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the killing of people in this country has become a routine something normal it seems that human life is seizing to be the most valued human right one tune. and just like that the person is dead. eliot we're in minneapolis minnesota this is a quiet on a fairly small city in northern united states as of recent several police brutality cases have happened here we're on our way to betty smith house 7 years ago timothy devon took her son's life the officer is still free in service sometimes their patrol car drives by this very road right next to buddy's house and the officers wave it betty i can just not imagine what but he must the went through. a very. high thank you so i mean. this is quincy graduates in
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a high school there that if you i think my son wasn't even as tall as i am and i have heels on that's true you know play put. everything happened right before christmas speedy explains her son left his girlfriend's house breaking up his girlfriend got angry and called the police adding one fatal detail that quincy had a rifle and a lie that cost quincey his life 5 police officers without any interest in finding out the true fear tackled quincy and started being him shortly after quincy was pronounced dead. the only theory is those who know you night. think police you know you won t. can you well. know it won't be the new he's not resisting arrest he's on the ground you have been hangups why is there a recent need to tell him why is there a reason a need to hit him in the back with
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a rifle. she doesn't have the video of the actual killing just a homicide report there's a video officer devon apprehending another suspect in a similar way. he put his hands up and boom with a bunch of face a kid by the number one who's from for force just kicks some unbelievable. hands. with says i surrender. but i course system saying that means it was done by. did you really like that maybe he'd feel that he was trying to. play. when quincy sr died his son quincy de sean smith jr was just 2 months old.
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he's growing up. he knows his father was told. his father died. and knows that other good other good things about him. he 7. all look at yet relating to quincy picked him up from school and. everything. you try to be introduced my. family. i use feeling. in my house my dad was part of. that. as long as god gives me breath i'm going to be fighting. the injustice and the opposite they're taking the other for about you cannot dismiss that one. i. wonder.
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last of the riots in ferguson where michael brown was skill at the hands of the police 24 states have ratified a lot of mixed much harder for police to get away with excessive force perhaps this was the reason why choice shuffler is still alive today so we're approaching the house of choice. one of the victims off police brutality here in minneapolis minnesota. friendly. you know what just track you and film you as you drive as you ride the bike. together the choice we're headed to the crime scene where everything happened troy tells us about that night how he was
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riding his bike around midnight suddenly flashed by the search lights of 2 police cars and then in the rude manner asked by officer mark mcdonough to show him his id . i called i know one was still writing up when the 1st 2 squads what was your question to them what's going on are they interested in me and if they're not interested in me and you know i'd appreciate if they you know didn't act like they were receiving part. of the navy ideas. my breaking the law for you few months maybe a year. why you're here and following me. every time i'd ask him a question you'd respond with the same question what's your name what's your name criteria. any wonder if you have a favorite literally maybe a 2nd or 2 after that is actually so it's going to go i'm going to put handcuffs on you and you're going to go in the back of my squad car so at that point i'm like i'm getting arrested like what am i being arrested for and they respond for me
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enough. serious or do you figure out why my general rested. this year they. might excuse me and then at that point. he just pushes me down and i yeah yeah i fell on the side and then he just jumped on me so i did drug rates of the side of the rear right wheel well the squad car he starts taking away my head and hitting it against the wheel well the tire you know the metal i tell. you haven't i didn't know. what you did. earlier no no that's how. i went to school. ironically many many moons ago while many trips around the sun. that's a sort of that's a twist in the story ok in virtually all police officers will only be
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friend other police officers they really don't have many just usual civilian friends it's just their little world that they establish and as i said before it's they developed this us against them routine she's got sixteen's is that they recently obtained them from the u.s. military for what. was your question when we investigated everything when rapids exactly a small minnesota suburb they think that they need to be armed like they're in vietnam or something. police service is still a constant risk for the officer. the man in the white shirt with his back towards the camera is an ex police officer he's the only one from the other side who has agreed to speak to us on the condition that his identity remains hidden how long have you served 25 years 25
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years as a police officer or have to shoot someone no. we draw our guns frequently. people usually do the right thing and surrender and. you never hear about it at all. the standard issue that most departments are using a glock varies in caliber size of the bullet they are 15 so does this fire automatically or you know of different standards some have just the single action some have 3 round burst and some have full auto why does the police in this case the coon rapids a small town police precinct needs a ar 15 rifles better to have a tool not needed the needed tool not have it. what the rifle phenomena was caused by is the l.a. robbery probably 20 years ago where the bad guys weren't wearing kevlar
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suits basically and they had rifles. we rule to follow and in order for you to use deadly force you have to meet. the requirements to use that force if you use excessive force that's when you get in trouble you get sued you go to jail do you feel the officers like back ruin it for you in the image of the police in the united states in general we have 50 states you can probably find at least one bad thing that happens in every state but then when you start running those stories day after day people think there is a huge amount yes it happens yes there are bad cops but we have to remember that 99 percent of the cops are good and doing the right thing in helping.
