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I know it's been a long night, team,
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and we have a long shift ahead of us,
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- but I want you all to know that...
- Diane.
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Jack. Don't worry.
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I got a rapid test this morning,
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so I'm clean as a whistle.
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Uh, what are y... What is she...
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I asked her to come.
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There's been a death,
and you are all grieving,
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so I asked her to come.
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I'm sorr... You me...
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- You talking about George Floyd?
- You brought in a therapist
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to help us process the death
of George Floyd?
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I did.
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I feel powerless to help,
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and this felt like something I could do.
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There are not many fire captains
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who would treat a moment
of national crisis
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like an internal tragedy,
and your captain is.
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I respect it,
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so I'm honored to be here
to help however I can.
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I don't need you
to talk about Mr. Floyd.
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I'm not gonna make you
talk to me at all.
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This isn't mandatory.
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I'm just here if you need me.
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You're bold, and you're trying.
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Right or wrong,
you tried something today.
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You tried something to help.
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Thank you.
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I love you.
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How do you do it? I mean, how do you...
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I-I-I know you have to be
as shaken up as I am,
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so how do you...
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- How do I do my job?
- Well, yeah.
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You fought a fire this morning.
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How did you do it?
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I pushed my pain aside
and did what had to be done.
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Same.
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I saw what happened to Dean Miller.
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He's suing the police department,
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and he's right to do it.
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But?
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But, uh... uh, it...
It makes me uncomfortable.
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Because he's a firefighter
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and we're supposed to shut up
and look pretty?
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No, because when the police
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made me lie down on the street
like an animal
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during a routine traffic stop...
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You didn't sue.
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I didn't do much of anything at all.
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I did yell, you know,
whi... which was...
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I feel like a hypocrite.
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- A hypocrite?
- Yeah. I have two kids.
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I have a new son since we last spoke.
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- Congratulations.
- Thanks.
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- You get any sleep?
- Well, he's 18, so, you know...
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Oh.
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While I'm not losing sleep
because of him...
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You're losing sleep over him.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, m-my wife and I, we...
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We gave "the talk"
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and explained that young Black men
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don't get to behave
any old way they want
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when dealing with the police.
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We told them to do whatever
it took to get home safe.
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But when I had a run-in
with the police myself,
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I... I-I yelled at that officer
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as he got into his car.
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I mean, if my boys had yelled
at a cop like that, I...
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You'd be upset with them?
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Well, hell, yes, I'd be upset!
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I'd...
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But I'd also be proud.
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U... Because they'd be right.
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You know, I was right.
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Miller was right.
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But y-you can't do that.
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You can't yell at a cop
because, you know, w...
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Because they've got a gun, you know?
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They're given authority.
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They have the power t...
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D-Do you have kids?
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Three teenagers.
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Oh, wow. Okay, so, you get
just how frustrating
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and infuriating it is
to pour every ounce
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of energy and brain power you have
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into them to... To try and mold them
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into confident young men...
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To make them honestly believe
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that they can accomplish anything,
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to... to work so hard
to get them to s-stand tall
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and feel good in their own skin...
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Only to then have to tell them that
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because of the color of that skin,
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they have to shrink
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when in the presence
of a police officer.
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Do you tell them that?
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Do you tell them to shrink?
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No.
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No, I... I don't tell them to shrink.
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I...
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I tell them to stand with dignity,
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and I tell them to de-escalate.
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I-I tell them that in any
confrontational situation,
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their job is to de-escalate.
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But it should be the cop's job.
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You're right. It should.
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So, let me just make sure
I have this straight.
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You're mad at yourself
that you didn't do more
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after that cop treated you that way,
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and you're mad at yourself
that you didn't do less
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after that cop treated you that way.
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Because Miller's doing more,
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and because you want your boys
to do less.
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Look...
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I'm exhausted, you know?
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I'm exhausted by navigating
a... a w... a world
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that sees me and...
And my kids as a threat.
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I mean, it's... it's this...
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It's this constant nagging worry
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that... That never goes away.
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And i-if I do manage to forget
and just...
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You know, just exist...
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...a comment or a look
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or the news that a man
has been killed in the street
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reminds me that I have to be careful.
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And... And it steals all of
my mental and emotional energy
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that I should be giving to my wife
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and my kids and my health.
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Is something going on with your health?
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Being Black in America is
a life-threatening condition.
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Other than that...
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Seattle protests continued late
into the evening last night
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with police presence on the scene.
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Should we go?
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Can we?
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I mean, after shift.
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- No, still... can we?
- Oh, you mean...
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Because we're FD.
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I mean, is that an official policy?
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Do they have to say anything? We know.
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Well, it's a free country, so...
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In theory.
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But the Department's a public entity.
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And the protests
are considered anti-police.
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'Cause asking for our right to live
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is inherently anti-police,
and nobody seems to...
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realize that's the problem.
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Any takers?
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Just one, so far.
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- And you.
- What?
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- Sit.
- No, I'm not...
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- You're what? You're... You're...
- You're not grieving?
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You had a happy little firehouse
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where everyone was best friends
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and racial disparity
was not a hot topic.
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- And now?
- Everything has changed.
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Everything and nothing.
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I know fire.
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I mean, I'm the person
that studies them for fun.
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But this fire...
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This fire is beneath our feet.
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It's built into every foundation...
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Our history, language, n-news coverage.
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It's everywhere. I mean, we vent fires
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to let out the hot smoke and gasses
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so that we can contain the fire,
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but I don't see how we can contain this,
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let alone put it out.
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And growing up, we were taught about
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Black history
and the Civil Rights movement.
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We were taught to believe
that they had beat it.
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And I think, on some level,
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that belief was still inside of me,
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because I didn't listen to Dean,
and I didn't listen
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to the mothers of those kidnapped girls,
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and I am so embarrassed
saying that to you.
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Well, you were taught that in school...
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and probably also at home.
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And that teaching,
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it's the coal that keeps the fire hot.
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When I was a child
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and I learned about
the Native American genocide,
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I pictured one small village...
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One small village of men
with feathers in their hair
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who gave the white people turkey
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and then got mad
that they wouldn't leave.
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Now, I pictured it because
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those were the literal pictures
in my history books.
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And even though I knew
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that my people
had been stolen from their homes
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and brought here chained up on ships,
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somehow, I believed that textbook.
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I was 35 years old
when I learned that in 1492,
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Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
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and in the wake of that,
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millions upon millions of people
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who had been living here
for 15,000 years
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were extinguished.
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And the ones who survived
were fighting every day
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against a culture
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that still wants to pretend
they don't exist.
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We learn when we learn.
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And the shame we feel
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at having taken so long to learn,
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well, that can be useful
as long as we use it well.
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Once we know better,
we have to do better.
