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Eunisses Hernandez's City Council Ad

from #292 - Do It Quietly | The Tim Dillon Show · #292

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Tim and Ben play and react to a campaign ad for LA city council candidate Eunisses Hernandez, covering her platform on police abolition, gentrification, and sentencing reform.

In this bit5 moments
  • Tim's tangent: hipster fashion and comedy changed Highland Park neighborhoods, people wore weird hats and did hipster dances that he didn't enjoy.
  • Tim agrees with Eunisses Hernandez on gentrification and community issues but doubts abolishing police and sending social workers to violent crimes is workable.
  • Tim accuses Patrice Cullors, one of Hernandez's endorsers from Black Lives Matter, of buying four houses with movement money instead of helping the cause.
  • He argues police need retraining and different accountability standards rather than abolition, and agrees with cannabis decriminalization and prison reform.
  • Tim warns that bail reform creates problems when released inmates commit new crimes, so criminal justice changes require nuance rather than blanket release policies.
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