00:01I know what I did was wrong.
00:03I know I made mistakes.
00:05I made colossally bad calls.
00:08But I also know I made a lot of good ones.
00:10I made decades of good ones,
00:12saving lives and helping more people than I can count.
00:16And I'm not even close to being done.
00:22Look, I regret every moment of pain I caused my colleagues.
00:27I regret breaking their trust.
00:29And I plan to spend the rest of my career making it up to them.
00:32Making it right.
00:35If you let me.
00:52Excuse me, we are not finished.
00:54Commission, I'm Captain Maya Bishop from Station 19,
00:57and I'd be doing this department a disservice
00:59if I didn't bring our team here today
01:00to fight for our battalion chief
01:01the way he has fought for us so many times before.
01:06Robert Sullivan is an excellent firefighter.
01:08He's one of the best.
01:09He's committed to the job.
01:10He's patient with his time and leadership.
01:12He made a mistake.
01:14He made some mistakes.
01:15Because he was suffering from pain from an injury he got on the job.
01:19Putting others' lives before his.
01:21He's one of us.
01:22He's one of us.
01:23He's one of the good ones.
01:25He's one of the good ones.
01:26He's one of the good ones.
01:27Both as a human and a firefighter.
01:29And I've seen a lot of people who were terrible at both.
01:32He was in chronic pain.
01:34He needed drugs to treat it.
01:36Yes, he became dependent on those drugs.
01:39He became desperate.
01:41My husband died because of a crappy captain
01:43who didn't know how to ask for help.
01:45Sullivan is nothing like that guy.
01:47He made a mistake.
01:49But he's asking for help.
01:51Robert Sullivan lost his parents in a plane crash
01:54and he still became the high school valedictorian.
01:56He lost his wife in an accident
01:58and he still climbed the ladder to battalion chief.
02:01In our job, when you go down physically, we rehabilitate you.
02:05He went down physically.
02:07Addiction is a treatable chronic disease.
02:10So we rehabilitate him.
02:11We do not throw him out with the trash.
02:14At SFD, we take care of our own.
02:20Dixon, he was never one of us.
02:24He was out for blood.
02:26He wanted everything that he put us through
02:28to come down on someone else's head.
02:30That's not justice.
02:34Losing a damn good firefighter is not justice.
02:44Let's take a recess, please.
