Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez is "Bringing Movement to the Building" + Atty Rhonda Haymon 4 Judge

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Hey, Bla Talk fifteen eighty. We've been ultra black eight
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hundred nine two oh, fifteen eighty. It's a perfect time
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to call if you want to reflect on anything. You
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just heard from Brendan Corbett, who's running to be sheriff.
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If you want to reflect on the election, or something
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else is bugging you or inspiring you, I would love
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to hear from you. We have a jam packed show today,
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so I'm telling you right now is the perfect moment
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to call me. I decided to go live on Instagram
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for some reason, probably because I keep telling Miles I'm
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going to do it, and then I don't do it,
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and I'm trying to live up to everything I say.
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Oh hey, Dee Barnes just joined. What's up? Says eight
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hundred and nine to oh page is our join? What's
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up on my ig? I'm talking about? Well, of course,
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we're streaming as well on YouTube and Facebook. So yeah,
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and these interviews that we do with the various candidates
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for offices. We don't do every single office, but we
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do the major majors right and the ones that particularly
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impact our community. Of course, we're broadcasting from the Crenshaw
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Strip Lahmert Park Africa Town. So you'll hear from a
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lot of folks and the ones we don't have on
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we'll talk about them all right, So let's process together.
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Brendan Corbett, our second sheriff's candidate, to join and we'll
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see who tease up. They're all who shows up, tease up,
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They're all invited. We invite everyone within any particular office
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that we are looking at, and so we'll continue that.
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But right now, it's me, you and this microphone, telephone
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and all the social media apps that you have available
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to talk to me and talk to one another. A
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story that hit me that I meant to get to
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yesterday and ran out of time. Is this the Department
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of Justice, the FBI going after nonprofit groups right and
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the Southern Poverty Law Center is the latest example of this.
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And although I part company with the Southern Poverty Law Center,
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when it comes to the way they characterize the Nation
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of Islam, they try to do. They they categorize the
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Nation of Islam as a hate group on par with
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the KKK, which to me is crazy. The Nation of
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Islam doesn't kill anybody, you know, They actually save lives.
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Whether I'm not in the nation, whether you're in the
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nation or not, it's not the point. They're not a
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hate group. You might not agree with everything Minister Farakahn says,
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or with the what the brothers and sisters say, but
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they're not a hate group. They don't kill people, they
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don't stalk people, they don't terrorize people. Mostly they clean
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people up and help them get their lives together. So
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we part company on that, But that's not the point.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is a group that tracks
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hate groups. That's what they do, mostly groups like the
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Klan and the overt white supremacist groups. And now they're
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being targeted for going after the clan. So that's weird
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to me. Why do I think it's weird? Well, I mean,
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what they're saying is that the Southern Poverty Laws Center
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spent tax payer dollars or money that was donated to
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them to pay folks to infiltrate the KKK, and that
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that is a misuse of taxpayer dollars infiltrating and taking
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down the KKK. You're saying is illegal. So in a sense,
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the in a sense, the Department of Justice is defending
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the KKK. I mean, that's really if you break it down.
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That's really what it is. Somehow they have decided that
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it is unlawful for the Southern Poverty Law Center to
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target the KKK. They say that they they claim that
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that amounts to funding extremism. If I pay someone to
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infiltrate your organization, if I pay someone to infiltrate KBLA,
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is that supporting KBLA. No, you're working to undermine this organization.
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You're actually working for the demise of this organization. You
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see what I'm saying. The logic here for this these
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charges to me, is just bizarre. They're saying that they
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spent three million dollars in donor funds to pay leaders
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of violent extremists groups. What are they paying them to do? Though?
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They're paying them to infiltrate them and take them down.
