Protests at RNC - Video from Mikasi (darren eye witness.wmv)

Note: I have taken a minute to clean up the translation here - changing things like "undercop" to "another cop" which is the original wording. I have also taken a minute to attach the video Darren consented to be in, describing the situation.

"Voice 1: This is Mikasi. I'm on a bike trail walking trail behind some apartments to the west of Mary Ann Street past block from the MacDonalds where I last talked to you between university and whatever the next street in southeast. There was an incident where a police chasing down a young man, I assume that the young tried to escape. I'm gonna let you talk to a person who saw the event and he will give you an details.

"Hi, my name is Daren. I'm a student at a local college and I was hiding from a tear gas being shot. They're [the police] trying to heard everyone into the huge parking lot to arrest us but I took off into a neighborhood."

"I was hiding in a park contacting my mom when I saw a guy come running through and into the park. He was being pursued by a police officer on a bike. And, the police he got closer and closer, leave the bike and tackled him [the man fleeing]. As soon, as he tackled him, the kid repeated the same thing through the entire incident which was 'I'm just trying to go home.'"

"The cop hit him, pushed him to the ground. He remained in a fetal position yelling, 'I just wanna go home, I just wanna go home.' I saw an another cop who said he was a citizen later deny even touching the guy. The other cop punched him and drag him by the leg and then a third cop grabbed him by his hair, pulled his face back so that a fourth cop could mace him. The whole time he is in the fetal position yelling, 'I just wanna go home, I just wanna go home.'"

Mikasi: Thanks, Darren. More as we get it, we walk away from the cops approaching us, he wants us just out of the area.