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Speaker 2: This is of.

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Speaker 3: Chief also checks another box when it comes to inclusivity

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Speaker 3: and diversity and this department. She's a proud member of

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Speaker 4: That just kind of opens the door of people that thought, Oh,

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Speaker 1: Even know that that was an opportunity for me. Nobody

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Speaker 1: gets infany. I am super inspired now.

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Speaker 3: She took time out of her already busy schedule to

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Speaker 3: tell us about her vision for the department's future, one

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Speaker 3: that includes a three year strategic plan to increase diversity.

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Speaker 5: People ask me, what number are you looking for us,

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Speaker 5: I'm looking for a number is never enough.

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Speaker 3: Out of thirty three hundred city firefighters, only one hundred

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Speaker 3: ways to change that. She's quick to point out that

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Speaker 3: doing so has a greater purpose attracting the best and

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Speaker 6: They feel included, they feel valued, and they feel part

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Speaker 6: of a cohesive team. You might recall a new story

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Speaker 6: from last year. There was some interest in the fire

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Speaker 6: departments and the firefighters in California, and the interest was

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Speaker 6: whether there were too many white men who were firefighters,

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Speaker 5: Well, you can slug this segment a trans terror. The

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Speaker 5: man arrested for trying to break into our vice president's

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Speaker 1: You see this again and again.

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Speaker 5: William Defour, twenty six, was arrested early Monday after Popo

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Speaker 5: say he shattered four windows at the Vice President's home.

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Speaker 1: Family were not in.

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Speaker 5: Ohio at the time, Thank god. The four has been

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Speaker 5: recently going by the name Julia. Defour's father, also named William,

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Speaker 5: So daddy looks at kids wieners all day and the

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't suggest there's anything Freudian here, but the fact

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Speaker 1: It just makes me wonder.

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Speaker 5: The father donated thousands to Kamala Harris's failed presidential campaign

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Speaker 5: in twenty and twenty twenty four. The New York Post

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Speaker 5: reports the alleged vandal has a tricky mental health history,

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Speaker 5: how well is the treatment going? I saw something Matt

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Speaker 5: It's a very feminine thing. Sitting around telling another woman

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Speaker 5: nation is on therapy. People need to get a dog

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Speaker 5: In April of twenty twenty three to four was charged

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Speaker 5: He's crazy. Let's wait around a few months and see

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Speaker 5: He's charged with obstructing official business, criminal damaging or endangering,

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Speaker 5: criminal trespass, vandalism, and more. His first court appearance is

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Speaker 5: scheduled for Tuesday. Every time I see one of these stories,

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Speaker 5: Phil Hartman's character. May he rest in peace fromm Phil Hartman,

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Speaker 5: complete genius, just genius. Speaking of crazy women, his character

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Speaker 4: My name is John Johnson, but everyone here calls me Vicky.

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Speaker 4: Will you please follow me?

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Speaker 1: So you have Vicky telling the story of machine gun Kelly.

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Speaker 5: The story is good? You like Hartman's delivery full disclosure.

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Speaker 5: I'm trusting Ramona on this one. This is his movie choice.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, close it up, Close it up.

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Speaker 8: Clows it up.

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Speaker 4: Now, this is something the other tour GUIDs will tell you.

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Speaker 4: In this particular cell block, machine Gun Kelly had what

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Speaker 4: we call in the prison system a bitch, and one night,

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Speaker 4: in a jealous rage, Kelly took a makeshift knife or shift.

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Speaker 5: I want my country back, and you should want your

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Speaker 5: Because when the teacher at the school started misbehaving, we

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Speaker 5: saying things that you didn't believe in, we didn't speak up.

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Speaker 5: It was the boiling of the frog. You've got to

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Speaker 5: You've got to be willing to be ostracized, lose your job, canceled,

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Speaker 9: Welcome back to NPR. After comments made by Donald Trump

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Speaker 9: regarding trans weightlifters, reaction was swift and loud. Today we

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Speaker 7: When I heard the imitation, I was shaken, not physically emotionally,

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Speaker 7: Pain is temporary, outrage is renewable. Some say it was

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: I'll be back at the gym, currying emotional labor into

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Speaker 9: A reminder words matter, but apparently soda gains.

