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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 2 | Christchurch Aftermath: Unity or Division?

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting, political figures across the world have been bickering and finger-pointing. Has this tragedy helped unite us as people, or has it further divided us? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys welcome back to the show. This video is going to be a hard one for me to make and probably an uncomfortable one for you guys to watch, but today we are talking about the recent shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand.

0:23.6

As you're all already likely aware of Friday in New Zealand that is Thursday night in North America,

0:28.2

two mosques were targeted in shootings that ended up taking the lives of 49 people.

0:32.0

On the shooting attacks on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch,

0:36.0

49 people are known to have died.

0:39.0

Dozens more are being treated in hospital for gunshot wounds.

0:42.0

Witnesses say at least one gunman opened for... treated in hospital for gunshot wounds.

0:42.5

Witnesses say at least one gunman opened fire

0:45.3

on worshippers at the mosques as they were gathering

0:47.8

for Friday prayers.

0:49.3

For one man in his 20s has been charged with murder.

0:52.4

Two other men and one woman were detained

0:54.4

in the areas around the mosques, but police have established one at least had no

0:59.4

involvement. Police are investigating reports that an attacker live streamed their actions.

1:05.0

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardoin has described the events as an extreme and

1:09.8

unprecedented act of violence.

1:11.8

Now I've covered mass shootings and other tragedies before in videos and frankly I never

1:16.4

know what to say in situations like this because frankly I don't think there's anything we can say

1:21.2

to make things better or to provide any sort of

1:24.0

meaningful comfort to the families of victims because I mean at the end of the day all we

1:28.6

can offer right now really are just words which aren't going to make things

1:31.6

better for people who are dealing with that amount of

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