July 13, 2024 • 21 mins
In this episode, Tudor discusses the disparity in media coverage and political response to mass shootings in different communities in Michigan. She highlights the lack of attention given to mass shootings in predominantly black and low-income areas compared to those in predominantly white and affluent areas. Tudor also criticizes Governor Gretchen Whitmer for her lack of action and concern regarding the mass shootings in Detroit. She emphasizes the need for criminal justice reform and school safety measures, and calls for accountability from politicians and the media. The Tudor Dixon Podcast is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network. For more visit TudorDixonPodcast.com
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. It's a Saturday, but
I have a kind of serious subject that I want
to talk to you guys about today. Obviously, we're coming
off of a really weird week with all of the
Joe Biden stuff. But in Michigan, we're coming out of
two mass shootings, and I come out of this and
I'm like, I have to ask a few questions and
make a few comparisons on these shootings, because it seems
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like you got to ask yourself, are there communities that
just must they just have to deal with endless crime?
And do elected officials accept that certain communities are going
to be more dangerous than others and then just ignore
the tragedy and violence in those communities? Because I see
this and I think this is crazy, it's insane, it's terrible.
(00:43):
And we're like in the middle of watching this national
cover up from the media with regard to Joe Biden's health,
and so I have to say, is there a similar
situation here? Does the media care about tragedy in all
communities or just some communities? And are they actually covering
for their favorite politicians in places where we're seeing mass tragedies?
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So I just want to say, last weekend in Michigan,
you may not have heard this, and the scary thing
is you probably didn't hear it because the media is
not talking about it. Michigan suffered its worst mass shooting
ever in the history of the state. The worst mass
shooting in the city of Detroit. Two people killed, nineteen
people injured. This was the worst, but the second worst
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was just last year in Saginaw, Michigan, where thirteen people
were shot to fatally. And since twenty thirteen, there have
been one hundred and sixty six mass shootings in the
state of Michigan. Nearly half of those were in Detroit.
Mass shootings under Gretchen Whitmer have doubled since she took office,
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and just since twenty twenty one. I'll run through a
list for you. Saginaw had three, Flint had three, grun
Rapids five, Lancing five, and Detroit twenty four. So we're
currently listed as the most violent state, second most violent
state in the country. Last week, the Michigan Correction Officers
Union actually asked the governor to provide the Michigan National
(02:08):
Guard to help staff prisons. I mean, it's it's that bad.
And even when I was running. We were talking to
them and they're like, we get everything. There's no hospital space.
She had promised a bunch of mental hospital space, that
we would have mental health hospital beds added to our
our few mental health hospitals that we have left in
the state, and she didn't do that. She actually reduced
(02:29):
the number that she said she was going to bring in.
And so now we have a combination of people who
should be in prison and people who should be in
a mental health facility, and nobody to staff the prisons
because what they're dealing with is so far beyond what
they've ever been able to what they've been trained for.
So now they go to the governor and they're like, look,
it's out of control. We've had so many people leave
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because they're not paid well enough, they're not trained well
enough to deal with the people were getting who we
shouldn't be getting. And of course guess what she declines again,
it's not an apter story. It's an all safety crisis
in the state, but no one's being held accountable. So
in three weeks time, Michigan suffers too tragic mass shootings.
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And here's where the comparison comes in, because only one
of those has received national attention or even statewide attention,
and it's not the one that's the worst mass shooting
in the history of the state. First, on June fifteenth,
nine people, including two children, were shot at a Rochester
Hills splash pad. The victims ranged in age from four
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years old to seventy eight years old, and the shooter
ended up dying by suicide. So here's the deal. Rochester
Hills is predominantly white. The census data says that seventy
six percent of the people there are white and thirteen
percent Asian and affluent. The median income in the area
is one hundred and fifteen nine hundred and sixty eight dollars.
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Rochester Hills, according to the census data, is only three
percent black raw Frican American. When the shooting occurred, you
would not believe it. The news jumped all over the story.
Within a week, there were over two hundred news stories published,
including in the New York Times. The governor took to
x within hours of the shooting with this statement, I
(04:17):
am heartbroken to learn about the shooting in Rochester Hills.
We are monitoring the situation as updates continued to come
in and are in touch with local officials. The mayor
comes out and has a press conference and said the
last twenty four hours had been the worst nightmare he'd
ever experienced. He said, quote, I've been blessed to be
the mayor of the city for eighteen years and never
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thought I'd see my city in the same sentence as
some other cities that have experienced mass shootings. They didn't
expect it in this community. It's a not in my backyard.
