LAPD legends Robert Deamer & Jeff Norat discuss South Central in the 90s with Jon Bernthal
REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal
Jon Bernthal
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Jon sits down with LAPD legends Robert Deamer and Jeff Norat to discuss the state of policing, South Central in the 90s, and the importance of being community minded.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's just start by you know maybe you guys introducing yourselves and you know I would |
| 0:16.0 | love to know kind of where you're from and how you met Robert Deemer from Massachusetts |
| 0:26.5 | what's the Massachusetts and I joined the Marine Corps in 85 and when I got out in 8990 I joined |
| 0:38.9 | the Los Angeles Police Department and I was in class 590 May 90 and then oh 690 okay 690 |
| 0:48.9 | and yeah how long have you guys known each other then what is that well the 87 how did we meet |
| 0:55.8 | well we were talking about it earlier and and when you're in the Marine Corps and you're in |
| 0:59.5 | Okinawa you do one of their adults okay we were stationed in Okinawa is in 3rd Recon getting in |
| 1:04.4 | Doc that was with the 12 Marines okay and so you either do one of two things you either work out |
| 1:11.3 | frenetic or you're a drinker when I went our facilities were so lacking yeah you're online |
| 1:18.3 | for 10 minutes just to do some curls and I was like oh I guess I'm drinking so I uh and the one |
| 1:24.8 | of those days I just didn't care I walked down to town in Okinawa and I was ready to just get on |
| 1:31.5 | the bus and go get lost in town and I had a splitting headache I was getting over hangover and |
| 1:38.4 | next you know I hear hey and it pierced my skull I looked over and it was Bob and I looked at him and |
| 1:47.4 | I guess the way I looked at him it was I look I think he thought that I thought he was gone |
| 1:52.8 | under my shoe and so he looked at me he goes fuck you and I looked at him I'm like what he goes |
| 2:01.0 | fuck you I'm like where are you even come from so he steps out into the traffic but he looks |
| 2:08.1 | the wrong way Japanese traffic is the opposite way so he looks the wrong way and almost gets hit |
| 2:13.5 | by a cab and I'm like well I'll give him the first hit after I'm going to destroy him so he's |
| 2:19.4 | there he's you know waiting for me in the street like dude we're in Japan and next you know |
| 2:25.1 | the weird thing about it he flips like this once he saw once he's going to fight him he comes on |
| 2:30.8 | when he sits right next to me and what the hell and I took that away he wasn't he was extremely |
| 2:40.8 | lean yeah yeah and as I this is one of those recon guys god damn it those guys are hard to deal with |
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