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natacha: i am natacha pannell. my 16 year old brother was slained 30 years ago in teaneck, new jersey,
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and i'm gonna address theunited states of america. gary: there's no doubt that night. it was a textbook procedure. i had no choice. i was forced to take a life. i was a white cop whoshot a black 16-year-old. (protestors chanting) natacha: i would like toaddress all law enforcement across the country and around the world. honor the oath. (dramatic music) gary: the other officerskept repeating: "he did the right thing.he had no choice." it was a good shoot. reporter: the death ofphillip pannell brought rage the streets of normallypeaceful teaneck, new jersey. m2: this was middle-classmodel city, american. alison: we live in teaneck.this doesn't happen in teaneck. w2: it wasn't the utopia ithought it was for many people.
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(dramatic music) thelma: we enduredthis pain for 30 years, now we're back here again. crowd: yeah, (music) natacha: on my honor,i will never betray my integrity forthe public trust. m3: the fact of the matter isphillip pannell was executed. m4: i don't care how manygrand juries he embattled. the truth is the truth.is it true? cop: it's time we speak.it's time we let those in power know that we're notgoing to take it anymore. (music) natacha: i will alwaysmaintain the highest ethical standards and uphold the valuesof my community. gary: my shootingwill never go away. it's with me everyday of my life. (protestors chanting: hehad a gun, he had a gun.) (upbeat music)
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(music) william: i remember mychildhood in teaneck so fondly. my father wasa bus driver. my parents wanted a partof the american dream, so they moved toteaneck in 1965. it was known for being agreat place to raise a family and a very diverse environment. (music)
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jackie kates: when my familyfirst moved to teaneck, its reputationwas sterling. i just felt that myparents had moved to a paradise. paul ostrow: mywife, and i are still here because of several reasons. location,location, location. w4: teaneck is amiddle-class suburb just eight miles frommidtown manhattan described as a modelmelting pot where racial and ethnicdiversity works. m4: dotted with tudor homes, teaneck is a model town, and to know what thiscommunity is about, you have to understandits history. (music) mike kelly: teaneckwas really a part of the birth ofthe american dream. after world war 2,the united states government was tryingto present itself as a model of democracyto the rest of the world.
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the united stateswas looking for model communitieshere, in america that they couldpresent as models of democracy to therest of the world. so they came to teaneck. (music) reporter: this is teaneck,our hometown. these pictures have been shownthroughout the world to demonstrate,to people everywhere, a fine example of americandemocracy in action, (music) gervonn: my grandfather ownedhis own business, in jersey city, and i previouslyhave been in new york, butwanted something more suburban,and teaneck, even in the late50s was a safe place where blackfamilies could buy homes. walter fields: the factthat this became a place where black middle class couldcome and live, that was a big deal because we sawa version of blackness that we didn't necessarilyknow existed at the time. reporter: teaneck gainednational prominence in the 60s
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as the first town to integrateits schools voluntarily. jackie kates: it made thenews because the only other integrated schools wereintegrated by court order. barbara toffler: othercommunities used us as a model. when kamala, harris talked about the integration in berkeley. berkeley was modeled on teaneck. by the 1970s, teaneckdecided to market itself as a racial utopia. w5: we want to gointo an area where our children play withall types of children. m6: the diversity ofpeople is incredible. m7: i moved to teaneckbecause there was a black white mix because therewas an integrated community. gervonn: we grewup, not realizing that we were partof this experiment, we were the guinea pigs, r: it's a belief expressedagain and again in teaneck,
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the conviction that children who play and learn with others of different races and nationalities will grow up intotolerant adults. r 3: teaneck, new jersey, a nice place to visit anda great place to live. thelma: we was lookingat different houses in different towns. but this particular house,we fell in love with. natacha: it was amazing. it was so amazing. we had a fairytalechildhood. thelma: teaneck was my serenity, a place that i wanted tobe, and a place that when i cameout of my door, we, people spoke. we always spoketo each other. we always said good morning. natacha: this, this roomright here, was my parents room.
