The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


Richard Brzeczek | 10-08-25


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On Saturday night, the Chicago Police were ordered to stand down after a group of ICE agents were surrounded and in distress under attack from radical antifa operatives in the Brighton Park neighborhood. Turns out that order came from the Mayor and Governor, and there s some question as to whether they have some serious legal liability.

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00:00:39.820 Welcome back into The Stone Zone.
00:00:45.460 Yesterday, we had Mark Vargas, the editor-in-chief of the Illinois Review,
00:00:50.840 reporting on the shocking developments in Chicago.
00:00:54.980 Yesterday, we reported that on Saturday,
00:00:58.460 the Chicago police were ordered to stand down
00:01:01.700 after a group of ICE agents were surrounded and in distress
00:01:08.400 under attack from radical Antifa operatives
00:01:12.440 in the city's Brighton Park neighborhood.
00:01:15.100 Turns out that stand-down order came from the mayor and the governor themselves.
00:01:19.500 There's some question as to whether they have some serious legal liability.
00:01:23.480 But to get an assessment of the entire situation on the ground in Chicago,
00:01:27.940 joining me now is the former commissioner of the Chicago Police Department, Richard Breczak.
00:01:35.420 He is a hard-nosed, non-political, by-the-book, highly respected law enforcement officer and attorney.
00:01:45.300 As someone who rose from being a simple patrolman in the Chicago Police Department to the top job
00:01:50.860 under one of Chicago's greatest mayors, Jane Byrne, who was a good friend of mine.
00:01:57.300 And trust me, although she may have been a Mondale delegate,
00:02:01.740 she definitely voted for Ronald Reagan.
00:02:03.740 But, Richard, thank you for joining us today on the show.
00:02:08.460 I want to get your assessment of these shocking events.
00:02:12.480 The idea that fellow law enforcement officers would be physically endangered
00:02:17.700 and the Chicago police would stand idly by,
00:02:22.440 I guess this is consistent with what you told us about the politicization
00:02:26.300 of the once-great Chicago Police Department.
00:02:28.700 That's absolutely correct, Roger.
00:02:32.380 You have two people, Brandon Johnson, the DEI mayor of Chicago.
00:02:39.880 That's dumb, evil, and incompetent, not the other DEI.
00:02:44.380 But you've got him and you've got Pritzker,
00:02:48.360 the wannabe next Democrat candidate for president in 2028,
00:02:53.480 trying to make a name for themselves with their continuing anti-police decisions and activity.
00:03:03.620 And when I say anti-police, they're telling the police to step down.
00:03:10.160 It's not trying to protect the Chicago police from harm.
00:03:15.040 They're trying to really embarrass the police.
00:03:17.900 The police, because of what happened,
00:03:20.040 the Chicago Police Department is really kind of like the laughingstock of the United States,
00:03:25.820 especially among the major cities,
00:03:28.000 because that kind of order to stand down is disgraceful.
00:03:34.420 It's despicable.
00:03:36.200 It's a shameful, shameful order.
00:03:39.920 Well, Richard, it appears, based on everything I have read,
00:03:44.100 that this order was handed down to the Chicago Police Department
00:03:47.260 from Mayor Johnson and Governor Pritzker.
00:03:50.920 And many, many legal analysts believe that that puts both of them in legal jeopardy,
00:03:59.740 that they could be held responsible in a spiraling legal crisis,
00:04:04.320 because that is patently illegal,
00:04:07.980 and they may have personal liability for anyone who is injured.
00:04:11.080 And the president himself today blasted both Pritzker and Johnson,
00:04:16.780 saying they should both be in jail for issuing these executive orders
00:04:20.420 that prohibit the Chicago Police Department from obstructing federal law.
00:04:26.300 This is shocking that in the once great city of Chicago,
00:04:31.440 where Richard J. Daley, I don't mean Richie Daley,
00:04:34.260 I mean Mayor Daley, who was the mayor during the 1968 Democrat Convention,
00:04:40.040 a man who was seen on national television but not heard,
00:04:43.940 saying two uncouth words at Abe Bribikov,
00:04:48.240 who was making an anti-war speech from the platform.
