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Speaker 1: I'm Tamika D.

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Speaker 2: Mallory and this.

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Speaker 3: Shit Boy my son in general.

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Speaker 2: We are your host of TMI.

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Speaker 3: Tamika and my Son's Information, truth, motivation and.

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Speaker 1: Inspiration, new energy. What's going on, my son, Lennon, I'm.

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Speaker 4: Blessed black and Holly favored. Tamika, Ma, how you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing okay. I'm a part of the Black women

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Speaker 2: who are resting. I'm not really restling because I've been

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Speaker 2: working and busy and doing and going and planning and being.

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Speaker 1: Involved in stuff.

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Speaker 2: But I have not been forcing myself to think about

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Speaker 2: what's next and a rally, a march, a thing, a thing.

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Speaker 2: I just haven't. I just am not forcing myself to

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Speaker 2: do that right now. I am a part of the

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Speaker 2: ninety two percent. I believe that Black women have the

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Speaker 2: instincts that God only himself could have placed in us

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Speaker 2: to be able to be the.

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Speaker 1: Birth ers of this nation.

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Speaker 2: And I believe that our instinct in what we have

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Speaker 2: in us is something that other people, you know, benefit from.

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Speaker 2: And so since I'm in a ninety two percent, while

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Speaker 2: I feel sad about a lot of things that's happening,

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Speaker 2: I really feel proud.

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Speaker 1: I feel I'm in good company.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I don't have to put a cape

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Speaker 2: on and immediately return to the battlefield.

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Speaker 1: It's the holiday season, and.

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Speaker 2: I feel like we as black women, deserve an opportunity

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Speaker 2: to sit, exhale, breathe, taking one another's love and affection,

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Speaker 2: and just not have to go kill myself stressed out

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Speaker 2: of our work.

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Speaker 4: As you should enjoy yourself, you know, like you said

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Speaker 4: you part of in ninety two percent. I think unfortunately

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Speaker 4: for me, I just feel like there's a lot of

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Speaker 4: things things that black men are doing.

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Speaker 3: So I've been I've been just really organizing in my mind.

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Speaker 4: I han't physically went out and did a lot of things,

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Speaker 4: but I've been really just strategizing and organizing and pretty

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Speaker 4: much like I want to start, like pretty much right

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Speaker 4: after the holidays, just really implementing a lot of things

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Speaker 4: that I think are needed and necessary in this moment

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Speaker 4: for black men, especially black men, young black men, just

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Speaker 4: you know, the would I say, the the tide of

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Speaker 4: the world, just the energy of the world, just the feeling,

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Speaker 4: and I just feel like it's very much a time

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Speaker 4: to start strategizing and organizing young black men.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the time has always been and I've

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Speaker 2: said to you many times that you know, as a woman,

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Speaker 2: I know that we are we are blessed, very blessed

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Speaker 2: to have the connections and the relationships among one another.

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Speaker 3: You know that.

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Speaker 2: Not to say that men and black men particularly don't

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Speaker 2: have relationships, but there's just something different about the ways

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Speaker 2: in which black women show up from one another. And

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Speaker 2: I think something. I think a part of our enslavement

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Speaker 2: and what has happened to us fostered certain things. So

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Speaker 2: you know, men African men right who were being forced

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Speaker 2: into enslavement and then of course going through chattel slavery. Certainly,

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Speaker 2: the idea that you are now you know, responsible for

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Speaker 2: your community and unable to protect your community at the

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Speaker 2: same time has to be something that has created a

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Speaker 2: psychological backlash.

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Speaker 1: I think that backlash.

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Speaker 2: A part of the protection has been, you know, trying

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Speaker 2: to maintain position and and and feeling of power and

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Speaker 2: a feeling of you know, being able to protect because

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Speaker 2: that has been stripped in so many ways from you all,

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Speaker 2: in so many ways, and it continues beyond enslavement, beyond

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Speaker 2: all that that we went through. Then even now, you

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Speaker 2: still see that, and I know that it is important.

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Speaker 1: I think anyone whose lineage.

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Speaker 2: Includes enslavement, needs, a certain level of therapy, a certain

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Speaker 2: level of of of a community of coming together to

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Speaker 2: understand a lot of how we're still responding to life based.

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Speaker 1: Upon you know, what we have been through.

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Speaker 2: You even in your song where you're talking about the

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Speaker 2: Willie Lynch letter, you acknowledge that people say the letter may.

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Speaker 1: Not be real, but the effects of what what is.

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Speaker 2: In that letter, it's significant. It's significant, and I see

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Speaker 2: that I deal with, And I think that the most

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Speaker 2: important thing we can be doing for the next four years,

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Speaker 2: while being outside and protesting and bringing awareness and all

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Speaker 2: of that, is going to be incredibly important. I still

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Speaker 2: believe that one of the fundamental things that we have

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Speaker 2: for the world to see, right, Like, that's got to

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Speaker 1: So I support you one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's definitely time.

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Speaker 4: So that's what I've been, you know, just focusing on

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Speaker 4: and trying to get into, you know, and just trying

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Speaker 4: to stay abreast of what's going on, trying to take

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Speaker 4: it light, you know, because everything has been so heavy

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Speaker 4: and dark, and you know, so trying to have light conversations,

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Speaker 4: enjoy life, you know, listen to music, watch the internet.

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Speaker 4: It's a couple of things that I've been focusing on

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Speaker 4: that really has been bringing me joy.

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Speaker 3: Like I actually like casanat right. I've been watching him.

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Speaker 4: He's a young kid and he just enjoys life and

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Speaker 4: a lot of people go. He has all these stars

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Speaker 4: on his live stream and he's been doing like I

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Speaker 4: think he's doing like a thirty day live stream.

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Speaker 3: So he's the other day he had Snoop Dogg on there.

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Speaker 4: You know, he had Chris Brown on there, and everybody

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Speaker 4: is just enjoying hisself, like as a young kids, the

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Speaker 4: young in the twenties. They having fun, They talking about

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Speaker 4: good things and and I love that, like you know,

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Speaker 4: so that why he was.

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Speaker 1: On the shower in the shower the other day, because he's.

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Speaker 3: Straight.

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Speaker 4: They for thirty days straight, everything he does is going

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Speaker 4: to be on live stream, so hiss in the shower,

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Speaker 4: everything like all his So you can go and you

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Speaker 4: can click on his live stream right now and he's

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Speaker 4: on the live stream as we speak doing whatever. So

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Speaker 4: you know, I've really been enjoying that just watching him

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Speaker 4: be and he's and he's he's enjoying life.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. It's like I wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 4: It reminds me of like The Truman Show, kind of

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Speaker 4: if you ever seen the movie The Truman Show with

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Speaker 4: Jim Carrey, Like his thing reminds me of the Truman Show,

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Speaker 4: but his real life. It's actually his real life and

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Speaker 4: the Truman Show, Truman was the only person that didn't

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Speaker 4: know that he was on TV. They raised him from

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Speaker 4: a little kid inside the TV.

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Speaker 1: I think I remember that built.

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Speaker 3: The whole life around him. Yeah, they built the whole.

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Speaker 2: I'm not as old as you.

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Speaker 3: But they built his whole life inside this TV.

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Speaker 4: So but when I'm watching this, it's very entertaining, and

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Speaker 4: him in all this moments.

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Speaker 3: So he's in the store and this is just probably today.

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Speaker 4: He's in the store, he's buying shoes and it's about

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Speaker 4: one hundred pairs of sneakers on the counter. So he

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Speaker 4: walks by and he's looking. He's like, well, who put

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Speaker 4: all of this stuff? Like, I ain't put all this

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Speaker 4: he's like, yo, just ask, he said, I don't mind

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Speaker 4: paying for it, but just ask. Like he ain't saying

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Speaker 3: The chat as they listening. Just ask.

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Speaker 4: He said, I would never do nothing like that. I

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Speaker 4: just wouldn't go. I would ask it. And it resonates

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Speaker 4: because when you get to a certain level, or just

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Speaker 4: when people think you at a certain level, there's a

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Speaker 4: level of entitlement, right think, yo, yo, you got it, Yo,

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Speaker 4: you should do it. And it's not that I shouldn't

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Speaker 4: do it or I wouldn't do it, but I wanted

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Speaker 4: to feel like you don't you you're not taking advantage

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Speaker 3: And he said, he said, these little things, this is

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Speaker 3: how people go broke and be little stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: And it shows that he's a sharp young man.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. It's like this how people

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Speaker 4: it and it's the mind state. We live in an

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Speaker 4: have conversations with people and I see so many different things.

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Speaker 4: People don't even say thank you no more like you know, family, friends, whatever.

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Speaker 4: You do things for people, and it's not that you

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Speaker 4: want somebody to say thank you, because that's what you

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Speaker 4: understands paying attention. He's a student of life. He sees

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Speaker 4: with how people have failed, to see how people have won.

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Speaker 4: You know, the fact that he brings a lot of

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Speaker 4: different artists and people who have made it on his show,

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Speaker 4: it just it just resonated with me because so much

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Speaker 4: negativity on the internet. There's so many people just pumping crap.

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Speaker 4: Just to see some young boy having fun and who's

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's just it's a breath of fresh air, you know what.

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Speaker 2: I like Constantat. I met his sister and his mother,

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Speaker 2: and he comes from good stock. He comes from a

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Speaker 2: good family, at least from what I saw them. They

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Speaker 2: His mother was really kind, and I, you know, I

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Speaker 2: think he's a good kid. I do think that when

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Speaker 2: you put so much of your personal business in the world,

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Speaker 2: people will think that they can take advantage of you

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Speaker 2: because they know too much about what you have. And

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Speaker 2: that's just the nature of human beings. And sometimes people

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Speaker 2: don't even know how to ask because they haven't been

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Speaker 2: They no home training, home trained. It goes very much

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Speaker 2: to what we were talking about originally, this idea that

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Speaker 2: you know, we all and this is not a black

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Speaker 2: man or whatever thing. This is all people home training

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Speaker 2: is very important. When I was raised, you couldn't ask

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Speaker 2: nobody for a thing. If I came home with something

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Speaker 2: that somebody gave me, my parents would lose it. You're

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Speaker 2: not allowed to have nothing. You're not allowed to have anything.

