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Ramsey has just been arrested for
filming the police.
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Back up. Why are you standing
in front of the camera? Sir.
Sir, you've got to get...
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Get back on that sidewalk. Go back
over there and film over there.
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They hadn't told me
why am I being arrested.
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This is my mom's name, Emily.
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This was actually my first tattoo.
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I remember I was told
I wouldn't be able to get tattoos
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unless it was mom's name.
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So, I went behind my mom's
back for Mother's Day
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and got her name tattooed, and since
then, I've just been addicted to it.
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Eyes of a dead man.
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A part of my life where
I felt like I didn't have no soul,
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I didn't have no heart
and everything was cold around me.
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This is actually a victim
to the police brutality stuff.
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This signified how cops
were killing us.
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Ex-gang member Ramsey Orta
faces years in jail.
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It all started when he shot
a video of his friend Eric Garner
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being stopped
by undercover officers
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on suspicion of selling
untaxed cigarettes.
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For what?
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Every time you see me,
you want to mess with me.
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I'm tired of it. It stops today.
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This guy right here is forcibly
trying to lock somebody up.
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That day changed my life.
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I wish it didn't have
to happen this way.
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Hold up, hold up.
Don't touch me, please.
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Do not touch me.
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Oh!
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Why they doing that to him?
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POLICE OFFICER: All right, right,
he's down, he's down, he's down.
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Lift your hands, buddy.
ERIC'S SPEECH IS MUFFLED
Put your hands behind your head.
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Officer had his knee
on Eric's neck like this.
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And basically holding him down,
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trying to restrain him, while other
officers was twisting his arm.
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Everybody back up. Back up.
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Watching it now is like...
It hurts.
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I get goose bumps
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cos I feel like I could've
done a lot more
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than just stand there and videotape.
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He can't breathe.
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They don't even try to take
the cuffs of him and give him CPR.
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They don't even try to put
an oxygen mask over his face.
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I mean, they just left him there.
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Laying on his side with his eyes
rolled back and his mouth open.
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And I'm like, "You killed him."
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Back up, back up. I was here
watching the whole shit.
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You watched everything.
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You know everything.
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I couldn't believe it
at first and then...
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I went home and took a shower
and it hit me like,
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"Damn, they just killed my friend."
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Two days after
a New York City grand jury
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cleared a white police officer
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in the chokehold death
of an unarmed black man,
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the protests are growing larger
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and spreading the country...
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Ramsey's video triggered
demonstrations across America.
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I can't breathe! I can't breathe!
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Hundreds shut down major highways
in multiple cities.
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For many, including the city's
medical adviser,
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this was a homicide
caught on camera.
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I can't breathe! I can't breathe!
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Summer, 2016.
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Ramsey's video has still
not led to any arrests.
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But it has inspired
a network of people
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who use technology
to watch the police.
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They're taking on the largest
force in America,
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the NYPD.
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Brooklyn, New York City.
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Dennis Flores is a government
employee by day.
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By night, he runs a team that
intercepts police radio
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to film arrests as they happen.
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342 10th Street.
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Can you check if that's
between 3rd and 4th Avenue?
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Let's roll with it.
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We want to deter police abuse.
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So, if our cameras are out there,
it's going to help prevent it
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because they know there's
extra eyes on them.
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These cameras are bad-cop repellent.
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While it's legal to film the police,
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Dennis has been arrested
dozens of times...
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..sometimes aggressively.
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So, these cops came,
grabbed me, handcuffed me
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and then body-slammed me here,
like about five or six cops.
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Slammed me to the floor.
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This one police officer
grabbed his walkie-talkie
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and cracked my head open
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as all these other cops came
and kicked me, punched me.
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And they dragged me out of here
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and charged me with
assaulting the police.
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Now, Dennis never films alone.
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He and his team have
filmed multiple cases
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of what New York's zero-tolerance
policing means in practice.
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So, this is where Ray Tillery
was standing
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when he flicked the cigarette
onto the street.
