"For what reason would they allow an officer of the law who is supposed to be out here protecting people to shoot and kill innocent people and get away with it?" "And the only reason they have to say is I thought he had a gun..." "This book, Stolen Lives..." "killed by law enforcement documents over 2000 cases of loss of life at the hands of law enforcement in the United States in the 1990's alone." "Chanting heard No Justice, No Peace" "Chanting heard Fight Back" "Chanting heard We say Fight Back!" "My fight is to get this officer... in the courts, in front of a jury and try this officer for criminal neglect homicide." "Police brutality and police murder is a nationwide epidemic, the authorities aren't trying to stop it, in fact they're giving it a greenlight." "And the people are going to have to stop it" "Title:" "Production Company" "This is no shield at all." "It's a magnet...for trouble" "Somethings you don't tell anybody" "I know I've experienced some things" "I don't tell anybody maybe hear someone, maybe someone's last breath" "And then they pass away, you don't tell... you know the sound of someone doing cpr on 'em." "That's why troopers, uh, have a close bond" "I think that they choose to go into this profession to make a difference." "These are the good guys." "What they have to deal with day in and day out... is something that you and I would, would run from... we'd be scared to death of." "Yelling can be heard more crowd sounds close up police sounds camera sounds angrier sounds, pushing, shoving unintelligible questions being shouted chaos sounds, yelling, running muffled - move!" "running, chaos, screaming" "General noise" "Title Card: music underneath" "Ambient noise of the city music and sirens" "Voice Over: we get like the..." "short end of the straw." "We got two choices it's either a prison or six feet under the ground where everybody will walk all over us." "I'm standing in for a group of Abner's attorneys" "Abner has a statement but before we make (Abner speaks over him)" "Abner:" "It will be inappropriate for me to say much more then what I said in court." "however...this sentence today I hope sends a clear message that no one is above the law" "Music plays" "Title Card" "New Title Card 3rd Title Card" "Music plays" "FILM TITLE" "Title Cards with ambience and music" "Voice Over:" "Hello everyone my name is Nick Heyward Sr." "I am a parent and I am a man." "Many of you are parents out there." "You need to understand that losing a child... is the worst thing... it's like a nightmare." "Music underneath credits" "Music continues music with unintelligble voices" "Off Screen:" "I am the mother of Nicholas Naquan Heyward Jr." "13 year old who was shot and killed by Officer Brian George." "Ambient Noise and Music" "Off Screen Nicholas father speaks:" "He was out playing... after school..." "September 27th, 1994." "He was playing with some friends." "They were playing the game of cops and robbers in this...uh...housing complex where we live at." "I was in the Bronx picking up my niece at the time - my wife was at home." "A neighbor from the building where he was killed ran over here and informed her that was, um, her son that was shot." "She ran out the house and ran up the steps... fourteen flights of steps." "A policewoman and a policeman they stopped me and I said "I want to go to my son, he's only 13 yrs old."" "I wanna be with my son." "They kept asking her for Identification give us some kind of identification, this and that..." "After she presented it... they still wouldn't allow her to see him." "finally I waited and waited and they said come on I'm thinking they gonna take me to the ambulance with my son but they didn't." "They said, the ambulance had already got my son in..." "Here you have a 13 year old kid..." "shot." "Around a bunch of.... police who shot him." "Terrified...and...you're not going to let his parent comfort him..." "To this day I have..." "really, really believed that had she been there..." "that he would be alive." "I feel that...alot of the fear and the fright that was running through his body... helped contribute to his death." "he got there, he was very conscious." "He even asked the ambulance man why did he shoot me, why did he shoot me?" "He didn't have to shoot me." "The nearest hospital is just..." "Six blocks from here." "They took him across the bridge into Manhattan." "I still don't understand..." "why they did that." "While my son waited many hours and finally the came in and they told us that, my son would not live through the night... that they were going to soon, they, you know, pull the cord" "on him." "They let us see him." "And uh, within the hour they called the code and... they said that my son was dead." "Chanting in the streets again" "No Justice!" "No Peace!" "Chanting continues" "Music plays" "Title Card" "Amadou Diallo was my son." "He was born in..." "Liberia... 1975." "He have no complications, no problem with nobody." "Music" "I was there for PM in Vietnam time..." "They called me here." "He said..." "I said was gang?" "He said that we don't know." "It's not clear to us." "I say he have any bad friends?" "He say no." "Music plays" "Off screen:" "They forced the two roommates to go down to the precinct." "Where they are interrogated for something like six or eight hours in the middle of the night by four sets of interrogators." "They're asked questions about how did he get into the country what was he doing here." "Did he ever get arrested... uh... they wanted to know if he used drugs, uh, what his relationships with women were." "He was a clean young man." "We thank you brothers and sisters." "We thank you for all your support" "Murmurs from crowd" "You supply effort before we come to this country..." "Allowing us to continue." "To fight for peace and justice." "But that night..." "I saw on the TV, Giuliani go to microphone and said" "then" "Before this thing happen, what my son see... what did he feel?" "No one will ever know that." "because he died." "Music" "In most cases the family have got to get an independent pathologist to carry out a second autopsy." "to determine...if the autopsy carried out by the city was legit." "We are forced at the moment of their greatest agony to start talking politics with them." "Because we understand that after a killing it's an important time its the period of time in which the police are going to consolidate the cover up...." "The story to explain the killing." "In...one case we found that a shooting..." "that was alleged to have taken place where the kid was alleged to have gone into a shooters stance, meaning they... went like this to a police officer that the kid was shot in the back." "Music plays" "Off Screen:" "Since crime began its steady downward slide in 1993." "More than 1,000 federal, state and local law enforcement officers have lost their lives... ln the performance of duty." "That averages out to 153 deaths each year." "Where one officer killed somewhere in America... every 54 hours." "There is a story I've often told about a guy named Bill Brey." "Who worked uh, Pennsauken, NJ." "And he got one day, and, it was about some kids that were known to be running on rooftops of these abandoned buildings in a bad part of town." "He went to that call" "Before he knows what's hit him a 17 year old kid who'd been drinking beer all day with a buddy takes a knife and attacks Bill Brey from behind stabs him 17 times..." "Bill Brey died." "Alright." "Next day..." "Papers, Bill Brey's a hero." "Bill Brey, you know, what a great cop he was it's so sad that he's now gone." "But I tell that story because of course he's a hero, you know." "Nobody's gonna ever deny that." "but what happens if Bill" "Brey gets the jumps on that 17 year old kid as he's coming at him with this knife." "And he draws his weapon and he shoots him and kills that teenager?" "Is Bill Brey called a hero?" "I don't think so." "Ya know?" "He's gonna be second guessed, he's gonna be criticized." "And he may very well lose his job." "Because he's just shot a 17 year old kid." "Music plays" "Off screen:" "Your life just changes in a split second forever." "I mean nothing is the same." "You're not the same." "You're children are not the same." "You're