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Larry Hoover Jr. Speaks On His Father's Commuted Sentence & Responds To The Backlash + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: So yesterday Larry Hoover was commuted on a federal level
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  Speaker 1: by President Donald Trump. For people who don't understand what
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  Speaker 1: that means, that means that basically we talked about this
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  Speaker 1: in Front Page News this morning, his charges on the
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  Speaker 1: federal level will be like excused or overlooked. But anything
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  Speaker 1: else you're still dealing with, you still have to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: And Larry Hoover is very much so still dealing with
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  Speaker 1: a two hundred year sentence for murder on the state level. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: state level.
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  Speaker 2: So he's not free.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's not saying welcome home and all that he is.
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  Speaker 1: No, he is not coming home. He is not walking out.
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  Speaker 1: Ain't no welcome home Larry Hoover partyes'.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I meant.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I text you on the group land.
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  Speaker 3: What is commutation or what is community?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: He was, Yeah, he was moving him from one person
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  Speaker 3: to the other.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know Chance Rapper was one of the people
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  Speaker 1: who actually posted online. He didn't understand what was happening.
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  Speaker 4: Let's take a listen, hey, Before I let y'all politicize
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  Speaker 4: this or memify this, I just got to say I
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  Speaker 4: am glad that Larry Hoover's home, and I got to
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  Speaker 4: remind y'all that he was a political prisoner that was
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  Speaker 4: set up by the federal government that he created the
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  Speaker 4: was the Chicago votes. He did so many things to
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  Speaker 4: like to really like mobilize our people, and he was
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  Speaker 4: really targeted for that. And so before I get to
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  Speaker 4: Coonan or doing whatever they're gonna do with this information,
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to say, I'm so glad that he's
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  Speaker 4: home and God bless his family, and yeah, thank god.
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  Speaker 3: Chance aren't my feelings because that's just spreading such misinformation,
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  Speaker 3: and Chance is way smarter than that. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: you just read a little bit more chance, you would
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  Speaker 3: know he's not coming home. But that just lets me
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  Speaker 3: know all chance they was read the headlines or saw J.
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  Speaker 1: Prince's post. J Prince of laugh a lot over in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even sorry, y'all, okay, posted yesterday, and when
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  Speaker 1: he posted, his caption literally said Larry Hoover has been
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  Speaker 1: partoned by Donald Trump. So even when I post day
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  Speaker 1: and people were upset, I posted it exactly with what J.
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  Speaker 1: Prince said because I knew people were going to be
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  Speaker 1: upset about it, because it doesn't mean that he's walking
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  Speaker 1: out of the anywhere today or tomorrow at the bar
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  Speaker 1: he was commuted. So to explain a bit really quick,
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  Speaker 1: who Larry Hoover was. He was the co founder Against
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  Speaker 1: the Disciples, which was a Chicago based gang that, according
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  Speaker 1: to police, engaged in drug trafficking, extortion, and murder, which
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  Speaker 1: is why he's going through everything he's going through right now.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We talked to Larry Hoover's son because I was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get clarification for you guys on what this actually
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  Speaker 1: means and what the state level looks like for Larry
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  Speaker 1: Hoover right now. There was so much misinformation going around
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of people thinking that, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: we saw yesterday with Trump and everything that was announced
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  Speaker 1: with Larry Hoover meant that your dad was going to
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  Speaker 1: walk out of you know, the federal prison and you know,
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  Speaker 1: be clear of everything today like right now.
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  Speaker 5: Right. So I've been speaking on this anytime. I was
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  Speaker 5: in a few and I was trying to let people
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  Speaker 5: know that he was being held under Jewish due the jurisdiction,
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  Speaker 5: which is he's been held under state law and he
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  Speaker 5: has been held under federal law at the same time.
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  Speaker 5: So he still had two cases to fight, so he
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  Speaker 5: had to fight the federal case and he still had
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  Speaker 5: to fight the state case. So now he's dealing with
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  Speaker 5: the state case. I don't really know the law owner.
