Tegan Broadwater
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317 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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The only thing that I could do is try to convince them to cooperate and give them my word. And I didn't do this for everyone, but give them my word. I'll testify on behalf of you and your character. Most people didn't believe me and I kind of didn't blame them, even though it was traumatic for me because I'm thinking in my mind, like, no, dude, we really did have a connection. I really like you.
But you've also known me for two years as T. And now I'm telling you I was lying the whole time. So I understand why you don't believe me. But it was traumatic for me when they would just give you the bird and move on because you just really had these high hopes for the guys that you thought had a chance. You really wanted to get the lowest sentences.
And since I didn't get to pick, that's the only thing I could do. Once I testified for one person and just said, man, I think they have a lot of social redeeming value. They've made a lot of mistakes. They are tied in with this, but I think I would be even comfortable as the undercover with them getting out with a lighter sentence, whatever that needs to be.
I'm just, I have a testify on their behalf. And once I did that, a few others perked up and decided to cooperate. And I ended up doing that. So the lowest sentence was Two years. And the average sentence was 19 years. Oh, wow. So you add a ton of dope into this situation and it turned into what people considered a dope case. But again, it's not a dope case.
These are violent criminals selling guns, doing drive-bys, everything else. And you debrief all these fools and they're sharing who murdered so-and-so at the stop and shop, whatever. We had nine cold case murders that got reinvestigated. So that's really who these folks are. And the last three are getting out.
Biden's actually his last hurrah, let the last three guys out, one of which is actually a pen pal of mine. I've been trying to get out for years, me and another attorney of trying to get because I think he got really screwed on the Senate.
The other two are those kind of folks that you want someone to let you know when they get out so you can just watch yourself. Sure. But again, the only reason I can even think that even happened, because it happened without any instigating from me, we're working from behind the scenes and trying to put together a case to get my guy out.
And all of a sudden he calls and says, man, he's getting down in July. Is that, again, they think this is a dope case, these are nonviolent, whatever, this is drugs and blah, blah, blah. Well, that's not the case. There's so much more context in this situation. Yeah.
Yeah, I was encouraged to write a book after this, and I had no interest in writing a book at all till somebody brought me to one particular organization that got me turned on to this whole thing where we calculate all the kids that were left behind after this roundup. So you have 51 people off the street, one female, 50 dudes, and you try to think of, all right, now...
How many fatherless kids are there going to be on the street in that same poor neighborhood being raised by aunts and grandmothers in that same place who are going to take the next opportunity? And then you got to get some dude in 18 years to go in and take them all to jail. I'm just thinking this is salvaging that neighborhood in a certain way, but it's not a long term solution.
The arrest is not a long term solution. You're getting the violent people away so that this neighborhood could potentially thrive. But what are we doing for that neighborhood to thrive? And this organization is an after-school organization that mentors children of incarcerated and murdered parents. They teach them. They have to come in and report their conduct grade every single day.
They talk about their test scores. They get mentored in art class, in their homework stuff. They do music. They do athletics. They have little after-school. Dallas Maverick guy will come out and do some kind of thing at the basketball court or whatever. It's a fantastic program. They essentially teach these kids everything. Table manners and how to apply for jobs.
Yeah. Smart. Takes her ceiling from this level and makes it sky high, which we take for granted. Our parents have always taught me you can do anything you want. Sure. If you just do this, this is the path and whatever.
Yeah, it is right. I think it's funny because it's ironic because these kids, again, that was their dad. That's what they knew. Their dads grew up in that same environment, got into the bad stuff. I will concede most of these guys were not actually great fathers at all.
so that the cycle has some potential for fixing itself. You're teaching them ways in which they can succeed in other ways besides grabbing a gang member and latching on in sixth grade or whatever that is.
Politics and graft and everything else. Yeah. I don't think in terms of drugs, obviously, I think the war on drugs, I think everyone Would agree that doesn't work. It's been how many decades now that's been in play.
You're putting a lot of lives at risk for us to continue spinning the wheel so that it doesn't get worse, which is the only real progress I think we make when you're fighting the dope is you're just putting people in harm's way, law enforcement doing all this different stuff just to make sure it doesn't get worse. Because if you quit fighting it, it will get worse.
Fighting it is not beating it either. So I don't know exactly a solution. I think if I did, I'd be speaking all over the world, giving them the magic key. But I do think too many people pass on making an impact because they think it's this giant undertaking.
And if you can impact one person that is of age that can be enlightened by some kind of wisdom or encouragement or whatever, I think that's really the keys. If more people would think a small difference adds up. in total. I think that's really where it comes in. Educating people and acknowledging consequences.
Most of the people in the dope game are not accountable people and they get pissed off when they get caught. But if you actually understand consequences and value other things that you can do, you'll make better choices in general.
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