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Speaker 1: from the archives.

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Speaker 2: Look look come here.

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Speaker 3: That was always like his days. Look at him. This

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Speaker 3: was in October of twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: This is Darry Lugones Latino USA producer Maggie Freelin is

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Speaker 1: with her in her living room in Brownsville, one of

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Speaker 1: the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. It's the summer

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Speaker 1: and they're sitting on the couch in front of them.

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Speaker 1: A large fan is buzzing and water is puddling under

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Speaker 1: a dripping clothesline strung across the room. It's eleven AM

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Speaker 1: and Darry is half asleep in a robe and underwear.

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Speaker 1: She rubs her eyes as she talks about her younger

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Speaker 1: brother Edward.

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Speaker 2: Oh, look I found one has wrapping things, has music.

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Speaker 2: Okayquems out blue car.

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Speaker 3: So see how volunteers. So I'm saying that that's the wayte.

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Speaker 2: And this is his inspiration, little UZI like he just

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Speaker 2: I can't even listen to that man no more because

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Speaker 3: And he's like, when I get older, I'm gonna be working.

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Speaker 4: With him, and then yeah, you don't find him here

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Speaker 4: in the living room, no more wrapping, reading his rhymes

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Speaker 3: That's weird, Like, you know, all I see is a ghost.

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Speaker 2: Now when I come to the living room or to

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Speaker 3: Just he was not the same.

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Speaker 2: I don't really care you. I'm very attached to him,

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Speaker 2: like very I don't care what we went through, how

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Speaker 1: The oldest girl and oldest boy of six kids were

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Edward Cordero was on a busy subway platform

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Speaker 1: At two twenty five pm, Edward punched Swatz from behind,

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Speaker 3: He says.

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Speaker 2: He's completely confused. He keeps saying, like, what did I do?

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Speaker 2: They keep telling me that I killed the man, but

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Speaker 1: What happened on that subway platform is tragic and it's

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Speaker 1: extremely rare. Studies show that most people with mental illness

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Speaker 1: beyond serious mental illness that goes untreated. Edward's sister, Dorry,

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Speaker 3: He was a dotty. That wasn't mean, like, that was

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Speaker 3: not mean like I thought. That was a devil. And

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Speaker 1: I'm Maria Josa. Today we look at how and why

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Speaker 5: Edward's case is complicated and we're not able to confirm

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Speaker 2: It was like terrible, have we been going through the

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Speaker 5: Darian Edward grew up in New York. They moved around

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Speaker 2: My mother was only six years old and he found

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Speaker 3: That's not something you know, a six year old want

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Speaker 5: As Edward aged, Dorry says she watched his behavior change.

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Speaker 5: He would get aggressive and violent, hitting and biting people.

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Speaker 2: He just kept talking about, Oh people was Satans, We

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Speaker 2: And that's when like my mom finally decided, you know,

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Speaker 6: And so the cycle began.

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Speaker 5: Edward would rotate in and out of hospitals during psychotic episodes,

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Speaker 5: Allowed to leave the hospital alone because at eighteen, Edward

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Speaker 5: One time Edward was released from the hospital without supervision and.

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Speaker 3: They were released his medicine to him, as that are

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Speaker 5: Edward was left in charge of his own medicine and

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Speaker 6: And his behavior was getting worse.

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Speaker 3: He was attacking me for no reason.

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Speaker 5: The family felt helpless, and at this point we should

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Speaker 5: just sidestep for a minute to lay out what exactly

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Speaker 5: we mean by serious mental illness.

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Speaker 7: We're typically talking about illnesses that include psychosis.

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Speaker 5: He runs the Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit that pushes

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Speaker 7: So things like schizophrenia, schizo effective disorder, and bipolar disorder.

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Speaker 6: As a nation.

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Speaker 5: Serious mental illness is hard enough to handle if you're

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Speaker 7: And mental illness is like any other illness, So if

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Speaker 5: And that's what happened with Edward. Several months before the

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Speaker 2: He was just recently in there. I remember on Thanksgiving

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Speaker 5: The day after Edward fought with dari was when he

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Speaker 5: End quote see Jesus Christ defeats evil. Jacinto Suarez was

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Speaker 5: Tragic events like this one fuel fear and stigma, and

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Speaker 5: To be clear, tackling everything that's wrong with the mental

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Speaker 6: But as John Snook, the Mental health Advocate.

