then controlled kaz were authorities also claimed to arms have been distributed by militant groups fighting over the disputed area. well, to give you a sense of the scope here. the pentagon admits some 300000 weapons were left behind in afghanistan. that's out of the 420000 deployed to 2 local forces. the defense department estimates the cost of the abandoned arms at over $7000000000.00 among the hardware did store aircraft, vehicles, munitions, and other weapons. so yours truly switch just left dana san in august 2021. after the taliban took control of the capital, washington left the war torn country in the midst of a dire economic crisis. retired us air force, lieutenant colonel karen catastrophe told us. america doesn't care whether us minutes or a goes after it's delivered the way that we give aid and not just the united states, but other countries as well is um, there's a lot of money and very little impact to it. there's very little objective

measurements to even what that aid is supposed to produce. so we're not paying close attention. we're with the agencies, like the state department, the pentagon, usa i d that provide aid. they are rewarded for how many units of aid and money they can deliver, not for the fall of through, not for the impact and not paying much attention to what happens after it's been delivered. we're kind of feeding our own beast in, in the sense of, of how we are doing this in is that creates problems. us weapons that go elsewhere, fraud, waste, abuse in reaching oligarchs, whatever it is that all of this a does. that's really not an american problem. because the dollars the tax dollars were spent domestically and they had a positive political impact domestically. so the last is really doesn't care. in

fact, it gives us more to complain about and more justification for the military industrial complex. oh, we have people who have weapons that shouldn't have them. oh we, we should get involved in an intervention. we do this to maintain an ability to influence events and now to some small extent and then potentially in the future should afghanistan become become of interest to the united states government at some future time. well, not to bangladesh for other streets of doc, i have been taken over by a wave of a student in protest. high security alert has been issued for the whole of bangladesh as violent classes continue of the hundreds and demonstrators are demanding that new quote. as for government, jobs be canceled, the system put a lot of state employers to favor freedom fighters, family members,

as well as indigenous and the disabled people. students argue the quote as well as tracy, a number of government jobs available to them. place hard tear gas and rubber bullets since of the crowd is 19 people have already died. recently. protests over similar quote is in public sector sorties shut or university campuses across the country. they believe that she probably minister has announced an official investigation into the death. all right, let's look at the news for the for now in the meantime, be sure to visit our website to ortiz. com for the very latest breaking news and updates by the on august 10th. 2014. a police officer in ferguson, missouri outside st. louis,

shot and killed an 18 year old young man by the name of michael brown. that shooting which has been repeated far too often in american society set off a series of protests that have become known as the ferguson writes, ferguson laid bare the national problem of police violence against young blackman. and in many ways, it was the pre cursor to the black lives matter movement, which began formerly when police in saint paul, minnesota killed another black man, george floyd, several years later. but ferguson is important in part because it's so complicated . ferguson wasn't just the death of one black 18 year old event, created a move and from movements come leaders. it was another young man, darren seals who emerged from ferguson as a leader. indeed he did until he was murdered john curiosity. welcome to the whistle blowers the

. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 darren seals was born in 1987 in ferguson, missouri, and grew up just a few blocks from where michael brown was killed in 2014. he had known the brown family all of his life and when a police officer shot and killed michael seals became defacto spokesman. not just for the family, but for many of the protestors tired of police violence against their community and against a political and cultural structure that takes african americans for granted and offers them no hope of improving their lots in life. the ferguson riots thrust darren seals into the spotlight with his commentary, appearing on news networks around the world, covering the violence. he quickly became one of the most important and notable activists for regional justice and against gun violence and police brutality in the country. it co founded an anti police violence organization called hans up united

and became involved in politics describing himself on social media as a businessman, revolutionary activist, unapologetically black, african in america, fighter and leader. he also became a vocal critic of the black lives matter movement because it took millions of dollars and donations from 1000000000 air george soros. and it hijacked the movement in ferguson. as you might suspect, seals quickly came to the attention of the f. b, i which has had its own long and bloody history with black activists in america. yes, b, i surveilled him, investigated him and collected intelligence on him. but to what end? on the night of september 6th, 2016 darren seals was found dead in a burning car in a suburb north of st. louis. he had been shot and placed in the car before it was set on fire. that murder has never been solved. we're very happy to be joined by

