniously killed of those two officers were listed as killed while conducting traffic violation stops
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two others that were killed were involved in vehicle Pursuits so you can see thankfully this is a rare
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occurrence this week we take a hard look at a case that involves a traffic violation stop a
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vehicle Pursuit and the murder of an officer but this in the line of duty incident
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resulted in two deaths and with much of the incident recorded via dash camera in the officer's police
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vehicle why are we left with so many questions the dash cam footage was later released
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on the internet and on YouTube it has been viewed over 1.4 million times this no doubt is an extremely tragic and
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horrific story however one would think this would be a simple open and shut case
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but this is just not so there is little doubt the bad behavior and bad blood was the fuel for murder
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but does this True Crime Story have a hero or was there more than one murderer at this crime scene
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and was the Fallen officer a good cop a bad cop or possibly an evil man with a badge
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[Music] [Music] [Music] it was a cold dark snowy night in late January 2003 this in New Hampshire when
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Franconia police Corporal Bruce McKay was driving his usual Patrol route when he spotted an older model white Subaru
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in the parking lot at the entrance of the Fox Hill Park now special note here this is an area that is surrounded by
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Woods the Subaru was parked engine off and the lights off it appeared to be abandoned McKay called in the license
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plate and learned that the car belonged to a Michelle Kenny McKay got out of his
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vehicle and approached the Subaru he spotted a young man sitting inside with the driver's seat reclined all the way
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back this was 19 year old liko Kenny he told officer McKay that he was just waiting for some friends to come back
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from a Super Bowl party then liko started the engine and asked the officer for his name at this officer McCabe
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requested that liko hand over his driver's license and that it was the last normal thing that happened in this
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confrontation which is viewable in its entirety thanks to the dash cam video and audio which is available online yeah
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there's three videos or three parts to this arrest and then there's another video I will post all four of those
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videos on our website at True Crime garage.com this is January 26 2003 at 8 39 PM if
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the dash cam clock is correct and on the first video the audio starts at one minute and 12 seconds
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so when officer McKay requested liko's license liko initially refused to hand it over he wanted to know why the
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officer wanted it he became combative and belligerent almost immediately arguing with the officer challenging
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McKay's authority to take his license demanding that the officer's flashlight not be shined in his face maintaining
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that he was allowed to sit in a public place undisturbed by police officer McKay finally got the license
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and took it back to his Cruiser to run it when he saw the name on the license officer McKay said quote Oh I was
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wondering why you had such an attitude end quote clearly the name on the license was one familiar to the officer
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according to the book Bad Blood McKay knew this family by reputation let's listen to a couple audio clips from this
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initial rest in 2003. okay foreign [Music] 100 people around you're not [ __ ] God
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why are you giving me an order you have no reason to order me around this book yeah and you have a state Cop
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come here I'm feeling harassed you're putting your hands on me you're telling me I have to sit in my car yeah I don't
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know what you're doing what are you doing you don't have that Authority in my life no
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no why you have my license I sit down why you put your hands on me because you should be sitting in my car right now
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why should I be sitting in your car right now disobeying an officer why is an officer
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even telling me to do anything why are you because you're not complying complying with your orders you're not
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here to order people around you're here to Serve and Protect why currently investigated and I'm here to protect
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and it's not you and get you investigate me what why you put your hands on me why did you put your hand to an attempt
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to if that's an arrest not to put your hands on me you don't have that Authority I don't have the authority to
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tell someone not to put their hands on me no I was a police officer you have a requirements right on the street beating
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your kids up you just go this next clip is from part two of the rest in 2003. can I request look I have white
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sensitive eyes can you not Shine the Light of Mine I'm back in the car please have an officer come here to help me
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they're responding please have an officer that says can I call you escalated this no I you took my
