Good morning and thank you all
for coming out real quick.
Like I just really want
to invite the community.
I want to let them know that I am at a very,
very, very important event
today in front of the federal.
I'm in front of the federal buig
which is located at 7510 Turner.
and what has been taking place l
this week is an immunity hearin.
The immunity hearing is for the
officers that killed my son,
Jamari and Robinson August 5th, 2016.
And I would like to invite the community,
the people at home out,
because you're needed here.
It's very important that
you attend this event.
We will be here the rest of
the the rest of the week.
Today is Thursday.
We'll be here from 9:00 to 5:00.
Friday,
we'll be here from 9:00 to 5:00 as well.
We need to let our voices be
heard and let these government
officials that are here,
we have government officials here from
Department of Justice as well as the.
I'm sorry,
we have officials here from the Department
of Justice as well as the US government.
Here standing in solidarity wite
role officers that killed my son
Jamarian Robinson on August 5th,
2016,
What type of message is that seg
to the people and the and the community
is sending the message that it's
OK to kill brown and black peope
here in the United States of America?
And how very disheartening thiss
for me and my family to see the
sit there and see these governmt
officials from the DOJ, the US government,
stating that we stand with these officers.
These officers were indicted October 20,
2020.
I'm sorry.
These officers were indicted
October of 2021 on felony murde,
aggravated soul burglary, false statements.
Both of an officer.
With that being said,
this immunity cannot happen.
If these officers are granted immunity,
that makes everything that I did well,
actually, they get away with murder this.
Period.
That's it.
These officers, if they are granted immunity,
they get away with murder.
And we cannot let that happen
in the city of Atlanta, GA.
What I need for you to do if
you can't be here,
I need for you to call.
I need for you to get on the
phone and make phone calls for .
Contact our senators,
our commissioners, City Council,
Who am I missing our state
reps and let them know.
That this immunity hearing is tg
place here today and tomorrow,
and that we, the citizens,
we the people, we will not no
longer stand for police terrori,
police brutality,
police balance.
And if these officers are
not granted immunity,
that means this case sets
precedence and that means that e
cases that will follow my case.
They will have a chance at
winning their case too as well.
So again, I implore you,
I invite you to come out and stay with
me and my family as we go throuh
this hearing for the next couple
of days, even if you only have n
hour or two of your time to spa.
That is so much needed.
I appreciate your time and thank
you all so much for being here.
I just kind of wanted to put tht
message out there to the people.
Why do you think this? Explain o
us how it is getting there. Furr
you say explain. I say
it again. If the officers
work to get grant or to get grad
of community, explain to us hows
would be getting away with murd.
Well actually granting them immunity is
saying OK what you did was OK we the.
Elected officials, we the government,
we the DOJ, we are OK with that.
So if they're sending a clear message
with just their presence by beig
here sitting on it and they were
here actually the last time as .
They one of the US government officials
stood up and spoke you know stating that hey
we I'm here in support of these officers.
We the US government we stand
in support of them.
But to me what kind of message is that
sending to people like myself a.
Other families that have been victims to
police brutality, that's like saying,
oh, it's okay to go around and
kill black and brown kids and y,
you get a pass, you have a license to kill.
We're giving you a license to kl
brown and black people. Who's n?
Who's to say who's next?
Because I look at it like this
while police officers pull us or
as brown and black people.
They're not going to stop it. Ask me.
Hey, is your father a police officer?
Is your dad a judge? Is your mother a judge?
Is your mother a police officer?
No. They're going to kill 1st
and ask questions last.
So that's what we're trying to
prevent that from happening.
Not only to myself.
I have grandchildren, I have so.
I want to protect them.
And so that's why I'm here.
That's why I've been here every day just,
you know, saying, hey,
I'm not going to tolerate this.
I'm not going to no longer allow this.
And as you all know, I am a fig.
I am a warrior.
I am a queen.
And so I will fight to the very
end for my sons and my family.
Well, to me, it's murder.
Because that's OK.
Well, it's murder because you gt
to think about the circumstance.
You got to think about the situation.
My son was killed August 5th, 2.
He was visiting a friend's homed
approximately about 1:30 in thee
o'clock 1:30 in the afternoon ty
battle ram his door open and open fire.
And then in court, as I as you ,
as as they've been stating,
I don't know if you guys have seen the video,
but in the video you hear a flah
bang grenade goes off maybe.
2 1/2 minutes and 2 the video.
And then after that you hear anr
round or another burst of gunfi.
