Aug. 3, 2026

S12, Chapter 3: The Randy Cox Thing

S12, Chapter 3: The Randy Cox Thing
Tapes from the Darkside
S12, Chapter 3: The Randy Cox Thing

On the floor of a New Haven holding cell, paralyzed, while the officer standing over him laughed and asked why he kept winking, Randy Cox said: "I need somebody to take me seriously."

It's on page 17 of a 70-page internal affairs report, no news outlet ever printed it, and it's the reason this episode exists.

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Now let's get to the show.

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It's getting dot outside.

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In New Haven. It's a little past eight in the evening.

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There's still another hour of daylight. There's a block party

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on Lilac Street and a man named Randy Cox is

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in handcuffs. He's thirty six years old. The police drive

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him to a substation and move him into a transport van.

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No seatbelt because these vans don't have them, just the cold,

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hard metal of the bench. It's a short ride to

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the station. The doors shut and the van pulls out.

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There's a camera inside that van, and I've watched every

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second of the footage it captured. The van's moving thirty

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six miles an hour. The officer driving has his phone

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in his hand. A car up ahead runs a stop sign.

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He has a split second to react and he hits

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the brakes hard. That's the sound of a man's neck breaking.

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Tapes from the Dark Side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality.

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Listener discretion is advised.

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Back in episode one, we heard an interview with Carl

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Jacobsen and he dropped this line about Randy Cox.

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And you know, we're all human and we make mistakes.

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And I'm not looking to fire people, but I'm telling

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you the since the Randy Cox thing, in the incident

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that you're talking about, you have to treat the community

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with respect and dignity. That's what it comes down to.

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If the officers.

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Lilac Street, Newallville a little neighborhood in New Haven. It's

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mostly affordable housing with some historic homes. More police calls

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than most blocks get, but tonight is a night for celebration.

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The bloc party has music, people in the street on

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their porches, the kind of night where kids stay up

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past their bedtime, warm but not hot, low seventies, perfect weather. Juneteenth,

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the day America celebrates the official end of slavery. Randy

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Cox is there. The neighbors will tell reporters. He's the

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guy who makes little nights like this happen on this street.

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At eight two pm, a man calls nine to one

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one and says someone just threatened his wife with a gun.

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He gives a description, please stop Randy Cox. A few

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minutes later, because he matches it, they search him and

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they find he's carrying a Ruger nine millimeter loaded ten rounds.

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Bunny, Hey, I talked to you.

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I talked to you for a second. What's what I'm

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gonna cover my mind?

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We're doing his detaining the second.

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Effect n.

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Randy Cox is a convicted felon. That's a fact. He

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isn't allowed near a gun, let alone carrying it through

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a block party. So the charges begin to stack up.

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Threatening in the first degree, threatening in the second criminal,

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possession of a firearm, carrying without a permit, breach of piece,

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the cuffs go on in the back of the cruiser.

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On the short ride to the substation. Randy is not

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calm and he's not polite. The body cam catches him

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working the officer in the front seat little dick, pussy

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keep like the little girl you is, and he calls

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him a faggot, and then he says, quote, shoot you

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next month. Yes, he tells a cop he's gonna shoot

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him months later. Every charge against Randy Cox gets dropped.

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But dropped is not the same word as innocent. The

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man the neighbors describe who makes the block parties happen,

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the man described in the nine to one one call

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with a loaded gun and a felony record. It's the

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same man. On the same night, at the substation, the

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police transfer Randy to a van number one seven to one.

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There are no seat belts back there, but there are

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belt loops bolted inside, something for a passenger to hold.

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Nobody tells Randy they exist, and it might not have

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mattered anyways, because his hands were cuffed behind his back.

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At eight thirty four pm, the doors shut the officer

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driving as oscar das. Randy doesn't sit up. He lays

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himself down on the floor and kicks the walls up front.

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Diaz has his phone out scrolling, texting someone. At a

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red light, he takes a picture of Randy's paperwork and

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sends it. At one point, he's steering with his left

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hand so his right hand can keep the phone. The

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light turns green, and in the back, Randy picks himself

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up off the floor and sits back on the bench.

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The right thing to do at what turned out to

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be exactly at the wrong moment. At eight thirty six,

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a car runs the stop sign at Division and Mansfield.

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Diaz is doing thirty six and he stomps on the brakes.

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Ho huh.

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The breake throws Randy down the bench, neck first into

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the steel partition, hands cuffed behind him, nothing between the

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bone and the metal. The van doesn't stop. Diaz keeps driving,

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and Randy starts calling.

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Out huh huh, huh, huh oh.

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No ho ho ho.

