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in to talk about their coalition, this grassroots coalition they're

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trying to build to oppose the transit tacks. And in

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case you were not aware, America is now learning of

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the attack on the twenty three year old Ukrainian refugee

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Arena Zarutska, who was murdered over three weeks ago on

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the Cat's light rail train in Southend. Had gotten off

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the work at her job as a working at a

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pizzeria and had gotten onto the train and sat down.

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She had her like her polo shirt or T shirt

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with the pize soeria name on it. She had her hat,

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she was in uniform basically and she sat down. She

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was looking at her phone, she had earbuds in, and

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her attacker sitting right behind her for like four four

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and a half minutes. He stands up without provocation and

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takes a folding knife a pocket knife he had taken

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it out, and he stands up and stabs her in

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the neck three times and then begins walking to the

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exits of the train. He's bleeding all over the floor.

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Most people don't even realize what has happened. And then

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he gets off the train. And we know this because

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local media got the video from inside the cat's train

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and they published it over the weekend or on Friday

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maybe I think it was. Wbtv's video went viral over

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the weekend and people all around the world now were

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shocked to see this video, and it is shocking. It's

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a shocking good Now. WBTV did not show the actual contact.

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Froze the it froze the image, It froze the video

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before it shows him kind of rearing back with his hand,

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and then it freezes the frame and then it jumps

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ahead to afterwards, so it doesn't show her murder, which

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I think is appropriate. If that was your child or

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loved one, you would not want to see their murder.

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On your TV every single day. But the video has

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now prompted all sorts of people at all levels of

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government and politics and media all over the country and

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even outside of America to be just shocked and outraged

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at what has occurred. And part of the response from

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outside has been also the shock at the way our

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local officials have responded and the way national media has responded.

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So first, on the local official front, they have been

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people are expressing befuddlement and anger at the way the

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mayor and local elected officials have responded, which is basically

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in you know, well, their argument is that they have

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kind of taken a blase approach to this. We've been

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saying this now for three weeks that you know. The

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first statement from the mayor came like four days after

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the fact, and it was six paragraphs long, and the

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first sentence was saying thoughts and prayers to the victim

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not named, and then five raps about how we as

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a society failed the attacker and that got people mad.

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And people don't realize from outside of Charlotte, they don't

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realize that the local officials kind of want this story

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to just go away. This is very bad timing for them.

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And I'm not trying to sound you know, uncaring to

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the victim here, but this is like there was a

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political dynamic to this story and the local officials and

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boosters for the Trans attacks like this is the worst

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thing that could have happened to them for their campaign.

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And I know how that sounds. I'm not trying to

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be ghoulish or anything, but this is a terrible development

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if you're trying to promote a tax increase that you

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need voter support for and you get this, So that

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I suspect was the reason why there was this tepid

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response out of the gate. Hopefully it will you know,

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there won't be a lot to see here. It'll just

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kind of go away and that's it. But when the

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video comes out, now it's gone viral, and like it

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speaks to the breaking down of the old gatekeeper legacy

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media model. It really does. Because in the old days,

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right before social media and before everybody had a smartphone

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and could rebroadcast or publish whatever stories they thought were important,

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and they get to decide what is newsworthy and what

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is not. This tactic may have very well worked, but

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it doesn't anymore. And so now when people come to

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this story three weeks after and they start going back

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and looking at the developments. Then they see what we

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were seeing locally, which was this this effort to kind

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of dismiss and to minimize and downplay and just oh

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my gosh, you know, it's a terrible thing. But how

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did we fail? And oh yeah, let's talk about mental

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health and the mental health system and the gaps in

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the mental health system and all of that, and now

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you got Trump. Trump was asked about it Sunday. He

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had not heard about it. Apparently he had not seen it.

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He said, when did this happen? He says, I see

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the video. I'll know all about it by tomorrow morning.

