tv Documentary RT June 7, 2020 10:00pm-10:31pm EDT
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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 terrorists. after witnessing a wave of police brutality videos which appear on my news feed every day i decided to investigate the problem of police brutality in america. and united states police
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kill stupid people every day adds up one day and. 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 one tomb. and just like that 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 a patrol car drives by this very road right next to betty's house and the officers
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wave it betty i can just not imagine what but he must the went through. a very. high i think you say i mean. this is quincy graduates in a high school there that if you're in my son wasn't even this tall as i am and i have heels on that's sure you know. play put. a percentage. everything happened right before christmas spade 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 allies cost quincey his life 5 police officers without any interest in finding out the true from tackled quincy and started being him shortly after quincy was pronounced dead. the only fear. you night. think police get on you one kick in you.
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know one aide and you he's not resisting arrest he's on the ground you have and then hang ups 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 that there's a video officer devon apprehending another suspect in a similar way. he put his hands up and boom it's a bunch of face a kid might be our number one who's from her for she just kicks some unbelievable. hands. with says i surrender. but i could just as them say if that means he was duped by. here he said he might be here if he did he was trying to. say we are going
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to. fine quincy sr died his son quincy de sean smith jr was just 2 months old. he's growing up. he knows his father was told. that. he 7. oh look at the other yet relating to quincy picked him up from school he's. everything all right you try to be introduce my. this is me. i use feeding me my. baby in my house my dad was a part of school last. as long as god gives me breath.
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i'm going to be fighting. oh the injustice and the opposite they're breaking the other 4 guidelines you cannot just murder someone. set fire to divert the. last of the riots in ferguson where michael brown was skilled 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.
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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 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 me see any sort. of a navy idea. my breaking the law for you few months me did you see. why you're here and. 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. certainly wonder if you have a favorite literally maybe a 2nd or 2 after that is it actually so it's 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 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 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 a sort 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 they're a little world that they establish and as i said before it's they developed 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 service is still a constant risk for the officer. the
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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 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. 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 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 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 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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is a group like them every hour. streets you are. calling are there's a lot of you know that our prosperity was going to go up a convenience for the government in which you're right speak there the concord work very well it's really hard really. there are out. for. our her home on her own. her arm and her. car 8. 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
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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 and the protocol that stalled christie was murdered and it was not his fault i am 66 years old. maybe all of the most of you know 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 city where my taxes go is not up to me and 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 she was an addict you 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 it isn't because you have folks that are out here to speak i want them to speak that's
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more with the other open forum and to give you a bit we did respond to your request for data we provided considerable amount of data 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 invest again and you'll flomax occasion 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 of 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. people as that's a. good thing for you.
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malcolm x. is that many protesters on the streets of america speaking about the media he once said that if you're not careful it could have you anything to people being oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing but what does that distinction mean in today's usa city. america was never great was founded on the rapes in the murder. nothing changed so
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we said all response to these situations that we're dealing with. people is sad every day he has to stab people kill each other blood for the killing show that. 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 is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with this is the reason i have to rat like this is the reason. i. know.
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what happened to me is. not. cool here i am in new york and i'm not alone this time i'm a choice again out here with us all the way from minnesota. to participate in stop october. nationwide actually protests but suburbs over specifically new york protesting against police brutality. her time. during. this period seem to. happen 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
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guess he decided that reality is a times more gruesome than his films were in your idea is this should this be dealt with in our country police brutality or is this something that is not that is not being dealt with the right way now is i think dealt with in any way 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 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 model. 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 are
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also fighting because because they want to see. a little light you. 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 a family member or go to a friend who is either in jail you know or has been brutalized by. what is this picture about this is just my life but the cyber you still have a california about this man. lol do you know. something. 2 good out of it. how to go through you
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coming out of a small community like rapids in your city you know being a part of. being are marginalized people that. it seems that there is a theory here that the my. belief. that. magnitude of this process should shock me came clear the killing of people in the streets of american cities isn't a tragic accident it is nice for the system it does assist the new system of law enforcement in american communities. remembering the past is not something the victims' families like to do and it's difficult to believe those horrible moments exceptions were made for our crew many mothers hope
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to bring to light these atrocities will help them finally see justice. thanks to the release of the. filthy cell looking after she and i would like to save the cell you know maybe for medical attention for 7 hours. with the door wow i need for you thanks so much for finding time to meet us and i'm sorry to bring you back to that they did. he. tell you. everything but there you go to work or. go to work. yeah i need to gently touches the urn with cremated remains of her daughter and
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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 drug screening states that 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 unfortunate death inside the brooklyn cell 2 of those came to my door and told me my daughter. had a seizure but then they will think you know right. so it is really conditions i was here with as well. but she was why should i take a pill every day for the resolute like. and she never went down to brooklyn hospital they will let me see my daughter you really want to but. you both be able to think you wrote the think of no pay well i know. they told me you do it in the more they could. so
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they waited about 20 more minutes back and forth corwin call and call it fear of ok for me to see my daughter because we're going to investigate. so they were basically covering no covering up their negligence providing oh yes. my dear little bella might. they may have no way like i said before bill once they killed mind to the they not gonna rest until justice is served and they'll do it again this is michael michael all the money all of that to go to this i mean you know i'm 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 can't get enough of their local police brutality
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complaints for the cameras. so they have to stand with nasties like this and i take a picture brother to last longer 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. i'm like this i don't have the weather sorry you want to 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 and not your fish i'm actually afraid the corps. will share one more call in the political. be back. so you don't feel safe in your community or protected by the police while you don't feel protected by. just a place to respond. because we don't know because. because they feel like we are not educated enough to know that they feel that wait wait
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wait you're not it's only actually which that's my fright. say so now if you don't know arrest me for my right not to fight. i mean this is. scott right he 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
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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 then with this case the question is did the officer have the right 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 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 think in this situation no is different and somebody others because this officer obviously wasn't
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threatened by any imminent. we can stop this unannounced civil war between communities and the police the lawyer goes on to say simple u.s. citizen so he powerful weapon that'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 that. this is a race a person is a class issue or is this even just in the for terry so all these things racism authoritarianism inequality class inequality class issues right psychological
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you cannot be both with me yet you. do on friday go oh oh yeah i did know. we've been a real good shots few begin mergers controls all life. becomes are in class communities young people are deciding if they want to be not like their parents not like them liberals. the blacks are always drug school again you always have problems but you are going to focus a lot it's the most ubiquitous gun out there most police departments use it almost every stores in the school tell that they could get their hands on guns in 24 hours . through it teach nice kids about racism about police
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