>> A black undercover police
officer was basically beaten up, by
his own colleagues during a Black
Lives Matter protests in 2017.
Now he went undercover and so
did another white police officer
from the same department.
And the outcome of this story gives
you a sense of how profiling and
prejudice really works.
On September 17, 2017.
Detective Luther Hall was working
undercover during a protest for
Anthony Lamar Smith,
a Black man who was shot five times
by cops in 2011.
Hall who was dressed in
plainclothes, was mistaken for a
protester by his fellow policemen.
And so he was not only arrested,
his cell phone was destroyed,
they took the chip out of the cell
phone and they proceeded to beat
him to the point where prosecutors
got involved in this case.
And now there are some consequences
for the officers who played
a role in his beating.
So here's some photos from the
prosecutors exhibit in the case and
it shows you how Hall was beaten,
you know his lip is busted.
You can see some of the, you know,
wounds on his body.
Hall was documenting the protest
with a camera, and that's when he
was detained and beaten, had his
cell phone destroyed and was
finally arrested by fellow members
of the St. Louis police department.
Hall immediately underwent multiple
surgeries following the attack
by his co workers, and still
suffers from permanent neck damage.
Now since the victim was a cop,
there were actually some
consequences for
the cops who beat him.
For instance, Dustin Boone,
a former cop with the St.
Louis police department was found
guilty Thursday of depriving his
injured fellow officer detector
Luther Hall, of his civil rights.
The deprivation of rights under
color of law is a felony civil
rights charge and could put the ex
cop behind bars for up to 10 years.
His sentencing will take place
in July.
We don't know what his sentence
will be just yet.
Boone also, by the way,
has a history of violence against
protesters and racism in 2017.
He allegedly slapped a case suspect
in the face, and sent officers text
joking about it, saying the suspect
quote got his eyes widen with a
little slap from a white boy, Lol.
And there were two other former
cops who have actually pleaded in
this case, the two former cops with
the department, Randy Hays and
Bailey Colletta.
Both also pleaded guilty to
the beating earlier this year, and
Hall has received a $5 million
settlement.
But notice that there was a white
undercover cop who did not face
the same experience.
>> No, I actually thought that was
probably the most interesting part
of the story.
They both go undercover.
And when the cops see a white
protester, what
they think is a white protester and
a black protester.
They let the white protester go
completely.
They don't do anything to
the blank protests,
they kick the living crap out of.
The cop who was doing the beating,
started facetiming with his
girlfriend told her at a time,
he was looking forward to it.
Now it turns out he wasn't
looking forward to beating up
protesters in general.
He's looking forward to beating up
black protesters, okay?
Now the second part of
the story is,
if he wasn't recording it himself,
the cop and it turned out that
the person he beat up wasn't a cop,
it was just a regular citizen.
What do you think would happen?
>> No consequences.
>> None. >> None.
>> And then guys think about this.
How many times do you think
that's happened?
Especially before all the cellphone
cameras, and all the body cameras
came out for the cops?
How often do you think the cops
kick the living crap out of
African American men just for fun,
just for the because
it's not about the protests.
He left the White protester go
completely.
They all did all, those cops did,
because it wasn't just Boone,
it was the other cops as well.
And they're like,
good he is a black guy.
We get to have fun, by giving
him permanent neck damage.
And by the way, of course,
the second thing they
do after that, normally if it's not
an undercover cop is, they then
charge him with assaulting them.
>> Or resisting arrest.
>> And resisting arrest.
And those are the charges they
usually put on people.
And then that ruins not only their
physical health but their careers,
because then from then on every
single time they go to get a job
they have checked off.
I'm a felon, Okay,
let alone go into prison, etc.
So this is how police have
been systematically
abusing black men in this country,
for literally hundreds of years.
And the former Baltimore officer
who I did an interview with,
that still rings in my ears,
where he's white, and he said, even
if they put us into white areas,
we had to get a court of arrest.
We didn't want to arrest white
people because they could turn
out to be powerful.
We'd always go to
the black neighbors no matter where
you are assigned, and
just arrest people who cares.
You gotta make the quota,
because it's part of your job.
And he said, did you think all
black people in this country
were lying, all this time?
No, we abuse them.
And it's partly because of racism,
partly because they have no power.
And so, that's the reality of
America.
And the only people who deny it
are the ones who kind of like
that reality, and
don't want to get woken up to it.
And they just want to say, hey,
look, let the cops do
what they're going to do.
We need cops and law in order.
And then whenever you do law and
order on somebody on their side and
go ahead, maybe Trump or one of
his cronies should be arrested for
their corruption is an order.
I see.
So you just wanted to be able to
brutalised minorities in this
country, and
not be discomforted by it.
And that's what you hire
the cops to do.
So that's just the reality of
America.
This is one of the hundreds of
cases we've covered alone,
let alone all the ones that are out
there that we haven't had
a chance to cover, and the ones
that happened in the past with
no video coverage or that happened
today with no video coverage.
I think it's
a super fair assumption,
that if you hear a policeman and
then victims' accounts.
It is a much safer bet to say that
the cop is lying, and
that the person that the cop
assaulted is telling the truth.
>> I mean at this point,
how many stories have we covered
where the police report completely
conflicts with what the video
surveillance shows.
>> And nearly every time.
>> It's amazing.
I mean not every single time, but
many of the stories that we've
covered.
>> That's why I say nearly.
>> Yeah, you're right.
>> I mean, look at the story of the
guy we did a couple of weeks ago.
They hogtied him.
They beat the crap out of him and
then he died.
And you see it all on video, but
they didn't realize the video was
going to come out, and they said
that he had run into a tree and
died from a car accident.
It's just one lie after another
after another, and unless the guy
happens to be [LAUGH] undercover
cop, all the cops do thin
blue line, hey, he's on our gang.
It doesn't matter who killed,
who we beat up, etc.
We're all going to lie on
his behalf.
So don't come telling
me the cops are honest.
The thin blue line means,
we lie for each other, on purpose,
systematically.
That's what the whole point of thin
blue line is.