Hey everyone, I have included the audio from the iCLU radio show yesterday, Friday, November 15th. I realized that I had not given what I would consider a proper response to the happenings of the week before. The Borderline Shooting and then the fires following it were unthinkably alarming and deeply troubling.
This is the audio for a show in which I talk about all of the things that happened to me, and the way I experienced that bit of time from hell. I was having a hard time to come up with words to even say when it comes to this topic because what happened was so incredibly vile and concerning on so many levels.
Furthermore, I would like to apologize for the way I pronounced the names of some of the victims, I was having a challenging time keeping my composure during the recording and as such was a bit of a mess when it came time to do that part. The mass shooting was something I never saw coming to our wonderful Thousand Oaks and I must confess, naively, most definitely never to friends of mine. It is, however a reality of what we are dealing with in the society we live in.
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Final Note: I do not own or have any rights related to the pictures on the screen, they are there to occupy the space during the radio episode. The links to the pictures are found below:
https://www.newsweek.com/woolsey-camp-hill-wildfires-forecast-news-when-will-fires-be-contained-1212916
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-thousand-oaks-shooting-updates-frantic-college-students-try-to-find-out-1541667743-htmlstory.html
http://www.tmz.com/2018/11/09/thousand-oaks-bar-shooting-reopen-police-investigation-borderline/
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/11/09/schools-in-ventura-and-los-angeles-counties-close-amid-woolsey-hill-fires/
http://citizensjournal.us/thousand-oaks-police-department-collects-cards-gifts-and-care-packages-for-borderline-shooting-victims/
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/11/13/thousand-oaks-strong-t-shirts-allow-community-to-rally-around-borderline-following-mass-shooting/
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/california-wildfires-malibu-2018.html