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Okay, So yesterday it was a terrible, terrible anniversary. It
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was the anniversary of that massacre at the Tops Market
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where this teenager, whose name I'm not going to say
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because I don't want to make it more famous, a
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white teenager went into a store with a semi animatic
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rifle and shot thirteen people, ten of them died. He
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was a white supremacist. And this is one of the
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rare cases where we actually hear mainstream media using the
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term racist. They like to pretend, they like to say
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racially charged and other things, even if it's a KKK
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member hanging a person from a tree. For some reason,
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they just don't like to say the R word racist.
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But this is one of those times when they do
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say it. And I was happy to see all of
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the commemorations and marcations of that day, not because you know,
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I want to lean into and wallow in sadness, but
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because I think it's important not to normalize white supremacist violence.
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And the FBI has said repeatedly and two reports.
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There might be a third one I can't remember, but
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I know at.
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Least two reports that say from the FBI that our
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main threat domestically here in the United States, our main
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security threat national security threat is domestic terror, and that
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domestic terror takes the form of white supremacists, the philosophy
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of white supremacists, the delusion of white supremacy terrorism. Okay,
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like what we saw at Charlottesville, like what we saw
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at Mother Emmanuel, like what we saw at the Tops Market,
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like what we saw at the US Capital, which with
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you know, the president pardoning all those folks from the
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January sixth insurrections, lash coup attempt, there is a real
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danger of the normalization of this kind of violence. I
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was happy to see the Tops Market had a special
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ceremony of remembrance. They've created what they call an honor
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space at the store in honor of those ten lives
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that were taken, and they they did a ceremony there
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for family and members of the victims to remember their
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loved ones. They had blessings, they had tributes from local
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and state officials, and they recited the names of those
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who were murdered. That is important. And then they had
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a moment of silence at two twenty eight and tolling
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of the bells closing him. Amazing grace. I love that
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so much because it doesn't normalize it's it says this
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is not okay, and we are going to keep these
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people in our prayers and remembrance. It's that market has
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been open since not too long after the massacre, but
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there's still a lot of people that are too traumatized
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to even go in there. And one of the things
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that I was reading about that I thought was really
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touching is there is a community based organization called Fathers
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in Buffalo.
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That is.
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Shopping for people that can that are because there's apparently
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there's not a lot of other grocery stores. It's one
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of those food desert areas like many black communities in
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the urban core of this country, and they are going
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in and shopping for people who are too traumatized to
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go back into that market. I know Black Lives Matter
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Grassroots has been doing work there. They're one of the
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things that happened as a result of that terrible, terrible
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tragedy and the organizing in its app mouth where Black
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Lives Matter Grassroots was out there working with the families,
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working with community local community based organizations to make sure
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that those families got the support that they needed and
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the advocacy that they needed. One of the things that
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came out of that is a chapter, a buffalo chapter
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of Black Lives Matter, which Grassroots, which now has thirty
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nine chapters, and I think there's a bunch more that
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are about to come on board, so it will be
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close to fifty before the year is out, which is
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powerful because that means there are now more Black Lives
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Matter Grassroots chapters than there have ever been. Even in
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twenty twenty, when everyone was out marching, there weren't as
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many chapters, which means that even though you don't see
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the people marching on the streets and the big numbers,
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they are marching, but not in the huge numbers they
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were in twenty twenty. And even though we see the
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erasure of Black history, the attempted erasure, it's not going
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to work, and the attempt at erasure of DEI, it's
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not going to work either. We're going to find a
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way in because your businesses and schools are worse without us,
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they're less profitable without us, they're less exciting, less fun,
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less interesting, and less effective without us. So it's not
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going to work. But despite the fact that they're trying
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to do this, the local organizing quietly continues and there's
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more and more chapters of Black Lives Matter Grassroots coming
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online every single day. That should be a sign of encouragement.
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It means that no matter what's coming out of the
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White House, there are people who are ready to protests,
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and not just protests, move public policy bills.
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And laws.
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And stop outrageous incringements impositions on our rights. Okay, So
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in the context of this tragic anniversary, I think it's
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also important to look at what's come out of that
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community organizing, the forced acknowledgment of the fact that this
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is a problem. No matter what this administration says, no
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matter how much it wants to shut down the well,
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it is shutting down the civil rights enforcement within the
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Department of Justice. So the response to a tops market,
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if something like that were to happen today, would be
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wildly different under this Republican administration. But nevertheless, it's still
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going to happen on the ground.
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The people.
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Are still holding elected officials and white supremacists racists accountable. Yeah,
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it's wild west out there, but I maintain and I
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still believe that we win. But what that means we
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have to stay encouraged, stay plugged in. Not every second
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you need news fasts. You need fun breaks, but we
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have to stay encouraged, stay plugged in, and we win.
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Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty is the number
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to call if you have something you would like to
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talk about. Attorney Riva Martin is going to join me
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next hour and we can get some answers about what's
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going on with Tory Lane Diddy, the birthright citizenship case
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which is now being heard by the US Supreme Court.
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And if you think it doesn't have implications for you
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as a Black American, I got two words for you,
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dread Scott. So, yeah, we're gonna we got a lot
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to cover this this show today, whatever else is top
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of mind for you. They arrested one of the founders
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of Ben and Jerry's that and more when we come
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forward on KBLA Talk fifteen to eighty. Yeah, trying to
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monitor what's happening everywhere, but of course, you know, I
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especially have my eye on Newark, New Jersey today because
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my brother Mayor raz Jay Baraka will go into federal
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court and we're going to find out what they're going
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to do for the ridiculous Trump dup charge Trump dup
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charge pun intended of federal trespassing and whether they're going
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to try to jail him for the rest of this election,
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which feels very unconstitutional and shady, and we will find
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out today this is wild. Reverend Sharpton is convening a
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prayer call for my brother tomorrow on Zoom from five
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to five thirty. If you want to go to that.
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It's on rasjay Baraka on Instagram. I guess they're praying
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for the honorable Mayor Ras Jay Baraka and for immigrants.
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They're praying five o'clock tomorrow, and I guess, well, for sure,
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by then we'll know what this federal judge is saying.
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But one of the things I love is that my
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brother is busy running the city, so he doesn't have
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as much posted as one would think. I guess that
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means I have to do it about the case. And
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I understand that he's not going to spend all of
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his time on this case when you know, when he
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has a city to run. I understand that, I get it,
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but just you know, the whole thing makes me very nervous,
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very very very nervous. Thursday May fifteenth, it's actually happening
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right now at US District Court fifty Walnut Street in Newark,
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New Jersey.
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Woo. Yeah, I just I just don't like it.
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But well, I'll keep you posted. As I get info,
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i will share it with you. So, this new tax
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bill from the Republicans will add two point five trillion
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to the US deficit according to legislative analysts. Two point
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five trillion over the next ten years. That's nonpartisan estimates,
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and budget experts are saying this, and that is creating
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more controversy. Hopefully it will stop this stupid.
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Thing, which is.
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Defunding homeless programs, defunding healthcare for older Americans, Medicaid, defunding
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the Social Security offices, while funding the border fight.
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It's all about the border.
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And giving away what I call party favors to rich people,
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which is the extension of those tax cuts. Yeah, we
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already have a thirty six trillion dollar deficit, and even
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Speaker Mike Johnson is going to have to face some
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pushback because they're either going to have to give up
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some of these tax cuts or cut even more from
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the poor and the children, the older Americans. This thing
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is still a work in progress, but they're giving away
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three point eight trillion in tax cuts over that same
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decade to the very wealthy. So the tax cuts are
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bigger than what they're adding to the deficits. All you
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have to do is get rid of the tax cuts
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and you would be able to decrease.
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The deficit by a trillion dollars.
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So what you're telling us, the American people is that
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we need to give the rich a trillion dollars and
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put our country in debt to do so. Wow, that's
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just I'm hoping that dumb stuff like this, right, this
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tax bill and how much it's going to put us
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further in debt, along with a four hundred million dollar
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free plane, I'm hoping that this is going to push
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some of these Republicans over the edge.
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Although I feel like I've been.
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Saying that since before the election, and so far it
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hasn't panned out really well for me. So we'll follow
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it well, keep you posted, But I you know, my
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hopes and dreams on that I'm not really confident about.
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Supreme Court was going to be considering birthright citizens. This
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is a huge deal. We talked about it on the
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campaign trail. I think a lot of people did not
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believe it was really going to happen. But here we
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are Supreme Court will hear arguments today as the Trump
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administration tries to end the Republican Party tries to end
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birthright citizenship, meaning that you would no longer be a
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citizen just because you were born here. I guess they'll
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come up without whatever criteria they want to come up with.
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And we know that the Trump administration has already said
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you can tell which immigrants are good and which ones
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aren't just by looking at them. That's the sort of
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a paper bag test for immigrants.
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It is going to.
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Even though it's according to CNN it's not officially a
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ruling on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship. It's going to
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ask this very conservative, extremist Supreme Court to deny passports
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and other official documents to babies who were born in
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this country but their parents are not citizens. And he's
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hoping that he gets a green light from the justices
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to pretty much stop the courts from pausing his policies.
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In other words, these courts that are able to put
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a pause on Trump policies until they're ruled on by
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the Supreme Court, they're trying to stop that so they
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can do whatever they want while waiting for the Supreme
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Court to rule on something. So this is really serious.
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The implications are many, and I'm looking forward to talking
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with Attorney Arriva Martin next hour about that. The twelve
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kinds of crazy going on with Tory Lanes, the rap
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artist who was stabbed fourteen times in prison, and now
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all these twists and turns in his case, including a
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bodyguard singing like a canary. What that's really going to
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mean to the case. And why does it take someone
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getting stabbed fourteen times for this conversation to happen? Right now,
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there's supposed to be peace talks in Turkey about Ukraine.
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Right now? Remember Ukraine?
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Remember Ukraine, the place we send all the billions of
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dollars to, Remember Ukraine where Russia aggressively just dissed their sovereignty,
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just rolled all over their sovereignty and went in there. Well,
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there's supposed to be peace talks today.
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In Turkey, but.
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President Putin sent some underlings to meet with presidents of Linz,
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and now Zelenski's mad the Krumlin saying Putin won't go
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and this is uh not a good sign for the
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piece that we were supposed to have on day one.
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According to the current president. But now Trump is kind
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of covering up for Putin in a way, I think,
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because he says there'll be no progress towards peace in
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Ukraine until he meets with Putin. Because I guess to me,
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that's his way of making it seem like I meant
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to do that. Of course there's no progress. Uh, it's
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all dependent on me and Putin. But you're not the
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president of Ukraine, I mean, Russian need shouldn't they meet
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with the people they're invading and attacking and trying to
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take their land in territory? I know you think it's
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probably Trump, Gaza, Trump, Ukraine, Trump, everything. But shouldn't the
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sovereign leaders be in those meetings? Unprecedented? Unprecedented, unprecedented. There
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I said it. I'm getting tired of saying it. One
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of the founders of Ben and Jerry's ice Cream, the
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Ben guy.
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There's a Ben and there's a Jerry. This guy's name
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is Ben Cohen.
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He was arrested yesterday in Washington, d C. Because they
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say he allegedly interrupted a Senate committee hearing about our
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funding for Israel's military. He's a seventy four year old.
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He was one of the protesters that went into a
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Senate Health Committee meeting while RFK Junior was promoting the
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Trump budget for next year, and they protesters were in
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there shouting and holding up signs, and they arrested the
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ice cream man. He's this is what he posted on
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social media. He said, I said that Congress is paying
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to bomb poor kids in Gaza and paying for it
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by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. He's
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also calling on lawmakers to get more aid into Gaza,
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where there is a lot of people starving as the
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net Yahoo government continues to blockade aid from getting in there.
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The food is there, the international will is there. Mister
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Cohen says they need to let the food in to
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those starving children. He was charged with crowding, obstructing, or
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incommoding the Capitol police. That's a misdemeanor. He could be
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facing ninety days in prison and a five hundred dollars
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fine if he's convicted. Six other people were arrested along
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with him. You know, for the folk that say nothing's
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happening and there is no resistance, the resistance is everywhere.
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I just don't think it's getting reported on the way
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it used to be mainstream media has learned their lesson
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forensic accountant says, if I were Zelenski, I wouldn't go.
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It feels like a major setup, right, It is a
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major setup. Putin doesn't show up, He sends some underlings,
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and then Trump says, oh, well, well, it's all up
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to me in. Putin like, we're going to talk about
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you and continue to make deals about you and your
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country without you even being there. Who would agree to that?
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But it is what it is. The Environmental Protection Agency
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or what's left of it, has announced that they will
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allow more of those pfas into the water, into our
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drinking water. This is something that was restricted under the
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Biden administration, and the pfas they call them forever chemicals
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I can't pronounce perfluorohicals and polyfloricals substances. These are chemicals
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that increase the risk of heart disease, cancers, babies being
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born with low birth rates. And these are also those
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chemicals that are suspected in possibly changing the DNA of
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babies could lead to changes in their the way their
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gender markers show up. I guess I'm saying that wrong.
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I know I'm saying it wrong, but they're found, they're
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found in the water, they're found in some of our products,
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cleaning products, beauty and health products, and they were restricted
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under the Biden administration. For some reason, the Trump administration
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wants to bring them back. News, Traffic, and Sports. Then
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call me KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. You're listening to this.
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We're listening to you. Eight hundred and nine two oh,
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fifteen eighty. If you want to be listened to, I'm
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happy to do so. Always love to.
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Hear from you.
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Forensic accountant says he's concerned about Zelenski. He may be
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engraved danger. No putin, no Trump beyond fishy uh. Paul
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Lie says this country already got the mineral deal they wanted.
