Joe Loya

Like, I'm just thinking all authority.

You're all back in each other's play.

That's how it goes.

And he's now sitting there.

Basically, I'm telling him I've been brutalized.

Well, why didn't you call the police?

Why didn't you run out of the house?

Like, nobody asks that question now because, you know, everything about domestic abuse and how you've you know, you're paralyzed.

Everyone knows that now.

But back then he acted like I in the wrong.

Well, not long after that, I can't breathe very well.

It hurts to breathe, you know, when you have a cracked rib.

Broken ribs, yeah.

Yeah, it hurts to breathe.

And then my elbows, I'm starting to feel all the pain of it.

They get one of the female police officers to take me to the hospital, and then we find out that I've been brutalized.

You know, it's right there, x-ray show, everything.

So there's no more talk about punishing me for anything.

I was, you know, I was defending myself.

And then by that point, my dad had been arrested, and, you know, he said what happened.