Highland Park Shooting Reaction -- WEB
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- Highland Park Shooting Reaction -- WEB
- July 6, 2022
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English Highland Park Shooting Reaction HEADLINE: Survivors Search for Answers as Chicago Area Mourns Mass Shooting Victims TEASER: Residents reflect on the attack that transformed the Chicago suburb of Highland Park PUBLISHED AT: 7/06/2022 at 6:11 p.m. BYLINE: Kane Farabaugh CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Highland Park, Illinois VIDEOGRAPHER: Kane Farabaugh PRODUCER: Kane Farabaugh SCRIPT EDITORS: Bowman, Reifenrath VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AP PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO __ TRT: 2:55 VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: [[kane may trim script for length]] ((INTRODUCTION)) The accused gunman in Monday’s deadly mass shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park made his first court appearance Wednesday as traumatized residents search for answers and demand change. VOA Midwest Correspondent Kane Farabaugh visited Highland Park and has this report. ((NARRATOR)) It started out as a typical July Fourth morning for Jill Doherty watching the Highland Park parade, an annual U.S. Independence Day event she’s attended with family and friends for decades. ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “All of a sudden, we heard a pop and thought it was too early for fireworks. And then we realized it was shooting." ((NARRATOR)) Doherty and her group fled, leaving chairs and belongings behind. ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “We just ran, just ran.” ((NARRATOR)) A day after the shooting rampage that claimed seven lives and left dozens wounded, several cordoned blocks of the town center appeared frozen in time as Doherty returned to collect her things. The incident left her with great sadness, and questions. ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “What could motivate somebody to do this?” ((Jacob Karman, Highland Park Resident)) “You don’t expect it to happen where you are from. Where you grow up is where you feel safest.” ((NARRATOR)) It was by chance that 19-year-old Jacob Karman missed joining the crowd at Highland Park this year. ((Jacob Karman, Highland Park Resident)) “Forgot to set my alarm. I would have been here. The spot where it took place was my family’s usual viewing spot.” ((NARRATOR)) He had difficulty expressing his emotions in the wake of a tragedy that has transformed his hometown. ((Jacob Karman, Highland Park Resident)) “I could say a thousand words and my true feeling of absolute sorrow and devastation, I could not find the right word in all those thousand words.” ((NARRATOR)) What Karman wants most isn’t words, but action. ((Jacob Karman, Highland Park Resident)) “How can people in power change this? How can people help? That is what I want to know. How can people change this so it doesn’t happen again.” ((NARRATOR)) It’s a message echoed by many in this affluent Chicago suburb of about 30,000 as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited grief-stricken residents, law enforcement and city leaders. ((Vice President Kamala Harris)) “This should never have happened. We talk about it being senseless. It is senseless.” ((Lori Ann Post, Mass Shooting Expert )) ((Skype Courtesy)) “We have this onslaught of mass shootings. They don’t seem to stop, and it’s so frustrating because we know how to stop them.” ((NARRATOR)) Lori Ann Post is a professor and mass shooting expert at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. While Congress approved new gun control legislation after mass shootings in Texas and New York earlier this year, Post believes it doesn’t go far enough. ((Lori Ann Post, Mass Shooting Expert)) ((Skype Courtesy)) “The U.S. had a federal assault weapons ban that was in place from 1994 until 2004, and during that ban, mass shootings attenuated significantly, and had we kept that ban in place, we would have prevented probably 30 mass shootings.” ((NARRATOR)) While there is no current federal assault weapons ban, the town of Highland Park does have strict local restrictions on the semi-automatic weapons used in the July Fourth shooting – ordinances that did not prevent the tragedy. ((Vice President Kamala Harris)) “We have to be smarter as a country in terms as to who has access to what, in particular assault weapons.” ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “I’m not sure what the right call to action is, but I’m going to be optimistic we will find it.” ((NARRATOR)) With the alleged gunman facing murder charges, Doherty hopes the tragedy sparks meaningful change in America. ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “I think it might be a most unfortunate catalyst for good change.” ((NARRATOR)) Kane Farabaugh, VOA News, Highland Park, Illinois.
