Congressional Baseball Shooting (2017)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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It’s June 13th. This day (actually June 14th) in 2017, a shooter opened fire on a GOP practice for the annual congressional charity baseball game.

Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the incident, carried out by a left-wing activist, how it quickly became politicized, and how the conversation about this recent era of violence reflects our deeply tribal politics and culture.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Abergan.
0:11.0	This day June 13th, 2017, the event actually took place on June 14th, 2017, during a
0:17.8	Republican team practice for the annual Congressional Baseball game for charity in Alexandria, Virginia, a man opened
0:25.3	fire and over the course of a 10 minute shootout he shot U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise,
0:32.3	Capitol Police Officer Crystal Griner, Congressional Aid
0:35.8	Zach Barth, lobbyist Matt Micah. I think most of you listening know about this
0:40.7	event, remember this event. It is maybe the most recent political
0:44.4	event that we've done on this show, but we wanted to discuss it because we talk a
0:48.6	lot about political violence on the show. We also talk a lot about how
0:51.5	historical moments get skewed or papered over or take on different
0:55.8	narratives in different media circles.
0:59.3	And this is very interesting on all those fronts and a very recent example of all that in addition to I think just a big
1:04.9	traumatic moment in our recent political life so here to discuss as always are
1:09.3	Nicole Hammer of Colombia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there. Hello Jody. Hey there.
1:16.7	So Kelly I laid out a little bit of who was injured. I think Steve Skelise is probably the most
1:21.6	high profile person who was injured.
1:23.6	That capital police officer, Crystal Griner, really acted heroically as well here and got a lot of
1:28.7	press for her actions and received, I believe, a Medal of Honor as well. and I suppose we should mention that the shooter was
1:35.2	killed in this incident. What other details of the shooting itself stand out to you or do you
1:40.5	remember?
1:41.5	So the shooting itself is about 10 minutes long which if you are
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