Dallas
The NPR Politics Podcast
NPR
4.4 • 25.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast here to talk about what happened yesterday in Dallas. |
| 0:06.6 | Here's the mayor of that city today. |
| 0:08.6 | The question is, can we, as citizens, speak against the actions of a relatively few officers |
| 0:16.1 | who blemish the reputation of their eye-calling and at the same time support and defend the 99 |
| 0:25.4 | percent of officers who do their job professionally? |
| 0:31.4 | That's Dallas Mayor Mike Rawling speaking this afternoon. |
| 0:35.8 | And just yesterday on the podcast, we were talking about two police shootings. |
| 0:40.0 | Today it's this. |
| 0:41.0 | Five Dallas area police officers killed, seven wounded. |
| 0:44.9 | They were targeted by a 25-year-old gunman named Micah Xavier Johnson. |
| 0:49.7 | And it's no exaggeration to say that this morning, people around the United States were |
| 0:53.5 | absolutely shocked by this news. |
| 0:56.0 | We're going to talk a bit about what happened and what it means. |
| 0:58.3 | I'm Scott Detro campaign reporter. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House and the campaign. |
| 1:02.7 | I'm Dominican Montenegro political editor. |
| 1:05.1 | And we've got Sam Sanders on the line. |
| 1:06.8 | Hey, Sam. |
| 1:07.8 | Hey, how are you guys? |
| 1:08.8 | Sam, where are you? |
| 1:10.0 | I am in Dallas. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm in downtown Dallas, got here about an hour ago and I am at the corner of Maine and |
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