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More Trump ICE Murders; Talarico Campaigns, Paxton Parties in Iceland; WC in Houston Stats - TPN 7/26/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of July twenty sixth, twenty twenty six
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Speaker 1: and this is what's on the people's news. The declining
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Speaker 1: convicted felon. Trump orders more ICE murders to distract from
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Speaker 1: the Epstein files. Is AI accessible to the disabled? A
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Speaker 1: summary of the Men's World Cup. All that and more
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Speaker 1: on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This is the
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Speaker 1: people's News, and the People's News starts now. It's been
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Speaker 1: weeks since Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers ICE fatally shot
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Speaker 1: Lorenzo Salgado Aravo, a fifty two year old Mexican immigrant,
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Speaker 1: in Houston. Since then, there's been another Trump sanctioned murder
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Speaker 1: by ICE agents in Maine. This time it was Johann
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Speaker 1: Sebastian Guerrero, a twenty five year old immigrant from Columbia.
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Speaker 1: It has been noted that he was a legal citizen
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Speaker 1: in the US. As a result, protests have erupted all
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Speaker 1: over the country demanding more accountability for IS's actions. The
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Speaker 1: adult eighty year old criminal. Donald Trump has doubled down
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Speaker 1: and called for even more arrests and murders in Houston.
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Speaker 1: Political representatives have called for more to be done. The
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Speaker 1: last week started with a protest and march in the
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Speaker 1: hot Houston Sun.
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Speaker 2: What brass your audia on a Sunday afternoon.
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Speaker 3: I'm just here to go ahead and be a body,
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Speaker 3: be a young black man who's willing to show that
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Speaker 3: outcome a hero.
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Speaker 4: My muscle doesn't do whatever we need to.
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Speaker 2: How does this affect you as a young young man?
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Speaker 3: That could have easily been my grandpa or something like that,
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Speaker 3: being a round by racio, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: That easily could be my family member. And brown and
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Speaker 3: black is anonymous. We should all feel like that was
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Speaker 3: our papa or that was our uncle.
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Speaker 2: That we love.
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Speaker 5: Calaos Carlos Fernandez, but uh can dembos estamos and la
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Speaker 5: Manifestacion de la Sua paro Lorenzo and don de lala
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Speaker 5: miso para.
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Speaker 6: Busta para Lorenzo gracious.
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Speaker 1: One of the organizers of the march was Ricky with
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Speaker 1: Houston Democratic Socialists of America. He stated the goals of
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Speaker 1: his organization and how important that a coalition be built
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Speaker 1: to fight against these illegal murders.
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Speaker 7: We are gathering together to remember Lorenzo sal aralcol who
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Speaker 7: was murdered by ICE a little over a week ago,
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Speaker 7: a fellow Houstonian killed in the streets by this you know,
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Speaker 7: murderous administration. We're coming together as a community as Houston,
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Speaker 7: with a bunch of other organizations here.
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Speaker 6: We've called this protest to you know.
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Speaker 7: Say his name, remember his name, called for justice and
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Speaker 7: call for the abolition of ICE as well.
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Speaker 2: How are people in the community relating to the message.
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Speaker 7: I think they feel very strongly, especially in the Bodrio
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Speaker 7: itself and Magnolia Park where it happened.
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Speaker 6: You know, Lorenzo was one of them.
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Speaker 7: He's another someone who's lived here for over thirty five years,
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Speaker 7: who's worked hard to provide for his family, to provide
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Speaker 7: for his kids. It's a story of a lot of
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Speaker 7: people in that neighborhood, in this area, a lot of
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Speaker 7: Latinos who live here, and he was treated like he
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Speaker 7: wasn't even human. He was hunted like an animal. There's
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Speaker 7: something that cannot stand. You know, we're supposed to have,
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Speaker 7: you know, be treated equally. We're supposed to be treated
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Speaker 7: and have like basic human rights. And if they can
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Speaker 7: treat someone one of our own like that, they can
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Speaker 7: do that to the rest of us. And that's what
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Speaker 7: we got to take a stand because we can't let
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Speaker 7: it go any further.
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Speaker 2: Your organization was it growing because of my Donnie in
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Speaker 2: New York?
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Speaker 6: I think Momdani definitely played a big part.
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Speaker 7: It got us a lot of exposure and knowing that
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Speaker 7: we're serious about, you know, contesting for political power and
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Speaker 7: wanting to see the change that we believe in happen.
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Speaker 6: Is not just talk. We're really about it. We're in
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Speaker 6: the street like we're here today.
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Speaker 7: We're going out talking to people and canvassing about these
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Speaker 7: issues and then building up the basis support needed to yeah,
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Speaker 7: run for office, run for election, to trying to make
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Speaker 7: these things happen.
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Speaker 2: Do you think that what happened to New York can
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Speaker 2: happen here?
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Speaker 4: I think so.
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Speaker 6: I think we got a lot of things cooking.
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Speaker 7: I think that Houston is right for this kind of
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Speaker 7: political movement, a movement for so socialism, movement for everyone
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Speaker 7: to be treated, you know, with dignity, every worker to
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Speaker 7: be treated with Ginian for workers to take control of
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Speaker 7: their own destiny, to run society. I think it's just
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Speaker 7: a matter of time. Houston being one of the most
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Speaker 7: diversities in the country, being the oral gas capital of
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Speaker 7: the world, there's a lot of potential. I think it's
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Speaker 7: a bubble wait into verse, and I'm excited for what happens.
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Speaker 8: Do you think that you think that talking about the
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Speaker 8: way the right categorizes socialism is going to be a
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Speaker 8: factor in Texas.
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Speaker 7: I think they're gonna try. I think they're gonna try
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Speaker 7: to fear monger about what socialism is about. Somehow it's
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Speaker 7: taking away you know, people's freedoms or attacking their their
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Speaker 7: ability to live you know, freely. But I think it's
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Speaker 7: the opposite. I think that we see, you know, an
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Speaker 7: authoritarian government that's surveilling people, you know, we see flot
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Speaker 7: cameras going up everywhere, we see ice in the streets,
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Speaker 7: a paramilitary force that's going into people's houses, kidnapping them.
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Speaker 6: H that is the exact opposite of what we want.
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Speaker 7: We want to build a world where everyone is free
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Speaker 7: to live as they can with respect to others, you know,
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Speaker 7: from each according to their ability, to each according to
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Speaker 7: their needs, and to be able to again to live
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Speaker 7: with dignity and live a good life. That's what freedom is,
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Speaker 7: you know, not having to work day, have today just
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Speaker 7: to provide for yourself and your family, being able to
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Speaker 7: do have leisure time like that's not the future that
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Speaker 7: the right wants. The reason that we want to build
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Speaker 7: is one where people have the ability to do that,
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Speaker 7: and we encourage everyone who connects with that of because
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Speaker 7: you know, freedom really is about having equals say and
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Speaker 7: how the world works, and that's not what we live
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Speaker 7: in right now. People don't have the same say. It's
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Speaker 7: the billionaires, it's the trillionaires, it's the rich and the elite.
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Speaker 6: That's the opposite of the kind of world we want
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Speaker 6: to build.
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Speaker 1: The Congressional House Committee on Homeland Security participated in an
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Speaker 1: oversight forum seeking justice and information about the use of
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Speaker 1: force death of Lorenzo Salgado Arajo. This forum was hosted
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Speaker 1: by Congressman Adriado Espilott, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair, Congressman Benny G. Thompson,
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Speaker 1: ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and
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Speaker 1: Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia. The forum featured testimony from mister salgado
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Speaker 1: O Rajo's family, Harris County District Attorney schan Terr, faith leaders,
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Speaker 1: and community advocates. One of the discoveries that came out
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Speaker 1: of the forum is that it was announced that the
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Speaker 1: powder that was found in the van was tested and
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Speaker 1: found to be homemade electrolytes for working in the hot sun.
