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Natalie Migliore, WOR Reporter · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: So wait a second, Natalie. You chose to do subway
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  Speaker 2: safety when Curtis Lewa wasn't here?
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  Speaker 3: We have to test how well you and I know
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  Speaker 3: it without him. We have to see if we can
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  Speaker 3: hold it down, baby!
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a great topic for right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: a horrible thing happened yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, it's a horrible thing.
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  Speaker 3: No, because you're like, it's a great topic for right now.
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  Speaker 3: A horrible thing.
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  Speaker 4: But it's true.
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  Speaker 3: That's what's in the news cycle.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: That is what you said, though. But it's in the
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  Speaker 3: news cycle. That's why we got to keep up with
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  Speaker 3: the news cycle. The subway stabbing on the J train
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  Speaker 3: in Queens that ended with a 59-year-old dead man. is
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  Speaker 3: the sixth murder in New York City's subway system so
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  Speaker 3: far this year. The suspect, a 25-year-old, allegedly, allegedly, okay, allegedly,
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  Speaker 3: but he did, allegedly approached a 59-year-old man, a father
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  Speaker 3: of six I read somewhere, which, terrible. He tried to
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  Speaker 3: walk away, the guy on the subway, and the suspect
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  Speaker 3: stabbed him with a kitchen knife. No shortage, really, of
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  Speaker 3: reaction from New Yorkers who ride the subways every day.
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  Speaker 1: It's terrible. It's scary.
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  Speaker 3: It's sad.
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  Speaker 1: It's gut-wrenching. Yeah, I think it's terrible. It's gotten crazy
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  Speaker 1: out here. I think that's very traumatic that there's increasing,
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  Speaker 1: we have so much police and more murders, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel unsafe as a, citizen.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Shock, but also kind of not really because the subway
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  Speaker 4: environment is a little bit all over the place. Like
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  Speaker 4: you can see opposites of, oh, blue collar workers, but
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  Speaker 4: also like really struggling people on there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie, the subway is just for
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  Speaker 2: the crackheads.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So you do see a lot of characters on– I
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  Speaker 3: was going to say you do see a lot of
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  Speaker 3: characters on the crackheads. You do see a lot of
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  Speaker 3: characters on the subways. And a lot of New Yorkers,
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  Speaker 3: they actually tell me they try to avoid the subways
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  Speaker 3: and take the buses as often as they can now
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  Speaker 3: in certain extents because they feel like they can jump
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  Speaker 3: off more frequently sometimes. rather than being stuck underground sometimes. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the suspect, Jarrell Thomas, ran away from the scene and
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  Speaker 3: climbed onto a rooftop where he had to be carried away.
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  Speaker 3: The NYPD has described him as emotionally disturbed, and he
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  Speaker 3: was taken to Jamaica Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 3: New Yorkers say they're seeing an increasing number of mentally
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  Speaker 3: disturbed people, not just on the subways, but on the streets.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what the motivation is behind some
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  Speaker 1: of these attacks. I would assume mental health plays a
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  Speaker 1: major part, so I don't know what could be done
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  Speaker 1: to help that.
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  Speaker 4: They really got to get better with having homeless people
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  Speaker 4: and stuff on the train because it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: And then late at night is usually when it's really bad.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's something that needs to be done about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in a position to run for politics right now,
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  Speaker 1: but they wouldn't like me because I would do something
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  Speaker 1: about it if I was mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I know Curtis isn't here, but he'd probably tell her,
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  Speaker 3: move over, lady, because it's a crowded field, and Curtis
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  Speaker 3: knows it all too well. But I thought that.
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  Speaker 2: Was funny to put in.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, she said mayor.
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  Speaker 1: I went, oh.
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  Speaker 2: I know a mayoral candidate.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. We know somebody very well who's tried.
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  Speaker 3: But either way, the question arises, what or who– do
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  Speaker 3: people rely on to ensure they get to where they're
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  Speaker 3: going safely?
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  Speaker 2: So it's a joint effort, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in society, you rely on everyone around you
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  Speaker 1: to make sure that things go as everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Would want, right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel safe to a certain extent, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm very aware of my surroundings when I'm in the subway.
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  Speaker 1: I also do carry something usually to protect myself in
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  Speaker 1: case of emergency. Not anything illegal, but just some form
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  Speaker 1: of protection. It feels like since COVID, it's gotten progressively
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  Speaker 1: worse here.
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  Speaker 3: Was there a final straw for you in deciding, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I need a little something extra?
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  Speaker 1: Probably hearing about violence on the subway, specifically, or random
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  Speaker 1: acts of violence in the street where people are just
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  Speaker 1: being assaulted for no reason. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you should have asked him to see what he
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  Speaker 2: was carrying.
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  Speaker 3: No, thank you. I didn't want to test it out.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to use it on you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here it is.
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  Speaker 3: He said nothing illegal. But who knows?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe brass knuckles. You know, you're right. I should have
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  Speaker 3: asked to see it. Isn't that illegal though?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: But if they would have taken, now remember, and I
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  Speaker 3: haven't seen these in a while. I go down in
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  Speaker 3: the subways a lot. They were doing bag checks in
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  Speaker 3: this subway. I haven't seen them do bag checks in
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  Speaker 3: a while. I haven't seen that. We covered that. It
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  Speaker 3: was the big rollout. We did it for months at
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  Speaker 3: a time. And I think they would have taken away
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  Speaker 3: a knife, no? If they had found it in somebody's bag?
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you have cutlery, let's just say you have
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  Speaker 2: a steak knife you just bought.
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  Speaker 1: What are you, a chef?
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  Speaker 2: And it's in your bag. That's what they would say
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  Speaker 2: when they check the bag.
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  Speaker 3: Right. What do you do for a living before we
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  Speaker 3: let you cross the subway? Now, you though, Larry, we
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  Speaker 3: were talking off air before, said that there was one
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  Speaker 3: thing that stuck out to you about this specific story.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I just love that three people ran after the suspects.
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  Speaker 2: I love that people got into action. They couldn't stop it.
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  Speaker 2: It happened so quickly. But they got him on video
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  Speaker 2: and they chased after him. Right. I mean, so many
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  Speaker 2: times people just look the other way. So God bless
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  Speaker 2: those people. They're the reason that police were able to
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  Speaker 2: get him.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, one of the witnesses said... they were
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  Speaker 3: afraid to intervene because they didn't know which way it
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  Speaker 3: could go, but they wanted to get this on video
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  Speaker 3: in case of which way it would go. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: to see that, I think that the first guy before
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  Speaker 3: the guy who revealed that he carried a little something
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  Speaker 3: extra had said, we have to rely on each other
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  Speaker 3: a little bit to take care of each other and
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  Speaker 3: get to where we're going safely and Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so often it doesn't happen, so we should point
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  Speaker 2: out and congratulate the people when it does, because that
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  Speaker 2: is just wonderful, and we need to see a lot
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  Speaker 2: more of that. And if Curtis was here, I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: he would applaud them as well. Natalie Migliore is going
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  Speaker 2: to be back Monday morning, along with Curtis, back Monday
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  Speaker 2: morning at 7.50.