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look at why. no one out there needs or should need another example that we need to change how we treat one another and how we police. we get the rayshard brooks situation. a tragic killing by any definition in atlanta that is echoing in waves of outrage once again across the land. it's not as clear a story of that of george floyd's killing. thankfully, much of it is on video, so we don't get tortured by various people's takes by officers and witnesses. i know this video can be disturbing. but i think not paying attention to the reality is more disturbing, here's what we know. cops were called by wendy's to remove a car from their drive through lane. police find an intoxicated mr. brooks. half an hour of peaceful dialogue ensues, he's talking about his sister and where to go, and walking home. this video is moving way too

fast. but we're going to take you through it again, don't worry. after they have the dialogue and they allow him to move his car. they then attempt to arrest him. this is where it gets more complicated. mr. brooks resists, that cannot be in dispute. the officers don't seem to know how to control him. that is a key point for me. i'll make it in more detail about why it matters so much to me in this situation. because they cannot control one inebriated mr. brooks. they go to the taser. brooks gets up, takes a swing at one of the officers, grabs the officer's taser. takes off running. i don't see that mr. brooks had what some describe as drug induced super strength, that sometimes you'll hear discussed. i see poor technique and that matters in this analysis.

if you can't do your job using minimal force. you wind up using more and more force. hence two officers not being able to control in a struggle, that anybody who's had any measure of fight training sees they don't know what they're doing with this man on the ground. they don't. no disrespect for police. i have high regard for how you do the job. this is not good technique. they use the taser, because they could not control him. he gets the taser and then what you see happen here ensues. he gets away from two officers, because they don't know how to restrain him. he takes off. the officer then shoots toward brooks and hits him. okay? now. did he have the taser? yes, did he appear to reach behind his shoulder and shoot at the officer as he was running away?

yes. the officer is garrett rolfe. he's chasing a man who's running away, and shoots him twice in the back. >> yes, brooks resisted, yes, he hit a cop. and goat their taser and took off and arguably tried to use it, he was also shot multiple times while running away by police who knew who he was and where he lived. and one key point. that what he was pointing at them was not a good. because they had already searched him and knew he did not have a gun. and yet this is going to be heart break all across the board. and already is. and the question once again looms above us, what is justice. the police chief stepped down saturday, the officer who shot kbrooks may be charged any day.

the brooks family once again crushed. >> you better that are looking around the world, you have your feelings -- before it happened to us, i can only guess at what you felt. now i understand. life shouldn't be this complicated. life shouldn't be where we have to feel some type of way if we see the police or someone of a different color. we going to have to bury him. we're going to say we miss you. if we didn't say we love you enough, we have to apologize to him for not telling him that much.

>> y'all took -- i want y'all to know you took the wrong person. that wasn't the person to take, he wasn't no -- >> all we do is just watch now, right? there's nothing to say, nothing to understand, you know exactly what that family is going through now, you've seen it so many times, they don't understand, this doesn't make any sense to them, they don't break it down in some type of points for and against. and there doesn't seem to be any answer. hopefully what we're getting is a will to have an answer. a will to see it as something more than another episode and a horror story. justin miller is an attorney for rayshard brooks family. counselor, thank you for taking this opportunities to represent the family's perspective on this situation.

>> thank you for having me, chris. >> counselor, a little bit of a macro point. when you look at this situation. what is this case about for you. >> this is hard, the video you just showed, i mean, living that. it brought me to tears. and i do this for a living. but to answer your question. to me it's about his daughters and his son. it's about that 8-year-old girl who had that dress on on saturday waiting for her father to take her to the skating rink, it's about a wife who's never going to see her husband again and didn't get to tell him how she felt and different things she wanted to express to him that she'll never be able to express. it's about cousins and auntses and uncles and nieces and nephews, and a lot of people who

loved him who will never get to see him again. justice is a hard thing to really fully put your hands around on this one, really all of them, but this one right now, i don't know if we'll ever be able to say we got it. >> justice is defined as fairness under law. there is no fairness when someone is gone. the life can never be given back. what do you think is the reason this happened. you both -- you and i both know there are complications in this case. what is your analysis of why mr. brooks died? i think it's a combination of what you were talking about before it came on. yes, it does have something to do with the way mr. brooks reacted in the situation. it has a lot to do with the police officer's training. i think they're trained to be

more militarized than they need to be and they're placed in communities with people they don't know. these two officers, i don't know them, but i don't believe they hung out in that community. i don't believe their children went to school there i would wager the officers first contact with that community is when they became police officers. i could be wrong, but that's how it is. in atlanta, like other cities, there are different pockets of people, you should have to do 1 00 hours at least of community service, so you know the people you're around. >> why does it matter? >> what's the push back? the push back point is, no, they're there to enforce the law, and that's what they do, and it's not personal, this isn't about palling around, what's the counterpoint? >> well, i mean --