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Speaker 1: Harris County DA shon Terr told the committee what he
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Speaker 1: had learned, rutinely.
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Speaker 9: Invites that he has office to the scene so we
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Speaker 9: can immediately begin our own independent investigation. We owe it
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Speaker 9: to the officers who put their lives on the line
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Speaker 9: to protect our community. We owe it to the greeting
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Speaker 9: families deserving of a thorough by the book review. When
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Speaker 9: Missuston's authority is uncovered, we will pursue that accountability through
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Speaker 9: the WAW. What need or July seventh was an invitation
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Speaker 9: to the scene never occur? I want to be clear
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Speaker 9: that was not okay. It can never be the case
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Speaker 9: that a life is taken by a law enforcement officer
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Speaker 9: and a proper independent investigation doesn't immediately begin. In most instances,
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Speaker 9: our independent investigation determines that proper procedures and laws will followed.
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Speaker 9: Confidence in the criminal justice system demands that this independent
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Speaker 9: investigation approach. However, as I'll mention later, the tactics being
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Speaker 9: used by ICE are threatening public safety overall. Again, since
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Speaker 9: this is now an ongoing investigation, I won't discuss what
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Speaker 9: we know or what we don't know. I can't provide
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Speaker 9: information about potential charges or potential targets, and I'm not
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Speaker 9: going to speculate on the timeline for our investigation. Doing
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Speaker 9: so it's premature and would jeopardize the integrity of the
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Speaker 9: entire investigation.
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Speaker 10: But here's what they can't say.
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Speaker 9: First, this investigation is moving rapidly. We don't have all
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Speaker 9: the pieces, but we are.
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Speaker 10: Making significant process progress.
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Speaker 9: Thanks to the public, We've received information and it's helping
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Speaker 9: to shape this investigation, which is also partly why I'm
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Speaker 9: here today. I continue to verge anyone, particularly witnesses and
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Speaker 9: neighbors from the East End, to come forward. If you can't,
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Speaker 9: if you have it already, you can trust my team.
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Speaker 9: Our only goal is to get to the truth. Second,
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Speaker 9: local law enforcement partners are now working with us to
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Speaker 9: share information to support our investigation. We've collaborated with the
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Speaker 9: Houston Office of the FBI, the Houston Police Department, Harris
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Speaker 9: County Possible Precinct six, and Houston Metro, and I especially
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Speaker 9: appreciate the support of the Department of Public Safety Texas
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Speaker 9: Rangers who are working alongside our team of prosecutors and
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Speaker 9: investigators to ensure a thorough investigation. Before I close, I
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Speaker 9: need to take a moment to share we use serious
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Speaker 9: concerns I have about the immigration enforcement tactics we've seen
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Speaker 9: deployed around the country and the effect they're having on
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Speaker 9: law enforcement. Overall, those of us in law enforcement don't
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Speaker 9: take issue with deporting violent felons. However, Karan Harris's counting
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Speaker 9: there are crimes and cases my office has not been
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Speaker 9: able to prosecute because witnesses are scared of immigration consequences.
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Speaker 9: They refuse to come forward or testify for fear of
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Speaker 9: being deported. Unauthorized individuals are especially formed. We know fewer
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Speaker 9: domestic violence cases are being reported because victims are too
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Speaker 9: afraid to cooperate with local law enforcement. Last year, a
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Speaker 9: material witness in a pending murder case was literally on
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Speaker 9: a plane to el Salvin work Well when we were
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Speaker 9: able to interview, and this witness had a pending visa
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Speaker 9: at the time, and until he asked, I can't elaborate
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Speaker 9: on that one either, because it is still opendon case.
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Speaker 9: Our conbgency ensure crucial witnesses must remain here so that
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Speaker 9: we can pursue justice, and in this investigation, witnesses must
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Speaker 9: feel safe to come forward with ut with information about
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Speaker 9: the events of July seventh. They can't fear immigration offence.
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Speaker 10: What's happening isn't helping public safety.
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Speaker 9: It's certainly not justice and it's unfair.
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Speaker 1: Others have spoken after on what the ICE aggression has
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Speaker 1: done to the community, love law enforcement.
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Speaker 11: That's correct, but in this case, an ICE spokesperson total
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Speaker 11: the press the very day of the shooting that mister
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Speaker 11: south Ota, Ohio ranmed in ICE law enforcement vehicle and
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Speaker 11: weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run.
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Speaker 12: Over in ICE law enforcement officer, resulting in the officer
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Speaker 12: firing first and self defense. That statement went out before
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Speaker 12: any real of investigation took place, and witnesses and evidence
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Speaker 12: have since disputed it. So here what we see in
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Speaker 12: closing is ICE does not follow basic police practice.
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Speaker 10: For twenty twenty six, no cameras when it had.
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Speaker 12: Money for cameras shots fired into a vehicle when there's
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Speaker 12: no evidence that we've seen that the officer was forced
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Speaker 12: to do so to save his own life, a public
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Speaker 12: statement blaming the victim before any.
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Speaker 13: Real investigation took place. This investigation, there needs to be
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Speaker 13: an investigation.
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Speaker 14: But as it was not even a talking point. He
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Speaker 14: was a husband, a father, or son, a neighbor, a
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Speaker 14: workingman who should have returned home to his family. Instead,
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Speaker 14: his loved ones received the worst.
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Speaker 10: He is imaginable.
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Speaker 14: No matter where someone says on emission policy, every American
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Speaker 14: should agree on this. When the government takes a life,
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Speaker 14: it has an obligation to explain why that obligation has
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Speaker 14: not been met yet since his dad, I have walked
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Speaker 14: the neighborhood where this strategy occurred.
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Speaker 10: Alongside my team conect with residents with mental health.
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Speaker 14: Certain resources directly with families are heard from citizens.
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Speaker 10: Local permanent residents.
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Speaker 14: Make sadies, make status families, and a long time hestomians
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Speaker 14: alife families where parents, children, siblings, or neighbors may have
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Speaker 14: different immigration circumstances but share the same homes, workplaces, schools,
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Speaker 14: and communities.
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Speaker 10: Parents question whether loved ones would return home from work.
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Speaker 14: Children wonder whether their families will say trusting government has
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Speaker 14: been damaged, and that has consequences on every city in America.
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Speaker 4: When people are.
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Speaker 14: Afraid to report crimes, seek services, cooperate with public institutions,
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Speaker 14: the entire communities become less safe.
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Speaker 10: This tragedy is bigger than one incident.
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Speaker 14: It has exposed of human costs, a broken immigration system,
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Speaker 14: and reminded us that the consequences of federal policies are
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Speaker 14: felt first in our cities and our neighborhoods. Across political spectrum,
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Speaker 14: legal officials and community leaders have raised legitimate concerns about
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Speaker 14: the use of our vehicles, math agents, and enforcement tactics
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Speaker 14: that create fear and confusion in the communities that we serve.
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Speaker 14: These concerns are not limited to one political party. They
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Speaker 14: reflect a broader recognition that government operations must be carried
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Speaker 14: out in.
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Speaker 10: A manner that is transparent, stations built on the root
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Speaker 10: of law.
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Speaker 4: As a local leader, I.
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Speaker 10: Will continue to use my voice.
