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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    After tragedy in El Paso, how is the local community coping?

    President Trump today condemned this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The shootings took the lives of more than two dozen people in 13 hours.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Aug 5, 2019 • 1 min read

    President Trump today condemned this weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The shootings took the lives of more than two dozen people in 13 hours. They once again started a nationwide conversation on gun violence and white supremacy, especially after the killer in El Paso appeared to post a racist and anti-immigrant manifesto online just hours before gunning down people at a Wal-Mart near the U.S.-Mexico border.

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    How is El Paso coping after weekend shooting?
    1. 0:00After tragedy in El Paso, how is the local community coping?You’re reading this
    2. 11:27What do mass shooters have in common?
    3. 20:49What does it take to prevent mass shootings?
    4. 30:19UC and state schools face class action lawsuits from students accused of committing sexual assault
    5. 39:33KCRW DJ Anne Litt's summer music picks
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      Barbara Bogaev

      radio journalist

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Michell Eloy

      Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play

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      Rosalie Atkinson

      Associate producer

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      Alfredo Corchado

      U.S.-Mexico border correspondent, The Dallas Morning News

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    How is El Paso coping after weekend shooting?
    1. 0:00After tragedy in El Paso, how is the local community coping?You’re reading this
    2. 11:27What do mass shooters have in common?
    3. 20:49What does it take to prevent mass shootings?
    4. 30:19UC and state schools face class action lawsuits from students accused of committing sexual assault
    5. 39:33KCRW DJ Anne Litt's summer music picks
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand