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Who is alleged killer cop Beau Lamarre-Condon? (Best of 2024) · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey. We're hoping you're having
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  Speaker 1: a great holiday break and today we're bringing you one
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  Speaker 1: of our favorite episodes from the year. This episode originally
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  Speaker 1: aired on February twenty six after former New South Wales
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  Speaker 1: police officer bo Lamar Condon was charged with the murder
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  Speaker 1: of TV presenter Jesse Baird and his partner, flight attendant
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  Speaker 1: Luke Davies. The matter has moved slowly through the courts
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  Speaker 1: this year, and Lamar Condon has yet to enter a plea.
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  Speaker 1: The Front will return with all new episodes on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: January thirteenth.
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  Speaker 2: When celebrities like American reality star Courtney Kardashian come to
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  Speaker 2: places like Australia, their rental homes and hotels are surrounded
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  Speaker 2: by two types of people working paparazzi photographers, some of
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  Speaker 2: whom fly around the world stalking their prey, and celebrity fans.
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  Speaker 3: I got the three they got street the street, you
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  Speaker 3: gout the street.
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  Speaker 2: The celebrity fans are ordinary people who work out where
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  Speaker 2: celebrities will be staying, or dining or shopping. Once we
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  Speaker 2: would have called them autograph hunters. Now they're looking for
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  Speaker 2: one thing only, the most valuable commodity of all in
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  Speaker 2: this social media age, a selfie. Courtney Kardashian was in
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  Speaker 2: Sydney with her husband Travis Barker earlier this month, and
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  Speaker 2: mobbing her along with the paps and the other celebrity fans,
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  Speaker 2: was a darkheaded guy aged in his late twenties.
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  Speaker 4: Work there love for It.
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  Speaker 2: His name is bo Lamar Condon and he got a
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  Speaker 2: selfie with Kardashian which he uploaded to his Instagram to
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  Speaker 2: go with the shots of him with Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga,
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  Speaker 2: Dua Lipa, lots of the world's biggest names. But the
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  Speaker 2: thing that makes bau Lamar Condon different is that he's
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  Speaker 2: a serving New South Wales police officer.
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  Speaker 4: It was as if he was essentially hanging out quote
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  Speaker 4: unquote backstage with them, but the reality of it all
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  Speaker 4: was that he'd spent hours waiting outside her house and
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  Speaker 4: followed her to take a quick three second selfie with her.
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  Speaker 4: It really gives a fascinating insight into his mind.
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  Speaker 2: Liam Mendez is a reporter with The Australian. He first
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  Speaker 2: met bo Lamar around ten years ago for the first
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  Speaker 2: time at a movie premiere where Liam was taking photograph.
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  Speaker 4: Lamar Condon was in his late teens, quite skinny and scrawny,
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  Speaker 4: which is obviously quite different to his appearance now. But
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  Speaker 4: what really stood out to me was his pure obsession
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  Speaker 4: with certain celebrities. He would spend hours at red carpets,
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  Speaker 4: airports and hotels waiting to get photographs with these celebrities.
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  Speaker 4: And the interesting thing is is that he built this
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  Speaker 4: online persona that he was friends with these celebrities and
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  Speaker 4: that he was hanging out with them. He also asked
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  Speaker 4: me to photograph his twentieth birthday party to.
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  Speaker 2: The media in Sydney. Bolamar Condon has seemed a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a curiosity, this slightly eccentric, seeming young corp.
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  Speaker 4: Another interesting part of him was his social media profiles,
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  Speaker 4: where he had all of these photographs of him apparently
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  Speaker 4: jet setting away on private jets and he was carrying
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  Speaker 4: expensive designerags, but in reality he was driving around in
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  Speaker 4: a twenty twelve model Gray Holden cruise. He really wanted
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  Speaker 4: to paint a picture of himself online. It was a
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  Speaker 4: very curated image.
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  Speaker 2: A few years ago, a different kind of video of
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  Speaker 2: Lamar Condon went viral.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 2: The video showed Lamar Condon in Darlinghurst, inner City, Sydney,
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  Speaker 2: in his police uniform, which in the New South Wales
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  Speaker 2: Police includes a taser, capsicum spray and a semi automatic
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  Speaker 2: glock pistol, tussling with a thirty one year old man.
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  Speaker 2: It's twenty twenty. Lamar Condon is shouting, put your hands
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  Speaker 2: in front of you. Now. That crackle you can hear
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  Speaker 2: is the taser as Lamar Condon fires it in close
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  Speaker 2: proximity to the man, Chris Bradshaw, who has his hands
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  Speaker 2: up to protect his face. Bradshaw was later convicted of
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  Speaker 2: intimidation and resisting a rest. Lamar Condon gave evidence at
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  Speaker 2: his trial and the police investigation cleared Lamar Condon of
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  Speaker 2: any wrongdoing. And then just in the past few days,
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  Speaker 2: Lamar Condon's name was suddenly making national news. He was
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  Speaker 2: the person of interest in the disappearance of a Sydney couple.
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  Speaker 2: TV presenter Jessebaird and his boyfriend Luke Davies.
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  Speaker 1: Police have searched a home here on Wait Avenue in
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  Speaker 1: Balmain and seized several items that they believe are connected
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  Speaker 1: to police Officer Bea Lamar.
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  Speaker 5: Just twenty six Jessebaird had launched a promising television career backshape.
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  Speaker 5: An alleged killer and a wanted man strolling barefoot through
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  Speaker 5: a suburban street in grays Point. This is New South Wales,
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  Speaker 5: cop Beau Lamar Condon and the net is tightening.
