"DIGGS CHARGED WITH STRANGULATION, UVALDE COP ON TRIAL & 13-YEAR-OLD KILLER COVERS EARS"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Red Carter. Wednesday, January seventh, twenty twenty six, and back to regular court coverage today, and we've got a busy docket. New England Patriots star Stefan Diggs wide receiver pro bowler Cardi B's baby daddy charged with felony strangulation after allegedly attacking his private chef over money she asked for her paycheck. He allegedly smacked her across the face, wrapped his arm around her neck, and choked her until she thought she was going to black out, then threw her on a bed, called her a liar. Patriots say they support Stephan. His lawyer says the charges are a financial dispute that got out of hand.

0:44 Arraignment January twenty third. In Texas, the first trial connected to the Uvalde school shooting begins today. Former school resource officer Adrian Gonzalez faces twenty nine counts of child endangerment and abandonment. He was among the first cops on scene May twenty fourth, twenty twenty two, and among the nearly four hundred who waited more than seventy seven minutes while children called nine one one begging for help. Nineteen kids, two teachers dead because officers stood in a hallway and did nothing. Now one of them finally faces a jury, and in Miami, fifteen year old Derek Rosa is fighting to suppress his confession. He was thirteen when he stabbed his sleeping mother more than five times, took photos of her body, sent a bloody selfie to friends, then called nine one one himself. Yesterday the nine one one tape played in court, Rosa covered his ears, couldn't listen to himself describing how she bled out all over the floor.

1:45 I'm reed Carter today, an NFL star accused of strangulation, a cop who failed twenty one children, and a teenager who can't face what he did. This is celebrity trials. Let's start with Stefan Diggs, thirty two years old, wide receiver for the New England Patriots. Ten year NFL veteran four time Pro bowler, had six consecutive thousand yard receiving seasons with Minnesota and Buffalo from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three. Signed a three year, sixty nine million dollar deal with New England last year, twenty six million guaranteed and now he's charged with felony strangulation and misdemeanor assault and battery. Court hearing tuesday in Dedham, Massachusetts, revealed the details.

2:35 A woman who worked as Diggs's private chef went to police December sixteenth to report an assault that happened two weeks earlier. According to the police narrative filed with the court, the woman was living at Diggs's home working as his personal chef. On that night in early December, she was in her bedroom when Diggs came in and got angry during a discussion about money. She told police she hadn't been paid. What happened next, according to police, Diggs smacked her across the face. She tried to push him away. He grabbed her from behind and tried to choke her, using the crook of his elbow around her neck. Officer Kenneth Ellis wrote in his report that the woman said Diggs was behind her with his arm wrapped around her.

3:18 She had trouble breathing felt like she could have blacked out. Then Diggs allegedly threw her on a bed and called her a liar when she said she hadn't been paid. The chef left diggs home in her position, but she returned December ninth to collect her belongings. That's when things got even more interesting, according to police, when she tried to get her final paycheck, Diggs referred her to his assistant. The assistant told her she had to sign a non disclosure agreement before she would be paid. Let me repeat that an NFL star allegedly assaulted his employee, and when she tried to collect her wages, she was told to sign an NDA. First, no signature, no paycheck. She didn't sign it, she went to police instead. Officer Ellis noted that the woman was initially reluctant to file charges, changed her mind last week, wanted criminal charges brought. Diggs attorney David Meyer released a statement categorically denying the allegations, called them unsubstantiated and uncorroborated. Said the timing and motivation are crystal clear. Quote. They are the direct result of an employee employer financial dispute that was not resolved to the employee's satisfaction. Translation, She's only going to the cops because we wouldn't pay her. Here's the problem with that defense.

4:36 You don't get to assault someone and then say the charges are just a financial dispute. The money argument and the strangulation charge are separate issues. Even if there was a legitimate pay dispute, and it sounds like there was, that doesn't excuse allegedly choking someone until they nearly passed out. The Patriots released a brief statement, we support Stephan. That's it, four words, standing by their receiver. This isn't Diggs's first controversy with the team. Last May, a video surfaced showing him on a boat passing what appeared to be a bag of pink crystals to women. Nobody knows what the substance was. The NFL had no comment. Patriots coach Mike Vrabel said the team would handle it internally, whatever that means.

5:21 Diggs also recently welcomed a son with rapper Cardi B in November. Cardi B, you may recall, just won her own legal battle in September when a jury found her not liable in an assault lawsuit brought by a former security guard. Arraignment for Diggs is set for January twenty third felony strangulation in Massachusetts carries up to five years in prison. The misdemeanor battery charge adds up to two and a half years. Here's the pattern we see over and over. Wealthy powerful man allegedly assaults employee. Employee wants payment for services rendered. Employer demands NDA in exchange for wages. Employee refuses. Employer's lawyers call the whole thing a financial dispute.

