Capturing the Friedmans
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Got to the house, and there's
cops and news trucks

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all over the place.
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And
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I got worried, of course.
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When David came to the house,
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we were able to
ascertain eventually

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the type of business he was in.
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And we heard that he was
involved in children's

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entertainment in the form of
some sort of clown activities.

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I was there when
the clown came in.

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He was ranting and raving.
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We had words.
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And I was going
through the folders.

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We told him to take a hike.
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And he kept trying
to come into the house,

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and I kept telling him
that he couldn't,

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that he had to leave.
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He wasn't allowed
while we were searching.

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And finally, he came in
for the last time.

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He bent down.
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I really thought he had
a weapon in that duffle bag.

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Everybody kind of, you know,
reached for a gun at one point.

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What he came out with
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was a pair of Fruit
of the Loom underwear.

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And he started prancing around,
flailing his arms in the air,

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saying, "Look at me.
I'm an asshole. "

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They're harassing my father
for no reason at all.

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If I had had some kind of
Arabian sand scarf

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I would have wrapped
that around my face

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and been Lawrence of Arabia.
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Maybe that
would have been better.

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But I took out underwear,
and I put it on my head

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because I didn't want
to be on camera.

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The first arrested
was Arnold Friedman,

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a retired schoolteacher who was
charged with sodomizing boys

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aged 8 to 11.
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The charges are that, while
running a computer school,

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Arnold Friedman and his son
engaged in various forms

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of sexual abuse
against minor children.

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Jesse pulls up coming
home from school.

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His friends dump him
out of the car.

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David sort of grabbed me,
and we were sitting

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a couple of houses down,
sort of on the sidewalk.

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And he was saying
something to me.

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And then one of the TV
cameras came over,

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so we kind of ran
to the backyard.

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And we went behind the house.
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And we were in the backyard
of our house.

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And the cops came back, and they
said, "What's going on here?"


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