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I Am Rattled , But Not Deterred From Having One Leg Up In NYC After Midtown Shooting 7-29-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, well, quite frankly, I needed a solid twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours to cool down from how.
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  Speaker 1: Heated I was yesterday to where I was.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna come on this podcast one leg up with Alex
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  Speaker 2: Garrett and start lacing.
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  Speaker 1: Explanis how the F did he have a rifle? And
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  Speaker 1: how the F did he just get.
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  Speaker 2: In there walk in there with a rifle. But I've
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  Speaker 2: calmed down a little bit. I've tried to get back
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  Speaker 2: in the city.
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  Speaker 1: Flow after still being very rattled.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I work in a office building. It's
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  Speaker 2: rattling to know someone a killer. He's not just somebod
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  Speaker 2: who's a killer. Just walked right in to three forty
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  Speaker 2: five Park Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: And start shooting and killing Officer.
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  Speaker 2: Digital Slam, whose funeral is at as a local mosque
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  Speaker 2: of the Bronx today.
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  Speaker 1: Happening in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm infuriated that he was able to carry this out.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be infuriated either way, but I'm infuriated that we
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  Speaker 2: all saw it on closed circuit television.
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  Speaker 1: And with no.
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  Speaker 2: Form of defense, this former standout line running back carried
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  Speaker 2: out his spite in the deadliest way possible.
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  Speaker 1: In midtown Manhattan, instead of.
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  Speaker 2: Being grateful for all the freaking times you got to
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  Speaker 2: carry a foot, you got to carry out this act
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  Speaker 2: of hate. Okay, you have grudges with the NFL. Well, pal,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you weren't gonna make it. Maybe that was the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line. But I do believe we're in a participation
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  Speaker 2: in trophy generation. And I believe maybe there were people
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  Speaker 2: that kept telling him you're gonna do great, You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be an NFL, You're gonna get there, and he.
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  Speaker 1: Felt entitled to be drafted to the NFL. That's not
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  Speaker 1: how this works. That's not how this works.
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  Speaker 2: And to take that range of not being drafted out
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  Speaker 2: in this way where you were targeting the NFL, if
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  Speaker 2: you truly wanted your brain.
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  Speaker 1: Studied, then you seek the proper help.
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  Speaker 2: You don't go and go from carrying a football to
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  Speaker 2: carrying a rifle into midtown Manhattan office buildings.
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  Speaker 1: Let me say that again, if you wanted help, you
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  Speaker 1: don't go from carrying a football up the field to
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  Speaker 1: carrying a.
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  Speaker 2: Rifle and playing daylight into an office building in midtown Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the way you solve any problem.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the way you solve any problem.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people today, how did he get
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  Speaker 1: his concealed carry perman? I wonder that too.
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  Speaker 2: His high school football coach called him a talented athlete today.
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  Speaker 1: But became a different person. And it just feels like.
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  Speaker 2: There needs to be a better equipped system to help
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  Speaker 2: secure guards do their job right.
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  Speaker 1: But I believe this started way before yesterday. I believe
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  Speaker 1: sixteen year old.
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  Speaker 2: Running back Shane Tumar was told he'd be a great
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  Speaker 2: player in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He was a standout guy.
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  Speaker 2: You can make it, doesn't make it, doesn't get drafted.
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  Speaker 1: Youth sports is.
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  Speaker 2: Becoming an entitled problem here. Parents yelling at referees and umpires,
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  Speaker 2: kids uh, you know, getting suspended from flipping a bat.
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  Speaker 2: Youth sports is becoming a problem here. We're not focused
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  Speaker 2: on how character could be built better than just giving
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  Speaker 2: a participation trophy at the very very early onset. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: these athletes have to be told no, you can't make
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  Speaker 2: it or I hate it sound so cruel about this,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes they have to be given a dose to reality.
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  Speaker 1: At a young age.