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The police around him,
swarmed him around this entrance.
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As we see in the video,
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right in here, in front
of this dollar pizzeria shop,
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he gets arrested.
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What? What are these guys
trying to do?
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Are they trying
to handcuff him or what?
Turn around, turn around.
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Over ten police officers
aggressively take him down
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for flicking a cigarette
in the street,
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something that thousands
of New Yorkers do every day.
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He can't throw
a cigarette butt down?
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Come on, man.
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For every ten people stopped by the
NYPD, eight are Black or Hispanic.
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Literally, like, the police
have a licence to hurt, arrest
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and kill people
and get away with it.
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Nothing happens to them.
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Even those who intervene
run the risk of arrest.
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Sebastian Lemos, he was right here
and the police were arresting him.
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No! And as they approached,
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the mother,
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she started telling the cops what
you're doing to her son is wrong.
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She's six months pregnant.
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She has a belly out to here.
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You see them struggling with her
and he slams her to the floor.
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He puts his knees on her back.
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She just threw her hands up.
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Another woman approaches
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and the cop tosses her,
flips her over
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and she hits the ground
and fractures her kneecap.
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These are crimes being
committed by police officers.
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That's why cop watching
is effective.
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Because here we are keeping a track
of all the corrupt cops.
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We're making it public to make sure
that people know what's going on
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and this doesn't just get
swept under the rug.
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Police officer shot in the shoulder.
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Now they've got an investigation
of the three individuals.
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Two of them have been apprehended.
The officer has got shot
in the shoulder.
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And one individual's still at large.
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Anthony Miranda has spent
his life in the NYPD.
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They're doing of
an infrared in heat
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to try to locate people,
probably in the back-yards.
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A senior detective,
he's investigated homicides,
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organised crime
and police corruption.
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They shot one cop, they wouldn't
hesitate to shoot another.
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It's highly unusual
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for a police officer to speak out
against his own.
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But after 20 years of service,
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Miranda can no longer keep quiet
about the behaviour of the police.
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The enforcement against
African-Americans and Hispanics
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is ten times more than it is against
any other community out there.
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When cops become abusive
is when the they start believing
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the mentality that
it's us against them.
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And that starts from day one
in the police academy.
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Any police indoctrination
that trains officers
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to disassociate with
the communities they grew up in,
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not to identify with the people,
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not even sometimes to identify
with their own family members.
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They have no screening process
whatsoever for racism.
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They don't do it.
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Imagine if the police department
can hire somebody
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who has a tattoo on his arm
of a hanging...
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of a black person hanging
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and they still qualify to be
a New York City police officer.
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Have you seen that? Yes.
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White people don't get
arrested as much.
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The criminal justice system
doesn't prosecute them as much.
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It doesn't charge them
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the same way that they charge
African-Americans and Hispanics.
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There's a total imbalance
to the process
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that nobody wants
to pay attention to.
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Miranda is aware that by making
allegations of systemic racism,
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he's pitting himself
against the NYPD.
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People say, "Well, these guys are
in uniform and they're talking
about discrimination.
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"These guys are in uniform and
they're talking about the abuses
that are going on in our community."
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These were things that were unheard
of, like, you would never do that.
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It's like you're taking your
life in your own hands.
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The Police Department is
the biggest gang in New York.
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You know, you mess with
the Police Department
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and the retaliation
is direct and absolute.
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The NYPD has 36,000 officers...
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..and a budget of 5 billion.
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It can control every
corner of New York.
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In multiethnic
areas like the Bronx,
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the department operates a fleet
of mobile observation towers.
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These are deployed 24/7
in poor areas.
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The whole place is lit up.
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It's like... It is a war zone.
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It's an occupying force.
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Crime rates have fallen
to record lows.
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But Jose LaSalle, who runs
the local Copwatch team,
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believes this is because
the entire community is under siege.
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I'm just filming
the lights all around.
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Kind of give people an idea of
how police has actually took over
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these projects in the Bronx.
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I mean, there's no problem having
police, you know, around.
