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A Racist Cop Doesn't Realize He's Being Recorded · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: All the do you live.
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  Speaker 2: This is Officer Ashlyn Ploff, and she just punched this
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  Speaker 2: black woman in the face. What's worse is that this
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  Speaker 2: is a pattern for her, and she's well known to
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  Speaker 2: use excessive force on people of color. Up to this point,
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  Speaker 2: she and her department have gone unpunished. But there are
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  Speaker 2: countless cases of racist officers who forget they're being recorded,
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  Speaker 2: like when a cop repeatedly shouts slurs at an innocent
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  Speaker 2: black man. For me, but first, let's look at a
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  Speaker 2: cop who did something so racist it got him fined
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars and fired from the police force entirely.
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  Speaker 2: The incident happened in San Diego when he approached Amuri
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  Speaker 2: Johnson for smoking in a non smoking area. The only
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  Speaker 2: problem Johnson didn't have a lighter cigarette or vape on
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  Speaker 2: him even if he was smoking. Do you think that
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  Speaker 2: warranted this treatment?
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  Speaker 1: Straight? Look, hell, bro, stop touching me. Bro, obviously you'm
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  Speaker 1: going to where it smack. Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, what I tell you? I told you out
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  Speaker 3: waiting for somebody to come here. They right here, Bro,
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  Speaker 3: sit down. Oh my god, you're toughing. Hey, you're talking
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  Speaker 3: to stop? Hey, you don't stop, Bro, you gooky as hell.
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  Speaker 1: Bro.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, mister Dadgs, you're making a big ass deal out
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  Speaker 3: of nothing. Brody, You're you're making a big nothing Brodie down.
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  Speaker 1: You real big though, huh? You real big one that?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 1: You real big and you're real tough. Okay, thank you, broll,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I have no reason to be detain about you. Brown. Stop?
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  Speaker 1: What am I knowing?
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  Speaker 4: Yo?
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  Speaker 3: Are funny as hell, bro, the funniest hell Broyle three.
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  Speaker 3: You already put your hands on me, Bro, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: put nothing on you. Brought on camera so you can
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  Speaker 3: check her. Bro y'all hell a goofy, bro, I'm talking
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  Speaker 3: to you and you smack me?
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  Speaker 1: Bro? Nobody snacked you? Bro? Wat smack you did it?
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  Speaker 1: Why smack you?
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  Speaker 2: The just claims that this treatment was because Johnson slapped
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  Speaker 2: his hand away, a moment not clearly caught on his
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  Speaker 2: body camp.
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  Speaker 1: What the bro? Do you know what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: I just got here that the school is in the wrong.
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  Speaker 5: He tried to come up on him like he's not
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  Speaker 5: doing shit. He's waiting for me to get back from
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  Speaker 5: the store right when I come back. Instead of him
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  Speaker 5: just apologize and being like, oh, you're right, I get it,
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  Speaker 5: he tried to grab him and choke him and put
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  Speaker 5: him on the thing. Obviously, my friend is gonna put
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  Speaker 5: his hands back. This felled in the wrong, and he
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  Speaker 5: could just say that and let it go. Instead, he's
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  Speaker 5: trying to oh no, Look, he's.
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  Speaker 1: Just trying to figure out what was going on there.
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  Speaker 5: Bro, He's being a whole lot of Oh God, and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know you're wrong, Bro.
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  Speaker 2: This guy would be an awful lot more helpful if
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't so aggressive. But he's exactly right. Johnson was
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  Speaker 2: simply waiting for him to arrive in this spot when
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  Speaker 2: he was approached by Dages, and was exhibiting no suspicious
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  Speaker 2: behavior whatsoever. But in the conversation that followed, he accidentally
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  Speaker 2: reveals the true reason for this stop.
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  Speaker 1: He looked at my name like thirty minutes ago. Bro,
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  Speaker 1: why am I still here?
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  Speaker 6: I don't got nothing on me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I'm being a citizen.
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  Speaker 6: So you know what I'm saying that that's why, that's
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  Speaker 6: why I'm frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sitting outside for no reason. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: You really don't get it.