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I haven't read that deal. Does that mean that they
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can just take the minerals and the land? I don't know,
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but you're right, it's not a good look. I was
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talking about those forever chemicals in the water. That's really
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serious because they we don't know how to clean them
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out of the water. We don't know how to we
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don't know how to get them out of our bodies.
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The body doesn't know what to do with them. So
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why would you want to put more of them in
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the drinking water, allowing what the EPA administrator Lee Zelden,
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the MAGA guy, is calling common sense flexibility in terms
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of additional time for compliance. Let yeah, you know, additional
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time for compliance at the expense of our health, not
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just our health, but particularly the health of our babies.
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Insane, insane? Insane? And where is RFK? Mister?
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I take on big pharma, I take on you know,
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the corporate polluters for those of you, because I have
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some friends that felt like that felt like maybe because
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RFK is an anti vaxxer, he would support some policies
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that are good for us in the form of, you know,
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banning certain chemicals or pushing back allowing more latitude with
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vitamins and the like. So where is he right now?
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Shouldn't he be in Trump's ears saying you know, these
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pfas or problem.
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From a holistic health.
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Standpoint, I wanted to talk a little bit about Rodney Hinton,
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the dad whose child was killed by law enforcement and
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then is now accused of striking a deputy's car and
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killing him. The dads He's pleaded not guilty.
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His name is Rodney Hidton.
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He's pleaded not guilty in that case, and there was
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a go Fundme for him.
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And you know how when when.
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Cops kill kids, there's usually or black people, there's usually
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a GoFundMe for the cop Derek Chauvin had. When a
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lot of them have them, they make millions. Just like
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the lady who called a little five year old the
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N word. She's got almost a million. She might be
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up to a million by now. On these go fundme pages,
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and go fund Me seems to be fine with it,
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but the they were not fine with they go fundme
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for Rodney Hinton. So there was one that was started
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and Go Fundme took it down saying it violated their
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terms of service. I guess because he's an alleged murderer,
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but so was Derek Chauvin, and you'd have a problem
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with that anyway.
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They moved it.
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It's on something called GiveSendGo dot com slash Rodney Hinton's
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family give Send Go and people are donating. It's not
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millions like Derek Chauvin has. A last time I looked,
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it was thirty one thousand. There's a contact or a
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link to it on BLM Grassroots, on Instagram, or you
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can go to the side itself, give Send Go.
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They're trying to.
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Raise fifty thousand, they've got thirty. Anyway, they are still
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looking for support for this guy, and you know, he's
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being painted as a criminal and a hero, depending on
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which side of that divide you're on. And of course
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I don't think it's okay to kill anyone, but I
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understand why people are supporting this man. Cops murdered his son,
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his eighteen year old boy. Clearly he is and was
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in a lot of agony, and a lot of us
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are tired of law enforcement murdering our children, our husbands,
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our boyfriends. In another strange development, there is some woman
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who filed a lawsuit, in.
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A civil suit.
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On behalf of this guy, and it turns out they
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don't even know him. According to Hinton's lawyers, she never
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talked to him. They don't know him, they don't know her.
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She just took it upon herself to file a civil
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lawsuit on their beat. I don't understand how that.
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Works, but that's it's crazy.
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But in any case, there is Okay, there's another one. Yeah,
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the GoFundMe was up to seventy thousand, but they took
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that one down go fund me took it down, but
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BLM Grassroots also has an address for him. People are
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writing to him at the Claremont County Jail in Ohio
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where he's being held, and they have instructions for how
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to write to him because some folks are feeling like
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this man deserves comfort and support after the murder of
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his son. Of course, he's pleaded not guilty to the
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charge of killing a cop with his car. Let's go
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to Larry calling us from DC. Good morning, Larry, Hello, Hi,
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what's on your mind?
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This isn't Dominiquejabrima, It isn't. Well, i'm watching the show live.
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Oh, well, you might have a little lag. Sometimes there's
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a little delay. Oh you're saying you're watching and it
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doesn't look like me, or that you don't hear yourself yet.
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Well, i'm watching and you're not on the phone with
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a caller.
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Well, you might have a little lag, and don't worry.
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We'll be on the phone with the caller momentarily. Sometimes
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there's a lag between YouTube and you. It's definitely me, babe,
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don't worry. Look you want me to cuss you out
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and then you'll know for sure it's me. You want
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me to give you the signature Dominique Tabreema cuss out
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and you'll be like, oh, that's.
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Her, right right, Well, listen, did you just said take
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a call from Larry. I didn't want to say too much.
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I just wanted to say hello, I'm an East Coast listener.
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Okay, Well, are you letting people on the East Coast
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know about us? Telling them to get our app for
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free on the App Store the Google play Store?
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You know, because.
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We're black owned and operated, we don't have huge marketing budget,
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and we have been saved by people the hood, Grapevine,
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people telling their friends. That's what's making us thrive even
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in this crazy era that.
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We're in, right right, I can dig it.
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How did you find out about us? Larry?
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You popped up on YouTube and I tuned in. It
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was nine am, and and I had to the face
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was calling me.
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Okay, go YouTube. YouTube showed us some love that day.
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They certainly did. And now I'm hearing the lag I
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ain't hearing our previous conversation.
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Yeah, technology is great, but it's not perfect. So I'm sorry,
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go ahead.
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Oh no, no worries. Yeah, I just wanted to check
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in and say hello, you're doing a great job over there.
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Oh, thank you. I appreciate that so much. And I
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love hearing from people wherever you are, from East coast,
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west coast, other countries. Love that they're saluting you in
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the chat. I don't know if you've been in on
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the YouTube. They're in the conversation, in the comments, they're
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shouting you out. So welcome to the delegation. You are
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now officially part of the KBLA delegation.
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Larry, thank you, thank you.
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Yes, appreciate the love. That's funny he was going to
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verify if I was really Dominie. I don't blame him.
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We're in some Shenanigan times, right. I could be Laura
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Lumer disguising myself as Toni, as Dominique de Prima, but
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it's not.
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It's me And you can do like Larry.
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You can call eight hundred nine two fifteen eighty eight
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hundred and nine two fifty eight. If you've got something
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to say, say it here. We don't censor and we
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are not scared. We're unapologetically outspoken, unapologetically progressive.
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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty.
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Okay, okay, So the Maryland governor or Wes Moore signed
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a bunch of things yesterday, but I did not see
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reparations yet on that signature list. We're obviously tracking it.
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We'll talk more about it tomorrow with our Friedman Friday conversation.
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Jay French will be on, So that should be quite
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spirited for those of you who've been arguing with him
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since the last time he came on on Instagram. Your
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chance to keep that convo going. He signed a lot
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of things, like I said, But what I didn't realize
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is that in the state of Maryland, if Governor Moore
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does not sign it doesn't mean it couldn't pass into law.
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It could pass into law without his signature. We don't
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have that option in California, but apparently they do in Maryland.