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license I asked you what your name was you came back to my car you took my license I asked you when I can have my
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license back you wouldn't tell me when I could have my license back all I asked you was when can I have my license back
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you give me my license back you still now you're preventing people from leaving I have to be back with my mom's
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car you're preventing me from leaving you have my license right there why don't you give me my license and let me
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go home instead of doing this why don't you give me police assistance I'm requesting police assistance do you not
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hear me can I please have some police assistance you're torturing me why are you torturing why are you
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tormenting me what are you doing why are you rocking can't you go arrested drunk
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leaving the bar or something why why bother me all I asked you was when could I have my license back
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because I have to get somewhere by a certain time why are you harassing me are you denying me police assistance I'm
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requesting that you turn off the light that's in my eyes now requesting police assistance at this
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point Bruce McKay's backup shows up and they're going to arrest liko oh can I please get some assistance this officer
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here is harassing me he won't answer any of my questions I've been asking him he
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took my license put hands on the car why are you doing it put your hands on the car get away do not touch me do not
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touch me I don't trust this officer please keep him away from me he's been very timing he's put his hands on me all
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I've asked him into return always please okay please don't touch me look look I haven't done anything look no stop
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touching me please stop touching me not touching me like all of me quack with me
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get off of me why somebody help me like this way oh my gosh excuse me all right let's
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go I can't wait for me [Music] I didn't do anything I can't breathe with you on problems
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oh listen listen your feet okay what are you doing today I'm not dead what the [ __ ] are you doing there on
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your knees do you kill me no I want you to stand up why are you doing this to me
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what have I done I'm just saying you're asking and then Bob's been hurting me I'm not doing anything
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you can stand up do you want to cooperate I would rather keep the snow allowed to
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be tortured you know what I mean you're quirking me already all I was doing was sitting here waiting why did he why are
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you doing this to me I asked for police assistant and you came and told me to the ground I need help from inside the
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walls I asked him for his name and he wouldn't respond I asked him what he was doing he wouldn't tell me
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well that's fun on the old ears what we hear here Captain I think we need to do a little breakdown because we
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just played a couple Clips it's it's very lengthy if we were to play the whole thing hey stop molesting me and
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it's a lot of a lot of back and forth a lot of annoying yelling but you can hear
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how this whole thing is escalating as we go through it so basically what you have
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here captain at the start of this is liko he's not content to sit in his car while his license is being run so he
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gets out of his car he goes over to officer McKay's police vehicle now well let's take us one step back because
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when he initially when officer McKay goes up to liko's car right away I think liko is going to challenge the officer
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by saying well what's your name who are you you have to prove yourself to me I think that is the the match that got
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lit that started the whole thing and I think at that point the officer said well I have a right
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and it's my job to make sure people were safe and this is a vehicle parked in a public area late at night no lights on
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they're allowed to run your information so take it away from there well on that note I'm curious you know where he says
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liko says I have the right to be sitting here it's a public place I I get that from his standpoint I'm on
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board with liko there where my first question goes and I know this varies by area by state and often even by County
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so I'm not up to speed on this current situation here but he's at the entrance of a park
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and I know here in Franklin County Delaware County most Ohio counties the parks close at dusk you're not supposed
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to be there so that in itself is suspicious Behavior so officer McKay may be right in his statement of hey you're
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in a suspicious place at a suspicious time right but I also think it's it's bigger
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than that too let's say you're right outside this park that's closed most officers are not going to care but
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they stop and they see you there and they go okay well let me just approach the vehicle
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hey what are you doing here once you get that Kickback of what's your name who are you what right do you have to talk