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  Speaker 5: They I heard that it was illegal to help hold
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  Speaker 5: a person under jeurishdiction, which they don't usually do, but
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  Speaker 5: they never uplifted the state case when they took him
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  Speaker 5: in a federal custom. So now we're dealing with state
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  Speaker 5: law now.
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  Speaker 1: So I know that you guys have like this movement
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  Speaker 1: that you're trying to do work when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the state things you guys are asking for like local
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  Speaker 1: leadership that would actually be able to do anything. Is
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  Speaker 1: it like lessen the sentence or what are you asking
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  Speaker 1: for on the state level.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so my father is actually a C number, and
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  Speaker 5: C numbers were because you know, people have a misunderstanding
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  Speaker 5: everything that's going on. People are talking about the narrative
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  Speaker 5: of who they say my father is and what he
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  Speaker 5: has done. We're going back to his statecase and he
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  Speaker 5: was sentenced as a seat number. A seat number were
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  Speaker 5: men that were sentenced in the seventies, and they gave
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  Speaker 5: him indetermined systems. So his sentence was to be at
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  Speaker 5: least two hundred years, and he has to go to
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  Speaker 5: the parole board every It was supposed to be every year,
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  Speaker 5: and when we went to court last they wanted to
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  Speaker 5: make it five years, but the lawyers fought and they
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  Speaker 5: made it made it three years. So the seat numbers
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  Speaker 5: go to the parole board. They don't have a determined
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  Speaker 5: amount of time. They go to the parole board and
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  Speaker 5: it's up to them to decide whether they deserve to
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  Speaker 5: be paroled. And when my father went to be paroled
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  Speaker 5: last time, they said that he didn't do what they
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  Speaker 5: needed him to do, even though he was in the
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  Speaker 5: eighty X and it was no way possible for him
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  Speaker 5: to do the things that they needed to do. They
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  Speaker 5: saying like, oh, you didn't take classes, you didn't do this,
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  Speaker 5: to try to show show that you was thankful on him,
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  Speaker 5: that you regret what you did. But at the same
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  Speaker 5: time he's locked in the closet underground in Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: And then when I posted on online, I knew that
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  Speaker 1: the natural pushback would be but this man is responsible
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  Speaker 1: for you know, the like I mentioned, there is alleged
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  Speaker 1: drug traffic and extortion and murder. So I ask his son, like,
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  Speaker 1: this is how people feel. They feel like, you're we're
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  Speaker 1: glorifying someone who caused all of these things in the community.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say to that? And here's what he said.
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  Speaker 5: People just say that they don't understand who he is.
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  Speaker 5: They listen to the narrative of people that don't know
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  Speaker 5: what they're talking about. Can they tell you people that
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  Speaker 5: he has caused to be killed or that he has
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  Speaker 5: said killed or killed hisself. He's been in prison all
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  Speaker 5: of this time. Right now, we're fighting up. We're fighting
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  Speaker 5: the stadcase that happened when he was twenty two years old,
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  Speaker 5: when he was a baby, and they said that he
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  Speaker 5: gave the call for somebody to be murdered, and his
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  Speaker 5: raft on the case said that he did the murder
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  Speaker 5: and he was released. That's what we're fighting with right now.
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  Speaker 5: Right The stuff that those people are talking about are
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  Speaker 5: He'll say rumors. I'm not saying that my father wasn't
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  Speaker 5: in leadership at one point and wasn't involved in the streets.
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  Speaker 5: But he's on he's had transformation. He was an illiterate,
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  Speaker 5: dyslexic child. When he went to jail, he told himself
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  Speaker 5: how to read, He told himself how to become a man.
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  Speaker 5: He educated himself. He went to college, he became a
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  Speaker 5: a paramedic. You know, he taught classes. But he went
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  Speaker 5: in as a dyslestic kid. He couldn't read, and he
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  Speaker 5: told hisself nobody told him. Like people are speaking of
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  Speaker 5: who they think he is and what the rumors of
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  Speaker 5: him are. They don't know who he is. They need
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  Speaker 5: to look bustled. They need to hear real information instead
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  Speaker 5: of listening to rumors that have been passed around the city. See,
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  Speaker 5: we're fighting the monster the picture that they painted, but
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  Speaker 5: we're not. They don't know anything about Larry Who. If
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  Speaker 5: it was if they know about Larry Who, they would
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  Speaker 5: understand that he wants the same thing that these people want.