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the bottom window, all the way to your farleft was my bedroom and if you look up stairs,it was my brother's room. we lived here for about maybeeight to ten years, i think. thelma: when we got this house, i thought that i was in heaven. i just said lord i always wanted something for my children, notto grow up the way i came up. i mean it- we wasa happy family. my son, his name wasphillip clinton pannell. but most of thepeople that knew him, they called himphil, a little phil. now, the family is the only one really that called him clint. natacha: my brother wasfour years older than me. i looked up to myolder brother in ways that i knew that hewas my protector. i always wantedto do what he did, you know and whathis friends did,
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i would come over, like,every saturday morning. it was like,i think we watched college football and play video games, natacha would be there. every saturday morning iwould sit there with them. phil's house wasdefinitely the place to go, playing in his backyard and, you know, just everything.and then natacha there, a little sister,would bother us. shawn: we lookedup to phil. i did because he was older, handsome, you know,the girls kinda liked him, you know, and he wasalways smiling, always, you know,always in the good spirits. thelma: he was mostlyan outside kid. he wanted to get withhis friends or they used to come in front ofhis house all the time. those bicycles was lining up. steven: we just had thefreedom to go anywhere inteaneck. like, we play baseballlike in the schoolyard played football and, and the church, and in the churchgrass. batron: um,there's a trail right across the street righton forest avenue, we used to ride our bikes. used to be dirt,dirt bike trails, so we, sort
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of, go there ride ourbikes, jump, and... yeah, we had,we had a lot of fun, you know,we used to think we was superheroes, like,we would live forever. (music) (unclear police dispatch voice) it's tuesday night, it was raining.it was getting dark. i had a plectron systemwhich is a little pager system fromthe ambulance corps. and i heard a lot ofchatter on the radio. they talked about callingin the prosecutor's office. so i got on the phone and icalled the police headquarters and i spoke to the dispatcherand they said what happened. i got a call from aliquor store owner in teaneck who wasa friend of mine and he just called me up,kind of screaming.
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ic) natacha: i remember that morning and usually everymorning, my mom and i, like, she would getdressed to get ready to go towork. i would get dressed andget ready to go to school, because she had todrop me off early. usually, every morning i would go in his room and i wouldlike mess with him.
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tap his foot, or like,you know, hit him on the head orsomething like that, just to let him know like, i wasleaving and i'll see you later. but that morningthat we were rushing, i didn't go all theway into his bedroom. i just yelled in the room. i was like, "clint,me and mommy are leaving and i'll see you later. (music) and he was like, all rightnatacha, see you later. (music) steven: i went toschool in bergen, i got to school earlybecause they didn't want methere, so they put all mystudy hall at the end of the day and justtold me to go home. when i'm finishedwith my last class. i think i met upwith les and phil. i think we was aboutgarden street and our journey startedgoing to tryon park. (music) shawn: thatafternoon we were all together at tryonpark after school.
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it was about 15, 20 kids. bernie: i was in middleschool at that time. in most of the kids. i was thinking,we're in high school. i had my dog and, youknow, we were just doing what the kids do. some kidswere playing basketball. some kids werewrestling in the grass and we were justhaving a good time. shawn: we ended up movingfrom one location to the next. and in order to do that, we had cut throughbryant school park. so, we were walkingup the street. you can go through a gateinto the lot of bryant school. so, i was in the firstgroup of kids and phil was in the group ofkids that were behind us. steven: it seemed like assoon as we crossed over that, that plain to getinto bryant school police came,
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(sirens) like, walked off theedge of the grass, they just- they cameup through, and it was just coming. for us, when the policewould come, we would run. it's just what we did. but something in mesaid, "don't run today." they came out of the car, they opened the doors andthey came out with their guns, over the doors andthey were telling get on the wall, get onthe wall, get on the wall. and he was like, yeah,everybody get against the wall, you know? i mean, i'mlike, hold on a minute, like, like, what's going on? why you got your guns out? i'm here at the end of the wall, phil's probablymaybe about 10 feet from meand in the middle, probably in themiddle of the crowd. and when i looked at him, i already knewwhat was going on. at that point,he took off running. (music) police started running assoon as he start running. shawn: once oneperson started running, everybody started running.