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Speaker 14: To support the community and the family, provide resources and
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Speaker 14: avenue The work must happen here in Congress, it must
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Speaker 14: happen in our state capitals, and it is time for
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Speaker 14: elected leaders at every level of government to cofront the
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Speaker 14: realities that our immigration system is broken. We cannot face
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Speaker 14: a broken federal immigration system from city Hall. That responsibility
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Speaker 14: belongs to Congress. This is not a Republican problem or
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Speaker 14: a Democrat problem. It's an American problem that Congress, under
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Speaker 14: administration's majorities from both parties, have spelled to solve for decades.
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Speaker 1: At the press conference following the forum, members of Congress
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Speaker 1: spoke on what was learned.
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Speaker 15: Congresswoman Lizzy Fletcher are also from Houston.
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Speaker 16: Thank you, congress Woman Garcia, and thank you again to
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Speaker 16: our colleagues from across the country who come to Houston
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Speaker 16: to witness what we have seen, which is an incredible
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Speaker 16: community facing an unimaginable and unconscionable, unconstitutional tragedy.
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Speaker 17: Here in Houston.
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Speaker 16: And I think one of the things that we saw
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Speaker 16: in the hearing that's important to make clear is that
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Speaker 16: the draconian.
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Speaker 17: Immigration policies that we have seen.
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Speaker 16: Instituted in the last year and a half are not
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Speaker 16: making our communities safer.
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Speaker 17: They are putting our communities in danger.
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Speaker 16: They are completely inconsistent with accepted law enforcement practices, and
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Speaker 16: this has to come to an end. So I'm so
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Speaker 16: frightful for everyone who's here today. I'm grateful to you,
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Speaker 16: Congresswoman Garcia, for your leadership, and we are.
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Speaker 17: All here to ensure that justice is done.
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Speaker 18: Thank you.
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Speaker 19: Thanks.
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Speaker 15: We have verbs of Christian benefy, also from Houston.
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Speaker 8: Was one of us.
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Speaker 13: ICE is the most well funded law enforcement agency in
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Speaker 13: this country. But what we found out at this here today,
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Speaker 13: and what we've known for a couple of weeks, is
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Speaker 13: that they are failing to do the basic.
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Speaker 10: Requirements of law enforcement.
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Speaker 13: The officers who killed Mississagato Orajo did not have Bity
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Speaker 13: Warren cameras. They shot into a movie vehicle despite there
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Speaker 13: being no evidence that they absolutely had to do so
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Speaker 13: to protect their lives. And we've seen across the country
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Speaker 13: they're mass instead of showing their identity to the people
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Speaker 13: in our communities.
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Speaker 10: Congress needs to fully investigate ICE.
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Speaker 13: We've seen the President of pitch pennies on SAT benefits,
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Speaker 13: these pinch pennies on veterans benefits. If we're going to
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Speaker 13: be spending all this money on ICE, we.
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Speaker 10: Need to be in a position to hold an accountable.
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Speaker 13: And when Democrats stated the House back in January, I
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Speaker 13: fully expect that the investigations will begin.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 15: Next to the cheer of the commercials spin a caucus
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Speaker 15: rmous New York.
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Speaker 10: Thank you for coming for suman Garcia.
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Speaker 4: A crime has been committed and there is a cover up.
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Speaker 20: ICE is not here, DHS is not here, the FBI
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Speaker 20: is not here, all of which were duly invited. And
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Speaker 20: what we heard from the District Attorney of Harris County
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Speaker 20: is that there is no cooperation whatsoever with these federal
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Speaker 20: agencies and his investigation. So we will haul these agencies accountable.
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Speaker 20: We will continue our oversight duties, and the money given
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Speaker 20: to ICE one hundred and thirteen billion dollars.
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Speaker 10: Must be rescinded, must be clawed back. This is a
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Speaker 10: regredless injustice.
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Speaker 8: Thank you.
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Speaker 15: Next, it is purposed by California.
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Speaker 21: Thank you Sovie for hosting a service chair of the
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Speaker 21: Borders on Homeland. So I have seen how EYES has
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Speaker 21: gone over the last ten years. Just move to a
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Speaker 21: time that we're in now, totally out.
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Speaker 15: Of control, totally rogue.
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Speaker 21: It's as an agency that doesn't have the same standards
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Speaker 21: as your local police department, hiring standards and use of
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Speaker 21: force standards. Your local police has to show their name.
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Speaker 21: They don't have masks on, they wear body cameras. What
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Speaker 21: was most disturbing of what we heard today was what
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Speaker 21: the DA said over and over again they are not
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Speaker 21: getting the full cooperation to get everything that they need
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Speaker 21: to investigate this because we need to make clear that
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Speaker 21: nobody's above the law, not ICE officers, nobody. Everything is
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Speaker 21: to be investigated and we need to bring justice to
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Speaker 21: this family.
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Speaker 17: And this is not the only family.
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Speaker 21: There's families in name, family of Renade Good, the family
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Speaker 21: of Alex Pretty, and the.
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Speaker 15: List goes on and on, and so we need to.
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Speaker 21: Continue to highlight these stories because this president is administration
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Speaker 21: and this agency is not going after serious criminal offenders
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Speaker 21: like they promised. They're going after our brothers, our sisters.
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Speaker 21: We are today a good man who's just going to work,
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Speaker 21: who's been in use in for decades.
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Speaker 17: So we will continue to fight for justice.
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Speaker 19: Thank you.
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Speaker 15: Figurin mixed up as works of Custro of San Antonio, Texas.
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Speaker 22: Under Donald Trump, ICE has become an abusive and rogue
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Speaker 22: organization that I believe should be disbanded. There has been
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Speaker 22: brutality on the streets. We have seen American citizens killed
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Speaker 22: as well as good.
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Speaker 17: As hardworking.
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Speaker 4: Like gods.
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Speaker 22: We've also seen a brutality inside the prison balls of
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Speaker 22: places like Daily and Carns and Pierce Hall and detention
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Speaker 22: centers across their countries where others have died as well.
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Speaker 22: We're living in a very ugly time because of Donald Tump.
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Speaker 22: The question is what will we do about it? Will
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Speaker 22: there be justice for Lorenzo and others, and will there
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Speaker 22: be accountability for those who violated and broken the law?
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Speaker 17: The answer must be yes in our.
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Speaker 22: Country, and I look forward to working with all of
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Speaker 22: my colleagues to pursue it.
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Speaker 15: I think in this roma's probably a unanimous congressman.
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Speaker 22: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Next up is Salina's Purposes of Sudness is from Oregon.
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Speaker 17: Well, good afternoon, and thank you to my college for
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Speaker 17: bringing us here today.
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Speaker 23: I am Andreas Selinas from the Great State of Oregon's
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Speaker 23: will Lament Valley, and I'm here today for the Lgallo family.
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Speaker 23: I'm here to say sorry that their government could not
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Speaker 23: protect their father. Not only could they not protect him,
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Speaker 23: they killed him. This is happening too often, and we
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Speaker 23: learned today that only one ICE agent has been investigated,
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Speaker 23: yet we know of eight killings.
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Speaker 17: This is not justice. That is why we're here today.
20:57
Speaker 23: In the short term, it means events just like this
21:01
Speaker 23: to raise awareness, to let community members know that we
21:04
Speaker 23: have your back, that it is okay to go to
21:07
Speaker 23: mass it is okay.
21:08
Speaker 24: To go to the grocery store, it.
21:09
Speaker 23: Is okay to go to school, to be a family
21:12
Speaker 23: out in.
21:13
Speaker 24: Public, to go to the parks.
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Speaker 10: We have your back.
21:16
Speaker 23: In the medium term, it means making sure that we
21:19
Speaker 23: pass legislation that actually helps to protect the civil rights
21:24
Speaker 23: of Latinos across the.
21:25
Speaker 24: Country and of our communities.
