Al Green

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1. “We are losing our humanity as a result of these things happening with a great degree of regularity. In losing our humanity, we are sacrificing the thing that makes us different from all of the other species. It is the humanity that we have. It is the humanity that we are losing because we are allowing this coverup to continue, to continue without our taking the effort to do that which we know can make the difference. We have to expose the coverup. One would say that would be the Department of Justice. They should expose this coverup. Well, the Department of Justice is owned and operated by the person who is the mastermind, if you will, of the coverup--the chief architect, the person who gives his blessing, the President of the United States of America. He controls the Justice Department.”

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2. “There has been no indication that there will be an indictment from the Federal prosecutors. I remember when George Floyd lost his life at the hands of a member of the constabulary. This was local police. I remember it very well, and probably most people within the sound of my voice--or if you are watching this on C-SPAN--you remember it, too. The reaction from the country and from the world was one of great, I am going to be kind and say, displeasure. People were angry and upset. People engaged in peaceful protests. People were distraught. People literally were seen to be crying and wailing and not understanding how this could possibly happen. We have not had the same global response as it relates to Alex Pretti and some others. Somehow, we are losing that special thing that is called humanity within us.”

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3. “These were innocent people, persons who are not charged with crimes or were not charged at the time, and these persons have lost their lives. They were killed, and the killings have not been justified. The killings were done by people who became judge, jury, prosecutor and executioner; judge, jury, prosecutor and executioner. In many cases, in fact, in most of them, initially it was very difficult to get any information about who the actual shooters were. In some cases we have received some information, but in others there still is not information made public by an official authority, an agent of the United States Government, as to who it is who killed the people in question, some of the people in question. {time} 1120 This concealing and preventing transparency is a part of the coverup.”

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4. “I emphasize the word ``effort'' because the effort itself, the act of getting involved and engaged and trying to prevent something from being made known, avoiding transparency, that is the coverup. Mr. Speaker, there are some people who believe that you have to succeed and prevent something from happening forever for it to be a coverup. It can be exposed. The coverup is the effort to do it. In this case we have a President who is engaged in an effort to cover up the killings of the persons whom I have mentioned. The President of the United States has control of ICE and CBP, Customs and Border Patrol. He has control of them. Immigration, customs, he has control of ICE. He is the person who has gone so far as to defend these killings. Let's just talk about this for a moment in terms of the killings.”

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5. “They are terrorizing communities, and the President is wantonly and brazenly devolving the United States' democratic Republic into an authoritarian regime. Mr. Speaker, I have accused the President of the United States of engaging in a coverup. For edification purposes, I believe we should discuss what a coverup actually is. I wanted these letters to be exceedingly large so the people viewing can read along with me. A coverup: a usually concerted effort to keep an illegal or unethical act or situation from being made public. We should emphasize the fact that a coverup is an effort, it is an effort to keep an illegal or unethical act or situation from being made public.”

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6. “I will use my voice today to speak against the injustice associated with the killings of many persons at the hands of the constabulary known as CBP and ICE. I do so to express the fact that voting for impeachment has become a matter of life and death. Voting for impeachment has become a matter of life and death. That is because the President of the United States, Donald John Trump, is covering up unjustified killings of civilians, including Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, and Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero. In doing this, the President of the United States is covering up unjustified killings of civilians, including the persons whom I have just named, with impunity wherein these persons are acting as judge, jury, prosecutor, and executioner.”

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7. “Speaker, because Dr. King was correct: ``Injustice anywhere is indeed a threat to justice everywhere.'' So I rise in the name of preventing justice from becoming an injustice in your town, Mr. Speaker, or my town or someplace in the United States where it has not had its opportunity to visit thus far. I rise in the name of justice for the many persons who have been victims of ICE and CBP. I also rise as a person who is engaged in a countdown to impeachment. I will say more about this as I proceed. The countdown continues. For now, Mr. Speaker, I am Al Green, a person who has been censured by this House but not silenced, censured but not silenced. I use my voice to speak against injustices.”

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8. “Mr. Speaker, and still I rise, and I rise as I always do, as an unbought, unbossed, liberated, and now emancipated, unelected Democrat. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, in the name of justice for the victims of persons who have died at the hands of the Federal constabulary. That would be ICE and CBP. I rise in the name of justice for these many persons, and I do so, Mr.”

