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Very nervous. because of the corruption. and i just felt like something could happen to him, you know. and he said, mommy, i'm not afraid to die for what i believe in. remember martin luther king? he took out what he believed in. and i said to him, i said, well, that's martin luther king. i'm your mother. >> with only a few months until his inauguration, brown wasted no time preparing to clean house in the sheriff's department. he made a long list of everyone he was going to fire. >> he felt that no matter how deep the corruption went, he was man enough to handle it and get it cleaned up. >> w...

Dorsey now says that right after the election, he wrote a note to patrick cuffy saying he should assassinate sheriff-elect, derwin brown. >> apparently, i guess, the only thing to say is he had the same -- he had the same evil within -- in his heart as i did. >> dorsey told the prosecutor that cuffy replied, quote, we are way ahead of you, and ate the note. >> he thinks he made a mistake and wanted someone to say whether his mistake made him a murderer. >> to me that's not really a confession. it's not the bearing of the soul. it's, well, i did have something to do with it but not really as mu...

Same feeling when you lose a brother in blue, be it that he was a political adversary or not. >> derwin's own family was mystified. >> do you have any idea who did this? >> none. >> any suspects in your mind? >> no. ♪ >> more than 4,000 people attended derwin brown's funeral. brown's wife and five children watched as hundreds of officers passed by the flag-draped coffin. michael brown is the son who saw his father in the driveway the moment before he died. >> because i know he's watching and i know he can hear me. and i love you, dad. >> do you swear or affirm -- >> on january 1st, 2001, tho...

Outgoing sheriff sidney dorsey was arrested and charged with ordering the ambush and assassination of brown. the man that defeated dorsey in the sheriff's race and with promising promotions to four of his deputies in return for the killing. >> did you do it? did you do it? >> innocent. innocent. >> two of those deputies, melvin walker and david ramsey, were also arrested. unable to crack the case for nearly a year, prosecutors agreed not to charge the other two admitted co-conspirators, patrick cuffy and paul skyers, with any crime related to brown's murder in return for their agreement to tel...

Nine grams protein. zero fat. twenty-one vitamins and minerals. in blueberry/pomegranate and peach. refreshing nutrition in charge! former dekalb county sheriff, sidney dorsey, was now in jail for the rest of his life. convicted of ordering four deputy sheriffs to assassinate derwin brown, the man who defeated him in the 2000 election for sheriff. prosecutors were able to prove dorsey ran a sheriffs office and a jail rife with corruption. including sexual misconduct, bribery and ordering employees and inmates to do work for him outside the sheriffs office. >> i did what i was told to do.