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[Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] today's monday april 26 2021 roland martin unfiltered broadcasting live from elizabeth city north carolina where folks have been protesting demanding the release of body camera footage in the fatal shooting death of andrew brown jr shot and killed last week one day after derrick shoven was found guilty in the murder of george floyd it was a contentious day we'll describe for you what took place you'll hear from andrew's son you're here from attorneys ben crump bakari sellers reverend dr william j barber will also take you to the scene where the spatial shooting took place where one of the attorneys walks us through what happened and across the street from andrew brown we talked to a man where a bullet came through his home came through two rooms had he not gone to work early he could have been killed sitting at his breakfast table attorney general merrick garland he is going to have an examination of the louisville police department but they've also had a spate of shootings folks it's a busy day it's time to bring the funk a roller bar on the filter on location let's go [Music] with entertainment [Music] [Applause] [Music] the best you know he's rolling [Music] [Applause] hey folks what you're looking at is a live look out as we stand outside of the public safety building here in the county where elizabeth north carolina is you see there are protesters who are out here folks have been protesting since last wednesday when andrew brown jr was shot and killed by several sheriff's deputies as they serve an arrest warrant at his home here in elizabeth city north carolina this is a city of 17 000 people about 50 50 african-american and white attentions have been run temperatures have been running high because of the sheriff's department they have been not being transparent and unwilling to release the body camera footage that took place uh on that particular day they have been very scant and releasing details about what took place as well here's what we know as of now last week uh when this took place it was on wednesday wednesday morning around 8 a.m when these uh sheriff's deputies descended upon his home andrew brown junior's home in the 200 in the 400 block of perry street there was an altercation they came out guns blazing firing shots into his car he then tried to uh get away from them he spun out drove the car across the street crashed into the tree in a neighbor's yard and that's where he died now today at 11 30 a.m there was supposed to be an opportunity for the family and their lawyers to actually watch the body camera footage that was the agreement with the sheriff they got here at 11 30 but it wasn't ready they were told they had to redact the video blur the faces of the officers involved that was the first issue then what took place they came back at 1 30 they then they were supposed to see the video then there was drama as to who would be allowed to see the video they tried to say only one or two family members then the county attorney would not allow the actual lawyers in he then asserted only attorneys who are under the jurisdiction of the north carolina bar association they could go in folks that's actually unheard of there's a news conference today where ben crump bakari sellers and others the other attorneys were angry with what took place they said this they've never seen anything like this before here is a roundup of that news conference here in elizabeth city north carolina we want to say on the record from the onset we do not feel that we got transparency we only saw a snippet of the video when we know that the video started before and after where they showed the family and they determined what was pertinent why couldn't the family see all the video they only showed one body cam video even though we know there were several body cam videos if they were following the law and the policy in this county that everybody has video cameras on their uniforms furthermore and you're going to hear from attorney sellers and attorney daniels on this matter to add insult to injury they wanted to have jester two family members see the video with no legal counsel as if they did not have a right to have their legal counsel present when they watched this execution of their loved one and we have to keep demanding transparency because we do not feel what the county attorney offered was transparency at all and so it's very emotional not only the video but how this family was disrespected even in the aftermath you talk about insult on top of injury but be not dismayed the truth will come out the video will be seen by the public and we will get justice for andrew brown jr these police officers will be held accountable we want to we want to highlight i want to highlight the the disrespect to this family i want to highlight the broken system of justice we have in this country as we're going through this process we told the family that they would have their attorneys in there at some comfort we went back and forth and i just want you to say i've never been talked to like i was talked to in there i don't know his name but i went mike cox i went to the back and i know that we're live on the news around the world so i will say that mr cox told me a grown black man that he was not going to be bullied so i walked out and i want you to know that he said about this the sheriff was very very apologetic and diplomatic the sheriff wanted to make sure that the family saw the video but it was the county attorney that gave us this back and forth but let's not focus just on the disrespect shown to me let's focus on the disrespect shown to this family one body camp 20 seconds one body cam 20 seconds welcome to north carolina and execution and so with all due respect i know there were a lot of people who thought last week's verdict was justice and i told you then it wasn't justice because we still can't get justice and accountability today i'm only going to be brief because i'm hot right now but i do want to say a special a special prayer goes out to this family because khalil saw his father executed but he's been the strongest one of us all come on yeah so let them up in your prayers amen and then as we say in south carolina i know we're in north carolina to the county attorney and everybody else bless his heart this family had a fundamental right for transparency that was denied denied by the county officials of pasco tank county specifically the county attorney because he don't interpret the laws of north carolina his position that you had to be a authorized a licensed attorney in the state of north carolina to represent vote i offered him the ability to to read the state bar rules the rules of the bar he didn't want to read it we offered attorney general to it he didn't want to talk to him we offered a governor he told the car he's not going to be bullied 20 seconds 20 seconds is not transparency when you got multiple officers gunning down a man with his hands on the steering wheel and trying to get away we will have justice we will have justice let's be clear this was the execution andrew brown was in his driveway the sheriff truck blocked him in his driveway so he could not exit his driveway andrew had his hands on his steering wheel he was not reaching for anything he wasn't touching anything he wasn't throwing anything around he had his hands firmly on the steering wheel they run up to his vehicle shooting he still stood there sat there in his vehicle with his hands on the steering wheel while being shot at now keep in mind this is 20 seconds i have three pages of notes for 20 seconds we watched this over and over and over to make sure we were clear at what was being going on and what was transparent he finally decides to try to get away and he backs out not going towards officers at all there was at no time in the 20 seconds that we saw where he was threatening the officers in any kind of way he was trying to evade being shot so he backs out not forward but backs out away from the officers who still shooting at him yelling stop it god damn constant obscenities being yelled at him while he's being shot at in the driveway of his home in pasco tank county north carolina i'm taking my time y'all but it was 20 seconds he finally backs out and then he goes around to get out of danger he goes around still avoiding any interaction with officers still trying to make sure he did not threaten them in any way that they were not in danger in any way he backs out goes around them and they're still shooting at him while he's driving off he drives off the car runs into a tree and they are still running behind him let me make sure i get this right with these these guns that were there bushmaster ar223s and glock 17 handguns it was numerous so those assault numerous assault rifles were at the scene we saw one vehicle one one video 20 seconds from one body cam it was at least eight officers there we only saw one one body cam it was a chef's truck there we didn't see any dash cam video we just saw that one body cam he was still excuse me yeah he was still i just want to make it clear that he was he had they were shooting at him after the car had already crashed into a tree they were still still in the stance of shooting towards him his car is riddled with bullets from them shooting at him when he was not in any threatening them in any kind of any kind of formal fashion like we against all odds in this world my dad got executed just by trying to save his own life you know he was not in no the office was not in no harm of him at all it's just messed up how this happened man for real the video you saw was the police vehicle mark or armor smart yes were they in uniform or were they not some of them was in swat some of them had on uh jeans and khakis with the upper part in uniform in the audio portion that you would hear them identify themselves you can hear them say to him who they were and you need to stop they had cut that part out we didn't 20 seconds we didn't get a lot all we all they said was um look at my note make sure i get it correct [Music] second one guns drawn pointing at him while his hands are on the steering wheel let me see your hands his hands on the steering wheel it was at least five on the driver's side pointing the guns at him let me see your hands that's what started at the one second mark so you did not see the beginning them driving up no see that no no any of this video was them standing shooting one point yes we're already being fired shots already been fired by the time we saw and then someone was running from the other side of the street another