When he first came out of the vehicle,
he had the gun in his right hand.
In the office are solved.
Yes, the officer saw the gun in his hand.
There's a portion of the video that we
did not play in respect to the family
where the young man actually asked
the officer why did you shoot me?
An officer responds because you had a weapon.
When the grand jury saw this video,
we just saw it in real time.
There they just see it
one time like how are you?
How is that evidence
presented to the grand jury?
I'll let you answer that Jason.
The grand jury met today.
They were presented with all of the.
Not just doing this.
They were presented with
all the witness statements.
They were to include the statement given by
one of the the gentleman located in the car.
They were presented with all of the video of
every officer who was behind that warehouse.
Bodycam and dashcam of every vehicle
behind that warehouse during the incident.
They were given GBI agent
testified he gave the details of
every part of the investigation.
They were shown the exterior video from
the warehouse that showed the incident.
They were showed a slowed version of
the body Cam as well as the steel
you saw and a few other skills
that are part of the GBI
file. How many hours in?
I didn't honestly
didn't time it because we had the
interviews and the other audio,
but it was several hours
worth that they were shown.
Every all the evidence that
was reviewed by the grand jury,
there was only one frame of video that
showed the gun in true it, and there's
several frames of video that
showed the guy and Mr Tristan.
Stock drop his weapon. Any commands
other than acquiring straight away.
What you have seen is the
video of the shooting.
There's obviously more that
goes on either side of that.
It speaks for itself.
I meant to say drop your weapon first. I'll
defer to Mr. Brodie on that, but. Each
of our police agencies has a
aesopi for their use of force.
And just following the law of 17420.
It says that if a officer is
chasing a felon who has a weapon,
who can pose a danger to the others,
he has the ability to fire to use
deadly force, and in this case.
The officer followed his aesopi
to the letter and also followed
the law found in 17420.
Charges represented to
the grand jury. There were
no charges presented to the grand jury.
Basically, what was presented to the grand
jury where the facts in the grand jury
was to decide that we need to actually
charge the officer with anything if that
would have been the case, we would have
drawn up resentment to ask for charges.
Basically it's a criminals cake. It was.
Presented as a criminal case, yes.
Is required to follow the
grand jury's recommendation.
I have made it my policy and this is
what I've told the police officers
that in any police shooting officer
involved shooting that I will present
it to the grand jury and let the
grand jury make a decision based on
our Community citizens looking at
what's best for their community.
I will not make a decision on my
own that requires me to either
show my bias or show emotion for
what I've seen in live video.
'cause as an African American you hate
to see any African Americans shot down.
But the fact is,
we have to follow the law.
In the law,
says the officer was within his rights,
and if you see the video,
if you saw where the location was,
there were plenty of places that
that young man could have hid and
presented an opportunity to ambush
the officer or the officers that
were chasing the other assailant
that had ran ahead of him.
Would you present this case to
another? A second grand jury, no.
This case will be closed by
our office and once the open
records material is available,
we will let you know that so
you can subpoena it or ask
for the open records material.
Here, because again we were just
watching the video for the first time.
We were presented one picture here, yes.
Injury because we've only seen one
still there. I'm sorry I don't.
How many pictures are we talking about?
We talking different angles or
reach us talking one angle with.
With that one picture.
There were you asking about steel
shots already told you what
video was shown of the steals.
There were still shown from the
warehouse camera that shows them
going from the side when the weapon.
When the officer drew his weapon,
there were still shown that show.
Obviously what you just saw and as
well as when he's running how the gun
was presented or was in his hand and
how his arms were moving slowed video.
Same video slowed down as well
as stills taken from those.
I will tell you when you look at the
stills they are a little blurry 'cause
we're taking from live motion video,
but that's what was shown to the grand jury.
Have you had any communication with?
This is true. It's family or attorneys,
since the grand jury ruling came down.
Yes, we did. We called his family. We
called Mr Griggs,
the attorney for the family.
At 11:00 o'clock this morning,
to let him know that the IT was
being presented to the grand jury.
Today we had a room set up for
them to stay at until we've got
the answer from the grand jury.
So we met them at that room came
back once we got the answer,
went back again and gave them the
answer that the grand jury presented.
The.
The the evidence, as well as their
deliberations were we started
8:30 this morning and they
concluded sometime after
4:00 o'clock Saturday.
Now the family attorney and Jewish family
have contended and contested that Mr Troy,
well, you've seen you've seen the gun now
in his hand he was running away that you
have claimed that he was not a threat long.
Running away from these police officers.
What's your position on this?
Because again,
world seen this video for the first time.
Everything happens quickly.
Choi gets out of the car several
couple seconds later, two shots fired.
I think you have to when
you see the slowdown video,
you'll see that even though it
was just a couple of seconds,
there was plenty of distance that the
officer ran before he reached for his gun.
And when he comes out when the
truth comes out the video,
the gun is obvious and he actually
takes a peek back at the officer
he's running with a gun in the
direction that other officers are.
And like I said before,
there were many places he could have hid.
That calls off,
so some concerning.
I believe the officer was within his
authority to do the actions that he took.
Disagree with the grand jury decision today.
I think my message to the community that
we cannot let emotions dictate how we see
things that we have to look at the facts
and I'll give you a quote from Malcolm X.
Malcolm X says I am for justice.
No matter who, it's four or who it's against,
and my job is the district attorneys to
make sure that I look out for everybody,
not just the victims,
but also the offenders to make sure that they
get a fair hearing based on the evidence.
And that's what we did today.