6:06 NDAs don't work when there's criminal conduct involved. You can't buy your way out of a strangulation charge. You can't make someone sign away their right to report a crime in exchange for their paycheck. Diggs is presumed innocent. Trial will determine guilt, But asking an assault victim to sign an NDA before paying them, that's consciousness of guilt. That's someone who knows they did something wrong and is trying to cover it up. Make it make sense. We'll be right back with the first Uvaldi trial. A school resource officer who stood in a hallway while children died finally faces a jury. Welcome back to celebrity trials, I'm read Carter.

6:58 May twenty fourth, twenty twenty two. Rob Elementary School, Uvalde, Texas, a small town of fifteen thousand people about eighty miles west of San Antonio. An eighteen year old gunman entered the school and opened fire in two connected fourth grade classrooms, children ten and eleven years old, their teachers. Nearly four hundred law enforcement officers responded, local police, school police sheriff's deputies, state troopers, border patrol agents, and they waited seventy seven minutes while children called nine one one from inside the classroom, while parents outside begged them to go in, while victims bled out on the floor. Nineteen children died, two teachers died, twenty one people murdered while cops stood in a hallway. Today, the first officer goes on trial. Adrian Gonzalez, former Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police officer, school resource officer, the person whose job, literally his job was to protect those kids.

8:08 He was among the first officers to arrive and among those who waited more than an hour while children died. Gonzalez is charged with twenty nine counts of abandoning or endangering a child. According to the indictment, he abandoned his training, did not confront the shooter, even after hearing gunshots while standing in the hallway. He pleaded not guilty last July. His attorney, Nico le Hood, a former Bexar County district attorney said, Gonzalez feels he's innocent and that all he did was try to show up to help those children. Trying to help and actually helping are two very different things. Showing up and then standing in a hallway while kids die isn't helping. It's failure. The Department of Justice released a scathing report on the police response, called it riddled with failures, cascading failures in training, communication, and leadership. Office users did not follow active shooter protocol, did not try to breach the classroom, did not treat it like the life or death emergency it was. Instead, they waited while children made nine one one calls. Please send the police.

9:13 Now he's going to kill me. Send help. The calls were made during those seventy seven minutes while officers stood outside. Parents arrived at the school. Some tried to go in themselves, were restrained by police, handcuffed, pepper sprayed, told to stay back while their children were dying, and cops did nothing. Former school police chief Pete Aredondo was the on site commander that day. He's also been indicted ten counts of abandoning or endangering a child. His indictment says he failed to identify an active shooting, did not follow his training, and made decisions that slowed the police response while the gunmen was hunting victims. Aredondo's trial hasn't been scheduled yet.

9:57 Gonzales goes first. This is historic. It's extremely rare for law enforcement officers to face criminal charges for failing to act during a mass shooting. The only comparable case Scott Peterson, sheriff's deputy at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He stayed outside during the twenty eighteen massacre while seventeen people were killed. Charged with felony child neglect, and acquitted. Jury found him not guilty. That acquittal looms over the Uvaldi case. If Peterson wasn't convicted for doing nothing during Parkland, can Gonzales be convicted for doing nothing during Uvalde? The families are watching. Jerry Matta lost his ten year old daughter Tess in the shooting. After Gonzalez's arraignment, he said there should have been more indictments, only two to be indicted.

10:47 There should have been more because there was a lot of ranking officers during that day that knew what to do but decided not to but Matas said, the families would take what they could get. We'll take what we get, and we're just going to continue fighting for the kids and the two teachers and see it all the way through. Each charge against Gonzales carries up to two years in jail twenty nine counts, maximum of fifty eight years if sentences run consecutively, but that's unlikely. More realistic a few years, maybe probation, maybe nothing if the jury acquits. The defense argument is that you can't criminalize police hesitation, that officers face split second decisions, that it's unfair to judge them in hindsight. But seventy seven minutes isn't a split second decision.

11:35 That's four than six hundred and twenty seconds of doing nothing while children died. The victims' names Navai Bravo, Jackie Cazarez, McKenna, Lee l Rod, Jose Flores Junior, Eleana Garcia, Irma Garcia, Uzia Garcia, Ami Jo Garza, Xavier Lopez, js Luevanos Tesmata, Miranda Maatis, Eva Morells, Alethia Ramirez, Anabelle Rodriguez, Mike de Rodriguez, Alexandria Rubio, Lei La Salazar, Jai La Silgero, Eleana Torres, Rojelio Torres. Twenty one names nineteen children ten and eleven years old, two teachers who died trying to protect them.