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Speaker 5: This morning, I had a I don't call them interviews.

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Speaker 5: I don't wanting the concept of interviews. An interview strikes

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Speaker 1: Sir Hi Michael. So how long did you work at Walmart?

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Speaker 1: About two years? Okay? And what occasioned you applying to Walmart?

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Speaker 8: Well. I was born nine weeks premature in nineteen seventy four,

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Speaker 8: I did not get an electric wheelchair until I was fifteen.

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Speaker 5: So did you know they had kind of a special

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Speaker 5: Business is tough. Talk about this all the time. Small

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Speaker 5: Is that not to your liking? What else could we do?

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Speaker 5: Could I refiel this?

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Speaker 1: You horse? You finish the trough water? Would you like

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Speaker 5: And so here we are, and we're having this wonderful experience,

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Speaker 5: So he's going through all this and he's dressed nice

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Speaker 5: and we don't think about that. You know, you drive

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Speaker 5: things are rough right, and yet here we are to say,

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Speaker 1: I think about this all the time. Well, when you walk.

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Speaker 5: Into a small business, we view it as well, I'm

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Speaker 5: But you know who must be killing.

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Speaker 9: It right now?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call them when we hang up.

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Speaker 5: Flag shop owners, Cromberg's flag shop, Cromberg's flags and flagpoles,

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Speaker 5: all of them. You got protesters changing sides all the time.

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Speaker 5: You got Palestinian flags one day, then you got Ukraine.

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Speaker 5: People can't find Ukraine on the map. Now it's Viva Venezuela.

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Speaker 5: That's the new one. That's what they're doing now. I mean,

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Speaker 5: have like what became of Ukraine? Did Ukraine just doesn't

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Speaker 5: What happened to the transgenders? We were all gonna die

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Speaker 5: of the transgenders. I toured Cromberg's flags and flagpoles recently

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Speaker 1: But you got to figure. You gotta figure.

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Speaker 5: Flag shop owners right now have to be loving protesters.

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Speaker 13: At six, we continue our feature on local small businesses.

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Speaker 1: Tonight. We introduce you to Simply Sensational.

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Speaker 13: Flags and their owner, Elmer Clutterbuck, who says political protesters

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Speaker 1: My fifth started thinks back in.

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Speaker 2: Seventy seven, they wanted to sell and I said that's silly.

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Speaker 1: So here I am.

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Speaker 2: Year ago, we were big into sports flag Seahawks, dealers,

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Speaker 1: Fellared for us.

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Speaker 2: Then the protesters became sisational. Boy are they passionate little fuckers.

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Speaker 2: Problem is you never know who they're gonna support. Palestine

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Speaker 2: Now it's been with whaling.

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Speaker 1: Flags selling like hotcakes.

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Speaker 2: Of course I can always count on the rainbow flags

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Speaker 2: Now we make all of our flags non cotton. That

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Speaker 2: I can promise you one thing. As long as we

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Speaker 2: tell you this.

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Speaker 1: We're expanding.

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Speaker 13: Take a look at our new as item that's flying

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Speaker 1: Candles.

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Speaker 9: Are you ready for it, sanctuary sentiment.

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Speaker 13: These are gonna dominate the Democratic candlelight digitals.

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Speaker 5: Here smells like six seven food ramon You knowes cargo

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Speaker 5: They hate fast food?

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Speaker 2: Lifeless eyes, black eyes like a dolls.

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Speaker 1: Let's kick it.

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Speaker 14: Nice nice all right, stop collaborate and listen. Ice is

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Speaker 14: back with a brand new intention. Deeport aliens daily. Put

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Speaker 14: them in a catapult, watch them fly away. We won't

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Speaker 14: ever stop. Hell No. Only word to Spanish that we

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Speaker 14: know is audios to the extreme. Kick him out, thanks

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Speaker 14: to Homan. If you're here illegally, you gotta go man first,

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Speaker 14: it's the violin offenders. Can't bringing those you best so rendered,

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Speaker 14: best up minor infractions. If you resist in the contraction,

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Speaker 14: we love it. You're leaving, Horman, don't blame you. Better

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Speaker 14: hit the road, Jack Colbrand, you are a problem Trump.