filmmaker journalist author and pod cast or reign of a shell ski and by former missouri state senator maria chappelle. now they're the creators of a new pod cast series called after the uprising, the murder of darren seals rain. maria, thank you so much for being with us. i know this is going to be a fascinating conversation. thank you. thanks john. nice to see you again for the senior re. let's start with you. you and i have known each other for a long time, and i know that you have a nose for a story, whether it's about the c i a and the so called war on terror, or the saudi government's involvement in the 911 attacks. we've had many conversations about these issues. this one though, the murder of darren seals fascinates me. so let's start at the beginning of cop kills mike brown. the uprising begins in ferguson after a few days of chaos. active as leaders and merge. and one of them is darren seals

take it from there. all right, so then seals makes a lot of enemies. um, you know, he was, uh, this may be counterintuitive to a lot of people. uh, but he was an outspoken critic of black lives matter. because in ferguson, they considered their movement to be something different. and something that uh, at least he felt was being co opted by the kind of the broader national movement that we know as black lives matter. so he had enemies who were after this, he had enemies who were members of the gangs that he had once dealt throughout for uh, you know, he had, he had a lot of it. he had enemies, obviously, among the police. and perhaps the months the federal cops that he had been protesting to reform and so cut the 2016 and he's shot dead in a burning jeep. and the question becomes, which of these many enemies is the one who who chose to do him in? and that's where we maria and i began to and

a half years ago as we started looking at trying to run down. if we could figure out who had in fact murder, maria, you found yourself thrust into the very center of this historic event that was ferguson. you were representing the 14th district in the missouri state senate, which includes ferguson and you became an important voice against police violence. tell us about those days in ferguson at the very start of the uprising. and tell us a little bit about the emergence of darren seals as the voice of ferguson's african american community. from the beginning there was no script. there were people who were coming together because they felt the injury of a young black man laying on the streets for 4 hours. and so all of us no matter what our backgrounds were. we were all standing there stunned and in disbelief. and so the protest didn't start actually until a few days after, but everyone was standing around gathering together people from multiple games

people from the underground music world. we were just all gathering together and you could see the pain and people's faces at that time. it had been the 1st time i held the bro man crying, in fact, in so darren was among those people who were gathering amongst the many groups of people. and um, you know, we, we were trying to get answers. and at the same time, at the very beginning, we also had a lot of police presence and it was threatening. and i remember the 1st day of tear gassing, which was on the 1st and it was the monday after it was the 11th. and this type of violence our community has never experienced. and so that's really when the protest started. and when you start hearing individual words, in fact, the 1st day of tear gassing um, as you will hear, reflected in the pod cast,

you hear about still getting shot? well, i was there that night and it was right off of west of west wing estates. i believe and darren references a person by the name of spook. i didn't know the person's name. i just heard that a woman was shot in the eye and that's all we knew. so darren, as you will hear in this pod cast, starts wanting to get the stories out of what is happening on the streets and how to find resolve when it comes to police brutality. re. as maria just noted, darren seals emerged relatively quickly as a leader in ferguson. he was a serious person. he was quoted on cnn. he was quoted in the washington post. he was giving interviews to the international media, but because he was a serious person, he came to the attention of the f, b i. and we know now thanks to the freedom of information act that the f

b i was trailing him. in fact, the f b, i described him as quote, a revolutionary who has a spouse somewhat militant rhetoric and has access to weapons and quote, the f b. i has a well documented history of harassing activists and especially black activist. how much of a problem was this for darren seals and what was it that the f b i thought it could learn about him? well, this remains an open question. by the end of our 10th episode, we do have a pretty concrete idea as to what the purpose of that operation was. but it's open in march of 2016 and he's murdered in september of 2016. so just taking that as a back it's pretty stunning. when you realize this is kara, is matic famous black active is murdered. and during the file, 6 months of his life, the federal government is surveilling him and yeah,

and it's natural to ask, what were they up to? what did they, they hoped to, to get to and it wasn't just them, but they let a fusion team that included the st. louis county and city police. and mike, german from the running center consulted on looking at this heavily redacted document. as a former f b i agent and an i'm sure you're well aware of him. he's got an illustrious reputation and you know, he was looking at uh the specifics of a police pull over and felt that there was an obvious fishing expedition going on to try to find a gun in his vehicle because darren was you know, had been convicted of a felony and therefore couldn't have it. so it seems like they were trying to turn the screws on him and one form or another. they were not being terribly subtle. when you know they, they seem to be almost the opposite. they seem to be sending a signal that darren's the people around there and with know that he was either cooperating or that they wanted him to be cooperating. and we think that serve to

