NPA Report with Guest, Henry Morris, better known as Hollywood, founder of Support Our Shields
Hi. This is Sergeant Betsy Brantner Smith with the National Police Association, and this is the National Police Association podcast. I have something rare, as you know, and that is a repeat guest. I I don't often bring people back, but my good friend, Hollywood Morris, just constantly has so much great stuff to say. And as we come into the early part of the new year here, I just wanted to reintroduce him and have you hear all the amazing things he is doing, not just to support the American law enforcement officer, but really just to support freedom in the media, to support freedom of worship, and just to talk about so much positivity in a time where we're hearing a lot of negative stuff.
Betsy Smith:So, Henry Hollywood Morris, welcome back to the show.
Hollywood Morris:Betsy, my sister. Thank you. I have missed you. So I I am blessed to be back on with you for a time such as this. Exactly.
Betsy Smith:Absolutely. And and you're you're one of those YouTube channels and x accounts that I wake up and check. You know, I've got a list of about 20 of them, and and you're you're on it. So tell people what you're doing and why you're doing it.
Hollywood Morris:Absolutely. So why it ties into what we we see going on now because this is the reason why I started Support Our Shields five years ago now. Can you believe it? It's it's been that, but it was the constant, not the just the funding police, but demonizing them and dehumanizing them. And in that time, since you and I met a couple of years ago, I've traveled the country to honor a fallen police officer.
Hollywood Morris:Now it's been over 80,000 miles in 33 different states and over 75 officers. And that is why and, you know, you and I, we we are in communication constantly, like real family. And seeing what we've seen the start of this year troubles me greatly, and, you know, that is why I've been speaking out even more with the now the focus, the attacks being on, ICE officers.
Betsy Smith:So what in the last five years have you been seeing that pendulum swing back? Because, again, you started you started doing support our shields, like, in the throws of the whole Yes. George Floyd movement. And and, frankly, as a black man, I'm surprised you left your house because cops are out there just gunning gunning y'all down. Right?
Hollywood Morris:We're gonna get we're definitely that'll tie us into the media narratives and lies a little bit later, Betsy. But, yes, this and it's what one of the things that troubles me so much about where we are as a nation right now because in 2025, the 2024, we were just starting to see, I think, the communities who were suffering the most from the defund the police movement were starting to wake up and point the fingers exactly where the blame needed to go. They're leftist politicians that sold them a bunch of lies like they've been doing, you know, my entire lifetime that, you know, these this this defund the police movement for a lot liberals didn't work out as well as people thought it was going to in Oakland, LA, Memphis, Chicago, noticeably places where the, you know, that national guard has been set. So the sentiment you were starting to see the sentiment change, and I think this is why this is strategic. What we've been seeing in Minneapolis and California is not by accident.
Hollywood Morris:They need the narrative defund two point o because this is what gives them power, money, and votes.
Betsy Smith:And I think that's what people really need to understand. You know, we we look at what's happening in, Minnesota, especially the twin cities. Know, we also look at at the protests and the riots in Portland, LA. Yes. But yet you look at Memphis.
Betsy Smith:You look at New Orleans and, you know, both blue cities, but blue cities in red states. And what's happened in in cities like those? Right? Crime is down. The federal government came in there, and they they didn't just you know, they weren't just doing immigration enforcement, but they were really helping to clean up various neighborhoods.
Betsy Smith:They were taking on Absolutely. Street gangs, drug dealing. You know, we're seeing fentanyl deaths down. I mean, we're seeing so much good, especially in those communities, like you said, that are so negatively impacted by the vilification of law enforcement. Can you talk a little bit more about that?
Betsy Smith:Because, again, starting in 2020 and really even going back to 2014 Yes. Correct. You know, we we were told that communities of color and communities that were in poverty, if the police would just get out of their neighborhood, that they'd be okay. That turned out not to be the truth. Right?