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My problem is when they just
don't follow the proper procedures
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and protocols
and take this to a point
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where they just become
more of a harassment.
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Suddenly, Jose intercepts
a police request for backup
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on a possible
domestic violence incident
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and disappears down the road.
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Jose films as two officers lead
a vocal but handcuffed man
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to their vehicle.
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But I didn't do nothing.
[INAUDIBLE SPEECH]
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Did I hit you? Did I hit you?
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He's walking on his own to the car.
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By the time he reaches
the police station,
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multiple officers
are carrying him in.
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Jose's team seek legal advice.
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They're concerned about the way
events are unfolding.
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We ran over, got over here
in time to catch him
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being pulled out of the van
like a fricking sack of potatoes,
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completely inert.
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What the police officer
said that, "He hit his wife,
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"so we can do whatever the fuck
we want with him."
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And then ten minutes later,
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an ambulance is called and
they brought in a stretcher,
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so we're waiting to see
what the story is.
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I'm hoping that he's alive.
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We have some video here of him
being pulled into the precinct.
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Wow.
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We don't know what
happened to this man.
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But the cop watchers
have their suspicions.
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So, somewhere along
inside that van,
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this black male got
either knocked out,
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beat up by police to the point
where he was unconscious.
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They're saying that they have
the right to be the judge,
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jury and executioner, you know what
I'm saying, because he hit a woman.
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Cos, obviously, domestic
violence is serious.
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And that's why
there's a court system,
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you know, why there's a process.
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You get locked up, you go to court,
you see the judge.
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Their only job is to arrest people.
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Just as the team fears the worst,
there's an unexpected development.
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Oh, they're bringing him out.
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They're taking him to the hospital.
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Excuse me, sir, are you OK?
Excuse me, excuse me. Excuse me.
I want to know if that man's OK.
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Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Are you OK, sir? Stay here.
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Sir, are you OK?
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Sir, are you OK?
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Back up, sir, back up, back up.
Sir, are you OK?
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Why do I have to back up?
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Because we need ample space
over here, OK?
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You have ample space. Why are you
standing in front of my camera?
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Back up. Why are you standing
in front of the camera? Sir.
I've given you space.
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There's no cars coming, sir.
I want to know that man's OK.
You're going to get hit by a car.
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POLICE: He's not complaining.
He has to go to Lincoln.
That's it. OK?
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The police seem to have
changed their story.
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They're no longer mentioning
domestic violence.
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Now they're saying that the guy
in there is emotionally disturbed,
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which is another way to cover
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why they had to be
so aggressive with him.
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The police refuse to give out
the man's name,
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so the cop watchers were unable
to find out what happened to him.
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What is this?
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Cop watcher Kim Ortiz thinks
it's only a matter of time
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before her sons are stopped
by the police.
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You know that
if a police officer stops you,
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you need to be very,
very careful, right?
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Yeah. You need to not put your hands
to your side, right?
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And you just ask them,
"Am I free to go?"
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Or, erm...
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Am I being detained?
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Detained, all right.
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Say it, so, "Am I free to go?"
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Am I free to go or I'm being...
I'm being detained?
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Excuse me, sir,
what are you doing here?
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Can I talk to you for a second?
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Er, yeah.
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That's not what you're going to say!
No. No!
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No.
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And if they say
you're being detained?
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I just need to wait
there for a minute.
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You need to wait there
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and then when you get a chance
to call Mommy, you call Mommy.
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OK.
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OK?
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OK.
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My nine-year-old's
on the autism spectrum.
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Aiden is very respectful.
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Aiden is very peaceful.
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But he won't understand,
you know, their aggressive,
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jump-out-the-car tactics,
with guns in faces.
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He will not understand that.
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His mind is not equipped
to understand that in that way.
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And police aren't equipped
to deal with people in that way,
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so I'm terrified,
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especially for Aiden,
because of that and, erm...
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so I fight and, you know,
hopefully, I fight enough
that they don't have to march,
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that they don't have
to go through all of this.
