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- [narrator]n the afternoo of oober 22n 2013, -year-ollatino ay lopez walkedd in sta rosa,alifora. an, a popur eighthrader, lived inhe moorld ar of santrosa, lower come parof townwith aarge. ootstepsattering (sombeambient sic) near, two shiff depues were on route patrol deputy mhael schmel, whhad been with e sherf's offi for oneonth, s drivin his ssenger s hitraing offic, deputyrick gelus.

his ssenger s itas a qui afterno. veral ople sawndy. theyoticed hwas a ki anthat he emed tbe caying eitr a toy n gelhs and hey lking abt a 100 feet aad. (pice dio chatr) (sen blari) [officershots fid. - [offic] shots red. - [officer] one subject down. a code three ambulance ed to block moorland. - [officer] don't move! - [officer] at about geo. (siren blaring) we'rgetting report oa possible soting inanta rose. there a police acon goingn now. ere are reports of shootin we wilcontinueo follow thisnd

(policradio chter) irens bling) we wilcontinueo follow thisnd - [nrator] wt happen? the shooter was sonoma county deputy sheriff erick gelhaus. - [male speaker] police stand f, gunpot. i n't want to be heractuly. i ed to geout of he.ice stand f, gunpot. m in theine of fe. - he pulled over to the kid walking, so the kid would walk side. d he jusopened the do and shoed.

so the kid would walk side. (somr ambienmusic) hits hiin the hrt, anhe fallsmmediate, and he'shot overand erand overgain as he's falling and as he's on the ground. - [narrator] tomozine of the fire departnt rived onhe scenewithin mute. - r initiareactionas itas a dri-by shooting. and it was very shortly after that, the heart reading was flatline. it didn't make a lot of sense to me. it just seemed like in my judgment, the deputy was quick on the trigger.

geaus anscmmel saandy walng about 0 feet aad of th. (policradio atter) - - [nrator] talert officersn the ar orland. possie danger - - schemm suddenlt offiacceleted foard,and. iren blang) ipped hisiren, d came ta stop out 50 ft from andy. the depues baile out the patl car. gelhaus yelled at andy, "drothe gun!" - you hear somebody yelling at you in clearly aggreive tone d you rn arod. d that'sxactly wt he did he had t toy g in h left nd. he tur aroun (gunre blaing)

he shot ov, and over, anover aga. - [officer] we have shots fired. - [officer] shots fired. - [officer] one subject down, code three ambulance used to block moorland. - [officer] don't move! - [officer] at about geo. we'll also need units to come behind us at west robles. - [dispatcher] one subject down. units to block moorland. i didn't copy the rest. - [narrar] underath, gelhaus demonstrated how andy turned in the last seconds bere he was shot. - it was this. in the last seconds bere he was shot. itas this.

was thi e investation of deputyelhaug was coucted byhe santa rosa . by longsnding agement, the eriff anthe poli, two localaw forcemenagencies instigate ch other after e shooti, deputyelhaus w taketo a hot ere he cferred wh hiunion reesentati and attoey for s hou beforeeing terviewed byolice. meanile, pole and atookndy's pants and brotr to t santa rosa picet r questiing. was an oicer assned the gancrimes tm. did andy have trouble at school?

anger management issues? was he overly fond of guns? detectives tried unsuccessfully to get andy's brother to implicate him in gang activity and askewhether ey shed the se father to gonlyt the enofher to implthinterrogiongang activity we they told that andy was. at the hotel, after six hours conferring with his attorney and union representative, deputy gelhaus was finally questioned. - [interviewer] erick, this is a criminal investigation. and you're being intervieweas a victim, strictly as a victim at this point. - [narrator] producers of this film, through a lawsuit, obtained the audio recording of that interview. [intervier] ak47 oa shlder moued weapo

was yourmpressio - think if a mber of the publ coulsee the ne of these interviews, with someone who's ju taken a human life just likanybody else whohot somedy the diffen how a w enforcent fir is queioned d anyo else whmight'veshot somnd how a w enforcent firis incdible. it is mply shoing how the investator les the tness and tells them ectly at they want them to say. itould go far , for instan, how the investator les the tness to he the instigators say, n't itrue thatou rely felt ared? to he the instigators say, - nterview] so you think he sd he was holding the gun in his left hand, but he started to raise it in your direction. did you perceive that to be a lethal threat? - [erick] yes. - [interviewer] d you fear for the safety of deputy schemmel as well? - [erick] yes.

- [interviewer] you firethose, i believe you say six to eight rounds. it was at that point in time when the subject fell and it w at thatoint in me . anjust for clarification pur, i've known you. there's no close relationship between you or i i cathink ofno. - [eri] h [intervier] ye, none at i canhink of well. - [narrator] hank shreeder was chief of police at the time of the lopez investigation. - the perception of whether or not the officers and detectives at santa rosa police department can do fair an objeive rert en it cos to a criticalnciden likendy lopeor anyther.

en it cos to a and i ways askhe questn, it com down towhy don' you ust thate can? (somber orchestr music (cck ticki) - [annncer] its a rtain si of tragy, e memorialo 13-year-old andyopez gaining ze bthe hour i a subuan santaosa fiel - this boy was not a criminal. he is t a crimal. he was aoy with toy. initiay, the sject's back wasoward thdeputies. when the deputy shouted the subct, heegan to rn toward hisight inhe direcon of thdeputy and so doin he movedhe gunoward thty diction ofhe deput and so doin and the dety's minet was he movedhe gunoward thty diction ofhe deput thate wafearful at heas goingo be sho - [ptestors]e want justice,e want jtice! and the dety's minet was (proteors channg)