Hollywood Morris:Yes. It turned out to be a absolute nightmare, Betsy, and it it was personal for me because while like, I tell every one of those departments that when I go to the honor officer that it's because of the sacrifices that men and women like you are willing to make, I am the poster child for the American dream because I come out of that crack epidemic in the in the late seventies and early eighties. And I know what it's like to live in a neighborhood that's surrounded by crack houses and drug dealers, and that brings in prostitution and everything else that you can imagine to go along with it. So while, yes, I had moved, you know, out and and and don't experience that on the regular, Well, this is commonplace for many people, you know, in America, many American citizens who, unfortunately, they suffer the consequences of these bad policies. So what you literally saw, just like you said, in those cities that we were calling out, a lot of officers and I understand it because you and I see it behind the scenes.
Hollywood Morris:We had record resignations, record early retirements, and then here was the other part. You actually had these George Soros funded woke DAs to catch and release the cashless bail. And because we are such a viral video society now, America got to see what actually happens when you continue to let these criminals out on the street, yet these leaders that hop in front of the camera twenty four seven and blame president Trump for everything, they are the ones behind these failed policies, but it's those communities that suffer. And if you think, you know, just back to a little over a year ago, that was why you saw the shift, especially among black men and Hispanic men for president Trump. He literally beat Reagan, which I didn't think would be possible in my lifetime.
Hollywood Morris:But the messaging when you when it's affecting you firsthand, Betsy, and you can't get the police response time because there are no police and they're and they're 200 officers short, like in places like Chicago, then it becomes more than talking points because you're living with the consequences.
Betsy Smith:You know, fast forward now to, Minneapolis. We're seeing this just this chaos that because ICE decided to come and and really other federal law enforcement as well. They're doing a couple of things. First, they're investigating all the extraordinary fraud that we're finding out about with the autism center and the leering centers. And, you know
Hollywood Morris:My sweatshirt is on the way, Vince.
Betsy Smith:And and so coupled with that is immigration enforcement is coming in. And, again, what are they doing? They're arresting the worst of the worst. And I I know you saw this. I saw this.
Betsy Smith:It's so heartbreaking that video that came out very recently of a young ICE agent who's Yes. You know, he's got a mask on, but he pulls up to some people that are trying to interfere with their operation. And he rolls out his window, and he says, we're trying to arrest a child sex offender. Do you understand that's what we're trying to do? Don't you people want us to do that?
Betsy Smith:I mean, it was so heartbreaking because, you know Correct. I I used to do that. I used to arrest, you know, child ped I used to arrest pedophiles. And and I just can't imagine anyone in my community except the the actual pedophile himself wanting me to make that arrest. And and, you know, doesn't that break your heart?
Hollywood Morris:Absolutely. And and here's what else it does, Betsy. And I think that this is so timely that we're together today because just Sunday, remember what happened with the storming of the saint the church in Saint Paul? And I I think that is bigger than what people understand because of the spiritual significance of it. These people are the perfect example of what we talk about when we explain they worship the creation instead of the creator, and they're given to over to a depraved mind.
Hollywood Morris:This is literally what wokeness leads to. These people are absolutely out of their mind, and they're spiritually dead. And so like you said, as believers, we have compassion for them, but that does not mean we don't confront their sin and outright wickedness. And that's what you're seeing on full display in Minneapolis, and that's why they felt emboldened to start. That won't be the last church because this is a part if you understand how cultural Marxism works and and Saul Alinsky, dedicated his his book rules for radicals to Satan, this tells you everything we need to know about the playbook that we're watching being ran, in America.
Hollywood Morris:And like you said, for them, because they have made themselves god, yeah, then they they can decide on a sliding scale, Betsy, what is evil and what is not. So everything has been turned on his head, and we're warned, you know, in scripture when people call good evil and evil good, you know, it that that means you are judgment is not far behind.
