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Speaker 1: Well, she's right out in Bushytail because she did not

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Speaker 1: of the Union address. We have wibc's John at Cruise

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Speaker 1: from the WIBC newsroom joining us in the studio. Hey,

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Speaker 1: good morning, good morning, Thank you for coming in. You

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Speaker 1: put out a story just a little while ago that

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Speaker 1: we definitely have to get into. There's a local family

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Speaker 1: speaking out about an encounter they had at the Walmart

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Speaker 1: Saturday night.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the Walmart on State Road one thirty five in Greenwood.

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Speaker 1: Say more words, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: So I actually came across this video on TikTok. The

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Speaker 2: daughter made a video about it, and then I got

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Speaker 2: tagged in it a few times, so I contacted the

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Speaker 2: daughter got in touch with the mother. The family wants

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Speaker 2: to remain anonymous and not use their names or anything.

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Speaker 2: But they were shopping Saturday night. The daughter and a

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Speaker 2: friend were in their vehicle. The rest of the family

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Speaker 2: was in Walmart checking out. They were in the vehicle,

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Speaker 2: she all of a sudden like somebody tried to pull

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Speaker 2: like finishing up shopping. She turned around and it was

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Speaker 2: a man trying to get into the vehicle, and so

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Speaker 2: she pulled the door, locked it and said, you have

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Speaker 2: the wrong car, and so he kind of like was

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Speaker 2: he walked away. He got into a gray suv, but

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Speaker 2: they actually have a Chevy Malibu. After he got into

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Speaker 2: the gray suv, he started to circle the parking lot

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Speaker 2: multiple times, circling with where they were located. They both

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Speaker 2: got spooked, left the vehicle, ran into Walmart, found the

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Speaker 2: then went to go find management at Walmart to tell

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Speaker 2: saying is that the Walmart management was very dismissive of

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Speaker 2: the situation, didn't really do anything of it, didn't make

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Speaker 2: them feel safe in the situation, and kind of like

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Speaker 2: threw it off, like, oh, well, well, we work here

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Speaker 2: all the time and we feel safe every time we

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Speaker 2: dismissive how they did that. So then I went ahead

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Speaker 2: and contacted Walmart myself last night, and the manager on

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Speaker 2: duty was not on duty Saturday evening, but she did

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Speaker 2: say that Walmart has a very strict policy in speaking

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Speaker 2: with the media and would not confirm nor deny anything

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the manager wasn't going to be very helpful, not

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Speaker 1: at all. Did so there were no camera footage or

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Speaker 1: anything like that. Yeah, I've heard there could be, you

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there was, you know, but at that point

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Speaker 2: when the management is just brushing it off and thinking

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Speaker 2: I feel safe, then you should feel safe too.

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Speaker 1: Now you know.

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Speaker 3: Did the family did you talk to them about potentially

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Speaker 3: filing your police report or anything like that associated with this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's just said that she just basically wanted to

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Speaker 2: let the public know and be aware of the situation.

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Speaker 2: I don't think, and this is what happens a lot

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Speaker 2: of times is people don't end up filing those police reports.

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Speaker 2: If you don't file a police report, you don't have

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Speaker 2: a paper trail. If you don't have a paper trail,

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Speaker 2: we can't set up any type of of you know,

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Speaker 2: if there's any repeated things happening in those areas at all.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's really important for you to mention,

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Speaker 3: because this could be an isolated incident exactly, or it

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Speaker 3: could be a trend that's happening consistently, either at this

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Speaker 3: And if there's not, like you said, a police report

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Speaker 3: and a paper trail followed, we don't have the ability

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Speaker 3: to look for that pattern because there's no paper to see.

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Speaker 2: What it's basically like, it didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: It's WBC's John A. Cruiz is joining us. Were there

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Speaker 1: any witnesses? Did they say, like, did anybody else?

