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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 133 - How Aftab and Council RUINED Opening Day · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: You're hintingbo KCD talk station, A very happy Monday to you.
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Speaker 1: Always made it extra special. Happy for me and I
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Speaker 1: hope you as well. Homa, Vice mayor of the City
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Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, gets a spot to vent his spleen. We
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Speaker 1: call it the smith Van Christopher Smithman, welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the show, my friend. Love having you on the show.
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Speaker 2: Oh thanks for having me on, Brian, I've got a
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Speaker 2: lot to say. You know, we have this holiday called
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Speaker 2: Opening Day in Cincinnati, and it's been a holiday since
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Speaker 2: eighteen sixty nine. It's been around one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: seven years, right, and it's never ever experienced what we
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Speaker 2: experienced last week. Never, right, even in the toughest times,
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Speaker 2: We've always had a day where we said, everybody, put
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Speaker 2: down whatever's going on in your mind and we're going
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Speaker 2: to celebrate the opening day of the Reds. Come down
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Speaker 2: with your peanuts and your popcorn and your kids and
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Speaker 2: take in a day of baby ball, take in the parade,
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Speaker 2: and have a good time. We always had a mayor
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Speaker 2: that was in the parade, that participated in the parade,
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Speaker 2: that organized the parade, and absolutely was in town during
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Speaker 2: the Opening Day parade for one hundred and fifty seven years.
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Speaker 2: And then we meet Avtab and he decides that he's
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Speaker 2: going to go on spring break. But before he leaves,
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Speaker 2: he says, we're going to open up free bus service
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Speaker 2: Metro into our downtown. He's going to suspend the curfew.
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Speaker 2: Of course, no curfew for opening day, right in the
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Speaker 2: heart of Cincinnati Public schools being on spring break. That's
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Speaker 2: his way of saying, I am prepared. I am prepared
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Speaker 2: community for our national holiday, our regional holiday, our local
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Speaker 2: holiday that everybody respects for one hundred and fifty seven
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Speaker 2: years until Mayor assets and this is what we get.
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Speaker 2: We get a council that's absent, we get a mayor
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Speaker 2: that's absent, we get an administration that is absent, and
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Speaker 2: we don't have any leaders that have the moral courage
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Speaker 2: to just denounce it. This was bad, this was wrong.
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Speaker 2: This is not our best moment. We've got people out
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Speaker 2: there justifying it, trying to say what white people do,
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Speaker 2: but we don't see it on video. We're just highlighting
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Speaker 2: what's happening in the black community. No one's talking about race.
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Speaker 2: We're talking about behavior. This was behavior that was unbecoming
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Speaker 2: of anyone, no matter your race. This is about young
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Speaker 2: Americans without direction, without parental oversight. Where was Mom? Where
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Speaker 2: was Dad? Where was Grandpaul? Where was Auntie? Where was uncle?
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Speaker 2: Where were our pastors? You cannot have young people drop
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Speaker 2: jumping on the backs of cops and don't think somebody's
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Speaker 2: gonna get killed one day. Think about that officer when
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Speaker 2: that young man jumped on his back, that officer could
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Speaker 2: have easily turned drawn his weapon, thinking, this guy's about
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Speaker 2: to take my gun, and now your natural instinct is
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Speaker 2: to open fire. And today, guess what would be happening.
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Speaker 2: Guess what the discussion would be happening right now. The
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Speaker 2: mayor would be on holding press conferences. We're going to
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Speaker 2: get to the bottom of it. You'd have all kind
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Speaker 2: of leaders standing behind podiums. We've got to get to
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Speaker 2: the bottom of this. This young man was awesome. He
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Speaker 2: was a wonderful person on his way to do whatever
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Speaker 2: he was just jumping on the back of a Cincinnati
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Speaker 2: police officer in the middle of downtown on opening Day.
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Speaker 2: That's been around one hundred and fifty seven years. Save me,
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas, I am so frustrated this morning by the
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Speaker 2: lack of common sense that this mayor, this council. This
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Speaker 2: administration absolutely lacked and what they did is laid this
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Speaker 2: in the lapse of our Cincinnati Police Department. Who are cops.
