Groundhog Day for a Black man (Based on the short film)

You wake up in your bed. It's an hour before your shift at work starts. You shower, brush up, and make your bed. With about 15 minutes having gone by you ponder what you will have for breakfast. Not wanting to be late, you decide you will pick up breakfast on your way to work. [[Pick up breakfast later]]

Since the McDonald's is near the subway station you decide to take the subway to work this time. [[You walk towards the subway]]

As you enter the subway station near the card gate you an altercation. Two Metro Transit Police officers are harassing another Black man for allegedly attempting to jump the gate. The officers shout at him and repeatedly punch him while he is on the ground and handcuffed. One of the officers then notices you and shouts at you "MOVE ALONG" while pointing in the direction of the gate. What do you do? [[Ignore the situation entirely since you don't want to be late for work]] [[Insult the cops before continuing your commute]] [[Take out your phone and record the altercation]]

Disgusted by what is happening right before your eyes you take out your phone and begin to record the incident. As you are doing so an officer approaches you and demands you stop filming. [[Refuse to stop and assert your constitutional rights]] [[Comply and stop filming]]

You decide to ignore the confrontation. Not wanting to cause trouble or get involved is probably best. It would be risky to engage the police as you know what they are capable of. By the time you scan your card and take the escalator down to the orange line you briefly think about the incident you just witnessed. Then as the train arrives you quickly forget and go on about your day. [[You board the train]]

You shout a curse word of your choosing at the two officers and give them the finger. You think there isn't much you can do other than show your discontent for them so you continue on your way. [[You board the train]]

Now that you've arrived at your stop you head towards the McDonald's. You order a sausage egg and cheese biscuit with a hashbrown and coffee. You have about 30 minutes before your shift starts at the building across the street. Where do you want to eat your meal? [[You take your food with you and head straight to the office]] [[You have time, eat at the McDonald's.]]

You get to the office and eat your meal. You work for a few hours and start your first break around 11:30. You go outside to have a smoke when suddenly a cop approaches you and asks what you are doing there. [[Tell the cop to mind her own business]] [[Tell the cop that you work at the building and are on break]] [[Head back inside the building to avoid confrontation]]

You get a bacon egg and cheese biscuit with a side of orange juice. As you walk out with your food in hand two police officers approach you and ask if you are lost. They say you match the description of someone who stole a metro card. They demand you show them your ID. What do you do? [[Show them your ID]] [[Tell them they have the wrong guy and that you didn't do anything]]

You reach for your wallet you and hear a loud *BANG* along with an immense pain in your chest. You fall over and slowly drift in and out of consciouseness before feeling the blood on your stomach. You then hear one of the officers yell "WHERE'S THE GUN?". You pass out. You are dead.

You tell the officers that you take this route to work everyday and never used a counterfeit metro card in your life. One of the officers opens their telescopic baton and tells you to get on the ground. [[Comply and get down on the ground]] [[Run away]]

You comply and get down on the ground. The cops don't waste anytime piling on you as you are handcuffed and restrained. One of the cops then places his knee on your neck and you begin to have trouble breathing. You begin to tell the cop that you can't breathe but all he tells you is to be quiet. You begin to fall in and out of consciousness. You lose control of your bladder. Suddenly you begin to fall asleep. You don't ever wake up from this sleep. Your heart stops and your brain begins to shut down. You are dead.

Fearing for your life you drop everything and make a dash. However, you don't get very fire and feel a sudden jult of electric shock shorlty after you begin to run. You realize you've been tased. Unknown to the officers you have a heart condition which makes the 50,000 volts you just took fatal. You suffer cardiac arrest. You are dead.

Intimidated by the officer with his hand on a can of pepper spray you decide to put the phone down and stop recording. [[You board the train]]

You begin to turn away and suddenly the cop stops you and handcuffs you. She tells you that you're being detained because you matched the description of a suspect. You put up very little resistance and very soon another cop arrives to assist, then another. A police van then pulls up and the officers escort you to the back to be placed in. [[You approach the van]]

The cop responds by saying she got a call about someone matching your description. Not believing you she asks to speak to your supervisor. [[Tell her you didn't do anything]] [[Call your boss and tell him the situation]]

As you turn around and walk back towards the entrance the officer suddenly grabs your arm and twists it while shouting at you to get on the ground. Taken off guard you react, and she applies more pressure while telling you to stop resisting. She slams your head into the ground as you beg her to stop telling her you haven't done anything wrong. Very soon, another squad car arrives on scene and you now have two officers on top restraining you. One of the officers begins shoving your head into the pavement which causes you a great deal of pain. Pretty soon the other officer does it too and unbeknownst to you, your brain begins to hemorrage. You lose consciousness. Afterwards they place you in an ambulance and upon arrival at the hospital it is determinded that you died due to injuries sustained from the police. You are dead.

The cop says she will "Figure out what's going on" and moves in to detain you. You ask her to please not touch you and she suddenly moves her arm over your neck and puts you in a chokehold. You tell her you can't breathe as she pulls you to the ground and tells you to stop resisting. After a certain amount of time you lose conscioiusness and die. You are dead.

As you reach down to take out your phone you hear the cop scream "GUN GUN GUN" and are suddenly shot three times. The phone drops and shatters and suddenly your co-workers burst outside shocked and disgusted. The cop calls for backup and begins telling the crowd to back off as you slowly drift out of consciousness and lose blood. You are dead.

You tell the officer that you won't stop filming as it is protected by the first amendment. He then takes out his pepper spray and sprays you in the face. You feel a sudden filling pain in all the pores as your nose starts to run. You can barely open your eyes. The officer then handcuffs you and says you are being charged with disorderly conduct. [[You are put in the back of a squad car and booked at the police station]]

About an hour passes by and you have not been read your rights or left the cell you were put in. Suddenly, three cops enter including the one who pepper sprayed you and handcuffed you. They say you are free to go. As you prepare to leave you notice upon a closer look that the officer who sprayed you has a white supremacist symbol tattooed on his chest that isn't visible to the other officers. [[You leave the station.]]

You take a shortcut through an alleyway while calling your boss to explain why you will be late for work. As you walk, three masked men surround you and stare at you with dead eyes. Two of them then grab you while one of the pulls out a knife and stabs you in the chest. They leave you for dead and one of the gets close and says "I can't allow a witness". As you bleed to death you get a glimpse of the same white supremacist tattoo you saw from the cop before. You are dead.

The cops frisk you and open all your pockets and ends of your clothes. They also remove your tie. They put you into the back of the van in handcuffs and buckle you. Unfortunately, they did not tighten the straps hard enough and they go loose when the van starts to move. Handcuffed you fall over and for every turn the van makes you hit an end of the van hard. A couple hits to the head and a cracked rib later and you are no longer breathing. Just a bunch of internal bleeding. You are dead.