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Masked Men With Guns and No Badges: The Shooting That Should Terrify Every American · Uncensored Objection

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  SPEAKER_00: Picture this.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're pulling into a parking spot on a crowded street.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your five-year-old son is in the back seat.
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  SPEAKER_00: School just let out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And suddenly, strangers in masks and construction vests surround your car.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of them walks at you with a gun already in his hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Every parent listening just felt their stomach drop because the answer is obvious.
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  SPEAKER_01: You protect your kid.
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  SPEAKER_01: You get out of there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that instinct nearly got Oscar Beltran killed.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is 28 years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: This happened Thursday afternoon in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York.
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  SPEAKER_00: A plainclothes officer walked up with his gun drawn.
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  SPEAKER_00: A second officer, also no uniform.
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  SPEAKER_00: At least one of them carrying a long gun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Beltran pulled forward, and the agents fired at least seven rounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: One hit him in the neck, right under his left ear, with his little boy a few feet away.
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  SPEAKER_01: He lived?
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  SPEAKER_00: He lived.
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  SPEAKER_00: His lawyers say a bullet is still in his body.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here is the part that should make every American furious.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mayor of New York said it in plain words.
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  SPEAKER_00: The men who surrounded that car wore construction vests and masks
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  SPEAKER_00: that concealed their faces,
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  SPEAKER_00: and there was no reasonable way to identify them as ICE agents.
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  SPEAKER_00: A masked man with a gun and no badge looks exactly like a carjacker,
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  SPEAKER_00: and our government is dressing in that way on purpose.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so let me get the scale of this, because this is not one bad afternoon.
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  SPEAKER_01: What are the numbers?
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  SPEAKER_00: Since Trump returned to office,
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  SPEAKER_00: federal immigration agents have opened fire in at least 30 shootings.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have killed at least 9 people, 4 of them American citizens, and wounded at least 13 more.
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  SPEAKER_00: 30 shootings.
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  SPEAKER_00: 9 dead.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is not a few bad apples, Jill.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a pattern.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I want to be clear about something before we go further,
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  SPEAKER_01: because Mitch Jackson is very deliberate about this.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has tried cases since 1986.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has represented good cops.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has sued bad ones and won.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has family and friends who wear a badge for a living.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is not anti-cop.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is pro-law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he went through ICE's own rules and local police protocols line by line.
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  SPEAKER_00: What we are watching on television matches nothing in them that looks like America.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here is the framework every honest cop already knows.
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  SPEAKER_00: A raid on a fortified drug compound calls for force.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go in hard because the men inside shoot back.
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  SPEAKER_00: But rolling up in masks on a father parking his car in a city neighborhood or
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  SPEAKER_00: on day laborers waiting for work in a Home Depot parking lot belongs in
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  SPEAKER_00: a completely different category.
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  SPEAKER_00: And dressing like a robbery crew to do it is pathetic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody on that street is El Chapo.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give me a break.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when do masks actually make sense?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I think most reasonable people agree there are some cases.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Narrow cases.
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  SPEAKER_00: An agent working undercover inside a violent cartel investigation needs to protect his identity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Agents facing credible, documented threats after a major takedown deserve protection too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mitch said exactly this back in the spring of 2025
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  SPEAKER_00: when he first asked why ICE agents hide their faces, and he stands by it today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody wants an officer hurt.
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  SPEAKER_01: But here's the deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Regular police officers deal with gang members and dangerous armed suspects every single day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they rarely cover their faces.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rarely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they understand their job is to serve and protect the public.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a visible face is part of that promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: The mask in American policing has stayed the rare exception for as long
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  SPEAKER_00: as Mitch has practiced law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that rule is one of the things that has always set this country apart
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  SPEAKER_00: from regimes that govern by fear.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me throw some more examples at you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Marble Hill is not happening in a vacuum.
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  SPEAKER_01: Los Angeles.
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  SPEAKER_01: Christian Serna, an American carpenter.
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  SPEAKER_01: Agents rammed his car and pointed assault rifles at it with his infant and toddler inside.
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  SPEAKER_01: A federal judge later called that operation a vindictive effort to punish him outside the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Outside the law?
