>> THE US ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK IS
CHARGING THREE CORRECTIONAL
OFFICERS, OR PRISON GUARDS FOR THEIR BRUTALITY AGAINST AN
INMATE.
APPARENTLY THESE PRISON GUARDS NOT ONLY BE TO THIS
INMATE BUT THEY ALSO REFUSED TO GIVE THEM THE MEDICAL ATTENTION
THAT HE NEEDED.
THE PRISONER IN QUESTION IS KEVIN MOORE.
AND
ACCORDING TO REPORTS THEY WERE TORTURING THE INMATE, USING HIS
HAIR AS DECORATIONS AND THEY ALSO FAKED THEIR OWN INJURIES TO
JUSTIFY THE ASSAULT AGAINST HIM.
HE WAS PUT IN A PRISON AND HE
WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE THERE
FOR ONE NIGHT BEFORE THEY MOVED HIM TO RIKERS.
WHAT ENDED UP
HAPPENING WAS [VIDEO BUFFERING] THEY WANTED TO PUT HIM IN A
SPECIAL PORTION OF THE PRISON THAT IS RESERVED FOR THOSE WHO
HAVE MENTAL ISSUES.
HE DOESN'T HAVE MENTAL ISSUES.
HE HAD
MENTIONED THAT HE WAS VERY MUCH CONCERNED ABOUT THEM PUTTING HIM
IN A SPECIALIZED CELLBLOCK.
HE SAID HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE
LABELED AS A MONSTER.
THOSE ARE THE CHARGES
HE IS FACING.
APPARENTLY ONE OF THEM ALSO TOLD HIM WHO IS THE MONSTER NOW AS
THEY ARE BEATING HIM.
>> SO, IT TAKES ONLY THE SLIGHTEST LITTLE THING TO SET
THEM OFF.
HE DIDN'T EVEN CALL THEM MONSTERS.
HE SAID I DON'T
WANT TO SEEM LIKE A MONSTER.
WHAT IN THE WORLD?
WHY?
HE
DIDN'T EVEN SAY ANYTHING ABOUT
THEM.
TO ME, THE FACIAL FRACTURES AND THE COLLAPSED
ALONG, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT
REALLY GOT TO ME.
OBVIOUSLY HE COULD'VE EASILY DIED FROM A
COLLAPSED LUNG.
THEY DIDN'T GIVE HIM MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR A LONG
TIME AFTERWARDS.
THEY BEAT HIS FACE SO BAD HE FRACTURED
DIFFERENT PARTS OF HIS FACE.
ALL BECAUSE OF WHAT?
I GUESS THEY
ARE SADISTIC.
IT'S NOT LIKE HE DIDN'T FOLLOW ORDERS.
THIS WAS
NOTHING.
THESE GUYS HAVE A HISTORY OF DOING THIS OVER AND
OVER AGAIN.
IT DRIVES ME CRAZY EVERY TIME WE DO ONE OF THESE
STORIES THAT WE DON'T TEACH THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT TO
EVERY HOLDING FACILITY IN
AMERICA.
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT SHOWS THAT WE AS
HUMAN BEINGS IF YOU PUT US IN A PRISON SITUATION GUARDS WILL
BECOME SADISTIC AND THEY WILL BECOME SUPER AGGRESSIVE AGAINST
THE PRISONERS.
THE PRISONERS WILL INTERNALIZE THEY DID
SOMETHING WRONG.
AND THOSE
STANFORD STUDENTS DID NOTHING WRONG, AND WITHIN TWO DAYS HE
BECAME MONSTERS.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY
ALL THE TIME, YET WE NEVER
ACCOUNT FOR IT.
AND EVERY TIME WE ARE SURPRISED.
A LOT OF
PEOPLE WILL SAY HE MUST'VE
DESERVED IT SOMEHOW.
>> PROSECUTORS ARE GOING AFTER THEM.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS IS
ALL GOING TO PLAY OUT.
WHAT I DO
KNOW IS THAT PUBLIC OPINION REGARDING INMATES IS THAT THEY
ARE THROWAWAYS AS A SOCIETY AND DESERVE WHATEVER THEY GET TO
THEM.
THEY GET TREATED LIKE SLAVES WHERE THEY LITERALLY HAVE
TO DO LABOR AND GET NO MONEY FOR
IT.
THE REASONS WHY CORPORATIONS DO THAT IS BECAUSE THEY CAN
OUTSOURCE JOBS TO OTHER
COUNTRIES.
AND THEN THERE IS THE COMPONENT OF PRISON GUARDS
BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF INMATES.
THERE IS A COMPONENT OF INMATES
GETTING RAPED ON A DAILY BASIS.
CONGRESS REFUSES TO EVEN ADDRESS
OR VOTE ON THAT ISSUE.
WE HAVE THESE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AMERICA
AND HOW GREAT THIS COUNTRY IS AND HOW PATRIOTIC WILL NEED TO
BE.
NO BANG, I AM NOT PATRIOTIC OR PROUD OF MY COUNTRY.
I SEE
STUFF LIKE THIS AND IT GOES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION AND
WHAT THIS COUNTRY WAS WAS TO BE FOUNDED ON.
THIS IS
EMBARRASSING.
BEING A MAN FOR SAYING THAT HE IS CONCERNED
ABOUT PUTTING ñ BEING PUT IN A SPECIALIZED CELLBLOCK THAT HE IS
NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AND IS UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR TO SAY THE
LEAST.
THESE PRISON GUARDS HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF SIMILAR BEHAVIOR
SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE.
THIS WAS A
ONE-TIME THING.
THESE PEOPLE ARE VIOLENT AND I DON'T WANT TO TALK
ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY SHOULD
GET FIRED FROM THEIR JOBS.
I WANT THEM TO BE IN PRISON.
THESE PRISON GUARDS GET TO DO WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT.
IT'S JUST A BLACK PRISONER, WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT HIM.
>> AND IN THIS CASE THEY ARE NOT JUSTIFYING, THEY ARE CHARGED
WITH CRIMES.
BY THE WAY, THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
SOMETIMES
REPUBLICANS GET CAUGHT DOING
BRIBERY.
IMMIGRANTS GET CAUGHT TWO.
DEMOCRATS ALREADY WANT
PRISONER REFORM GENERALLY
SPEAKING.
AND THEY USUALLY GO TO LOW SECURITY PRISONS AND EVEN
THEN THEY ARE FREAKED OUT BY IT.
THEY DON'T GO TO THESE KIND OF
PRISONS.
AGAIN, NO ABILITY TO EMPATHIZE UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO
THEM.
I GET A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TAKE VENUE.
I THINK AMERICA HAS
GREAT IDEALS, AND WE SHOULD
FIGHT FOR THEM.
BUT I FEEL LIKE WE CAN GET THERE IF WE ARE PROUD
OF THOSE IDEALS AND FORCE EVERYONE TO THE BEST OF OUR
ABILITY TO LIVE UP TO THOSE IDEALS AND TO BRING JUSTICE.
LET'S REMEMBER THAT THE GOOD
NEWS OUT OF THIS IS IT IS VERY BELATED, AND THESE GUYS DID IT
MANY TIMES BEFORE BUT FINALLY THEY ARE BEING CHARGED SO THERE
IS AT LEAST AN EFFORT TO SEEK OUT JUSTICE IN THIS CASE.
>>BY THE WAY, ONE FINAL COMPONENT IS THAT THEY WANTED TO
JUSTIFY WHAT THEY HAD DONE TO
THIS INMATE AND SO THEY FAKED INJURIES IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY IT.
THEY SAID HE HAD ATTACKED THEM WHICH IS WHY THEY BEAT HIM.
SO
TO CREATE THE APPEARANCE OF A STRUGGLE SANTIAGO ALLEGEDLY
STRUCK ANOTHER CORRECTIONS
OFFICER WITH HIS BATON WHY THEY APPLIED FRICTION TO A NEW WOUND
MAKING IT LOOK MORE SERIOUS.
THE REASON WHY I AM BRINGING UP THIS
POINT IS THAT WE HEAR THIS ARGUMENT BY PEOPLE IN
AUTHORITATIVE POSITIONS ALL THE
TIME.
AND WE JUST BELIEVE THEM AND WE NEVER EVER GIVE THE
PERSON WHO WAS UNARMED AND SHOT TO DEATH THE BENEFIT OF THE
DOUBT.
NEVER.
EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT EVEN HERE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.
>>LET ALONE PRISONERS.
WITH PRISONERS AND YOU START A
CONVERSATION, THEY ARE ALREADY GUILTY.
OF COURSE, THEY ARE
ANIMALS.
POOR GUARDS, OF COURSE THEY HAD TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.
NEXT TIME ANYONE IN AUTHORITY TELLS YOU THAT SOMETHING
HAPPENED, MAYBE TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT AND INVESTIGATE A
LITTLE BIT.