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H o o hoo.

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Oh, Yes, I can't, officer Diaz then says, you're gonna

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have to wait. I can't open the door without another

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officer here. The camera in the back can see Randy

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laid out on the floor on his right side, his

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left leg folded up against his chest somewhere past Satrum Street.

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Diaz offers to call Randy an ambulance for when they

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get there.

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No listen, O my nest the man.

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I mean, please see Lee. I can't really, I don't

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wanna die like this.

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The investigators did the math themselves and they put it

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in the report. From the first time Randy called out

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for help to the moment the van actually pulled over

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was three minutes and thirty one seconds about a mile

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of road. Three and a half minutes doesn't sound like much,

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about the time it takes to pop a bag of popcorn,

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But on the floor of a metal box with her

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neck broken, it's a different story. Diaz pulls over in

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front of five hundred College Street. He opens the right

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rear door, sees Randy on the floor, and he tells

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him he can't move him. He gets on the radio

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eight forty one pm and he asks dispatch to start

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an ambulance to the detention center, not to College Street,

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not to the man on the floor in front of him.

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He asks the ambulance to meet them at the station.

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It's a formality more than anything else. He closes the door,

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turns on the overhead lights and drives the rest of

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the way with Randy screaming behind him. At eight forty

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five pm, the van pulls into the sally Port, the

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enclosed garage where the van it's unload. The detention supervisor

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that night is Sergeant Betsy Segui. Diaz walks up to her.

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Somebody crossed me over. I stomped on the brakes. He said,

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he fell inside the.

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Van right over.

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Any Well, on the way here, somebody pulls me over.

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It's like stopping the brakes.

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And I don't know if he shouldn't fell inside of

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the van.

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And he said, you know, I opened the door.

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I stop and he said he can't move.

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Then Diaz says this out loud, unprompted to a sergeant, Well.

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If he really he really fell when I moving this

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is it?

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Just?

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Please?

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If he really fell, I would not even move him.

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That's the right answer. It's a word for word what

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you do with the suspected spinal injury. But there's that word,

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if if he really fell, the correct pro to call,

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followed by the doubt that ultimately buried it. Officer Louise

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Rivera climbs in towards Randy and then calls over his

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shoulder sixteen radio code for drunk, and the sergeant answers, oh, absolutely, I.

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Think what yep, I'm strain it out a little bit.

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I mean.

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Sure, yep.

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Is this step don What if we take the cough?

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I mean we're here, can you argue?

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They decide to take the handcuffs off of Randy. Seems

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like a move in the right direction.

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Please, we're gonna get you out.

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Oh it was. I don't want to die like this.

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Uh.

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For the a second time that night, Randy says, I

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don't want to die like this, and then Officer Joscelyn

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Lavender climbs in the van and tries, through sheer force

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of will, to make a paralyzed man walk st.

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What's your you don't have cuts anymore? Take him out

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from behind your back?

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There we go.

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Now, move let down, take that left, move it down.

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Like just like to too much?

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Because can you're all on your right, the right side

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of your albody?

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Listen, roll to your right side. Can look my hand

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over there, movie leg.

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You're not even trying listen, look turn your body. No,

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I'm trying to turn your body because you're not even trying.

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You're not even trying.

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Here we go.

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Come on and we're gonna.

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Pull you out. Mh.

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the Dark Side. Let's get back to the episode. The

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spinal cord is a delicate bundle of nerves running down

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the backbone that carries signals between the brain and the body.

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If the spine is unstable, moving or dragging a person

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can shift the bones and cause the spinal cord to

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be pinched, stretched, torn, potentially turning a partial or temporary

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injury into permanent paralysis. Dragging by the arms or legs

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is especially problematic because it twists and bends the neck

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and back. Standard medical guidance is to keep the person

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as still as possible and not move them unless they're

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in immediate danger.

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Look, if you're gonna drive me and George bub home.

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The fuck would I lie for a question that goes unanswered.

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And then the next part of the video is probably

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the hardest to watch. The cops drag Randy by his

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feet all the way down the length of the van.

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Four hands and rubber gloves on him, on his jacket,

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pulling him, turning him, twisting him. The moment they pull

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him out of the van, they loosen their grip on him,

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as if they expect him to stand on his own

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at this point, to give up the act. But there

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is no act. Randy is paralyzed, and every move they

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make is risking the possibility that this paralyzation becomes permanent.

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There, how are you making that.

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You just drink too much?

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You drink too much?

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Okay?

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They roll a wheelchair towards Randy. Then they grab him

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by his arms, pull him up, slam him down into

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the chair, angrily, resentfully. Randy is no longer a man.

