Arendt, Christopher - short clip - AttackedpByADetainee
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- | So we got the toilet paper, (smacks lips) | 0:00 |
I - I gave it to him, but well I actually when I put it | 0:03 | |
in the cell, I was kind of - like, you know - frustrated | 0:05 | |
and he'd kind of won, and I was just like really just | 0:07 | |
super embarrassed, like, burning face, like, ya know | 0:11 | |
the anxiety prickles, just like, I just felt like | 0:13 | |
a super shithead that this is what I'm doing | 0:16 | |
with my life right now is having this conversation | 0:18 | |
about toilet paper. And so I finally get, you know, | 0:20 | |
like gave him the toilet paper. | 0:23 | |
Just wanted the situation to be done. | 0:24 | |
And with his one good arm, he just grabbed my whole wrist | 0:26 | |
and then just dropped right down to the floor. | 0:29 | |
And so like pulled me all the way into the cell, up you know | 0:30 | |
up to my shoulder. And I'm like smashed against the window | 0:33 | |
like looking down at him | 0:36 | |
and he's screaming obscenities at me. | 0:38 | |
And nobody from the rest of the block has come. | 0:40 | |
They're all up front bullshitting. | 0:42 | |
They've left me to the, to watch this whole block of | 0:44 | |
I mean, presumably - in Oscar block - if, if, if these are | 0:48 | |
the worst of the worst, which Guantanamo was supposed to be, | 0:52 | |
Oscar block is, more or less, the worst of the worst | 0:56 | |
of the worst of the worst. | 0:58 | |
So it's like, this is the, | 0:59 | |
this is the final stop for the behaviorally challenged | 1:01 | |
in Guantanamo Bay where they - it's the ultimate form of | 1:05 | |
like " so you don't want to get along in the camps? Okay. | 1:08 | |
Sit in this hot little box by yourself all day long. | 1:11 | |
See how you like that." | 1:14 | |
And they'll put people in there for months, and it is hell. | 1:15 | |
I mean, it is hell inside that place. Uh so. | 1:18 | |
- | What happened to you, being pulled down? | 1:22 |
- | He finally just let me go. And, and I stood there | 1:25 |
for a couple of seconds and I was like, "what do I do now?" | 1:28 | |
'Cause I knew that if I went and told the guards | 1:30 | |
that it would be - he he'd probably be Ir Fed. I knew that, | 1:33 | |
I knew that the next step would be to IRF them. | 1:37 | |
And there was a sick little moment that happened where | 1:41 | |
I really wanted to get some vengeance, 'cause I felt | 1:44 | |
like such like this guy had made such a fool out me that | 1:47 | |
I wanted to, like, you know, I - I kinda wanted to | 1:49 | |
to buy in on that violence. | 1:53 | |
And everybody was so excited for it. | 1:54 | |
Everybody wanted it. We knew what an IRF was. | 1:56 | |
We knew that that's how to beat up detainees. | 1:58 | |
And everybody was like - chomping at the bit to get | 2:00 | |
that first one. And I was like, | 2:03 | |
"Am I going to be the first person to like have, like, | 2:04 | |
have to instigate these things?" | 2:07 | |
and just had this kind of gross little moment. | 2:08 | |
Before I could even figure it out myself, he kind of | 2:11 | |
settled it for me, and he's like "yeah, why don't you go | 2:13 | |
tell all your friends that you just got beat up by the | 2:15 | |
one-armed dude in that back that's sitting in a cell. | 2:17 | |
Like, what they'll probably love that. | 2:20 | |
And then he called me a bitch a couple of times. | 2:22 | |
And I was just like, "Wow, that's a good point | 2:24 | |
that you bring up. I can't really go tell people | 2:26 | |
that. It's not going to improve my reputation at all. | 2:29 | |
If I go and tell them that the one-armed detainee | 2:31 | |
inside of the isolation cell, just beat my ass from | 2:34 | |
through a hole (laughs) that I compromised myself | 2:37 | |
and did exactly what I shouldn't have done | 2:41 | |
which is put my hand inside the cell." | 2:42 | |
And then I just realized that there was | 2:44 | |
like a dozen different ways that I'd handled | 2:46 | |
the situation that would lead back to me being at fault. | 2:47 |
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