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When I was 13,
I ran cross country and track,
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and during the off-season,
my dad would train...
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...a group of us girls who ran both.
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And he would push us too hard,
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and when I didn't hit a drill
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the way he wanted me to...
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...he'd make me do it
over and over and over
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until I would collapse on the ground.
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And my dad would leave me there,
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and one by one,
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my team members
would lie down next to me.
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Face to the concrete,
eyes on me, silent.
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Giving me space, but...
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also making sure I wasn't alone.
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And my instinct is that
that is what I have to do
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for the Black members of my team...
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To quietly show up
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and let them know that I support them.
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But I think that instinct is wrong,
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because when my friends and I were 13,
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we didn't have the capacity
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to stand up against an abusive power.
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And now I do.
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I... I have the power to stand up
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and say when something is wrong.
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I mean, I have the power
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to call out injustices when I see them.
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I have...
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the power to make sure
that everyone can breathe.
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Hey. Hey.
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The protests have really grown.
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Yeah, I saw.
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What happened to you?
You get into a bar fight?
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Yeah, with an SCBA.
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- You okay?
- Nope.
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You gonna talk to Diane?
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I doubt it.
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Yep.
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God, look at that.
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It's just getting bigger and bigger,
hmm?
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- Mm-hmm.
- It's all over the world.
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Almost makes you...
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hopeful?
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Take this.
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Turn to channel 17.
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And let me get that.
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- What?
- So you don't throw it across the room.
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...the news in Minneapolis.
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We stand in support of our communities,
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no matter their color.
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Oh, God. Give me that coffee cup back.
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This little play-act
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has been on loop for half an hour now,
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and these stations are eating it up.
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Like he's some shining example
of PD valor.
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Oh, God, I just threw up
in my mouth a little bit,
266
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- I think.
- Well, get ready to throw up some more.
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As far as any question about
where this department stands
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on the issue of Black Lives...
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I know this little earthworm
is not gon...
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Mm.
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- Oh. What?!
- Yeah.
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- Oh, come on.
- That.
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That is why every time I wonder
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whether to continue with the lawsuit,
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whether it's too much...
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...too little, too fast, too slow.
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It's... It's something, at least.
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Some way to fight against this...
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This performative, uh...
Uh, hypocritical, destructive...
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Travis.
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Diane.
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You know, the Department
pays me no matter what,
285
00:13:46,501 --> 00:13:48,261
but, uh, there's only
286
00:13:48,375 --> 00:13:50,236
so many crossword puzzles
I can do, so...
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- You want to talk?
- Oh, no.
288
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I mean, I... I want to let
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the Black firefighters go first.
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O... Do you see a line
outside this door?
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I-I know the past couple months
292
00:14:05,675 --> 00:14:07,467
can't have been easy for you, either.
293
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Hate crimes are hate crimes,
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no matter the race.
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My mom got, uh...
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Well, she was spit on
at the grocery store...
297
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Mm.
298
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...the same day that George Floyd...
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My, uh... My mom was leaving,
300
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and a crazy maskless woman was like...
301
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"If this Kung Flu is real,
302
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it's because of people like her."
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The woman both
didn't believe COVID was real
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and was blaming my mom for it.
305
00:14:46,761 --> 00:14:48,728
When my mom told me,
306
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it actually felt like
my organs were melting.
307
00:14:51,647 --> 00:14:54,066
I was so hot with rage, you know,
308
00:14:54,168 --> 00:14:56,068
remembering the times when I was a kid,
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and, you know,
people would say stuff to us.
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And then, we would just go home.
311
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Never to be discussed again.
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And I... And I didn't say
anything to anyone here about it
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00:15:06,798 --> 00:15:09,398
because, you know,
it didn't feel appropriate.
314
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This giant, massive thing
was happening...
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A hate crime.
316
00:15:20,110 --> 00:15:23,145
An atrocity so much more brutal
and egregious.
317
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You know, other people
were hurting so much more.
318
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I'm sorry.
319
00:15:27,751 --> 00:15:29,451
I don't know why
I'm talking to you about this.
320
00:15:29,551 --> 00:15:31,084
I don't know why I'm doing that.
321
00:15:31,109 --> 00:15:32,575
Because I'm a Black woman,
322
00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,266
and my racist stuff is "bigger"?
323
00:15:34,356 --> 00:15:35,588
Something like that.
324
00:15:35,923 --> 00:15:37,656
That doesn't work.
325
00:15:37,681 --> 00:15:39,481
It doesn't not work.
326
00:15:40,648 --> 00:15:43,882
I know that since COVID,
327
00:15:43,907 --> 00:15:45,941
hate crimes against Asian Americans
328
00:15:45,966 --> 00:15:47,889
have spiked like crazy.
329
00:15:49,096 --> 00:15:51,652
And yet, no one is talking about it...
330
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No one but us.
331
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Not the media.
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No the...
333
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I mean, grandmas and grandpas...
334
00:16:00,470 --> 00:16:01,970
Halmoni and haraboji.
335
00:16:02,270 --> 00:16:04,403
People being shoved into walls
336
00:16:04,428 --> 00:16:06,295
and off subway platforms.
337
00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:08,834
You have Filipina nurses
338
00:16:08,859 --> 00:16:10,058
who say goodbye to their families
339
00:16:10,111 --> 00:16:11,911
and their own country to come here
340
00:16:11,953 --> 00:16:13,352
to work the front lines of a pandemic
341
00:16:13,381 --> 00:16:14,730
being attacked in the streets.
342
00:16:14,755 --> 00:16:16,555
A 2-year-old and a 6-year-old
343
00:16:16,764 --> 00:16:18,938
stabbed at a big-box store.
344
00:16:18,963 --> 00:16:21,582
I mean, who stabs a 2-year-old?
345
00:16:21,607 --> 00:16:24,423
And why is that not news?
346
00:16:24,759 --> 00:16:27,393
Why are we so...
347
00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,346
invisible?
348
00:16:30,005 --> 00:16:31,055
I don't know.
349
00:16:31,641 --> 00:16:33,224
I...
350
00:16:33,326 --> 00:16:34,731
I don't know.
351
00:16:34,821 --> 00:16:36,060
I don't know either!
352
00:16:38,185 --> 00:16:41,505
But how can we even make a fuss
353
00:16:41,597 --> 00:16:45,980
when this is all it is
relative to how horrifically
354
00:16:46,005 --> 00:16:47,605
this country treats Black people?
355
00:16:47,707 --> 00:16:50,428
I mean, I watched that whole video,
356
00:16:50,453 --> 00:16:53,521
and in addition to the
absolute horror that I felt...
357
00:16:53,546 --> 00:16:58,126
And feel... I also thought...
358
00:16:59,794 --> 00:17:03,187
..."What do we have
to even complain about?"
