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Two Days, Two Cities, Two Massacres

Two Days, Two Cities, Two Massacres

FromThe Daily


Two Days, Two Cities, Two Massacres

FromThe Daily

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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Aug 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In two days, in two cities — El Paso and Dayton, Ohio — two mass shootings have left at least 29 people dead. We look at two stories from one of those shootings. Guests: Simon Romero, a national correspondent for The New York Times, and Jennifer Medina, who is covering the 2020 presidential campaign, spoke with us from El Paso. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.Background reading: The back-to-back bursts of gun violence left a nation stunned and shaken.The shooting rampage in El Paso was the deadliest anti-Latino attack in modern American history. It is being investigated as domestic terrorism.The Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, who represented El Paso for years in Congress, said that President Trump had “a lot to do with what happened.”
Released:
Aug 5, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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