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Seattle shooting - Manhunt underway after multiple killed at festival · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: A deadly mass shooting in Seattle near the iconic Space Needle.
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  Speaker 1: Gunfire was heard erupting at a popular summertime food festival
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  Speaker 1: that attracts thousands of families. It's a beloved event in
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  Speaker 1: that city. People seen running for cover and their lives off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Are investigators now say that three people are dead. Four
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  Speaker 1: others were injured, including a two year old child, and
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  Speaker 1: there is audio now of first responders in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of it all.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone have a small child tourniquet size for a time,
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  Speaker 2: a small child arm tournicut.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the terrified festival goers even seen taking cover,
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  Speaker 1: it seems, and trying to high out in the gift
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  Speaker 1: shop of the Space Needle while this is happening. Witnesses
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  Speaker 1: also then describe what happened, what they experienced.
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  Speaker 3: I saw families, kids, everyone just like running out of
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  Speaker 3: the fair and he had told me, like, just run,
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  Speaker 3: just run. Active shooter. Someone's yelling active shooter. I jumped
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  Speaker 3: the fence quickly and I ran. I just kept running.
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  Speaker 1: So police they now believe that two people were shooting
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  Speaker 1: at each other, innocent people and joining the festival caught
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of it seen as Julia Vargus Jones
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  Speaker 1: is live this morning at the scene in Seattle. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of questions still of what really was happening there
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  Speaker 1: and who they are now searching for. What's the latest
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  Speaker 1: you're picking up, Julia.
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  Speaker 4: Well, kay, they're still trying to piece together those very
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  Speaker 4: chaotic moments that turned this festival into that scene of violence.
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  Speaker 4: Behind me here you can see some of the stalls
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  Speaker 4: people are just allowed just now moments before we came
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  Speaker 4: on air, to come in to start cleaning up, because
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  Speaker 4: as of now, it's like the scene was frozen in time.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the shooting was yesterday at six pm and
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  Speaker 4: it's been untouched since. That's when people first heard those
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  Speaker 4: pop pop pop that some said to some of our
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  Speaker 4: affiliates they thought were fireworks at first. And I think
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  Speaker 4: we have some new video that shows those very first
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  Speaker 4: moments Kate, that I want to play for our viewers,
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  Speaker 4: where you see people running and taking cover wherever they
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  Speaker 4: can to try to avoid it as they're starting to
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  Speaker 4: realize that there's something deeply wrong.
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  Speaker 4: And just goes to show kay just how confusing that
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  Speaker 4: situation was. Please saying now that those two people were
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  Speaker 4: shooting at each other, they have one person in custody,
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  Speaker 4: still looking for that second one. What we are hearing
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  Speaker 4: now from authorities is that we can expect today possibly
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  Speaker 4: an initial appearance for that person who is in custody.
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  Speaker 4: That isn't quite a charging hearing at this time. This
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  Speaker 4: will be just initial information presented to a judge and
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  Speaker 4: authorities still have about seventy two hours to decide how
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  Speaker 4: they will charge this first person and continue with that manhunt.
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  Speaker 1: Kate right, and three people dead? Is there an update
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  Speaker 1: on what we know about the others injured, including that child?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we did have an update Overnightly, we had initial
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  Speaker 4: reports of two people that were dead from this incident,
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  Speaker 4: and overnight a third person who had been taken to
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  Speaker 4: hospital as part of those injured with a wound from
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  Speaker 4: a bullet. That person also passed away, Kate, adding to
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  Speaker 4: that death toll that we're seeing there, so now three
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  Speaker 4: people dead, others injured, and that two year old child
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  Speaker 4: is just so heartbreaking to hear those first responders trying
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  Speaker 4: to find the right size tourniquet for that child. Just
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  Speaker 4: the pain that that family must be going through heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 6: Let's get some analysis now from an expert. Richard Kolko
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  Speaker 6: is a retired FBI Supervisory special Agent. He joins me.
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  Speaker 6: Richard's always good to see you. Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Paul, So, Richard, you've been listening closely to what
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  Speaker 6: authorities are saying about this. We heard from Assistant Chief
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  Speaker 6: Tyrone Davis just in the last hour that they have
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  Speaker 6: that individual detained already speaking to that individual, and they're
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  Speaker 6: trying to make contact or find a second person to
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  Speaker 6: try to see if they were potentially involved here. But
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  Speaker 6: they're also pleading to eyewitnesses, anybody that saw something to
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  Speaker 6: come forward and say something. The chief said that at
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  Speaker 6: this point they're really not getting a whole lot of
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  Speaker 6: information from witnesses, so they want more. I'm curious what
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  Speaker 6: this is telling you thus far about maybe what possibly
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  Speaker 6: happened in Seattle on Sunday.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Paulo, I think, thankfully it's not going to be
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  Speaker 7: a terrorism related event, is what it sounds like, at
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  Speaker 7: least reading between the lines with what the assistant police
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  Speaker 7: chief said, there looks like I might be crime related,
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  Speaker 7: gang related, as he described the two people shooting it
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  Speaker 7: out with each other. Unfortunately, three people, three innocent people
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  Speaker 7: killed and others wounded. So they've got one in custody
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  Speaker 7: right now. Plenty of witnesses. I mean, this food festival
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  Speaker 7: attracts up to one hundred thousand people a day, so
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  Speaker 7: there's plenty of people that certainly have some information. What
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  Speaker 7: they've got to do now is pick up the phone
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  Speaker 7: and call the Seattle Police Department, And we heard the
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  Speaker 7: chief pleading with them to please do exactly that.
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  Speaker 6: We know that at least three people have been confirmed dead,
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  Speaker 6: several others injured, including that child that we mentioned at
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  Speaker 6: the top. What does that tell you about the incident
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  Speaker 6: itself at this preliminary stage, and just based on what
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  Speaker 6: you're hearing in all of these reports coming from officials,
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  Speaker 6: does it look to you that many of the victims
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  Speaker 6: there were essentially caught in the crossfire.
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  Speaker 7: I think that's exactly it. I think these were innocent
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  Speaker 7: bystanders is how it's going to play out, not targets
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  Speaker 7: of the two that were at least two that were
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  Speaker 7: involved in the shooting. Very very sad and unfortunate for
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  Speaker 7: those innocent bystanders. But law enforcement's going to work hard.
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  Speaker 7: They've got forensic evidence. They've got two guns that they've
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  Speaker 7: recovered there, so perhaps they'll get fingerprints. There are videos
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  Speaker 7: out there from spectators that shot videos, so that maybe
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  Speaker 7: they'll get some facial recognition. They'll get some witness interviews.
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  Speaker 7: We'll just take a little time, but over the next
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  Speaker 7: few hours they'll gather some of that information and whether
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  Speaker 7: it's cell phone analysis, license plate readers, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 7: they'll put two and two together. They'll come up with
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  Speaker 7: another suspect there. Their intelligence bureau may already have some
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  Speaker 7: information on who that person may be, and then they'll
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  Speaker 7: put out what's called a BOLO or be on the lookout,
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  Speaker 7: and they'll be asking the community to help identify and
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  Speaker 7: locate that person as well as police will be out
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  Speaker 7: doing their job to locate them and hopefully be able
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  Speaker 7: to arrest that second person and determine if they were
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  Speaker 7: involved very quickly.
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  Speaker 6: Richard, You've no doubt seen some of the footage, some
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  Speaker 6: of the cel phone footage that people shot that day
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  Speaker 6: or actually during the incident on Sunday evening, where it
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  Speaker 6: shows just a mad scramble of people trying to seek shelter,
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  Speaker 6: Seattle police saying that they are you know that they're
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  Speaker 6: roughly three hundred and fifty I should say that the
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  Speaker 6: Bite of Seattle Festival's website says it draws them three
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  Speaker 6: hundred and fifty thousand guests over three days at the festival.
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  Speaker 6: So just maybe speak to the challenges that police officers
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  Speaker 6: face when they're responding to an event that's hosting potentially
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  Speaker 6: thousands of families.
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  Speaker 7: Well, this is defending a soft target. This is the
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  Speaker 7: thing we've heard about now for years. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 7: only so much you can do to make an event
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  Speaker 7: like this attractive for people to come to yet safe
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  Speaker 7: for people to be at. You can limit some of
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  Speaker 7: the access points you've got on a very high police presence.
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  Speaker 7: Just seeing a police officer in uniform can provide some security,
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  Speaker 7: makes people feel more comfortable, and if anybody has any
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  Speaker 7: bad intentions, that can you know, perhaps scare them away.
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  Speaker 7: Police are always on the lookout for anything suspicious. They're
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  Speaker 7: encourage people if they see something, say something, to go
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  Speaker 7: ahead and make that call. And that's all part of
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  Speaker 7: keeping people safe. And then as far as investigation, they
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  Speaker 7: all have to look at the videos that are available.
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  Speaker 7: They wish there were more, They always wish there more,
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  Speaker 7: but they'll vet the ones that come through and find
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  Speaker 7: that additional piece of information and track down this second person.
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  Speaker 7: But one hundred thousand people coming through a very very
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  Speaker 7: famous food festival, it's important for the community, it's important
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  Speaker 7: for Seattle. They don't want to put a stop to
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  Speaker 7: this and they want to find a way to make
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  Speaker 7: this safe and comfortable for everybody.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so many people, including children. And Richard, just strictly
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  Speaker 6: speaking as a retired law enforcement officer, you've had interactions
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  Speaker 6: with crime victim you know, or crime victims, I should say,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, just can you speak to the level of
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  Speaker 6: emotional trauma also that so many people are probably having
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  Speaker 6: to deal with at this hour. I mean in the video,
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  Speaker 6: you see families, you know, holding their children running to cover.
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  Speaker 6: That has to have I assume a lasting effect from
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  Speaker 6: a law enforcement perspective.
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  Speaker 7: It does have that lasting effect. It's terrifying for these people.
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  Speaker 7: You'll hear a lot of the early interviews and they say,
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  Speaker 7: I thought it was fireworks. You know, I'm not recognizing
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  Speaker 7: that it's gunfire. Well, those people there that were there,
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  Speaker 7: now every time they hear fireworks right now after this,
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  Speaker 7: they're going to think it's gunfire first, when in reality
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  Speaker 7: it will be fireworks. Kind of changes them forever. And
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  Speaker 7: not only do you have the once the gunfire starts,
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  Speaker 7: people are shot and are down. Now you've got thousands
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  Speaker 7: of people evacuating and evacuating not in a calm way,
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  Speaker 7: but in that chaos, additional people can get hurt. We
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  Speaker 7: see some of these big concerts or other events where
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  Speaker 7: people run away or evacuate and people are sometimes crushed
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  Speaker 7: are injured in that kind of chaos. So that's very
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  Speaker 7: problematic as well. So it's not just the shooting that's dangerous.
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  Speaker 7: The entire event is dangerous. Changes people's mindset on being
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  Speaker 7: in these events, They get a formal PTSD and just
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  Speaker 7: way too many of these active shooter events and absolutely problematic,
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  Speaker 7: has lasting impact on everybody involved.