Democracy Now! 2025-09-17 Wednesday
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🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Headlines for September 17, 2025; “Single Shots to the Head”: U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees “Extermination of a People” in Gaza; “Perish or Leave”: Hundreds of Thousands Flee as Israeli Military Invades Gaza City; How Video Games, Discord & Deep Web Influenced Alleged Kirk Killer; Trump Uses “Black Criminality” Myth to Take Over Black-Led Cities: Memphis Rep. Justin J. Pearson; Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Democracy Now. democracy now. |
| 0:27.5 | The little ones they scream. |
| 0:30.7 | We are used to the sound of shelling, to the sound of gunfire. |
| 0:31.8 | We are used to it. |
| 0:36.7 | It has become the norm, but the little ones, I cannot bear seeing them like that torn apart. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are fleeing as a city as Israeli ground forces move in. |
| 0:45.3 | We'll get an update. |
| 0:46.3 | Then Utah's formally charged the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk with murder. |
| 0:52.3 | Calling case 251-403-576. |
| 0:58.2 | State of Utah versus Tyler James Robinson. |
| 1:01.9 | Could you state your name? |
| 1:03.8 | Tyler James Robinson. |
| 1:06.8 | We'll speak to Wired reporter McKenna Kelly. |
| 1:11.3 | Her latest piece is headlined, bullets found after the Charlie Kirk shooting carried messages. |
| 1:18.7 | Here's what they mean. |
| 1:20.8 | Then to Memphis, President Trump has signed an order authorizing the deployment of National Guard troops to the city. |
| 1:29.7 | We'll speak to Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson. |
| 1:34.6 | We need poverty eradication, not military occupation. |
| 1:39.6 | Because of this, because of this, the white supremacist authoritarian dictator wannabe of Donald Trump is using Memphis as a test case for taking and stripping away power from black communities. |
| 1:50.7 | And we remember the late Robert Redford, in his own words. |
| 1:56.2 | All that and more coming up. |
| 2:03.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the war and peace report. |
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