Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. All right. Today is Thursday, September the 25th, 2025. and honey, we got a lot to get into this morning.

First up, 2025, and honey, we got a lot to get

into this morning. First up, yesterday, during my show where I was live on Sirius XM, we learned

about a shooting incident at a nice facility in Dallas. Now, the initial report said that there

were three officers who had been shot and all of us who are keyed into how America feels about

shootings, particularly feels about shootings,

particularly shootings about cops, knew that this could be one of those moments that was used

to really galvanize a hostile reaction of sorts, depending on how it was politicized.

Now, Americans care a lot about shootings. They care so much that they will offer thoughts and

prayers. They usually do not care enough to do anything about it or to

be able to successfully force their elected officials to do anything about it. And since many of

their elected officials are funded by entities that benefit from gun sales and gun death,

then it's hard to actually get them motivated. But had this been a shooting as against officers,

arguably, you might have seen a little bit

more traction. We certainly saw some movement in that area when Keystone cop Cash Patel, who was the head of the FBI,

almost immediately after news of the shooting was released, then puts out images of bullets.

And I'm putting bullets in air quotes that were taken from the scene. And I guess

bullets shouldn't be in air quotes that they were taken from the scene as that's what I'm putting in

air quotes. I just don't believe anything that these folks say because they lie all the time.

But apparently, according to the images and according to the people like Christy Noam and others,

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