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And if that's the case, why would he sign it,
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because they're going to pillory him for that. I know
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he's on the short list for folks that may be
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considered presidential candidates for DEMS in twenty twenty eight.
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His star is rising.
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He's been doing an incredible job there as governor of Maryland,
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the only sitting black governor at the time at the moment.
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Hopefully that will change.
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When my brother Ras wins the primary June tenth, and
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then goes on to win in the general election. We'd
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have two black governors, one of New Jersey, but right
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now in one of Maryland. Right now is only Maryland,
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and he is his star is rising in the Democratic Party.
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He's competent, he's good on the mic, and so perhaps
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he's being advised not to sign this reparation's bill. I
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wouldn't blame him. If he didn't, they will use it
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to take him down. I thought it was very bold
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that Kamala Harris said that she did support reparations on
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the campaign trail, even though she never really got credit
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for that. People tried to say she didn't, but in
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fact she did. She introduced that HR forty, the version
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of it, in the Senate when she was a senator,
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and on the campaign trail she said she supported study,
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which is what all HR forty is, which is more
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than any other Democratic presidential candidate has ever done, and
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she still hasn't gotten credit for that.
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So I'm gonna say it.
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In any case, we're tracking it. We'll see if more
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goes ahead and sciences my predictions he won't, but I'm
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hoping that it will still pass into law, because while there,
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you know, the city of Baltimore has a has a commission,
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the state of Maryland does not. And as Achille pointed
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out last Friedman Friday, we're now at one hundred states, counties,
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cities with reparations commissions, one hundred, which is a huge
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jump over the past few years since the California Task
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Force was seeded. And it's just another indication of momentum
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around that particular issue. If you missed any of our shows,
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including our Friedman Friday series, which is the second hour
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our seven am Pacific Standard time every Friday, they are
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all up on YouTube and you can go and watch
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and listen. You can find them wherever you get your podcasts.
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All my shows are there, Spotify, Apple Music, wherever you
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get your podcasts. So there is that apparently, as the
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anniversary of the murder of George Floyd approaches and there
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will be commemorations, protests, marches, artistic presentations, letter writing campaigns,
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moments of silence, candlelight vich all that is happening all
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over the country. It's five years this year since his murder,
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so it's going to be a lot There's going to
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be a lot of conversation. A lot going on, but
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reportedly I'm reading this on beet the rumors that the
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Department of Justice or this MAGA president the new Confederate
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Republican Party may be planning to pardon Derek Chauvin on
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the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Apparently these rumors have
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gotten enough credibility now that Minnesota state and city officials
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are preparing for unrest.
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Tactical alerts are up.
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And Governor Tim Walls along with the mayor there Jacob Frey,
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the mayor of Minneapolis to wanna wit who's the head
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ofpen County Sheriff, they say they've all been briefed on
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contingency plans, even though we don't have confirmation that that
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pardon is going to happen. Officials are saying that because
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of the unpredictable nature of the political climate, i e.
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We have an apparent mad man, an alleged mad man,
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how do I say it, an erratic nut in the
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White House, an alleged erratic nut. I don't want to
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end up like George Stephanopolis whatever. That the erratic nature.
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Of this.
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Administration, they say, political climate. They're really being careful. They
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won't say, because the Maga NU Confederates are completely out
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of control, they are going to prepare anyway, even though
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they have not been notified as far as we know
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that this pardon is in the offing. Derek Shelvin, of course,
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is a guy that murdered George Floyd on camera, as
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captured by a courageous teenager, and he's currently serving a
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twenty one year federal sentence in a Texas prison. Now,
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if Trump pardoned him, or the Trump Department of Justice
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pardoned him, that's a federal sentence, he would still have
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to serve out his state sentence of twenty two years
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in Minnesota. If this Department of Justice pardoned Derek Chauvin,
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he would be transferred to Oak Park Heights Prison, and
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the Minnesota Department of Correction says they are standing at
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the ready to transfer him back to state prison to
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serve the remainder of that twenty two year state sentence.
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So he's not getting out of jail even if Trump
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pardons him. But people are going to be angry, myself included,
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and you couldn't blame them. That's why Minnesota Attorney General
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Keith Ellison has put out a statement saying that Derek
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Chauvin still owes Minnesota twenty two and a half years
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and he's going to do it either in Minnesota or somewhere.
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But he's not getting out.
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Okay.
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It's an important point. It's the reason why they had
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to take down Fannie Willis because Trump could not pardon
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himself for those state charges. Of course, the Supreme Court
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can give him immunity, can be shielded, he can run
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again for office to try to keep himself out of jail,
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out of prison, but a federal charge is the only
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thing that a president has the authority to pardon. He
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cannot pardon state, county, city charges. Can't do it. So
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Chauvin is not getting out of prison. He'll just go
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to a different prison if the Feds make this move.
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Now.
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Trump has denied it, but they denied a lot of things.
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They denied that they knew anything about Project twenty twenty five,
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and yet they seem to.
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Be following it to the letter right now.
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There's a community safety commissioner in Minneapolis named Toddrick Barnett.
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He says there's no credible evidence about a pardon. There's
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no credible evidence that they're expecting widespread protests in Minneapolis. Nevertheless,
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he's warning that they have overhauled their entire emergency preparedness
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and emergency management systems since twenty twenty. He's saying they're
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going to be much more ready than they were in
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twenty twenty, that they learned lessons from that and so
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don't come around here. Basically is the implication planning to
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do anything because we're ready for you. What we do
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know is that even though so far there's no so
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called credible release about a pardon of Derek Chauvin, we
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know from Black Lives Matter Grassroots and the chapter is
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the Minneapolis chapter, of which there are two Black Lives
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Matter Grassroots chapters along with Michael Brown. No, that's wrong,
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not Michael Brown's foundation, just the two chapters there in
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Many Saint Paul, and I can't remember where the other
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chapter is, the Minneapolis chapters. They had a meeting with
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a bunch of different community based organizations because apparently they
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have what they feel is credible information that this pardon
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may happen. So they are also activists on the ground
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or preparing. But what we do know for sure is
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that the Department of Justice is likely preparing to end
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the consent decree over the Minneapolis Police Department, which means
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that they would no longer be held accountable to the
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reforms that came out of the protests of twenty twenty,
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that came out of all of the terrible data that
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we discovered as a result of investigation stemming from the
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murder of George Floyd about the over policing of black
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people in that entire area, the way they were using
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black people, you know, finds and arrests to maintain control
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and fill coffers like they do in many jurisdictions. However,
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the city has said that if the Department of Justice
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petitions and the consent degree over the Minneapolis Police Department,
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the city will challenge that ruling. That they will not
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just fall back and allow the Feds to move forward
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with his Trump agenda, which is zero accountability for all cops,
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zero criminal, civil, or policy accountability for any of these
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police departments. That city is saying, no, not on our watch.
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We're going to try to stop this, but given the
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erratic political environment, we shall have to wait and see.
