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Trust me, whatever the jail officers couldn't handle, an alarm went off, and we went over there gladiator-style, whatever needed to be done. We're going to get this back in order. Whether it was a borough facility, whether it was a court facility, no matter what. So we had so much shit to handle and we handled it.
Escapes, every fucking thing. But yet, you know, sometimes within our own ranks, you know, the fucking so-called upper echelon, they treated us fucked up equipment-wise and we were mostly minorities, but we were the fucking monsters out of the whole department. Some of the inmates even know us. They've grown up with us, our family members. So that's how we could defuse shit. But the upper echelon didn't want that. Fuck that.
Kick their ass. Fuck that. Send the gas in. Fuck that. Send the dogs in. But then when IG [inspector general] comes to us and our job's on the line, y'all don't know nothing. You don't know nothin', meaning, I never told you guys to go in and do that.
And it was usually from above, chiefs that gave these orders to the wardens and then tour wardens gave it to our commanding officer. This is just what they're saying at the top. Fuck the top. I was a defiant motherfucker. I was not insubordinate. Never. But come on. I got common sense. I grew up in the streets of New York. You understand? So yeah. We had that among ourselves. Just say, listen, we in this shit together. We like a family. Fuck what they say. We're going to do what we're going to do. But there's somebody standing way over there while we're in here with the fucking inmates, they're looking through fucking lots of Bubbles and shit, while we were in there, toe to toe with these guys.
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