00:04:52.160 Daley was a stout supporter of the Vietnam War,
00:04:55.040 Lyndon Baines Johnson's conduct of it,
00:04:57.380 and he opposed those in his party,
00:05:00.420 like Eugene McCarthy and later Robert Kennedy,
00:05:04.080 who broke with Johnson over the war.
00:05:07.540 So I saw that the president ordered the Texas National Guard,
00:05:14.260 or arranged for the Texas National Guard,
00:05:16.200 sent 300 guardsmen to Chicago,
00:05:19.820 Commissioner Brzezak.
00:05:21.620 Can they be effective with that smaller force?
00:05:25.680 Sure, they can be effective.
00:05:27.080 You know, well-trained personnel can be effective.
00:05:31.420 And at the same time,
00:05:32.640 there are other significantly large law enforcement agencies
00:05:37.560 in the Chicago area,
00:05:40.020 starting with the Chicago Police Department,
00:05:42.300 whereby they can assemble large numbers of officers,
00:05:46.360 you know, with the appropriate riot gear,
00:05:48.980 if they need that,
00:05:50.300 to go into an area fairly, fairly quickly.
00:05:54.860 The thing is, is that this is a political game
00:05:59.680 being played by two amateurs,
00:06:02.520 Brandon Johnson and J.B. Pritzker in Illinois.
00:06:07.340 And President Trump is absolutely correct.
00:06:11.700 It isn't, you know,
00:06:13.480 I'm not sure about the civil liability of the mayor and the governor,
00:06:18.960 because I'm just not,
00:06:20.960 I haven't really looked at that area of law recently,
00:06:23.700 but the president is absolutely correct,
00:06:26.660 because any action by a local official
00:06:29.880 to interfere with, obstruct, obscure,
00:06:34.580 defeat the actions of federal law enforcement officers,
00:06:40.060 whether it's by action or a refusal of an action,
00:06:46.520 can subject them to criminal prosecution
00:06:50.000 for interfering with a federal law enforcement officer.
00:06:54.420 And they don't really care.
00:06:55.960 Let me make clear to people, just so you know,
00:06:58.500 Richard Brzezak has not only served the city
00:07:02.120 as probably their last great police commissioner,
00:07:05.320 but he also is an attorney.
00:07:07.560 He was a partner at the firm of Levy & Aarons,
00:07:10.900 where he was specialized in commercial litigation,
00:07:14.140 bankruptcy, and real estate law,
00:07:15.900 and later went into private practice,
00:07:17.740 concentrating primarily in criminal defense,
00:07:20.500 was experienced with civil jury trials,
00:07:22.540 administrative hearings,
00:07:23.400 criminal and civil practices,
00:07:25.140 and the state and federal courts.
00:07:26.600 So he's not just a law enforcement officer,
00:07:28.700 he's a skilled attorney,
00:07:31.080 so I give great weight to his words
00:07:33.580 regarding the possible penalties here.
00:07:37.920 Richard is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.
00:07:43.040 So it's amazing to me that J.B. Pritzker
00:07:46.320 and Mayor Johnson,
00:07:48.000 Johnson says the Republicans want a civil war,
00:07:52.040 yet he's the guy who has hooligans
00:07:55.260 throwing bricks, rocks, bottles,
00:07:58.620 swinging clubs at police officers.
00:08:01.920 He's the one who has Antifa operatives
00:08:05.280 surrounding and endangering ICE agents
00:08:08.860 who are merely trying to carry out
00:08:10.980 their responsibilities of arresting
00:08:13.860 and deporting some of the most dangerous,
00:08:16.460 vile criminals in society.
00:08:19.680 This administration recognizes
00:08:21.720 that there are many people in the country illegally
00:08:24.600 who are peaceful
00:08:25.620 and the emphasis has been on identifying
00:08:28.280 those who have criminal records,
00:08:30.240 either here or substantial criminal records,
00:08:33.100 where they came from
00:08:34.260 and deporting them first.
00:08:36.440 But that is not being assisted
00:08:40.520 by the Pritzker-Johnson Brigade.
00:08:45.680 The politicization of the Chicago Police Department,
00:08:48.940 Richard,
00:08:49.200 this is not something that happened yesterday,
00:08:51.240 is it?
00:08:51.640 No, it isn't.
00:08:54.000 It started under Richard M. Daley,
00:08:57.560 the second Daley mayor.
