can you just talk a little bit about the circumstances of isaac woodard? okay, that's a great question. and you're absolutely right. so what happened was isaac was on the bus and there were other soldiers there who were witnesses to what happened and later came forward. and the bus stopped and isaac, there would have been no bathroom in the bus and it was a long ride. he was going to visit going by he'd been away from his family for a long time serving in the far east in the war. and when the bus stopped he asked the driver if you could use the bathroom and the driver was very disrespectful and i'm saying is remember close as i can remember the actual quote but isaac said something like you know, hey talk to me like i talk to you have respect something like that and the police suffers didn't like that. i mean the bus driver didn't like this. he let isaac go to the bathroom isaac came back on and the police tried they bus driver drove on and found stopped and found a police officer and went out and got this police officer to take isaac off the bus. and these

and isaac woodard said, talk the me like i am a man, just like you. which i think before the war, he would have never said that. so the driver, without knowing -- without letting him know, went to a phone, called ahead to batesburg, and told the police there was somebody on his bus who was making trouble. got to batesburg, where he was met by the entire police force of batesburg, which was two guys, the chief of police and a deputy. the chief of police -- the driver told him to get out and talk to the chief of police. he did. and before he could get a word out, the chief of police beat him in the head with a special baton that was, you know, rigged for real impact, spring loaded. >> he's in uniform, right? >> he's in uniform. and he -- finally, he managed to get the baton away are the guy and started fighting. and the deputy came around and put his -- put his gun on woodard and told him he would shoot him if he didn't stop. so he didn't stop. and the chief of police kept beating him. at one point -- they could tell later that he had ground his baton i