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He's a rag doll.

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I can't feel ship.

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Oh my god.

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Yes. Inside the station, the horror continues. They process him, intake,

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they search him in the chair, shoes off, belt off.

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Somewhere in the middle of it, the sergeant's phone rings.

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Another sarge ass if she can spare a body for

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the street. She says yes, and the machine keeps moving.

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They take off Randy's earrings. His head is tilted over

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onto his left shoulder, so sergeant takes Randy's head in

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her hands and moves it back to center. She moves

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the head on the neck. He tells them is broken.

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Nick hurt, I say, he's sitting backward. If something hurts,

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sit up right.

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That's Officer Joscelyn Lavender again. At some point, her glove

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is wet with something. She wipes it clean on the

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back of Randy's shirt. Instead of wheeling Randy to his

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cell in his wheelchair, they decide he's going to walk there.

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They grab him by his jacket, one officer on each side,

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and pull him up, trying to force him to stand.

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Oh my god, fucking broke my Nether.

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Lavender slaps her leg, lets out a long sigh. They

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pause for a moment. Randy is slumped down in the

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space in front of his wheelchair, spilling out of it.

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They decide they're going to try again. They grab his

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sweatshirt and try to force him to stand again. The

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shirt starts to pull up and go over his face.

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I can't read, Sorry about it.

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The cops said, we don't want you to do anything.

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Don't worry about it. They throw Randy to the ground.

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Then one officer drags him by his left arm the

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twenty or so feet across the floor to his cell.

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His hands are still cuffed in front of him. He's motionless.

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Hey.

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During the whole exchange, there's a strange moment Lavender actually

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seems to be hallucinating or seeing things.

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He's perfectly.

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She looks at Randy and says, he blew me a kiss.

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She thinks that Randy is mocking her. See he's perfectly fine.

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And then they kneel down and put the leg shackles

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on him.

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Hold on, hold on.

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I wish I could tell you that this was the

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end of the suffering that Randy would endure that night.

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And I'm not going to draw this out longer than

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it already needs to be, But I want to get

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down to that word suffering. Obviously, it's on comfortable to

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be dragged across the floor. But did Randy Cox feel pain?

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If you're like me, then maybe you incorrectly believe that

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being paralyzed means that you don't feel pain. Paralysis and

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numbness are two separate systems. Movement runs down one set

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of pathways and sensation up another, So paralyzed doesn't mean

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you can't feel. A lot of people who can't move

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a limb still feel it, sometimes with amplified or distorted pain.

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Whether it actually hurts comes down to where the damage

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is and what specifically got cut. There's a lot that

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happened to Randy, from the moment that he broke his

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neck to the moment that he landed in that jail

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cell and his legs were shackled. But there are two

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key moments I want to hone in on, the dragging

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by the feet out of the van and also the

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dragging by his arm into the jail cell. Whether or

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not he felt during these moments is decided by whether

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sensory signals from the legs can climb past the injury

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to reach the brain. Now, if it was a complete

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cord lesion up in the neck, those signals are severed

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and the legs and feet genuinely register nothing. Even if

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the tissue gets scraped or the joints get wrenched, the

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body would be damaged, but the brain would never hear

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about it. But if the injury was incomplete, which in

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the video, Randy could slightly move his fingers, and it's

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part of what gave the officers the misperception that he

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was faking it. But the thing is that implies that

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the motor signal is still crossing somewhere. That means that

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sensation is partially preserved and unpredictable. It's going to be patchy.

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Some spots feel and some don't. What comes through can

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sometimes be described as a distorted burning rather than a clean,

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normal touch. And let's say it actually was a clean break,

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absolutely no sensation in the legs. Dragging the body creates

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traction that transmits up the spine to the injury site

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and above, where sensation is fully intact. And we know

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that Randy could still speak, move his eyes at least

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to a certain extent. That upward pull at an unstable

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sight can be agony. The second moment I want to

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discuss is when Randy is in the wheelchair and they

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are removing his earrings. They roll his head back and

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forth and he cries out in agony. This is not

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acting even if his legs were paralyzed. The face and

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scalp are wired by the cranial nerves, mainly the tragemonal

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which branch off the brain stem above essentially any spinal injury,

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so head and face sensation is basically always preserved in

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a spinal level injury. On top of that, if the

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neck itself is the injury site, that tissue is dense

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with pain fibers. Forcibly, rolling an injured neck grinds torn ligaments,

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muscle and bone against each other, the sensation would be

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sharp and severe. Stabbing at the neck often layered with

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electric shooting sensations firing down the body when the cord

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gets jostled.

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Oh my god.

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Some have said it's like a lightning bolt down the spine.