friends aren't the same." "He was on his dinner break..." "and, um... in a restaurant and a career criminal came up from behind and shot and killed him." "um" "Because they wanted to kill a police officer that night." "The person that killed my husband had taken his revolver uh, taken his police car, went on a high speed chase shooting at other officers and a gunfight ensued and... the criminal ended up killing himself... I don't think I felt anger because" "it was all secondary." "My husband was gone..." "That was the most important thing to me and nothing else mattered." "Nothing." "I had a zillion people in my house for three days... they would talk to me and I would think Pat where are you?" "I know you're... here you have to be somewhere you're not gone, you're somewhere, where are you?" "This is where Pat and I grew up, we lived our whole life in this section right here." "This sign coming up" "All the highschool kids were standing out front when the funeral procession passed and on that sign it said:" "Um, Pat King, you made a difference." "it was really...it was unbelievable sight and you know we're all in shock. but that, that's something that..." "I will never, ever forget." "Right there... in the Chinese restaurant that is where my husband was killed." "Music plays" "Title Card" "Off screen:" "I knew Keith all my life" "I met him in kindergarten... we went to the same school system." "After he became an officer we started dating and we got married." "He was... a happy guy and every body loved him" "He was killed 6 weeks after our wedding..." "I was 22, he was 24..." "Keith, uh, patrolled regularly, but... in addition to that he was also on the Essex county SWAT team" "Um...the Essex county SWAT team and the Essex county prosecutors office... executed a drug warrant at a house in Irvington." "it was about 6:14 in the morning when... when the SWAT team went up... into the house to, to, uh make entry and Keith and another" "Officer were both the first into the apartment..." "I saw the police car pull up his parents got out and, um, another officer got out and the priest got out and..." "I knew then, you know that something went wrong." "It's a lousy job, it's terrible hours, you're working holidays, it's lousy pay, it is dangerous, you don't see your family alot." "And, I mean why would you want to be a cop?" "I investigated my first serious accident down this road..." "Many years ago." "Three people killed in one car accident." "There is five... two getting checked out in the back window." "The car was 6 feet off the ground, wrapped around a great big oak tree." "Bodies...uh... hanging out of the vehicle." "it's terrible." "All of them where, uh, under 20 years old." "Two of the children that were in the car got ejected..." "If you go and... you dwell upon things like that you'll never make it." "You look at things like that, you look at it, you see it." "And then you put it out of your mind, because you have to do the report, you have to deal with people." "You can't stand there and dwell on about those three people that are gone or... or their, how they look you have to react to how, what people want, they have a need and you better be prepared to react." "Lady runs out and she's run up to me she walked up to me and she started trying to talk to me and she couldn't speak, she had a uh, problem speaking." "I think she might have been deaf... so I, uh..." "I pulled a pen and some paper out" " I said write down what's wrong" "And she just started jotting real fast - baby not... she started writing - breathing" "Upon seeing that I run back to her car" "I find a baby in the car seat in the front seat, I take the baby out of the car seat." "It's blue." "I flip it over, turn it over in my hand... and no particular training, but you're supposed to clear the airway (smack sound) I clear the airway - something came out of the baby's mouth" "and it started crying, got color back in it's face" "And I handed the baby to the lady and she started crying... she was... very happy that I, uh... took, you know, I got the baby breathing again." "And the lady got done putting her baby in the car, she grabbed me by the face and I don't like anyone touching me" "I don't like anyone touching me." "It's personal space." "I don't like it." "This woman grabbed my face and held my face in her hands and she, uh... she told me thanks." "I didn't tell anybody that story." "But that right there describes police work, I think." "You know when someone's yelling at ya...you're next... day you're saving someone's life there is no training for..." "When they're involved in an incident whether it's racially motivated or just... you know a brutality... the media seems to seize on that and it's, it's played over and over and it makes the public" "really distrust the police because they start to think that all cops are like that and they're not." "music and street noise." "The media never seems to show cops in the dare program out there talking to the schools." "Why don't they do those kind of things where they can see the positive aspects of law enforcement and they can realize that, that badge, that cop or those bad cops are such a small percentage of the profession." "Title card." "We are sick and tired of burying our children." "Today is a national day of protest against police brutality." "This is something that is happening in over 55 cities across the country." "This is the building right here Nicholas was killed in." "This is the story that was brought to me after his, um, three month investigation." "the officer received a 911 call" "The officer went into the building where Nicholas and five other youths were playing..." "When he got to the 14th floor he removed his gun from his holster and he removed his flashlight." "He said he heard a clicking sound and he pushed open the stairwell door." "The hallway was supposed to be dimly lit and in the darkness he heard the clicking sound..." "sound like a ... uh... a hammer of a gun striking a primer and he shot into the darkness striking Nicholas um, in his abdomen." "I never once believed that story..." "I called the investigators to reinvestigate the whole case, to um, go back over the scene but" "ADA Joe Alexis came down..." "the officer had changed his story... he was now on the 911 call and that...the stairwell lighting was not dimly lit and I explained to him that... the way the officer is saying that the situation happened" "couldn't happened to him, happened like that and I showed him why...also people from the community informed this district attorney that this officer patrolled the buildings with his gun out... the officer was actually questioned by" "my attorney to find out what actually happened." "He said he went to one stairwell and he looked up..." "to the uh.... rooftop landing and that he didn't see anything." "he made his way to the second exit and as he was approaching that exit he started hearing noises... then he removed his gun from his holster...and he pulled his flashlight out and he pushed open the stairwell door and no one" "was there." "He said that my son appeared before him suddenly, my son appeared before him suddenly" "Then Nicholas jumped back up the steps... well did you say anything to Nicholas then?" "He said "No"." "Did Nicholas say anything to you?" "No Nicholas didn't say anything to him either...what happened next?" "He said then my son turned around pointed a toy gun at him and clicked it 4 times and that's when he shot him..." "It didn't happen that way..." "Not at all..." "I mean..." "It didn't happen that way at all the youths informed the district attorneys that Nicholas dropped the toy gun and said we're only playing, we're only playing and the officer shot him anyway... film projector sounds start" "film projector sounds film projector sounds projector sounds stop..." "Title Card" "I think that we're making progress." "We're, we're doing things that need to be done but the other side of equation when I'm flying across the country every weekend we just returned from Cincinnati, Ohio, Michael shot and killed by the police on a motor vehicle stop, um" "California, um, William Michael" "Arnold, 39 year old white male shot 106 times by 22 police officers and no one even knows the story - somethings wrong and I think that speaks to the bigger issues in law enforcement." "Abner Louima, Rodney King..." "I believe nothing changed" "In the last 30 years, in fact there is just some folks in law enforcement who were able to keep a lid on things and... what's happening now is the lid is coming off." "most police officers never even use their weapon in the course of their career." "So when you compare that to people being gunned down unarmed - then you have to say there is something wrong here." "This is my little beat where I walk the streets um, it's a changing community now... many of the people I still see they still stay in touch, we work together, do somethings, they call, when I can help them" "I need to to yell and scream at them, I yell and scream at them" "Vonzell, what's up man?" "I'm good, how are you?" "How they treating you?" "I don't know how to approach this officer without making him feel that I am a offending him, uh, or trying to... tell him what to do or how to do his job" "There is many people in our community, many races in law enforcement that don't know how to deal with other groups and surely not how to deal with Sunni Muslims, if you will, and, what happens is there sometimes an intimidation" "factor, sometimes there is some stereotypes on both sides." "Right, right." "It's a very uncomfortable feeling to have officers that patrol the area and walk up and down the street and don't speak, don't introduce themselves or anything like that." "Like I said me and a few other guys want to think nice of you walking in our community, you doing your job, we want to become, we want to almost like build a family with officers." "We may sitdown with you or with the police officer and the police officer they say well, somebody said such and such to me - made me feel uncomfortable, one of the other things we can even talk about is..." "The officer being invited in." "Young people come to me and say Sergeant Davis my mother is a crack addict, can you help me get her in a program?" "That has nothing to do with me doing a military maneuver" "In their neighborhood theyr are trying to survive " "(woman - how is your family) laughing" "car noises police noises police radio in BG" "One of the passengers in the backseat of a Dodge Caravan" "So you have two passengers up front, middle seat was empty and the back one had two people in it" "without warning or anything when I asked them for identification cause he kept speaking to me and I wanted to know who I was talking to" "He screamed blue bloody murder and dove at me." "well, I took a step back, I drew my weapon and I told everybody in the vehicle to put their hands up and freeze." "Fortunately I was able to do that." "and uh..." "The point is there is no one on the side of the road, no one is going to stop and help you... cause I don't know how many people in a car might have a weapon." "You, you can hurt, you're looking out for your own safety" "So, so I stood there in broad daylight on the side of the road with my weapon out trained on this car with people in it." "And could I have shot that guy?" "Possibly I could have used deadly force." "You look back on those times and you say to yourself, man it wasn't even a split second." "I just resorted to that training I was talking about before" "You really can't be trained for situations like that." "They can tell you what to do." "They can give you tools." "But it really comes down to common sense, and, ah... you know you're own ah..." "You're own personality... you know." "Music starts" "Music continues" "A drum sound - light snare." "joined by piano" "Voice Over" " Come Walk with me in my neighborhood on any night." "Monday through Monday." "And you will see black men thrown up against the wall." "And when you look at these black men remember that it was only a few years ago." "That they were playing hide and go seek..." "And they were playing hopscotch..." "And playing ball..." "Title Card Music starts softly" "The first encounter that I had with the police" "I was 4 1/2 years old." "Music Starts as he speaks" "I never forget that it was in the summer and... every morning" " I lived in a very poor area of South Baltimore." "and every Saturday morning the men would go out and play dice they would roll dice on the ground for money" "Music plays, crowd noise." "I'm a beat ya, but I'm a sporting man too..." "Cheering" "Ohhhh!" "Alright..." "Let's go...." "General crowd noise and cheers" "The police would swoop down on 10 men and scare them away beat them with sticks" "And then once the men ran away, they picked up their money and put it in their pocket..." "That was my first memory of police." "And then when I went to school..." "Miss Ball." "My Kindergarten teacher introduced us to Officer Friendly." "So my respect for the police... was zilch." "After I had seen them beat the men who lived in my neighborhood who looked like my father..." "We didn't have (pause) ballfields.." "We didn't have little league... we didn't have soccer..." "we played on fields of glass." "Between maybe two, what used to be two vacant houses was our lot created when they knocked them down..." "I think the reason why it's so meaningful to me personally is because I realized I could be one of the 50%... of the black men in Washington DC or of the 40% in Baltimore" "Who have had run ins with the law." "who served time or is on probation or parole." "My story is a phenomenal one I was placed in special education in the kindergarten" "and told I would never be able to read or write." "And there are many, many African American boys who... are put on that same boat to failure." "Music plays" "hear cop car noises" "You know you have to have faith in God, me, I got faith in myself see I'm not just a trooper, I'm a father." "I'm a husband." "Then I'm a trooper so we're held to a high degree of... um, standards." "And society, I don't care what they say about troopers... they see a trooper I think, maybe not you, but I think... they still say well, there's a trooper you know he's, ah, he's a good man, he's ah, here to help us..." "You can't just take somebody and throw them in the uniform and expect that they're good or even a decent police officer ya, you know I owe a lot to my family." "My dad worked 30 plus years in a factory" "He worked hard." "He worked hard for physical, physically hard for 20 plus years." "I never heard him complain." "I find myself complaining and I think about my dad and shut my mouth..." "I've been married 14 years." "Yep." "I've been with my wife for 16 years." "We started off all wrong" "You know and then I was at a point in my life where" "I was police is first, family is second..." "I would tell the new guy don't do that." "Don't make that mistake." "Find yourself alone living in a pup tent or something." "When Nicholas was killed..." "Lot of people came around showing thought and concern, elected officials and everyone was coming around acting like you know...they was concerned." "And that built some hope into her as to believe in that something, something, was going to happen." "You know this officer was going to pay for his actions." "He was going to be held accountable" "When that didn't happen..." "I remember when uh..." "Charles Hynes, um, closed the case without bringing it to the grand jury." "She cried for like so long." "Charles Hynes also invited us to his office to explain why he made that decision." "She didn't go, but I went." "You never really know a person (pause) until you met him and talked with him..." "Charles Hynes tried to make me believe that he cared about" "Nicholas." "But his concern was, um, over shadowing the way he said it." "Just like the Mayor." "The Mayor came to the funeral and he basically he didn't even shake my hand." "He came there with a book, he opened up the book and read basically a hand written statement." "Nothing... really comes from the heart of these people." "And I really feel that way about that officer too - if that officer told me that it was accident, I mean... showed me and told me how hurt and sorry he was I'm looking at him and I'm talking to him" " I could have forgiven that man." "I'm not, not immediately right there, but I have a lot, I