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Top Trump officials and ICE sued by family of Renee Good for horrific killing · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: After nearly a year of the Trump administration attempting to
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  Speaker 1: smear their daughter and wife as a terrorist and actively
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  Speaker 1: blocking any and all attempts to investigate her murder, the
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  Speaker 1: family of Renee Nicole Good is fighting back today. Earlier
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  Speaker 1: at a press conference, they announced they are suing the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration for wrongful death, conspiracy and other violations after
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  Speaker 1: her shooting death at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan
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  Speaker 1: Ross during the Trump administration's Operation Metro surge in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the lawyer for the family.
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  Speaker 2: Watch.
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  Speaker 3: Masked, unidentifiable men, women, denying equal protection and rights against
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  Speaker 3: ordinary citizens. Our government has become a grave and mortal
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  Speaker 3: threat to its own citizens. The rule of law to
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  Speaker 3: democracy is like oxygen to the human body. In other words,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, if the rule of law dies, or
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  Speaker 3: we don't have it, then democracy dies with it too.
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  Speaker 3: We will work tirelessly to ensure that the rule of
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  Speaker 3: law does prevail, that democracy does not die, that our
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  Speaker 3: country moves forward under its principles, and we will ensure
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  Speaker 3: that our civil rights are preserved in the name of
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  Speaker 3: Renee Good.
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  Speaker 1: As the lawsuit puts it, quote, Ross's shots were the
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  Speaker 1: predictable and intended product of the operation. His conduct was
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  Speaker 1: in furtherance of a carefully planned, coordinated effort between senior
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  Speaker 1: federal officials and private actors to make two ethnic communities
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  Speaker 1: in Minnesota the object of aggression and abduction, and to
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  Speaker 1: silence by intimidation, arrest, and violence the neighbors and allies
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  Speaker 1: of those targeted communities who observed and documented and warned
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  Speaker 1: of that campaign. The campaign produced two dead Americans, a
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  Speaker 1: third person shot, a fourth dead in Texas detention, and
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  Speaker 1: more than $ 200 million in economic damage to a single city.
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  Speaker 1: Renee was one of those casualties. She was killed on
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  Speaker 1: a public street while doing what thousands of her neighbors
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  Speaker 1: were doing that winter— watching masked armed men terrorizing her
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  Speaker 1: community and refusing to look away. As the lawsuit notes,
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  Speaker 1: Renee Good was killed while peacefully observing the actions of
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents and was in the process of leaving the
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  Speaker 1: scene when Ross fired two shots into her car. Her
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  Speaker 1: last words were, quote, That's fine, dude. I'm not mad
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  Speaker 1: at you. I'm not mad at any of you. Bystanders
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  Speaker 1: captured video of what transpired. And it is very likely
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  Speaker 1: that without that video, the lies told about Rene by
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump and his administration might have been allowed to stand.
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  Speaker 1: So because of its import, here is the video. But
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  Speaker 1: be warned, it is disturbing.
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  Speaker 3: No! No!
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  Speaker 2: Shame! Shame!
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God! What the f * * *?
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  Speaker 4: What the f * * *?
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  Speaker 1: Then Officer Ross said what appears to be or what
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  Speaker 1: sounds like on tape, effing bitch. And officers blocked a
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  Speaker 1: bystander from treating her who was actually a doctor, a physician.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to Ross, the suit also names White House
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  Speaker 1: Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
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  Speaker 1: former Homeland Security Advisor Corey Lewandowski, White House Border Czar
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  Speaker 1: Tom Hellman, former Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, former Border
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  Speaker 1: Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, as well as various unnamed agents.
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  Speaker 1: At the press conference today, Renee Good's partner spoke about
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  Speaker 1: what life is like without her.
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  Speaker 5: I'm here today because last January, the whole world had
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  Speaker 5: to watch as our entire universe was destroyed. As the
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  Speaker 5: sunshine that was my amazing Renee was robbed from us,
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  Speaker 5: from her children, and from her community that loved her.
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  Speaker 5: I really just want to tell you about Renee. She
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  Speaker 5: was pure love, and she was funny, and she was smart,
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  Speaker 5: and she was gorgeous. She never left anyone without feeling
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  Speaker 5: seen and cared for and without a smile on their face.
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  Speaker 5: She read all the time, and she found beauty in
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  Speaker 5: every moment. She was the center of my universe, and
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  Speaker 5: living without her is like trying to live without the sun.
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  Speaker 5: And you don't know how much light something gives you
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  Speaker 5: until it's gone, and then you feel that absence every
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  Speaker 5: single second. I don't hate the people who took Renee
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  Speaker 5: from us, but what I want them to understand is
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  Speaker 5: Every single day they get to look at their children
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  Speaker 5: and their wives and their sisters and know what they
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  Speaker 5: took from our family. They took a mother away from
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  Speaker 5: her children. They know that and they will carry it forever.
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  Speaker 5: Caring for each other shouldn't cost you your life. It
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  Speaker 5: doesn't take extra to care. What takes extra is holding back.
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  Speaker 5: We are here today not out of anger and not
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  Speaker 5: out of hate. We are here because Renee's love and
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  Speaker 5: legacy demand a better world for her children, for this community,
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  Speaker 5: and for this country. What happened to our family should
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  Speaker 5: not happen to any family, regardless of who you are,
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  Speaker 5: who you voted for, or what you believe. Today we
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  Speaker 5: are taking a step to build the world Renee would
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  Speaker 5: have wanted. The one I promised... Our son I am
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  Speaker 5: working towards every night when I tuck him in. This
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  Speaker 5: is the world that she believed in. It's the world
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to fight for. And that's the world I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to raise our son in.
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  Speaker 1: One American family fighting for their loved one after her
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  Speaker 1: own government tried to strip away her humanity. And this
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  Speaker 1: family now working to protect all of us from what
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  Speaker 1: they describe as a grave and mortal threat. It's where
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  Speaker 1: we begin today with some of our favorite experts and friends.
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  Speaker 1: Senior contributing editor Michelle Norris is back. She's a Minneapolis
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  Speaker 1: native who spent a lot of time reporting on the
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  Speaker 1: ground for us in that community in the days after
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  Speaker 1: Renee Goode was killed. With me at the table, former
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  Speaker 1: Department of Justice pardon attorney Liz Oyer is here. She's
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  Speaker 1: now the host of the podcast, Is This Really Legal?,
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  Speaker 1: And my dear friend, senior political analyst, host of the
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  Speaker 1: Runaway Country podcast, author of the sub stack, How the Hell,
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  Speaker 1: New York Times bestselling author, Alex Wagner is here. The
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  Speaker 1: bestseller is called The Steel for right-wing hardliners, won Republican
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  Speaker 1: presidency and the raid on America's courts. You two were
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  Speaker 1: on the ground there. I find this unbearable to listen
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  Speaker 1: to the family finally talk about... What was taken from them.
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  Speaker 1: And I think for all of us who had to
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  Speaker 1: process and figure out how to share with our beloved
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  Speaker 1: viewers a video of what happened in real time, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a shared trauma now, but it really isn't. It's
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  Speaker 1: this family's loss and something they live with all the time.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of what we learned today?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, as many times as we have seen
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  Speaker 2: that video, it does not cease to be shocking and
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  Speaker 2: just gut you when you see A life being extinguished
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  Speaker 2: on camera, right? But in service to what.
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  Speaker 1: By someone who calls the victim of a killing an
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  Speaker 1: effing bitch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, which tells you all you need to know about
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  Speaker 2: the rage and the anger and the grievance being directed
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  Speaker 2: at people who are trying to stop the destruction of
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  Speaker 2: black and brown lives in this country, right? Because that's
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  Speaker 2: the essence of all of this. But I mean, it is,
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  Speaker 2: I think, right and overdue that the family should be pursuing...
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  Speaker 2: damages for this, but it also turns a spotlight into
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  Speaker 2: the brutality of ICE, which, though they are not murdering
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  Speaker 2: American citizens on the street on video in the way
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  Speaker 2: they were last year, I mean, ICE's tactics are as
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  Speaker 2: brutal as ever. I mean, they have separated 150,000 families. Today,
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court said that it would hear whether the
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  Speaker 2: federal government's policy of denying immigrants bond hearings and just
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  Speaker 2: throwing them into detention in subhuman conditions for months on
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  Speaker 2: end is legal. Who knows where they're going to land
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  Speaker 2: on that? At the same time, the court is allowing
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  Speaker 2: this government to extradite migrants to third countries like Rwanda.
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  Speaker 2: and South Sudan. I mean, we have not gotten to
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  Speaker 2: a better or more perfect union in the year since
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  Speaker 2: Renee Nicole Goode was shot and murdered in front of
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  Speaker 2: all of us. They've just taken it into the shadows.
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  Speaker 2: But it is, I think, in the spirit of what
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  Speaker 2: she sacrificed that we should talk about the trauma and
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  Speaker 2: the destruction. that ICE continues to wreak across this country.
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  Speaker 2: I think Donald Trump and his party are going to
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  Speaker 2: pay a price for it, but that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: we should stop on election night or the day after.
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  Speaker 2: This is being done in our name right now. And
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  Speaker 2: unless there is real vigilance about both funding and citizen engagement,
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  Speaker 2: it will continue.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the piece of it that is so
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  Speaker 1: is that the civil suit takes on added importance because
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  Speaker 1: there is no criminal investigation at DOJ.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 6: It is so shocking to see that the Justice Department
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  Speaker 6: a year later has done absolutely nothing... with this case.
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  Speaker 6: If you contrast this with another really traumatic incident that
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  Speaker 6: we all witnessed as Americans, which was the killing of
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  Speaker 6: George Floyd, that is a case in which the Civil
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  Speaker 6: Rights Division of the Justice Department immediately sought accountability. There
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  Speaker 6: was a prosecution, there was a conviction, there was a
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  Speaker 6: jail sentence imposed. That Victims' family did not have to,
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  Speaker 6: by themselves, try to pursue justice. That's the job of
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  Speaker 6: the Justice Department, to get justice for victims of crimes,
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  Speaker 6: to get justice for their families, to get justice for
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  Speaker 6: the American people. They have totally abdicated that responsibility under
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump. The Civil Rights Division has the job of
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  Speaker 6: enforcing laws that prevent crime. the use of excessive force
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  Speaker 6: by people like ICE agents who are employed by the
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  Speaker 6: federal government. That division has been decimated. They have lost
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  Speaker 6: over 50 percent of their staff, including 75 percent of
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  Speaker 6: the lawyers who once worked there. And the civil rights
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  Speaker 6: laws are now being weaponized against the people they were
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  Speaker 6: intended to protect.
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