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Speaker 1: We are the average black family trying to fight against

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Speaker 1: a huge city, and everywhere we turn, we're here the

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Speaker 1: doors getting slammed in our face. My name is chakraral Wells.

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Speaker 1: They want you to stop fighting, They want you to

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Speaker 1: give up. They want you just to accept that your

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Speaker 1: child is dead and just move on. I can't, can't

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Speaker 1: do it. This is the story of my son, Courtney.

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Speaker 1: You know my name is Corney Copeman. Two fifteen is

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Speaker 1: the biggest here of my life. He was a good child.

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Speaker 1: He loved his family. He was a ladies man, even

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Speaker 1: with his auntie and his grandmother. He got that smile

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Speaker 1: with his dead folds. I just remember thinking to myself,

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Speaker 1: like where does he get all this energy from? I

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Speaker 1: chance to wrap her. Courtney Copelan was a good friend

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Speaker 1: of mine. In he wound up with a bullet in

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Speaker 1: his back outside of Chicago police station. Who ever did

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Speaker 1: this to us? Soun as, did you turn yourself in?

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Speaker 1: As this you ask for forgiveness from God? And it's

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Speaker 1: the story of my search for the truth. So we

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Speaker 1: would with the flyers and we were on the radio.

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Speaker 1: If anybody that can help us get answered. You want

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Speaker 1: to know what you are did you see anybody running?

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Speaker 1: How many shots? None of that stuff was asked along

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Speaker 1: the way. I teamed up with journalists and we took

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Speaker 1: this case to a whole new level. Okay, so you

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Speaker 1: heard two shots fired on the block. I was working

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Speaker 1: in the emergency room and I remember him specifically being

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Speaker 1: handcuffed to the bed. What do you do with this information?

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Speaker 1: None of this expense to me as wherever God not

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Speaker 1: have been makes sense. This is a podcast about trust

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Speaker 1: and the police. There was a rhyme I heard back

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Speaker 1: in high school. You were put here to protect us,

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Speaker 1: But who protects us from you? This is Somebody, a

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Speaker 1: co production of the Invisible Institute, the Inter South and

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Speaker 1: Topic Studios in association with Tenderfoot TV. Everybody the songbodes

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Speaker 1: every day. This is somebody's child. Somebody deserves to know

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Speaker 1: what happened. I deserve to know what happened to my

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Speaker 1: son coming soon March one,