Bonus Episode: Norco 80: The Aftermath - Guns And Police
Norco 80
LAist Studios
3.7 • 889 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Hear from Pulitzer Prize winning host Chris Haxel of the No Compromise podcast, Michael Sierra-Arévalo of the University of Texas, and LAist Studios Executive Producer and Norco 80 host Antonia Cereijido discuss the pervasiveness of gun culture and the militarization of the police force.
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| 0:52.7 | Music October 19th. Tickets at SCR.org. I'm Antonia C-S-E-G, host of Norco- Norco AD, and welcome to the second bonus episode for this series, |
| 0:59.4 | focusing on the rise of gun culture and militarization of the police in the wake of the Norco bank robbery. |
| 1:06.1 | Joining me for this conversation are Michael Sierra Arrivalo, an assistant professor in the Department of |
| 1:11.7 | Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, and also Chris Haxell, co-host of the NPR |
| 1:17.5 | podcast on the gun debate, no compromise. I started the conversation by asking each of my guests |
| 1:24.4 | about their own personal history with guns and how that has informed |
| 1:28.2 | their work. |
| 1:29.1 | First up is Chris Haxell from the NPR podcast No Compromise. |
| 1:33.7 | I grew up in the Midwest and, you know, when I was a kid and teenager, my experience |
| 1:37.6 | with guns was mostly limited to a little amount of hunting, you know, maybe you take the |
| 1:42.0 | shotgun out and shoot some trap or that sort of thing. Not really, you know, sort of your classic, like old school gun culture, I guess you would say. But really where I became familiar with guns was when I joined the Army. I spent, before I ever became a journalist, I spent a few years in the Army. And of course, I, you know, was trained how to use any type of gun you can imagine the military uses. |
| 2:02.5 | And over the course of my time in the military, I obviously was friends with a lot of the people I |
| 2:07.1 | worked with. And, you know, while I personally didn't come from a strong gun-loving background, |
| 2:12.6 | a lot of people I became familiar and friends with and acquainted with were really into guns. |
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