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us. let's place officers. supercapacitors. let me tell yourself that they are. the reason. that we're. 6 not. going to their time. getting. out as a group like them every hour. all right alan kohler you know that our prosperity was going to go up a convenience for the government in which you're right speak for the concord
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workers who ultimately congress. her. for. her crown her mom her family. her arm and her. car. and then we are at the post board of minneapolis. we are about to meet with the communities united against police brutality. no other mother should have to be told any time death may not be for the holiday that her son has been murdered that he was not armed and what every was it does not take 5 officers time simultaneously tasing a young man and wonder if he's going to die. on that english domania and there's a taser here there's a taser here is a taser here i had to look at those burns on my baby's body now the protocol the
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stalled chris he was murdered and it was not his fault i am 66 years old. maybe all of the most of you like you try to imagine raising a baby back to the daycare the diapers and trying to do a job and maintain your household and a student when my taxes go is not up to me and you help telling me that my son is the criminal. you have a complaint for if you let people think that something will happen but it never does my understanding was an adage in bloom i may finish yes i'm finished as i've been very gracious i've given you more than the time that was on the agenda because because you have folks that are out here to speak i want them to speak that's why we have an open forum at the beginning of the bid we did respond to your request for data we provided considerable amount of data which i know they didn't investigate because in our 300 page complaint there's witnesses listed it's not a single one was ever called so how do you investigate and you'll follow
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investigation if you don't talk to everyone it's listed. so like i said i i am appealing to you because this is dramatically impacted my family in a negative way for minimum 10 years actually this is shameful the fact that people are here and i'm sitting here listening to a white man who 15 year has not gotten justice well but i expect to see you turn your back on your own. history. if you think. if you.
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in stop october. nationwide actually protest but suburbs over specifically new york protesting against police brutality. her time. to work. this through her heart. of. what our. mass media is implicit in the propaganda of demonizing black male you and black people across this country among the protesters i spotted quentin tarantino a world famous filmmaker of film such skill build reservoir dogs pulp fiction i guess he decided that reality is a times more gruesome than his films were in your idea is this the issue that is being dealt with in our country police brutality or is this something that is not that is not being dealt with the right way now as i'm being dealt with in any way
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at all as far as i can see that's why we're out here you know it was being dealt with and then these murdering cops would be in jail or believe space and try and write here but that's not that's not what's going on so my whole thing is i actually think that there is a corruption inside of the police i don't think it was culture is. if. you are born of this protest against b.p. . then why do you make such a move to the public to get nothing that you wouldn't have got nothing to do and nothing. this thing involves people all kinds of people. from someone as great. as this example to. simplify absolutely simple folk are also fighting because because they want to see. a little. differently from going to.
