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Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: Viral stories are essentially shaping the face of the news
Speaker 5: as we've seen it play out since from I would
Speaker 5: say Friday seemed to be the kickoff of this immigration
Speaker 5: raid and protest kind of cacophony across the news media.
Speaker 5: And these viral stories involve a lot of people creating content,
Speaker 5: some based in rumor, some based in fact, but all
Speaker 5: absolutely being shared across different mediums to not only share
Speaker 5: information about what's going on, but also to alert people
Speaker 5: they feel could be subjected to these immigration raids. One
Speaker 5: of the things that I did on Friday was actually
Speaker 5: create my own form of content. On Friday, I went
Speaker 5: into the protest zone in downtown LA, because I live
Speaker 5: close to where the kind of kickoff of these protests
Speaker 5: happen at the Edward R. Royball Federal Building where c
Speaker 5: SEI President David Whetta was being held.
Speaker 3: He's since been.
Speaker 4: Really you heard, I told the story yesterday about doing
Speaker 4: federal grand jury.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So right there, right there, right there,
Speaker 5: So drove right there. That's Alameda and Commercial. It's just
Speaker 5: south of Temple Street. Right there in the Olvera Street zone,
Speaker 5: in the Federal District zone right there is where everything
Speaker 5: kicked off. So just to let you guys know what
Speaker 5: I did, I drove into this zone and just wanted to,
Speaker 5: out of my own curiosity, see what was going on
Speaker 5: with my own eyes, drove in. It was largely uneventful
Speaker 5: at the time. I got in, saw a lot of protesters. There,
Speaker 5: saw a kind of a main stage where there was
Speaker 5: someone who at the time was leading speeches and chants
Speaker 5: and encouraging people to continue to be positive and to
Speaker 5: be peaceful. That was interesting to me because while the
Speaker 5: crowd appeared largely peaceful and uneventful, there were the signs,
Speaker 5: There were the call in response chants, there were you know,
Speaker 5: marches that lasted a few blocks in distance. The response
Speaker 5: to that by LAPD was massive, and you saw LAPD
Speaker 5: on Friday, this is around six pm, just as this
Speaker 5: all was starting because of what had happened in Paramount
Speaker 5: earlier in the afternoon, because of what had happened in
Speaker 5: the Westlake district in downtown earlier Friday afternoon. You saw
Speaker 5: this increasing police presence at the entrances and exits to
Speaker 5: the one oh one and five freeway interchange there, and
Speaker 5: you saw these police cars lined up with their officers
Speaker 5: standing outside in front of the cars, holding the batons
Speaker 5: in full shields and full padded everything. It looked to
Speaker 5: be what people are describing on social media as a
Speaker 5: militarized response, and that militarized response was in in tandem
Speaker 5: with what was happening, but it looked to be, in
Speaker 5: my opinion, kind of an overreach, if you will, given
Speaker 5: what I experienced while I was there on Friday. Like
Speaker 5: I said, there was chanting, there was marching, There were
Speaker 5: people who were highly emotional, There were people on foot,
Speaker 5: there were people in cars. There were flags of all
Speaker 5: different country backgrounds and affiliations. But at that time people
Speaker 5: were joined by how peaceful they were committed to being
Speaker 5: now Saturday, I was on air, and Saturday seemed to
Speaker 5: be when things changed a bit. You still had the
Speaker 5: protests going on in Paramount, you still had things going
Speaker 5: on around the city, including in downtown LA. But while
Speaker 5: I was on air for Saturdays with Tiffany, right around
Speaker 5: five point thirty pm, we got a notification that there
Speaker 5: was a black Hawk helicopter landing in Paramount, and social
Speaker 5: media went crazy with their sightings, with their accounts, their
Speaker 5: first hand accounts, their shared accounts of what they were seeing.
Speaker 5: And there's one social media influencer who went especially viral.
Speaker 5: His name is Harry Sisson's. He considers himself to be
Speaker 5: an influencer who leans a little to the left, I
Speaker 5: would say, And his post was sharing about that black
Speaker 5: Hawk helicopter landing in Paramount. It was seen by one
Speaker 5: point five million people at the time.
