DeRay McKesson
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But during a 47 and one, it's like, that shit was driving me crazy a little bit.
And then you can't, you can't call lawyers the same way you can.
If you just out in general population, you can't call home.
You can't like, you have no connection to the outside world.
I wouldn't say that, but what there was is an increase in, like, agitation with other people.
So, like, normally, in my experience, in, like, county jails, it's just like,
There wouldn't be a lot of confrontation.
There would always be things brewing, but it would be stuff that happened outside that's made its way inside.
But in this situation, it was like dudes are just like kind of losing their minds a little bit.
So they just start screaming insults at each other.
And, you know, I've actually been put on solitary confinement before.
And so I know what it's like to be in those places with people with real mental illnesses that literally scream all night.
And it starts to mirror that when the longer people are confined to a cell.
And we're talking about there's not a lot of walk space.
Both of us can't be on the floor at the same time and function.
There's just not enough room.
I'm losing my mind low-key because I'm like, I can't talk to a lawyer.
They won't let me bond out because I'm out of state.
Like, it's a lot of different things.
Like, the judge shit kept getting pushed back.