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Speaker 2: Where did you get that from?

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Speaker 1: Who gave it to you? Why they give you? Go back?

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Speaker 6: Take it?

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Speaker 2: Well, so and so mother said I could have it.

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Speaker 2: I this mother. Your mother said, you can't have it.

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Speaker 2: Take it back.

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Speaker 1: Not a shirt, not a shoe. They can't buy you nothing.

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Speaker 4: ghetto with energy, he can rise the rest of the

439
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Speaker 4: people up. So what we do is we we rise

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Speaker 4: them up. We give them power. And when we give

441
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Speaker 4: them power, they own people turn on them because they

442
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Speaker 4: think they they with us.

443
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Speaker 3: So what we do is we neutralize.

444
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Speaker 4: So we constantly neutralizing our people, never giving them an

445
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 4: opportunity because everybody's here to fight for us. We were

446
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 4: fighting against the wrong things. So what they do is

447
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 4: they give you bullshit money. They tell you, here, we

448
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 4: got you want some money to keep a couple of

449
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Speaker 4: dollars and people say, that's what I'm here for.

450
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Speaker 3: Domina. That shit is never nothing. The Bible says money

451
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Speaker 3: is the root of all evil. So when we keep.

452
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Speaker 4: Talking about the shit that finances is, it doesn't it

453
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Speaker 4: doesn't equate with the actual reality of what equity injustice

454
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Speaker 4: is and what unity is.

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Speaker 3: It's never going to equate to that. I don't get

456
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Speaker 3: for how many times you see it.

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Speaker 4: Anybody can tell you, I know people that got money

458
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Speaker 4: all a bunch of money are not happy, right, So

459
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Speaker 4: that's not my focus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear that, and I appreciate that you are,

461
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Speaker 2: that this is who you are, but I.

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Speaker 1: Just don't agree. I think that I am more likely

463
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Speaker 1: to encounter.

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Speaker 2: Prices inflated cost for gas, food, and other expenses than

465
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Speaker 2: I am to encounter a police officer who may take

466
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Speaker 2: my life. That happens rarely too often, too often, for sure,

467
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 2: but it is a rarity for most people. But every

468
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Speaker 2: single week they have to go buy eggs, bread, whatever.

469
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Speaker 2: So I believe that both things matter, and they're both

470
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Speaker 2: equally important because.

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Speaker 1: I have to be able to survive.

472
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Speaker 2: I need to make sure that I'm not in a

473
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Speaker 2: situation where I'm so financially deprived that my family members

474
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Speaker 2: or even I end up out there in the street

475
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Speaker 2: doing something I have no business doing, trying to make money.

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Speaker 3: You know what it is.

477
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Speaker 4: And I'm not saying you wrong, and I understand you

478
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent correct, right. I think for me, I

479
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 4: think I'm at a different stage of understanding where we

480
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Speaker 4: are right. And when you watch there's a strategy that's

481
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Speaker 4: being taken and it's and it's constantly been taken, and

482
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Speaker 4: I see it. Right, It's like Elon Musk is in

483
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 4: position of power. Right, the stock market for Tesla and

484
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 4: all that shit is gonna go off and people gonna

485
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Speaker 4: invest their money in it, and then they're gonna make

486
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Speaker 4: a couple of dollars and Elon Musk is gonna take

487
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Speaker 4: control of shit that is going to negatively impact ninety

488
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Speaker 4: percent of us, right, But there's gonna be twenty to

489
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Speaker 4: thirty thousand people that feel like they they made something

490
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Speaker 4: off of it. But the ultimately that man is going

491
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Speaker 4: to impact us in the worst way ever. And we

492
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Speaker 4: think that we benefit off.

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Speaker 1: Of it, so that people agree with you about that.

494
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Speaker 3: But that's what I'm saying. I know you don't, but

495
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Speaker 3: I understand.

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Speaker 1: I didn't say I don't. I said I don't think

497
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Speaker 1: I don't.

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Speaker 4: I know they won't because they don't understand. It's not

499
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Speaker 4: it's not a it's it's like it's like me, right,

500
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Speaker 4: It's like me living in Beverly Hills, and I'm like,

501
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Speaker 4: we're doing good, but five percent of us ain't.

502
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Speaker 3: So I can sit there if I'm sitting there.

503
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Speaker 4: And I'm doing good, and ten of us is good,

504
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Speaker 4: and were able to sit at the table and we

505
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Speaker 4: still only have the two percent of the wealth that

506
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Speaker 4: we've been having for one hundred years. We're not doing anything.

507
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Speaker 4: That's what I'm trying to tell you is fool's goal.

508
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Speaker 4: It's a false sense of reality. We represent thirteen and

509
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Speaker 4: fourteen percent of the population and only two percent of

510
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Speaker 4: us are counted in the wealth in America. That's what

511
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Speaker 4: I'm trying They know that we're not increasing at all.

512
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Speaker 4: They're constantly increasing and growing their numbers of the Wolf gap.

513
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Speaker 4: If when you look at the wolf gap, by they

514
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Speaker 4: say about twenty thirty five, we will be at zero,

515
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Speaker 4: the median household for black people will be zero. This

516
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 4: what I'm trying to tell you. We're dealing with fool's goal,

517
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Speaker 4: and we keep thinking it's not I don't have to

518
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 4: it's not about what I think.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you. This what the numbers are saying. This

520
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 3: is the numbers are showing.

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Speaker 4: If you look at the average wealth from nineteen thirty

522
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Speaker 4: sevening to now, we only represented two percent of the wealth.

523
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Speaker 4: And you look at now, we only represent two percent

524
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Speaker 4: of the wealth. The median household is going down every time.

525
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Speaker 4: And then people was saying, look, I'm getting money, I'm

526
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Speaker 4: getting money.

527
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Speaker 2: I'm getting people believe, people believe that maybe maybe under Trump,

528
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be different.

529
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Speaker 3: What I'm trying to tell you. You saying maybe a pandemic.

530
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you what i've heard.

531
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Speaker 3: But I'm just I'm telling you the facts.

532
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Speaker 4: I'm not I'm telling you the things that you can

533
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Speaker 4: when you when you look up the numbers and you

534
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Speaker 4: do the real No.

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Speaker 1: I'm just said what you're saying.

536
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Speaker 2: But I'm saying that there are people out here that

537
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 2: believe that under Donald Trump it might be something different.

538
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Speaker 2: Okayc was the first time he had a pandemic. He

539
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: wasn't able to accomplish the things that he wanted to do.

540
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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you what i've heard. I'm saying that

541
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Speaker 2: I don't believe any of it. I think that we're

542
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Speaker 2: going to see the effects of his presidency in about

543
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Speaker 2: two years, and.

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be the commis. I think that

545
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Speaker 1: we're going.

546
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Speaker 2: To see the impact of his presidency in about two years.

547
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Speaker 2: But I think we're gonna know even more in the

548
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: next presidency. So whoever else becomes elected in four years,

549
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 2: that's how we're gonna know what his policies, the damage

550
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 2: that his policies have caused you're not.

551
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Speaker 4: Going to really know you want me tell you why,

552
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 4: because what happens is at this point, what they've done

553
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 4: is disenfranchised black people. Right, we have a black movement

554
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 4: that is so fractured that they don't even know what

555
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 4: the next step is. So the next person that comes

556
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 4: that feels like he has to leave, he's going to

557
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 4: sit figure that the model that he has to follow

558
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 4: is like Donald Trump.

559
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 3: Right, we was built, we were literally building.

560
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Speaker 4: When we look at what we were building, when we

561
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Speaker 4: went to the DNC and you looked at all of

562
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Speaker 4: the black people, when you've seen the levels of black

563
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Speaker 4: power and black influence and black all of that, the

564
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 4: next person is going to feel like they have to

565
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Speaker 4: move away from that because this is what this is

566
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Speaker 4: what America is telling you. They don't want that, they

567
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 4: don't want woke, they don't want black power, they don't

568
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 4: want all of these things. So I don't think the

569
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Speaker 4: next person is going to go into the positions saying you.

570
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Speaker 1: Know what, I think they will.

571
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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't see it.

572
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Speaker 4: I don't see where they feel like it. If you

573
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 4: look at what they saying, they saying it that strategy fails.

574
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Speaker 4: They America does not want to be unified. America doesn't

575
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Speaker 4: believe that. I'm just trying to I'm telling you, I don't.

576
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 4: I don't see somebody. I don't see America. I don't

577
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 4: see no party getting behind somebody that's trying to push

578
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Speaker 4: the same values that they that This is probably the

579
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Speaker 4: word every swing statement they've they're saying is a she lacking.

580
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Speaker 4: There's no no, no common sense personal because this is

581
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Speaker 4: they forced us to believe there's nobody that's gonna invest

582
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Speaker 4: their money in their time inside the strategy that they've

583
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 4: already seen fail and unless something changed, nless there's something

584
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Speaker 4: that shifts the tide of America, unless this is see.

585
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Speaker 1: This is where.

586
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Speaker 2: This is where my thought process departs from a lot

587
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Speaker 2: of people, because what I believe is that we will

588
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: begin to see, like I said, in about two years,

589
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 2: the impact of this presidency, and it's actually going to

590
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 2: force us into a movement back into a space where

591
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 2: people are gonna realize they can't even get elected if

592
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 2: they are that other thing.

593
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Speaker 1: That's what I believe is gonna happen.

594
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 2: I believe that they're gonna want to get so far

595
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Speaker 2: away from that other thing, because for instance, when Donald

596
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 2: Trump was president, he got upset with New York for

597
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 2: not whatever whatever something he wanted people in New York

598
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Speaker 2: to do and the legislators he had said no. And

599
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 2: next thing, you know, he took away our ability to

600
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Speaker 2: have a global entry coming into the country.

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Speaker 1: That impacts people who have.

