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When a Park Turned Deadly: The Jaden Pierre Tragedy · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, everybody? And what's going on, folks?
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  My name is David, and I'm your host, your host of this beautiful,
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  legendary podcast, the Deconstructed Topic Podcast, where we grab a topic,
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  and we kind of deconstruct it,
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  the deconstructed way, and learn from something,
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  and learn from whatever it is, because in my podcast, I got that motto,
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  Because I always said, one of my motto is, saving a mind is saving a life.
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  So we make it happen on this wonderful Deconstructing Topic podcast.
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  Yeah, you know, and a lot of things that I do, again, talk about,
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  it's always on a point of view so we can learn from different perspective.
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  And it's always of my opinion. And I always tend to see things and hey let's
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  just give a heads up on this episode we're actually gonna talk about.
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  And sadly, it was a shooting that took place here in New York City in Queens.
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  And I just want to touch bases a little bit because it is something that is
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  disheartening. It is sad.
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  I'm not one to put, you know, blame the, you know, put point fingers, basically.
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  I apologize for getting a little bit twisted there.
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  But I'm not here to be like, you know, it's because of this,
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  because of that. You know, we could go on and on and on.
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  But for some reason, what happened about a week and a half ago,
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  there was a video, and it went viral.
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  And that video actually shows a bunch of kids in a park, and then it looked
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  like somebody was being assaulted.
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  The next thing, someone pulls out a gun.
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  Pop. A kid drops, sadly.
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  And, well, let's just say that it kind of, you know, riled up people.
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  When people was watching that video and hearing the news and seeing in the socials,
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  kind of remind me of that situation years ago, back in 2018, if I'm not mistaken.
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  The situation with the Alessandro Guzman Felix Feliz, sorry about that.
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  And it's that situation when you see a video of a young kid being assaulted by somebody.
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  You know, gang members and so on and so forth. And that kind of stoked the city
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  to be like, damn, that could have been us. That could have been our kid.
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  And it kind of the same situation, like what kind of person would do that?
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  And not only that, but those who were involved around.
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  So you already know, let's get on with the topic. And just a heads up on that
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  situation, I am going to be touching a couple of things that are sensitive.
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  it is in whatever platform so sadly uh about a week and a half ago if I'm mistaken
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  uh there was a kid by the name of Jaden Pierre and just to give you kind of like.
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  Try my best to like kind of give you the visualization of the situation and
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  this happened i believe it was on a thursday 6 p.m people you know i don't heard
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  every conversation i mean every,
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  body saying oh you know what these kids are doing in the park they have been
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  this thing especially in the socials and and whether it's tiktok or snapchat
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  or things of that nature where kids go online and then they start doing a gathering of 20,
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  30 people start wilding out doing some crazy stuff.
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  And sadly, you know, it's one of those things that just.
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  When you have a bunch of people just with that energy
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  something something good doesn't come
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  out of those situation and what happened in this situation even
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  though it started as a water gun fight in this park people doing their thing
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  you know there's no really backstory to it and i don't think that there should
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  be a backstory to what happened is that what you saw in the video was It's basically
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  a bunch of kids just doing recording.
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  You already know. And look, ever since the phone, we have lived in this society
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  that when somebody, something is happening, like nobody steps up and everybody's
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  doing it, just recording.
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  And I could understand that people are going to be upset at those people and
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  those kids that were there recording what was happening.
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  And there was this one kid who was cornered, and that would be Jaden Pierre,
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  who was cornered. And sadly, he was getting assaulted.
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  By a couple of people. And then you see a young girl there with a water gun.
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  So that's why some people might say that that could have been that person.
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  But apparently what was happening is that this kid was getting assaulted.
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  I've heard stories about kind of like a similar storyline to Alejandro Guzman
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  from years ago is that people mistaken identity.
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  One gang member thought, hey, this is the rival.
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  I mean, I heard that story in regards to the situation.
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  And sadly, what happened was that as this kid was getting assaulted,
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  Jayden Pierre, kind of a taller kid.
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  Hits him in the face, and the next thing, you hear a shot.
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  Pow. And that shot led to a wound that hit the chest, and sadly,
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  Jaden Peer passed away at 15.
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  So it's stoking that kind of thing where people are upset. And people are upset,
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  and I get it, and people are upset. Like, why?
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  And you're almost a grown man in a situation where some people are going to
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  start making the argument that he actually was pistol-whipped the kid, and the gun went off.
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  But regardless of anything, I don't know what they're going to charge.