They're admitting that no,
there was no, there was no gunfe
after the flash bang grenade.
But if you're watching the vide,
we all hear it loudly and clear.
And as you also know,
these officers went upstairs and stood
over my son's body and shot down into
his body and they're stating on the stand.
That no one went upstairs and
they're standing on that.
So again,
they were indicted on felony mu,
aggravated assault,
false statements, false stateme.
And that's what they've been
doing the last couple of days.
I'm just going to be honest.
I'm going to put it out there.
They've been lying and it's
making me angry and upset to sit
here and listen to their lies.
Again,
they've been indicted on felony murder,
aggravated assault, burglary,
false statements over the offic.
And no, we're not going to tolee
that in the city of Atlanta,
the state of Georgia.
And so we're saying no to police terrorism,
to police brutality,
to police ballots.
How do you think that this
is indicative
of the an issue that exists here
in Atlanta and Georgia? So I'm
not quite sure what you're asking me. So,
so your son was murdered
in 2016, correct.
And now in the last, you know,
seven years, we have seen a
flood of, you know, black
and brown crimes against black
and brown folks here in the cit.
Do you feel that this is just a
part of a bigger issue in the c?
Yes, it is a bigger issue.
It's a large issue and to me,
I've been screaming to the top of my lungs
for the we're at 7 years now, Why am I here?
I don't want to be here. I'm ti.
I've been fighting for the last seven years,
so let's say they are granted, Amelia.
All the things, everything that I've done
thus far with the other families have
done thus far with the community has done
thus far as being in the streets protesting.
You know, doing the 2020 uprisi,
it takes all of that and really
throw it out the window.
So that's why it's so very
important for people to come ou,
to show up so that we can say n,
we would no longer tolerate police brutality,
police terrorism, police violene
in our city is standing behind .
I think that's.
City Councilman Antonio Brown.
I'm going, I'm
sorry, where I get Brown from? m
sorry, but standing behind,
let me repeat that.
Standing behind me is City
Councilman Antonio Lewis.
I'm going to let him speak.
And if you all would like
to ask him any questions,
remember I said to call your City Council,
your state reps I have one
right here standing with me.
So internally or Lewis,
I'm going to turn it over to yo.
Anytime you ask me about law enforcements,
wearing body cameras, I think at
my friend Oscar Kane,
and he was he, he was actually
murdered by a police officer
who cut his camera off.
Justice still hasn't been seen
in that in that, in that case,
we're standing here for in
front of this courtroom today
because we're seeking justice.
Family is seeking justice.
This is a mother seeking
justice right here in our city.
We stood up before 2020.
We stood up after 2020.
We standing here today.
This is Mother here alone.
She's not alone because
I'm standing with her.
And so Councilman Lewis, do you
what do you hope that you know
your support here for Mrs.
Robinson will will bring to the
awareness here in the city as fs
the city being in support of, you know,
mother So when you think of rogue officers.
That's the thing of it.
As an officer that just went ro.
Rogue officers cannot be
tolerated in our city.
We think about officers needing
a different kind of training.
I think this is the one city in
America that can actually do it.
Who else would you rather be
on the City Council when it's
time for some change like this?
When we look around, I saw a
mother standing here alone.
I saw her standing here alone.
And that's the issue.
That's the issue.
The issue is that when people
aren't standing here together
for for for the long haul.
When you think about what
are people actually here for?
When you say he got killed in
East Point, they say ten office.
How many different?
17 different officers were ther?
56 shots. Nobody's here with he.
I'm standing here with her.
I was here with the From the mot
I I heard about it throughout,
my staff has been with her
throughout, consoling her.
We need more people here.
We have officers who've been indicted.
We got them. We got them. Where you at?
We need people here now today.
That's a call out to everybody
all over the nation.
We got some officers indicted right here,
right now in Atlanta.
Got a City Councilman.
I'm looking around.
We got people who've done a call
out to bring people to Atlanta.
Come here now.
Today we got officers who've been indicted.
We can get them now.
This is a mother who's been
here asking people to come.
We've been working with her,
putting together rallies.
Why is nobody here with her now?
And that's the statement
when we moving around, when we say people
just came in town for certain reasons,
this is justice.
As a person who was born in this city,
I saw, I saw murder in a different way.
My mother was murdered when I ws
two years old, shot over 20 tim.
The man who murdered my mother did 30 years.
I asked my grandmother, how did you feel?
She said he felt justice.
Asked my brother, how did he fe?
