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ROR 155: Robert Brooks · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if they
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Speaker 2: A Department of Correction read an in state present to.
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Speaker 2: This is Randall Bob currently serving one thousand, two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fourteen years for capital murder on Roberts, currently being
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Speaker 2: housed at key Mount Correctional Center in Oakwood, Virginia, US A.
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Speaker 1: Today. I'm gonna talk about Robert Brooks. I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of people you know who's been watching the news
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Speaker 1: have seen this. He was a forty three year old
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Speaker 1: African American man who died on December the tenth, twenty
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Speaker 1: and twenty four. He was in Marcie Correctional Facility in
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Speaker 1: New York. Excuse me and you know, Yeah, he was
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Speaker 1: sent there for a medical examination, and while he was
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Speaker 1: handcuffed and seated on the examination table, he was he
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Speaker 1: was meat to death, you know, by several several staff members,
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Speaker 1: and it's the names. One of the names was a
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Speaker 1: Nick Angelone, Anzeloney, David Kingsley, Anthony Verena, Christopher Walrath, Matthew Gallaha,
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Speaker 1: and another unnamed officer. I think they was all charged
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Speaker 1: with second degree murder. And then you had Michael Mayshaw,
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Speaker 1: Michael Fisher, and David Walters they're facing manslaughter charges, while
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Speaker 1: some guy named Nicholas Gentile is charged with evidence tampering.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of people, you know, are outreached, unders understandably.
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Speaker 1: So you know, you've got a man that's his shackle,
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Speaker 1: his handcuffed, probably have waste chain, you know, wrapped around
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Speaker 1: his waist, because that's usually the way they do it,
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Speaker 1: at least here in Virginia, whenever you go to a
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Speaker 1: medical facility and they just for whatever reason, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter whether the jude was talking, doesn't matter if he
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Speaker 1: was talking about their mama or in their lives or whatever.
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Speaker 1: You don't beat a man while he's in shackles and
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Speaker 1: handcuffs and tied up, doesn't matter what the provocation is.
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Speaker 1: Every last one of those men, they're a straight up bitch.
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Speaker 1: I have no respect for him, and I can't wait
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Speaker 1: for them to be found guilty and go to prison,
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Speaker 1: because this is the time they're going to put them
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Speaker 1: in protective custody. More than likely they might even send
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Speaker 1: them out of state, and they still go into protective
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Speaker 1: custody other states. Just because you go to protective custody
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're guaranteed your safety, because there are some
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Speaker 1: boys who will check in just to get their hands
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Speaker 1: on you. And I really hope this happens to him
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Speaker 1: to send a message to every other correctional officer in America,
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Speaker 1: because while everybody is outraged that this man was beat
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Speaker 1: to death, what about the thousands that are beaten but
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Speaker 1: don't die. I cannot begin to tell you how many
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Speaker 1: times I've seen inmates and shackles and handcuffs get this
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Speaker 1: beat out of get star curb stamped, broken ribs, lacerated spleens,
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Speaker 1: and just all other kinds of damage done to them,
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Speaker 1: broken arms, broken legs. But they didn't die. Then, because
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Speaker 1: they didn't die, nobody cares why is it the public?
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Speaker 1: Why is it the news media? Why is it the politicians?
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Speaker 1: Why is it the legal system? Why do they only
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Speaker 1: care about us and the abuses we suffer when it's
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Speaker 1: a death and it's called on camera. Look, if you care,
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Speaker 1: then care. If you don't, fuck that's look I can respect.
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Speaker 1: If you're in the news media, you're a politician, or
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Speaker 1: you know, commonwealth attorney or prosecute attorney, you judge whatever
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Speaker 1: in case may be. Look, if you don't care, then
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Speaker 1: don't care. I can respect that. Don't only care. Oh well,
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Speaker 1: there's something wrong with this because these stupid ass people
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Speaker 1: have got caught beaten a dude to death on camera,
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Speaker 1: and then that camera footage was released. What about the
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Speaker 1: thousands who went through the exact same thing that Robert
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Speaker 1: Books went through with long exception, they didn't die. If
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Speaker 1: you want justice, then you have to want justice for
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Speaker 1: everything that is wrong in the prison system. If you
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Speaker 1: want change, you have to change everything in the prison
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Speaker 1: system otherwhile walk away, then go jerk off the fortnight
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Speaker 1: stop with the half ashes out there. People. Look, if
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Speaker 1: you care, great, then care. Just do it all the
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Speaker 1: way because there's no difference between what these officers did
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Speaker 1: and to what they do every single day. Beating someone
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Speaker 1: while they're in shackles and handcuffs is abusing your power.
