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This wasn't suicide,
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at least not in my professional opinion.
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The bomber's handwriting
on the suicide note
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isn't consistent with his old journals.
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Even his signature is off.
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Intense stress creates stroke impulses,
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jerking movements when writing.
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This note is full of them.
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You think he was under duress?
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This man wasn't looking to end his life.
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He was forced into the noose.
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He did kill 13 people.
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That's a lot of guilt on his shoulders.
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He bombed that church 20 years ago.
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The concept of habituation says
most emotions dissipate over time,
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meaning if guilt was the driving
factor in him taking his life,
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he would have done it back then.
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Maybe he got when we were coming.
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Suicide made more sense
than going through a trial
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and facing life in a cell.
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Look at this.
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One of the chairs
has a scuff mark on it,
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a small chip at the bottom.
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We didn't see it at the scene,
but someone
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kicked that chair out from under him.
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Looks like murder to me too.
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Which leads to our
third man, the same person
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who intimidated Wes Banning
in the parole hearing.
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Now he's tying up loose ends.
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OK, we press it as a murder. What next?
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We talk to his mom.
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He was living with her
when he bombed the church.
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If someone wanted to kill her son,
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maybe she points us
in the right direction.
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Great. I should look at her file.
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We can figure out an approach.
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You can't be involved, not anymore.
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What do you mean?
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He's a suspect in a bombing
where you were a victim.
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Technically you had motive
to kill the bomber.
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I know that you wouldn't,
but it's optics.
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Was this his idea?
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This is the first I'm hearing of it.
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Alec, please.
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If this case isn't 100% above board,
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the entire investigation is compromised.
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Understood.
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We'll let you know what we find.
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Mm-hmm.
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A wrongful death civil trial
is underway in D.C. six months
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after three out of four
members of a tactical unit
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known as the VIPER Squad shot
and killed Joshua Hill-Jones,
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a local building inspector,
in a police raid gone wrong.
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His husband Mason rejected
the city's settlement offer,
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and now he's taking the district
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and officers that gunned
down his partner to court.
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I could have sworn there was a
gallon of milk in here last night.
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I grabbed it in case
I needed to rinse my eyes out.
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Did someone forget I was
protesting last night
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outside that courtroom?
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It was cloudy with a chance
of cops using tear gas.
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Did they?
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No, not yet.
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But I got to stay ready.
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I'd stay away from that coverage.
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It's only going to make you angry.
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Too late.
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You know, I don't get how you always be
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so academic about this stuff.
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Come on, Kylie.
You don't think I get furious, sad?
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This keeps happening to us,
to your close friend.
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But somebody got to be the cooler head.
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How is Mason?
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Police killed his husband.
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He's not great.
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Mm.
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I'm sorry.
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Mason shouldn't be grieving his husband.
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When we were at Hampton,
Mason was the life of our marching band.
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And he got me through a lot
when you were in the hospital,
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so I got to be there for him.
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But it's not looking good, Alec.
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His expert witness
bailed on him last minute.
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Expert in name only.
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Look, I know you detest the
whole expert witness racket,
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but Mason won't win without one.
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We both know it can help sway a jury.
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Mason says that they got a long list
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of potential psychologists.
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Could you at least help Mason vet them?
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That's not really a request, is it?
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Mason is taking on the
entire District of Columbia.
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I know you won't sit that out.
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I appreciate you helping
us out like this, Alec.
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Losing our expert
has been a bit overwhelming.
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I'll do what I can.
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But expert testimony in
officer-involved shootings
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is 90% snake oil...
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paid actors who use science
to play on jurors' emotions.
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But we still need one on our side.
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There's a list of potential experts.
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I'd scrap these first three.
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They testified for both
sides, and any good defense
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lawyer will pick them apart.
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These last five are all convincing,
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and they're marginally
more ethical than the rest.
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It'll be easier to recommend one
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if I know who they're up against.
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His name is Dr...
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Dustin Atwood.
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Never met a police shooting
he couldn't justify...
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dual PhDs in experimental
psychology and neuroscience,
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morals of a jackal.
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Well, our expert said he
bailed for personal reasons.
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But I don't think it's a coincidence
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this happened after I told him
Dr. Atwood
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was on their witness list.
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He didn't want to take the loss.
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If he's on the stand and you
lose, it hurts his pay quote.
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And Atwood's tactics
are nearly unbeatable.
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Why is that?
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Atwood is a master at cherry-picking
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psychological principles
to support cops.
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No one on this list
has a chance against him.
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You know anyone who can beat him?
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Only one person, me.
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Justice for Joshua!
Justice for Joshua!
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Justice for Joshua! Justice for Joshua!
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The atmosphere is tense
outside this D.C. courtroom today.
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Protests, as you can see behind me,
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are mounting as Mason
Hill-Jones's civil lawsuit
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looms over the city.
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Justice for Joshua!
Justice for Joshua!
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Justice for Joshua! Justice for Joshua!
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Justice for Joshua! Justice for Joshua!
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Justice for Joshua!
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This is where we part ways.
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Good luck in there today.
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The facts of the case and
psychological data speak for themselves.
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You go out there and make some noise.
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Justice for Joshua!
Justice for Joshua!
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Justice for Joshua! Justice for Joshua!
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Justice for Joshua!
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Mercer.
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Hey, it's been a while.
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Dustin, long time.
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Too long.
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Well, looks like we
are a pretty big deal.
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I got to say, I'm
surprised to see you here.
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You know, I certainly
hope they paid you a fortune,
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because taking an L on such a
high-profile trial would not
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be good for your future quote.
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I'm more concerned with the
case than my batting average.
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But if I get in trouble,
I could do what you do...
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twist the science and sound folksy.
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- Folksy?
- Mm.
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Hmm.
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See you inside, Mercer.
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"Folksy."
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That's a good one.
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Hey.
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We need to go.
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- Hello?
- Sorry.
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Could you hold a second? Hey.
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I just got ahold of the witness list,
for the Hill-Jones case.
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Joy Reid wants Alec and Atwood.
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That's really exciting.
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Only, the professor said he's not
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doing interviews about this trial,
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and he's not giving Atwood free press.
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But aren't these cases won in the media?
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It's not my call.
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Let him down nicely.
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We have work to do.
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All rise.
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Docket number 125432,
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Mason Hill-Jones versus
the District of Columbia,
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Judge Jane Yuun presiding.
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District Attorney Navarro,
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your office requested
the no-knock warrant.
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Why was that necessary?
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We received a tip
that an illegal gun dealer
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was working out of a house
on the same street
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as Mason and Joshua.
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I filed for a no-knock warrant.
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The VIPER squad was tasked
with a high-risk arrest.
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But they ended up at the wrong house.
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Correct.
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Why was that?
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There was a typo on the warrant.