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  Maybe it's like manslaughter, 25 to life, or they're going to make a case,
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  you know, it was an accident, you know, but again, you got a gun in New York City.
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  That's definitely going to do, definitely going to do time. So let's see,
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  they did catch the perpetrator, in this case, Zahid Davis in Jamaica, if I'm not mistaken.
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  And it's one of those situations that, again, it kind of stoked that little
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  thing of, you know, calling out the mayor, Mandani, calling out the parents,
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  calling out the people that was there and all this.
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  And we could go on and on about situations like this.
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  And it kind of breaks my heart that, again, I've been there on both sides of
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  the fence in terms of being assaulted, jumped by, you know, multiple people.
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  And I've seen it as well. So, you know, one of those things that people say,
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  oh, but nobody jumped in, you know, so on.
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  Again, I hate to just use this logic here, but we don't know the backstory that
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  it led to that part there. You know what I'm saying?
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  And again, it shouldn't be that his life of Jaden Pierce should have been lost at all.
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  But I've been in these situations growing up, and I always tell people,
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  look, listen, the only difference now is that now there's cell phones.
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  Now these things are popping up in the internet.
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  Have I been in a lot of scrums before? Absolutely.
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  Absolutely. And I've been there on both sides. And again, when I say both sides,
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  it's, you know, I got assaulted one time.
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  Actually, a couple of times, you know, growing up in the hood, and I fought back.
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  But sadly, you know These are things that happen in the hood Where you get a
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  lot of A group of kids and then There's that adrenaline of something happening
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  And then again, someone pulls something And in the case, they pull out a gun.
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  And, again, people are going to be like, oh, just wondering,
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  like, why nobody stepped up. Again, we don't know the situation or where that happened.
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  Maybe these kids were afraid. Maybe they knew that the guy had a gun.
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  Who knows? But it kind of reminds me, and, again, this is no one here in terms
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  of this person. He did something wrong.
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  And he's a man, 18 years old. So he's definitely going to be tried as an adult.
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  But we're going back that you got this person who's having a gun who could have been anybody.
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  My understanding in that, you know, the J.D. Imperial, it was a good kid.
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  And he probably thought, just like many kids, and I've seen so many times that,
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  you know, you got these kids that, my understanding, you know,
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  they kind of lean towards being quiet and on the nerdy side or whatever it is.
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  And then they want to hang out with the cool kids. And then sadly,
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  the cool kids take advantage. Oh, look, look, look who's here.
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  Oh, let's mess around with the person. Let's bully, you know, that leads to bullying.
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  And then, you know, they saw videos in different angles, and you see how,
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  for the most part, a lot of these kids, nobody did anything,
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  even prior to the shooting.
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  And one of the things that I always want to remind people, and I always want
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  to remind people, is that we live, when we live in a hood, we always live with
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  that thing and that fear that it's always implemented in our mind,
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  is that snitches get stitches, basically.
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  And yes, you know, one is seeing the video.
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  And again, I'm not going to put a link to it at all because it's graphic and it's saddening.
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  And you see all these kids laughing, recording. And absolutely.
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  For those kids, they got to go home. And those parents there got to kind of
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  say to these kids, what happened?
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  How can we intervene? How can you kind of intervene on these things?
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  Because that's what happened in our hood and white poverty and crime is always
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  a thing, especially in crime.
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  It's because, sadly, we live in these mind with that mindset of snitches get snitches.
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  And if you say something or, you know, God forbid that somebody did step up,
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  and we were hoping, and, you know, sadly, I'm pretty sure people were hoping
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  that people would step up.
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  Hey, listen, you are numbering the perpetrator.
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  But one would think that if people are so,
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  you know some in the crowd if they knew that he had a gun and
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  prior to the shooting they probably did not want to step up and maybe they'll
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  get it too because if that's one
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  thing that we have learned in life when young
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  people tend to have guns yeah a lot of times it's never a good thing and I'm
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  not trying to defend people that are older I'm just saying that that that a
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  lot of times and I've been there where we just don't think we don't we just
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  don't react we just want to grab that That's something pound.
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  And many of the lives of many people in the hood just drop.
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  Out of pure emotions. And that's one of those situations that,
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  you know, for Jaden Peer and Bledson's, you know, condolence to him and his family.
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  It kind of stoked that thing. And sometimes I always say, like,
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  listen, the issue has to be more than just what happened.
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  And one of the things that I've always have mentioned is that domestic violence
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  amongst black, you know, in the black community amongst women,
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  it's 30, 35 percent more than any other household.
