>>SHOCK JOCK ANTHONY CUMIA, NO STRANGER TO CONTROVERSY OVER THE
LAST FEW YEARS, WAS ARRESTED THIS WEEKEND OVER ALLEGEDLY
ASSAULTING A WOMAN IN HIS HOME IN LONG ISLAND.
HE PLED GUILTY
TODAY -- SORRY, NOT GUILTY -- IMPORTANT DISTINCTION FROM HIS
POINT OF VIEW.
>> IT'S ALLEGEDLY HIS 26-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND, DANIELLE BRAND.
HIS
ATTORNEY SAID YESTERDAY --
>> THAT IS ALL WELL AND GOOD,
UNFORTUNATELY THE GIRL WHO WAS
BEING ASSAULTED DID LIVE STREAM IT ON PERISCOPE AS IT WENT ON.
WE WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO AND SEE IF WE CAN FIGURE
OUT WHAT WAS HAPPENING THAT NIGHT.
>> HI, I AM IN LONG ISLAND, I GOT MY HAND BROKEN, I AM WAITING
FOR THE POLICE TO COME.
OH MY GOD, DON'T HIT ME AGAIN.
>>I AM NOT HITTING YOU.
>>I TRIED TO CALL THE POLICE, HE TURNED THE PHONE OFF --
>> YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LIED THEN.
YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LIED AND YOU
SHOULDN'T HAVE HIT ME AND YOU SHOULD TREAT ME LIKE SHIT.
>>FROM WHAT WE HAVE HEARD, AND WE DON'T HAVE A STATEMENT FROM
HER YET, WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE, WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT FRACTURED
RIBS, HER HAND BEING DAMAGED, THERE IS NO REPORT FROM THE
HOSPITAL YET, SO FAR IT IS A BIT OF SPECULATION IN TERMS OF THE
INJURIES.
YOU DO SEE WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SEVERE INJURY TO
HER HAND THERE, BUT WE WON'T KNOW FOR SURE UNTIL LATER TODAY
OR POSSIBLY TOMORROW.
FOR RIGHT NOW THEY ARE ALLEGATIONS, IT
CERTAINLY HELPS HER CASE I THINK THAT SHE HAD THE VIDEO DURING
THE TIME, AND HE IS CERTAINLY A GUY WITH APPARENT TEMPER
PROBLEMS FROM TIME TO TIME.
WE WILL SHOW YOU SOME TWEETS THAT
CAUSED HIM TO BE FIRED FROM HIS SHOW A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.
WHAT DO YOU THINK SO FAR?
>>HERE'S WHAT I THINK SO FAR -- OF COURSE!
YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS
COMING?
YOU CAN HAVE TERRIBLE OPINIONS, CAUSTIC OPINIONS, AND
BE A PERFECTLY LOVELY, PEACEFUL GUY IN REAL LIFE.
I DON'T KNOW
IF RUSH LIMBAUGH BEATS PEOPLE, THERE HAS BEEN NO REPORTS OF
THAT, AND HE HAS HORRIBLE OPINIONS.
I AM PARTLY KIDDING
WHEN I SAY OF COURSE.
BUT THIS GUY LOOKED LIKE HE WAS A POWDER
KEG READY TO EXPLODE.
YOU HEARD IT ON HIS SHOW, YOU SEE IT IN
THE CONTROVERSY THAT WE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT GOT HIM
FIRED IN THE FIRST PLACE, IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER, AND HERE HE IS,
AGAIN IN ANOTHER CONTROVERSY.
THE IMPORTANT THING HERE IS SHE
IS LIVE STREAMING, SHE SHOWS SEVERAL BRUISES AND A BADLY
DAMAGED HAND, BUT YOU DID NOT SEE THAT IN THE LIVE STREAM, TO
BE FAIR TO CUMIA.
THAT WILL BE RELEVANT IF HE GOES TO TRIAL.
ON
THE OTHER HAND, IF YOU'RE IN HIS HOUSE, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
BREAK YOUR OWN HAND AND DECIDE TO LIVE STREAM IT?
>>IT HAPPENED IN A MOVIE ONCE.
>>I GUESS IT IS REMOTELY POSSIBLE.
AND WOULDN'T HIS
REACTION HAVE BEEN LIKE, WHY ARE YOU LYING RIGHT NOW?
WHAT ON
GOD'S GREEN EARTH ARE YOU DOING?
I WOULD BE CALLING THE COPS
SAYING, I HAVE A CRAZY PERSON IN MY HOUSE THAT JUST BROKE HER
HAND.
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?
THAT DID NOT APPEAR TO BE
HIS REACTION.
THIS IS IMPORTANT, THE COPS BELIEVED HER AND
ARRESTED HIM.
THAT IS NOT DISPOSITIVE, THAT IS JUST THE
BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS, YOU HAVE TO GO TO COURT AND PROVE HIM
GUILTY, ALL THAT HAS TO HAPPEN.
BUT THE INITIAL PEOPLE WHO
SHOWED UP THOUGHT THERE WAS ENOUGH EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE TO BRING
THIS GUY IN AND CHARGE HIM WITH STRANGULATION AND ALL THE
OTHER CHARGES.
>>ALLEGEDLY BREAKING HIS PHONE, TEARING A LANDLINE OFF THE WALL
WHEN SHE TRIED TO CALL THE COPS THAT WAY.
LOOK, WE DON'T KNOW
FOR SURE, BUT IF YOU WERE GOING TO HARM YOURSELF AND MAKE UP A
STORY ABOUT IT, YOU PROBABLY WOULD NOT LIVE STREAM IN THE
MIDDLE OF DOING IT.