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So Trumps now is now going to get involved in

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That's not good for the city of Charlotte. That's not

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going to be helpful. It's getting the attention now because

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the video got released and people are asking why was

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there a lack of coverage? And in defense of our

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local media, they have done a good job. Our local

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media has done a good job of covering this story

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for the last three weeks. All of the outlets I've

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not encountered really any local outlets that have that have

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dropped the ball or done you know, terrible or misleading

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stories or anything like that. By publishing the video. Now

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it's gone viral, and you've got the mayor of Charlotte, now,

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who's you know, in a primary for her reelection. That's

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the other component here locally is that you've got city

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council members running for reelection and they're worried out this

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is going to impact their reelection campaigns because we are

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in early voting right now. So the mayor puts out

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another statement after the release of the video, and her

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statement seems more angry about the publication of the video.

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She doesn't like attack anybody, but she says something to

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the effect of, you know, thank you for the responsible

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media partners for the way that they're sharing this. This

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video kind of a thing, like sort of a backhanded

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compliment kind of a thing. In other words, don't let

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people see the video. It's one thing to hear sort

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of a TikTok a chronology of what transpired, but when

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you see it, and I have seen it, and it's shocking,

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and you can tell the guy is sitting there leaning

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against the window and muttering to himself and this victim,

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twenty three year old Zarutzka. She walks in and has

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no situational awareness. She's not paying any attention. She's in

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a high trust society, or so she thought. She just

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walked on the train, sat down in the seat, and

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happened to be sitting right in front of this deranged

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man and never saw the attack coming, which we are

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told by the local transit leadership and city officials that

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even if we had a security guard or a cop

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on the train, they wouldn't have been able to prevent

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it from happening because it happened so quickly, and there

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was no indication ahead of time that this guy was

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going to stabb her, and it did happen very quickly,

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and if he was bent on doing it, probably not

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a cop probably could not have stopped that from happening. However,

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his presence on the train may have. I've been hammering

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this away. The deterrence effect is being ignored by all

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of these local officials that keep saying, well, we couldn't

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have stopped it because he jumped up so fast. The

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presence of security may have.

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Speaker 2: So.

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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's,

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and before he died, my mom and my dad took

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care of him as he got worse. Forty years ago,

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there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers

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and family. But things are different today because of the

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work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's Association of

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Western Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people with

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huge hearts. I've been a supporter for twenty five years.

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This cause means a lot to me. I participate in

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the annual Walk to End Alzheimer's and I'm leading a

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Charlotte team again this year, and it's called once again

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Pete's Pack. You can sign up and you can join

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There's also a link in the description of this podcast. Also,

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I'll be am seeing the Gastonia Walk on October eleventh,

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and so you can make a team and join that

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one too, or make a donation and help me hit

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really appreciate it. There are a bunch of other walks

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all over the Carolinas. You can go to alz dot

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org slash walk for all the dates and locations. We're

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closer than ever to stopping Alzheimer's. Can you help us

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get there? Will you walk with me? For a different future,

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for families, for more time for treatments. This is why

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we walk. Richard, Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 3: Hello Richard, Good afternoon, sir.

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Speaker 2: The last thing you said before the break, how the

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law enforcement officials said there was no indication that this

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sort of thing could have happened. No, maybe they were

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asleep the fourteen times. Yeah, he was arrested.

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Speaker 1: What they're talking about is that there was What they're

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talking about, there was no indication at the moment in

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the car. For the entire time he was on the car,

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there was no verbal altercation, there was no provocation, There

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wasn't anything. He was just sitting there and then he

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stands up in a tax her. That's what they were

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talking about.

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Speaker 3: But to the point, but they're not taking any responsibility

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for the fact that this guy had been arrested and

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the judicial system that's actually acting in this case like

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a guy in a coma.

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Speaker 1: Well that's there. So there's a difference. Cops have done

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what they were supposed to have done over the years, Right,

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They've arrested him and that's all that they can keep doing.