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Hopefully, something changes, but,
you know, the climate is just...
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It's just heartbreaking.
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Let me try.
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Despite working full-time,
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and raising her sons
as a single parent...
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Kim cop watches every single week
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to make sure people
know their rights.
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Do you consent to that search, sir?
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And to gather evidence
when the police step out of line.
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We can get you this video.
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You do not have to consent
to a search.
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Say, "I do not consent
to this search."
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I don't consent to this search.
I've got this on film.
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He does not consent to a search.
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So guess what's going to happen
when you get to court.
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This video? Bye-bye.
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So, I know I come across as very
aggressive and very militant,
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and I am and I'm unapologetic
about it, because, like, day-to-day
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I see police harass people
and, you know, it's every day.
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Like, I can't go one day without
seeing someone's rights
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violated by police officers.
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And when you try to call them
out on it,
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it's like, "Who are you to talk
to me about what I'm doing?
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Like, "Obey me."
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So, yeah, I'm angry, yeah.
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I'm aggressive, yes. I'm militant.
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Because I've been dealing with
this shit for a long time now.
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OFFICER: Stay back.
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I'm taking one step back.
I'm a reasonable distance.
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You keep your hands away from me.
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I'm not the one.
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Yeah. I'm not the one.
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FROM VIDEO: Yo, what's the issue?
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Record that.
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You need to get out of...
I work for Copwatch.
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Get out of the street.
Go on the sidewalk.
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Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed
the death of Eric Garner,
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has been filming the
police ever since.
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I told you to stay on the sidewalk.
I told you to stay on the sidewalk.
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But when he is arrested filming
a traffic stop,
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his wife Bella takes over.
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We are on Baruch and Halston.
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Ramsey has just been arrested
for standing off of the sidewalk
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while filming the police arrest
someone else.
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Jesus fucking Christ.
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With Ramsey behind bars, his wife
Bella alerts other cop watchers.
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Fuck this world, man. Yeah.
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The charges are obstruction
of a government agent
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and disorderly conduct.
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Right, I'm like,
that's fucking bullshit.
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I mean, it's been a crazy week.
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You know? To hear that he got
arrested for filming cops.
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Once again.
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You know?
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My understanding, he was
charged with jaywalking.
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You want your other shoelace?
SHE LAUGHS
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Doing my job.
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After five hours in custody,
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and convinced he's done nothing
wrong, Ramsey is released.
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Before I approach any situation,
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I'm like, "Yo, my name is
Ramsey Orta. I work with Copwatch.
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"I got video footage of
everything that went on.
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"Don't try to falsify reports."
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Man, I think you're crazy
still filming the police.
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For Ramsey, the battle with
the NYPD is personal.
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He doesn't want
the death of his friend
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Eric Garner to count for nothing.
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I'm not going to say
they won by taking my friend.
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But they won in a sense to show
that they don't give a fuck.
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But now it's my turn.
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My main goal is to put
pressure on cops.
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Once they see camera in somebody's
hand or a phone in somebody's hand,
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they're quick to think twice,
like, "Oh, shit,
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"I can't do what I wanted to do."
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For Ramsey, the stakes
couldn't be higher.
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He has a criminal past.
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And since his video exposing
the NYPD went viral,
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he has been arrested in multiple
undercover sting operations.
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Altogether, I have five bail bonds.
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Empire is covering the gun charge,
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cos that was the first case
that I caught behind the video.
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And allegations I was
selling drugs to an undercover.
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His family is helping pay his bail,
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and each week he has to check
in at this bail bond office.
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The names that I'm putting back
on the list, it's two cases.
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If my grandmother's on three it's
cos she signed for that other two.
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OK.
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Ramsay's lawyers,
Ken Perry and Will Aronin,
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believe these latest
arrests are bogus,
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designed to discredit Ramsey.
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He doesn't have a clean record.
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But that has nothing to do
with these cases.
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It does feel that
they had it in for someone.
