WEBVTT - 042223 Living in the Aftermath of Anti-Black Violence (Part 1) 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.679 Welcome to another episode of Civic Cipher. I'm your host. 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.000 Ramsey's job is ramses joh I am Q ward. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.520 I say, got my voice back. I was starting to 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:09.520 like the quiet storm. 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:11.879 Rams, you know, but I'm back to being Q now 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.600 and you guys are tuned in to Civic Cipher. 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:16.480 Yeah, we need that man que back in the land 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.640 of the Living sounding good. And uh that's a good 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:20.959 thing because we got a whole lot to bring you 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.160 this week. Of course, crazy stories all across the news, 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.760 not the least of which is Ralph Yarrel and the 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.479 emotional roller coaster that that's been. For those that don't know, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.440 please stay tuned because we will educate you on all 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.879 the goings on with that story. And if we're honest, 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.879 that story got us to thinking about the amount of 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.839 anti black violence that we have to deal with in 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.159 this country and what it's like to live in the 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.080 aftermath of that. A lot of times we talk about 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.200 stories that are very final in that it often results 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:00.240 in death. So today we're going to talk about what 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.440 it's like to live in the aftermath of anti black 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:07.240 violence for those that do survive. And we have a 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.200 story from our own backyard we're joined in the studio 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:13.520 by Marshawn Neely, So welcome to suitio. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.120 Brother. Yes, thank thank you, thank you all. I'm honored 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:16.800 to beat me here. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:22.200 Absolutely absolutely. So he's gotten a crazy story to tell us, 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.080 and the story does have a happy ending, and that 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.600 you're still here with us and you're actually fighting back, 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.440 so we can't wait to peel back the layers of that. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.840 You're in the middle of a lawsuit as well, right, yes, okay, okay, 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:38.320 So definitely a lot to stick around for there. We're 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.280 also going to be talking about for the way Black 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:48.240 history fact the origins or the Black origins in hockey. Uh. 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.880 And you know that's something that I didn't know about 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.080 and I'm really excited to share that with you because 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.800 I thought that black people didn't start playing hockey until 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.760 shut the eighties maybe, but actually goes a lot deeper 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:01.440 than that. So stay tuned for that and so much more. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:05.520 But first and foremost, it's time for some Ebony excellence, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.560 so q, I think this one is for you. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:10.640 You know, I was thinking about the Abney Excellence for 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:15.520 this week to say, I got a little bit emotional 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.400 when I read about the subject of our Abney excellence 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.480 would be putting it lightly. But this week's Abney Excellence 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:26.200 is brought to you by ramses afro. Okay, if you've 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.120 never seen this thing, it is glorious. There's the reason 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.680 why a lot of us smile. It's like sunshine. But 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.320 I talk to you guys a little bit about a 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.119 little bit more about that later. The story comes from 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:41.040 CBS Sports Build. Safety Tomar Hamblin announces his plan to 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.040 return to the NFL after what a lot of us 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.200 saw as a very, very scary on field collapse and 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.600 what can only be described as a remarkable recovery. Tomorrow 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.919 has been fully clear to return to football activities. Man 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.040 who I had to take a deep breath reading that, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.760 because I saw this incident live when it had. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:02.920 Quote. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.920 I'm thankful and blessed, Hamler said at a press conference Tuesday, 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:12.600 end quote, blessed to have wonderful trainers here who treat 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.120 me with love and care as if I was one 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.840 of their own children. This event was life changing, but 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.079 it's not the end of my story. I'm here to 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.520 announce that I plan on making a comeback to the NFL. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:27.359 The diagnosis of what happened to me was basically commodio cordis. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.960 It's a direct blow out, a specific point in your 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.000 heartbeat that causes cardiac arrests and five seconds later you 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.080 fall out. That's what everyone has seen back on January 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.080 second of this year, all of us that's seen that, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.600 I can say that we were terrified in the moment. 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.360 He's been clear for football activities. I'm hoping this brother 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.360 makes a recovery and that he does not find himself 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.400 in any life threatening positions as a result of that. 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:59.720 Prayers up for DeMar Hamler. I think that's ebony excellence 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.440 we've ever seen. That's resilience, right, talk to me about it. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:09.840 I love that, all right. So living in the aftermath 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.880 of anti black violence, as I mentioned, our guest today 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:19.640 is Marshaun Neely, and you know, let's let's not keep 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:25.400 folks waiting. Why don't you tell us the story of 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:30.800 what happened to you. Your most recent encounter with the 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:37.280 police only just started off as a normal day. Then 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.080 they just went all down heel from there. You and 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.800 my girlfriend we got into a simple argument that day. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:45.960 She wanted me to leave. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.160 I was getting ready to leave anyway, just to d 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:53.440 defuse the situation. And I think her mother had suggested 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.279 to her to call the police. That that that that 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.040 that way, not nothing happens, you know, any fighting or anything. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.880 But like like I I want to let you guys know, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:06.760 why don't condone domestic violence or you know, women hitting 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.120 men or men hitting women. It was just you know, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.400 a simple argument that happened that day and the police 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.760 were called to my house. And when the police arrived, 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.359 they actually already opened my door to my house. It 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.080 was unlocked and I didn't know, so in the video 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.320 you could see me coming around the corner the door 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.680 is the jard I instantly closed the door. I let 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.599 them know they were okay because they actually came later. 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.040 It took them a while to come. So by that 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.760 time we already diffused a situation. We talked, talked, talked 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:44.560 it out. She wanted them to leave, and I shut 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.880 the door. The next thing you know, they bust down 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:54.840 my door. And when they bust down the door, in 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.120 the video, you you could see me like ball up 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.279 because I thought that they were just gonna grab my 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.400 hand and turn me around and just you know, detain me. 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.000 Asked me what happened, because at this point in time, 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:11.800 whenever the police are called, you're still innocent into proving guilty. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.719 So you know, I didn't feel like any crimes was committed. 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.800 I never hit anyone. I never touched anyone, so I 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.520 thought they were going to talk to me. You know, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.719 normally if someone is called, they just asked one of 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.000 the parties to leave into things die die down. Instead, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.440 I think by me being black, they just wanted to 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.599 take it there. So they didn't like the fact that 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.360 I shut the door to my own house. My lawyer, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:42.320 Kwacy Smith, he's a retired police officer, and he basically 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.039 told me like that was a bad idea to shut 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.520 the door because they're still going to investigate. So they 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:54.960 broke the door down, and from there, the first police officer, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.479 instead of grabbing my arm and putting it behind my back, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.360 because that's normally how you get arrested, they take your 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.520 arms and put them in handcuffs, instead of him doing that, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.680 he actually took my head and like slammed it into 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.400 the wall. He slammed it into the wall. I wind 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:15.960 up losing four teeth automatically. I got two of them fixed. 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.120 That was almost like three thousand dollars, and then I 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.760 still got to get the other two two fixed. I'm 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.440 working on that now. But he slammed my head into 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.280 the wall. I lost four or four teeth. They take 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.120 me to the ground. Now, when they take me to 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:35.440 the ground, it's three officers on me, and one officer 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.880 has his arm across my nose and face, so I 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.400 can't breathe at that time. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.280 This is still in the in the doorway of your house. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.560 Yeah. Yeah, I had the video footage and I released that. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:53.560 So at this time I'm letting the police know. Like 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.000 in the video that they released on the news, they 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.840 actually muted every word out that I said, like when 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.680 they took me to the grounding them. No, I'm not resisting, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.840 h I'm not resisting. I can't breathe because at that 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.080 time he's like basically holding my nose in my mouth 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.200 because he got his arm across me and we got 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.400 like three officers what they need need needs in my back. So, man, 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.800 you ad at this time, when they take me to 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.360 the ground, they break four of my teeth. So I'm 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.440 not trying to escalate the situation anymore. I feel my 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.520 teeth like falling out my mouth. I'm like, hey, my 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:33.360 hands are behind my back. So the next thing they do, 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:37.680 an officer reaches and grabs my hand, and that's when 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:41.920 he snaps my finger, and half he like he broke 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.520 my bone to my finger, and he broke my knuckle. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.360 So and this is what I'm seeing right here on 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:48.959 your finger. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.559 Yeah, So when you break a bone, a bone can 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:56.199 be fixed, but my knuckle cannot be fixed. I had 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.440 needles in my hand, so like half of my knuckle 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.600 is sitting right here. The other half is sitting right here. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.679 This finger, I can't bend at all, is permanently gonna 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.360 be like this for the rest of my life. I 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.720 can't use this finger. I can't write all day long 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.240 a massage in it. So when he reached down to 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.679 put put on me your handcuffs, they break my four teeth. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.480 They slam me into the wall, They slam my head, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.840 they break for a teeth. Now and grabbing my hand, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.480 the officer snaps my finger. I feel it. I yell 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.719 now the way they hit me on the ground, I'm 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.680 laying like at an angle, so half of my body 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.440 is sticking out my laundry room. My legs are inside 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:32.160 the laundry room. 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:33.520 Your lund room is by the front door. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.320 Is by the front door, so half of my legs 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:41.120 are are inside the laundry room door, and that's when 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.400 they bring the K nine in. I'm not running, I'm 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:51.120 not resisting. And at this point, the K nine handler 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.600 he yells at the police officer, give me a give 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.600 me a leg, give me a leg, and the police officer, 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.680 instead of him helping the other two finished putting me 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.920 in hand handcuffs so they can get off of my 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:08.480 back and stop me because I'm almost finna pass out. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.360 I'm like, it's like, I'm finna die. Like I really 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.520 felt what George Floyd felt that day when they put 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.959 these in his back. I just thought I was gonna 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:21.480 die because I can't breathe. So instead of him helping 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.839 the police, the officer gets off of my back and 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.880 he's really holding down my legs real quick, real quick. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.560 I want to paint a picture for folks that are 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.880 listening to the story. So how tall are you? 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.120 How much you have I'm like one forty, I'm probably 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:38.960 like five five. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:39.720 I'm a little guy. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:44.079 Okay, all right, keep going okay, and these officers are huge, huge, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:47.200 just what I want to huge, caep telling me. So 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.599 once he gets off of my leg. I have to 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.000 straighten my body up because I'm at an angle for 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.000 my legs automatically like straighten out and they go down. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.320 And that's when the officer releases the dog on my 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.559 leg and the dog actually bit my leg for almost 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.000 a minute. They couldn't get them all. He bit my 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.520 leg for a minute. And then that's when I'm like 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.360 telling them like get the dog, scream and get it 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.000 at the dog. And at the time, it is you know, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.440 I got kids in the house, man. So my kids 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.000 still asks me to this day, like are any is 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.320 anybody gonna come in the house and hurt dad? Or 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.920 what's going on with dad? Like my kids still remember 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.679 me screaming, you know the stuff that went on. How 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:32.360 long ago was this? 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:33.160 Did this happened? 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:34.160 This happened in November? 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.520 Okay, okay, yeah, so and you've been dealing with this 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.839 ever since. I'm sure every since. Okay, So keep going. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.240 So after they yanked me up off the floor, I 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.760 can't walk, so they're basically like dragging me out the house. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.240 So they cut the video. They edited the video where 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.760 they take my what words out when. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.280 I'm telling them, first off person, how long did it 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.080 take for you to get that video from which which 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.360 police department was this? Good Year Police, good Year Police 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.880 and Arizona, Arizona. Okay, how long did it take for 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:03.600 you to get the video? 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.160 Took them almost four months they released, Yeah, almost four months. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.320 And then they released an edited version of the video, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.080 an edited version, okay. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:15.600 Where literally my words are muted. You don't hear me 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.400 say I can't breathe. You don't hear me say I'm 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.360 not resisting. You don't hear me say any of that. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.000 Okay, I see in the video, so I know. 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.120 So they edited that that that out, And what they 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.920 edited too is like they didn't show like how my 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.200 neighbors were concerned. They were outside praying for me and 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.920 stuff like that. So once they bring me out the house, 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.120 they like, sit me on a curb, and I'm just 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.680 leaking blood everywhere, leaking blood. Can I see? 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.240 Can I see what you're where? The dog baby? Oh yeah, 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.719 of course, of course, just so I could see it 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:54.839 is this is where they stitched it up. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.720 The dog bad me here And the main part was 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.640 that kept me from walking for months is when he 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.160 bit the back of my calf muscle. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.200 I'm laying down, get a little closer, So explain that 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:06.640 again in the bare Yeah. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.000 So when he bit the back of my calf, mo mama. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.439 So they weren't able to stish this up or do 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:16.040 anything to it. It just had to heal naturally, and 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.840 that took months and it still hurts to this day. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.480 I have trouble walking. I could be here. He can walk, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.120 I can stand up straight. It's just it's horrible. 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:27.240 So let me ask you, this was the duck. Did 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:28.480 the duck bite and then shake? 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:33.200 Yeah, shaking lock He locked to my leg. Now, man, 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:38.600 you I never I didn't been in a fight before, 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.640 but I never had a broken bone. I never had 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.040 anyone knock forward my t teeth out, and I never 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.440 had a dog maull my leg off. So you know, 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.040 I didn't know about surgeries at this time. I went 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.679 through several surg surgeries. But when the ambulance finally came, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.680 they took me to the hospital. You know, Ofuficer was 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.319 joking with me like, all you you never played rugby before. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.960 People get their teeth knocked out every day, like it 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.640 was a normal thing for me to be missing four teeth, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:15.600 for my finger to be broken. So they take me 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.200 to the first hospital. And at the first hospital, when 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.240 you're in police custody, they don't let you use telephones 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.760 to contact your family members to let them know what's 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.920 going on, because they feel like by me being charged 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.800 with a misdemeanor, I could break out of jail and 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.200 have somebody come to the hospital. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.520 The free minute. You said this was a misdmeanor. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.280 Yeah, all this is a misdemeanor charge. Okay. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:43.200 And did these officers fear for their life? Did they did? They? 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.320 Did they were they did they get the sense that 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.600 you were trying to run or escape or anything like. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:52.040 In a nine one one call it was actually stated 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.960 that I had no weapons and I did not hit anyone. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.160 So I don't know why they took it that far. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.720 Okay, all right, keep going. So you can't call anyone 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:00.400 from the hospital. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.400 So when I get to the hospital, it's a big 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.440 ordeal about the cops because the police they have to 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.320 sit with you inside the hospital. So it's a big 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:12.600 ordeal about Hey, we're switching shifts. Now one is ready 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.960 to go home, so they'll talk and tell me about 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.160 surgery now, so I'm scared. They're like, oh, we got 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:22.080 to stick you with needles. We got to put you 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.440 to sleep. I'm gonna have to O O open you up. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.200 I'm like, let me call some of my family members 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.360 and they let them know what's going on. So they 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.920 refused me a phone call at the hospital and they 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.400 just say, like, I never signed the paper, so you 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.440 got to sign a paper saying that you refuse service. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.160 I never signed the paper, so they instantly just yanked 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.640 me out the hospital bed, drag me back to the car. 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.040 Then they take me to jail. So now I'm at 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:50.720 the jail. The jail was completely wrong from even accepting 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.680 me into jail because the CEOs let them be. You know, 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.120 you can't accept no one into jail with broken bones 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.640 and it's leaking blood, so they went against protocol. They 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.640 let me go to the Copa County County jail with 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:09.480 a broken finger, broken teeth, my leg leaking. So they 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.520 basically just throw me in the cell for about ten 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.400 hours and I'm ringing the bell constantly. But I don't 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.600 want to put too much blame on the Marra Copa 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.360 County Jail because I feel like I shouldn't even been 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.600 there to begin with, Like I feel like I should 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.480 have just been left at the hospital to. I needed 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.680 the proper care so I could digest what's going on, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.240 Like I'm still thinking it's a movie, Like I can't believe, 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:34.880 like what was happening. So they they take me to 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.360 the cell. They leave me in the cell for almost 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.760 ten hours. I probably got the jail at like nine 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.040 in the morning. I didn't make it to the hospital 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.480 till midnight that night. So I'm in the cell just 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:49.120 all day, leaking blood, pressing the bill, Hey, I need help. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.120 I need some type of antibiotics. I don't want to 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.200 catch infection anything like that. I don't know if this 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:58.040 dog has rabies anything like that. So they leave me 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:03.320 in the cell all day, twelve sixteen hours. Finally, a 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.280 black CEO that works for the jail, I don't remember 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.640 his name. He just tells me, like, man, that's messed up. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.120 They weren't supposed to take you into jail. They weren't 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.520 supposed to leave us with this job to bring you 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.720 to go get care like it was just they really 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:19.880 felt bad for me. So that's why I don't want 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.080 to put the blame on them too much, because they 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.800 did show their sympathy, like, man, that's messed up. They 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.960 shouldn't have brought you here. They should have took four responsibility. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.280 So now I'm in Valley Wise Hospital, that's the county 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.720 jail for Phoenix. I'm in there in the middle of 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.240 the night. You got it. Now, you think when I 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.000 get get to the hospital again, it's one o'clock in 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.280 the morning, there's nobody there to perform surgery. So they 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.240 basically just wrap me up and sit me in the 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.160 hallway to the morning. Now, it was probably like five 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.080 six in the morning. That's when all the doctors get 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:57.200 to work. Now they perform a surgery later that afternoon, 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:01.560 they performed the surgery. I wake up. I got needles 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:06.119 sticking out my hand. Brother, yes, I got needles sticking 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.160 out my hand. I got stitches in my leg. I'm 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.960 wrapped up, and Lily are. 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:14.120 Still missing at this time. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:16.439 I'm missing too. Still right now, I got two of 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:17.040 them fixed. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:18.600 No, I mean while you're in the hospital. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.159 Oh yeah, I'm missing teeth yeah no, no, no, dentist. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.080 And that's another other thing. My teeth became infected because 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.120 once you get a chip tooth, oh oh up, until 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.719 you gotta have a rope rope rope canal, and they 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:31.359 got to pull pull out the nerve, so my teeth 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:39.320 became infected. So now I'm not a surgery. It's probably 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:46.840 like a day later. The sergeant for the the jail hospital, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.760 he comes to the room and they just get to 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:53.399 snatching stuff out of my arm. Hey, what's going on? 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.040 He say, you gotta go? I say, what do you mean? 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.639 I gotta leave? I'm still in pain, Like I still 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.199 I'm trying to make sure everything is okay. You know, 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.399 I just could. They literally kicked me out, probably twenty 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.520 four hours after I heard my surgery, So they kicked 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.520 me out the hospital. They're like, you're not gonna stay 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.159 stay here, So they kicked me out. They take me 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.439 back to jail. Now I'm not in a regular population 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.399 where I could get assistance or anything like that. I'm 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:25.240 in a I'm in this the worst experience ever. I'm 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.760 in a cell for twenty four hours a day by myself. 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.560 Like I don't got a phone, I don't got a TV, 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:33.960 I don't got a tablet, I don't got anything. I'm 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.040 just in a cell by myself. Because it's affirm and reseale, 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.240 so they don't want you to get hurt by another inmate, 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.919 so they'll keep you in the sell bye bye by yourself. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.399 So I was on the lockdown for twenty four hours 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.680 for almost two weeks until they came with a plea 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:50.120 deal for me to get out of jail. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.359 And this was a misdemeanor, You said, yeah, I missed themeaning. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:54.360 And what was the charge? 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.240 They charged me with a lot of stuff like resistant 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:03.360 RUSS dis order conduct from the charges yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.960 but they basically dropped all the charges and just charged 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:10.840 me with a I think it was a domestic violence 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.240 or interfering with court procedures. And then they just said, hey, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.840 take this please, we'll let you out of jail. You know, 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:18.679 I got to serve a new jail time or anything 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:19.000 like that. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:24.000 Okay, so now you're actually pushing back, right, So you 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.440 said you got a lawyer and you're taking legal action 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:31.600 because this was a gross abusive power by the Goodyear 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.520 Police Department. Yes, so, so tell us a little bit 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.200 about that the lawsuit. Yeah, you don't have to tell 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.880 anything that your lawyer wouldn't want you to say. Yeah, 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.320 let the people notice has a happy end. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.879 When I got out of jail, I basically called a 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:49.879 few lawyers. It was I'm not going to say, it 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.760 was kind of hard to get the case started, but 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.000 you know a lot of people probably didn't want to 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.000 take the case on for free. Well, I found Kraacy Smith. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.600 He was actually an African Americ American lawyer. He decided 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.440 to take the k case on for free. By him 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:08.240 being an ex police officer, he knows like how far 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.280 this should go and when it's enough is enough. So 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:14.600 he took the kkkse on and after that we we 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.919 found and no notice to claim to let them know 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.000