And when it happens in certain communities, the news and
the elected officials they actually ignore it, but not this one.
Remember I started this podcast by saying we had two
mass shootings. One was the worst we'd ever seen, two
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in three weeks time. The second was in Detroit just
this past weekend, where two people were killed in nineteen
were injured. Again, it was the largest in Michigan's history.
This is not an affluent area. Actually, it was in
Detroit's notorious Red Zone, an area known for gang violence.
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Perhaps this area has been written off by the political elites.
It's funny because the people you hear chirping about women's rights,
they haven't said anything about this. The state's largest mass
shooting where the majority of victims were women and girls.
In fact, Gretchen Whitmer, the state's governor, said nothing. Didn't
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rush to x within hours. Actually she didn't even tweet
from her official account until three days after the shooting,
and that was to pat herself on the back for
the state's latest budget. Not even a single call for
gun reform her favorite empty response nothing. She seems to
have been unmoved by these two deaths and nineteen injuries.
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You could say she was preoccupied with the release of
her new book and travel, since she would spend the
next week touring the country, giggling through interviews ranging from
CNN to The View to Late Night with Stephen Colbert.
Did she get a question about the shooting from any
of those mainstream media giants. No, they didn't even mention it.
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It's like it didn't even happen. They wanted to listen
to the governor throw around the F word. I mean,
that's literally what she did. She went on these national
media platforms and laughed, made jokes about Biden, said he
should have a mental health exam, and then said m
efforts three times. In a radio interview, she talked about swingers,
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laughed about that, she's very hip, been cool, but she's
not concerned with the safety of the people in Detroit,
which probably should be where her mind is. What should
have been top of mind, maybe other than the president
mental de line. What should have been top of mind
for the media was the state's largest mass shooting, which
occurred in the early hours of Sunday, July seventh, But
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it wasn't. It wasn't even top of mind on that
day for her personal account. Her personal account on x
was active at eleven o seven am, so that was
just hours after the shooting, but it wasn't words of morning. Instead,
it was promotion, personal promotion. My goodness, her tiny book
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filled with debauchery and curse words was launching the very
next day, and she wanted to keep the focus on her.
Was she hiding from the shooting for fear that would
mess up her book sales? Maybe it would make her
look bad. The really sad truth is that no, she
wasn't because she knew her friends in the media would
keep mom. They've covered for all of her failures so far,
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so why would it stop now? And it didn't. That
allowed her to happily post on the day that that
Detroit was mourning about her book, and she said this
True Gretch. That's the name of her book. True Gretch
is filled with stories from my life and the lessons
I've learned along the way. Check Mark, don't let the
bullies get you down. Check Mark take nothing personally. Check
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Mark You'll never regret being kind. Pre order your copy
today at truegretch dot com. I'm not kidding. This came
from her personal account just hours after we lost people
in Detroit. Since then, her social media team has had
time to post more than thirty times about the book,
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but not once about the tragedy in Detroit. To be fair,
they don't post about tragedies and neighborhoods that look like Detroit.
You see, if I look at the census data for Detroit,
it's seventy eight percent black and twelve percent white, and
the median income there is only thirty seven thousand dollars.
She wants their vote, but outside of that, Detroit can't
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help her finance. Actually, and this isn't an election year
for Gretchen. The news media also didn't jump just forty
five stories to Rochester's more than two hundred, and Whitmer
jetted off to New York for the book release media blitz,
where again not one outlet asked her about the worst
mass shooting in Michigan's history. Most governors probably would have
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canceled the book tour if their states suffered the worst
shooting in history. The conclusion many have come to is
that Whitmer just wasn't moved by this particular violent event.
In fact, if you look at Whitmer's official X account,
her condolence tweets about mass shootings are really shootings just
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that affect predominantly white communities Oxford, MSU, Vegas, Sandy Hook
And don't get me wrong, these are obviously important. I mean,
we have to talk about these, but it seems like
those are the only shootings important to Whitmer. So you
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have to ask the question is it racism? And I
ask you, how can we call it anything else? I mean,
the evidence is clearly documented on a public forum. Gretchen
Whitmer only offers condolences when white people die in mass shootings,
not black people. That may be why we've seen a
massive uptick in mass shooting since she took office. She
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simply doesn't care. I was told by a deputy that
the former governor poured over crime stats weekly, but Whitmer
has never even asked to review them. The only conclusion
one can make is that she doesn't care well unless
she identifies with the community. If she identifies with the community,
then she cares. Why would you vote for someone who
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doesn't value your life? And I know what naysayers will say.
