going to work, but it absolutely does. al madrigal: wow. gustavo: there s a little spice at the end. i love it. anthony: you re, by your own admission, you re a sorry excuse for a mexican. how s your spanish? not so good? al madrigal: my spanish is horrible. i ve always been given a hard time about my spanish. gustavo: and that s okay. every mexican in history has always given shit to another mexican about their spanish. you don t know this lingo, you don t know this pronunciation, but, yeah, you should know spanish better. al madrigal: well, that s what i learned. this has been an age-old thing where everyone is trying to out-chicano each other and that i shouldn t feel that bad about it. anthony: what s that expression for a bad chicano? al madrigal: pocho. anthony: is there a literal translation there? gustavo: rotting. so if you say pocho, you re basically saying you re a rotting mexican, you re completely fake, you ve lost all your culture. therefore, you sho
lines became blurred, the job ground him down and he crossed the line, repeatedly. alex: to quote nietzsche, those who chase monsters need to be careful that they don t become monsters. i thought i was going to arrest the bad guys. i never thought i would become a bad guy myself. anthony: did you become a bad guy? alex: oh, i did, yes. anthony: how bad? alex: i became very aggressive, and beating people, losing control, and using excessive force when there wasn t really any need for me to do that. i mean, i worked the most infamous police station ever known. it was called rampart. won best picture for denzel washington for his portrayal of this really bad police officer. denzel: i m the police. i run shit here. you just live here. anthony: was that an understatement? were there cops that bad? alex: yes, there were. yes, there were. i was one of them. the problem was very systemic. we don t have so much that
bad guy myself. anthony: did you become a bad guy? alex: oh, i did, yes. anthony: how bad? alex: i became very aggressive, beating people, losing control, and using excessive force when there wasn t really any need for me to do that. i mean, i worked the most infamous police station ever known. it was called rampart. won best picture for denzel washington for his portrayal of this really bad police officer. denzel: i m the police. i run shit here. you just live here. anthony: was that an understatement? were there cops that bad? alex: yes, there were. yes, there were. i was one of them. the problem was very systemic. we don t have so much that problem anymore. it does happen. anthony: this is not a nature of the job, when you re asked to every day go in and look at people at their most desperate and ugly that you become desensitized and maybe even turn into a monster. alex: just think about it.
gustavo: and that s okay. every mexican in history has always given shit to another mexican about their spanish. you don t know this lingo, you don t know this pronunciation, but, yeah, you should know spanish better. al madrigal: well, that s what i learned. this has been an age-old thing where everyone is trying to out-chicano each other and that i shouldn t feel that bad about it. anthony: what s that expression for a bad chicano? al madrigal: pocho. anthony: is there a literal translation there? gustavo: rotting. so if you say pocho, you re basically saying you re a rotting mexican, you re completely fake, you ve lost all your culture. therefore, you should be hated. anthony: that s harsh. gustavo: i know. anthony: when you hear, like, about rounding up mexicans left and right and sending them off to camps and putting them across the border scary, angry? or al madrigal: i actually think it s good. i think latinos need this to rally together to it s like
the bad guys. i never thought i would become a bad guy myself. did you become a bad guy? oh, i did, yes. how bad? i became very aggressive, beating people, losing control, and using excessive force when there really wasn t a need for me to do that. i worked the most infamous li er known, rampart. won best picture for denzel washington for a bad police officer. i m the police. i run shut here. you just live here. was that an understatement, were there cops that bad? yes, there were. yes, there were. i was one of them. the problem was very systemic. we don t have so much that problem any more. it still does happen. it s the nature of the job. you re asked to look at people at their most desperate and ugly that you become desensitized and maybe even turn into a monster. just think about it. every day they re looking at the