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Subway Stabbing in the Headlines: Refugees, Mental Health, and Media Spin · D-constructing Topics

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Sit in front of a fireplace, sit somewhere, have a couple of drinks,
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have a couple of 40s, have a couple of teas, coffee.
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There's people out there throughout the world that
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listen to my podcast either just enjoy
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and we make it happen we got a crazy
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interesting situation that kind of developed like about three weeks ago but
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for some reason it's making the national news because everybody everybody has
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an opinion on it and because there's some video there that kind of triggers
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the emotion and it's The stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Irina.
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It's a road scar. You know, lately it seems that there's some new radio evidence
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have emerged and what happened, basically.
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For those who don't know the news, in Charlotte, a few weeks back,
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there was a Ukrainian refugee who just happened to take the,
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what they call the rare rail train.
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It's what they call it over there in New York City. So we're in the subway, you know what I mean?
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But this individual, this, you know, little blonde girl, whatever,
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skinny, He just goes in the train, sits down on her cell phone.
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Behind her is a black gentleman in a hoodie, red hoodie.
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And with the minutes, I guess, whatever happened, that he gets triggered on
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his own, pulls out a knife.
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And for the most part, people have seen the image of just him looking like he's about to launch.
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But there's videos out there of the actual incident, of the actual stabbing.
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And it's interesting because it looked like she was in shot.
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And sadly, within those minutes of that happened, then my understanding is that she collapsed.
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You know what I mean? Because you go on this shock situation.
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I've been in an accident. I've been in a car accident. And when you go to this
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shock and I'm bleeding, you already know it's like the body just sometimes shut
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down on people and that's the end of it.
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But it's making news. And I just want to say it's this.
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And once again, it's just my opinion. Because there's certain things and certain
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topics, certain situations, because the individuals are refugees from Ukraine.
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After you're starting out, outlets are, like, really pushing.
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And again, you're describing the person. I get it.
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You hear people's like, whoa, wait a minute. You know, so she escaped a war.
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You know, from the Ukraine-Russia situation, she came to this country.
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And the next thing is like, boom, okay.
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Which I've heard that before and interested. I want people to kind of keep that
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in mind, the word refugee. You know what I mean?
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Because I'm in New York City. We got a lot of bunch of refugees.
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From, you know, Sudan, Syria, to other places, Colombia, Venezuela,
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if you look at these countries, these countries are basically people that come
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to this country, refugees.
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But I like how this, sometimes the millions portraying it as,
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hey, listen, we got this Ukrainian because of Russia, she was here, and then this happened.
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Then you got the situation with the individual brown, which is the suspect,
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who happened to do the stabbing.
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And the understanding is that he had 14 priors and so on and so forth But he
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was still out for, you know, free And then he had mental issues as well It's
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a combination of a little bit of everything,
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And it's one of those things that it's going to go down as something,
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That, once again, we shouldn't and should not have happened Now,
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I just want to say this and keep this in mind And look, I depend on the public
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transportation in New York City And New York City public transportation, that's wild.
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Because we got hundreds of thousands of people that take the New York City bus and the subway system.
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And I get up early in the morning. I'm taking my train at like 4.40 in the morning.
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And there's people. There's a lot of people because a lot of them go to work
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early, especially those in the construction, blue collar, you know,
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doing that little early, early shift kind of thing. You know what I mean?
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But one thing I noticed, I just want to say this, and I always have said this.
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When you're taking public transportation or anything that you've seen,
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but I've seen it more than ever, especially in New York City.
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Beware of your surroundings. I see people that sit down, and I get it.
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You're tired early in the morning, or you go home, you know,
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you're tired, you just doze off, or you're just on a cell phone.
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But sadly, there's people out there that's just up to no good,
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and they might be carrying a little knife.
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And we have learned in life that it doesn't matter the sound of the knife.
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If they stab you On the You know On a certain part of your body That you know
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It's gonna hit That artery Oh you're done You know what I mean Might look harmless
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But hey listen But just always I always said.
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Keep in mind if you're surrounding. And even if you're tired,
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you just want to sit down because that's what people do, right?
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That's whether the individual came in the train, that's what she did.
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She went on her phone. Now, where is surrounding?
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If she did look at Brown, the suspect, just leaning towards the kind of like
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window, maybe he looked like he was sleeping. Maybe he was sleeping.
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And in the video, the sad thing is that he gets triggered for some reason.
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Something happened. He's talking to himself.
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For a little bit up there, a couple of minutes, whatever. Then he just pulls
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out the knife, pocket knife. Choop.
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Sad story. And again, it's one of those situations. It could have been avoided.
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Why, you know, that person was out there.