mean" "I have God in my life." "And I know, I'da been able to forgive him." "But, he didn't do any of that." "He allowed the racism of the system to cover it up." "He allowed that to happen." "He didn't have to do that." "Everysingle social scientist that has studied the NYPD and studied any other department in the country found people will attest to this." "The culture of the police hat exists is that you never rat out another police officer." "That is the worst thing that you can do." "The majority of police officers who do not engage in brutality or corruption - will remain silent and actually lie to protect other officers." "I think there are many walls of silence out there." "There are silence within African-American communities when there is a shooting and people don't want to turn in the shooter or a robbery or a rape and there are many things that, uh, throw walls up to stop people from getting information." "Woman's voice." "They are liable to help somebody out by not reporting somebody like another officer." "They'll, they'll wind up losing their job." "There are departments where the officers are not allowed to speak to the media." "So it makes it look like somethings being withheld but they can't talk." "Especially if there's going to be a court case" "There are many officers who have come forward to report abuse just for the investigation to turn around and now they become the victim of an investigation." "In the case Anthony Baez who was killed by a NY City Police officer... there was one officer" "Daisy Boria, who actually challenged the story that other cops had told." "Her testimony was very influential in convincing a jury that indeed Anthony Baez had been choked to death by the application of an illegal choke hold." "The Judge said this case reeked of a nest of perjury." "That the police officers were lying." "She had to wear a bulletproof vest, received death threats from other officers...who were bold enough to threaten her face to face and also send her stuff in the mail." "But her commanding officer said that we can't protect you I've got to transfer you out of this precinct." "No one was ever prosecuted for those lies, although the officer who did the killing went to jail." "Not because the NYPD handled it, because the Federal Govt." "came in for civil rights prosecution." "This police officer Francis Livoti physically assaulted a superior officer and the reason why he wasn't punished internally was because he was a PBA delegate and he had connections in the union." "The Diallo case made matters worse." "By them cops getting acquitted, it made the justice system... even worse because now all an officer has to say is..." "see that little phone sticking out your pocket" "I thought that was a gun." "Mr. Diallo who is not engaged in any criminal activity, who has no criminal record was shot by four police officers at very close distances and probably at least one of the officers was within 7 or 8 feet of him." "It was a brightly lit vestibule and he didn't have a gun." "And could not, could not be displaying anything." "That could be mistaken for a gun." "I mean, you know, you go up into that vestibule and and I assure you a police officer could tell the difference between a .45 and a" ".38." "Ah, he certainly could tell the difference between a a gun and a key chain." "A gun and a beeper." "A gun and a wallet!" "The, the wallet gun... could you..." "As I said things in the street aren't always what they seem" "A simple wallet." "Asking somebody for identification." "I'll give you identification." "Off screen" " Hold it up so this camera can get it in front of you." "High gloss wallet that contains a tiny .32 automatic." "capable of firing eight rounds." "And they actually came came to court with a gun." "That was supposed to resemble a wallet." "Or a wallet that supposed to resemble a gun." "Oh,man..." "I was sitting here watching this I didn't believe it, my God, what is, what is going on here..." "One of the officers involved had a previous shooting in Brooklyn." "The officers were not drug tested to see if their urine had traces of alchohol or drugs in it." "Even the crime scene unit to examine the scene basically take a freeze frame picture of their scene." "There are questions on how that was done." "The Diallo shooting is unique and horrible, obviously." "Obviously when anyone innocent or hasn't commited a crime dies it's a horrible situation..." "I do believe that our society has become callous to murder." "However, I don't believe that those police officers went out that night saying "I'm going to kill a black man" in this particular area." "On the 31st of 2000." "In the case of Abner Louima, the police and police officers started suggesting that Mr." "Louima was coming out of some gay club and that uh... this was consensual gay sex that resulted in because of it his injuries." "You just don't wake up someday and say I'm going to sodomize someone with a broomstick." "You graduate to that level." "We could have caught" "Justin Volpe when he kicked someone in the crease of his pants for doing nothing at all." "This way we would have stopped him from pulling down someone's pants and sodomizing them." "The fear that officers have of turning in Justin Volpe..." "There are cases where officers went down to file a complaint" "On a particular officer , the next day he saw the complaint that he filed on the bulletin board with his name signed to it." "It's a message... that you can't get away if you turn against your fellow officer." "So Volpe was allowed to fester and grow" "Because the system did not allow officers to turn in a" "Justin Volpe." "I do believe that the police officers in the Abner" "Louima case came forward because they believed that the police department is no type of place for this action." "That they did not want to see Volpe or any other police officer get away with a heinous crime of this sort." "My name is Anna Garcia." "My name is Maria Santo" "My name is Milton Calderone." "I am the mother of unintelligble." "He was 21 years old." "My son Anthony received 14 shots to his back and my nephew" "Milton received 8 shots to his back." "Face down on the floor!" "Crowd chanting." "Music plays" "♪music continues ♪" "♪music continues ♪" "♪music continues ♪" "I mean I'm not gonna sit here and say every trooper that's in this uniform is a great person." "Some of them are weird." "I never knew of anybody being a criminal." "No way." "I'd say something." "Something is wrong, I'm gonna say something." "You think I wanna work with someone like that?" "No." "That's the farthest thing from your mind... when you're a you're a police officer, you don't go out there and go today I think I'm gonna shoot somebody... or, ah, I'd feel a lot better if I could go and... do this or do that I could go shoot somebody - how strong I am" "That is so silly..." "I just want to bring it up if people think that way or not, do they think we get special treatment for shooting somebody." "No." "We're out here to protect 'em." "From the people that would hurt them, hurt them in a second." "If a guys gonna hurt a trooper or wrestle around with me..." "What's he gonna do to you Seyi?" "The Rodney King thing" "I don't know." "That was, a ugly, ugly situation." "How can you justify that?" "You can't." "So..." "But that, that, doesn't mean that we're gonna, you know, not every police officer is like that though." "The guys I work with...we... we just wanna get the guy handcuffed." "ya know... and." "you know unfortunately that never happened to me." "Everybody I ever dealt with was, uh, combative or something like that... we, we handcuffed." "But I was trained properly" "I was trained properly." "I'm gonna be faithful to myself... and faithful to what I believe in." "Some of the officers that, uh, um... if you wanna say... go bad in some way...maybe it's a culmination of all these things or years where all you see is the absolute worst of humanity." "And it, it jades you, it... changes you." "Cause that's why there is a high rate of alchoholism." "There is a high rate of divorce." "I think today in in law enforcement they're much more aware of problems that officers face, the different types of stress, uh, post traumatic stress