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i ran in a differentdirection than phil. bernie: we took thatopportunity to go the other way. shawn: it was a reaction. i think it was a mixtureof adrenaline, panic and you know, not knowwhat's, not knowing what was happeningbecause they kind of rolled up on ussuddenly with the guns. bernie: we're thinking phil ran, he got away and we'll see him soon and we'lllaugh and joke about it. (music) we walked back upto teaneck road. i remember theambulance coming on to teaneck road andhad its sirens on. coming down towardsour intervale. then it stopped and then i don't remember who, but someone said theyshot phil, i, um,
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i didn't believe it. ididn't think it was, it wasreal. i didn't think it was somethingthat could happen to one of us. steven: the next thing,i remember somebody else were having meand telling me, look, we need to go tell his mother. we need to contact his mother. i was like, i don't know howto get in contact with her. i said,but i know where they live at. you can take me to their house. (music) worst ride ever. (music) natacha: when mom and i gothome that evening, my mother was, like, you know,clint's not home yet? and i was like no, ma,he's probably on his way. less than an hour ortwo after we got home,
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we heard like all these,like a herd of footsteps, just running up the stepsand then i was all happy. so i'm thinking like,okay, that's clint. you know, maybe he brought hisfriends with him or whatever. thelma: and thenthe doorbell ring. these four boys,his friends came to the door. steven: so i getto the house and, natacha loves me.when i get there. biggest smile. i'll get it,biggest smile was on her face. (sobbing) she can see my face. like i said, she can see my face. i never forget that smile.being wiped off her face, right then.and there, she right... she turned around,she said, mama and she ran to goget her mother. (music) thelma: they said, mrs.pannell, mrs. pannell, phil got shot.phil got shot. i said is hedead? he dead? they said they'dtaken him to the
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hospital. that's all they knew. (music) we got maybe two blocks. it was pouring down rainand i couldn't see the rain. i couldn't see the road.i could see nothing. my head, i couldn't,my head was going crazy. (music) natacha: as we weredriving up to the er we saw all these police cars and sirens with theirlights still on. and then when we got outthe car when walking in, it was like a trail of policeofficers just standing there. as we were walking into thisroom, the doctors like okay, we're going to take you intothe room first miss pannell thelma: and he saidmiss pannell, sit down and take iteasy, take, i said, all right and theysaid no, he's gone. (gasping) (music)
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(sobbing) natacha: i heardwhat the doctor said, but then i didn't believewhat the doctor said. when we saw him lyingthere, and again, i was 13. so i'm thinking likehe was going to get up, like, he was asleep. so, i'm like,shaking his body and trying to push himup and get him up. so then that's when the,the first nurse said no, you can't do that. i went to my brother's head. and i saw grass in his hair. so i started picking thegrass out of his hair. the nurse, she was followingme around his body. she slapped my hand. she was like, i toldyou, you can't do that. and i said,what are you talking about? i can't do.i can't touch my brother. she said, no.and i was like, why? and she was likebecause it's evidence. thelma: and all these copsstill standing in front of the the, the room that we werestanding to see the body. they all these police officers, so many of them, so many of them.