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to me I think as an officer to me I would be suspicious of that person then well why are they so combative I'm
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just trying to see why they're parked here so if they're going to be combative with
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law enforcement maybe they have a reason to be competitive with law enforcement so I need to look up this individual to
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see if he has any warrants uh to see if you know who this individual is yeah and the the big issue I have
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immediately is the you know what I was getting at is is liko getting out of his vehicle and approaching the officer's
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vehicle that's a big No-No that no officer wants to see that during a traffic stop
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so and or or whatever you want to call this even if he's just checking maybe who who knows maybe McKay went up there
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with the idea that he was going to offer some type of Assistance or right just to
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see if the vehicle was abandoned there for any number of reasons and you're right the the match was lit and I
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believe the the match was lit by liko in the beginning but I'm I'm a little shocked here
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that and I really want to encourage everybody to go and watch this for yourself because I don't want anybody
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sitting there going well you guys were too easy on the officer too hard on liko or too hard on the
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officer because I think that that my opinion of the of each's behavior of each of these individuals Behavior at
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the end of the day I'm not not 100 happy with either one of them no it's almost like they're pushing each other's
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buttons yeah like like they're still like between them is a fire and they each have a gas can and they're just
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they're just tossing a little bit on it as they go and part of me see we don't know what
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the officer went through that day we don't know how many um you hear this a lot from officers is
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that they start having a disdain for people in general only because they're normally dealing with the worst of the
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worst they're not getting to deal with just the regular citizen every minute of every day they're getting calls out to
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domestic violence drugs all that stuff drunk drivers so but he he goes this kid is now pushing
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his buttons obviously like you said you pointed out this name means something and I don't
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think it's liko that means something I think it's I think it's Kenny that means something
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to to Bruce McKay right and I actually think that McKay maybe not 100 of the time but I think
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most of the way he handled this as best he could you know I think we have a situation where liko challenges him
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right away and then liko approaches his vehicle the police vehicle while he's running the license
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and then we have another situation where eventually liko gets back in his car and
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attempts to drive off and you hear officer officer McKay can be heard telling dispatch that the subject turned
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hostile and was attempting to leave the scene well yeah two things right there one the approaching the vehicle getting
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out of your car approaching the officer big no no no that don't do that getting in your car and then moving it
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around and having the the cop have to get in their car and and maneuver in a way so you can't get out
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big big No-No right those those two things are big no-nos because the officer has to think about his
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safety but he also has to think about the safety of this individual well but but I would also argue that
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before any of this there are maneuvers uh or tactics or protocols that he could have used being McKay could have used to
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just de-escalate the situation a little bit like hey to sit in your car don't worry about
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it if if you're not doing anything wrong let me just run your license and I'll get it right back to you and you'd be on
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your way so you're now giving the person that you pulled up you didn't pull over but you
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approached you don't have a real reason to arrest them but you have at least caused to figure
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out who they are but just give that in you can give that individual some direction I'm going to
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take your information I'm going to see if there's any warrants if there's no warrants I'm going to send you on your
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way you know you just can't sit here and the reason why is the park is closed so the
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entrance is closed as well and then you let you let the person go I just don't see any attempt from McKay to
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de-escalate the situation yeah I mean it appears McKay is is content to leave liko in the dark let's say about as to
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what is going to happen next right um I mean he did tell him a hundred times to get back in his vehicle yeah
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and then later we have liko complaining hey I have sensitive eyes you're shining
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the light in my eyes will uh dude you turned your car around and you are facing my headlights now