They'll say, oh, you're a Republican, you want more guns.
You don't get to talk about mass shootings. No. I
do want your Second Amendment rights to be protected. I
don't want kids dying, and I don't accept mass shootings happening.
And I want a real solution. Firing off a tweet
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or nothing at all should make people really mad. I
don't accept politicians using meaningly feel good phrases like gun control.
These they sound helpfuls like gun control sounds like such
a good thing, but it is in fact a completely
empty promise and proven to do nothing, as you can
see by the fact that crime has been increasing significantly
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during Whitmer's reign, and Dana Nessel the Attorney General again,
someone who's just letting people out. You got to actually
put them into to jail to reform, to change things.
But they don't so crime and reducing crime. For me,
it's near and dear to my heart, and that's why
I've searched for ways to reduce recidivism and create reform,
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a second chance for people that sticks and ultimately reduces
crime and saves millions of taxpayer dollars. But most importantly,
it stops the suffering and death. Why aren't we demanding
this of our politicians? There is effective criminal justice reform,
and don't clutch your pearls and tell me, oh, that's impossible,
it's not. I've met with some of our reform experts
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in Texas and they've seen great success. Now you can say, well,
Michigan has low recidivism. We also are not putting the
people into jail that should be in jail. We've been
told this by our police. They arrest these people, they
know they've got guns, they know they're going to commit
a terrible crime. This crime is just leading to the
next crime, but they never go to jail. They never
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have that opportunity to reform. And you can say all
criminal justice is expensive, yeah, it is. So every dollar
we spend on one offense, we don't have that dollar
for the next defense. So as we start arresting people.
We have to have the question in mind, is this
improving public safety? Are we putting these people in jail
and we're able to actually improve the outcome? Put them
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back into society, and hear me out giving someone a
second chance after reform. It's not just about redemption. I'm
a fan of that, but it's also about helping to
create another productive, tax pay member of society and someone
who can become a role model in their community, someone
who respects their neighbor and neighborhood, someone who comes from
a situation where they understand what it's like to be
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caught up in crime, and they can go back home
and say there's another option. If policies make it too
hard for someone with a criminal record to find work
or reintegrate back into society, they'll never be able to
pay back their debt, let alone start contributing to society.
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
a Tutor Dixon podcast. And I told you this is
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near and dear to my heart. I meant it because
I've experienced this in my own personal life, because I
have a cousin right now who's in prison. This is
why I care so much about what's going on, and
I understand so deeply the need for criminal justice reform.
I strongly believe that if somebody had worked with my
cousin to reintegrate him back into society after his first
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time in prison, to help him get a job and
learn how to contribute, he wouldn't be in prison today.
So like he could never get back on track. We
would talk about him finding a job and going back
to work and taking care of his kids, and he's like,
you don't understand, like this felony hanging over my head.
I can't get a job, I can't get back on track,
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and there's so much pulling you back toward that life
of crime. And at the time I'm talking to him,
like to me, it's so obvious, and I'm sure for
all of you out there you're listening and you're like,
oh my gosh, why would you want to go back?
And that was how I felt. I'm like, dude, you've
been in prison, like you know. And he would talk
about how awful was if you know how awful it is,
don't go back, don't do anything that could go back.
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But it was so bleak, and I could tell he
was getting pulled back into it, and it was devastating.
I know people will say, well, look he got what
he deserves, and yeah, I mean he screwed up, and
I don't deny that. But when people screw up and
they go to jail, they ninety five percent of them
they get out of jail, Okay, So putting someone in
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jail is only part of the issue. If you don't
reform this person, help them reform, help them get back
into society. They're coming back out and they don't know
how to function. And I saw it firsthand. Some people
they get caught up in a bad life, and in
some communities it's more common than others. But what most
people don't understand is it's not really easy to escape
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that life. My cousin is a felon, and it is
so frustrating because I love him so much and I
want him to have a chance when he gets out.