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9. “I voted against this effort to prevent people from peacefully protesting what they see as an injustice. What took place in Gaza was collective punishment. It was ethnic cleansing, and it was genocide. In this country, the Constitution allows one to peacefully protest such injustices. ____________________”

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10. “Mr. Speaker, and still I rise, and for this one moment, I have a very terse and laconic message. For this one moment I would simply say: If you cannot peacefully protest the genocide that took place in Gaza, if you cannot peacefully protest this, what can you peacefully protest under the Constitution of the United States of America?”

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11. “I am just hoping that our country will be able to do more. This is a time when what we stand for globally can mean something in the lives of the people of Nepal. I pray that they will receive the help they need. ____________________”

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12. “Mr. Speaker, still I rise, and I rise tonight on behalf of the community in Houston, Texas, where the Nepalese community resides. They have suffered a great disaster in their country, and we have been helping. We provided some millions of dollars. However, the amount of damage, the number of lives lost, and the help that will be needed will far exceed what they have received.”

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13. “I have been out on the campaign trail, and I hear the people talking about all of these things that they are going to do when they get to Congress. Well, I have seen at least one example of the person getting to Congress and concluding: I will be doing something next year when we have the majority. Run on doing something great now but get here and realize that you don't have the power to do what you thought, so you will do it next year. Well, I am going to do things now. I am not going to wait until next year. I am a right-now kind of guy. As a right-now kind of person, I will bring the Articles of Impeachment. Mr. Speaker, this is what the Constitution requires. It is what I will do because, again, I am an unbought, unbossed, unafraid, unelected, liberated Democrat. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.”

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14. “Let's be reminded of what President Ford said: An impeachable offense--meaning impeachment--is whatever Congress says at a given time. Whatever given Congress says at a given time. It is not appealable. It is not something that will require you to report how you came to your conclusions. Really, it is a matter of conscience for me, and I hope for others, as well. We will file the Articles of Impeachment. We will notice them prior to them being filed. People can start preparing now your arguments for why you can't support the Articles of Impeachment. Here is what I do know: Posterity is not going to look favorably upon us for allowing a President to commit impeachable offenses and do nothing. Of course, someone would say, but we will do something when we are in the majority. Now, that is another interesting question, as I close.”

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15. “When next the House of Representatives is in session, I will take the Articles over to the clerk, they will be filed, and at some time thereafter--a reasonable amount of time thereafter, to give Members a chance to see exactly what I have filed, although I plan to publish the articles before they are filed so people will know what we are going to file--file these Articles of Impeachment. That will give them plenty of time to prepare the defense of, well, it is too soon. The Senate won't take up the articles seriously. You don't have enough senators there to convict. Let's see, what else will people say? Always, whatever it is, is not impeachable until maybe they decide that they want to file Articles, and then it becomes an impeachable offense.”

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16. “Not only is he doing it in this area, there are many others. I am just talking about this today. I will talk about others at a later time. He is taking advantage of you. You can stop it by not buying into this Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is taking a hit, and it is for many reasons but the chief reason, I think, being the President who is doing things to aid and abet his friends, allowing people to make contributions and then have certain benefits. A President who clearly has lived beneath the law and above the law. Beneath it in the sense that he doesn't believe it exists so he pushes it aside. Above it in the sense that he doesn't get charged for his criminality the same way other people would be charged if they were doing similar things. My belief is that we have time to cure some of the harm, but time is not on our side.”

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17. “This is an unjust system, the Ponzi scheme, and we have to bring justice to it. Probably the best way to bring justice to it is going to be to see this President walk away and then, thereafter, do some serious investigations, serious hearings, and get to the bottom of things, not only associated with the Ponzi scheme but other things, as well. I regret that some people are not going to get their money back. My hope is that there would be some way to reverse it, but my belief is that a good many people are just going to suffer and will not get their money back. I also know this: That, as I am speaking now--and I am telling people this is the case--the Ponzi scheme continues. People are going to buy into nothing and expect to get something. You have been noticed. Please understand that the President is just taking advantage of you. He is.”

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18. “{time} 1130 They have breaks in benefits from capitalism by having laws passed to benefit them and by engaging in things such as this Ponzi scheme that benefit them. In a sense, this is harming the concept of capitalism. One should be able to understand why some people are looking at other options. If this is the way we are going to manage capitalism, by having your cronies do quite well while millions of others are taken advantage of, this is one example of why people would say: Maybe this is not working well enough, and we will try something else. My hope is that we can correct these things, especially this thing associated with the President and his Ponzi scheme. My hope is that we can correct these things and let people see that truly we can have an economic order that treats people with the kind of justice that they deserve.”