syndrome." "Cause they do know that there is a lot of stress on the job." "Music starts♪" "Voice over starts:" "There is distrust for the city police and to come back with a finding that is quite possible that the policeman was justified l think you might have a riot." "We almost had one that day." "Um...you need, what we are trying to do, what I am trying to do is to insure it's a fair investigation." "No matter how it turns out." "(under his breath) The interesting thing" "Hey How you doing." "(to someone off camera)" "I'm fine how you doing?" "The standards that are placed in an area like this by the police." "They, they aren't the same kind of standards that would be in other areas, but on the other hand we got a lot of people who stand on the corners... you know the police were saying that they" "feel that all the crime, most of the crime committed against blacks are in black neighborhoods... and so that's why they may be rougher." "I mean, what do you say to that?" "Let's say I'm 27..." "(off screen - alright)" "I'm driving down the highway in a $60,000 Mercedes Benz." "I'm gonna be pulled over (response - no doubt about it)" "Here' s a white fella, the same age, he's driving in a $90,000 dollar one... keeps on going." "So they target blacks." "For what?" "Your son... is that guy who owned the $60,000 Mercedes... that was your son." "out of all the experiences that you've had" "What would you say to your 27 year old son?" "You gotta $60,000 car." "That can be taken from you..." "put that $60,000 in a home.." "You wouldn't even want him to be driving it." "No." "You can get, he can get a $3,500 car, but should" "Yeah, Put that $60,000 in a home." "Let's assume he already has a home.. (okay - off screen)" "So $120,000 and would you say the same thing?" "No, I would tell him to invest it into something else." "Off screen" " Okay, cause you don't want him in that car?" "I don't want him in that car (off screen- why not?" ")" "Because he's gonna be pulled over. (off screen - you know it)" "I know... ain't I know." "No ands if or buts about it he's gonna be pulled over..." "Profiling... as a general term." "in law enforcement." "Is illegal." "if it's not done with certain constraints." "We accept." "DWI checkpoints because every single car is stopped." "If an officer is looking for somebody and the general description is, you know thinks fits that description." "I would expect him to stop him the same way that I would expect him to stop... you know - a white male." "DWB" " The popular thing, you know Driving While Black." "Is not a myth... black cops against police brutality exposed a manual that was being used to train officers around the country that targeted Jamaicans for transporting narcotics." "Now we all know that there is no way in the world that I can tell a Jamaican going by me at 90 miles an hour in a vehicle so that is a eupheism for targeting people of color." "The Supreme court upheld that profiling in a manner that in a traffic stop in a high drug area, I stop everyone." "I'm not just specifically picking out black americans or hispanics or whites or whoever..." "We have in situations at the time these things have happened" "And... see if there are really abuses of the system out there." "And when you have over 400,000 police officers working the streets, thousands of stops a day these incidences are few and far between." "If they wear baggy pants they are targets." "It's not just skin color it's the way they dress, everyone dresses that way and everyone in our community then becomes a target..." "Fucking 15 carat ear pieces on my lobe" "Just cause I gotta rings or something... c'mon." "just because of the way I dress... the way I talk..." "I mean it's not all about that." "Man it's not all about that Man." "It's another thing too man..." "If you dangling you got a chain dangling... it's a free world man..automatically you unintelligble..you'se a drug dealer.. you just... rob somebody for that chain or whatever you got..." "Let's be honest people are afraid people are afraid and I understand the fear factor" "Retired officer from the NYPD said to me c'mon Delacey" "You can't believe what you are saying you mean to tell me when you see three black toughs walking down the street you know sneakers, jeans, you know the look - you don't get nervous?" "I says no I see three white guys with a three piece suit, a briefcase and a tie I get nervous cause it might be Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky or somebody else with a junk bond scandal ready to take the" "bank out of my community." "Off screen - if you're camera wasn't here... they knock you out before they get a chance to put the cuffs on you." "They walking around with plastic handcuffs every morning." "Between like 8 and 10 they walking around with them plastic handcuffs." "Tell your friends they see you, they lock you up." "Everyday." "Is that right?" "So many lives being lost and I, I used to think that maybe these... were just bad kids" "But now I come to realize that I think it's almost" "It's almost a plan." "And the reason I can't even say there is a plan is because" "I don't know who the conspirators are" "But I know when you see systemically more and more black kids going to penal institutions, you see more white kids getting something called diversion that is they don't even get into the juvenile system and sometimes I say, um, some of my conservative colleagues" "they believe that birth begins... at conception and that it ends at birth." "I mean they want children to come into the world but, yet and still when they come in we don't provide them with the kind of support systems they need to grow up to be somebody." "Music plays the music is melancholy in nature." "I was 22 when my husband was killed and my friends didn't even know what it was to be married (nervous laugh) much less to be widowed and it was, it was...so hard for me." "It was so hard... and there really was nothing there." "When I finally did feel strong enough, uh, to actually help other people" " I would write letters and it never really occurred to me to you know, hey, start a cops chapter." "Describes Acronym above" "A National Organization... um..." "that's been around for about 16 years now and our basic goal is to offer peer support." "We are here to help other survivors...um... get through the tragedies that we've gotten through." "You have to experience it to get through it let it hit you in the face, look at the pictures, look at the videos, you know, think about the memories and all that, that's the only way you get through it is to" "live it and experience it." "(off screen - it took me 6 years to accept it)" "Six years, I mean I started dating again, but the first date" "I went on...the guy got to see my wedding album. (laughter)" "I, I, you know...he never called me back - why?" "You know you go up, you go down, it's like being on a rollercoaster one day you feel like I'm doing so good, the next day everything is... shot to hell you know." "What happened?" "I was doing so good, but that is so normal, and, uh, especially the more people you talk to you find out that they felt the same way and just that, that common bond.. helps. (OS - that's the key)" "That we have somebody to talk to because you know how when the funeral is over and everybody leaves you know your friends don't remain the same and that was really hard for my kids that, you know, not only" "is daddy not here but his friends aren't here, they don't come over to pick them up or play basketball, I mean it's... you know a very rude awakening." "Soft Jazz music plays" "If I could describe Pat in one word it would be sweetness because that's what everybody, I mean he exuded the sweetness that you could feel, a real loving energy." "and he was just good to everybody." "Everybody." "And he, he never said no, he, I mean no was not in his vocabulary." "And, um... he was just the sweetest person." "And of course a good dad." "A loving, loving dad." "Male voice:" "Pat King, I heard of him, I didn't know him." "We go to each others functions and unfortunately funerals." "Bells are tolling." "And when you hear women and children sobbing, that's terrible." "That goes right through you like a