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And I do think that had he not
filmed this video, we would
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not be in this situation defending
him on six or seven different cases.
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It was more like, "OK, this guy
is getting fucked completely."
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Lawyers Aronin and Perry
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specialise in cases of
alleged police abuse.
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So, tell me what happened.
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FROM PHONE: Well, first off...
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Increasingly they are using Copwatch
material in their court battles
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with the NYPD.
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Keep on going.
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Today, they are meeting
Christian Conyers.
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It's amazing how lucky it is
that this was all on video.
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As you can see on tape,
I didn't commit any crime.
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This is me right here.
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He is facing charges
of resisting arrest
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after cycling into a demo.
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But footage shot by cop watchers
could be key to his defence.
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Of course, I looked, you know,
to see what was going on,
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00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,120
but this is where I live.
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I have every right to be here.
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That's when he grabbed me.
I had to stand up.
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If I didn't stand up,
I would have fell off the bike.
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00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,120
While this was going on,
officers are kicking my legs.
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00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:46,120
They're trying to push you down.
They're pushing me down on the
floor.
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00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,000
Let's...from the start
for a second.
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One, two, three, four, five, six.
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00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,480
You can see me under here.
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And there you are there.
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00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,040
You have seven guys as we counted,
maybe more on top of you now.
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00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,280
What are you saying at
that point?
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00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,720
At that point,
I'm trying to tell them,
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00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:07,640
"I can breathe, I can't breathe!"
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00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,040
I'm against the ground with three or
four different officers on my back.
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00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,680
How am I supposed to breathe?
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I regard I didn't get a chance
to tell any story.
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I wound up spending the night
in the hospital. Just madness, man.
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Christian will be in court
in a few days
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and it's taking its toll
on his family.
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My son doesn't even look
at the police the same now.
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He shouldn't live in a place
in which he fears the people
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that are supposed to serve
and protect him.
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00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,800
You're going to go to court? Yeah,
me and Mommy got to go to court.
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Just in case anything happens,
Mommy is going to come with me.
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I mean, I don't think
anything is going to happen
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00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,640
but in the event that it does,
it would be better
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for Mommy to know, because
the courts are not going to call
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and tell Mommy that they are
remanding me or anything like that.
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00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,040
The gulf between cop watchers
and the NYPD has never been greater.
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We're here tonight...
ALL: We're here tonight.
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Because black lives matter.
ALL: Because black lives matter.
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Each week, they meet to remember
a person of colour who's
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died at the hands of the police.
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Every Monday for over a year, we've
been highlighting different cases of
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police brutality and unfortunately
we're not running out of names.
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They're going to shut down
the streets, they're going to do
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some civil disobedience to draw
attention to the issue.
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REPORTER: Are they going to
get arrested?
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Most likely some of them will.
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00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:53,400
What do we want? ALL: Justice.
And when do we want it? ALL: Now.
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00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,320
What do we want? ALL: Justice.
And when do we want it? ALL: Now.
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00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,160
And if we don't get it?
ALL: Shut it down.
439
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,000
There is some brave
people willing to
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00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,960
put their lives at the hands
of the police, you know?
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00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:16,640
All I can do is watch their backs
and film as much as I'm able to do.
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00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,320
ALL: Shut it down. And if we don't
get it? ALL: Shut it down.
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00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,560
If we don't get it?
ALL: Shut it down.
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00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,160
These two sides now view each other
with complete hostility.
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00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,880
But while you're shopping...
ALL: But while you're shopping.
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Black people are dying.
ALL: Black people are dying.
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00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,840
By the hands of the police.
ALL: By the hands of the police.
448
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,840
Put your fist in the air.
ALL: Put your fist in the air.
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00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:55,600
ALL: Our lives matter.
Black lives matter.
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00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:00,160
Black lives matter.
ALL: Black lives matter.
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00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:07,160
Rather than target
the main demonstration,
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the police single out one of
the cop watchers they know well.
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Go back and film over there.
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00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,640
This is the 75th time
Dennis has been arrested.