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Speaker 1: It's breaking the law. It is illegal, it is immoral,
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Speaker 1: and it is unethical, and it shows that you are
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Speaker 1: a fucking cower and a bitch. There's some officers i've met.
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Speaker 1: I've got the utmost respectful i've met. I've met son
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Speaker 1: that if y'all get the arguing, y'all get the fighting.
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Speaker 1: It's one on one man, Oh man, When lose a
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Speaker 1: daw it don't matter. Once you're done, you're done. That's
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Speaker 1: the end of it. You know. I've seen officers, especially
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Speaker 1: right on your way back in the day when the
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Speaker 1: place first opened up. I've seen officers get their ass
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Speaker 1: beat and they never rode the charge, they never retaliated.
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Speaker 1: You don't see that anymore. I don't know why you
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Speaker 1: don't see it no more. You see stuff like this.
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Speaker 1: You see a whole bunch of them sticking dogs on
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Speaker 1: guys while they're laying on the ground. Everything is over
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Speaker 1: with their shackle, their handcuffed, the situation has been secured,
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Speaker 1: and they still sick the dog on because well, hell,
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Speaker 1: they think it's funny. They sit over and to watch
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Speaker 1: commander's office, and they go when they rewind the tapes
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Speaker 1: and they watch it over and over again. Yet nobody
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Speaker 1: cares about that. They only care when a person dies
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Speaker 1: and whatever Department of Corrections can't cover it up, they
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Speaker 1: can't hide it, and the video footage gets released one
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Speaker 1: way or another. Then and only then does the media care.
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Speaker 1: Then and only then does the politician care. Look, prison
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Speaker 1: serve a viable function in society. As much as I
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Speaker 1: hate prisons, I'm grateful for him. I'm grateful for the
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Speaker 1: men and women who actually take these jobs. They're not
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Speaker 1: easy jobs, you know. As a matter of fact, it's
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Speaker 1: kind of strange because you have all of this information
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Speaker 1: is coming out now. All of these officers are being
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Speaker 1: charged right now, and at the exact same time, every
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Speaker 1: single New York prison correctional officer on strike. The governor
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Speaker 1: actually of New York actually had to send in the
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Speaker 1: National Guard to take over running the prisons. Hell, granted,
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Speaker 1: every single prisoner is locked down in the cell. They
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Speaker 1: ain't coming out, you know, because let's face it, the
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Speaker 1: National Guards don't know how to run a prison. I
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Speaker 1: kin I get locked like you know, they're understaffed, they're underpaid.
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Speaker 1: It's a job, people, it really is, like I have
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Speaker 1: respectful offen.
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Speaker 2: Know.
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Speaker 1: Look, that doesn't mean I like them. It doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: I'm kissing their ass. And I ain't institutionalise than any
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Speaker 1: of that bullshit. You know.
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Speaker 2: I'm still a convict first and foremost. You know, However,
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Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 1: Wise enough and I am smart enough to look at
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Speaker 1: the issues from different angles than other than how I
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Speaker 1: feel about it. It's a difficult job. We can be
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Speaker 1: a handful of help. I've been a handful of most
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Speaker 1: of my prison beer. I give these people fish.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: They're not happy with the fact that I'm running a
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Speaker 1: podcast from in person. They're not happy with the fact
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Speaker 1: that I say the things that I say about prison.
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Speaker 1: You know, I say the things I say about some
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Speaker 1: of the people that work in here and so on
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Speaker 1: and so forth. You know, at the end of the day, though,
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Speaker 1: they're going to have to deal with it because I
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Speaker 1: still have freedom of speech, and I will continue to
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Speaker 1: do this as long as I have people on the
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Speaker 1: street willing to help me put it out there, you know.
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Speaker 1: But I do show respect at the same time, if
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Speaker 1: you do right by me, I will honor you for it.
