El Paso’s Nightmare Is America’s New Normal
The Mother Jones Podcast
Mother Jones
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🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of twin shooting tragedies that killed 31 people last weekend, Mother Jones takes you to El Paso, Texas. Host Jamilah King speaks to MoJo immigration reporter Fernanda Echavarri, who spent time at a makeshift memorial outside the Walmart where chaos erupted on Saturday at the hands of an anti-immigrant killer, to hear from a community reeling from its worst nightmare come true. Also in this episode, Jamilah speaks to MoJo disinformation reporter Ali Breland about the inspiration mass shooters derive from uncensored message boards in the darkest corners of the web, and what can be done to stem the flow of white nationalist hate.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. I'm Jamila King in New York. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, |
| 0:13.0 | twin mass shootings. |
| 0:16.0 | Mother Jones is on the ground in El Paso. |
| 0:20.0 | The worst fear come true. |
| 0:22.0 | That toxic brew of anti-immigrant rhetoric The worst fear come true. |
| 0:22.5 | That toxic brew of anti-immigrant rhetoric led by the president and its results. |
| 0:28.8 | Terrorism targeting the border. |
| 0:31.9 | Our reporter is there, speaking to a community reeling from its nightmare, now a reality. |
| 0:38.0 | Stick around. We did have a completely different show planned for you today. |
| 0:47.0 | Part of our summer interview series, but you know what happened. |
| 0:56.0 | The mass shooting in El Paso. It happened at a Walmart store. |
| 0:59.2 | NBC News has learned that at least 18 people have been killed. |
| 1:04.0 | The rampage began at about 11 a.m. local time. |
| 1:06.4 | People responded to shots fired by running for- |
| 1:09.2 | First in El Paso, Texas on Saturday, a gunman, in his own words, driven by hatred of immigrants, targeted |
| 1:17.2 | back-to-school shoppers at a busy Walmart. |
| 1:20.4 | Twenty-two people dead and more than two dozen injured. |
| 1:23.6 | Nine people have been killed in a second mass shooting in less than 24 hours. |
| 1:28.2 | After a shooter fired a long gun outside on a street in a popular nightlight district. |
| 1:33.0 | Then, in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday, a night spot targeted by a man in body armor |
| 1:39.4 | with a history of threatening behavior dating back to high school, |
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