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Speaker 2: Just so.

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Speaker 14: The border in the door that's revolving nice Nice tom

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Speaker 9: Nice is coming.

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Speaker 1: I've been here for you.

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Speaker 14: Nice is coming, Joe Biden say he's hold July is

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Speaker 5: I always imagine you realize there was a guy who

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Speaker 5: Ice agent officer costume. Oh that'd be cool. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 5: I'll uh, I'll ask people for their ID. Tell some

443
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Speaker 5: women they they can either go to they can either

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Speaker 5: get deported or come home with me and have sex.

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Speaker 5: Can make the dudes give me money. I'd be cool.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna do it. I you know what I'm gonna

447
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Speaker 5: do it. I always say I'm gonna do stuff and

448
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Speaker 5: I don't follow through. This time, I'm gonna do it

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Speaker 5: and make my parents proud. And then he ordered something.

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Speaker 5: I mean, think of the layers. This isn't a decide

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Speaker 5: to do it in five minutes later, you're asking for IDs, right,

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Speaker 5: and then you know you get up. You figure you

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Speaker 5: probably take a shower before you go do the ice

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Speaker 5: agent thing. You comb your hair real good, clip your nails, shave. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's always a dude. Do you ever notice that it's

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Speaker 5: always a dude? And then and then what you get

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Speaker 5: in your car and you're like, Okay, this is the day,

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Speaker 5: this is the day I'm going to do it. Here

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Speaker 5: I go, watch me, now hold my be or here

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Speaker 5: I go, I'm the Ice agent. And then you figure

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Speaker 5: first time he does it, if he doesn't get caught

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Speaker 5: the first time, he does it one hundred times before

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Speaker 5: he's caught because he gets better.

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Speaker 1: And the people you're arresting are detaining, they're not really

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Speaker 1: in a.

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Speaker 5: Position to tell you to stop. Another fake ICE agent arrest,

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Speaker 5: this time in Galveston. The guy who confronted him tells ABC,

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Speaker 5: I noticed his gear and his outfit. It looked like

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Speaker 5: it just came in from TIMU. It wasn't like what

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Speaker 5: real cops wear. ABC thirteen with the story, it looked.

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Speaker 12: Like a late night traffic stop. To the people behind

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Speaker 12: the camera, immediately felt wrong.

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Speaker 1: What the hell did we just see?

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Speaker 12: Robert Harvey and Bruce Revman are self described community activists

475
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Speaker 12: to patrol Galison County streets and regularly record police incidents.

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Speaker 12: Nearly two months ago that came upon what they thought

477
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Speaker 12: was one near Gallison strand.

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Speaker 1: He was doing everything a normal police officer does. He

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Speaker 1: had people's ID in their hand. He was shining his

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Speaker 1: flashlight at these people in the face.

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Speaker 12: However, Harvey says he quickly realized something wasn't right.

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Speaker 10: I noticed his gear in his outfit. It looked like

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Speaker 10: it just came in from TIMU. It wasn't like real

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Speaker 10: cops where Harvey says. There wasn't a police cruiser either.

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Speaker 10: In the video, Harvey tried to get information.

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Speaker 1: What's your name in.

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Speaker 12: Vashnermery don't have to get Harvey asked to see a Eventually,

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Speaker 12: he says one was shown.

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Speaker 3: You see it.

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Speaker 12: He just hit me in the face. Moments later, the

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Speaker 12: man took off in a blue vehicle. Harvey says they

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Speaker 12: tracked down officers around the corner. I felt like this

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Speaker 12: guy needed to be snitched on. That is very dangerous

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Speaker 12: what he was doing.

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Speaker 10: You know, we don't like bad cops, but somebody pretending

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Speaker 10: to be.

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Speaker 1: A bad cop is worse than a bad cop.

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Speaker 12: Galbson. Police said the incident sparked an investigation. Days ago,

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Speaker 12: officers arrested Joshua Warner. Officers say witnesses told them Warner

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Speaker 12: pretended to be an ICE agent right now. Warner faces

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Speaker 12: a two counts of impersonating law enforcement, but Gabison detectives

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Speaker 12: believe there may be more victims. That's why they put

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Speaker 12: his information in photo out to social media and asked

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Speaker 12: anyone who may have been unlawfully detained by Warner to

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Speaker 12: contact police.

