What This Former NYPD Detective Has to Say About Attacks on Police

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🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Rob O’Donnell, a former detective with the New York Police Department, was among first responders to the terrorist attacks that brought down the towers of the World Trade Center in 2001 as well as to the terrorist bombing there eight years earlier.

O'Donnell joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to talk about what that was like.

"A few days before 9/11, I had a homicide [investigation], which probably helped me not be there as soon as I would have been because I ended up working on 9/10 to about 2 in the morning, where I normally would have been at work at 7," O’Donnell recalls.

"I responded straight down to ground zero on 9/11," he says. "And if I would have been at the police station, I would have been there that much sooner."

O'Donnell also discusses the violent attacks on police and other law enforcement across the nation, especially over the past year, related racial tensions, and potential reforms in police departments.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, March 25th.
0:10.1	I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.8	And I'm Rachel Daljudas.
0:13.4	Robo Donald is a former NYPD detective.
0:16.8	He was involved with the response and rescue in the 93 World Trade Center bombing as well
0:22.0	as the response and recovery on the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center.
0:26.9	He joins me on the Daily Signal Podcast to share his story as well as his perspective
0:31.8	on the recent attempts to cancel into fund law enforcement.
0:36.0	And don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review
0:40.6	or a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:45.2	Now, on to our top news.
0:55.4	Republican and Democrat senators clashed during a Senate rules and administration committee
1:00.5	hearing Wednesday on the Democrat-backed election bill known as S-1, or the For the People Act.
1:07.5	Majority leader Chuck Schumer argued in favor of the bill and criticized his GOP colleagues
1:13.3	for not supporting the legislation and for backing state bills that institute laws like
1:18.6	voter ID perforges.
1:21.4	Many American who thinks that the fight for a full and fair democracy is over is sadly
1:27.6	and sorely mistaken.
1:29.6	Today, now, in the 21st century, there is a concerted nationwide effort to limit the
1:36.8	right of American citizens to vote and to truly have a voice in their own government.
1:43.4	In the wake of the November elections, one of the safest in recent history, Republican
1:48.9	leds, Republican leds state legislatures have seized on the former president's big lie
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