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he was indicted for a criminal offense, manslaughter. reporter: witnesses say the teen had his hands in the air in a gesture of surrender at the time of the shooting. thelma: its proven evidence. he surrendered. thats murder. he just shot him when he gave up. paul: listen, this was a tragedy, but phillip was a kid who had a gun who shouldntve had a gun. gervonn: it just didnt fit the narrative of a young boy that grew up in this community. i mean, this was teaneck. walter: to me, the f...

courtroom for the trial of new jersey versus police officer gary spath. mike: it is extremely rare for police officers to be put on trial. this was a police officer who claimed he was doing his duty. and in the course of doing his duty, he was indicted for a criminal offense, manslaughter. reporter: witnesses say the teen had his hands in the air in a gesture of surrender at the time of the shooting. thelma: its proven evidence. he surrendered. thats murder. he just shot him when he ga...

Want this to be a divisive statement. i wanted this to be a uniting statement. so im opposed to any of the names. gervonn: they didnt want the names. they didnt want phillip pannells name on there, as if such a history would put a tarnish on teanecks image. and then somebody just jumped up and said, well, lets rename a street after it. michael: one thing we can do to take another step in the right direction is possibly rename a prominent street called black lives matter way. gervonn: but thats n...

Natacha: we presented a design to them and it had my brothers name in the middle of one of the letters, and they was like, oh no, were opposed of this because it has full pannells name on it. when we asked them why, and they said that there are people to this day who are on the opposing side that believes that, you know, spath was justified. jim: one of the things that we were concerned about was an emphasis on names because we wanted something that we felt would bring together the township. eli...