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Toure Show

Cori Bush–I'm Going to Congress

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Among the newly elected Congresspeople we’re most excited about Cori Bush from Missouri is near the top of the list. The Squad just got bigger, y’all. If you don’t yet know Cori Bush, you’re going to love her. She’s an amazing progressive and an amazing person who’s been through hell to get here. Let’s throwback to our interview from August. Toure Show Ep 167: Cori Bush–I'm Going to Congress Original Airdate: Aug 19, 2020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You were physically assaulted by the police yourself. What happened?

0:19.1

Yeah, so it was the night when Bob McCulloch announced that Aaron Wilson would not be indicted.

0:27.5

So I just remember thinking that day, okay, I'm going to be out on the street more as a medic because I knew that we had a lot of people

0:34.6

coming from just around the world that wanted to be here for the announcement that probably

0:38.8

had never been tear gas before.

0:40.5

So I had my nurse bag and they tear gas us so much that night. I mean it was just over it was just

0:46.7

really just crazy and it got to the point where I can't take it anymore so I started to walk away

0:51.2

walk a tour it's my car just to kind of get a, just to take a break, and someone started screaming out,

0:57.0

hey, hey, hey, my mom's having a heart attack, help. And I thought it was an ambush.

1:01.0

So I just kept walking, and I kept hearing people screaming and then people

1:04.4

started saying nurse nurse nurse court you're a nurse can do some help I went to help I

1:08.4

I got the lady was falling to the ground I caught her and helped her to the ground. Her eyes are rolling in the back of her head. Her

1:15.4

tungles are hanging out of her mouth. So we picked her body up. We carried this body all the way down

1:20.8

through the police line up and when we got closer to the police we're all yelling she's having a heart attack and I'm saying I'm the nurse helping her can someone help her and I'm doing this to her chest. You know, Lisa, stay with me.

1:34.0

And the police did this, drop her.

1:37.0

And everybody dropped her except me.

1:39.0

Next thing I knew they took me through my body in the air,

1:42.0

and then I was just

1:43.8

stomped by several police office several whoever they were I don't know if they were

1:47.3

guard a police officer they all had on the same thing I just was

1:50.3

stomped by all of these still toe boots you know like a rag down just remember doing this on the ground and thinking if you don't get up they

1:56.8

will kill you. Corey Bush is an amazing woman. She just want a hotly contested Democratic primary in a Democratic district

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