tv Documentary RT June 6, 2020 11:30pm-12:01am EDT
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it's. unbelievable. shocking. this is not a video game the average us citizen is over 10 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist. after witnessing a wave of police brutality that he has which appear on my news feed every day i decided to investigate the problem of police brutality in america. and united states police kill stew people every day. and night.
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these are the official numbers according to unofficial numbers the police chose for people the day. 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 12. 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's house 7 years ago lawsuits and if the devil took her son's life the officer is still free in service sometimes their patrol car drives by this very road right next to betty's house and
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the officers wave it betty i can just not imagine what that he must the went through. a very. high i think you say i mean. this is clinton graduates in a high school there that if you think my son wasn't even as i am and i have healed i'm sure you know. he played with. everything happened right before christmas but he 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 a lie that cost quincy 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 don't you.
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think police get on you one kick in you well. know which won't either and you he's not resisting arrest he's on the ground you haven't 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 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 on his roof or force just kick some unbelievable. hands. with says i surrender but i could assist them saying that means he was dead by. he'll be like that maybe he'd feel that he was trying to. play again.
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when quincy sr died his son quincy de sean smith jr was just 2 months old. i worry i mean he's growing up all right. he knows his father must. die. and knows that other good other good things about him. he 7 all look at the agony yet relating to what you could see pick them up from school be. everything all right you try to be introduced my that. is me. i use feeling. in the house my dad was part of the school. as long as god gives me breath i'm going to be fighting. oh the injustice and the
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opposite they're making the other forgot you cannot just murder someone. i. wonder. 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
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film you as you drive as you ride the bike. together the choice we're headed to the crime scene where everything happened choi tells us about that night how he was 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 . and called i know one was still riding 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 me did you see. why you're here and probably many. every time i'd ask him a question you'd respond with the same question what's your name what's your name
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criteria. she wonders if you have a favorite literally maybe a 2nd or 2 after that is actually going to go i want 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 enough. serious or you figure out why am i generally rested. this year they. might excuse me. point. he just pushes me down and i yeah yeah i thought on the side and then he just jumped on me so i get drug rates of the side 4 of the rear right wheel well the squad car take 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.
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earlier and i know that. i went to school. ironically many many moons ago while many trips around the sun. that's that's a twist in the story ok in virtually all police officers will only be 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 the rapids exactly a small minnesota suburb they think that they need to be armed like they're in vietnam or something. police services still constant risk for the officer.
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the man in the white shirt with his back towards the camera is the next police officer he's the only one from the other side who has agreed to speak to us under the condition that his identity remains hidden how long have you served 25 years 25 years as a police officer and 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
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a ar 15 rifles better to have a tool and not need it the need to tool not have it what the rifle phenomena was caused by is the l.a. robbery probably 20 years ago where the bad guys were wearing kevlar 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 that officers like that 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
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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 and helping. just to lessons police officers and. 2 personal staff there and let me tell yourself that they are epic fail. prisoners now that were. 5 6 not. part of the work. week to be sure every time there were there. were trying to
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think about. having your work however there was a defect in the reality of the situation there were no cars you know that are frustrated with. the convenience for the government in which you're right speak to conquer where you ultimately congress. there are. for. our. her family. her for. our. we are a post board of minneapolis. we are about to meet with the communities united against police brutality. no other mother should have to be told at any time death may not be for the holiday that my son has been murdered that he
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was not armed and what every was it does not take 5 opposites time simultaneously tasing a young man and wonder if he's going to die. a magic us domania news a taser here's a taser here is a taser here i had to look at those burns on my baby's body now in the protocol this bald chrissy was murdered and it was not his fault i am 66 years ago. 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 tell 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 attacking me 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
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an open forum at the beginning of the b.b. we did respond to your request for data we provided considerable amount of data i know they didn't investigate because in our $300.00 page complaint there's witnesses listed it's not a single one was ever called so how do you invest the gate and you'll follow 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 the negative way for you 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 just as well but i expect to see you turn your back on your own. speeches.
