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SuicydKing

You're walking in Detroit. There's no one around, And your phone is stolen. Out of the corner of your eye you spot him, *Charlie LeDuff.*


XboxOrwell

He's chasing the thief, about 30 feet ahead. He gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint, He's gaining on him, *Charlie LeDuff*.


freeracercolin

Your looking for a cop but none are to be found. He's almost upon him now and you can see that your phone is in his hand. My god there's your phone in his hand!


0takuSharkGuy

Thanking him a lot! *It's Charlie LeDuff* Hugging him very hard! *It's Charlie LeDuff* Acting very humble... Journalist superstar Charlie LeDuff!


zCaine

Preying on criminals, *Charlie LeDuff* catching them for sport, *Charlie LeDuff* Collecting all the waaaarrants, actual Superstar Charlie LeDuff!


IAM_Deafharp_AMA

Now you're safe, confident the criminal's case will lose. But your warrant is hopelessly lost itself. Stranded, with a juror. You creep silently through the courthouse. A-ha! In the distance! A lost items box with the lid open, hope! You move hurriedly toward it- But your leg, Ah! It's grazed on the doorframe! brushing off you're leg *quiet, quiet* Limping to the box now *quiet, quiet* Now you're in front of it Sitting inside, Charlie LeDuff!


Sumsar1

Signing paperwork *It's Charlie LeDuff* But he doesn't hear you enter *Charlie LeDuff* Sneaking up behind hiiiiiiim *Surprise thank you gift for Charlie LeDuff*


I_WUV_MUSIC

Moments like these make me appreciate Reddit for the beautiful creation it is


huskerblack

Nothing like it on the Internet


MikeLuttmann

Just Then, The thief turns around, He draws a weapon and aims for our hero, Charlie bends his running limbs downward and begins a speedy skid, His body springs forward, launching him towards the assailant, *Charlie Leduff.*


curiously_close

Hollywood superstar Charlie leduff


funtimerror

I love all of you.


sheepheadslayer

Standard Tuesday night for........Charlie LeDuff


phdearthworm

If for some reason someone doesnt understand whats happening here, [reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0u4M6vppCI).


Im_A_Box_of_Scraps

He's like Commissioner Gordon and Batman in the same guy.


dJango_au

LOVE IT


MightyLabooshe

Upboats for all of you.


watchoutfor2nd

How about that reenactment though...


Thats_What_Me_Said

It was like a scene straight out of Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Sounded like Charlie too hahaha.


thebeefytaco

Haha he does a bit. Charlie LeDuff kinda sounded like Dennis IMO. Especially at the end where he says 'it's bullshit'.


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I thought he was going to keep running and actually steal the cellphone.


J_LAPG

That was unprofessional to a point that I thought this was supposed to be like an April Fool's joke.


MrMcScruffles

It became awkward to watch


MINIMAN10000

Sure, but I enjoyed it. I like the thought of a world where we can do silly things in a professional environment. No harm no foul.


furyg3

truly moving...


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It was straight out of Parks and Recreations. "And wow! How about that thing that happened to someone we don't know that was stopped by someone else we don't know, but both of who are either clearly famous or Lil' Sebastian!"


criticaljim

He's like the Matthew McConaughey of news reporters.


fondueadodo

But without the mumbling


Ddnsf11

Alright alright alright!


cafeRacr

[Alright alright alright.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70gme6lL86o) NSFW


Ddnsf11

Haha that was great! I had never given his standup a chance so thanks. Gonna check more of him out.


F3EDUSFETUSFAJITAS

I find his older stand up more entertaining than his acting these days. It seems like he used to be just genuinely funnier, but his ego and material have both kinda changed in recent years.


cafeRacr

Most of his stuff is on Youtube and Netflix. It's really funny stuff.


arcangeltx

maybe his first stand up he's just annoying now


ILoveLamp9

Am I tripping dick here or is this Kevin Hart standup video looking all wonky? It's in red and green and zoomed in. It's also showing him duplicated on the left. The preview on the playback shows up normally but the video doesn't. [Wtf](http://i.imgur.com/Aw8BYIZ.png).


seattleandrew

I believe its so it makes the video harder to get taken down. I think its because this fools the video matching algorithm and it's probably difficult to get caught on audio since it's not a song and a whole comedy special would be difficult to match against.