602
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Speaker 2: Money, right, and so people who have money and or

603
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Speaker 2: people who are well traveled, people who understand clear and

604
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 2: all those programs and being a known traveler, they're the

605
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Speaker 2: ones that's impacted by that.

606
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Speaker 1: They didn't like it. They didn't like it.

607
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 2: But you also had four years of Joe Biden in between.

608
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Speaker 2: So now when you circle the block to him, back

609
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Speaker 2: to his Shenanigans of his thinking that he can punish people,

610
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 2: his vindictive nature, that is going to make people turned off.

611
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Speaker 1: I know it is. I just wait for the day

612
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Speaker 1: for it all to happen.

613
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Speaker 2: But anyway, my daughter, they went all around into fifteen

614
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Speaker 2: different directions. But I think it's all great conversation. But

615
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Speaker 2: none of us can predict. All we can do is

616
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 2: because we've already predicted. We didn't predict, we forecast it

617
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 2: what is to come, and now it will either be

618
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 2: that we're wrong, which I agree. Charlamagne says something the

619
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 2: other day. I don't want Donald Trump to fail. I

620
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 2: literally don't because of his failures, the failure of our people.

621
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Speaker 2: I want the Lord to come into his heart and

622
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 2: his mind and say, hey, you got to do better.

623
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Speaker 2: You can't be that person. Do I believe that that

624
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: will happen. No, but that's what I want. I want

625
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: his party, the Republican Party, to look at him and say,

626
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Speaker 2: if we allow you to take us down this path,

627
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: we're never going to be able to win an election again,

628
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: or at least for a long time.

629
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Speaker 1: We're gonna lose the in the midterms.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand how you're saying that when they voted

631
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 4: for death. They voted for that twice. To tell you,

632
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 4: it's America.

633
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: They vote, they did not, they did not, they did not.

634
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Speaker 2: What you have in this election is a lack of

635
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 2: voter participation. So when you have a people that feel ignited,

636
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 2: they could beat Donald Trump, but they stayed home. Fifteen

637
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 2: million people if what they're telling us is true, because

638
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 2: I don't believe shit. Because long Elon Musk is involved,

639
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 2: I don't know what they did. I have no idea,

640
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 2: but let's just go with it is what it is.

641
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: The rules are the rules. So if that's what happened

642
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 2: and fifteen million people came home, that stay home. Those

643
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 2: people are part of the reason why we lost the election.

644
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 2: So what I'm saying is that as people go and

645
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 2: continue to move, we already know that more than half

646
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: of America is racist and or trying to be connected

647
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 2: to white people because they think white power and white

648
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Speaker 2: men is how they will get their handmaid's tell access.

649
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: To their own power. We already know that we got that.

650
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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, when you really

651
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Speaker 2: kind of crunch it all down, most of the people

652
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 2: who didn't vote are people who just said, I know,

653
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna vote for Donald Trump, but I can't

654
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 2: support Gaza. I'm broke, I'm stressed, I'm struggling, and I

655
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 2: can't be involved in that.

656
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: I don't like Joe Biden. I'm not voting for a woman.

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Speaker 2: So you have all those people I'm not voting for

658
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Speaker 2: a black person, a black woman. You have all those

659
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Speaker 2: people that, if activated, could be and put themselves in

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Speaker 2: a position or could have put us in a position

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Speaker 2: to win in two years during the midterms, because if

662
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Speaker 2: things are too out of control. That's when you'll see

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Speaker 2: it where people their own legislay, they got so you

664
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Speaker 2: with this bullshit.

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Speaker 1: Oh we don't, we don't want you. Hey, what do

666
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Speaker 1: I know?

667
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Speaker 4: Listen, We'll see That's all I say, We'll see. So

668
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Speaker 4: that brings me to my music spotlight today. You know,

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Speaker 4: it's it's pretty much easy.

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Speaker 3: You know. Kendrick dropped an.

671
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 4: Album out of nowhere at six seven, eight o'clock in

672
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Speaker 4: the morning that just, you know, tore the whole charts

673
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Speaker 4: up and tore the whole music world up.

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Speaker 3: And I, you know, I was.

675
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Speaker 4: I had the luxury of driving my son to soccer

676
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Speaker 4: this weekend and it was about a two hour ride

677
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Speaker 4: both ways, so that was about four hours of me driving.

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Speaker 3: So I listened to it over and over and I

679
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 3: just got in tune with it.

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Speaker 4: And I think one of my favorite tracks on it

681
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Speaker 4: is where he took a Tupac like beating it was.

682
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Speaker 4: It was he had this energy of Tupac and it's

683
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Speaker 4: called Reincarnated And I'm trying to figure out I didn't really.

684
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Speaker 4: I'm listening to it and he's talking about two different artists.

685
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Speaker 4: I think one of them is Billy Holliday. I'm almost

686
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Speaker 4: sure that the woman he was talking about is Billy Holiday.

687
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Speaker 4: And I thought it was Jimmy Hendrix.

688
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Speaker 3: The first one.

689
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but it's somebody that played the guitar.

690
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Speaker 4: I don't know exactly it was Jimmy Hendrix or somebody else,

691
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Speaker 4: but I gotta listen again because I gotta get the

692
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Speaker 4: dates on what it was. But he's talking about these

693
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Speaker 4: people being reincardinating and coming back as him, and then

694
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Speaker 4: he has a conversation at the end with God, you know,

695
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Speaker 4: and God is talking to him like I sent you

696
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Speaker 4: here these d three different ways, you know, so you

697
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Speaker 4: can get it right.

698
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Speaker 3: And then he's like, but you still you too YouTube

699
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Speaker 3: consume with war, Like you say you want peace, but

700
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Speaker 3: you consume with war. He said, well, I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: unite my people, and I'm trying to unite the worst

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Speaker 3: I'm doing all this what you want?

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Speaker 5: You?

704
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Speaker 4: You you hold these grudges and you fight wars all

705
00:36:58,239 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 4: the time. When are you going When are you going

706
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Speaker 4: to let that go?

707
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Speaker 3: When are you gonna let that energy go?

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Speaker 4: And it's like he's fighting with itself and God like

709
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Speaker 4: it's such a dope song. You know what I'm saying

710
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Speaker 4: it's one of those songs that it just shows the

711
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Speaker 4: creativity of Kendrick Lamar. And what I respect about him

712
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Speaker 4: is that he pushes the envelope, you know, and he

713
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Speaker 4: does things that are different. So I would ask anybody

714
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Speaker 4: to be listening to the album, just really listen to Reincarnated.

715
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Speaker 4: Don't just listen to because it got that you know,

716
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 4: that that vibe, that that Tupac vibe, but just listen

717
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Speaker 4: to the lyrics and listen to what he's saying.

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Speaker 2: I haven't had a chance to listen to the album

719
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Speaker 2: at all, but all of my music finiciados, that's how

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Speaker 2: you said. I think so that my people who love music,

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Speaker 2: they seen y'all seem to be into it.

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Speaker 1: So with that being said, I'm sure I will want myself.

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Speaker 4: It's a body of work. It's one of those bodies

724
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Speaker 4: of work, you know. That's what I love about Kendrick.

725
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 4: He doesn't just drop music and that you could just buy.

726
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 4: It's a body of work. Like each song does something

727
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Speaker 4: different to you, but it still tells like a story,

728
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Speaker 4: and it gives you a mind frame and puts you

729
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Speaker 4: in a mind frame and understands and it actually makes

730
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Speaker 4: you if you're creative of you an artist, it makes

731
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Speaker 4: you push yourself, Like just listening to the album and

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Speaker 4: gave me just ideas of my own things. They were

733
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Speaker 4: far from his, but it just pushed me to think

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Speaker 4: about different things.

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Speaker 3: So it gets you push you in a creative mind state.

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Speaker 1: That's great.

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Speaker 2: Hendrick Lamar, Hendrew Lamar, all right, let's get into our guests.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be a panel that I'm quite

739
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Speaker 2: excited about today. We have several people on to talk

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Speaker 2: about an issue that should matter to folks all over

741
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Speaker 2: the country. You know, I often say we need a

742
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Speaker 2: consent decree on America for many things, and I want

743
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Speaker 2: to talk more about what a consent decree is with

744
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Speaker 2: the next group of people that's coming up. So let's

745
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Speaker 2: have our panel. It's so good to have y'all with us.

746
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: It feels like home. Like we need to do it

747
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Speaker 2: more often so we can see y'all's faces and.

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Speaker 1: Continue to be in community together.

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Speaker 2: I just think that it is important to state that

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Speaker 2: from the day we met four years ago, which you know,

751
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Speaker 2: by the time I met Katura, I was apologizing off

752
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Speaker 2: the back for a big boobo that I made. But nonetheless,

753
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Speaker 2: we have continued to support one another every single step

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Speaker 2: of the way. I think what came out of our

755
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Speaker 2: connection through Brionna Taylor, the tragic and unfortunate death of

756
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Speaker 2: Brianna Taylor is such an example that can be studied

757
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Speaker 2: by movements and people across the country that while we

758
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Speaker 2: face conflict, we face drama, trauma, and your mama, everything

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00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 2: you could think of. Still through every step of the way,

760
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Speaker 2: outsiders to Little came together with the local community and

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Speaker 2: continued to support one another. And I just think that's

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Speaker 2: just so good. So I'm happy to have y'all with

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Speaker 2: us today. So we are looking at the beautiful faces

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Speaker 2: of Kentucky State Representative Katora Harung and also attorney at law,

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Speaker 2: our dear sister Leanita Baker, who has her own law

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Speaker 2: firm which is called Baker Injury Law. So if you're

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Speaker 2: out there in the Louisville or Kentucky area, or how

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Speaker 2: many other places can.

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Speaker 6: You practice Georgia, Kentucky and Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Kentucky and Georgia, and you have any type of injury law,

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Speaker 2: what's that called person or injury?

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Speaker 7: So you slip and follow somewhere, you get hit by

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Speaker 7: a truck, a car, anything, you know, medical negligence, nursing home,

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Speaker 7: any anybody injured.