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If he was having mental issues. You know, if he didn't do anything crazy.
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Hey, listen. And I tell people, because there's people like,
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oh, he should have been arrested. He should have been doing life.
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Let's find out what exactly he did in those. You know, you got to look at it
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in the context of what it is that you do at the time that you got to be serving.
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Let's say in Charlotte. Now, Charlotte is a big city.
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It's a small, big city. But it is a city nonetheless. Not New York City.
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Not Chicago, L.A., Houston, Dallas. You already know.
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Those are the big boys. But, you know, Charlotte's up there.
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So there's that little hustling bustling thing that's going on.
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So, hey, people are going to take that public. And then sadly,
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in many big cities, in many big cities, there's so much of so much that a lot
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of people just get left behind.
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And then, you know, if the conversation came about mental issues.
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Hey, you know, that's an interesting topic.
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Like what's going on? This individual is going through the mental issue.
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And then, you know, what's the solution to that?
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Now, I want to bring this up because I want to bring how interesting how certain
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parts of the media are playing the Ukrainian refugee thing where, oh, you know,
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she was here in this country because Russia, Russia, and all this,
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and I get it. You know, you're saying for what it is.
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I want to keep this in mind, and I've said it so many times.
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I'm going to look at, and I'm looking at a list of countries,
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refugees that got the tag of refugees. Colombia, Venezuela, Ukraine,
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obviously, Syria, Pakistan, Cuba, Afghanistan.
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Yesterday, I feel a lot of, you know, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syrian.
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You got Syria in the Middle East, Sudan, Africa, Congo, Africa,
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Somalia. So think about this.
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And I'm in New York City. And yes, there's a lot of people from these countries.
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Because people are like, oh, Venezuela, what are they doing here And Colombian
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and so on And I always said it's this It's interesting how the media will play
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as Okay, there's Ukrainian refugee because of Russia Then they're meted.
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A lot of these countries that I just mentioned, the reason why they're here
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is because at one point, United States intervened in somewhere or something,
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and the next thing is like, oh, you know what? You guys could come here now.
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So in other words, you understand what I'm saying? Now, if there's a lot of
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Venezuelan Colombian that come in New York City, they come to New York City,
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you know, they get this tag that they get everything, whatever,
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but then they move to these parts, the black neighborhood, where already the
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black community or the black neighborhood are lacking certain things.
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And there's these individuals.
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It's not on them. They come to these parts in New York City.
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And now, sadly, they are consuming certain agonized states, like the budget of that area.
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So you're going to have a high, the way I will see it, you're going to have
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a high situation where there's a lot of black individuals You know,
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from the black neighborhood And it applies to Puerto Rican as well And Hispanic
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That mental issue is a thing,
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And we might not look like it So what happens is this That sadly,
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let's say You know how many times we have seen a At least in content, I've stopped a few.
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Colombian, Venezuelan refugees, right?
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About to like stab a black person And vice versa And I'm like in the subway
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And I stopped a few See how this works?
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So sometimes we like to use the word refugee But sometimes we change We don't
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even use that word for the migrants That are coming here from Venezuela,
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Colombian Now we're going to be like Oh, well, these migrants are coming over
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here We need to cross the border And so on And, you know, obviously You know,
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with you in Europe and other parts It's a little bit different how to get here,
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Remember, a lot of these individuals That come from these certain countries
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That I just said Even look, Venezuela, United States You know,
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It's like the 10,000th time United States intervenes in Venezuela, you know what I mean?
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Oh, but they're not refugees. They're just leaving the country, you know?
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So I just want to mention that in regards to that situation.
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It is a sad situation what happened.
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Because then the other aspect of that situation, and I always bring this up,
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is that, yeah, mental issue is a thing. And imagine this.
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And imagine this. And I always bring this up a lot of times.
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Mental issue is a thing that we lack enough, especially in our neighborhoods.
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But this is why, you know, violence is one thing.
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And I always explain to you. A lot of people in the situation that just happened
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in that with the Charlotte, you know, Brown and that situation,
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the stabbing, that situation happens in the hood frequently.
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But it's not a sexy thing. It's not appealing. The people that are on the side
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of going against Brown are the people that would have been on the opposite side
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or not talking about it. But it happens in our neighborhood.
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And the people that are vocal about it are not saying anything about this situation.
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You understand how this works?
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There's no solution. Nobody's going to find a solution for mental health. No.
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The refugees, no. But, you know, because it's Ukraine refugee,
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you know, little, you know, skinny blonde girl.
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Oh, you know, Russia, and, you know, she escaped the hands of Russia.
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But ain't nobody say, hey, listen, Venezuela, they escaped the hands of the
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United States, Colombia, right?
