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Speaker 1: We came in with that audio of our friend, and

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Speaker 1: I'm honored to call him a friend. Rick Snyder, President

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Speaker 1: of the Fraternal Order of Police.

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Speaker 2: National Chaplain, National Chaplain, a longtime friend.

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Speaker 1: Delivering that prayer last night to the candlelight vigil in

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Speaker 1: Beech Grove.

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Speaker 3: I'm so proud of my community, Nige.

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Speaker 1: I posted a photo last night my friend Alana Sheets,

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Speaker 1: She's been a friend of ours for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Just an amazing photographer, really good work, Alana Sheets Photography.

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Speaker 1: She posted a photo of what it looked like last night.

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Speaker 3: Amazing.

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Speaker 2: It was gorgeous and like, I hate saying that because

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Speaker 2: it was such a somber occasion, but at the same

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Speaker 2: time watching and seeing in her encapsulating all the people

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Speaker 2: in Beech Grove coming together as a community in support

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Speaker 2: of their fallen officer. That was the first you texted

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Speaker 2: me that picture last night. I went to bed early

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Speaker 2: last night. I wasn't feeling too hot, but it was

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Speaker 2: the first thing I saw when I woke up this morning,

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Speaker 2: and I was like, Wow, what a way to start

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Speaker 3: And I told you the other day.

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Speaker 1: You know here in Beech Grove and I consider myself

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Speaker 1: part of the community I don't necessarily live there anymore,

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Speaker 1: but my parents live there, I grew up there, my

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Speaker 1: kids just finished up school there. It's a proud community.

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Speaker 1: We fight, you know, we have issues, there's corruption. Like

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Speaker 1: any other town or city. We fight with each other.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we fight in the walmart. It happens sometimes. But

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Speaker 1: when something like this happens, when there's a tragedy in

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Speaker 1: the community, it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you're a Republican, or even if you're

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Speaker 1: politically involved at all. You see what's going on in

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Speaker 1: Beech Grove right now. That community comes together. If somebody falls,

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Speaker 1: they pick them up. And I think that's amazing, and

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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of that city because, let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: Beech Grove takes a lot of jokes, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: as guilty.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: I've always said, if you can't make fun of yourself,

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Speaker 1: you are the problem. So when I do stand up

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Speaker 1: comedy shows, when I do this radio show here on WIBC,

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Speaker 1: I talk about my experiences growing up in Beach Grove.

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Speaker 1: There are some things that are worthy of some jokes.

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Speaker 1: But man, it's kind of like a family. Families can

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Speaker 1: fight Nige. I don't have any brothers, but you do.

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Speaker 1: I can imagine, like when you and your brothers would fight.

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Speaker 1: It's one thing, but if somebody on the outside tried

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Speaker 1: to pick on one of you guys, oh boy, then

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Speaker 1: you would bond and come together.

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Speaker 2: Circle the wagons, Circle the wagons.

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Speaker 1: Sure, And that's what we do in Beach Grove. And

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Speaker 1: we've got a history of this. Four times now an

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Speaker 1: officer has lost his life in the line of duty.

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Speaker 1: This is the third time since like nineteen ninety one.

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Speaker 1: There's been a car accident in a pursuit and two

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Speaker 1: shootings that have taken place while an officer is chasing

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Speaker 1: a suspect. Every time, my people in the grove, my grovers,

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Speaker 1: my groovy grovers.

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Speaker 3: Baby, we pick each other up as a community.

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Speaker 1: And last night seeing the turnout at that candlelight vigil

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Speaker 1: was amazing.

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Speaker 2: And you were at the Did I see that you

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Speaker 2: visited the officer's car early?

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Speaker 3: Did I did? This morning?

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Speaker 2: Is outside the police department? Correct?

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 1: Right there kind of at the corner of Main Street

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Speaker 1: and Emerson. They've got the roads blocked off, but if

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Speaker 1: you park at one of the side streets, you can

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Speaker 1: walk right up you can put flowers across a Teddy Bear,

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Speaker 1: a sign, anything you want on fallen Officer Elliott's vehicle

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Speaker 1: and it's parked right out front. I put that on

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Speaker 1: our social media at Hammer in Nigel. I'm very honored

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Speaker 1: that the Chief of Police, Michael Maurice, chose our program

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Speaker 1: Hammer and Nigel to be the first place he went

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Speaker 1: to when he decided to talk about what happened. We've

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Speaker 1: got that podcast Allison posted it. We've got the video

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Speaker 1: posted at WIBC dot com. He was at the candlelight

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Speaker 1: vigil last night and again, listen to his voice crack

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Speaker 1: as he talks about one of his officers and the family.

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Speaker 4: On behalf of Aaron and the rest of the family.

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Speaker 4: They hear you, they see you, they feel the love

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Speaker 4: and support.

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Speaker 1: You. Hear his voice breaking up right there, and he

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Speaker 1: did that on our show and listen, I'm good with that.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that say, you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how I feel about guys crying. If you're

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Speaker 1: the chief of police and one of your officers loses

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Speaker 1: his life, another one of your officers gets seriously shot,

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Speaker 1: and you've got to make the phone call to the family,

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Speaker 1: to the widow and let them know what's going on.

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Speaker 3: You can show some emotion that's okay.

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Speaker 2: And man, listening to him speak in front of all

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Speaker 2: those people, juxtaposed with what I'm looking at right now,

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Speaker 2: which is again the picture that your friend Elena's sheets

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Speaker 2: put out with everybody standing there, hundreds and hundreds and

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Speaker 2: hundreds of people, candles in their hands, and the backdrop

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Speaker 2: of the American flag hanging down gave me goosebumps. Incredible.

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Speaker 3: Those are my people.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: We take a lot of jokes. I tell a lot

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Speaker 3: of jokes.

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Speaker 1: When you see my stand up show on March seventh,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about my upbringing. And there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of funny stuff that comes out of Beach Grove.

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Speaker 1: But no matter where you stand, we pick each other

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Speaker 1: up and it's what we do. Here is Mayor Kaufman

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Speaker 1: of Beach Grove talking last night.

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Speaker 5: We are standing at the place where Officer Elliott started

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Speaker 5: his last shift on Monday. Reremarn, we gather, we grieve,

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Speaker 5: but most importantly, as a community, we remember.

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Speaker 1: And you can hear this in everybody's voice. This isn't

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Speaker 1: an act. This is how this community feels about how

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Speaker 1: close they are with the law enforcement that they have

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Speaker 1: a bond with. Everybody up there is speaking from the heart.

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Speaker 1: There's no teleprompters, nobody's reading a script of a speech.

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Speaker 1: They're speaking from the heart again, our friend Rick Snyder,

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Speaker 1: last night.

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Speaker 4: We give you thanks for the life of Brian Elliott.

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Speaker 5: We give you thanks for his service, his commitment, his tenacity.

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Speaker 2: We give you thanks for his heart.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 1: I am so honored to call all of those people

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Speaker 1: we just heard from friends. Right, You've got Republicans, Democrats,

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Speaker 1: law enforcement all coming together for the common good here

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Speaker 1: and Beech Grove.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna be all right. We're gonna rally around this family.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna rally around the Elliotts, We're gonna rally around

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Speaker 1: the Beach Gove Police Department.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna pick ourselves up.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna support the community, and we're gonna show everybody

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Speaker 1: that good wins.

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Speaker 3: And that's important here. Good wins. Let's make sure that

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Speaker 3: happens