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right you know before and it look this this is complete police protocol this is how any traffic stop is going to take
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place at that time when it's dark out they're going to keep their lights on the back
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of your vehicle to make sure you're not pulling a gun out of the glove box or from underneath the seat yeah but a few
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things hey liko I'm going to show you respect you show me respect right I'm going this is what we're doing uh I
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think Bruce wanted to act differently obviously but he is he's under watch got the dash cam plus
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you have the audio um so I think this was his way of winning but he had to remain calm he had to watch what he
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said um but again I think there was there's simple tactics he could have done to to
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put a little water on the fire instead of putting gasoline on the fire what what would you have used in that
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situation gasoline I want to just lit the cream I mean what tactics would you have used to
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to de-escalate well like I said I think the first thing is just letting the liko
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know that I'm going to check to see if you have a record and if you don't I'm going to send you on your way and and
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the and explain why I have the right to to check your information um and then also I think
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liko if you're not going to be cooperative I am going to call for backup and we will arrest you
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um I think that's also letting the person know hey if you comply with me I'm going to let
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you go you're not going to be in trouble but you keep this up it's going to end in our you're going to
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be in jail so I think that a couple of those things might uh calm the situation yeah I just
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wish liko would have complied with McKay at some point because we have liko asking for another officer on the scene
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and McKay complies with that so well and then on top I think in a give and take situation I see one individual taking
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and not giving well and like we said he goes from asking for assistance and then
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asking to be let go and it's you know he and he's obviously being completely rude and disrespectful
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and then when you hear their arrest you know at some point you know McKay is saying you know liko
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grabbed his balls and the it's a it's resisting arrest I mean once you get to that point
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and maybe it's not uh a law for arrest but once it gets to that point and you start resisting
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they have to do everything in their power to protect themselves at that point you don't matter if your arm gets
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smashed a little bit if they have to put your face in the ground a little bit that's what's going to happen and that
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and we have given these individuals the right to do that so once he starts yelling all your
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molesting me you're breaking my arm my hurt neck you know it's like you know grow up kid yeah so you got you kept
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throwing gasoline on the fire you kept on poking the bear you know eventually you mess with the bull you're going to
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get the horn well and if if anybody wants to scream brutality here um go for it but that wouldn't be the
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hill that I would want to die on because from me viewing this so let's go through this real quick when
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when the backup officers arrived they did approach liko who was now standing off camera they physically seized him he
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can be heard yelling for a while that the group you know the group appears in the video frame just for a brief minute
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but it does take the three officers three officers to wrestle liko down to the ground this is behind his car and
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now out of the view of the dash cam Lico screaming the whole time you heard some
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of that he's screaming that they're hurting him he yelled over and over about his neck being broken by the cops
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which we know didn't happen well no he was young I got a hurt neck you're hurting my neck at one point he says
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that they they broke my neck right because he's acting like an idiot the problem I have here with these officers
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is you know that you're on dash cam you know that this guy you're you're coming to the scene because one officer cannot
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handle this individual and now you have three of you you just arrest him in front of the car so we can see it on
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camera I don't think that was an option though I think they're reacting to this individual possibly not you you possibly
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could be I mean I I think in I think in a perfect world they they would very likely have wanted to
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have full view of the arrest itself because here here's what I see anybody that wants to screen brutality watch the
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video have your own opinion you don't have to believe me what I see here is that if these three officers wanted to
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beat the [ __ ] out of this kid they could have they had the opportunity to do so
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and it does not appear to me from the information I've reviewed that they did that it looks to me like they simply
