what what drugs do you do that you're so
hooked on that you don't want to go to
rehab
poured out here freezing today
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the star of today's video is a man named
Arman although when you watch the video
you'll hear the officer call him Lamont
the reason he calls him Le Mans is
because
nobody's perfect
Armand is a local drug addicted homeless
person that resides primarily on the
west side of Columbus he's been on the
channel before interacting with this
same officer how long have you been
living on the street man
all my license are 12 years old since
you were 12 yeah and you're not a young
man anymore what are you 47 yeah
that's a long time on the street
on this particular day the officer was
out on routine Patrol in the late
December and in Columbus Ohio the
winters tend to get very cold the
officer was aware that there was a cold
front moving in so he stopped to talk to
Armand to see if he had made any
arrangements so he'd be inside and warm
during the upcoming cold front I just
thought this would be a good video to
show you
show that these are the kinds of
conversations that happen frequently
between police officers and homeless
people and drug addicts that live in the
communities where they serve
oh
how you doing buddy
I was just stopping to say hi
it's Lamar right
again
what
yeah
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is that the day that I was there enough
to get your stuff out of the shed
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s
Thursday
next week not gonna rehab yeah
Monday to start Monday Thursday
is Thursday yeah yeah so Monday it is
all right
yeah I was just catching up with him
yeah
what'd she ask you to do
oh okay I saw you had a broom earlier I
didn't know what you were doing so whoa
so really so see Monday was Monday
she's working on Monday morning
guys
foreign
yeah it's gonna be freezing it's gonna
be freezing rain today and then it's
gonna get down to negative two degrees
tonight yeah and it's gonna start
snowing wow so it's gonna we're gonna
get hit dude I know
and she said that she was like um
it's gonna get cold bro I'm not opening
a door I saw you I'm gonna have to do
something and it's only like like you
know how like you send me to that uh
cyborg yeah where they send me there
from from
they don't they only keep you for um
like a week
what was that place like was that a
rehab or a mental place
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I really don't know what I'm doing
what what drugs do you do that you're so
hooked on that you don't want to go to
rehab
I know but you're gonna be bored out
here freezing to death oh no I'm wrong
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yeah and I've seen you walk in ever
since I I got in my car yeah I've seen
you a couple times I was always going
the wrong way so I couldn't stop
yeah and I saw you over here I figured I
could stop and get out of the car it's
no big deal
yeah probably I've been making my rounds
um
I don't know man I don't know if I went
to my doctor's web
I [ __ ] up with Mr um
I missed the oh
I was running on the Southeast
as I see about a job
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yeah I know
one like
I don't I think that Netcare down there
is still talking to people they're not
doing crisis like they're not letting
you check in but you can still go down
there and make arrangements and stuff to
talk to social workers and stuff that's
right around the corner you can always
do that I mean they just they don't have
beds or anything anymore at least I
don't think they do
where you
oh what's that
no they they lost their funding I uh
they still do some kind of Outreach but
I'm not sure exactly what they do
um but they can help you get with your
social worker and stuff and get your job
interviews and things but you know I
mean we both know
until you get yourself clean and healthy
you can get an apartment and you'll just
lose it anyway we don't know because
your brain's not working right man
I wish that I could I wish there was
something I could do to convince you to
make the right decisions
you know what you gotta do
it's it's hard but it's a lot harder to
be out here in the cold isn't it
where's he at is he still up in like
yeah
oh he's not at the off
go to college downtown so um
okay yeah but he can't let you stay
there I know
he'll get kicked out
you need to get back to you need to find
a way back to Southeast let them help
you man yeah
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what drugs do you use generally oh
is that the main one
so when you went into the psych ward for
like a week and then went the other
place did you have bad withdrawals
yeah
so that's that's the hardest part yeah
for most people
did they give you anything they give you
Suboxones or anything like that
really
I don't know why I'm good
really how much do you use a day all
right
one 20 bucks it's not that bad
make sure they didn't just send me on
something
else
do you know where all the warming
stations are and stuff
no so you get out of the cold oh my God
normal
is that one of them
okay so you know how to get around I
think honestly
my first officer
like [ __ ]
really like don't come back
have you ever gone up to Jordan's
Crossing to talk to them
you're aware of them
all right they do yeah I know yeah I
know up on Hague by the tracks
they're good people they'll help you
keep they'll help getting in contact
with the right people and stuff like
that too so
I don't know man is there anything I can
do for you right now you're just gonna
earn a couple bucks
all right man well I'll get out of here
let's do your work
I know it is it's a mess man
I'll let you be all right I'll see you
around yep
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9101
I got my pictures here I'll go ahead and
start down there to North Meadows on
that 17.
okay thank you
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