>> 90% of the time the interactions with police officers are not something they need to go and crack somebody's head. there are a lot of interactions with police, that end perfectly. >> they spoke for half an hour with this guy, they let him move his car. if you thought he was drunk, you probably shouldn't have let him move the car. if you're going to arrest him for being inebriated, you should have figured it out in a half hour. he wants to walk home, walk to his sisters, then they decide to arrest him. >> correct. >> now, this is going to come down to perception, what force they needed to use. he definitely resists, no question about it, rayshard brooks was wrong to resist. you're not supposed to. it's illegal unless your life were in threat at that moment. >> building that in, what was the right thing for police officers to do with a rayshard brooks resisting?

>> well, it depends on what point you're talking about. so after the scuffle. i believe the right thing to do was to try to catch him. and if you can't catch him, then you can't shoot him, because you can't catch up to him. >> let's talk about why, justin. we take this stuff for granted. this is not about him, i don't know justin, this is not about how we feel about it, it should be for him, he's representing the family. this is the standard of in the state of georgia, when around officer can use this type of force that was used, put it up on the screen, please much i know you know it. this is just for the people at home. police officers may use deadly force to apprehend a suspected felon. apprehend means what you think, capture, only when the officer reasonably believes that the suspect possesses a deadly weapon. now, here they knew he did not.

because they had already searched him. he had no gun on him. he had the taser. the police do not consider it a deadly weapon, it is intermediate force. or any object device or instrument which when used offensively against a person is likely to or actually does result in serious body injury. now, we hilted that part of it, does the taser -- now, there's a secretary analysis also, so if it's not about the weapon, if they believe that he's committed a serious crime, that involves the infliction of -- or threatened inflexion of serious physical harm, they may do that too, that is a tough legal standard that does not apply here. i don't believe they have a reasonable case to make, these officers, they let him move the car, they talked to him for a half hour. if they thought he was going to kill someone, they shun the have handled it this way from jump. the taser, beating, not even

beating them up, escaping from them. they didn't know what they were doing on the ground, two officers should be able to hold down one guy who does not seem that he's cranked up on meth or crack or anything like that. i don't see it, he runs away, points the taser at them, tries to fire it, does that trigger -- does that spring their ability to use the force they did? >> i don't think it does. if you look at the video closely, the officer dropped his taser and put his hand on his gun before mr. brooks turned around with that taser and just randomly shot it in the area. >> what does that mean to you? >> he was going to legal force. he was going to shoot him in the back before any of that stuff with mr. brooks happened. i think he's going to use that as a defense, if you look at the tape, you'll see he's already headed in that direction. >> it's important for people to do this. who shoots someone in the back.

the officer didn't know there was video, lied about the episode and then somebody else, the bystander in south carolina showed us the video. >> someone who shoots someone else in the back is an enraged human being. they're so angry that they shoot at the person even though the person no longer presents a threat. that's not a police officer. a police officer is trained to de-escalate. the officer is allowed to use force that justin and i can't use unless our life is in jeopardy, because they're given an assumption of knowing how to use the power. the chief is gone, one of the officers was fired, the other is on desk duty. the prosecutor was on with anderson and seemed to have -- frankly, i've never heard a prosecutor before any charges come down speak in as harsh tones as i heard this prosecutor. if there are charges, what charges do the family believe

are warranted. >> the family's not -- officers to be charged, that's part of what they've been saying the entire time. they're going to let the d.a.'s office make the decision. >> they're watching the situation, they just wanted to be treated in all seriousness, whatever the system says, that means they'll watch. justin miller, please send our condolences to the family. i've sorry they've become relevant in this way. god bless and thank you for doing the job. >> we'll follow it, we'll see what happens, we'll go through the analysis, it's not an easy case, it's not george floyd. why? them arguing that floyd resisted is not supported by anything we've seen. they're hiding the body camera, they can under law. but here we have video and someone is resisting, but then he is running away, and that