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00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,680
You've got to get back
in your little space.
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00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,680
REPORTER: What's happened, Dennis?
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00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,760
There are arresting me.
I have no clue.
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00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,880
I have no idea why
they are arresting me.
459
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,760
They haven't told me
why I'm being arrested.
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00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,600
Sir, please step back on the
sidewalk. You're on the street.
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The more we report of your abuse,
the more people win,
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the more we win.
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00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,680
Three, six, seven cops on somebody
who was walking on the crosswalk?
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It is our duty to fight
for our freedom.
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00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:00,200
All: It is our duty
to fight for our freedom.
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00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,600
It is our duty to win.
ALL: It is our duty to win.
467
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,600
We must love and support each other.
468
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,880
ALL: We must love and
support each other.
469
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,000
We have nothing to lose
but our chains.
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00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,160
ALL: We have nothing to lose
but our chains.
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00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,240
We have nothing to lose
but our chains.
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00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:20,200
Dennis is driven to the nearest
police station for processing...
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00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,040
..but just two hours later,
he's released on bail.
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00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:28,600
Look what they gave me.
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00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,360
They locked me up, kept me in there
for an hour and they gave me
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00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:37,400
a ticket for disorderly conduct,
because they claim that
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00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,160
I was crossing the street
when there was a red light.
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00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,720
Luckily for me,
I videotaped the entire thing
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00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,640
as I crossed the street.
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00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,400
I made sure I documented
the traffic signal.
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00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,000
I don't even jaywalk
when I cop watch.
482
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,040
And I recorded myself being stopped
in the middle of the street when
483
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,760
it was still my turn to cross and
I was arrested for doing nothing.
484
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,800
Kim is in court today.
485
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,480
Six months ago, she was also
arrested when filming the police.
486
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,920
He wasn't doing anything!
487
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,880
REPORTER: Are you nervous
about today? No, I'm not nervous.
488
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,360
I have video evidence that it was
a completely bogus arrest.
489
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,360
I'm not nervous at all. If anything,
it's just inconvenient that
490
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,000
I have to keep taking time out
to keep doing this and I'm not
491
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,040
going to fall for this bogus charge
just because that's what they want.
492
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,320
But when Kim's case is called,
493
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,560
the arresting officer doesn't
turn up and her trial is postponed.
494
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,240
She believes it's part of
a deliberate strategy
495
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:51,640
to wear cop watchers down.
496
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,760
The irony, I think, is that had
I not shown up, I would have had
497
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,480
a warrant for my arrest,
but he can come as he pleases
498
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,520
or not come at all.
499
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:06,920
I mean, let's be perfectly honest.
500
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,560
You know, this is a white
supremacist country.
501
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:13,320
The laws, the courts,
the police, everything runs on white
502
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,600
supremacy, so you have
the cards stacked against you.
503
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,560
If you're a person of colour, you
have the cards stacked against you.
504
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,560
If you're a poor person, you have
the cards stacked against you.
505
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:23,960
If you're a woman of colour.
506
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,520
REPORTER: What about people
who say you're exaggerating?
507
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,800
I would ask those people to come
and sit down and I would ask
508
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,560
those people to witness
what we witness all the time.
509
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,400
I would also be insulted because
someone that would say I'm
510
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,200
exaggerating is someone that
probably lives in the suburbs
511
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,840
and has no idea the issues
that I'm talking about,
512
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,360
because it doesn't affect
or pertain to them.
513
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,560
Is there a reason behind
all these arrests
514
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,880
and seemingly heavy-handed tactics?
515
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:59,200
One serving NYPD officer
with 17 years' experience
516
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,640
is prepared to speak out.
517
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:06,080
This was actually my graduation,
one of my graduation jackets.
518
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,600
Julio Diaz is president of
New York's
519
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,960
Latino Officers Association.
520
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,960
REPORTER: When was your graduation?
1999.
521
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:19,920
He's now bringing a class action
lawsuit against the NYPD
522
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,800
claiming the existence of secret
and illegal arrest quotas.