00:08:59.140 Richard.
00:08:59.660 He's the one that began the program
00:09:02.900 with his so-called merit appointments
00:09:05.900 in promotions.
00:09:07.900 These are people who couldn't pass promotional exams,
00:09:11.720 but were promoted anyway
00:09:13.240 because they had political connections.
00:09:15.660 And they even were so bold
00:09:17.680 to post the list
00:09:19.040 of the political merit appointees
00:09:22.360 as to who their sponsor was.
00:09:24.980 It could be an alderman.
00:09:26.220 It could be a state senator.
00:09:27.540 It could be a U.S. congressman or senator.
00:09:30.500 They posted, you know,
00:09:31.680 their sponsor right there,
00:09:32.940 made no bones about it.
00:09:34.500 I mean, you talk about chutzpah.
00:09:36.980 At least in the old days
00:09:38.340 when they fixed the promotion list,
00:09:40.340 you know, they fixed it in secret,
00:09:41.740 you know, and made it look like it was,
00:09:43.840 you know, legitimate
00:09:45.640 until the U.S. government's
00:09:47.340 Civil Rights Division
00:09:48.300 of the Justice Department
00:09:49.820 came in in 1972
00:09:51.220 and legitimatized all the exams.
00:09:54.460 But, you know,
00:09:55.240 what happens here
00:09:56.220 is they just do what they want.
00:09:58.980 We see it not only in Chicago.
00:10:00.960 We saw it during the Biden administration
00:10:03.080 in Washington.
00:10:03.740 We saw it in the Obama administration
00:10:06.480 in Washington.
00:10:07.240 You see it with Hochul up in New York,
00:10:10.100 you know, any place.
00:10:10.840 Newsom in California.
00:10:12.660 They just do what they want.
00:10:14.100 They don't care about consequences
00:10:16.600 because, you know,
00:10:18.160 they're so corrupt.
00:10:19.940 You know, it's gotten to the point
00:10:21.660 where corruption to them
00:10:23.160 is their new normal.
00:10:25.120 And that's the way it is.
00:10:26.640 And they've always been corrupt,
00:10:28.800 but now it's openly,
00:10:30.580 outwardly corrupt.
00:10:32.060 And the problem is,
00:10:33.520 is that President Trump
00:10:35.420 is taking the position
00:10:36.900 of cleaning up the corruption,
00:10:41.240 cleaning up the crime,
00:10:43.120 cleaning up the politicization,
00:10:45.340 where people have, you know,
00:10:46.700 the rate to vote has been affected.
00:10:48.720 They've been denied
00:10:49.440 because of the vote fixing.
00:10:51.600 You know, that's been going on
00:10:52.560 all the time in the Democratic city.
00:10:55.060 Wait a minute.
00:10:55.440 Vote fixing in Chicago?
00:10:57.040 I've never heard of such a thing.
00:10:58.720 It's amazing.
00:10:59.460 A few days ago,
00:11:00.860 Mayor Johnson signed an executive order
00:11:03.680 that designates parts of the city of Chicago
00:11:05.600 as ice-free zones.
00:11:08.660 The order bars city police
00:11:10.100 from sharing information
00:11:11.180 with federal immigrant officials
00:11:14.560 or assisting in arrests involving illegals.
00:11:17.560 Johnson said the policy was intended
00:11:19.060 to protect immigrant communities.
00:11:21.480 What about protecting
00:11:22.240 the law-abiding citizens
00:11:23.320 of the city of Chicago?
00:11:24.680 I guess he doesn't care about that.
00:11:26.220 By the way,
00:11:27.380 virtual all legal analysts say
00:11:29.160 that this order signed by the mayor
00:11:31.660 is a blatant violation of federal law,
00:11:35.500 specifically violates
00:11:36.940 8 U.S. Code 1324
00:11:39.880 as it is a felony
00:11:41.140 to conceal, harbor, or shield
00:11:43.140 from detection
00:11:44.160 an individual known to be
00:11:45.580 in the country illegally.
00:11:46.980 Anyone, whether a private citizen
00:11:48.360 or an elected official
00:11:49.600 who aids and abets such actions
00:11:51.580 could face up to five years in prison
00:11:54.140 or more if the offense involves violence
00:11:56.820 or results in injury.