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  Speaker 2: We see a lot of people who have high school
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  Speaker 2: football standouts and then unfortunately don't get drafted. But they
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  Speaker 2: seem to be fine, they love re you know, reminiscing,
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  Speaker 2: but they wouldn't go and be having grapes with the
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  Speaker 2: NFL for not getting drafted.
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  Speaker 1: And if you wanted your brain.
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  Speaker 2: Studied, you should have just said it instead of blowing
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  Speaker 2: out other people's brains.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 2: The idea is that there were so many people that
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  Speaker 2: saw this guy with the rifle they weren't gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Touch him with a tempo pole to try and stop him.
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  Speaker 2: But there's no It doesn't make sense that you know this,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna talk about this a little further. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense how I was able to carry this
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  Speaker 2: out in broad daylight. And if we become that fearful
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  Speaker 2: of society or that I'm gonna look out for myself
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  Speaker 2: that no one tried to tackle him in Mindow Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: When you see this, I've seen it.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen videos where people are getting the kick the
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  Speaker 2: shit kicked out of him and nobody goes to help
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  Speaker 2: them because.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to get involved.
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  Speaker 2: Yet all these wars were won because people stepped up
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  Speaker 2: and got involved to fight.
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  Speaker 1: The fight.
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  Speaker 2: I would rather him been. There have been a tend
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  Speaker 2: to take him down before he entered the building and
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  Speaker 2: the braveness of those who called nine one one while
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  Speaker 2: this guy was entering the building with a rifle. They
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  Speaker 2: should be applauded and lauded. And this furthers the point,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, why until you can figure out the
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  Speaker 2: fair situation, there needs to be tighter security in.
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  Speaker 1: Our MTA subways.
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  Speaker 2: Guns are discovered on fair beaters. That is a fact
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  Speaker 2: we've seen in police departments across the city and preachings
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  Speaker 2: across the city. This is just a bigger example of
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  Speaker 2: how when you give someone access, bad shit can happen,
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  Speaker 2: and then building security. I'm gonna say what I wrote
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  Speaker 2: today earlier on Facebook if I can, because I believe
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  Speaker 2: in bringing the writing to the word.
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  Speaker 1: I firstly believe that laws need to be changed.
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  Speaker 2: If this is a fact, laws need to be changed
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  Speaker 2: where companies and leagues, all four leagues or five leagues
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  Speaker 2: or six leagues should be able to not have their
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  Speaker 2: address on the website and should be made available by
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  Speaker 2: request only. You want to mail something, call up an operator,
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  Speaker 2: call up an office manager, call up somebody, call up
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  Speaker 2: the league offices.
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  Speaker 1: But to now have all.
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  Speaker 2: These addresses out there in the public eye is disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's not disgusting what I just saw. It was disgusting.
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  Speaker 2: The now Luigi Mangioni themed memes are being made about
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  Speaker 2: this killer. No comparison. Mangione and this guy are evil people,
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  Speaker 2: evil people. They're not heroes.
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  Speaker 1: They're cold blooded killers. So stop with those memes. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I got distracted there.
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  Speaker 2: The whole idea here is there should be laws that say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: for the safety of buildings, of the buildings in New York,
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  Speaker 2: you are okay to remove your address and make it
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  Speaker 2: by reques vetted request only. That should be a nationwide
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  Speaker 2: push by vetted request only. So solutions so far I've
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  Speaker 2: thought of, give kids a dose reality if you know
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  Speaker 2: they may not be able to make it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give them participation, drophing. Don't give them.
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  Speaker 2: False hopes and dreams that they can be an NFL
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  Speaker 2: or because then if they're not drafted, they'll be sour.
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  Speaker 1: Secondly, buildings need to be able to have.
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  Speaker 2: Their websites remove addresses for the safety of the employees,
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  Speaker 2: for the safety of.
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  Speaker 1: Other tenants of a building.
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  Speaker 2: And then thirdly is this we should have a conversation
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  Speaker 2: about ct A further one. There have been tons of
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  Speaker 2: nflers that have spoken out about ct and having.
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  Speaker 1: CTE and.
