We're about to go talk to a lot of the free Britney fans who are here to support the pop star.

We are here today outside of the Staley Moss Port House because the grave injustice has been done that needs to be corrected.

I hope to hear that, you know, as fans, we're right that the conservatism is limiting for civil liberties and I hope to hear that.

She's gonna get out of it soon. That's what I really hope to hear today.

Hey, hey, hey.

Hi, Lonnie. It's really great that we're having this conversation.

I've been wanting to talk to you for a while and I'm so happy to be speaking with you now.

So please introduce yourself from my listeners.

Well, thank you, Laura. Thank you for having me.

I've looked forward to this moment. We've talked about it for quite a while and now it's finally happening.

So I'm honored to be your guest.

I'm Lonnie Coons.

I was a criminal prosecutor for 18 years in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

During that 18 years, I specialized in murder cases near the end of my career.

That was probably my forte, but I did spend some time as the head of the hate crimes unit.

For about two years, I ran that for the county.

So in that capacity, I was in charge of all of the hate crime cases that were filed in Los Angeles.

And I also trained law enforcement and went out in the community and talked about hate crimes trying to educate people on that.

I also, for a few years, was in another special unit called crimes against police officers or coppers.

And that was a unit that any time a police officer was shot or killed in the line of duty, we would roll out to the crime scene and follow the case from the crime scene on through to the trial.

So those were some of the special units I worked in.

I loved being a criminal prosecutor.

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