But I know how hard it was the first time
after going to prison, the first time, he's worried, never
go back, and I saw him decline. He couldn't get
a job. I saw his kids suffer. He has been
in jail for the last ten years. It's missed his
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kids growing up completely, and now he's hoping to be
released before his full sentence is served, and there's a
chance that he's going to be released, And there's like
this feeling inside where I'm excited about that because I
want him. I want him to spend time with his kids.
And at the same time, I'm like, what's like when
he gets out? How will he know? All he's known
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for ten years is being in the system and fighting
for survival and getting tattoos, and he's going to come
out with tattoos on his face. And I mean, we've
talked about this, like probably not a great idea to
get tattoos on your face, But he's in a totally
different world than I'm in, And so what is it
like when he gets out? I worry about it literally
every day. Will he be able to function? Will he
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go back? And I think that people in communities where
they oftentimes have their loved ones in and out of prison,
are wondering the same thing. And I do think it
falls on us as a community to help figure out
how to get these people to re enter society. In
other states like Texas, inmates are prepared to rejoin society.
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Recidivism rates have been significantly decreased, and we can rebuild
our communities with criminal justice reform programs, and it should
be a top priority. But to accomplish this, we need
politicians who care about safety and care about people, not
just tweet about it when they relate to the victims.
We need politicians who are willing to act when they
need to act, prosecutors who take the bad guys off
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the street and provide an opportunity for reform. Again, if
you don't get off the street, you don't go. The
next crime is oftentimes someone's death, whether it's yours or
someone else's. It's devastating. We need a governor who's working
overtime to get Michigan out of second place for the
most violent states. Here's the shocking truth. Many people have
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said Michigan would not have had to suffer the devastating
school shooting in Oxford had Gretchen Whitmer implemented the school
safety plan written by Michigan State Police. Now we've gone
through two more school years without a single bit of
school safety legislation. In fact, in the budget she was
bragging about just days after the largest mass shooting in
Michigan's history, she actually cut per pupil safety grants by
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three hundred million dollars, cut school safety by three hundred million.
She's leaving just twenty six million to protect our kids.
Why aren't we outraged by this? I am so sick
and tired of hearing politicians stand in front of a
podium and say I'm devastated by this and I never
want our kids to have to worry again. Well, how
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do you explain cutting all the money to keep our
kids safe? This is belowney. You don't get to go
out on radio and say, oh haha, MF for this,
and MF for that, and Joe Biden should get a
cognitiveivid exam because I should be president. You don't get
to do that while your state suffers, or at least
we shouldn't let you. We have to hold people accountable.
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They're not serious about reducing violence. Data clear gun violence
a public health crisis. Think about that. They don't have
to do anything. If you say this is a public
health crisis, you pass it on to the health department.
They're just passing the buck. It is time to stop
using bloodshed to win electionctions and then no more action.
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And after they get the power that they actually wanted,
because that's what they wanted. It is time for us
to bring back love, respect for life, and community togetherness.
So I have an assignment for all of you, and
I'm serious about this. I am asking you out there
to attend meetings with candidates and demand open question and
answer sessions, not like what we saw with President Biden
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this week where he says he's going to have a
big boy press conference and then the press has pre
chosen questions and he's calling them off of up shady paper. Okay,
now I'm going to let you say something because my
staff said it's okay. No no, no, no no. You
show up, you demand that you can ask whatever you want.
If they don't stay and answer your questions, they don't
have a plan, or worse, they don't want you to
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know what their plan is. Every community is an American community. Listen.
If you see elected officials who are only heartbroken and
monitoring situations in rich white neighborhoods, I'll get your favorite
news source and realize you've never read about the devastation
and poor communities. Then maybe it's time to vote differently
and check out another news source. Maybe, just maybe those
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new sources are covering up mass shootings. They're also covering
up the true platform of the people running for office.
They may be covering up for devastating health issues. I
don't know, Joe Biden. There are people with great plans
for you and your community, and your state and your country,
but the media doesn't want you to know who they are.
Do your research. Call out the electeds who act like
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they care until the rubber meets the road. Detroit, we
love you, but we've failed you. We need to do better,
and we will. My heart goes out to the families
in Rochester Hills and Detroit. I'm devastated by these senseless tragedies,
but I know we can bring the focus back to
public safety in our country. And I am so grateful
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that you join me today to listen to this Saturday Update,
albeit a challenging one. It has taught us so much
about the media in the past few weeks, what we
saw with Joe Biden and then to see this mass
shooting in Detroit get covered up by the media. It's
up to us now, so I wanted to encourage you
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to get involved, ask those questions to make sure that
this election cycle we are focused on making our community safe.