officer um so you not before but but you saw soon the video starts you already hear shots yes and to my understanding the body cam that was shown was an officer furthest away not the officers who were right in front of him right so that's the body cam they showed so there were five cops standing on the driver's side you did not see the body cameras drop shots from those five cops no no we didn't see that what was the vantage point behind the car side of the car on the side of the car running across the street so they were running he was running the officer that we saw on the other side of the truck right there he was shooting through at some point yes in the video the video started with the shots coming it was an execution in elizabeth city from second one yeah let me just help you all answer the questions about the discernment between what was shown and what was not true you got to ask them hard folks um it was of course uh again uh lots of confusion there uh the sheriff's department the county not being forthcoming at all uh prior to the family going in prior to that news conference i caught up with reverend actor william j barber of course co-convener of repairs of the breach long-time president of the north carolina inn state champer state conference of the naacp uh here's what he had to say unusual to have sheriff's department involved in a fatal shooting and still leading the investigation highly unusual highly unusual and and and it is this is in north carolina the va could immediately ask the prosecutor attorney general to take it over immediately uh they can invite the sbi immediately in there's no reason that they could not uh turn that tape over that tape that tape could be could come out immediately um they say well they got to get a court order but get the court off it doesn't take five days you know and almost everybody's assured that if something was on that tape that would exonerate the police it would have been out now they want to redact the tape here's the problem with the redaction this is not a matter of national security well the killing is a matter of security because we because because all these killings are impacting our security our safety as black people and to us it doesn't matter if the cops were black or brown or white it could be mixed that's not the issue the issue is these tapes should be out so this is very unusual and for them to tell the lawyers that they were going to give them the whole tape the whole raw footage and then now to turn around and say well we're going to redact it and now not to be ready this is highly unusual the the prosecutor could immediately say i want to take the state attorney general i talked to attorney general this morning and uh he is so is if is he prepared if the attorney is he prepared to take this over if that request is made i don't want to speak for him but i think the attorney generals in this state have proven themselves to be ready they've proven themselves time and time again remember in the duke lacrosse quest yeah they took it over uh in the case of jonathan farrell they took it over so there's a precedent in this state but this foolishness this foolishness it only makes it worse the shooting took place the day after their show the day after that show no that's that was wednesday that was wednesday here we are monday uh you've already had several officers uh three reassigned they said that's that's that's not related to this shooting well we don't know that because we don't know what the tapes say and in addition to that we have audio and the audio says that they recalled it in and said a man was shot in the back they said the audio now what have they not found no gun on him no drugs it was a warrant why when the other day when we were in uh in our press conference the question became why in the world one of the reporters here local ad did you all know that swat went out again we like swat we didn't know that okay so that's some issue is why is why in the world did you load up like that there's there's we don't know if these were assault rifles but we do know is that the audio said it was a back shoe that he was wounded in the back no we he know what he's doing his mic we're good we're good yeah right here um in terms of in terms of um you know with this case um county commissioners initially came out and said they want support for the share they have jurisdiction over their share they do because the sheriff is elected he is elected now he's paid for by the county but he's an elected officer so they can't remove them he can resign but isn't it also problematic in that he's elected and these folks out here are saying he is not being uh responsive enough to the citizens who elected him whether they voted for him or not he is the sheriff of the county see that's the thing we got to understand you don't have to just do what the people that voted for you because some of the folk may not have voted for him i don't know that but once he gets elected he is voted you see what i'm saying once he gets elected he is a voter in and he's the sheriff of the whole county families family and the lawyers are looking at this body cam footage we hope we hope we don't know because they're still standing there right they haven't gone back so you got that and three aunts are out here have they indicated that after they actually show it to them are they going to release it they have not indicated that we know of right now what we're hearing is what the lawyers have said that all they're talking about is showing it to the lawyers and some family the lawyer and some family not even the whole family's in there the aunt's do you believe that if they continue to delay this things have been peaceful uh already but these folks are getting restless with the lack of answers the lack of transparency uh already they declared uh this all weeks yeah school children here are virtual not sitting not important right uh that that the protests will intensify will get larger and people will continue because of the failure to be transparent that's right i worry a lot always because first of all it should never happen second of all look at what we've had since the children's house we've had what three teenagers shot we had another man shot in virginia beach and now they're shooting here all dead this is a boiling point and people are tired people are scared people are angry uh and transparency is the only way you need a transparency and if there's a murder on the execution back up we need accountability we need prosecution without immunity we need prison we need federal laws to come in here and look at our practice and our um uh uh what they call it practice um to look at the practices of well if well in fact while we are out here uh turn gentlemen merrick garland they're going to be looking at the louisville police department right the area now's last weekend they need to come right on down they need to keep right on coming they need to come over south and come on east and we need to make it so that when this stuff happens then if they're payment it needs to come out of these police departments and from these police pensions but what the last thing we need is for this kind of playing of game yeah that's the problem we need we need to deal with that all right folks that was dr william j barber okay uh henry um so we'll do a little bit different i want you to go to the drone shot folks and so this is uh a shot uh you you see us in the bottom left-hand corner there you see our rolling unfiltered uh tent uh and so the protesters were in front uh but they what they've now done is they've actually uh now uh marched down the street so let me uh give you guys a live look uh other protesters uh let's see if i can find them there you go and so uh they uh have been marching down uh down the street and so let's see if we can uh uh get to them uh you see them uh there as we right there so i take it down sorry folks and so they have been uh again they have been have had these daily protests uh going on here in elizabeth city since the shooting take took place and so you see there's different groups there and so i'm going to try to just go a little bit faster to get to those uh protesters there you see them and i believe that they are headed uh we drove earlier and i believe that they are headed um so it's all right so here we go so you see them there folks so they are headed actually uh to the direction of where andrew brown was shot and killed it is not far it's actually 1.2 miles away from the public safety office and so uh that's where uh they are headed uh and so we have been of course uh here uh all day uh it's uh and and folks to understand how bad this has been uh it's the lack of answers it's the lack of answers uh that people have been complaining about significantly uh from the sheriff's department uh as you heard me question uh ben crump and bakari sellers in that particular news conference um the fact that the district attorney is missing in all of this which makes no sense whatsoever uh earlier we had an opportunity uh to actually show where they are headed where these protesters are headed uh where they headed uh is to the home of andrew brown jr um anthony and i went by there earlier uh with wayne kendall uh one of the lawyers on this case and he took us through and describe at the scene what took place on wednesday here is that interview all right folks we're here with attorney wayne kendall he's a part of the legal team for the andrew brown junior family we are here at his home this is where the shooting took place wayne take us through what happened mr brown was in his car in his vehicle in this driveway with the front of the vehicle facing the street so in front of this vehicle was facing this way it's facing paris street which is the street you're standing at he was staying he was sitting in the car when the sheriff's deputies rolled up and pick up trucks and other police vehicles and then and apparently they started giving commands and he to put his hands up or put his hands where they can see him he put his hands on the steering wheel so do you know if the police came from this direction or this direction my understanding is they came from this direction off-roading so they came from this direction here so they pulled up uh right in front of here that's correct which means that when they pulled up they could actually see him right he was facing them he was facing [Music] and apparently at some point they started shooting through the vehicle and my understanding was that they were using a 2 2 3 ar 15 assault style rifle as well as handguns and when that happened he started to back up see the mud on the side of