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  Speaker 5: He's not for kids dying in the streets. He's not
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  Speaker 5: for ladies being raped and harm. He's not for man.
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  Speaker 5: He's a peaceful individual. He's for everything for black people.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: And so what's your car to action? What do you
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  Speaker 1: I saw something on the lobbyesterday. You guys were tagging
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  Speaker 1: who is the poor person? You guys are tagging? Is
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  Speaker 1: it the governor? Mayor?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's at wor Principale. That's his Instagram and then
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  Speaker 5: as Gmail is governor at Illinois dot gov. We want
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  Speaker 5: to reach out to God to Priscal to tell him
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  Speaker 5: to ask him to sign the paper to give my
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  Speaker 5: father a second chance of life. We're fighting a case
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  Speaker 5: from when he was twenty two years old in which
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  Speaker 5: his rappie said that he committed the crime and he
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  Speaker 5: was released. We're not fight We shouldn't be fighting the rumors.
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  Speaker 5: We should be fighting what the real situation is. That
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  Speaker 5: was the problem in the first place. If the law applied,
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  Speaker 5: he would have been released because of the law. Everybody
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  Speaker 5: that was on his case with him, they was released
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  Speaker 5: because of the first step back, because the time didn't
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  Speaker 5: amount for the time that they gave him, and all
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  Speaker 5: of his rapis were released. But because he was Larry Hoover,
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  Speaker 5: they didn't agree with the law. And I had to
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  Speaker 5: thank Donald Trump for going above the law to give
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  Speaker 5: my father an opportunity. And now, as far as the
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  Speaker 5: staycas is concerned, can we please follow the law. We're
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  Speaker 5: supposed to believe in justice and our If we supposed
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  Speaker 5: to believe justice and followed the law, the law needs
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  Speaker 5: to work for us and our governor says he believes
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  Speaker 5: in transformation, He believes in he believes in rehabilitation. He
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  Speaker 5: believes in redemption. And my father has rehabilitated itself. He
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  Speaker 5: has transformed from the young man that he once was,
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  Speaker 5: and he deserves redemption. He's folk. I mean, he's been there.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine living in the closet for thirty years. Close your
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  Speaker 5: eyes and go in your closet and stay there. Can
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  Speaker 5: you stay there for thirty years? You don't think he's
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  Speaker 5: regretful for what he did? Do you think he would
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  Speaker 5: be interested in coming back to the world and being
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  Speaker 5: a part of criminology. He's a senior, he's an elderly man.
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  Speaker 5: This picture behind me is not who he is right now.
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  Speaker 1: Larr Hoover is not There's no welcome home Laron Hoover
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  Speaker 1: parties today or tomorrow. It's not happening. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get things handled on the state level. But even if so,
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  Speaker 1: at what I think in what they're trying to do
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  Speaker 1: is they want less. They know that he there's no
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  Speaker 1: way that he's going to walk free one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 1: but they want less. They feel like it's over assessive
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  Speaker 1: and as you heard of Sin say, they feel like
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  Speaker 1: he's a changed person out he should be looked at
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  Speaker 1: as that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two hundred years, two hundred years in prison is crazy,
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  Speaker 3: but I can't see it happening only because of who
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  Speaker 3: the governor is. The governor is uh JB JB. Pritzer,
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  Speaker 3: he's a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to put some I guess pressure on them,
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  Speaker 2: get the public to start writing letters and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe don't give it.
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  Speaker 1: Then they were online yesterday on Instagram Live. I was
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  Speaker 1: on there. There was on there for about an hour
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  Speaker 1: getting people to tag them and saying call his office.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't know if that's going to
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  Speaker 1: work because Larry Hoover was such a big name, the
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  Speaker 1: case was such a big thing, Like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he cares. And then yeah, so that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That is the latest with Lauren you head in the
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  Speaker 2: court now, yes, all right, all right, Well she'll give
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  Speaker 2: us a update later on to what happened in the
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  Speaker 2: did he trial? Everybody else, let's get to the mix
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