Nov 14, 2023
Mayor's Son Caught Hurling Hateful Slurs During Pretend Traffic Stop
- 6 minutes
A mayor has a son, the son is caught
on camera hurling racial slurs,
doing a lot of other things,
put up the picture for a mask.
This is a hell of a story,
I'm taking you to Indiana.
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Misha Waka, Indiana Mayor Dave Wood issued
an apology after that July 2022 video of
his son Joseph was using racial slurs, and
it was released online, okay?
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And this is a hell of a thing, put up
the screenshots of what they were doing.
So the video actually
captures Joseph pretending to
be the police conducting a traffic stop.
And then he goes through this back and
forth, and
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the traffic stop turns fatal,
while he's using the N-word and
killing his friend, he has pulled over.
This is in a garage,
according to the reports,
one of the men involved
is a city employee.
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At the time, Wood was also employed by the
water department and was wearing a water
department sweatshirt in the recording
full of government array here.
According to sources for
local outlet Real News,
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who obtained the video,
the clip was posted to Snapchat and
was allegedly taken by at Mayor Woods
House using the mayor's vehicle.
In the video, he checks a man's ID,
uses the N-word,
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he says the slur seven
times in the 34 2nd clip.
The song Bad Boys, popularly
affiliated with the TV show Cops,
is being blasted throughout the video,
all right?
So at one point, he allegedly brandishes
what appears to be a weapon after yelling,
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freeze, N-word.
Then he pretends to shoot
inside of the car, so
there's a statement obtained by WNDU.
So here's what a mayor said,
this behavior would not be tolerated
in the city, the mayor's home.
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Or at the workplace, Wood said in
the press release on Thursday.
This video depicted or depiction is
not reflective of Mayor Wood's values,
views, nor the way his son and
family were raised.
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Well, you don't say mayor, so
this is the first time your son,
who was at your home, works for your city,
has ever said the N-word in your presence.
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He's still employed, he still comes up
to the house, probably stays there.
So this is not something that
has happened before, all right.
As it relates to our son, Joseph,
this has been a difficult time or
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difficult period for him,
our family and our community.
We make no excuses for the reprehensible
nature of this video, he continued.
We have encouraged him to seek help for
his mental health issues,
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and he has begun that process and
is making progress.
He is a young man with a full
life ahead of him, and
we are committed to getting
him the assistance he needs.
We ask for your continued prayers,
privacy and support, okay.
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So now racism is a mental health disease,
according to the mayor,
when you see the video, and unfortunately,
because of certain rules,
we could not play the full video.
But when you see the video,
it is clear this individual is
well within his racist mind.
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It is not a mental health issue,
he's simply a bigot and
wanted to play a game where
he killed a black person.
The employee and Joseph,
who also worked for the city,
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were indefinitely suspended
amid an ongoing investigation.
Joseph has previously come under fire
after he was recently charged for
allegedly driving under the influence
following a crash in September.
According to reports, the rest came
nearly a year after Joseph Wood was
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suspected of driving drunk during
a traffic stop in the city, but
was instead given a ride
home by the police.
Is that Joseph?
That's the mayor's son, come on,
get back here, let me take you home.
See a life of not only privilege, but
protection from one's own actions.
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Know, a lot of us grow up
not because we got older,
not because we made mistakes,
but because we learned from them.
And when you have a perpetual cycle,
an ecosystem of protection,
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regardless of your action, you never
get to that point of realization.
So you become an adult who continues
to do things like a child,
he's quite responsible for his actions.
This is not, in my opinion, a mental
health issue whatsoever, and shame on
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the mayor for proclaiming everything but
apologizing to Black people, all right?
Okay, sharing thoughts here.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, the mayor is, I'll
say, the mayor is 45% culpable here, okay?
Paid suspensions, cops covering
things up because the captain and
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the mayor are friends in
the prior incidents, you spoke of.
Dr. Ritchie and, yeah, you got a job
at the water department, nice,
respectable young man.
Only he is a nasty, ignorant,
drunken racist, okay?
So he still is on this indefinite
suspension, what about the money?
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Black people pay taxes, too.
>> Speaker 1: That's right, well said,
we will bring you an update on
the investigation if an update ever comes,
don't hold your breath.
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