According to Miami Dade police.
>> Give me your driver's license, and registration.
If not you will not be going to work today.
Simple thing man.
This is how you guys get killed out here man,
registration and insurance.
You don't wanna give them.
>> What we got killed for?
Okay.
>> You're gonna be famous though.
You wanna be famous.
Look at him.
Got nothing on me, pull me over threaten to shoot me.
Try not to kill me.
We're going to court man.
>> So what you just saw was video recorded apparently in the Miami area by the driver
whose Gerardson Nicolas.
He says he was pulled over,
for not wearing a seat belt which is the thing that you can be pulled over for.
It doesn't seem like the sorta thing that to me that would immediately
raise the situation to,
I need to implicitly threaten the life of the person I've pulled over.
But for the cop it was enough.
And Gerardson said in advance of the filming, he was scared.
He said as I was scared.
I was scared.
I didn't think my life was going to make it.
So I don't know what the cop did initially to scare him so much but
he felt like he needed to record this.
He said when he asked me for my license, open the door, I started recording,
I was looking for my stuff, my license because I didn't see my wallet.
I was looking for my wallet and that wasn't my car, that was my mom's car and
I didn't know where the registration was.
I was looking, he got mad.
And because I guess it took him a little bit of time to find the documents.
The cop felt like he needed to opine on this is why you all get
killed in these situations.
Because you take too long to get your documents.
Because you don't comply fast enough with my expectations, expectations that I would
not put onto a different sorta driver if I pulled over a white driver.
And they took a minute to find their license,
I wouldn't immediately lose my mind.
>> The recordings don't matter.
We've seen the recordings, right?
We've seen police shoot people,
unarmed black people and that didn't matter.
So for this cop to say this, I hate to say it, but he's being honest, he's yeah,
this is why we shoot black people because they don't have their license and
registration handy the moment I asked for.
That cop actually told the truth in that moment.
>> I would add a little bit of context to this cop because he seems to get that
him being just inconvenienced a bit brings him to the level where he's ready to take
a person's life.
But I would also add that he should acknowledge that he has been
trained in law enforcement in America.
A system where you're trained to always be terrified at
any given second that your life can be taken.
It doesn't matter how unlikely that is,
doesn't matter if there's a weapon present.
Anyone who's near you, especially a black person can and
will take your life with their bare hands at a second's notice that's gonna happen.
And if anyone even were to touch you, that would be the worst thing ever.
So kill someone at the first opportunity.
They're trained to do that.
They're trained to be terrified and
to believe that their fear is justification enough for murder.
So that's true.
They're also raised in a social setting in terms of pop culture,
political conversations, all of that where they're trained to be terrified at all
times of black people constantly always to also believe that black people are older,
more competent, more prone to violence than anyone else.
They don't need any social or physical cues of that.
They're just trained to see it where it doesn't exist.
And so when you combine all of these different things,
the fact that they have personality characteristics that make them predisposed
to violence if they believe that someone is defying their authority
where they're trained to always be afraid and to believe that the only
way to allay your fear is to kill whatever is making you afraid.
And to be predisposed to believe that certain types of people based on race and
class and things like that are more likely to be violent.
You make that stew and you get a lot of needless cop murders.
That's I would add that to the cops understanding of the situation.
But he does seem to get how important it is to not frustrate him Alonso,
that's true.
I wanna warn you.
The footage that we are about to show you is incredibly graphic.
If you believe that it might be triggering, feel free to skip ahead or
turn away.
But that said, here's the video.
Because I'm stepping back.
>> I am moving you're violating my rights because you're on my property.
Am
I
black?
>> So we're gonna have more video for you.
But what you're seeing right there is an incident of the family of
Mariah Hereford and a number of cops.
This is in Hemet California.
The cops came in and not only harass them, began to get incredibly
physical with them with their property also with their dogs.
And so an absolutely horrendous night being documented.
Thanks to the fact that people have cameras these days,
we might otherwise never have found out about this.
And we will as I said, have more footage.
But a federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Mariah,
her mother Monet, and her fiance as well saying that the police
that you could see moving around there illegally searched Garrison's car and
then violently arrested Hereford and her mother for filming the encounter.
According to the lawsuit.
Hemet police initiated a traffic stop as Gadison.
The fiance was pulling into his driveway on the night of March 31st of last year,
quote with no reasonable suspicion or probable cause the Hemet officers asked
the plaintiff for permission to search his vehicle.
When plaintiff, Gadison refused officers forcibly removed him from his vehicle and
began to aggressively handcuff and detain him.
That was around the time that Monet started recording what was going on.
An officer apparently saw that she was doing so and smacked the phone out of her
hand, which not only is violent, of course, they're not allowed to do that.
You are allowed to record these things.
They're supposed to be in most areas recording these as well.
The officer slam Mariah's head into the ground.
She was taken to the hospital that night and treated for a closed head injury,
left shoulder pain, low back pain, neck pain, and whiplash.
And you can in fact see a little bit of the bruising in these photos here.
>> It is absolutely horrifying to see the failure of the police to
de-escalate a situation.
And you also see cops once again upset that they're getting filmed even though
they have body cams on and they're filming other people.
And they just don't wanna be held accountable.
These ones in particular.
That's the vibe I got from watching is they just don't wanna be held accountable
for their actions.
They are slightly inconvenienced by people being upset that in their own opinion,
injustices happening at the hands of the police.
And so rather than just deal with it,
like everybody has to deal with it when the cops show up.
The cops are like, no, I got a badge So I'm gonna tackle you.
>> Is absolutely devastating what you could see eventually.
You can't see it.
And even more so hearing it, hearing the screams of the kids,
worried about what's happening to their parents, horrified by what they're seeing.
I can't even conceive of being nine and seeing something like that happening.
Like what lingering effect that would have on you.
And the casual jumping in the situation of the cops don't care.
You saw she asked a question at some point and
he stopped himself from saying something,
the approach is just so fundamentally uncaring-.
>> That's the best thing he did.
That's the most decent thing he did.
>> Is not say whatever it was that he was thinking?
>> Yeah, was to take a breath and go back to doing his job.
Poorly I don't know the full facts of the case.
And that's exactly the point of this is that in the meantime, so
that's the one thing he did.
In that moment did not escalate the situation, but
as you can tell the cops are always moving the goalposts,
they tell you to move back and they realize you're still filming and
then they tell you to move further back and then they get too close to you.
And suddenly they're at a point where they run out of patience because they haven't
managed everything correctly.
And now they're arresting folks.
And then you're struggling to see what's going on in the video until
the camera goes on the ground.
And then you're free to listen to the chaos that's ensued.
>> It's even more horrifying at that point.
>> Yes.