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Another Lesson in Being Safe While Talking to Others Online

#edwards#catfish#stevegreen#unharmed#catfishing
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0:00 that's amazing grape now see it in a different time grape [Music] and now look that way just look forward Steve that doesn't look like me ████ you guys it wasn't us there was a JK fans that said that I mean I get it because like yeah the hairline's pretty funny yeah JK and it's white ████ said this a white guy it's a smirk Jacob sent this and then another person was like yeah this guy looks like he ████ hates kendras that's what they said a broken watch is right twice a day he's like prematurely he's diet Steve Green I have thin lips I get it Great Value so this guy is a he's a Dollar Tree Steve yeah a foreign

0:50 a former Virginia police officer believed to have murdered a teenager's family in Riverside California after catfishing her online what he was recently killed in a shootout while trying to flee authorities okay and not only did this guy murder you know the teenager he murdered her parents as well why damn that's crazy so he catfished them just to kill him he catfished because he's trying to get because he's a pedal I believe I believe that the teenager was 15 and he pretended to be a 17 year old boy catfished ooh whack so uh xcop was identified as Austin Lee Edwards age 28 of North Chesterfield Virginia dude is 28 . he looks 65 dude ████ 40. I thought it was 40 something yeah he

1:41 looks so this guy is 28. he looks weird he's seen some ████ I thought he was 37. if I get defensive yeah I thought he would play defensive this whole time yeah he looked um you know it's not always about the looks he looked like you know like a good guy it could have been a good guy you never know anybody's story there's only two sides we don't know what big the movie is come on guys empathy empathy why was he a former cop oh did he get kicked out they're like we don't want pedophiles on this unit I like the idea of Defending someone just because they look like you this guy's not that bad come on think about it I think I would be a little higher than this guy you guys made that the first unusual thing I'm just going with it detective said they believe Edwards had met the team through catfishing a form of online deception in which someone pretends to be a different person officers with the Riverside Police were

2:33 dispatched Friday to check the welfare of a young female who appeared distressed while getting into a red car with a man who looks like Steve police said while officers were responding a copy off guard dude sounds good you said it's so dead pan bro sometimes you try to you know sometimes and you don't do it okay this was good that was a good old Steve David that was good while officers were responding 9 11 dispatchers began getting calls about a fire in the same neighborhood just a few houses away from where the welfare our check originated firefighters discovered three adult victims lying in the front entryway of the burning home when they pulled them outside it was determined they were the victims of an apparent homicide wow a preliminary investigation determined the young female described in the initial call was a teenager who lived with a

3:25 house fire and homicides occurred so that's how it was connected basically as police were responding to this you know like oh some chick got into a car in a weird way the same time as they went to go investigate it ████ firefighters were finding this burnt family and it was that dude so the the chick got in first went to the house murder happened and then he burnt that and he burned the house down dude it's this is super sad but also at the same time Howard how is someone that young falling for catfishing I thought that's like old people ████ fall for that oh ████ aren't young people more versed about like figuring out wasn't two of like early 20s who you remember two of the the San Diego Charger like but in college he like fell for a catfishing scam like that big time my tattoo right oh you're talking about Manti oh Manta tail ████ that's it too yeah my bad whoa

4:15 I feel like a lot of that but that was a long that was a long time I heard the tea I feel like a lot of people still get catfish though but then like we got so much ████ examples like we got TV show called Catfish that teaches you all about how to verify yeah but 15. just have a video chat with someone before you meet them yeah it's a vulnerable age especially at the age where you're like you want to meet somebody and you're like he probably knows how to play her ████ heart but that's like I always I just I don't know I assume the younger people were more Savvy about what's the Netflix documentary about what Jaya went through ████ crazy and that voice is so ████ good we should talk about that's really good but it's an amazing it still had all I mean he was pretty vulnerable emotionally she was the ████ Oscar she she feel free to catch up the rest of the class well it's all about the mark right I don't want to spoil it though because that's a good it's a really good document oh okay spoiler alerts go ahead well no like this is one of the this is one of the most nationally like like