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Speaker 2: They're not dads, they're not uncles. They do that at home.
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Speaker 2: They've got to handle that when they get off their ships.
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Speaker 2: They got to go home and take care of their
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Speaker 2: own They're not out here trying to play dad to
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Speaker 2: everybody else. That's our job. And obviously there were parents
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Speaker 2: and our dog on city in our region who didn't
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Speaker 2: know where their children were. And at the end, remember
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Speaker 2: our mayor wasn't in town with one one hundred thousand
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Speaker 2: guests coming into our downtown where we should have been
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Speaker 2: putting on our best best foot forward. Our downtown was clean,
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Speaker 2: our officers were tight their badges, and everybody's sitting there saying,
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Speaker 2: it's opening day. We're happy, we're excited. We had weather
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Speaker 2: downtown like San Francisco. It was an opportunity for everybody
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Speaker 2: to put their best foot forward. And our mayor was
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Speaker 2: on vacation on spring break. Right.
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Speaker 1: That speaks volumes and amid the swirling suggestions that these
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Speaker 1: were coordinated groups of young people descending upon downtown for
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Speaker 1: the purposes of bringing about some measure of havoc, and
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Speaker 1: I don't know whether that's true or not. Maybe the
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Speaker 1: mayor knew about that and decided, Hell, I'm not even
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Speaker 1: going to be around here because I don't want to
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Speaker 1: deal with it. Who knows. Let's get more from Christopher
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Speaker 1: Smitheman after his quick word here from my good friends
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Speaker 1: at us antilation. It's a great problem. Seven thirty here
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Speaker 1: fifty five KERCIT Talk station. You're trying to make it
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Speaker 1: a happy Monday. Brian Thomas with Christopher Smithman, former Vice
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Speaker 1: mayor of the City of Cincinnati, offering his thoughts and
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Speaker 1: comments in the segment we call Oh the smith Van
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Speaker 1: Christopher Smithman, I know you're going to go someplace else probably,
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Speaker 1: but you know, I just work about this opening day thing.
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Speaker 1: Very excellent summary of the realities of the storied Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: tradition that sort of went sideways. I can call it that.
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Speaker 1: Obviously terrible optics for the city of Cincinnati, and I
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Speaker 1: thinking to myself, Okay, we all saw it, so we're
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Speaker 1: less inclined maybe to go down to the Reds game.
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Speaker 1: But what about Octoberfest or Tatsu's Taste of Cincinnati, these
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Speaker 1: other major events we have downtown. I think it's going
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Speaker 1: to be a bit of a deterrent for anybody that
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Speaker 1: might otherwise have gone downtown and supported Cincinnati businesses.
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Speaker 2: This is like, like your segue could not have been better.
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Speaker 1: Oh good.
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Speaker 2: Here's the text message that I got from a good friend,
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Speaker 2: her daughter, their daughter, husband and wife in the middle
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Speaker 2: of all of this. Thank god she left before too
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Speaker 2: much of the rioting occurred. I'm really just beside myself
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Speaker 2: as a mom. I love Cincinnati and I want my
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Speaker 2: kids to settle here. Think about that statement, but how
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Speaker 2: can I encourage that when all of this garbage is occurring. Also,
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Speaker 2: it's never going to end until the crimes are punished.
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Speaker 2: And then she went on and said, I think Kentucky's
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Speaker 2: response of closing the bridges is powerful as well. Make
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Speaker 2: sure make sure the governor knows that also, my daughters
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Speaker 2: and their friends prefer to go out in Kentucky because
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Speaker 2: it's safer. Think of all of the revenue Ohio is
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Speaker 2: now to lose. The reality of it is the people
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Speaker 2: that had the common sense, which with Kentucky said listen,
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Speaker 2: we're shutting it down. You're not coming across the bridge.
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Speaker 2: In one hundred and fifty seven years that has never happened.
