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Signal 99 - CPD Officer Assaulted and Halloween Violence in the city. Where's Aftab? · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Like the current slate of judges we're dealing with here,
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  Speaker 1: someone who knows all about that and the person about
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  Speaker 1: whom I started the 55KRC Morning Show today, Signal 99.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the 55KRC Morning Show. It is always
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure to hear from you, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: thank you personally for doing something our local media doesn't do,
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  Speaker 1: which is report on police officers getting the crap beat
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  Speaker 1: out of them over the weekend. How come I don't
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  Speaker 1: find any articles on local news sites, Signal 99, describing
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  Speaker 1: in gross detail what you described over the weekend? You
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  Speaker 1: need a video of the police officer being beat up.
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  Speaker 1: There's not even a report on the takeover of the
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  Speaker 1: BP station up there near Short Vine. Welcome back. Please
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  Speaker 1: help me and my listening audience with this.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian.
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  Speaker 3: It's nice to be back. I don't think the media
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  Speaker 3: knew about it. So there's two problems with that. One...
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  Speaker 3: A statement should have been put out by the city,
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  Speaker 3: by the interim chief, that one of their officers was injured.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he wasn't majorly injured. He required some stitches.
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  Speaker 3: He's bruised up. Of course, you know, he's angry, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm sure he has a whole plethora of emotions
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  Speaker 3: going on about it.
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  Speaker 2: But the city didn't put anything out.
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  Speaker 3: The night chiefs obviously didn't tell the media or they
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  Speaker 3: would have done a story on it. So I've had
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  Speaker 3: several of them reach out to me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, they're looking at it.
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  Speaker 1: OK, well, then I'll back off some of my very
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  Speaker 1: harsh criticism on them because I figured, look, If you've
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  Speaker 1: got this and you've got the video from it, you'd
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  Speaker 1: at least think that someone would have reported it in
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  Speaker 1: one of the local media outlets. I mean, we did
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  Speaker 1: get reporting on the multiple violent crimes that were committed
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. And this just societal breakdown that a
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  Speaker 1: member of the public would just brutally attack a police
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  Speaker 1: officer like that, it just shocks my conscience. Someone actually
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  Speaker 1: thinks it's normal or okay to do that. It breaks
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  Speaker 1: my heart.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's about to learn a very important lesson. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to that, hopefully today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the video you showed pretty clearly captured who did this,
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  Speaker 1: and I can only imagine with the multitude of people
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  Speaker 1: standing around with cell phones taking videos that there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of video of this beatdown and the violence
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  Speaker 1: that the crowd was engaged in around that BP station.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I think that the guys standing around taking
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  Speaker 3: pictures of the officer and videos instead of helping him,
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  Speaker 3: I think they're just as culpable as the guy that
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  Speaker 3: beat him.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, in some states, they would get charged
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  Speaker 2: for that.
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  Speaker 1: Crime of inaction.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's basically, essentially, it's, you know... What is the
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  Speaker 2: actual phrase? I'm trying to think, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: But it's, yeah, it's essentially, it's inaction. And it's not
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  Speaker 3: having compassion for a human being, basically.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, depraved indifference. That's what it is. It's called depraved indifference.
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  Speaker 1: Depraved indifference.
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  Speaker 2: Depraved indifference for human life, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can't imagine anybody getting charged in this town
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  Speaker 1: on that or whether there is even a charge that
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  Speaker 1: goes along with that. But the street takeovers keep getting
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  Speaker 1: worse and worse. And I don't know how police are
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  Speaker 1: expected to respond to it. The numbers are just overwhelming.
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  Speaker 1: It's like in France. I mean, look at France. The
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  Speaker 1: police have to back off because they're outnumbered 10 to
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  Speaker 1: 1 with violent protesters in the street.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, Brian, if.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if CPD and the sheriff's office and every
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  Speaker 4: other law enforcement agency in this county were arresting these people,
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  Speaker 4: it wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Matter unless the judges started holding them accountable. So until
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  Speaker 3: the judges start actually, you know what? Sit your butt
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  Speaker 3: in jail for a couple of days and see how
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  Speaker 3: you like that. Let's take your car.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in Kentucky, they take their cars when they
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  Speaker 2: do street takeover cars, and they sell them, and they
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  Speaker 2: keep the money.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, forfeiture. If your car was used in the commission
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  Speaker 1: of a crime, then yeah, the state can take it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so why aren't we doing that?