the home over there right that's the home here let's walk let's walk over here so what you're saying is he's facing that way they come up so he decides to start backing up and so we see his entire tracks right here what happened is if you look carefully at these tower tracks you'll see over here that this is a double tie trap he bagged up and then he started to go forward this is a double treasure you see a line of grass through the track so there's a double trap side track here he starts spinning out and shooting mud up on to the side of the house right if you follow the time tracks so his car you can see a second contract right here so he backed up there and then all of a sudden he starts trying to drive driveway through here and he drives through here and you can see him follow the tire track and then the the car swerves and crashes into that tree over there in mr gordon's yard so he crashed he crashed so he came across here and he crashed into that tree over there crashed into that tree and all the time he was traveling across here it was shooting into the vehicle right so this is so so it came across here and he crashed into that tree over there [Music] i saw the so the vehicle came to a rest uh uh against that tree and they were shooting into the vehicle reportedly from the witness that i talked to and apparently from the video that our co-counsel saw today they were continuously shooting into the vehicle and officers were standing out in this grassy field here as he was rolling across he had lost control of the car after being hit he was hit in the back of the neck and in the back of the head and some other bullet wounds in other parts of his body like his arms and he crashed into that tree and my understanding from the witness that was looking from that house down there a greenhouse and then he crashed into that tree and then they went around the vehicle and continued to shoot into the vehicle even after he crashed even after he had crashed now the witness you're talking about she knew him well uh and he had sent her a text tell me about that but my understanding is that he sent her a text at 8 20 a.m on last wednesday and at 8 26 he was deceased so it was it took six minutes six minutes from the moment he text her to them to them uh to to over here over here deceased with bullet wounds in his head in the back of his head so they've only showed 20 seconds of video so the whole encounter very well was in in the five or six minute range well i don't know if it took that long right i doubt if it took that long because my understanding is that he texts her at 8 20 and then by the time she got to her window to look out to see if he was walking toward her house because she she thought he was coming to her house because he often did that he often did that she's a married to a significant other with his cousin and he would always sometimes visit her in her house with her with her with his cousin she thought he might have been coming over to visit so she looked out the window to see if he was walking toward her house and that's when she saw his vehicle sitting in this parking bed here and by the same time that she saw the vehicle sitting in the parking pad she sees the sheriff pull up and when she sees the sheriff's vehicles pull up shortly after that she sees him bag his vehicle up and spin out across this vacant lot and end up into that tree and it traumatized her so much she's an epilepsy sufferer she has been having continuous seizures as a result she said she cannot go to sleep she cannot close her eyes she could not she was traumatized by the event she knew him well [Applause] and she's now i mean she was crying when she was recounting the story to me this morning and it was last wednesday almost a week ago and she said she can't get this out of her head she's been having continuous seizures uh and that she's she's at a loss to how to cope with all of this [Applause] now you see that house over there you see up you see that 500. you see that two o'clock yeah that's one of the bullet holes went through his house wow they could have somebody in the house could have could have been injured went into his home he allowed a fox news person to come in that bullet went through a wall and hit a pot on his stove wow yeah the miracle somebody else wasn't injured or killed exactly i mean you can see how close these homes are these guys were out here with high power 223 then that this was told us today that they were out here with ar-15 assault style rifles shooting in this neighborhood and they and they was they was they were uh allegedly executing uh a search warrant a drug warrant for or an arrest warrant that's what i've seen i've seen a restaurant i don't know about a search mark got it we hadn't seen a search warrant yet but people have reported that they had a search warrant i don't know if they had a search warrant got it okay [Applause] all right we appreciate it all right all right folks a little bit later we're going to show you that interview with that neighbor uh had he been sitting at his breakfast table that bullet would have hit him in the head wait until we show you he takes us inside his house and you'll see it but right now i want to go to my panel uh bernardo lelona she's a senior trial counselor with a joey jackson law firm julian malveaux economist president emira bennett college here in north carolina also eugene craig ceo eugene craig organization uh bernard i want to start with you have you ever heard anything like what you have you heard anything like what you heard today bernardo where the county attorney uh says you can't if you don't if you're not under the jurisdiction of the north carolina bar you can't come in uh and then only releasing 20 seconds of the video uh that actions out here have been just astounding that first part is so shady i have never heard that in my life and i i've been practicing law one for 16 years and i was a prosecutor for 16 years that's the first i ever heard of that so let's be real and this is the problem that when you have police involved killings of anyone any type of person african-american person whatever other race the reality is is that there should be a separate division a separate entity that should be investigating those police officers the same thing goes with the prosecutor's office that prosecutor's office for that county that only has i believe 18 000 people in that county should have a prosecutor outside of that county that's investigating this case because the ties are just too close when you're talking about the police officers and the prosecutors in this case that's the first problem that you have here so the attorney general should be stepping in and either prosecuting the case themselves or assigning a separate prosecutor's office to investigate the case on the prosecution side and then a separate entity on the law enforcement side to investigate this case because you know if there is no transparency there is no trust in the system regardless of what the outcome of this case would be but uh in my conversation with reverend william barber uh bernarda uh the ag just simply can't take it over he has to be actually asked to take it over by the district attorney the problem here is that the d.a is missing in action i asked the question specifically at the news conference uh and i think we included that folks if we didn't please find it uh where i specifically asked was the da's office present bakari sellers said no so how in the world can you have a situation where the sheriff's office there are several officers who were involved in this shooting and the sheriff's office is running the investigation and they are redacting video that's where the da's office should have taken this thing over absolutely roland this is pure nonsense and i thank god that you are out there at the very beginning and showing you this nonsense showing us this nonsense so the people can actually see that prosecutor for that county is elected so for the citizens of that county where's your prosecutor that you elected where's the person that you put on charge to be held accountable for any crimes that take place in your jurisdiction and your county where are you this is a shame to all prosecutors that person is making the prosecutor's office look back that person is the prime reason why there is no trust with with prosecutors or with law enforcement that is a shame right there uh julian malveaux uh you spent time here in north carolina as i said president emeritus of bennett college uh and in my conversations here with people uh who are here uh in elizabeth city one of the things that they've said is that uh in many ways black folks here have been ignored uh they uh and in fact i talked to the president of the naacp uh chapter and he said rarely do we even get north carolina news here last night i was watching television i saw more virginia television commercials than i did for north carolina and they said that they are often ignored they are often not paid attention to news media here does not really focus on them as well and so they said it's important to have national voices shining a light demanding these answers because otherwise they will just simply just ignore them in fact it's it's media organizations that are going to court on wednesday to try to get the body cam footage released no role caroline is a very interesting state there's aspects of it that are rather progressive but aspects that simply are not there are some parts of it than back in the 19th century and in terms of crimes against black which i people i think i've told you a couple of them before about you know the differential just that people our students got so black students that defended and t were held to a much harsher standard than i mean the healthy stories don't even bear eating on the air number one where a young white boy actually defecated on a police meanwhile some of my girls had a little tea party a little i mean the music came out of their their laptop how loud possibly they didn't have speakers and people taken to jail okay we're having some issues with your audio issue with you are you literally hearing every other word so we're going to try to work on that and fix that uh bernard i want to go back to you uh 20 seconds my god 20 seconds you have a number of cops uh on on the street in fact uh there were a couple there are a couple of positions on that street uh where they had cameras city owned cameras the sheriff's department which is the county has taken possession of those videos that's the city this is this is such a shame roland i mean i'm getting so hot just sitting here just listening to you because this is so