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  Speaker 2: If all he wanted was brain to be studied, then
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  Speaker 2: he should have done something differently. But it seems like
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  Speaker 2: an evil grew inside him beyond just not being drafted
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  Speaker 2: clearly to shoot up and kill innocent lives.
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  Speaker 1: And then, look, you may not like it, you may not.
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  Speaker 2: Like it, but what if these security guards who do
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  Speaker 2: their damned just to keep us safe, but they're not
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  Speaker 2: armed and it does take a minute or two or
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  Speaker 2: ten for reinforcements to come in. What if we clearly
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  Speaker 2: gave our local doormen. And I hate to be this
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  Speaker 2: so invasive, because I'm sure that would make tenants less easy,
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  Speaker 2: even those who are the desks, you know, in the
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  Speaker 2: tenants of buildings.
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  Speaker 1: With security desks.
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  Speaker 2: But to arm or to give some kind of defensive
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  Speaker 2: training weaponry to.
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  Speaker 1: Our hard working men and women that keep us safe
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  Speaker 1: across our city.
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  Speaker 2: Buildings, because we know the NYPD won't have resources to
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  Speaker 2: expand every building in New York, but there could be.
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  Speaker 1: If there could be just.
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  Speaker 3: A training and a arming of some kind, a deterrence,
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  Speaker 3: that's the word I'm looking for, a deterrent.
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  Speaker 1: For this, we'd all be better off. We'd be all safer.
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  Speaker 1: But in broad daylight, this happens.
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  Speaker 2: This happens, and it does bring a chill, because now
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  Speaker 2: if you're every league, if you're anybody, any business, I
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  Speaker 2: would also think of the leagues, and you have disgruntled
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  Speaker 2: former players or athletes that didn't get drafted.
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  Speaker 1: This is chilling and it would, I do believe it
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  Speaker 1: would get worse the lack of security if mom Donnie who.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow all of a sudden woke up out of his
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  Speaker 2: defund the police coma and said, our thoughts and prayers
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  Speaker 2: are with the fallen officer.
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  Speaker 1: It's too late. You've made your stance known. You've made
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  Speaker 1: your stance.
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  Speaker 2: Known, and now you're saying thoughts and prayers instead of
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  Speaker 2: thanking the NYPD every day for getting up and doing
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  Speaker 2: the job to defend the city.
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  Speaker 1: Now now you choose to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You wrote to the city in the City NYC newspaper
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of different things about how bad the NYPD
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  Speaker 2: is in A Q and A, And now now you
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  Speaker 2: say that it's too late. It's too uh what's the
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: word I'm looking for? Capitalistic for a socialist to capitalize.
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  Speaker 1: How funny is that? But it's too late. Your pandering
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  Speaker 1: is no good here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Alex, maybe he's truly sorrowful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, he could be sorrowful every day.
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  Speaker 2: He could be thoughtful every day about the police and
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  Speaker 2: then MYPD.
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  Speaker 1: But all I know.
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  Speaker 2: Is this, there needs to be things changing, and I
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  Speaker 2: would push for a national movement to firstly remove the website,
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  Speaker 2: the addresses from websites, and make it by request only.
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  Speaker 2: I remember how nervous I was when I saw a
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  Speaker 2: crazy mailing a whole bunch of stuff to all the
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  Speaker 2: different media outlets across the city in.
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  Speaker 1: One day, in one day, and I was worried our
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  Speaker 1: city got hit.
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  Speaker 2: I was worried our city was gonna get hit, or
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  Speaker 2: our office was gonna get hit.
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  Speaker 1: Thankfully nothing came that was suspicious.
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  Speaker 2: But to fix this is to keep the NYPD intact,
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  Speaker 2: is to tell athletes early on instead of waiting until
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  Speaker 2: they don't get drafted, for the guy to get pissed off.
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  Speaker 1: Enough to do this.
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  Speaker 2: And then if you know you have CT issues, reach
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  Speaker 2: out to your local doctor and do something about it.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go from carrying a football to carrying a rifle
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  Speaker 2: into midtown Manhattan,