Speaker 4: Don't run past that it's a black Hawk black Hawk helicopter, yeah,
Speaker 4: which connotes a very militarized idea in the middle of
Speaker 4: the city.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, so, this helicopter lands in Paramount as a response
Speaker 5: to the protest in Paramount and Compton at the time,
Speaker 5: right there on the border there of Paramount and Compton.
Speaker 5: There's a Department of Homeland Security office right there in
Speaker 5: that zone, and the Blackhawk helicopter landed there and was
Speaker 5: seen unloading ammunition, less lethal rounds, tanks, all sorts of
Speaker 5: things that were very militarized. And the person's account of that,
Speaker 5: Harry Sisson, this influencer, his shared post again shared by
Speaker 5: millions of people, seen by millions of people, really did
Speaker 5: shape how people were seeing the events of Saturday unfold.
Speaker 5: I'm on air, I'm reporting about this, I'm seeing things
Speaker 5: on the news, I'm seeing things in social media, and
Speaker 5: you start to really feel kind of this ground swell
Speaker 5: of information immerse and like I said in the beginning
Speaker 5: of this, some fact, some rumor, but all of it
Speaker 5: was geared toward informing people all around southern California of
Speaker 5: where immigration and customs enforcement might strike.
Speaker 2: Next Part two of the viral load. Tiffany hops in
Speaker 2: just a moment.
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Speaker 5: From Friday until today, there have been lots of posts
Speaker 5: across social media, and that's what we're talking about, how
Speaker 5: imagery and videos are really shaping these immigration protests, these
Speaker 5: anti ice protests since they started on Friday in downtown
Speaker 5: LA in the Westlake District. So what I've seen personally
Speaker 5: and you might have as well, is an abundance of
Speaker 5: posting across different neighborhood or community apps. You have apps
Speaker 5: like the Citizen app, which usually documents crime of the
Speaker 5: small or larger variety. Well, Citizen has certainly been inundated
Speaker 5: with thousands of posts since Friday about ice sightings, about
Speaker 5: purported ice detainments, about all sorts of warnings for community
Speaker 5: members who could be directly affected by what's happening with
Speaker 5: immigration and customs enforcement. The same can be said for
Speaker 5: next door, where neighbors share directly with each other about
Speaker 5: what's happening in their neighborhood. And you've had neighborhoods from
Speaker 5: the South Bay all the way up into Ventura County,
Speaker 5: and as well the ring Slash Neighbors app, which is
Speaker 5: probably one of the newest entries into the viral scene
Speaker 5: of news sharing, and that's what I want to focus
Speaker 5: on for a moment, because I have the Ring app.
Speaker 5: That's that device you can put on your door to monitor.
Speaker 5: It's a camera device. You know, it's security and they
Speaker 5: have their own app attached to it so you can
Speaker 5: share information. And since Friday, I've seen hundreds of posts
Speaker 5: across the Neighbors app with people simply asking what's going on?
Speaker 5: What are those loud noises. People have been asking about
Speaker 5: the flash bang noises. People have been asking how to
Speaker 5: respond to tear gas or any other sort of chemical
Speaker 5: inhalent that they might come into contact with. People have
Speaker 5: been asking how to avoid going into areas. Most recently,
Speaker 5: people are asking about the curfew. What does the curfew
Speaker 5: mean if you are on the edge of the boundary
Speaker 5: like I find my self being. And that then brings
Speaker 5: me back to my own personal experience with living near
Speaker 5: the directly affected impact zone of this one mile or
Speaker 5: one square mile radius where this curfew is now underway.
Speaker 5: I live just outside of it, but because I am
Speaker 5: close to it, we have absolutely started to see protest
Speaker 5: activity or hear of possible protest activity coming into our
Speaker 5: neighborhood as they are being pushed out of downtown LA.
Speaker 3: I went back on Sunday.
Speaker 5: Remember I started this by saying that I visited the zone,
Speaker 5: the protest zone, that's what I'm calling it, there at
Speaker 5: the Federal Building on Friday when all of this just started,
Speaker 5: and it was fairly quiet. It's fairly uneventful. Emotional, yes,
Speaker 5: but not violent. Going back Sunday was a different experience altogether.