523
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:32,480
The police department will
retaliate against you
524
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,960
if they think you're saying
something they don't like.
525
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,960
Quotas is something that they don't
want people to know about.
526
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,280
If you put a system now that tells
police officers to go out there
527
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,920
and go stop people and here's a
number and if you don't come back
528
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,320
with that number,
you're going to be disciplined,
529
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,200
you're going to cause some problems
with the police department,
530
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,920
with some police officers because
they might not know the balance now.
531
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,400
They might go, "OK, I've got to get
this at all costs."
532
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,720
The minority communities, Latino
you African American communities
533
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:06,640
are being targeted as enforcement
strategy by the NYPD.
534
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,000
Who are you going to target more?
535
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,840
The poor people, the people who
are not going to sue you,
536
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,480
the people who're not going to
fight back, the people
537
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,080
that you know are not going to call
a politician to come after you?
538
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,840
These are the people
that are getting targeted.
539
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,920
These allegations that the NYPD
aggressively pursue arrest targets
540
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,520
were recently put to
Police Commissioner Bratton.
541
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:36,040
Bullshit! Bullshit is my response
to that. Quite clearly.
542
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,400
If any of my cops out there still
think we're pushing for the
543
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:44,080
summonses, etc, I'm sorry,
we're pushing to reduce crime.
544
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,520
Despite this official denial,
545
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:57,760
Detective Miranda is adamant
quotas not only exist
546
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,400
but were a key factor
in the arrest of Eric Garner.
547
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,560
They went out here to put his ass
in jail for something that he
548
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:07,600
didn't do.
549
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,040
To constitute the sale,
550
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,080
they had to have seen the exchange
of money and the cigarettes.
551
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,200
Their own reports after the
incident, they never said that they
552
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:20,240
saw an actual exchange between
Eric Gardner and anybody else.
553
00:34:21,240 --> 00:34:23,960
So if that was the premise
in why you stopped him,
554
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,960
your stop was illegal.
Your approach to him was illegal
555
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,080
and you should never have
approached him to begin with.
556
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:35,440
I am minding my business, officer.
I'm minding my business.
557
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:36,720
Please, just leave me alone.
558
00:34:36,720 --> 00:34:38,480
He said, "These guys
are targeting me,
559
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,320
"they're planting evidence on me."
560
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,520
Are you seemingly wanting to mess
with me? I'm tired of it.
561
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,720
According to Miranda, not only
were the detectives aiming to hit
562
00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:51,320
their quota, they were also
punishing Eric for daring
563
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,200
to complain about harassment.
564
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,920
Prior to this, he's already
made allegations against a team
565
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,040
at Staten Island. The same officers
that they had planted evidence
566
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,360
on him and falsely arresting him
and accusing him of a crime.
567
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,240
Don't touch me! BLEEP
568
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,400
I can't breathe! I can't breathe!
569
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,520
To establish that they retaliated
against him was easy
570
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,440
for any federal investigator,
571
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,840
anybody with authority
and oversight.
572
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,960
The City Council, all these people
who held the hearings, nobody
573
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,760
asked the right questions because
they didn't want the right answers.
574
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,680
We should all be up in arms.
575
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,680
Two years on and people
in the community are still angry.
576
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:43,320
They cannot understand
why the police have not
577
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:44,680
been held accountable.
578
00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:48,400
You telling the true story?
Are you sure?
579
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,000
If it can happen to him,
it can happen to my sons, you know,
580
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,800
my sisters, my brothers
and it's been happening.
581
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,400
To find out later
when it came out and it said
582
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:07,520
he was not going to be prosecuted,
the police officer, I lost it.
583
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:13,040
ALL: The whole damn system
is guilty as hell.
584
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:18,280
For many New Yorkers, the fact the
officers involved in the chokehold
585
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:23,520
death of Eric Garner face no charges
while Ramsey Orta,
586
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,720
the man who filmed it all,
faces years in jail,
587
00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:29,880
shows the imbalance in the system.