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Judge Haynes, you signed the warrant?
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Yes.
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After reviewing
the warrant from DA Navarro,
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I believed a no-knock raid was necessary
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given the target's threat level.
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So how did the VIPER squad
end up at the plaintiff's house?
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I wish I could tell you.
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It appears to have been a very
tragic case of human error.
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Miss Styles, you're the court clerk
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who processed the warrant, correct?
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Yes.
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Can you explain how
this human error happened?
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Our systems had been down
for over a week,
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so we were processing warrants manually.
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I must have made a mistake
when I wrote it up.
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And you were the only one
reprimanded for this incident?
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Yes, I was fired.
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See, Miss Styles may have
been the only one fired,
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but she wasn't the only
person to make a mistake...
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more than a mistake,
a dereliction of duty.
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Now, let's take a look at who exactly
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was sent to this wrong address,
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basically a kill squad.
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My husband was up late
working in his office.
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I went to bed around midnight.
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It was about 2:20 a.m. when I hear
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this loud crash downstairs.
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The force was so strong.
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I could feel it in our
bedroom, like a car had just
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run through the front door.
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Stay here.
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The next thing I heard was gunfire.
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I didn't think it would ever stop.
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Your husband was a building inspector.
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- Is that right?
- Yes, he was.
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And you said your husband
was working at 2:00 a.m.
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Is it typical for a building
inspector to be up so late?
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Sometimes.
What kind of question is that?
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Court records state the
two of you had been fighting.
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Is that correct?
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Objection, Your Honor. Relevance?
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I'm getting to Joshua's state of mind
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when he encountered those officers.
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I'll allow it.
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He'd been working late,
and it was causing
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some issues between us,
but it wasn't a big deal.
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So there was tension in the home?
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- No.
- You had been fighting.
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He'd been staying up all night.
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It's possible, due to a lack of sleep,
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while in a state of rage,
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Joshua Hill-Jones charged those officers
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leaving them no choice.
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Objection, Your Honor.
The defense is speculating.
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Plaintiff will answer the question.
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Joshua was afraid, OK?
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You may not think that Black
men gets scared, but we do.
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Those cops came into
our house at 2:00 a.m.,
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and they never announced themselves
like they were supposed to do.
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We did nothing wrong.
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They were looking to kill somebody,
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and they killed my husband!
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Please state your name
and title for the court.
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I'm Sergeant Lawrence Powell,
team leader
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of the Violent Incident Person
Evaluation and Response Unit.
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Can you explain to the court the events
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that led to your team
shooting an unarmed man?
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- Objection, Your Honor.
- I'll rephrase.
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Please detail what transpired
once the VIPER Squad arrived
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at the Hill-Jones residence.
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The resident charged at us.
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We were told we were walking into
the home of a dangerous arms dealer.
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We thought he had a weapon
and opened fire
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to protect ourselves.
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You didn't fire your weapon, correct?
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I didn't need to,
because the rest of my squad
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had neutralized the threat.
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And by neutralized the threat,
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you mean they had killed Joshua?
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We followed protocol and immediately
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sought medical attention
for Mr. Hill-Jones,
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but it was too late.
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There's a widely held
psychological misconception...
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a false belief contradicted
by scientific evidence...
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that cops constantly
get into firefights.
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But 73% never fire their gun
once in their entire careers.
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Why is this important
to note, Dr. Mercer?
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One of the things this data shows is,
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there are many ways to de-escalate
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a dangerous situation.
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Dr. Mercer can trot out shooting stats
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all he wants, but we have
to look at this incident
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from the perspective of the officers.
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They walked into that house
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expecting an armed criminal
who might kill them.
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And yet three out of the
four officers entering Joshua
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and Mason's house fired
their gun at an unarmed man.
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Why is the VIPER Squad
so much more violent?
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They have the highest shoot rate.
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In three years, they've shot
12 people, killing 5.
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Research shows that once a
person fires in the line of duty,
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the psychological barrier to
doing so drops significantly.
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It becomes easier
for them to shoot again.
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And do these no-knock raids
push the statistical risk
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even higher?
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Yes, given every
member of the VIPER squad
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had fired multiple times
in the past, that raid was
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a disaster waiting to happen.
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The VIPER squad is a tactical unit.
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Is it possible
their shoot rate is higher
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because they encounter
more dangerous situations?
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The VIPER squad's record
is such an outlier
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it's hard to justify simply by the
situations they find themselves in.
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Sounds to me like you're
cherry-picking the data.
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Objection.
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Can you explain
what happens to the brain
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in such an intense experience?
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It's a fight-or-flight response.
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We've all felt it.
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In emergencies, the amygdala sends
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a distress signal
that floods the body and brain
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with survival hormones.
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Under those circumstances, any officer
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could have taken the shot.
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Is it true there is no
specific research studying
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an officer's brain chemistry
during a shooting incident
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to back up your testimony?
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Well, there's simply no plausible
way to gather that information,
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even in simulation.
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But you have used your position
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to block any attempt
from researchers to gather
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that data and run those tests.
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Isn't that right, Dr. Atwood?
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Well, the fact is, we haven't really
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needed those studies, because
there's plenty of research
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on humans under stress.
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And the last time I checked,
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cops are humans who are willing
to risk their lives
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to protect you and me.
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Atwood recovered,
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but we got a jab in there.
What do you think?
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Hard to tell. I was tracking
the jurors' body language.
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They went cold during Mason's testimony,
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often avoiding eye contact.
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And they didn't even seem
fazed by the cops' haste
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nor the mistakes made
processing the warrant.
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So we're screwed.
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Everything OK?
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No, everything's not OK.
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Alec's testimony didn't help?
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I don't think it was
enough to win over the jury.
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This jury won't be swayed by science.
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Start with juror preconceived bias.
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What's that?
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In a lot of trials,
jurors walk in irrationally
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predisposed to a particular
verdict... in this case,
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one that favors the cops.
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Then how do you persuade a jury whose
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minds are already made up?
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We need to find a new
approach or Mason loses.
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00:15:47,482 --> 00:15:50,268
I haven't even made
funeral arrangements yet.
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00:15:50,330 --> 00:15:53,750
And here you are digging
up stuff from the past.
353
00:15:53,792 --> 00:15:56,127
Peter was a good boy.
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00:15:56,169 --> 00:15:57,921
He blew up a church, Mrs. Shelby.
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If he had good intentions,
help us understand.
356
00:16:02,217 --> 00:16:04,427
I don't know what you're talking about.
357
00:16:04,469 --> 00:16:06,513
Are you aware that your son belonged
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to a terrorist organization?
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00:16:08,348 --> 00:16:09,766
Terrorist?
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00:16:09,808 --> 00:16:12,394
You government types only
labeled the New Apostles
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terrorists after 9/11.