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Speaker 1: If you do wrong by me, I will expose you
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Speaker 1: for it. At the end of the day, I am
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Speaker 1: who I am, and I just I don't really care
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Speaker 1: one way or the other, however it works out. I
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Speaker 1: live and stand on what I say. I am who
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Speaker 1: I am. I'm making no apologies for it now. That
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean I'm always right. That doesn't mean what I
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Speaker 1: believe is always right. That doesn't mean what I say
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Speaker 1: is always right. I can recognize that. And if I'm
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Speaker 1: wrong and you can show me I'm wrong, I will
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Speaker 1: listen to it. I will evaluate it, I will meditate
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Speaker 1: and think upon it. And if I come to the
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Speaker 1: conclusion that you will right, I will change what I say.
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Speaker 1: And I will come back and apologize for being wrong,
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Speaker 1: and so on and so forth, and I will do
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Speaker 1: what I can to make it right, right or wrong.
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Speaker 1: I'm not half assed about anything right or wrong. I
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Speaker 1: don't just care about a situation only because I saw
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Speaker 1: it on the news, only because people care about it
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden. I care because I care. I
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Speaker 1: try to make things better. I try to fix things.
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Speaker 1: I am so sick of in the media in this country.
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Speaker 1: I'm so sick of these livels out there to talk
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Speaker 1: about tolerance and caring in this and that, But yet
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Speaker 1: they only do it when it concerns their belief, when
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Speaker 1: it's convenient. You know, people only care because Robert Brooks
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Speaker 1: God and it was splashed all over the news. What
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Speaker 1: about the hundreds every year that die in the state
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Speaker 1: prison systems, the federal prison systems that never make the news.
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Speaker 1: What about those that they've been beaten to death by
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Speaker 1: the CEOs and the staff members, and then they just
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Speaker 1: simply take some inmate and write him the charges and
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Speaker 1: take him to corse Fort and blame the death on
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Speaker 1: them and use use an innocent inmate to cover.
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Speaker 2: It up.
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Speaker 1: Because you think it doesn't happen, but it does. What
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Speaker 1: about the ones that are getting to beat out of them.
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Speaker 1: They're getting their bones broken, they're getting internal damage. But
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Speaker 1: because they don't die, because they survived the little ass
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Speaker 1: whoop and they've been given nobody cares, Nobody says anything,
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Speaker 1: nobody wants to do anything. If you're not going to care, fine,
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Speaker 1: don't care. But don't care about Robert Brookes simply because
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Speaker 1: he's on the news and you actually got to see
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Speaker 1: the video of him dying of him being beaten to death.
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Speaker 1: If you're not going to care it, don't care. If
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Speaker 1: you are going to care, don't just care about him
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Speaker 1: because you saw it on the news. Care about every
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Speaker 1: single one of us, and do something about it. Start
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Speaker 1: writing your congressman, start writing your senators and so on
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Speaker 1: and so forth, and demanding change, demanding answers. Hook up
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Speaker 1: with a prison advocacy group and ask him, hey, how
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Speaker 1: can we help? What can we do? This right here
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Speaker 1: shows you treat someone like an animal, don't be surprised
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Speaker 1: when they come home back and like an animal. And
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Speaker 1: Robert Brooks ain't coming home. Unfortunately, the man lost his
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Speaker 1: life because a bunch of towers were too scared to
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Speaker 1: take the shackles and handcuffs off of them and give
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Speaker 1: them a one on one. Yeah, that's I mean, it's
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Speaker 1: you know, we call ourselves the greatest nation on earth,
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Speaker 1: but yet we have the worst prison system. How does
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Speaker 1: that work? Do you have one minute? How is it
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Speaker 1: that I would rather do time in Chinese prison than
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Speaker 1: do time in American prison. Something has to happen, something
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Speaker 1: has to give, because you've got all of these guys
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Speaker 1: that are being abused and beatening, they're going to come
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Speaker 1: home eventually, and they're going to take it out on
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Speaker 1: the people who didn't care. That's what happens if you
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Speaker 1: don't fix things now that check, it's gonna come home
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Speaker 1: the rust eventually, and it's gonna be angry chicken. If
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