21:28
Speaker 17: And in the long term, it means these investigations that
21:31
Speaker 17: have to take place. They have to take place.
21:34
Speaker 24: When Democrats are in control.
21:36
Speaker 23: When we hold this administration accountable, when we hold CDP accountable,
21:39
Speaker 23: we hold ICE accountable. We have passed so many measures
21:43
Speaker 23: to pull back the funding from ICE, and let's be honest,
21:47
Speaker 23: our Republican colleagues keep funneling them more and more money.
21:50
Speaker 23: And as was said earlier, they are the largest law
21:53
Speaker 23: enforcement agency and the most funded law enforcement agency in
21:57
Speaker 23: this country.
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Speaker 17: This has to stop, Yes, it must stop.
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Speaker 15: In Joining us in that effort is Congressman James WARKINSHAWP
22:07
Speaker 15: from Virginia.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 25: I came from Virginia today to show my support for
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Speaker 25: Congresswoman Garcia, for the people of Houston and for the
22:19
Speaker 25: Salgado family, and the American people will never see exactly
22:24
Speaker 25: what happened to Lorenzo Salgado Arajo because there's no body camera.
22:29
Speaker 26: Footage, but every single American has the opportunity to see
22:33
Speaker 26: in the eyes of his sons the pain and devastation
22:38
Speaker 26: of this reckless, out of control mass deportation agenda. And
22:43
Speaker 26: that pain and devastation exists in the eyes of families
22:47
Speaker 26: in every corner.
22:47
Speaker 10: Of the nation, including my home in Virginia. And that's
22:51
Speaker 10: why we're here today saying enough is enough.
22:54
Speaker 27: It is past time to end this violence, and we're
22:58
Speaker 27: going to take that message with us to Washington.
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Speaker 18: Thank you.
23:04
Speaker 15: Next, we have a representative Minimnous of New Jersey.
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Speaker 27: Thank you, Sylvia, Thank you for organizing this form. Thank
23:14
Speaker 27: you to all the Texas delegation that we're here today.
23:17
Speaker 27: Thank you to share an s by at all of
23:20
Speaker 27: our colleagues. I'm Robnetta's a couple of New Jerseys in
23:23
Speaker 27: the congressional district. I've been to field hearings in Minneapolis
23:27
Speaker 27: after the killings of your neighborhood.
23:29
Speaker 10: Now it's Freddie.
23:30
Speaker 27: I've been to Field hearing to Newark taking back.
23:33
Speaker 17: What's been happening there and deleting all.
23:35
Speaker 27: My lead to the American people is still wait for
23:38
Speaker 27: this to happen in your speak out now. The best
23:42
Speaker 27: time we have been yesterday. To speak out now, because
23:44
Speaker 27: it's not in the ours country and this will arrive
23:47
Speaker 27: at our worstop. Whether we acknowledge that or not, it
23:50
Speaker 27: will impact us directly or impact those that we care about.
23:53
Speaker 27: I look into the eyes of two young men who
23:56
Speaker 27: lost their folly that should not be happening in our
23:59
Speaker 27: country in the hands of overy, and we can stop it.
24:02
Speaker 27: Us here the elect to representation, we need the tip
24:04
Speaker 27: of the sphere and pushing back against this administration. But
24:07
Speaker 27: the more people that join the course of Americans we're
24:10
Speaker 27: saying this is wrong and unacceptable, the stronger we become
24:14
Speaker 27: pushing back against this and ending this national nightmare and
24:17
Speaker 27: turning the page of the darkness that we have seen.
24:19
Speaker 24: And we're gonna keep.
24:20
Speaker 27: Showing up until we turn that because we're gonna keep
24:22
Speaker 27: showing up and engaging with the American people across the
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Speaker 27: country to get us those.
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Speaker 10: Better Tomorrow's to end this national nightmare.
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Speaker 17: So thank you for my colleagues, I can do this work.
24:31
Speaker 15: Thank you, and of course all of us must join
24:36
Speaker 15: in this effort and with us today we also have
24:38
Speaker 15: some of our strong allies that have been with us
24:41
Speaker 15: from the very beginning. I'd like to start with Michelle Garza,
24:44
Speaker 15: Commission Chair of the United States Commission on.
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Speaker 28: Civilized Good afternoon, Everyone loss at alcohol should still be
24:56
Speaker 28: alive today. His family should be welcoming him home after work,
25:01
Speaker 28: not mourning his death. They should be talking about weekend plans,
25:05
Speaker 28: not protesting for accountability. My name is Rochal Gafsa, and
25:09
Speaker 28: I proudly serve as the Chair of the US Commission
25:12
Speaker 28: on Civil Rights. Over the past few months, I've heard
25:15
Speaker 28: directly from communities in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Chicago, and most
25:19
Speaker 28: recently Los Angeles through the People's Hearings on Immigration Enforcement.
25:23
Speaker 28: It's an effort organized by the Hispanic Federation, the Tech
25:26
Speaker 28: Civil Rights Project, the Miranda Family Fund, and Latino Victory Foundation,
25:31
Speaker 28: and the testimony we've heard is a powerful reminder of
25:34
Speaker 28: why institutions like the Commission on.
25:36
Speaker 24: Civil Rights exist.
25:38
Speaker 28: Since its creation in nineteen fifty seven, the Commission was
25:40
Speaker 28: designed to go directly to the communities to document and
25:44
Speaker 28: report on the status of civil rights to the President
25:46
Speaker 28: and Congress. Today, it remains the only independent, bipartisan fact
25:51
Speaker 28: finding federal agency with this responsibility. And so I want
25:55
Speaker 28: to thank the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, especially Cherispayette and Congress
26:00
Speaker 28: from Garcia for inviting me to listen, to learn, and
26:03
Speaker 28: share what I heard today with my colleagues on the
26:05
Speaker 28: Commission as we deliberate our next investigation. And what I
26:09
Speaker 28: heard today mirrors what I heard from over one hundred
26:11
Speaker 28: individuals impacted by immigration enforcement efforts. I listened to parents, workers,
26:16
Speaker 28: faith leaders, educators, attorneys, and directly impacted individuals described how
26:21
Speaker 28: immigration enforcement has changed their lives, how it's harmed their families,
26:25
Speaker 28: and how it's disrupted their neighborhoods. I heard how a father,
26:29
Speaker 28: a US citizen who had filmed ICE activity exercising these
26:33
Speaker 28: First Amendment rights in Saint Paul, found his children fearful
26:36
Speaker 28: of the unmarked ice vehicle that had parked outside their home.
26:40
Speaker 28: I heard how a mother who had recently given birth
26:42
Speaker 28: was taken from her newborn when she was nursing and
26:45
Speaker 28: denied support to maintain her milk or feed her baby.
26:49
Speaker 24: I heard how a US citizen.
26:51
Speaker 28: A small business owner was beaten and taken by ICE
26:54
Speaker 28: officers despite his pleas that he was a citizen. And
26:58
Speaker 28: I heard how over three hundred Cars Watch employees were
27:01
Speaker 28: disappeared in Los Angeles, separating families, traumatizing those who were
27:06
Speaker 28: lucky enough to be released. The reality of what I've
27:09
Speaker 28: heard is the same no matter what city I've been in,
27:12
Speaker 28: from Saint Paul to Chicago, to Los Angeles to Houston,
27:15
Speaker 28: people are being racially profiled and disappeared.
27:18
Speaker 24: The right to protest is under attack, and people are
27:22
Speaker 24: being killed.
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Speaker 28: As a resident of the Rio Grande Valley, immigration enforcement,
27:27
Speaker 28: for better or worse, has been a part of my life,
27:30
Speaker 28: but what we've seen happen across this country threatens the
27:33
Speaker 28: civil rights of all Americans. As of May of twenty
27:37
Speaker 28: twenty six, four hundred thousand people have been taken by ICE.