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and i'm not alone this time i'm a choice came out here with us all the way from minnesota. to participate in stop october. nationwide actually protest but stopped over specifically new york protesting against police brutality. her time. since her. disappearance and murder. happened here where 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 the north country police brutality or is this something that is
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not that is not being dealt with the right way now is i'm being dealt with in any way at all as far as i can see that's why we're out here you know who is 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 well that it wasn't sure if. it's if. you are born of this protest against b.p. . then why do you make such. a public take got nothing that you wouldn't have got nothing to do and no i. this thing involves people all kinds of people. from someone as great. as this example to. simplify absolutely simplify are also fighting because because they want to succeed i want to. play
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a little. differently. please i think that they're 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 don't want friends he's either in jail you know or has been brutalized by the police what is this picture about this. michael sarver you still come to california about this man it's not for you. that loving you know. this is something. 2 good out of it. how to go through you come out of a small community like rapids in your city you know being
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a part of the. fire yesterday to. being our marginal. people that. it seems that there's a theory here to my. belief. that. magnitude of this protest should shock 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 america museums. 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 .
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looking after she says the cell. tension for 7 hours. with people door wow. how are you thanks so much for finding time to meet us and i'm sorry to bring you back to that they. tell you. everything but 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
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her daughter was completely alcohol free while being held sensual booking the police wouldn't give crime the medical attention for her health condition which evidently letter of unfortunate death inside the brooklyn cell to all of this came to my door. this is my brother with the right. conditions here with as well. but she was why should we take a pill every day for the rest of life. and she never had that went down to put the hospital they would let me see my daughter usually when a person dies or doubt that you both be able to see your relatives think of know well i now have the opportunity to fire they told me you do it in the more they concluded to call you through it. so. they waited about 20 more minutes back and forth calling calling calling fear is ok for me to see my
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daughter because we're going to investigate. so basically cover no covering up their net which is providing help yes. my dear little bella my. they may have no way like i said before bill once they kill mind to the rest until justice is served and they'll do it again this is michael says michael all the money i have all of that to go to this i mean you know not it's feels. nobody knows how it feels. we've arrived in the bronx one of the more turbulent neighborhoods in new york city inside a local barber shop which also happens to be a spot for locals the people of their local police brutality complaints for the cameras. to stand along with nasties like this and i'm like take a picture brother to last longer and then when i got past paper man i noticed i had
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to stop him and when i'm home now i notice around his own gun oh wait this. i'm like i don't have the weather sorry you want to have a gun no i don't have guns are all of this to stop me from going on i have got to go about your business i'm to say doing your job and now your fish i'm actually afraid to call. for one more call in the vehicle to. be back. so you don't feel safe in your community or protected by the police while you're protected by. just take this in response because we don't know because. 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. say so now if you don't know arrest me for my rights and i'll
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fight. i mean. scott is one of the most well known lawyers finance police brutality in new york. mr 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 then never in a real situation that's
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a very good point but then with this case the question is did the officer have the right to do what he then did let's watch one it's about a couple more minutes here. and i got no problem with. this who kicks the phone out of him. exactly the kid gets up. there are 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 the man's i mean in this situation no is different and somebody others because this officer obviously wasn't threatened by any imminent. we can stop this
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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 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. this is a. farce it's a class issue or is this even just in the 4th area so all these things racism authoritarianism inequality class inequality class issues right psychological issues all of that is for all of this pothole police brutality that's why you do your best for you with regard to your own ability and transparency did you never
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you. never have never ever. some people are gone this protest across america right now bolshevik red revolution to kind of make a reference to the workers uprising that we saw in the old the imperial russia. and you've got a new imperium here in america a lead story canceling errors and the workers suddenly realize that wait
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a minute we don't want to live under a dictatorship we don't want to live under a monarchy of some a good old fashioned bolshevik revolution which is what's happening becomes. a let's face it was government official of president i don't have faith in the system i see how god it's all right i'm too liberal the system is not designed for people like me. as long as there's. a. different report you for different reasons we all seek joy we also hope. most people in philadelphia are only a ballot 2 paychecks away from homelessness. no
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matter offends you. going underground exactly 76 years since d.-day when u.s. troops landed on the beaches of normandy to fight fascism they're now deployed to fight self-proclaimed anti fascist anti fire on the streets of their own country coming out of the show as us president all trump threatens an occupation of his own country by the u.s. military arguably known around the world for destroying the eastern african states we ask if the only route to law and order is an end to the police and why nobel prize winning biophysicist ransom michael levitt thinks the boris johnson government in the us.
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