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everyone's story different wants half is different you don't know what's actually going to hit you. and i was pretty comfortable in my life before this happened. certainly dobbs ferry. got me into this. you know i was a middle child and contrary he was the day. this is some day he was doing to just you know make sure he can money in his pocket. it was like we had to look out for we can but nothing happened to to the bait. i just hope that people can understand that it was a person who didn't deserve to die who didn't deserve to be shot fourteen times.
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already it. led to read opar. he car me and i was like oh so about a tree where u.s. marines i'm at the park he sounded really eddie you know not really our ordinary you know. what he looked like to me that day was just stupid during the end of the semester and which is hanging out the park taking a break a waltz right across the street here came up this way and i'm sure was laying right here like a little better old in a backpack his head was here and this fear of going west the person i was working with that day called the police because they were concerned about him being so close to business. the first officers. approached him they sat him up they talked
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and then they laughed my co-worker's time at how they were going to call again and i said you know if he was doing something illegal they wouldn't have just walked away and left him there. a second call was made anyhow. and the officers actually came back up to us and they said hand there's nothing to enforce he's not written the law please stop calling. and honestly i even forgot to tell later when the third officer showed up. and well we were tell when the call a day's facts it went to the cabs. and the message of the cops. truck. parked this officer called the news just there something on the board already here all. just sort
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of forty six nothing and his friends told him that it was clear over a room park are and if you could create a trouble with. this officer of them when you told them to get up off the ground and the officer began to pet him down. i heard them cracks on the sounds of kind of fighting into me grown man like wrestling essentially the officer apparently backed up and threw his top tier individual twisted away from the officer pulling the toys out of his crib. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then what happened on three swung at the officers hands didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two and the kind with back to where they were so the officers back here their fight again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and aimed it on three.
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i knew was going to happen so i turned away. after i counted dromore shines. very very hard hard hard hard on her mom. me neither of my very. own my own way i mean i'm wired and our guardian or want to help right now i'm. not a hundred. million nor do i want to be. right only when i was. gone i mean. that day i didn't see the new subject the good the year with the wouldn't be taught
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striking him in the head the officer with the police detectives came to my house put me on a cart end of the about all my son. you know in the course of my mobile in his car from like thirty to forty five minutes i was puzzled like what. was the problem and i told him. this. trade to our. world. because of his illness he has been able to keep. the doll so they were sitting next to me now and i asked what was going on. well that was our. part. and i was in a scuffle with a police officer in the tray is the safest.
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you tell me my brother did just not tell him this this and his words were we thought he would have seen it on t.v. . good afternoon the deceit is a thirty one year old male by the name of don tre hamilton now in the course of our investigation into his background we have learned that this is not his first experience with the walky police department as recently as last year broken moves on thursday afternoon chiefs lives first words were i don't want to demonize this man. but he was. homeless a robber and all these type of things that he was one other events he's been arrested for armed robbery for disorderly conduct he was diagnosed with
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schizophrenia and until recently according to his grieving family they've been acting strangely and they stick to this mental health issue because when you hear mental health you think crazy so if they can put in people's mind said that this was a crazy person who attacked the officer then they feel that they have leverage within the community we have violently mentally ill people whose violence is a direct result of their untreated mental illness. they are on the streets of our cities because there's no place else for them to go and their families cannot control them. we have extended. warranty and they take so long and tell us what happened and. they said the name i mean. this is a is a wallet. and this writer see.
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yes. they have closed in this case to with. the. crew. chief flynn said that we need to do a better job into this that is something that is very true. but the train have the mental illness to not kill him that officer murdered my brother. because they didn't know one way or another if you had a mental illness until my mom was questioned in the car for forty five minutes. rear when i met her i believe damien was two years old. and that.