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19. “It exists because we have a President who lives without the law by causing certain persons to believe that things should be legal that clearly have not been and should not be. Ponzi schemes have been illegal in this country. The President has managed to get his persons who are in charge to indicate that this is not illegal, that this Ponzi scheme is not, and others still are. I am mentioning this to you, Mr. Speaker, because this scheme, this whole scam, is having an impact on capitalism. There are people who are now starting to see this as a part of capitalism, the Ponzi scheme, a means of making money on what is called a free market. They believe that the free market is designed in certain places to benefit very wealthy people.”

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20. “A Ponzi scheme is a means by which a person can convince people that they should buy something that does not have any worth except for the purchase of that thing itself, which is nothing in this case. Mr. Speaker, you purchase nothing with the belief that someone is willing to pay more for nothing than you paid for nothing, and, as a result, the value is increased for you if you paid nothing at a lower price than someone else is going to pay for this same thing for nothing. The President has sold nothing to nearly 1 million people who lost $3.8 billion. The President made $1.74 million per day on the deal, pumped it up, took his $1.74 million per day and left nearly 1 million people to lose $3.8 billion. That, Mr. Speaker, is the President's Ponzi scheme. One would ask: How can this be?”

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21. “These are the things that we would just take for granted that the Constitution would afford us and would be recognized by officers of the law. I promise you, Mr. Speaker, I am going to stay in this fight, and we are going to get positive results. Now, moving on to the crony crypto capitalism. For those who do not know, the President has a meme coin, and the President's meme coin has done quite well. The President's meme coin, the dollar sign Trump meme coin, that meme coin has made $1.64 million per day over a 1-year period of time. Over that same 1-year period of time, nearly 1 million people lost $3.8 billion. Let me repeat that: Over that same period of time, nearly 1 million people lost $3.8 billion. How did this happen? It happened because the meme coin that the President has is a part of a Ponzi scheme.”

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22. “I want the world to know that I will never, ever stop the challenge that is before us to make sure that ICE is an institution, as it were, an organization, if you will, that will treat people fairly and justly. Not all of the ICE officers are engaged in illegal activities, and some of the activities are illegal when they engage in extrajudicial killings, but not all of the officers are doing this, so I am not painting everybody with the same brush. I am saying that enough of them are doing it for us to demand some additional reforms with ICE. Of course, we are still demanding that they have uniforms that are indicative of the work that they do, that their names be displayed on those uniforms, and that they not enter property without a proper warrant.”

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23. “We should not have been asking that these things be done. One would think that the officers would say: These body cameras are going to benefit us, would you please, Congress, give us body cameras? That was not the case. And because it was not the case and because Mr. Pretti lost his life, Ms. Good lost her life, Mr. Salgado Araujo lost his life, and we have a person in Maine who lost life, these four persons, all of these things occurring within this year, these issues, these persons losing their lives will now give us the opportunity to have body cameras. It is a disgrace, a shame, and a sin to have to conclude that lives have to be lost for us to do the right thing.”

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24. “I am very proud to know these things will happen, but there will be a follow up to make sure they do happen. I am also proud to tell you that tomorrow there will be in Houston, Texas, a forum, a forum wherein we will have an opportunity to have a discussion about these issues associated with Mr. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's death. We will have an opportunity to ask questions of people who can give us more information. These things are important. Finally, on this question of ICE, I would only make this point that we will get the body cameras. I believe we will get the dash cameras in time. Here is what I know: I know that we will have them because lives were lost. And I regret that it has taken the loss of lives--the loss of lives--to have us do what ICE should have been asking us to do.”

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25. “The first is a brief update on ICE, and the second is an explanation related to crypto crony capitalism. Let us begin. With reference to ICE, Mr. Speaker, we had a briefing just yesterday, and at that briefing some things were discovered and other things were uncovered. What we found, of course, we knew, and that is that there was not a body camera on the ICE officers who took the life of Mr. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Officers did not have body cameras on, and there was not a dash camera in the vehicle. The video that we have seen was taken by some public device, and that video, of course, has given us reason to understand that Mr. Salgado Araujo was not committing what I perceive as an infraction related to the law. He was not. The evidence that we heard yesterday gave us good reason to believe that there would be body cameras.”