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  SPEAKER_00: A federal judge said that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_01: Agents followed a preschool teacher into her daycare at morning drop-off
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  SPEAKER_01: and forced her out with her arms pinned behind her back in front
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  SPEAKER_01: of parents holding their kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: And families who showed up voluntarily for their scheduled immigration hearings,
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  SPEAKER_01: who did exactly what the government asked,
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  SPEAKER_01: sat in hallways waiting for their names to be called,
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  SPEAKER_01: and walked out in handcuffs until a federal judge in Manhattan barred most
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  SPEAKER_01: of those courthouse arrests this past spring.
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  SPEAKER_01: Think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our own government treating human beings like enemy combatants.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here is something every listener needs to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: When it comes to filming federal officers,
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  SPEAKER_00: including masked ICE agents,
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  SPEAKER_00: nearly every federal appeals court has ruled that
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  SPEAKER_00: the First Amendment protects your right to record officers doing their jobs
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  SPEAKER_00: in public.
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  SPEAKER_00: Coining a gun at someone for using that right attacks the very Constitution
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  SPEAKER_00: that agent swore to uphold.
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  SPEAKER_01: So let us talk about the why,
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  SPEAKER_01: because nobody puts on a black balaclava and hangs off the side of a truck to blend
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  SPEAKER_01: in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dressing up like a special operations unit makes no agent better at arresting a busboy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It makes them scarier.
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  SPEAKER_00: And scary is the whole point.
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  SPEAKER_00: The message lands loud and clear on every block they hit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be afraid and be silent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not film us and do not talk back.
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  SPEAKER_00: Step out of line and we will slam you to the ground and drag you away from your kids
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  SPEAKER_00: in front of the whole block.
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  SPEAKER_01: And picture a child watching a dozen masked men drag the neighbor away in handcuffs.
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  SPEAKER_01: That image, a kid carries it for years.
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  SPEAKER_01: The damage reaches far past the person in cuffs.
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  SPEAKER_01: It eats away at the trust every one of us places in our system of justice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the logic nobody can escape.
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  SPEAKER_00: Federal rules already require immigration agents to identify themselves as soon
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  SPEAKER_00: as it is practical and safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: So an agent who refuses to show his face during a routine arrest of
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  SPEAKER_00: an unarmed worker is telling you loud and clear that he expects to do something on
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  SPEAKER_00: that sidewalk he would rather not answer for in a courtroom or a newspaper later on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mitch has a line about this that I think ends the debate.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you need a mask to arrest a man sitting in a car,
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  SPEAKER_00: standing in a parking lot looking for work,
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  SPEAKER_00: or clearing tables at a diner,
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  SPEAKER_00: the only thing you are protecting is your own cowardice.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is the line.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, Governor Hochul made the point that New York has
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  SPEAKER_00: over 500 police agencies making hundreds of thousands of arrests a year,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they do not fire into vehicles without knowing who is inside.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Beltran's own lawyer put it in courtroom terms.
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  SPEAKER_00: A man's criminal history gives no agent license to shoot a father on
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  SPEAKER_00: a crowded afternoon street with his son behind him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so what is the fix?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Mitch says this one fits on an index card.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the arrest is routine, the agent's face stays visible.
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  SPEAKER_00: His full name and badge number go on his chest where you and I can see them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The same standard uniformed police across this country already follow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Period.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sending a dozen men in tactical gear to grab one mother on
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  SPEAKER_00: a suburban sidewalk would end the day this rule took hold.
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  SPEAKER_01: And New York tried to do this on its own, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: The state passed a law banning masks and requiring visible identification for federal agents.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in August, a federal judge put both rules on hold while the case plays out.
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  SPEAKER_00: States have limited power over federal agents,
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  SPEAKER_00: so the real fix has to come from Congress,
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  SPEAKER_00: which writes the rules those agents follow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which brings us to the call to action.
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  SPEAKER_01: Last year Mitch warned that the next time someone pulled that trigger,
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  SPEAKER_01: it would end up as a headline and a funeral.
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  SPEAKER_01: On Thursday in Marble Hill,
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  SPEAKER_01: it came within inches of exactly that,
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  SPEAKER_01: with five-year-old watching from the back seat.
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  SPEAKER_00: And at least nine people across this country have already died from these shootings.
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  SPEAKER_00: This madness stops when we flip Congress next month,
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  SPEAKER_00: and through the power of oversight and subpoena,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the power of the purse, we take back some control.
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  SPEAKER_00: We put people in charge who believe in the law and in your rights,
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  SPEAKER_00: because right now, the people running this show believe in neither.
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