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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Red Carter. Wednesday, January seventh,
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twenty twenty six, and back to regular court coverage today,
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and we've got a busy docket. New England Patriots star
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Stefan Diggs wide receiver pro bowler Cardi B's baby daddy
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charged with felony strangulation after allegedly attacking his private chef
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over money she asked for her paycheck. He allegedly smacked
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her across the face, wrapped his arm around her neck,
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and choked her until she thought she was going to
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black out, then threw her on a bed, called her
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a liar. Patriots say they support Stephan. His lawyer says
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the charges are a financial dispute that got out of hand.
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Arraignment January twenty third. In Texas, the first trial connected
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to the Uvalde school shooting begins today. Former school resource
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officer Adrian Gonzalez faces twenty nine counts of child endangerment
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and abandonment. He was among the first cops on scene
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May twenty fourth, twenty twenty two, and among the nearly
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four hundred who waited more than seventy seven minutes while
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children called nine one one begging for help. Nineteen kids,
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two teachers dead because officers stood in a hallway and
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did nothing. Now one of them finally faces a jury,
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and in Miami, fifteen year old Derek Rosa is fighting
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to suppress his confession. He was thirteen when he stabbed
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his sleeping mother more than five times, took photos of
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her body, sent a bloody selfie to friends, then called
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nine one one himself. Yesterday the nine one one tape
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played in court, Rosa covered his ears, couldn't listen to
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himself describing how she bled out all over the floor.
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I'm reed Carter today, an NFL star accused of strangulation,
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a cop who failed twenty one children, and a teenager
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who can't face what he did. This is celebrity trials.
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Let's start with Stefan Diggs, thirty two years old, wide
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receiver for the New England Patriots. Ten year NFL veteran
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four time Pro bowler, had six consecutive thousand yard receiving
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seasons with Minnesota and Buffalo from twenty eighteen to twenty
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twenty three. Signed a three year, sixty nine million dollar
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deal with New England last year, twenty six million guaranteed
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and now he's charged with felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault
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and battery. Court hearing tuesday in Dedham, Massachusetts, revealed the details.
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A woman who worked as Diggs's private chef went to
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police December sixteenth to report an assault that happened two
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weeks earlier. According to the police narrative filed with the court,
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the woman was living at Diggs's home working as his
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personal chef. On that night in early December, she was
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in her bedroom when Diggs came in and got angry
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during a discussion about money. She told police she hadn't
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been paid. What happened next, according to police, Diggs smacked
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her across the face. She tried to push him away.
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He grabbed her from behind and tried to choke her,
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using the crook of his elbow around her neck. Officer
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Kenneth Ellis wrote in his report that the woman said
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Diggs was behind her with his arm wrapped around her.
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She had trouble breathing felt like she could have blacked out.
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Then Diggs allegedly threw her on a bed and called
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her a liar when she said she hadn't been paid.
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The chef left diggs home in her position, but she
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returned December ninth to collect her belongings. That's when things
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got even more interesting, according to police, when she tried
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to get her final paycheck, Diggs referred her to his assistant.
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The assistant told her she had to sign a non
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disclosure agreement before she would be paid. Let me repeat
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that an NFL star allegedly assaulted his employee, and when
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she tried to collect her wages, she was told to
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sign an NDA. First, no signature, no paycheck. She didn't
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sign it, she went to police instead. Officer Ellis noted
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that the woman was initially reluctant to file charges, changed
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her mind last week, wanted criminal charges brought. Diggs attorney
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David Meyer released a statement categorically denying the allegations, called
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them unsubstantiated and uncorroborated. Said the timing and motivation are
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crystal clear. Quote. They are the direct result of an
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employee employer financial dispute that was not resolved to the
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employee's satisfaction. Translation, She's only going to the cops because
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we wouldn't pay her. Here's the problem with that defense.
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You don't get to assault someone and then say the
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charges are just a financial dispute. The money argument and
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the strangulation charge are separate issues. Even if there was
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a legitimate pay dispute, and it sounds like there was,
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that doesn't excuse allegedly choking someone until they nearly passed out.
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The Patriots released a brief statement, we support Stephan. That's it,
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four words, standing by their receiver. This isn't Diggs's first
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controversy with the team. Last May, a video surfaced showing
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him on a boat passing what appeared to be a
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bag of pink crystals to women. Nobody knows what the
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substance was. The NFL had no comment. Patriots coach Mike
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Vrabel said the team would handle it internally, whatever that means.