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Speaker 2: Well, she was with her friend, so both of them

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Speaker 2: witnessed it. They didn't say or specify if there was

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Speaker 1: You had mentioned they put it on TikTok. Yes, what

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Speaker 2: She just ranted to let people know of people of

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Speaker 2: her age because she is a teenager, that this happened

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Speaker 2: to me. And if you are shopping, if you're out

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Speaker 1: Where the girls able to They knew the make and

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Speaker 1: did they get the license plate or anything? Now?

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Speaker 2: She told me she did not get the license plate.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, you know what it is, It's that lesson. I

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Speaker 1: can recall telling my daughter multiple times when she would

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Speaker 2: And then I also think when you're in that situation,

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Speaker 2: I just think it's kind of like the fight or

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Speaker 1: So no, nothing more from Walmart, nothing at all, security

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Speaker 2: Nothing.

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Speaker 1: They're not changing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got a story.

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Speaker 2: And what was this last one? It was about? It

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Speaker 2: was the apartment rentals. Yeah, the rentals safety, the collapse.

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Speaker 1: You have to find all of this on WIBC dot com.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, I have been working on the market of

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Speaker 2: apartment rentals and communities for the last five months, and

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Speaker 2: it spun off of people sending me dms and originally

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Speaker 2: started when I reported about how Todd Rokita filed a

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Speaker 2: started getting all of these stories about how awful some

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Speaker 2: from a subsidized housing unit. And so from there I

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Speaker 2: ended up compiling a list about one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: looked into obviously what IHA has been doing and how

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Speaker 2: they're trying to just good Lord, that place is a mess,

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Speaker 2: I think right now with everything going on. And so

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Speaker 2: I shared my information with Todd Rokito's office, and then

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Speaker 2: I also spoke to somebody.

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Speaker 1: They give you a response.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they did say that they couldn't on the record

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Speaker 2: tell me specific things. However, they did say that there.

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Speaker 1: Are aware of the problem, is that we're working on it.

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Speaker 2: Correct. We're aware of the problem. We're working on it,

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Speaker 2: and there are multiple places we are currently looking into,

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Speaker 2: but we can't specifically comment because we're currently investigating.

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Speaker 1: Have you been in contact with any health departments or

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Speaker 2: I have not. I know. One of the things is

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Speaker 2: to say, you know, obviously report a complaint over to

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Speaker 2: the Marin County Health Department or whatever your health department is.

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Speaker 2: Also with fair Housing as well. Fair Housing actually did

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Speaker 2: contact me, but they actually wanted to know where my

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Speaker 2: study came from, and I was like, it was from me,

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Speaker 2: from me, I'm the one speaking with hundreds of people

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Speaker 2: on social media.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing you put one out there and that

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Speaker 1: makes everybody else a little braver?

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Speaker 2: That yes, exactly.

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Speaker 3: So to that point where can people find you? I

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Speaker 3: want to make sure that you're getting all this great

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Speaker 3: to get ahold of.

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Speaker 2: All our social media? My handle is the John at Cruise,

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Speaker 2: so just go ahead and follow me there. I'm on Facebook,

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Speaker 2: I'm on x, Instagram, TikTok, all the platforms, all the platforms.

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Speaker 2: I also have a website. It's just John Atcruise dot com.

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Speaker 2: What are you working on right now? So I'm working

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Speaker 2: on two different prison stories. One is Westville, which is

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Speaker 2: out of northwest Indiana. That is a huge, complete mess

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Speaker 2: essentially a go fundme kind of like a change dot

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Speaker 2: Org where they're trying to say, like, Okay, these people

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Speaker 2: are humans and they do some type of humane living

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Speaker 2: regardless of their circumstances. So I'm digging into that a

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Speaker 2: little bit. I also have a testimonial from somebody who

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Speaker 2: used to work at the Miami County Correctional Facility, and

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Speaker 2: that is that's on the recie on the record. I

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Speaker 2: have it all and that I'll be released early next week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be something to look forward to, all right,

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Speaker 1: doing a great job, John at Cruz. You can find

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Speaker 1: her over at WIBC dot com. This is ninety three

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