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🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Best People Podcast was always about bringing you the best people I knew and the best people I came across in my life, in my career, and on Deadland White House. Yesterday, I met one of those people. |
0:24.5 | Yoman Wilder. He answered the question that I think I've been wrestling with since November's election. What would I do? What would I do if I saw someone who I thought was being confronted by ICE or harassed by ICE or singled out or |
0:38.9 | profiled. To be honest, I'm not sure I'd have the presence of mine that human did to remind |
0:45.6 | people of their rights, to remind law enforcement officials about the letter of the Constitution, |
0:51.5 | but he did in the moment. He tells his story and we want to share it |
0:55.6 | with you, our best people family, for a couple of reasons. One, it is entirely inspiring to know |
1:02.2 | that there are people like human out there. But second, there's something we all need to ask |
1:07.2 | ourselves in this moment that he describes. what would you do? Would you stop |
1:12.4 | what you were doing if you were walking your dog or out on a run and you saw what he saw? Would |
1:18.2 | you bear witness at a minimum or stand up for other people's rights as Coach Newman did? Or would |
1:24.8 | you walk right by like the Upper West Side Community members that he describes? |
1:30.6 | Take a listen and let me know what you think. |
1:33.3 | This is from my conversation with Coach Eumann Wilder, |
1:36.7 | with the University of Maryland Professor Kevin Blackestown |
1:39.9 | and Democracy Docket founder Mark Elias on Deadline White House on Monday, July 14. |
1:45.7 | Now, you should know that since our interview aired, the Department of Homeland Security, |
1:50.3 | it refutes this version of events. |
1:52.9 | They told us ICE agents were not in the area at the time. |
1:57.0 | We'll continue to follow human story and bring it to you. |
2:06.3 | Music will continue to follow human story and bring it to you. Despite Donald Trump's repeated campaign promises that his mass deportation raids would target |
2:12.9 | the quote, worst of the worst, we've seen his administration actually target some of the best. |
2:20.9 | Young students, high school students, landscapers, hardworking people on the job at work. |
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