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  Speaker 6: Though you don't get it, I know I understand you
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  Speaker 6: being empathetic.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that you know what I'm saying, but you
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  Speaker 1: don't get it. Bro. I already know what it is. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm black out here. That's what the issue is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Age is agreeing to this almost seems like a joke.
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  Speaker 2: Even if this was a sarcastic comment, it speaks volumes
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  Speaker 2: that this is something he feels comfortable joking about. If
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  Speaker 2: the cops let it go at this point, all might
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  Speaker 2: have been forgiven. Johnson was understanding and the female officer
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  Speaker 2: was polite, but DAEs decides he's not finished and moves
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  Speaker 2: in to arrest him.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, do you being a place under arrest for two
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  Speaker 1: forty one? To you? Okay? Yep, all right? What's two on?
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  Speaker 1: The officer say, okay, Red, Hey, hey, Bro, you are
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  Speaker 1: a whole ass.
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  Speaker 5: Hey God, Hey call Terry, Hey call Jerry, Hey, Nick
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  Speaker 5: cald Larry.
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  Speaker 1: You're bro? You bro? Yeah? Hey, except for you're the
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  Speaker 1: one that hit me. Bro. I they hit you, Bro.
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  Speaker 1: You sorted grabbing me. Bro. I told you to stop
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  Speaker 1: touching me.
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  Speaker 2: Bro.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the police offer. You know it's on film, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's how far you think it's gonna go?
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  Speaker 3: Hope you don't shoot me in his back this car
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  Speaker 3: some shiitcause crup officers, you're for sure a crups because
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  Speaker 3: I'm not posting me in a backup car in the
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  Speaker 3: first place.
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  Speaker 2: Dages's searches Johnson then sits him in the back of
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  Speaker 2: his patrol car before taking him away to be charged.
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  Speaker 2: He also allegedly lied on his police report, saying that
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  Speaker 2: he observed Johnson smoking and that he took a fighting
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  Speaker 2: stance when he was approached. But Johnson wouldn't stand for
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  Speaker 2: this and decided to sue the city of La Mesa
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  Speaker 2: and Dages himself, citing excessive force and wrongful arrest. Around
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  Speaker 2: a month into the lawsuit, La Mesa agreed to pay
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  Speaker 2: a sum of one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: to Johnson. None of this money would come out of
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  Speaker 2: Dage's pocket, but he was swiftly fired from the La
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  Speaker 2: Mesa Police department just two years after he joined. Ashlyn Pluff, however,
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  Speaker 2: punched a black woman in the face, and her entire
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  Speaker 2: police department were just as bad and were all caught
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  Speaker 2: clearly on camera.
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  Speaker 1: You know. The further it's by generous. I wonder how
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  Speaker 1: many surge would just lay this thing over into this take.
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  Speaker 2: Ashland's police department were dispatched to a house party in Toledo, Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Guests at the house weren't causing a disturbance and they
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  Speaker 2: didn't seem violent or rowdy whatsoever. So when the cops
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  Speaker 2: decided to move in to arrest them seemingly a random
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  Speaker 2: it raised serious alarm bells.
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  Speaker 1: He who lives here? Who's the owner?
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  Speaker 7: I can talk to? Who lives here? I'm asked him,
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  Speaker 7: who lives here? If you do all right, arrest him?
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  Speaker 7: Him him and.
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  Speaker 1: Took my house? Shall touch out? They'll touch me house?
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  Speaker 4: As you know how you pushing.
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  Speaker 1: Don't stay back, don't stay back, disperse everybody.
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  Speaker 2: The cop tells them that they're getting charges of failure
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  Speaker 2: to disperse, and in the state of Ohio, this charge
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  Speaker 2: can only be given out when the suspect's presence creates
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  Speaker 2: a high likelihood of physical harm or public inconvenience. In
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  Speaker 2: this scenario, the cop is clearly just looking for a
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  Speaker 2: way to get the guests and cops.
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  Speaker 7: All rights sas in the back of cars. Okay, I'll
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  Speaker 7: explain to you. I stood here and I told everybody.