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Speaker 2: That's your girl to call. Attorney Lanita Baker. Thank y'all

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Speaker 2: for joining us.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, and that's soon to be senator parent you're

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Speaker 7: not ship, yeah exactly.

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Speaker 2: Katura took off and has not stopped yet. So I'm

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Speaker 2: sure that soon you'll be in Washington, d C. Being

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Speaker 2: you know, Congresswoman Katura or Haran. It is coming. I'm

782
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Speaker 2: not even worried about it.

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Speaker 3: That's right. We'll see what happens.

784
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Speaker 8: Politics is a lot, you know, and uh so we'll see,

785
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 8: we'll see what God has in store.

786
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Speaker 2: I have a friend who is an elected official in

787
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Speaker 2: New York who calls me today. I'm cleaning and just

788
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 2: listening to this person venting that, like it's so hard

789
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Speaker 2: to be real and in politics like that is the

790
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 2: toughest job ever is to maintain being a real person

791
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Speaker 2: who's seriously about the issues, be an authentic having a

792
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Speaker 2: social justice lens and trying to blend in with as

793
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Speaker 2: they said, these suckers. Man, I can't take it. Man,

794
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Speaker 2: that's a word.

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Speaker 8: It is very difficult to balance, and it's very difficult

796
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Speaker 8: really to live when you're not doing politics. This past weekend,

797
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Speaker 8: I went to a wedding and a guy came up

798
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Speaker 8: to me and he's like, don't I know you?

799
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Speaker 3: And so I told him.

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Speaker 8: Who I was and he was like, you have a

801
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Speaker 8: card and I was like no, He's like, why don't

802
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Speaker 8: you have a card? And I'm like, I'm at a wedding,

803
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Speaker 8: like I'm just trying to be And so it's definitely

804
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Speaker 8: a balance, and you know, it's very humbling and an

805
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 8: honor to serve, but it is.

806
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Speaker 3: It takes a toll on.

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Speaker 7: An individual for real tour and you're better than me

808
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 7: because I'd be out. If I'm out at a regular

809
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Speaker 7: social event, people like I know you from somewhere. I'm like,

810
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Speaker 7: I don't know where from, and my friends would be

811
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Speaker 7: like you wrong.

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Speaker 6: I'm like, I mean, I know what I'm not trying

813
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Speaker 6: to talk about.

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Speaker 1: That's what my thought does to people.

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Speaker 2: People walk up to my thought everywhere and they go, yo,

816
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Speaker 2: I know you, I know your He goes like he

817
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 2: don't know what the people were talking about, because at.

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Speaker 4: The end of the day, I mean, sometimes you just

819
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 4: want to relax, and if they figure out who you are,

820
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 4: they say, hey, you certain says that obliged. But I'm

821
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Speaker 4: not the person that's going to say UNDERGA, I might

822
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Speaker 4: say unwrapped and I do this.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to do all. You know, So if

824
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Speaker 3: you just say you look familiar, I think I know

825
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 3: I'll be like, well, maybe you do.

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Speaker 6: You know those faces?

827
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you tell me that all the time.

828
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Speaker 2: Y'all, two us so much alike is ridiculous. But so

829
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Speaker 2: we're here to talk about a serious issue today. I

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Speaker 2: appreciate the two of you being able to alter your

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Speaker 2: schedules because this is a real time sensitive issue for

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Speaker 2: lots of reasons. You know, during President Obama's presidency his

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00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 2: terms in office, one of the things that I was

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Speaker 2: very proud of that we worked on and we advocated for,

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Speaker 2: was the use of consent decrees to address the concerns

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Speaker 2: around police departments around the country. We know that depending

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Speaker 2: on who your president is, and particularly Republican governors do

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Speaker 2: not lean into consent decrees at all. But under President

839
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Speaker 2: Obama they were an eric holder. Obviously being the Attorney General.

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Speaker 2: This was something that they sort of brought to the

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Speaker 2: forefront and really began to use that particular model that

842
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Speaker 2: whatever you're going to explain it to us a little better,

843
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Speaker 2: Attorney Baker to address, to address police departments where their

844
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Speaker 2: behavior is not just one incident or two incidents, but

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Speaker 2: there is a pattern, a pattern in practice of abuse,

846
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Speaker 2: misuse of force, the violation of civil rights, and the

847
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 2: issues go on and on. And so we saw more

848
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Speaker 2: of that happening across the country. And of course, once

849
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 2: Donald Trump became president, the first time it went away,

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00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:20,720
Speaker 2: they in fact declined to continue in that on that path.

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00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 2: And here we are back there again. Lenita, why don't

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Speaker 2: you tell us what is the importance of the consent

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Speaker 2: degree and then you can give us a little bit

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Speaker 2: of information about what's been happening in.

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Speaker 1: Kentucky, And of course Katura please jump in.

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Speaker 7: So the importance of a consent decree is it provides

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Speaker 7: oversight for the police department. It's not the chief, it's

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00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 7: not the mayor. It's basically saying police department. Sometimes it's jail,

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Speaker 7: sometimes it's school, so like in this particular instance, we're

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Speaker 7: talking about the Louiso Metro Police Department. But consent decrees

861
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Speaker 7: are when the Department of Justice, the Civil Rights Division

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Speaker 7: of the Department of Justice, which we know is led

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Speaker 7: by Right now and at least into January, led by

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Speaker 7: the formidable Kristen Clark, who has just been amazing in

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Speaker 7: the four years that she's had to lead that section

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Speaker 7: of Department of Justice.

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Speaker 6: It gives us her court orders.

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Speaker 7: Other tools for monitoring for these entities who under their

869
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 7: investigations they found that an entity, whether again police department,

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Speaker 7: jail schools, any government entity, has engaged in violating the

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Speaker 7: civil rights of any particular group of citizens within the

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Speaker 7: United States.

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Speaker 6: And so as we know here in.

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Speaker 7: Louisville, and after President Biden became president, the Department of

875
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Speaker 7: Justice announced that it would do an investigation into the

876
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Speaker 7: Louisville Metro Police Department for patterns in practice. Part of

877
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 7: that was based off of the recognition that came in

878
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 7: from Breonna Taylor. But in addition to Brionna Taylor, I

879
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,800
Speaker 7: tell people, you know, we had the search warrants. I

880
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 7: represented a young man, formidable young man named Tayon.

881
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 6: Lee, who was stopped you know.

882
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 7: Driving his car in the West End, driving his mother's

883
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 7: car in the West End, detained forty five minutes to

884
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 7: an hour simply because he happened to be in the

885
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 7: wrong neighborhood driving a nice car and being a black male,

886
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 7: all he wanted to do was go home on his

887
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 7: day off.

888
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 6: And you know, we just settled his case last year.

889
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 7: But there was a pattern of those and the Louis

890
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 7: Police Department called that a people places narcotics strategy to

891
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 7: decrease valient crime. But what they were doing was basically

892
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 7: horizon people in the wrong neighborhood. So their thought was, oh,

893
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 7: if we find guns come with drugs, and you know,

894
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 7: if we cracked down on drugs and guns, then you

895
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 7: know we're reducing crime. But what you were doing were

896
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 7: I seen innocent young men. We've seen that, you know

897
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 7: through their investigation the improporate Like when I read the

898
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 7: Patterns in Practice Practice report for LMPD, you would have

899
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 7: thought you were in nineteen sixties, like releasing dogs on teenagers.

900
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 6: Like what world are we living in? That this is okay?

901
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 6: And so that was ye'ah.

902
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 7: You know that those patterns in practice binding came down,

903
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 7: I want to say in twenty twenty two. It's not

904
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 7: early twenty twenty three. And the mayor team whoever he

905
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 7: put in place to negotiate on behalf of the city

906
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 7: and the Department of Justice, which I know, you know

907
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 7: this is a priority for them to get this content

908
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 7: decree signed before the administrations change. I've been negotiating, but

909
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 7: here we are two months out, and what I can say,

910
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 7: if it's not signed by January nineteenth, it's not gonna

911
00:48:58,760 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 7: get signed and.

912
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 6: It would be business as usual for LMPD.

913
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 7: And we really need these consent decrees to force change.

914
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 6: Like we have a new police chief.

915
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 7: He can't It's only so much you can do if

916
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 7: you can't say, well, we got to change because we

917
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 7: got this consent decree. Otherwise will be in valiation of

918
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 7: a court order because it is monitored about the court.

919
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 1: It's all about culture.

920
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's unbelievable to me. So basically we have two

921
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,479
Speaker 4: months in order to be able to have some type

922
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 4: of jurisdiction or what these police can do to us,

923
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 4: and they've already said that they've noted a bunch of

924
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 4: patterns and practices that are pretty much unconstitutional, and so

925
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 4: we got to fight for them to actually just do

926
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 4: the right thing.

927
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 7: For the mayor to do the right thing and sign

928
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 7: the consent decree. And when we say two months, it's

929
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 7: because of what happened with the election. If we weren't

930
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 7: if November seventh, it turned out differently.

931
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 6: It may not. It still needs to be signed, but

932
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 6: it's not as high of a like.

933
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 7: I don't think BP Harris would have been saying we're

934
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 7: not going to do consent decrees. But we know that

935
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 7: Donald Trump would do that because one, he did it

936
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Speaker 7: the first time he was elected, you know, when he

937
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 7: took office in twenty seventeen, and two he already wants

938
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 7: officers to have full immunity, So what the hell would

939
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 7: why would he do it content decree? So that's why

940
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 7: we are at the space that we are at. And

941
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Speaker 7: I feel like, for me, for as much work as

942
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 7: everyone on this callee put in, for as much work

943
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 7: as everybody in the city has put in, if our

944
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:40,960
Speaker 7: mayor is not willing to sign it, then like.

945
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: That's another issue, a whole other issue.

946
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 6: But it's time for him to go too.

947
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm gonna say that.

