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Right. the media waits until the loved ones dies swarm that person. put them in grief. they ruin their lives forever. >> heir lives are never the same didn't lemon let me black on black don't do you that now don lemon don't start. >> no. >> i want to tell. >> you i'm not blaming the media. but the way you guys treat us, you guys i told you i stopped calling -- we have how many phones. >> can you let me get a word in please listen i have to manage the time here so that we can get something out of this interview because a lot of people are watching. and you're -- you're threw the media were you ...

Stopping the number of school shootings. >> reverend al, what's your reaction to hearing that? >> it's double-talk. this had nothing to do with the borders. this had nothing to do with anything other than a young man going into his grandmother's house. now, they had an overview camera that was telling the police where they thought the person they were looking for was going. we do not know that if it was stephon or not. but if you knew where he was going, then why do you pursue him? then act as though you think he has a gun and immediately begin shooting at him as the video shows? so i think th...

Six years, around police violence and vigilante violence happening to both black communities and communities across the country. >> every movement, social movement, has ebbs and flows. certainly there have been various periods in the start of the black lives matter moves that grew out of police shootings. they did seem to be out of the headlines for quite a while. now they're back in. how do you make this moment count? how do you say to the -- stephon's family, this isn't going to be just his death, this is going to spark change. what do you do? >> first and foremost, i think when it comes to ...

Stephon could have been anybody's child that was in that hearing last night in that community. when i first talked to the mother the day after and members of the national action network went in and they've been there all week with attorney crump, the fact that people are saying, if you have an overhead camera, which you showed some of the footage, then you knew if he was doing something wrong, and there's no evidence at all that he was doing anything wrong. but if he was, you knew if he went into a house. you could have called for backup. you could have went in and got him. why would you come ...

Perspective. >> reporter: police chief announcing the investigation will be overseen by the state's attorney general. >> this will help build faith and confidence in the investigation. >> reporter: among the lingering questions, why did the officers turn off their microphone. >> it might be, and probably is a time to not allow that anymore. >> reporter: the city's first african american chief, he inherited a department where there was already deep mistrust. were the officers justified in the shooting. >> that is what the investigation will have come to in the end. >> we will fight for stephon ...