TAMIR RICE WAS SHOT DEAD IN TWO SECONDS IN OHIO.
COPS PULLED UP, THEY DID NOT ASK HIM ANY QUESTIONS, THEY
ASSUMED HIS TOY GUN WAS A REAL GUN, AND WITHOUT ANY NOTICE
AT ALL THEY SHOT HIM DOWN.
HOW MUCH NOTICE CAN YOU GIVE IN TWO SECONDS?
I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU THE VIDEO IN A SECOND, BUT FIRST I HAVE NEWS ON IT.
A GRAND JURY IN OHIO HAS DECIDED NOT TO PRESS ANY CHARGES
AGAINST THE TWO OFFICERS INVOLVED,
FRANK GARMBACK OR TIMOTHY LOEHMANN, WHO FATALLY SHOT
RICE IN THE VIDEO YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE.
THERE IS TAMIR RICE, HE'S A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD AT A PARK.
THE COPS PULLED RIGHT UP TO HIM, THEY ARE NOT INQUIRING, THEY
GET OUT OF THE CAR AND SHOOT HIM DEAD.
TWO SECONDS.
THEY CLAIM THEY COULD NOT TELL, BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY.
ASK QUESTIONS LATER.
BETTER MURDER THE TWELVE-YEAR-OLD.
THEY SAY THERE WAS A REAL DANGER.
IT LOOKED LIKE SOMETHING THAT WAS A REAL GUN, THE 911
OPERATOR HEARD IT WAS A TOY GUN BUT DID NOT RELATE THAT TO ME.
SO I ASSUMED I SHOULD SHOOT THAT BLACK PERSON DEAD.
WHY DIDN'T I PULL UP ON THE STREET IF I WAS WORRIED
ABOUT BEING HARMED?
MAYBE TAKE OUT MY GUN AND SAY HEY, HANDS UP.
FREEZE, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST.
WHAT IS THAT, WHAT ARE YOU HOLDING?
NO, I SHOULD DRIVE RIGHT UP TO HIM AND SHOOT HIM DEAD.
AND WHAT HAPPENED?
WE LET THEM GO.
THE PROSECUTORS ñ I WAS A PROSECUTOR VERY BRIEFLY, AND ONE
THING I KNEW AS A PROSECUTOR, EVEN WORKING THERE BRIEFLY IS
THE OLD SAYING, YOU CAN INDICT A HAM SANDWICH IF YOU WANT.
THE DEFENSE CANNOT SHOW UP TO GRAND JURY INVESTIGATIONS, THE
PROSECUTOR HAS COMPLETE DISCRETION.
BUT THE PROSECUTORS ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, AND DEFINITELY IN
THIS CASE, DON'T WANT TO INDICT THE COPS.
THEYíRE BUDDIES WITH THE COPS, THEY WANT THE COPS TO GO SCOTT FREE.
THEY'RE GOING TO WORK WITH THEM TOMORROW, OF COURSE THEYíRE
ON THE COPS SIDE.
SO THEY DO THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
JUST LIKE IN FERGUSON, THEY PRESENT WITNESSES ON BEHALF OF
THE COPS, NOT AGAINST THE COPS.
IN A GRAND JURY PROCEEDING.
EXCEPT FOR THE CASE OF COPS ñ OH NO, UNHEARD OF.
IF A CITIZEN KILLS A COP, DO YOU THINK A PROSECUTOR IS GOING TO
GO TO A JURY AND SAY, I CAN SHOW YOU ANY EVIDENCE I WANT, BUT I'M
GOING TO SHOW YOU EVIDENCE THAT SHOWS WHY THEY SHOULD HAVE
SHOT THE COP.
THEY GIVE YOU THE DETAILS, "THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY
PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE RELEASED INVESTIGATIONS
CONCLUDING THE SHOOTING WAS JUSTIFIED."
THE PROSECUTORS OFFICE, BEFORE GOING TO PROSECUTE SAYS,
THE SHOOTING IS TOTALLY JUSTIFIED.
THANK YOU FOR NOT BEING BIASED.
THE PROSECUTOR IN OHIO, TIM MCGINTY, "EXPLAINED THAT HE RECOMMENDED
NO CHARGES AFTER REVIEWING THE CASE, CALLING IT A PERFECT STORM
OF HUMAN ERROR THAT SHOWED NO CRIMINAL CONDUCT BY THE POLICE."
WHERE THE HELL IS THE JUSTICE MAN?
THEN WHY ARE YOU PRETENDING TO BE
THE PROSECUTOR?
RECUSE YOURSELF, GIVE IT OVER TO SOME OTHER INDEPENDENT
AUTHORITY.