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It's near the top of what a body can produce

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for pain, and it would also risk finishing the job,

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converting an incomplete injury to complete, or even shutting down

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on breathing. So what we saw with Randy Cox, the

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slight finger movement, the slurred speech otherwise paralyzed. This points

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to something affecting the brain stem or the muscles of speech,

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not a clean midneck spinal cut. What we're likely looking

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at is either a very high injury or a brain

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stem component that's exactly the profile where sensation is preserved

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above the lesion and scrambled but present below. And this

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is the actual reason paramedics are trained to never move

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someone with a suspected neck injury. At precisely nine to

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nine pm, Officer Ronald Presley's body camera comes on. It's

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the first and only recording it makes all night three

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minutes and twenty three seconds. You can actually see the

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moment he realizes his body cam is off in the

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other video we've been listening to. He looks down at

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the camera and kind of does a so prize look,

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hits the button and starts recording. I'm not gonna play

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that whole video for you, but there are a couple

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of moments I do want to go over. When the

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ambulance arrives, they come to lift Randy out to the

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stretcher and from the floor off camera, you can hear

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Cox say I can't move, and then Presley says, why

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do you keep winking your eye at me? For you

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a funny man, He's telling a paralyzed man to stop

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winking at him. Now, we don't know what Randy's face

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was doing on the floor that cell, but Presley reads

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it as a bit just two guys goofing around, and

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then Randy Cox says this no cuz I don't want

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to argue. I'm trying to tell you something. I need

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somebody to take me seriously. They finally do get Randy

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loaded onto a stretcher. The EMTs strap him down, and

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as they're buckling him in the booking officer Roberto or

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Tease no camera on him, walks past and says, you

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gotta be kidding me, and then on his way out

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of the room, loud enough for someone else's camera to

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catch it. Man the fuck up. Months later, investigators asked

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or Tease about that. He told them he figured Cox

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was acting a hurt to get a hospital bed instead

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of a cell. Said that's common, and Detention said he

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thought that's all this was. And the scary thing is

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I believe he was telling the truth. Officer Presley's last

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words to Cox says he was being loaded into the ambulance.

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You keep messing with me, I'll see you when you

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come back. Randy Cox never came back four months later,

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still in a rehab bed, and the state dropped every charge.

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The tragedy is more than just the way that Randy

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was treated that night. It's the utter disregard for the

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possibility that he was telling the truth. From Randy Cock's

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sister Equavius, it.

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Is not just about being paralyzed from the chest down,

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like you heard, is me.

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I can't eat, he can't sleep, he can't talk, he

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can't breathe, he can't do anything at all but cry.

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He cries every time we come near, and all we

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do is cry.

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Because we can't do anything.

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And from his other sister, LaToya, at a press conference

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a year after his paralyzation, I was.

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Shocked and it made me sick to my stomach. It

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could have took you know, one person to say, maybe

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we should leave him there because we don't know you

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know what would have been of the injury. We don't

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know what more damage y'all caused by moving him.

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We'll be right back after this quick break. The seventy

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page report said that officers showed quote a lack of

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compassion and remorse for Cox while he pleaded for help.

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It found seven separate people failed him that night, the

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five who made up the news report, plus two more,

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the booking officer who told Randy to man the fuck up,

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and the street sergeant who's seen it was The officers

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would later argue in court filings that their actions were reasonable,

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that Cox's injuries were the result of his own negligence

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and carelessness in that he interfered with the investigation. There's

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a temptation here. I felt it on every word of

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the script. Call these guys monsters. Closed the book. Five

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officers were charged. Their own department investigated and found against

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every single one of them, the supervisors, the officers, monsters done.

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But reality is messier than that. Here's what those officers

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knew about Randy gos Hawks that night. And every part

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of this is a confirmed fact. We've already reviewed it.

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A woman said Randy threatened her with a gun, and

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she picked him out that night, pointed to him, and

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when they searched him, he was carrying a loaded nine millimeter.

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And Randy Cox is a felon, so that's not a

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paperwork problem. That's years. On the ride in the van,

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he called the driver a faggot and told him I'll

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shoot you next month. And in the back of the

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van before the break, he was on the floor kicking

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the walls. That's the man in this story. If you

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can't hold both of these things the same time, then

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you've just written a story about Randy two, only you

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picked the flattering one. So here's the question, and I'm

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asking myself. Put the lead rope in my hand gun

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charge felon threatening to shoot the driver, and then the

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man on the floor of the van says that he

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can't move. Do I believe him? I want to say yes,

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I want to say that I give him the benefit

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of the doubts. But I've watched that tape in that

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body camp footage more times than's good for me, And

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even though I want to say yes, I can't. I've

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written people's stories before they've even opened their mouths. I've

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done it more than just a couple of times. It's

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the cheapest thing of mine. Does the pattern holds the

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night ends, and nobody ever finds out you were guessing.

