tv Documentary RT January 16, 2019 6:30pm-7:01pm EST
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everyone's story different honest path 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 very. badly and to this. you know i was a middle child and i'm sorry he was the day. this is some day he was doing just you know make sure he can money in his pocket. it was so i had to look out for you can but nothing happened to to the day. i just hope that people can understand that he 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 and i was like oh so a boundary with these 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 a you know in 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 roll in a backpack his head was here in this field pointing 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 said. they talked and
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then they laughed my coworkers time out 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 clock please stop calling. and honestly i even forgot about the time later when a third officer showed up. and well we were tell when the call a day's facts it went to the cabs. and the message on the cabs. truck. parked off the screen
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called the newspaper just there something on the board already here all are. just sort of forty six nothing and his friends told him that it was clear over a room park art if you could create a trouble with. this officer and then when you told him to get up off the ground the officer began to pet him down. i heard them cracks on the sounds of kind of fighting into the grown man like wrestling essentially the officer apparently backed up and threw his top tier individual twisted away from the officer pulling the toilet it was clear. 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 with. any kind of 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 tree.
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i knew it was going to happen so i turned away. after i counted drawn for more shines. very very hard hard hard hard on her. already very meager my very you know your in your narrow my own way i mean wired or martin or martin all right now i'm. not a hundred. million nor do i want to be. right only when i was. gone i mean. every day day i did see the new subject the good that beat the officer with the
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wouldn't be taught striking him in the head the officer with the police detectives came to my house put me a card end of the about all my son. you know in the course of my mother in his car from like thirty to forty five minutes i was puzzled like what. was the problem and i told him. this. diatribe you are saying. because of his illness he has been able to keep. the doll so they will sit next to me for this 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. you
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tell me my brother did just not tell him this this and his words were he 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 walkie 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 strange 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 is no place else for them to go and their families cannot control them. we have extended. warranty and they take so long to tell us what happened and. they said the name i did. this is in his wallet. and this writer see. that's
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a homeless and they have coop to hold is this case too with of. chief flynn said that we need to do a better job into this that is something that is very true. adultry have the mental illness to not kill him. that officer murdered my brother. as they didn't know one way or another if you had a mental illness until my mom was questioned in their car forty five minutes.
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rear when i met her i believe damien was two years old. that. 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. to get to know. and you didn't see any of the sickness coming and entre as he was brought up a struck. me with a different turn it is six where his decision on whether he's been charged off. and they are just been trying. to step in their way. and so
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today i want to argue i mean what i know now i thought then i want to least make. another run around. it is hard to put into words the turmoil at the screen 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 in the field tell deep that's a homicide investigation. you're determining whether they had a legitimate subjectively reasonable basis to use force under the 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 friends are gathered and. trained never
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show any. any kind of paranoid or frantic he was only and drive. home. and no one in my family no one gets more every day you know. when they even have a not only with schizophrenia and what do we call them. friends came with them housed and he would always. are or he will say just like they do if. you don't leave. them. both. it's just. that.
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that was uniquely. and he's gone to rest now with the same guy big creative there. is that illness is nothing to be afraid of is not then to run from is nothing and. they anybody's to die for. and. when i came back from iraq oh a barrel on her was cocaine methamphetamine say anything that's altering trying to get us out. that bad. use of the chemical
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that would be so. i want to be drinking and drinking ino new just killing myself but you drink alcohol don't drink to get drunk alcoholics drink to feel normal. that's why it's this way drug addicts do what they do shop was over in there right here star cool or to reduce guys or breakthrough to it it just means to. reduce need to be helped and pushed on by the v.a.'s are as drugs go and stuff they need to be built. they've 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. when he was running in two thousand and sixteen articulated a vision of foreign policy that was clearly at odds with what you would consider
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the sort of post-war liberal international consensus that that american foreign policy is held and there might be some claim that there are elements of that critique that house and the liberty here's the problem though it's not enough to offer a critic you can say that there are problems with the existing foreign policy and then you have to offer something that's better person period alternatives and this is where i think trump is as failed miserably. the topic that we have selected is titled a collaborative response to crime and violence in the community and the others in the audience who were on the committee . she did. all. get it limply
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the john terry 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 yet which is what this war was dealing with the outcome of the war from the saudis to the we'll you're the guy you're the all the services have you any other big city we've got a problem with untreated mentally ill people who have no options. it seems us gone . back on your meds and it was a mental health issue in april once ferguson broke suddenly as a racial issue. and says to the shooting of michael brown. we're hearing that 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. started to call is for justice started because we were at a rally oh i think we. have culminated in. this kind of i still just get new to all this process but i saw a lot of courage in a clue maybe. i will say i'm a non-confrontational person but they're not saying serious. even though john is hurt. just won't. hurt the move all of his life. and there are a lot of good you have forgotten troy what happened that day so i will. be there . no no i asked everybody else. just.
