Domestic Terrorism in El Paso
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
There have been over 250 mass shootings in the U.S., averaging to at least one shooting a day, according to the Gun Violence Archive. After this weekend's two mass shootings, Maria and Julio are joined by award-winning journalist Bob Moore, and Cynthia Pompa, Advocacy Manager of the Border Rights Center at ACLU of Texas, to discuss the devastating impact of white supremacy and domestic terrorism in the Borderland. They also talk to Representative Veronica Escobar of Texas’ 16th Congressional District in El Paso to see how the community is coping.
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| 0:24.0 | Hey people, |
| 0:28.0 | Hey people, |
| 0:29.0 | welcome to this very important edition of In The Thick, |
| 0:31.0 | This is a podcast about politics politics race and culture from a |
| 0:33.8 | POC perspective I'm a very sad Maria no Jose and I'm Goli and I'm Gullio Rico Guarela and yeah Maria it's |
| 0:41.2 | been a sad couple of days. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, like super tough, very emotional, heartbreaking, scary. |
| 0:47.8 | Within 24 hours, there were two mass shootings in this country, the first on Saturday in El Paso, Texas at a Walmart, |
| 0:54.0 | where at least 21 people have died, many of them Latinos, including seven Mexican |
| 0:59.9 | nationals. Nearly 30 more people were injured. |
| 1:04.7 | The second shooting happened Sunday morning in Dayton, Ohio. |
| 1:07.4 | Nine people were killed, including the shooter's sister, unclear as of Monday morning what |
| 1:11.6 | relationship that had to the shooting, 27 people injured, six of the nine victims were black. |
| 1:18.0 | In fact, Dayton has a very significant black population. |
| 1:22.0 | Right, and this comes a week after another mass shooting that happened at a summer festival in California. |
| 1:29.0 | This weekend, both the shooters were young white men. The Ohio shooter was, he was killed by police but the El Paso and I'm gonna call |
| 1:38.8 | him a terrorist the El Paso terrorist was arrested at the scene and the incident is being |
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