Charleston White's remarks moments before shot fired as he was leaving Dr. Matthews birthday party

[00:00:00]put in office again that's going to protect our people. You understand what I'm saying? Because I'm not going to run nobody that ain't going to be for the best interest of our people.

[00:00:13]Okay?

[00:00:14]>> Now look, I'm going to be very clear.

[00:00:19]We got Democrats, we got Republicans, and we got independent. But what I'm all about is who is the perfect person now >> that's going to fit our agenda >> AND OUR GODDAMN PEOPLE.

[00:00:37]>> OKAY. So when that kind of work, let me be clear. WHEN Y'ALL CALL me and tell me Dr. Matthew the police did this to me or Dr. Matthew did this [ __ ] to me or Dr. MATTHEW D. HOW CAN I HELP YOU IF I can't get the goddamn court documents?

[00:00:55]>> So, who we got at this point right now?

[00:00:59]Who used to be the county clerk for Harris County is Chris Daniels?

[00:01:06]Wait a minute. Y'all still talking like I'm trying to put y'all on some goddamn game because when y'all call me to help you, how can I HELP YOU IF I DON'T GOT THIS [ __ ] HOURS TO HELP YOU?

[00:01:21]So look, >> when it come to dealing with cases, >> let's say you got the police that messed over. Let's say you got child support case that messed over. Let's say you got a misdemeanor case that messed over. How can I, me and my team, help you if I can't get the goddamn [ __ ] I'm not able to get it unless we GOT A COUNTY CLERK that's in place to give me what I need.

[00:02:00]So Chris Daniels, where you at? Come here, Chris. Come here, Chris.

[00:02:08]So look here. This this who I got right now.

[00:02:13]Everybody, y'all need to listen.

[00:02:17]I don't need folk in this position. This position is a very critical position. I don't need people in this position that's not going to be for the best interest of us. Do you hear me? When I have to turn around, y'all come to me and tell me that this happened to you, this happened, da da da da, I got to be able to pull the court documents. How can I pull the court documents if I don't have a county clerk who going to give it to me?

[00:02:54]>> Do y'all hear what I'm saying? I can't do it without this guy. So, everybody, he's on the belly for November. Chris Daniels. Now, I'mma be clear. Let me be clear with this real quick. Chris Daniels is a Republican.

[00:03:10]>> I'm just going to be real. here. But I'm about who's WHAT'S RIGHT FOR MY goddamn people.

[00:03:18]And when I need to help you, he's going to help me help you.

[00:03:25]>> So Chris, tell them what you're doing.

[00:03:26]God damn it. Tell them.

[00:03:28]>> Well, as you said, I'm Chris Daniel, a former Harris County District Clerk in charge of almost every judge and jury duty in Harris County. I stayed forever just north of here off of uh Bale North Houston and 249 Eps Island Elementary.

[00:03:46]That was where I stayed. And as a native Houstononian, I know this entire neighborhood. I walk this neighborhood.

[00:03:55]You've seen me drive up and down these neighborhood streets. I take care of everyone in Houston on purpose. Why?

[00:04:02]Because what you do is the best you can do in the job for everybody concerned.

[00:04:10]It doesn't matter what judge you put in there. If you can't find the record, it doesn't matter what judge is messing your case up if they can't even find what the record said yesterday.

[00:04:23]We had appointed officials in the courthouse that lost three weeks worth of records.

[00:04:32]three weeks worth of records. What's that do for your divorce? What's that do for your CPS case? What's that do for your DWI? What's that do for your possession case? It messes you up and you're in jail longer than you should be. Why? Because they're losing the court records. How do you stop that? You get someone in there that didn't lose the court records for 8 years when he was in office. The only reason why I'm not there now is because of a wave that hit in 2018. It had nothing to do with the job I was doing. I was supported by most of the Democrat- elected officials, even in private, in 2018. Why? Because I did the job to serve everybody in Harris County. And I pledged to do it again. My cell phone is on the website. You can call me personally. I'm reachable. You don't have to go through five layers of people to call me. So, call me and I'm willing to help you because I work for you. It's your taxpayer dollars. We're about to be broke as a county. It's your taxpayer dollars and I'm working for you. Chris Daniel, Harris County District Clerk.