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I'm Dominique di Prima be joined by Attorney Arriva Martin
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There you go. I love that.
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Okay, So yesterday it was a terrible, terrible anniversary. It
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was the anniversary of that massacre at the Tops Market
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where this teenager, whose name I'm not going to say
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because I don't want to make it more famous, a
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white teenager went into a store with a semi animatic
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rifle and shot thirteen people, ten of them died. He
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was a white supremacist. And this is one of the
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rare cases where we actually hear mainstream media using the
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term racist. They like to pretend, they like to say
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racially charged and other things, even if it's a KKK
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member hanging a person from a tree. For some reason,
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they just don't like to say the R word racist.
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But this is one of those times when they do
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say it. And I was happy to see all of
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the commemorations and marcations of that day, not because you know,
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I want to lean into and wallow in sadness, but
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because I think it's important not to normalize white supremacist violence.
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And the FBI has said repeatedly and two reports.
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There might be a third one I can't remember, but
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I know at.
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Least two reports that say from the FBI that our
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main threat domestically here in the United States, our main
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security threat national security threat is domestic terror, and that
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domestic terror takes the form of white supremacists, the philosophy
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of white supremacists, the delusion of white supremacy terrorism. Okay,
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like what we saw at Charlottesville, like what we saw
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at Mother Emmanuel, like what we saw at the Tops Market,
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like what we saw at the US Capital, which with
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you know, the president pardoning all those folks from the
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January sixth insurrections, lash coup attempt, there is a real
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danger of the normalization of this kind of violence. I
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was happy to see the Tops Market had a special
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ceremony of remembrance. They've created what they call an honor
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space at the store in honor of those ten lives
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that were taken, and they they did a ceremony there
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for family and members of the victims to remember their
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loved ones. They had blessings, they had tributes from local
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and state officials, and they recited the names of those
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who were murdered. That is important. And then they had
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a moment of silence at two twenty eight and tolling
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of the bells closing him. Amazing grace. I love that
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so much because it doesn't normalize it's it says this
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is not okay, and we are going to keep these
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people in our prayers and remembrance. It's that market has
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been open since not too long after the massacre, but
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there's still a lot of people that are too traumatized
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to even go in there. And one of the things
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that I was reading about that I thought was really
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touching is there is a community based organization called Fathers
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in Buffalo.
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That is.
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Shopping for people that can that are because there's apparently
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there's not a lot of other grocery stores. It's one
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of those food desert areas like many black communities in
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the urban core of this country, and they are going
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in and shopping for people who are too traumatized to
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go back into that market. I know Black Lives Matter
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Grassroots has been doing work there. They're one of the
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things that happened as a result of that terrible, terrible
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tragedy and the organizing in its app mouth where Black
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Lives Matter Grassroots was out there working with the families,
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working with community local community based organizations to make sure
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that those families got the support that they needed and
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the advocacy that they needed. One of the things that
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came out of that is a chapter, a buffalo chapter
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of Black Lives Matter, which Grassroots, which now has thirty
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nine chapters, and I think there's a bunch more that
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are about to come on board, so it will be
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close to fifty before the year is out, which is
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powerful because that means there are now more Black Lives
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Matter Grassroots chapters than there have ever been. Even in
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twenty twenty, when everyone was out marching, there weren't as
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many chapters, which means that even though you don't see
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the people marching on the streets and the big numbers,
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they are marching, but not in the huge numbers they
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erasure of Black history, the attempted erasure, it's not going
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to work, and the attempt at erasure of DEI, it's
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not going to work either. We're going to find a
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way in because your businesses and schools are worse without us,
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they're less profitable without us, they're less exciting, less fun,
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less interesting, and less effective without us. So it's not
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going to work. But despite the fact that they're trying
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to do this, the local organizing quietly continues and there's
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more and more chapters of Black Lives Matter Grassroots coming
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online every single day. That should be a sign of encouragement.
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White House, there are people who are ready to protests,
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and not just protests, move public policy bills.
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And stop outrageous incringements impositions on our rights. Okay, So
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in the context of this tragic anniversary, I think it's
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also important to look at what's come out of that
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community organizing, the forced acknowledgment of the fact that this
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is a problem. No matter what this administration says, no
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matter how much it wants to shut down the well,
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it is shutting down the civil rights enforcement within the
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Department of Justice. So the response to a tops market,
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if something like that were to happen today, would be
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wildly different under this Republican administration. But nevertheless, it's still
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going to happen on the ground.
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The people.
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Are still holding elected officials and white supremacists racists accountable. Yeah,
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it's wild west out there, but I maintain and I
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still believe that we win. But what that means we
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have to stay encouraged, stay plugged in. Not every second
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you need news fasts. You need fun breaks, but we
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have to stay encouraged, stay plugged in, and we win.
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Eight hundred nine two oh fifteen eighty is the number
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to call if you have something you would like to
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talk about. Attorney Riva Martin is going to join me
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next hour and we can get some answers about what's
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going on with Tory Lane Diddy, the birthright citizenship case
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which is now being heard by the US Supreme Court.
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And if you think it doesn't have implications for you
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as a Black American, I got two words for you,
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dread Scott. So, yeah, we're gonna we got a lot
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to cover this this show today, whatever else is top
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of mind for you. They arrested one of the founders
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of Ben and Jerry's that and more when we come
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forward on KBLA Talk fifteen to eighty. Yeah, trying to
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monitor what's happening everywhere, but of course, you know, I
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especially have my eye on Newark, New Jersey today because
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my brother Mayor raz Jay Baraka will go into federal
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court and we're going to find out what they're going
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to do for the ridiculous Trump dup charge Trump dup
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charge pun intended of federal trespassing and whether they're going
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to try to jail him for the rest of this election,
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which feels very unconstitutional and shady, and we will find
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out today this is wild. Reverend Sharpton is convening a
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prayer call for my brother tomorrow on Zoom from five
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to five thirty. If you want to go to that.
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It's on rasjay Baraka on Instagram. I guess they're praying
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for the honorable Mayor Ras Jay Baraka and for immigrants.
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They're praying five o'clock tomorrow, and I guess, well, for sure,
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by then we'll know what this federal judge is saying.
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brother is busy running the city, so he doesn't have
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as much posted as one would think. I guess that
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means I have to do it about the case. And
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I understand that he's not going to spend all of
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his time on this case when you know, when he
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has a city to run. I understand that, I get it,
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but just you know, the whole thing makes me very nervous,
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very very very nervous. Thursday May fifteenth, it's actually happening
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right now at US District Court fifty Walnut Street in Newark,
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New Jersey.
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Woo. Yeah, I just I just don't like it.
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But well, I'll keep you posted. As I get info,
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i will share it with you. So, this new tax
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bill from the Republicans will add two point five trillion
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to the US deficit according to legislative analysts. Two point
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five trillion over the next ten years. That's nonpartisan estimates,
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and budget experts are saying this, and that is creating
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more controversy. Hopefully it will stop this stupid.