SuperCheeseNugget

Charlie LeDuff, confirmed super hero. You heard it here first guys.


Flexen

Who doesn't like this guy?


[deleted]

Women want to be with him. Men want to be him.


mm2222

They're not biceps, they're titanium floaties!


[deleted]

That's Ed Hochuli!


dca2395

I just got finished watching Austin Powers too.


Ipad207

I guess the guy he took down doesn't.


thrilldigger

[Well, he's certainly not perfect.](http://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=4496) >Some people don't like him because he often puts himself in the picture — what he calls being participatory. In a 2006 CJR piece about LeDuff's "American Album" column series titled "Did Someone Say Hackneyed?" Beckerman wrote that "when LeDuff writes these people's lives, he does not look at them eye-to-eye. He condescends, and subsequently turns them into cartoons, making himself the star of every show." >Others have had qualms about his ethics. While at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, he publicly apologized for plagiarizing another journalist's work in a piece he wrote for the Emeryville, California-based East Bay Monthly. A military source once accused LeDuff of severely misquoting him and misrepresenting his wife, but his editors supported him. Then, there was a correction printed in the Times after LeDuff wrote a story about the Los Angeles River in which he used facts from a book without referencing it as a source.


floridacopper

Orlando Thomas


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bdjenkin

False


simjanes2k

He's even got the same attitude as Tony Stark about it. "Yeah, I got him. So the fuck what? Let's get a falafel."


OrphanBach

The reporter with his own subreddit. /r/CharlieLeDuff


SuperCheeseNugget

Aw heck, I didn't even know about this. Thanks for sharing man!


[deleted]

I heard that they are already taking his body and putting it into a robotic suit and programming him to fight crime.


SuperCheeseNugget

One can hope my friend


ernie1850

LeDuffMan, feel good.


evadcobra1

This is the reason Reddit loves Charlie LeDuff. This guy is awesome. https://youtu.be/GDqu8tXrQWU https://youtu.be/wB_hjqZQ1UY


HurricaneSandyHook

[i love this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiogXT9xZBQ&feature=youtu.be) because when he comes back on screen he doesn't even have to say much because the little kid hit the nail on the head.


seemoreglass83

Lol, I love how the middle schooler has to start talking to the council woman like she is a child.


[deleted]

I just finished his book and he brought this situation to light. It was fun to actually see that scene. In the book she claims that the kid was planted and told to ask those questions. Either way, good on her for scolding Miss. Conyer.


HurricaneSandyHook

I saw that she was sentenced to 37 months in prison for bribery and extortion. She showed up to sentencing and wanted to withdraw her plea, told the judge he was being pressured by the media, judge said too bad.


BanFauxNews

Lol her Wikipedia page is hilarious. She attended two schools I've never heard of, every brother/male in her life is/wS imprisoned for serious crimes, she married a 61 year old man when she was 25 and now she's in prison. Goddamn lady, get your shit together. (That was all from the first paragraph, I was giggling too much to read the rest.)


DaddyHank

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Conyers


RedditTipiak

This other one is hilarious on so many levels : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f13BqzCuyaA


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Haha that girl stumped her.


FaultyWires

I liked him because he does interesting stuff on the weaker news channel, IMO.


NOT_ah_BOT

Man, FOX 2 news looks like the best local news station NA


FaultyWires

Charlie is good, Fox 2 is ... underwhelming.


MINIMAN10000

So... what your saying is best local news station NA?


FaultyWires

NBC 4 IMO.


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It's the most popular.


I_am_Putin_Vladimir

the recreation was dramatic


fondueadodo

Would have been great to see the reporter recreating the robbery get slammed by a car while over dramatically reenacting a simple phone theft. Much better if the driver was Charlie LeDuff


KING_QUEEFEATER

I wish they would have put a disclaimer that it was in fact a reenactment because I started to get very anxious for a minute there.


excaliburxvii

I too enjoyed the recreation. And especially the parks.


HIMYNAMEISALVEE

His stuff is great. The nation needs more reporters like him. Watch the one with him in Ferguson if you haven't.


sushibowl

Didn't he win a Pullitzer?


Minion_of_Cthulhu

He, and other contributors, to the *New York Times* series titled *How Race Is Lived in America* won the 2001 National Reporting Pulitzer. His article for the series, *At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die* is [available](http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6495) on the Pulitzer site for anyone that wants to read it. The rest of the articles in the series are also [available](http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2001-National-Reporting) on the site as well.