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And it's a fourteen page indictment, But they don't really
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say how that money paid the informants. They don't say
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how it actually helped these white supremacist groups. They don't
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say how that money was spent illegally and how there
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was anything wrong with it. In fact, according to CNN,
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some of the legal experts are now saying this is
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pretty flimsy. This is pretty flimsy. But what they do, now,
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what are the actually doing. They're taking the attention and
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the resources of the SPLC and diverting it into fighting
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against the Justice Department. So instead of spending their days
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trying to beat the Klan, they now have to spend
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their days trying to beat the clan, I mean the
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d OJ. I mean basically, they become the proxy fo
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the Klan, which is just not that far of a
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stretch when you're when we're talking about this administration and
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the way that they've defended white supremacists from day one,
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the way that they've pardoned scores of white supremacists who
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attack the capital on January sixth, the way that they
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have minimized the crimes of those January six attackers and
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other white supremacists. And this is part of a you know,
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it's part of a plan, a bigger plan. And one
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of the reasons why this case gave me chills, even
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though again I don't necessarily agree with everything the SPLC does,
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is that I think it's a blueprint. I think they're
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going to use it on more and more nonprofits, whether
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it's the NAACP or Black Lives Matter or the Urban
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League that this administration will use those charges, use those audits,
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use those allegations to undermine, delegitimize the organizations that are
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doing important work in our communities, that are defending us
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against them, and also force these organizations to spend their
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money and resources fighting the DOJ instead of fighting the KKK,
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the DOKKK, the KKDJ, whatever however you want to spell it.
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It's a whole problem. Remember Cash Pattel whose real name
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is cash app it really is. I didn't make that up.
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Cash app Paatel cut ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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I think it was a couple months ago because of
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conservative critiques of the organization, not because of anything they
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did wrong, not because of any paperwork or other problem,
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because conservative groups criticized it. The same reason. Here in
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Los Angeles, we're dealing with our school district distancing themselves
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from the Black Student Achievement Program, not because it did
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anything wrong. In fact, it's doing fabulous work helping black students,
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blackety black, ultra black students. That's the problem. So what
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caused the attacks?
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Oh?
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What caused that loss of support? Oh? Critiques from conservative groups.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has been for decades a
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provider of data to the FBI about extremist groups. They
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surveil the KKK and Proud Boys and Oathkeepers Chad Bianco's group,
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you know, oath Keepers. They surveil them, they infiltrate them,
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and then they give that information to the FBI. So
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the FBI could be part of the solution. Well, cash
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app decided, we don't want that info anymore. What investigator,
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what spy agency, what cop? Doesn't want more info? No,
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thank you, We'd rather bury our heads in the sand.
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And now they're going after them. The Department of Justice
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is going after them because they use informants, which every
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police agency in the country does. Make it makes sense.
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Got two words for you, Project twenty twenty five, eight
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hundred nine to two oh fifteen eighty. It's the perfect
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time to call me. I'm Dominique Diaprima and this is
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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty All right, I love it. Arguing
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with Miles and with YouTube and with Instagram and with
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Facebook all at once. It's levels to it. That's gem
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and I heaven right there. Eight hundred and nine two
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oh fifteen eighty eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty.
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That is the number. If you want to say something,
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why Gezi, I don't know who that is. One of
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my friends, I don't know your internet handle says I
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had a blast with you in Tanzania. We did have
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a blast in Tanzania. And this top does come from
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Ghana when I went in twenty sixteen. And I can't wait.
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I know you can't wait to get back to the Motherland.
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In June, We're going to Zambia and Busswana. I'm ready.
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I haven't been to either of those places, so yay,
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it's gonna be amazing. Hopefully they let us back in.
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If not, we'll be broadcasting from Africa.
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Figure it out.
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Tavis may not love it, but we'll still be talking.
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We'll be streaming, we'll be doing something. Buy some Wi
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Fi and make getting cracking out there, for sure. Buy
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some Wi Fi, just like we do when we broadcast
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from there. So we'll take you with us. You'll be
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coming with us. I've been doing that since twenty sixteen.
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You can come literally or you can come virtually. And
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absolutely we are celebrating the Motherland and the connection this weekend.
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I hate to tell you it's sold out. I actually
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don't hate to tell you, but it is sold out.
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The African Focus Goodwill Awards is sold out. On Saturday.
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I'll be m seeing and if I get a chance,
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I will live stream some of it so you can
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see it. I'm always running around busy because I'm am seeing,
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but I'm going to try to go live. And I
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know we have a king coming from Nigeria, so that's
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they always bring a king our chief. This time we
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have a Yuba king coming from Nigeria, so I'm extra
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excited about that and it's gonna be great. One of
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the things we do is we have these inductions where
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African families that live here in the US adopt African
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American families and individuals as a means of helping to
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heal the wounds of our enslavement. And then in my case,
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I got adopted by a family, a Uroba family here
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in La and then when we went to Nigeria, I
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got to meet their other family members that still live
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in the motherland. And so I have an actual adopted
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family in Nigeria. So that is amazing.