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please r.t. they are trained to be aggressive as any life force and proud person but you know person what it is like our love myself none of them don't have family members i don't know my friend is either in jail you know or has been brutalized by the police what is this picture about this is just my life michael sarver you still tell the california about this man it's so funny. that loading you know. this is something. 2 good out of it. for you coming out of a small community like rapids in your city you know being a part of. being
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our marginal. people that. it seems that there is a theory here that. the. magnitude of this process should shock me that you can clear the killing of people on the streets of american cities isn't a tragic accident the disney for the system that does the system the new system of law enforcement in american communities. remembering the past is not something the victims' families light do and it's difficult to believe those horrible moments exceptions were made for our crew many mothers hope to bring to light these atrocities will help them finally see justice . looking after she and all of the cell. tension for 7 hours.
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with the door. or you thanks so much for finding time to meet us and i'm sorry to bring you back to that they. tell you. everything good there you. go to work. yeah i need to gently touches the urn with cremated remains of her daughter and remembers how her khiam came home from a barbecue how 2 officers came shortly after to arrest her for being intoxicated in a public place however and he just shows us the papers where the truck states that her daughter was completely alcohol free while being held sensual booking the
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police wouldn't give crime the medical attention for her health condition which evidently letter unfortunate death inside the brooklyn cell 2 of those came to my door and told me about. this is. the right. conditions here were there as well. but she was why shouldn't take a pill every day for the rest of life. and she never had that went down to put the hospital they will let me see my daughter usually when a person dies or drug that you both be able to see your relative think of no pill i now have the opportunity to parlay told me you do it in the more they concluded to call it. so. they waited about 20 more minutes back and forth calling calling call it fear of ok for me to see my daughter because we're going to investigate. so basically cover no covering up their net which is providing help
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yes. my dear little bella my. they may have no way like i said before bill once they kill mind of the they not gonna rest until justice is served and they'll do it again this is michael it's michael all the money all of that to go to this i mean you know not it's feels. nobody knows how it feels. he writes in the bronx one of the more turbulent neighborhoods in new york city inside a local barber shop which also happens to be a sponsor the local people can't get enough of their local police brutality complaints and for the cameras. to stand along with matches like this and i'm like take a picture brother don't last long and then when i got past paper man i noticed i had to stop him and when i'm home now i notice around him his own gun oh wait this
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. i'm like this i don't have no weapon sorry you wonder if i have a gun no i don't have guns are all this to stop me from going on i have got to go about your business i say doing your job but not your fish i measure free because of. course i won't call in the political. be back. so you don't feel safe in your community or protected by the police well you don't feel protected by. just a place to respond. because we don't know who because they feel like. because they feel like we are not educated enough to know that they feel that wait wait wait you're not going to tell me actually which that's my fright. early still say so now if you're going to rest me for my right not to fight.
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i mean. scott is one of the most well known lawyers finance police brutality in new york. mr i mean how many cases in general have you. solved and had a positive outcome for your clients thousands of police brutality has to be in the high hundreds or thousands i think police brutality is a real issue in this country i have a number of cases where people were injured very badly in police chase cases and when you speak to a police officer and question them about the training they receive in the cademy they will tell you they're never in a real situation that's a very good point but with this case the question is did the officer have the right
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to do what he then did let's watch when it's about a couple more minutes here. and i got no problem with. this who kicks the phone out of his hand. generally the kid gets up. there were shots. actually more i think a lot of this issue escalated because. officers don't like when people talk back to them or don't like when people don't comply with their demands i think in a situation no is different in somebody's others because this officer obviously wasn't threatened by any imminent. we can stop this announced civil war between communities and the police the lawyer goes on to say simple u.s. citizen so he powerful weapon and it's not a gun korey rifle smartphone. there's no question in my 26 years
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of practicing i've seen the number of police brutality cases rise i've seen the number of charges rise and i think the only reason it's really coming to the forefront is the invention of the cell phone if it wasn't a cell phone camera people wouldn't believe half of the things that go on and we have these videos to prove it. is a survey says this is a class issue or is this even just in the 4th area so all of these things racism authoritarianism inequality class inequality class issues right psychological issues all of that is thrown into this pot it's called police brutality that's why you do your best for you with regard to your own ability and transparency if you're never you know never have never ever.
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america was never great was founded on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we're dealing with. these people get shot every other day she is just people killing each other blood for killing children. there was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this this can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with life this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason.
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