be called snitch-innati. because that s basically what s going on, a whole lot of snitching. david bell has been at the hamilton county justice center in cincinnati, ohio, for the past three years awaiting trial for charges including aggravated murder, attempted murder and aggravated robbery. to his dismay, annishia smith who allegedly was with him during the crimes recently decided to testify against him in the case. i should have never covered for him in the first place. she a snitch. she a snitch and i hate that about her. now it appears her testimony along with other evidence against him, like his dna on the murder weapon, had an impact. the jury came back with a verdict of guilty on all the counts, all the charges. is that what you were expecting? no, it s not what i was expecting. i was really shocked. because i thought maybe i would
prison sentence on charges of aggravated assault after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend. i had a rough childhood. i mean, that s all i could say. i dad passed away when i was younger. he was in prison most of the time. i had to take care of my brothers and sisters, and i had to grow up and feed my family and have to do what i had to do. my mom wasn t taking care of responsibility, so i had to do that. the girl you got in a fight with, what happened? she was making comments about raping kids and just sick comments. just making comments about kids. about just disgusting stuff. she started calling us all racist names in the pod. she was snitching to the cops and lying at the same time right in front of me. i just had it. while apkaw gave us an assortment of reasons for the
they take me on this long walk, and everybody is looking. it was like the walk of shame. yeah, like i m really in such denial at the moment. like everything kind of got blurred. is this for real? no, this ain t for real. i didn t get handcuffed. i m thinking, well, maybe they re just going to keep my drugs and let me go home, put me back on my plane. the police officer says, like, you know, who sent you out here? and i m like nobody, myself. and he is like oh, so you arranged all of this? i m, like, yeah. i don t in telling. i don t believe in snitching because i basically put myself in the fire, and now i got burned.
it wasn t like, vivian, you ve just been arrested. they take me on this long walk, and everybody is looking. it was like the walk of shame. yeah, like, i m really in such denial at the moment. like everything kind of got blurred. is this for real? no, this ain t for real. i didn t get handcuffed. i m thinking, well, maybe they re just going to keep my drugs and let me go home, put me back on my plane. the police officer says, like, you know, who sent you out here? and i m like, nobody, myself. and he is like, oh, so you arranged all of this? i m, like, yeah. i don t in telling. i don t believe in snitching
the other for a $1.6 million settlement in a case accusing a pharmaceutical firm that he worked at of medicare fraud. while the justice department wants to up rewards for whistleblowers are we just incident fizing americans to become a nation of snitches? steve what do you think? absolutely. when you have rewards like that you re going to have 999 people going, trying to win the lottery, by going on thissish iffing expedition. and a lot of wasted effort. all this does is encourage a lot of snitching and in the case of bank of america, they didn t do anything wrong, they bought a company during the crisis at the behest of the government that did wrong things and then they got shaken down by the politicians. so leave well enough alone. mike, ensentincentives do matter. you look at the number of whistleblower lawsuits. the cases have been going up dramatically over the past several years. i m going to snitch for no money now. steve had a doughnut before we