359
00:17:04,982 --> 00:17:08,010
Travis, it's all bad.
360
00:17:08,361 --> 00:17:10,893
I know you're trying to be generous,
361
00:17:10,918 --> 00:17:14,008
but it is all bad.
362
00:17:14,033 --> 00:17:17,735
There are no winners
in the Oppression Olympics.
363
00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:19,436
Okay?
364
00:17:19,538 --> 00:17:22,039
And it's gaslighting if anyone tells you
365
00:17:22,141 --> 00:17:23,774
or if you tell yourself...
366
00:17:23,876 --> 00:17:25,643
...to be okay with the brutalities
367
00:17:25,745 --> 00:17:27,478
being inflicted on your community
368
00:17:27,580 --> 00:17:29,880
because worse things
are happening to another.
369
00:17:46,977 --> 00:17:48,443
She's just trying to help.
370
00:17:48,632 --> 00:17:49,998
Okay.
371
00:17:53,205 --> 00:17:55,857
- Robert...
- Look, I'm not gonna do it, okay?
372
00:17:56,271 --> 00:17:57,971
I'm not gonna just sit there
373
00:17:58,073 --> 00:18:00,187
- and... and perform my pain...
- It's not...
374
00:18:00,266 --> 00:18:02,254
...so that Bishop
can feel better, alright?
375
00:18:02,279 --> 00:18:03,412
- That's not...
- I'm not gonna do it.
376
00:18:03,745 --> 00:18:06,145
Andy, I just need a minute.
377
00:18:06,248 --> 00:18:07,881
Okay.
378
00:18:09,787 --> 00:18:11,087
I need a minute.
379
00:18:11,112 --> 00:18:13,012
Okay. Okay.
380
00:18:22,530 --> 00:18:23,830
You know, it's always bothered me
381
00:18:23,932 --> 00:18:26,679
when men would suddenly
see the world differently
382
00:18:26,742 --> 00:18:27,907
after they had a daughter.
383
00:18:27,936 --> 00:18:29,069
Like, I always wondered
384
00:18:29,094 --> 00:18:30,527
why it took them having a daughter
385
00:18:30,812 --> 00:18:32,645
in order to open their eyes.
386
00:18:33,241 --> 00:18:35,808
But I guess
that's how it feels for me now.
387
00:18:35,911 --> 00:18:37,410
I'm that guy.
388
00:18:38,219 --> 00:18:40,987
The world changed for me
389
00:18:41,012 --> 00:18:43,913
because I fell in love with a Black man,
390
00:18:43,938 --> 00:18:46,667
and now I see what he sees.
391
00:18:46,692 --> 00:18:50,027
You know, I... I worry
for him every day.
392
00:18:50,052 --> 00:18:51,785
I-I've taken on the fear
393
00:18:51,810 --> 00:18:53,744
that he doesn't allow himself to feel.
394
00:18:53,769 --> 00:18:56,302
I... You know, I've always seen it
395
00:18:56,327 --> 00:18:57,459
and felt it growing up.
396
00:18:57,484 --> 00:18:58,850
I saw my dad go through it.
397
00:18:58,875 --> 00:19:01,142
People would call him awful names,
398
00:19:01,167 --> 00:19:03,901
and he would... He would just walk by,
399
00:19:03,926 --> 00:19:05,292
hold his head up high.
400
00:19:05,807 --> 00:19:08,241
A-As a kid, people would look at
my last name,
401
00:19:08,266 --> 00:19:10,224
and they would ask me,
"Where are you really from?"
402
00:19:11,774 --> 00:19:14,647
I even had teachers
who would look really surprised
403
00:19:14,672 --> 00:19:16,432
once they realized that I was smart.
404
00:19:16,458 --> 00:19:18,097
But, you know, mostly...
405
00:19:21,977 --> 00:19:23,877
- It's okay to say it.
- Mostly, I got treated okay
406
00:19:23,902 --> 00:19:25,835
because my skin is light.
407
00:19:25,860 --> 00:19:27,093
I pass for white.
408
00:19:27,529 --> 00:19:30,330
And you feel guilty about that?
409
00:19:30,432 --> 00:19:31,564
I...
410
00:19:31,589 --> 00:19:32,922
You know...
411
00:19:32,947 --> 00:19:35,241
I swear to God,
I don't even know how I feel.
412
00:19:35,490 --> 00:19:36,856
Uh, can we walk?
413
00:19:38,133 --> 00:19:41,467
This year has been so much... so much.
414
00:19:41,492 --> 00:19:43,592
It's been just one thing
after another a...
415
00:19:43,617 --> 00:19:45,583
With no time to recover.
416
00:19:45,608 --> 00:19:47,842
And that video?
417
00:19:48,036 --> 00:19:49,235
I feel...
418
00:19:49,384 --> 00:19:51,507
I feel betrayed.
419
00:19:52,454 --> 00:19:55,222
I mean, j... I know
it's always been this way,
420
00:19:55,247 --> 00:19:57,948
but I needed to love a Black man...
421
00:19:57,973 --> 00:19:59,873
I needed to be married to a Black man...
422
00:19:59,898 --> 00:20:01,464
In order to see the whole picture?
423
00:20:01,489 --> 00:20:04,357
Why? Why? Where was my call for justice?
424
00:20:04,382 --> 00:20:06,038
Like, why didn't I see this before?
425
00:20:06,063 --> 00:20:09,358
W... Why am I just waking up now?
426
00:20:09,383 --> 00:20:11,483
A lot of people are waking up now,
427
00:20:11,980 --> 00:20:14,280
and they're asking themselves
the same questions.
428
00:20:14,996 --> 00:20:16,896
And you... You're the daughter
429
00:20:16,921 --> 00:20:18,888
of a fire captain.
430
00:20:18,913 --> 00:20:20,246
Police have been a part of your life
431
00:20:20,282 --> 00:20:21,581
since you were a little girl.
432
00:20:21,610 --> 00:20:24,011
Cops and firefighters were your family.
433
00:20:26,241 --> 00:20:27,874
They would call me Pruitita.
434
00:20:27,899 --> 00:20:29,532
It means Little Pruitt.
435
00:20:30,158 --> 00:20:32,992
And there was this sort of
mental gymnastics going on
436
00:20:33,017 --> 00:20:36,052
where, a-as I got older,
I thought I knew
437
00:20:36,077 --> 00:20:37,810
that police brutality was rampant.
438
00:20:37,835 --> 00:20:39,101
But at the same time,
439
00:20:39,126 --> 00:20:40,992
I didn't count the cops
that I knew personally
440
00:20:41,329 --> 00:20:42,494
into that issue.
441
00:20:42,519 --> 00:20:43,952
You know, it was double-think.
442
00:20:43,977 --> 00:20:45,677
Like, I never stopped and questioned
443
00:20:45,702 --> 00:20:47,969
why the good cops weren't
calling out the bad ones.
444
00:20:48,689 --> 00:20:52,111
You know, not a single one
of my dad's old police friends
445
00:20:52,213 --> 00:20:55,057
have stepped forward
to denounce the actions
446
00:20:55,082 --> 00:20:56,781
of the officers
that murdered George Floyd?
447
00:20:56,806 --> 00:20:59,075
Not a single one.
448
00:21:01,724 --> 00:21:04,705
It is my instinct
as a therapist to comfort you,
449
00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,694
but your comfort...
450
00:21:07,862 --> 00:21:09,762
And everyone else's comfort...
451
00:21:10,294 --> 00:21:12,963
Has been such a big part of this problem
452
00:21:13,114 --> 00:21:14,380
for so long.
453
00:21:23,711 --> 00:21:25,478
You're beautiful, and you're brave,
454
00:21:25,580 --> 00:21:28,381
- and you are...
- Okay, no, just listen.
455
00:21:28,483 --> 00:21:30,149
I want to tell everyone
456
00:21:30,251 --> 00:21:32,618
that I support them
attending the protests.
457
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,140
I want to go.
458
00:21:34,259 --> 00:21:37,369
I don't want
to silently support anymore.
459
00:21:37,394 --> 00:21:39,261
I want to scream in the streets.
460
00:21:39,363 --> 00:21:40,896
Wonderful. I'll join you.
461
00:21:40,998 --> 00:21:42,531
You don't understand.
462
00:21:43,008 --> 00:21:46,376
It's... Things are bad enough
right now between 19 and PD.
463
00:21:46,478 --> 00:21:48,445
The Department won't like it.
464
00:21:48,547 --> 00:21:50,380
Okay, but they cannot
465
00:21:50,482 --> 00:21:53,447
officially discipline you
for it, though, right?
466
00:21:53,472 --> 00:21:55,012
No, no.
467
00:21:55,036 --> 00:21:56,472
But
468
00:21:56,941 --> 00:21:58,388
I'm on a track,
469
00:21:59,176 --> 00:22:02,463
and if I support this publicly...
470
00:22:02,488 --> 00:22:04,488
Which everything in me wants to do...
471
00:22:04,590 --> 00:22:06,190
It'll take me off that track.
472
00:22:06,292 --> 00:22:09,762
Because people are setting
fires to police stations.
473
00:22:09,787 --> 00:22:12,721
Yes, and because firefighters
work with the police, okay?
474
00:22:12,823 --> 00:22:14,890
They're our brothers, too,
475
00:22:14,992 --> 00:22:16,392
and there are some bad apples, bu...
476
00:22:16,494 --> 00:22:18,360
Okay, they keep saying that on the news.
477
00:22:18,462 --> 00:22:20,195
The "one bad apple," "one bad apple."
478
00:22:20,298 --> 00:22:21,530
And I didn't understand what it meant,
479
00:22:21,632 --> 00:22:22,831
so I looked it up,
480
00:22:22,934 --> 00:22:25,100
and one bad apple
ruins the whole barrel.
481
00:22:25,202 --> 00:22:26,468
That's the saying.
482
00:22:26,571 --> 00:22:29,224
So, after we all saw the horrific video,
483
00:22:29,327 --> 00:22:31,509
why aren't all the brothers...
484
00:22:31,559 --> 00:22:32,992
Why aren't all the friends...
485
00:22:33,094 --> 00:22:35,061
Why isn't
every member of the police force
486
00:22:35,163 --> 00:22:37,396
in the streets
demanding systemic change?
487
00:22:37,498 --> 00:22:38,966
Why?
488
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,201
Because it'll take them
off of the track.
489
00:22:46,474 --> 00:22:48,341
Can I ask you a question?
490
00:22:48,443 --> 00:22:49,642
Of course.
491
00:22:50,244 --> 00:22:52,044
How do you become a therapist?
492
00:22:52,614 --> 00:22:56,297
I'm sorry. I'm not, uh,
often taken off-guard.
493
00:22:56,330 --> 00:22:58,864
Are you considering a career change?
494
00:22:58,966 --> 00:23:00,831
Oh, no. No, no, no. I mean, not now.
495
00:23:00,894 --> 00:23:02,194
I just... It would be nice
496
00:23:02,285 --> 00:23:03,751
to have a back-up plan
that's better than
497
00:23:03,853 --> 00:23:05,286
waiting tables at my parents' restaurant
498
00:23:05,388 --> 00:23:07,054
in case I get injured or...
499
00:23:07,842 --> 00:23:09,475
Or what?
500
00:23:10,913 --> 00:23:12,894
Or if I give myself permission
501
00:23:12,996 --> 00:23:14,395
to throw a brick at a police station
502
00:23:14,497 --> 00:23:16,264
and it gets me kicked out of FD.
503
00:23:17,780 --> 00:23:19,180
It's, uh, four years of undergrad
504
00:23:19,282 --> 00:23:20,581
plus two years of grad school.
505
00:23:20,683 --> 00:23:22,049
I'm only like eight credits shy
506
00:23:22,151 --> 00:23:23,717
of my undergrad degree, so...
507
00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:25,019
In what?
508
00:23:25,121 --> 00:23:26,954
Uh, it'll be a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
509
00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:29,055
A Bachelor of... of Fine Arts?
510
00:23:29,157 --> 00:23:30,390
Yeah, I studied musical theater.
511
00:23:30,492 --> 00:23:31,691
Wow.
512
00:23:32,135 --> 00:23:33,668
What are the classes when you get
513
00:23:33,770 --> 00:23:34,903
a Bachelor of Fine Arts
in musical theater?
514
00:23:35,005 --> 00:23:36,204
Well, let's see.
515
00:23:36,306 --> 00:23:38,106
Uh, there's voice and speech,
516
00:23:38,208 --> 00:23:40,402
and acting, singing, ballet,
517
00:23:40,449 --> 00:23:41,715
and also circus skills
518
00:23:41,817 --> 00:23:45,285
like walking a tightrope or juggling.
519
00:23:45,388 --> 00:23:46,920
And they give you a degree for that?
520
00:23:47,023 --> 00:23:49,117
Well, they would have,
but the theater burned down,
521
00:23:49,142 --> 00:23:50,674
and my favorite teacher
didn't make it out.
522
00:23:50,777 --> 00:23:52,880
And I did make it out,
but I couldn't go back.
523
00:23:52,905 --> 00:23:54,505
I couldn't finish, so...
524
00:23:54,959 --> 00:23:56,559
So...?
525
00:23:58,103 --> 00:24:00,203
Uh, why are we talking about this?
526
00:24:00,305 --> 00:24:02,105
I don't know, but if I had to guess,
527
00:24:02,207 --> 00:24:04,787
I'd say it's because
you are desperate to talk
528
00:24:04,868 --> 00:24:06,535
and think about literally anything
529
00:24:06,637 --> 00:24:07,970
besides that video.
530
00:24:08,889 --> 00:24:10,205
Can you think of anything...
531
00:24:10,307 --> 00:24:11,873
No.
532
00:24:20,167 --> 00:24:21,900
I like to fix things.
533
00:24:22,002 --> 00:24:23,602
I see a fire and I put it out.
534
00:24:23,704 --> 00:24:26,872
But we have been having
this same fight for so long...
535
00:24:26,974 --> 00:24:28,540
For so long.
536
00:24:28,642 --> 00:24:30,108
I mean, my grandma used to
tell me about the sit-ins
537
00:24:30,210 --> 00:24:32,144
and boycotts she used to do in the '60s.
538
00:24:32,246 --> 00:24:33,612
And we're how many moments
539
00:24:33,714 --> 00:24:35,881
and movements and marches later,
540
00:24:35,983 --> 00:24:37,616
and what do we have to show for it?
541
00:24:37,718 --> 00:24:39,985
And to see so many people
act like this is news...
542
00:24:40,087 --> 00:24:42,154
Like this is just
some brand-new information
543
00:24:42,256 --> 00:24:43,789
they're just now waking up to.
544
00:24:43,891 --> 00:24:45,557
Do you know how many white friends
545
00:24:45,659 --> 00:24:47,475
texted me or emailed me
546
00:24:47,499 --> 00:24:48,906
just out of the blue?
547
00:24:48,993 --> 00:24:50,295
Right? And everything under this guise
548
00:24:50,397 --> 00:24:52,397
of just checking in
and just asking how I was doing.
549
00:24:52,896 --> 00:24:54,162
"How are you feeling?" You know?
550
00:24:54,264 --> 00:24:56,665
I... I knew they meant well,
551
00:24:56,767 --> 00:25:00,628
but I also knew
what was behind it... guilt.
552
00:25:00,736 --> 00:25:02,991
So, I... Pbht.
I don't know, how am I feeling?
553
00:25:03,111 --> 00:25:04,677
How are you feeling?
'Cause that... Like...
554
00:25:06,481 --> 00:25:08,014
'Cause as much
as I couldn't fix this problem,
555
00:25:08,116 --> 00:25:09,315
at least I knew it was there.
556
00:25:09,890 --> 00:25:11,735
And for a better reason than I was just
557
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,092
stuck inside my house this time
558
00:25:13,117 --> 00:25:15,284
and I couldn't look away.
559
00:25:15,309 --> 00:25:16,709
Yeah.
560
00:25:16,734 --> 00:25:20,102
And the way they're
talking about him already.
561
00:25:20,361 --> 00:25:22,579
- Yeah.
- T-T-The spin already afoot
562
00:25:22,604 --> 00:25:25,017
by usual suspects in the media
563
00:25:25,111 --> 00:25:28,381
trying to vilify him
rather than the murder of him.
564
00:25:28,468 --> 00:25:29,734
You kn... You know what's almost
565
00:25:29,836 --> 00:25:31,068
equally as enraging to me, too?
566
00:25:31,171 --> 00:25:33,771
It's the people patting
themselves on the back
567
00:25:33,873 --> 00:25:35,173
trying to humanize him.
568
00:25:35,979 --> 00:25:37,912
It's like, you're trying
to humanize a person.
569
00:25:39,249 --> 00:25:41,749
Do you really have to look for proof
570
00:25:41,851 --> 00:25:43,224
that we're people, too?
571
00:25:43,310 --> 00:25:44,284
Really?
572
00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:45,433
We should care more about him
573
00:25:45,542 --> 00:25:47,134
because he was a... A good father
574
00:25:47,226 --> 00:25:48,422
or a loving brother
575
00:25:48,533 --> 00:25:49,624
or a high-school athlete
or he's fun at a party?
576
00:25:49,726 --> 00:25:51,158
No, we... we should care about him
577
00:25:51,261 --> 00:25:53,369
because he was a person.
578
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,053
George Floyd shouldn't have been
579
00:25:57,155 --> 00:25:58,916
treated this way because he's a person.
580
00:26:00,125 --> 00:26:01,669
A cop...
581
00:26:03,928 --> 00:26:06,321
...should not have had his knee
on his neck
582
00:26:06,346 --> 00:26:08,913
until the last gasp of life
was choked out of him,
583
00:26:08,938 --> 00:26:10,705
because he is a person.
584
00:26:27,286 --> 00:26:29,600
So, do you think I could
get into grad school, or...?
585
00:26:30,322 --> 00:26:32,603
You really gonna throw that brick?
586
00:26:48,655 --> 00:26:51,122
I just want a back-up plan.
587
00:27:05,754 --> 00:27:07,053
I'm sorry.
588
00:27:07,155 --> 00:27:09,188
I'm sure I'm not the one
you're here to talk to.
589
00:27:09,290 --> 00:27:11,557
I'm here to talk to anyone who needs it.
590
00:27:11,582 --> 00:27:13,715
I'm afraid to talk to anyone right now.
591
00:27:13,761 --> 00:27:15,160
Not just you... T-to anyone.
592
00:27:15,397 --> 00:27:17,163
I'm afraid to talk to my best friend.
593
00:27:17,265 --> 00:27:18,765
Ah, Miller.
594
00:27:20,035 --> 00:27:22,101
I'm afraid I'm gonna get
every word wrong,
595
00:27:22,203 --> 00:27:23,736
or even one word.
596
00:27:23,838 --> 00:27:25,104
Yeah, I know I'm not a racist.
597
00:27:25,206 --> 00:27:26,739
Ohh. I-I know that.
598
00:27:26,841 --> 00:27:29,809
You do realize that
"I'm not racist" is kind of
599
00:27:29,911 --> 00:27:34,019
the... the club slogan of racists?
600
00:27:34,086 --> 00:27:36,120
And that's because we live in a culture
601
00:27:36,222 --> 00:27:37,655
built on white supremacy,
602
00:27:37,757 --> 00:27:39,590
so the racism is baked in.
603
00:27:40,059 --> 00:27:41,592
And we can't begin to undo it
604
00:27:41,694 --> 00:27:42,760
until we name it and own it.
605
00:27:42,862 --> 00:27:44,295
Okay, see, this is exactly my point.
606
00:27:44,397 --> 00:27:46,977
You know, I'm damned if I do,
and I'm damned if I don't.
607
00:27:47,087 --> 00:27:49,512
Cops take a knee, join the protests,
608
00:27:49,540 --> 00:27:51,106
they're called hypocrites.
609
00:27:51,208 --> 00:27:52,841
And Dixon? He is a hypocrite.
610
00:27:52,943 --> 00:27:54,743
He is a racist.
611
00:27:55,084 --> 00:27:57,484
But it can't be that across the board.
612
00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:01,944
Jack, you come to see me twice a month,
613
00:28:02,047 --> 00:28:05,315
so I have to assume
that you like me, right?
614
00:28:05,417 --> 00:28:07,936
You like that I give you tough love
615
00:28:08,033 --> 00:28:10,089
and tell it like it is
and don't pull punches?
616
00:28:11,106 --> 00:28:13,807
And you came in here today
looking for some clarity.
617
00:28:13,909 --> 00:28:15,701
So, here it is.
618
00:28:15,798 --> 00:28:17,477
I know what you mean
619
00:28:17,580 --> 00:28:19,146
when you say you aren't racist,
620
00:28:19,248 --> 00:28:20,314
and I believe
621
00:28:20,416 --> 00:28:23,784
that you do not have hatred
in your heart.
622
00:28:23,886 --> 00:28:26,605
But you also aren't damned.
623
00:28:27,389 --> 00:28:28,956
Not even in the least bit.
624
00:28:29,058 --> 00:28:31,235
You're blessed as hell.
625
00:28:32,461 --> 00:28:34,494
I know you grew up
on the streets in the system,
626
00:28:34,597 --> 00:28:37,164
and I'm not diminishing your hardship,
627
00:28:37,266 --> 00:28:38,866
but you are...
628
00:28:38,968 --> 00:28:40,434
Yeah, I'm privileged because I'm white.
629
00:28:40,536 --> 00:28:41,835
I get it.
630
00:28:42,412 --> 00:28:45,539
When I was a kid...
When I was squatting...
631
00:28:46,083 --> 00:28:48,175
After that last foster home,
632
00:28:48,277 --> 00:28:51,011
there were a few of us
who would hunker down
633
00:28:51,113 --> 00:28:53,113
to make a place for ourselves.
634
00:28:53,215 --> 00:28:55,207
You know, to stay out of the system.
635
00:28:55,297 --> 00:28:57,495
Eventually, the cops would find us,
636
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:58,886
and we'd run.
637
00:28:59,029 --> 00:29:00,721
And it was scary.
638
00:29:00,823 --> 00:29:02,723
But when I was being chased,
639
00:29:02,825 --> 00:29:04,685
not once did I think that,
640
00:29:05,494 --> 00:29:10,530
"If he catches me, he might kill me."
641
00:29:12,134 --> 00:29:14,067
I never feared for my life.
642
00:29:15,671 --> 00:29:18,031
But I know some of my friends did.
643
00:29:19,808 --> 00:29:22,035
I know I'm privileged, Diane.
644
00:29:24,113 --> 00:29:26,713
I watched what those cops did to Miller,
645
00:29:26,815 --> 00:29:28,482
I watched that video,
646
00:29:29,084 --> 00:29:30,919
and I want to blow up the world.
647
00:29:32,296 --> 00:29:33,687
And?
648
00:29:33,789 --> 00:29:35,589
And...
649
00:29:36,216 --> 00:29:38,091
we're firefighters.
650
00:29:38,719 --> 00:29:41,361
We need the cops, and they need us.
651
00:29:41,463 --> 00:29:43,230
And we can't all of a sudden
overnight decide
652
00:29:43,332 --> 00:29:45,032
that the whole institution is evil.
653
00:29:45,134 --> 00:29:48,001
Some good guys stayed silent,
654
00:29:48,103 --> 00:29:49,897
and that makes them bad.
655
00:29:50,539 --> 00:29:54,318
Except, they're not actually all bad.
656
00:29:55,569 --> 00:29:57,244
They're individuals.
657
00:29:57,346 --> 00:29:59,279
And I feel like
I'm not allowed to say that.
658
00:29:59,381 --> 00:30:04,117
I'm afraid to say anything.
659
00:30:04,544 --> 00:30:05,704
Mm.
660
00:30:07,389 --> 00:30:09,583
I was a firefighter, too.
661
00:30:10,459 --> 00:30:12,836
I have cop buddies, too.
662
00:30:13,362 --> 00:30:17,364
Our cop buddies are not the point.
663
00:30:20,903 --> 00:30:23,837
Do you know what the 13th Amendment did?
664
00:30:25,174 --> 00:30:26,773
Abolished slavery.
665
00:30:26,875 --> 00:30:29,309
Except as a punishment for a crime.
666
00:30:29,411 --> 00:30:31,044
Yeah, but that was like...
667
00:30:31,146 --> 00:30:32,312
That's still the law.
668
00:30:32,414 --> 00:30:35,716
It is still legal to enslave Americans
669
00:30:35,818 --> 00:30:38,051
as a punishment for a crime.
670
00:30:38,153 --> 00:30:39,920
And do you know the statistics
671
00:30:40,022 --> 00:30:42,255
of incarcerated Black folks in America?
672
00:30:42,358 --> 00:30:44,257
34%.
673
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,727
We are 34% of the prison population,
674
00:30:46,829 --> 00:30:50,397
but we only make up 13%
of this country's population.
675
00:30:50,499 --> 00:30:52,265
That seem right to you?
676
00:30:52,368 --> 00:30:53,900
And you're thinking,
677
00:30:54,003 --> 00:30:56,737
"Well, that's because
more Black people are poor,
678
00:30:56,839 --> 00:30:58,472
so they have to resort to crime.
679
00:30:58,574 --> 00:31:00,807
So they get arrested more.
680
00:31:00,909 --> 00:31:03,610
Sucks for them, but, hey, you do
the crime, you do the time."
681
00:31:03,712 --> 00:31:06,146
But how many crimes
did you commit, Jack,
682
00:31:06,765 --> 00:31:08,682
when you were out there on the streets?
683
00:31:09,618 --> 00:31:12,919
Did you, uh, steal to eat?
Did you run from police?
684
00:31:12,944 --> 00:31:15,010
Did you get drunk sometimes and
make a mess with your friends?
685
00:31:15,190 --> 00:31:16,757
Yeah, all of that.
686
00:31:16,859 --> 00:31:18,291
But you never went to prison.
687
00:31:18,394 --> 00:31:19,693
Never went to jail.
688
00:31:19,795 --> 00:31:22,095
Never had a gun pointed at you.
689
00:31:22,197 --> 00:31:24,664
Never have a knee put on your neck.
690
00:31:24,767 --> 00:31:27,834
When you make mistakes,
you get to learn from them.
691
00:31:27,936 --> 00:31:31,138
When people who look like me
make any kind of mistake,
692
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,807
we go to prison... or worse.
693
00:31:33,909 --> 00:31:37,611
And way too often, no mistake is needed.
694
00:31:37,713 --> 00:31:39,946
We can laugh too loud
and they'll arrest us.
695
00:31:40,049 --> 00:31:41,548
We can put our hands in the air,
696
00:31:41,650 --> 00:31:42,816
and they'll shoot us.
697
00:31:42,918 --> 00:31:44,451
It's not in the past.
698
00:31:44,553 --> 00:31:46,626
It's now. It's still.
699
00:31:48,390 --> 00:31:51,725
And I know you don't have
hatred in your heart, Jack.
700
00:31:52,269 --> 00:31:53,960
But that's not enough anymore.
701
00:31:54,396 --> 00:31:55,729
You have to dig deeper.
702
00:31:55,831 --> 00:31:58,031
When you're too uncomfortable to talk
703
00:31:58,133 --> 00:31:59,966
and you don't know what to say?
704
00:32:00,069 --> 00:32:01,968
That's okay.
705
00:32:02,071 --> 00:32:03,739
Listen instead.
706
00:32:17,961 --> 00:32:19,286
I know.
707
00:32:19,838 --> 00:32:22,175
You want me to talk to her.
708
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:28,513
No, I want you to do
whatever you need to do.
709
00:32:50,252 --> 00:32:52,539
Hey, there. Yeah?
710
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,154
Is it alright if we come in?
711
00:32:54,267 --> 00:32:55,322
You guys okay?
712
00:32:55,424 --> 00:32:56,523
You need medical attention or anything?
713
00:32:56,625 --> 00:32:58,025
Oh, no. I was just hoping
714
00:32:58,127 --> 00:33:00,772
someone could show my boys
around the station.
715
00:33:00,854 --> 00:33:02,487
Can we slide down the pole?
716
00:33:02,589 --> 00:33:05,089
Sorry, but the station tours
are cancelled because of COVID.
717
00:33:05,191 --> 00:33:06,290
- I'm sorry.
- Aww!
718
00:33:06,393 --> 00:33:08,026
Can we go now?
719
00:33:08,929 --> 00:33:12,063
Hey, guys, um... Just, um, wait for me
720
00:33:12,165 --> 00:33:14,314
- out there on the bench for me, okay?
- Ugh, fine.
721
00:33:14,339 --> 00:33:15,671
I'll be right out.
722
00:33:16,386 --> 00:33:19,521
Uh, look, u... sir,
I'm... I'm sorry, but I...
723
00:33:22,539 --> 00:33:24,339
My kids saw the video.
724
00:33:25,376 --> 00:33:26,508
They watched it.
725
00:33:26,935 --> 00:33:28,568
I didn't tell them that they could,
726
00:33:28,670 --> 00:33:30,203
but it's all over social media.
727
00:33:30,305 --> 00:33:32,973
And before I even got home from work,
728
00:33:33,075 --> 00:33:34,541
they had watched it.
729
00:33:35,455 --> 00:33:38,578
My 11-year-old slept with
his comfort blanket last night.
730
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:42,077
He dug it out of storage
and he hid it under his pillow.
731
00:33:42,124 --> 00:33:43,757
He thought I didn't see it.
732
00:33:44,256 --> 00:33:47,094
He hasn't slept with that
since he was 8 years old.
733
00:33:47,196 --> 00:33:50,143
They don't understand,
734
00:33:50,230 --> 00:33:52,489
and I cannot find any honest words
735
00:33:52,572 --> 00:33:54,005
to explain it to them.
736
00:33:54,585 --> 00:33:57,953
But I saw your station on the news,
737
00:33:58,055 --> 00:34:00,189
and I knew that there were
Black firefighters here.
738
00:34:00,291 --> 00:34:02,658
And I thought that my boys should see
739
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,028
good people in uniform...
People that look like them.
740
00:34:06,443 --> 00:34:09,406
So... please.
741
00:34:12,742 --> 00:34:14,575
Stand back, sir. Please.
742
00:34:26,106 --> 00:34:27,672
You all have to sanitize, alright?
743
00:34:27,774 --> 00:34:29,440
Come on. Let's go.
744
00:34:29,542 --> 00:34:31,757
Hey, guys, come on! Come on, boys.
745
00:34:31,804 --> 00:34:32,936
Here you guys go.
746
00:34:53,909 --> 00:34:55,302
Uh... Uh...
747
00:35:18,225 --> 00:35:19,809
Thanks.
748
00:35:42,251 --> 00:35:44,885
- See that?
- Whoa!
749
00:35:44,987 --> 00:35:47,054
- This is Station 19.
- Oh, this thing is huge!
750
00:35:47,156 --> 00:35:49,089
- Awesome.
- Whoa, it's so...
751
00:35:49,191 --> 00:35:50,557
Firefighter, baby! Perfect, yeah.
752
00:35:50,659 --> 00:35:52,092
- Does it look good on me?
- Of course it does, yeah!
753
00:35:52,194 --> 00:35:53,927
- I'm wearing a firefighter helmet!
- Whoa!
754
00:35:54,029 --> 00:35:55,562
Unh!
755
00:35:55,664 --> 00:35:57,197
Yeah, man!
756
00:35:57,299 --> 00:35:59,066
- Hey! Hi!
- Hi!
757
00:35:59,168 --> 00:36:00,367
Oh, hey!
758
00:36:00,569 --> 00:36:01,835
- Bye! Bye!
- Say thank you.
759
00:36:01,937 --> 00:36:03,370
- Come on.
- Thank you!
760
00:36:28,837 --> 00:36:30,630
This one was different.
761
00:36:32,134 --> 00:36:33,400
This wasn't just another video
762
00:36:33,425 --> 00:36:36,326
of an innocent Black man
being shot by police.
763
00:36:36,411 --> 00:36:39,713
This wasn't an officer
making a split-second decision
764
00:36:39,738 --> 00:36:43,606
that resulted in another
Black man losing his life.
765
00:36:44,052 --> 00:36:47,587
This wasn't fight-or-flight
or panic-induced impulse
766
00:36:47,612 --> 00:36:50,179
or unconscious bias
or unnecessary escalation.
767
00:36:50,204 --> 00:36:53,505
This was the murder
of an unarmed, defenseless,
768
00:36:53,530 --> 00:36:55,171
compliant Black man
769
00:36:55,196 --> 00:36:57,897
in the middle of the street
in broad daylight.
770
00:36:57,922 --> 00:36:59,621
Right in front of our eyes...
771
00:36:59,646 --> 00:37:01,379
All of our eyes.
772
00:37:01,404 --> 00:37:03,103
And, you know, white people
are finally realizing
773
00:37:03,151 --> 00:37:06,953
that we aren't hysterical
or beating a dead horse.
