Another American City In Mourning
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The city of Monterey Park, California is reeling after a gunman opened fire inside a dance studio Saturday night, killing 10 people and injuring 10 others. Though authorities have not determined a motive, the mass shooting happened on Lunar New Year’s Eve in one of the largest Asian American communities in the U.S.
Sunday marked 50 years since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision – and nearly seven months since the current Supreme Court overturned it. Morgan Hopkins, the president of All Above All, joins us to discuss the state of abortion access across the country, and the policies we need to protect it.
And in headlines: six people were arrested in Atlanta during protests over a controversial police training facility, Ron Klain plans to step down as President Biden’s chief of staff, and officials in Peru closed off access to Machu Picchu amid growing political unrest.
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- LAist: Another Mass Shooting Is Distressing. Here Are Some Mental Health Resources For The AAPI Community And All Of Us– https://tinyurl.com/4zem9cuw
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, January 23rd, I'm one-eat-a-tallever. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Josie Defi Rice, and this is What A Day. |
| 0:11.6 | The only daily news podcast with the Wikipedia page that is 100% factually accurate. |
| 0:16.4 | I mean, that's because we mostly don't actually have one. |
| 0:19.4 | Yeah, I mean, that's a small detail. |
| 0:21.8 | Look, if George Santos can claim he was on Hannah Montana on the internet, anything |
| 0:26.4 | is fair game. |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, six people were rested in Atlanta during protests to over a controversial |
| 0:36.2 | police training facility and the police shooting of an activist. |
| 0:40.0 | Plus, President Biden's Chief of Staff is expected to step down. |
| 0:43.4 | But first, on Saturday night, a man shot and killed 10 people and injured 10 others at |
| 0:48.6 | a ballroom dance hall in Los Angeles County. |
| 0:51.4 | The shooting happened on Lunar New Year's Eve in the city of Monterey Park, home to one |
| 0:55.8 | of the largest Asian American communities in the United States. |
| 0:59.8 | The Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a large venue, is a popular place to socialize and a former |
| 1:04.8 | dance instructor who worked there, told The New York Times that more than 90% of the clientele |
| 1:10.0 | was Asian American, and many were elderly. |
| 1:13.0 | This entire story is just tragic and heartbreaking and the timing's not lost on me. |
| 1:17.7 | But what do we know about the motive behind this shooting? |
| 1:19.9 | Was it a hate crime? |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, we don't know much yet, but at this point, there's not yet evidence to conclude that |
| 1:25.1 | it was a hate crime. |
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