He's looking for that man today and so.
I understand this in a different kind of way.
So when I asked you to come,
now we got some police officers who we
say who a mother is asking for p
and she's standing here alone t.
We need help now.
And we got officers who are alry
been indicted. The defense attos
for these officers, you know,
contend that that Mister Robinson had
a gun and he pointed at the offs
and then even fired to the jobs.
Does that change anything?
I think, I think we need to
learn how to train officers.
You can shoot one shot.
You don't got to shoot that many times.
We got to train the officers how to shoot,
not to shoot that many times th.
That was a lot of shots.
Man, when when you think
about unloading a a clip,
how many clips did you unload when you
think about automatic weapons so that
you shouldn't shoot that many t.
If an officer, if somebody shoots at me,
I fear for my life, I run for c,
I may shoot back. Cover, shoot .
You don't shoot that many times.
And so I think that's the kind of training
that we need to start talking a.
What about this case that
made you want to get involved.
What?
What was
it? We got
a mother asking for justice.
We got a mother asking for just.
That's what we got. I'm. I'm
from Atlanta. My, my job.
I don't have on my City Council
person paying right now.
I'm down here is Antonio
Lewis from Cleveland Ave.
We got a mother asking for just.
I was out here on.
2020, before I was elected,
I was out there when I came.
Before that, I was in when
when Ferguson was happening.
I was actually in DC trying to write a
bill to declare a state of emergency in
Ferguson before Mike Brown got killed.
Because these are different kinf
fights that we are fighting right now.
So I see a mother asking for
justice and that's why I'm here.
And when I leave here,
you know, I'm going,
I'm going to the airport
to to to to stand up with the wh
the workers who are trying to.
Labor is trying to start
a union against Delta. And so
that's what I'm going to leave there.
I see a mother asking for justice like
my grandmother seen before she .
My grandmother felt justice.
And so this is a mother asking
for justice to be serving.
We need more people.
We need more pressure on these s
to make sure that we get it done right.
And that's why I'm down here.
Yeah. And I think that the, once again,
I think that the case is going,
I think that's going to go through itself.
I think we need to make put
as much pressure as we can,
get as much support as we can
wrap as many arms as we can
about around a mother who's got
officers indicted.
They're already in there. What
do you say to the people don't e
out because they say receivers e
time to time to get in the publ.
I don't think that people are
talking about it. I think people
come out here if they knew abou.
So I think people are if if thel
is to get people who murdered M.
Robinson. We got
them in there. I don't think
people are talking about.
I think people watching news
and a lot about a Young Thug on
news and a lot about the public
safety training still on news.
Oh, we got some officers in
here who killed somebody, man.
That's what they said They
they've indicted them on it.
I think the courts going
to work their self out.
But I think we need people down
here with this mother circling
around her so she can feel somel
love if that's what we're doing
it for this if the job to protet
black and brown bodies, right.
I'm a black man who who who done felt
it and and all my grandmother wd
to do was feel a little lower L,
look, she felt justice.
When that when that man got indd
and he did 30 years he got out of jail.
He's somewhere coaching kids rit
now and I'm okay with that becae
my grandmother felt justice.
The facts
of the case are very simple. Toe
Minas Robbie director of strategy and
policy to Marian Robinson Foundation.
There was a question
asked earlier about a gun.
Let let it let it be very,
very clear right now. Crystal c.
There was no gun fired from
the behalf of Jamari.
There is no gunshot residue.
The gun that was at the crime se
could not even be shot because t
was so old that there can even a
trigger test performed on that .
Let us be very clear about these facts.
Jamari was shot over 110 times.
Entry and exit wounds,
56 individual shots.
Two grenades on his body drug down the
stairs, left there for more than 8 hours,
the officers inside 8 hours.
The officers inside took
pictures with his body,
not of his body but with his
body like it was a trophy.
So we have to put the case firs,
the facts of the case first.
That is the truth.
There was no gun,
there were no shots fired and
inside there will say that it
sounds like a car kicking back.
It does not.
Anybody who grew up anywhere
can tell you that 110 shots and
a car kickback sounds a lot
different and there's testimony
and evidence to prove to that.
Just wanted to get that clear.
There was a gun found on the pre
that could not even have a gun shot test,
a trigger test performed because it was
so old the trigger wasn't even working.
Yes, and and and it was just
a gun at the apartment.
Remember,
he wasn't at his house,
at his girlfriend's apartment.
And and remember grenades.
Think about we talking about grenades.