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  Speaker 1: To go in the house and to listen. Are you
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  Speaker 1: gonna let me explain? You to talk over me? I
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  Speaker 1: stood here. I told everybody in here go in the
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  Speaker 1: house or leave.
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  Speaker 7: After I said that, nobody moved, I said, you're going
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  Speaker 7: to jail.
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  Speaker 1: You don't move. Nobody moved.
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  Speaker 2: The precise reason that nobody moved might be difficult for
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  Speaker 2: this cop to comprehend, but it's actually because he never
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  Speaker 2: asked anyone to go inside the house. He simply asked
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  Speaker 2: who lived there and then started arresting people. It should
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  Speaker 2: also be noted that if this call was for public disturbance,
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  Speaker 2: the commotion has increased dramatically since the police arrived, and
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  Speaker 2: it almost seems like they're the ones that caused it.
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  Speaker 2: But if you think the cops are about to stop there,
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  Speaker 2: you're dead wrong. As this officer decides to take out
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  Speaker 2: his weapon to threaten the residents.
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  Speaker 3: Night, let's go, time to move, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Who else wants to jail?
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  Speaker 2: This?
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  Speaker 1: A're about to go? Go go? Why don't you listen?
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  Speaker 1: Just go home. I don't have patience people to jail,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm around you know the further, it's by generous.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how many surge would just light this thing,
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  Speaker 1: this take.
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  Speaker 2: These snirky remarks from the cop are frankly terrifying, as
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  Speaker 2: he essentially admitting he'd open fire on everyone here if
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  Speaker 2: he had the opportunity. He's drunk on power, and he's
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  Speaker 2: not the only one. Ashland Pluff is also on the
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  Speaker 2: scene doing exactly the same thing, only her story ends
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  Speaker 2: in an even more violent manner.
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  Speaker 1: You're not walking back up to that house, Turn back around.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, then.
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  Speaker 1: I can take her ass to Jill.
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  Speaker 4: I don't give a.
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  Speaker 1: Failure to get the out now go.
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  Speaker 2: Tensions are clearly extremely high right now. However, it makes
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  Speaker 2: the following footage even crazier is that the girl we're
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  Speaker 2: about to meet is professional boxer Osha Jones, an Olympic
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  Speaker 2: level athlete who should be respected and admired for her talents,
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  Speaker 2: but instead she was assaulted, plain and simple.
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  Speaker 1: Back up, go how as you go.
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  Speaker 3: Back on asking for your.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, give me your bar, give me no, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: bluff here.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that to her phone?
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  Speaker 4: Up? What's up? You can't do that to her phone? Okay,
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  Speaker 4: give me her bow.
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  Speaker 1: That's her phone, so you gotta keep it. I give
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  Speaker 1: my no, you're not getting your mona. Anyone bring my dead.
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  Speaker 4: Stop moving, Calm down, you angry stop be angry?
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  Speaker 1: All I said, she squeezing my head. Whip he comes
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  Speaker 1: to that. She just hit me.
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  Speaker 5: You see, I know she just hit me.
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  Speaker 4: M olympic, I am, I ask you bash.
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  Speaker 1: Look oh mind, he was chalking on mind. It's three
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  Speaker 1: fast us.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way to justify this attack. Oh Shay was
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by officers and restrained, and Ashland punched her for
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  Speaker 2: no reason other than anger and hatred. However, unlike the
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  Speaker 2: officer from before, it seems that Ashland had completely failed
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  Speaker 2: to consider the facts that every cop here was equipped
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  Speaker 2: with a bodycam and she was in plain view of
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  Speaker 2: all of them. But in a tragic twist of fate,
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors found this use of force to be justified. They
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  Speaker 2: posit that O'Shea was resisting arrest and the punch was
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  Speaker 2: a compliance technique. Instead, she was verbally reprimanded for her
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  Speaker 2: use of profanity in the incident, but received no criminal charges.
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  Speaker 2: But there's no better example of racism than yelling racial
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  Speaker 2: slurs at a suspect, and that's what officer Tim Garcia
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  Speaker 2: was got doing. On July fourteenth, twenty eighteen, the suspect
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  Speaker 2: Duane Robinson was allegedly getting aggressive and confrontational with mall patrons,
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  Speaker 2: using vulgar language and threatening them. After Robinson was asked
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  Speaker 2: to leave, he complied, but the guards continued to follow
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  Speaker 2: him and eventually detained him.