Thank you. I hope you have a great weekend and
get your tail back here Monday for the next episode
of the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Have a blessed
Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. It's a Saturday, but
I have a kind of serious subject that I want
to talk to you guys about today. Obviously, we're coming
off of a really weird week with all of the
Joe Biden stuff. But in Michigan, we're coming out of
two mass shootings, and I come out of this and
I'm like, I have to ask a few questions and
make a few comparisons on these shootings, because it seems
(00:22):
like you got to ask yourself, are there communities that
just must they just have to deal with endless crime?
And do elected officials accept that certain communities are going
to be more dangerous than others and then just ignore
the tragedy and violence in those communities? Because I see
this and I think this is crazy, it's insane, it's terrible.
(00:43):
And we're like in the middle of watching this national
cover up from the media with regard to Joe Biden's health,
and so I have to say, is there a similar
situation here? Does the media care about tragedy in all
communities or just some communities? And are they actually covering
for their favorite politicians in places where we're seeing mass tragedies?
(01:03):
So I just want to say, last weekend in Michigan,
you may not have heard this, and the scary thing
is you probably didn't hear it because the media is
not talking about it. Michigan suffered its worst mass shooting
ever in the history of the state. The worst mass
shooting in the city of Detroit. Two people killed, nineteen
people injured. This was the worst, but the second worst
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was just last year in Saginaw, Michigan, where thirteen people
were shot to fatally. And since twenty thirteen, there have
been one hundred and sixty six mass shootings in the
state of Michigan. Nearly half of those were in Detroit.
Mass shootings under Gretchen Whitmer have doubled since she took office,
(01:46):
and just since twenty twenty one. I'll run through a
list for you. Saginaw had three, Flint had three, grun
Rapids five, Lancing five, and Detroit twenty four. So we're
currently listed as the most violent state, second most violent
state in the country. Last week, the Michigan Correction Officers
Union actually asked the governor to provide the Michigan National
(02:08):
Guard to help staff prisons. I mean, it's it's that bad.
And even when I was running. We were talking to
them and they're like, we get everything. There's no hospital space.
She had promised a bunch of mental hospital space, that
we would have mental health hospital beds added to our
our few mental health hospitals that we have left in
the state, and she didn't do that. She actually reduced
(02:29):
the number that she said she was going to bring in.
And so now we have a combination of people who
should be in prison and people who should be in
a mental health facility, and nobody to staff the prisons
because what they're dealing with is so far beyond what
they've ever been able to what they've been trained for.
So now they go to the governor and they're like, look,
it's out of control. We've had so many people leave
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because they're not paid well enough, they're not trained well
enough to deal with the people were getting who we
shouldn't be getting. And of course guess what she declines again,
it's not an apter story. It's an all safety crisis
in the state, but no one's being held accountable. So
in three weeks time, Michigan suffers too tragic mass shootings.
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And here's where the comparison comes in, because only one
of those has received national attention or even statewide attention,
and it's not the one that's the worst mass shooting
in the history of the state. First, on June fifteenth,
nine people, including two children, were shot at a Rochester
Hills splash pad. The victims ranged in age from four
(03:34):
years old to seventy eight years old, and the shooter
ended up dying by suicide. So here's the deal. Rochester
Hills is predominantly white. The census data says that seventy
six percent of the people there are white and thirteen
percent Asian and affluent. The median income in the area
is one hundred and fifteen nine hundred and sixty eight dollars.
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Rochester Hills, according to the census data, is only three
percent black raw Frican American. When the shooting occurred, you
would not believe it. The news jumped all over the story.
Within a week, there were over two hundred news stories published,
including in the New York Times. The governor took to
x within hours of the shooting with this statement, I
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am heartbroken to learn about the shooting in Rochester Hills.
We are monitoring the situation as updates continued to come
in and are in touch with local officials. The mayor
comes out and has a press conference and said the
last twenty four hours had been the worst nightmare he'd
ever experienced. He said, quote, I've been blessed to be
the mayor of the city for eighteen years and never
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thought I'd see my city in the same sentence as
some other cities that have experienced mass shootings. They didn't
expect it in this community. It's a not in my backyard.
And when it happens in certain communities, the news and
the elected officials they actually ignore it, but not this one.