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Speaker 2: Border security, Border security, dude, where they're saying, whatever we
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Speaker 2: got going on down here, we're watching the reds. Our
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Speaker 2: customers and our visitors are enjoying themselves over here in
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Speaker 2: our bars and in our restaurants, and they're shopping until
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Speaker 2: they could drop. Guess what. We're not going to let
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Speaker 2: the mayhem that's happening in Cincinnati pour over into our state. Now,
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Speaker 2: that's a powerful statement coming from Kentucky. And if we
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Speaker 2: don't get our act together of voters, if we don't
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Speaker 2: get our act together voters in Cincinnati, voters in our region,
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Speaker 2: because it's not just Cincinnati, We've got craziness happening in
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Speaker 2: the region too. If we do not get our act
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Speaker 2: together statewide with voting, we are going to have very
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Speaker 2: serious problems. Brian Thomas. We know that elections have consequences.
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Speaker 2: We just didn't know it would destroy a one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty seven year tradition, our opening day. We didn't
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Speaker 2: understand that when we voted in November that it would
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Speaker 2: destroy a one hundred and fifty seven year tradition, our holiday.
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Speaker 2: What defines us in Cincinnati, the kickoff of Great weather,
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Speaker 2: the solidarity of us as a people in Cincinnati around
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Speaker 2: one sport, this American sport. How dare the mayor be absent?
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Speaker 2: How dare this council be absent? We voted for them,
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Speaker 2: I didn't, but I want to support them because I
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Speaker 2: love Cincinnati. How dare them be absent on our one
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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty seven year tradition. They are absolutely incompetent,
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Speaker 2: all nine of them, The mayor, the city manager, all
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Speaker 2: members of council should be thrown out on their dog
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Speaker 2: off boots. Period. I am sick and tired of all
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Speaker 2: of the race baiting. This is what's happening. We're concerned
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Speaker 2: about the baby. No, we're Americans in a culture that
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Speaker 2: is deteriorated so bad that a young man could run
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Speaker 2: down and jump on the back of one of our
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Speaker 2: Cincinnati police officers and find somebody in this city that
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Speaker 2: thinks it's okay. What do they do? They have a
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Speaker 2: King's March the next day and nobody says a word
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Speaker 2: about it. You know why? Because the liberals are more
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Speaker 2: interested in capturing the vote and not turning off African
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Speaker 2: Americans that they're willing to not be outspoken about the
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Speaker 2: bad behavior It has nothing to do with race. It
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Speaker 2: has to do with bad behavior. You can still love
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Speaker 2: somebody and love a community and call out that's not right.
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Speaker 2: This is not about all African American people. This is
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Speaker 2: not about all white people. This is not about all Latinos.
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Speaker 2: This is about behavior as a very small group of
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Speaker 2: people that this council and this mayor have decided that
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Speaker 2: they would rather protect the criminals and the bad behavior
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Speaker 2: than me. And I'm speaking for all law by citizens,
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Speaker 2: no matter their white, Black, Latino, Asian, male or female,
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Speaker 2: straight or not straight. I get to be safe as
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Speaker 2: I walk down the street to my car, and I
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Speaker 2: don't want another lecture from this dog on mayor or
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Speaker 2: this council about my feeling safe in downtown Cincinnati. Guess what,
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Speaker 2: I don't feel safe. I'm the former vice mayor of
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Speaker 2: the City of Cincinnati, and I'm not going downtown. I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna concealed carry and I don't want to kill anybody
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Speaker 2: because I'm not gonna take somebody jumping on my back,
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Speaker 2: punching me in my face. Anybody who goes to my
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Speaker 2: ex file and they see those that young lady kicking
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Speaker 2: the other young lady in the head man like a
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Speaker 2: football girl. That woman could be dead. She could be dead.
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Speaker 2: Everybody in that video should be arrested. There should be
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Speaker 2: updates that are happening. We've identified these young people, We've
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Speaker 2: arrested everybody, though. I'm sick and tired of it. As
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Speaker 2: you can tell morning, you're well beyond personal. This is
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Speaker 2: beyond personal, Brian Thomas. We have a decay going on
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Speaker 2: in this city, and we have enough leaders that are
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Speaker 2: willing to just turn the other cheek and keep moving
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Speaker 2: for their own politics.