Speaker 5: I found myself in the middle of the same zone
Speaker 5: on Sunday with about the same amount of people, a
Speaker 5: few hundred. The counts are up to one thousand. I
Speaker 5: didn't see a thousand people, not to say that that
Speaker 5: wasn't that they weren't present, but in where I was,
Speaker 5: there were a few hundred people. And we ended up
Speaker 5: driving along the one on one North just to kind
Speaker 5: of be looky lose because the one on one North
Speaker 5: was open. The one on one South at the time
Speaker 5: was closed. And when we got right there to the
Speaker 5: closure area of the one on one kind of five interchange,
Speaker 5: you did see quite a few squad cars with damage.
Speaker 5: You did see, and these are parked on the freeway.
Speaker 5: You did see people on the overpasses and at the
Speaker 5: time we didn't see any projectiles, we saw evidence of
Speaker 5: something having happened. So we circled back around, came back
Speaker 5: into the zone right by Alva Street, right there, cross
Speaker 5: from Union Station, if you will, and that's when things
Speaker 5: really took a turn and got got hairy, got a
Speaker 5: little dangerous. So we're in a vehicle and there are
Speaker 5: people walking everywhere, there are cars moving through. Were pointed
Speaker 5: westbound looking at the one oh one freeway right by.
Speaker 5: I think that is hmm, I don't remember West Street.
Speaker 5: It's just west of Alameda. And as we're sitting there,
Speaker 5: we're in traffic and we're stuck. We can't move, we're monitoring.
Speaker 5: Things are tense, but we didn't feel like we were in
Speaker 5: any danger. We really felt the emotion of the crowd
Speaker 5: until we started to see people run, and then we
Speaker 5: felt the panic of the crowd. People started running northbound
Speaker 5: on this street that's a north and southbound street, and
Speaker 5: they were covering their faces. You know what that means.
Speaker 5: That means in the way that they were covering their
Speaker 5: faces wasn't to obscure their identity. No, it was to
Speaker 5: be able to breathe. And people started yelling and screaming
Speaker 5: that there were tear gas canisters that were deployed and
Speaker 5: people were now inhaling all of this tear gas that
Speaker 5: was fastly approaching our vehicle. We're in the car, we
Speaker 5: can't move now, we're not documenting now, We're right in
Speaker 5: the thick of things, and we have to make a
Speaker 5: decision to get out of there to be safe. So
Speaker 5: we rolled up the windows closed all the events. People
Speaker 5: were literally kind of sliding over the hood of the
Speaker 5: car to get out of the way. It was a
Speaker 5: melee and people were running for I imagine at the
Speaker 5: time what they thought were their lives because they were
Speaker 5: certainly panic stricken. So we were able to navigate get
Speaker 5: out of there, did not sustain any damage luckily to
Speaker 5: any vehicles. We did see the remnants of the way
Speaker 5: mos that were still there that had happened earlier that
Speaker 5: day on Sunday, and we got out of there. We
Speaker 5: spent about an hour driving around the zone because of traffic,
Speaker 5: just to take pictures. And that's what this entire protest
Speaker 5: has been largely about documentation, documentation and sharing and posting
Speaker 5: of what people are seeing. There are a number of
Speaker 5: images that have been picked up by the AP, by
Speaker 5: CNN that have been circulated, and these images are going
Speaker 5: to go down in history. They'll be on the cover
Speaker 5: of magazines and the cover of newspapers for years to
Speaker 5: come because they have become iconic imagery associated with this
Speaker 5: latest round of protests. And the main objective, the main
Speaker 5: focus of these pictures that I've seen circulating, is to
Speaker 5: show that the protesters, the people involved, are proud, at
Speaker 5: least from my vantage point, to be here, but that
Speaker 5: they want equality and that they want representation, and that
Speaker 5: they do not want the representation of immigration and customs
Speaker 5: enforcement in their neighborhoods. That's what the flags say, that's
Speaker 5: or what they what they denote, That's what the.
Speaker 3: Posters are all saying.
Speaker 5: And it definitely will be a time in which the
Speaker 5: chronicling on social media will continue to shape the narrative.
Speaker 2: Fantastic recap. I'm glad that you're safe. You're a dancy safe.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's one thing watching on TV.
