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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WR Now the WR Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minty coming up this week.

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Speaker 1: On Saturday morning, dozens of teenagers in Washington Square Park

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Speaker 1: assault police officers with snowballs. The police commissioner once charges,

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Speaker 1: but the mayor says it was just a snowball fight. Well,

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Speaker 1: I ask Republican City council Member Vicky Palladino what she thinks. Vicky,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard the mayor say that what happened

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Speaker 1: when the police officers were pelted with snowballs continuously for

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Speaker 1: several minutes, was just a snowball fight. Well you will

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Speaker 1: you outraged when you heard that outrage.

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Speaker 2: Let's just say this. Everybody is sick and disgusted. We're

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Speaker 2: leading the charge here on coming out. I mean, look,

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Speaker 2: find them, arrest them, prosecute them. Okay, it's as easy

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Speaker 2: as this. This was an assault on our cops. Now,

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Speaker 2: everybody knows Zo ran and where he sits with our

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Speaker 2: police officers. What has defund the police program looks like

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Speaker 2: by not hiring five thousand more cops. This was but

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Speaker 2: this was so blatant. But these now this was a

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Speaker 2: gang of kids. This was an assault on our police officers. Uh,

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Speaker 2: the police union stepped up and put out some pretty

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Speaker 2: strong words. Thank god Mandani to call this a snowball fight,

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Speaker 2: it's just absolutely ludicrous. Guest Tish is terribly upset because

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Speaker 2: she called for condemnation. Condemn it, condemn it. It's criminal

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Speaker 2: and we all feel the same way. But here's what

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Speaker 2: needs to what's gonna scare the hell out of us?

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Speaker 2: Only in office? It's February twenty fourth. He took office

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Speaker 2: January one. Look at what's happened in such a short

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Speaker 2: amount of time. The gard in heaven above gave him

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Speaker 2: two blizzards, okay ha, which he killed eighteen people with

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Speaker 2: that one. This one, sanitation deserves all the credit, not

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Speaker 2: our mayor, but to have these outrageous These kids are

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Speaker 2: traveling in gangs, They are disrupting malls. This is just

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Speaker 2: over the wintertime. What do we have to look forward

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Speaker 2: to come the spring and the summer months.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. It's by the way, Vicki, it's

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Speaker 1: what comes next if you let people show disrespect to

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Speaker 1: police officers and hit them with snowballs? What comes next?

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Speaker 2: Now, it wasn't just snowballs. Let's say this, It was

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Speaker 2: blocks of ice. They zoomed in our one kid, it's

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Speaker 2: it's it was huge. What comes next? Yes, remember in

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Speaker 2: the summer of twenty one when that ice bucket of

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Speaker 2: water was poured on a CoP's head during the Deblasio

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Speaker 2: administration in twenty one when we had the George Floyd riots.

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Speaker 2: Do you know we're just a few short months away

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Speaker 2: to that possibly happening. They also slashed tires at our

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Speaker 2: SRG had one of our SRG headquarters in Brooklyn the

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Speaker 2: same day. Okay, nine cars got their tires slashed. The

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Speaker 2: special Unit, and he said he wanted to disband that unit,

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Speaker 2: that unit that goes you know, they're on the front

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Speaker 2: lines of riots, terrorism and everything that's really really major

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Speaker 2: in this city. He is he is not fit to

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Speaker 2: be the mayor of the City of New York.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you and Vicky, there is a pattern here.

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Speaker 1: This isn't the first time. I mean, every time he

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Speaker 1: has had a chance to stand up for the police department,

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Speaker 1: he's passed. We had that attack on a police officer

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Speaker 1: by that schizophrenic young adult. Oh he had to shoot

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to press charges.

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Speaker 2: It's constant, that nice welding criminal that came after the cop.

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Speaker 2: That the cop was lucky he got away. He went

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Speaker 2: and visited this is just two weeks ago, week, ten

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Speaker 2: days ago, he visited the criminal. Okay, not the police

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Speaker 2: officer that was almost nice to death on that domestic

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Speaker 2: violence call. Now we're gonna send in social workers. This

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Speaker 2: guy does not have a clue. And if he does

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Speaker 2: have a clue, well then we're in bigger trouble than

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Speaker 2: we you know, Look, he campaigned on all of this. Again,

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Speaker 2: I go back, all right, but what to surround yourself

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Speaker 2: with light minded children who have zero experience in government.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you why sanitation, why y'all blizzard got

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Speaker 2: cleared up, all our major roads were cleared up. That's

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Speaker 2: because he allowed the satitation commissioner to do his job.

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Speaker 2: All Right, You've got to allow the police commissioner to

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Speaker 2: do her job. You've got to allow all police officers

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Speaker 2: to do their jobs. He is stepping in front of

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Speaker 2: the mic every chance he gets, and I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: he is a walking, talking disaster. There's got to be away,

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Speaker 2: and if there is a legal way to get this

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Speaker 2: guy out of office, he needs to go before we

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Speaker 2: fall any deeper into the hole. That we're falling into

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 1: Thicky Palladino, New York City Council. She represents District nineteen

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Speaker 1: of Northeast Queens. This has been a podcast from wor