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Isn't Yuropa right?
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Or was he Eo?
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No, he's Ebo, Yeah, he's Ebo. All day long. You know,
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if you know anything about African history, the Ebo and
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the Europa sometimes are at odds, but not so much
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I think these days, but sometimes are at odds. It's
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like kind of like a Bloods and Crypts type scenario.
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On a cultural level, the Ebo and the Euroba to
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the two biggest ethnic groups inside of Nigeria, and most
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of us as African Americans, have at least a little
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bit of Ebo or a little bit of a Euroba
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in this DNA. Fahimas saying in the YouTube chat that
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Morris D's and Julian Bond helped co found the Southern
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Poverty Law Center back in nineteen seventy one. Thank you
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for that context. It's always appreciated. We have the most intelligent, education,
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well read delegation in the world, and I am very
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appreciative of all of you in the KBLA delegation for
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the information you bring, for the incredible insight, even when
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we don't agree, maybe especially when we don't agree. I
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think it's so important and so powerful that you are
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there and that you are in this conversation and you're
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always invited in, whether it's in the comments on YouTube
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which is a KBLA fifteen eighty on the phone at
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eight hundred and nine to twoh fifteen eighty, or right
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now I'm streaming on my YouTube, which is at Tupremia Radio.
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Even when you hit me up after the show, I'm
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always so excited about that. And I know that you
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know I'm bad at certain things. I almost admitted something
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I should not admit. But tomorrow we're going to have
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the great film director Charles Burnett joining us in studio.
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Sometimes I don't let you on enough what's going on.
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Sometimes it's because I don't know right. Sometimes we're building
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this plane while we're flying it, but sometimes I be multitasking.
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So I'm excited. You don't want to miss that. That's
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our three tomorrow. Charles Burnett will be joining us live
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in the studio. He is a legendary filmmaker, and it's
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a conversation that I am truly, truly looking forward to,
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So I hope you will be there for that. In
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our Friedman Friday Conversation, Doctor Lakeisha David will be joining us,
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So we are stacked and we're going to be having
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an incredible Friedman Friday. Sherry Bell will be joining us
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she's back, so our one will be incredible too. We
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have a great day ahead and so you don't want
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to miss that. Friedman Friday is a commitment, my commitment
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to reparations, something that we've been doing for the past
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two plus years. So that's something that we will continue
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to do until the wheels fall off, until I don't
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have a radio show anymore, and I might keep doing
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it after that. If I don't have a radio show anymore,
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look for me on YouTube, look for me on Instagram.
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You know, Gemini here. We're gonna keep talking, all right.
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So you know, one of my concerns, which is both
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a national and a local issue, is the consolidation that
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we are seeing right now in media and that social
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media as well as traditional mainstream media. Right where you
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have the purchase by the Ellison family. They now own CBS,
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they now own TikTok. That's one family. They're like the
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new Murdochs, right, it's the new Secession. But they are
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very pro net and Yahoo. They are very ultra conservative,
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and they are trying to get Warner Brothers next. We'll
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see if that happens or if it doesn't. And there's
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multiple reasons for this. Being problematic aside from the fact
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that you have an ultra conservative, reactionary group that now
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controls the newsroom in terms of who's hired and fired,
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in terms of what stories get approved. I've worked in
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traditional newsrooms. What you got to do is you have
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to pitch your story to the news director, right, and
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then they say go or don't go. It's like the
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editor of a newspaper, which we know are also being
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bought up by billionaires. Right Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
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Doctor Patrick Shuangshan owns the La Times, a South African
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born billionaire. So as they consolidate the power. Now you
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have Elon Musk, another South African billionaire owning x slash,
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Twitter and so and now with Zuckerberg having Threads and
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Instagram and WhatsApp, more and more consolidations, so just a
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handful of billionaires control the flow of information. It's also
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a problem in terms of jobs because these giant consolidations
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lead to massive layoffs, and that is one of the
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reasons why we've had this open letter with heavy hitters
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from Hollywood appealing to the government to stop that merger,
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to stop the purchase of Warner Brothers by the Ellison family.