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and then i said,why are all of you here? why are you here? what's going on? what did you all do wrong? what did you dowrong to my child? nobody wanted to say nothing. they just had theirhead hanging down just shaking theirhead, as i went by. natacha: in that moment,my life actually changed. you know, i said, well,look he's not here anymore and i'm gonna find out why.i don't care how long it takes me to get down to thebottom of why this happened and to make it right. steven: it's one of theworst days of my life. i lost my friend. and he was a true friend. a true friend. bernie: i almost,it's like surreal, i don't, i don't think i believed ituntil i saw it on the news. this is news 4 new york. anchor: good evening,emotions are running high in the
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normally quiet suburban townof teaneck, new jersey tonight. after a teenager is shotto death by the police. (music) franklin: on thenight of the shooting, the story spreadlike wildfire as news of theshooting spread through the neighborhood,an angry crowd of teenagerscircled officers collecting evidenceat the crime scene, man: they killed that boy incold blood, don't make no sense. shawn: to hear the news,and then to get there and see that there is anactual crime scene now. (music) it was shocking. it was a long night that night. (music) i'd like to thank our sponsor liberty mutual. they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.
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we was coming from thepark and then these two cops rolled upwith their guns, already out of theirhostler and was, like,everybody get against the wall, reporter: one of thekids, phillip pannell ran, the two cops chasedhim across the street. when pannell allegedlyjumped these bushes. why did phil run? he- he wasscared, obvious. jennifer: two cops arebehind him. they had their pistols out.they didn't say halt, or nothing. they just was running and theguy went to jump over the fence and they shot himin his left leg. he was begging, "don't shoot,don't shoot." the young man who was shotwas begging? yes, "don't shoot."he was already shot, already. reporter: did he have hishands up? like, you just... witness: he had his hands upand they said, he said he was, he had his back to themand they shot him in his back. reporter: the victimwas begging for his life and the policeofficer shot him anyway? yes, yes.yes. jennifer: and that'swhen the second cop shot him in the back andhe fell to the ground. bernie: the storywas coming at you, kind of like what athrough a firehose.
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that's kind of wheni started to have those thoughts starting toflow, you know. why would they shoot him? he was running. did he get shotbecause he was black? anchor: the teaneck police saythey got a tip that somebody was packing a gun outside, anelementary school this evening, they went to thescene where witnesses claim they confrontedthe young victim, those witnesses say the teen was unarmed,and had his hands in the air and a gesture of surrenderat the time of the shooting. john holl: i was theacting bergen county,prosecutor. and i knew at that momentthat our office would be taking overthe investigation. a police departmentshouldn't be investigating itself for a shootingby their own officers. especially one thatresults in death. reporter: a lot areconcerned tonight that the boy made any gestures orthreatening gestures to police. the department chief iscalling the action warranted. bryan burke: the officermade several attempts to, to stop him, calling himto stop and so forth.
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telling him thatif you didn't stop, he was gonna shoot. and ultimately twoshots were fired. john holl: bryan burke was thechief of police at the time and he had said some things that i wasn't too keen on. bryan burke: i might addthat he, before being taken, the revolverwas retrieved from him. he did have a saturday nightspecial on him, fully loaded. john: i kind of cringe that,that we would be giving out that kind of information withinan hour or two of the shooting. wild stories werestarting to float around. alison: thatphillip pannell shot at the policebefore he was shot. john holl: phillippannell had gotten on his knees andbegged for his life. alison: whether or not the storywas entirely true, i don't know, but it seemed plausible that there was a policeofficer who had chased a young black male and shot him. (music)
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william broughton: icontacted the policeheadquarters to to see what's going on. as soon as ispoke to them, they were kindof under siege, you know,people were at the front door, (music) john holl: i got acall from dennis calo, who was the firstassistant prosecutor in my office and he saidboss, you better get up here, we have a situation. reporter: and angeryfriends of phillip pannell, in front of police calling theshooting cold-blooded murder. a brick hurled fromthe crowd crashed through a police car window. officers retreatedbehind the police tape and two units were removed. reporter2: phillip'ssister natacha came here to the scene inshock and disbelief it was almost beyondher comprehension. natacha: it wasa bad dream. i was thinking itwas a bad dream. people were milling around the police station because there was really a, a lack
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of- of information. people wanted to know exactly, you know, what was going on? and i don't thinkthey were getting it. paul ostrow: we can't lookaway from the fact that people were upset and angry and that might have been festering. mike kelly: this wasa town that built itself as a modelamerican community. and yet underneathall of that, you had a segmentof the town that felt angry. walter fields: we never wantto talk about the ugliness, that is rightbelow the surface. reporter: as angryresidents, i hear, say the shootingis another example of rising tensions betweenblack youth in teaneck and the police. all it will takeis one incident and it's like opening pandora's box, reporter: some peoplejeered a police officer as he droveaway in his car. alison: people were outraged, we live in teaneck.
