Slade Douglas Talks $6.8 Million Dollar Lawsuit With LAPD, Rodney King, Spencer Pratt & Kanye West

Mr. Douglas, how are you doing today, sir? I'm doing well. How are you doing? Pretty good. Pretty good, man. You're looking nice, man. Draped up and dripped out. Thank you. Trying to keep up with you. There you go. How are you doing today? I'm doing well. Doing well. Let me ask you this. It's been all over the news, everything that happened with you and the LAPD. I almost want to say congratulations for the win, but at the same time, the way that it came about, how do you feel about everything that happened? I feel that the public spoke, they spoke loud and clear as it related to their rejection of that type of treatment, and they had a jury verdict of 6.8 million. Right. I know. So if you could have the whole thing happen again, would you rather it have never happened in the first place, or do you feel that it teaches them a lesson about how to treat people and after winning the money, how do you feel about looking back at it now? I definitely would not wish that upon anyone, not even my worst enemy. However, in this case right here, based upon my history, my advocacy, and so forth and so on, I was the wrong one to mess with. You're one of the rare ones, because a lot of people, they have problems with the LAPD, and it just gets swept under the rug. So, I mean, you know, that's really crazy that this was able to happen to you. I mean, there's entire Instagram accounts that just have, I mean, all day, crazy stuff that happens with the LAPD, corrupt officers, you know, like they just caught some officers smoking weed in the car, and then nothing happened to them at all, but then they go and arrest other people for smoking weed and all this and all that. So, and you're an Army veteran too, is that correct? So, how do you feel about that? You know, you served our country, and then to be treated that way, how did you feel about that? Yeah, and that's why there has to be government accountability. And we're putting several things in place to make sure that this doesn't happen to anyone again. One of the things that I'm actually working on now is the Slade Douglas Liberty Act. Okay. That would actually bring more accountability and make protections stronger for the public as well. Right. Now, let me ask you about this. One of the most famous cases was the, what was it, Rodney King, yes, yes, I'll draw on a blank there. Rodney King, they've got it on tape, proof, and then they let the officers go, and then there was the riots and all that. How do you feel about the Rodney King situation? Yeah, and see, that's another example of how change is not happening fast enough. As taxpayers, we need accountability. They are supposed to serve the public. They're supposed to serve us, and they continue to abuse our rights. So we have to unify, stick together, and understand that we're all in this together. Anyone can be a subject to what happened to me. Right, right. Now, on a different note, someone else that was kind of a victim to what happened in the city was Spencer Pratt. They didn't fill the reservoirs in his neighborhood. They let his whole neighborhood burn down to the ground, and he wanted to fight back so much about it that he ran for office, for mayor. Is that something that you would ever consider doing? I will be. Would you do that? I will be running for office. You will be? Okay, now, does anybody know about this yet? Have you announced this yet? I haven't. Just my inner circle. But you're ready to see a big change? Absolutely. And that was one of the things that I spoke about during the trial as well, so the jury's also aware of that as well, because prior to this actually happening, I was in the process of actually running for Congress. Really? Yes. Okay, so you want to see some big changes. Now, oddly enough, there's a homeless gentleman coming up behind you. What is your take on the homeless problem? I'm a strong advocate as it relates to the homeless population as well, so I've been advocating for over a decade as it relates to that and making sure that taxpayer dollars are being served actually to serve the homeless. But it's not. It's a lot of fraud and waste and abuse that goes on when it comes to the homeless population as well. For an example, they have these individuals, schedule them apartments at these housing authorities and places like that. They have to actually take documents to these places. They already do not have transportation, and now they have to keep up with these documents. But we live in a digital age now, so everything should be computerized, and that way, at a snap of a button, they can send the information they need, or they can get permission for them to access that information. And then there's accountability as well, because there's transparency, because the public can see exactly what's going on, how long it's actually taking the homeless population to actually receive these services, and so forth. Because lots of times, one of the reasons that a lot of them don't get services, they say because of the paperwork. The paperwork. Okay. That's very, very interesting. So, will you be, you're going to do for congressmen? So you're skipping mayor and just going straight to Congress? I'm actually open, but initially, it was Congress, yes. Congress. Okay. And there's another case that came out too. It was Nolan Wells, I believe. How do you feel about this whole situation with the Nolan Wells case? At a time in this country that requires healing and not division, the system continues to divide us based upon race. Equal protection under the law should not be a symbol of hope, but a reflection of what America should be. And the country needs to stand with the family of Nolan Wells. Nolan Wells. All right. What should the LAPD do to make changes to, you know, start doing the right thing? And if I recall correctly, I think they did the same thing to Kanye West. It's the 51-50 law? Is that what they got you on? Actually, they abused that. Okay. It never was a 51-50 because what happened briefly as it related to that, I was swatted on by the VA based upon my advocacy. Okay. That's actually where they prompt the false emergency response to get the police at your location. Okay. Cause you harm to be detained or worse. So that's a transpire. And then what the city of Los Angeles do, they label these encounters as welfare checks. Well, all encounters with police, unless they have a warning you committed a crime, is a consensual encounter. So they treat a quote unquote welfare check as though it can act around the constitution. And that's what the Slave Douglas Liberty Act, you know, breaks down as well. So that's another reason why the verdict amount was so large because this was essentially a kidnapping under the color of law. Right. No. And then with Kanye too, they said he was crazy. Right. And so they just grabbed him and then they locked him up in the hospital and he was there for, I don't know, several weeks or a month or something like that. And he couldn't, you can't leave. You're locked up. You're in there. And is that, that's the 51-50 law? That's a portion of it because technically the 51-50 have to be with probable cause. Okay. But with that being stated, they can hold you up to seven, 72 hours. So in his case, they extended that up to 14 days. Okay. But you're, you're, you're going to make a change and get rid of all this stuff and stop the loophole where they're able to just kidnap people and do that. Yeah. Okay. Well that, you know what? That's really what we, what we need right now. I know you're busy out here. You got out here shopping and whatnot. Do you have a final message for your supporters? Yeah. Hey, we doing everything we can to make sure that this does not and will not happen to another person because it can happen to anyone. Los Angeles has set a precedent where you don't even have to commit a crime and they can treat you worse than they would treat a mass murder. Thank you so much for your time. I'm loving the outfit. I know you're busy. I'll let you go. Take care. Thank you, sir. Thank you.