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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Officer Tommy Norman: "The Michael Jordan of Community Policing" (Pt 1)

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Politics, News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tommy is the most famous police officer in America, with 2 million followers on Facebook and 1 million on Instagram. His radical and yet simple love for his community accidentally made him famous. However, that's not what motivates him and he's committed to staying in his same beat in North Little Rock, AR. Whatever your calling, his love will inspire you. 

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0:00.0

Three steps. If you can make it under someone's front lawn, your front

0:09.2

line is probably sacred. My front line is pretty sacred. I'm on their front line. They're okay with it.

0:14.0

Next step is make it onto their front porch. You're sitting on their front porch even more of a

0:19.3

sacred area and you get invited into their living room in their kitchen for lunch or breakfast or dinner as a police officer?

0:28.5

On shift?

0:29.5

I've had some good candid yams some

0:33.9

Thanksgiving dinner a Coke zero which is my drink of choice and

0:39.1

so hold it you on shift you would develop enough relationships where they'd say come in and have lunch with me?

0:45.4

And how many if you see a police officer walk into a house?

0:49.4

Yeah, there's something gonna uh-uh.

0:51.4

You're not getting ready to sit down and have a big plate of food.

0:53.9

That's right.

0:54.4

You're usually getting ready to walk out with someone in handcuffs.

0:57.3

Now, like I said, front yard first.

0:59.8

Bigstones.

1:00.8

Front porch, and then, come on in on in your family now. We're going to feed you.

1:07.0

Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Portney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, a father, an entrepreneur, and I'm a football coach in Intercity Memphis.

1:20.5

And the last part unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our football team.

1:25.0

It's called Undefeded.

1:27.0

I believe our country's problems will never be solved

1:31.0

by a bunch of fancy people in nice suits talking big words that nobody

1:34.7

understands on CNN and bots.

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