85: Part 2: Rogeana Patterson-King Defied the Odds and Adversity to Become a Star at DEA

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Rogeana Patterson-King faced a tough childhood. Parents divorced by the third grade, and a father who became addicted to crack for over 15 years, could have kept her from achieving big things. But she persevered. She didn’t let anything become an excuse, or allow racism or bigotry to define her. A compelling story of how one girl stared down her challenges to rise to the top of the ranks at DEA.

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0:00.0	But the other thing that the other giveaway was you weren't breaking a sweat.
0:14.9	Yeah, I just did 100 push-ups, not brah.
0:16.7	I'm not glistening.
0:17.7	You see me glistening?
0:18.7	No.
0:19.7	I got to the point where I was glistening.
0:22.2	I did push myself.
0:23.4	I didn't just like, you know.
0:24.6	Yeah, but that's after you quit sandbagging and got to your potential.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.7	And he would literally have a short run for us would be like six miles.
0:34.4	And I used to love running until the day Academy and after that, I hate it running.
0:38.9	Because he would literally think, okay, so we would run maybe five miles.
0:44.1	He'd take us bring us back to the track.
0:46.0	And when you hit the track, the track is like, we're done.
0:48.7	He would have us run the track.
0:50.1	And we're sprinting in because we're like, this is the end of the run.
0:52.4	And then he'd take us back out again.
0:54.5	I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
0:56.0	I just gave my all on the sprint in.
0:58.9	And we're going back out.
1:00.4	So I just, when I realized he was playing a game, I just stayed at one pace.
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