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Speaker 1: of people is the police force was actually started to

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Speaker 1: round up slaves. Slaves, right, so there was no when

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Speaker 1: slavery ended, nobody was doing the work, right, so a

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Speaker 1: police force began. And that's why what they did is

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Speaker 1: they rounded up people for petty crimes and then they

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Speaker 1: made them perform working and change gangs. Yes exactly. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing also too, is that it's over billions of dollars. Like,

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Speaker 1: for example, for the unhoused community to sweep up unhoused

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Speaker 1: community titement, it's thirty million dollars a year, and last

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago it added up to sixty

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Speaker 1: million now, think of that kind of money, what that

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Speaker 1: could have been to help people find supportive housing, substance

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Speaker 1: usage training, or places where they could get treated for it,

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Speaker 1: mental health training, and mental health de escalation services for them.

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Speaker 1: That that didn't happen. All they had happened was a

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Speaker 1: bunch of nimbies and a bunch of privileged people calling

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Speaker 1: council members who didn't like unhoused people anyway, and use

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Speaker 1: it the police force as the occupying military military armada,

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Speaker 1: if you will. So, is there anything else you'd like

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Speaker 1: to add before I sign off? Yeah. I hope that

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Speaker 1: more white people can can understand that this, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a privilege to not have to give

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Speaker 1: a shit about these kind of things. So I hope

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Speaker 1: they recognize that privilege. I hope that, you know, white

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Speaker 1: people make up sixty percent of this country, and I

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Speaker 1: hope that more of them, and I'm happy to see

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Speaker 1: a lot of white people out here today. I hope

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Speaker 1: that they can stand up and understand that, you know,

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Speaker 1: they need to be a part of this. A system

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Speaker 1: that's built on oppression and that benefits from people's oppression

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Speaker 1: and suppression is only going to feel it when they

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Speaker 1: feel oppressed exactly. This is only going to continue until

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Speaker 1: change is actually made. And I hope people see this

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Speaker 1: and understand that this is bigger than what they are

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Speaker 1: and we're going to keep on going. Thank you all

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Speaker 1: for it, and it's for the shade. This is the

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Speaker 1: this is THEO Henderson for Weedie at Howes. I thank

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Speaker 1: you all for listening, and maybe we again meet in

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Speaker 1: a lot of understanding. What started out as a peace

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Speaker 1: of protest due to the police provoking the protesters. They

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Speaker 1: shot out one of the protesters with the bean bag,

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Speaker 1: and that's turned the situation from a peace of protest

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Speaker 1: to a defensive mechanism. Now people are okay, how was

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Speaker 1: a god? How are you God'? That's just here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna ask you then get you a thing. This

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Speaker 1: is a returning guest. Lady Bliss, tell me what why

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Speaker 1: are you out here? I'd of view because I'm black,

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Speaker 1: straight up, I'm black. I'm here and I just can't

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Speaker 1: sit and look on social media and not be part

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Speaker 1: of it. Well, yes, did you hear what happened with

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Speaker 1: the police shooting bean bags? No? I was up and

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Speaker 1: over here. I didn't know what they were shooting. I

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Speaker 1: was just they were shooting at the protesting. This is

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Speaker 1: my first mind being in a protest day, so I'm

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Speaker 1: a little afraid that same time, I just I don't

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Speaker 1: want to be on the sidelines. Okay, well I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: meal around a little more. But thank you, Lady Blith.

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Speaker 1: This is THEO Henderson who with you on how I'll

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Speaker 1: get get more to follow. This is THEO Henderson for

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Speaker 1: William House and we are seeing them protests move forward.

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Speaker 1: They're marching outside of the park. Are pan Pacific. So

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Speaker 1: let's figure out what's going on and what one of

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Speaker 1: our guests here, Kyle is going to tell us what

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Speaker 1: his thoughts is on the matter. Hey Neal, Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: out here to support of black and brown comrades. We're

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Speaker 1: all called at the you know, white sum pharmacy that

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Speaker 1: we see on a daily basis, and you know we

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Speaker 1: need to have lost the police and we're here to

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Speaker 1: call for that. We're here to call call the defunding

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Speaker 1: of LAPD. Uh. We're here to call for l a U.

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Speaker 1: S D to cut all times of the LAPD and

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Speaker 1: to balls the parcel state and the police as we

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Speaker 1: know it not hurt resources. The services was this the

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Speaker 1: tipping point for you guys to could I see it's

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Speaker 1: such a rainbow of people. Was this one of the

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Speaker 1: tipping points for you guys to really immobilized to come out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think, you know, there's so many tipping points, right,

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Speaker 1: I think you know, George Floyd is just one of

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Speaker 1: you know, the millions of victims of white supremacy, and

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Speaker 1: it's a spark that. Yeah, it's driving people out of

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Speaker 1: here right now, so they can't sit back and watch

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Speaker 1: this happen every single day. Yeah, mrgar City and New

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Speaker 1: Martinez have our over the budget. The city budget, which

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Speaker 1: is fifty four of LAPD, is used of allocated funds.