Betsy Smith:So let's talk a little bit more about that because, again, what we're talking about is a Baptist church in the Twin Cities. It was actually in Saint Paul. Black Lives Matter and other Antifa types literally stormed a a Christian church service because they the pastor and that and I think that pastor wasn't even there, but they believe the pastor was somehow involved with ICE, and and and he was. And and they they stormed this service, and there were some familiar faces
Hollywood Morris:Bingo.
Betsy Smith:That were doing that. And and so I I wanna talk about let's talk about that and your thoughts about black lives matter, Antifa, and and some of the, again, familiar faces and familiar rhetoric we're seeing and hearing from.
Hollywood Morris:Yes. This is what I call if this is if this is BLM two point o, Betsy Bear and Antifa, they're sending out the JV squad. Because remember, all of the perpetrators from 2020, they bought mansions and moved amongst all the white supremacists they said that were systemically racist. So they targeted them. So they said they moved in.
Betsy Smith:Only a few black lives were enhanced, right, for just them.
Hollywood Morris:Right. So they, you know, they couldn't get them. So they're going to the bottom of the barrel. And if you notice, they aren't getting the same response that they were getting six years ago. So this is why you're seeing the desperation.
Hollywood Morris:And and it and it also brings me back to one of Sol Lilinski's that remember rules for radicals is their bible. And he says it's not about their action. It's about the reaction. They know the cameras are there. You know, the remember, when we think back to the Renee Goode situation, the way the media tries to frame it that she was trying to she had just dropped off her kid, but we know now that she had been there involving herself interfering with a federal operation, you know, for well, this wasn't the first day, and this just didn't mean she didn't stumble into the situation.
Hollywood Morris:So when you these groups are the same groups as we saw before. They're the closest thing that I can describe it to is they operate either like a cartel, which you have experience fighting against, or the American mafia. They are well coordinated. You see these five zero one c threes, and they they play the whack a mole shell. There's you know, you'll have a 100 of them how they send this money because what we noticed Sunday is that we see the same protesters that were there.
Hollywood Morris:We have footage of them at the Tesla, right, in Portland, then we see them in LA. Like, do they work jobs, Betsy? How are we getting these people across the country to participate in the same, you know, social upheaval in various cities if not by coincidence? And that is, I think, the the one one thing that's more important from the current DOJ, and we have to understand. For four years, they were allowed to grow while we were being told that any conservative Christians that happened, especially if you are white, then you're a domestic terrorist under the Biden administration.
Hollywood Morris:So while they were attacking grandmothers for praying out in front of Planned Parenthood centers, Antifa was allowed to grow. And BLM, you know, they're desperate because they've they've wasted $90,000,000. So, yeah, they're they're scraping up people that can't put together full sentences. But with that being said, Betsy, that does not make them less dangerous because what they want you know, these birds of a feather, they attack they I mean, they attract crazies like they are. All we need is one to to get a tragedy, and we know that it can happen at any time, you know, with with what you saw when you were literally on the streets day in and day out.
Betsy Smith:Now I I gotta ask you this because, you know, you you go to a church. I go to a church.
Hollywood Morris:Yes.
Betsy Smith:And and I when I first saw that come out in fact, I texted my pastor, and I said,
Hollywood Morris:can you imagine what
Betsy Smith:this happened at our church? I'm sure there's been a lot of that going on. Right? What would have happened at your church? I'm just curious.
Hollywood Morris:So I I'm so glad that you asked me this because I was actually on the road Sunday with with Turning Point USA faith down in South Florida. And so my wife was watching, you know, our church online, and she said, could you imagine had they come into our church in Eustis, Florida, and you know I'm good at invitations. And I said, so our pastor who is a marine, I said, it's Steve Austin moment. He would have just stood from behind the pulpit and said, oh, hell yeah. It's all about this.
Hollywood Morris:It's totally messy. They know I mean, again, they're evil. They're not idiots. They know the softer targets that they can attack because they never like the for those tables to be turned on them. And I can tell you, and I think you your situation is very similar because you're one of them.