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Certain parts of Africa, hey, listen, you know, United States always got a hand.
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If it's not United States, there are so-called allies, the French, the Dutch, the English.
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Somewhere, someone in Europe has a hand on something and they come over here.
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You know, so I just want to touch bases on that. The whole mental health situation
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definitely needs to be addressed.
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And then the other day, on that same week when this was making national headlines,
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now Trump is saying something, Department of Justice is saying something, and so on and so forth.
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I said to myself, look, if you want to go all out for that situation and address
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that situation, and because he had faults and priors, hey, listen,
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let's address certain things in our neighborhood.
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Because crime in our neighborhood, sometimes for the most part,
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crime in our neighborhood don't happen because you have criminals.
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It just happened because of you commit a crime.
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And if you commit a crime, then, you know, sadly, the crime is small,
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but you still live in the same neighborhood.
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But there's no rehabilitation. There's no one that's really doing any rehabilitation.
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And, you know, the other day I'm in Union Square Park, for those familiar in New York City.
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There was this little chubby Asian guy who just happened to be walking on the
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phone, not knowing where he was going to go.
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And then this black gentleman who looked, you know, like he's going through a lot.
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He does check the checkbox a little bit, you know, homeless,
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mental health issue, or whatever it is, because that's the other thing, too.
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People might say, oh, but no, come on, David. Now everything is a mental or
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homeless situation. It's been like that for quite a long time.
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If you ever go to New York City or these big cities, you got left off somebody, right?
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Remember somebody's, those drugs that creep into this country or these drugs
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that are just somewhere, whatever it is, somebody's going to take them.
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Somebody's got to take them, right?
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And sadly, it's people who are going through a lot of them Because of the drug
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use, then you get that Because of the mental issue, you get that situation,
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But it's one of those things where it could have been avoided But I kind of
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think I always say, look, listen, we definitely Again,
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I'm going to go back One of the reasons in our community, especially impoverished
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communities Black neighborhoods,
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Puerto Rican neighborhoods, Spanish neighborhoods One of the things is the lack
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of to try to address the mental health issues, to try to address the homeless issue.
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All we do is, ah, let's keep everybody happy, consume, consume.
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Here's money, here's this, this, that, is that.
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And a lot of people end up, you know, taking drugs, taking whatever it is.
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And then the next thing they do something crazy.
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Listen, even the person, you know, I always emphasize the person that did the
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first mass shooting in the United States, 60s, Texas.
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Again, falls into the same category. Mental issue, drugs, whatever the case might be.
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And as long as we have that situation, then there's going to be victims like
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Direne, victim of the circumstances, victim of the perpetrator,
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victim of the system, victim of everything.
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And if, you know, if we find out that, hey, this individual,
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14 whatever priors, and there are things, sadly, the prison system in the United
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States, there's a lot of people who are in prison.
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Jail, whatever it is, you know?
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So if it's one of those things, they get a tap in their hand,
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next time, next time, next time, how can we address that? How can we address certain things?
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But at the end, I don't see a solution.
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I've seen, oh, yeah, we're going to give the death penalty, but what does that change?
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We're going to have this situation, and I'm going to go back to the hood,
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black neighborhood, where refugees are going to be kind of stabbing black people and vice versa.
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But nobody's going to talk about that because that's not the sexy thing to talk about, sadly.
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And that's when you don't hear about refugees. Now it becomes gangs.
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You change the word refugees to gangs. Well, it's gangs because they live in the same area, right?
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Venezuela stick with Venezuela. Colombians stick with Venezuela.
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But Colombians, Sudanese stick with Sudanese, you know.
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And that's how they become a gang. That doesn't mean that they're doing anything wrong.
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A lot of them, they do the Ubers, DoorDatch. What's that, a gang of DoorDatchers? I don't know.
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But you see how you take the word in certain words? Now, you don't want people
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to gain sympathy for them because now you call them migrants or immigrants taking
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money from welfare or whatever the case might be.
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So anyways, that's my situation with that. That's my opinion.
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Well, the way I'm observing it, it's one of those things that should not be
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addressed. Being that he did that crime, absolutely.
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If you want to give him rehab, then that's on you. But I wouldn't fully agree
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on that to be like, oh, he got mental issues. How can we fix it?
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Because, you know, that's where the asylum comes in back then. You know what I mean?
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And the salems, they didn't do much more to rehab people. They just fed people to Big Pharma.
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Basically, that's what's going to happen here. He's going to be fed off to Big
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Pharma because Big Pharma is going to say, ah, he stabbed someone and he has mental issues.
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You know, we got a couple of new drugs there Talk to me That's what's going
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