ridiculous of what's going on it's a shame to the people of that county is to the shame to the people of north carolina is actually a shame and sad for us as a community to be watching how this so-called justice is playing out look i don't know what happened to to mr andrew i don't know i don't know if the cops were justified but the problem that i have with all of this is that there is no leadership there is no transparency and there's a whole bunch of shadiness that's going on and that is not that is not the way that the criminal justice system should work that is not the way to get the trust of the community that is not the way for the community to trust in you the prosecutor or to trusting you the criminal justice system or to trust in you in law enforcement and that is the problem that i have where is the leadership where is the separation so there can be the appearance the appearance that there is no bias or that this investigation is not tainted this is ridiculous and let me just take it to another level roland because in every state there is the victims rights act in north carolina there's the victims to act so for this man who died his family his son has the right to know what is going on at every crucial level of this investigation and the prosecution if any and that is not happening in this case and it is a shame and it is disgusting for that city to have to show off that this is what they have to offer it takes people like you roland martin and ben crump and the other media outlets to go out there to bring that information back to us so we can know what's going on and for us to talk about it so the change that needs to happen we can start working on it i think we've got julian's audio taken care of julian uh one of the things that uh folks were concerned about first of all uh and uh let's do this here uh where we are now uh again so if you see uh anthony uh let's get the shot over here so uh the the protesters were over here uh and and supposedly uh counter protesters in support of the police were supposed to be out here they didn't show up there was also some concern of people here about antifa uh showing up and one of the things that they want to make clear uh the folks here that they have been peaceful they've been peacefully protesting here since the beginning but they want to keep the pressure going uh and and that that that's really important uh julian this is one of those moments i dare say uh that if you have what people call oftentimes a sleepy town uh this is one of those things that can wake a city up they can wake a town up much like what happened in ferguson with michael brown absolutely i think that oftentimes people swallow the injustice because it's not so vivid this is very vivid this man was shot i don't know how many times um and it doesn't seem like anybody else does either but multiple shots unnecessary didn't have to do it and you see the outpouring of support from the community this is personal when someone says shoplifting or you know noise pollution or whatever that's not personal people say okay well those are young people whatever but this is really personal for a whole lot of people and in in light of the chavan um uh indictment of shoving guilty verdict but then this week after i mean last week after shaving then we get this empty ground situation we get the other situation with the young lady in columbus ohio this is this is like if black people were a stone rock this like hitting the rock hitting it and hit it and hitting it and you know years ago richard wright the the uh novelist of um native son said it's not that i have to have been lynched it's that i know about the lynching which which is a threat to me i thought that every black man has someone been shaken i think that every black woman with sons has been shaken and not even the sun just but just by yourself has been shaken and so yes this sleepy town can wake up can't wake up if people keep it moving and if the so-called law enforcement does not do the wrong thing you know in florida they pass a law about defining what's a riot and what's uh this and that if the law enforcement people work with the protesters this can be peaceful all right folks uh let's get uh anthony we ready for the uh all right so here's the deal y'all um i showed you that uh walk through uh with the attorney wayne kendall um and then we walked across the street uh and we talked with michael gibson michael gibson lives in the home with his wife married 38 years uh it was in his yard where andrew brown jr's car crashed into a tree uh listen to him describe the aftermath and not only that one of those stray bullets fired by the cops a high caliber weapon came through his home went through two walls if if michael gibson had not if he had been 30 if he had waited because he said his wife went to work before went to work first and then he went to work before that they both left before 8 o'clock this took place around between 8 20 and 8 26. if michael gibson had delayed his leaving home by 15-20 minutes and if he had been sitting at his kitchen table michael gibson likely would be dead because that bullet literally came through at at the height of where he would be sitting in his kitchen listen to his description man talk about scary i didn't see the car didn't see anything but anyway wednesday morning when i did [Music] no all right folks uh so sorry we're gonna get the audio track fixed so something we have double audio there so because i really want y'all to listen to this uh because we have it fixed okay all right all right fine all right so now anthony got it fixed so let's go ahead and play uh the video from the top my daughter doesn't live here so that wednesday morning uh you your wife and daughter were not here no we weren't here my daughter doesn't live here by just my wife and i reside here so no one was here no one was here thank goodness hey man brother and uh we my wife left about a quarter and i left about a quarter after eight my brother and i went to lowe's and when uh i had to come back home and give him a shot to get something else so uh when we got it coming from down low coming down patrick or roanoke they told us that we couldn't come in that we had found another way to get in so we left and went back out of roanoke come back through went down walk avenue got to walk avenue still couldn't let us in said something had happened but when i got down to trenton on race street one of the uh young ladies that used to live in a house she told me said that they had just shot drew and i'm like who was drew you know so the guy that lived in front of you where the house that i used to live in i said you got they shot and said yeah they shot him about eight times what you heard since you heard the shots so my brother not to look man just let's kill me let's go on what we got to do so we went and started working so when i'm working out on my brother and i we don't keep our phones with us leave them in the truck so when we uh did knock off it was about maybe one one report after one and uh we had i had about 36 missed phone calls my brother had break minute so he called his wife well his wife called him and told him that i needed to get home mike needs to get home because they done shot in his house so i'm like shot in my house you know but i didn't see none of this i mean they wouldn't let us get those orange uh recycling bins down there as far as they would allow us to get i couldn't see none of this but matter of fact at that time there was a new tent uh nothing in my yard it was just cops there wasn't nothing in it y'all evidently i didn't see the car didn't see anything but anyways when i did uh allow steve i got in contact with my wife i call her and she says that my daughter had picked their and followed her home and they was already here when i got here so i had this waiting until the officers gave me permission to come home but my daughter and my wife was already in the house you know sweeping up glass so my daughter says dad that uh you've been breaking anything for your leave this morning she said oh no that ain't broke nothing if i would i've gotten it up so she was coming to sweeping up glasgow she asked me to what kind of glass daddy y'all got in here there's gold around the trim and clear and i said i ain't not looking right that's my clock so then when i looked up i seen that's when i seen whether the projectile had come through and it went through my clock and on the wall where my wife sits about a foot above her head when she sits across the room then i'm going wild now they don't shop through my dick didn't chop tomorrow so now where are they doing shooting in my house that's my that's where i am so then i goes in the kitchen and finds looking at where i'm going military i looked at where things might have went or might have been and then i looked where my crockpot sits on the counter and i see the indentation in my crop button it looks down on the floor and i see the projectile with that of two three bullet uh it was already bombing it had impacted but it didn't look it did it it was heavy enough it didn't look like no no pistol round to me right well two two three bullet is real small yeah what if this hip bullet did when it the impact on it wasn't no bigger than that when it hit the impact that metal uh when it it slowed it down some but it went through that this that so that so that that that hole right there that that's the bullet yes that's the bullet hole that's right so it went it went through here then went through through my other side of my front room through the front room and then through my front room to the kitchen right there yeah it started right here oh decrease this wow man wow so that chance is that's right it brought it down it brought it down so it came from there through there through the front room through the side the side of the room through the side of the room do my kitchen through the kitchen and on my counter man thank goodness nobody was home i praise god for that see that's what i was trying to explain to them they don't understand [Music] i got people coming in baby here everybody yes it came through you can look outside and see that so this is the clock yes as you can see where it came in if you come over here you can see right here you can see you can see that hole so the so that's the you see see the daylight right here you see right through that hole yeah you can see through there so it came through here it came through there and then this is where my wife sits all the time it hit this picture and went through there man got it and then once it hit here it came through that wall into this side wall here and came through