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I don't know if it'll help or not. This is
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something that apparently Trump wants because that portfolio includes CNN.
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So then through his big supporter Donor Larry Ellison, he
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can control the micro decisions about who gets to be
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an anchor on CNN. That's petty to the degree. But
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now Deadline has put out an article talking about how
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that merger of Warner Brothers Discovery would lead to these huge,
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huge layoffs in Hollywood. So on top of the fact
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that they will control what news stories get covered, they
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meaning this right wing, very ultra conservative group, it also
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means they decide what stories get told, what narrative films,
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what fictional stories get to stream on on paramount, get
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to stream, get to go to movie theaters, get to
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be greenlit by Warner Brothers, And this is a whole problem.
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Disney's already at eight percent layoffs with their Marvel franchise,
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and that's just the first round of cuts. Sony Pictures
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laying off hundreds from their global staff in April, and
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this is just the beginning. Epic Games, which makes Fortnite
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laying off a thousand workers, which they claim is unrelated
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to AI, and the list goes on. This is not
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just AI, this is consolidation. This is the global media monopoly,
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the information monopoly of the billionaires, and we need to
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do everything in our power to stop it and slow
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it down. All right, we're back to our candidates when
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we come forward on KBLA Talk fifteen eighties. It is indeed,
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and I'm happy to welcome in the incumbent for Council
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District one. She's a community organizer, daughter of Mexican immigrants,
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and a council member currently for La CD one. A
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lifelong resident of District one, She's dedicated her career to,
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she says, creating systemic change that addresses the needs of
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her community. Council Member Alyssis Hernandez welcome.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Good morning, Dominique, Good morning. So it seems like you
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got about a lot of people trying to take your
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spot to sit in CD one. What do you attribute
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that to? What does that mean?
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I attribute that to a couple of things. One that
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I haven't bent the knee to special interests, corporations, lobbyists
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that want access to city Hall. And two we've been effective,
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you know, I've gotten hundreds of motions passed, millions of
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dollars moved into my community, and it's always to put
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people over profit, and people are mad. And so that's why,
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you know, I have four challengers. That's why I have uh,
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you know, special interest in corporations putting in hundreds of
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thousands of dollars in dark money to take me out
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because I'm not I'm not answering their banking call.
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And you, I mean, your victory was a surprise to
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the kind of political establishment of Los Angeles. You're very young,
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very progressive. Has it lift up to your own expectations,
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because you know, from my many years on this MIC,
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I see progressives getting into elected office, and it's not
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always what they think it's going to be.
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You know, it's definitely different. But I've always been fighting
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for my community, advocating for my community, and now it's
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just doing it inside a city hall and trying to
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persuade my colleagues to make better decisions, make better investments.
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And it's you know, it's been difficult, but we've taken
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the time to build relationships, build the community relationships that
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we need for folks to come out to city hall
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to help us advocate for the issues that they want
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to see. And that's been the labor that we've invested
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heavily in because it can't just be one person calling
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for you know, rank caps for our RSO units. It
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needs to be a movement. And that's what I've been
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trying to also do, is bring the movement into the building.
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Bring the movement into the building. It seems like that
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is happening to an extent that our city Council has
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a progressive block, which is something we never had before.
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How do you view that.
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We do have a progressive block? And I view it
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as the thing that is giving me hope to continue
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in this fight. Our work, especially when you're going against
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the grain, when you're putting people over profit, feels like
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you're putting up pushing up a two ton rock up
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a slippery slope. And so the more hands on that rock,
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the better. And in this time that we've been in office,
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like I mentioned, we were able to cap the rent
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for our shows at four percent, which hadn't been done
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in forty years. We are working on stopping pretextual stops.
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We are working to establish a citywide permanent unarmed crisis
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Response team and that is because of our work, and
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more people are on the way, and I feel Los
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Angeles going to finally start again meeting its commis that's
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given to our community members, that you can work here,
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you can afford to live here and grow your family here.
