r: the officer, gary spath, saidhe thought 16 year old phillip pinnell was reaching for a gunwhen spath tried to arrest him. r: the chief said a22 caliber loaded gun was found inthe youth's pocket. jennifer: he held his handsup and screamed out very loud and iyelled, "don't shoot." and that's when thesecond cop shot him in the back and hefell to the ground. mike: immediately afterphillip was killed, the authorities arranged for an autopsy to beperformed on his body. it allowed them toperhaps answer two very, very criticalquestions in this case. the first was, wasphillip, in fact, shot in theback? and number two, what werethe positions of his hands? were they up or were they down? 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

but i do want to say this to spath, he kept saying "never a doubt" it was a good shooting. and said my son was reaching for a gun. it is going to be proven to the world how he got on the witness stand and perjured himself and so did blanco, that his hands were clearly in the air when he shot him with a six foot fence around him. once this evidence comes out, i don't care how many years it takes, for a or anyone to lie under oath on the witness stand, they should be prosecuted. they should be punished for what they did, putting that for all of this pain for 32 years of my life. i knew he did not try to shoo back but to prove it, to see with my own eyes, that is believable to me. i hope the world sees it, sees with this man did to my life and my daughter's life and my family's life. he destroyed me from that. but with god and prayer, i'm here to see this day. it has came and i thank god for that. a lot of my kin people have gone on home and not able to see the truth came out about their family. but i see it. and i am the mother. and i thank god i'm here to see that. amy: i wa

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

when al sharpton referredto spath as a murderer that immediately helped to reallydraw some significant lines. no one would have thoughtthat this incident would have been the causefor the town to unravel. >> tonight as the former guy back ranting about law enforcement the feds are once again allowed to comb through the classified documents recovered from our largo as the deadline looms for team trump to backup his wild claims. then the disturbing shift, conspiracy theories are even more a part of maga mainstream as trump openly embraces their messaging. plus it has been a week dominated by major headlines, we're gonna mix it up with a new team to break them all down as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again i'm stephanie ruhle, the former president and his week in even deeper legal jeopardy as he clings to political power in control of the gop tonight investigation into the classified documents seized at his club in florida is heating up. intel officials tell nbc news they have reviewed they, have resumed their view of the top secret records as they tr