00:11:59.340 So it sounds to me
00:12:01.340 like Pritzker and,
00:12:04.660 pardon me, Johnson,
00:12:05.960 perhaps Pritzker,
00:12:07.200 if he also was a party of this,
00:12:09.940 which you know he was,
00:12:11.660 could have a serious problem.
00:12:13.060 Additionally,
00:12:13.440 other legal analysts point out
00:12:15.060 that 18 U.S. Codes,
00:12:17.340 Section 111,
00:12:18.480 makes it a crime
00:12:19.060 to forcibly audit,
00:12:20.740 resist, oppose,
00:12:22.000 impede,
00:12:22.520 intimidate,
00:12:22.960 or interfere
00:12:23.480 with federal officers
00:12:25.020 engaged in their duties,
00:12:26.560 which is punishable
00:12:27.480 by up to eight years in prison
00:12:29.540 if the officer is injured.
00:12:32.200 And then, of course,
00:12:32.980 18 U.S. Code 1505
00:12:35.000 criminalizes obstruction
00:12:36.620 of federal proceedings
00:12:37.780 or investigations
00:12:38.600 carrying an additional penalty
00:12:40.640 for up to five years.
00:12:42.940 I'll tell you this,
00:12:43.840 J.B. Pritzker would lose
00:12:45.180 some weight in prison,
00:12:46.300 that's for sure.
00:12:47.840 Well, yeah,
00:12:48.840 he'd probably be,
00:12:49.960 you know,
00:12:50.460 holding court in prison,
00:12:52.540 talking to all his
00:12:55.100 Democrat voters
00:12:56.860 who put him into office
00:12:58.280 even while they were in prison
00:13:00.840 about how great he is.
00:13:02.640 But the problem is
00:13:03.660 that these people
00:13:04.680 simply, you know,
00:13:07.120 want to demonstrate
00:13:08.920 their pejorative ignorance.
00:13:11.280 You know,
00:13:11.760 Johnson would be better off
00:13:13.360 if he created
00:13:14.820 ice-free zones
00:13:16.820 in his frozen brain.
00:13:18.480 It would maybe loosen up
00:13:19.700 a little bit
00:13:20.360 and he could see
00:13:21.360 what the law is
00:13:22.560 and what, you know,
00:13:23.640 people are entitled to
00:13:25.260 in terms of overall safety.
00:13:27.940 Brandon Johnson
00:13:28.840 is an embarrassment.
00:13:30.240 First of all,
00:13:30.560 he has a 6% approval rating.
00:13:33.660 My sources tell me
00:13:34.500 that he's in and out
00:13:35.480 of the hospital
00:13:36.020 with panic attacks.
00:13:37.760 He's not up to this job.
00:13:39.420 He spews nonsense
00:13:41.280 about civil war
00:13:43.260 and he keeps calling
00:13:45.200 on the city,
00:13:46.960 residents of the city
00:13:48.180 to rise up
00:13:49.300 and resist
00:13:50.000 these federal officers
00:13:51.840 doing their duty.
00:13:53.000 That's an act of insurrection.
00:13:55.160 I think that's
00:13:55.980 highly illegal.
00:13:57.660 He also said,
00:13:58.780 this shocks me,
00:13:59.780 but I do love it,
00:14:01.240 he said that
00:14:02.140 all of the problems
00:14:03.180 of the city of Chicago,
00:14:04.740 including the rise in crime,
00:14:06.200 were Richard Nixon's fault.
00:14:08.220 Richard Nixon's been dead
00:14:10.760 for 40 years.
00:14:13.500 I think what this lame brain
00:14:15.020 was trying to say
00:14:15.920 is that Nixon's
00:14:17.340 Southern strategy
00:14:18.580 is a cause of New York,
00:14:21.080 of the country's
00:14:22.120 racial problems.
00:14:22.980 Let's be very clear.
00:14:24.020 Richard Nixon,
00:14:25.100 who desegregated
00:14:26.320 the public schools,
00:14:27.720 86% of public schools
00:14:29.320 were segregated
00:14:30.460 when Nixon became president.
00:14:31.820 When he left office,
00:14:32.820 that number was 16
00:14:33.960 with no bloodshed,
00:14:35.940 done totally legally
00:14:37.340 through lawsuits.
