Transcripts For RT Documentary 20240712

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. A very. High thank you so i mean. This is clinton graduates in a high school there that if youre i think my son wasnt even this tall as i am and id have healed im sure you know. Hed play put. 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 that quincy had a rifle a lie that cost quincy his life 5 Police Officers without any interest in finding out the true for tackled quincy and started being him shortly after quincy was pronounced dead. Probably 3 or. You. Think police get on you one kick in you. Know which one either and you hes not resisting arrest hes on the ground you have him in handcuffs 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 the homicide report that there is a video or should have a apprehending another suspect in a similar way. He put his hands up and boom with a bunch of face the kid might be our number one has room for horses just kick some unbelievable. Hands. With says i surrender. But i could system say if that means he was stopped by. Here he said he would like to be here if he did he was trying to. Play good. Fun quincy sr died his son quincy de sean smith jr was just 2 months old. A man. Hes growing up. He knows his father was told his father died. He 7. Oh look at the other yet relating to quincy picked him up from school hes. Everything all right you try to be introduced my. This is me. Im use feeding me my. Baby in my house my dad was a part of school last. As long as god gives me breath. Im going to be fighting. Oh the injustice and the opposite theyre making the other poor guy 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 the choice 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 socialites of 2 police cars and then in the rude manner asked by officer Mark Mcdonough to show him his id. And called i know one was still riding 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 me did you see. 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 wonders if you have a favorite literally maybe a 2nd or 2 after that is it actually so its going to go i want 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 4 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 then. What you did. Where in a note how. I went to school. Ironically many many moons ago while many trips around the sun. Thats a sort thats a twist in the story ok in 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 this us against them routine shes got sixteens 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 theyre in vietnam or something. Police service is still a 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 never 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 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 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 werent wearing kevlar suits basically and they had rifles. We rule is to fall 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 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 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 and helping people. Lets place officers. Supercapacitors. Let me tell yourself that they are. The reason. That were. 6 not. We could be your time. Getting. Out as a group like them every hour. Actually there were no cars you know that our prosperity was going to go up a convenience for the government in which youre right speak for the concord where there was you all really characters. There are out. For. Her around her family. Her arm and her. Car. 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 at 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 and that in his domania theres a taser here theres a taser here is a taser here i had to look at those burns on my babys 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 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 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 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 more with you have an open forum at the beginning of the bid we did respond to your request for data we provided considerable amount of data 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 invest the gate and youll flow investigation if you dont talk to everyone its listed. So like i said i am i am appealing to you because this is dramatically impact on my family the negative way for the minimum of 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. Because thats straight. To. The thing for you if you think. You cannot be both with the yeah you are. International memorial awards are now open for entries all media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for all terms of media or part of a global News Platform to participate send us your published works in video or written for much go to award dot altie dot com and enter now. I dont have faith in this Government Official of president i dont have faith in the system. Ive got its up to the broken system thats designed for people like this where news. They are struggling. To find the poor here for Different Reasons we all see job we also have little. Most people in philadelphia. 2 paychecks away from homelessness. 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. This. Happened 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 it was 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 but i think it will sure is. 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 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 person what it is like our love myself none of them dont have a Family Member go to a friend who is either in jail you know or has been brutalized by. What is this picture about this is my life Michael Sarver you still tell the california about this man its not funny at. All do you know oh. Look. This is 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. Being our margin is a people that. It seems that theres a theory here to my. Belief. That. 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 it is nice for the system to desist the new system of Law Enforcement in american communities. 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 says 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 in a members 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 truck 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 2 of those came to my door and told me about. This is my brother with the right. Conditions here with as well. But she was why should we take a pill every day for the rest of life. And she never had that went down to put the hospital they will let me see my daughter usually when a person dies or a drug that you both be able to see your relative think of no pill i now have the opportunity to parlay told me you do it in the more they concluded. So. They waited about 20 more minutes back and forth corwin call and call it fear of ok for me to see my daughter because were going to investigate. So basically cover no covering up their negligence yes providing help yes. My dear little bella my. The man and the 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 its michael all the money i have all of that to go to this i mean you know not its feels. Nobody knows how it feels. We right in the bronx one of the more turbulent neighborhoods in new york city inside a local barber shop which also happens to be a sponsor the local people cant get enough of their local Police Brutality complaints for the camera. 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 im home now i notice around 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 this to stop me from going on i have got to go about your business i say doing your job but not your fish im actually afraid to call. For sure i wont 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 a place to respond. 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. Lets do it say so now if youre going to rest me for my right not to fight. I mean. Scott 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 theyre 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 then did lets watch one its 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 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 this situation no is different in somebodys others because this officer obviously wasnt 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 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 that. This is 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 issues all of that is for all of this pothole Police Brutality thats why you do your best for you with regard to transparency did you never you. Never have never ever. We go to work. Straight home. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy to confront ation let it be an arms race is on offense very Dramatic Development only closely and going to exist i dont see how that strategy will be successful at very critical time to sit down and talk. America was never great was founded on the rates in the murder. Of nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we deal with. People get sad every ill the day she is this sad people kill each other blood for killing children. So it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down Law Enforcement. This country doesnt work for us it doesnt function for us. This is cant be happening in america we call from the streets weve got to deal with this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. Americas ongoing racial unrest all 4 Police Officers present when george floyd was killed will face murder charges. Also ahead swedens. 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