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Capehart

Lucy McBath: From ‘Cape Up’ to Congress

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hear congresswoman-elect Lucy McBath in an interview from 2016. Along with DeJuan Patterson, she talks about gun violence, the death of her son, and how she pushed forward.

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0:07.6

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0:11.6

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0:14.2

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0:16.5

I'm Jonathan Kapart and welcome to K-Pup.

0:25.0

Long before Lucy Macbaff became Congresswoman Elect Macbeth from Georgia's 6th District.

0:33.3

She was a guest on this podcast two years ago,

0:36.9

talking about gun violence.

0:38.9

Her son Jordan Davis was shot and killed in Florida

0:41.5

in 2012 because his music was too loud.

0:45.6

In this powerful interview you'll hear Macbeth and Duane Patterson, an anti-gun activist from

0:50.6

Baltimore talk about how they survived gun violence and how they push forward.

0:56.3

This incredible conversation between a mother and a child starts right now. Duane and Lucy, thank you very much for coming in and being on Cape up today.

1:11.0

Thank you for having us. So you're both victims of gun violence in different ways.

1:18.9

And Duan, I want to start with you, but just asking you to tell your story.

1:25.0

The story of my gun violence champion incident begun going into my senior year in high school.

1:34.0

And we're talking Baltimore.

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Yes.

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East Baltimore just returning from John Hopkins University Summer Job.

1:40.0

And while on the bike traveling to my aunt's house, I picked my head up and I realized

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it was a gunman at my side. And he asked me to kick all my stuff out all my belongings, give him everything I had.

1:59.8

I looked down and shook my head, but I gave him everything and if that wasn't enough

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