00:14:38.620 Nobody killed,
00:14:39.940 no violence.
00:14:41.020 Richard Nixon,
00:14:41.960 who tripled the funding
00:14:43.940 for black colleges.
00:14:46.420 Richard Nixon,
00:14:47.440 who increased ninefold
00:14:49.740 civil rights,
00:14:51.560 law enforcement
00:14:52.280 in the U.S. Justice Department.
00:14:53.900 Richard Nixon,
00:14:54.620 who gave us
00:14:55.400 affirmative action,
00:14:58.540 which many of my
00:14:59.180 conservative friends despise,
00:15:00.760 but was a huge leg up
00:15:02.520 for the black community.
00:15:03.380 So the myth
00:15:04.160 of the Southern strategy
00:15:05.860 that Nixon,
00:15:08.140 yes,
00:15:08.520 he did have to run
00:15:09.800 between Hubert Humphrey
00:15:11.900 on his left
00:15:12.460 and George Wallace
00:15:13.340 on his right
00:15:14.100 in the South
00:15:14.720 and carry those border
00:15:16.080 Southern states
00:15:16.860 in order to win
00:15:17.660 the 1960 election.
00:15:18.760 So the Southern strategy
00:15:20.700 of having a number
00:15:22.500 of conservatives
00:15:23.180 support you,
00:15:24.620 if you look at his
00:15:25.520 actual civil rights record,
00:15:27.740 well,
00:15:27.960 the 1958 Civil Rights Act
00:15:29.700 would not have passed
00:15:30.420 the U.S. Senate,
00:15:31.340 but for Vice President
00:15:32.400 Richard Nixon
00:15:33.040 going out
00:15:33.580 and rounding up the votes
00:15:35.000 for which Dr. Martin Luther King
00:15:36.980 wrote him a glowing letter.
00:15:38.580 So I'm not sure
00:15:39.400 what Brandon Johnson's
00:15:40.380 talking about,
00:15:42.040 the fact that he's
00:15:43.660 even in office
00:15:44.640 and that he continues
00:15:45.800 to impede
00:15:46.760 this heroic effort
00:15:49.180 where these
00:15:50.120 law enforcement officers
00:15:51.280 with ICE
00:15:51.860 are putting their lives
00:15:53.120 on the line
00:15:53.660 to fulfill their duties.
00:15:55.540 You would expect
00:15:56.340 that they could
00:15:57.180 have the local police
00:15:59.140 at their back
00:15:59.960 as opposed to
00:16:00.740 standing by idly
00:16:02.100 as their lives
00:16:03.820 are endangered.
00:16:05.220 Anyway,
00:16:06.300 we're with Richard Brzezak.
00:16:07.740 He's the former
00:16:09.240 commissioner
00:16:09.660 of Chicago Police
00:16:10.820 and we'll be right back.
00:16:14.260 The Stone Zone,
00:16:15.540 entertaining
00:16:16.120 and informative
00:16:17.360 on the Red Apple
00:16:18.480 Podcast Network.
00:16:23.480 Thank you for
00:16:24.820 staying with us
00:16:26.020 here in the Stone Zone.
00:16:27.480 We're talking to
00:16:28.580 Richard Brzezak,
00:16:29.960 the former commissioner
00:16:31.460 of the Chicago
00:16:33.240 Police Department
00:16:34.400 in the once great
00:16:35.540 windy city.
00:16:36.880 Chicago used to be 0.64
00:16:37.620 known as a city
00:16:38.380 that worked.
00:16:39.380 That's when
00:16:39.820 Richard J. Daly
00:16:41.320 was mayor,
00:16:42.720 succeeded by
00:16:43.520 his able,
00:16:44.680 a taxi commissioner,
00:16:46.340 Jane Byrne,
00:16:47.260 who was a great woman,
00:16:48.480 a great mayor.
00:16:50.040 She served
00:16:51.080 when Richard Brzezak
00:16:52.580 was the police commissioner.
00:16:54.580 I think the police,
00:16:55.420 the Chicago Police Department
00:16:57.100 really went downhill
00:16:58.020 under Rahm Emanuel
00:16:59.620 in an incredible scandal
00:17:01.640 where the department
00:17:03.540 essentially hid evidence
00:17:05.000 regarding a shooting
00:17:06.440 of, I think it was
00:17:08.160 an African-American
00:17:09.720 by officers
00:17:11.560 who were white.
