Welcome. If you quick housekeeping notes note. You could silence your cell phones now so we dont get interrupted it would be great but usually we have about 30 minutes of talking and then we take questions. We are filming so it important and i hope you all have questioned that use the microphone and get up and ask them as opposed to shouting from the audience. If you would think of questions from there and asked them that would be great. Those of you who are familiar with our offense would ask you to pull that the chairs, dont fold up the chairs today. Thank you. If you enjoy this event we do 500 operatives a year so check out the events calendar. We have november and december out a lot of good stuff. If you havent been down there its beautiful. We have events there and its a great space. Now for the good stuff. Im excited to introduce kimberly mehlmanorozco. Kimberly holds a doctorate in criminology law from George Mason University with an expertise in Human Trafficking. Shes one of t
Hi, thank you so much for being out here today. Onthis beautiful saturday. My name is emily, im a manager at politics and prose and on behalf of the staff, welcome. Of view boring housekeeping notes, if you can silence your cell phones so we dont get her interrupted with feeding it would be great. Usually we have about 30 minutes of talking and we take questions. We are filming so i hope you all have questions that you use the microphones and get up and asked them as opposed to shouting them from the audience because that we dont want to ask the question in the recording so if you could think of questions and asked him there that would be great. Lastly we have a few more events today so sometimes the few of you who are familiar know we fold up the chairs. Dont fold up chairs today, thank you. And if you enjoy this event we do about 500 other author events a year so sign up my email, check out the events calendar. We have november and december out and we just opened a store at the worst
Protesters. Theres been no arrests no violence here. Of course, tonight at 10 00 this crowd will have to disperse. But many people came here today trying to pick up the pieces from last night. Stop the violence please we dont need this where is everybody going to go and shop . Yall breaking into the stores and taking stuff. Reporter this woman has worked at this cvs for 13 years. Last night she watched her neighborhood erupt in violence. It was wrong. It was wrong. And it didnt have nothing to do with freddie. It didnt. It didnt. They destroy the whole city. Not just cvs. They destroy the whole city. For what . Reporter the blaze from the cvs fire could be seen for miles as firefighters under Police Protection tried to put out the flames. Yesterday the Stores Manager made the decision to close, and he sent his employees home just as the riots were beginning. We would have got hurt. Who knows . Im just glad we got out of the store. I got everybody out of the store, thats my concern. Rep
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