Rayshard Brooks February interview

Video Transcript:

You know, not saying, you know, I've always been the type of person to, you know, if you do some things that's wrong, you pay your debts to society. And that's the bottom line. You know, but as far as I as, you know, the consequences, you know, it's like, it's been drilled, you know, the consequences, you know, you roam, you get treated like an animal. You know, sometimes, you know, some people they get the tap on the wrist, but some people don't. But I just feel like some of the system could, you know, look at us as individuals. We do have lives, you know, we're just a mistake we made, you know, and, you know, not, not just do us as if we are animals. And that's a hard feeling to stomach, you know, with you going out and you're trying. And by you having this so-called record, you know, it's, it's hindering us from going out in public to, you know, you know, trying to provide for ourselves as far as it's getting a job and getting ourselves back on track. You know, so at ways I feel like the system, there could be a way to, you know, erase some of these things, you know, without having to wait a certain period of time. If you see that I'm going out, I'm trying, you know, and you see my progress, you see what I'm going with this situation. You know, they have sources that will help, you know, but it's on their time. You know, they're not going to come and say, hey, you know, you have to ask, you know, for help. They're not going to say, hey, we have these sources and we have those sources, you have to ask for these things. You hope for up. But you know, you, you want to let the implore, you know, you go to filling out your application and you get to this question, have you ever been convicted of a crime or have you ever been arrested? And, you know, you're sitting there like, oh my god, you know, I hope this doesn't, you know, hinder me from getting this job. You know, and then you finish up the application and if you have some employers that come back to you, well, Mr. Brooks, unfortunately, we can't hire you due to the fact that you've been incarcerated or you've been, you know, arrested for this and that, you know, and that just, you know, your heart, it just breaks your heart. You know, you put up so much energy, you have so much hope, you going out trying to provide and you know, you're up here, I'm going to do this. I'm, I hope my energy, my ambition level, you know, sometimes that put us down, you know, it puts us down at a lowest point in life, you know, going out trying and just get not right off of, you know, cut short, bam, that's that quick. There's a lot of things that you just call me to be behind, but here yet I'm trying, you know, I'm not the type of person to give up, you know, and I'm going to keep going into I make it to where I want to be. And I'm going to keep going. And I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going.