00:17:12.700 Tell us about that,
00:17:13.440 Richard.
00:17:14.540 That was the
00:17:15.140 Laquan McDonald case.
00:17:17.360 What happened is
00:17:18.760 there probably were
00:17:20.260 two dozen to 15 officers
00:17:23.100 at the scene.
00:17:24.900 Nobody had their guns out.
00:17:26.560 The kid was a little hyper
00:17:28.600 and he had a small knife
00:17:30.140 in his hand,
00:17:30.760 although you can get hurt
00:17:31.640 by a small knife
00:17:32.540 very seriously
00:17:33.360 and they were keeping him
00:17:35.140 at bay
00:17:35.660 and one of the last cars
00:17:38.180 that pulled up,
00:17:39.880 the officer got out
00:17:41.020 of his car,
00:17:41.680 walked around the car,
00:17:42.860 took his gun out
00:17:43.760 and he put 16 shots
00:17:46.540 into Laquan McDonald.
00:17:49.060 Even after he went down,
00:17:50.760 he was shooting
00:17:51.300 into his body
00:17:52.240 and no one thought
00:17:54.380 that this was ever
00:17:55.260 going to get out
00:17:56.020 because they had
00:17:57.940 an informal policy
00:17:59.480 in Chicago
00:18:00.200 to turn the in-car
00:18:01.860 cameras off
00:18:02.840 and one car
00:18:04.520 had an in-car camera
00:18:06.000 that happened
00:18:06.500 to be going
00:18:07.120 and it caught
00:18:08.520 the whole thing.
00:18:09.540 It happened right
00:18:10.300 in front of that car's camera
00:18:12.440 and all hell broke loose.
00:18:16.100 Not right away
00:18:17.040 because while the bosses
00:18:18.660 and Rahm Emanuel
00:18:20.120 knew about it
00:18:21.040 the next morning
00:18:21.880 as to what exactly happened,
00:18:24.120 it took a freelance reporter,
00:18:26.020 not the fake news
00:18:27.360 that's in Chicago,
00:18:28.340 who protects
00:18:29.480 all the Democrats
00:18:30.460 over there all the time,
00:18:32.080 but an independent reporter
00:18:33.700 who got a Freedom
00:18:35.380 of Information Act
00:18:36.280 request granted
00:18:37.140 by a judge
00:18:37.920 who ordered the video
00:18:39.460 to be released
00:18:40.440 and they went
00:18:42.120 into high gear.
00:18:43.200 The Democrats,
00:18:44.000 state's attorney,
00:18:44.780 the prosecutor of the county,
00:18:46.660 indicted the shooting officer
00:18:48.140 the day before
00:18:49.300 the judge released
00:18:51.100 the video.
00:18:53.300 So, you know,
00:18:53.720 everything was,
00:18:54.500 you know,
00:18:55.120 CYA. 0.69
00:18:55.940 CYA. 0.69
00:18:57.320 Wow, that's extraordinary.
00:18:59.100 Yeah, Rahm Emanuel,
00:19:00.920 who I hear, by the way,
00:19:02.340 is actually thinking
00:19:03.040 about running for president.
00:19:04.620 I know that sounds crazy,
00:19:07.260 but he recognizes
00:19:08.440 the total absence
00:19:09.440 of a field
00:19:10.220 and he is a wily, 0.66
00:19:13.040 canny guy 1.00
00:19:13.860 who understands the game.
00:19:15.300 Not an admirer
00:19:16.120 by any means,
00:19:17.060 but he didn't get
00:19:18.620 to be mayor of Chicago
00:19:19.480 for no reason.
00:19:20.740 He did not get
00:19:22.200 to elect a president
00:19:23.160 for no reason.
00:19:25.060 All right,
00:19:25.300 I'm afraid we have
00:19:25.980 to leave it there.
00:19:26.700 I want to thank our guest,
00:19:27.900 former police commissioner
00:19:28.940 Richard Brzezak,
00:19:29.820 who always brings
00:19:31.140 the heat
00:19:31.720 and the real authority
00:19:33.240 on what's going on
00:19:34.100 on the ground
00:19:35.180 in the Windy City.
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