you've been in a bad shape for a couple
months now
like there was that day up at the uh
up on Broad Street when you thought
there were kids in the back of a semi
truck I was running all day you know
yeah besides that what else well you're
having an off day right now too oh I've
got my neighborhood to the point where
I know I'm good you know have you been
down to the shelter or anything ask for
help
well if you're living on this
come on
foreign
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demonstrates the struggle
with mental illness drug abuse and
homelessness
the man at the center of today's video
has been on the channel before suffers
from mental illness and it most likely
is abusing methamphetamine
I listen I'm 31 years old have I ever
done this man are you a man or woman
right
Dave has had multiple interactions with
the police and on multiple occasions the
police have transported him to treatment
facilities
for one reason or another Dave has
refused to accept the treatment
and the benefits that are made available
to him
this makes it very frustrating for
everyone involved
what's up buddy
you doing all right
hey talk to me for a second hey don't go
in there come or talk to me for a second
you used to live here
yeah it's a report like that but not no
you didn't used to live here oh uh
you're gonna be dead Murphy yeah I've
seen you around I thought this used to
be your place it's like imagining it but
it's not
that it used to be
by what I mean did you used to live here
all right 193 at this yeah okay
um you got kicked out of here or
something yeah like it's like uh this
could be
okay
what are you doing here now
as long as I know why she's not with me
now oh she's not here there's nobody
here it's faking that's what I'm saying
nobody's ever coming back that's going
to be renovated and it's going to be
sold yeah I heard about Dave about how
uh
what's his name
the place isn't does it have any
placards on it
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um
does it have signs on it or anything
that say you're not allowed to be here
all right
uh you see any placards or anything Jeff
is there placards okay
um
you've been on the street this whole
time since you got kicked out of here
right yeah yeah have you I mean have you
gone anywhere gotten any help or
anything no why not I was walking back
here you do need help you're homeless
and you're and you're not in the right
State of Mind your mental health is yeah
yeah man I've been high all night bro I
was loving God I love my neighbor just
just but
um so are you saying that it's meth and
it's not just mental health remember
you're not ready to uh Appliance or
Lighthouse right now I'm sorry all
throughout what are you trying to do
well like why why like uh try to
until now I would be good
you've been in a bad shape for a couple
months now
like there was that day up at the uh
up on Broad Street when you thought
there were kids in the back of a semi
truck I was going all day you know yeah
besides that what else well you're
having an off day right now too oh I've
got them I never went to the point where
have you been down to the shelter or
anything ask for help
well if you're living on the street you
need to get some help you guys if I
would always be like that and
I wouldn't not understand that officers
uh he heard himself trying to shut the
door
he'll be all right everybody
I don't think you're good I want you to
be better all right so I want you to be
safe I do this one is uh different well
when's so is the majority
is the majority of your pride hey it's
not placarded or anything right so is
the majority of problem uh drug related
or mental health related why would you
want to be uh
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what 180 .