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What are you proudest of a council member and that
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you've been able to accomplish so far? I mean, I
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know you had a long list of things you envision.
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What are you proudest of actually getting done?
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The thing I'm proud of most of all is that
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I lead the Cities on Armed Crisis Response, Prevention and
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Intervention at Hot Committee with my colleague Bob Bloomenfield. And
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I was doing this work even before I came into office,
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trying to build out alternatives to incarcerations, alternate types of
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crisis response because in my work I met many families
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who had their loved ones killed by the Sheriff's department.
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They had called for help, the loved one was a
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mental health crisis, and instead of getting the help they need,
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the loved ones were killed. And so this is a
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priority for me to have the city establish its own
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unarmed crisis response program. And I'm happy to say that
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just a couple of months ago, my colleagues approved making
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a pilot program that we started about two years ago
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into a permanent program. This unarmed crisis Response program has
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answered over twenty thousand calls. Less than four percent have
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they needed LAPD backup, So if they needed it, they
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can get it. But I mean four percent of calls
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have they needed it. And when they respond to a call,
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it's thirty five dollars versus when LAPD responds to the
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same call it's eighty five dollars. So we're saving money,
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we're saving lives. And right now they exist in six
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out of twenty one divisions and the goal is to
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take its city wide. But even now with this coverage,
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its response time is about twenty seven minutes, and I
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know that we will be cutting that down as we
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expand city wide. So we're saving live we're saving money,
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and we're doing it for people like to Carl Smith.
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To Carl Smith who was killed by LAPD my second
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month of my first year in office, and he was
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having a mental health crisis in his kitchen and his
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wife called for help and he was killed. And so
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these are the things that I'm trying to prevent and
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I'm happy to say that we will be scaling this
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up citywide. That's my goal. But I'm glad that it
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even exists right now. That's what I'm most proud of.
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Yep. And what are you envisioning that? Like, what if
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what has come out of your work for the city
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as a council member that has created a new core
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of freedom, dream or a new vision that that you
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want to pursue.
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Well, for me, it is it is really about the budget.
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You know, of our budget goes to one department and
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that's LAPD, while every other department and every other service
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struggles to survive. It takes us ten years to fix
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the sidewalk in the city, fifteen years to trim a tree,
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over a year to fix the street light, and all
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of this because we don't invest our tax dollars back
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into our neighborhood. Instead, we're buying like an eighteenth or
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nineteen helicopter for the LAPD. And for me, the biggest
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five for freedom and investment in our communities is making
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sure that our tax dollars come back home so that
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we're actually building up and fixing the quality of your
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life outside of your home. And that's that's what I'm
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most invested in so that you can walk down a
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sidewalk it is well lit, there's not a lot of
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cracks in it, so you don't have to worry about falling,
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That you have the right team respond to your emergency
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call in a right amount of time, that your trees
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are trimmed these this is for me, not only creates jobs,
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but also a list of quality of life and folks.
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And that's my biggest fight. It's always about the money.
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That is more freedom, that is more investment and accessibility
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for my community.
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Yeah, I mean that, and that's you know, that's sometimes
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the rap. I mean. One of your opponents was on
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here talking about you, saying, oh, the progressives don't care
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about the you know, bread and butter issues, the sidewalk
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cracks and street lights. It sounds like you strongly disagree
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with that analysis.
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Absolutely. I disagree. From the moment that I got into
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city Hall, I've been screaming at the top of my lungs,
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we need to invest in fixing our city. I voted
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no on the city budget my first year in office.
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I was the only council member to do so that year.
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Why because we weren't investing in our sidewalks, our trees,
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our trash collection, our street repair. My second year, I
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was one of three council members I voted to know
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for the same exact reason and my advocacy around the budget,
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my advocacy around public works actually landed me to get
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appointed to serve on the Budget and Finance Committee and
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to chair the Public Works Committee. And in my time,
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we are doing the work to reduce the amount of
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time it takes us to fix our street lights. Next
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we're working on sidewalks and curve brams. I love this
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infrastructure conversation because this is really when you can really
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fear your tax dollars coming back home. So people can
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talk what they want to talk. I have the receipts,
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it's on YouTube, we have the motions. Public infrastructure is
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one of my top priorities, and that's why I share
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public works.