knife." "Ready." "Aim." "Fire." "(Six gun Salute)" "TAPS is playing." "A woman's screams can be heard in distance..." "A woman's screams can be heard in distance..." "Voice Yells" " Pull." "Left and Right." "Forward." "March." "Drum roll plays." "Drum roll plays." "Music starts." "Police brutality abuses are climbing." "And I think the number of cops that are getting convicted are also climbing, but they are not getting convicted because the police are doing it, they are getting convicted because community movements and families are, you know..." "putting out this extraordinary effort." "My therapy is rallying and protesting and... and fighting." "Justice is fought for and that's, that's... that's reality." "And Justice ain't, it's just not handed out." "It's not...." "Why is it not handed out." "To me it could only be because... they don't see us as their equal." "There is no equal justice in the system." "If I was to go out and shoot a damn cop I would be in jail quick." "Very few are ever substantiated, but 70% of those that are substantiated...the only punishment is remand discipline which is a couple of days of vacation time." "Or a letter in your file." "The civilians give the authority to the police department this is not a separate branch of government." "We gotta go back to the concepts of... of democracy and checks and balances." "They can't be... a body of government that is accountable to no one." "Community policing places much more emphasis on preemptive work and stopping crime beforehand." "That doesn't mean it doesn't deal with the rest..." "So that you can't just have a system that rewards cops for the number of people they arrest." "Because how do you reward a cop whose work has been to build community." "What a day." "And this is what we do." "Greeting:" "What's up Cat?" "Hey..." "Everybody." "I'm good, how are you?" "Makes kissing sound" "How you all doing?" "Offscreen Voice:" "Black Cops against police brutality is is a grassroots organization that I founded with police officers and community representatives to improve police relations." "Good to see you, take care." "Tell everyone I said hello." "And... we set out to improve community and police relations through a variety of mediums and mechanisms." "Demonstrations, protests, teaching, training for the community, training for the police - that we do a workshop of what to do and stop by the police where we teach young people how to avoid becoming corpses when they're" "stopped by the police." "De Lancey speaking - What'd you have for breakfast?" "You have a chicken?" "You had chicken?" "Was it good?" "OS:" "They need good education, they need headstart, they need a good pre-K." "Those are all the things that other communities give their children in advance to give them an edge in society." "Yet our children are denied that in many cases across the board." "And then we wonder what's gone wrong." "What do you want to be?" "OS - where's he going to go?" "If you don't think much of going to college then what is he going to think when it's time to go?" "He's gonna be -nah" "I'm gonna be all I can be - what will you be?" "Oh, I just cook for a bit in the army." "OS" " I believe that they have been targeted by a lot of society on a lot of levels, but we don't make that argument as an excuse for their not achieving and succeeding." "I believe that it means that we simply have to work harder." "At whatever station we're in people of color in particular have to commit to the next generation." "(De Lancey on camera) I have computers in my office." "I have 17 computers and we just got 30 computers donated by customs and 17 of them are for you." "People like you." "Alright?" "Come join one of the programs." "As long as you join one of the" "PL programs you can come upstairs and train." "Police radio sounds." "I was out of the Marine Corp. and I wanted to be a trooper since from a very young age and I was strictly by the book... and uh, that lasted, uh, not very long." "A friend of mine said to me one day, Kevin, it's just an accident." "These people didn't purposefully come out here and get in an accident ...you gotta talk to 'em." "You stand there like Robocop or something." "You can't work that way." "If you work that way, you're gonna explode." "You're gonna explode some kind of way." "Either drinking...maybe substances or... be alone, you won't be able to keep a wife or family or girlfriend." "You won't be able to keep a decent housepet." "I" "So you have to, uh, you have to be a normal person." "That's like if you go into a, uh, you know, Dunkin Donuts" "Ehhh, don't get upset if they start making donut jokes about you, you know you're in a donut shop." "If you don't like those jokes then don't go into a donut shop." "Don't go in there." "I happen to like Dunkin Donuts coffee so I never used to get mad." "Ahh, you know, eh..." "I try to not look like I eat alot of donuts, but you know I do like those jelly donuts, they are good." "I gotta say." "But I won't eat 'em in uniform." "Cause it's too stereotypical, you know what I mean?" "What do you think we drive around eating apples and water?" "No. i doubt it." "And some guys they should just... keep on going." "I had a friend I road with - Johnny Goldsboro and we go to Dunkin Donuts..." "I come out and he's sits in the car and he was mad." "I come out of the place with my coffee, I'm all happy and a drunk driver comes and is going down the road with a it sounded like an airplane, it, it was his muffler drrrrrrrdrrrrdrrr -imitates sound" "And it went flying through the parking lot on a U-turn." "it's like 2 a.m. in the morning." "2 a.m. and he makes a u-turn in the Dunkin Donuts parking lot and then squeals out..." "Now, I'm not Barnaby Jones, but I'm thinking this guy might have some kind of problem." "So I take my coffee we stop 'em." "He's drunk." "You know with a suspended and I said you see" "John going to Dunkin Donuts is a good thing." "You know?" "We just took a drunk driver off the streets." "Laughing with cameraman." "Music starts" "On April 15, 1999 - you can see over 25,000 people were walking across the Brooklyn Bridge." "From the Brooklyn side to the Plaza in Manhattan." "All asking for Justice." "Nothing but justice." "Almost every day that I was watching this trial I was practically crying." "Because I knew, I knew that these cops was going to get acquitted..." "I knew it was because it was actually no prosecution" "And I knew that these cops was sitting there lying through their teeth." "It's so hard to know everything that happened especially when it's all comes down to a few split second perceptions." "Amadou Diallo did not turn..." "and run to that, to that, uh... vestibule door." "Because it was only, maybe, uh, three feet..." "I don't know whether he ran or walked away from them he didn't stop to talk to them." "And then the police thought that he was hiding something and when he went to you know, and it was, his coat, thought he was pulling out a gun." "And they shot him." "And he was crouched." "He was down low." "And he had his hand out." "And he had..." "I seen a gun." "If I was standing in my vestibule and, uh," "I took out my keys and police were watching me would they misconstrue that activity for as, as someone going for a gun?" "And would they take out their guns and blow me away, I sincerely doubt it." "I've actually been to the..." "vestibule where Diallo was killed..." "And it was no way possible that it happened the way that these cops said." "It didn't happen." "It was... impossible." "And they wasn't shooting at the same time." "That was impossible also." "They would have shot them cats in the back and them other two cops in the front been dead too." "They would've been shot in the back." "Because that's how small the vestibule was." "Subway sounds." "Voice can be heard:" "The jury should have been brought here." "At night to see this place." "To get a full understanding of the crime scene." "Not a model on the table with some toy cars and a pointer." "They could have been brought here." "This is as peaceable a street as you could want to find in New York City." "He should have been able to stop and say I'm just on my way home" "And um, I'm okay." "I'm not into anything." "4 white men run