5:06 known about Catfish story yeah I know that because he basically was a college football star and then he had a girlfriend and like she had like prob like medical issues and he was like helping to raise funds for her but it was all a catfish all of it the story the whole time and he never met her and so the girlfriend he was doing it for it's crazy yeah yeah yeah and then um and did they find a catfish well then they find out that she's a catfish and then he's humiliated he still actually makes it to an NFL team the Chargers draft him he actually has an okay career it's like not terrible what's up nice for him yeah but like ████ He's humiliated yeah that's staying out because they're like this guy's it didn't need to happen yeah yeah and then they were all calling him gay and ████ yeah exactly yeah yeah it was like a way really unnecessary people like me are calling him gay online and then you saw [Laughter]

6:01 high level highest level but still one video chat would have fixed that entire thing yeah exactly that's what's so mind-blowing but the excuses these guys make they're such good gaslighters and like like manipulators like it's wild yeah so so you have to think about now turn all that ammo on a 15 year old girl it's like that changes the whole conversation think about Manchester dude if he was like if he wasn't such a good boy if he was such a good Christian boy and if he went out to parties and started banging chicks like a normal college football player yeah he would have never been in this situation yeah for sure treat smart exactly exactly yeah yeah yeah yeah bang them hoes break them back yeah it is what like 17 18. Crazy according to police Edwards had developed an online relationship with the teen and obtained her personal information he then

6:51 traveled from Virginia to Riverside where he parked his vehicle in a neighbor's driveway and walked to the teen's home at some point authorities believe Edwards murdered the teen's grandfather grandmother and mother before walking back to his vehicle with the teen and leaving whoa so she witnessed that maybe maybe several hours after the bodies were found Edwards was spotted driving with the teen through San Bernardino County according to the release Edwards exchanged gunfire with the San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies attempting to stop him was shot by deputies and was later pronounced dead at the scene actually the teen survived the teen was unharmed and later placed into protective custody of the Riverside County department can you imagine that so she wasn't great or nothing that the word great has nothing to do with it maybe because when they

7:41 say because when they say unharmed that means unmolested oh that's true you're right you're right it's it's a different feeling when you're like eating a bunch of pistachios all nonchalant I thought they meant unharmed because there was a shooting that went back and forth yeah I'm just trying to confirm you know you thought Austin was a multitasker he could shoot at the same time I want to clarify what you thought they catch somebody from a kidnapping and then they say the victim was found unharmed usually means they weren't diddled I don't think so she wanted great after nothing but honestly when Joe says that he said it was such a certainty I was like yeah you're absolutely right 100 right like the confidence of which I also want to believe that yeah I do like don't we all yeah

8:31 it's a good point it was like like so yeah you can't multitask can't shoot a grade at the same time like that's awesome the events sound very consecutive I know that's an uneven thing it's like he died but then three people you know and then and burned the house down is it better that she's alive because now she's tormented with this ████ torture with no family and think about the guilt she must feel as a 15 year old dude like oh what do you think that grandma said to him she's like you look like Beastie Green Look At Me cops thought it was you holy ████ that's Steve Grace that's the cryptocore guy that's my least favorite JK tube

9:22 JK let's shoot the kill on son we got Steve Green in a red Toyota we got Steve oh wait I thought he doesn't have a car is that the woo guy he's not wearing a jumpsuit what the ████ oh imagine she's expecting to see some ████ 17 year old he rolls up and she goes Steve Green he's like God damn it I'm not Steve Green house damn it the information of the article you started it Buckhead how did the article open right up there get up right there with it yeah get right up there no touching my computer I like the idea that the term catfish is replaced by Steve Green

10:12 did you get Steve Green recently might as well embrace it got green that's what you guys want that's what you guys get [Music]

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