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(music) paul: the next day, therewas an eerie calm in teaneck. it was a sunny day. i remember the rain hadstopped it rained overnight. there was talkof a candlelight vigil in memory ofphillip pannell. batron johnson: i alwayswant phillip that i love him. and everybodyhere loves him. and i just don'tbelieve he's gone, he's my best friend. the night afterphil got killed i didn't sleep for days. didn't sleep for days. jackie: i jogged to thehigh school and they were already vans fromnbc and other places
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and i rememberfeeling rage, i get out of my town, you know, don't makethis more than it is. i did i knew it was bad but iit was just so shocking to me reporter3: the mood atteaneck high school where young pannell was astudent for a while was tense. the flag flewat half-mast. reporter4: administrators werereluctant to let us interview teenagers who were visiblyupset by the shooting. teenager: i mean,we all know the story. they just shothim for no reason. teenager2: that the whole schoolis like in a state of shock. no, teenager3: they don'tbelieve what happened. they can't believe it'steaneck, new jersey. reporter: the teaneck'simages, one of racial harmony a different side of thatpicture is now emerging. jonnine: this was coming. jonnine: we didn't,we didn't know how it was comingbut racial tension was gonna come becausethere was too much rage and everybodythat's been going on for years and they never-nobody tried to address it. and nobody tried toget it out in the open. it was always kept in. the group blockedcars from leaving an exit from thepolice parking lot.
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including one drivenby a sympathizer who wanted to get through. the group's grief soon,gave way to anger. (angry crowd yelling) jackie: how could thishappen in teaneck? it was soearth-shattering, we had been themodel community and i think that i learned that some of that reputation was was a myth. in fact,the 1949 the us government named teaneck,a model american town. it was overwhelminglywhite christians then. alison: i find it interestingthat there were no african- americans in teaneck whenit became a model community. so, you tell mehow model that is. my family came toteaneck in 1955, we were the secondafrican-american family. on our side, which isconsidered the northeastdistrict 14.
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it was redliningwhich means that there were realestate agents that would not allow black people to move to certainparts of the town. jackie: i do remember, my fatherin particular driving me around the northeastsection of teaneck, in 1957 showing me how the homes were similar to thehome that we lived in, but they lived in acertain section of town, and i think thatwas okay with him. he was proud that it was consideredan integrated community. the fair housing peoplerecognized that it was likely to be easier tointegrate the schools than it was tointegrate housing. where children went toschool, could be manipulated. harder to manipulate wherepeople buy and sell houses. r: in 64 teaneck becamethe first predominantly white
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community in thenation to voluntarily integrate its schools. (jazz music) my father was vicepresident of the board ofeducation. he made the motionat the meeting to institute busing,to integrate the schools, um, i'm proud of that. i like that, (jazz music) but my parents hadbricks and rocks thrown through their frontwindows, death threats. senator loretta weinberg:there was vehement opposition from thosethat wanted to preserve our so-calledneighborhood schools. the referendum on integratingthe schools was a squeaker, not an overwhelming majority. the night thatthat motion passed, there was a white riot. there was a huge crowdthat rushed the stage.