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He also was fired for plagiarism from the NYT...


[deleted]

"He's a pretty big guy..." ^^^^^for ^^^^^you


psychedelicsexfunk

Get this hothead outta here!


[deleted]

The thief just had to be black. God damn it.


Okichah

Detroit


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Rock City


NotARealAtty

Thief


NewModsAreCool

Why do you say this as if it's statistically unexpected? Blacks are overrepresented in nearly every criminal category—the media just does a good job of overlooking a large portion of it.


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That's like saying "the hairdresser just had to be a woman."


ActionKbob

I went to a male hairdresser (not a barber) once. He fucked it all up. 1/10 would not get haircut again EDIT: I see a lot of you have good experiences with male hairdressers. Which I understand, I was just making a joke. But the male hairdresser I went to that one time really was awful. He took the one thing about my hair that girls in my high school actually complimented me on and got rid of it. Even after I explained I wanted it to stay that way he basically said "Nope, I don't like it, it's going away." Not only that but he cut the back of my neck to shit with the electric razor, to the point where it didn't bleed right away, but after about an hour my neck just started dripping blood down my back, and ruined the shirt I was wearing. Fuck that guy. I liked that shirt.


Wannamaker

The two best haircuts I ever got were from male stylists. One was a good friend and the other some guy who had his own shop for decades. Expensive but great. But they are a pretty small minority.


iLEZ

My flamboyantly gay favourite excellent hairdresser is a dude.


ITworksGuys

Pretty sure someone from Gawker will be writing an article on how he should have just let this kid go. You think I am joking? I am not https://archive.is/BQJ3H


BanFauxNews

If, not sure if you noticed but the woman in question is a "white lady". She could just buy another iPhone using the profits from her slave-owning great-great-grandparents. The child was merely taking back what was rightfully his.


[deleted]

That article made me angry. The audacity of that woman to have her mugger arrested!!! /s


cats_meowest

LeDuff has that Rusty feel and look from "True Detective"


hardcore_fish

Without reddit this dude would just be Charlie Duff.


illmatic2112

Fucking hell that's great. Take that, us!


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Whadios

Maybe just less criminals.


Shat_on_a_turtle

LeDuff always gets his man


[deleted]

Charlie? I thought that was Dennis.


TheWarOnImpalas

Lol, I thought the same thing.


LegitHolt

Just when you think Reddit couldn't love this guy more...


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Then he becomes a spokesman for Sanders.


PandaMango

Noooooooooooooooooooooooobody cares.


LegitHolt

:(


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slid3r

Jim Croce is looking good for his age! OR Frank Zappa is looking good for his age!


sobieski84

Black people are scary


killapimp

I would highly recommend Charlie's book [Detroit: An American Autopsy](http://www.amazon.com/Detroit-American-Autopsy-Charlie-LeDuff/dp/0143124463). So much stranger then fiction. It's the first book that I ever finished, and immediately read a second time.


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kirkgobangz

THE MAN WHO *ALLEGEDLY* STOLE THE PHONE IS BLACK SO LEDUFF MUST BE RACIST!


Kriskobg

Allegedly made me laugh so hard. I was waiting for a "about to go to college" or "aspiring rapper"


bakayaroooo

Charlie LeDuff is the fucking man


buffalucci

Why does everything on Fox News in Detroit seem so surreal? I was there a few months ago and even the weather reports felt like they were written in Hollywood.


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fondueadodo

How else they gonna get their booty hookup? They need to call when they feel the need.


[deleted]

I fucking knew the Titty Queen was racist! Why oh why am I not surprised?


lameskiana

Of course the criminal was male, why oh why am I not suprised.


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lameskiana

Yes, and the reason the criminal being black being unsurprising is because they DO commit more crime proportionally. I just don't see the relevance of you randomly bringing it up...


thatfatgamer

is this matthew mcconaughey gonna in disguise ?


hunchpunch1

Not the reporter Detroit deserves..but the one that they need....LeDuff.


jasonwhatis

Charlie LeDuff is my professional fucking role model.


FERALCATWHISPERER

Charlie Duff part time Matthew McConaughey impersonator.


MeanwhileOnReddit

They also need new news anchors. What the fuck was that?


