What Can Be Done? | Ep. 047 Lemonade Stand π
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Lemonade Stand.
What happened in the Alex Pretti shooting and why are we discussing it now?
Lots going on in the news this week. We had a episode prepared about a couple of things. I mean, there's some big news in web dev. We're talking about what's going on in a couple of major cities. And you flew out to Baltimore to interview with the mayor there, which I think is really cool. And we want to talk about that. However, in the past week, you know, as was going on with America in the past all of January, another major event came up. Alex Preddy was shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. And I think we need to talk about it. Something, like, deserves giving some time. So... I got a little presentation here. There's some angles we're gonna take on and there's something we need to say, but just know that we, you know, there's more of the episode and we're kind of focusing on this for now.
So anything I'm missing? No, I think that's, we can get into it. I think we all have a little bit on it. I mean, it's one of those things, that it feels almost impossible to not say anything about. I've been mulling over my feelings and what I want to say about it. This, you know, the past few days, it's been really on my mind, but if you, if you don't mind, like, I think you had, you had kind of the direction you wanted to go in first. And yeah, it got me super heated. And so I made like a 70 slide PowerPoint and I was going to make a big clip. And then, you know, it's supposed to be my month off and my editors did take a real vacation and flew out and I can't just ask them to fly back and You might.
So I'm not going to do this whole thing. I just want to talk about some aspects of it, you know? So if you could pull up this thing. So Alex Brady, I mean, and it's interesting because we're doing this days after a major event that, you know, the way the media works now, everyone has seen the video. Everyone's seen it. Everyone's just not only talked about it, but seen every different possible take and angle. We're past that. So I think what's more interesting is talking about what the impacts of this might be. What is the next step? What's going on in America? What is this leading to? I guess just for the one person in the audience who hasn't seen it, ICE is doing a pretty aggressive operation in Minneapolis, and this person, Alex Peretti, was there as part of protests.
There's a whole bunch that led up to it, but eventually he was unarmed and shot in the back by ICE officers. It's pretty graphic. There's a lot of videos. I don't think we're going to show them here because it's a podcast. But I mean, yeah, the guy is pushed to the ground, pepper sprayed in the face, disarmed, and then shot in the back. And then shot like 10 times. Like an absurd amount of times, the guy just unloads a clip into him. So on every level, it's... morally wrong, it's wrong on police procedure. It's, I mean, and it brings up a larger question. So I wanted to do some context of what's going on going into this, which is that in the past, let's say eight to 10 months, ICE has been given an absurd amount of extra money and,
mandate to increase its number of agents and number of actions. So they've had this wartime recruitment push, a hundred million dollars. They've been doing ads like this. America needs you choose your mission. We've been invaded by criminals and predators. We need you to get them out. And they've doubled their workforce in the past like 12 months. So they went from 10,000 to 22,000 officers. The training got cut from six months to six weeks. It's literally like 50 something days. Some of which is like, I don't have the specifics on me, but some of the training is really scant. And there's a lot of good reporting that goes into the details and they've interviewed people that are on the thing. And they're noticing that the qualification standards have dropped dramatically, the amount of training they have to do, everything.
So what we're ending up with is a decision that is made from a higher level that is leading to a lot of like, I mean, uneducated, angry, untrained people in masks, with guns, out on city streets with Americans.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00β0:02
2
What happened in the Alex Pretti shooting and why are we discussing it now?
0:02β9:18
3
How did ICE's expansion, training cuts, and leadership choices contribute to the Minneapolis incident?
9:18β19:32
4
What immediate political and public reactions followed Alex Prettiβs killing?
19:32β1:09:41
5
How could public anger influence elections, voter rolls, and potential policy change?
1:09:41β1:50:12
Speakers
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