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they may grow up to be the overseer of his brothers jr he always was there. before one or you know. trey was more quiet. he had to get to know. and you didn't see any of us take this coming and i pray as he was brought up as. me with a different turn it is six where his decision on alcohol whether he's going to charge offs or not and they are just been trying. to step in their way. so today they're not going to order me what i know. that they're not going to be
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released. i use them on the run around. it is hard to put into words the turmoil in the streets right now they are just having a tremendous time dealing with the fact that there hasn't been a resolution charging decision as we had believed that it was going to be the day for that. they're not going to make any mistakes any time you're looking police use of force to use the results of the faith tells you that's a homicide investigation. you're determining whether they had a legitimate subjectively reasonable basis to use force under those circumstances. this particular case is complex because of occurred in downtown milwaukee you know late afternoon work day and you literally had hundreds of witnesses and those have to be interviewed you have to look at the forensic evidence. that train never
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showed any. any kind of noise or. she was only and travis. in the home. and no one in my family no one. knows where. i am when they even have known this woman with schizophrenia and what do we call them. came with house and he would always be our or he will say just like they do if. you don't leave. them. in the boat.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. you know world of big. law and conspiracies it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. if like there's someone else living inside of me like controlling my body.
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the byproduct of that drug is the cause like some fear depression. because it will meet him into a zombie it's crazy. you know and we don't have to do anything it's not our fault the sins crazy and all that. took years to combat it takes a long time to get rid of. the comic that we have selected is titled a collaborative response to crime and violence in the community and the others in the audience who are on the committee.
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all. get it limply the don tree hamilton case for the better part of six months was agreed by everyone including the family to have been a tragedy arising out of untreated mental illness in a public space the result of violence yes which is what this was dealing with the one of them is that these are the men we'll you're the guy you're the all the services have you any other big cities we've got a problem with untreated mentally ill people who have no options. it's gone. back on your meds and it was a mental health issue in april once ferguson broke suddenly as a racial issue. this is true this year you might be. hearing and there may be many more and there were a lot of bald faced opportunists who latched on to this family and decided it
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wasn't a mental health story anymore it was a race story. to start a call is for justice started because we were at a rally after all we think we need to reflect on me that has culminated in four. hours connel i still just get new to all this process but i saw a lot of courage in a clue this meant. i would say i'm a non-confrontational person but they're not serious. windows just as hard. just try. to move on because while. there are a lot of good you have forgotten troy what happened that day will. be their . last remembered. just.
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almost. after man was shot by our son. bought her. out of a. good looking at life truck was working protests causing such a also on the scouts an avenue are not able to get behind these demonstrators they are upset over the shooting at red car one months ago the trade hamilton. was the likely to support the no. i'm. when i first heard the news reports on my will down trade i have a robbery on his record you know but i think they just headed tangle.
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i think i just turned eighteen. but had a baby. so me and then some older guy and some younger guy and i think we've got a couple lottery tickets and i watch for something like what is no more fifty dollars. but the next morning two detectives came to the house they basically handcuffed me right in the liver. and i ended up doing an eighteen months in the corrections with a sixteen year stay sane. some of those life lessons right there needs to be a better person. yes i make mistakes but i don't think anyone can home me to the standard of what i was seventeen years.