948
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,399
Speaker 8: Before we go on, or do want to like, let

949
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 8: the folks know what exactly those things were that were

950
00:50:55,600 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 8: in that report absolutely so specifically the Justice Apartment and

951
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 8: found that LMPD uses excessive force, including unjustified net restraints

952
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 8: and unreasonable use of police dogs and tasers. Conduct searches

953
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 8: based on invalid warrants, unlawfully execute search warrants without knocking

954
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 8: and announcing, unlawfully stops searches, detains and arrests people during

955
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 8: street enforcement activities, including traffic and pedestrian stops, unlawfully discriminates

956
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 8: against black people and its enforcement activities, violates the rights

957
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 8: of people engaged in protected free speech critical of police.

958
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 8: And the last thing they found was that LMPD discriminates

959
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 8: against people with behavioral health disabilities room responding to crisses.

960
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: That's a list. That's a long list.

961
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 3: That's a long list.

962
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: Representative Haraan, why would your man not sign? What is

963
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: he saying? What's the issue at this point?

964
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 8: I mean, I think if you look at what he

965
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,520
Speaker 8: is saying publicly, he just basically said that they're not

966
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 8: in agreeans but has not gone into detail exactly what

967
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 8: that means. But publicly that is what he is saying

968
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 8: that currently they do not agree. The two parties have

969
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 8: not come on an agreeance. I think the other thing

970
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 8: that I want people to know and understand is that

971
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 8: the community has never been a part of the process

972
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 8: once the negotiation is started, So we're actually also in

973
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 8: a place where we're putting trust in the current administration

974
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 8: and putting trust in the DOJ that whatever comes out

975
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 8: of it, that we're trusting that that is what we

976
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 8: want as a community.

977
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:42,359
Speaker 3: And so.

978
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 8: You know, it's so it's a lot so like right now,

979
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 8: we're literally putting our trust in these two entities that

980
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 8: they're going to do right by the people. And so

981
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 8: as we're saying we need to get this done before

982
00:52:57,040 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 8: January nineteenth, we still haven't even had it even been

983
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 8: a part of that deeper conversation about what exactly is

984
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 8: the negotiations right now or who actually from.

985
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,479
Speaker 3: The city is a part of the negotiation. We don't

986
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 3: know what that is.

987
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 2: I mentioned that our councilwoman, Shamika parish Wright has also joined.

988
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for Shamika for coming in and

989
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 2: being with us. Counselwoman, please.

990
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 5: Thank you first, good afternoon, and it's an honor to

991
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 5: be here and I really appreciate you all. Keeping as

992
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 5: fire lit, I told Tamika, the timing is perfect, and

993
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 5: I'm glad that we have a Kentucky lawyer who is

994
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,959
Speaker 5: very amazing and capable. So if I say some things

995
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 5: that ain't right, you could get me right. But I

996
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 5: first want to thank now Senator Electator hearing. That is

997
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 5: the phenomenal to know that you're going to be carrying

998
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,399
Speaker 5: justice and equality and all those things at that level

999
00:53:56,440 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 5: because we really really need it. And today we had

1000
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 5: a press conference right at in Justice Square aka Jefferson Square,

1001
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 5: right where the marker is signifying what happened to Breonna

1002
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 5: Taylor and all the subsequent best David McAtee and Tyler

1003
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 5: Gerf and everyone else that's been connected. It's been an

1004
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 5: ongoing battle. I don't know about you all, because you

1005
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 5: all have been day one down on the ground too,

1006
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 5: but it's been an up and down roller coaster and

1007
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:30,280
Speaker 5: as my son alluded to, it just seems like never ending,

1008
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 5: you know, an accountability I don't know. I got in

1009
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 5: trouble a lot when I was younger. I don't know

1010
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 5: about you all, and the only choice I had sometimes

1011
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 5: was to choose a switch or a belt or punishment,

1012
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 5: and to me, punishment was the worst. But I knew

1013
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 5: that with the switch or the belt it'll be over

1014
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:52,240
Speaker 5: with quick. The problem is is that LMPD is trying

1015
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 5: to continue through the mayor, because the mayor is now

1016
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 5: as a puppet we have one of our deputy mayors

1017
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 5: that is a former police officer that still operates, was

1018
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,399
Speaker 5: once over the FOP was once he was there when

1019
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 5: they had a recent consent decree. This is our second

1020
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 5: consent decree in recent history. The first one was on

1021
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,800
Speaker 5: the hiring practices, and he was there this this deputy

1022
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 5: mayor was there doing that part of the process and

1023
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 5: maybe it helped him as a black man on the

1024
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 5: police force. But right now what we have is people

1025
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:27,280
Speaker 5: the police who have been policing themselves the whole time,

1026
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 5: trying to tell us. They didn't tell us how they

1027
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 5: were going to hurt us, but they're trying to tell

1028
00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 5: us how we should heal. So they're looking for an

1029
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 5: exit date. They said that they looked at all these

1030
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 5: different content decrees in other places and they seem to

1031
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 5: go on with the monitoring and they want to make sure.

1032
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 9: That there's a real clear exit strategy.

1033
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 10: One of the reasons, one of the reasons we have

1034
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 10: were giving to what was given to why the mayor isn't,

1035
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 10: as you know, trying to sign it.

1036
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 5: But they say different things. They talked about both sides

1037
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 5: of their mouth. They say in one press conference by

1038
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 5: Thanksgiving we should have something, and that the mayor is

1039
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 5: eager to sign it. And then when I was just

1040
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 5: in a council meeting before our regular council meeting, it

1041
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 5: was announced that the mayor wants to make sure that

1042
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,760
Speaker 5: there's an extra strategy and in one of the council

1043
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 5: people alluded to the ongoing cost of monitoring. So my

1044
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 5: thing is, so what whatever it costs, LMPD earned it.

1045
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 5: That is the narrative that we must all be united on.

1046
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,680
Speaker 5: They earned this concept decree. You don't get to tell

1047
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 5: us when it ends. You don't get to try to

1048
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 5: maintain and monitor.

1049
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 9: What you get out of your as.

1050
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 5: Your punishment or your consequences. Because this has happened before,

1051
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,760
Speaker 5: our LMPD is our the same Louisville Metro Police Department

1052
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 5: accused of hurting young children in their Explorer program, raping

1053
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 5: young children, raping women. There's nothing in our books for that.

1054
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 5: I'm thankful for the work of representative hearing because without

1055
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 5: that we wouldn't even have a formal no more, no

1056
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 5: knocks on the books. I'm thankful for the States, but

1057
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 5: there's been nothing really significant. So the DOJ response is

1058
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 5: a federal response, and what we need is a local

1059
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 5: response that helps us hold them accountable, which is why

1060
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 5: I followed the People's Consent to cree and that has

1061
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 5: exactly what Caturrn Hearing laid out, as well as the

1062
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 5: History of Policing report. It's their words, it's the words

1063
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 5: that they've accepted, that they put on their website, and

1064
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 5: to get my colleagues to pass a resolution meant for them.

1065
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 5: They couldn't hold too truth. You can want the most trusted, trained,

1066
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 5: well paid police department, but they still are held accountable

1067
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 5: because basically we're paying them and they're violating human rights

1068
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 5: and civil rights and there's no repercussion. And if you

1069
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 5: really want to stop the gang balance and the balance

1070
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 5: that we see, that balance happens in board rooms, it

1071
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 5: happens before we see it on the ground, and it

1072
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 5: definitely happens with our police department. So we have so

1073
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 5: many fronts on I just appreciate being able to be

1074
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 5: a part of this communication. I plan to refoul the

1075
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 5: People's Consent decree. It passed out of committee and then

1076
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,560
Speaker 5: it got sold when it went to the whole council,

1077
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 5: and so I wrote our council for council, I wrote

1078
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 5: them and asked them, what do I need to do

1079
00:58:19,520 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 5: to foul this again, because we have nothing in writing

1080
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 5: to meet in mine soon on our books that really

1081
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 5: acknowledges what has happened. This federal response is one thing,

1082
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 5: but we don't have anything that signifies what happens so

1083
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 5: that we can hold them accountable going forward.

1084
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 7: I think one thing with that though, too, is we

1085
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 7: do have to be cognizant of Like I'm in support

1086
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 7: of the people's consent decree, but I also don't want

1087
00:58:47,240 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 7: to confuse constituents in we have a federal consent decree

1088
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 7: which the federal courts can enforce, and so there is

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Speaker 7: that enforceability mechanism within that consent decree. And I you know,

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Speaker 7: I've seen the work that Kristin Clark has been putting

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Speaker 7: in around the country, not just in Louisville.

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Speaker 6: Like this isn't just something she's doing in Louisville.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 7: She comes from Tamika, you know, Kristen, she She's got

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Speaker 7: a long pedigree from Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights under

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Speaker 7: the Law to you know that this appointment and you know,

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Speaker 7: her office being the one that led the is leading

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Speaker 7: the criminal prosecutions for the officers against Breonna Taylor, her

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Speaker 7: office being the ones that you know did the criminal

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Speaker 7: prosecutions against the officers that was throwing to Slashy.

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Speaker 6: So it's like her office.

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Speaker 7: Has been the one holding these people responsible for even

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Speaker 7: the little bit of respons is. It's it's a small

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Speaker 7: measure of accountability for what needs to be happened. But

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Speaker 7: any type of accountability that's come, whether it's in Brianna

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00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 7: Taylor's case or whether it's in other cases the civil

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00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 7: rights violations, it's coming from her office.

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Speaker 6: And so I have a lot of faith.

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Speaker 7: It's like when we talk about what's in that consent decree,

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Speaker 7: Kristen ain't letting no bs come through that consent decree.

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Speaker 7: And so like when I say like pushing consent like

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Speaker 7: before January nineteenth, like to me, I feel like may

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01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 7: Greenberger has stalled it out and you know he's sought

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Speaker 7: it out to see what's gonna happen with the election,

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Speaker 7: and then like, oh the election turned out, you know,

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Speaker 7: we might get away without actually ever having.

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Speaker 6: To sound one. And it's like, nah, we shouldn't let

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Speaker 6: that ride.

