>> City commissioners and a Fort Lauderdale suburb have decided not to officially reprimand
their colleague, after comments he made in a previous city meeting.
Now, they were actually gonna decide whether this commissioner broke the city civility
code, and let me show you the video that kind of started all of this.
>> Congratulate all the BSO officers who have done such a great job.
>> Thank you very much.
>> Morning, Captain.
>> Yeah.
>> Joshua Gallardo.
>> My, my line.
>> You come down for a second?
It's good to see you again.
You probably don't remember me, but you're the police officer who falsely arrested me
four years ago.
You lied on the police report.
I believe you're a rogue police officer, you're a bad police officer, and you don't deserve
to be here.
>> All right, so just in case you don't know exactly, couldn't figure exactly what's going
on there.
So that is City Commissioner Mike Gelin talking to Broward Sheriff's deputy Joshua Gallardo.
Gallardo arrested him four years ago, we're gonna get to that arrest specifically in a
second.
What was happening at that meeting was Gallardo was getting a Deputy of, I want to say it's
a Deputy of the Week award.
So being rewarded for his actions as a law enforcement officer.
And after that there were a lot of people that came forward calling Gelin courageous,
but there were other people and a lot of them who were upset they said he was out of line.
As you can see earlier, they were going to officially reprimand them and the person who
was leading that was the mayor, and I want you to take a look at the mayor's actions
while Gelin is talking.
And we'll get back to that in a second, but take a look at this.
>> Morning, Captain.
>> Yeah.
>> Joshua Gallardo?
>> My line.
>> Could you come down for a second?
But you're the police officer who falsely arrested me four years ago.
You lied on the police report.
>> So it's just like this disgust this, but it didn't the officer lie?
More mad about him saying it out loud then- >> Wait a minute, are you talking about the
lady with the scarf?
>> Yeah, yeah she's the mayor.
>> Yeah.
>> So, look guys, this is a really interesting story because, it goes to a lot of the national
discussion about politics in general, it goes to racial issues, goes to justice issues.
So, but why do I say it goes to national issues most of all?
Because in the club the most important rule is, do not be uncivil to others in the club.
So basically what the mayor and other people are telling Mike Gelin is, hey dude, you're
now on the City Commission.
You're a commissioner, you're in the club, don't be rude.
It doesn't matter what happened outside the club.
Outside the club is just the masses.
No one cares about them.
You have to be polite to people that are in power.
And what you did, and you could tell it was definitely awkward, there's no question about
that.
And so for everyone in power that's nails on a chalkboard, like don't do it.
My God.
Now, our veil of civility has been burst.
But what happened to Mike Gelin four years ago when he was falsely arrested?
No one cares.
See- >> Yeah, now that is a lot more rude, to arrest
someone when they didn't do anything wrong, but that's not inside the club.
And so that's why he's getting a lot of blowback.
That moment when he called him back up and said that to him, I gotta admit I was uncomfortable
in the beginning.
And then by the end I was like, the north remembers.
>> And- >> Right?
Justice, that's how you do it.
>> Absolutely, and let's go back to what happened four years ago, because he hadn't released
this video.
He took cell phone video of the incident, in which he got arrested.
He hadn't released the video on purpose saying he wanted everyone to just move forward.
But after the mayor and his colleagues decided that they were going to reprimand him officially
he realized that he had to make, he had to make his own case by showing what happened
that day four years ago.
Take a look.
>> Can you see anything?
>> If you can just hang out here.
>> What's up, mama?
>> Are you recording right now?
>> Turn it off.
>> Why?
>> Because it's a violation of HIPAA law, he's actually injured.
>> Do you see anybody around right now?
Do you see anyone?
But the police?
>> No.
>> Then please leave.
>> Why?
>> Violation of HIPAA law >> Cuz right now, we're working on this The
victim.
You're violating the victim right now.
You wanna leave?
>> I'm watching.
>> You wanna leave the area?
>> I wanna make sure-
>> Then please back away from the sidewalk all the way over there.
>> All right.
>> Back up over there.
>> What's the rules?
There's a rule about that?
>> Okay, but- >> Why you doing it?
You're not telling him.
What are you doing?
>> Sir, right now, I'm gonna ask you again, on the other side of the.
>> Why?
Why do I have to go to the other side?
>> I'm asking.
>> You're gonna get arrested for obstruction.
>> How am I an obstruction?
>> Cuz I'm asking you to go to the other side and I don't want you approaching me.
>> I'm not approaching you.
You approached me.
>> Other side of the hedge.
>> What about everybody else?
>> Other side of the hedge.
Dude, you're walking away.
It doesn't take a >> Okay, so not only is the issue the video
and what you saw in the video, but the police report that was filed afterwards, and we have
a copy of that.
And I want to show you what Deputy Gallardo wrote in the report.