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get zero percent apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers. breaking news tonight, the seattle city council has voted to ban the use of choke holds by the police department. also banned, from using -- in crowd situations weapons like chemical irritants. tear gas, water cannons, the move comes as president trump says he's considering federal action to address the occupation known as the capitol hill organized protest or chop. here's trump today. >> if they don't do the job, i'll do the job. i've already spoke tonight attorney general about it. if they don't do the job, we

will do the job. >> you can hear all the legal experts in the world say, that's an empty threat, he can't do it, it has to be asked for, except for very specific conditions. let's talk to the seattle police chief. >> good evening, thank you for having me, i appreciate being here. >> i heard you speak on this several times. forget about the president. let's talk about the perception. you guys are not in control of your own city, have you people all over the place, they burned the police out of the precinct, you didn't like it. the city caved to pressure, now they're saying you'll never get it back, it will never be a police station again. how is that law and order? >> well, that's a lot of questions there, let me start by saying this. >> cherry pick it. >> i will, i'll do that. i can tell you that what's happening in seattle, there's not a no police department response zone. as people have categorized the

capitol hill occupied protest area. you know, there's a small area in a section of the city, where we're dealing with some occupants and some of the issues there, seattle is not under siege and we are responding to every call and every area of the city. when it comes to that particular area, we get a call, there's an important emergency, 911 call, we're going in, we're going to do our job, i have a list of reports we've taken already. we also have to be considering the delicate situation we have there. the last thing i want to do is to have any issue of violence occur in the area. we're being very judicial about how we do it -- judicious about how we do it and how we go in. while we're dealing with that issue, more than anything, i'm focused on the future. how are we going to reenvision the future of policing with all we have going on in the country and specifically in seattle for

me today. >> chief, let me take one more beat on this, then i want to talk to you about what needs to change. >> it's hard for people to look at this, i've spoke tonight mayor multiple times. this could be a summer of love, this isn't the first time we've seen this, we're not as panicked by it as the rest of you are. it looks bad that they kicked you out of your own police station. and you do not have control of the streets where they are, chief, just to be fair from all the reporting on the ground. these guys are negotiating with you. calling themselves a sovereign, making lists of demands and asking to be taken care of even though they're a sovereign, which i don't quite understand. how is that to be perceived by people outside of seattle as a good situation. >> i wouldn't call it a good situation. words matter here, so what we have here is a situation where people have occupied an area. and we're working with them, the city is working with them, it has negotiators to work with

them, to have a peaceful resolution, we want to make sure that people don't get hurt, and it's not a situation where there's lawlessness, we do have some concerns, but we are responding to the area, we're doing so carefully, we make sure we take care of reports that have been given, and we're following up on each of those reports and making sure people are arrested and we find any perpetrators of any crime, that has not stopped. admittedly there are barricades that prevent us from going in as quickly and efficiently as we like to, because we're not in the precinct, response times across the entire east precinct area have increased. i want our officers back in that precinct and i'm not thrilled about the situation, we recognize that we have to make sure we protect everyone's safety in this situation. >> what is the one thing. people always ask for dozens of points of change. let's start with one to get past

the status quo we're in. what is one thing you think has to change. >> well, there's a lot of things, i would say i'd start with, we have to reenvision how we're going to move forward. the seattle police department has been under a consent decree for a decade now, we have done everything we were asked to do by the federal government. when i stood at the black lives matter march the other day, it wasn't successful. people are angry, they have a lot of signs about the police department, and defunding the police department, issues of brutality, we can't ignore that, we have to acknowledge that there's a long history there, and having a federal consent decree did not resolve the issues we're dealing with. i really had an epiphany about, we're going to have to change. having one institution such as the courts that has its own history of racist practices and

oppression, trying to direct another institution, which is the police department which is struggling through our own history isn't the answer, we have got to work directly with the community, we have to bring them in, engage with them, so that we know that we're doing the right thing and the community as well. we work for the people and we let them down in some ways, very clearly by the number of demonstrations we're seeing, and the number of black men who are dying at the hands of injustice. >> it can't happen soon enough, we will continue to watch the situation. i appreciate you coming on the show. you are always invited to make the case. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i wish you the best. >> thank you. >> take care. this is happening in seattle, in the context of one case, then another case, then another case, now we have this shooting, the death of rashaysh broo brooks, okay? this is a reminder of two other high profile police killings of young black men. and yes, police officers have been getting hurt also.

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that this case is going to be a little trickier than what we saw with george floyd or even recently with ahmaud arbery? are we on agreement with that? >> yeah. >> agreed, chris. >> if we have it in the control room, can we put up the standard of use of deadly force to have it again. joey, what is the argument on the side of the police not having had the right grounds to use deadly force. put it up there again just so remind people. here's when you can use deadly force. if the person you're dealing with has a deadly weapon or any device. it could be a hubcap that if you think the way they're using that hubcap could cause serious bodily injury oar when you think that person has committed a really bad crime, which means that they could be a really a threat of serious harm to others. that part i don't think fits here, that's why we highlighted

the other part. in that context, what do you see. >> so breaking it down further, here's going to be the analysis consistent with what you showed, chris. >> number one was the officer in immediate fear of death or serious physical injury. that's the first inquiry. was the force they used proportionate to whatever threat was posed. and did they act reasonably under the circumstances? there's an argument to be made in this case, that when a person is running away, they're having a taser -- which is not a dangerous or deadly weapon, did you or was there a need to shoot and fire when they turn and proceeded to run and you're shooting toward the back. you let the person go. you live to fight another day. as it relates to a defensive position. the defense is going to argue it was a split second decision that needed to be made. the officer evaluated the circumstances. in that split second contact he fired and shot. the prosecution is going to say that you were not in immediate

fear of death. that the force you used was disproportionate. you had a weapon, and you acted unreasonably under those circumstances. those are going to be the competing >> in terms of the police perspective, what did you see in the altercation? >> well, let me go back a bit to the video that was shown from when they first made contact with mr. brooks. at one point in time when they get him out of the car, the officer asked two questions. one is, do you have a weapon? he says no. the second question was do you mind if i pat you down? he said okay. he patted him down. well at that point in time you know he's not in possession of a firearm. or a deadly weapon. now he was never out of their sight from that point on.

and so, when the second stage of this occurred which at the time they began to try to handcuff him and he struggles and fight. eventually getting one of the tazers. i believe it was the officer who didn't fire whose taser was taken. he's able to take off running. even though he turns and looks like he fires the taser, tasers aren't like a semi-automatic. where you can fire over and over again. it has to reset and all that. which most people wouldn't realize that if they're not used to using it. he didn't pose any threat in terms of serious injury or death to the officer at the time he fired the shot. >> they also had information on him. they knew who he was. they knew where he lived and his car. his driver's license. >> you could have gone and got him when ever you wanted. >> one more question.

i have been making something -- please, i have always trusted you to keep me straight. tell me if i'm looking too deeply. when i watch this, i see two officers commissioner who do not know how to deal with somebody on the ground. and to me it's got so speak not having training. i have studied this as a long time as a journalist and fighter. they don't know how to control him. he's a good size guy. i don't see evidence of super-drug strength. he was sleeping in the car. they didn't know how to deal with him. they had to go to the taser. do you see something that speaks to inadequate training? >> well, it could be. i don't know what training they provide in that department for officers. there are courses in ground fighting which is exactly what it's called which help officers learn how to actually over power an individual when you're in the

situation. it's wo against one situation. the one officer had his hand. which puts him as a disadvantage. he has one hand to use to bring the person under control. he was probably using the taser. which is a pain compliance technique. it's possible that could have been an issue there. or this guy is just stronger and overpowered them. >> last word to you. >> i think what we have to look at is what the chief said which is a very significant point. initially before the running, you patted the person down. you made the determination at that point they didn't have a weapon. so now you're shooting and based upon the taser that he has looking backwards toward you proceeding to run. you have his license. you have the car. you live to fight another day. preserve the life. don't take the shot and you avoid criminal charges more importantly preserve a life. at the end of the day that's

what we're looking today. tamp down the situation. allow a person to live. and not overly be aggressive such that you take a life who is a brother a cousin and uncle. member of the community. that's the big tragedy here. whether there are charges or not. >> commission, you believe there will be charges? >> well, against the one officer that fired the shot, there's a strong possibility he'll be charged. i doubt the second -- i didn't see anything from the second officer that would indicate anything criminal. even reviewing it for suspension i don't see anything the officer did that would necessitate that. >> thank you both. be well. >> we're watching history unfold. with remarkable speed. when it comes to this country right now. policing and race. pandemic. there's another huge poemt in america that came as a surprise today from the supreme court. why some conservative justices

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