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was the guy with guns doing at the Trump rally in the Coachella Valley? We'll hear from him. I'm

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sitting here in a jail cell because I'm a Trump supporter, because I'm a lawful carrier of firearms.

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He's just not being honest. So this just keeps getting more bizarre.

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It's october 14. This is the La local, sponsored by the LA car guy, family of dealerships. I'm Alex Silverman, coming up. Mayor bass explains her decision to prioritize police morale and picking a new chief. So it's been a real education for me. A UCLA professor says his low salary has left him homeless. It's completely unacceptable. And SpaceX launches a five year mission to one of Jupiter's moon. What will it find? They're not so much

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Hey, if you're listening to this in an article on K and X news.com go right now to Apple podcasts or Spotify. Search for the LA local, hit follow, and you'll get an update every weekday afternoon on everything you need to know that's happening in Southern California, and the morning and evening updates to from our colleagues at K NX news, much was made this weekend of the arrest of a guy with guns in his car outside Donald Trump's rally in the Coachella Valley.

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There's never been a history of any crime that I've done. We'll

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hear from him in just a second. He says he was not there to harm Trump. The Riverside County Sheriff, Chad bianco, who is a Trump supporter himself, isn't too sure. We talked to the sheriff. He tells us Vem Miller has been changing his story to listen

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to him and his account of what happened. He's just not being honest. So this just keeps getting more bizarre, and all we can do is speculate now, because we did our job and we kept those guns from getting inside the event. There is absolutely no way we know or could predict what would have happened had they been in there. So it's all speculation.

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Miller has been charged with possession of a loaded firearm and high capacity magazines out on bail. Now he's not facing any federal charges. The sheriff adds he would change some things if Trump or another candidate comes to Riverside County again, I think

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we did great with security. We would demand more from the campaign. Whichever campaign comes for the logistics of how many people are going to bring in, the transportation away from the event was atrocious. There were numerous people angry and stuck there for hours and hours.

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Okay, so we reached out to get Vem Miller side of the story. Sent Emily Valdez a rambling statement that was more than an hour long, and she pieced it together.

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49 year old Nevada resident, Vem Miller also goes by the name Vem you know, of kin. He posted a very long response to his arrest on his website, America happens.

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One of the accusations was that I am part of an anti government right wing group. That is a nonsensical statement. Miller

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said he did have a shotgun and a loaded Glock in his SUV, but said he did not know that was illegal in California. He also said he was invited to the rally by the Nevada Republican Party. I

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don't even have a misdemeanor. I mean, there's never been a history of any crime that I've done or even been accused of, and I'm sitting here in a jail cell because I'm a Trump supporter, because I'm a lawful. Carrier of firearms.

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Miller is a former la resident who used to work in video and TV production.

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He called himself a Trump caucus captain who says he's rounded up votes for Trump. The big takeaway from Mayor bass, choice of Jim McDonald for police chief, was that she prioritized police morale over calls for reform and other changes that people outside the department wanted to see. Well, she's explaining that decision to our Craig.

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