this wall and hit here wow so y'all if y'all had no i sat down at breakfast eating breakfast like i do that round would have went through michael's head see you know so you said your wife left first you left a little bit after that this happened around 8 30. you're right if for whatever reason if y'all were 30 minutes late or whatever really been right here and then it hit my crock pot right right here and hit the crowd yeah i hit my crock pot right here i see the indention right there hit it there and it landed up down there on the floor man i sat there you can i mean it's dead center of my head but i said in my chair eating breakfast yeah right here right there oh absolutely yeah sitting right there man and it's crazy so i mean i i just try to tell them i mean i i'm not mad with them guys but the thing is you don't shoot like that don't do that i mean this is the residential you got the social services down there you have the health department down there you got a school down there and people walk past this house and this yard and this sidewalk every day and it doesn't make sense to this truck if they if i had shot in an occupied dwelling those people would had me on the ground when they needed my damn neck right you know what i mean they had me locked down by them yeah they were they had me you know the young man michael gordon proudly veteran shooting in houses that had me jacked up you know it's crazy so yeah how long did you know andrew uh did you know well yeah i knew it was his dad i knew his mother and i knew him when he was a little puppy i know he's a little puppy but he didn't get no trouble around here in the hood you know whatever he did or whatever they said he done i don't know because you know i didn't affiliate myself with too many people in the hood but he hadn't been recently about a good i'll say five months maybe less than that and moved over there mm-hmm you know for some apparent reasons nobody's still that long thank god you your wife and uh your daughter yes wasn't here man because like i say that's what i'm really highly pissed off about she's still upstairs laying down now she's trying to get it together but i'm telling you man i mean i've been married 38 years and something happened to my wife man i mean you know it's like this right you know if she prepares she perish but don't let nobody shoot in my damn house and kill my wife and shoot my wife right see they get me on the edge you know what i mean that's behind me all crazy and jacked up you know and that's crazy well we appreciate you all letting the same appreciate brother yeah man you're welcome but i appreciate y'all for taking time out and to hear the storm tonight though yeah i i i know how that went and and they should better than that hey hey henry i want you to actually uh go here i want you henry carl i got you i want you to go to the drone shot i want you to go to the drone shot uh folks while that video was planned uh a number of folks all of a sudden we saw about 10 police officers uh go down uh the street there uh and they went down to this parking lot over here and then uh they were talking to someone uh in the corner there and then a number of the protesters basically followed them over there uh and so uh we were tracking so you see all the protesters there uh and so the uh all of the uh the shares folks uh they were looks like they've now gone inside but uh they were all all of a sudden congregating uh down there and so not sure what was going on there uh but we were recording and tracking the whole thing uh live um with the drone uh just to uh keep an eye uh on what's going on so you still see uh you still see them uh assembled there uh they've now gone back inside of the uh of the building there uh and again i'm not sure what what was the action that was taking place uh but we were tracking it the the entire time uh and so again uh you got uh you got tension so you know let me just do this here let me take it up higher folks uh so you can see because they you know not sure what's going on um with uh the protesters there but like i say tensions are running high here uh give me one second okay there you go so you see uh you see some of the protesters there uh are uh you know talking with the police uh let me back the drone up so you can see this from this perspective so you see right here uh again not sure what's going on on what really what really caught our attention was to see again about 10 or 12 police officers sheriff's deputies go to that parking lot and then about 15 or 20 uh protesters uh decided to uh follow behind them and so we were just again just tracking that so it looks like all of those sheriff's deputies uh have gone back into this is the building they've gone back into uh right here and so it's uh not far from where we are you see us uh there in the parking lot there in the distance uh and so uh henry you can come back to me and so uh again folks we just wanted to uh you know keep abreast of of that uh and what was happening uh what was happening there um uh let's do this here folks we're gonna go to a break uh and we come back we're gonna continue to talk about what's happening here in elizabeth city north carolina but also attorney general merrick garland now saying the doj is going to do a widespread examination of the louisville police department one week after he made the same announcement for minneapolis we're broadcasting live from elizabeth city north carolina i'm rolling martin this is roller mart unfiltered we'll be back in a moment he's delivering 3 million shots a day 200 million doses so far 150 million stimulus checks delivered a million jobs created more jobs in the first two months than any administration in history plans to rebuild america's roads and bridges and create two million more jobs funded by corporations paying their fair share president biden getting america back on track the democratic national committee is responsible for the content of this advertising hi my name is latoya luckett joe it's your man dion cole from blackish and you're watching roland martin unfiltered stay woke all right folks uh welcome back we're here in elizabeth city uh north carolina folks uh again where so much of the focus uh is on this town uh last week um 42 year old black man andrew brown jr shot and killed uh by sheriff's deputies as they were trying to uh allegedly execute an arrest warrant for him and 20 seconds of the body cam footage was released today to the family they say grossly unacceptable simply not good enough and so we have been uh on top of this uh here got here last night uh and again uh was uh covering today uh and and here's what is extremely strange i want to go back to uh bernard and julian i think let me know if we have eugene craig i believe we have him as well bernard bernard here's what's unbelievable nothing today from the sheriff's office no public statement from the county attorney no public statement from the county commissioners we've been out here since 9 30 this morning we have only heard from the family attorneys the family and their supporters that's it no one from this city and county talking today that that makes no sense these are elected officials exactly these are elected officials the sheriff is elected the prosecutor is elected these are people that are put into office by the citizens of that county and where is the accountability when you don't have these leaders showing up getting in front of all of this to try to calm the community down or try to bring some patience to the community and that lack of leadership is what upsets us and what is upsetting the community at this point so if they don't want something to happen in that community show your face what you were elected to do and let's hear from you what do you have to say eugene yeah look um when you're in position of power when you're in leadership we're an elected official you absolutely have to step up in moments like this um the sheriff not issuing a statement um is unacceptable and uh you know look he should probably take a good hard look at resigning um if he can't step up and be the chief law enforcement officer of the county you know roland if they didn't have any if they didn't have anything to hide they would release all of the footage what is clear here to me is that they have something to hide and you can contrast the uh transparency from the city of elizabeth uh city the city which had a press conference i believe either friday over the weekend where they tried to make the distinction no did make the distinction between the city and the county they've been fully transparent but apparently the county does not feel that they have to be and so there is something that's being hidden and and we know it because if there was nothing on those if there was some instance where uh andrew had um run his car into a deputy or something we'd see it now what we see is a bunch of trigger happy police officers who basically and i appreciate the peace you did with the brother from across the street i mean how are you shooting into occupied housing anybody could have been there anybody and so th this again hides up the reason why we have to have police reform mayor garland is going about it the right way city by city he's looking at consent decrees and these police officers or departments really rather to adjust their behavior to just adjust their behavior so i applaud him for that and speaking of that he made that announcement today that uh the department of justice will be examining the practices of the louisville police department here's some of what he had to say today the justice department is opening us opening a civil investigation into the louisville jefferson county metro government and the louisville metro police department to determine whether lmpd engages in a pattern or practice of violations of the constitution or federal law today's announcement is based on an extensive review of publicly available information about lmpd conducted by the justice department's civil rights division the investigation will assess whether lmpd engages in a pattern or practice of using unregu un reasonable force including with respect to people involved in peaceful expressive activities it will determine whether lmpd engages in unconstitutional stops searches and seizures as well as whether the department unlawfully executes search warrants on private homes it will also assess whether lmpd engages in discriminatory conduct on the basis of race or fails to provide public services that comply with the americans with disability act the investigation will include a comprehensive review of the louisville police department's policies and training