Hollywood Morris:When you go to church with law enforcement, retired special forces and marines, it's a whole different type of environment in that sanctuary. Am I right?
Betsy Smith:Oh, yes. And and, you know, we we all talked about that, and it just and and I think you're right. I think they recognized that they could go into this church. And, again, it's a very you know, everybody talks about Minnesota. It's a big hunting state and all that.
Betsy Smith:It's really especially there in the Twin Cities area. It's very anti second amendment. And and, you know, and I think people have been sort of coerced, even Christians, into just I don't wanna say weak, but but being more
Hollywood Morris:I'll say weak. Yeah.
Betsy Smith:Right? I know. More complacent, I guess, is a kinder word. And that and we and we really can't do that.
Hollywood Morris:Let
Betsy Smith:No. Let me ask you this. Now, you know, now, of course, several of these folks have been arrested. We're gonna, you know, see all the hoo from that. Do you think they're gonna go into a mosque and do that?
Hollywood Morris:Absolutely not. And and that is the other thing. That that is the other thing. And you you will never see them do that because they know within the first minute, hands will be laid on them, and it won't be to pray. I guarantee you that.
Hollywood Morris:And so that exactly. That is the difference, And it and it's absolutely you know, I'm in the, free state of Florida. This is the heart of MAGA country. And you see the difference here where the protesters are on the side of the road. And, I mean, they're literally that's they're on the the paved sidewalk because it has already been established here with sheriffs like Grady Judd and the all the way up to the top with the governor governor DeSantis itself that this is the FAFO state.
Hollywood Morris:And the citizens also you know, we we carry that same attitude. So it's like you said it. For I'm here in Central Florida, it's very similar. Orlando, you've had some smaller protests. There have been ice in you know, that have been operations done in Orlando and nothing like you see there because, remember, what what annoyed me so much about the Brooksville Park police chief two days ago, basically, in that press conference, you know, with with with the virtue signaling all stars, I called them, was he neglects to point out that because they are sanctuary cities and min basically, Minnesota is a sanctuary state, he knows that they're not helping ICE.
Hollywood Morris:And and and mayor Frey literally finally admitted it on Chris Cuomo last night. So they're setting up the situation to be as chaotic as it is, then they complain and virtue signal when the chaos happens. This is this is this is the leftist playbook that has been adopted by the full DNC. We can't say that these are some radicals in their party anymore. This is their party.
Hollywood Morris:They took off the mask in 2020. This is who they are.
Betsy Smith:Absolutely. And I that whole press conference in in Brooklyn Park, which, by the way, is where poor Kim Potter was. Yes. She had to go to, you know, she had to go to prison. She was she was prosecuted by mister Allison there, and and she ended up going to prison because of a of a horrible mistake that she made under duress where she pulled out her pistol instead of her taser trying to arrest a guy with a a huge rap sheet and all that.
Betsy Smith:And and I what really struck me about that press conference is two things. One is that they're accusing ICE of all these dastardly things with zero proof. Right. Zero proof. Oh, yeah.
Betsy Smith:We tried to record it, but they slapped the phone out of
Hollywood Morris:our officers' That was so convenient. Right? With everything being captured on video, none of these incidents that they claim that ICE is doing, we have no video evidence.
Betsy Smith:Right. Right. And the other thing is I hate the pitting of law enforcement against law enforcement. And this is and this is part of the thing that makes it so dangerous. And and, you know, we just saw, for example, in New York City a a few nights ago where we had several NYPD detectives go to a hospital in need of emergency care because they got hurt on operation, and the the hospital staff treated them like crap until they found out they were NYPD.
Betsy Smith:They thought they were ICE agents. I mean, this is getting dangerous where you're pitting law enforcement against law enforcement, medical against law enforcement. And now Yes. And we had this happen here where I live in Southern Arizona. The other day, our state police were they chased a guy into one of our little towns here who had a stolen car and all this stuff.