um
yeah are you okay do you need a medic
um I'll let you I'll let you know why
where's your are you still pushing that
card around with all your belongings on
it yeah where's that at it's more right
here to the corner right here do you
have a tent somewhere yeah
what's your plan to get housing I'd like
to ask like uh something
you want what
um well the reason I'm I'm asking is
because
if uh if your main problem is mental
health I can take you to a mental health
treatment facility no I'm good brother
if your main problem is drugs I can take
you to a drug treatment facility I can
get a driving time you can't you're not
in the right State of Mind oh I got here
this farther brother you're barely
surviving man I'm better surviving yeah
I'm concerned about you I want you to do
better man
yeah I'm still here to a job that you
don't even know what I'm doing you're
homeless
you're just living online
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because I'm here checking on you man and
I'm I really want you to do well I want
the best for you
have you been down to have you talked to
anyone like a refuge or anything like
that when they took you to the hospital
that day up on Broad Street did you end
up going to Double Springs or anything
afterwards
do they just keep you for a couple hours
and release you oh they're gonna knock
me out and uh I'm gonna buy a certain
time
okay
how you been getting your food and stuff
we're even getting food and stuff yeah
all right uh
wherever it takes
you're just getting money by begging no
it's like yeah begging or going through
the trash can yeah and that's not good
man you know you have to wait welcome
everybody before man it's not good for
you how old are you give me like a half
of one check but and I'm living life to
the fullest you're not living life to
the fullest man yeah you're barely
getting by all day like I get paid
almost 50 bucks an hour
easier I make good money
but I right now you're just not in a
state of mind I don't know if it's drugs
it's got you that way or if it's just
your underlying mental health problems
doesn't worry really that she has sex
but
who'd you hear that from
yeah
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later date
okay it has nothing to do with you at
this point though right we all know that
the only thing I care about is trying to
get you some help man and you need it
you need to talk to people about getting
into some housing and getting mental
health treatment
okay and it wasn't for my thought on it
was one
it's not it hasn't been in your thoughts
it's in mine what has it has it been
what's your plan what's your plan to get
better
what uh we can plan but you guys are
push-ups bro you don't know it no it has
nothing to do with anything like that
problem is you need to get yourself
better you're gonna die out here on the
street
I don't want you to die out here on the
street I want you to get healthy
and become a regular member of society
again
today so I can actually live my life
you want to finish out what today then
what's that what's your job at the red
band that's me that pretty much uh maybe
maybe you can sit down and have it or
you're gonna have
that doesn't make any sense man yeah it
does it means it's like we uh put
everything in front of uh each other in
a certain way so you don't uh what um
what drugs do you use why do you
understand this right man right behind
you I know he just said that that down
right okay how did you do that
put in a compactor maybe there's a way
what
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um what drugs do you like to use
Dave 79 history on purpose
what's your name right oh okay all right
what's your what's your drug of choice
is it meth yeah that's got you messed up
and since no but no
it does when's the last time you used
today my brother usually last night I'll
take care of her and just how I want to
be a second chair to me yeah
how she's been I already asked actually
did we you hallucinate sometimes yeah
I choose to do that sometimes
we love them so certain it's got a bad
effect on you though not with me it does
because you're out here pushing a card
around but it's still outside doing good
though my last life you're not doing
good you're not living your best life
you're out here crashing in vacant
garages
with the neighbors calling the police on
you that's like not having no other a
better story than that to give you
why'd you like 193 literally uh
we fall down the island you know the
other than 183 uh took it all back the
cruiser or uh yeah what I was uh pulling
up and how that's 198. no it's true but
that has nothing to do with anything
let's say right
um
you know you're just not you're not
allowed to be on this property anymore
oh yeah it's not yours so you keep
coming here though well that's whatever
you want but I don't think you're gonna
listen to me I don't think you're gonna
follow the rules
I'm 198 but
I really want you to get off the street
there's people where can I take you have
you had a plan
no we're not gonna go get something to
eat I want you to go to like a treatment
facility
no we're not doing that okay I just walk
away you can but I'm trying to convince
you to get some help that make you
better in the long run
all right man take care of yourself and
stop coming back here okay
you gonna remember that
all right
what are you doing David
oh how much stuff do you have on the
back porch
all right go and grab it
I'm just gonna make sure everything's
okay
is this your cart
you used to have a lot more stuff
where'd he go
oh yeah fire it away all right you're
just gonna keep losing your stuff if you
don't get yourself off the street you
can go into the
you can go into the hospital and tell
them that you need help they'll help you
go down to Van Buren
have you ever been down to the Hope
Center
uh it's probably where I've gotten to go
too you know where it is you know it's
all of it yeah it's actually on wheeling
now yeah
it's uh south of Sullivan on Wheatland
go down there I saw them for some help
get into a spot
they'll give you the resources they'll
make phone calls for you all right
yeah I wish you would I don't want to
see you out here anymore it's going to
get cold soon
screwed it up
well I'm sure the woman wasn't helpful
but you're screwing it up on your own
right now man
I don't know how much of you is in there
that you can actually understand what
I'm saying
all right
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