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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. On this Memorial Day weekend,

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Speaker 1: we are excited about the time that we have to

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Speaker 1: be honoring some of those families on Monday on Memorial Day.

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Speaker 1: But today I wanted to take a few minutes just

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Speaker 1: to talk about our police officers. We didn't talk much

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Speaker 1: during National Police Week, which was May twelfth through the eighteenth,

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Speaker 1: but I did have the chance this past Thursday to

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Speaker 1: actually give an award for Police Officer of the Year

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Speaker 1: here in the state of Michigan through the Police Officers

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Speaker 1: Association of Michigan. They had me come to their annual

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Speaker 1: those awards to our wonderful police officers who protect us

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Speaker 1: important thing for us to talk about here today, because

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Speaker 1: obviously this is a special weekend, but at this time,

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Speaker 1: I think think anybody who has had someone who serves

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Speaker 1: and I think that in any way we talk about

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Speaker 1: and has lost their life on active duty, it's important.

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Speaker 1: But even those things that those folks do every single

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Speaker 1: day are very important to us. And the story that

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Speaker 1: I had to read the two officers that I was

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Speaker 1: commending and able to give this award over to in

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Speaker 1: honor of the Police Officers Association in Michigan, their story

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Speaker 1: is so incredible. As a mom, it really resonated with me.

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Speaker 1: So there's two men. One is Albion Command Officers Association

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Speaker 1: Lieutenant Aaron Phipps. The other is Calhoun County Deputy Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: Association Deputy David Winder, and they were being honored for

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Speaker 1: their extraordinary courage and swift decision making. Because this is

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Speaker 1: just shocking to me. In June twenty twenty three, a

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Speaker 1: young child called nine to one one and reported a critication.

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Speaker 1: So you think you're already in a situation where a

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Speaker 1: And I think it's something that most of us don't

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Speaker 1: think about all the time because we don't think about

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Speaker 1: our kids being put in this situation. But the worst

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Speaker 1: part was this child had been stabbed by his own mother,

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Speaker 1: and at that time the mother was endangering the life

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Speaker 1: her in the bathtub. Through the nine to one one call.

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Speaker 1: The child described that this little girl, this two year

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Speaker 2: So these two officers.

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Speaker 1: Show up, and you've got one arriving at the scene,

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Speaker 1: Lieutenant Phipps and Deputy Winder. They were met at the

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Speaker 1: scene by distrusted kids. I'm assuming this means kids in

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Speaker 1: meet them there, they direct them to the residence. This

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Speaker 1: is where we need you. And just so you know,

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Speaker 1: think about this when you hear all this bologney about

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Speaker 1: to defund the police. A child called nine to one one,

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Speaker 1: knowing that when they were in danger from their own mom,

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Speaker 1: And these kids met the police outside of the house

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Speaker 2: So these these.

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Speaker 1: Two men and these two officers acting decisively. Deputy Winder,

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Speaker 1: There he finds mom with the little baby in the

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Speaker 1: These two cops have no idea what they're about to

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Speaker 1: He immediately is wrestling this knife away from mom. The

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Speaker 1: So imagine you're a dad. You come in, you find

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Speaker 2: And there's bleach involved in this situation.

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Speaker 1: He saves her life. This officer saved this little baby's life.

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Speaker 1: The mom was apprehended, taken into custody. And that's what

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Speaker 1: these guys do every day. They are demonstrating the police

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Speaker 1: But I think the most amazing part of this so

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Speaker 1: I have the honor of being able to give this award,

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Speaker 1: present this award, I should say, And these two gentlemen

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Speaker 1: And they run in there together. Deputy Winder gets up

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Speaker 1: They don't have many. There's not that many out there's

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Speaker 1: some people that want to do this anymore. And that

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Speaker 1: was a recurring theme when I presented this award, and

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Speaker 1: there were several awards presented. A recurring theme with the

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Speaker 1: police officers who came up and think about this was Hey,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about much about that day

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Speaker 2: And the little boy to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: He goes home and he said, and I had that

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Speaker 2: These are people.

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Speaker 1: It's so real when you think about it in that moment.

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Speaker 2: We got this without you.

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Speaker 1: And you know what he said, he said, I know

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Speaker 2: I just needed to get this out.

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Speaker 1: I just needed to spend this time with my wife

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Speaker 2: These are the heroes, and the fact that there is.

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Speaker 1: A single elected official out there that does not recognize

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Speaker 1: that these are our heroes. These are the everyday people

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Speaker 1: who have been given a gift. And for you out there,

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Speaker 2: People will say.

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Speaker 1: To me, oh no, no, you could do that, and

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Speaker 1: you know what you think in the heat of the moment,

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Speaker 2: But that's not what this is.

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Speaker 1: This is not a by chance situation.

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Speaker 2: These police officers, they know every day.

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Speaker 1: Is going to be some encounter, some memory that won't

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Speaker 2: But they have a gift.

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Speaker 1: I don't have this gift like you look at what

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Speaker 1: The ability to say I'm going to look into danger's eyes,

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Speaker 1: they're not with their friends. They're actually going to rush

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Speaker 2: And they're doing it because they're.

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Speaker 1: Gifted, because they love us, and because they understand that

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Speaker 1: And to Lieutenant Phipps and Deputy Wonder, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for what you do for these children. And these

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Speaker 1: just so you know they are safe. They both lived

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Speaker 1: say hey, we love what you do, because that's one

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Speaker 1: of the things when I was running for office that

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Speaker 1: the Police Officers Association Michigan would say all the time.

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Speaker 1: People don't appreciate us anymore. They don't come up to

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Speaker 1: what we're doing. They're so angry. No we're not. If

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. You should all be a police

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Speaker 1: Officer of the Year. And we are so grateful for

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Speaker 2: You deserve it.

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