Speaker 4: It's another thing to experience it and see it up close,
Speaker 4: you know, for the safety of your home. It's one thing, yeah,
Speaker 4: but when you see it and feel it, completely.
Speaker 5: Different experience and if I may I do discourage people
Speaker 5: from going down there with their curiosities. Now's not the
Speaker 5: time the curfew is in effect. We're not planning to
Speaker 5: do that, even though I'm media, because it's it's just
Speaker 5: not wise.
Speaker 3: It's not wise.
Speaker 2: You don't want to catch a rubber bullet.
Speaker 3: Don't want to catch a rubber bullet.
Speaker 5: Definitely saw them being deployed upon people, and there were
Speaker 5: people who were agitating the officers and who did not
Speaker 5: look to be at all involved with any sort of
Speaker 5: anti ice mission. They seem to have their own agenda,
Speaker 5: as we see with these sorts of protests. Professional agitator,
Speaker 5: professional agitators.
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Speaker 4: You know what, I feel like, I'm in the mood
Speaker 4: for an extended version of the viral load, and I know,
Speaker 4: Tiffany Hobbes, there are probably some other things going on,
Speaker 4: maybe in general social media, things that you might have seen. Well,
Speaker 4: put it this way, let me just tell you if
Speaker 4: you've seen the same things that I've seen, I see
Speaker 4: that social media is now an agent to try to
Speaker 4: shape how we perceive the news in the moment that
Speaker 4: it's happening. I noticed that when we were going through
Speaker 4: what the protests were going to become, you could see
Speaker 4: that if there were two sides as far as trying
Speaker 4: to depict it a certain way, LA is burning down
Speaker 4: or it's a completely nonviolent protests.
Speaker 5: Do you remember with the fires, when all of those
Speaker 5: memes went out on social media and people around the
Speaker 5: country would check in with you to see and make
Speaker 5: sure that the entire city of Los Angelis was not
Speaker 5: on fire and that you weren't affected because the pictures
Speaker 5: that were going out were it was like a map
Speaker 5: of California and you would see flames all over it
Speaker 5: that someone generated and shared and it would go viral.
Speaker 5: And that's the narrative that people ran with if they
Speaker 5: didn't know any better. Same thing with these protests. And
Speaker 5: because there are people on the ground, and because everyone
Speaker 5: has a phone in their hands, they're able to control
Speaker 5: the story, to write the story as it's happening, to
Speaker 5: dispel any sort of myth, or dispel any sort of
Speaker 5: stereotyping or anything that's not to their advantage.
Speaker 3: And that's on both sides.
Speaker 4: And also I've seen that we have a generation of people,
Speaker 4: it's not my generation. I would say it's thirty and younger,
Speaker 4: who get all of their news or the perception of
Speaker 4: the world in which they live, and they view it
Speaker 4: through the prism of social media. You know, the people
Speaker 4: that they trust, the influencers who they follow, or the
Speaker 4: things that they see without necessarily knowing how to verify
Speaker 4: the authenticity, they just kind of run with it. And
Speaker 4: so you have this belief system running through cyberspace of
Speaker 4: a given event, which may or may not be accurate,
Speaker 4: and oftentimes breaking news happens in such a way that
Speaker 4: not even traditional news can.
Speaker 3: Keep up with it absolutely.
Speaker 5: Take TikTok for instance, there's an entire generation of people
Speaker 5: under twenty one, probably even younger than that, who are
Speaker 5: going to TikTok especially for their news. And this news
Speaker 5: is in its minutia. It's minute by minute, very detailed.
Speaker 5: But because it's coming out and you've set this a
Speaker 5: number of times, MO, it's something that I really live
Speaker 5: by now. It's important not to be first, but to
Speaker 5: be correct and to be accurate. All of this news
Speaker 5: that's coming out is not going through an ac recive filter.
Speaker 5: It's just out there and people then have to parse
Speaker 5: through and use their media literacy to kind of figure
Speaker 5: out what's right and what's not. And because TikTok is
Speaker 5: the most popular one for kids, there's a lot of
Speaker 5: fear mongering going on right now where the posts are
Speaker 5: coming out and they're really scaring people.
Speaker 2: And I talk about that, and I was arguing.