So this is the report, we have a tighter shot so you can kind of read along with me.
But it says that Gelin advised he was recording the incident, that he did not have to move.
I advised him, I is Gallardo, I advised Gelin he could continue to record but he would have
to move back behind the bushes to the East side to provide space for when rescue comes.
He's failed to comply with my commands to move from the area.
I'm skipping ahead here, though, but I repeatedly requested that he leave the area and not continue
to approach me from behind.
So a couple of things that Gelin is upset about here, one, that you could see multiple
times from the video he is moving backwards, not approaching the officer.
I didn't hear, at least in that clip, the officer say, you have to get back and you
can continue to record, but you have to get back because you need to leave space for rescue.
Instead he said he was to stop recording because it's a HIPAA violation.
It is not a HIPAA violation, but that part wasn't mentioned in the police report.
>> So, look, a couple of things are clear.
Gelin says in the video there you just saw, he said how come the other people don't have
to move back?
And you know why, cuz he's recording.
And the cops don't want you to record them, so that's why they're moving Gelin but they're
not moving anyone else.
It is a crime scene.
And, but the cop clearly lied.
He said he didn't move back.
We just watched the video.
He's clearly moving back.
He did a very normal thing he has every right to do.
Hey, why are you asking me to move back?
Because the cop was wrong.
He didn't have to move back.
That's just not a thing, and neither did the other civilians.
Okay fine, he says, even though he's right, Gelin is right, the civilian in that case
is right.
He moves back anyway, right?
And the cop arrests him anyway.
Because Gelin committed the worst crime in America, which is not listening to a police
officer.
It's actually not a crime, anywhere it's not on the law books.
But every cop thinks it's worse than murder.
Like how, are you disrespecting me?
I gave you a command, civilian, now you are to do as you're told.
And so, no, boom, I'll arrest and I'll lie about it.
So, and Gelin said later, he's like, look, that's I got a mug shot, I have to explain
that the rest of my life.
I have to tell people no, it was a false arrest, etc.
Then people don't believe you.
And so if I'm in Gelin's situation, come on, if you're in that situation, who do you think
did something worse?
And now your forcing the City Commissioner to give the guy, it was a Deputy of the Month
award.
Okay, now I don't think I'm gonna take that and just go, bravo, the guy who did the false
arrested me, Deputy of the Month.
Congratulations.
No, I'm gonna tell him that Gelin sends his regards.
>> Maybe he was good that month.
>> Maybe he got an award for being good in January, even though November and December,
not so much.
I look at these stories now and I'm like, we got a problem in America, right?
We got a problem and it's not all police officers.
I know some good police officers.
But the truth is, is that if being inhumane, being untruthful, if being corrupt is not
a deal breaker to you, then you're not a good cop.
Because if you're sitting around watching other police officers do the things that they're
not supposed to be doing and you maintain silence, then you're complicit and you're
part of the problem.
I think about this man as a black man and how endangered he was in standing up to a
police officer because that could very well cost his life.
And then you hear people talking about that we're making up these stories, or we're exaggerating.
I'm so tired of the call for civility from the oppressed.
It's like, we got to let people put their feet on our necks, and then we still got to
say thank you and sorry, we forgive you, and please.
It's enough already.
The call for civility was over when your president said grab them by the you know what, right?
The call for civility was over when he called a women horse-face.
When he said, lock her up.
All is lost, that is the leadership, the top of the line in America and the free world.
Stop asking regular people who are tired of being mistreated, who go to work every day
and have to be subjected to this foolishness to be civil.
>> Yeah, and how come they don't call for civility for the cop?
>> Yeah!
>> So, I mean- >> Who did this.
>> Be fired?
Police officers who lie do not belong on the force.
They can't, it's just, right?
How come everyone there is not upset that they have to work alongside, that someone
who is so sworn to protect everyone else there is a liar and would lie on official document?
>> Cuz that's a black man and he's not as worth as much in America.
And the fact that he turned around without any shame, and that have been my father, my
brother, I would have been embarrassed cuz he turned around and he did a thumbs up.
And he's trying to be funny.
It's like, have some shame about yourself.
You should be embarrassed that people saw you lie on national television
>> Last thing.
So a lot of the African American community members stood up for Gelin and said, no, no,
no, you don't.
You're not gonna say that he's out of order.
He's standing up for the rest of us.
And by the way, isn't that what a person in government is supposed to do?
>> Absolutely.
>> That once you have achieved power you're not supposed to just keep it for yourself
and go, hey, high five, I'm in the club.
I don't give a damn about the voters anymore.
I just care about myself.
You're supposed to stand up for the community, that's your job.
And so he actually did his job, and we should all be thanking him for that and pointing
out the problems in policing in that community, rather than burning them for fake civility
reasons.