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made an arrest foreign [Music] [Music] cheers to you Captain cool real quick I just want to say this when I was playing
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all over the state and traveling a lot real early in the morning to get back home you know sometimes going through
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these small towns at four or five A.M only car on the road you'd get pulled over
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a lot more than you think you should oh yeah and I kept feeling like I was being
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harassed and having a police officer then later a detective as a father asking him for some advice on this hey I
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keep getting pulled over I'm not doing anything wrong sometimes I don't even know why they're
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pulling me over and I feel like I'm being harassed and he just said to me simply hey yes sir no
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sir that goes a long way so when the officer would approach you know can I see your uh license and
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registration yes sir you know yes or no sir goes a long way yeah and I I believe you to be right on
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all ends of that that story because it's weird and I think it's just like a country thing
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to get pulled over just because you're driving I mean it was like that happened to me plenty of times and and you know I
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did the yes or no sir thing too uh because I always wanted I always believed whether it be sitting in the
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principal's office or at a traffic stop or anything like that if you show a little bit of respect and just
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it it will end up being better for the both of us at the end of the day hopefully and and if not look there look
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there sometimes there's just bad people out there yes and no sir and yes sir is not going to matter a lick of difference
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that's right but for most cops it really does matter you you showing them a a sign of respect
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showing them that you um or are compliant and everything they're doing also know your rights as a
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citizen um but the you know look at this case in particular the actions of liko are so immature that
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would be hard to side with him even if he's in the right he he is in the right on a lot of things
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it's the attitude in which he presents it yeah in almost the constant nagging behavior and attitude of liko and if if
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at any point you watched the video or you heard our clips and you kind of chuckled to yourself
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I felt guilty about that because I did as well I don't think you you need to feel
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guilty for that because it's just it's so absurd and the longer you listen to it the the behavior is so absurd that I
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think that's how you kind of manage hearing what you're hearing and one absurd part one one part that I found to
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be a little bit this is maybe some sarcastic humor I don't think anybody was trying to make
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this uh a humorous portion of the story I found it humorous was where officer McKay can be seen and heard speaking
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into his shoulder Mike saying quote there's going to be a complaint from the arrested party right and you you hear
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that and you see him call that in and you're like no kidding no kidding there's going to be a complaint
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before we go too much further here Captain a lot of the information we relied on in this case came from two
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major sources one of them being John sedgwick's 2007 Boston magazine article entitled Collision Course rightfully
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entitled Collision Course the other was the book Bad Blood freedom and death in the White Mountains by Casey Sherman so
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let's get into the aftermath a bit of this 2003 Lico Kenny arrest because a lot of listeners right now are going
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this is a simple arrest what's what's the big deal Crouch guys right right so as you just
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said why would we be discussing this confrontation it hardly merits discussion on True Crime garage right
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what we're going to see is this confrontation between officer Bruce McKay and leeco Kenny was just the
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beginning of a hostile relationship one that would have fatal consequences so McKay filed a report about the arrest
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of leeco Kenny his depiction of the events was partially confirmed by the dash cam video as Boston magazine put it
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liko was the one who quote turned heated and combative according to McKay's report in the
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course of McKay and the other officers wrestling a belligerent hostile liko to the ground liko grabbed McKay's groin
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and began squeezing in response officer McKay applied quote lawful defensive Force by engaging
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in a protective maneuver to successfully release Kenny's grip from by striking the left side of Kenny's face
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but liko's story was different liko said later that officer McKay had kicked him
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in the head and used unnecessary Force liko was taken in handcuffs to the hospital and was evaluated to
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to be to determine the extent of the actual entries right he had accused officers of hurting his neck arms and
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legs but the evaluation revealed no injuries except some swelling around his jaw presumably where officer McKay had