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  So if many of these kids, they grow up in these households where domestic violence
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  is a thing, if they see a father assaulting the woman,
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  which is most likely based on the stats, then what respect are you going to have for other people?
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  If they're going to see that, oh, look, my dad doesn't have respect for my mom,
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  or just seeing your mother suffer, and then you just carry that,
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  like, you know what, I don't give a, you know, type of deal.
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  And then when somebody gets you a little upset even if it's something simple
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  hey listen hey you got a little booger there you know and then you just.
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  Pull out and then boom. You understand?
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  All because these emotions that is happening in your household.
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  One of the other things too, and which a lot of people mention,
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  if you look at, and when they caught, they caught Zaire.
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  And if you look at the video, his family, screaming, you're a dead man.
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  You're a dead man. And I hate that things like that happen in our neighborhood
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  because it becomes that thing that it's a never-ending cycle of kind of revenge killing in a sense.
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  Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta.
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  And it's sad that that happens, but it definitely happens in our hood.
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  And it's just, again, a never-ending cycle.
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  One of the things that you start to realize is like, okay, what's going on?
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  And then prior to that, when they had the vigil and a little protest,
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  a little gathering, if you look at, for the most part, who was there,
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  a lot of black people, black activists and so on and so forth.
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  What you're not going to see is some of these white activists who,
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  you know, claim to be allies of our communities, of our issues.
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  And I want to remind people, those certain people that claim to be allies of
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  our communities, they're there for George Floyd, but they ain't going to be there for Jaden Pierre.
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  And that's the truth. And that's always been a thing.
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  And this is why I always said and point these things out, because sadly,
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  these are the people that we put in power.
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  They want to be allies. They want to be selective allies. So I just want to throw that out there.
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  We could definitely do better. Again, if those kids, even not just a perpetrator,
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  but if everyone there who is of color and where 30%, whether it's Latinos and black,
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  where 30%, 40% of women are victims of domestic violence,
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  half of that crowd, sadly, probably is running on emotions that they don't even understand.
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  And they go out to these places and they see this violence and for them it's like regular.
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  And I see people, you know, especially people of the elders Around my age and
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  a little bit younger But they say, oh, you know, times are crazy These kids,
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  you know, I always said Things always have happened,
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  During our lifetime The only difference is that they got the cell phone thing going on,
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  So praise out there to Jaden Pierre and those people And hopefully,
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  just like the Leandro Guzman Which I would love to make I definitely would make
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  a podcast in regards to that Because that,
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  it took a while I mean, this city in itself, and it took a while,
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  and I'm just thinking here, how can we find healing?
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  You know what I mean? How can we find that common thing where we could bond for once and for all?
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  We could definitely bond and work
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  out differences and help each other out because we only have each other.
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  If you're a parent out there going out there, oh, no, my kid is good.
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  You know, they're a good kid. And, hey, listen, every kid, everybody's good
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  until something happens. You know what I mean?
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  But anyways, this is the Deconstructed Topic Podcast. If you do not know about
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  the situation with Jaden Pierre, again, the video is graphic and it's sad and it's heartbreaking.
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  Again, it's one of those things that people that did watch it,
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  that people put it out there in the social.
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  It's a situation where you'd be like, okay It could have been avoided Now,
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  sadly, people are using politics They start pointing fingers at the city The
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  mayor, congresspeople This and that And I'm like, relax,
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  We're all going to sit down one day or another And have these conversations
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  We're all going to have these conversations,
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  But let's take care of whatever we need to take care The kid has been a man,
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  18 years old Said Debra has been apprehended, so let justice be that thing for once.
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  Just that Leandro Guzman situation, they threw the book at, I think,
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  10-plus people, if I'm not mistaken, because sadly, in that night,
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  when Guzman died, they were aiming for somebody. It could have been anybody.
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  In the situation with Jaden Pierre, one can make that argument the same. Somebody.
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  To be gone somewhere or somehow in the
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  scrum of all these emotions and these things
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  that it started as a simple fun into something
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  devastating as a fatal shooting but anyways make it happen hope you enjoy my
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  podcast hit the like subscribe feel free to comment i'm out there once again
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  a praise to the pf family and all this and it'll press to anybody who has been
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  victim and have been able to survive those situations.
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  And if you're out there and you happen to be a young person with a gun,
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  hey, listen, think about life.
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  Think about your life. Think about the other person's life. Think about everybody's life.
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  Anyways, let's make it happen. Take care. I'm out of here. Peace.
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  I'm out. I'll have the kid. Peace.