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Diggs also recently welcomed a son with rapper Cardi B
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in November. Cardi B, you may recall, just won her
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own legal battle in September when a jury found her
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not liable in an assault lawsuit brought by a former
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security guard. Arraignment for Diggs is set for January twenty
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third felony strangulation in Massachusetts carries up to five years
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in prison. The misdemeanor battery charge adds up to two
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and a half years. Here's the pattern we see over
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and over. Wealthy powerful man allegedly assaults employee. Employee wants
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payment for services rendered. Employer demands NDA in exchange for wages.
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Employee refuses. Employer's lawyers call the whole thing a financial dispute.
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NDAs don't work when there's criminal conduct involved. You can't
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buy your way out of a strangulation charge. You can't
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make someone sign away their right to report a crime
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in exchange for their paycheck. Diggs is presumed innocent. Trial
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will determine guilt, But asking an assault victim to sign
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an NDA before paying them, that's consciousness of guilt. That's
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someone who knows they did something wrong and is trying
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to cover it up. Make it make sense. We'll be
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right back with the first Uvaldi trial. A school resource
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officer who stood in a hallway while children died finally
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faces a jury. Welcome back to celebrity trials, I'm read Carter.
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May twenty fourth, twenty twenty two. Rob Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas,
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a small town of fifteen thousand people about eighty miles
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west of San Antonio. An eighteen year old gunman entered
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the school and opened fire in two connected fourth grade classrooms,
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children ten and eleven years old, their teachers. Nearly four
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hundred law enforcement officers responded, local police, school police sheriff's deputies,
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state troopers, border patrol agents, and they waited seventy seven
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minutes while children called nine one one from inside the classroom,
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while parents outside begged them to go in, while victims
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bled out on the floor. Nineteen children died, two teachers died,
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twenty one people murdered while cops stood in a hallway. Today,
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the first officer goes on trial. Adrian Gonzalez, former Uvalde
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Consolidated Independent School District police officer, school resource officer, the
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person whose job, literally his job was to protect those kids.
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He was among the first officers to arrive and among
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those who waited more than an hour while children died.
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Gonzalez is charged with twenty nine counts of abandoning or
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endangering a child. According to the indictment, he abandoned his training,
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did not confront the shooter, even after hearing gunshots while
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standing in the hallway. He pleaded not guilty last July.
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His attorney, Nico le Hood, a former Bexar County district
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attorney said, Gonzalez feels he's innocent and that all he
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did was try to show up to help those children.
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Trying to help and actually helping are two very different things.
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Showing up and then standing in a hallway while kids
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die isn't helping. It's failure. The Department of Justice released
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a scathing report on the police response, called it riddled
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with failures, cascading failures in training, communication, and leadership. Office
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users did not follow active shooter protocol, did not try
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to breach the classroom, did not treat it like the
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life or death emergency it was. Instead, they waited while
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children made nine one one calls. Please send the police.
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Now he's going to kill me. Send help. The calls
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were made during those seventy seven minutes while officers stood outside.
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Parents arrived at the school. Some tried to go in themselves,
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were restrained by police, handcuffed, pepper sprayed, told to stay
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back while their children were dying, and cops did nothing.
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Former school police chief Pete Aredondo was the on site
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commander that day. He's also been indicted ten counts of
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abandoning or endangering a child. His indictment says he failed
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to identify an active shooting, did not follow his training,
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and made decisions that slowed the police response while the
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gunmen was hunting victims. Aredondo's trial hasn't been scheduled yet.
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Gonzales goes first. This is historic. It's extremely rare for
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law enforcement officers to face criminal charges for failing to
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act during a mass shooting. The only comparable case Scott Peterson,
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sheriff's deputy at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
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He stayed outside during the twenty eighteen massacre while seventeen
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people were killed. Charged with felony child neglect, and acquitted.
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Jury found him not guilty. That acquittal looms over the
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Uvaldi case. If Peterson wasn't convicted for doing nothing during Parkland,
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can Gonzales be convicted for doing nothing during Uvalde? The
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families are watching. Jerry Matta lost his ten year old
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daughter Tess in the shooting. After Gonzalez's arraignment, he said
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there should have been more indictments, only two to be indicted.
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There should have been more because there was a lot
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of ranking officers during that day that knew what to
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do but decided not to but Matas said, the families
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would take what they could get. We'll take what we get,
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and we're just going to continue fighting for the kids
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and the two teachers and see it all the way through.