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struck him no broken neck no broken neck it's a miracle police searched the Subaru and found was there any um
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evidence of molestation I I don't I don't think so that was none was listed in the report
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so police searched the Subaru liko's car found a glass pipe and marijuana residue
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under the seat uh found four 22 caliber casings and two knives that were in liko's Pockets
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during the entire encounter so to be clear he didn't have a gun the two knives he had I I'm always a
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little hesitant on the knife situation you know some people make a big deal this person
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had a knife a lot there are a lot of people that carry knives a lot especially in the country uh because
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they use them for as a tool right so I don't see anything wrong with the knives and
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given his age and maybe this is partly why McKay went up and walked up to the vehicle in the first place given liko's
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age it's not really surprising to find a pipe with some leftover marijuana residue in the vehicle I mean that
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doesn't shock you does it there captain no and I don't think it's that big of a deal so liko was charged with assaulting
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McKay and released into his parents custody on two thousand dollars bail his bail agreement required that he not
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possess any weapons this is going to lead us to a situation that takes place in April of the same
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year still 2003. so liko's bail agreement still in effect as he awaited the legal proceedings on
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the assault charge lico's uncle called the cops on him for trespassing liko's Uncle Bill reported that his
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nephew was riding his ATV on his property and Lika was told time and time again that this was not allowed
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one of the responding officers was Bruce McKay so McKay busted liko for violating his
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bail agreement because when the cops found him he had a blow gun and steal darts in his possession in fact McKay
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filed a report stating the weapon qualified as the type of dangerous weapon prohibited by alico's bail
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agreement as a result liko was subjected to house arrest and because liko was a royal pain
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in the ass he cut off his ankle bracelet right that was issued to him by the courts
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well that's not good Bob nobody you know you don't approach the police vehicle during a traffic stop you don't cut off
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your ankle bracelet that's issued to you by the courts yeah you don't get in your
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car and try to go around the officer you don't go on somebody's property even if
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it's your uncle's property when you were told not to you don't carry look if you're on probation
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you might carry around a knife because that's what you use as a tool but it's against your probation so you don't
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carry around anything well in cutting off the ankle bracelet that's a great way to earn yourself a nice stay at the
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county jail yeah which it did liko got 15 days in jail I do want to note here that there was a lot of build up between
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liko and his uncle before the uncle called the police about the trespassing yeah because the uncle
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probably doesn't want to throw his nephew in jail or get his nephew in trouble well and I
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think it got very dangerous between the two of them because the the uncle was definitely doing some things to upset
00:39:39
liko and liko was upsetting his uncle what happened before there was a situation just before this situation
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where he calls in the police this is terrifying apparently liko cut down a tree this was
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a 40-foot pine tree and it conveniently fell on the uncle's home so very dangerous situation here and now Costco
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is in 15 days in jail yeah ultimately he would plead guilty to the charges of the
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the assault charges of the officer and resisting arrest he was sentenced to 12 months but would only end up doing 15
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days this is the 15 days that he was in jail already so time served this is after and this this might shock
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some people out there who have reviewed this case but this is something that I found
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this was after officer McKay requested that liko be treated with leniency now this was according to to be clear this
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was according to New Hampshire State officials so I you take that for what it is but
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that's where that came from no that's not me but that's again I think when you look at the
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initial arrest it's a officer that's you know he's he's having to reserve himself
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because he is being recorded but at the same time it's like we can sit there and
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say you say no sir and yes sir blah blah but sometimes you're just like there's good cops and
00:41:18
bad cops sometimes there's just some dumb ass teenagers and and we've all had dumbass teenager moments I've had them I
00:41:27
know you've had them and I won't go into those on the show because I don't want to embarrass you in
00:41:32
front of all your friends I thought you were talking to the listeners uh the judge did order this is interesting the