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Thing, which is.
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Defunding homeless programs, defunding healthcare for older Americans, Medicaid, defunding
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the Social Security offices, while funding the border fight.
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It's all about the border.
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And giving away what I call party favors to rich people,
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which is the extension of those tax cuts. Yeah, we
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already have a thirty six trillion dollar deficit, and even
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Speaker Mike Johnson is going to have to face some
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pushback because they're either going to have to give up
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some of these tax cuts or cut even more from
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the poor and the children, the older Americans. This thing
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is still a work in progress, but they're giving away
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three point eight trillion in tax cuts over that same
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decade to the very wealthy. So the tax cuts are
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bigger than what they're adding to the deficits. All you
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have to do is get rid of the tax cuts
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and you would be able to decrease.
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The deficit by a trillion dollars.
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So what you're telling us, the American people is that
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we need to give the rich a trillion dollars and
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put our country in debt to do so. Wow, that's
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just I'm hoping that dumb stuff like this, right, this
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tax bill and how much it's going to put us
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further in debt, along with a four hundred million dollar
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free plane, I'm hoping that this is going to push
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some of these Republicans over the edge.
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Saying that since before the election, and so far it
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hasn't panned out really well for me. So we'll follow
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it well, keep you posted, But I you know, my
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hopes and dreams on that I'm not really confident about.
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Supreme Court was going to be considering birthright citizens. This
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is a huge deal. We talked about it on the
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campaign trail. I think a lot of people did not
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believe it was really going to happen. But here we
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are Supreme Court will hear arguments today as the Trump
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administration tries to end the Republican Party tries to end
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birthright citizenship, meaning that you would no longer be a
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citizen just because you were born here. I guess they'll
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come up without whatever criteria they want to come up with.
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you can tell which immigrants are good and which ones
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aren't just by looking at them. That's the sort of
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a paper bag test for immigrants.
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ruling on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship. It's going to
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ask this very conservative, extremist Supreme Court to deny passports
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and other official documents to babies who were born in
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this country but their parents are not citizens. And he's
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hoping that he gets a green light from the justices
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to pretty much stop the courts from pausing his policies.
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a pause on Trump policies until they're ruled on by
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the Supreme Court, they're trying to stop that so they
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can do whatever they want while waiting for the Supreme
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Court to rule on something. So this is really serious.
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with Attorney Arriva Martin next hour about that. The twelve
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kinds of crazy going on with Tory Lanes, the rap
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artist who was stabbed fourteen times in prison, and now
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all these twists and turns in his case, including a
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bodyguard singing like a canary. What that's really going to
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mean to the case. And why does it take someone
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getting stabbed fourteen times for this conversation to happen? Right now,
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there's supposed to be peace talks in Turkey about Ukraine.
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Right now? Remember Ukraine?
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Remember Ukraine, the place we send all the billions of
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dollars to, Remember Ukraine where Russia aggressively just dissed their sovereignty,
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just rolled all over their sovereignty and went in there. Well,
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there's supposed to be peace talks today.
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In Turkey, but.
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President Putin sent some underlings to meet with presidents of Linz,
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and now Zelenski's mad the Krumlin saying Putin won't go
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and this is uh not a good sign for the
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piece that we were supposed to have on day one.
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According to the current president. But now Trump is kind
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of covering up for Putin in a way, I think,
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because he says there'll be no progress towards peace in
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Ukraine until he meets with Putin. Because I guess to me,
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that's his way of making it seem like I meant
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to do that. Of course there's no progress. Uh, it's
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all dependent on me and Putin. But you're not the
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president of Ukraine, I mean, Russian need shouldn't they meet
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with the people they're invading and attacking and trying to
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take their land in territory? I know you think it's
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probably Trump, Gaza, Trump, Ukraine, Trump, everything. But shouldn't the
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sovereign leaders be in those meetings? Unprecedented? Unprecedented, unprecedented. There
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I said it. I'm getting tired of saying it. One
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of the founders of Ben and Jerry's ice Cream, the
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Ben guy.
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There's a Ben and there's a Jerry. This guy's name
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is Ben Cohen.
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He was arrested yesterday in Washington, d C. Because they
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say he allegedly interrupted a Senate committee hearing about our
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funding for Israel's military. He's a seventy four year old.
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He was one of the protesters that went into a
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Senate Health Committee meeting while RFK Junior was promoting the
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Trump budget for next year, and they protesters were in
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there shouting and holding up signs, and they arrested the
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ice cream man. He's this is what he posted on
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social media. He said, I said that Congress is paying
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to bomb poor kids in Gaza and paying for it
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by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US. He's
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also calling on lawmakers to get more aid into Gaza,
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where there is a lot of people starving as the
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net Yahoo government continues to blockade aid from getting in there.
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The food is there, the international will is there. Mister
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Cohen says they need to let the food in to
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those starving children. He was charged with crowding, obstructing, or
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incommoding the Capitol police. That's a misdemeanor. He could be
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facing ninety days in prison and a five hundred dollars
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fine if he's convicted. Six other people were arrested along
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with him. You know, for the folk that say nothing's
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happening and there is no resistance, the resistance is everywhere.
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I just don't think it's getting reported on the way
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it used to be mainstream media has learned their lesson
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forensic accountant says, if I were Zelenski, I wouldn't go.
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It feels like a major setup, right, It is a
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major setup. Putin doesn't show up, He sends some underlings,
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and then Trump says, oh, well, well, it's all up
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to me in. Putin like, we're going to talk about
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you and continue to make deals about you and your
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country without you even being there. Who would agree to that?
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But it is what it is. The Environmental Protection Agency
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or what's left of it, has announced that they will
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allow more of those pfas into the water, into our
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drinking water. This is something that was restricted under the
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Biden administration, and the pfas they call them forever chemicals
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I can't pronounce perfluorohicals and polyfloricals substances. These are chemicals
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that increase the risk of heart disease, cancers, babies being
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born with low birth rates. And these are also those
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chemicals that are suspected in possibly changing the DNA of
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babies could lead to changes in their the way their
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gender markers show up. I guess I'm saying that wrong.
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I know I'm saying it wrong, but they're found, they're
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found in the water, they're found in some of our products,
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cleaning products, beauty and health products, and they were restricted
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under the Biden administration. For some reason, the Trump administration
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wants to bring them back. News, Traffic, and Sports. Then
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call me KBLA Talk fifteen eighty. You're listening to this.
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We're listening to you. Eight hundred and nine two oh,
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fifteen eighty. If you want to be listened to, I'm
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happy to do so. Always love to.
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Hear from you.
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Forensic accountant says he's concerned about Zelenski. He may be
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engraved danger. No putin, no Trump beyond fishy uh. Paul
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Lie says this country already got the mineral deal they wanted.
