r: the bergen countyprosecutor, john holl, said the case involvingpolice officer gary spath would go toa grand jury next week. the prosecutor saidofficer spath had been suspended with payduring the investigation. police officers infull riot gear started assembling behindpolice headquarters. prosecutor hollhad warned earlier force would be metwith force tonight. walter: it's like, really,do we really need every officer armed likethey're in the military? it was basically intimidation. and i think that's the thingthat shocked so many people, because after the town hadgained such a great reputation, no one would have thoughtthat this incident would have been the causefor the town to unravel. r: overnight, there weremore signs of racial unrest in this town of 37,000that once prided itself as asuburban example of racialharmony. in this predominantly blacksection of teaneck, residents say dozens ofthese anti-black and anti naacp pamphlets were dumpedon front lawns and sidewalks beforedawn this morning. the crude pictures,complete with racist phrases,show a white teaneck police officer taking

amy: i want to ask thelma pannell-dantzler, yet gary spath, who was acquitted of manslaughter.a civil suit got $200,000. gary spath got $40,000 every year for the rest of his life, which comes out to over a million dollars. i was wondering your response to this? the feds coming in perhaps an investigating, your son's civil rights being violated, not to mention his death? >> yes, because when this happened, i was shocked they got him off with nothing at all. i was distraught. i feel if anyone gets punished, i don't care how many years it takes, the truth to come through, they should take them and what they did wrong and they should be punished just like anyone else. i work in new jersey. we pay tax. so i'm paying this tax for killing my son? that is terrible. we son, shot him in the back? back in the day, i thought that was murder when you shoot someone in the back with her hands up. he surrendered. but he said he was reaching for a gun? i carried this for 32 years. how could he say he carry this all this time, it was a good shoot? how could he say things like that? he got child

william: gary spath becamea police officer before me, you know. i might get hired or when i mightget interviewed or something like that.so he was very helpful to me. luis torres: we becamefriends once in a while he wouldsay. "yeah, come on over."and i would go visit him and i feltcomfortable around him, he wasn't prejudiced. william broughton:he was a good guy to work with reallya decent person who came from a policefamily that that that name, the spathname, was well-known and well-respected in teaneck. julian phillips: now,at this time, black leaders are urging for calm andlater on this evening, there will be a candlelight vigil at police headquarters. after thecandlelight vigil, there will be a meetingat the city council headquarters here inteaneck, new jersey. ah, the,we do not want to heighten their attentionsout there tonight. i, what we are concernedabout is maintaining order, peace and cooperatingwith you a community, idajean fischer: theminute it went on the 5:00 news that there wasgoing to be this vigil, people,all over the tri-state area

gary spath was acquitted on charges of reckless manslaughter.d shattered the facade of racial unity in new jersey. marches and demonstrations broke up in the streets, and continue for years, and now, 30 years later, the documentary is reexamining philippe pannell's death, and its impact on the town of teaneck. the four part series, model america, from msnbc films will premiere tomorrow night, right here on msnbc. >> it was a tuesday night. it was raining. it was getting dark. i had an electron system, which is a little pager system from the ambulance corps. i heard a lot of chatter on the radio. they talked about calling in the prosecutors office. so, i got on the phone, and i called the police headquarters, and i spoke to the dispatcher. and i said, what happened? >> i got a call from the liquor store owner in teaneck who was a friend of mine. and he just called me up, kind of screaming. >> and they said, there was a shooting. >> you know, teaneck police just shot somebody. they shot a young kid. they shot a black kid. >> in teaneck, a white co