David Huerta

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16 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Rachel Maddow Show · Maddow: The bill comes due for Trump's bad decisions · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

Thanks for having me, Rachel.

Well, it feels like justice was served.

Justice has finally been served.

You know, this rescinding this or dismissing it is really a demonstration of, you know, one, a fight against what I feel is defending my First Amendment rights when I was tackled, pepper sprayed and detained for exercising those First Amendments.

And two, I think it's also a message of what can be accomplished when we stand together

when we fight together and don't allow ourselves to be intimidated or silenced regardless of who's trying to do it in this case this administration who has done it to so many across this country and I feel fortunate that one it only ended in my detention and not a murder as we've seen in Minneapolis, Maine, Houston, Miami and detention centers throughout this country so I feel

a sense of relief, also a sense of recommitting, repurposing and recommitment to continue the fight for justice anywhere where we find injustice.

Well, I'd rather not speak about the immediate injuries that happened on that day.

I will say that those 72 hours within detention were long, difficult, but in all honesty, and I said, as I got out of the detention center, that the folks that I met inside the detention center gave me hope because those folks have more honor.

I always felt that they had more honor than the man that sits occupies the White House right now.

And so I just think sitting and being in that jail cell, hearing what the city was doing as a means to protest my detention at that time, hearing the bombs, hearing the people, hearing people fighting back, resistance, for me, gave me hope.

And it gave a lot of folks on the inside of that detention center hope as well, that people were fighting for them and that they would not be ignored and they would not be forgotten.

And so I think those 72 hours changed Los Angeles, I think for a certain part, changed this country and really realized what we were up against immediately as a result of that arrest.

And so the arrest in itself was consequential.

And for that, I'm happy that in that sense, that consequential moment led to even greater participation and greater resistance across the country.

Thank you, Rachel, for having us.

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