774
00:37:08,510 --> 00:37:10,443
They saw that white woman
in Central Park
775
00:37:10,498 --> 00:37:13,533
casually use a racist
police system as a weapon,
776
00:37:13,558 --> 00:37:16,609
and they're starting to understand
777
00:37:16,634 --> 00:37:20,769
that all of it renders us
Black people terrorized.
778
00:37:21,691 --> 00:37:22,924
Hunted.
779
00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:27,103
Exhausted by everyday life.
780
00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:32,299
And, you know, I'm tired.
781
00:37:32,401 --> 00:37:35,701
I'm... And I'm mad, and I'm sad.
782
00:37:35,821 --> 00:37:39,032
And I'm tired for having to
explain why I'm mad and sad.
783
00:37:40,633 --> 00:37:43,600
I'm mad because
I have to take a magic pause
784
00:37:43,702 --> 00:37:47,137
every time I'm being tracked
by eyeballs in a store.
785
00:37:48,163 --> 00:37:50,680
Or when people who are
in life-threatening danger
786
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,444
choose to take their chances
by themselves
787
00:37:54,522 --> 00:37:56,980
rather than being rescued
by a Black firefighter.
788
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,950
But, you know, mostly, I'm scared.
789
00:38:08,285 --> 00:38:10,385
I'm scared.
790
00:38:12,065 --> 00:38:13,982
Because no matter how tired I am,
791
00:38:14,526 --> 00:38:16,818
how mad I get, how sad I get,
792
00:38:17,987 --> 00:38:22,188
there's nothing I can say
to change their minds.
793
00:38:22,213 --> 00:38:23,446
There's nothing I can do
794
00:38:23,471 --> 00:38:27,907
that will make them see me
as a hardworking professional.
795
00:38:28,086 --> 00:38:29,886
A loving husband.
796
00:38:30,667 --> 00:38:32,502
Or just a man.
797
00:38:33,658 --> 00:38:36,943
There's nothing that prevents
something like this
798
00:38:36,968 --> 00:38:38,268
from happening to me.
799
00:38:38,633 --> 00:38:40,336
Nothing.
800
00:38:41,136 --> 00:38:43,239
I'm scared because
I am eight minutes away
801
00:38:43,341 --> 00:38:45,807
from being another George Floyd.
802
00:38:54,290 --> 00:38:56,290
We're a quiet bunch tonight.
803
00:38:56,986 --> 00:38:59,487
Look, I'm just...
I'm just glad to see your faces.
804
00:38:59,589 --> 00:39:01,489
You know, know you're good and safe.
805
00:39:01,514 --> 00:39:03,647
Are you sure we can't go to the protest?
806
00:39:03,826 --> 00:39:05,526
A bunch of my friends are going.
807
00:39:05,628 --> 00:39:07,461
They're all masked and everything.
808
00:39:07,486 --> 00:39:08,819
I'll follow your lead, Ben.
809
00:39:09,372 --> 00:39:11,999
Another Black Trans woman
was killed today.
810
00:39:12,101 --> 00:39:14,735
- Tuck...
- I want to march, Aunt Roz.
811
00:39:14,837 --> 00:39:17,004
I want to march for you and for myself.
812
00:39:17,106 --> 00:39:18,305
I want to march.
813
00:39:18,408 --> 00:39:21,426
W-W-Why won't you let us march?
814
00:39:24,559 --> 00:39:25,692
You sure? Hey.
815
00:39:25,717 --> 00:39:26,883
It'll be great.
816
00:39:26,908 --> 00:39:28,658
I was thinking tomorrow after shift,
817
00:39:28,683 --> 00:39:30,183
Captain Bishop has given the all-clear
818
00:39:30,208 --> 00:39:32,302
for us to go to a protest.
819
00:39:32,422 --> 00:39:33,813
Us?
820
00:39:34,724 --> 00:39:36,858
I'd like to go, if you'll have me.
821
00:39:38,020 --> 00:39:39,486
Uh...
822
00:39:40,963 --> 00:39:42,563
- Cool.
- Yeah.
823
00:39:42,665 --> 00:39:44,365
Um, but if anybody
comes at us with weapons,
824
00:39:44,467 --> 00:39:47,601
it is your job to put your body
between us and them.
825
00:39:47,780 --> 00:39:49,680
- Got it.
- Yeah, he's not kidding.
826
00:39:49,705 --> 00:39:50,971
I'm not kidding.
827
00:39:51,073 --> 00:39:52,973
I kinda figured, yeah.
828
00:39:52,998 --> 00:39:55,499
Okay.
829
00:40:11,561 --> 00:40:13,461
I was so desperate for a promotion
830
00:40:13,563 --> 00:40:17,231
that I was gonna try and stop
Miller's lawsuit,
831
00:40:17,774 --> 00:40:20,668
which is the best shot we have
at anything changing.
832
00:40:20,770 --> 00:40:22,470
Robert...
833
00:40:22,572 --> 00:40:26,474
This demotion has been humbling.
834
00:40:26,576 --> 00:40:27,842
It's been humbling,
835
00:40:27,944 --> 00:40:31,679
and I've had so many dark thoughts.
836
00:40:31,781 --> 00:40:34,207
Sometimes, I doubt my own...
837
00:40:36,485 --> 00:40:38,294
my own goodness.
838
00:40:39,796 --> 00:40:42,757
No one is just good.
839
00:40:43,759 --> 00:40:46,660
We... We make mistakes,
and we learn from them,
840
00:40:46,762 --> 00:40:48,062
and we do better next time.
841
00:40:48,164 --> 00:40:49,497
That's how goodness works.
842
00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:52,700
It's not about purity.
843
00:40:52,802 --> 00:40:56,604
It's about... It's about growth.
844
00:41:10,987 --> 00:41:12,386
- Let's get into the car real quick.
- I...
845
00:41:12,488 --> 00:41:13,721
19.
846
00:41:13,823 --> 00:41:15,723
Hopefully this goes without saying,
847
00:41:15,825 --> 00:41:18,526
but although you have the right
to peacefully protest
848
00:41:18,628 --> 00:41:20,561
and my wholehearted support,
849
00:41:20,663 --> 00:41:24,131
I trust that you will not engage
in any activity or action
850
00:41:24,233 --> 00:41:27,768
that will bring discredit
to you, 19, or the SFD.
851
00:41:29,718 --> 00:41:31,218
19.
852
00:41:31,243 --> 00:41:32,809
19!
853
00:41:42,718 --> 00:41:44,218
No justice, no peace!
854
00:41:51,060 --> 00:41:53,127
No justice, no peace!
No justice, no peace!
855
00:41:59,368 --> 00:42:01,135
No justice, no peace!
856
00:42:01,237 --> 00:42:02,770
No justice, no peace!
857
00:42:08,044 --> 00:42:10,010
No justice, no peace!
858
00:42:10,112 --> 00:42:12,112
No justice, no peace!
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