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  Speaker 2: On Wednesday morning, a worker was putting some rubbish in
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  Speaker 2: a skippin in Cronulla, a beachside suburb forty minutes drive
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  Speaker 2: south of Sydney's CBD. The worker found something alarming watchers
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  Speaker 2: credit cards and some clothing that appeared to be covered
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  Speaker 2: in blood. Police were called. Cronulla Police station is on
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  Speaker 2: the same block as the club, and they identified the
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  Speaker 2: items as belonging to Jesse Baird and Luke Davies. That
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  Speaker 2: led them to Bird's home in Paddington, close to the city,
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  Speaker 2: where they found large amounts of blood. The afternoon, everyone,
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  Speaker 2: this is Homicide Squad Commander Danny Doherty.
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  Speaker 3: Detective Superintendent Danny Dorlity Commander Homicide Squad, State Crime Command.
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  Speaker 3: This morning, just after ten thirty am, police arrested a
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight year old man in relation to the suspicious
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  Speaker 3: disappearance of two men from Paddington. He was arrested at Bondi,
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  Speaker 3: taking the Waveley Police station place in custody. The update
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  Speaker 3: is at this stage charges have been submitted for two
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  Speaker 3: council murder.
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  Speaker 2: Forensics officers searching the house found a spent cartridge from
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  Speaker 2: a gun, not just any gun, a police issue glock.
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  Speaker 3: One of the main line of the quis would be
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  Speaker 3: a strong line of a quarry that there's been a
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  Speaker 3: firearm discharge, which were already established. So we found a
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  Speaker 3: projector on a fired cartridge coach which matches a police
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  Speaker 3: firearm and that firearm belongs to the twenty eight year
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  Speaker 3: old man with charge today.
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  Speaker 2: It's important to note both of mar Condon has been
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  Speaker 2: charged but hasn't yet entered a plea to the chargers,
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  Speaker 2: and of course, until the matter reaches court, these are
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  Speaker 2: unproven allegations. One of those police allegations will be that
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  Speaker 2: Lamar Condon checked the glock out of the station where
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  Speaker 2: he works in a youth command engaging with at risk
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  Speaker 2: young people before committing the murders, then checking it back
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  Speaker 2: in to another station. It'll also be alleged he was
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  Speaker 2: previously in a relationship with Jessebaird. Coming up what happens
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  Speaker 2: next and why this case is deeply sensitive for the
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  Speaker 2: police and the victim's community. While I've got you, The
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  Speaker 2: back after this break. There have been big developments in
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  Speaker 2: this case and you can check out the latest at
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  Speaker 2: the Australian dot com dot au right now. But on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: police said Bolomar Condon was refusing to reveal anything, so
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 3: A say, we believe we've got sufficient evidence the charge,
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  Speaker 3: but in terms of information that we've received directly from
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  Speaker 3: that person now hasn't assisted us to date.
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  Speaker 2: Danny Doherty said police weren't yet ready to declare a
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  Speaker 2: cause of death. What police are alleging is that Lamar
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  Speaker 2: Condon fired his weapon at the Paddington house and they're
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  Speaker 2: alleging he killed both Davies and Bed and took their
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  Speaker 2: bodies from the scene in a white van he'd hired
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  Speaker 2: from near Sydney Airport. There are allegations Lamar Condon then
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  Speaker 2: sent messages from Jessebaird's phone telling Jesse's housemates he'd decided
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  Speaker 2: to move across the country to Perth. The message allegedly
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  Speaker 2: said he'd come and collect his furniture, but a subsequent
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  Speaker 2: message purporting to be from Jesse asked the housemates to
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  Speaker 2: put the furniture out on the street. On Friday, Lamar
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  Speaker 2: Condon turned himself into police and was arrested. Now he's
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  Speaker 2: in a cell on remand that is awaiting his court
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  Speaker 2: appearance in the notorious Metropolitan Remand and Reception Center in
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  Speaker 2: Sydney's Silver Water Jail. When cops go to jail, they're
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  Speaker 2: generally put in protective custody in a cell by themselves
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  Speaker 2: and only allowed to mix with other prisoners in protection.
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  Speaker 2: All this is happening in a place and at a
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  Speaker 2: time that's very meaningful for the LGBTQI community. Paddington, where
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  Speaker 2: the murders allegedly happened, is right at the heart of
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  Speaker 2: the gay community, and it's the spiritual home of the
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  Speaker 2: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Marti Gras, a month long festival
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  Speaker 2: that's happening right now. The famous Mardi Gras parade is
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  Speaker 2: this Saturday March too. The parade's a celebration these days,
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  Speaker 2: but for many years it was a protest against discrimination
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  Speaker 2: and violence suffered by queer people, especially at the hands
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  Speaker 2: of police. At the first march back in nineteen seventy eight,
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  Speaker 2: police bashed and arrested dozens. Now the cops march proudly
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  Speaker 2: in the parade.
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  Speaker 4: Nope, they can't hear a word. You're sad, But I'll
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  Speaker 4: tell you what the police marching that is coming up here.
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  Speaker 4: Twelve and a half thousand reasons to smile.
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  Speaker 2: The marches in Blue include both gay and lesbian liaison
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  Speaker 2: officers who work directly with the community, and the most
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  Speaker 2: senior police all the way up to Commissioner Karen Webb,
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  Speaker 2: the first top cop ever to join the march. Web
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  Speaker 2: has over the weekend given a formal apology to the
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  Speaker 2: community after a special inquiry found police were often indifferent, negligent, dismissive,
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  Speaker 2: or even hostile to the families of queer people murdered
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  Speaker 2: in hate crimes in decades past. Web will be marching
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  Speaker 2: this Saturday too, with a community that hasn't forgotten the past,
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  Speaker 2: and which is waiting for answers about the loss of
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  Speaker 2: two much loved young men.
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