27:40
Speaker 28: That's left one hundred and forty five thousand US citizen
27:44
Speaker 28: children without one of their parents, and that includes twenty
27:47
Speaker 28: two thousand children without either of their parents.
27:51
Speaker 24: That's family separation. And as of July twenty twenty six, there.
27:55
Speaker 28: Are sixty five thousand people detained in ICE facilities. There
27:58
Speaker 28: have been over fifty days, ten suicides, and at least
28:02
Speaker 28: one of those deaths has been ruled.
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Speaker 24: A homicide by a coroner.
28:06
Speaker 28: And all of this has been driven by unprecedented amounts
28:08
Speaker 28: of investment in Ice, the Supreme Court's a sanction of
28:12
Speaker 28: racial profiling and Vascus perdomo, as well as surveillance, the
28:16
Speaker 28: expansion of the surveillance system. The people being impacted at
28:20
Speaker 28: our neighbors are friends, our fellow community members, our families,
28:24
Speaker 28: and as a mother to two girls, a two year
28:26
Speaker 28: old and a four year old, I am absolutely horrified
28:29
Speaker 28: by what is happening and my heart breaks for Lorenzo's family.
28:32
Speaker 24: The Commission on.
28:33
Speaker 28: Civil Rights exists because civil rights violations cannot be ignored
28:37
Speaker 28: simply because they are difficult or politically controversial.
28:42
Speaker 24: With each tragedy, the calls.
28:44
Speaker 28: For an independent investigation into immigration enforcement have grown louder
28:48
Speaker 28: and increasingly bipartisan. These calls have now gone beyond our borders,
28:52
Speaker 28: with the United Nations High Commissioner or Human Rights requesting
28:55
Speaker 28: an investigation into all deaths in Ice custody. The People's
28:59
Speaker 28: Hearing on Immigration Enforcement demonstrated the urgent need for that scrutiny,
29:03
Speaker 28: and it is my hope that our commission agrees to
29:06
Speaker 28: investigate and make clear that civil rights protections do not end.
29:10
Speaker 28: We're in immigration enforcement begins for Lorenzo's family and for
29:15
Speaker 28: all families whose worlds have been shattered by federal immigration enforcement.
29:19
Speaker 24: There are people that you will never.
29:21
Speaker 28: Meet that are a grieving with you, and they are
29:25
Speaker 28: demanding justice, and we will get into thank you.
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Speaker 1: Outgoing Congressman Al Green from the ninth Congressional District still
29:32
Speaker 1: calls for impeachment and calls for everyone to support our
29:37
Speaker 1: communal civil rights.
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Speaker 29: Well, what we are seeing right now is ethnic cleansing, Yes,
29:42
Speaker 29: and we ought to say it's ethnic cleinsing.
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Speaker 4: I marvel at how we can talk about.
29:47
Speaker 29: How they're removing people, how is mass deportation, But that
29:52
Speaker 29: is ethnic cleansing because if you look at the people
29:55
Speaker 29: who are being removed, Latino's primarily, and they are being
30:00
Speaker 29: removed not because of the they're the worst of the worst.
30:04
Speaker 4: They're removing children. So it's ethnic cleansing.
30:08
Speaker 29: And it's proven by virtual of the fact that the
30:11
Speaker 29: Haitian community, people of color being set back to Haiti,
30:15
Speaker 29: a place where gangs are moving and killing and robbing
30:19
Speaker 29: and terrorizing and descending them back. But at the same time,
30:22
Speaker 29: this president would allow South Africans to come if they
30:25
Speaker 29: are white.
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Speaker 4: White South Africans can come into the country and have
30:29
Speaker 4: a pathway.
30:30
Speaker 29: To citizenship, as he is moving Haitians and Latinos out
30:34
Speaker 29: of the country.
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Speaker 4: So this man, this good man, this family man, mister
30:39
Speaker 4: Salgado Rajo, he was Latino.
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Speaker 29: He was suspect because he was in white bas and
30:47
Speaker 29: in that white band Latino, in that community.
30:51
Speaker 4: He was suspect. That is why we that is why
30:57
Speaker 4: we can tell that not only was there the suspect
31:01
Speaker 4: because it well, but also you have to look at
31:04
Speaker 4: what they've done though extra judicial killing.
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Speaker 29: Nothing said won't allow it of us to be seen
31:09
Speaker 29: by other agencies.
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Speaker 4: That's a cover up. So you got the extra judicial chilling.
31:14
Speaker 4: Now you have the color cover up. And the next
31:16
Speaker 4: thing you'll note, we will find that some bust from now,
31:20
Speaker 4: it'll all be dissipated and nothing happens. But we can't
31:23
Speaker 4: allow us.
31:24
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31:29
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32:01
Speaker 1: While James tall Rico is hitting all the right notes
32:04
Speaker 1: all around Texas and campaigning very well, Ken Paxton is
32:09
Speaker 1: putting his corruption on full display, taking his mistress to
32:14
Speaker 1: Iceland and to London rather than campaigning in Texas. Matt
32:20
Speaker 1: Engel has followed Paxton for some time and has a
32:23
Speaker 1: newsletter called The Lone Star Project where he talks about
32:26
Speaker 1: Paxton's past and how he has gutted Texas with his corruption.
32:32
Speaker 19: Well, Ken Paxton is a horribly flawed candidate, but worse
32:35
Speaker 19: than that, he's a horribly flawed human being. And as
32:40
Speaker 19: John Cornyn made clear throughout the most of this year,
32:47
Speaker 19: he's unfit for office. And there's not erely anything that
32:53
Speaker 19: John Corny can say it's going to undo the case
32:57
Speaker 19: that's been made against Ken Paxxon by him and other
32:59
Speaker 19: rooms publicans, I mean, democrats don't have to make up
33:03
Speaker 19: the criticisms or come up with the lines to demonstrate
33:07
Speaker 19: that Ken Paxton is a corrupt individual unfit for office.
33:12
Speaker 19: The Republicans have done it for us, and they can't
33:16
Speaker 19: erase what they've written. They can't take back what they've said.
33:20
Speaker 19: It's out there, it's in the public record. And so
33:24
Speaker 19: they made the mistake. They nominated somebody who is unsuitable
33:29
Speaker 19: and would be an embarrassment to the entire state of
33:31
Speaker 19: Texas if you were to join the US Senate.
33:35
Speaker 8: Another thing that Republicans from Texas has also done is
33:38
Speaker 8: changed the change the Texas that the Texas of school curriculum.
33:45
Speaker 19: Oh well, let me tell you what that really is
33:48
Speaker 19: an example of is how Texas Republicans should take the
33:52
Speaker 19: Texas out of their name. They are an extension of
33:57
Speaker 19: national ideologues who wanted to roy public schools. They want
34:01
Speaker 19: to replace them with private schools that are designed for
34:05
Speaker 19: the elite.
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Speaker 22: Uh, and.
34:09
Speaker 19: They have really turned in their Texas card. It's extraordinary
34:13
Speaker 19: that Democrats can proudly carry the Texas banner and where
34:20
Speaker 19: the Texas brand. The Republicans have to give it up
34:23
Speaker 19: because they've surrendered to billionaire elite national forces. And that's
34:29
Speaker 19: who calls the shots. Yeah.
34:31
Speaker 8: And also, can you explain while Republicans now are backstepping
34:35
Speaker 8: on these data centers around the state.
