Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240712

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 the person is dead. Eliot were 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 were on our way to betty smiths house 7 years ago officer Timothy Devon took her sons life the officer is still free in service sometimes their patrol car drives by this very road right next to buddys house and the officers wave it betty i can just not imagine what that he must the went through. Thanks betty. Hi thank you so much i mean. This is quincy graduates in a high school there that if you think my son wasnt even as tall as i am and i have healed im sure you know. He played with. Everything happened right before christmas but he explains her son left his girlfriends house breaking up his girlfriend got angry and called the police adding one fatal detail quincey had a rifle and a lie that cost quincey 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 know you night. Think police you know you won t. Can you well. Know which wont be the new hes not resisting arrest hes on the ground you havent 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 doesnt have the video of the actual killing just a homicide report theres a video officer devon apprehending another suspect in a similar way. He put his hands up and boom with a bunch in the face a kid by the number one whos from for force just kicks some unbelievable. Hands. With says i surrender but i could just as them say if that means it was done by. Hell be like that maybe hed feel that he was trying to. Play gaga. When quincy sr died his son quincy de sean smith jr was just 2 months old. I worry i mean hes growing up all right. School he knows his father was staying with his father died. And knows that other good other good things about him. He 7 all look at the agony yet relating to quincy picked him up from school and he. Everything all right you try to be introduced my that. Is me. I use feeling. In the house my dad was part of. As long as god gives me breath. Im going to be fighting. Oh the injustice and the opposite theyre making the other 4 about 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 were approaching the house of choice. One of the victims off Police Brutality here in minneapolis minnesota. Friendly. You know what just track you and film you as you drive as you ride the bike. Together with sure were 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. I called i know i was still writing up when the 1st 2 squads what was your question to them whats going on are they interested in me and if theyre not interested in me and you know id appreciate if they you know didnt act like they were receiving part. Of the navy ideas. My breaking the law for you few months maybe a year. Why youre here and following me. Every time id ask him a question youd respond with the same question whats your name whats your name criteria. She wonder if you have a favorite literally maybe a 2nd or 2 after that is it actually so its going to go im going to put handcuffs on you and youre going to go in the back of my squad car so at that point im like im 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. Fell on the side and then he just jumped on me so i get drug rates of the side of the rear right wheel well the squad car he starts taking away my head and hitting it against the wheel well the tire you know the metal i tell. You havent i didnt know. What you did. Were me and they know how. I went to school. Ironically many many moons ago while many trips around the sun. Thats the thats a twist in the story ok and virtually all Police Officers will only be friend other Police Officers they really dont have many just usual civilian friends its just their little world that they establish and as i said before its they developed us against them routine shes got sixteens that they recently obtained them from the u. S. Military for what. Was your question when we investigated everything when rapids exactly a small minnesota suburb they think that they need to be armed like theyre in vietnam or something. Police Services Still constant risk for the officer. The man in the white shirt with his back towards the camera is an ex Police Officer hes 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 ever had 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 do 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 a ar 15 rifles better to have a tool and not need it the need the 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 thats 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 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 in helping. Us. Just to lessons Police Officers and. 2 personnel step down and let me tell yourself that they are perfect male. Prisoners that were. 6 not. Were not to work. With your free time and where. Were trying to think about. Having your work however ours it reflects on the reality of the situation there were no cars you know that are frustrated with. The convenience for the government you know which. Are the concord where those who ultimately congress. Her. For. Her. Or her family. Her and her. Are 5. 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 was not armed and what every was it does not take by officers time simultaneously tasing a young man and wonder if hes going to die. A magic us domania news a taser hears a taser here is a taser here i had to look at those burns on my babys body now and the protocol was followed chrissy was murdered and it was not his fault i am 66 years ago. Maybe all of them 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 telling 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 an adage in bloom i may finish yes im finished as ive been very gracious ive 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 thats why we have an open forum at the beginning of the bid we did respond to your request for data we provided considerable amount of data which right i know they didnt investigate because in our 300 page complaint theres witnesses listed its not a single one was ever called so how do you investigate and youll follow investigation if you dont talk to everyone its listed. So like i said i i am appealing to you because this is dramatically impacted my family the negative way for minimum 10 years actually this is shameful the fact that people are here and im sitting here listening to a white man who 15 year has not gotten justice well but i expect to see you turn your back on your own. Speeches. Thanks. To. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see if that. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being that. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a made in the shallowness. I know team no crowd. No shots no. Factionalism felt i. Was trapped no progress 12. Points your thirst for action. I. Know. What happened to me is. No no. No come here i am in new york and im not alone this time im a choice again out here with us all the way from minnesota. To participate in stop october. Nationwide actually protest but suburbs over specifically new york protesting against Police Brutality. Her time. During. This period 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 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 not that is not being dealt with the right way now is im being dealt with in any way at all as far as i can see thats why were 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 thats not thats not whats going on so my whole thing is i actually think that there is a corruption inside of the police i dont think it was sure if. Its if. You are born of this protest against b. P. Then why do you make such a move to the public to get nothing that you wouldnt 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 folk are also fighting because because they want to see. A little. If anything. Please r. T. They are trained to be aggressive as any life force and proud person but you know present what it is like our love myself none of them dont have a Family Member dont fret hes either in jail you know or has been brutalized by the police what is this picture about this is my life Michael Sarver you still tell the california about this man its not fully. Loaded you know go find. Something. 2 good out of it. For you coming out of a Small Community like rapids in your city you know being a part of. Marginal. People that. It seems that theres a. Big. Leap of. The. Magnitude of this process should shock me that you can clear the killing of people on the streets of American Cities isnt a tragic accident business for the system that does the system when you see some Foreign Force with an american museums. Remembering the past is not something the victims families light do and its 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. Looking after she and all of the cell. Tension for 7 hours. With the door. Or you thanks so much for finding time to meet us and im sorry to bring you back to that they. Tell you. Everything good 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 Drug Screening states that her daughter was completely alcohol free while being held sensual booking the police wouldnt give crime the medical attention for her Health Condition which evidently letter unfortunate death inside the brooklyn cell to all of this came to my door and told me. This is. The right. Conditions as well. But she was why should i 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 drug that you both be able to see your relative think of no pill i now have the opportunity. They told me you do it in the more they concluded. So. They waited about 20 more minutes back and forth calling calling calling fear of ok for me to see my daughter because were going to investigate. So they were basically covering no covering up their negligence providing help yes. My dear little bella my. They may have no way like i said before bill once they killed mine do the rest until justice is served and theyll do it again this is Michael Michael all the money i have all of that to go to this i mean you know im not its feels. Nobody knows how it feels. Weve 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 cant get enough of their local Police Brutality complaints and for the cameras. To stand with matches like this and im like take a picture brother dont last long and then when i got past paper man i noticed i had to stop him and when im home now i notice around him his own gun oh wait this. Im like this i dont have the weather sorry you want to have a gun no i dont have guns are all of this to stop me from going i dont have go about your business i say doing your job but not your fish im actually afraid to call. For one more call in the political. Be back. So you dont feel safe in your community or protected by the police well you dont feel protected by. Just take this in response because we dont know because. Because they feel like we are not educated enough to know that they feel that wait wait wait youre not its only actually which thats my fright. Say so now if youre going to rest me for my rights not to fight. I mean. Scotland 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 thats a very good point but with this case the question is did the officer have the right to do what he did lets watch when its about a couple more minutes here. And i got no problem with. This who kicks the phone out of him. Generally the kid gets up. There were shots. Actually more i think a lot of this issue escalated because. Officers dont like when people talk back to them or dont like when people dont comply with their demands i think in a situation no is different in somebodys others because this officer obviously wasnt threatened by any imminent. We can stop this announced civil war between communities and the police the lawyer goes on to say simple u. S. Citizen so he powerful weapon and its not a gun korey rifle smartphone. Theres no question in my 26 years of practicing ive seen the number of Police Brutality cases rise ive seen the number of charges rise and i think the only reason its really coming to the forefront is the invention of the cell phone if it wasnt a cell phone camera people wouldnt believe half of the things that go on and we have these videos to prove it. Is a survey says this is 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 thrown into this pot its called Police Brutality thats why you do your best for you with regard to your own ability and transparency if youre never you know never have never ever. Yeah you like. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on ill show you whats the reason for any type of enhanced u. S. Military presence in this area russia. What is it suddenly about the South China Sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. Take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have Nuclear Weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so thats why were going to drill down on the story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly its time to do news again. In the news this morning an 8th consecutive night to protest against Police Brutality in the United States in minneapolis where floyd was killed the states now to investigate Police Conduct over the last. F. K. The risks of reporting the riots coming up to more than a 100 violations against press freedom in 3 days the media watchdog and the Russian News Agency report a tells us about being fired. Here and yelled and grabs and they start shooting me with that. I have been. Out on my side i mean this is a clear targeting of journalists. In