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I mean, and it is interesting I didn't because I was,
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you know, part of the people's budget. I peeped out
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that the Budget and Finance Committee is not a progressive stronghold.
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To put it mildly, I think you're probably the only
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progressive on that committee.
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Yes, one hundred percent. I am the only one and
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I am. I'm the youngest one, but I had to
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do a lot of work to build up my credibility
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and my expertise and for my colleagues to really know
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that I know what I'm talking about. I've been working
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on budget advocacy for over a decade at the state level,
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at the county level, continuously fighting for our dollars to
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come back home and for us to be more fiscally responsible.
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So I am on the committee. And when you talk
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about power on the council, you can be a council member,
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a part of the fifteen, but the real power and
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influence lies in these committees that you sit on that
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actually get to dictate the policies that move forward.
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Yeah, what about housing costs? It's not unique to CD one,
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but it's an LA problem. What do you I'm not
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just talking about the n house. I'm talking about regular renters.
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Yes, housing is out of reach for a lot of people.
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And I'm talking even homes and even apartment buildings. We
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have in my district. I have Peco Union, you have
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like three generations of people living in a one bedroom
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apartment building. So housing scarcity, housing cause I see it
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every day. And what I've been moving is to build
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as much deeply affordable housing as possible in any development
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that comes to my district, but also moving models that
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decommodify housing or for example, social housing, especially for our seniors.
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I was a part of a delegation I went to
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go study Vienna and the social housing model, and we
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have a measure Measure u l A that is part
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of the funding stream of that is to go to
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build innovative housing models. I have two parking lots in
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my district that are doing absolutely nothing for our community.
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My goal in this next term is to leverage Measure
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u LA dollars to build decommodified housing for our seniors
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on those lots. And so that that's what means that, yes,
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at every moment we find for the deepest affordability and
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the highest number of affordability units, but we also need
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to move models that are going to allow for our
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folks to also be able to afford to live here,
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our seniors, some of our vulnerable families. So I'm pushing
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pushing both. But we do need to build, but we
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just need to be strategic and surgical about it.
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Alnisa sannandas we just got a minute here tell us
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where to find you and your your elevator pitch why
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we should keep you in CD one.
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Thank you. Yes, you can find me on Instagram, Facebook,
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all the apps at Alnissa sh and all the receipts
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are there if you want them. You know from the
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moment that I have been working I started my career,
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I've been advocating for my community and fighting for justice
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for our most vulnerable community members, our seniors, are working families,
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young people, immigrants. My votes, my track record of voting,
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the motions that I've put forward have been very clear
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that my work is to put people over profit and
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to make the city government work better for our communities,
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including having our tax dollars come back home. I will
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continue that fight, and I want people to look how
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I have people been responding to a moment of crises.
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When the fires came up me and my district, we
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organized donations. We stepped up for families. During the AGRATIONI rates,
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we have been some of the leaders on that. I
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have co authored the Sanctuary City Ordinance and will continue
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to fight for those communities. When it comes to pretectual stops,
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I've been supporting the council president and helping move those
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that legislation forward, because for me, it's about making sure
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the most vulnerable communities get what they input into the city,
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whether it's the services, support or just even access to
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the government. And I will continue to be that fighter
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because that's why I ran to put people over Pufflin,
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to put my communities to have a voice at the table,
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not just for them to be on the menu.
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Elnissa's Ananda's council member. Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much, Dominique. I appreciate you. Have a
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great day.
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Absolutely, we continue our election information. This is the station
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Kabla Talk fifteen eighty. Yes, it is an exciting time,
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election time when we get to meet and re meet
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people who are running for office. And we have one
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such a woman sitting with me in the studio. She's
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running for Superior Court seat number sixty four. She's currently
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in La County. Public defender Rhonda Hayman, Good morning, good morning.
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How are you, I should say, Attorney Ronda Hayman. I'm blessed.
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You've got twenty six years of experience as a deputy
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public defender, three years with Orange County, twenty three years
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with La County. Why are you stepping up looking to
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go to the bench as a judge.