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26. “Mr. Speaker, and still I rise. And I rise today as I always did, censured but not silenced, a very proud, unbossed, unbought, liberated, and unelected Democrat. And I rise today to bring two things to the attention of the House and to the people of the United States of America.”

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27. “Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 15 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until Saturday, July 18, 2026, at 10 a.m. ____________________”

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28. “Do what you want next year when you have the power to investigate, when you have subpoena power, but most of the public wants to know what you are going to do right now. Here is what will happen right now, and it is going to happen very soon. How soon? Within weeks. Within weeks, it is going to happen. There will be Articles of Impeachment, and they will be brought to a vote, not just filed. We are going to vote. This is a question of conscience. I want to live with myself. I want to be able to say to myself, to me, that, on my watch, I did all that I could to stop a reckless, ruthless, lawless President from taking the lives of the American people. I am Al Green, a liberated Democrat, unbought, unbossed, unafraid, and unelected. I yield back the balance of my time.”

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29. “They give people the impression that they are going to come here and change things, that they know things that other people don't know about the process, that they have something called a strategic approach, and this strategic approach--they never say what it is going to be, but this strategic approach is supposed to make a difference, that people who have been here for years and years and studied these things can have it made. And then when you get here, you talk about next year, we are going to be really tough. We are going to be really tough when we take back the House next year. Some of us don't buy into waiting until next year. Some of us believe that the time is always right to do what is right, and it is right to bring impeachment against this President of the United States of America. We don't have to wait until next year.”

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30. “President, I assure you that Articles of Impeachment are going to be filed, and they are going to be filed in the very near future because we cannot allow the world to believe that the Congress of the United States of America will do nothing when people are being killed in the streets under circumstances that are clearly questionable and clearly unlawful in the minds of many people. I am one of them. Under these circumstances, we have to take action, and the only action is impeachment. We in Congress can talk about a lot of things that we will do next year. By the way, I marvel at people who will run for office on what they are going to do, and then when they get here, they talk about what they will do next year.”

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31. “President, we, the people, are not going to allow you to continue with this kind of behavior. We, the people, are not going to allow you to continue to do this. While you are President of the United States and the Supreme Court has given you a certain amount of immunity, allow me to place another poster before you. Mr. President, this is real. This is real, Mr. President. There is a countdown to impeachment. I have been very patient in waiting. I thought others might want to do what has to be done, and I say it has to be done. People can differ with me. I say it has to be done. It is the only tool that we have to bring you under control, to let the world know that we are opposed to what you are doing, and we are willing to take action against you. This is it, this one word: Impeachment. Mr.”

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32. “It seems to me that it would not be unreasonable for a reasonable and prudent person to conclude that there may be a coverup in this case, and if there is a conviction in the Federal court, there will be a cleanup--may be a coverup and will be a cleanup if you find--if the courts find, I should say--I shouldn't say ``you.'' You haven't taken complete control of the courts. You do have an outsized amount of influence, it seems. If the courts find that there is a Federal crime, I am saying here and now, without question, reservation, or hesitation, I believe that you, Mr. President, will pardon the persons who have taken these lives.”

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33. “You are not like a typical President who leaves things to others to do and decisions to be made. When there is a crucial decision to make, you make it, as evidenced by what you have done with your Truth Social and the case of the gentleman who was killed in Maine. You made the crucial decision as to how the officers will behave when they encounter the opportunity to observe, make an arrest at a later time, as opposed to rush in with guns blazing. You have made the decision that they can continue to do what they have been doing, but you do try to cover yourself by using the term ``judiciously,'' that they should behave judiciously. That is only to cover. We understand what is going on, Mr. President.”

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34. “They all bend a knee to you. They all kiss the ring. They are your people who serve you, not the country. The country is not primary. It may be secondary. It may be tertiary. It could even be quaternary, but it is not primary. They believe in you and report to you. Given these circumstances, why should we believe that you are going to cause the right thing to be done? Mr. President, others have said, and I have said--and I say it now-- the blood of the people who I have called to your attention today, the blood of these persons is on your hands. It is. Other people are saying it. Other people are linking you directly to what has happened. I think they should, given that we know that you are in control, in command, in authority, and that you have knowledge.”