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Speaker 1: M pause. Bring Christopher back. I don't think he's finished yet.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad about that. Seven thirty seven right now. If
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Speaker 1: you about Karrisee the talk station station seven forty here,
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Speaker 1: if you do you have karrosee the talk station Brian
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Speaker 1: Thomas with Christopher Smithman smither Van. That's an understatement. He
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Speaker 1: is on a terror this morning, and I think that's
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Speaker 1: a positive thing. Christopher, have at it. Man. Didn't sound
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Speaker 1: like you were finished, brother.
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Speaker 2: No, brother, Look look, because we know what counsel is
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Speaker 2: going to do right now. They're going to fall in
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Speaker 2: and start talking about we need to expand our rec
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Speaker 2: center hours. You know this is going to help the babies.
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Speaker 2: Who are walking around downtown with blocks. They're gonna say
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Speaker 2: things like, it's the guns, it's the guns. The guns
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Speaker 2: are the ones that are shooting the guns, not the
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Speaker 2: people with their fingers on the trigger of course, who
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Speaker 2: are making the decision to kill somebody or to hurt somebody. Right,
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Speaker 2: everything is an excuse right now, right, all this, Oh
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Speaker 2: that my kid didn't have this, I didn't have that.
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Speaker 2: My father came up or his front lawn was dirt,
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Speaker 2: his house wasn't level. You walked in the front and
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Speaker 2: then you went downhill from there one floor. You could
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Speaker 2: see from his front door to the back, and the
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Speaker 2: house had more than one person living there. Dude, my
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Speaker 2: father didn't come up with anything. But my grandfather had
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Speaker 2: a vision for my dad which was greater than himself.
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Speaker 2: It was called being unselfish. Most Americans, black or white,
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Speaker 2: wake up every day and go to work. They're doing
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Speaker 2: it right now. They're in there going to work. They're
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Speaker 2: not involved in any of this craziness. But they don't
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Speaker 2: understand that they have an elected council and mayor that
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Speaker 2: protect the criminals. They want to defund our police, they
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Speaker 2: want to demoralize them. They want to say things let's
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Speaker 2: reimagine them. And what it does is the result of
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Speaker 2: it is no proactive policing Brian Thomas, Like when your
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Speaker 2: sister was on the police force. You can't walk up
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Speaker 2: to a young person at twelve o'clock at night on
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Speaker 2: the banks that looks like he's thirteen and say, hey,
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Speaker 2: young man, it looks like you are beyond curfew. But
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Speaker 2: I like some identification. Oh no, it's it's Jim Crow
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Speaker 2: two point zho to ask somebody whether they have identification?
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Speaker 2: When are they talking about, dude. This is a world
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Speaker 2: of excuses, a lack of accountability, and this council is
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Speaker 2: missing the mark. What we need are some solutions here
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Speaker 2: are so I plan to reach out to Governor Mike
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Speaker 2: Dwine say, Governor, we need some adults in the room.
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Speaker 2: We have a mayor and a council. We have a
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Speaker 2: mayor that goes on vacation do and we have things
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Speaker 2: like case the Cincinnati that are coming up. We have
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Speaker 2: the Gay Pride Parade coming up. You know, We've got
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Speaker 2: the music festival coming up. We need some real solutions
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Speaker 2: without the mayor and council asking for help if that
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Speaker 2: means bringing the National Guard in order to make sure
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Speaker 2: that our visitors are safe. That's what we need to do.
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Speaker 2: If we need to bring in the State Highway Patrol
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Speaker 2: to coordinate with our Cincinnati police and our sheriffs, that's
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Speaker 2: what we need to do. I'm not worried about the
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Speaker 2: collaborative agreement, Irish Rowlie. I'm worried about my life. I'm
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Speaker 2: worried about going downtown and somebody knocking me in my
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Speaker 2: head or more importantly, and a thing that catches my
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Speaker 2: imagination is somebody attacking one of my children, specifically my
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Speaker 2: four boys and my only girl. That's what has my imagination.