up on me in plain clothes with guns" "I'm trying to get into my house." "And I'm trying to get in as quickly as I can." "I don't care who they tell me they are." "or I am trying to get away from that." "Now on their side." "They're thinking he's got a gun and he is going to shoot us." "Peeking his head out...when he was standing on the stoop." "Peeking his head out looking to the left." "He's looking down to the right." "And he put his head back against the wall." "It's not just a thing where you go like this and all of a sudden 17 rounds go off, you have to keep going like this." "You have to keep flicking that index finger." "41 bullets to me doesn't seem excessive." "Uh... you've got four police officers." "Each magazine having 17 rounds or more in them." "A very intense situation." "You start pulling the trigger, you don't know, you think that rounds are being fired back at you the situation was unique they thought that rounds that were bouncing off the wall were at the door were being fired at them." "It doesn't seem excessive considering the fact that you do have police officers that have high capacity guns." "Maybe we need better training but the fact of the matter is one bullet can do the same job as 10 bullets." "Music plays." "With chants of Amadou." "They spoke about a ricochet." "They thought they were being fire upon." "In this dimly lit doorway." "Which is not dimly lit...." "Okay." "The kickplate which was removed." "As you can see one round went through the kickplate and through the door." "Right here." "Alright." "Other rounds struck here." "Here and I think another one struck here." "And those rounds were stopped by the kickplate." "Two men can't stand in this doorway." "It's physically impossible." "The New York Times published a diagram of two officers standing here and two standing over here on the sidewalk and all of them firing into this doorway..." "No way in the world." "He had to have been standing over here on this side." "You stand over here alright." "Now if a man is standing here and you're firing at him." "That's one thing." "If he's standing at the back door why don't we have a lot of bullet holes?" "And that door - these rounds come throught the door..." "And strike the rear wall.." "These three rounds exited the door." "And struck this back wall." "Look how many hits there are." "Several hits and right through the lower door." "It came through struck here." "Here." "So if the angle is bringing bullets over to this wall..." "They weren't firing at a person standing over here." "You're not firing at me standing here." "If you're shooting over in that direction." "Alright." "They said that he was turning left when hsi right hand tried to pull something out, well... if this were a dimly lit doorway, you couldn't see what I was pulling out of my pockets." "He was most likely standing right here." "Got shot and was propelled back into the doorway and he landed there." "And they continued to fire - there is a section of sheetrock that is missing here." "And we know rounds did go through here." "And the rounds that did go through here were fired from a person standing." "On this level." "They were not rounds coming from the street." "They were rounds fired at a downward angle." "Into Amadou's body." "This as I said was a murder." "It wasn't a tragedy." "Music plays" " Gospel." "When I... removes the object from his hand which I believed to be a gun." "I grabbed it." "And it felt soft." "I looked down at it." "My left hand." "And i seen it was a wallet." "No one was disciplined in this criminally or departmentally." "For an innocent human being, being shot." "More than a dozen police officers arrived at the scene." "None of them turned to these 4 officers who just did the shooting and asked so much as "hey what happened?"" "The decision to change the venue, which is unprecedented in New York City." "To move it up to Albany is similar to what was done in the Rodney King case." "The demographics of Albany during the selection of the jury." "Black was the minority." "At the end of the trial" "The rounds that I found - one here in the lower door frame and the second one in his closet." "When Detective Flamino asked if he had to return to the scene on the 15th of February." "And he said yes." "The D.A. never had explain what those pieces of ballistic evidence were." "So it tells you..." "That the Departments personnel was never seeking a conviction in this case." "Because if that were the case you would want the people to understand that there were 43 rounds and not 41 rounds." "Why didn't he himself..." "prosecute the case?" "I can't understand that." "There was so much evidence that was not allowed to be submitted, so much was pulled back and behind the scenes you have at the conclusion of the trial the Judge and defense attorney sit down and have dinner together." "It's a smack in the face for those who are in pursuit of justice." "Music - a drum." "Music - a drum." "Voice of Al Sharpton - It's pretty interesting that the police argued that they needed to change the venue because they didn't want to influence the jury." "And the day the jury goes out look who is here with signs." "No one from Diallo, but this is the PBA..." "Help yourself to these signs." "A lot, lot of good people have been here, not as many as I would have liked." "But a lot of good people have been here." "Trying to support this... this principle." "That these men are entitled to be presumed innocent until proven guilty." "They're entitled to their day in court there is something very wrong with the fact that they were automatically assumed to be brutal racists." "You automatically assume that everytime a white police officer is involved in a shooting that it's because he's a racist bigot." "You automatically assume that because of his race." "That makes you a racist." "This whole trial right here is real sickening." "It, it really, really is..." "I mean the prosecutors to me seem to me like they working hand and hand with the damn defense." "Excuse my language." "This statement is from Jim Fotis." "He's the Executive Director of the law enforcement" "Alliance of America." "He's a retired police officer from New York." "And this rally is for the Citizens against Political Scapegoating." "And cops rally." "They shoulda been fighting the to get these jurors out in the Bronx." "They needed, thats, they needed them to come to the Bronx." "And take a look at that vestibule that's what they needed to do... I've been following this case very closely for about 8 months" "I've seen the newspaper and the television reports and..." "Unfortunately...uh, dirty cops sells more newspapers then guys who just... had, had a misjudgement or made a bad mistake or whatever it was." "I don't even think we can call it a mistake." "I don't think it was a mistake." "I think it was just a tragic... circumstances that, that happened." "This sends a message to the police officers that they can shoot, kill and murder and brutalize us and get away with it by sending this case up here." "Ask anyone people here and they'll tell you - they support the Diallo family, they feel terrible for the Diallo family." "It could've just as easily been anyone of our families." "Had justice been done in my son's case, had justice been done in the Baez case, had justice been done in Frankie Assuaga's case- all of these are are innocent people who were killed by police." "Had justice been done maybe Abner Louima wouldn't have been tortured inside the precinct." "Maybe Diallo would not have been gunned down like he did." "The purpose for this rally is ... to you know show support for the officers and then to express our displeasure at people using this to...for their political agenda." "I call them racist cops." "And the reason I call them that is because all of them... except for one has had prior...uh... police brutality complaints against them." "If we can stop the hate... and if we can stop that, that rhetoric of trying to, um, say it's white against black and it's police against citizens and the white police officers and the black ghetto." "They just want to go out and kill black men and you know it's such nonsense." "These cops right here been beating and brutalizing on the