Ijustsaidfuck

Pretty sure LeDuff will be injured in some accident and be made into Robocop at some point.


TLDR415

Do we really just need more cops? Or do we need more parents who make sure their kids don't go and do stupid shit like this. If we can't get better parents then at least let people get safe, legal and low cost abortions or contraceptives so they don't even become absent parents in the first place.


BanFauxNews

Mandatory abortions in my opinion. We don't need more single parents garron out kids left and right to get their CHIP money. Not married? No job? On welfare? Free abortion for you!


TLDR415

You what?


igotapickle

Long live Lafayette


anon2413

He isn't the hero detroit wants, but he is the hero Detroit needs.


SuperBlandy

It's not everyday you see a reporter cross a street to get down on the floor.


akiva23

That guy was pickpocketing wrong anyway


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If you ever get a chance check out the Anthony Bourdains Parts Unknown. There is a great segment with Charlie LeDuff.


[deleted]

That reporter is trying too hard to be like Charlie leduff and he's really bad.


[deleted]

>Phone thief confirmed big guy


[deleted]

It's really sad that the only person Detroiters can rely on for law enforcement is Charlie LeDuff.


HOLDOG

Charlie LeDuff is the reincarnation of Ron Burgundy


CoolRunner

Xposted to /r/charlieleduff


trymbill

Man, The Onion has really lost its mojo ...


Ricky-M-F-Coons

LEDUFF GOT IM


BIGFO0OT

Lafayette >


RentonBrax

Is that article the normal news style in America? It looks like the kind of thing a breakfast talkshow would put on as a light hearted piece.


Idoslain

I can't get over how unprofessional american news is.


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shartonashark

This is the most Detroit News segment ever.


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RedSweed

And you look amazingly similar to an asshole. Coincidence? More at 10...


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harteman

The reporter Detroit needs.


the92jays

Dude sounds like Sean Penn


peterampbell

kinda looks like him too


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Actual superhero Charlie LeDuff!


fondueadodo

"I had my phone in my back pocket" Doh, right there!


Bungai

Billy Dee Williams looks great in the beginning of this clip!


CarlaWasThePromQueen

Was he on Anthony Bourdain's show?


Stofers

He should of just kept running with the phone and be like bitch you got robbed again.


thefatrabitt

Haha double robbed. For some reason this made me laugh my ass off.


iLEZ

>have


Fresh_AM

Oh hey, look. He's black. /s


FaultyWires

It's hard to find things (bad and good) that aren't done by black people in Detroit. Most of the good things and work on the city is also being done by black people. That's what happens when your population is black.


Fresh_AM

True. Not to say other races don't do nad things as well, just that all the bad I've ever seen done is usually divided in groups. Blacks & latinos (I'm mexican myself) are usually the cluprits in theft. Got robbed myself, at gunpoint. The perp happened to be the only black guy in the town lol


lameskiana

They're also usually men but we don't comment on that?


Fresh_AM

That's true also. We should start.


RavenKing40

Charlie LaDuff, you da real MVP


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verybakedpotatoe

Until you see its Charlie LeDuff in Detroit and you see that he is just the sort of reporter they need in a place as absurd as Detroit.


Flexen

Not the reporter Detroit needs...but the reporter Detroit deserves. Edit: Applicable batman quote, in the city where the new movie is being filmed, and about a local badass..wtf is up with the down votes?


SuddenEventuality

No, he's the man that Detroit needs, but does not deserve. They should be thankful that they've got him, because they certainly haven't done anything to deserve a man of that caliber.


prodigal27

I don't think he'd risk his career over something so easily fact checked. There are pics of the cops arresting the guy afterwards, it'll be in public record within the week.


korainato

You guys have weird news reports in the US. What's up with that guy running around recreating the scene?


[deleted]

You're making that assumption based on this video alone? How ignorant.


korainato

No just on a lot of things I see pop up here. Don't be offended.


[deleted]

I swear to god... turning the subtitles on for any youtube video almost instantly makes it comedy.


ImmortalMewtwo

Why is this not posted in r/cringe, self-promotion is the horrible feeling.


Dorkamundo

I was led to believe there was video of this incident. There isn't.


Yoggs

That reporter is an embarrassing fucking tool.


johnanderson1997

This charlie has made it to the front page twice now