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>> ILL PASS IT ON TO GOVERNOR
GAVIN NEWSOM.
>> THANK YOU.
LET ME THANK THE SHERIFF, THE
MAYOR, OUR POLICE CHIEF,
CAPTAIN, THE MEN AND WOMEN IN
UNIFORM.
YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT THE HEROISM
OF THE SAN JOSE POLICE TO SAVE
LIVES.
THE DEPUTY SHERIFFS THAT RAN
QUITE LITERALLY MOMENTS AFTER,
SECONDS AFTER HEARING ABOUT THIS
INCIDENT WITHOUT CONSIDERATION
FOR THEIR LIVES AND DID AN
EXTRAORDINARY JOB TO SAVE OTHER
PEOPLES LIVES.
THAT SAID, THERES A NUMBNESS I
IMAGINE SOME FEEL ACT THIS
BECAUSE THERES A SAMENESS TO
THIS.
YOU KNOW?
ANY WHERE USA.
FEELS LIKE THIS HAPPENS OVER AND
OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
RINSE AND REPEAT.
WASNT THAT LONG AGO I WAS OUT
HERE TALKING ABOUT THE TRAGIC
LOSS OF TWO CHILDREN, ONE IN A
MOTHERS ARMS, THE GILROY
FESTIVAL.
JUST HERE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
DOWN IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
SAN BERNARDINO, A FEW YEARS
PRIOR SANTA BARBARA.
YOU KNOW?
PICK A STATE.
AND HERE WE ARE.
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WERE EXPERIENCING SOMETHING NOT
EXPERIENCED ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE
WORLD.
THERES A SAMENESS TO THIS AND
THAT NUMBNESS I THINK IS
SOMETHING WERE ALL FEELING
TODAY.
LOOKING AT THIS SCENE.
LISTENING TO GOVERNORS, MAYORS,
CHIEFS SPEAKING SIMILAR TONE AND
TERMS.
EXPRESSION OF CONDOLENCES.
ALL THE RIGHT EMOTIONS AND
PERHAPS THE RIGHT WORDS BUT
BEGGED THE DAMN QUESTION WHAT
THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US?
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US?
WHEN WILL WE PUT DOWN THE ARMS
FIGURE
FIGURATIVELY AND THE HAND
WRINGING THAT PRODUCES NOTHING
BUT MORE SCENES LIKE THIS
REPEATED OVER AND OVER AND OVER
AGAIN.
I SAY THAT NOT AS A GOVERNOR BUT
AS A FATHER OF FOUR AND A MEMBER
OF THIS COMMUNITY THAT CARES
DEEPLY ABOUT IT.
SO WELL HAVE TIME TO WORK
THROUGH ALL OF THAT BUT ONE
THING TO BRIEFLY SPEAK TO IS THE
PAIN IN THOSE VICTIMS.
I JUST SPENT -- WE HAD THE
PRIVILEGE TO SPEND A FEW HOURS
WITH THE VICTIMS WAITING TO JUST
LEARN IF THEIR LOVED ONES IS
STILL ALIVE.
DIALING THE PHONES.
CANT FIND HIM.
TRYING TO GO ON AND FIND A PHONE
OF A LOVED ONE.
WAITING TO HEAR FROM THE
CORONER, FROM ANY OF US, JUST
DESPERATE TO FIND OUT IF THEIR
BROTHER, SON, DAD, THEIR MOM IS
STILL ALIVE.
JUST IMAGINE BEING IN THEIR
SHOES.
I KNOW EVERYBODY WANTS THE
ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS BUT
THERES NO MORE IMPORTANT
QUESTION AND ANSWER THAT WE OWE
THAN THE VICTIMS OF THIS
SENSELESS AND TRAGIC SHOOTING.
I WONT JUST EXPRESS
CONDOLENCES, EXPRESS THE USUAL
PLATITUDES BUT THANK THE HEROISM
OF THE VINGTS.
THE FACT THEY CAN STAND UP AND
SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER IS
REMARKABLE.
WHAT A HUMAN ACT.
AND SO, I JUST WANT TO -- WE
WANT FOLKS THE KNOW WELL BE
THERE FOR THE VICTIMS.
I WANT FOLKS TO KNOW IM HERE
FOR YOU, MR. MAYOR AND THE
COUNTY.
THE STATE.
I KNOW WE HAVE ELECTED OFFICIALS
OF ALL POLITICAL STRIPES THAT
WANT TO BE HERE FOR THE NATION
BUT TIME TO DEAL WITH THE
ENDEMONSTRATIC BEFORE THIS
PANDEMIC OF GUN VIOLENCE THAT
PREEXISTING CONDITION THAT
SOMEHOW SORT OF PUSHED ASIDE
LAST YEAR AND NOW RAISED THE
UGLY HEAD AGAIN THIS YEAR.
AND WAKE UP TO THIS REALITY AND
TAKE A LITTLE DAMN
RESPONSIBILITY ALL OF US TO DO
MORE AND BETTER THIS TIME AND
MOVE BEYOND THE PLATITUDES AND
THE USUAL RHETORIC THAT TENDS TO
MARK NOT JUST THESE MOMENTS BUT
THE AFTERMATH OF THESE MOMENTS
AS ALL OF YOU GO AWAY AND FADES
OUT OF VIEW AND THEN RINSE AND
REPIECE SOMEWHERE IN THIS
COUNTRY.
TO THE VICTIMS, TO THOSE THAT
LOST THEIR LIVES AND THE
FAMILIES THAT LOST THE LOVED
ONE, OUR HEARTS GO OUT BUT
RESOLVED NOT TO MAKE THIS
MEANINGLESS BUT TO BRING MEANING
AT THIS TRAGIC MOMENT IN THE
STATE AND THE NATIONS HISTORY.
AGAIN THANK YOU TO THE MEN AND
WOMEN BEHIND ME AND THE
COURAGEOUSNESS AND THE