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00:16:14,062 --> 00:16:17,565
Thanks to you people, I
haven't seen him for 20 years.
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00:16:17,607 --> 00:16:20,902
Your son ran because he set
off a bomb that killed 13 people.
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00:16:20,944 --> 00:16:22,899
He's no martyr. He's a murderer.
365
00:16:22,940 --> 00:16:24,739
Don't talk about him like that.
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00:16:24,781 --> 00:16:26,741
He was a sinner who
desecrated the House of God.
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00:16:26,783 --> 00:16:28,206
It was an accident.
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00:16:28,248 --> 00:16:30,787
All he wanted to do was return
this country to its roots,
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00:16:30,829 --> 00:16:33,748
to make us moral,
God-fearing people again.
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00:16:33,790 --> 00:16:37,293
So you did speak to him
about the church bombing?
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00:16:50,932 --> 00:16:52,642
Let me ask you something.
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Do you think the justice system
treats all Americans equally?
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There are two systems,
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one when you are poor or Black,
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another when you are
middle class or white.
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And there might be a third...
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00:17:08,158 --> 00:17:11,745
another for the super-rich.
They get away with everything.
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00:17:11,786 --> 00:17:13,872
What would it take
to convince you otherwise?
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A word from God Himself.
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Otherwise, those are the facts.
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That's the crux of our problem.
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00:17:19,794 --> 00:17:22,422
Not everyone grows up being profiled
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or constantly pulled over.
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Those same people want
to believe in equal justice.
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00:17:27,510 --> 00:17:29,971
People need to open their eyes.
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00:17:30,013 --> 00:17:32,557
Harder than you think
because of motivated reasoning.
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00:17:32,599 --> 00:17:33,830
When people have a belief,
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they usually
connect to ideas that support it.
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00:17:36,353 --> 00:17:39,105
That's the headspace
most of the jurors are in.
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00:17:39,147 --> 00:17:41,191
So there's nothing we can do?
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00:17:41,232 --> 00:17:42,817
I'm out there protesting every day,
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00:17:42,859 --> 00:17:45,653
and you're saying none of that
will make things better?
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Better.
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00:17:49,574 --> 00:17:51,726
That might be the key.
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00:17:52,369 --> 00:17:54,412
A person can believe in something,
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00:17:54,454 --> 00:17:59,358
like I believe in science,
but there's always room for improvement.
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00:18:00,627 --> 00:18:03,838
What if I tell the jury that
they can make things better,
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00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:08,259
we find one thing that they can
improve by siding with Mason,
399
00:18:08,301 --> 00:18:10,720
make the whole case about that?
400
00:18:10,762 --> 00:18:14,582
Broken is too hard a sell,
so we sell better.
401
00:18:16,059 --> 00:18:17,310
I'd buy that.
402
00:18:21,898 --> 00:18:23,191
What are you doing now?
403
00:18:23,233 --> 00:18:24,567
I'm calling Phoebe and Rizwan.
404
00:18:24,609 --> 00:18:27,112
I got an idea for an experiment.
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00:18:27,153 --> 00:18:29,948
Yesterday Dr. Atwood's testimony
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00:18:29,989 --> 00:18:32,742
appeared fair and unbiased.
407
00:18:32,784 --> 00:18:36,204
The problem is, with paid experts
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00:18:36,246 --> 00:18:39,249
like Dr. Atwood, that's never the case.
409
00:18:39,290 --> 00:18:41,835
Introducing money creates bias.
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00:18:41,876 --> 00:18:44,963
I wanted to better understand
how this bias works,
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00:18:45,005 --> 00:18:48,717
so I conducted an experiment
where I paid experts
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00:18:48,758 --> 00:18:52,012
to give their opinion
on a fictional case,
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00:18:52,053 --> 00:18:54,431
a slip and fall in a hotel.
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00:18:54,472 --> 00:18:57,058
All of them had the
same facts in the case.
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00:18:57,100 --> 00:18:58,560
The only difference?
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00:18:58,601 --> 00:19:02,230
Which side the person
was on paying them.
417
00:19:02,272 --> 00:19:06,901
Almost all the experts argued
for the side paying them.
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00:19:06,943 --> 00:19:09,612
If the defense paid,
the expert's opinion
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00:19:09,654 --> 00:19:11,364
sided with the defense.
420
00:19:11,406 --> 00:19:13,992
Same for the plaintiff.
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00:19:14,034 --> 00:19:15,577
That's bias.
422
00:19:15,618 --> 00:19:18,204
And it makes you question the motivation
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00:19:18,246 --> 00:19:20,373
behind Dr. Atwood's testimony.
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00:19:20,415 --> 00:19:21,374
Objection.
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00:19:21,416 --> 00:19:22,693
I'll move on.
426
00:19:22,735 --> 00:19:25,879
In your scientific opinion,
how do we remedy this bias?
427
00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:31,009
We have a wonderful system, in theory...
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00:19:31,051 --> 00:19:34,763
equal justice for all,
but it's not perfect...
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00:19:34,804 --> 00:19:36,056
yet.
430
00:19:36,097 --> 00:19:42,395
People tend to say
it's only a few bad apples,
431
00:19:42,437 --> 00:19:46,608
but those bad apples
spoil the whole bunch.
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00:19:46,649 --> 00:19:52,267
Juries like this one have the
chance to get rid of the bad apples
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00:19:52,291 --> 00:19:53,865
and protect the bunch.
434
00:19:53,907 --> 00:19:57,452
Dr. Mercer, you work as a consultant.
435
00:19:57,494 --> 00:19:58,453
Is that right?
436
00:19:58,495 --> 00:19:59,913
I'm a professor first.
437
00:19:59,954 --> 00:20:02,791
But yes, sometimes I work
as a consultant.
438
00:20:02,832 --> 00:20:05,335
And when you do consult, you're paid
439
00:20:05,377 --> 00:20:07,420
upwards of $100,000 a day?
440
00:20:07,462 --> 00:20:08,755
Depending on the client.
441
00:20:08,797 --> 00:20:11,341
For this, I'm not making a dime.
442
00:20:18,473 --> 00:20:20,266
"I'm not making a dime."
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00:20:20,308 --> 00:20:21,643
Boom.
444
00:20:21,685 --> 00:20:23,978
I wish I could have seen it.
445
00:20:24,020 --> 00:20:25,438
We need five jurors.
446
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,774
We have four with two possibilities.
447
00:20:27,816 --> 00:20:30,985
That's one juror closer to a win.
448
00:20:37,325 --> 00:20:39,327
Cop's behind me.
449
00:20:39,369 --> 00:20:40,495
He's going to pull me over.
450
00:20:43,373 --> 00:20:44,708
I knew it.
451
00:20:44,749 --> 00:20:46,536
Pull over to the side of the road.