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  Speaker 3: Why aren't we citing parents and arresting parents for not
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  Speaker 3: controlling their juveniles? And when we do catch their juveniles... Um,
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  Speaker 3: we're sticking them in and, uh, you know, give them
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  Speaker 3: a weekend in 2020.
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  Speaker 2: See how they like that.
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  Speaker 3: Now, granted, I know there's, you know, PlayStation at 2020
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, maybe they would like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, apparently there's also high school education going on over
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  Speaker 1: there as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there should be high school education going on over there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, high school education goes on in every other
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  Speaker 3: juvenile detention facility in the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't it happen here?
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  Speaker 1: And you can lead a horse to water.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they act like they invented the wheel here. We're
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  Speaker 3: doing high school education. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Because you should have been doing that all along. Indeed.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you comment on the.
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  Speaker 1: The judges we should be voting on is one of
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  Speaker 1: your points in your post on this violence and the
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  Speaker 1: need to have these violent individuals held accountable in the
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  Speaker 1: judicial system. You also, and you just kind of threw
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  Speaker 1: a shot at Interim Police Chief Henney for not making
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  Speaker 1: an announcement about this, and you think he would. You
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  Speaker 1: talked about Mayor Aftab Parval. Where's Mayor Aftab Parval when
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  Speaker 1: his city is burning, in essence?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he was in Michigan stumping for El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 3: That was way more important than apparently something for his
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  Speaker 3: own local politicians here.
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  Speaker 1: That is unusual, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: I found it kind of funny because, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: been trying to get the hell out of Cincinnati for
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  Speaker 3: a while. He, you know, thought he was going to
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  Speaker 3: get appointed to Biden's cabinet. And then when Biden wasn't
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  Speaker 3: going to run again, he thought, you know, he rushed
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  Speaker 3: to Chicago to kiss up to Kamala to try to
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  Speaker 3: get appointed to her cabinet. And then, of course, she
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  Speaker 3: lost horribly. And then he was just stuck here. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's still trying to get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: He does not want to be.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think he wants to work for Senator Syed,
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  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Syed, if he gets elected?
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  Speaker 2: I think he.
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  Speaker 3: Just wants to get out of here and get a
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  Speaker 3: chance to another foot up into politics somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he really.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I think is funny, though, and I
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  Speaker 3: haven't posted it yet, but his wife put out a
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  Speaker 3: thing on her Facebook about no car, question mark, you know,
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  Speaker 3: how you could get rides.
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  Speaker 2: To the polling places.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought, boy, isn't that rich for putting out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, no car, question mark, and it brought me
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  Speaker 3: back to the fact that they've had two of their
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  Speaker 3: vehicles repossessed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I just found it. I found that humor. It is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I made a meme of him and his wife
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  Speaker 3: in Michigan with, with the lays around their necks. So
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  Speaker 3: when I put SpongeBob music on it, I.
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  Speaker 2: Put a little, little, little meme that said live, love, lay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, more reasons to follow the antics of Signal 99,
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  Speaker 1: the collective that is over on Facebook. You get all
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  Speaker 1: these great memes that are developed. But also, you get, well,
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  Speaker 1: first reporting. You get props for being the first out
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  Speaker 1: of the gate to report on what's going on in downtown.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe the mayor should follow your site so he
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  Speaker 1: at least has some concept of what's going on in
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  Speaker 1: his own town.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be silly, Brian. Of course he follows Signal 99. Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: They watch my page like a hawk. They know about
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  Speaker 2: stuff before you do because they're on my page.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as they get the notification, they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God.
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  Speaker 1: Well, considering the revelation from Todd Zimzer on the program
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  Speaker 1: last Friday, maybe Mayor Aftab Pervil is trying to get
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  Speaker 1: out of town before the bill comes due for all
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  Speaker 1: of these shenanigans that are going on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as long as he takes Iris and Cheryl, that's
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  Speaker 3: such a great start.
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  Speaker 2: That would be such a great start.
