Elliot Williams

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222 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 16 Jan

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The Don Lemon Show · LEMON DROP | A Former DHS Official on ICE's Crisis & Lack of Humanity · 16 Jan 2026 podcast

Does the country celebrate and lift up vigilantes, often white guys, for doing the things they do?

And the answer is yes.

Are there biases there?

whether implicit or explicit, that we all hold, but particularly that lead people to commit violent acts and particularly often violent acts against people that don't look like them.

And the answer also is yes.

And so using the sort of modern day examples that you talk about there, I do get into quite a bit of that in Five Bullets that, you know, past is present.

And a lot of these issues that the country grappled with in 1984 really aren't resolved today and certainly are, if not front of mind

certainly lingering in all of our brains.

Yeah, so it's impossible to judge the story without talking about what New York City was like in the 1980s.

You know, it wasn't Labradoodle and Lululemon New York City.

It was Times Square.

Times Square where you went for your peep shows or some cocaine.

It was a homicide rate that flirted with 2,000 homicides a year, which is literally more than today by a factor of four.

It was rough.

It was gritty.

Crack epidemic, HIV, with a closeted mayor who did not want to confront HIV as an issue because he thought, and I talk about this in the book Five Bullets, Ed Koch was in the closet and did not want to be outspoken on the rise of AIDS because he thought it would,

you know, it would come back to fire.

So New York City was just, there was, you know, the blackout of 77 that turned into a giant riot and the purge, everything was just really rough.

And people saw, many, many people saw in Bernard Goetz this hero who was sort of fixing the forces of disorder that were really bringing the city down.

But

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