good afternoon, this is special agent carter smith with four campbell kentucky. may i speak with someone on the gang investigations team ? >> speaking, me. >> great, it's come to our attention that some of the criminals in our jurisdiction are affiliated with the grant gangs in your area, namely the bloods and the crips . is that so? where did you say you are calling from? >> four campbell kentucky, what's that near? just north of nashville tennessee. hang on, let me connect you with the migratory gangs the list. who shouts across the room so i can clearly be part of the handoff, a gym. there's a guy on the phone from kentucky that says he's got some bona fide california gang members in his jurisdiction, you have time to talk to him? >> lothere was a long pause in silence before i heard hello? i tried to mimic noticeable difficulty controlling his laughing, obviously. the conversation went downhill from there but here's how it went. we've got gang members, tell me about that. rattled off a couple of reports i sent to the pentagon a week before. he said sounds lik

i said to fort campbell kentucky. it's just north of nashville tennessee. hang on. let me connect you with a gang specialist. hey jim there is a guy on the phone from kentucky that said he has some bona fide do you had time to talk to them. there was a long pause in silence before i heard hello i tried the conversation went downhill from there. here's how the conversation went. i read him off a them off a couple of initial reports that i just sent to the pentagon. that's not real gangs. me run some by a big eye. guy. i don't think that's what i call the if one of my not yet a gang members shoots another one of my not yet gang members or should i get you to investigate it. we became friends. i told him if my military trained gang members come to la you will not know how to respond because you don't know how to do reverse swat training. these guys going in a to raid places with a rifle just like this going in and your folks are not trained to respond to that. so we should be friends. how does that sound. thank you very much. thank you all for coming today. [applause].

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