[00:05:37][applause] >> Yo, look. Let me let me say this [ __ ] y'all. Let me say this.

[00:05:43]>> Chris Daz ain't paying me [ __ ] because you got to start paying me 20k off top. Chris D ain't pay me a [ __ ] But my thing is this. In order for us to help you, we got to have somebody that's locked in that's going to HELP OUR PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF WHAT PARTY you went.

[00:06:07]>> You understand what I'm saying? We don't need nobody hiding [ __ ] We don't need nobody that's going to turn around be like, "Oh, I don't know where it's at."

[00:06:15]We don't need none of that. We need somebody that's going to be when you call me, >> I can go get that [ __ ] >> Amen. Because at the end of the day, in order for you to fight cases, we have to have the court record to do it.

[00:06:35]So if we got somebody that's over the county clerk that's not going to find the record that you need, what the [ __ ] we doing?

[00:06:46]>> What are we doing?

[00:06:48]>> So I'mma say this again. I don't give a damn. He was a Republican party. I don't give a damn about that [ __ ] What I give a damn about is that your ass when I got people that's calling me from Fifth Ward. When I got people calling me from Homestead, when I got people that's calling me from Dead End, when I got people that's calling me from Southwest.

[00:07:08]When I got people that's CALLING ME AROUND HARRIS COUNTY, god damn it, I'mma call you and tell me give me the goddamn record.

[00:07:18]>> I can't get it >> if I got a [ __ ] THAT'S GOING TO TRY TO HIDE THE [ __ ] YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? SO, I'm saying this again. He running for county clerk, y'all. We got to put him in office.

[00:07:34]Period.

[00:07:37]>> I'm vote for Chris Daniel. Godamn. Even though I'm a goddamn REPUBLICAN BECAUSE GUESS WHAT? ANYTHING I needed from Chris, I was able to get it when he was in office. And I'm a whole goddamn Democrat >> because guess what? He not bought.

[00:07:55]>> He's not one of them [ __ ] that's in the establishment. He's about what's right and what's wrong. And that's what is important. It's about what's right and what's wrong. And god damn it, WHEN YOU CALL ME and you got to pay me that fee cuz you know I ain't going for free. You don't pay me. But when you call me and then I give him, hey man, this the case number. I need this. I need every turn on this [ __ ] In order FOR ME TO GET IT, I got to have somebody that's on the goddamn record to get it goddamn done.

[00:08:28]>> How fast you get it?

[00:08:29]>> You understand? And guess what? Who going to get it? Me.

[00:08:34]>> Josh, come here.

[00:08:35]>> Cuz you a goddamn Republican. I'm a Democrat.

[00:08:40]I'm a Republican.

[00:08:42]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:08:46]Hey, this damn goddamn Charles a goddamn republic.

[00:08:51]>> Look, I'VE BEEN THROWING THIS [ __ ] FOR years and me and him been going at it. But guess what? We found a common ground because we're about what's right and what's wrong.

[00:09:05]Like when that [ __ ] happened to Carmel and Anthony Charleston got on that goddamn phone and called me and say, "Hey sis, I need you to go down there to McKenna, Texas."

[00:09:19]>> And then look and the county clerk like what he wanted for released all the public information.

[00:09:28]Okay? So what I'm saying to y'all, regardless if you Republican or not, get you black first.

[00:09:37]>> So when he called me and say, "Hey sis, I need you to go down there now. I need you to expose these [ __ ] That's what the [ __ ] I did." And I did it in one [ __ ] day. And look, I gave his ass the [ __ ] leverage with them [ __ ] Because they turned around, they was like, "Hey, can you call her off of us?