34:39
Speaker 19: Well, you know they're they're polling too, and they're seeing
34:42
Speaker 19: that people hate the data centers and they don't like
34:45
Speaker 19: the fact that you've got ai billionaires who are abusing
34:51
Speaker 19: the natural resources of Texas and expecting Texas citizens and
34:58
Speaker 19: families to to uh subsidize the building of data centers.
35:04
Speaker 18: Uh.
35:04
Speaker 19: You see Abbot in a cold sweat panic over it,
35:07
Speaker 19: because he's spent spending years uh rolling out the red
35:11
Speaker 19: carpet for data centers and giving away tax and centives
35:14
Speaker 19: and now he's trying to double talk his way out
35:16
Speaker 19: of the problem when he can't do it. In fact,
35:18
Speaker 19: even the reforms that he's talking about are things that
35:22
Speaker 19: the data centers have already agreed to do.
35:25
Speaker 18: Uh.
35:25
Speaker 19: And so it it it rings a panic, but also
35:29
Speaker 19: of insincerity. What is it?
35:31
Speaker 8: But what's it seems like all across the state has
35:34
Speaker 8: been doing this as far as fighting fighting back on
35:37
Speaker 8: Abbots claimed that this was good for Texas and that's
35:40
Speaker 8: that he continues to say that.
35:42
Speaker 19: Oh but but don't be No one should be fooled
35:46
Speaker 19: though This is just campaign rhetoric for Abbot. He hadn't
35:49
Speaker 19: said anything that he couldn't easily take back after the election.
35:53
Speaker 29: UH.
35:53
Speaker 19: And you noticed that and everything a Abbot talks about,
35:56
Speaker 19: it's non subsympt stuff that really doesn't go to how
36:01
Speaker 19: people pay their bills or take care of their families.
36:04
Speaker 19: And that's why you hear him talk about sharia law
36:07
Speaker 19: and then makes phony claims about reforms in data centers.
36:12
Speaker 19: I mean, his real focus is to just follow orders
36:15
Speaker 19: from the billionaires that have been giving him millions of dollars.
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Speaker 8: And you say that, and he's also gone about changing
36:23
Speaker 8: the voting rights in Texas also, I was changing the
36:27
Speaker 8: million ballots. There was this big attack on that.
36:30
Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 19: As we've talked about before, Richard Greg Abbott has been
36:35
Speaker 19: a hostile force against fair voting from the day that
36:41
Speaker 19: he became attorney general twenty years ago, much less as governor.
36:44
Speaker 19: And now he's just following orders from Donald Trump. That's
36:48
Speaker 19: what the redistrict was about. He redraw drew the congressional
36:51
Speaker 19: lines in Texas under orders from Trump, and he surrendered
36:57
Speaker 19: the voter rolls of Texans, exposing the private information of
37:02
Speaker 19: every Texan to UH to the national government because Trump
37:07
Speaker 19: ordered him to and all the campaigner for the campaign
37:11
Speaker 19: proposes he's made now and the and the efforts to
37:13
Speaker 19: suppress vote is really part of a national agenda.
37:17
Speaker 8: And this is something that they're trying to gear up
37:20
Speaker 8: because of the upcoming elections.
37:23
Speaker 2: Oh yes, what you do if you think you're about
37:25
Speaker 2: to lose an election?
37:26
Speaker 19: Uh that they want that. They know, they know that
37:29
Speaker 19: they're in serious trouble.
37:31
Speaker 14: Uh.
37:31
Speaker 19: They know that the public is upset and ready to mobilize,
37:35
Speaker 19: and so uh they're going to try to uh they're
37:38
Speaker 19: going to try to rig the deal and uh and
37:41
Speaker 19: and try to hold on uh through vote suppression.
37:45
Speaker 8: Also in Texas, the razor buoys down in South Texas
37:49
Speaker 8: is now floated away with the storms.
37:53
Speaker 19: Yeah, and and again it tells you that they're just
37:56
Speaker 19: abitt wasn't really serious about that. It was all performative. Uh.
38:00
Speaker 19: Again he was looking for pictures of Booy's floating in
38:05
Speaker 19: the in the river. Well now he's got pictures of
38:08
Speaker 19: them broken loose and causing real trouble. Because again it's
38:14
Speaker 19: just a ridiculous, incompetent move to begin with. Uh, I mean,
38:18
Speaker 19: we've really got an extraordinary circumstance, Richard, in that every
38:22
Speaker 19: single one of the Republican nominees is so far out
38:26
Speaker 19: of touch. Each one of them are multimillionaires. I mean
38:29
Speaker 19: Greg Abbat, Kim Paxton, Dan Patrick, Don Hawfines, both French,
38:36
Speaker 19: they're all multimillionaires, and they're taking orders from billionaires. And
38:40
Speaker 19: so you got millionaires taking orders from billionaires, and in
38:43
Speaker 19: the meantime, regular Texans are being totally cut out of
38:46
Speaker 19: a deal.
38:48
Speaker 8: And we'll end talk. We'll end talking about the protest.
38:53
Speaker 8: This is Friday, in the protests around the state. It's
38:56
Speaker 8: not around the country. The ICE protests. We had the
39:00
Speaker 8: Congress congressmen here, Congassen Silly Garcia had a had a
39:06
Speaker 8: a town hall reforum, so to speak, on the on
39:10
Speaker 8: the activities of ICE and what the findings were.
39:14
Speaker 30: What do you need?
39:15
Speaker 2: What do you see in all this?
39:16
Speaker 19: Well, again, I think we see uh, really authoritarian government
39:22
Speaker 19: that's put a national police force, UH that's untrained, undisciplined,
39:28
Speaker 19: and unsafe on the streets of our country. And you've
39:32
Speaker 19: got this extraordinary circumstance in which you've got uh, innocent
39:37
Speaker 19: people being shot down by ICE agents in the streets.
39:41
Speaker 19: I wish that was an extreme thing to say. I
39:43
Speaker 19: wish that was overstating it, but that's literally what's happening.
39:47
Speaker 18: And uh uh.
39:49
Speaker 19: The only way, the only way to resolve that is
39:51
Speaker 19: for voters to react, because uh, you don't. We can't
39:55
Speaker 19: expect Donald Trump anybody in his White House. Are any
39:59
Speaker 19: of the lead in Texas that get their marching orders
40:02
Speaker 19: from Donald Trump to reform or change their ways. The
40:05
Speaker 19: only way to change this is for them to lose elections.
40:09
Speaker 1: That was matt angle with the Lone Star Project. You
40:11
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Speaker 31: need to use it, and our survey found that workers
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Speaker 31: want responsible AI to include training, clear rules, human review
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Speaker 31: for important decisions or high impact work, as well as
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Speaker 31: privacy and data security protections. And in our survey, sixty
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Speaker 31: percent of AI users have seen their knowledge of and
42:34
Speaker 31: ability to use accessibility standards and guidelines improve as a
42:37
Speaker 31: result of using AI, including seventy four percent of AI enthusiasts.
42:42
Speaker 31: And so the reality is that accessibility benefits everyone. Clearer content,
42:47
Speaker 31: better summaries, accurate captions, and multiple formats can help workers
42:50
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42:53
Speaker 31: multilingual learners, mobile users, and anyone trying to absorb important
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43:01
Speaker 31: beginning in tools, selection, policy, training, and review, organizations are
43:05
Speaker 31: more likely to create AI environments that are universally usable too,
43:09
Speaker 31: because when AI is deployed without accessibility in mind, it
43:12
Speaker 31: can create new barriers instead of removing them. A tool
43:15
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43:19
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43:23
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43:25
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43:29
Speaker 31: of our survey respondents say human review for important decisions
43:32
Speaker 31: or high impact work should be part of responsible aiuse
43:35
Speaker 31: at worker, at school and AI can help us. It
43:38
Speaker 31: can generate captions, summaries, transcripts, and image descriptions, but those
43:42
Speaker 31: outputs still need to be reviewed for accuracy and accessibility.