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I haven't read that deal. Does that mean that they
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can just take the minerals and the land? I don't know,
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but you're right, it's not a good look. I was
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talking about those forever chemicals in the water. That's really
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serious because they we don't know how to clean them
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out of the water. We don't know how to we
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don't know how to get them out of our bodies.
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The body doesn't know what to do with them. So
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why would you want to put more of them in
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the drinking water, allowing what the EPA administrator Lee Zelden,
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the MAGA guy, is calling common sense flexibility in terms
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of additional time for compliance. Let yeah, you know, additional
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time for compliance at the expense of our health, not
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just our health, but particularly the health of our babies.
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Insane, insane? Insane? And where is RFK? Mister?
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I take on big pharma, I take on you know,
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the corporate polluters for those of you, because I have
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some friends that felt like that felt like maybe because
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RFK is an anti vaxxer, he would support some policies
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that are good for us in the form of, you know,
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banning certain chemicals or pushing back allowing more latitude with
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vitamins and the like. So where is he right now?
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Shouldn't he be in Trump's ears saying you know, these
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pfas or problem.
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From a holistic health.
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Standpoint, I wanted to talk a little bit about Rodney Hinton,
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the dad whose child was killed by law enforcement and
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then is now accused of striking a deputy's car and
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killing him. The dads He's pleaded not guilty.
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His name is Rodney Hidton.
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He's pleaded not guilty in that case, and there was
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a go Fundme for him.
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And you know how when when.
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Cops kill kids, there's usually or black people, there's usually
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a GoFundMe for the cop Derek Chauvin had. When a
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lot of them have them, they make millions. Just like
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the lady who called a little five year old the
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N word. She's got almost a million. She might be
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up to a million by now. On these go fundme pages,
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and go fund Me seems to be fine with it,
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but the they were not fine with they go fundme
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for Rodney Hinton. So there was one that was started
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and Go Fundme took it down saying it violated their
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terms of service. I guess because he's an alleged murderer,
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but so was Derek Chauvin, and you'd have a problem
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with that anyway.
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They moved it.
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It's on something called GiveSendGo dot com slash Rodney Hinton's
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family give Send Go and people are donating. It's not
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millions like Derek Chauvin has. A last time I looked,
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it was thirty one thousand. There's a contact or a
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link to it on BLM Grassroots, on Instagram, or you
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can go to the side itself, give Send Go.
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They're trying to.
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Raise fifty thousand, they've got thirty. Anyway, they are still
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looking for support for this guy, and you know, he's
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being painted as a criminal and a hero, depending on
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which side of that divide you're on. And of course
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I don't think it's okay to kill anyone, but I
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understand why people are supporting this man. Cops murdered his son,
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his eighteen year old boy. Clearly he is and was
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in a lot of agony, and a lot of us
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are tired of law enforcement murdering our children, our husbands,
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our boyfriends. In another strange development, there is some woman
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who filed a lawsuit, in.
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A civil suit.
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On behalf of this guy, and it turns out they
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don't even know him. According to Hinton's lawyers, she never
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talked to him. They don't know him, they don't know her.
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She just took it upon herself to file a civil
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lawsuit on their beat. I don't understand how that.
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Works, but that's it's crazy.
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But in any case, there is Okay, there's another one. Yeah,
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the GoFundMe was up to seventy thousand, but they took
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that one down go fund me took it down, but
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BLM Grassroots also has an address for him. People are
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writing to him at the Claremont County Jail in Ohio
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where he's being held, and they have instructions for how
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to write to him because some folks are feeling like
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this man deserves comfort and support after the murder of
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his son. Of course, he's pleaded not guilty to the
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charge of killing a cop with his car. Let's go
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to Larry calling us from DC. Good morning, Larry, Hello, Hi,
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what's on your mind?
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This isn't Dominiquejabrima, It isn't. Well, i'm watching the show live.
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Oh, well, you might have a little lag. Sometimes there's
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a little delay. Oh you're saying you're watching and it
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doesn't look like me, or that you don't hear yourself yet.
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Well, i'm watching and you're not on the phone with
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a caller.
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Well, you might have a little lag, and don't worry.
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We'll be on the phone with the caller momentarily. Sometimes
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there's a lag between YouTube and you. It's definitely me, babe,
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don't worry. Look you want me to cuss you out
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and then you'll know for sure it's me. You want
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me to give you the signature Dominique Tabreema cuss out
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and you'll be like, oh, that's.
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Her, right right, Well, listen, did you just said take
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a call from Larry. I didn't want to say too much.
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I just wanted to say hello, I'm an East Coast listener.
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Okay, Well, are you letting people on the East Coast
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know about us? Telling them to get our app for
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free on the App Store the Google play Store?
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You know, because.
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We're black owned and operated, we don't have huge marketing budget,
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and we have been saved by people the hood, Grapevine,
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people telling their friends. That's what's making us thrive even
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in this crazy era that.
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We're in, right right, I can dig it.
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How did you find out about us? Larry?
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You popped up on YouTube and I tuned in. It
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was nine am, and and I had to the face
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was calling me.
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Okay, go YouTube. YouTube showed us some love that day.
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They certainly did. And now I'm hearing the lag I
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ain't hearing our previous conversation.
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Yeah, technology is great, but it's not perfect. So I'm sorry,
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go ahead.
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Oh no, no worries. Yeah, I just wanted to check
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in and say hello, you're doing a great job over there.
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Oh, thank you. I appreciate that so much. And I
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love hearing from people wherever you are, from East coast,
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west coast, other countries. Love that they're saluting you in
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the chat. I don't know if you've been in on
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the YouTube. They're in the conversation, in the comments, they're
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shouting you out. So welcome to the delegation. You are
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now officially part of the KBLA delegation.
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Larry, thank you, thank you.
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Yes, appreciate the love. That's funny he was going to
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verify if I was really Dominie. I don't blame him.
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We're in some Shenanigan times, right. I could be Laura
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Lumer disguising myself as Toni, as Dominique de Prima, but
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it's not.
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It's me And you can do like Larry.
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You can call eight hundred nine two fifteen eighty eight
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hundred and nine two fifty eight. If you've got something
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to say, say it here. We don't censor and we
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are not scared. We're unapologetically outspoken, unapologetically progressive.
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KBLA Talk fifteen eighty.
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Okay, okay, So the Maryland governor or Wes Moore signed
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a bunch of things yesterday, but I did not see
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reparations yet on that signature list. We're obviously tracking it.
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We'll talk more about it tomorrow with our Friedman Friday conversation.
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Jay French will be on, So that should be quite
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spirited for those of you who've been arguing with him
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since the last time he came on on Instagram. Your
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chance to keep that convo going. He signed a lot
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of things, like I said, But what I didn't realize
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is that in the state of Maryland, if Governor Moore
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does not sign it doesn't mean it couldn't pass into law.
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It could pass into law without his signature. We don't
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have that option in California, but apparently they do in Maryland.
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And if that's the case, why would he sign it,
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because they're going to pillory him for that. I know
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he's on the short list for folks that may be
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considered presidential candidates for DEMS in twenty twenty eight.