- Transcript/Script Highland Park Shooting Reaction HEADLINE: Survivors Search for Answers as Chicago Area Mourns Mass Shooting Victims TEASER: Residents reflect on the attack that transformed the Chicago suburb of Highland Park PUBLISHED AT: 7/06/2022 at 6:11 p.m. BYLINE: Kane Farabaugh CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Highland Park, Illinois VIDEOGRAPHER: Kane Farabaugh PRODUCER: Kane Farabaugh SCRIPT EDITORS: Bowman, Reifenrath VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AP PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV X RADIO __ TRT: 2:55 VID APPROVED BY: Jepsen TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: [[kane may trim script for length]] ((INTRODUCTION)) The accused gunman in Monday’s deadly mass shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park made his first court appearance Wednesday as traumatized residents search for answers and demand change. VOA Midwest Correspondent Kane Farabaugh visited Highland Park and has this report. ((NARRATOR)) It started out as a typical July Fourth morning for Jill Doherty watching the Highland Park parade, an annual U.S. Independence Day event she’s attended with family and friends for decades. ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “All of a sudden, we heard a pop and thought it was too early for fireworks. And then we realized it was shooting." ((NARRATOR)) Doherty and her group fled, leaving chairs and belongings behind. ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “We just ran, just ran.” ((NARRATOR)) A day after the shooting rampage that claimed seven lives and left dozens wounded, several cordoned blocks of the town center appeared frozen in time as Doherty returned to collect her things. The incident left her with great sadness, and questions. ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “What could motivate somebody to do this?” ((Jacob Karman, Highland Park Resident)) “You don’t expect it to happen where you are from. Where you grow up is where you feel safest.” ((NARRATOR)) It was by chance that 19-year-old Jacob Karman missed joining the crowd at Highland Park this year. ((Jacob Karman, Highland Park Resident)) “Forgot to set my alarm. I would have been here. The spot where it took place was my family’s usual viewing spot.” ((NARRATOR)) He had difficulty expressing his emotions in the wake of a tragedy that has transformed his hometown. ((Jacob Karman, Highland Park Resident)) “I could say a thousand words and my true feeling of absolute sorrow and devastation, I could not find the right word in all those thousand words.” ((NARRATOR)) What Karman wants most isn’t words, but action. ((Jacob Karman, Highland Park Resident)) “How can people in power change this? How can people help? That is what I want to know. How can people change this so it doesn’t happen again.” ((NARRATOR)) It’s a message echoed by many in this affluent Chicago suburb of about 30,000 as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited grief-stricken residents, law enforcement and city leaders. ((Vice President Kamala Harris)) “This should never have happened. We talk about it being senseless. It is senseless.” ((Lori Ann Post, Mass Shooting Expert )) ((Skype Courtesy)) “We have this onslaught of mass shootings. They don’t seem to stop, and it’s so frustrating because we know how to stop them.” ((NARRATOR)) Lori Ann Post is a professor and mass shooting expert at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. While Congress approved new gun control legislation after mass shootings in Texas and New York earlier this year, Post believes it doesn’t go far enough. ((Lori Ann Post, Mass Shooting Expert)) ((Skype Courtesy)) “The U.S. had a federal assault weapons ban that was in place from 1994 until 2004, and during that ban, mass shootings attenuated significantly, and had we kept that ban in place, we would have prevented probably 30 mass shootings.” ((NARRATOR)) While there is no current federal assault weapons ban, the town of Highland Park does have strict local restrictions on the semi-automatic weapons used in the July Fourth shooting – ordinances that did not prevent the tragedy. ((Vice President Kamala Harris)) “We have to be smarter as a country in terms as to who has access to what, in particular assault weapons.” ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “I’m not sure what the right call to action is, but I’m going to be optimistic we will find it.” ((NARRATOR)) With the alleged gunman facing murder charges, Doherty hopes the tragedy sparks meaningful change in America. ((Jill Doherty, Highland Park Resident)) “I think it might be a most unfortunate catalyst for good change.” ((NARRATOR)) Kane Farabaugh, VOA News, Highland Park, Illinois.
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Topic Tags Park Shooting
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date July 6, 2022 18:55 EDT
- Description English The accused gunman in Monday’s deadly mass shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park made his first court appearance Wednesday as traumatized residents search for answers and demand change. VOA Midwest Correspondent Kane Farabaugh visited Highland Park and has this report.
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English