12:17 They should be in middle school now, should be playing sports, should be going to dances, should be alive instead. Adrian Gonzalez stands trial and everyone watches to see if there's any accountability, any at all for the catastrophic failure that killed them. Your tax dollars at work coming up. A fifteen year old covers his ears as his own nine one one call plays in court. She bled out all over the floor. The Derek Rosa murder trial. Welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm reed, Carter, October twelfth, twenty twenty three, Hialea, Florida.

13:04 A nine to one to one call comes in from a thirteen year old boy. Miss I shot my mom. The operator tries to clarify, the boy corrects himself. My mom died. She was sleeping and I stabbed her in the throat and in the back. That thirteen year old was Derreck Rosa, now fifteen, on trial for first degree murder, and yesterday he sat in court and covered his ears while that nine one one call played for the judge couldn't listen to his own confession. Here's what prosecutors say happened. Early morning, October twelfth. Rosa's mother, Irina Garcia, was asleep in her bed. Her two week old baby girl was sleeping nearby. Rosa allegedly entered the bedroom and stabbed his mother repeatedly while she slept, more than five times. Detective josephil Osegi testified yesterday that Garcia suffered multiple stab wounds.

13:59 The autopsy found one wound was just one millimeter away from her carotid artery. She bled out, and then Rosa did something that defies explanation. According to prosecutors, he took a photo of his mother lying in a pool of blood, then took a selfie showing his hand covered in blood, and sent both images to a friend documentation like a trophy, evidence of what he'd done shared with someone else. Then he called nine to one one himself. On the call, Rosa couldn't give his address, told the operator he only knew that it says two to one on the door of the apartment, had to search for mail to find out where he lived. He was thirteen, didn't know his own address. When the despatcher asked why he killed his mother, Rosa responded, I didn't want to be here no more.

14:49 I didn't want to be alive no more. He refused to check if his mother was still breathing. She's dead. I stabbed her. I stabbed her more than five times. She bled out all over the floor. Yesterday. As that call played in court, Rosa sat with his head down, eyes closed, fingers plugging his ears, squirming in his seat, couldn't handle hearing what he'd done. But prosecutors say this wasn't the first time Rosa displayed disturbing behavior. Two weeks before the murder, on September thirtieth, two thousand twenty three, Rosa allegedly sent a group text to students at his school, asking do you want me to scare you? Then sent a graphic video of an army reservist who had killed himself, followed it with a happy face emoji with a gun pointed at its head. Hours before killing his mother, Rosa allegedly showed the same suicide video to his girlfriend, was joking and laughing about it. Told her the video of a man's head exploding was funny. His girlfriend didn't find it funny broke up with him later that day. That night, he stabbed his mother to death. After the attack, according to investigators, Rosa got a firearm from the closet and thought about shooting himself, changed his mind. When police asked why he killed his mother, Rosa allegedly said he stabbed her in a place where a lot of blood sprays out, knew exactly what he was doing, wouldn't give detectives a reason.

16:23 The current court hearing is about whether Rosa's statements to police should be suppressed. His defense attorneys argue he was still a child at the time, point to the fact that he couldn't give his address on the nine one one call, that when asked to sign a form, he said he didn't have initials signs of immaturity. Prosecutors counter that Rosa was properly mirandized. Body camera footage shows detective Elo Segui going through the warnings line by line, having Rosa read them back to him he understood his rights. Rosa is charged as an adult with first degree murder. In Florida, there's no minimum age for adult prosecution in murder cases. If convicted, he faces life in prison. Here's what makes this case so chilling. Rosa displayed warning signs, shared graphic suicide content, joked about death, sent violent imagery to classmates. His girlfriend ended their relationship because of his behavior.

17:21 Hours later, he stabbed his mother while she slept with a two week old baby in the next room. Erna Garcia was his mother should be raising that baby girl right now, should be watching both her children grow up. Instead, she's dead, stabbed more than five times by her thirteen year old son while she slept. Derek Rosa couldn't listen to his own nine one one call, covered his ears, couldn't handle the sound of what he'd done. But Arena Garcia doesn't get to cover her ears, doesn't get to look away. She's dead because her son decided she had to die. Rest in peace, Arena. Someone has to say your name. That celebrity trials for Wednesday, January seventh, twenty twenty six. Patriots star Stefan Diggs charged with felony strangulation after allegedly attacking his private chef over a pay dispute.

18:15 Arraignment January twenty third in Texas, former Uvalde School resource officer Adrian Gonzalez goes on trial today, first of nearly four hundred officers who stood in that hallway while children died to face criminal charges twenty nine counts of child endangerment, and in Miami, fifteen year old Derrick Rosa covered his ears as his nine to one to one confession played in court, stabbed his sleeping mother more than five times, sent bloody photos to friends, called nine to one one himself defense, trying to suppress his statements. I'm Red Carter tomorrow, updates on Uvaldi and whatever else breaks. This is celebrity trials.