endangered animals, maria, when darren was killed. and we'll get more into that in a, in a minute, an f b i agent allegedly said, quote, a conspiracy theory is already forming that seals was killed by the police because of his black lives matter affiliations and quote, that is ridiculous, of course, seals was an opponent of black lives matter, but the statement seems odd to me, it seems like a deflection. i'd like to get your thoughts on that as well as on the statement that i mentioned a moment ago that the f b, i believe seals was, quote, a revolutionary with access to weapons. it all seriousness. everybody in america has access to weapons. so what do you think we should make of all that? well, if you listen to the high cache, you'll find that a lot of people were trying to deflect. and or some people who were unsure of which entity was responsible for darren staff. so in some sense, you know, it,

we believe i personally believe that i, there were some who were in the law enforcement who wanted daring to, to quite down. in fact, the loudest voices, they always wanted us to quiet down. and darren was one of those who was for rushes in his speech and he was militant in his speech and the status quo. 2 whether it be the political establishment or law enforcement, want it to shut that down. so there is irony in, in all of this, but i would also say there's deflection from all sides. when you listen to this and there are some stories that, that we don't discuss that we can discuss later on. that is not reflected in the pod cast in terms of this deflection. but i think we were confused, and there were some who were just really wanting to know from which corner of the

earth did this threat come from on and, and that's what our 2 year journey was all about is figuring it out and getting through the weeds and, and all of the smoke as the young people say. thank you maria, and re we're going to take a short break. and when we come back we're going to continue our conversation with filmmaker journalist, author, and podcast to reading over chelsea and former state senator maria ship. hell and the dog about the murder of darren seals. the 2 we have a lot more coming up. 2 2 the take a fresh look around his life kaleidoscopic isn't just a shifted reality distortion, by how us to do vision with no real opinions. fixtures

designed to simplify will confuse really once a better wills. and is it just because it shows you track shared images present? it is, but can you see through their illusion going underground? can the go to baxley whistleblowers? i'm john kerry who were speaking with renowned filmmaker journalist, author, and podcast to reign of a shell sky and with former missouri state senator maria chappelle and the dog about the murder of activists. darren seals. welcome back to both of you. thank you . re i want to talk about the pod cast you've just completed the pod cast called after the uprising, the murder of darren seals. just as darren seals was hitting his stride,

finding his voice, he was found dead. and it wasn't just that he was found dead. he was murdered, he was shot and then placed in a car and then the car was set on fire. tell us about the investigation into his murder. what did the public learn? it was interesting. we now know what the police did or didn't do. and we know the extent of their investigation because we only about 6 weeks ago, we had an episode 10 final episode of the season cut ready to go. and there were some of satisfied that we've gotten 2 answers and then we still don't know exactly how, but the entire police report of the darren seals. the investigative report fell under a lapse or producer, john duffy, a co creator of the show, had made a request for things unrelated to is to seals. and somehow we don't know if there was a friendly party in the force or what somebody accidentally sits in the report. so

we know, you know, we know what was looked at here. and what, what i find striking is the public and especially the act of this community that does their own investigation into this because they felt they were forced to, uh, nope, nobody ever heard a peep from the police or the prosecutors about what it was that they found it doesn't seem that the st. louis county police or prosecutors felt they owe some duty to the public or to the act of this community to let them know what, what they had seen. and, and it's pretty exciting because, you know, i don't want it very believe we, we do believe we solve this and all set up as those are out. and anyone who takes this journey by the time they get to the end, you know, there's a lot of true crime out there. there's not a lot that solves it. and this, if you take this journey, i think you will feel, you know, you did what and what happened the differences? maria, i'm interested here in the police angle. many residents of ferguson believe that it

was either the police or the f. b. i who killed their in sales. was there a police anywhere in the ferguson community that there was going to be an actual, legitimate investigation? did anybody really trust the process? absolutely not. nobody trusted the process. i don't think that there was one active is that we interviewed, that believe that the police were going to do their due diligence and investigating, as you will hear in the pod cast. there's a lot of speculation based on what they see at the scene when, but when darren's body is found and, you know, we go on to look at evidence and, and hear audio from other people about what they see at the time. and you can tell that they just, in fact, multiple in multiple cases in this pod cast,