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So they've been doing their jobs, and so this isn't

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really a law officer problem, right, This is a local

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elected official. And I know city council doesn't enforce the

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laws and such, but they do have the ability to

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beef up the security on their own transit system, and

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they have the bully pulpit, you know, they can call

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for action. They can put political pressure on the judicial

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court system. And that's really where this stuff sort of

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points all back to, is the court system.

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Speaker 3: That's the breakdown.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the breakdown is the judicial system.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, we have a good day, by.

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Speaker 1: Hi, buddy. Yeah, you too, appreciate it. Richard Vye Lyles,

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the mayor, issued a statement Saturday after the video was

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released started going viral, and she posted on Saturday morning

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on Twitter formerly known as x quote, the video of

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the heartbreaking attack that took Irena Zurutzka's life is now public.

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I want to thank our media partners and community members

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who have chosen not to repost or share the footage

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out of respect for Arena's family. So she's shaming the media.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. She does not differentiate as to whether

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or not she's talking about the edited version that does

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not show the actual point of impact right, the cutting,

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the stabbing part, right, or if she's talking about just

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in general the video. I don't know. It seems like

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it sounds like she's not happy that this video was published,

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and she's making she's going to try to shame the

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media by saying, basically, you should not have published that

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because it's hurtful to the family, right. But it's also

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hurtful to her because now she's having to tweet about

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it on a Saturday morning. Now Charlotte is the focal

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point of international coverage all of a sudden. Whereas they

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may have thought they had, you know, dodged a bullet

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on this one and had gotten you know, gotten past it.

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They gotten away with it, but gotten past it. She says,

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this was a senseless and tragic loss. My prayers remain

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with her loved ones as they continue to grieve through

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unimaginable time and unimaginable time. Like so many of you,

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I'm heartbroking and I've been thinking hard about what safety

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really looks like in our city. I have some ideas. Yeah,

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how about a cop on all the trains start there?

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How about fair collection, cracking down on fair skipping? Right,

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how about using your pulpit in order to hammer away

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at the court system and the magistrates who turn these

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people loose. How about that? If I have to bet, though,

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because they're Republicans. And by the way, Republicans, they could

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can increase funding for prosecutors in Charlotte. Sure they could

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do that. They could crack down with amendments to law,

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which they have done. They have done some of this

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stuff over the last session or two, trying to tighten

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up laws, cracked harsher, crackdowns on rioting and that sort

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of thing. But this always comes back to the DA.

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he needs more prosecutors, So fund them, give them the money.

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The judicial system actually makes more than it costs. Do

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you know that it makes more money than it costs?

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put it towards more prosecutors. The city council could also

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beef up the police force. They could add way more officers.

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By the way, Congress can do grants for more local cops.

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State can do grants for more local cops. Right, everybody

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with Brett Jensen here wbt uh. He just retweeted I

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had not seen this A post from our Attorney General

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in North Carolina F. Jackson aka Baby Jesus. He just

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tweeted this at one eighteen pm, so about twenty minutes ago,

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and he says this was an outrageously heinous and vicious act.

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Arena Zerutzka Arena was killed while sitting peacefully, an innocent

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life taken in a shocking and brutal way. We have

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told the district attorney who is leading the prosecution, that

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our office will provide any and all support to deliver justice.

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We will remain steadfast until that justice is achieved. How

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about I don't know, trying to prevent the next one

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from happening too? But also why now it's been as

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Brett pointed out, it's been seventeen days since the murder.

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Why just now? Why On the Monday after the release

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of the video. Oh yeah, so the Mecklenburg District Attorney

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talked to Axios dot Com and Alexandria Sans reports it

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as such a deadly stabbing on Charlotte's light rail system

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is exposing the cracks in Mecklenburg County's mental health and

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justice systems. So there's already the framing. It's exposing the cracks.

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She points out how the attacker's mother blamed the courts.

