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As a Black woman in America, racism is absolutely inescapable. It shows up in all the little places and all the big places and all the places you don't expect. Sometimes it's in a textbook. Sometimes it's in a purse grabbed as I walk by, sometimes it's in a question about my hair, my skin, if anyone believes we have even come close to solving issues of racism and discrimination, they're mistaken. If I'm afraid to go for a run, go buy a snack, go to sleep in my own bed behind my own locked door, we aren't finished working yet.

Ashley Jones

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I noticed the seat that I had been sitting in and just for a flash of a moment I remember being there on January 6, when we were locked in before we were evacuated.

Grace Segers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

No matter who’s on our side or who’s on that side ... you got to be aggressive. You got to be locked in. You got to have that mindset of playing, whatever the defense.

Jalen Brunson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We tried to keep everyone calm and safe -- stay away from the windows. We locked the doors, stayed away from the back door, there were children, elderly people -- made sure everybody was not injured.

Diane Sprague

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The most difficult experience we've had is a patient's family who under a pseudonym had made threats against the hospital, there was a reference to making sure the hospital was locked and we've got people that are coming for you.

Jack Lyons

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It felt like last recruiting cycle, kids just wanted a spot and wanted it locked in.

Adam Gorney

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If it does work, his body locks up. I don't know how that helps, if you look at video and how close, she's right inside the open door, at the edge, and those probes won't spread far enough to achieve neuromuscular incapacitation and that's the goal. If you achieved it, he'd be locked up in that seat. It's hard to manipulate him. It's confusing, tactically, what the end goal was with the Taser.

Sean Hendrickson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Before the shooter was able to walk a short distance to enter the main hallway, students and staff had already entered classrooms, locked doors, erected makeshift barricades and locked down or fled according to their training, the suspect was not able to gain access to a single classroom.

Superintendent Tim Throne

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I felt they were out of sync, we know they're a heavy (isolation) team. We had shots we wanted to force them to take. ... They were definitely getting frustrated and we were locked in.

Davon Reed

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

My teacher, he walked into the classroom ; he locked the door, and he told us to call 911. And then we heard the rest of the gunshots go off, more screams.

Zander Cumbey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We heard two gunshots. And after that, my teacher ran into the room, locked it, we barricaded and then we covered the windows and hid, we grabbed calculators, we grabbed scissors just in case James Crumbley got in and we had to attack them.

Prosecutor Marc Keast

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We’ve been down this path. We locked out in ‘89-’90, i don’t think '94 worked out too great for anybody. I think when you look at other sports, the pattern has become to control the timing of the labor dispute and try to minimize the prospect of actual disruption of the season. That’s what it’s about. It’s avoiding doing damage to the season.

Rob Manfred

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We were locked in, we dug ourselves a little hole. We knew to get out of it we were going to have to play harder.

Andrew Wiggins

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Who put those in there and why is the central question, hannah kept guns locked up, including throughout lunch on the day in question, and she instructed her department to watch the cart containing the guns when she was pulled away for her other duties or on a lunch break.

Jason Bowles

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

He believes that we have a choice and a voice in schools -- and especially right now, where parents are being locked out of schools, quote-unquote due to Covid, this is appalling, and we need to get back in there so we can help our kids, help the teachers, to get a good education.

Emily Diaz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was great playing in LA, it was a great atmosphere, but I just tried to stay locked in, tried to stay focused on what I needed to do.

Evan Mobley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I feel like we let our offensive struggles affect us on the other end of the floor, it was missing assignments, really wasn’t locked into the game plan too much. We just let mistakes turn into more mistakes and they got hot and won the game.

Ja Morant

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I’m mad at everyone who turns murderers out early, turns criminals out early, i am over hearing people say, ‘Oh, we keep people housed too long.’ If you don’t keep prolific criminals and murderers locked up, they’re going to go back in the neighborhood and murder and victimize innocent people, whether it's in New Jersey, Florida, or any other state.

Polk County

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Probably the team took the best decision for them to keep the players as locked in as possible and not take that outside noise to affect the team as they go for a championship run, they have a great team. Do I know if it’s right or wrong? I don’t know. I’ve got to think about it. But at the end of the day, I think everybody’s entitled to their own opinion. But Kyrie’s a great player.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Yesterday, several individuals disrupted my class at Arizona State University outside Phoenix. After deceptively entering a locked, secure building, these individuals filmed and publicly posted videos of my students without their permission -- including footage taken of both my students and I using a restroom.

Kyrsten Sinema

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Melbourne tragically and sadly has gone from being the most livable city in the world to the most locked-down city in the world.

Josh Frydenberg

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I sometimes forget to lock the car, but most times the car’s locked, the cops tell me to lock my doors and I show them videos of people coming into my property trying to open my locked cars.

Evan Wexler

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I was expecting everyone to be a little sluggish. We expended a lot of energy that last series, just mentally, being locked in every single pitch, from the get-go they were locked in and making (Kyle) Freeland work.

Kevin Gausman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

He’d come in. ‘How was your day?’ ‘Oh I got a gun. I got this. Guess what dad, I locked up the same guy three times in a week with a gun.’ I’m like ‘you’re kidding!’ ‘No. Same kid.’ He was frustrated. Because they’re doing the job and they’re being criticized they’re not doing the job.

Carlos Yanez Sr.

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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