[narrato the rgest denstratio ever seein sona coty start immedialy ancontinuefor mohs. ever seein sona coty start immedialy - rotestor justiceor andy, juice for dy! - [narrar] tn took three months to complete. one central question was, did it look like andy was carrying toy gun or a real gun? here are witness account (contemplative ambientusic) thremonthsfter dy was kled, nished i inveigation port. the charge?

brandishing a firearm replica. the offender? andy lopez. the victims? michael schemmel and erick gelhaus. police did not release the report to the public. the santa rosa police department forwarded the report to district attorney jill ravitch. her job s to revw the rert fopossibleriminal arges the murd of andyopez! - jailrick ger (prostors chting) hid erick lhaus in990. in 25, he wacalled upy the national guard

and served in iraq where he saw combat before returning to duty as a deputy sheriff. reporters found that in the years prior to andy's shooting, while a deputy sheriff, gelhaus wrote gun-related articles and posted messages on law enforcement forums. today is the day you may need to kill someone in order to go home. if you find yourself in an ambush, in the kill zone, you need to turn on the mean gene. law enforcement is a contact sport. driver jeff westbrook describes what happened after deputy gelhaus pulled his car over.

- he started screaming, the gun came out, and was tur yourehicle o, - [narrar] theffense - faile to useurn sign and unfe lane ange. anthat's wn i said why r a routine traffic op fosuch a sple tick? i deliberated with my wife. she said, you have to report this. my wife kept saying, he's gonna kill somebody, he's gonna kill somebody. i didn't do enough. i done something more, that kid would've been alive. - ay. so, why don't we get started? - [narrator] after five months of review, distri attornejill ravitch lled press cference to annncn

in the soting of andy loz. here, the imementati of lhal forc idence tt we havreviewedordg toe will be led agait hiat this me. [narrato in a la ditch fort to ek justi, andy family ed sonomcounty [nand puty gelus forch the deatof theiron. gelhaus d sonomaounty respondewith a mion arguing at the ooting w justifi.

e districtourt jud disagrd and deed the mion, allowing the case to proceed. gelhaus and the county appealed. (gavel banging) - all rise. - [narrator] in a rare move, the appeals court judges allowed the hearing to be filmed. - [female speaker] united states court of appeals for the nth circt isow in seion. - ease be ated. the dirictourt ccluded th there w no that tofficer ghaus. it's undputed th, ll call hiandy, was not committing any crime or attempting to evade arrest. so under theircumsnces, it's undputed th, ll call hiandy, wee on left wi one ctor to nsider, whicis wheth andy posed, a in quot, mediate reat to e safety of t r the no linse fopolice tkill teagers wi three sonds

whven thatfficer ss fopolice tkill that t gun wasnot poinng ati teagers wi three sonds wi this rung four years ter g the blic cou at lastee at the pice rsion ofhe shootin had en misleing all ong. unterred, lhaus and the unty the courrefused to heathe ce allowinghe lopezamily's lawsuit. fang a pubc tria that wld real tails ofhe shootg lhaus anthe coun settled e case f thremillion llars. alough theopez se was or, alletions ofolice brality ntinued sonoma unty alough theopez where people ha died dung or aernteractis wi law enfcement

sincandy lop was sh and kild. victimsf excesse force sonoma unty. - on decembe 14th. - [narrator] aa direct resuly ter thshooting of andlopez, thsonoma cnty boarof pervisorestablisd iolero the dependenoffice ofaw enforment reew and oreach. to cduct oveight of the shif. itmission? jerry reet was named director. - we we lookinat some ings that iolve thesheriff'operao - we we lookinat some ings and thprimary e was w they cdu eir investigatns of mplaintsgainst duties. i had given tice the sheri th we'd be comin ouwith a rort. and the action w quite rongrom the eriff's fice at thashould not be happening,

at we ouldn'tput out at repr - [nartor] the sherifs offics with nauthorit d recommded closing e office in august of 2020, the ma countboard of supervorsy put ainitiati on t novembeballot to snificant strengen oversht of the sriff's oice. almostmmediate. - i thinwhat has broughus to it [narrato sixays late in this line boa supervirs meeti, shiff essi threated sue theounty d the coty boarof supersors tolock the oversit initiave. essick ruested $50,000 to hire tside laers r that lsuit. - feels like yove declad war, i'll bfrank, sriff esck, onhis boar and wh we did we proved aallot meure

in tse times and iteea thathat woulbe welcod. proved aallot meure as to y that'sot welcod. - [nartor] whi the pubc sought greater oversight and refo of the sheriff's office, actionby sheriff deputies and correctional deputies ntinued show clear evidence of excessive force. e longstding jaipractice was kn. in 2016, well-spected forens pt wrote a reporfor a lauit e next 2seconds fooge ll be hard for my to wat. (man scrming)

- [me speake fuck! i didn do anytng, i ear! we call bevi cnseling. whenheir behior is ereme. we call bevi cnseling. anwhat we is weemove them frothe envinment where thbad havior'sappening that their cl or throom there in, ay from e otheinmate and ta to themlone pritely abouour expeations of the beo , ow! - [narrator] and there's this case from 2014, the year after andy was shot. [announc] it's hard twatch, maybeven harr to lisn. (m screami) a man fa down onhe grnd as a ser goesff.

inhis 29 mute vide at t sonoma unty jai eriff's putiesased a wroth out 20 tes - sa] somedy, help y depues punch him ov a den times kied and ked him a couple omore tim. ey took m to t er after helacked o. - arrator] the followineight sends wille diffict for ny viewe to watc - get th arm, i' gointo that de. get ur hand tffict for wheri can seit. watc (man ganing) aser cliing) - [offic] we ne medicalman. get medical. - some police are gonna step over the line d we knothat's gna happe and wh they s, we neeto be ab to qntify it. we need know ho ofteit happens.

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