[00:09:59]Please call her off of us." AND ALL THAT. I SAID, "I TOLD YOU, [ __ ] THEM [ __ ] this because at the end of the day what they did was wrong. The DA is a [ __ ] freak. You run around here being a ho ass [ __ ] Running around here [ __ ] folk and doing all this [ __ ] on [ __ ] purpose and you didn't vote it because that's what you do, >> right?

[00:10:38]SO WHEN WHEN Y'ALL CALL ME Y'ALL NO, I'M BE REAL. LISTEN y'all listen. I need everybody listen. Hold on.

[00:10:47]SO WHEN CHARLESTON CALLED ME, he said, "Hey sis, I need you to go to McKini because this is what they do."

[00:11:00]So when he called me and let me know, I went down there and I exposed all.

[00:11:10]>> Okay. Charles Hey Charles, end that conversation. Can you come out?

[00:11:17]>> Say, "Hey, listen. I know a lot of y'all ain't paying attention."

[00:11:22]>> I know a lot of y'all ain't paying attention. And y'all think a lot of what she's saying is [ __ ] But listen, the power lies in the move. If you can't start at the bottom of the political process, you can't wait four years to TRY TO ELECT YOUR president to have power. POWER STARTS RIGHT HERE. YOU DON'T KNOW NOBODY IN THE CITY THAT can get a white elected official to come down to talk to a bunch OF DRUNK [ __ ] THAT WON'T EVEN LISTEN.

[00:11:52]>> They won't EVEN LISTEN. YOU CAN'T GET NOBODY IN THE CITY THAT'LL GET A WHITE ELECTED OFFICIAL THAT'LL COME TALK to a bunch of drunk [ __ ] who won't even listen.

[00:12:06]They ain't even stop talking. SO THE NEXT TIME YOU HAVE ONE OF THESE EVENTS, YOU GOT TO TAKE THE DRUNK [ __ ] out of the mix.

[00:12:16]>> Because the drunk [ __ ] that's STILL TALKING WHILE THE POLITICAL PROCESS IS TALKING, they don't go to the polls.

[00:12:24]The [ __ ] that still TALKING RIGHT NOW, THESE GOING TO BE THE SAME [ __ ] COMPLAINING WHEN WE GO BACK TO SLAVERY.

[00:12:32]THEY GOING TO VOTE us back to slavery.

[00:12:35]Why? because we DON'T HAVE PERMANENT RIGHTS. SAY DRUG [ __ ] ALL THE DRUNK [ __ ] listen up.

[00:12:46]>> 33% of your kids in Houston cannot read on or above their grade level. And I SEE WHY. BECAUSE WHEN PROPER INFORMATION IS GIVEN, [ __ ] get dumb.

[00:13:02][ __ ] get stupid WHEN REAL INFORMATION come along.

[00:13:08]>> But I DONE SEEN [ __ ] FILL UP THE BUILDING. I DONE SEEN [ __ ] COME DOWN HERE just cuz I'm here cuz they looking for trouble.

[00:13:18]They looking for trouble. BUT [ __ ] WE GOT political elected officials here. We got uh county commissioners here. The person who got ACCESS TO THE FILES IN THE COUNTY RUN THE COUNTY. DUMB [ __ ] >> Come on.

[00:13:36]>> During the pandemic DURING THE PANDEMIC, THE MAYOR didn't shut the city down. It was the county commissioner.

[00:13:47]It was the county commission. The microphone dead. The [ __ ] ain't got the battery charged up for the rock.

[00:13:58]>> All I'm gonna SAY IS WE [ __ ] UP AS A RACE OF PEOPLE.

[00:14:04]>> We [ __ ] up as a RACE OF PEOPLE. WE GOT A WOMAN WHO TURNED HER BIRTHDAY PARTY INTO a political information campaign and [ __ ] would need be quiet long enough to >> to get the information. I'm out.