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i m flashing. i m strobing this guy in the face. it was you know, freedom of press. they can t you can t touch that. he s screaming, give me the kid. give me the fing kid. within seconds a woman appeared in the room. and then that s when i handed elian over to the agent. get ready to get the boy. get ready. they got the boy. they got the boy. no, no. all i could hear was elian screaming, prima, prima, you know, just calling out. and i couldn t do anything. ....
That came in to get him saying where s the f kid, where s the f god damn kid. i did step forward a little bit. aggressive, you know, like mad. and she says if you take one more step, i m going to shoot. if there was anybody, it shouldn t have been me that night that got elian into my arms but everybody seemed to be running for shelter because they re hearing the same thing i m hearing, get down or we ll shoot. we re thinking oh, well, they re going to kill us. i see out of the closet donato and elian. the boy says to me, [ speaking foreign language ] i said nothing s happening. baby, but everything s going to be all right. boom. the door busted open and there s a federal armed agent with an assault weapon. and he s got that thing pointed directly at me and elian. all s i hear is ch, ch. ....
They broke they broke elian s bed. he was saying que pasa. what s going on. i just held his head like this. my god, america, what did you do to this boy? [ speaking foreign language ] up until the last, we tried every way we could to encourage lazaro gonzales to voluntarily hand over the child to his father. unfortunately, the miami relatives rejected our efforts. leaving us no other option but the enforcement action. ....
if it comes to taking elian by force, u.s. law enforcement officials have a plan. elements of the marshall s.w.a.t. like special operations group are available. the 11-member miami police department and the florida highway patrol has played units on alert. the final go or no go order will come only from attorney general janet reno. instead of discussing how elian should be reunited, the attorneys for the relatives continued to demand that we revisit the issue of whether elian should be reunited. that is not what the law provides. demonstrators break through those barricades to try to for a human chain around this house. if indeed fer agents came to seize elian gonzales. there were people in the crowds that had violent police records. there were armed individuals in ....
His father. but i can tell you this. i don t feel that he is free outside of his lawyer here. juan miguel said he s not going to go down to miami. so what s going to happen? we needed a family meeting. away from the media, governments pitted against each other. the cuban national foundation versus the castro brothers. it needed to get out of that and we needed a neutral third party which i thought was the catholic church. we got the blessing of the pope about using the vatican embassy in washington. i had a private jet prepared. elian know was going to be taken to my hope that evening so that he could be on a plane at 4:00 in the morning. i got a call from jorge mass saying to go to jorge s family and tell them to bring elian to washington. i went to the house and i said, if you ask me, i wouldn t do it. because if you re going to ask ....