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Speaker 2: And I don't want to be on here with you
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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas saying I've got bad news. Somebody has hurt
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Speaker 2: one of Smitherman's baby. Oh because, let me tell you, baby,
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Speaker 2: I don't want an ower bond. I need them out now,
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Speaker 2: I need them on the street. Now you hurt one
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Speaker 2: of my babies. There are a lot of men out
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Speaker 2: there that are like me. I'm a protector and a provider.
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Speaker 2: I don't play. I don't have to turn to anybody
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Speaker 2: to protect me and my own I'm not playing, dude.
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Speaker 2: And there are a lot of men out here who
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Speaker 2: are not playing. They're not gonna accept this bad behavior,
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Speaker 2: not gonna jump on somebody and kick them in the
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Speaker 2: head like a football and somebody just walk away. We
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Speaker 2: are sick and tired of it, Brian Thomas. And you've
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Speaker 2: got to have people right now with a moral voice
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Speaker 2: saying no. I plan to reach out to my good friend,
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Speaker 2: the governor, Mike Dewayne, and say, listen, why weren't our
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Speaker 2: assets downtown? Where were the drones? Dude? Where were the
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Speaker 2: State Highway patrol? Me? You know what he's going to say,
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Speaker 2: they didn't ask for help. Yeah. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: our mayor was doing what he was on spring break.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and you know you're the type of father
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Speaker 1: that wouldn't allow your daughter, particularly to get into harm's way.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that you know, if she had talked to
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Speaker 1: you about going downtown, you might have said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe it's safe for you downtown. Under the
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Speaker 1: current administration of the way they treat criminals and the
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Speaker 1: way they respond to criminals, criminals have no disincentive. They're
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Speaker 1: going to go out and commit crimes knowing full well
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Speaker 1: that this administration is going to be soft on them,
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Speaker 1: and they are going to get their hands slapped and
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Speaker 1: going to be back on the community. So maybe you
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Speaker 1: might not want to go there. And I think about
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Speaker 1: that in your particular context because you have that great,
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Speaker 1: great love for your children and their well beings. Moving
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Speaker 1: over to something that is a big event, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: a few of them, but also isn't the Black Family
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Speaker 1: Reunion a really sizeable event with the black community And
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Speaker 1: don't a lot of people go downtown to celebrate that
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Speaker 1: particular event.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's a it's an American event like Junete, like
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Speaker 2: the fourth of July. I mean we can continue the
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Speaker 2: Native event where lots of visitors are going to be downtown. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Well, would you have concern at the black since all
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Speaker 1: these allegations, oh racist, you're pointing out that these young
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Speaker 1: punks happen to be black, and you're blaming black people,
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Speaker 1: do you know? And you pointed out, Christopher, that's not
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Speaker 1: what's happening. We're blaming people who are criminals. But if
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Speaker 1: it's a Black Family reunion, are you going to be
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Speaker 1: concerned that this type of violence might break out there
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Speaker 1: as well?
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Speaker 2: Well? Their Black Family Reunion has had problems with people
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Speaker 2: throwing guns over the over the wall and actually got
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Speaker 2: one of the Black Family reunions. I believe that the
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Speaker 2: young people ran from there. Our officers engaged them at
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Speaker 2: the fifth third there or right right, it was right
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Speaker 2: there by five Fountain Square, and a young man lost
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Speaker 2: his life between an officer and a young person. But
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Speaker 2: it did for me. It whether it's the Black Family Reunion,
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Speaker 2: Open Day, the Day Proparty, anything, the Chase of Cincinnati,
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Speaker 2: whatever you want to say, whatever big event that you
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Speaker 2: think is coming up this summer into the fall. I'm
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Speaker 2: saying right now, I don't trust that this leadership will
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Speaker 2: protect us. I don't feel safe, dude. And for me,
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Speaker 2: it's just whatever the event is, all Americans are coming
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Speaker 2: and it just seems like this city is not prepared.
