LET ME PREFACE THIS BY SAYING THAT IN OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT, YOU KNOW A MAYOR AND ANY OF THE ELECTED OFFICIALS DON’T HAVE OPERATIONAL AUTHORITY OVER SITUATIONS LIKE THIS AND IT’S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THE CITY MANAGER IN THE POLICE CHIEF ARE IN CONTROL OF TONIGHT SITUATION HAVING SAID THAT I LOVE THIS CITY, AND I’M OBVIOUSLY MONITORING THE SITUATION VERY CLOSELY AS YOU AND YOUR VIEWERS ARE AND YOU KNOW FOR SOME TIME THIS WAS A LARGELY PEACEFUL PROTEST ON A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC AN AND I THINK THAT PEACEFUL PROTESTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME IN THIS CIT AND IN THIS COUNTRY AND ESPECIALLY ON THIS TOPIC IN THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED TONIGHT WERE PEACEFUL AND HAD IMPORTA THINGS THAT THEY WANTED THAT LEADERSHIP AND THIS COMMUNI AT LARGE TO HEAR AND THOSE THINGS WERE HEARD AND AND HOPE FOR MORE PEACEFUL. ADVOCACY TOMORROW OBVIOUSLY AS IN MANY OTHER CITIES AS THE NIGHT HAS GONE ON AND NOW THAT WE’ PAST, YOU KNOW MIDNIGHT THINGS TO DO. INTEGRATED AND AND I THINK THAT’S VERY UNFORTUNATE AND FOR PLEASE IT NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH IS BECAUSE IT DROWNS OUT THE IMPORTANT TOPICS AT HAND. WHEN YOU BREAK WINDOWS A SMALL BUSINESSES WHEN YOU BREAK WINDOWS OR SET FIRES ON PUBLIC PROPERTY YOU HAVE DESTROYED YOUR MESSAGE YOU HAVE YOU HAVE COMPLETELY DISTRACTED FROM THE IMPORTANT TOPICS AT HAND AND IT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO DAMAGE SMALL BUSINESSES IN OUR CITY OR TO DAMAGED PUBLIC PROPERTY. AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE STATED VERY PLAINLY AND VERY CLEARLY AND I DO HOPE THIS SITUATION TONIGHT RESOLVES ITSELF AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND WE WILL CERTAINLY WANT TO WE WILL CERTAINLY BE HERE AS A CITY TO AT 8:00 PEACEFUL PROTEST TOMORROW, BUT WHAT YOU’VE SEEN AFTER MIDNIGHT HERE WITH DAMAGE TO PUBLIC PROPERTY AND MOST ESPECIALLY DAMAGE TO SMALL BUSINESSES HERE IN OUR CITY AS IF COVID-19 HAVE BEEN HASN’T GIVEN THEM ENOUGH CHALLENGES TO BREAK THE WINDOWS OF BUSINESSES THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SITUATION IS JUST IS JUST MORALLY WRONG AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE STATED AND I HOPE THAT TOMORROW WE CAN HAVE MUCH BETTER PROTEST. I WILL SAY THAT TOO. THOSE PROTESTERS ORGANIZED BY LOCAL GROUPS BLACK LIVES MATTER AND N DOUBLE ACP LEADERSHIP THAT WE KNOW IN THIS CITY THAT WE HA WORKED WITH FOR YEARS TONIGHT’S PROTEST WAS NOT ORGANIZED BY LOC LEADERS THAT WE KNOW AND SO POLICE HAVE BEEN TOO CONCERNED ABOUT IT ALL DAY. I’M VERY HOPEFUL FOR TOMORROW’S PROTEST AND I HOPE THAT WE DON’T BE REPEAT AT WHAT WE’VE SEEN TONIGHT. MAYOR HOLD I THINK THAT’S A PRETTY IMPORTANT POINT TO TALK ABOUT. DO YOU FEEL LIKE SITUATIONS LIKE THIS TAINT THE MESSAGE BECAUSE AS WE SAW EARLIER, IT WAS LARGE IT WAS PASSIONATE, BUT IT WAS PEACEF AS POLICE HAVE SAID DOES THIS DO YOU THINK THAT THIS HURTS THE NARRATIVE OF WHAT THE MESSAGE? HE’S TRYING TO BE AND CONTINUE TO BE. UNQUESTIONABLY, I MEAN THESE ARE SERIOUS ISSUES THAT WE DO NEED TO TALK ABOUT HERE IN OKLAHOMA CITY AND WE’VE HAD HARD CONVERSATIONS IN THIS CITY BEFORE, YOU KNOW, CIVIL RIGHTS ICON. CLARA LUPER WAS ARRESTED 26 TIMES BY THIS CITY. SHE WALKED INTO THAT JAIL THAT OLD CITY JAIL THAT YOU’VE SEEN IN THE BACKGROUND OF SOME OF THESE IMAGES TONIGHT 26 TIMES AND AND SO LOOK WE’VE HAD TOUGH CONVERSATIONS I THIS CITY BEFORE AND SO AND THIS ISN’T THE END OF THEM AND I I THINK WE ARE ALL VERY DEEPLY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN MINNEAPOLIS, BUT WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT TIES BACK TO LARGER ISSUES AT PLAY IN OUR CITY AND OUR SOCIETY AND WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS AND THEY’RE VALID CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WHEN THEY’RE DROWNED OUT BY BROKEN GLASS AND THAT’S WHAT YOU’VE SEEN TOO MUCH TONIGHT. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THIS IS A MESSAGE THAT HAS BEEN SHARED WITH US OFTEN IS THAT PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED WI BUILDINGS OVER LIVES AND IT SEEMS TO BE GETTING CONFUSED HERE BECAUSE AS YOU’RE SAYING THESE ARE IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONS TO HAVE BUT WE ALSO DON’T WANT TO VANDALIZE THE PLACE THAT WE LIVE. HOW DO YOU BRING THOSE TWO TOGETHER TO WHERE PEOP CONTINUE TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST AND NOT DO WHAT WE’RE SEEING. IF YOU KNOW POLITICAL PROTEST IN OUR COUNTRY AND THOSE TYPES OF OH TESS AND THOSE TYPES OF THAT TYPE OF ADVOCACY DOES MAKE CHANGE AND HAS MADE CHANGE IN OUR CITY IN OUR COUNTRY. YOU DON’T HAVE TO RESORT TO VIOLENCE AND DAMAGE TO TO SEE OUTCOMES. AND I THINK THAT’S WHAT AN IMPORTANT AWAY FROM TONIGHT. AND MAYOR. HOPE BEFORE I LET YOU GO HERE. I’D LOVE TO HAVE YOU JUST GIVE A MESSAGE TO POLICE BECAUSE THEY CERTAINLY AREN’T FORGOTTEN HERE IN THIS SITUATION AND ALSO TO OUR PROTESTERS JUST STRAIGHT FROM YOU. YO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE. WELL, I THINK YOU ARE PLEASE WE’RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOU KNOW THE SITUATION. MARY PUT THEMSELVES IN EVERY DAY, BUT I MEAN EVEN LOOK TONIGHT. I MEAN, YOU KNOW THESE FOLKS THAT ARE STANDING THERE PROTECTING OUR POLICE HEADQUARTERS, YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS SITUATION TONIGHT AND AND IT’S A IT’S A TOUGH ONE. I KNOW FOR THEM AND I DON’T BELIEVE THA ANY ONE OF THEM DOESN’T SHARE A LOT OF THE SENTIMENTS THAT THE CROWD SHARES ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN MINNEAPOLIS, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WE WE TEACH OUR POLICE OFFICERS TO DO BETTER THAN THAT OFF. TO GET IN MINNEAPOLIS. AND SO I DON’T THINK I THINK VERY MUCH THAT THESE OFFICERS SHARE THE CONCERN THAT THE PROTESTERS HAVE AND TO THE PROTESTERS I WOULD SAY FOR THOSE WHO WHO DID THEY’RE PROTESTING IN THEIR ADVOCACY TONIGHT, PEACEFULLY, EVEN IF ANGRY WE HEARD THEM AND AND IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HEAR THEM AND I THINK THAT THEY NEED TO HEAR THAT AND AND I’VE CERTAINLY BEEN LISTENING AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LISTENING AND IT’S WORTH THEIR TIME TO PROTEST BUT AND IN THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO ENGAGED I THIS WHOLE EVENT TONIGHT D SO RESPONSIBLY UNFORTUNATELY AFTER MIDNIGHT, AND I DON’T KNOW. WHAT IS IT, YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE’S MOTHER SAID NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS AFTER MIDNIGHT. WELL, THAT’S PROBABLY BEEN TH CAKE HERE AS WELL HAVE UNFORTUNATELY DISTRACTED FROM THOSE ISSUES AND I HOPE WE CAN RETURN BACK TO THE IMPORTANT TOPIC TODAY AND TOMORRO SPEAKING STRAIGHT TO THE PEOPLE MAYOR, HUH? WE CERTAINLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TONIGHT. HOPEFULLY YOU GET SOME REST. I’M SURE WE’LL BE TALKING TO YOU AGAIN TOMORROW. ALL RIGHT