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Here's the dilemma we're in, though. We have to hold

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the other half, and we have to hold it very carefully,

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because it matters just as much, if not more, Nothing

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Randy Cox did that night moved a vertebrae. Being a

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felon carrying a gun, saying a slur, hitting the doors

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of a van with your feet do not warrant punishment.

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Of permanent paralyzation. A man can be everything that Randy

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Cox was on that night, and he can still be

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telling you the truth. How do you hear a man

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say I can't move decide it's a lie? Now, you

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know it's easy. You've got a file that says who

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he is. The file's been right all night long. It's

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the same way you hear a man say I can't

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breathe eleven times with a knee on his neck and

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decide that's a lie too. If this is a monster

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problem and not a human problem, then why does it

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keep happening over and over and over Minneapolis, that van

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and New Haven, the same cassette tape played on a loop.

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The department has a word for what it found on

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every officer sustained. It means we looked, and it's true.

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The strongest thing an internal investigation and say about its

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own and I'll be honest. The first time I read it,

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one officer after another, it sounded like justice. They got him.

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Then I turned back a few pages to where a

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reviewing lieutenant watches the same tape I did. He calls

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the force reasonable, not excessive. He uses a phrase to

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describe a paralyzed man lying helpless on the ground passive resistance.

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00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:34.960
The man's body had stopped working, and the paperwork logged

476
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.199
it as a refusal to cooperate. The same hand, the

477
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:45.159
same machine wrote both sustained. Sounds like justice, but is

478
00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:50.719
it really Five of the offending officers were charged criminally

479
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:58.079
misdemeanors second degree reckless endangerment and cruelty. Two officers pled guilty,

480
00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:04.000
and the three other officers, Oscar Diz, Joscelyn Lavender and

481
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:11.840
Luis Rivera, had all charges dismissed. One of those five

482
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:15.840
officers still works for New Haven Police Department, officer Oscar

483
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.880
Diaz again Randy Cox's sister LaToya.

484
00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:24.719
These charges were a slap in the face. It really

485
00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:26.920
was two misdemeanors.

486
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:29.559
Randy Cox's lawyer, Ben Crump.

487
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:36.679
When you think about it, it's not really fair. It's

488
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:40.280
not really fair that they are getting a slap.

489
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:40.719
On the wrists.

490
00:35:41.519 --> 00:35:47.599
If you had somebody driving recklessly and they caused someone

491
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:53.880
to be paralyzed, they would be charged with assault with

492
00:35:54.039 --> 00:36:00.800
a vehicle right jack, And that's a felony problem. See

493
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:06.679
little to no jail time, and Randy Cox has a

494
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:07.800
life sentence.

495
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:19.280
The next part of this episode. I've gone back and

496
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:23.039
forth whether to include this or cut it, and at

497
00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.960
the end of the day, I'm going with my gut instinct.

498
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:31.079
I think it's worth hearing a black person's perspective on

499
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:36.840
police brutality, especially when it's a perspective that challenges my own.

500
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:40.440
As far as I know, Candace has not spoken about

501
00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:44.480
Randy Cox directly, but she has spoken about another case,

502
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:48.960
a bigger case, featuring a man named George Floyd. Here's

503
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:50.320
what she had to say about that.

504
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:55.239
Why are we pretending that this criminal should be upheld

505
00:36:55.599 --> 00:37:00.159
as a citizen, as a martyr in Black America, a

506
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:04.559
martyr for a fake narrative. By the way, police brutality,

507
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:08.320
racially motivated police brutality is a myth.

508
00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:16.320
Candice Owens makes a living being incendiary. It's not an insult,

509
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.760
it's the job. She's a provocateur, a conservative commentator who

510
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:23.760
built a career out of saying the thing that detonates

511
00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:28.039
the room, and she's very good at it. A black

512
00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.880
woman who became famous telling other black people that racism

513
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:36.559
isn't what's holding them back. She picks fights, she picks

514
00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:40.400
them on purpose, and that's her brand. A few years ago,

515
00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:42.760
she stood in front of a room of mostly black

516
00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:44.679
college students and said this.

517
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.639
I don't know why people like being oppressed. The weirdest

518
00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:50.440
thing I've ever heard. I love oppression. We're oppressed four

519
00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:52.599
hundred years of slavery, Jim Crow, which, by the way,

520
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:54.760
none of you guys lived through your grandparents, And it's

521
00:37:54.800 --> 00:37:59.280
embarrassing that you utilize you utilize their history, you utilize

522
00:37:59.320 --> 00:37:59.880
their history.

