My name is Gianni Russo, aka Carlo, the infamous son-in-law from the godfather.

I'm now known as the Hollywood Godfather, and this is my story.

Before all of the wins in my portfolio, I was a little boy diagnosed with polio.

Welcome, everybody, another Hollywood Godfather podcast with my co-writer, Kumari Pat Piteurelli.

Good evening. I hope everybody's doing well. Okay, we have an interesting show. Oh, which is interesting, but it's also timely.

I've gotten a lot of inquiries, given my past history of police work and other law enforcement work,

to comment on the incident that happened in Memphis, Tennessee, last week, where an individual,

but I know, Tyray Nichols was beaten into a coma and then subsequently

died. And we've been seeing a lot of this over the years. Of course, with the advent of

smartphones, people taking pictures of everybody. In fact, when I was teaching in the

police academy a couple of years ago, I was teaching these recruits who hadn't hit the streets

yet. I said, if you don't remember anything else I teach you, remember this. When you leave that

station house, consider yourself on video. And if you comport yourself under those conditions, you shouldn't have a problem.

But everybody's taking pictures, is the point.

This guy was stopped in a car stop, driving erratically.

And I'm not making any excuse for the cops.

They did a horrendous, horrible, stomach churning thing.

But this poor guy, Mr. Nichols, wasn't beaten to a pulp at the car stop.

He was roughed up, thrown to the ground, handcuffed, and he called for his mom.

And that's just broke my heart.

I mean, it was just horrible. But anyway, he was okay. Then he got up and he ran. And he was very

close to where his mom lived. In fact, he was brought down again in a flying tackle about 60 yards

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