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the judge ordered that liko was to have no direct or indirect contact with officer Bruce McKay
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let's step aside just for a minute here and learn a little bit about leeco Kenny
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and his family so liko which means bud in the native Hawaiian language is the son of Davey
00:41:59
Kenny and his wife Michelle the Kenny Clan was rather large liko's grandparents Jack and Peg moved to the
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Eastern Valley of New Hampshire in the 1950s buying a 450 acre parcel of land there in 1962 they founded the famous
00:42:19
rustic Tamarack tennis camp where kids from all over the Northeast would come to train
00:42:27
the extended Kenny Clan all had houses on this large property the family was known in the area for being quote
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adventurous and headstrong this was as described by the New York Times and fiercely free-spirited as described
00:42:44
by Boston magazine in fact these descriptions seem a little forgiving to be honest with you the Kenny's were
00:42:52
aggressive Brash and wild all of them seem to be talented athletes with no fear and big chips on their shoulders
00:43:00
they didn't get into legal trouble so much as suffer physical tragedies as a result of their impulsive
00:43:08
and headstrong behavior for example Bubba Kenny uh this is liko's Uncle not not the one
00:43:15
that he ends up in trouble with he was a talented skier who was known for his Daredevil stunts like free diving off of
00:43:23
bridges he died in a kayaking accident at the age of 25. a different Uncle of liko's
00:43:31
Uncle Mike raced professionally as a skier and then became a coach for the U.S ski team
00:43:37
and you may have heard of liko's cousin Bodie Miller he's a famous U.S Olympic ski racer
00:43:44
now liko's parents split their time between the Tamarack tennis camp in the summer and Hawaii in the winter
00:43:53
Davey and Michelle were the hippie types they homeschooled liko and taught him that freedom and Independence were
00:44:01
Paramount it's appropriate that they lived in New Hampshire the state whose slogan is Live Free or Die
00:44:10
liko in other words was raised to believe he could do whatever he wanted the book Bad Blood tells us that liko
00:44:17
had problems with anger from a very young age and one incident as a toddler he tried to stab a friend who took his
00:44:24
toy one lifetime friend described liko as a psychopath and said if you went on a
00:44:31
hike with him you were never sure if you were going to come back liko was so unpredictable that he was
00:44:38
actually banned from his family's tennis camp while campers were around and he terrorized his little sister to
00:44:46
the point that when she left to go away for college she vowed never to come back
00:44:51
as long as liko was around yeah it almost seems like he has some kind of mental disorder I almost wonder if this
00:44:58
is something that would have that went undiagnosed that they may have discovered later right now liko flunked
00:45:06
out of school this after being diagnosed with dyslexia he had no job prospects as
00:45:13
a young man he was described as smart but liko was frustrated with his failures and his lack of opportunities
00:45:20
and his anger continued to build this was compounded by Major feelings of insecurity one of liko's best friends
00:45:28
named Siri Hayward told his father about liko saying quote he's going to get in trouble or hurt or he's going to hurt
00:45:38
someone else end quote Siri was killed in an auto accident in 2005 and another friend was killed that
00:45:47
same year and liko really started to become unhinged after the deaths of his two friends
00:45:54
he was disappearing into the woods and saying he needed to talk to Siri who who's now dead and mumbling that
00:46:01
something was going to happen now Uncle Bill he's the one that got into it with liko
00:46:09
now in liko's defense Bill had a Schism with the rest of his family with everybody a Schism a Schism the
00:46:17
grandparents deeded the entirety of the property remember it's 450 acres to all five of their children together meaning
00:46:26
that they legally own the property as a group and had equal rights to all of it right but Uncle Bill
00:46:34
who was a survivalist organic farmer and so-called Eco purist as described by Boston magazine he succeeded from the
00:46:46
family and sued for ownership rights of a specific parcel one-fifth of the land so he could
00:46:54
live the way he wanted to this apparently meant alone in a log cabin for 30 years he just didn't like his
00:47:03
family well it gets it gets crazier man Uncle Bill one day decides he wants a wife
00:47:12
so he got a wife named Larissa from Kyrgyzstan Don't make me say that again because I said it wrong the first time
00:47:19
a Central Asian country this is like a mail order bride via website I don't know the name website by which
00:47:28
men can import a woman to marry them well how about we just take a minute you let me know what that website was well I
00:47:36
do a little side note here please don't send me any hate mail I did not create the website nor have I purchased any
00:47:43
people so not yet reading Consumer Reports regarding the purchase of people it turns out they're
00:47:50
a waste of money don't do it so all right let's talk about officer Bruce McKay now that we know who the Kenny
00:47:57
family is the Kenny Clan as I call them McKay was born in Bronxville New York in
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1958. he attended a private prep school where he played lacrosse and was captain
00:48:08
of the soccer team he worked as a lifeguard at the local Beach he was described as handsome
00:48:16
popular he was a do-gooder who lived life on the straight and narrow he attended New England College in New
00:48:23
Hampshire and worked as a volunteer fireman and EMT before attending a 12-week law enforcement training course
00:48:30
at the New Hampshire Police Academy after graduating he landed a part-time job on the force in Haverhill listeners
00:48:39
will recognize this as Mara Murray territory then in 1996 he was offered a position
00:48:48
as the third full-time officer in nearby Franconia he was divorced with a young daughter he
00:48:56
was engaged to be married to Sharon Davis their wedding was scheduled for July of 2007.
00:49:04
but that Captain is where the facts end the rest of what we know about Bruce McKay differs radically depending on the
00:49:12
source some say he was a bully on a power trip others say he was a dedicated cop who
00:49:19
was committed to the role of Law and was a credit to his profession according to Boston magazine the
00:49:29
Franconia 1000 residents generally preferred not to have any government interference in their lives and they
