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Speaker 1: Introducing Hashtag Matter, a brand new eight episode scripted podcast. Michelle, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on here. And last night I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: canceling all you. And it's not that I don't want

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Speaker 1: to do this, it's just a lot to revisit. Everything

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Speaker 1: has happened, response happening, Thank you. We already responded to

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Speaker 1: that location in response to a shoot You're gonna point.

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Speaker 1: A little over twelve months ago, an eighteen year old

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Speaker 1: African American young man named Niles Hayes was driving a

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Speaker 1: family friends luxury vehicle when he was stopped for a

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Speaker 1: routine traffic violation. Things escalate quickly. Now his father, Gerald Hayes,

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Speaker 1: sees his son in peril and instinctively rushes into the

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Speaker 1: fray to protect him from Shonda land Audio in partnership

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Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. I'm author and journalist Kate Bell,

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Speaker 1: and this is hashtag matter. Within hours of the police stop,

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Speaker 1: footage of the entire altercation between Niles and the investing

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Speaker 1: officers gets posted online and it goes viral. Gerald is

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Speaker 1: a hero for taking madis into his own hands. And

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Speaker 1: if you can't see that, then I'm not working with you.

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Speaker 1: I'm Colleen Sanders and We're here live from the Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles Valley outside of Jace's forty two sports bar and Grill,

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Speaker 1: where a carjacking suspect opened fire on police, leaving one

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Speaker 1: officer dead and the second officer wounded. This case presented

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Speaker 1: a lot of challenges from the start. Once the HTS

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Speaker 1: retreated into the building, the standoff had begun. You got

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Speaker 1: the whole l a p D outside of my building

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Speaker 1: ready to light in hire block up. I mean, any

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Speaker 1: number of outcomes could have happened if different choices were made. Doctor, Doctor,

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Speaker 1: I guess what I am struggling with. Come, okay, you

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Speaker 1: struggle with it because you live in a different reality

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Speaker 1: than we do. So let me ask you something. If

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Speaker 1: a man sees his child getting beat down in the

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Speaker 1: street like a dog, what is a man supposed to do?

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Speaker 1: From now on? We gotta do something different. If we

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Speaker 1: really want to understand what went on that day, we

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Speaker 1: have to get into Gerald's head. And in order to

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Speaker 1: do this right, the first thing we have to do

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Speaker 1: is go back to the beginning, the part you don't know.

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Speaker 1: Hashtag Matter premieres February nine on the I Heart Radio app,

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast,