[alarm sounding]
We see shadows moving in the mist.
Let's go.
We start hearing people yelling and running, running.
Now we know something is going on.
Zone 500 is currently undergoing a code
red mass evacuation drill.
In order to make the drill feel real,
we keep the inmates in the dark as long as possible.
We would have been there.
[inaudible]
The inmates are restrained with zip ties
in order to be able to conduct the transport safely.
I was able to get out of my zip ties pretty quickly.
And then a couple of the other guys
started getting out of their zip ties.
Everybody started celebrating and jumping up and down.
With more than half of the inmates
having their restraints off, it could have gotten ugly.
[bleep]
Definitely, the mood was tense where you felt like,
OK, I got to be on edge right now.
What the [bleep] y'all doing?
With just the few COs that were on the bus,
they could definitely lose control of us.
[bleep]
Y'all ready?
When we're on the bus, before they take us off,
the guy from the Dart team comes in.
He's like, listen-- he's like, any of you that slipped
your cuffs, if we see your hands in front of you, we got the OK.
We got the green light to shoot you with the rubber bullets.
And this guy was serious, man.
As you were coming off the bus,
they grabbed everybody's zip ties and cinched them down.
He tied it up tight.
And I instantly felt that-- it wasn't
even a whole three seconds.
I told somebody, I said, look, I said, my circulation
is getting cut off.
And they were just like, there ain't nothing I can do.
Go in there and sit down.
You'll be fine.
Come on, now.
You're good.
They had seen everybody that had taken them off.
It's not tight.
And they said, OK, we're going to show you.
We're going to show you.
This [bleep] tight as [bleep],, man.
I'll tell you that.
See how they treat us when we in jail?
They treat us like [bleep].
So that's why we act how the way we act in here.
We slaves.
[bleep]
For real, man.
[inaudible] [bleep], man.
That [bleep] hurts, man!
Everybody was just in pain.
With handcuffs, you got some space in between your wrists.
Flex cuffs got you like this.
So behind your back, your forearms are pinned together.
You know?
There's just no way to sit, no way to stand.
You're losing circulation.
Man, my arm hurts, man!
His arm is swelling up.
You ain't giving me no respect!
I'm sitting here telling you my arm is turning purple.
You're talking about, oh, let it alone.
Oh, all right.
I ain't going to be locked up forever.
I hope that's not a threat.
You don't give me no respect, so you don't get no respect.
Let's go, gentlemen.
Let's go. Let's go.
Take it straight down the line, straight down the line.
Gentlemen, let's go.
My whole arm purple, man.
All in.
Step all the way back, all the way back.
Look at what they did to my roommate.
He's black as hell.
His hands purple.
The cuffs are too tight.
And the tool that they have to use to take the cuffs off,
it slides in between the cuff and your wrist.
So now they've got to force this tool in between somebody's
wrists and this plastic cuff, which it's heavy-duty plastic,
you know?
So the plastic ain't giving.
Your skin is. - Oh, hell.
I can't even get in there.
They're tight.
Yeah, they are.
They're tight.
Come on.
I felt like I was going to throw up.
All my circulation being cut off.
The dudes were bleeding.
That shows you how tight it was. - Come on.
[inaudible] putting on a show.
You're putting on a show.
You say we're putting on a show?
Ain't nobody putting on no show.
That [bleep] really hurt.
Your health be on the line in jail, like more than one way.
I mean, they had a lot of people bleeding.
I'm not worried about the pain,
and I'm not worried about a little bit
of loss of blood and a little tiny wound
that I know is going to heal.
I'm worried about who got cut before me.
[bleep], son.
That's what I'm saying.