December 1984 Bernhard Goetz "Subway Vigilante" video tape confession. — Transcript
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- 0:00a long time ago uh instead of encouraged
- 0:02to to go on his way with with the
- 0:04consequences that we see now i'm no hero
- 0:07basically i'm a coward and i know that
- 0:10anyone a ten-year-old i'm full of
- 0:11trigger and i told this the guys it
- 0:13doesn't mean a thing
- 0:15but
- 0:16the system
- 0:18what if just just for example if people
- 0:20were on the subway system then what if
- 0:22they the whole system geared up and went
- 0:25to work against this this lawlessness
- 0:28this atrocity
- 0:30what if someone else in that subway
- 0:31system
- 0:32were
- 0:33were butchered
- 0:34and the guys and the guys you think the
- 0:36guys would have been caught you think
- 0:37would have been any anything it would
- 0:39have been one more statistic one more
- 0:42statistic and don't nod your head yes
- 0:44because you know better and if you don't
- 0:46know better
- 0:48if you don't know better you just don't
- 0:50know new york
- 0:51this guy was definitely the victim being
- 0:54preyed upon because you saw the
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