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wait almost. after man was shot my son. bought her for. her. out of her. looking at life the first truckload working protests causing such a also on the scouts an avenue cars are not able to get behind these demonstrators they are upset over the shooting at a hard one a months ago non-trade hamilton. was the lead to the support of the. house i'm. when i first heard the news a report on my world down trade i have a robbery on his record you know but i think they just had it tangled.
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i think i just turned eighteen. but had a baby. so me and then some older guy and some younger. and i think we even got a couple lottery tickets on the 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 liberty on. an island doing eighteen months in the corrections with a sixteen year stay sentence. some of those life lessons right there needs to be a better person and. yes i make mistakes but i don't think anyone came home to the standard of what i was seventeen years.
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or so. i have the opportunity to speak three penalties mother and his brother and one of the things 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. my understanding there's a team. i'm foreign troops on board he's. just fifteen and it was rough for you know i'm single parenting you know working every day and it was cool and it leads to some stuff that i didn't know. through still
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got 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 your your of them was just it's 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 thing up our boat i think it is. 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 the gas 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 was that his own home but the officer pull up to 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 both 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 where 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 just fine before crime lab reports were complete before autopsy risk complete before witness statements or even taken they were they they held their own thing and they 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 captain this was my copilot navigator and boom operator it's 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 give fair and due process and doris pretty much shot in my face. to. his death on. news reports throughout the years we have to go to governor doyle at the time to go to
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the attorney general they don't even bother to give him a copy 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 independent authority. to see what. what profession is fine in this case and south 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. was. only investigations that get there fast freeze the scene identify witnesses and get a preliminary idea of what happened this day downtown or we can just stand around for the what are some possible witnesses were all gone home. when d.c.i. got there it became their best to gauge. the outside investigation was done by the
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d.c.i. . best case is has a lot of different agencies on him but the ones that investigated entrées case was ex milwaukee police officers special agent david miller 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 a. challenge here of course. is where the only big city. there was the state is overwhelmingly world and suburban white the walk is where the homicides occur i can't get a copper from dram to come here and know what to do about homicide goes to. 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 a mental health issue do i look like
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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 thank you. shack fourteen times so i went home in here for all these all this officer which say they want you these good reasons is a bag so i am safe they side with a. prison for me is the way through this procedure. every year i have. to. be having eyes. for this is a vicious. time to stop. we have to look him more detail workers for man came from. worse he born 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 used excessive force or he used our language he had a sexual assault on his record when we say the klan was starting to get in out of traffic here going up to cars where this work was 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. it was you know provision on my back when i wanted to.
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get. his boss because. we froze you know. but the pressure on us. so i was you know i was you know i got you know just i mean my most wanted i'm already but it was. the i mean we're going to. give it up as well i might just get it. but those were the oh. my god we've got a bomb i just got that already and yes it will be in the. stairs will be the whole cost going on america for profit and the drug companies are
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killing millions of americans for profit and if no politician does anything about it i mean i look around the world and i see this relational in the france protests and i see that is growing growing globally john locke said in sixteen ninety i believe that if the social contract was broken then it's up to the people to revolt the social contract has been shattered revolution is in the sun. rise to the right around and see. to the last three hundred twenty five so the. net is having. a turbulent week in british politics as a teresa mayes government survives a no confidence vote.
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