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Speaker 1: Let's talk about our city and over the weekend police

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Speaker 1: have been at the seat of a couple of very

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Speaker 1: serious assaults. One occurred at Taparu yesterday morning or just

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Speaker 1: after midnight last night, before Sunday morning, called to a

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Speaker 1: hotel in Victoria Roads a man of been punched and

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Speaker 1: to the head. Rush to hospital serious life threatening injuries,

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Speaker 1: critical condition thirty five year old. A twenty nine year

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Speaker 1: old from Exeter arrested and facing court today and just

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Speaker 1: as serious in the CBD. Yesterday morning, around five point

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Speaker 1: thirty police an ambulance crews called to Heinley Streets a

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Speaker 1: man unconscious following an assault. Twenty year old taken to

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Speaker 1: hospital life threatening injuries as well. A twenty three year

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Speaker 1: old man from clear View arrested nearby, charged with assault

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Speaker 1: causing serious harm. Refused bail overnight to face court today,

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Speaker 1: and reading the newspaper account of that particular assault today

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Speaker 1: seems particularly brew. A punched a number of times, the

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Speaker 1: paper reports, while being dragged along he falls to the ground.

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Speaker 1: The alleged offender jumps and appears to stomp on the

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Speaker 1: head of his victim. And that's the allegation that's printed

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Speaker 1: in the paper today. This is after lockout laws are

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Speaker 1: in force three o'clock they kick in. This occurred at

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Speaker 1: around five point thirty and just the sort of incident

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Speaker 1: the lockout laws are designed to prevent. Perhaps they were

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Speaker 1: locked out. Acting Superintendent Damian Eichner, Officer in charge of

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Speaker 1: Eastern District from saphol on the line, acting super good morning,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your time, and certainly disturbing. Police have

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Speaker 1: to attend this obviously ambulanced cruise as well. It's not

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Speaker 1: good for anyone, particularly the victim obviously, Matthew.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the event of the over the weekend have had

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Speaker 2: some catastrophic outcomes for the big this matter, and it's

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Speaker 2: always horrific when police and other emergency serious services have

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Speaker 2: to attend and try to clean up these situations and

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Speaker 2: determine the course of action that's been undertaken and set

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Speaker 2: in part a process of applying the justice system.

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Speaker 1: Why does it keep happening? And Highley Street particularly, okay,

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Speaker 1: are the other places you can have arguments that lead

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Speaker 1: to this occurring. I suppose it doesn't really matter where

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Speaker 1: it is, but Hinley Street this is not quite weakly,

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Speaker 1: but gee, it happens often enough to be concerning and disturbing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Matthew. Obviously we've been lucky enough in Hiny Street

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Speaker 2: whilst it there has been a significant number of assaults occur.

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Speaker 2: The one punch Howard punch situation that we've seen over

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Speaker 2: the weekend hasn't fortunately hasn't occurred very often. The last

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Speaker 2: one we saw was in twenty nineteen, which had catastrophic

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Speaker 2: outcome to that event, and we've seen some interstate and

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Speaker 2: then again in other parts of the state more recently.

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Speaker 2: But hein the Street is a renowned entertainment precinct and

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Speaker 2: we have SOPHEIL has thought the support of the Attorney

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Speaker 2: General in applying the declared public precinct legislation set out

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Speaker 2: to protect these people. As you've mentioned earlier, Obviously this

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Speaker 2: event occurred outside of those timeframes that where that legislation applied,

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Speaker 2: but the increased police presence has been the contributing factor

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Speaker 2: to try and reduce the number of these types of

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Speaker 2: events that have been occurring. In this circumstance. These people

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Speaker 2: were known to each other and they had had prior audercation,

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Speaker 2: but the action of the one punch by the suspect

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Speaker 2: in this matter has has had serious implications on the

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Speaker 2: victim who is currently still in hospital with life threatening

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Speaker 2: injuries and if he were to survive, expected would have

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Speaker 2: life changing injuries.

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Speaker 1: Officers can't be everywhere all the time, but you do

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Speaker 1: have a new police station there that you moved into

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Speaker 1: a few years ago now too or so years ago,

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Speaker 1: more centrally placed, you do patrol the street. Yet this

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Speaker 1: still happens, and you must also be thinking, well, what

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Speaker 1: else do we need to do.

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Speaker 2: We continually asked that question, Matthew. Actually, and whilst we've

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Speaker 2: got an increase police presence, we're using a volunteer return

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Speaker 2: to service processes to ensure that we've got adequate staff

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Speaker 2: for the area to try and prevent these matters happening.

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Speaker 2: Of working with Adelaide City Council to have a significant

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Speaker 2: camera coverage of those areas to try and assist us

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Speaker 2: in detecting and then therefore preventing these types of eventses occurring.

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Speaker 2: But as you said, it is an ongoing challenge for

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Speaker 2: us and we're continually trying to find remedies for this.