YOU WOULD WANT TO TELL THE STORY
AFTERWARD.
YOU ARE GIVING HIM A CHANCE TO TRY TO DISPUTE YOU,
WHICH HE DIDN'T APPEAR TO BE DOING, HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS
TRYING TO STEAL HER PHONE FROM HER, WHICH LOOKS AGGRESSIVE FROM
THE POINT OF VIEW OF PEOPLE WATCHING.
YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT
HIM BEING A POWDER KEG, I WAS A FAN OF OPIE AND ANTHONY BEFORE
HE WAS FIRED, I HATED EVERYTHING HE HAS EVER SAID ABOUT GUNS AND
RACE, BUT OTHER THAN THAT STUFF HE COULD BE ENTERTAINING, BUT HE
WAS ALWAYS FILLED WITH RAGE.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WILL KILL
A PERSON OR HURT A PERSON, YOU ARE FREQUENTLY QUITE MAD FROM
TIME TO TIME, JUSTIFIABLY SO -- BUT THIS IS A GUY WHO IS LIKE
GOOD FRIENDS WITH GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, LOVES GEORGE
ZIMMERMAN, ON HIS SHOW AT HOME -- HE DOES HIS SHOW IN HIS OWN
HOME WITH TWO GUNS IN HOLSTERS BY HIS SIDES.
THIS IS A GUY WHO
IS DESPERATE TO ACT OUT VIOLENTLY.
I TWEETED RECENTLY,
HIS LAST TWEET IS STAR WARS RELATED, BUT IT IS ABOUT HOW
WOMEN CAN'T FIGHT NATURALLY, WHICH IS HILARIOUS BECAUSE A DAY
LATER HE ATTACKS A WOMAN, AND WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE, THESE ARE
ALLEGATIONS, BUT THIS IS A DISTURBED, ANGRY MAN, ANGRY
ABOUT EVERYTHING HE SEES, ABOUT RACE, GENDER, YOU CAN'T LOOK AT
HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT WITHOUT FINDING SOMETHING MISOGYNISTIC
OR RACIST, WE WILL SHOW YOU A FEW OF THOSE.
AGAIN, JUST
ALLEGATIONS, BUT HE WAS FIRED NOT TOO LONG AGO FROM XM, FROM
HIS LONG-RUNNING SHOW, BECAUSE OF TWEETS LIKE THIS --
>> HE BLEEPED HIMSELF OUT --
>>
SPEAKING ABOUT AFRICAN-AMERICANS THERE.
THAT
SEEMS PRETTY CLEAR.
TO THIS DAY HE CLAIMS NOT TO BE A RACIST.
THEY AREN'T PEOPLE.
>> THEY ARE SAVAGES AND YOU HOPE SHE GETS KILLED?
THAT
IS
ENTERTAINING.
>> THIS IS FROM ONE TWITTER TIRADE.
YOU GO PRETTY MUCH
ANYWHERE IN HIS HISTORY AND YOU WILL FIND VIOLENT RHETORIC
TO THE PEOPLE HE DOES NOT LIKE, INCLUDING WOMEN AND RACIAL
MINORITIES, AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES AS WELL,
ALTHOUGH THAT IS NOT RELEVANT TO THIS PARTICULAR CASE.
>>IN THAT STORY IT APPEARED HE WAS TRYING TO TAKE A
PICTURE OF HER, SO HE COULD DO GOD KNOWS WHAT WITH IT
LATER, THAT IS WHY SHE WAS UPSET WITH HIM.
>>SHE GOT MAD BECAUSE HE WAS DOING PHOTOGRAPHY AROUND TIMES WHERE.
>>AROUND TIME SQUARE, AND PERHAPS HER BUTTOCKS.
THAT IS
WHY SHE WENT AFTER HIM.
BY THE WAY, SHE SHOULD NEVER HIT HIM.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HE IS TAKING A PICTURE OF.
BUT NOW
LOOKING AT THE NEW CHARGES, THEY ARE NOT JUST ALLEGATIONS, THEY
ARE CHARGES, BECAUSE HE HAS BEEN ARRESTED, IT TURNS OUT SHE WAS
LUCKY.
IF HE HAD A GUN ON HIM, SHE IS LUCKY.
HE DID NOT SHOW
ANY RESTRAINT ON TWITTER, AND IT IS HARD TO GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE
YOU'RE PEACEFUL WHEN YOU WISH FOR PEOPLE'S DEATH.
AND I DON'T KNOW
WHAT HE CALLED HER TO GET OTHER AFRICAN-AMERICANS SO MAD AROUND
HIM WHEN HE SAID FIVE BLACK GUYS SHOWED UP, AND BY THE WAY, MAYBE
THAT IS WHY HE DID NOT PULL HIS GUN.
WE DON'T KNOW, I'M GLAD HE
DIDN'T.
BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WHOLE CONTEXT OF ANTHONY CUMIA,
YOU SEE A GUY WHO IS UNHINGED.
NOW WE HEAR HE HAS BEEN ARRESTED
FOR ACTING ALLEGEDLY UNHINGED.
HENCE, OF COURSE.
IF YOU ARE
SURPRISED BY THIS, YOU MUST BE KIDDING.
>>BETWEEN NOW AND WHEN HE GOES TO COURT, PERHAPS HE AND GEORGE
ZIMMERMAN CAN SET UP SOME SUPPORT GROUP FOR GUYS WHO
HABITUALLY ATTACK THEIR DOMESTIC PARTNERS WHILE LOVING GUNS
AND HATING BLACK PEOPLE.