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the police were there, they took the boardmembers out of back door. there was a great deal of anger. the goal was the integration. and the goal was achieved. i don't think anybody thought beyond getting theschool's integrated. reporter: theissue is forever on the periphery ofracial disharmony never left teaneck any more than they've left anyamerican community. now, the shooting deathby a police officer of the 15 year oldphillip pannell, will further teststeaneck's reputation as a forward-thinkingaccommodating community one cop claimed tous this morning. that this is the first time inteaneck's history that a cop has fired his gunin the line of duty. we don't know that that's true. only that theconsequences of that act have questionedteaneck's image, as the town that madeit work for everyone. (music)
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it could be their son too, it could be theirson that got killed. franklin wilks: there isan underlying feeling amongst the african-americancommunity that when there is a shooting of a african-american male, young male,by a white officer that the system doesnot meet out justice. franklin wilks: wewere cognizant of the fact that this situation could get very much out of hand. and we were concernedto make sure that there would be aproper investigation. i pointed theseconsiderations out to the prosecutor in our meeting this afternoon that it was aninsult to the black community, that this officerwas not suspended. john: the black leaders came to me and said that they wanted a special prosecutor. and i said tothem, i said, i'm about as close asyou're going to get to it, a special prosecutor. cause i'm an outsiderwith the attorney general.
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give me a shot at this. julian phillips: the mood here at the bergen county courthouse is very tenseat this time, the press conferenceis currently being held right now byacting prosecutor. john g holl. john holl: i offeredto have a press conference with theblack leaders to let them say whatever they wanted. and so i walkedin these men were right behind me andthe sheriff's officer, unbeknownst to me, stop them and refusedto let them in. and that, of course, souredrelationships tremendously. first of all, before i getinto the facts of this case, i would make an appeal to to all members of the community. both black and white, please exerciserestraint and patience, there is a lot ofconfusion in this case, there are more questionsthan there are answers. mike kelly: we didn'tknow some of the basic facts of the case andthe chief fact being
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why did this policeofficer feel it necessary to fire his gunand kill this boy? john holl: there's a lot ofquestions that are unclear and i don't want to prejudgethat at this point. we were told by by witnesses, that phillip had hishands raised in surrender, when he was shot. was that true or not true? we weren't getting anyconfirmation from law enforcement aboutthis one way or another. john holl: we havereceived information to thateffect but all of this will bepresented to the grand jury. police were saying that philliphad a gun in his possession. we haven't seen that gun. john holl: no, we do not. no, we do not. we do know that mr. pannellwas shot, only a single time,
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was not shot in the leg, it has been reported. the second fact, i thinki can report is that the second officer didnot fire his gun. it was only a single officer, who fired his gun, a patrol, officer, gary spath. (music) loretta weinberg: i doremember bumping into awell-known member of the teaneckpolice department, who was an african american. and i remember heis saying to me, "i can't believe that garyspath was involved in this." gary spath is an eight yearveteran of the teaneck police department and has received five commendations forhis police work. william broughton: garyspath was, was very well-liked. you know, within the department. i liked gary. i thought hewas a great guy. i thought he was, you know, funny guy. paul tiernan: itwas just the type of guy that wouldlight up a room. you know,joking and kidding around.
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william: gary spath becamea police officer before me, you know. and he would keepme informed of, you know, when i might get hired or when i mightget interviewed or something like that.so he was very helpful to me. luis torres: we becamefriends once in a while he wouldsay. "yeah, come on over."and i would go visit him and i feltcomfortable around him, he wasn't prejudiced. william broughton:he was a good guy to work with reallya decent person who came from a policefamily that that that name, the spathname, was well-known and well-respected in teaneck. julian phillips: now,at this time, black leaders are urging for calm andlater on this evening, there will be a candlelight vigil at police headquarters. after thecandlelight vigil, there will be a meetingat the city council headquarters here inteaneck, new jersey. ah, the,we do not want to heighten their attentionsout there tonight. i, what we are concernedabout is maintaining order, peace and cooperatingwith you a community,
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idajean fischer: theminute it went on the 5:00 news that there wasgoing to be this vigil, people,all over the tri-state area must have saidthere is an event. "we're going to go andthere's been this big injustice, we're gonna findout what's gonna happen and they jumped in theircars and they drove to teaneck. alison: as i rememberthe vigil was somber and anger. (music) when it comes to getting your flu shot, cvs is pretty...flex. wanna schedule one online while prepping dinner? gravy. avoid the wait by scheduling for you... ...or the whole crew. or, if you prefer to just pop in? do you. and if you wanna even tack on a covid-19 booster to your flu shot, feel free! and speaking of free? our flu shots are...well...free. really? yes, really. healthier is getting a flu shot on your schedule. cvs. healthier happens together.