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Speaker 5: And Edward did make it into a hospital bed and

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Speaker 5: Pricing after years of scandals at state run psychiatric institutions.

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Speaker 5: In nineteen sixty three, President Kennedy signed the Community Mental

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Speaker 9: We're dealing with communities that are long suffering, and they've

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Speaker 10: When Kendra was pushed toward death in front of a

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Speaker 6: This is Kendra's mom.

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Speaker 5: In nineteen ninety nine, her family played a critical role

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Speaker 5: in passing Kendro's Law, a state law that created something

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Speaker 10: Most of all, Kendra's law represents hope that another family

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Speaker 6: But assisted out patient treatment is not a cure.

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Speaker 5: John Snook from the Treatment Advocacy Center says this is

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Speaker 7: Because we are in this cycle of letting people fall

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Speaker 5: Although Edward Cordero may have qualified for AOT when he

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Speaker 5: But there is one solution that pretty much everyone agrees

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Speaker 11: We're not of East New York, along with Best, which

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Speaker 3: Town over we want.

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Speaker 5: I'm standing on a street corner in Edward's old neighborhood

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Speaker 6: Today, I'm going with Anna on a home visit.

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Speaker 11: We are going to see a client that's actually receptive

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Speaker 10: Yes, how was it all right?

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Speaker 5: After the client got his medication, Anna just chatted with

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Speaker 5: In addition to visits like this, one part of Anna's

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Speaker 12: This East New York health hub is offering so many

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Speaker 5: Anna's based at the hub, and many of her clients

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Speaker 5: It's spending hundreds of millions of dollars on mental health services.

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Speaker 5: Doctor Gary Belkin is one of the people leading that charge.

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Speaker 13: We're catching up with being satisfied with a system that

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Speaker 5: Belkin is now the chief of Policy and Strategy for

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Speaker 5: Darry told me she visits and talks to her brother often.

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Speaker 2: They go, oh, I can't wait till I see you,

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Speaker 2: like and I love you and like, you know, stuff

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I guess we mad emotion.

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Speaker 5: A few months ago, I went to watch one of

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Speaker 5: Edward's court hearings. He was almost unrecognizable from the angry

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Speaker 5: young man in the New York Daily News video. He

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Speaker 5: had gained weight, grew his hair out, and looked soft

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Speaker 5: and sad. The judge checked in with him and his lawyer,

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Speaker 5: and then as he was leaving, Edward turned to his mom.

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Speaker 5: She was sitting behind him crying, and he smiled and whispered,

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Speaker 5: Hi Mom, and in his handcuffs he tried to wave.

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Speaker 1: This episode was produced by Maggie Freeling. It was edited

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Speaker 1: by Alison McCadam and mixed by Stephanie Lebau. Fact Checking

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Speaker 1: for this episode by Amy Tardiff. The Latino USA team

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Speaker 1: also includes Victori Estrada, Renaldo Leanos Junior, Andrea Lopez Crusado,

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Speaker 1: Johni mar Marquez, Marta Martinez, Mike Sargent, Nour Saudi and

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Speaker 1: Nancy Trujillo.

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Speaker 7: Penni.

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Speaker 1: Lei Ramirez is our co executive producer. Our senior engineer

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Speaker 1: is Julia Caruso, our marketing managers lisnowon up. Our theme

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Speaker 1: music was composed by Seger Ruinos. I'm your host and

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Speaker 1: executive producer Maria Josa. Join us again on our next episode.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, I'll see all of you on social

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Speaker 1: media and on Instagram. Aestel Approxima, Yes Bye.

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Speaker 6: Funding for Latino US coverage of a Culture of Health

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Speaker 6: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Latino USA is made possible in

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Speaker 6: part by W. K. Kellogg Foundation, a partner with Communities

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Speaker 6: where Children Come First, and the TAU Foundation,