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Speaker 10: After I shared the video, stories came in from everywhere.

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Speaker 10: People were emailing. I probably got one hundred emails, one

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Speaker 10: hundred messages on messenger people.

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Speaker 12: Harvey says he encouraged to contact police like he did

510
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Speaker 12: after seeing this. Who the hill is if you're shining

511
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Speaker 12: the flashlight in his space right now? Now, it's warn

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Speaker 12: behind bars where he's being held on a half a

513
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Speaker 12: million dollar bond.

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Speaker 1: Very happy that they arrested him and got that dangerous

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Speaker 1: guy off the street before somebody got hurt.

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Speaker 5: Maybe he thinks it's kind of like a volunteer firefighter,

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Speaker 5: you know, volunteer firefighter.

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Speaker 1: He's not a full time firefighter.

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Speaker 5: He's not a professional firefighter, but everybody respects and admires him.

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00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 5: Or maybe he thinks to him. So, you know, we

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Speaker 5: got so many illegals. We don't have enough ICE agents.

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Speaker 5: I'm tired of watching the news I'm going to do

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Speaker 5: my part. I'm just going to start figuring out who's

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Speaker 5: here illegal and.

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Speaker 1: Who can stay. That's going to be my that's going

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Speaker 1: to be my contribution to this whole thing. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to uh morel must leaves up and get involved.

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Speaker 5: Michael Reagan, the eldest son of President Reagan, has passed

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Speaker 5: away at the age of eighty. He was adopted shortly

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Speaker 5: after his birth by Ronald Reagan and his then wife,

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Speaker 5: Jane Wyman. He turned out to be a very very

532
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Speaker 5: good talk radio host, a commentator, and an author, and

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Speaker 5: he defended his father's legacy. You may not remember, because

534
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Speaker 5: I think our brain is wired for the negative stuff.

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Speaker 5: But you may have thought that there were problems with

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Speaker 5: Michael Reagan, and in fact, quite the opposite. He was

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Speaker 5: the son who admired his father and worked very hard

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Speaker 5: to preserve his legacy. We had the pleasure of talking.

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Speaker 1: To Michael Reagan back in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 5: In the story he told about his dad and how

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Speaker 5: his dad taught him about taxes, one of my favorites.

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Speaker 11: I learned a lot of lessons from my dad as

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Speaker 11: I was writing writing that book, and I'm just reminded

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Speaker 11: of them, you know, when it comes to Father's Day.

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Speaker 11: How I learned about America. I learned about America saying

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Speaker 11: they're right, let's see the station wagon on any given Saturday,

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Speaker 11: writing out to the ranch and haven't jailed me with

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Speaker 11: songs of the Army, the Navy, the rink or the

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Speaker 11: coast Guard, and learning about America and the greatness of

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Speaker 11: America eight years old writing out to the ranch and

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Speaker 11: just in awe of listening to the stories. I also

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Speaker 11: learned about the tax system in America writing out to

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Speaker 11: the ranch, because I asked him for a larger allowance,

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Speaker 11: and I heard about the tax system in America, which

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Speaker 11: a ten year old doesn't care about. He just cares,

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Speaker 11: you can to give me more mark.

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Speaker 1: It's not give me the money, that's right.

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Speaker 11: But he did make their problems. He said, listen to

559
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Speaker 11: a president elected to give me a tax break, I'll

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Speaker 11: give you a larger allowance. And it was Kenned who

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Speaker 11: gave him a tax break. And he raised my allowance

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Speaker 11: from what a dollar a week to five dollars.

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Speaker 10: It was.

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Speaker 1: So that's a rough legacy.

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Speaker 5: I don't think you it was easy to be Ronald

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Speaker 5: Reagan's son.

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Speaker 1: But somehow he was.

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Speaker 5: The only one who managed to do so with grace, indignant,

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Speaker 5: the rest of peace, Michael Reagan.

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Speaker 1: Hey, the gentlemen Elvis has let for building.

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Speaker 10: Thank you and good night,