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We talked about that. There was an earlier report. I

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think it may have been WSOC that did that, like

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two weeks ago. She then cites another example. In August,

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CMPD got into a shootout with a man described as

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acting erratically. The family had tried to get an involuntary

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commitment for the man the day before, but a Mecklenburg

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County magistrate denied the request. You see that there's a

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pattern here, and maybe Baby Jesus could look into the

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pattern of magistrates and judges. They keep letting people go

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without these types of psychiatric assessments or involuntary commitments, and

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such a very few commit a disproportionate gross amount of

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the crimes. It has always been that way. These are

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people that are known to law enforcement, generally speaking. District

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Attorney Spencer Merriweather could not directly comment on the case,

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which I understand, but he said broadly, defendants often must

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undergo an evaluation to determine whether they are mentally capable

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of assisting in their own defense. Merriweather noted some defendants

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stay in mental health facilities for years while the court

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waits for them to reach the capacity to stand trial.

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In some instances, judges eventually dismiss the cases, releasing people

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who committed dangerous acts. He also says the standards for

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involuntary commitment are more complex than they seem. Brown was

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released from jail without bond back in January. When he

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called the cops, he told them that somebody had injected

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him with some man made material that was making it

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was controlling what he said and what he did and

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how he would you walk and talk and whatever. So

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he was claiming to be under the control of somebody else,

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and the cops that had responded, they said, well, we're police.

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That sounds like a medical issue. He became angry, and

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so he called nine to one one while they were

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standing there trying to get more police out there, and

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they're like, you're misusing the nine one one system, and

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so they brought him in, and the public defender at

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the time questioned his ability to proceed in his own

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court case. The judge ordered a forensic evaluation, which was

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never done, and Brown stayed out of custody. Do you

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see the problem? See, I don't think that's a crack

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in the system, or as our colleague here at WBT,

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Brett Winterbole says, the system failed. See this way, everybody

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gets to avoid any kind of culpability. Wasn't our fault.

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Somebody else didn't do something or something and the system

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that we had there was a gap in the system

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and that's what failed. It wasn't us. Even though his

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own lawyer, the public defender, was like, yeah, this guy's crazy.

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I mean, they didn't say that, but they basically did,

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he's crazy. He needs some sort of psyche valt. Even

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the judge is like, yeah, probably let's do that, and

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then it's never done. Oops, cracking the system. System failed.

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No one's to blame. His past convictions include armed robbery, felony,

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larsony breaking, an enery shoplifting. In the early two thousands,

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lawmakers slashed the number of state hospital beds without adequately

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funding community care as part of a national movement to

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deinstitutionalize mental health. That's according to Axios early two thousands,

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Who did that? Who did that in North Carolina, that

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would be the Democrats. They were in charge of the

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legislature through twenty eleven. They had a lockdown on the

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governor's office as well. They have had a lockdown on

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the Attorney General's office. That was Roy Cooper all those

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years Meriweather. The DA points to some systemic improvements, especially

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in handling repeat, repeat offenders. In twenty twenty three, the

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Pre Trial Integrity Act became law. It requires judges, not magistrates,

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to set release conditions for eighteen violent offenses. That would

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be the Republican legislature that did that. Judges can also

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now decide the conditions for defendants who are facing any

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type of new offense while awaiting trial for another, which

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means if somebody is charged with a misdemeanor let's say,

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like public urination or misuse of the nine one one system,

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and they've got some other case that's pending, than a

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judge could order a mental health assessment, whereas a magistrate

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would not you get or another misdemeanor fair evasion because

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the guy who attacked this woman on the train had

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skipped the fair he never paid for his ticket. The

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DA suggests considering tighter punishments for such offenses. We're using

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these types of minor violations as a means of early intervention. Okay, ah,

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I would say not the latter. I think your first

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instinct on that was right. Tighter punishments. Once again, public

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mass transit only works in a high trust society. You

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do not get a high trust society if people can

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commit misdemeanor after misdemeanor after misdemeanor, they can they can

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skip the fares, they can ride the trains for free,

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they can pee everywhere, they can beat up people whatever.

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Like you don't have a high trust society, then you

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don't get to have a mass transit system that works.