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35. “It is his Office of Homeland Security, and these people do believe that they work for him. What makes you say this, that they believe they work for him? Well, just yesterday, Mr. Vought, who is with the CFPB, indicated at a hearing that he works for the President. Just as recently as yesterday or the day before--I believe it was yesterday--we had the person who is auditioning before the Senate for a position with the Department of Justice. This person made it very clear that he works for the President, or at least he did. He said he was the President's lawyer. Maybe it was a Freudian slip, but he said he was the President's lawyer. So you have people who tend to do whatever you say. When your Cabinet meets, there is an effort to see who can give you the most praise. You have them all under your thumb. They are all under your control.”

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36. “There was none of that, none of that, just immediately decide that you are going to investigate the person who has lost his life without some indication that there would be an investigation as to whether or not the person who lost his life had his civil rights violated, the right to life, whether that has been taken away from him unlawfully. So, here we are now. We have Mr. Araujo in Houston. We have two other persons in Minnesota. We have a person in Maine. We have a President who has taken control himself, has hands-on experience with what is happening in these Departments. Nobody can deny that he is without knowledge of what is going on. His latest messages are indicative of his level of engagement and of the knowledge that he has as it relates to these circumstances. He is in charge. This is his Department of Justice.”

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37. “I have not heard to date--and I know that initially it was not said-- that there would be an investigation as to whether the civil rights of the victim had been violated, no investigation about the civil rights of the victim being violated, but whether the victim was making an effort to assault the officers. The visceral reaction is let's protect the officers, not let's have a free, open, fair investigation. When I say ``free,'' free for other persons to see and to be a part of. Have a parallel investigation with the Houston Police Department.”

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38. “Why would we believe? Why should we believe that you are going to do all that you can to ensure transparency? To the contrary, it would not be unreasonable for a person to believe that there may be a coverup, and if not a coverup, if there is a conviction, that there would be a cleanup. You will try first to do all that you can to exonerate the officers, make sure that the investigation centers around whether the person who is deceased, the victim, was trying to harm the officers. That is what has been said: make sure the investigation is on whether the victim was trying to harm the officers.”

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39. “We have to ask why would we the people believe that there will be justice served given that we know that you tend to want to decide without having the opportunity to see what actually occurred? You tend to want to decide before seeing and making your decisions about what the officers have done, and then moving from there, it seems, by and through your agents in the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, by and through what they say. They are at your command. We should make no mistake about it. You are in control. The Supreme Court has given you the green light. You have taken advantage of it. That is why you sent out your message by way of your Truth Social, indicating that you were countermanding the order from the person that you just installed as your person who is in charge of Homeland Security.”

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40. “Mullin, as I understand it by way of news reports, was going to put a pause on stopping cars. Mr. Mullin was going to give a moment of opportunity to take a look at circumstances and see if there is a better way to do what you are doing, but you, Mr. President, yourself, countermanded what came from your Department of Homeland Security. You did it knowing that he had done this because of the way your language was couched as you presented your command that the officers go back to stopping cars. You made that very clear, that they should do that, that this was something that they should continue to do. You use the term ``weak,'' don't want them to look weak, Mr. President.”

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41. “They haven't been able to assess the value that you place on what you now are saying appears to be some sort of drugs that were in the vehicle, the vehicle that Mr. Araujo was driving. Yes, for those who do not know, the allegation is being made now that there may have been drugs in the vehicle. They saw this substance in there and they are contending that it might be some form of illegal drugs. {time} 1200 Why do we believe all of these things when we were told not to believe our eyes in the case of Pretti and Good? Why would we not have some degree of suspicion? Why would we not think that you are, Mr. President, in charge of this ICE force? You, Mr. President, after the person who is now heading Homeland Security, Mr. Mullin, why would you countermand what he has done? Mr.”

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42. “The Houston Police Department has investigated circumstances where officers who were not in the Houston Police Department, but officers of the law, have been investigated. The Houston Police Department is capable, competent, and qualified to have this investigation, but you are shutting out the Houston Police Department wherein we could get some scintilla of transparency by virtue of having another authority engaged in the process of investigation. You shut them out. You have gone so far as to shut out the district attorney in Harris County. They can't get the information that you have such that they can give an analysis. They haven't talked to the officers who were engaged in the shooting.”