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  Speaker 1: Well, fire, former fire chief Washington may very well be
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  Speaker 1: the one responsible for relieving us from city manager, Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: long when the tab comes due on that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I'm, I'm finding it. It's quizzical to
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  Speaker 2: me why they haven't cut her loose already. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I guess because they gave her a perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Review, uh, at the beginning of the year. Um, it'd
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  Speaker 3: be kind of hard to fire her now and say, well,
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  Speaker 3: it's just not working out because, you know, you're stupid
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  Speaker 3: and you're costing us millions of dollars in lawsuits. But,
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  Speaker 3: but anyways, yeah. I mean, what are they going to,
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  Speaker 3: what are they going to do? Say your performance is
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  Speaker 3: tanked since January.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, really? I'll tell you what, we've got more to
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  Speaker 1: talk about signal 99. Can you hang over for another,
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  Speaker 1: segment absolutely and you stick around bring you back we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about well maybe do we have a gang problem
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  Speaker 1: in downtown 55 care city talk station i welcome surprise
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  Speaker 1: guests during the morning show today's surprise which i started
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  Speaker 1: off the morning show reading what she uh she and
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  Speaker 1: the collective is signal 99 on facebook wrote about the
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  Speaker 1: violence over the weekend and Before I pivot over and
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  Speaker 1: ask you about gangs, here's one of your posts. You
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  Speaker 1: start out, listen, over the last few days, we've had
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  Speaker 1: four separate shootings resulting in two murders. Victim shot and
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  Speaker 1: killed in Amadou, another in Memories Nightclub. Four people stabbed.
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  Speaker 1: One a store employee, a shoplifter for no other reason stabbed.
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  Speaker 1: We've had two drive-by shootings, one at UC targeting a
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  Speaker 1: student housing building, another at a residence in Westwood. And
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  Speaker 1: you continue. Don't even get me started on how many
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  Speaker 1: people have been jumped, robbed, assaulted at various Kroger stores,
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  Speaker 1: parking lots. You recommend Kroger bring back real police and
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  Speaker 1: not the security officers they have, which she suggests don't work.
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  Speaker 1: There are so many more violent incidents that occurred over
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  Speaker 1: the past few days in our city. Keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: that many of the victims of violent crime do not
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  Speaker 1: call 911 or come forward out of fear of retaliation.
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  Speaker 1: And you point out a rhetorical question. Wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: If it's a total stranger that attacks you, why would
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  Speaker 1: you fear retaliation?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have a gang problem? Are you suggesting that
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  Speaker 1: these other crimes are out there and not reported because
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  Speaker 1: they involve rival gangs fighting between each other? We have
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  Speaker 1: a gang problem, Signal 99?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the mayor says we don't.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know that.
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  Speaker 2: We shouldn't, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Because, you know, the city's safe and we don't have
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  Speaker 3: a gang problem.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 3: I try not to go on TikTok hardly ever because
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  Speaker 3: I'll fall down like this deep, dark hole in and
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  Speaker 3: I'll be looking at a video and then like, it'll
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  Speaker 3: be six hours later. So, um, but I was on
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  Speaker 3: Tik TOK earlier and, um, they, they had the down
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  Speaker 3: the weight gang, um, had their own video on Tik TOK.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, you know, I need to share
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  Speaker 2: this on my page.
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  Speaker 3: And then I, something happened and then something else happened
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  Speaker 3: and then I couldn't find it anymore. So now I
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  Speaker 3: have to go on it on that hunt again later.
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  Speaker 1: But what was the name of the gang?
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  Speaker 2: Down the way gang.
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  Speaker 1: Down the way gang.
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  Speaker 2: They are real.
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  Speaker 1: They are real.
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  Speaker 2: The down the way gang. DTW. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And, and you are, do they have rival gangs here
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  Speaker 1: in the city? Signal 99.
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  Speaker 2: They do, Brian. Uh, last month I did a, a article.
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  Speaker 3: I published an article on the page that I've been
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  Speaker 3: working on for the last year and a half with, um,
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  Speaker 3: several members of the CPD. Um, a couple of Coleraine people,
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  Speaker 3: some deputies, departments within Hamilton County, departments outside of Hamilton County.
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  Speaker 2: 18 months, at least, ish.