523
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:03.360
It's embarrassing. You're not living through anything right now.

524
00:38:03.639 --> 00:38:07.280
You're overly privileged Americans. It's what's going on right now

525
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:08.960
over here shouting.

526
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:13.719
That damn you heard at the end, there was none

527
00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:17.840
other than Charlie Kirk. So there it is a black

528
00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:20.840
woman in front of a room of black kids telling

529
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:24.880
them their pain is a costume. Slavery doesn't count because

530
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.960
they didn't personally feel the whip. You can hear it

531
00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:32.360
in Candace's voice, the certainty she knows what kind of

532
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:37.039
people she's dealing with. You're not living through anything. She

533
00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:39.480
looked at four hundred years and a room full of

534
00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:43.000
people still carrying it and said, I don't see a wound.

535
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:48.199
You're performing. Get up. That clip is everywhere. It's the

536
00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:51.719
one that travels. It ripped across my feed with a

537
00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:57.559
caption already attached Candace Owen's exhibit A. But that appearance

538
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.920
was more than ten seconds long. It was more than

539
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:03.360
the ten minute long clip that we have to pull

540
00:39:03.440 --> 00:39:08.400
from same day, same room. A few minutes later, nobody.

541
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:09.840
Has asked me my background. I come from the exact

542
00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:15.639
same background as you. Okay, so the idea wait. Thank

543
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:18.000
you for proving my point. I grew up in a

544
00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:21.239
household that was largely dysfunctional. I grew up visiting my

545
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.639
uncles in prison for various reasons. My parents are not together,

546
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:28.760
they are divorce, and every single one of my mom's

547
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:30.760
brothers and sisters, she's one of nine, has served some

548
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:33.079
time in prison. So that was my normal growing up.

549
00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:36.079
And when I got out of high school, I had

550
00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:38.199
this idea that because I was black, I must be

551
00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:41.360
a Democrat because anything else is oppression. Anything else, as

552
00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:43.559
people that are our white supremacists are racist or sex

553
00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:45.000
is the same thing that you're seeing happening in the

554
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:45.920
news every single day.

555
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:50.880
That part doesn't get shared, it doesn't fit the narrative.

556
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:54.960
I can relate a little bit to Candice here. I

557
00:39:55.039 --> 00:39:58.280
grew up in a household of Democrats. I felt a

558
00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:01.480
certain kind of pressure as I got older to buy

559
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.400
into those same ideals, and I pushed back on things

560
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:09.159
as I got older. And although I landed back on

561
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:12.679
the left side of the political aisle myself, I hold

562
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:15.920
a respect for anyone who's willing to question their beliefs,

563
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:17.960
no matter how uncomfortable.

564
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:18.320
That is.

565
00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.679
The first time the Candace Owen's clip crossed my feed,

566
00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:27.079
the four hundred Years of Slavery clip, I did exactly

567
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.280
what it was built to make me do. I decided

568
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:34.519
I knew this woman. I closed the file, I scrolled on, satisfied,

569
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.840
and every time her face popped up in my feed

570
00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:41.119
from then on, I just missed her. It took this

571
00:40:41.280 --> 00:40:43.880
story to send me back for the rest of that clip.

572
00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:47.599
When I first heard Candace talk about her childhood, I

573
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:51.559
did have a instinct to wonder if she's making it up.

574
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:56.119
All eight siblings on her mother's side in prison. That's

575
00:40:56.199 --> 00:40:59.599
a lot. It's the kind of past that's almost two

576
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:04.000
on the knows, So I looked into it. Candice Owens

577
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:09.599
born White Plains, New York, nineteen eighty nine, raised in Stamford, Connecticut,

578
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.679
mostly by her mother and her grandparents. When her parents

579
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:16.719
split third of four kids, the grandfather did a lot

580
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:20.840
of the raising. The house was, by most accounts, low income,

581
00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:25.119
a family that was stretching every dollar, that much the

582
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:30.280
record supports. But every one of her uncles on her

583
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:34.480
mom's side locked up behind bars at some point that

584
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:38.199
I couldn't find, not in a profile or a bio

585
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:42.960
or anywhere. It doesn't mean it's not true. Reporters write

586
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.440
about who raised you, not about your mother's brothers and sisters.