people don't have a belief that, that please care about black investigations when there's someone who was murdered, generally speaking. and so that's concerning, that is an institutional problem that needs to be dealt with ongoing li, no matter where you live on that perception needs to be dealt with head on. because it people who didn't even know each other or from different places in missouri or in kansas over the places that you know where we interviewed people. none of them had a belief that that the police were going to do their due diligence. and if i may, to, because i'm a little in terms of my answer, i probably shouldn't mention that, you know, part of the, what was driving this, this sense by active is, and people in dance life. the police weren't doing anything. was that when they got to the scene the next day they sounds, you know, the door to his jeep was lying there in the parking lot. apparently,

bullet casings were still the sort of sitting there having not been collected. there was this sort of perception that the whole thing representative, big, middle finger that was clearly to be read by the community. know what you know, you, you, protested us. we're now looking into, you know, your parents is that at all, which may or may not have proven to be the case by the end of this series and re, one of the things that's fascinating to me is the fact that they're in seals murder, looked very much like the earlier unsolved murder of another fergus inactive as the andre joshua, who was also found shot to death in a burning car. police say that they were unable to link the to killings, but the daily beast found 4 more cases of similar debts in st. louis county over the previous 2 years. that sounds like it could be either official murders. it could be a serial killer. or it could be somebody working to silence black voices. what do

you make of all that? i think there were 2 primary threads that we looked at there and we did come to an answer. but one of those threads is that there was someone who has now been called a serial killer. or there are very rare thing, a black serial killer named perez, re, uh, whose m o was uh artisan. and it was also um, you know, seemingly shooting through our window and, and had he had, he had murdered people allegedly in the same location for instance, as the andre joshua was killed. and we spoke of his brother and his brother. i thought perez was a serious contender as a candidate or at least 2 adult, the andre, if not, if not darren because apparently the andre had taken the, taking him and at dice game taken him for some money that day. and when he had seen a similar thing happened, as he said that there, there's lots of them hand in, you know, in a room and hit them with an iron i believe was the quote. so we followed the trail

of the serial killer to try to figure out if we can pin down whether he might be responsible for not only darren and the andre his desk, but the series of bodies found in car fires. but it's not to leave that these seem to connect to a particular part, sell back gang in saint louis, and the n m. o used by them as well. and as we look deeper that, that proved to be a pretty much as you know, john. i, we've been intimidated there attempted to be intimidated by the ca on our past journalism by the police. but i don't think i've ever been more scared than when i sat with maria and looked at who we believe to be a card, sell back gang member in the eyes and told him that we had evidence that he may have committed murder. there wasn't moment to go through us. wow. wow. maria. the darren seals case officially is still open, although i'm sure the police are doing literally nothing about it right now. what

is the future hold here? are darren seals, family members just supposed to move on with their lives? are ferguson's residents just opposed to forget about him? you expect any real justice to finally come out of this case? well, i honestly, i, i think the 200 page police report shows that they did a due diligence. and um, the account ability is actually in the prosecuting attorneys office at this point. as the pod cast will show all long this entire process in the 2 plus years we've been doing this, we've been keeping the family up to date because we felt as though we needed to give them some resolve, but not just darren's family. also the other families that were part of this and as we were talking about, so some of the family, one family in kansas city, another family in ferguson. we want it to be part of their healing. but in

terms of darren, the, the own as frankly, is on the prosecuting attorneys office. um and when that case was delivered to present it to the prosecutor and attorney's office, it was advised. so by the police did such a great job. this is the irony of it all, and it took our team, our investigative team, our producers, re and myself, to get the prosecuting attorney's office to even look at the case. and so i don't want to give the details out, but when you listen to the pod cast, you're going to hear some amazing things. and what usually people will want to say about police. they're saying about the prosecutor's office. amazing. i have to step to say, 1st of all, this is a public service. you've hit a home run on this. we should all download this podcast. thank you. rain over

shells be journalist author and podcast are and thank you maria chappelle in the dial, former states and that are for being with us today to talk about this very important issue of the great doctor. martin luther king junior, one said quote, i refused to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. unplugged every right thinking person, but agree with that, but that daybreak hasn't arrived for the people of friends in missouri. it hasn't arrived for the family of guarantee. in the meantime, it's up to the rest of us to keep up the fight. thanks for joining us for another episode of the whistle blowers. i'm john kerry onto please follow me on sub stack at john curiosity. we'll see you next time the. 2 2 2

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