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  Speaker 3: About 18 months, yeah, took me to put that piece
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  Speaker 3: together with all of the gags. So if you go
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  Speaker 3: back to last month, it was probably middle of the
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  Speaker 3: month I published it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a very long read.
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  Speaker 3: But it pretty much details all the gangs in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: Gangs don't fight each other simply because they're in different gangs.
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  Speaker 1: They're usually fighting over a turf dispute involving, well, drug
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  Speaker 1: activity or other criminal activity they want to exclusively control.
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  Speaker 1: Each gang wants, of course, control over what's going to
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  Speaker 1: generate them money. Is that the situation we have going
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  Speaker 1: on in Cincinnati, Signal 99?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: That's partially true, Brian, but gangs do fight each other.
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  Speaker 2: Over just the simple fact. Now, it's not like the
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  Speaker 2: Crips versus.
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  Speaker 3: The Bloods like it used to be in the movies.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like that because there's a lot more Bloods.
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  Speaker 2: Here than there are Crips, and most of them get along.
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  Speaker 2: So they trade alliances.
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  Speaker 3: But they also write diss tracks about each other, and
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  Speaker 3: that causes them to shoot each other and kill each other.
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  Speaker 1: Is this all about respect? You don't respect me, this nonsense?
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  Speaker 3: It's about putting videos on TikTok and disrespecting somebody and
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  Speaker 3: then expecting them to come back at you.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's stupid. And you have a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of wannabe gangs in Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they're actually more dangerous than the older established gangs
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  Speaker 3: that we have in Cincinnati because they're trying to make
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  Speaker 3: a name for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, we have a gang problem. We have a
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  Speaker 2: huge gang problem. And here's the thing. We've always had
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  Speaker 2: a gang problem. So this isn't new. They just have
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  Speaker 2: not been, CPD has not.
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  Speaker 3: Been allowed to call them gangs for a very long time.
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  Speaker 2: And they haven't been able to address them.
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  Speaker 1: What do we call them? Clubs? Social groups? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is all about Orwellian semantics, Signal 99. Call it
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  Speaker 1: what it is, a gang's a gang. It's an organized
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  Speaker 1: group of punks and thugs that beat the crap out
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  Speaker 1: of each other, if that's a minimum, or they're involved
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  Speaker 1: in organized crime or some form of criminal activity. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that is what it is. I mean, this isn't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and Police Chief Henney, does he have no authority to
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  Speaker 1: just come out and call it what it is? You know,
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  Speaker 1: folks in Cincinnati, we got a problem with gangs. We
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  Speaker 1: need all the help in the world we can get
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  Speaker 1: from you to help us ferret them out and identify
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  Speaker 1: where they are and arrest them. I mean, that's a thought.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's got to be able to, you know, part
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  Speaker 3: of the problem is, is, that, that charter five crap.
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  Speaker 3: So the, you know, the police chief could only be
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  Speaker 3: the police chief that the mayor will allow the police
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  Speaker 3: chief to be.
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  Speaker 2: So, or the city manager.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, I don't care who you put in
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  Speaker 3: there as police chief until we take that back from
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  Speaker 3: the mayor who has no business telling.
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  Speaker 2: A police chief what to do. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Until we take that piece out of government, Here in Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 3: nothing's going to change.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing is going to change.
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  Speaker 1: Which leaves us with the only thing we're in a
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  Speaker 1: position to change tomorrow, which is the bench, the judicial
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  Speaker 1: lineup in Hamilton County, which I implore everyone to consider
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  Speaker 1: the Republican slate. You're not going to get it with
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  Speaker 1: the current slate. It's the only thing we can do
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  Speaker 1: right now. You have to wait for the council elections
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  Speaker 1: and the mayoral election to maybe right the ship, although
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  Speaker 1: we've been waiting decades for that to happen, Signal 99,
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  Speaker 1: and it hasn't, so maybe we are at a point
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  Speaker 1: of impact, a point of realization that we've been on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong track for a long, long time. Start with
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  Speaker 1: the bench, please, dear God. Signal 99, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for bringing our attention to what happened over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Since we can't find it anyplace else, you brought the receipts,
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  Speaker 1: as you always do. It's right there on the Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: I'll implore my listeners to check it out and see
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in their town. And wait around. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: local news will finally pick it up.