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  Speaker 1: Say look, man, look I would like that.
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  Speaker 6: I said, Look what it was. I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 6: already walking up, so I try to go back that way.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, I thought there was a suite and
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  Speaker 6: they grab my bag. I said, look, man, don't grab
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  Speaker 6: my bag like that. All they had tims like it's
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  Speaker 6: not an exit over here, yea, And it was like,
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  Speaker 6: all right, we want you to exit the mall.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, look, man, I'm not about to exit
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  Speaker 1: the ball bro I said, look, I want the cops.
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  Speaker 6: Here to let y'all know.
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  Speaker 2: The y'all look, I didn't even need to recap. Robinson
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  Speaker 2: has basically said that he was confused why security asked
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  Speaker 2: him to leave, but he complied until they started to
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  Speaker 2: get physical with him. He then asked them to alert
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  Speaker 2: police to try and work everything out, but as it
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  Speaker 2: turns out, this would be a huge mistake. The cop
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  Speaker 2: would soon turn out to be not just rude, but
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  Speaker 2: derogatory and insulting.
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  Speaker 1: My question to you is if they tell you to
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  Speaker 1: leave the ball, you to leave them all? No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to. That's what I'm saying. You don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: But if they tell you, are you going to leave
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  Speaker 1: them all? Okay? They don't have to tell you. If
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  Speaker 1: they don't want you here, you're not here. Okay, that
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  Speaker 1: makes okay, here's the deal. Now you're gonna get argumentative
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  Speaker 1: with me, they will you in jail. I'll put you
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  Speaker 1: in jail. Cool all that, okay, Cool, you have your idea.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just get your information on and get their information,
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  Speaker 1: take my information. Yeah, they might give you a criminal trustpass.
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  Speaker 1: What you mean you mean they can what you mean? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here's the deal. Got to ask you to tell you
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  Speaker 1: that I'm gonna make go ahead and go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: stop sensing up. You know what. Now you're under arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Sit up, sit up, sit down, sit down, sit down,
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  Speaker 1: sit down. Now you under arrest trust.
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  Speaker 2: After Robinson allegedly refused to hand over his ID, the
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  Speaker 2: cops decided to arrest him. At this point, they have
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  Speaker 2: decent reason for this. Robinson did refuse to leave the
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  Speaker 2: property when asked, and if Garcia is to be believed,
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  Speaker 2: he even took up an aggressive stance when he was
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  Speaker 2: asked to hand over his I D. But that's not
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  Speaker 2: the important part that comes when Robinson is on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: confed and helpless, as the comps start to become more
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  Speaker 2: blunt and abusive.
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  Speaker 1: Say look you no, no, no, took it back. It's
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  Speaker 1: all caral fast, Bro, dude, Look how old I am
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  Speaker 1: you think I act back? I listened to all your
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  Speaker 1: stupid for like five minutes, bro, and I said, you said?
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  Speaker 6: I said, look, I said, look, before I give you
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  Speaker 6: all my ID, can y'all tell me why would I
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  Speaker 6: get a criminal trust pass?
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  Speaker 1: And I told you if you're not shopping here all right?
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  Speaker 1: Look did they don't even tell I don't even have
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  Speaker 1: criminal trust? Bess you do? Now now you're going to jail.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my arm, I'm not your fool.
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  Speaker 1: I was asking right, and we asked for your idea
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  Speaker 1: to Look.
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  Speaker 6: I said, look, can y'all tell me about the people
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  Speaker 6: are disturbing the peace, sending the piece?
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to give us the way you were raised? Book,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you how you raised.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you police officers are supposed to do nothing other
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  Speaker 2: than protect the public and de escalate tense situations. But
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  Speaker 2: it seems that Garcia has absolutely no concern for his
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  Speaker 2: image whatsoever as he decides to take it up a
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  Speaker 2: notch by using slurs and acting blatantly races.
