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REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Army Veteran Richard Fierro disarmed an active shooter in a Colorado night club

REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Richard Fierro was on a night out with family and friends when an active shooter opened fire at a nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five people. Richard is one of two men that stopped the gunmen and prevented further damage.   

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0:00.0

Man, I'm just a fucking, I'm a punk kid, grew up in San Diego, and then I was fucking

0:15.4

little cholo, I want to be shit, and then I had a fucking kid when I was 16.

0:19.8

I ain't supposed to be here right now.

0:21.8

I ain't supposed to be doing that on this shit.

0:22.8

I'm in the fucking army, I'm an officer, I'm in the fucking Mexican officer at that.

0:26.2

Come on, man.

0:27.2

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:28.2

And then this happened, but I had those values, man, that's just what it is, it's in me.

0:33.8

I've been fighting my whole life, and it's just that something that's been publicized.

0:38.8

Understood.

0:39.8

For me, it's all about just getting in there and making sure the right thing happens.

0:43.6

Listen, I fuck up a lot, but my big thing was, you know, integrity, when you say that

0:49.8

like you've been a fighter your whole life, when you say like, hey man, I just a guy went

0:52.9

to a club, like when you say I've been kind of doing this my whole life, would you say

0:56.5

that there was an angle, because look for whatever it's worth, you know, when I was young,

1:00.6

I found myself in a bunch of trouble too, and there's a big period in my life where now

1:05.5

I was finding myself sort of in a lot of street fights, especially with the guys that I grew

1:08.9

up with.

1:09.9

And, you know, I think we look back at our lives sometimes with a lens that paints a picture

1:15.9

of a narrative that we like to build for ourselves.

1:18.6

Yeah.

1:19.6

But I guess my question for you is, do you feel like you sort of, this idea of doing the

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