Speaker Recounts Detention, Threats, and Denied Accommodations (Full Transcript)

Name: Speaker Recounts Detention, Threats, and Denied Accommodations
Uploaded: 2026-01-20T13:05:56+00:00
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Description: A detainee describes threats of violence and a detention process marked by denied disability accommodations, no medical screening, and unclear arrest procedures.

A detainee describes threats of violence and a detention process marked by denied disability accommodations, no medical screening, and unclear arrest procedures.

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[00:00:00] Speaker 1: I think even someone who doesn't have the kind of auditory process and challenges I do would not know what to do with the sentence, move. I will break your effing window. And then back and forth between move, get out, trying to open my door, more threats of breaking a window, which I don't understand the functional purpose of and it's not a warning. It's a threat of violence.

[00:00:30] Speaker 2: Were you there to protest ICE? Had you ever protested ICE before in that arena? No. So when you went that day and you were detained, as you said, what was that like for you once you were what happened after they took you?

[00:00:51] Speaker 1: I experienced a very specific set of dehumanization practices during the six stages of detention and processing that I counted before I went unconscious and was taken out in an ambulance. You know, when I asked for disability accommodations and I said, did anybody bring my cane with me from the car? I need that to walk, not stand, but walk because my balance is bad. They said, there's no canes here. They stood me up in leg irons and said, walk, push my back. Walk, you can do it. Nobody said maybe we should find something else. There was no medical screening. I was never once asked for my ID, even told I was under arrest, never charged.

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A speaker recounts being threatened with violence during an encounter and then describes their subsequent detention and processing experience, emphasizing dehumanizing treatment, denial of disability accommodations, lack of medical screening, and not being informed of arrest or charges before losing consciousness and being taken to an ambulance.

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Detainee Describes Threats, Disabled Access Denial, and Processing Abuse

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Key Takeaways

The speaker interprets repeated statements about breaking a window as explicit threats of violence.
They report being detained despite not attending to protest ICE and having no prior protests at the arena.
They describe 'six stages' of processing involving dehumanizing practices before losing consciousness.
They say disability accommodations were denied, including access to a cane needed for balance.
They report being forced to walk in leg irons and being physically pushed, with no alternative offered.
They allege there was no medical screening and no clear due-process steps such as ID check, arrest notification, or charges.

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Negative: The passage conveys fear, coercion, and trauma through references to violent threats, forced mobility without a cane, restraints, and the absence of basic procedural safeguards.

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