43:46
Speaker 31: The goal here is not automational loan. The goal should
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43:52
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43:55
Speaker 31: not something added after a problem appears. So first, make
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44:16
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44:19
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44:21
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44:25
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44:29
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44:43
Speaker 1: That was Kelly Herman, vice President of Accessibility and Student
44:47
Speaker 1: Affairs at University of Phoenix. And now this is my
44:52
Speaker 1: insight into artificial intelligence. In my first career, which was
44:57
Speaker 1: in technology, I work with our artificial intelligence for over
45:01
Speaker 1: thirty years. At its core, the technology is the same
45:05
Speaker 1: and has changed not at all from the original algorithm,
45:08
Speaker 1: which is pattern recognition in text and responding in a
45:12
Speaker 1: way that invites the user to keep engaged. Truth has
45:16
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. Sentience or intelligence has nothing
45:19
Speaker 1: to do with it. Early reactions to this algorithm in
45:23
Speaker 1: the seventies were insightful. Users instantly attributed human emotion and
45:28
Speaker 1: intelligence to the program. It makes sense, especially to those
45:32
Speaker 1: of us who have pets. I attribute human emotion and
45:35
Speaker 1: intelligence to my dog, Ginger every day. Over the years,
45:40
Speaker 1: Artificial intelligence has been called AI, text analytics, the Internet
45:46
Speaker 1: of Things, machine learning, and then back to AI again
45:50
Speaker 1: once again. The core algorithms have not changed. It is
45:54
Speaker 1: the same logic. What has changed is increased compute power
46:00
Speaker 1: of storage capability, a privacy breaking ultra fast wireless network,
46:04
Speaker 1: and obscenely wealthy tech pros using the technology to kill
46:08
Speaker 1: jobs and gain power and money. My advice to you
46:13
Speaker 1: and to any learners out there is use artificial intelligence
46:18
Speaker 1: very sparingly, and when you do, make sure that you
46:21
Speaker 1: read through it and correct it before you submit it
46:25
Speaker 1: as an assignment. Put down the phone, get off social media,
46:30
Speaker 1: and think Spain's one nil victory over Argentina in extra
46:35
Speaker 1: time at the FIFA Men's World Cup brought billions of
46:39
Speaker 1: views around the world. It was the end of the
46:42
Speaker 1: largest World Cup in the history of the sport, with
46:44
Speaker 1: forty eight teams. In spite of the convicted felon an
46:49
Speaker 1: addled eighty year old trying to take credit, it did
46:52
Speaker 1: not dampen the enthusiasm of Americans and others coming out
46:56
Speaker 1: for the matches. More than one million people diticipated in
47:00
Speaker 1: the FIFA World Cup twenty twenty six events in Houston,
47:04
Speaker 1: including four hundred and eighty thousand, one hundred and forty
47:07
Speaker 1: six fans attending seven matches. People from all over the
47:12
Speaker 1: world saw Houston for the first time. The Houston Sports
47:15
Speaker 1: Authority stated that this has been a rousing success for
47:18
Speaker 1: the city. We talked to football commentator Glenn Davis about
47:23
Speaker 1: this year's Men's World Cup.
47:25
Speaker 18: Well, I think the data's in. I think, you know,
47:28
Speaker 18: the TV viewership, attendance, all these things went through the roof.
47:32
Speaker 18: I know there was a lot of things in big
47:34
Speaker 18: concerns before the World Cup started. It to me looked
47:39
Speaker 18: just amazing from the standpoint of the different supporters groups
47:42
Speaker 18: from different countries coming to the US. Everybody got along.
47:46
Speaker 18: They left with real good memories and you know, great
47:50
Speaker 18: hospitality shown not only in Houston but around the country.
47:54
Speaker 18: I think it was prideful as to the execution of
47:57
Speaker 18: the event as well. And of course I think the
48:00
Speaker 18: best team ultimately from a competitive standpoint one won the
48:04
Speaker 18: title in a first forty eight team World Cup. We
48:08
Speaker 18: had underdog success with you know, differing great storylines with Curisow, Congo,
48:14
Speaker 18: Cabo Verde. You know, on and on we went. But
48:18
Speaker 18: it was a lot of great stuff. Certainly here in
48:21
Speaker 18: the United States and Canada and Mexico as well.
48:26
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that was that was a great combination that
48:28
Speaker 8: we had trouble with the some of the teams Iran
48:31
Speaker 8: in Congo people not being able to come over here.
48:33
Speaker 8: But in all Houston did a fabulous job.
48:37
Speaker 18: They Houston did an amazing job. I had a front
48:39
Speaker 18: row seat to it because I was calling the games
48:41
Speaker 18: for the World feed So I was at every game
48:43
Speaker 18: here in Houston and then one quarterfinal, uh for the
48:46
Speaker 18: World feed out in Los Angeles, which was the Belgium
48:49
Speaker 18: Spain game, but all seven games to watch the execution
48:53
Speaker 18: of the event before calling it, getting in the stadium early,
48:57
Speaker 18: watching people including ball peers, do their jobs, get set up,
49:02
Speaker 18: all the different television from.
49:04
Speaker 6: All over the world on TV row where we were.
49:07
Speaker 18: It really was amazing. And then you know, you slowly
49:10
Speaker 18: see the stadium filling up and up and up until
49:13
Speaker 18: it's packed, and then you got beautiful anthems and giant
49:17
Speaker 18: flags and it really it was really something special, and
49:21
Speaker 18: I think so much of it for me was just
49:23
Speaker 18: the smile on the faces of the fans, the pride
49:26
Speaker 18: in supporting your countries. It was excellent.
49:30
Speaker 8: What is the different football in the United States.
49:33
Speaker 18: Oh, that's an open ended question. Well, hopefully you created
49:36
Speaker 18: some new unique fans that will, you know, benchmark this tournament,
49:41
Speaker 18: like a lot of us a benchmark. World Cups is
49:44
Speaker 18: being a point in our lives where it became a
49:46
Speaker 18: very important sport to us, and the World Cup can
49:49
Speaker 18: help that, it can platform it forward. You know, I
49:53
Speaker 18: don't know how to quantify those things. I think MLS
49:55
Speaker 18: is hoping more people will come to try their product.
49:59
Speaker 18: Whether that's true or not, we'll find out. But I
50:02
Speaker 18: think really mainly it's two things. It's reference points for
50:07
Speaker 18: people in the future when they fell in love with
50:10
Speaker 18: the sport. It is new and unique fans. It penetrated
50:14
Speaker 18: the casual sports market more and it got a lot
50:19
Speaker 18: of people talking about it. And then I think the
50:21
Speaker 18: indelible part of it is, you know, young kids watching
50:26
Speaker 18: these games, watching players, they enjoy learning about players, and
50:30
Speaker 18: then they're taking it out to the fields where they
50:33
Speaker 18: play with their parents or with their teams that they
50:36
Speaker 18: play on. And I went to Memorial Park here in
50:38
Speaker 18: Houston after the World Cup final, and you know, it
50:41
Speaker 18: was amazing. There was like three four small sided games
50:44
Speaker 18: going on. Everybody's got different jerseys on. It was great.
50:48
Speaker 8: Yeah. And who was the star of to turn in
50:50
Speaker 8: for you?
50:52
Speaker 18: Well, I think it's hard to pick one star, but
50:54
Speaker 18: I think the one that won the award, and I
50:56
Speaker 18: think it's as good a choice as you can make.