Speaker 4: I was doing Cissen McCain, which is the video podcast
Speaker 4: of Megan McCain, and I was in pitch battle with
Speaker 4: their chat group who was not in La, Yes, who
Speaker 4: was determined to tell me what was actually going on
Speaker 4: in LA And I'm trying to tell people now I
Speaker 4: was born, was like, I live seven miles from downtown. Yes, okay,
Speaker 4: I drive through downtown every single day. There's nothing you
Speaker 4: can tell me about what's happening in LA from the
Speaker 4: privacy of your home in Arizona or Chicago. And they
Speaker 4: were trying to say, well, I saw this, I saw that. Yes,
Speaker 4: but you don't know that Santa Anna is forty two
Speaker 4: miles from downtown LA.
Speaker 2: That has nothing to do with the city of La
Speaker 2: or Karen both. You lack scope of perspective.
Speaker 3: Yes, in context.
Speaker 5: It's funny you say that because those people who are
Speaker 5: arguing with you, they just want to be right. They
Speaker 5: want to be right, and they want to be first
Speaker 5: of the information, and they just want to, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of put you in your place as a journalist.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: And then there are the.
Speaker 5: People whose intentions are a lot less nefarious. Your cousin
Speaker 5: from Wyoming or your aunt in my case from New York.
Speaker 5: It's just checking on me to make sure that I
Speaker 5: am not you know, having tear gas rain down upon
Speaker 5: me just in my every waking moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And talking about social media, it's not uncommon if
Speaker 4: you're on meta Facebook, specifically that if there is something
Speaker 4: large enough dangerous enough, Facebook will ask you if you
Speaker 4: want to mark yourself safe.
Speaker 2: Yes, never happened.
Speaker 3: Never happened, because it never rose to that level. It's unnecessary.
Speaker 5: And those of a who live here, especially those of
Speaker 5: us who live in close proximity like myself to what's
Speaker 5: going on, we know that it is a very small
Speaker 5: section of a huge city that's affected. And even within
Speaker 5: those boundaries, what was happening was sensationalized because these images
Speaker 5: were being circulated over and over again. So it seems,
Speaker 5: certainly if you're on the outside, like things are just
Speaker 5: burning down and there are just thousands of cars on
Speaker 5: fire on the freeway, when in reality that wasn't the case.
Speaker 2: I have to find this.
Speaker 4: Thread that someone sent to me, which was so perfect
Speaker 4: in its formulation. I hope I can find it soon enough.
Speaker 4: But oh here it is media literacy tip. Just because
Speaker 4: you see one thousand pictures of the same car on
Speaker 4: fire doesn't mean that one thousand car cars are on
Speaker 4: tap exactly.
Speaker 5: I didn't see that, but that's exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: We're and people who are not media literate or savvy,
Speaker 4: they don't know the difference between live and be role.
Speaker 4: They don't, And b roll is something which may be
Speaker 4: played in perpetuity again and again and again, and you
Speaker 4: see it at seven o'clock. You may see it from
Speaker 4: a slightly different angle at eight thirty or nine o'clock,
Speaker 4: but it's the same b roll.
Speaker 5: And the algorithm is being shaped by what people are posting.
Speaker 5: So if people in a certain region are posting all
Speaker 5: about the same thing, and those things are being then
Speaker 5: shared in other areas of the country, the algorithm will
Speaker 5: shape itself to show you more of that same content.
Speaker 5: So whereas you might see your kittens and your puppies
Speaker 5: and your other things on your timeline on a normal day,
Speaker 5: because your timeline is flooded with this information, that's what
Speaker 5: is going to be shown to you, because there's engagement there.
Speaker 4: When I was talking about when I was on earlier today,
Speaker 4: I hope to get some clips. When I was on
Speaker 4: Citizen McCain talking to Megan McCain, trying to explain not
Speaker 4: to straight to her, but more her audience that when
Speaker 4: you say La most people who are not from California
Speaker 4: don't know the distinction between La City and La County. No,
Speaker 4: they don't and they don't know that Santa Ana is
Speaker 4: in a different city, different county, forty two miles away
Speaker 4: from downtown. They don't know that Paramount is twenty two
Speaker 4: miles from downtown. As far as they're concerned, it's the
Speaker 4: same city because it's connected to the same story.