it will also assess the effectiveness of lmpd supervision of officers and systems of accountability as in every justice department investigation we will follow the facts and the law wherever they lead all right then uh so bernardo talk about that talk about the importance of uh what the attorney general is doing second week in a row they're looking at a police department this is a huge impact it's send definitely sending a message to the country that definitely what this administration wants to do is that they want to take an overhaul of the police department they want to take an overhaul of what is going on in these different police department that has led to the death of so many african americans and if the state can't police their own police guess what now the feds are coming in and they're going to take a hard look impartial look to see what is the problem with your community what is the problem with your police department and what needs to be done it happened in chicago it happened in baltimore and i'm glad to see that louisville is now having that same impact uh of course uh that's just an area of view of course where we are right now uh eugene uh and look we're gonna be spending far more time on the road traveling uh uh covering these type of stories because uh we're demanding answers we need answers from these folks and at the end of the day we're the ones who are dying and this is the moment this is what black folks voted for uh with the election of president uh joe biden the election of um the election of uh kamala harris and so bottom line is uh folks want to return on their investment that's what they want look it's accountability um you know for the first time in a very long time in at least four years you now have a federal government that's willing to hold stakeholders accountable uh for their actions and uh that's what's being that's what i play here when the state stacked up it's the federal government style becoming to make sure that they aren't violating civil rights that they aren't fighting naturalize they aren't violating human rights and uh that's what you have the merit garland justice department doing now is making sure that you know we're holding a lot of these agencies that receive federal funding and are propped up by the federal government accountable for their actions uh julian i think that uh remember on donald trump attorney general jeff sessions attorney general william barr they were making excuses for police oh we don't want to hurt their feelings it's hurting morale now you have a much more aggressive department of justice venita gupta has been confirmed we're waiting for christian clark to be confirmed over the civil rights division i expect to see far more of this under the bottom harris administration absolutely i mean we went from an administration where the police could do uh basically nothing wrong you could execute people with impunity to an administration where people understand structural racism they understand structural racism and they're looking at the systematic ways that things like these these executions occur um so it is it is a sea change in terms of the ways that people are looking at law enforcement now that's easier said than done and the real issue is can there be a sea change in police attitudes and the answer is i'm not so sure well we can't get a sheriff to respond for body uh camera footage when they know that this grieving family is sitting there trying to figure out what's going on i mean that's absurd it's abysmal and so but you still have some of the folks if you i mean i read the washington post in the comments section in the comment section you would be amazed at the number of people well the what why didn't they give they always have an excuse but here's a really bottom line excuse we have seen executions of black people in the last week since chauvin was found guilty we've still seen black people being executed so a lot of people say well this is a signal well signal to who um well uh one of the things that i think uh is important as we uh continue to ask these questions and and that is you have to also begin to demand the level of accountability uh one thing is going to happen tomorrow 11 a.m that's going to be a news conference because the family is going to be releasing the results of an independent autopsy we're going to also be back at the county office because we need some answers we want to hear from the county commissioners we want to hear from from the county judge from the county attorney they need to be speaking to the people here uh and i think what's i think and i said this last week uh bernarda i think you're going to see a far more aggressive uh position from people because with the derek chovin verdict i said then that it was going to give folks momentum i still think so uh and i think that people uh understand that i'm not saying it is shifted completely but i do believe people are seeing a tide turning where folks are not just accepting whatever cops say as the gospel so roland one thing you also said last week that was so moving is that aside from holding people accountable that you also need a prosecutor who has the courage and that is the courage to step up the courage to be a leader the courage to conduct a fair and impartial investigation no matter where it ends and be transparent with the public unlike what we see here where we haven't even seen the face of the prosecutor or the sheriff so in order for there to be any movement in the positive direction what we need is to hold the chief law enforcement official the prosecutors accountable because remember the prosecutor has much more power than the police department it is the prosecutor who decides whether charges should be bought if so what charges to be bought and if there are charges but what type of sentence or what type of prosecution there is going to take because it can either be a grand jury presentation it could be a preliminary hearing or it can be oh we made a decision by looking at the evidence that's available to us and we do not feel that it should be presented to a grand jury or presented as a preliminary here or we can have the okie doke like mr cameron from uh kentucky well let's go to virginia where the spotsylvania sheriff's office in virginia they released body camera footage and a portion of the 911 audio call of the recent officer-involved shooting of a 32-year-old black man the recordings appear to show the deputy mistook a cordless house phone hailed by isaiah brown for a gun before the deputy shot him 10 times watch this show me your hands you want a gun point show me your hands now show me your hands drop the gun he's got a gun to his head drop the gun now stop walking towards me stop walking towards me stop stop shots fired shots fired one down show your hands shove me your hands drop the gun drop the gun let go of the gun finally about five shots fired suspects laying down the roadway show me your hands now show me your hands now two zero two five ninety two are you ten four first starters several gunshots to abdomen performing life-saving measures [Music] this shooting took place last wednesday morning same day as the shooting here in elizabeth city north carolina now uh this young man uh called uh the police uh the deputy who came there because they did a domestic disturbance brown the man who was shot called 9-1-1 because his brother would not let him into his mother's room uh he folks remains in critical condition number one with his address to the emergency occasion in virginia isaiah what's going on my brother won't let me get in my mind's room why is that an emergency because i can't get to my car your car was towed so what's in the backyard your car is in the backyard [Applause] [Music] okay but your car is broken down so why do you need your keys all right come on i'm not i'm all right give me the gun no [Music] what is going on isaiah why don't you just what is the problem i'm about to kill my brother don't kill your brother why would you say something like that somebody need to come here real quick okay but do you understand that you just threatened to kill your brother on a recorded line on 9-1-1 so why would you say something like that yeah because i need to get to my that's not a reason to kill somebody why would you do that all right do you have a gun no you have a gun on you nope where's your brother in the house and you're outside [Music] [Applause] mm-hmm [Music] [Applause] do you have any weapons on you no all right where are you at outside i'm [Music] [Applause] how are you walking down the road with the house um because i can all right you need to hold your hands up hold your hands up [Applause] isaiah are you holding your hands up put your hands up [Music] [Applause] me got the gun [Music] [Music] earlier today uh the family held a news conference and isaiah's sister yolanda she spoke need to label this i'm not going to label this you know as a whole right now this country is divided um it's not one race it's a lot of minorities that walk in daily fear it's a fear that nobody should have to feel um we don't have any hate in our heart or prejudice towards anyone neither does my brother the hearts that we have is for everyone we our hearts go out to the families that understand exactly how we feel you know and we've always cared for them but it ain't like this when they hit home now the family wants all of the sheriff's recordings to be released bernard there are there's a lot of questions i have regarding uh this story right here first off you have the dispatcher it is clear they know this young man they knew isaiah brown for the dispatcher to know his car status being towed what i don't understand is you hear the dispatcher say do you have a gun no what is in your hand a phone she repeated that but then the cop gets on the scene and he says put the gun down i'm just trying to understand we're literally hearing the officer give the commands and you're going is anybody communicating with the cop he doesn't have a gun it's a phone so ron there are a couple issues with that so when you call 911 the message that you are or relaying to the person that's on the 911 call is not exactly relating word from word what you're saying to the police officer they are typing it up bits and pieces of it and then communicating it to the police officer that is responding so all that information is not being communicated what i believe probably what may have happened is that this 911 agent clearly put at least that he said that he had a gun or he's going to kill his brother because another thing is that you rather be safe than sorry so she wanted to give a heads up at least to