same night that they murdered Diallo one of the officers beat up a kid right in the Bronx." "Prior to killing Diallo." "I truly believe that if there had been a black officer with them, we wouldn't be in this same situation." "If we're gonna automatically assume that somebody's" "(OS Man - you keep saying automatically assume - statistics and data prove what we're saying is true)." "We're saying - interrupted - Statistics and data support what we're doing." "Statistics and data." "Answer my question." "You haven't answered mine." "You dance around everything" "I've said. (Woman interjects - No we agree with you." "We didn't automatically assume, what did you hear from those cops for the justification - for shooting a man in his own home unarmed in the first place?" "These things happen..." "I know I heard long before this officer and this happened... unintelligible yelling - prove it." "You said." "No you said." "No." "When you automatically assume that somebody's race..." "For a white man to say what I've said he'd be called a racist." "I..." "I've been called an Uncle Tom." "A turncoat." "A coconut." "An oreo." "A murderer and other things worse than today." "For pointing this out." "If the officers were Hispanic, Asian, Native-American, women or gay - would demonstrators have marched anyway?" "Would celebrities and notables still show up to be arrested for demonstrating against these officers as a badge of honor?" "Would cooler heads had prevailed saying let's give them the benefit of doubt until they have their day in court?" "Solemn drum beats." "Sending us a message from the Diallo verdict." "Is that police officers can do anything they want." "And then turn around and justify it by saying..." "We were afraid." "No, if you are afraid don't take the job!" "Cheering from crowd can be heard." "There was an era in this country where the slave master and the sheriff used to walk in the street and if you were a black person you were expected to step aside and lower your eyes not to look them in the face." "To be humble." "To grovel." "To make sure that they didn't get nervous about you." "It was your responsibility to make sure they didn't get nervous." "That's how slavery was." "Don't look them in the eye." "Don't look them in the eye." "The old folks used to tell us" " Don't look 'em in the eye because you're gonna get in trouble." "...crowd murmuring." "I want to quote the sister over here." "She said look the motherfucker in the eye!" "Crowd Cheers." "Crowd chanting." "33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 Bullets!" "41 Shots!" ".... 41 Shots!" "..." "Amadou... 41 Shots!" "..." "Amadou!" ".. 41 Shots!" "...." "Amadou." "41 Shots!" "..." "Amadou... crowd getting unruly... killer cops must go - yelling and pandemonium..." "Alright hold them up." "Let's go hold them up." "Crowd yelling.... 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41..." "After 9/11... many people gained a tremendous amount of respect for our public safety officers." "And it's really a shame that it took an incident like that for people to start to respect our law enforcement community." "These guys ran into a building knowing it could collapse on them." "And they ran in to save people." "And um..." "I think that just about any cop out there today would do the samething tomorrow or any other time." "It was a natural reaction for those who were citizens of or victims of the horrific actions to want to receive as much protection as possible." "Unfortunately there were those who had an agenda." "Of restricted civil rights." "Long before September 11th." "It is our responsibility to have checks and balances especially against police power." "When you allow the police to go unchecked and to militarize themselves and to begin to criminalize activities more and more..." "You're in a very dangerous place to eroding the basis for democracy." "We're in a very challenging period of how we're going to respond when we are afraid." "You've got more and more white people that are being put through the system that are now recognizing that things that they felt were making them safe increased policing is now focusing not on major issues." "Not on cooling off crime, now it's based on controlling the citizenry." "Individuals are being incarcerated for long periods of time... without being questioned." "Military tribunals." "Police officers just going in and taking your loved one and not allowing them the most basic right to speak to their attorney..." "What we are going to have to be very careful of is that technology doesn't become out of control... and police and all other government agencies don't start abusing that technology and start looking into our personal lives and things that they shouldn't be looking into." "The globe is watching to see was that all a bunch of hypocrisy that we wrote in our constitution." "Are we going to stand tall to our principles of freedom and justice for all." "When Keith and I came back from our honeymoon we went to headquarters to say hi to everybody." "A couple of kids come running up to him." "Officer Neumann!" "Officer Neumann!" "Is that Mrs. Neumann.. . they were all very excited and" "I was so impressed that he just knew these kids on a first name basis." "He had a rapport with them." "And he gave them each like a dollar and said go and buy yourself some candy." "And I'll never forget he turned to me and he said... you know these kids growing up in these projects... um... there's a strong possibility that they could become drug dealers." "He said but I want better for them." "He said I want them to become cops." "I want to make a difference in their life." "Melancholy song plays." "This is the last picture of Pat with the kids." "The last picture they took at Disneyworld." "We had just been back five days." "This mural was actually created and designed by the people of the community." "It's entitled paradise lost and resurrected." "Paradise because" "Nicholas was paradise." "Before his life was lost." "These are the activities in which he participated." "His graduation picture here." "And over here is the resurrection of Nicholas." "Sitting on the steps in thought." "On my brothers lawn." "He's running off into the sun." "When we were here, I saw many people was crying..." "Victims of police brutality." "Now I'm one of them." "Crowd murmuring." "Someone yelling out - unintelligable." "People offering condolences." "Offering up prayers." "I will come back to this village one day... translating Al Sharpton to village." "To report that justice has been achieved." "Chanting..." "Chanting continues." "Final prayers." "Final prayers." "Music starts" "a tick tock type sound can be heard... a tick tock type sound can be heard..." "When you see a cop coming my first reaction is to take my hands out of my pocket." "My hands coming straight out of my pocket." "You not going to think I have nothing on me." "Please don't shoot me." "The major thing that I can think of is the Rodney King beating." "I was having people coming up to me 3,000 miles away saying why'd you guys beat Rodney King like that?" "I said we didn't have anything to do with that." "There are some bad apples out there." "But" "I don't think that we should all be lumped together." "Where you work at?" "Where you live?" "What's going on?" "I'm on my way home." "Can I get home?" "Okay, we thought you had a gun on you." "Why?" "Cause I was black?" "I was in Harlem?" "I was walking on a street nobody was on?" "The most misunderstood thing about police officers are that police officers are not human." "And they don't have families." "They're expected to live and die for their job." "Because they're expected to be shot at, stabbed, spit on, cursed." "And not respected." "You stop and think for a moment." "And come to a person who's got sense." "A person won't re- taliate in a way that will hurt." "And a lot of things that has happened has made black men in general think - the first thing a cop wanna do is hurt you." "That's your first reaction so you gonna be in that position." "Well I'm ready to defend myself when neither one - cop nor the person - is thinking." "So therefore somebody is gonna get hurt." "Everybody just needs to stop and think for a minute."