00:49:37
also preferred not to have to toe the line with regard to pesky rules and regulations their Live and Let Live
00:49:45
mentality does not mesh well with that of a police officer who sees things in black and white and is committed to
00:49:53
enforcing the laws like Bruce McKay McKay reportedly was responsible for over 300 traffic stops in 2006. the
00:50:04
other two officers in town had a combined total of 11. 300 to 11. yeah winner winner chicken dinner
00:50:14
McKay seemed out to get the citizens of this area for every infraction no matter
00:50:22
how small the vanity plate on his personal vehicle a Nissan SUV red gotcha got him yeah according to Boston
00:50:33
magazine McKay once pulled over a 79 year old woman for an expired registration sticker after she tried to
00:50:42
explain that she was heading home to cook dinner for her husband apparently he made her wait in the car
00:50:49
for two hours Bad Blood rules of rules man right Bad Blood sheds a little bit of
00:50:59
different light on these aspects of Bruce McKay according to the book quote rarely did he let his feelings get in
00:51:06
the way of police work to McKay the law was the law and it applied equally to everyone in his little corner of the
00:51:14
world he would hand a friend a speeding ticket as quickly as he would a stranger
00:51:19
yeah see I just don't agree with that especially like elderly lady it's like tell her Hey get that taken care of be
00:51:29
on your way the book goes on to say that the black and white attitude rubbed many folks the
00:51:35
wrong way but others appreciated the fact that McKay didn't play favorites yeah so there were residents who
00:51:42
supported McKay some said he was a nice guy and a great cop the ones that weren't arrested right the police chief
00:51:50
said McKay was an outstanding officer who was awarded 30 accommodations during his years of service but they also have
00:51:59
a quota and and some of some of the funding for these departments come from the tickets that the that the citizens
00:52:08
have to pay well others obviously felt different in fact according to some of the Articles we looked at complaints
00:52:15
from town residents about officer McKay this was not uncommon there were nine complaints filed against McKay during
00:52:23
his 11-year tenure some believed McKay would rely on using Force too often during the course of
00:52:31
performing his duties I've reviewed the ones that I could find and will say in my humble garage opinion the
00:52:38
overwhelming majority of these quote use of force incidents were Justified but not all of them some
00:52:48
are cause for debate one in particular was the arrest and pepper spraying of college student Sarah
00:52:55
emberly the dash cam footage of this encounter is available online as well this incident has mixed reviews some
00:53:04
people believing that McKay unnecessarily escalated things and some believe that he was totally within his
00:53:10
rights to spray the young woman in 2005 a fellow officer this is Mark Taylor wrote a letter to the police
00:53:19
chief and the letter says based on my previous knowledge of Corporal McKay's demeanor this matter of fact attitude
00:53:27
can come across as hostile and confrontational and he advised McKay to be less confrontational
00:53:36
shall we get back to liko here Captain yeah okay so now we're at January of 2003. this is when liko got himself a
00:53:46
handgun this was a high point 45 caliber gun according to his family and friends
00:53:52
he adored this gun shooting it into the air at parties and sleeping with it under his pillow
00:54:00
but in January of 2007 the gun disappeared from his room liko knew who took it it was his 15 year old cousin liko
00:54:11
suspected this because the same cousin took Legos PlayStation the previous year liko confronted the teen cousin and
00:54:19
things quickly got physical apparently strangling the kid and threatening him during the course of
00:54:27
this encounter to be clear he didn't kill him he he just I mean but it shows how out of
00:54:37
control the situation got now this method of theft investigation didn't work for liko
00:54:45
and he was unable to get the gun back so he called the state police and reported
00:54:50
it stolen the officer dispatched by the staties got the teenage cousin to confessed to
00:54:59
taking the gun but the cousin also reported that liko had violently attacked him and this was
00:55:06
witnessed by other family members liko told the officer that he had just shook him a bit the state trooper was
00:55:15
required to file an assault complaint against liko and a trial was scheduled for April 24th of 2007.
00:55:24
this would be liko's second trial for assaulting someone the first being officer McKay in 2003. at this trial the
00:55:33
cousin and liko's grandmother testified against liko and before this trial went down Lico
00:55:41
ever the charmer threatened members of the young cousin's family telling them that if the cousin and his grandma
00:55:48
testified against him he would kill them despite all of this misbehavior liko was
00:55:56
only ordered to pay a 250 dollar fine after the conviction polico really started to unravel
00:56:05
liko told his boss at his job this is at Agway supermarket that he felt like he was being followed
00:56:14
he told others that the cops were out to get him and the officer McKay was hunting him
00:56:20
he started to isolate himself and write about his quote last days this was in his daily planner
00:56:28
his parents were still in Hawaii at this time but his extended family began to be
00:56:34
concerned that liko would commit suicide but the paranoia you start again wondering about the mental health of
00:56:41
liko I do want to point out too that something that might add to this whole thing here Captain being the let's say
00:56:48
evaluation by others of liko at this time there were several persons that reported that he was pretty much living
00:56:56
by himself for months and months and months leading up to what I would call the final confrontation right and we know at
00:57:06
least it's my belief that if somebody is potentially suffering from something or going through
00:57:13
something being alone for an extended period of time usually doesn't seem to help
00:57:19
the situation that makes it worse right so you just wonder what he was going through
00:57:26
now the book Bad Blood details a memo that officer Bruce McKay circulated to his fellow officers after liko's trial
00:57:36
this memo was titled officer safety notice and informed officers of liko's conviction and states that liko
00:57:44
attempted to influence the witnesses at the trial the other members of his family
00:57:50
influence them to not show up for the trial telling them bad things would happen if they did the witnesses feared
00:57:59
for their safety liko was known to own a gun had a drug history and had a history
00:58:05
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