452
00:20:46,577 --> 00:20:49,045
Stay calm. Let me talk.
453
00:20:49,087 --> 00:20:50,422
I don't need instructions.
454
00:20:50,463 --> 00:20:52,448
I know the damn drill.
455
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:11,939
License and registration, ma'am.
456
00:21:25,123 --> 00:21:27,650
You drifted over the solid white line.
457
00:21:28,334 --> 00:21:29,535
You been drinking tonight?
458
00:21:33,131 --> 00:21:35,592
Nope, just Diet Coke.
459
00:21:35,633 --> 00:21:38,178
So you wouldn't mind submitting
to a field sobriety test then?
460
00:21:40,096 --> 00:21:42,974
Nothing would make
my evening more complete.
461
00:21:49,773 --> 00:21:52,359
I'm going to need you
to walk in a straight line,
462
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,902
one foot behind the other,
463
00:21:53,943 --> 00:21:58,406
counting down from 1,001 by 3s.
464
00:22:04,287 --> 00:22:06,197
1,001,
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00:22:06,239 --> 00:22:11,485
998, 995...
466
00:22:12,337 --> 00:22:15,048
is this really necessary?
467
00:22:18,051 --> 00:22:19,552
Keep counting.
468
00:22:22,055 --> 00:22:24,328
No part of this calls for a gun.
469
00:22:24,370 --> 00:22:25,809
She's shaking with adrenaline.
470
00:22:25,850 --> 00:22:28,645
He's going to make her count
backwards until she stumbles forward.
471
00:22:28,687 --> 00:22:30,772
No one is talking to you.
472
00:22:31,338 --> 00:22:33,608
He's dealing with your sister.
473
00:22:33,650 --> 00:22:35,276
You know she's my sister?
474
00:22:35,318 --> 00:22:37,153
This wasn't random?
475
00:22:37,195 --> 00:22:39,013
You're targeting us?
476
00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,509
She crossed the lane
divider without signaling.
477
00:22:41,533 --> 00:22:43,410
We both know what this is about.
478
00:22:43,451 --> 00:22:45,208
She's got nothing to do with it.
479
00:22:45,249 --> 00:22:47,997
You can take me in if you want
480
00:22:48,039 --> 00:22:52,193
and deal with cleaning up that mess
in the press,
481
00:22:52,711 --> 00:22:54,713
or let her go.
482
00:22:59,509 --> 00:23:01,177
Hey.
483
00:23:01,219 --> 00:23:02,178
She clear?
484
00:23:05,849 --> 00:23:08,101
I'm not sure yet.
485
00:23:08,143 --> 00:23:09,519
She seems fine.
486
00:23:09,877 --> 00:23:11,187
Let's get out of here.
487
00:23:31,374 --> 00:23:32,375
Hey.
488
00:23:32,417 --> 00:23:33,877
Catch you at a bad time?
489
00:23:33,918 --> 00:23:37,422
Even if you did, it wouldn't matter.
490
00:23:37,464 --> 00:23:40,175
Bob Caswood, come in?
491
00:23:40,216 --> 00:23:43,345
To what do I owe this surprise visit?
492
00:23:43,386 --> 00:23:46,681
Something I can help the
intelligence division with?
493
00:23:46,723 --> 00:23:47,891
Oh, there's no agenda.
494
00:23:47,932 --> 00:23:50,143
Just stopped by for a little chat.
495
00:23:50,185 --> 00:23:52,395
I worked under you for ten years.
496
00:23:52,437 --> 00:23:54,105
You don't just stop by.
497
00:23:54,147 --> 00:23:55,648
You're a busy man.
498
00:23:55,690 --> 00:23:58,068
So why did you take the time
out of your day to come here?
499
00:23:58,109 --> 00:23:59,652
Always the investigator, huh?
500
00:23:59,694 --> 00:24:01,554
Someone taught me well.
501
00:24:02,030 --> 00:24:05,075
Fine. Well,
I'll just come right out and say it.
502
00:24:05,116 --> 00:24:07,243
Now, you know that I like to keep my ear
503
00:24:07,285 --> 00:24:10,220
close to the street,
and there's been rumblings
504
00:24:10,244 --> 00:24:12,248
about you and Jace.
505
00:24:14,376 --> 00:24:15,901
That was fast.
506
00:24:16,336 --> 00:24:17,921
We are intelligence.
507
00:24:17,962 --> 00:24:21,216
It's not like we're the
first agents at the Bureau
508
00:24:21,257 --> 00:24:22,467
to get involved.
509
00:24:22,509 --> 00:24:25,512
We don't have many
opportunities off the job.
510
00:24:25,553 --> 00:24:26,930
I get it.
511
00:24:26,971 --> 00:24:28,449
I just wouldn't be a good friend if I
512
00:24:28,473 --> 00:24:30,517
didn't give you a heads-up.
513
00:24:30,558 --> 00:24:32,602
Everything is a conflict.
514
00:24:32,644 --> 00:24:34,270
Now it's about me dating Jace.
515
00:24:34,312 --> 00:24:36,773
Someone going to question my involvement
516
00:24:36,815 --> 00:24:38,316
in Alec's case next?
517
00:24:39,734 --> 00:24:41,093
Maybe.
518
00:24:41,118 --> 00:24:45,031
Hey, it's not my call, but if
you want justice to play out,
519
00:24:45,073 --> 00:24:46,588
I would avoid doing anything
520
00:24:46,629 --> 00:24:48,893
that would compromise the investigation,
521
00:24:49,786 --> 00:24:51,743
because like most things in life...
522
00:24:51,785 --> 00:24:53,498
It's the optics.
523
00:24:53,981 --> 00:24:55,709
It's the optics.
524
00:24:57,794 --> 00:24:59,092
Where you are.
525
00:24:59,134 --> 00:25:01,464
- I don't have the problem.
- Classism. Classism.
526
00:25:01,506 --> 00:25:02,674
You are constantly...
527
00:25:02,716 --> 00:25:04,592
- Someone needs to check her.
- Hey.
528
00:25:07,762 --> 00:25:10,974
Mm-mm. Mm.
529
00:25:11,016 --> 00:25:14,310
- Mm.
- Don't go there with me.
530
00:25:14,352 --> 00:25:15,395
Excuse you.
531
00:25:15,437 --> 00:25:17,397
I'm watching that.
532
00:25:17,439 --> 00:25:19,024
You've been watching this trash since I
533
00:25:19,065 --> 00:25:20,191
went to bed last night.
534
00:25:20,233 --> 00:25:22,652
OK. Where's the problem?
535
00:25:22,694 --> 00:25:24,070
Studies show...
536
00:25:24,112 --> 00:25:26,364
I'll pass on the Mercer monologue.
537
00:25:26,406 --> 00:25:30,100
Fine, no monologue.