Remember I started this podcast by saying we had two
mass shootings. One was the worst we'd ever seen, two
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in three weeks time. The second was in Detroit just
this past weekend, where two people were killed in nineteen
were injured. Again, it was the largest in Michigan's history.
This is not an affluent area. Actually, it was in
Detroit's notorious Red Zone, an area known for gang violence.
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Perhaps this area has been written off by the political elites.
It's funny because the people you hear chirping about women's rights,
they haven't said anything about this. The state's largest mass
shooting where the majority of victims were women and girls.
In fact, Gretchen Whitmer, the state's governor, said nothing. Didn't
(05:43):
rush to x within hours. Actually she didn't even tweet
from her official account until three days after the shooting,
and that was to pat herself on the back for
the state's latest budget. Not even a single call for
gun reform her favorite empty response nothing. She seems to
have been unmoved by these two deaths and nineteen injuries.
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You could say she was preoccupied with the release of
her new book and travel, since she would spend the
next week touring the country, giggling through interviews ranging from
CNN to The View to Late Night with Stephen Colbert.
Did she get a question about the shooting from any
of those mainstream media giants. No, they didn't even mention it.
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It's like it didn't even happen. They wanted to listen
to the governor throw around the F word. I mean,
that's literally what she did. She went on these national
media platforms and laughed, made jokes about Biden, said he
should have a mental health exam, and then said m
efforts three times. In a radio interview, she talked about swingers,
(06:46):
laughed about that, she's very hip, been cool, but she's
not concerned with the safety of the people in Detroit,
which probably should be where her mind is. What should
have been top of mind, maybe other than the president
mental de line. What should have been top of mind
for the media was the state's largest mass shooting, which
occurred in the early hours of Sunday, July seventh, But
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it wasn't. It wasn't even top of mind on that
day for her personal account. Her personal account on x
was active at eleven o seven am, so that was
just hours after the shooting, but it wasn't words of morning. Instead,
it was promotion, personal promotion. My goodness, her tiny book
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filled with debauchery and curse words was launching the very
next day, and she wanted to keep the focus on her.
Was she hiding from the shooting for fear that would
mess up her book sales? Maybe it would make her
look bad. The really sad truth is that no, she
wasn't because she knew her friends in the media would
keep mom. They've covered for all of her failures so far,
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so why would it stop now? And it didn't. That
allowed her to happily post on the day that that
Detroit was mourning about her book, and she said this
True Gretch. That's the name of her book. True Gretch
is filled with stories from my life and the lessons
I've learned along the way. Check Mark, don't let the
bullies get you down. Check Mark take nothing personally. Check
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Mark You'll never regret being kind. Pre order your copy
today at truegretch dot com. I'm not kidding. This came
from her personal account just hours after we lost people
in Detroit. Since then, her social media team has had
time to post more than thirty times about the book,
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but not once about the tragedy in Detroit. To be fair,
they don't post about tragedies and neighborhoods that look like Detroit.
You see, if I look at the census data for Detroit,
it's seventy eight percent black and twelve percent white, and
the median income there is only thirty seven thousand dollars.
She wants their vote, but outside of that, Detroit can't
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help her finance. Actually, and this isn't an election year
for Gretchen. The news media also didn't jump just forty
five stories to Rochester's more than two hundred, and Whitmer
jetted off to New York for the book release media blitz,
where again not one outlet asked her about the worst
mass shooting in Michigan's history. Most governors probably would have
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canceled the book tour if their states suffered the worst
shooting in history. The conclusion many have come to is
that Whitmer just wasn't moved by this particular violent event.
In fact, if you look at Whitmer's official X account,
her condolence tweets about mass shootings are really shootings just
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that affect predominantly white communities Oxford, MSU, Vegas, Sandy Hook
And don't get me wrong, these are obviously important. I mean,
we have to talk about these, but it seems like
those are the only shootings important to Whitmer. So you
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have to ask the question is it racism? And I
ask you, how can we call it anything else? I mean,
the evidence is clearly documented on a public forum. Gretchen
Whitmer only offers condolences when white people die in mass shootings,
not black people. That may be why we've seen a
massive uptick in mass shooting since she took office. She
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simply doesn't care. I was told by a deputy that
the former governor poured over crime stats weekly, but Whitmer
has never even asked to review them. The only conclusion
one can make is that she doesn't care well unless
she identifies with the community. If she identifies with the community,
then she cares. Why would you vote for someone who
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doesn't value your life? And I know what naysayers will say.