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I am going to go to the bench and have
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this quest because for twenty six years, I've met people
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at their most vulnerable moments. I've handled thousands of cases
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and I've seen injustices. The voters have enacted and voted
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for laws that speak towards restorative justice, like mental health treatment,
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rehabilitative services, and they want people to transition back to
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the community more valuable, more whole, and it has been
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hard to get the courts to progress. There's a stagnation.
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And with regard to diversity on.
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The bench, yeah, we see more public defenders, we see
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more women, and we see more black people running and
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winning these seats. What do you attribute that trend to?
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The voters want change and we're becoming more aware of
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the justice system and the imbalances and they want to
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repair the balance. The imbalance.
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Yeah, I mean you've done over one hundred jury trials.
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Is that important for a judge?
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It's highly important because within those emotional intelligence it's very important.
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And going back to being a deputy public defender, I've
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seen people charged, I've read the police reports. I know
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that my clients are impowers and cannot afford their own attorney,
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and I remain neutral, no judgment, So there's that impartiality.
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We have the Lady of Justice and she wears a blindfold,
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which speaks to the impartiality that the court has to have.
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And when you are a trial lawyer, you have to
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communicate that to the jurors and how they have to
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remain neutral and not past judgment prior to the evidence
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being entered. And so you need that trial experience for
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the emotional intelligence. It also indicates your mastery of the law.
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And I've been very successful with getting the jurors to
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see and come to terms with the fact that some
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people are charged in their innocent and when you're up
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against the government and no one in the courtroom.
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Looks like you.
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That's why we need that diversity, because it brings to
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the eye a level of fairness and equity.
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You also worked in the drug court. How do you
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think that informed would inform your work as a judge.
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Well, in the drug court, it's a very unique program.
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It's a highly successful program, and what it does is
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it allows you to get to know the person appearing
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before you. So your program, there's a graduation so you
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invest in that person with regard to rehabilitation. Throughout the
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course of the year, they come in to sometimes twice
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a week, and they're in contact with the court, and
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that allows you to use the resources that the court
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has available to tap into the person, invest celebrate them
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upon changing their life towards rehabilitation, and then you have
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a person transitioning back into the community, viable and the
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community is safer.
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The Law Enforcement Accountability and Integrity Unit this is where
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you consulted with attorneys on cases involving allegations of police misconduct.
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What did you learn there that you might bring to
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the bench.
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The policy of how we can be transparent and how
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sometimes there is misconduct and that it needs to be
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addressed because there's an absence of that there's some form
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of a favoritism because we want to believe that, you know,
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law enforcements correct, but they make mistakes, they make bad calls,
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and we need judges who are willing to call that
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out and not go with the status quo. Why do
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you want to be a judge because I know that
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I'm going to make a difference. Throughout my twenty six
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years as a deputy public defender, I've had a chance
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to master the law. I teach the law at Southwestern
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Law School, and one of the things that is very
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important is that the spirit of the law as well,
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and I'm going to actually follow the law, take action,
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not remain stagnant, move towards progress where we want to
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see our courts going so that we have more valuable
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people coming back to our community. And then that investment
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in the person makes the person more whole, and it
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absolutely contributes to a community in which we have a
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safer perspective. And I live in this community. This is
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Los Angeles County, is where I live. I went away
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to school with an eye towards coming back to help
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my community, and serving on the bench is how I
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can do it, and I can do it well.
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We hear a lot about this idea of judicial temperament,
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and I feel like, you know, yeah, the chuckle as
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black women. Maybe there's a stereotype that we don't have
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judicial temperament. Ever, I'm sure Katanji Brown Jackson begs to differ.
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How do you push back on that or would.
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You I push back on that in the sense that
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I remain myself and some of the best judges that
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I have appeared before, have been black women. The way
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in which there's a connection with the court and the
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people who come in there, there's a essence that reeks
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I want to respect this person, and it's not a
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loud and you know, we all there are all stereotypes
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that don't buy into the truth of who we are.
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And as it speaks to me, I'm strong and throughout
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these years have gained the experience and sometimes you can
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speak without speaking, and I will have the respect of
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people coming into the court because I'm attached to the
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community and the core of people, and that's what's made
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me successful as a deputy public defender, and I will
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use that same core value on the bench.
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You went to Tuskegee, You got your bachelor's science from
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Tuskegee or j d from Willamette College of Law. Tell
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me the alumni piece of this. You know, what do
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you bring from your educational experience?