538
00:25:30,493 --> 00:25:31,828
But we should talk about this.
539
00:25:31,870 --> 00:25:36,190
No, we shouldn't, because I'll scream.
540
00:25:36,708 --> 00:25:39,627
And I don't want to scream at you,
541
00:25:39,669 --> 00:25:40,962
but you're the only one here.
542
00:25:41,004 --> 00:25:44,734
So I will if you force me to
talk about my feelings right now.
543
00:25:44,776 --> 00:25:48,845
All I want to do is watch
"Housewives of Potomac"
544
00:25:48,887 --> 00:25:52,039
and focus on other people's problems.
545
00:25:54,416 --> 00:25:58,104
You'd rather suppress your feelings
546
00:25:58,146 --> 00:26:00,899
by watching housewives
throw lettuce at each other.
547
00:26:03,068 --> 00:26:05,070
You can't help yourself, can you?
548
00:26:07,322 --> 00:26:11,493
It probably isn't a good idea, but OK.
549
00:26:11,534 --> 00:26:13,286
Mia, I don't believe that you called us
550
00:26:13,328 --> 00:26:14,704
broke bitches when you walked off.
551
00:26:16,247 --> 00:26:17,475
- Are you serious right now?
- Let's do it.
552
00:26:17,499 --> 00:26:20,543
Let's give a toast to forgiveness.
553
00:26:22,879 --> 00:26:25,114
Hey, Mason. What's up?
554
00:26:26,091 --> 00:26:27,658
I'll be right there.
555
00:26:29,340 --> 00:26:30,869
Mason OK?
556
00:26:31,805 --> 00:26:34,456
The defense made an offer.
557
00:26:35,021 --> 00:26:37,231
They want to settle the case.
558
00:26:41,106 --> 00:26:42,732
3 million is a good offer.
559
00:26:42,774 --> 00:26:44,192
Is it?
560
00:26:44,234 --> 00:26:46,045
It's like they're
forcing me to decide how much
561
00:26:46,069 --> 00:26:47,779
my dead husband is worth.
562
00:26:47,821 --> 00:26:48,822
So what?
563
00:26:48,863 --> 00:26:50,365
It's over now?
564
00:26:50,407 --> 00:26:52,117
Nothing about this makes any sense.
565
00:26:52,158 --> 00:26:53,410
Alec got through to the jury,
566
00:26:53,451 --> 00:26:54,786
pushed this settlement to happen.
567
00:26:54,828 --> 00:26:56,413
This is what we wanted.
568
00:26:56,454 --> 00:26:58,832
There's no such thing as
good news in this situation,
569
00:26:58,873 --> 00:27:00,959
but we need to take
this offer seriously.
570
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:02,419
Defense makes an offer.
571
00:27:02,460 --> 00:27:04,021
They know it doesn't look good for them.
572
00:27:04,045 --> 00:27:05,839
And we could still be short a juror.
573
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,465
My advice, we don't chance it.
574
00:27:07,507 --> 00:27:09,884
How about we look over
the deal and counter?
575
00:27:09,926 --> 00:27:12,887
We can print it and
review it line by line.
576
00:27:12,929 --> 00:27:15,390
The printers in Joshua's office.
577
00:27:15,432 --> 00:27:18,476
I haven't touched anything there since.
578
00:27:20,812 --> 00:27:22,355
We can go in with you.
579
00:27:39,372 --> 00:27:40,457
That yours?
580
00:27:40,498 --> 00:27:41,833
Kylie said you played in college.
581
00:27:41,875 --> 00:27:43,960
I haven't picked it up in years.
582
00:27:44,002 --> 00:27:45,486
You miss it?
583
00:27:45,879 --> 00:27:47,404
Sometimes.
584
00:27:48,048 --> 00:27:49,966
There's a lot of paperwork in here.
585
00:27:50,008 --> 00:27:51,426
He worked from home a lot?
586
00:27:51,468 --> 00:27:53,094
A few weeks before everything happened,
587
00:27:53,136 --> 00:27:54,971
he brought home all
these files in crates,
588
00:27:55,013 --> 00:27:57,849
said he was doing important research.
589
00:27:57,891 --> 00:27:59,642
He say what he was working on?
590
00:27:59,684 --> 00:28:02,020
Something about zoning
violations and the city
591
00:28:02,062 --> 00:28:03,980
not doing anything about them.
592
00:28:04,022 --> 00:28:05,482
Joshua was obsessed.
593
00:28:05,523 --> 00:28:08,273
So he wasn't always a workaholic.
594
00:28:08,315 --> 00:28:11,905
No. He cared about his work,
but not like this.
595
00:28:11,946 --> 00:28:13,656
He was so frustrated.
596
00:28:13,698 --> 00:28:19,996
He kept saying something about
the system working against him
597
00:28:20,038 --> 00:28:22,248
and that he was going to prove it.
598
00:28:22,290 --> 00:28:24,650
I just thought he was overreacting.
599
00:28:25,043 --> 00:28:27,611
He said it made him
feel like he was crazy.
600
00:28:28,088 --> 00:28:29,594
You think it has something
to do with the case?
601
00:28:29,618 --> 00:28:31,623
I don't know.
But if he had something to prove,
602
00:28:31,665 --> 00:28:33,035
it's possible he made an enemy.
603
00:28:37,639 --> 00:28:39,772
It looks like Joshua was investigating
604
00:28:39,814 --> 00:28:42,894
code violations against
one company in particular,
605
00:28:42,936 --> 00:28:44,396
Ralbern Investments.
606
00:28:44,437 --> 00:28:47,482
Ralbern is a huge multinational.
607
00:28:47,524 --> 00:28:49,859
I've done contract work for them.
608
00:28:49,901 --> 00:28:51,149
These are building codes.
609
00:28:51,191 --> 00:28:54,030
Next to them are the violations
against Ralbern repeated
610
00:28:54,072 --> 00:28:55,320
multiple times.
611
00:28:55,361 --> 00:28:57,075
What does this have
to do with my husband?
612
00:28:57,117 --> 00:28:59,035
Nearly half of Ralbern's security
613
00:28:59,077 --> 00:29:01,204
staff are moonlighting
D.C. Metro Police,
614
00:29:01,246 --> 00:29:02,622
Sergeant Powell included.
615
00:29:02,664 --> 00:29:04,666
Joshua was building a case against them
616
00:29:04,708 --> 00:29:08,294
issuing the same violations
against them over and over.
617
00:29:08,336 --> 00:29:09,563
That must have pissed them off.
618
00:29:09,587 --> 00:29:11,256
You're saying they targeted Joshua?
619
00:29:11,297 --> 00:29:14,287
You said that Joshua felt like
the system was against him,
620
00:29:14,311 --> 00:29:16,368
and the system killed him.
