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While the aclu plaintiffs' stories weren't violent, those men stood up because they know that those same situations can end up in violence. take the story of maria hamilton's son dontre. >> and i feel his spirit in here. i very seldom go to the cemetery because dontre's blood and life is in this park. >> in 2014 the manager of this starbucks called police on 31-year-old dontre who was waiting for his brother on a park bench. >> the police were actually called on three occasions. the first time they went and spoke with him, they came to the conclusion that he wasn't doing anything wrong, he was...

Why are the cops first responders to something that doesn't involve crime. too many times they're just responding to people hanging out on a bench or having a bad day or in >> this was a couple of weeks before he died. >> what i notice in all of his pictures, he was smiling. >> that was his uniqueness. dontre smiled all the time. and when his life was dangtakenm us, we didn't know what to do. >> adding to maria's grief, the police didn't even file criminal charges against officer manny. they said his use of deadly force, 14 shots into dontre, was justifiable. we've heard that way too many time...

Spoke with him, they came to the conclusion that he wasn't doing anything wrong. he wasn't bothering anybody. so, they left. >> unsatisfied with the response to her calls, the manager called a personal friend on the force to the scene, officer manny. he confronted dontre who was unarmed and not bothering anybody. >> he stood over dontre's head, dontre was startled, jumped up, and he tried to do a pat down. dontre resisted. officer manny unloaded 14 bullets into dontre killing him. dontre hadn't been bothering anybody, even the cops at the scene. >> his life was taken for that because of a mana...

Warranted 14 bullets. in broad daylight. unimaginable. >> right. >> thank you. >> following the shooting, the milwaukee police said dontre had a prior history of arrests and claimed they were related to dontre's mental health issues. >> was any of that -- >> none of that was true. dontre hadn't robbed nobody. but he was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenia. he never tried to hurt anybody. >> there's a subject that people with mental health issues can turn violent. >> that they're violent. >> that's not the case overwhelmingly. >> no, it's not. >> the bigger question here is