meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Consider This from NPR

Kansas City Communities Continue Block By Block Efforts To Prevent Violence

Consider This from NPR

NPR

Society & Culture, News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In Kansas City neighborhood organizations do the work of violence prevention one block, and one person at at time.

Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices

NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This week Missouri prosecutors charged two men with murder following a mass shooting that took place at Kansas City Super Bowl victory celebration on Valentine's Day.

0:10.0

Lisa Lopez Galvin, a popular local radio personality, was killed, and about half of the

0:15.0

22 people injured were children who had come out to see the chiefs celebrate their second

0:20.0

straight Super Bowl victory.

0:21.6

Kansas City Mayor Quentin Lucas spoke to my colleague Wanna Summers about it.

0:25.3

I was someone who brought my own family to this event.

0:29.1

I was someone who had to flee at a shooting.

0:31.6

I saw big giant football players and eight or nine year old

0:36.4

children and all types of people running away from harm.

0:39.7

But unlike many other high-profile mass shootings,

0:42.6

where one person targets multiple victims,

0:45.1

Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker

0:47.7

said this shooting began because one of them

0:49.8

in charge turned an argument into a violent event.

0:53.2

That argument very quickly escalate it

0:56.7

to Mays drawing his firearm, a handgun,

1:00.4

almost immediately. Almost immediately.

1:05.0

others pulled their firearms.

1:07.0

And while the location was unique and the national attention was unique,

1:10.7

that key fact really wasn't.

1:13.0

It's not uncommon.

1:14.1

We have men and shoot around here all the time.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.