next guest calls the killing of youth
baseball coach jay bouten one of the
most tragic things he has witnessed
in 20 years of policing joining us now
is plymouth police chief eric fadden
and chief could you please expand on
that for us because obviously you're
there
on the ground you see these types of
things you say it's one of the worst
you've ever been you've ever experienced
good morning thank you for having me
yeah i
you know in my short time as a police
chief but my 20 year career is
in policing here in the twin cities
metro area
this was one of the more tragic and
senseless things that i've been able to
or i've had to witness um in my time as
a police officer
um i was there that night when it
happened along with most of our staff
and um there are no words um to describe
um what happened um that night and um
to to uh put into perspective
um working the amount of work that goes
into
solving something like this um there's a
lot of work that goes
that's going on this week um to put um
to find you know who did this and to
find uh find a suspect
for this senseless act um our hearts go
out to the family that's for sure
you know chief this is clearly happening
in places that we never
expect them to happen like in your area
can you point to anything i mean a lot
of people talk about the defund the
police movement
is it that is it this delegitimizing of
police
so that criminals just don't really have
to comply with the law
what do you make of all this yeah you
know i don't think there's
one thing that we can point to um that
we can attribute to the increase in
violence that we're seeing
in our community here in the western
twin cities
we aren't seeing this high level of gun
violence that many
of our neighbors are seeing you know now
now we can't say that as much we do see
an increase in the street racing um an
increase in just
um general um lack of cooperation
um and people really just not respecting
our officers
and there is a trickle-down effect from
um
you know the downtown area in
minneapolis um we do see that ripple
effect here
um if there's one thing to point to i
don't think there is one thing that we
can point to right now
um that we can say is the factor that is
leading to this but it is concerning
chief could you tell us what is your
advice for people who um
are in a car maybe they get cut off
something happens um on the road that
they don't like but
another driver gets aggressive and what
do you recommend
somebody do you just have to let the
stuff go
um you know the the events that happened
here in plymouth on tuesday night
this was simply a father and a son
coming home from a baseball game
from all accounts the victim
they were just driving along the road
there was not this big ongoing road rage
back and forth it sounds like it was a
a brief traffic altercation the best
advice i can give if you think something
like that is escalating
just take the next exit it's just not
worth it someone lost their life for
i mean really no reason on tuesday night
and it's just tragic
i wanted to put this quote up on the
screen if i can chief this is from a
friend of uh jay bowden who said quoting
here i've had friends die
but i've never had a friend murdered and
to have him die in that manner just
shocking
hard to wrap your head around and it
really is chief that's the whole thing
is i i can give you 10 seconds to
explain what do you tell your residents
if you see something like this happening
don't try to get involved call us
um and just you know try to try to just
be
as safe as you can plymouth is a very
safe community
we don't see this sort of stuff happen
we haven't had an incident like this
in my memory um in my history here
uh involved with the city um and um it's
just tragic
people just have to be uh
aware that this sort of thing
happens throughout the metro uh it's
happening throughout the country
and um you just have to let things go
try to keep yourself safe
your care for your community comes
through loud and clear chief thank you
and thanks for the advice for people who
might be you know a little anxious there
on the road especially as we go into the
hall
into this uh next weekend thank you so
much hi everyone i'm brian kilmeade i
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