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We are the average

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black family trying to fight

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against a huge city,

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and everywhere we turn, we're

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here the doors getting slammed

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in our face. My

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name is chakraral Wells. They

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want you to stop fighting, They

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want you to give up. They want you just to

0:22

accept that your child is dead and

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just move on. I can't, can't

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do it. This

0:30

is the story of my son, Courtney.

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You know my name is Corney Copeman. Two

0:35

fifteen is the biggest here of my

0:37

life. He was a good child. He

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loved his family. He was a

0:42

ladies man, even with his auntie

0:44

and his grandmother. He got that smile

0:46

with his dead folds. I just remember

0:48

thinking to myself, like where does

0:50

he get all this energy from?

0:53

I chance to wrap her. Courtney Copelan

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was a good friend of mine. In

1:00

he wound up with a bullet in his back

1:02

outside of Chicago police station. Who

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ever did this to us? Soun as,

1:12

did you turn yourself in? As

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this you ask for forgiveness

1:18

from God? And it's the story

1:21

of my search for the truth. So

1:23

we would with the flyers and

1:25

we were on the radio. If anybody

1:28

that can help us get answered.

1:30

You want to know what you are did

1:33

you see anybody running? How many

1:35

shots? None of that stuff was

1:37

asked along

1:39

the way. I teamed up with journalists

1:42

and we took this case to a whole

1:44

new level. Okay, so you heard

1:46

two shots fired on the block. I was

1:49

working in the emergency room and

1:51

I remember him specifically being handcuffed

1:54

to the bed. What

1:56

do you do with this information?

1:59

None of this expense to me as wherever

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God not have been makes sense. This

2:04

is a podcast about trust

2:07

and the police. There was a rhyme

2:10

I heard back in high school. You

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were put here to protect us,

2:15

But who protects us from you? This

2:19

is Somebody, a co production

2:21

of the Invisible Institute, the Inter South

2:23

and Topic Studios in association

2:26

with Tenderfoot TV. Everybody

2:30

the songbodes every

2:32

day. This is somebody's

2:34

child. Somebody deserves to know

2:37

what happened. I deserve to

2:39

know what happened to my son coming

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soon March one,