Speaker 5: One of the things that I've enjoyed is that people
Speaker 5: who are local to LA or have some accurate knowledge
Speaker 5: of our landscape of our mapping, have been sharing maps
Speaker 5: showing specifically where the protest zone is with a circle
Speaker 5: encasing the zone, so that people can have perspective about
Speaker 5: the size of LA and LA County and southern California
Speaker 5: as a region versus this one square mile that's impacted.
Speaker 4: If you happen to live in let's say Philadelphia, the
Speaker 4: size the geographic size of LA, you could easily go
Speaker 4: from Philhiladelphia to New York, or you could go from Washington,
Speaker 4: d C.
Speaker 2: To Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: Geographically that is smaller distance than going from one side
Speaker 4: of LA County to the other side of LA County.
Speaker 5: It is it is, and the zone itself takes you,
Speaker 5: with no traffic, ten minutes to get around that one
Speaker 5: square mile.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot within that one square mile.
Speaker 5: That again is affected a lot of businesses that are
Speaker 5: closing early to accommodate the curfew.
Speaker 4: A lot's happening, but not only the things which were
Speaker 4: not impacted.
Speaker 2: And I said this last night, I want to say
Speaker 2: it again.
Speaker 4: You know, the most active day, for lack of a
Speaker 4: better phrase, was Monday, and you have the BT Awards,
Speaker 4: you had the Sparts game, and the people downtown.
Speaker 5: There was a marathon in Inglewood and in the evening
Speaker 5: people were going to Arawan and Whole Foods on the
Speaker 5: West side like nothing was happening. I'm driving in close
Speaker 5: proximity proximate. Yeah, the city was still moving. Everything was
Speaker 5: still going on as normal. You have people at La
Speaker 5: Live enjoying La La, you know. And that's that is
Speaker 5: our relationship to protests. We are a city primed for
Speaker 5: these sorts of movements and we are used to them.
Speaker 5: So most of us who have been here for any
Speaker 5: length of time aren't really moved in a way that
Speaker 5: the rest of the country and people outside of La Are.
Speaker 4: And the city did not in any way shut down.
Speaker 4: This city did not. It still hasn't shut down. No,
Speaker 4: you can't go within that one square mile area downtown,
Speaker 4: but pretty much has been life is usual, with the
Speaker 4: exception of maybe some freeway blockages. In other words, where
Speaker 4: it impacts you as a non participant, non direct observer.
Speaker 5: Skid Row is still skid rowing as we talk. They're
Speaker 5: still down there doing their stuff as if nothing's going on.
Speaker 5: So you know, if you look at that demographic, match
Speaker 5: it up or pair it up with the fact that
Speaker 5: you won't be able to necessarily order from your favorite
Speaker 5: restaurant in Little Tokyo after a certain amount of time.
Speaker 5: But the city, as you're saying, is still operating practically
Speaker 5: in a normal way, say for a few hours.
Speaker 4: To wrap this up in a social media context, social
Speaker 4: media does not often care about context or provide context.
Speaker 4: If you see a photo of two way moos burning,
Speaker 4: that is going to be interpreted as complete control, chaos
Speaker 4: and anarchy. And when you're talking about one half of
Speaker 4: one street.
Speaker 5: Yeah, three cars, four cars, and not that that's any
Speaker 5: way to be minimized because it was not good, but
Speaker 5: it is not reflective of the response.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the context is key, And if you really want
Speaker 4: to dispute that, I just want you to go ahead
Speaker 4: and look up the Dodger celebration of twenty twenty four
Speaker 4: when they set a metro bus.
Speaker 2: On a fire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean what a couple of weeks ago there
Speaker 5: was a takeover I believe in downtown LA or East somewhere. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and yeah, they took that bus over and that was
Speaker 5: a lot more violent and problematic than any of the
Speaker 5: incidents have been.
Speaker 2: And then you conflate, Yes, I know, I got to
Speaker 2: go to break.
Speaker 4: Then you conflate because this has been going on for
Speaker 4: five or six days, that somehow the chaos has been across.
Speaker 2: The five or six days, and that's just not true.
Speaker 4: We've had two nights of curfews, nothing but violations of
Speaker 4: curfew arrest for the most part. Yeah, for the most part.
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