They'll say, oh, you're a Republican, you want more guns.
You don't get to talk about mass shootings. No. I
do want your Second Amendment rights to be protected. I
don't want kids dying, and I don't accept mass shootings happening.
And I want a real solution. Firing off a tweet
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or nothing at all should make people really mad. I
don't accept politicians using meaningly feel good phrases like gun control.
These they sound helpfuls like gun control sounds like such
a good thing, but it is in fact a completely
empty promise and proven to do nothing, as you can
see by the fact that crime has been increasing significantly
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during Whitmer's reign, and Dana Nessel the Attorney General again,
someone who's just letting people out. You got to actually
put them into to jail to reform, to change things.
But they don't so crime and reducing crime. For me,
it's near and dear to my heart, and that's why
I've searched for ways to reduce recidivism and create reform,
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a second chance for people that sticks and ultimately reduces
crime and saves millions of taxpayer dollars. But most importantly,
it stops the suffering and death. Why aren't we demanding
this of our politicians? There is effective criminal justice reform,
and don't clutch your pearls and tell me, oh, that's impossible,
it's not. I've met with some of our reform experts
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in Texas and they've seen great success. Now you can say, well,
Michigan has low recidivism. We also are not putting the
people into jail that should be in jail. We've been
told this by our police. They arrest these people, they
know they've got guns, they know they're going to commit
a terrible crime. This crime is just leading to the
next crime, but they never go to jail. They never
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have that opportunity to reform. And you can say all
criminal justice is expensive, yeah, it is. So every dollar
we spend on one offense, we don't have that dollar
for the next defense. So as we start arresting people.
We have to have the question in mind, is this
improving public safety? Are we putting these people in jail
and we're able to actually improve the outcome? Put them
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back into society, and hear me out giving someone a
second chance after reform. It's not just about redemption. I'm
a fan of that, but it's also about helping to
create another productive, tax pay member of society and someone
who can become a role model in their community, someone
who respects their neighbor and neighborhood, someone who comes from
a situation where they understand what it's like to be
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caught up in crime, and they can go back home
and say there's another option. If policies make it too
hard for someone with a criminal record to find work
or reintegrate back into society, they'll never be able to
pay back their debt, let alone start contributing to society.
Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on
a Tutor Dixon podcast. And I told you this is
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near and dear to my heart. I meant it because
I've experienced this in my own personal life, because I
have a cousin right now who's in prison. This is
why I care so much about what's going on, and
I understand so deeply the need for criminal justice reform.
I strongly believe that if somebody had worked with my
cousin to reintegrate him back into society after his first
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time in prison, to help him get a job and
learn how to contribute, he wouldn't be in prison today.
So like he could never get back on track. We
would talk about him finding a job and going back
to work and taking care of his kids, and he's like,
you don't understand, like this felony hanging over my head.
I can't get a job, I can't get back on track,
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and there's so much pulling you back toward that life
of crime. And at the time I'm talking to him,
like to me, it's so obvious, and I'm sure for
all of you out there you're listening and you're like,
oh my gosh, why would you want to go back?
And that was how I felt. I'm like, dude, you've
been in prison, like you know. And he would talk
about how awful was if you know how awful it is,
don't go back, don't do anything that could go back.
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But it was so bleak, and I could tell he
was getting pulled back into it, and it was devastating.
I know people will say, well, look he got what
he deserves, and yeah, I mean he screwed up, and
I don't deny that. But when people screw up and
they go to jail, they ninety five percent of them
they get out of jail, Okay, So putting someone in
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jail is only part of the issue. If you don't
reform this person, help them reform, help them get back
into society. They're coming back out and they don't know
how to function. And I saw it firsthand. Some people
they get caught up in a bad life, and in
some communities it's more common than others. But what most
people don't understand is it's not really easy to escape
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that life. My cousin is a felon, and it is
so frustrating because I love him so much and I
want him to have a chance when he gets out.
But I know how hard it was the first time
after going to prison, the first time, he's worried, never
go back, and I saw him decline. He couldn't get
a job. I saw his kids suffer. He has been
in jail for the last ten years. It's missed his
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kids growing up completely, and now he's hoping to be
released before his full sentence is served, and there's a
chance that he's going to be released, And there's like
this feeling inside where I'm excited about that because I
want him. I want him to spend time with his kids.