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Each charge against Gonzales carries up to two years in
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jail twenty nine counts, maximum of fifty eight years if
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sentences run consecutively, but that's unlikely. More realistic a few years,
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maybe probation, maybe nothing if the jury acquits. The defense
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argument is that you can't criminalize police hesitation, that officers
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face split second decisions, that it's unfair to judge them
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in hindsight. But seventy seven minutes isn't a split second decision.
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That's four than six hundred and twenty seconds of doing
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nothing while children died. The victims' names Navai Bravo, Jackie Cazarez, McKenna,
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Lee l Rod, Jose Flores Junior, Eleana Garcia, Irma Garcia,
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Uzia Garcia, Ami Jo Garza, Xavier Lopez, js Luevanos Tesmata,
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Miranda Maatis, Eva Morells, Alethia Ramirez, Anabelle Rodriguez, Mike de Rodriguez,
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Alexandria Rubio, Lei La Salazar, Jai La Silgero, Eleana Torres,
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Rojelio Torres. Twenty one names nineteen children ten and eleven
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years old, two teachers who died trying to protect them.
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They should be in middle school now, should be playing sports,
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should be going to dances, should be alive instead. Adrian
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Gonzalez stands trial and everyone watches to see if there's
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any accountability, any at all for the catastrophic failure that
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killed them. Your tax dollars at work coming up. A
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fifteen year old covers his ears as his own nine
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one one call plays in court. She bled out all
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over the floor. The Derek Rosa murder trial. Welcome back
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to celebrity trials. I'm reed, Carter, October twelfth, twenty twenty three, Hialea, Florida.
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A nine to one to one call comes in from
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a thirteen year old boy. Miss I shot my mom.
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The operator tries to clarify, the boy corrects himself. My
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mom died. She was sleeping and I stabbed her in
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the throat and in the back. That thirteen year old
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was Derreck Rosa, now fifteen, on trial for first degree murder,
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and yesterday he sat in court and covered his ears
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while that nine one one call played for the judge
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couldn't listen to his own confession. Here's what prosecutors say happened.
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Early morning, October twelfth. Rosa's mother, Irina Garcia, was asleep
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in her bed. Her two week old baby girl was
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sleeping nearby. Rosa allegedly entered the bedroom and stabbed his
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mother repeatedly while she slept, more than five times. Detective
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josephil Osegi testified yesterday that Garcia suffered multiple stab wounds.
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The autopsy found one wound was just one millimeter away
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from her carotid artery. She bled out, and then Rosa
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did something that defies explanation. According to prosecutors, he took
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a photo of his mother lying in a pool of blood,
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then took a selfie showing his hand covered in blood,
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and sent both images to a friend documentation like a trophy,
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evidence of what he'd done shared with someone else. Then
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he called nine to one one himself. On the call,
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Rosa couldn't give his address, told the operator he only
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knew that it says two to one on the door
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of the apartment, had to search for mail to find
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out where he lived. He was thirteen, didn't know his
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own address. When the despatcher asked why he killed his mother,
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Rosa responded, I didn't want to be here no more.
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I didn't want to be alive no more. He refused
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to check if his mother was still breathing. She's dead.
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I stabbed her. I stabbed her more than five times.
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She bled out all over the floor. Yesterday. As that
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call played in court, Rosa sat with his head down,
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eyes closed, fingers plugging his ears, squirming in his seat,
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couldn't handle hearing what he'd done. But prosecutors say this
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wasn't the first time Rosa displayed disturbing behavior. Two weeks
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before the murder, on September thirtieth, two thousand twenty three,
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Rosa allegedly sent a group text to students at his school,
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asking do you want me to scare you? Then sent
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a graphic video of an army reservist who had killed himself,
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followed it with a happy face emoji with a gun
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pointed at its head. Hours before killing his mother, Rosa
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allegedly showed the same suicide video to his girlfriend, was
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joking and laughing about it. Told her the video of
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a man's head exploding was funny. His girlfriend didn't find
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it funny broke up with him later that day. That night,
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he stabbed his mother to death. After the attack, according
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to investigators, Rosa got a firearm from the closet and
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thought about shooting himself, changed his mind. When police asked
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why he killed his mother, Rosa allegedly said he stabbed
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her in a place where a lot of blood sprays out,
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knew exactly what he was doing, wouldn't give detectives a reason.