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Well, it gave me a broad perspective going from Alabama
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to Oregon.
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It gave me.
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It gave me the opportunity to meet people of a
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diverse background and experience and I'm accustomed to that. So
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when you have that in the courtroom, it allows you
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to have that extra connection with people to understand them,
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because that's the epitome of fairness. A judge needs to
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be fair, and it doesn't mean treating everyone the same.
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It means looking at that person and understanding that person
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and saying, I've assessed the situation. How can I make
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a difference in this case. It's a case by case basis,
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and sometimes they take a cookie cutter approach, but that
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experience tells me that no such thing as being effective
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and cookie cutter. It has to be individualized, strong and progressive.
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Yeah, and your bio says your philosophy is grounded in fairness, integrity,
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and a commitment to healing, transformation and progress. Does that
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mean alternatives to incarceration? Does that mean care first? How
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would you put it in the context of our city
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and county kind of philosophies? I know it's La County
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Superior Court judge, How would you place that in that framework?
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So what it means is case by case basis, and
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it means what the voters have been asking for and
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what can work, and that is restorative, giving people the
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services that they need when they come before the court,
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that they're not broken when they leave that they're strengthened.
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The focus cannot be just on punishment because they come
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back to the community that they have less resources. Then
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that contributes to more crime. It's not a justification, but
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we have to give people the tools that they need
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and sustain them when they come back into the community
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so that people are more whole and the society wins.
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That's the reality of it, and that's why it's important
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to have a judge in the community, who lives in
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the community, who cares about the community, because they're going
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to make sure they're invested in the community for growth
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and prosperity and transformation. This world that we're living in
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right now, I mean, let's just look at what's been happening.
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We are in need of a healing, and it starts
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with the courtroom and investment in people and taking an
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individualized approach. That's the epitome of the definition of fairness.
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It's funny they talk about judicial temperament, but when I'm
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talking to you, I think they should also have another
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measure that's important for judges, which is common sense.
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Yes, you have to have that on the bench because
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that's the sense of going outside of being cookie cutter
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and taking that common sense and then having mastered the
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law for these twenty six years, and I can go
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in any courtroom because being a criminal defense attorney a
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lot civil law, family law, even what they call is
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landlord that type of law it spills into criminal law.
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So you get to know that broad perspective of law
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and you place that with your common sense, and that
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is the golden ticket to starting that transformation. Because people
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want change and that's why they're going outside of their
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homes to vote, and we need to make it happen
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in the courtroom. And that can happen with me because
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I've been doing it as a deputy public defender. I
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was doing restorative measures before it had an actual name.
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Tell us your website how to find out more about you?
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Yes, so you can find me at www dot Randa
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Hayman number four judge dot com. And I have social
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media at Randa Hayman number four.
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Judge Ronda Hayman for number four Judge. Yes, Okay, a
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minute here, you're closing argument. Why we should vote Randa Hayman,
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Seat number sixty four, LA County Superior Court Judge.
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There are two very important days in your life. The
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day you are born, in the day you know why,
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and I know why.
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This was my purpose.
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For twenty six years, I've been in the courtroom on
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the front lines of justice, being there for people. And
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I am constitutionally required by law to be a safeguard
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and a person who watches people in the courtroom, all
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the parties and make sure they do their and have
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done their job. And that's what I am going to
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do on the bench, is what I've done for twenty
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six years. I'm going to take my experience the rule
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of the law, and I'm going to help our community
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heal with regard to swift action and being progressive towards
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change for our community. I'm rooted in the community and
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for the people of Los Angeles County. If you want
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to judge who has an eye towards progression and investment
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in people first, and that encompasses even victims of crimes.
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I am rewindered justice for all. It has no faith
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or name. And that's a vote for Ronda Hayman for
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Los Angeles County Superior Court Seat number sixty four. Let
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the healing.
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Begin, Attorney Ronda Hayman, Thank you so much. Rnda Hayman.
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Number four Judgerondahmanford Judge dot Com. Appreciate your time, Thank you.
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Next up, we'll have a candidate running for mayor of
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the city of Los Angeles. Is a busy day around here.
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