And at the same time, I'm like, what's like when
he gets out? How will he know? All he's known
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for ten years is being in the system and fighting
for survival and getting tattoos, and he's going to come
out with tattoos on his face. And I mean, we've
talked about this, like probably not a great idea to
get tattoos on your face, But he's in a totally
different world than I'm in, And so what is it
like when he gets out? I worry about it literally
every day. Will he be able to function? Will he
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go back? And I think that people in communities where
they oftentimes have their loved ones in and out of prison,
are wondering the same thing. And I do think it
falls on us as a community to help figure out
how to get these people to re enter society. In
other states like Texas, inmates are prepared to rejoin society.
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Recidivism rates have been significantly decreased, and we can rebuild
our communities with criminal justice reform programs, and it should
be a top priority. But to accomplish this, we need
politicians who care about safety and care about people, not
just tweet about it when they relate to the victims.
We need politicians who are willing to act when they
need to act, prosecutors who take the bad guys off
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the street and provide an opportunity for reform. Again, if
you don't get off the street, you don't go. The
next crime is oftentimes someone's death, whether it's yours or
someone else's. It's devastating. We need a governor who's working
overtime to get Michigan out of second place for the
most violent states. Here's the shocking truth. Many people have
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said Michigan would not have had to suffer the devastating
school shooting in Oxford had Gretchen Whitmer implemented the school
safety plan written by Michigan State Police. Now we've gone
through two more school years without a single bit of
school safety legislation. In fact, in the budget she was
bragging about just days after the largest mass shooting in
Michigan's history, she actually cut per pupil safety grants by
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three hundred million dollars, cut school safety by three hundred million.
She's leaving just twenty six million to protect our kids.
Why aren't we outraged by this? I am so sick
and tired of hearing politicians stand in front of a
podium and say I'm devastated by this and I never
want our kids to have to worry again. Well, how
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do you explain cutting all the money to keep our
kids safe? This is belowney. You don't get to go
out on radio and say, oh haha, MF for this,
and MF for that, and Joe Biden should get a
cognitiveivid exam because I should be president. You don't get
to do that while your state suffers, or at least
we shouldn't let you. We have to hold people accountable.
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They're not serious about reducing violence. Data clear gun violence
a public health crisis. Think about that. They don't have
to do anything. If you say this is a public
health crisis, you pass it on to the health department.
They're just passing the buck. It is time to stop
using bloodshed to win electionctions and then no more action.
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And after they get the power that they actually wanted,
because that's what they wanted. It is time for us
to bring back love, respect for life, and community togetherness.
So I have an assignment for all of you, and
I'm serious about this. I am asking you out there
to attend meetings with candidates and demand open question and
answer sessions, not like what we saw with President Biden
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this week where he says he's going to have a
big boy press conference and then the press has pre
chosen questions and he's calling them off of up shady paper. Okay,
now I'm going to let you say something because my
staff said it's okay. No no, no, no no. You
show up, you demand that you can ask whatever you want.
If they don't stay and answer your questions, they don't
have a plan, or worse, they don't want you to
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know what their plan is. Every community is an American community. Listen.
If you see elected officials who are only heartbroken and
monitoring situations in rich white neighborhoods, I'll get your favorite
news source and realize you've never read about the devastation
and poor communities. Then maybe it's time to vote differently
and check out another news source. Maybe, just maybe those
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new sources are covering up mass shootings. They're also covering
up the true platform of the people running for office.
They may be covering up for devastating health issues. I
don't know, Joe Biden. There are people with great plans
for you and your community, and your state and your country,
but the media doesn't want you to know who they are.
Do your research. Call out the electeds who act like
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they care until the rubber meets the road. Detroit, we
love you, but we've failed you. We need to do better,
and we will. My heart goes out to the families
in Rochester Hills and Detroit. I'm devastated by these senseless tragedies,
but I know we can bring the focus back to
public safety in our country. And I am so grateful
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that you join me today to listen to this Saturday Update,
albeit a challenging one. It has taught us so much
about the media in the past few weeks, what we
saw with Joe Biden and then to see this mass
shooting in Detroit get covered up by the media. It's
up to us now, so I wanted to encourage you
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to get involved, ask those questions to make sure that
this election cycle we are focused on making our community safe.
Thank you. I hope you have a great weekend and
get your tail back here Monday for the next episode
of the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Have a blessed
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