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ting) applebee's all you can eat boneless wings. tonight, hundreds of demonstrators gathered, at a church near the scene of the shooting in teaneck, where young phillippannell was gunned down by a police officeryesterday evening. philip pannell: the police waswrong and we're marching down
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to light candles for myson because it was injusticedone. they killed myson for no reason. the rally began peacefully at aneighborhood's baptist church, two thousand peoplemarched to police headquarters for a candlelight vigil in memory ofphillip pannell. we marched upthe street to where the policestation for teaneck and thecity hall was. natacha: i remember itwas a peaceful vigil and my father and iwere together and it was like,you know, diverse crowd. therewasn't just like black folks. so it's very importantthat people see that this communityis one in which people work together and don'tlet this kind of thing happen. and everybody justkind of wanted to kind of come together and findout, what, why did this happen. steven: a lot ofpeople out there.
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a lot of people out there. (protestors chanting) i came down to lighta candle for my son. there's no violencehere, it's not violent, and that's what'sgoing to be done. a non-violent, please, please. reporter: their friendpaul called an emergency city councilmeeting which was attended by a few concerned citizens. paul: i went to thecouncil meeting. i was going to go as ialways did it as an observer. i felt something was different.
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i was with the police chief. and we were insidethe council chambers of teaneck and things started to get raucous outside. (protestors chanting"justice now, justice now.) for some reason ididn't feel right. i started to walkaway and as i walked away i heard a lot ofshouting and screaming. (crowd shouting) steven: people were leaving, and all of a sudden policecame out with shields. natacha: and i waslike telling them, we have a permit to march downthe street to where phillip was killed and the policewouldn't let us go. walter fields:police from almost every community in bergen county arrived in riot gear, and when i saw that, i knew that there was goingto be a problem because the kids as expected, we're very emotional, many of phil'sfriends were there.
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out of the clear blue we see police officers fromridgefield park, englewood, and other jurisdictions, apparently without any command. and i believe thisexasperated situation. (crowd yelling) steven: theirpresence wasn't right? like you have to be standing out there looking outthere, whatever. that's the lastthing i want to see. natacha: was like a trail ofpolice officers, and the ones that were closer to thecrowd had full, like, riot gear. and they were juststanding there, like so angry. steven: i rememberthis older guy saying to me,his name was patrick. and we were standingat the window and they were havinga meeting inside. loretta weinberg: i saw acouple of members of the council hiding behindthe windows in the municipal building,kind of looking out, which i always foundvery upsetting.
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this is the leadership, stop hiding in a civilbuilding and come out, talk to the restof the community steven: he was like look at him!they're laughing at you. i just remember, next thing i know ipicked up a brick and threw it straight,through a window. (music) we tore up everythingin our path. i wanted that police stationto be burnt down, you know. i mean you justkilled my friend. some residents todaywere skeptical. the marches organizer brooklynminister, al sharpton. al sharpton: if youdon't arrest and charge with murder,this police...
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when al sharpton referredto spath as a murderer that immediately helped to reallydraw some significant lines. no one would have thoughtthat this incident would have been the causefor the town to unravel. >> tonight as the former guy back ranting about law enforcement the feds are once again allowed to comb through the classified documents recovered from our largo as the deadline looms for team trump to backup his wild claims. then the disturbing shift, conspiracy theories

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