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Speaker 7: Like this department is no better than it was when

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Speaker 7: they issued that report. And you set up here and

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Speaker 7: it's like, oh, we're going to accept the accountability and

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Speaker 7: da da da. And at the end of the day,

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Speaker 7: when we talk about how much it's gonna cost to

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Speaker 7: monitor it, what I can tell you is these lawsuits

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Speaker 7: that continue to come costs more than the cost to

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Speaker 7: monitor it because they continue to get sued back to

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Speaker 7: back to back. Like people are taking this patterns and

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Speaker 7: practice investigation finding, they're taking like the civil rights attorneys

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Speaker 7: are taking it in court, like look what they do,

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01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 7: Like it's ain't just they can't say they didn't know,

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01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 7: they've been valid and they continuing to do it.

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Speaker 6: So like we have to change.

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Speaker 7: And if they're not going to change, like mayor, by

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Speaker 7: bye bye.

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Speaker 3: So what do you think what should be the next steps?

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Speaker 3: What can people do?

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Speaker 4: Like, you know, Katura was talking about how there is

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Speaker 4: nobody part of you know, the community that has any

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Speaker 4: input inside of what happened in is discent decrease. So

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Speaker 4: what can just the people in constituents and the citizens

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Speaker 4: do to help move this forward.

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Speaker 8: I think the biggest thing right now is there has

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01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 8: to be all hands on deck and pressure for the

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Speaker 8: mayor's office to sign it, you know, and people can

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Speaker 8: do that by a calling directly to the Mayor's office.

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01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 8: People can also call their Metro Council members. Obviously we

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01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:51,000
Speaker 8: have Councilwoman Paris right who's on board. But the same

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Speaker 8: way that we had the line going when it came

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01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:01,320
Speaker 8: to Breonna Taylor in twenty twenty, when you call Metro

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Speaker 8: Council literally on that line and said, if you're calling

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Speaker 8: regard Breonna Taylor, press one, all other inquiries press two,

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Speaker 8: and that's the same type of pressure that needs to

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Speaker 8: be put back on that. They need to note that

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Speaker 8: the people are serious and that this needs to be

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Speaker 8: signed because of significance. No matter what the next administration

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Speaker 8: is gonna do, this is the responsibility of the mayor.

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Speaker 3: And this administration.

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Speaker 8: We can't wait to see what a Trump administration's gonna do,

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Speaker 8: whether he's gonna take them away or not. We'll deal

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Speaker 8: with that when that piece comes, but right now, the

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Speaker 8: Mayor's office they need to do everything in their power

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Speaker 8: to put that pen to that paper and sign it

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Speaker 8: and to get on the contract to make sure that

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Speaker 8: the people of Louisville are protected, and then for him

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Speaker 8: to hold truth to what he said that he was

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Speaker 8: gonna do when the people elected him right, And.

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Speaker 2: I think that's so important because regardless of what happens

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Speaker 2: with Trump, he still has a re election for himself.

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Speaker 2: The mayor is going to want to run for reelection,

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Speaker 2: and people need to be able to measure him, not

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Speaker 2: by Kristen Clark, not by Donald Trump, not by any

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Speaker 2: of those measures. It needs to be based upon his

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Speaker 2: own merit and what he has done. And so I think,

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Speaker 2: I think you're one hundred percent right that we have

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Speaker 2: to turn up the energy. That's why we wanted to

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Speaker 2: have this conversation today so that people can have the

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Speaker 2: information they need. It is very challenging when you're working, studying,

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Speaker 2: living your life to understand everything that's happening around you,

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Speaker 2: especially in terms of the political atmosphere, and it is

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Speaker 2: important for us to break it down and bite size

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Speaker 2: pieces so people can say that I understand that, I

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01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 2: want to get behind that I want to fight for it.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times we say that our communities are

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Speaker 2: not really involved in things, and it's literally because they

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01:03:59,800 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 2: don't understand because no one has explained it to them.

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Speaker 2: And so I think, you know, getting out there and

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Speaker 2: you know and making sure that every Lotty Dottie and everybody,

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01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 2: as they say, knows exactly what's happening in this moment

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Speaker 2: is going to be important, and that's the work of

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Speaker 2: the foot soldiers, you know, those of us who knock

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Speaker 2: on doors, who talk to folks and getting that type

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Speaker 2: of information out there. So I know you also wear

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Speaker 2: another hat, counsel woman, of also being a vocal Kentucky

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you all are already working on this,

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Speaker 2: but I feel like what people who are listening can

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Speaker 2: do is to get the information that they need to

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Speaker 2: go push it out into the corners of the city.

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Speaker 2: So talk about that. But I want to make sure

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Speaker 2: Representative Iran that you are able to come back and

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Speaker 2: really briefly before you go today. This is Louisville, but

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01:04:55,480 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 2: this issue is not only a Louisville issue. This is

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Speaker 2: i'm sure all of Kentucky, and we need to consent

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Speaker 2: to decree in America in general over all, the police departments,

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Speaker 2: all of that, right, we need all.

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Speaker 1: Of it, all of them.

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Speaker 2: So I want you to talk about what do you

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Speaker 2: see in terms of the importance of this for the

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Speaker 2: entire state of Kentucky, because I'm sure there are other

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Speaker 2: pockets that are under your purview. Who have similar issues

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Speaker 2: that are not being addressed. So one first, we'll go

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Speaker 2: with you, Shamika, and then Katura.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for that, and I answer you and my

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Speaker 5: song questions. That is exactly it. The community organizing has

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Speaker 5: to happen no matter what three sixty five, whether somebody

1215
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:44,560
Speaker 5: is running or not. The awareness to making this work

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Speaker 5: digestible in different levels and for people to understand their roles.

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Speaker 5: I think that there's a lot of things that people

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01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 5: can do within their discretion that they don't realize they

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Speaker 5: can do. And so education that is continuous, that's reciprocated

1220
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 5: is so important through this process and making sure that

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Speaker 5: we show up or the good thing is I have

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Speaker 5: my counsel role, and then as you said, I have

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Speaker 5: the role as the director of an organization that is

1224
01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 5: fighting for people to not be incarcerated, to not have

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Speaker 5: their rights violated, to be able to meet people where

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Speaker 5: they at. And these are people who are directly intacted,

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Speaker 5: who are now being asked to be at decision making

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01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 5: tables at judiciary hearings to be able to articulate their story.

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Speaker 5: So they're a storytelling part of this. And I totally

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01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 5: agree with LENNINGA. Baker on. My distrust is not with

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Speaker 5: that part of what Christian Clark and other folks are doing.

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Speaker 5: My issue is that we make things, we paint things

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Speaker 5: with our current administration for one thing.

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Speaker 9: In the media, but if we don't have a.

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Speaker 5: Way to hold them accountable locally, then it's just the

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Speaker 5: same old thing as we've seen the police police in themselves.

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Speaker 5: So one of the other jobs we have to do,

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Speaker 5: and I'm hoping that the People's consent decree.

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Speaker 9: Adds to it, is keep that fire lit. Keep the

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01:06:56,920 --> 01:06:59,640
Speaker 9: fire lit because the mayor cares about his name and

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01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:02,280
Speaker 9: the press because he's working on getting re elected, like

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01:07:02,480 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 9: Nita saying, and election has its consequences as we all

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01:07:05,480 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 9: are still processing and dealing with the most recent elections.

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Speaker 9: So I think that we have to be both in

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01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 9: and we have to know who our allies are and

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Speaker 9: work with them. I think the work that you all

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Speaker 9: are doing is phenomenal because until freedom can bring that

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Speaker 9: national platform, keep that national heat on.

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Speaker 5: And I think what Katura is doing is amazing because

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Speaker 5: her work and our work with Vocal, we're going into

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Speaker 5: the hoods, the hollows, the suburban, the urban, and we're

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Speaker 5: talking to people and guess what, It's less about their

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01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 5: party affiliation, less about the lines that separate them, and

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Speaker 5: it's more about these issues. And as you said to me,

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Speaker 5: because the same issues people are dealing with in these

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Speaker 5: hoods and in these counties where everybody knows everybody, and

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Speaker 5: they use the judicial system to further bully the people.

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Speaker 5: And so we got to make sure that we're showing

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Speaker 5: up for people in every way. So we're going to

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Speaker 5: continue the base build, We're going to continue to mobilize,

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Speaker 5: We're going to continue to get more people engaged in

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Speaker 5: our organization and the other partner organizations. And then we

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Speaker 5: also want to push for people to be appointed to

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Speaker 5: these seats as commissioners, as being a part of where

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Speaker 5: these decisions are being made and where we can push

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Speaker 5: people to use their discretion, because a lot of people

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Speaker 5: need to be engaged in this work, not just our

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01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 5: foot soldiers, of course, but sometimes we have people who

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Speaker 5: work within the government or within the agencies who can

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Speaker 5: lift up their voices and be a.

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Speaker 9: Part of this.

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Speaker 5: So I think the empowerment to standing with our folks

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01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 5: when they are making the right decisions, to having their

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Speaker 5: back when things are going well, and to build a culture,

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Speaker 5: because you talked about culture change earlier, to build a

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Speaker 5: culture where people can actually stand on the right side

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Speaker 5: of this penimum that we know is moving towards justice

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Speaker 5: and feel supported. Because we still operate as a small

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Speaker 5: town in Kentucky where they can pick up the phone

1280
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Speaker 5: and shut you down, and so people worry about their

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Speaker 5: jobs and their housing. So we're trying to find ways

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Speaker 5: where people can take a part of this and still

1283
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Speaker 5: have a home to go to and still have a

1284
01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,719
Speaker 5: job to go to. So I'm in it to wherever

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Speaker 5: our vocal folks are in it and other organizing groups

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01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:04,519
Speaker 5: are in it, and I want to be connected to

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Speaker 5: what you all are doing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good, Shamikha.

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Speaker 8: And as you spoke about the hood to the holler

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Speaker 8: and the urban and suburban, this police misconduct is happening

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Speaker 8: all over the state of Kentucky, and so as you said,

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Speaker 8: why is it important that we do this here, It's

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Speaker 8: important because we need to send a message across the commonwealth.