621
00:29:17,178 --> 00:29:19,742
You think Sergeant Powell
622
00:29:19,783 --> 00:29:22,402
deliberately took his team to our home
623
00:29:23,375 --> 00:29:25,377
to take him off of Ralbern?
624
00:29:26,187 --> 00:29:30,525
I'm saying I think
your husband was murdered.
625
00:29:40,452 --> 00:29:41,578
Anything from Ralbern yet?
626
00:29:41,619 --> 00:29:42,805
I've been on hold for over two hours.
627
00:29:42,829 --> 00:29:44,469
I still haven't spoken
to anyone in legal.
628
00:29:44,497 --> 00:29:45,957
You're not going to get through.
629
00:29:45,999 --> 00:29:47,709
They have a 100-person legal team.
630
00:29:47,751 --> 00:29:51,421
This trial will be long over before
we navigate that legal minefield.
631
00:29:51,463 --> 00:29:54,424
We need a way to
approach the VIPER team.
632
00:29:54,781 --> 00:29:58,219
Maybe there's a way to get
one of them to come to us.
633
00:29:58,261 --> 00:30:00,324
Rizwan, call Joy Reid's producers back.
634
00:30:00,366 --> 00:30:02,390
Tell them I'm going to
give them what they want,
635
00:30:02,432 --> 00:30:04,184
a sit-down with Atwood.
636
00:30:07,645 --> 00:30:10,216
Moving on to the Hill-Jones trial,
637
00:30:10,258 --> 00:30:13,902
an unarmed innocent man was
shot in his own living room.
638
00:30:13,944 --> 00:30:17,121
It should never have happened,
but was it negligence?
639
00:30:17,163 --> 00:30:18,544
We've got not one
640
00:30:18,568 --> 00:30:21,730
but two distinguished expert
witnesses here tonight,
641
00:30:21,754 --> 00:30:23,203
Dr. Dustin Atwood
642
00:30:23,244 --> 00:30:24,829
and Dr. Alec Mercer.
643
00:30:24,871 --> 00:30:26,331
Dustin, you say no.
644
00:30:26,373 --> 00:30:28,249
No, it was not negligence.
645
00:30:28,291 --> 00:30:30,001
Now, of course, I wish this tragedy had
646
00:30:30,043 --> 00:30:31,669
not happened, as we all do.
647
00:30:31,711 --> 00:30:34,464
But when you consider the
information the officers had,
648
00:30:34,506 --> 00:30:36,800
they had every reason to believe
649
00:30:36,841 --> 00:30:38,301
their lives were in danger.
650
00:30:38,343 --> 00:30:40,011
Alec, you say yes.
651
00:30:40,053 --> 00:30:43,973
As police officers, their job
was to assess and reassess
652
00:30:44,015 --> 00:30:45,954
that danger moment by moment.
653
00:30:45,995 --> 00:30:47,601
There was no time to reassess.
654
00:30:47,643 --> 00:30:49,354
Any good cop would have taken a shot
655
00:30:49,396 --> 00:30:50,563
under those circumstances.
656
00:30:50,605 --> 00:30:52,816
Any cop? Wiggins didn't shoot.
657
00:30:52,857 --> 00:30:55,586
Officer Wiggins
didn't even draw his gun.
658
00:30:55,628 --> 00:30:57,296
If any good cop
would have taken that shot,
659
00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,655
is he not a good cop?
660
00:30:58,697 --> 00:30:59,739
I didn't say that.
661
00:30:59,781 --> 00:31:01,408
Was he the negligent one?
662
00:31:01,449 --> 00:31:04,258
Are you criticizing
an officer for not shooting?
663
00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:06,454
I'm just trying to
understand your point of view.
664
00:31:06,496 --> 00:31:09,290
You've said over and over that
those cops did the right thing.
665
00:31:09,332 --> 00:31:11,751
Well, that must mean
Wiggins did the wrong thing.
666
00:31:11,793 --> 00:31:13,420
No?
667
00:31:13,461 --> 00:31:15,547
You raise a very interesting
question there, Alec.
668
00:31:15,588 --> 00:31:18,279
Obviously, my friend
here is being hyperbolic, Joy.
669
00:31:18,321 --> 00:31:20,844
Would you say Wiggins
isn't VIPER squad material?
670
00:31:20,885 --> 00:31:22,220
Does he need more training?
671
00:31:22,262 --> 00:31:25,205
I don't know.
Maybe Wiggins should find another job.
672
00:31:26,099 --> 00:31:27,308
I... I told you.
673
00:31:27,350 --> 00:31:29,728
I don't know anything.
674
00:31:30,127 --> 00:31:33,148
Withholding information
about the bombing...
675
00:31:33,588 --> 00:31:35,859
that's obstruction on 13 murders,
676
00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:38,570
arson, and terrorism.
677
00:31:38,991 --> 00:31:41,221
Could get you a lot of jail time.
678
00:31:45,475 --> 00:31:49,205
He said no one was supposed to die.
679
00:31:49,247 --> 00:31:51,767
He only wanted to get the church.
680
00:31:51,808 --> 00:31:54,044
It was six months after 9/11.
681
00:31:54,085 --> 00:31:56,129
And those Methodists were loaning
682
00:31:56,171 --> 00:31:57,922
their church to a mosque.
683
00:31:57,964 --> 00:31:59,049
So what happened?
684
00:31:59,090 --> 00:32:00,800
I only know what he told me.
685
00:32:00,842 --> 00:32:05,388
He said he was supposed to set
the bomb timer for 60 minutes,
686
00:32:05,430 --> 00:32:10,101
and he accidentally
set it for 60 seconds.
687
00:32:10,143 --> 00:32:11,603
Wait.
688
00:32:11,644 --> 00:32:16,232
So you're saying that
the murder of 13 people
689
00:32:16,607 --> 00:32:18,150
was a mistake?
690
00:32:19,843 --> 00:32:22,906
Peter was in way over his head.
691
00:32:22,947 --> 00:32:24,967
He didn't build the bomb.
692
00:32:25,008 --> 00:32:28,078
He got it from some guy
he met on the internet.
693
00:32:28,119 --> 00:32:29,788
What guy?
694
00:32:29,829 --> 00:32:31,831
Was it Wes Banning?
695
00:32:31,873 --> 00:32:33,333
Not him.
696
00:32:33,375 --> 00:32:38,046
This guy was
a fancy-looking professional,
697
00:32:38,088 --> 00:32:40,322
called himself Mathias.
698
00:32:43,301 --> 00:32:45,762
So if what the bomber's
mom said was true,
699
00:32:45,804 --> 00:32:47,436
Wes made the bomb.
700
00:32:47,478 --> 00:32:49,105
Peter planted the bomb.
701
00:32:49,147 --> 00:32:54,062
But the third guy,
Mathias, was behind it all.