YOU CAN'T JUST SAY I DECLARE THE COPS TO BE INNOCENT, AND THEN I
WILL PRETEND TO TRY THEM TO SEE
IF A GRAND JURY WILL INDICT THEM.
WE'RE ALL IN ON IT, IT'S SO FUNNY WHEN WE KILL A
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD AND THEN BRAG ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO
GET AWAY WITH IT.
MCGINTY ALSO SAID, "IT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNREASONABLE TO MAKE
AN OFFICER WAIT TO SEE IF A GUN SOMEBODY WAS WITHDRAWING
FROM THEIR POCKET WAS REAL OR A TOY."
SO HE THINKS THE ACTIONS OF THE COPS WERE REASONABLE, IN
FACT TO ASK THEM TO DO ANYTHING ELSE WOULD BE UNREASONABLE.
NOW YOU KNOW, BLACK CITIZENS OF OHIO, OR HONESTLY ALL CITIZENS
OF OHIO, TWELVE-YEAR-OLDS AND PARENTS OF OHIO.
COPS FIND IT PERFECTLY TO PULL UP BESIDE YOUR
TWELVE-YEAR-OLD AND SHOOT HIM DEAD IN TWO SECONDS FLAT.
THEY WONíT THINK IT IS REASONABLE TO ASK QUESTIONS.
OR PARK A HUNDRED FEET AWAY, OR TWENTY FEET AWAY.
THAT WOULD BE UNREASONABLE.
THE PROSECUTOR WILL COME IN AND MAKE SURE THERE IS NO
JUSTICE, YOU ARE ON NOTICE IN OHIO.
ANY OF YOUR KIDS CAN GET KILLED IN TWO SECONDS FLAT, AND THE
AUTHORITIES WILL FIND IT
EMINENTLY REASONABLE.
YOU SAW THAT VIDEO, YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS REASONABLE?
ALL THESE GUYS, THE COPS, THE PROSECUTORS IN THAT AREA,
ANYBODY WHO DISAGREES, THE COPS THREATENED ATHLETES IN CLEVELAND
WHO DISAGREED, SAID PERHAPS THEY WOULDN'T GET PROTECTION.
IF THIS IS THE KIND OF PROTECTION YOU ARE TALKING
ABOUT, I DON'T WANT ANY PART OF IT.
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE FAMILY IS UPSET.
MORE EVIDENCE THAT THEY PRESENTED THAT THE PROSECUTORS
THREW CASE, IS THEY CAME OUT
AND PUT WITNESSES ON THE STAND THAT EXONERATED WHAT THE COPS
DID.
THAT IS THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF THE PURPOSE OF A GRAND JURY
PROCEEDING.
YOU DON'T CONVICT SOMEONE, IT IS JUST A PROCEEDING TO SEE IF
HE IS GOING TO GO TO TRIAL TO SEE ALL THE EVIDENCE.
THAT IS WHEN THE DEFENSE COME IN AND WE HAVE A REAL CASE AND
WE SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
A GRAND JURY IS, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO BRING THIS GUY
TO TRIAL?
YOU CAN INDICT ALMOST ANYTHING AND ANYBODY IN THIS COUNTRY
IF YOU WANT TO.
THE PROSECUTOR HAS FULL DISCRETION.
IN HIS DISCRETION, INSTEAD OF INDICTING HIM HE SAYS, HEREíS A
WONDERFUL WITNESS WHO SAYS THE COPS HAD TO DO IT.
IT WAS SO REASONABLE.
IF YOU ARE IN THE JURY, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO THINK?
THE PROSECUTOR IS TELLING ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN NOT TO
INDICT.
HERE IS MORE EVIDENCE.
THEY ACCUSED THE PROSECUTOR OF "ABUSING EMINENTLY THE GRAND
JURY PROCESS TO ORCHESTRATE
UPWARD AGAINST INDICTMENT."
THAT IS A JURY OF HIS PEERS, BASED ON
HIS ñ THEY SAID I SHOULDN'T INDICT, I THREW THE CASE.
VERY CLEVER.
THE ATTORNEY FOR THE FAMILY SAYS, "PROSECUTOR MCGINTY
ALLOWED THE POLICE OFFICERS TO TAKE THE OATH AND
READ PREPARED STATEMENTS TO THE GRAND JURY WITHOUT
ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS ON CROSS-EXAMINATION.
EVEN THOUGH IT IS BLACK LETTER LAW THAT TAKING THE STAND WAVES
THE FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BE SILENT, THE PROSECUTOR DID NOT
SEEK A COURT ORDER COMPELLING THE OFFICERS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS
OR HOLD THE OFFICERS IN CONTEMPT IF THEY CONTINUED TO REFUSE.