587
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:50.840
A family detail like that could be completely true and

588
00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:54.000
just never make the page. Or she's doing the thing

589
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:56.679
people do in front of a crowd, with your blood up,

590
00:41:57.079 --> 00:42:01.039
with the past a little distorted. There's a version of

591
00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:03.599
this where I lean in and say, she's not making

592
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:07.079
it up. I checked it's all true. That would feel good,

593
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.519
it would land, and I can't say it. But here's

594
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:14.679
what's not in question. Divorced parents, raised by her grandparents,

595
00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:18.960
a family stretching every dollar. And then I found this.

596
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:22.920
When Candice Owens was seventeen years old, a car full

597
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:26.159
of boys left her a string of voicemails. These were

598
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:30.519
not just harmless prank phone calls. They were racist threats,

599
00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:33.840
the kind of thing that keeps a kid from going

600
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:36.800
to school the next day. And one of those kids

601
00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:39.840
was the son of the mayor and a man who

602
00:42:39.840 --> 00:42:43.480
would go on to become governor of Connecticut. Maybe that's

603
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:46.639
why it took the police six weeks before anyone filed

604
00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:50.760
a charge. Six weeks when you're seventeen isn't six weeks.

605
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:54.039
It's a month that at that age feels like a year.

606
00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:57.119
You spent a couple of days home from school, and

607
00:42:57.239 --> 00:43:00.400
then you return walking the halls, knowing who did it

608
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:05.199
and watching nothing happen. Candice and her family reported it.

609
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:10.239
The system took its time, and she's always believed that

610
00:43:10.360 --> 00:43:12.679
the time it took had something to do with whose

611
00:43:12.760 --> 00:43:16.800
son it was. Her family decided to go to the NAACP.

612
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:20.920
They sued the school district for failing to protect their daughter.

613
00:43:21.719 --> 00:43:25.760
They won, and a boy did get arrested. So the

614
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:28.960
woman standing in front of those kids telling them they're

615
00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:32.840
not living through anything at seventeen had lived through the

616
00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:36.320
things she's telling them to get over. The slurs on

617
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:39.760
the voicemail, the school that let six weeks go by,

618
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:43.800
the institution that was supposed to protect her, looking the

619
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:48.480
other way until the family made them look she survived.

620
00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:53.400
The exact thing she now says isn't real. I don't

621
00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:56.800
say that to dunk on her. I say that because

622
00:43:56.840 --> 00:44:01.239
it's the saddest possible version of this. Whatever happened to

623
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:04.440
that seventeen year old, she built something on top of

624
00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:06.440
it that lets her look at a room full of

625
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:10.239
kids carrying the same wound and call it a costume.

626
00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:13.880
The girl who needed someone to witness what was done

627
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:18.079
to her grew up into a woman who won't witness

628
00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:25.840
it in anyone else. I keep doing the same thing.

629
00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:29.840
We keep doing it to her, to the cops in

630
00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:33.960
the van, to each other. We take the worst ninety

631
00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:37.719
seconds we've got of a person, and we decide that's

632
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.920
the whole story. In the back of the van, on

633
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:44.480
the floor, Randy Cox felt exactly what it's like to

634
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:48.880
be a story somebody already finished writing. When we come back.

635
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:53.239
What he said when it was finally his turn to talk,

636
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:59.079
We'll be right back after a quick break. Don't go

637
00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:07.519
any where. Randy Cox came out of the other side

638
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:11.400
of the worst moment of his life pointing the other way.

639
00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:15.079
Cox's sister, reading a note directly from Randy.

640
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:18.039
He said, I know it's only an arrest, but it's

641
00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:22.079
a start. It's time for a change. This ain't about me,

642
00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:25.440
It's about the people that come after me, so no

643
00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:26.320
one else has.

644
00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:30.159
To go through this again. That was Randy's sister at

645
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:34.360
the mic speaking the words that he conveyed, because that's

646
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:37.400
how Randy talks to the world now, and what he

647
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:40.960
wanted the world to hear wasn't about him. It was

648
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:46.360
about the next person. Resentment would make sense, resentments would

649
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:51.079
be earned, God would it ever. But resentment is a fist.

650
00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:55.440
What came out of Randy was the opposite, an open

651
00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:59.920
hand he pointed away from himself towards the next person

652
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:04.719
in the back of the next van. Paralyzed is a

653
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:09.360
clinical word, a number on somebody's chart, but here's what

654
00:46:09.519 --> 00:46:11.920
it actually sounds like in real life.

655
00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:14.920
He has to ring a corbell to ask for a

656
00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:18.159
sip of water. The cup is sitting right next to him,

657
00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:19.079
but he can't.

658
00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:19.400
Pick it up.

659
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.079
Every drink of water, bite of food, every itch you

660
00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:28.119
can't scratch, not to mention every time he needs to

661
00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:31.840
be turned in the night so his skin doesn't break down.