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Speaker 2: And I want every cop out there who's listening to me,
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Speaker 2: Brian and I support you. The people that's listening audience
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Speaker 2: supports you. This is not a condemnation of you. What
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Speaker 2: happened was this mayor and this council left you out
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Speaker 2: to try. They left us in the hands of the chief.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, it tells you that Chief Fiji.
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Speaker 2: What in the world. You've got two chiefs down there.
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Speaker 2: One is on the administrative leave that they don't know
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Speaker 2: what to do with and they have an interim chief
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Speaker 2: again creating chaos within our police department. Meaning, make a
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Speaker 2: decision who's running the department. Let's have a full time chief,
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Speaker 2: whether take this interrom make him full cheap, do something,
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Speaker 2: make a decision. But back to your point, it doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter to me what the event is. It's saying these
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Speaker 2: Americans whoever they are, could be coming down, making it
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Speaker 2: unsafe for youth and others.
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Speaker 1: Well, I just think it goes away to negate this
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Speaker 1: whole idea that it's racism that's driving this. If black
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Speaker 1: people feel uncomfortable at a black family reunion because of
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Speaker 1: crazy youth criminals running amok, ruining it for everyone, it
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Speaker 1: goes to serve your point, this is not an accusation
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Speaker 1: related in a particular race of people. It's an accusation
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Speaker 1: directed toward the crazy youth who apparently have no guidance
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Speaker 1: at home and no accountability.
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Speaker 2: No. And the crazy thing about it is there are
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Speaker 2: people out there, there are a very small group of
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Speaker 2: loud voices out there who would say I fall outside
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Speaker 2: of the African American community. Let me wake you up.
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Speaker 2: You think that, Let me tell you the super majority
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Speaker 2: of Black Americans that I like the word black, right.
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Speaker 2: I like Black Americans because it really defines for me
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Speaker 2: who I am. Right. I'm not from Africa, right, there
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Speaker 2: are people that live in our country who are from
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Speaker 2: Africa who have decided to become an American and they're
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Speaker 2: African Americans. So when I'm talking about black Americans, there
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Speaker 2: are people that say that my voice is outside of
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Speaker 2: They're crazy. My voice is actually in concert with the
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Speaker 2: super majority of Black Americans in this country who wake
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Speaker 2: up every day, go to work, make sure they're taking
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Speaker 2: care of their kids, they know where their babies are
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Speaker 2: every single day period. Those voices are the silent majority.
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Speaker 2: I'm giving those voices right now, a loud, loud voice
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Speaker 2: saying no, this is not the best of anything, and
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Speaker 2: we're not going to take a broad brush and paint
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Speaker 2: the Black Americans with this. We're looking at it like
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Speaker 2: you're looking at it. What the heck is going on?
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Speaker 2: We're looking We're looking like you're looking like, geez, what
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Speaker 2: in the world is going on? And what we need
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Speaker 2: is a competent mayor who decides I want to stay
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Speaker 2: in town. For the case of Cincinnati, We've got the
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Speaker 2: We've we've got the pride parade up downtown, house a mayor.
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Speaker 2: This is not the time. Yeah, you'll be at that.
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Speaker 2: This is not the time to be on a k right.
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Speaker 2: Or or we've got the Black Family reunion. Hey dude,
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Speaker 2: this is not the day to throw your son under
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Speaker 2: the bus and say you're on spring break. Look if
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Speaker 2: you want, we have a mayor that doesn't want to
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Speaker 2: be the mayor. Bottom line, but they voted for this.
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Speaker 2: Eighty percent of people in this town, in these fifty
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Speaker 2: two neighborhoods, voted for this. So elections Brian Thomas have consequences.
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Speaker 2: We just didn't understand that he was willing to throw
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Speaker 2: under the bus our national, our regional, our local holiday
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Speaker 2: opening day right since eighteen sixty nine, we've never ever
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Speaker 2: experienced what we experienced this past weekend.
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Speaker 1: Hard lessons can be learned. Question is will people remember
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Speaker 1: him next time around? I'm doubtful, Christopher, but I hear
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Speaker 1: you all night long. Great