702
00:32:54,104 --> 00:32:55,939
That's who was at Wes's parole hearing.
703
00:32:55,980 --> 00:32:57,774
Finding him will not be easy.
704
00:32:57,816 --> 00:32:59,818
Pamela said he's white, fancy,
705
00:32:59,859 --> 00:33:03,029
fedora, wears a flashy gold
watch, probably a Rolex...
706
00:33:03,071 --> 00:33:04,114
not much to go on.
707
00:33:04,155 --> 00:33:05,657
Maybe not yet.
708
00:33:05,699 --> 00:33:08,410
But the bomber met Matthias
in an online chat room.
709
00:33:08,451 --> 00:33:10,346
That site might be gone, but
710
00:33:10,388 --> 00:33:13,998
there's a company that maintains
a database of old websites.
711
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,411
We start there.
712
00:33:32,267 --> 00:33:34,185
Is this about my interview?
713
00:33:34,227 --> 00:33:35,562
I didn't shoot anyone.
714
00:33:35,603 --> 00:33:37,939
Why the hell did you crucify me on TV?
715
00:33:37,981 --> 00:33:40,316
Would you have come
to confront me otherwise?
716
00:33:44,863 --> 00:33:49,409
I want to know why you
didn't fire your gun.
717
00:33:50,910 --> 00:33:52,706
I made a judgment call in the moment,
718
00:33:52,748 --> 00:33:54,622
no different from anyone else.
719
00:33:54,664 --> 00:33:56,207
Let me ask you something.
720
00:33:56,249 --> 00:33:57,917
Are you familiar
with Ralbern Investments?
721
00:33:57,959 --> 00:33:59,219
Yeah.
722
00:33:59,260 --> 00:34:01,171
A lot of officers do work
for them on the side.
723
00:34:01,212 --> 00:34:02,589
Like Powell?
724
00:34:02,630 --> 00:34:05,133
Yeah. So?
725
00:34:05,175 --> 00:34:08,053
Could Powell have changed
the address to Joshua's house?
726
00:34:08,094 --> 00:34:09,346
No way.
727
00:34:09,387 --> 00:34:10,698
I was there when we got the warrant.
728
00:34:10,722 --> 00:34:12,557
He pinned it to our planning board.
729
00:34:12,599 --> 00:34:16,001
If someone changed it, it
wasn't him, wasn't any of us.
730
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,773
Who else could have
touched that warrant?
731
00:34:21,858 --> 00:34:23,508
I don't know.
732
00:34:24,110 --> 00:34:25,441
Ask the clerk.
733
00:34:31,117 --> 00:34:33,453
You said that you might
be able to get my job back?
734
00:34:33,495 --> 00:34:35,747
There may be a way to clear your name.
735
00:34:35,789 --> 00:34:38,640
Looks like the victim
was keeping records
736
00:34:38,681 --> 00:34:40,750
on overturned code violations.
737
00:34:40,792 --> 00:34:43,296
Are you familiar with
Ralbern Investments?
738
00:34:43,338 --> 00:34:45,632
The property development conglomerate?
739
00:34:45,674 --> 00:34:49,552
These are all the
violations against Ralbern.
740
00:34:49,594 --> 00:34:51,388
Do you know who would
have overturned them?
741
00:34:51,429 --> 00:34:54,933
Oh, that's easy. Judge Haynes
handles all those kinds of cases.
742
00:34:54,974 --> 00:34:57,560
The same Judge Haynes who
signed the original warrant?
743
00:34:57,918 --> 00:34:59,437
A quirk of living in D.C...
744
00:34:59,479 --> 00:35:01,231
the same judges do criminal and civil.
745
00:35:15,954 --> 00:35:18,480
All right, so what's this about, Mercer?
746
00:35:19,958 --> 00:35:21,126
I talked to Mason.
747
00:35:21,167 --> 00:35:22,603
He doesn't want to take the settlement.
748
00:35:22,627 --> 00:35:24,629
It could look like a loss for you.
749
00:35:24,671 --> 00:35:25,974
Yeah, I guess we'll see.
750
00:35:26,016 --> 00:35:28,174
But I think I know
a way I could convince him,
751
00:35:28,216 --> 00:35:31,553
but turns out,
I'm going to need your help.
752
00:35:34,556 --> 00:35:36,850
So I've got this multifamily development
753
00:35:36,891 --> 00:35:38,518
that I'm renovating in Southeast,
754
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,312
but I keep running
into these BS citations
755
00:35:41,354 --> 00:35:43,398
over gas line hazards.
756
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,401
Everyone whines there isn't
enough affordable housing.
757
00:35:46,443 --> 00:35:48,570
But they make building codes so costly,
758
00:35:48,611 --> 00:35:50,071
you can't build a damn thing.
759
00:35:50,113 --> 00:35:52,198
Because the politics
always get in the way.
760
00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:55,368
This country was built by
businesses, not regulations.
761
00:35:55,410 --> 00:35:56,828
That's for sure.
762
00:35:56,870 --> 00:36:00,040
That's why I say,
thank God for capitalism.
763
00:36:03,418 --> 00:36:06,713
You know, I golf with
Thomas Wilson over at Ralbern.
764
00:36:06,755 --> 00:36:10,008
And he says you are a free thinker,
765
00:36:10,323 --> 00:36:12,635
that you don't allow
corporate bureaucracy
766
00:36:12,677 --> 00:36:15,722
to get in the way of building
the American dream.
767
00:36:18,141 --> 00:36:19,349
I do what I can.
768
00:36:19,391 --> 00:36:21,231
And he said I should
talk to you about possibly
769
00:36:21,269 --> 00:36:22,896
expediting the process.
770
00:36:22,937 --> 00:36:25,565
You know, I'd love to make
a hefty campaign contribution,
771
00:36:25,607 --> 00:36:27,525
but those limits and all...
772
00:36:27,567 --> 00:36:29,259
You're telling me.
773
00:36:31,029 --> 00:36:32,113
Listen.
774
00:36:32,155 --> 00:36:35,116
Why don't we avoid all that red tape?
775
00:36:35,158 --> 00:36:36,534
Put me on retainer.
776
00:36:38,203 --> 00:36:39,412
Retainer?
777
00:36:39,454 --> 00:36:40,997
Sounds good.
778
00:36:41,039 --> 00:36:42,165
How much?
779
00:36:42,207 --> 00:36:44,584
For you, $5,000 a month.
780
00:36:45,627 --> 00:36:47,045
Fair enough.
781
00:36:47,087 --> 00:36:50,006
Let's say I transfer
a good faith deposit.
782
00:36:50,048 --> 00:36:51,323
Offshore account?
783
00:36:52,676 --> 00:36:54,367
I have it all.