588
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,120
ALL: The whole damn system is
guilty as hell.
589
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,680
Ramsey knows we've had
this conversation with him
590
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,280
very seriously many, many times.
591
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,440
This case has to be
resolved at some point.
592
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:48,400
Do I expect that all the police
officers will be saying nothing
593
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,520
but all the truth? No.
594
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,600
I assume the police officers
are going to be lying on the stand
595
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,640
to get done what they want,
596
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,440
to get done what they think
is in their interest.
597
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,520
If everything went wrong,
118 years maximum.
598
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,720
He's theoretically facing 118 years.
599
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:13,840
For some, Ramsey is a career
criminal hiding behind allegations
600
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,280
of NYPD brutality.
601
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,200
To others, he's a hero.
602
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:27,440
I exposed, literally,
the modern day lynching.
603
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,200
That's what happened.
They choked him to death.
604
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,680
I don't regret it but I don't want
to be dealing with this shit.
605
00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:42,080
I'm about to go give up some time
for my life for taking a video.
606
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,920
It's going to be a rough ride,
607
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,640
but hopefully I've
got my head on my shoulders
608
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:50,200
by the time I get in there.
609
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,360
REPORTER: What's the worst it can
be now? What's the worst? Death.
610
00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,560
Pretty much.
611
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,600
You'll probably be doing me a favour
because I haven't got to go
612
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,400
through this bullshit
that I'm going through now.
613
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:35,760
I had a great career.
614
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,360
I did, I had a great career.
615
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,440
For Detective Miranda, the criminal
justice system is out of control.
616
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,320
He's seen the prison population
of America increase by
617
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,800
2 million people and
maintains each arrest,
618
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,560
trial and conviction helps
hit a financial target.
619
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,040
People make money from
this whole process.
620
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,480
This is a moneymaking system.
621
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:13,640
The summons generate income, the
arrests generate an entire system.
622
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,200
When you arrest somebody,
everybody is making money.
623
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,240
The courts make money,
the jails make money,
624
00:39:18,240 --> 00:39:21,520
the court officers make money,
the correction officers make money.
625
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,640
It's a money generating system
that nobody wants to correct
626
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,520
the imbalance,
because if you make it fair,
627
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,880
then there won't be as much
income in the system.
628
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,960
That's just the reality of it.
629
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,520
The city won't make
the same amount of money.
630
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,560
I think cop watching
should be everybody.
631
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,280
I think everybody
who owns a camera now,
632
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,240
everyone who owns a cellphone
should be a part of Copwatch.
633
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:47,080
Every time you see something going
on, you should take the picture.
634
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,080
Despite the cop watcher's video,
635
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,480
Christian Conyers is
back in court today.
636
00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:03,320
If convicted,
he faces a one-year sentence.
637
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,320
Go in there and do
what you got to do today, man.
638
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:24,600
Behave and do a good job today.
All right? No complaints, all right?
639
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,000
All right? OK.
640
00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:33,480
See you later. Who's going to get me
from school today? Huh?
641
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,960
Who's going to pick me
up from school today?
642
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,000
Either me or Mommy should be able
to pick you up. All right?
643
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,680
If anything, at the most, Grandpa.
644
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,720
It'll probably be me and Mommy,
all right?
645
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:52,040
I love you. See you later.
646
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,280
Go ahead, man.
647
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:11,120
This seems a community more divided
than united by the police.
648
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:20,720
This is the view from my son's
bedroom. Police sitting right here.
649
00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:25,000
They're here every day,
day and night 24/7.
650
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,840
Think about it. They're right here.
651
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,000
It's almost like an invasion
of your privacy.
652
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,360
It's supposed to be New York City
public housing, you know?
653
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:45,240
But when you come home,
they sit right outside your window.
654
00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:46,280
You're not free.
655
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,200
Who's anyone to say that you're free
walking around in New York City
656
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,440
or anywhere in America right now?
657
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:54,440
Especially being a black man.
55766
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