50:58
Speaker 18: It's emblematic of how fame play was rodri who's won
51:02
Speaker 18: a Belonda War and had come back from injury, by
51:05
Speaker 18: the way, a serious injury. Uh. To see him, you know,
51:09
Speaker 18: just be the fulcrumb, sort of the brains of the operation,
51:13
Speaker 18: the controller of Spain and run the show was absolutely
51:18
Speaker 18: spectacular to see and I think he is a really
51:21
Speaker 18: really worthy winner of the Best Player of the Tournament award. Yeah.
51:26
Speaker 8: And for people saying that having a tournament that has
51:32
Speaker 8: only having a tournament so big, it's going to be
51:36
Speaker 8: some match, it's going to be blowouts, and that did
51:39
Speaker 8: not happen, correct.
51:42
Speaker 18: You know, one game I did was seven to one
51:44
Speaker 18: curis How, but it was it was one one at
51:46
Speaker 18: some point and Curis How scored their first ever goal.
51:49
Speaker 18: That was a blowout. But outside of that, no, And
51:51
Speaker 18: I think a lot of people made judgments not knowing
51:55
Speaker 18: the rosters of places like the Congo and and and
51:59
Speaker 18: some of the countries that you know, gobbo Verde, where
52:03
Speaker 18: the players are playing in top leagues around the world,
52:06
Speaker 18: because you know there's a lot of dual nationals on
52:09
Speaker 18: these teams. Now, forty eighteen World Cup, I think I
52:13
Speaker 18: was like, you, hey, are we going to be tapping
52:14
Speaker 18: away at the sacredness of the tournament? But in the
52:17
Speaker 18: end it really really turned out to be quite exciting. Now,
52:21
Speaker 18: I don't know if you really want to go into
52:22
Speaker 18: the sixty team tournament, plus that'll be almost one third
52:26
Speaker 18: of the countries in the world, I think, But I
52:30
Speaker 18: know that's in discussion, so we'll see. But now, once
52:34
Speaker 18: you got through the seventy two games, it went really
52:36
Speaker 18: really fast because seventy two first round games and in
52:39
Speaker 18: the end I think it was one hundred and four totals,
52:41
Speaker 18: so that's a lot more than the sixty eight than
52:44
Speaker 18: we had.
52:44
Speaker 30: And Cutter and people talk about the referee in this
52:48
Speaker 30: World Cup end reason var was that something that was
52:51
Speaker 30: a deterrent or something that's something that needs to be
52:53
Speaker 30: worked on, or is it something that really worked out well.
52:57
Speaker 18: I think most we'll remember when the video assistant referee
53:00
Speaker 18: forre was interest was for clear and obvious breaches right,
53:06
Speaker 18: It was to just make sure the clear and obvious
53:10
Speaker 18: was handled, and I think it's been taken beyond that now. Uh,
53:14
Speaker 18: you know, to the point where we're trying to determine
53:16
Speaker 18: if the strand of hair touched the ball or didn't
53:18
Speaker 18: for Croatia, which took a goal away from them. I
53:22
Speaker 18: don't think it was designed for that, but that's kind
53:24
Speaker 18: of where it's it's gone now. I think we've gone
53:27
Speaker 18: overboard with it, and I think that happens with a
53:29
Speaker 18: lot of things. I think the same thing with data
53:31
Speaker 18: in soccer. I think data is very very important, but
53:34
Speaker 18: I also think you know, you don't necessarily win soccer
53:38
Speaker 18: games with just data, and you don't pick players just
53:41
Speaker 18: with data. There still is the ever important gut and
53:44
Speaker 18: eye test.
53:45
Speaker 2: That human elements, so to speak. So the way we go,
53:50
Speaker 2: so where do we go from here?
53:51
Speaker 8: We get MLS starts back up and it goes into
53:54
Speaker 8: a winner session next year.
53:56
Speaker 2: How is that going to work?
53:58
Speaker 8: As far?
53:59
Speaker 19: Is that?
53:59
Speaker 8: Is that the proper way of going going that they
54:01
Speaker 8: think it's gonna gonna sail even though it's competing with.
54:06
Speaker 2: Other major sports in the United States.
54:08
Speaker 18: Well, I think it's a move to get on the
54:10
Speaker 18: world schedule with everybody else. It's good for buying and
54:13
Speaker 18: selling players that that legitimizes. I think the league a
54:18
Speaker 18: little bit more in the eyes of the world. I
54:21
Speaker 18: don't think that's an easy thing to do shift over,
54:24
Speaker 18: but you have to, so you know, we'll see where
54:28
Speaker 18: that goes. You know, every single country that was eliminated,
54:31
Speaker 18: and by the way, the Germanys, the Netherlands of the
54:33
Speaker 18: world all had disappointing World Cups. By their standards, we're not.
54:38
Speaker 18: You know, we started off strong and then we ran
54:40
Speaker 18: into a very tough Belgium and cradled in that game.
54:43
Speaker 18: We were all hoping, i think for the quarterfinals from
54:46
Speaker 18: the standpoint of the US men's national team. But yeah,
54:48
Speaker 18: there's a lot of teams that had disappointing World Cups.
54:52
Speaker 18: So I think the natural thing is everybody goes back
54:55
Speaker 18: and takes a look at what's going on with soccer
54:57
Speaker 18: in their countries. And you know, the the role of
55:02
Speaker 18: the manager of national teams, you know, it's always an
55:05
Speaker 18: entry and an exit point for people because a lot
55:07
Speaker 18: of times these coaches are hired just for the cycle,
55:10
Speaker 18: so they're on their way out anyway, and then there
55:14
Speaker 18: were others in the tournament that were relieved during the tournament.
55:17
Speaker 18: So you know, it doesn't lack for storylines, let's just
55:23
Speaker 18: say that. But you know, I've heard so many people
55:26
Speaker 18: say to.
55:27
Speaker 2: Me, man, I'm depressed we don't have.
55:28
Speaker 18: The World Cup, And I said, well, get over your
55:31
Speaker 18: depression because it's not for another four years. But there's
55:35
Speaker 18: still a lot of football out there. We learned that
55:37
Speaker 18: in Houston. We learned that, you know, we have not
55:40
Speaker 18: that we didn't know this ahead of time. We knew
55:42
Speaker 18: this that we have one of the best soccer communities
55:46
Speaker 18: and cities in the country and the surrounding area. The
55:49
Speaker 18: cultural ownership of the game is people that play, coach, referee, administry,
55:55
Speaker 18: buy tickets. But these are the people that brought the
55:58
Speaker 18: World Cup to Houston, the ones that live and breathe
56:01
Speaker 18: the game on a daily basis. It's a lifestyle. They're
56:05
Speaker 18: the ones who broke the games and the World Cup
56:07
Speaker 18: here to Houston. Those are seven iconic games. Those are
56:11
Speaker 18: the biggest in fact, global impact any sports event ever
56:16
Speaker 18: made in Houston, Texas.
56:18
Speaker 4: That's it.
56:19
Speaker 8: That's it, and you know, and it's nothing new to
56:21
Speaker 8: Houston because we've been we've played the sport year since
56:25
Speaker 8: the seventies, even before those.
56:28
Speaker 18: Back, yeah, professionally in the sixties, and there's records of
56:32
Speaker 18: things that occurred in the thirties.
56:34
Speaker 2: Wow, So so the sport. You know, I think a
56:38
Speaker 2: lot of people.
56:39
Speaker 18: Who are not educated on the history of the game
56:42
Speaker 18: here that are involved in the game at higher levels
56:46
Speaker 18: a lot of times don't realize the history here and
56:49
Speaker 18: the impact. And you know, this isn't new legacy. This
56:52
Speaker 18: is just enhancing the legacy we already had.
56:55
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