Kansas City, Missouri – Getting in MO Trouble

When we mention Kansas City, there’s a good chance your mind immediately tracks to the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs or even Big Jim Slade, former tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, but lately your feed may include the 2 stories the guys are tracking this week and think of just one Kansas City Chief: The Fire Chief.

First from the Kansas City Fire Department: the Paramedic seen on camera chasing, and then hitting a patient with the laptop computer used to document patient care has been reinstated. I can hear your questions already, but the local union claims he deserves his job back for two reasons. First, this apparently happens all the time and others don’t get fired and, second, it was self defense.

Then your hosts cross the globe to…*checks notes* the Kansas City Fire Department where a Firefighter who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter has been sentenced to probation and, wait for it, the union wants his job back as well. From the same folks who brought you “everyone else is doing it” comes an explanation that there wasn’t a proper investigation completed prior to the termination. For those wondering, the driver was doing 51 in a 35 and blew through a red light, killing 3 and it turns out this wasn’t the first time this employee had been speeding, according to the Department.

Once again it looks like the hardest part of this job is showing up in the morning.

This week we discuss:

• How and when self defense turns into assault
• The difference between an assault and PD witnessing an assault
• When doing 51 in a 35 is appropriate
• Why Jason has a massive new game in the studio

BOLO

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