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Speaker 8: Just last week, there was a family of a white guy,

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Speaker 8: I believe his name was Joseph Martin. Believe it's Joey

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Speaker 8: or Joseph Martin that his family just fouled a lawsuit

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Speaker 8: and they're wanting a federal investigation because their son was

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Speaker 8: killed in Marion County, in a smaller county in our state,

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Speaker 8: where the police kneeled on the back of his neck

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Speaker 8: for over a minute and a half.

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Speaker 3: And so when we talk.

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Speaker 8: About the misconduct that's happening as it relates to policing,

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Speaker 8: it's not just happening in Louisville. It is happening across

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Speaker 8: the commonwealth. Here in the Commonwealth, there's been a lot

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Speaker 8: of police involved shootings where police have killed and shot

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Speaker 8: individuals who were unarmed. And so this is something that

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Speaker 8: I believe that if we're able to get that consent

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Speaker 8: decree done here in Louisville, then it does in the

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Speaker 8: message across the state and it empowers other communities to say,

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01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 8: you know what, we can speak up and we can

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01:10:28,439 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 8: band together to hold our law enforcement together, because as

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Speaker 8: counselwoman just said, it is very difficult when you go

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Speaker 8: out in these communities and talk to folks, their business owners,

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01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:44,800
Speaker 8: they have law practices, they're doctors. Some of them are

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01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 8: afraid to speak out because depending where they are, people

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01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:52,400
Speaker 8: will stop patronizing their businesses. But I believe that this

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Speaker 8: what this statement says is it doesn't matter if you're black, white,

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Speaker 8: from Louisville or you're from the country. We're gonna band

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01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:02,200
Speaker 8: together and right is right and wrong is wrong. And

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Speaker 8: at the end of the day, we want to make

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Speaker 8: sure that all Kentuckians that they have justice and they

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Speaker 8: are protected and protected from law enforcement, and the law

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Speaker 8: enforcement is doing their job, and when they're not doing

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Speaker 8: their job, we are going to hold them accountable.

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Speaker 3: Amen. I want I just want to say one thing,

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Speaker 3: just on a high note. You know, we did see

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Speaker 3: a peace of justice in Breonna Taylor's case. You know

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Speaker 3: we did.

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Speaker 4: We you know we we've been fighting against it and

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Speaker 4: it just shows how elections have consequences, how fighting has consequences.

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Speaker 4: For four years straight, we did everything possible to bring

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Speaker 4: attention to fight. Lenita was the lawyer, We was outside advocating.

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Speaker 4: You know, we watched you guys get elected to office

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Speaker 4: based off just the fighting and everything that we did

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Speaker 4: during that case. So I just want you to I

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01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 4: need to just speak a little bit about what happened

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Speaker 4: in that case and just you know, and give us

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Speaker 4: a little bit of hope, a little bit of hope

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01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 4: and just say what should be the next steps that

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01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 4: we should be doing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: So, of course, a few weeks ago, Bratt Hankinson was

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01:12:08,640 --> 01:12:13,120
Speaker 7: found guilty for voilating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor.

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Speaker 6: So his sentence and is now in April.

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Speaker 7: First, it was gonna be March twelfth, which was, you know,

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01:12:18,760 --> 01:12:22,160
Speaker 7: on the eve of the anniversary of Brianna's death. But

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Speaker 7: I think his lawyers later realized that, hold on, that

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Speaker 7: might not so it's in April now.

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Speaker 6: But that's okay, Ms Palmer. She was mad, but she's

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Speaker 6: okay now.

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Speaker 7: He did foul a motion for a new trial, you know,

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Speaker 7: as I tell Miss Palmer all the time.

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Speaker 6: Like that, he's their defense attorney.

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Speaker 7: They have to do it right. I'm not as worried

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Speaker 7: about the motion for a new trial. The one thing

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Speaker 7: I can say about Judge Jennings is I do feel

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Speaker 7: like she did everything within her power to make sure

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Speaker 7: that that trial was fair. And so I'm not as

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Speaker 7: concerned about a new trial. And she's not going anywhere anytime.

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Speaker 7: I'm soon, Judge Jennings. The other two officers, Joshua James

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Speaker 7: and cal Meanie, were still waiting on trial dates for them.

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Speaker 7: Mike songer An. I always forget Inns name.

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Speaker 6: I hate it. But the DOJ prosecutors.

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Speaker 7: The good thing about the two prosecutors that we've had

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Speaker 7: in this case is they extend beyond any presidential administration.

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Speaker 6: They didn't come on when Biden was higher.

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Speaker 7: You know, they've been around for ages, and so, you know,

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01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:35,080
Speaker 7: barring somebody coming in and telling them to get rid

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01:13:35,120 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 7: of these cases, they're going to fight tooth and nail

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Speaker 7: to get justice for BROWNA. Taylor's family. And I have

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Speaker 7: four faith and trust in those two prosecutors. You know,

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Speaker 7: you guys saw the first trial. This trial, we was

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01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:51,640
Speaker 7: all outside trying to figure out what's going on with elections.

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01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 7: It was so much going on this time around it,

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Speaker 7: and like even I was like, did we really set

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Speaker 7: a trial like two weeks before election date or a

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Speaker 7: month before election day? But that first trial, you know,

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01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 7: you got to see them and and and interact with

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01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:08,720
Speaker 7: with those prosecutors, and you can tell their heart art

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01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:13,639
Speaker 7: that it is for fighting a system of corruption within

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Speaker 7: police departments and get rid of.

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Speaker 6: Those civil rights violations. And so I do have faith

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Speaker 6: in those two.

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Speaker 2: We were fighting and we were in an election during

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Speaker 2: the first trial as well. Because that's when we spent

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Speaker 2: Daniel Cameron's asked and sentence.

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Speaker 5: Exact Cameron Judge just always.

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01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:39,960
Speaker 1: It's never there is no fight that we're.

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01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:44,360
Speaker 2: Involved in that's easy or simple, or the cake will

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01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 2: always an added layer. I forgot about that it was

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01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 2: doing it was there an election. So but I want

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01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 2: to say thank you to all of you, and and

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01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:56,439
Speaker 2: my son has said that we have wins.

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Speaker 6: I got one thing though, before you go.

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Speaker 7: So next Tuesday, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division,

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Speaker 7: we talked about Tamika Palmer, Brianna's mom.

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Speaker 6: She is going to be in Washington, d C. With

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Speaker 6: Kristin Clark.

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Speaker 7: This year marks thirty years of Patterns in Practice the

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Speaker 7: Civil Rights Department Division, Department of Justice being able to

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Speaker 7: pursue civil rights remedies for patterns in practice as valation.

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Speaker 6: So they have a panel coming up next Tuesday.

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Speaker 7: Ms Palmer is going to be there as a representative

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01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 7: of a family who's been impacted. As you heard, representative

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01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 7: or Senator elected. I don't know which one.

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Speaker 5: I like.

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01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 6: We're going to representative senator elect give a.

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Speaker 5: Hearing.

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01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:42,040
Speaker 7: You heard her talk about one of the valations that

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01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:45,920
Speaker 7: they found was getting improper search warrant so that the

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01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 7: patterns in practice definitely led to Brianna's murder.

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01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 6: And so she's going to be up there with.

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01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 7: Kristin Clark and some other Derek Johnson's one of the panelists.

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Speaker 7: So that's going on next Tuesday, December third. And the

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Speaker 7: phone calls still work because when we was doing a

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01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 7: number no Knock, some of my friends that were all

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01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:06,879
Speaker 7: Metro Council call and it was like, I'm not already

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01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 7: voted for it. Can you please tell them to stop

1419
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:10,919
Speaker 7: calling me. I'm like, now they're calling everybody.

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01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: I can't you know, So anything about that, that's all right.

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01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 2: You get a call too, because the elected officials, from

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01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 2: the morning to the night, things can shift. So we

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01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 2: just get fresh on because when those donors start calling things,

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01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:30,120
Speaker 2: people start getting a little shaky, which is why I

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01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 2: appreciate that the two elected officials that we have here

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01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:35,679
Speaker 2: are two that.

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01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 1: Have taken the hard way.

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01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 2: It's the steps up the backside of the building, and

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01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:43,599
Speaker 2: you know you might have to take the fire escape also,

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01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 2: which means that you're not taking the money from all

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01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 2: the big corporations and the special interest groups. You know,

1432
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 2: you out here bootstraps like real knee and dollars and

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 2: cents from every single person who believes in justice, who

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01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:05,519
Speaker 2: believes in a fair process in terms of you know,

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01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 2: our government and elections and all of that, and you know,

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01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:11,360
Speaker 2: and I just think, you know, it's the same for us.

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01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:15,200
Speaker 2: And until freedom, we could be taking money from corporations.

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01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 2: And you know, we got we have friends, they got

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01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 2: a lot of money. They would love to give us money,

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01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 2: but they got that's gonna come with conditions. It's gonna

1441
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 2: come with people expecting certain things. So we are out here.

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01:17:28,120 --> 01:17:30,800
Speaker 2: Sometimes the bank account has the money for payroll, and

1443
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 2: sometimes it's real low, and we're trying to figure it out.

1444
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:36,720
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, we maintain our integrity,

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01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 2: and certainly the two of you have done that. And

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01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:42,320
Speaker 2: of course Lanita won't even take certain people's cases, So

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01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 2: that's an I'm gonna I'm gonna talk to her because

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01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 2: Lania needs to be the one to go get rich,

1449
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,760
Speaker 2: don't worry about not taking certain people's money so the

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01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,599
Speaker 2: rest of us can have something.

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01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:56,559
Speaker 1: We love y'all so much.

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01:17:56,640 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 2: We're gonna be in Kentucky soon, and this particular effort,

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01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 2: it feels like we have days to push as hard

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01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:08,760
Speaker 2: as possible. So let's talk offline and figure out what

1455
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 2: that looks like and continue to to and and to

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01:18:11,760 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 2: activate our base.

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01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: We have a base. We built a base.

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01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 2: In Kentucky across the state of people who just need

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01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:20,920
Speaker 2: to know what to do, and we need to give

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01:18:20,960 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 2: them that and get them to work.

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01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: Y'all, Love you, y'all.