THE WAY PROSECUTOR MCGINTY HAS MISHANDLED THE GRAND JURY
PROCESS HAS COMPOUNDED THE GRIEF
OF HIS FAMILY."
THE IDEA THAT A PROSECUTOR WOULD ALLOW SOMEONE
WHO IS ACCUSED OF WEIGHTY MATTERS HERE ñ WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT HOMICIDE, THAT IS THE
ACCUSATION, THAT IS WHAT WEíRE SEEING IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A
TRIAL OVER ñ THE IDEA THAT HE WOULD ALLOW THE DEFENDANTS TO GET
UP AND SAY ANYTHING THEY WANT,
AND NOT CROSS-EXAMINE THEM, PREPOSTEROUS.
THEY WOULD NEVER, EVER, EVER DO THAT FOR ANYONE WHO WASN'T
A COP, BUT THE COPS ARE ABOVE THE LAW APPARENTLY.
CERTAINLY IN OHIO.
WATCH OUT, IF YOU LIVE IN OHIO, YOU ARE JUST DRIVING THROUGH OHIO,
WATCH OUT, IT IS OPEN SEASON ON YOU AND YOUR KIDS, AND THE
PROSECUTORS ARE NOT GOING TO DO
A DAMN THING ABOUT IT.
AT WHAT POINT WOULD IT HAVE BEEN REASONABLE TO INDICT IT?
IF THEY SHOT TAMIR RICE WITHIN ONE SECOND?
THEY SHOT HIM IN TWO SECONDS.
AT WHAT POINT DO YOU SAY, DID THEY ACT IRRATIONALLY?
MAYBE THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE KILLED A KID IN TWO SECONDS FLAT?
YOU THINK THEY WOULD'VE HAD A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION IF IT
WAS ONE SECOND?
NO, THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF TIME WHERE, APPARENTLY IN OHIO, AT
LEAST IN THIS COUNTY, YOU CAN'T SHOOT A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD AND GET
AWAY WITH IT.
THEY WILL FIND YOUR ACTIONS REASONABLE ALMOST NO MATTER
WHAT.
THEY ARE NOT SHOOTING A LOT OF TWELVE-YEAR-OLD WHITES, AND
I HOPE TO GOD THEY WON'T, BUT YOU THINK THEY WON'T?
THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW, THEY CAN SHOOT ANYBODY THEY LIKE.
WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE BLACKS, WHAT DID YOU DO?
WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE MEXICANS, WHAT DID YOU DO?
THE MENTALLY DISABLED GET SHOT MORE THAN ANYBODY IN THIS
COUNTRY, AND WHEN THE COPS CAME FOR THEM ñ ITíS A HASSLE, LETíS
JUST KILL THIS GUY, WE DON'T
WANT TO DEAL WITH HIM ñ WHAT DID YOU DO?
SO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOUR FAMILY, YOU SANCTIONED IT.
YOU ALLOWED THIS PROSECUTOR TO DESTROY LAW AND DESTROY JUSTICE.
SO THE NEXT TIME SOMEBODY ELSE IS KILLED IN TWO SECONDS, AND IT
MIGHT BE SOMEBODY YOU KNOW, OR PART OF YOUR FAMILY, DON'T
COMPLAIN.
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT WHEN IT HAPPENED TO OTHER PEOPLE.
IF YOU DON'T THINK IT IS GREAT, THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
SHOULD MCGINTY BE FIRED?
AT A MINIMUM, AT A MINIMUM.
WHAT KIND OF NEGLIGENCE IS THIS?
ON THE ACTIONS OF A SO-CALLED PROSECUTOR.
OF COURSE HE SHOULD BE FIRED.
IS THERE GOING TO BE ANY REAL JUSTICE?
THE ONLY QUESTION IS IF FEDERAL PROSECUTORS CAN DO ANYTHING
ABOUT THIS, BUT ONCE IT GOES FEDERAL IT IS MUCH HARDER
TO PROVE AND THEY KNOW IT.
THAT IS WHY THEY SNICKER IN THEIR CORNERS ABOUT GETTING AWAY
WITH IT.
THEY HAD TO DO IT, IT WAS SO REASONABLE TO KILL THAT KID
IN TWO SECONDS.
REASONABLE MY ASS.
BASIC BLACK PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE ANGRY, THEY ARE
NOT NEARLY ANGRY ENOUGH.
NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO TAKE
THE LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS,
YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO BECOME THE PEOPLE YOU ARE FIGHTING
AGAINST.
IN THIS CASE THE PROSECUTORS ARE THE MONSTERS.
YOUNG TURKS.