Hey everyone, just a quick heads up before we get started.

That there is some language in this episode and explicit descriptions of abuse that might

be offensive or disturbing to some people.

Alright, here we go.

Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded.

Okay, so it's July 18th, 2016.

A woman is driving in this neighborhood in North Miami and she sees something.

And calls 911.

So she's saying there is a man sitting in the middle of the road.

That's Audrey Quinn, she's a reporter at WNYC and she's going to help tell this story.

And what she put together that he was doing was threatening suicide.

And she does notice that there's another man with him and she notices that the other man

is pleading.

They're the guy they're trying to talk him out of it.

I see a black male or a white male.

The second guy is black, she says.

The first guy is Hispanic.

And she says he looks like he's mentally ill.

The finished guy looks like he's a mentally ill person.

So here's what the dispatcher hears.

Two men sitting in the road, one Hispanic, possibly with a disability, possibly with a gun

to his head.

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