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43. “I am concerned about a cover-up because, as I have explained, these officers are aware that there will be a cleanup. If the President is true to his words and he honors what he says he will do, he has given hints to officers in his prior administration about how they should conduct themselves when arresting people. He told their officers, you don't have to be nice, words from the President of the United States of America about making an arrest. You don't have to be nice, implying that he had their back. He was implying that we are not as much concerned about law and order as we are about order and law. Law and order means you are going to follow the law to bring about the order necessary. Order and law means you restore order and I will provide the law--this is the President, not Al Green--I will provide the law necessary to protect you.”

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44. “Araujo, why would I believe the story that the person who is deceased, Mr. Araujo, tried to assault officers with a vehicle? Why would I believe that given that we have seen stories manifest themselves about the cases that we actually saw wherein the original stories told were not in conformity with what our eyes allowed us to see. Immediately after the shooting of Pretti, immediately after the shooting of Good, there was a story put forth that was not in conformity with what we saw. If we know that you will send us a message, a false message, about things that we saw, you send a false message about things that we saw, a prevarication about things that we saw, why should I believe that you are going to do anything less in a case where we didn't see everything? I am concerned about a cover-up.”

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45. “It doesn't look right for these two cases to be pending. We have two additional cases now, and we also have very little evidence of what actually occurred in one of these cases, and that would be the case with Mr. Araujo. We don't have all of the evidence of what occurred. We saw enough to get some sense of what is likely to have happened, but because we don't have enough evidence--we are told that there were no body cameras. There were no vehicle cameras. We don't have any evidence from the side that should produce evidence because they should have had their body cameras on. There was $20 million accorded to them for body cameras. They should have had vehicle cameras. There should have been cameras, but they don't have the cameras. They don't have the cameras. Now, why would I believe, as in the case with Mr.”

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46. “We should have the opportunity to be told by credible sources what the final decision is, whether we are moving forward with trials. With this happening the way it is happening and given that we were able to see in these two cases most of what happened--didn't see all of it, but most of what happened--in fact, I would say we saw the relevant portions, but there may be something else that is there that we need to see, but we saw relevant portions. Having to see that and not seeing any action taken after all of these months have passed that causes me the consternation and concern that I placed in my message to the masses today indicating that I am concerned about and would be addressing a possible cover-up. We live in a world where it is not enough for things to be right, they must also look right.”

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47. “These cases are evidence of the fact that at least these investigators are taking an unusual amount of time to bring these cases to the attention of the public in a fashion such that the public will understand that there will or will not be prosecution. I happen to think there should be prosecution, but if there is not going to be prosecution, if they found some evidence beyond what we have been able to see and hear, then I think they should bring this evidence forward and let us have an opportunity to review it so that we can, again, have the transparency necessary for the public to have the knowledge that it is entitled to when an American citizen has been killed at the hands of the constabulary. We should know.”

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48. “Let's move over to Mr. Pretti. We saw Mr. Pretti as he was prostate. He was sprawled on the ground and an officer removed a weapon that he had, but it was after the removal of the weapon that he was shot. He lost his life. He was an American citizen, not armed at the time his life was taken. He was an American citizen engaging in peaceful protests. These two cases are worthy of following because to this day, we don't have credible information about what has happened. We don't really know when or if there will be charges that will be brought before a court of law such that there would be a trial.”

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49. “So now, back to where I was. {time} 1150 After the cleanup having occurred and these officers now understanding that the President has this authority, then we have to examine what happened next with Ms. Good. Let's talk about Ms. Good first. We, with our very own eyes, saw most of what happened with Ms. Good, and we can say, because of what we saw if we want to believe our eyes, that Ms. Good was not there to harm anyone. She was unarmed. She was an American citizen. She was engaging in a peaceful protest--unarmed American citizen, and engaging in peaceful protest--when confronted by officers who were making demands. If you saw what happened, you know that it ended with her losing her life. She said kind things, by the way, to the officers, kind things, but she lost her life. We saw this with our own eyes. We saw it.”

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50. “They know this. As a result of knowing it, I think they take liberties that they should not because they know that the President--to borrow a term that we use in my hood--will have their backs. They know. Let's now examine a rationale for my being concerned about the possibility of a cover-up. That was the clean-up, by the way. The clean-up occurred when the President had those persons released--after he pardoned them, of course--who had been found guilty. They were released. They are walking freely. By the way, that was lawful. The President has every right to pardon people, and he doesn't really have to give a rationale for it. That was a clean-up of what he started when he engaged in this movement to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Unfortunately for him, and fortunately for the country, it did not succeed.”

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