Protests at RNC - Voice Report #4 (from Mikasi)

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Protests at RNC - Video from Mikasi

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This is Mikasi. I'm on a bike trail walking trail behind some apartments to the west of Mariam Street past block from the MacDonalds where I last talked to you between university and whatever the next street in southeast. There's an incident where a police chasing down a young man, I assume that the young tried to flee. I'm gonna let you talk to a person (eyewitness) and he will give you the details

 "Hi, my name is Darren. I'm a student at a local college and I was hiding from tear gas being [shot]. They're 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. As soon, as he tackled him, the kid repeated the same thing through the entirely the incident which was 'I'm just trying to go home'. The cop hit him, push[ed] him to the ground. He remained in a fetal position yelling, 'I just wanna go home, I just wanna go home'."

"I saw an undercover cop who said he was a citizen later denied even touching the guy. The undercover cop punch[ed] him and drag[ged] 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'."

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