784
00:37:01,393 --> 00:37:03,264
Judge Thaddeus Haynes,
785
00:37:03,523 --> 00:37:06,630
there are some people here
who want to speak to you.
786
00:37:09,192 --> 00:37:10,568
What the hell is going on?
787
00:37:10,610 --> 00:37:14,155
You have been taking bribes for years
788
00:37:14,197 --> 00:37:15,615
and getting away with it.
789
00:37:15,657 --> 00:37:17,450
You believed you were invulnerable,
790
00:37:17,492 --> 00:37:19,369
especially after
killing a man and almost
791
00:37:19,411 --> 00:37:20,412
getting away with it.
792
00:37:20,453 --> 00:37:22,436
That's insane. I didn't kill anyone.
793
00:37:22,477 --> 00:37:25,635
You had a nice little
side hustle taking bribes
794
00:37:25,677 --> 00:37:29,713
from companies like Ralbern to
help them skirt around onerous
795
00:37:29,754 --> 00:37:31,965
building regulations.
796
00:37:32,007 --> 00:37:35,051
But there was a fly in the ointment...
797
00:37:35,093 --> 00:37:36,136
Joshua.
798
00:37:36,177 --> 00:37:38,596
He caught on to your side hustle.
799
00:37:38,638 --> 00:37:40,306
You weren't about to go down
800
00:37:40,348 --> 00:37:43,184
because of some over-dedicated
building inspector.
801
00:37:43,226 --> 00:37:44,811
But he wouldn't let up.
802
00:37:44,853 --> 00:37:48,481
And then the DA hands you a request
803
00:37:48,523 --> 00:37:49,899
for a no-knock warrant.
804
00:37:49,941 --> 00:37:53,111
And you realize that the
location of the suspect
805
00:37:53,153 --> 00:37:56,990
was on the same street as Joshua.
806
00:37:57,032 --> 00:38:00,160
Computers had been down over a week,
807
00:38:00,201 --> 00:38:04,205
so any mistakes could be
blamed on human error.
808
00:38:04,247 --> 00:38:07,792
Everything just fell in your lap.
809
00:38:07,834 --> 00:38:09,836
Must have felt like divine providence,
810
00:38:09,878 --> 00:38:11,963
and you seized the moment.
811
00:38:12,005 --> 00:38:14,924
A court clerk gets the warrant,
812
00:38:14,966 --> 00:38:16,634
processes it manually,
813
00:38:16,676 --> 00:38:18,845
and hands it back to you to sign.
814
00:38:18,887 --> 00:38:22,057
That's when you change the address.
815
00:38:22,455 --> 00:38:26,770
You made sure the VIPER squad
went to the wrong house,
816
00:38:26,811 --> 00:38:29,731
where Joshua was murdered.
817
00:38:37,614 --> 00:38:39,305
Whew.
818
00:38:39,824 --> 00:38:42,202
I never thought we'd see
eye to eye enough
819
00:38:42,243 --> 00:38:43,893
to work together.
820
00:38:44,662 --> 00:38:45,747
Thank you.
821
00:38:45,789 --> 00:38:47,874
Hey, got to protect my stats.
822
00:38:47,916 --> 00:38:52,360
Most humans, when reminded,
will do the right thing.
823
00:38:52,754 --> 00:38:55,238
Last I checked, you are human, right?
824
00:38:55,590 --> 00:38:57,657
You're welcome, Mercer.
825
00:39:07,852 --> 00:39:09,020
Here you go.
826
00:39:09,062 --> 00:39:10,462
Thank you.
827
00:39:11,172 --> 00:39:12,632
Wingo called.
828
00:39:12,774 --> 00:39:16,342
Hey says they are
dismantling the VIPER squad.
829
00:39:16,820 --> 00:39:18,321
Well, that's more good news.
830
00:39:20,990 --> 00:39:22,450
Mason.
831
00:39:22,492 --> 00:39:23,910
Hey, Dr. Mercer.
832
00:39:23,952 --> 00:39:27,729
I just came over
to see Kylie and to say...
833
00:39:28,498 --> 00:39:29,457
thank you.
834
00:39:29,499 --> 00:39:34,009
No need. I'm just glad you
got some semblance of justice.
835
00:39:34,051 --> 00:39:35,255
Strange.
836
00:39:35,296 --> 00:39:37,674
I've all these feelings...
837
00:39:37,716 --> 00:39:42,178
anger, shock, guilt, but never peace.
838
00:39:43,513 --> 00:39:44,806
It may never go away.
839
00:39:46,558 --> 00:39:48,915
But you can move past it.
840
00:39:48,956 --> 00:39:50,376
How?
841
00:39:50,937 --> 00:39:52,355
There's no one answer.
842
00:39:52,397 --> 00:39:55,942
I don't know what's best for you, Mason.
843
00:39:55,984 --> 00:39:57,801
That'll be for you to explore.
844
00:40:00,488 --> 00:40:01,614
That's it?
845
00:40:01,656 --> 00:40:04,659
No profound Mercer monologue?
846
00:40:04,701 --> 00:40:06,953
I'm fresh out of monologues, young'un.
847
00:40:06,995 --> 00:40:09,164
Nothing profound to say today.
848
00:40:09,205 --> 00:40:12,709
Then I'll recycle an old one,
849
00:40:12,751 --> 00:40:15,128
one that I know by heart.
850
00:40:15,170 --> 00:40:17,964
Maybe start with finding something
851
00:40:18,006 --> 00:40:19,966
that reminds you of happiness.
852
00:40:22,010 --> 00:40:25,096
I could dust off the trumpet.
853
00:40:25,138 --> 00:40:27,474
Ooh.
854
00:40:27,515 --> 00:40:29,642
I think I can still fit
in my majorette outfit.
855
00:40:31,770 --> 00:40:35,732
I know I should go home, but
I don't want to face it yet.
856
00:40:35,774 --> 00:40:38,360
Mm, hang here until you're ready.
857
00:40:38,401 --> 00:40:41,321
We can stay up all night like old times.
858
00:40:42,989 --> 00:40:46,951
You know, I hear that there's
a reality show set in Potomac
859
00:40:46,993 --> 00:40:48,912
that'll help you forget
all your problems,
860
00:40:48,953 --> 00:40:50,413
even if it's only for an hour.
861
00:40:50,455 --> 00:40:51,581
We should tune in.
862
00:40:51,623 --> 00:40:53,166
Mm.
863
00:40:53,208 --> 00:40:54,501
Hell yeah.
864
00:40:56,211 --> 00:40:57,962
So you guys think there's something up
865
00:40:58,004 --> 00:40:59,881
because of her relationship
with.
866
00:40:59,923 --> 00:41:01,032
Absolutely.
867
00:41:03,510 --> 00:41:07,472
Oh, my God. We made it.
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