now we're going to let these balloons go in phillip pannell's name. it go. male: happy birthday, phillip. this is for you. (music) much love, phillip pannell. (clapping) natacha: yeah. happy birthday, clint. hallelujah. yeah. thelma: i can't explain it. it's something that lifts from my heart. it's just like this, i can get some sleep tonight. thank you, jesus. i can go to sleep. i can go to sleep. just from planting a tree, we got to go through this hell. just for doing a tree. a tree! he was worth more than that. more than that. but i know i could sleep tonight. it is not over with yet. it's not over with. but i want those young peoples never to give up. don't give up. don't let them bring you down. don't cut the spirit. they have to keep fighting. don't give up. (music) (music) the forces with us, an american tv exclusive. mark camel, yes the mark camel, aka the last jedi joins me live, to discuss his new role helping the acrania war effort. and then the gop's -- and now accusing democrats of crimes and abuses that they're either already committing

this was a tragedy forthe pannell family. but phillipt had a gun. mike: it presented a dilemma formany residents in the town. they didn't want to seea 16 year old boy shot. but on the other hand,it was difficult for some of them to embracephillip as a victim. w: we feel that this shooting was not a raciallymotivated incident any person brandishing a gun, asks for trouble. jackie: there waspart of me that felt it happened because ofhim and i was so upset that here was this kid with a gun. walter: even if phillippossessed a firearm, you can't shoot a firearmwith your back to the officers. and so i think when policesay he was a threat, that's become thestandard response. as an excuse for theirreckless behavior. i think white peoplehave a tendency to ignore these incidentsof police violence because it's easyto cast things out and say the officerwasn't racist. we're not a racist community. and so the questionbecomes, when will a black life matterto white people in this country thatthey are as outraged as we are when one of ourchildren are mur

phillip pannell. >> this guy was holding his hands up, and i want to say that i remember them puttingoat on him, and a depiction of my brother. it made me feel angry, because i felt like it was not like they even cared and took into consideration that my mother was there. she had to go through all of this, and our family was there. >> that did something for me, when i saw that. >> i could imagine him in that coat, when that young man was the same size that he was. that really made me feel like i actually saw when he was running or something, i actually saw a version of him running with that jacket on, and he had his hands up. that's when my mind just went blank. i was in a daze, through the whole trial, i was in a daze. >> for the panels, there is a sense that the courtroom was hostile to them. it reached a breaking point when they called their own forensic experts. >> [inaudible] according to his book that is entitled gunshot wounds, mass effects of firearms, ballistics, -- [inaudible] >> i prayed that it never happened to one of them. this was not a laughing matter. there was nothin