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#ITSNEEDED

Could You Forgive Someone Who Shot You?

#ITSNEEDED

Ryan Tillman

Blacklivesmatter, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Policebrutality, Culture, Cops, Politics, Lawenforcement, Breakingbarriersunited, Racism, Business, Police, Government

5732 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

I talk about Adrian a lot in my presentations with schools and officers. When I was a School Resource officer, Adrian was one of those kids I poured into. During his time in high school he made some bad decisions, but the lessons he has learned and how much he has grown is INCREDIBLE!

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0:00.0

I was working patrol in the summertime.

0:02.5

He waves me over to this guy on the ground and he says,

0:05.3

Hey, look, this guy came out of nowhere.

0:07.0

I don't know who he is.

0:08.3

I don't know what's wrong with him, but here he is.

0:11.1

So I end up turning that guy over and it just so happened to be you.

0:14.5

I'm like looking in your eyes and you had,

0:16.9

I always describe it as like you had this thousand mile stare.

0:19.4

Like you were looking right through my eyes.

0:21.0

Yeah.

0:21.8

And you couldn't talk.

0:23.1

You started foaming at the mouth.

0:25.0

You were kind of making these sounds like, uh, like you weren't.

0:27.7

It was, it was wild.

0:29.1

And that's when I recognized it was like, man, this guy has just been shot through his chest.

0:33.2

They were trying to give this kid 17 years old, just me 25 years you know I remember talking to the judge

0:40.0

in the courtroom and everything and telling her like you know it's just it's just really trippy

0:44.8

how you guys try to paint him like he's a bad guy I was doing bad stuff too I was like I was literally

0:52.3

selling drugs like how much time did you do I gave him five

0:55.4

years so when you say you gave him five years tell me a little bit about that real quick yeah I told the

0:59.5

judge I was like honestly like I do not feel right with you guys giving him 25 years I'm like that's

1:06.3

insane I'm like he will be an old man already. Like he won't have a life.

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