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  Speaker 1: You do, hey, here, here, look, this is a police police.
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  Speaker 1: How do you like that? Police said, say it right
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  Speaker 1: back to you. I obviously I don't on camera. I'll
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  Speaker 1: say it, do I look like you? Well, only three
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  Speaker 1: point three point faran Africa. There you go, say it right?
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  Speaker 1: But are at the end. If you're gonna say it,
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  Speaker 1: don't don't call me U.
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  Speaker 2: Not only did the cop just say all of that
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  Speaker 2: completely unapologetically, he did it all right after acknowledging that
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  Speaker 2: he's happy to do it on camera just to prove
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  Speaker 2: a point, but he wasn't done yet.
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  Speaker 1: For me, Oh man, I was trying to get it right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get it right.
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  Speaker 6: Where do you want me to go?
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  Speaker 1: That way? Everything was going good. We had a you
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  Speaker 1: and I had a good report.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Y'alla talk about your life. I think you, I think
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  Speaker 1: you your life will want me to do that. I
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  Speaker 1: think you will.
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  Speaker 2: The verbal abuse should have been far more than enough.
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  Speaker 2: But once the cops got outside and close to their
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  Speaker 2: patrol cars, they decided it was also time to throw
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  Speaker 2: some physical abuse into the mix too, completely unwarranted.
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  Speaker 6: Stop just stop.
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  Speaker 1: Because I have to search you. Are you to do
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  Speaker 1: is behave? Why can't you just behave? Dude? Dude, you
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  Speaker 1: keep tensing up, you keep getting it there, you go
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  Speaker 1: give you because we got to make sure you ain't
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  Speaker 1: got nothing in there.
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  Speaker 2: If you think it's unusual that the cops are taking
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  Speaker 2: Robinson's shoes off, you'd be completely right. He's being arrested
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  Speaker 2: for trespassing, not a drug charge, not a weapons charge,
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  Speaker 2: and nothing dangerous whatsoever, especially when you realize that the
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  Speaker 2: cops didn't even search his shoes and forced him to
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  Speaker 2: walk on a hot pavement in the middle of July barefoot.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, you stopped harassing me. This all would have been
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  Speaker 1: over if you would have just handed me your ID.
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  Speaker 1: You had you pulled it out of your wallet. You're
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  Speaker 1: fixing it, fixing a hand it to me, and then
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  Speaker 1: you pulled it back and you just didn't want to cooperate. Man,
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  Speaker 1: You had it, you were there. All you had to
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  Speaker 1: do is give me your idal. Gonna stand up ready, Okay, yep,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna go with.
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  Speaker 2: Robinson was brought back to jail on charges of trespassing
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  Speaker 2: and resisting it. But it's what happened to the officers
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  Speaker 2: after the event that was so interesting and gives us
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  Speaker 2: a clear window into the corrupt insides of a police department.
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  Speaker 2: An investigation was of course launched into Garcia, and Garcia's
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  Speaker 2: sergeant wrote that he thought a written reprimand would be
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  Speaker 2: the appropriate punishment. According to him, Garcia didn't use the
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  Speaker 2: word in a racist manner or directed in anyone. He
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  Speaker 2: simply repeated the word back to Robinson. Two lieutenants also
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  Speaker 2: reviewed the incident, and they concurred with the recommendation of
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  Speaker 2: a letter of reprimand. Thankfully, though, the deputy chief saw
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: the footage and believed that the banter, escalation and use
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: of profanity was extremely unprofessional and forwarded the incident to
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: internal affairs for a formal investigation. Eventually, the video made
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: its way to the San Antonio police chief, who recommended
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: an indefinite suspension for Garcia. He said it was by
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: no means reprimandable conduct. This whole thing was as wrong
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: as it can be in a last ditch effort to
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: defend himself, Garcia topped all his actions off with a
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: final derogatory and insulting statement, claiming that all he did
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: was use a similar language as a means of communicating
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: his point, repeating his language back in order to speak
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: a vernacular he would understand. In January of twenty nineteen,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Garcia was indefinitely suspended from his role with the San
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Antonio Police Department.