Betsy Smith:Our little town cops went to help their brothers and sisters from the state police, and the whole community was up in arms because they thought our state police were helping ICE. And it just it's getting it's it's getting insane, and it's getting dangerous. And it's gonna continue to get people hurt, don't you think?
Hollywood Morris:Oh, I absolutely think that it is. And this is the I think that is what bothers me the most about it, Betsy, is because let's let's back up to, you know, basically, two weeks ago today when the whole Renee Good tragedy takes place, one of her own making, and that's the part that you can't escape because we have adults in America who have never faced consequences. So they're literally they, you know, they act like children, but you have adult responsibilities. I think she's the poster child for that. The second part of it is because of the way that these things are being framed in the media.
Hollywood Morris:Again, you and I know and your audience have family members and and them who themselves who know what it's like to have lee elected leaders and the national media demonize you and turn the public against you. Well, you guys didn't have a rock to hide under. You still had to go out in that environment every day. And so the results that we get from this is what none of these mainstream networks who, by the way, the coverage of Minneapolis, the ICE operation there, the report came out this morning, 93% negative coverage of ICE. You know when it wasn't that busy?
Hollywood Morris:Under Barack Obama's eight year term when he deported over 3,000,000 illegal aliens, and no one said a word. This is how the media and that's a video that I'm dropping out this weekend where CNN went out with ICE during his administration. Guess who was the director of ICE? Tom Holman.
Betsy Smith:You mean the guy who got the award from Barack Obama? That guy?
Hollywood Morris:Correct. Yes. That guy. I'm, like, amazing how they play this game. And the the the problem is, though, the officers, you guys are the ones that are living with the real life consequences.
Hollywood Morris:These producers and these punk politicians, as I call them, they don't live with the consequences. They have private security, and they live in gated communities. So when you think about her aiming that vehicle at him and you have a I mean, complete idiots like Stephen a Smith who I mean, you're terrible in sports, sir. Why would you try to break down a law enforcement operation? But he says he could have shot the tire of a three ton vehicle that already hit him.
Hollywood Morris:Like, that's I was like, you you met my wife, and she's like, okay. I I'm a veterinarian. I know nothing about long military or law enforcement. Even I know that that only happens in the matrix. That is something that Keanu Reeves does with John Wick.
Hollywood Morris:That's not reality. But what is reality is since 2020, when the, you know, the first wave of defund the police took place, we have had fifty five officers in America killed by vehicular homicide or vehicular assault. None of them got the response or the coverage by the media that Renee Goode received. And yet, if you think about that, basically, for the audience, we're in the playoffs. You know, we have NFL fever.
Hollywood Morris:National championship just finished. 55 with there's only 53 players on a NFL roster. That you just remove the entire NFL football team with the officers that we have lost with people using their vehicles, to to to murder them. Let that scene get
Betsy Smith:I'm so glad you brought that up because people don't realize how often, the suspects weaponize vehicles, not just against ICE, but against law enforcement in I've been hit by a car. I got a Yes. I got a fake knee because of it. And, you know, it it hurts, and it's not fun. And and it's it's something that kills us.
Betsy Smith:It it it it injures more. You know, we every year, we're up to about 87,000 assaults on law enforcement officers in this nation, and a lot of them are vehicular.
Hollywood Morris:Correct. I think that basically is directly tied into the rhetoric and the lies and the false narratives. Because now think about it. You have the same party who conveniently tried to lie two years ago when the crime you know, when the results of their bad policies remember, all of this less reimagining policing. I'm like, I'm from the hood in Fort Lauderdale.
Hollywood Morris:I ain't reimagining nothing. This ain't South Beach. Okay? So I was like, yeah, I'm not reimagining police. But when all of that, remember, when those when that when those bad decisions became reality, they get two things.
