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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.