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Speaker 1: Cameras won't cut it though, will they. I mean they're

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Speaker 1: good for after the event, but it's the prevention and

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Speaker 1: should it be more police on the beach. Should you

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Speaker 1: have a patrol in Hinley Street up and down every

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Speaker 2: So we do. We have a continual operation of Operation

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Speaker 2: City Safe, which is conducted throughout Heine Street and areas

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Speaker 2: of North Terrace and run them all on a Friday

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Speaker 2: we are applying a significant number of police resources to

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Speaker 2: address these situations. But as you said, we can't be

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Speaker 2: everywhere all the time. And whilst the cameras say, assisting

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Speaker 2: us in investigation of offenses once they occurred, but they

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Speaker 2: can also so provide vision of areas where events are

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Speaker 1: Well, you quickly, Onsene, once this sort occurred, I imagine

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Speaker 1: you're probably watching it unfolded on CCTV back in the

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Speaker 1: away is that what happened?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So the police were dispatched and we utilized the

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Speaker 2: which resulted in ay, an arrest of a suspect for

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Speaker 2: this matter.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and now before the courts, can you tell us

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Speaker 1: what he's charged with. I don't think you're the release

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Speaker 1: that came out. It's assault causing serious arm, is that it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So okay, he'll face court today on that twenty three

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Speaker 1: year old clearview man. Life changing for both particularly the

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Speaker 1: victim though, and we'll see what unfolds in the courts.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time this morning. Thanks Acting Superintendent

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Speaker 1: Damian Eichner, Officer in Charge Eastern District, saypil Bridgard Kernig

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Speaker 1: is CEO Sammy D Foundation, who know all too well

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Speaker 1: that one punch can kill, and in this case it

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Speaker 1: appears that life changing injuries could very well be the result.

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Speaker 3: Bridgid, good morning, Oh, good morning, Well it's not a

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Speaker 3: good morning. Is as absolutely horrific to here that their

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Speaker 3: victim is still in a very critical condition.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and also the person at the incident at Taparus,

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Speaker 1: So just a dreadful weekend for a couple of people,

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Speaker 1: a couple of families. When's the lesson going to be learned?

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Speaker 1: When's the behavior change that you're hoping to implement kicks

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Speaker 1: in do you.

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Speaker 3: Think, yeah, we really at the Foundation, we know that

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Speaker 3: all lives are affected from this from the bystanders. The

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Speaker 3: emergency personnel is acting. Superintendent just talked about even the

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Speaker 3: perpetrators family and friends or alleged perpetrator.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 3: Our focus here at the Foundation is about that early prevention,

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Speaker 3: so we're starting really young in schools. We know that

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Speaker 3: one in four bulliers become perpetrators later on in life,

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Speaker 3: so we focus in schools early around bullying prevention. Then

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Speaker 3: we focus on violence prevention, how to de escalate strategies,

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Speaker 3: how to walk away, how to know when your friends

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Speaker 3: to take them home. We really need to focus on

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Speaker 3: this prevention piece otherwise are going to continue to see

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Speaker 3: this escalate as it has on the weekend.

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Speaker 1: And this is taught in schools these days. You go

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Speaker 1: out to schools, don't you, So there's a good chance.

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Speaker 1: I mean the incident at Taparu, the alleged perpetrator is

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. Here the alleged perpetrator in Hinley Street is

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Speaker 1: twenty three. So both these are especially the older one,

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Speaker 1: the twenty nine year old. He would have been just

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Speaker 1: I certainly would have heard about the commotion over that

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Speaker 1: the publicity, and the twenty three year old certainly would

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Speaker 1: have gone through some sort of program at some stage,

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Speaker 1: you would think at school. But for whatever reason, it's

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Speaker 1: not getting true.

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Speaker 3: Well, potentially, potentially we are not. We don't have block funding.

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Speaker 3: We welcome any government funding to help support our delivery

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Speaker 3: of these programs in schools because we're not reaching everyone,

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Speaker 3: and we know that needs to be repetitive, repetitive behavior

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Speaker 3: so that we can ensure that these young people do listen.

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Speaker 3: But also when someone is that fully charged that they're

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Speaker 3: going to throw a punch or two, we know that

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Speaker 3: it's not them that's going to be able to put

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Speaker 3: their fist down. We need their friends to tell them

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Speaker 3: friends or loved ones. They're not going to listen to

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Speaker 3: a stranger. They're not going to listen to staff. The

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Speaker 3: psychological call around it is that they need someone to

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Speaker 3: tell them to walk away.

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Speaker 1: But in the heat of the moment, that's not the

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Speaker 1: easiest thing to do. And you know, We've all seen

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Speaker 1: somebody trying to grab the arm of an aggressive person,

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Speaker 1: trying to pull them away, and it's not the easiest thing.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not, it's not at all. But the things

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Speaker 3: that we talk about in our programs is around de

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Speaker 3: escalation strategies, but also how to protect yourself or even

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Speaker 3: warning signs that this may lead to this. So even

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you've seen this horrific footage, but

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Speaker 3: this person, this victim, was not aware that that was

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Speaker 3: potentially going to happen. So we do understand that there

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Speaker 3: are environments where we can't in least our escalation strategies

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Speaker 3: or warning science, etc. But what we do know is

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Speaker 3: that our programs work at preventing violence.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so there is hope out there. I

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Speaker 1: suppose that the message gets through. And alcohol is a

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Speaker 1: factor as well, isn't it, because kids get into that

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Speaker 1: and kids being people in their twenties, and then it's

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Speaker 1: hard to pull back because that's doing the thinking for

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Speaker 1: you to some degree.

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Speaker 3: Well, alcohol and other drugs do play a part in

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Speaker 3: the likelihood of violence occurring, but we know that we

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Speaker 3: don't want to stop any somebody. Foundation focuses on safe

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Speaker 3: partying tips and safe parting behavior and we don't want

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Speaker 3: young people not to do that, but you do need

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Speaker 3: to monitor the alcohol intake that you are having so

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Speaker 3: that doesn't lead to events like this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, all right, thank you for your time this morning, Bridgid.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Bridgard Kernig, their CEO, smy D Foundation