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01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:37,920
Speaker 2: Congratulations, Congratulations again.

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01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 4: By y'all.

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01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:46,840
Speaker 2: Listen, it's a it's a fight, it's a struggle. It's

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01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:47,840
Speaker 2: it's we like this.

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01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 3: We're always in the trenches, man, that's what we do.

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01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:51,680
Speaker 5: Man.

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01:18:51,760 --> 01:19:02,680
Speaker 4: So shout out to Katura, I mean, representatives Paris, right,

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01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 4: councilwoman in shout out to Esquire. So all the work

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01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 4: we've done, man, Like you said, we built a real

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01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 4: family in Kentucky. Now, I wanted to make sure that

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01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 4: we talked about that little piece of justice that we got.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 4: For all those years, you know, there was tears, there

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01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:25,840
Speaker 4: was there was tear gas.

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01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,839
Speaker 3: You know, there was a lot of things that was lost.

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01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:32,679
Speaker 4: There was we lost other people during that that lost

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01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 4: their life, you know, during those times. So I just

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01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 4: want to say that when we fight, we win, man.

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01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:40,599
Speaker 4: We don't you know, we don't always win. But when

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01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 4: we fight, you know, we actually any because because we fought,

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01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 4: you know, so I just want us to understand. People say, oh,

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01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 4: what you marched for?

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01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 3: What you doing that for?

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01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:55,320
Speaker 4: We marched so that we could see some justice for

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01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 4: Breonna Taylor and the actually have we marched so we

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01:19:57,920 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 4: can make sure that.

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01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 3: Daniel Cameron then become the governor.

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01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 4: These are things that we launched for, and we understand

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01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 4: when we make our voices loud and we show our

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01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 4: unity and we are intentional about things, those things actually happen.

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01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:15,160
Speaker 2: So absolutely, absolutely, what don't you get today, sir?

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01:20:15,240 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 3: What don't not get today?

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01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:19,920
Speaker 4: And it's it's it's pretty much simple because it goes

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01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 4: along with this. You know, we're talking about descent decrees

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01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 4: and Patterson practices, and we're talking about all these laws

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01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:30,600
Speaker 4: that can be activated and things that need to be activated,

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01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 4: and then we.

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Speaker 3: Talk about an election.

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Speaker 4: And what I don't get right is we we've been

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01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:41,680
Speaker 4: very intentional about letting people understand that for us, it

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01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:44,680
Speaker 4: wasn't November seventh or no, it was November eighth, it

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01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:46,640
Speaker 4: was the day after.

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01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 1: No, it's November.

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01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 2: The election was it was November six of it was

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01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 2: November fifth, y'all people all wrong.

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Speaker 5: You A.

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01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 4: I was just I don't even remember it, but I

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01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:01,640
Speaker 4: just know we made We were very vocal about saying that.

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01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 4: For us, it was the day after election that we

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01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:07,360
Speaker 4: really needed to start organizing. And what I don't get

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01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 4: is how there is this narrative and there's this loud

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01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 4: people screaming, well, the the election is open now, won't

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01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:16,639
Speaker 4: y'all just get over it? You know Trump is the president,

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01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 4: that's it.

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01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:17,600
Speaker 3: Just move on.

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01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: What does that mean?

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01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:20,800
Speaker 3: I don't get what that means.

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Speaker 4: I don't get why people don't understand that there's the process.

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Speaker 4: You elect the president. Now, you hold the president accountable.

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Speaker 4: Now you are very critical. Now you make sure the

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Speaker 4: things that needed to get that you want to happen

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01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 4: in your community happen. It's not okay, we wanted a

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01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:39,559
Speaker 4: different candidate. Our candidate loss, so we don't work anymore. Like,

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Speaker 4: I don't even understand why people think that's how it goes.

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Speaker 3: Every time I have a conversation or you post something about.

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Speaker 4: Okay, these are the people that you know the president

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Speaker 4: elect is putting in his cabinet, and they.

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Speaker 3: Oh, y'all just saw losing.

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Speaker 4: No, we want you to understand the process We want

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Speaker 4: you to understand who the hold accountable for certain things

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Speaker 4: inside our communities, things that's going on inside, laws that

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Speaker 4: we need to be passed, laws that haven't been passed.

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Speaker 4: We want everybody to be aware. We're not supposed to

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01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:08,880
Speaker 4: just go to sleep. The election is over and we

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01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 4: just go to bed, because no, it doesn't work like that.

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Speaker 4: So I really don't get why people think that now

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01:22:16,160 --> 01:22:19,760
Speaker 4: because Trump is a has been elected president and he

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01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:22,280
Speaker 4: wasn't the person that we wanted to be elected president,

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Speaker 4: that we're supposed to just sail off into the sunset

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Speaker 4: and be quiet for four years. I just don't understand that.

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't have anything to add to that.

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01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:33,320
Speaker 1: It is what it is.

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Speaker 2: I've never not been fighting against elected officials, I mean literally,

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Speaker 2: even when they're my friends.

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Speaker 3: This is what I told him, I said, I'm not

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Speaker 3: for an opponent.

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Speaker 2: I you know, I supported Mayor Deblasio's him becoming mayor

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Speaker 2: in New York City.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't think, I don't think

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Speaker 1: I endorsed him.

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Speaker 2: I can't remember at this point, but I do know

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Speaker 2: that while Mayor Deblasio was mayor, especially in the beginning,

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Speaker 2: I was a supporter of his because I knew what

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Speaker 2: he had committed to. He was out there, he was

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01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:15,400
Speaker 2: protesting with us against stopping frisk. He was extremely vocal

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Speaker 2: about reform dealing with policing in New York City. He

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Speaker 2: also was very supportive of the community violence intervention community.

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Speaker 2: He was one to give a number of dollars, millions

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Speaker 2: of dollars in his budget to community violence intervention advocates

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01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 2: and grassroots workers and leaders across the city. And so

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Speaker 2: I supported that as soon as he started to waiver

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Speaker 2: because the police turned their backs on him, and he

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01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:53,040
Speaker 2: had a number of challenges in terms of dealing with

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Speaker 2: specifically with police abuse, and then there were other issues.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to relitigate the Deblasio.

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Speaker 1: Time, but you know, we do know that while he.

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Speaker 2: Was mayor, Daniel Pantaleo, which is the officer who killed

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Speaker 2: Eric Garner, he the mayor's response to that and the

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Speaker 2: way he handled the situation, and the fact that his

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01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:25,800
Speaker 2: own police department refused to move forward with very significant

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Speaker 2: and serious accountability measures for Daniel Pantaleo, we said, well,

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Speaker 2: the nice uh what do you call it?

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Speaker 6: The nice?

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Speaker 2: Oh damn, what is it called? The honeymoon period is on,

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Speaker 2: and we went to fighting him and will continue to

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Speaker 2: do so with anybody. Eric Adams, it doesn't matter who

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Speaker 2: it is. Joe Biden has also been a recipient of

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Speaker 2: US protesting being out there. I intended to continue to

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Speaker 2: do that with Vice Presid Harris, and we're gonna do

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01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:05,600
Speaker 2: it under Donald Trump. The stakes are higher, the ability

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01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 2: for a Trump to target our community and target us specifically.

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01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 2: We already know that that is in fact a if

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01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:19,519
Speaker 2: no one wants to go box when you are X

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01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 2: amount of height and X amount of weight and you're

1586
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:26,040
Speaker 2: gonna go take on the heavyweight champion of the world,

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01:25:26,520 --> 01:25:29,800
Speaker 2: knowing that that is not somebody who you actually have

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01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:33,080
Speaker 2: the ability to fight and win, that's stupid.

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Speaker 1: If you do that, something is wrong with you.

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Speaker 2: It And I'm not saying that you shouldn't take on

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01:25:38,680 --> 01:25:43,240
Speaker 2: big opponents, but for me, every single time we fight,

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01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:47,720
Speaker 2: if you're fighting against government officials and people in positions.

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01:25:47,200 --> 01:25:49,080
Speaker 1: Of power, it's a huge fight.

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01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:52,799
Speaker 2: It is it is significant, but you can still choose

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01:25:52,920 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 2: within something that is more likely for you to be

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01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,479
Speaker 2: able to win. And so that's what we all. It's said,

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Speaker 2: but we know we would have to fight anybody who is.

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Speaker 1: In uh, you know, in in Washington. And it's not

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Speaker 1: just Washington. It's Washington.

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Speaker 2: We're now here, it's in Kentucky, it's in Albany, New York.

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01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:19,000
Speaker 1: It's in every single place.

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01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:23,560
Speaker 2: Across this country where we as a people feel oppressed

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01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:26,800
Speaker 2: and feel that we are lacking the types of resources

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Speaker 2: that we need in order to have successful communities.

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Speaker 1: So it is what it is.

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Speaker 3: Fight.

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01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:35,479
Speaker 4: We're gonna fight, and we ain't gonna never stop fighting.

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01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:38,519
Speaker 4: We're gonna keep on fighting and we're gonna fight, fight,

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01:26:38,600 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 4: fight until then, Please, good night.

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Speaker 3: Good night man.

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Speaker 4: Listen another episode of the Best podcast in America TM

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Speaker 4: my partner in Crime.

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Speaker 3: I don't do crime, justice Crock. Well, we do justice, Crock.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't do just I don't do nothing any thing

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Speaker 2: that has the word crime in it.

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Speaker 5: I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I don't do crime. Hello, everybody out.

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Speaker 2: There, Tamika Mallory does not do crime.

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Speaker 1: That's all I We do justic.

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Speaker 4: Crime, justice, crime. But we want to thank y'all for

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Speaker 4: continue to support us. We want to think our guests,

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Speaker 4: you know, Representative Senator elect kran Shamika Parris right, our counselwoman,

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Speaker 4: and also attorney Leanita Baker for joining us. We appreciate y'all,

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Speaker 4: We appreciate our fans for always supporting us. And I'm

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Speaker 4: not gonna always be right Tamika the marriages. I canna

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Speaker 4: always be wrong

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Speaker 3: But we both always and I mean always, be authentic