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Casey Porter

from Livengood by Caleb Aronson

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The third cold night of 2003 at least the nights were getting shorter
A driver in a rest stop looking for sleep but morning would never come to Casey Porter

It had been a hard winter on the Sterling Highway and the plow's work seemed endless
One truck working at 2 a.m. called the Troopers saying a car looked a little suspicious

Casey was just 30 years old and some said he looked alittle older than that
He'd grown up in Nikiski played football and was a wrestling champ
But soon after all of that he and trouble became close friends
Through misdemeanor crimes like assault and resisting arrest

Casey was no model citizen
But Casey was still a man

Six months before this night Casey was in a car wreck
It left him with uncontrollable movements from a broken back and a broken neck
He couldn't operate the clutch of his car from the spasms in his leg
So walked and drove with the help of a wooden cane

Casey had lots of friends scattered far and wide
But he was living out of the trunk of his car and the bottle of pills by his side
He once worked as a welder and once worked at a cannery on the water
At that time he got a few tattoos one was a flaming "MAD DAWG" and the other was the name of his daughter

Casey kept his car running and shut off the lights
Maybe he heard a prayer from his daughter that night

By 2:07 a.m. on the morning of the 4th
The first Trooper to arrive at the rest stop was an officer Jesse Osborn
Soon after this night Osborn's estranged wife testified his exact words
Of inmates and suspects he "beat up" "they weren't people, they were lower than dirt"

Within seconds Trooper Joe Whittom arrived and Osborn ordered Casey out of his car
But Casey didn't and just said "what's wrong, sir, I was just parked"
Without warning Osborn used his pepper spray and Casey's clutched slipped
His car slowly rolled toward Whittom's and he had less than 58 seconds to live

One night not long after this
I pulled off the road but couldn't rest

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from Livengood, released March 21, 2006

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