TESTIMONY
Attendee on the Impact of Racial Profiling and Systemic Issues in Law Enforcement
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An attendee provides testimony about the personal ramifications of racial profiling and systemic failures within the law enforcement system, sharing a personal story of wrongful conviction in 1988, the loss of family, and subsequent hardships. Emphasizing the need for justice for those wrongfully convicted, the speaker advocates for the passage of the Wrongfully Convicted Act in Albany to address these injustices.
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Good.
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Good afternoon.
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I should say.
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Yes.
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I just wanna thank the council security council and who said and a few others that I've done some advocating.
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I'm quite vocal.
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Of course, it's a community activist meetings.
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I would directly impact 5 massive incarceration.
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Yeah.
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And a lot of things have said that I don't wanna repeat.
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I don't believe in evaluating.
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I don't know racial recognition, racial profiling, so very racial system, you know, the history, but there's nothing new in.
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To say that those didn't happen for a 1988 or 1980 was a bars and all the people sitting up there at one time because what Sergio said, these processes and these procedures were not there.
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In 1988, I was arrested on in Brownsville.
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My 4 white officers, I was accused of felony robbery with a with a gun.
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I had never had a prior history of with the Wall Street 12 years.
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I was stuck in 3 years all at Tom.
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I never had a record.
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I had intercontinental.
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I had to see it on Wall Street by the time in 1988 when that happened.
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4 white officers told me I deserved what I got.
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Just based on my background, I was one of the niggas that was uppity according to them.
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And that's what they categorize me from process of getting me arrested to the process of getting me to bail you said a high bill to I was I mean, with May.
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I had a mother-in-law who just scotted the fact that they were fairly earth mutated.
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But anytime that with the law because they were military Catholic decided not to support me.
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I lost my family.
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I lost my apartment.
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I lost my car, my girlfriend, So my trajectory changed from 0000 once I got incarcerated.
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I was traumatized for the period of 20 years shut it off with all this homelessness and many other, you know, integrity wise.
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These officers never even attempted with an investigation.
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Use officer will promote it.
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I went to trial with one witness who was a material witness who was a drug user and He he was too here with him.
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I mean, now he had to come before it.
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He came to court on the last day of testimony from the defense.
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Time expires,
UNKNOWN
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penalty on a preponderance sentence, and that preponderance sentence could have been proposed by that judge.
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But at the recommendations of the police officer in the DEA, I end up step serving time.
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So I know these institution systems can do better, but don't talk about the people that what I mean?
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Won't be convicted years years ago.
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I'm fighting won't be convicted act in Albany.
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We just passed twice.
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Gonna try to pass it this year up once it should say.
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We need the governor to sign on, and let's keep let's just write some wrong here.
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Thank you.