Hollywood Morris:What you saw happening in DC with cooking the books and changing felonies to misdemeanors to lie that crime is down, you know, or we just don't report it at all, or they keep moving the needle. They go back to well, ICE is the new remember you've heard you've heard this one recently. ICE is the new slave patrol. See, you gotta do the emotional game and and and play the black versus white race card because they can't stand on their failed policies. So just the same people who were screaming for the fund defund the police and then said they didn't do it after, you know, after the failures of those policies are the same people now who are this is an election year who are running saying defund ICE.
Hollywood Morris:That's why I said, that's where have we seen this movie before?
Betsy Smith:Is the
Hollywood Morris:same playbook. They only have one playbook.
Betsy Smith:And you know what? What I think and this is the last thing I got time to talk about. What I think has changed since 2020 is people like you is the independent media. Talk about being a member of that independent media because when you you talk I love those statistics about the negative coverage of ICE. But are people really paying attention to to, to the legacy media?
Betsy Smith:I think independent media has taken their place. Right?
Hollywood Morris:Oh, it absolutely is. And and and I think that is so important if we are going to save our country, which is the greatest nation God has ever allowed to exist. Notice who you see at these protests interfering, and it tells you all you need to know. And that's why I said, you you you see these predominantly. These are older white suburban women for the most part jumping out in front of vehicles, memaws, you know, trying to fight ice ages.
Betsy Smith:I apologize for my age and gender. My hair is not blue. I Yes.
Hollywood Morris:This is why I said this is yes. This is a credit to what we've been doing, and the power of independent media is also why it's so important, but here is here is the warning of it also, though, Betsy. It is also why they are trying to find another perfect victim. And so if you I I don't know if you heard about the case in California where it was off duty ICE agent New Year's Eve, the guy you're shooting the a r 15 in the middle of a community. Again, it's stupid games and stupid prizes, but, you know, that they've got Ben Crump, you know, America's number one, you know, ambulance chaser.
Hollywood Morris:You see, they're trying to run the same playbook to see if they can get the community to bite on. So don't be surprised in in Minneapolis or definitely California next. That's why you noticed that press conference saying that, well, these people were racially profiled and stopped, yet we have no footage of it. That's the angle they want. They're not getting the same response from, you know, the, the senior liberal white women screeching in the street.
Hollywood Morris:So, yes, they they need the race narrative to to run with that, and that's what they they're gonna hammer that hard. They're gonna flood the zone here in the next couple of months, basically. That's my prediction with that. And so that makes what we do important because in, six years ago, we were playing defense the whole time. We cannot wait.
Hollywood Morris:We need to attack every lie and every false narrative like the word commands us to do.
Betsy Smith:You are so right. Tell people where they can find you, follow you, hire you, give us all of it.
Hollywood Morris:Yes. First of all, the website is supportourshields.com and then face, social media, Facebook, x, YouTube at support our shields. You know as well as I do. The support is very important because this is what my retirement retirement fund has been used for this strictly out of my pocket. As a matter of fact, tomorrow morning, Betsy, I will fly if it's not delayed because of this winter storm, but it's to Westboro, Pennsylvania to honor Andrew D'Orte, who was 30 years old, who was who was killed last year with that hostage standoff in in Pennsylvania Medical Center.
Hollywood Morris:So this is why this is so important. You know, this is passion for me that caused me to put everything else on the back burner with with production, what I was doing, because I believe that if we lose the men and women who are willing to risk their lives for for total strangers, we can become Venezuela. We may think it can't happen to America. You you're literally one generation away from from living under communist dictatorship. That's what Ronald Reagan warned, and he was right.
Betsy Smith:Yeah. Yeah. That's so well said. I I gotta tell you. I can't I can't thank you enough for what you do.
Betsy Smith:I can't thank your wife enough for letting you do it, because she's amazing as well. And, and we really appreciate you catch us catching us up, and we're gonna pay attention to your predictions and continue to follow what you do. So we so appreciate it. And if you'd like more information about the National Police Association, you can visit us at nationalpolice.org.
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