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Speaker 1: That means some of the services that are central, particularly

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Speaker 1: during COVID nineteen, it's going to be cut. What message

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Speaker 1: should thinks taken away from this, this, this demonstration out here,

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Speaker 1: That budget reflects no one's priorities in this city except

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Speaker 1: for the LAPD. It's most egreevious, insane use of resources

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Speaker 1: to give aways to people who are you know, the

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Speaker 1: most murderous police force in this country, when poor people

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Speaker 1: and people of color are as vulnerable as ever these people.

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Speaker 1: You know, our city council is and our mayor should

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Speaker 1: be deeply ashamed of themselves. And you know, they don't

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Speaker 1: represent the amazing people of this city. What about if

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Speaker 1: people say not all police officers are bad, what do

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Speaker 1: you have to say about that. Well, look, it's not

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Speaker 1: a matter of individual critique, right, it's a matter of

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Speaker 1: the system. The system is rotten and if you partake

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Speaker 1: in the system, then you are infected by that rottenness,

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Speaker 1: regardless of your individual prejudices or attitudes. That's what we

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Speaker 1: mean when we say there's no good cop. We don't

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Speaker 1: mean that every single cop harbor's racial prejudice. We mean

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Speaker 1: that they're partaking in a system that is institutionally structured

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Speaker 1: to oppress people of color and poor people in this country.

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Speaker 1: And there's no way to be to be a paid

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Speaker 1: officer of the state and not partake in that violence,

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Speaker 1: no matter how good and well intentioned you are. That's

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Speaker 1: an excellent at least stated. I'm just say one last thing.

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Speaker 1: Where is the movement going now? Well, I mean we

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Speaker 1: you know, I think people are at their wits end

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Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons. And you know the fact

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Speaker 1: that this is taking place during a time when we

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Speaker 1: have you know, mass unemployment, and we have resources being

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Speaker 1: spent on you know, l APD and law enforcement when

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Speaker 1: people are struggling to buy groceries and are and are

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Speaker 1: you know, getting sick by the by the thousands. I

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Speaker 1: think this is the start of a really unprecedented movement

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Speaker 1: in this country and and hopefully in the world. And

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's crazy to talk to

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Speaker 1: murder oar Seti's money right there, that's it right there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: imagine what Imagine what's good that money could be spent

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Speaker 1: on instead of monitoring, you know, peaceful protests. That's insane.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Kyle for taking the time to give us

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Speaker 1: your insights on this. I'm gonna continue to mill about

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Speaker 1: and I thank you for your time. This is THEO

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Speaker 1: Henderson from Median House and I thank you all for listening,

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Speaker 1: and may we again meet in the light of understanding.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to episode twenty five. I hope

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Speaker 1: you walked away with some new insights as well as

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Speaker 1: a renewed resolve to do something other than just cluck

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Speaker 1: your tongue or blame the victims. This has motivated me

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Speaker 1: to create a zoom invite to all that's listening to

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Speaker 1: have a discussion about the things that have occurred and

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Speaker 1: the things that we want to see. It's titled Meeting

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Speaker 1: and the Light of Understanding, and it will be a

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Speaker 1: zoom invite. I encourage all of us to come, if

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Speaker 1: either just to listen or to offer some insights. I

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Speaker 1: encourage your insight to see where we are as a

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Speaker 1: community as well as a country. So one of the

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Speaker 1: things that we must center is not only just George Floyd,

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Speaker 1: but we also must center but black unhoused people that

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Speaker 1: are all over the world. Black onhoused are twice as

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Speaker 1: likely to have interactions with the police officers. So this

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Speaker 1: is a poignant and is a relevant topic that is

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Speaker 1: not being discussed. One of the keys to that is

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Speaker 1: neighborhood business councils or business improvement district individuals that will

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Speaker 1: sit and have meetings about unhoused people and discussing plans

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Speaker 1: how to get rid of them or using the legal

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Speaker 1: arm of the city, such as the neighborhood prosecutors in

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Speaker 1: order to terrorize and displace unhoused people without offering a

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Speaker 1: viable solution. If you're one of those membies that has

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Speaker 1: been pushing against having unhoused people and houses near or

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Speaker 1: shelters near your area in your neighborhood, or schools and

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Speaker 1: things like that. Then you need to rethink this. This

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Speaker 1: issue is relevant because when you call the police and

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Speaker 1: Business Improvement District individuals, you are weaponizing and using privilege

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Speaker 1: in order to terrorize on house people. We have got

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Speaker 1: to move the police and law enforcement out of a

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Speaker 1: major equation and loud learning that Garcetti is supposedly going

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Speaker 1: to cut from the police and put them in services

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Speaker 1: that people really need. I thank you all for listening,

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Speaker 1: and maybe we truly meet in the light of understanding.

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Speaker 1: Sun the tents, then the