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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:23:35:00

Viewing audience look at this and say, what can we do? this seems to far removed from my narrative or where i am or my place in life or the community. what they can do is support people like jamaal. what they can do is a port organizations that are going out as we have seen in the piece that are focused on fixing these efforts in the community. and there are some who are in chicago working spkly have on mental health, on dealing with trauma specifically. there are so many on the front lines responding in the immediacy of the crisis and the trauma. when the gun shots ring out and when pain starts to ripple immediately there folks were sitting with the children, the mothers. unfortunately so much weight ends up being on the solderiers shoulders of the matriarchs and patriarchs of these families who lose one, two sons, a grandson. also when you go door to door, neighbor to neighbor they all experiencing that. thankfully in a city like in chicago, philadelphia, and detroit, people are ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:23:42:00

Gang member. his mother left badly injured. in the retaliation shooting for that, a 19-year-old girl was killed in the controversy fire and then tyshawn lee. the murder of lee has sickened people across the country. his death touched not ton city of chicago but the entire nation. the execution murder of tyshon lee. he was 9 years old and got caught up with his daddy s activities in, you know, the streets. you know, that was a new kind of killing to me as far as somebody killing a kid like that. tyshon was deliberately targeted. luring into an alleyway and executed. no little boy gets shot seven times on accident. that is not accident. than an execution. that s not an accident. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:23:53:00

Progress. we got the issue around police brutality and misconduct, which many people feel is not really being addressed. not at all. so people don t feel safe, they don t feel safe talking with the police, engaging with the police, because they feel the police are not on their side. one of the things that s been happening in chicago that i ve read and thought a lot about is an exodus of african americans from the city. which i left. why did you leave? the same reason you re talking about. i remember being a police officer there, my young at the time, 5-year-old daughter, standing next to me washing dishes in our kitchen in a somewhat affluent neighborhood and gun shots ringing out, outside our kitchen window. i look over and see my daughter laying on the floor. thank goodness she didn t get shot, but she was responding in her natural human state to violence that was happening right outside of our door. so of course i left. why would i stay in this place where i don t see ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:08:15:00

Because they don t know it is okay to have someone to talk to. you re living below the poverty line. you re seeing dead bodies throughout your entire summer. your family members are being killed. your government is not responding to your needs. it is okay to say i need help. people that have money and privilege in america, they get a lot of mental health support and not going through one tenth of the kind of experiences you feel ton souts side. they can afford it too. that s the thing that pains me about chicago. it s the tale of two cities. my chicago doesn t get that help but there s a whole other chicago that gets all of the help and resourtss that they need. when we return our special reports on the prevalence of guns and cycles of retaliation. was there ever a moment you ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171230:23:20:00

Reporter from a city in trauma. heard gunshots. sounded like a pack of firecrackers, somebody dropped them by your feet is how close they sounded. that very last shot, the window shatter es. when the bullet hit she didn t make a whimper, or cry. she didn t say anything. that s why i didn t know she was hit. just a split second. i wake up every day saying i hope that it s a dream, but it s not. it s been one month. i have not heard my daughter s voice, been able to touch her, see her dance across my floor. there are so many things. nikia williams lost her 11-year-old daughter on chicago s south side. she was struck and quilled by a stray bullet it s a she sat inside a minivan outside the dry cleaners where he mother worked. her brother was in the car. ....

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