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And as the president of El Salvador, Naib Bukeiley has said,

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you cannot build infrastructure on top of chaos, and he

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is exactly right. Crime is chaos.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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better returns real quick. I have my rules of journalisming.

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You've heard me discuss them in the past, and rule

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number two is that if the scandal is about a Republican,

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then the story is the scandal. If the scandal involves democrat,

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then the story is the Republican reaction to the scandal. Okay,

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so what we are seeing now that the video of

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the murder of the Arena Zurutzka has gone viral. Now

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we are getting the journalism in rule number two applied.

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So now it's about the Republican reaction. This is where

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you start getting Republicans pouncing publican seizing right. These are

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the words that media use in order to form a

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frame and form the narrative, in order to deflect away

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from the actual story and focus on those bad people

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are taking advantage of this situation. How dare they point

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out that this occurred. They're more angry that the story

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has gone viral because they don't get to gate keep it.

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And if you want a juxtaposition, if you want the

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proof of what I am saying, one man's name, Daniel Penny,

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and the fact that you know his name proves what

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I'm telling you is correct. This is not as was

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said during the Kermit Gosnell trial by a Washington Post

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reporter who said this was a local crime story because

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Kurmit Gosnell was murdering babies, but he was doing it

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under the auspices of an abortion clinic, sorry women's healthcare

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center that killed women, and he would collect trophies of

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the dead babies, right, put him in jars in his

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office and such, that's a local crime story, and that's

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why that story didn't get national attention. Right, Daniel Penny

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restrains a deranged man on a New York City subway

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and that guy, the deranged man, dies and Daniel Penny

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gets charged, and now we have to have the national

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conversation about race and about homelessness and mental health and

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like all of these other things. But the point here

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is about the coverage that story was covered in all

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of the legacy outlets, national filtering down to the locals

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all over America. This one. It took the release of

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this video, that's what now has forced media outlets to

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have to cover it. And those that get dragged to

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the story, they cover it through this prism of Republicans

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pouncing Axios, Mark Copudo, mega influencers are drawing repeated attention

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to violent attacks to elevate the issue of urban crime

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and accuse mainstream media of undercovering, undercovering shocking cases. Yes,

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because you are. That's why local media covers these stories.

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Our local media has covered this story, but the nationals

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are nowhere to be found, and we all know why. Okay, well,

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all Dean, Welcome to the show. Hello Dean, Hi, p Hey,

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Let's say.

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Speaker 5: Hey, all this conversation about transit systems and everything, I

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thought I'd do just a little bit of research because

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rather than analyze the event, maybe come up with a solution.

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Speaker 4: Solutions, right, I do prefer it, Okay, And what I

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researched and researched, and I couldn't find any transit system

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to model against.

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Speaker 5: I mean, any public transit seems to be it seems

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to be systemic, So I really I couldn't come up

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with a solution there. So the only thing I could

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come up with it seems to function as far as

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transit or wrap it goes, is to privatize it.

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Speaker 3: And then.

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Speaker 5: You know, is that a solution or is there something

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sure where it is working?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: I mean there are systems over throughout the world where

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it works a lot better for various reasons. If you're

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trying to compare it to American systems, there are varying

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degrees of quote unquote successful. But it depends on what

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your metric is for success. If you're talking about crime

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and safety, that's one metric, But if you're talking about

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like revenue generation, I mean, none of them really actually

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make money. Just depends on what you're what you're trying

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to engineer for, uh Dan, I appreciate the call. The

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Axios article, by the way, is not the only one

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we had. Thomas Mills of Politics NC fame. It's a

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blog anyway, Democrat consultant guy, and he went after you know,

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Republicans for how dare they draw attention to this? W

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faees got the headline video of links blue line stabbing

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sparks national outrage, including from inside the White House. Elon

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Musk repeatedly posted about the case this weekend, also commenting

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, Trump confidant

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Charlie Kirk, Senator Mike Lee, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, North

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Carolina Senate candidate Michael Wattley going after Roy Cooper on

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all of this as you as you should expect, as

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you should expect. All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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