the sheriff or the police officers that responded in addition to that there was already the sheriff or the police officer that actually fired at isaiah multiple times earlier in the day had given isaiah a ride home so clearly they do know each other and this police department is familiar with that household unfortunately there are a lot of unanswered questions in this case roland i really hope that isaiah makes it out okay that he survives because unfortunately based on what has been released right now i do not see a prosecution in this case against the officer that fired the multiple shots at isaiah and the sad thing here julian is just like in the makia bryan case the number of times when black people have called the cops uh to settle issues family issues and somebody ends up dead you know as i was listening to the 9-1-1 call i was thinking that first of all we need to be careful about when we bring the 9-1-1 into our lives because these folks are trained to respond to emergencies and they're already that listen to the police officer already amped up drop the gun drop the gun um so that's one thing this case and the makia case also makes a point about having social workers on call as well as police officers i mean i think what the mccann that could have been resolved it was they were fighting over someone cleaning their room and the next thing you know the young lady is dead and this particular case is out you have two squibbling um squabbling and if squid uh you know squabbling siblings called 9-1-1 every time they got into a beef um that would be a challenge so i really want us to think as a community about when we involve 9-1-1 and when we don't and when there's conflict in our household who do we involve who can work this conflict out because this is heartbreaking that you know just that a young man is killed behind bs it's really heartbreaking uh eugene and that that really is the thing and i keep telling people i mean look these cops uh are trained to use lethal force uh and this is also why and again as i listen to that 9-1-1 call frankly that to me sounded like one of those examples where it was better to send a mental health professional than a police officer with a gun i i agree 100 with you um this is one of those cases where absolutely would have been better than sending a mental health professional than an officer with the gun um and i would take it a step further um you know even when the officer arrives there's no reason you should be shooting off your gun if you don't have a clear visual um you know a phone and a gun are shaped two different ways um i mean one's you know pretty much a long line one's an l you know one's an l and so you know when this officer um you know is telling him to you know put his hands up and drop the gun you know even if you think that he's going to you know commit suicide that doesn't mean that you help accelerate that you know death by unloading your chamber um and so look i think this this is one of those very very unique situations where it would have been more helpful to have a mental health professional than an officer um um but the thing is this by the same token uh when an officer arrives on the scene um that does not give them license to just let you know empty out every bullet they have in their clip um and if they are going to shoot you know they need to make sure he has a clear visual i mean i think that's where the negligence is folks let's stay in virginia you might recall us showing you this video two years ago in 2019 when a virginia state trooper let's just say he decided to show himself as a brother recorded this confrontation in his car you can't do that sir this officer is trying to unlock my car this officer is unlocking my car they just illegally entered my car and i'm being forcefully ever take a look at me i'm being i'm a specimen right here buddy sir i haven't gotten to my last my hands are up on camera all right i'm in no threat you're gonna get your ass looked in front of lord in all creation i'm gonna give you one more chance i'm being threatened you can bring that with you i'll let you film the whole thing i'm being threatened right now i'm giving you a chance i'm not doing anything i feel unsafe and i'm in no threat to these three officers my hands are up i am doing nothing wrong to provoke anybody or anything making sure this is all recorded i've just been threatened by you lawfully sir i have just been threatened by a law officer as two other officers stand by and say absolutely nothing willing to participate my rear my passenger door was open my driver door was open i have it on camera he rolled my window down to do so i'm giving you to the count of three sir i'm still this is all on camera i am not resisting i'm making sure it is being known i am not resisting okay my hands are up one hand on this camera come on my seatbelt is being arrested as long as your hands are up that's right i'm not resisting your hands i was unlawfully okay come on please do not touch me sir keep your phone out sir please do not touch me see that's where we're coming to a disagreement email it's not about i'm giving you to the count of three you don't know this sir do it i'm not touching this officer it's on camera my hand is by my own car right being threatened now you're under arrest my life yes get off me my hands are behind my back my hands are behind my back i am not resisting sir please get off my neck i'm not resisting get off my neck sir you are harming me you are harming me you are harming me sir you are harming me well that officer charles hewitt a state trooper no longer has a job he has been fired here's the crazy thing bernarda derrick thompson was pulled over for an expired inspection decal they claimed they smelled marijuana in the car but all of that because of an inspection decal uh thompson uh sued the state he settled for twenty thousand dollars with no admission of wrongdoing mother state but that state trooper does not have a job well absolutely rightfully so that state trooper former state trooper hewitt used unnecessary and excessive force on a person that was not armed a person that was not an imminent threat and it wasn't uncle it wasn't called for the use of force that that stayed true for you so rightfully so he lost his job it's a shame that for the little minor things how a person can lose their life because that incident could have turned out completely different where this man could have lost his life over this guy's ego you know this guy was so aggressive bro that the language the the whole manner the aggression is just over the top and that's what we've seen quite a bit of lately with officers the way they talk to people i mean it was the other case with the uh lieutenant uh who got stopped i believe he was also in virginia but they have been trained to treat us like animals to talk to us any kind of way i would give this young man commendation for him keeping his wits about him and i would refer him to ben crump because franklin twenty thousand dollars is hardly enough to compensate for that madness that he just had to go through and the other thing is that there are three other officers hanging around what happens to them none of them had enough sense to say excuse me don't you think you're going a little too far well that's what happens when folks don't say anything right now right right and and that's where you have accountability folks let's go to florida where a jackson county judge has hit a trial date for a former deputy accused of planning drugs on drivers during traffic stops former deputy sheriff zachary wester faces over 50 counts including racketeering official misconduct perjury and fabricating evidence during internal investigation by the department investigators discovered drug palphin area in his car matching items he planted on drivers y'all it gets better his body cam showed the arrest and the planning of drugs chicken mcnugget [Applause] i better get what i need [Applause] um man it's hot there we go the blue discoloration tested present deposited from methamphetamine that does have the appearance of crystal methamphetamine okay okay you see the blue on the on the cotton swab no you don't see red okay are you color blind or you just can't oh okay all right i'm not trying to be smart oh yeah you are it's fine don't you look there ain't any problem at all that's red that's not blue that's not either one of our shield definitely you see the blue i just want to verify for the camera on audio okay you don't see the blue on the cotton swab yeah i see it on the very tip okay thank you okay always florida eugene always florida so listen florida's a wild wild place um [Music] look you know i'm not a proponent of mandatory minimums but absolutely young cops do wrong and um you know when you do things like plant drugs using plant guns i don't think you need to just lose your license to be a police officer i think it's probably becoming a 10 year mandatory minimum um because you know the public trust and the keeping of public trust is the most uh responsibility of a police officer and i'm a cop as well to plant drugs or a lion or report or plant guns or indiscriminately um pull people over um should not be a police officer well to say the least i mean the thing about this is so frustrating is the 400 people that he um planted drugs on so it wasn't just this one situation so really the state of florida needs to go back through any arrests this person made to basically verify that it was a legitimate arrest to pay more attention to some of the people who were unlawfully arrested some of them i think there was one gentleman who um was released from jail the others um served a little time but not a lot but this is i mean this is talk about basic violation of human rights and the thing about this role and that makes it so frustrating is that this is a pattern a lot of people say well it's 2021 that was way back when way back when yeah they did plant guns on black people black men in particular drugs um doing prohibition alcohol but this is 2021 and they're still doing it well the bernard of this goes to show you again the lack of mistrust uh with police officers and here he had a partner who said oh yeah that's blue you can't convince me that other officers did not know what this guy was doing absolutely so what's going to happen now is that the prosecutor's office is going to have to look at every case that either one of these officers were involved in and in looking at those cases unfortunately there is no trust there is no credibility with these officers they're going to have to overturn those convictions or dismiss any open cases because the the