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Investigation of that incident. their conclusion was that it was a good shoot. nobody was at fault. the police cleared themselves entirely 48 hours before the crime lab report was back, before the autopsy was done. before a witness was interviewed. they looked into theps and they said they think they did find. in response, michael bells father decided to lobby for change. the bell family ultimately reached a settlement for $1.75 million. michael bells father took the settlement money and he laun...

November 9th, 2004, police in kenosha, wisconsin stopped a 21-year-old man named michael bell on suspicion of drunk driving. part of that encounter was captured on the dash cam footage you see on the left side of your screen. michael bell ended up over the hood of the car with an officer holding him in a bear hug. at one point one officer started screaming "hes got my gun. hes got my gun." another officer responded to that by putting a gun to michael bells head and pulling the trigger, point bla...

Pulling the trig erk point blank. michael bell was killed. dna and fingerprint testing the bell family ultimately reached a settlement for $1.75 million. michael bells father took the settlement money and he launched a billboard campaign. and they said things like this -- when police kill, should they judge themselves? good cops, quiet majority? after years of lobbying, this past april, michael bell sr. got his law passed. when a person dies in police custody. the investigation of that death mus...

Process. have you had that as well? >> i have. focusing on whats the appropriate process and mr. bell, god bless you, i think its wonderful, i understand you donated resources to get the legislation passed while you could have taken your ball and gone home, youve done a lot for that state and thats what needs to be done. what mr. bell speaks to is the issue of independence. should you have a local prosecutor who works with that police department and to the point that you were addressing with pau...

Confident in the notion that an evaluation has done bun, things analyzed and justice obtained. i think its going to be problematic. people have to have confidence and when you dont, youre going to see protests and youre going to see people continue to call for the type of reforms that mr. bell was able to implement in his state. >> im going to ask the three of you to standby for one moment because the president has just addressed the eric garner case as well and he did this, sort of perhaps not ...

Street, you have seen this video for all we know there could have been other video taken that maybe the grand jurors saw, might have been medical experts in the grand jury, the complexity of the grand jury presentation is something we dont know about, as we sit here. im thinking in response to your question, maybe they knew his background. he had been arrested many times before for selling these cigarettes. >> apparently 30 times. he wasnt unfamiliar. i have to wrap this. only because theres so ...

Against charges for the officer who killed bells son. the father, michael bell sr., spent the next decade working to have the state law changed to require independent review of police shootings. michael bell sr. joins me live from chicago and joining me is defense attorney and hln legal analyst joey jackson and former prosecutor and legal analyst paul calan. tell me about this battle that you waged and how far you actually got to make changes and if youre satisfied? >> oh, okay. i had a son that...

Father, he took it upon himself to change the law and youre going to hear his story next. we asked people a question how much money do you think youll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to like, pull it a little further got me to 70 years old im going to have to rethink this thing its hard to imagine how much well need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently...

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