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i have the opportunity to speak kind of his mother and his brother and one of the things that he made clear to me that they're interested in is restoring the dignity of their son to name their son's name and in particular several items one tree was not homeless second he was not an armed robber. and so i want our community to know that he was neither homeless nor was he an armed robber . so my understanding there's a team. i'm foreign to time for he's. just fifteen and it was rough for you know single parent you know working every day it
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was cool and it leads to some stuff that i did no one. ask my days that still have my nights it is good fifteen years right you know brianna walked into the mental health his neck was broke his back was broken three places he laid in a diaper for three days begging for his life so. i'm still i still don't know what . her son was shot fourteen time on which i said you're you're not as much john six somebody is worse than we make right but i'm glad to be a part of this because i want to see something happen. and then why are our want to go this shallow. thinking it is worth. i had a son his name was michael bell who was killed on november ninth two thousand and four. he was coming home with
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a night out with friends designated driver he came intoxicated. michael's like you're too drunk to drive i'm going to drive michael was under the influence of alcohol but you can look on a dash cam video he's driving perfectly straight up in front of his house and just then a squad car pulls up behind him and my son got out of the car because he is that his own home but the officer pull up said get back in the car get back in the car. cording to offer testimony and saw this other guy in the front seat and he dragged michael and he took me on the back of the car off camera. under getting down. multiple times ran to the back of the house. michael was accused of ball rushing an officer here and this is actually a car that was here it was hasn't moved in in ten years and sadly that's that's the
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area when michael michael died. you can see. michael was shot in the morning of november ninth two thousand and four on friday they really really it was justified before crime lab reports are complete before autopsy risk complete before witness statements are even taken they were they they held their own thing and i will adjust the five. here's a picture of michael i'm a veteran and i always felt that i was really a brother with law enforcement. i was a cab then this was my copilot navigator and boom operator at the time for twenty three years i go out and believe in the democratic principle just to come home and have a police officer killed my child and then think i'm going to get a fair and due process and the door is pretty much shot in my face. this data
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is there news reports throughout the years we have i go to governor doyle at the time i go to the attorney general they don't even bother to mccollum this is the contract for billboard that owning the already ran it and i had to resort to full page ads in newspapers and the boards to get her to justifiable but the city settled out of court with bell's family mychal bell's father his use of the settlement money to put up billboards around the state calling for a change in the way these investigations are handled backing a bill that would require officer involved deaths to be reviewed by an independent authority. to see what. what profession is fine and asking yourself you cannot have colleagues and asking colleagues and think you're going to get an objective report you're not and there's no profession nurse who can do it so why would we expect that of law enforcement when the stakes are so high.
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the law had just passed and the john tray hamilton case happened a week later and i don't think the city was ready for the new laws require that it be an outside agency other than the marquis police department to investigate the evidence to interview witnesses collect the evidence that would then be provided to the district attorney's office what we found pretty early on in this case is what really was walking police department detectives the did the investigation. what was the disease. only investigations that get there fast freeze the scene identify witnesses and get a preliminary idea of what happened the same day downtown. we can just stand around for the what are some possible witnesses were all gone home. when d.c.i.
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got there it became their investigation. best guess was done by d.c.i. . best geishas who has a lot of different agencies on him but the ones that investigated entrées case was ex milwaukee police officers special agent david cutler bundy spent twenty five years at n.p.t. and collecting a city panter number five thousand dollars a month special agent gilbert hernandez spent thirty five years in. dallas here of course this concert is where the only big city. the rest of the state is overwhelmingly whirled and suburban white the walk is where the homicides occur i can't get a copper for dram or to come here and know what to do about a homicide investigation of the challenge quite honestly is the what or how many levels of review you read for some folks that review doesn't result in a police officer under arrest it's not bully. i live with
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a mental health issue do i look like a criminal to you. i'm here because i want your support i want your help but i can't do that if i'm afraid. shack fourteen times so i went home in good shape for all these are. all. wish day they would be these good reasons is a bag so i am safe they side with a. prison for me is the way through this procedure. thank you very much for having me. here my. boy this is a vicious. time to stop. we have to look in more detail workers for man came from. worse to burn it worse he
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raised it did he have black friends did he have mexican friends. and when you look into his record more in-depth you know that he had a communication problem. yes seventeen other occurrences where he either use excessive force or he used our language he had a sexual assault on his record and we say the klan was starting to get in out of traffic here going up to cars with squirt guns in trying to even beat up a white clown into a grandstand and that's when things got heated in the incident is all caught on camera. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.
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are breakthrough to it it just needs to. need to be hoped and done good pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs go and stuff they need to be helped. and either she really shouldn't be looked at like numbers they should be looked at like people if they go to a veteran center for health issues be considered as someone who really needs attention. breaking news from syria the death toll from an explosion in the strategic syrian city of money has climbed to twenty seven including five american soldiers in that attack which has been claimed by islamic state.
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