reliability of the prosecution has now been tainted so there's no way that you can overcome that doubt in this case so they're going to have to dismiss this it's cops like this that makes other cops look bad that create the distrust within police officers uh yeah i would think so especially if you're sitting here uh planting drugs on people and again we're talking about uh 400 cases and so uh they're gonna have to go back not to look at those cases but every single case uh that this cop uh was uh involved every single one uh this cop was involved in and so again folks uh all right here's our last police story of the day let me pull this up here uh we we've been covering of course a number of these stories here but in tacoma a washington state sheriff is now on a criminal investigation by the attorney general's office for lying about being threatened by a black newspaper carrier on january 27th uh pierce county sheriff ed troyer called 9-1-1 on 24 year-old cedric alzheimer body camera footage shows alzheimer surrounded by dozens of officers trying to explain he did nothing wrong [Applause] i must have said that i know who he who he is he has no clue who you are the sheriff he's threatened okay he's so threatened i knew he was a pop so i'm over here every night six days a week can i explain it no i don't need nothing to be explained to me i'm being followed he called the cops congratulations yes i'm coming to and from a house oh he's committing a crime he's black he's black he's black i mean oh i'm gonna explain i'm doing my paper route okay i understand that i see all the papers in your car yeah congratulations he just called saying that someone threatened his life that's why we're here okay yeah i threatened his life because i walked up to him and asked him why he's following me did you guys have any verbal experience he's following me okay i walked up to his car because he came around the block again for the third time i approached him why are you following me because i'm a black male in a white neighborhood oh where are you at i'm on the north end oh you don't know where you're at my wife is black i don't care that's all we're trying to get to is what happened between you guys that made him i am working i am driving a bucket and i'm in a nice neighborhood i'm working i'm over here every night i see you guys every night nobody messes with me but a car that sees a bucket in the neighborhood on the wrong side of the street throwing a paper out window he's suspicious well the sheriff could be facing charges of filing a false police report they're also investigating him for past misuse of authority oh what happens when they have all that power julian they get drunk with it this is why and look to everybody out here i and let me be clear i am not saying that body cams are the be all to end all but this is why you have body cam footage because you need to see every time a cop is doing something and that's why i believe if that camera's not on automatic firing if it's not on yeah i agree roll you know it's absurd that we have to go to this link but we've seen so many cases where we know that we have to have documentation this off the so-called officer um to lie use 9-1-1 to lie to some say that someone has threatened your life is an absurdity but we've seen it before we saw it with uh what is it central park becky and you know the crazy karen's um so we've seen it but the challenge and the frustrating thing is this brother i mean bless him he pretty much kept his composure i mean he went off a little bit who wouldn't but um imagine that he were even more agitated and he has the right to be agitated he's working he's doing his job bernardo the thing that's just crazy again this is i mean the last story in florida this story in tacoma washington abuse of power people cops who are drunk with power roland he's just a donkey of the day with this foolishness the donkey of the day who got caught on his own body camera this is a joke i mean i can't i just don't understand did he not think this through did he not think this through he's gonna have to get fired and again just like the other officers in florida all his cases are going to have to be opened and examined and see if any cases or convictions need to be overturned or dismissed because of his donkey of the day activities uh i i just sit here and just sort of just shake my head eugene i just sort of shake my head folks um the the family of the family of dante wright they have been receiving death threats uh phone calls and emails uh since he was shot and killed uh this is what they had to say have they faced uh the family has another family face any death threats i don't want to specifically point those out but there are some security concerns you know whenever you have an event like this you get a lot of people who come out and america is an interesting place so there are some concerns about safety for the family that we are addressing and making sure that we can keep them safe and i'm not sure you know why that happens but you know you do have people who support the officer don't matter no matter what and some people you know are happy that she you know that she killed dante i'll just be honest with you so i always get a bunch of calls and emails that are that are pretty uh i mean racist and that's uh it's a sad thing to do that you know or you'll see comments on social media that are bad or that they're nasty or like like whatever police organization here in the state said hey if he complied that you know he'd still be alive i mean who says that when a mother has just lost her child you know i mean i i don't know sometimes it seems like people don't have heart but yes there have been some threats to the family and this is disturbing but hopefully we can get past that as well and heal this nation and of course kim potter the former kappa who shot and killed dante wright faces charges in his death all right folks our final story of today over the weekend there were two no two services for rapper dmx who died on april 9th on saturday there was a massive rally that took place at the barclays center for him and of course on sunday a private memorial both of those were live streamed over the weekend of course uh his uh his cherry colored casket was driven throughout uh his uh hometown driven from there all the way to the memorial service on the back of a massive uh pickup truck followed by hundreds of rough riders uh on their motorcycles uh very ubiquitous uh with the record label when he was uh one of their top uh top uh stars folks uh it was a number of people who performed at the uh service uh including his daughter here is some of that memorial service this weekend i learned so much from him so i dedicate this song to him hey yo i'm growing i'm learning to hold my head up beyond growing i'm learning to hold my head up and you're going i'm learning tore my head up my daddy's still holding my hand so i gotta stand up and [Music] [Applause] my daddy's still holding my hand so i gotta get up and you wanna learn so much from my father he taught me life is my story i'm the author he taught me to be strong but it's okay to be afraid cause sometimes it'll show you how to be brave i know how to get up whenever i fall i never give up i give it my all cause i know i'm big even though i look small looking at my daddy's picture on the wall i know he want me to be the best i can be nobody else i gotta be me my brothers and sisters we all stand together throw up the ex daddy forever i learn how to understand the good and the bad i look in the mirror sometimes i see my dad i know he's with god cause i know he loved him when he was here he put nobody above him he taught me how to pray when i wake up and for when i go to sleep pray for my family pray before i eat and sometimes when i feel sad and weak i can still hear him speak yeah by all means i'ma do what's right even in the dark imma be the light i can do it even when i'm feeling sad y'all call him dmx i call him dad yo i'm growing i'm learning to hold my head up yo growing i'm learning to hold my head up and you're growing i'm learning to hold my head up my daddy's still holding my hands so i gotta stand up and you're growing i'm learning to hold my head up and you're growing i'm learning to hold my head up you're growing i'm learning to hold my head up my daddy's still holding my hand so i gotta stand up people all over the world showing love i say thank you and to god up above i know my daddy's watching shining down on me i can feel his love raining down on me i know my daddy's watching shining down on me i can feel his love raining down on me so throw your x's up and if you slip and you fall you gotta get up and you're growing i'm learning to hold my head up and you're growing i'm learning to hold my head up and you're growing i'm learning to hold my head up my daddy's still holding my hand so i gotta stand up [Applause] [Music] dmx of course day at the age of 50 and so uh his fans gave him uh a great send-off this weekend folks uh we're broadcasting live from liberty city uh north carolina we'll be broadcasting here tomorrow as well uh there's gonna be a vigil plan for thursday we'll be live streaming that we live streaming the events today uh your support makes all of this possible we and we aren't funded by billionaires and millionaires uh your contributions absolutely matter and so please if you could support what we do to make this possible for us to be out here for us to be able uh to have our crew here to be able to travel here to be all day uh is so critically important uh and it matters and so if you 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lofton one is 84. one is 32. y'all it's a 15-minute conversation i guarantee you it will blow you away go to facebook.com forward slash roland s martin fan page or go to my instagram page at rolandsmart.com to watch that interview uh it's called we got next it's a conversation between dr jennifer cole and tiffany lofton it's a fascinating conversation you're certainly going to enjoy it let me thank my panel bernard julian malvo we also thank eugene thank you so very much for y'all being with us and for providing your analysis again folks i will see you guys tomorrow news conference 11am tomorrow morning we'll be streaming it right here on rollerblad unfiltered so put it on your calendar uh and so check it out that's right tomorrow and we'll be broadcasting the show live from the same spot this is roland martin broadcasting live from elizabeth city north carolina covering the fatal shooting death of andrew brown jr i will see you tomorrow holla [Music] you

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