why once again why are you out here
facing people after they said looking
like you excessive force against black
people that's why
I can quit now because
y'all can advance
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thank you
so today is a very special day
today is my birthday
well it's not my birthday necessarily
but it's the birthday for Columbus
Police body camera on YouTube
I uploaded my first video on July 2nd
2020 and if I plan this just right the
footage that you'll be watching in the
background is actually the footage from
my very first video
when I released my first video I really
didn't know what I was doing so I only
released about two and a half minutes of
footage from a recording that was a
little more than an hour honestly I was
still learning how to use my editing
software and I just wanted to get
something out as soon as I could so as a
little birthday gift to you once I'm
done with this opening monologue I'll be
playing the rest of the footage from
that very first video so you get to see
the longer version basically without
edits
if you could bear with me for a moment
I'd like to tell you the complete
history of this YouTube channel and my
intent behind creating it
if you remember back to the summer of
2020 it was quite a tumultuous time
out in the state of Minnesota in a small
town called Minneapolis a police officer
named Derek Chauvin arrested a man named
George Floyd and during that arrest
knelt on Mr Floyd's back causing his
death
The Death of George Floyd caused a lot
of people to believe it was okay to burn
down our cities and block traffic and
loot retail stores the city of Columbus
Ohio was no exception
I was downtown in Columbus on the night
of May 28 2020 I watched groups of
writers throw rocks at police officers I
watched as Ryder smashed the windows of
the Ohio State Capitol building and
rushed in I also watched as rioters
broke into the historic Palace Theater
and lit it on fire
I then watched something happen that I
still find hard to believe the Mayor of
Columbus Andrew Ginther turned on the
officers who were trying to protect his
City
he started a persistent and unrelenting
assault on the character
of their these officers without cause
the mayor accused the officers of
mistreating the rioters who were trying
to destroy his City he then issued an
order to the police department and to
the leadership of the department Banning
them from speaking publicly about the
riots he literally started attacking the
police department and refused to let
them defend himself
the Department's Facebook Twitter and
YouTube channels went silent for weeks
the only information the department was
allowed to post publicly was stuff that
came directly from the mayor's office
he even made the department post a
statement written by his staff stating
that the mayor never ordered the
department to stop posting on social
media
I remember distinctly the day I decided
to start this YouTube channel
I responded to a call of a shooting I
arrived on scene with a bunch of other
officers to a shooting that occurred in
a drug house on the city's West Side the
drug addicts in the house dragged the
victim out to the alley and left him for
dead he was shot in the chest and had
what is known as a sucking chest wound
the officers who responded to the scene
applied a chest seal to the victim and
helped stabilize him while they waited
for Medics to arrive
just before transporting the victim to a
hospital one of the Medics sought out
the sergeant on scene and said
your guys saved this man's life
if you waited for us to arrive
he would have died
that Sergeant was very proud of the men
who work for him and thought their their
actions reflected well on the division
of police
the sergeant thought it might be a good
idea to post the video of the incident
on the division's social media accounts
this Sergeant's request was denied the
sergeant was told that anything that put
the department in a positive light was
being denied by the mayor's office
that was the night I decided to create
this YouTube channel and the topics I
cover were taken directly from the
rhetoric of the anti-police activists
they say that police officers have been
treating rioters unfairly
well here are a bunch of videos showing
what the police have been up against
during these riots
they say that the police don't know how
to handle people with mental illness
well here's a bunch of videos showing
officers handling people with mental
illness with the utmost respect and
professionalism
they say that officers treat drug
addicts and prostitutes like garbage
well here are a bunch of videos showing
officers going above and beyond to make
those people feel like they have value
I'm very proud of the work I've done
with this channel
I believe I've had a significant hand in
forming public opinion about the
Columbus Division of police
I feel like I've succeeded in a large
degree to rebuild the trust between the
police department and the community
the same trust that mayor Andrew Ginther
put a lot of effort into destroying
how much longer will I do this
I don't know
but I don't plan on stopping anytime
soon
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yesterday
I'm not saying you're individually
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you can move to the sidewalk sidewalk
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I promise
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I want to talk to me
I'll get you next week
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I'm sorry
yep going to the sidewalk and you are
going to the sidewalk all of you to the
sidewalk on the side do it do it I'll
blast you in your mouth
back up
come on
the sidewalk
you were told multiple times
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pull back please
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um
thank you
I got three what's that three Notions
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this one's full yeah
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the one that ran up I hit him twice if
the dude that grabbed the hole and got
some too that's on here
I'm pretty sure the first spray didn't
get that guy that good he turned away
the second one definitely got him
memories
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all y'all
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family
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yeah
wow
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what's your bad number sir well I'm
officer Schneider my badge is 14 15.
there you go
what's that are you guys gonna take
about the Stater
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for no reason at all okay
thank you
baby
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what did I do to you
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you think I'm scared of a camera
organizations
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thank you
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over here
that's a simple question that's a simple
question why did I get made
all right once again why are y'all out
here facing people after they said
[ __ ] nice young excessive force
against black people that's what happens
he can't tell me that's consideration
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stay right here
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remember me
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