662
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:36.119
The man who was injured because nobody stopped to look.

663
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:41.840
Now literally needs someone to look every hour of every

664
00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:46.199
day for the rest of his life. His mother was

665
00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:49.639
there for it, all of it, the hospital and the

666
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:53.920
surgeries and the long nights. Her name is Dorian Coleman.

667
00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:57.599
His mom visits him daily too, even if she has

668
00:46:57.719 --> 00:47:00.920
to just sit there and watch him hospital dead.

669
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:03.559
He needs somebody to help him get something to drink.

670
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:06.079
He needs somebody to help him get some food to eat.

671
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.920
I couldn't find the audio of it, but in that

672
00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:14.320
same interview, Doreen also said that she catches the city

673
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:17.159
bus from one side of town to the other. The

674
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:20.880
ride takes about an hour each way. She does this

675
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:25.480
every day. Her one regret about all the time she

676
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:30.119
spends watching after her son quote, I'm just upset a

677
00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:34.079
little bit that I can't stay there overnight just to

678
00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:39.000
help him through the night. Three weeks after that night,

679
00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:42.599
a new police chief would take over the New Haven

680
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:47.440
Police Department. He walks into the entire mess the video.

681
00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:51.360
The whole city has now seen one hundred million dollar lawsuit.

682
00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:55.360
A department that just paralyzed a man, a city that

683
00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:59.239
does not at this moment trusts the people who are

684
00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:03.119
supposed to protect acted. And the first thing that Carl

685
00:48:03.199 --> 00:48:07.119
Jacobson does is the thing that nobody in that van did.

686
00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:11.239
He looks. I've watched a video over and over again,

687
00:48:11.320 --> 00:48:13.079
and you know why, because I don't want to forget it.

688
00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:16.960
That's my job as the chief, but not forget what

689
00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:19.679
happened to mister Cox and make sure it never happens again.

690
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:24.079
And I'm committed, you know, I know sometimes my passion

691
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:27.960
is too much and I uh and and and this

692
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:31.559
is hard. It's not an easy job. But I am

693
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:33.519
committed to the to the men and women of the

694
00:48:33.559 --> 00:48:36.400
New Having Police Department, the men and women of the community,

695
00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:40.000
to right these wrongs and turn this, turn this around.

696
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:44.960
Carl forced himself to watch the worst thing his department

697
00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:49.559
ever did on a loop on purpose because he believed

698
00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:53.000
forgetting would be the real failure. That the way you

699
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:57.159
dishonor a wound is to look away from it. Carl

700
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:00.840
Jacobson met with Randy in the hospital. He said it

701
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:05.320
moved him and then he followed through. He used this

702
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:10.480
tragedy to rewrite the playbook. What Karl came to build

703
00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:16.039
in New Haven has a name. They call it Medical Miranda. Now,

704
00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:19.320
if you have somebody in custody and they tell you

705
00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:23.000
something's wrong, you have to ask if they need help.

706
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:26.400
You're not allowed to decide on your own if they're

707
00:49:26.440 --> 00:49:28.920
faking it. And that's law.

708
00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:29.239
Now.

709
00:49:30.159 --> 00:49:33.800
What Karl heard, or perhaps didn't hear in the van

710
00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:38.039
that night, he took that, and he legislated against it,

711
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:42.920
and he didn't stop there duty to intervene. If you

712
00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:46.000
see another officer crossing the line, you don't get to

713
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:51.360
stand there. You're required to step in. A bystander doesn't

714
00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:55.199
get to stay. A bystander also seat belts in the

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van's medical training an entire architecture of essentially empathy, a

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system that would now force people to ask you if

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you're okay. And the man who built it himself wasn't.

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He hadn't been okay for a long time. And it

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wasn't something anyone could see. It lived on his phone,

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it lived in the quiet after his shift, and by

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the time anyone thought to ask the question that he

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had made mandatory for everyone else, it was too late.

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You are not a loser, even if your mind tells

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you that you're not a failure. You're not a bad person. Yeah,

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I'm not just saying that.

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You've done a lot of things in your life that

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so many people have any been tried to do. It

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takes a lot of courage. It's not easy. Well, quitting

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isn't an option. You can't quit, can't quit on yourself.

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There's too many people I love you, your family, people

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in AA, your friends. If I can make any suggestions.

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If you don't feel like calling a sponsor, you don't have.

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To call them.

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Hum just get on a meeting online you can and

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just say where you're at. Just be anonymous, say where

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you're at. You don't deserve your face.

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Just get it out there. Text somebody, m