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His star is rising.
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He's been doing an incredible job there as governor of Maryland,
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the only sitting black governor at the time at the moment.
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Hopefully that will change.
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When my brother Ras wins the primary June tenth, and
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then goes on to win in the general election. We'd
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have two black governors, one of New Jersey, but right
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now in one of Maryland. Right now is only Maryland,
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and he is his star is rising in the Democratic Party.
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He's competent, he's good on the mic, and so perhaps
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he's being advised not to sign this reparation's bill. I
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wouldn't blame him. If he didn't, they will use it
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to take him down. I thought it was very bold
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that Kamala Harris said that she did support reparations on
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the campaign trail, even though she never really got credit
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for that. People tried to say she didn't, but in
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fact she did. She introduced that HR forty, the version
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of it, in the Senate when she was a senator,
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and on the campaign trail she said she supported study,
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which is what all HR forty is, which is more
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than any other Democratic presidential candidate has ever done, and
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she still hasn't gotten credit for that.
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So I'm gonna say it.
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In any case, we're tracking it. We'll see if more
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goes ahead and sciences my predictions he won't, but I'm
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hoping that it will still pass into law, because while there,
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you know, the city of Baltimore has a has a commission,
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the state of Maryland does not. And as Achille pointed
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out last Friedman Friday, we're now at one hundred states, counties,
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cities with reparations commissions, one hundred, which is a huge
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jump over the past few years since the California Task
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Force was seeded. And it's just another indication of momentum
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around that particular issue. If you missed any of our shows,
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including our Friedman Friday series, which is the second hour
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our seven am Pacific Standard time every Friday, they are
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all up on YouTube and you can go and watch
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and listen. You can find them wherever you get your podcasts.
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All my shows are there, Spotify, Apple Music, wherever you
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get your podcasts. So there is that apparently, as the
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anniversary of the murder of George Floyd approaches and there
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will be commemorations, protests, marches, artistic presentations, letter writing campaigns,
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moments of silence, candlelight vich all that is happening all
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over the country. It's five years this year since his murder,
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so it's going to be a lot There's going to
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be a lot of conversation. A lot going on, but
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reportedly I'm reading this on beet the rumors that the
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Department of Justice or this MAGA president the new Confederate
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Republican Party may be planning to pardon Derek Chauvin on
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the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Apparently these rumors have
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gotten enough credibility now that Minnesota state and city officials
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are preparing for unrest.
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Tactical alerts are up.
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And Governor Tim Walls along with the mayor there Jacob Frey,
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the mayor of Minneapolis to wanna wit who's the head
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ofpen County Sheriff, they say they've all been briefed on
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contingency plans, even though we don't have confirmation that that
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pardon is going to happen. Officials are saying that because
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of the unpredictable nature of the political climate, i e.
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We have an apparent mad man, an alleged mad man,
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how do I say it, an erratic nut in the
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White House, an alleged erratic nut. I don't want to
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end up like George Stephanopolis whatever. That the erratic nature.
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Of this.
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Administration, they say, political climate. They're really being careful. They
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won't say, because the Maga NU Confederates are completely out
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of control, they are going to prepare anyway, even though
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they have not been notified as far as we know
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that this pardon is in the offing. Derek Shelvin, of course,
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is a guy that murdered George Floyd on camera, as
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captured by a courageous teenager, and he's currently serving a
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twenty one year federal sentence in a Texas prison. Now,
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if Trump pardoned him, or the Trump Department of Justice
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pardoned him, that's a federal sentence, he would still have
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to serve out his state sentence of twenty two years
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in Minnesota. If this Department of Justice pardoned Derek Chauvin,
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he would be transferred to Oak Park Heights Prison, and
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the Minnesota Department of Correction says they are standing at
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the ready to transfer him back to state prison to
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serve the remainder of that twenty two year state sentence.
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So he's not getting out of jail even if Trump
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pardons him. But people are going to be angry, myself included,
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and you couldn't blame them. That's why Minnesota Attorney General
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Keith Ellison has put out a statement saying that Derek
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Chauvin still owes Minnesota twenty two and a half years
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and he's going to do it either in Minnesota or somewhere.
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But he's not getting out.
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Okay.
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It's an important point. It's the reason why they had
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to take down Fannie Willis because Trump could not pardon
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himself for those state charges. Of course, the Supreme Court
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can give him immunity, can be shielded, he can run
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again for office to try to keep himself out of jail,
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out of prison, but a federal charge is the only
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thing that a president has the authority to pardon. He
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cannot pardon state, county, city charges. Can't do it. So
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Chauvin is not getting out of prison. He'll just go
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to a different prison if the Feds make this move.
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Now.
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Trump has denied it, but they denied a lot of things.
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They denied that they knew anything about Project twenty twenty five,
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and yet they seem to.
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Be following it to the letter right now.
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There's a community safety commissioner in Minneapolis named Toddrick Barnett.
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He says there's no credible evidence about a pardon. There's
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no credible evidence that they're expecting widespread protests in Minneapolis. Nevertheless,
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he's warning that they have overhauled their entire emergency preparedness
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and emergency management systems since twenty twenty. He's saying they're
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going to be much more ready than they were in
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twenty twenty, that they learned lessons from that and so
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don't come around here. Basically is the implication planning to
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do anything because we're ready for you. What we do
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know is that even though so far there's no so
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called credible release about a pardon of Derek Chauvin, we
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know from Black Lives Matter Grassroots and the chapter is
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the Minneapolis chapter, of which there are two Black Lives
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Matter Grassroots chapters along with Michael Brown. No, that's wrong,
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not Michael Brown's foundation, just the two chapters there in
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Many Saint Paul, and I can't remember where the other
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chapter is, the Minneapolis chapters. They had a meeting with
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a bunch of different community based organizations because apparently they
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have what they feel is credible information that this pardon
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may happen. So they are also activists on the ground
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or preparing. But what we do know for sure is
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that the Department of Justice is likely preparing to end
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the consent decree over the Minneapolis Police Department, which means
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that they would no longer be held accountable to the
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reforms that came out of the protests of twenty twenty,
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that came out of all of the terrible data that
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we discovered as a result of investigation stemming from the
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murder of George Floyd about the over policing of black
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people in that entire area, the way they were using
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black people, you know, finds and arrests to maintain control
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and fill coffers like they do in many jurisdictions. However,
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the city has said that if the Department of Justice
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petitions and the consent degree over the Minneapolis Police Department,
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the city will challenge that ruling. That they will not
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just fall back and allow the Feds to move forward
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with his Trump agenda, which is zero accountability for all cops,
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zero criminal, civil, or policy accountability for any of these
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police departments. That city is saying, no, not on our watch.
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We're going to try to stop this, but given the
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erratic political environment, we shall have to wait and see.
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I'm Dominique di Prima be joined by Attorney Arriva Martin
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when we come forward on KBLA Talk fifteen to eighty
