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Ramsey has just been arrested
for filming the police.
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Back up.
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Why are you standing
in front of the camera?
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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 haven'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.
I remember I was told,
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I wouldn't be able to get tattoos
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unless it was my 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 and 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? 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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Don't touch me, please.
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Do not touch me.
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- Why are they doing that to him?
- Damn, man.
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All right, he's down.
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Lift your hands, buddy.
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Put your hands behind your head.
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I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!
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I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!
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Officer had his knee
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on Eric's neck like this.
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And basically holding him down,
trying to restrain him,
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while other officers were
twisting his arm.
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I can’t breathe.
I can't breathe!
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Everybody back up. Back up.
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Watching it now, it's like... It hurts.
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I get goosebumps,
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'cause 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, "I killed him."
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Back up.
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I was here watching the whole shit.
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You watched everything.
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 choke hold death
of an unarmed black man,
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the protests are growing larger
and spreading across the country...
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Ramsey's video triggered
demonstrations across America.
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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!
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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 tenth Street.
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Can you check if that's
between third and fourth 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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'cause 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?
- 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 license to hurt, arrest,
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and kill people and get away with it.
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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And as they approached, the mother,
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she started telling the cops what
you're doing to her son was 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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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.
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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 an infrared and heat
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to try to locate people,
probably in the backyards.
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A senior detective,
he's investigated homicides,
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organized 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 behavior 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 the mentality
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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,
it 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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sometimes not even 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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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
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
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and they're talking about
discrimination.
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These guys are in uniform
and they're talking about the abuses
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that are going on in our community."
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These were things that were unheard of,
you would never do that.
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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 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 five billion dollars.
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It can control every corner of New York.
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In multi-ethnic 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.
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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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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,
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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' Cause, obviously,
domestic violence is serious.
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And that's why there's a court system,
I mean, 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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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 okay?
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-Excuse me.
-I want to know if that man's okay.
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-Hold on.
-Are you okay, sir?
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Stay here.
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Sir, are you okay?
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Sir, are you okay?
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-Back up, sir.
-Sir, are you okay?
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Why do I have to back up?
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'Cause we need
ample space over here.
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- You have ample space.
- Back up.
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Why are you standing in front
of the camera?
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-Sir.
-I've given you space.
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There's no cars coming, sir.
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I want to know that man's okay.
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You're going to get hit by a car.
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He's not complaining. He has to go
to Lincoln. That's it. Okay?
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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 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 Ortense,
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?
-Yeah.
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You need to not...
You 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...
-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?
-Yeah.
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-That's not what you're going to say!
-No. 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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-Okay.
-Okay?
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Okay.
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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...
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So I fight and, 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.
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?" 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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Stay back.
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I'm taking one step back.
I'm at 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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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.
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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 Beruche 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.
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Yeah. 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. You know?
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My understanding, he was
charged with jaywalking.
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I don't know...
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You want your other shoelace?
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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,
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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'cause that was the first case
that I caught behind the video,
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and allegation was 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,
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let's just say two cases,
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if my grandmother's on three,
can she sign for that other two?
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Okay.
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Ramsey’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,
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we would not be in this situation
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defending him on six or seven
different cases.
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It was more like, "Okay, this guy
is getting fucked completely."
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Lawyers Aronin and Perry
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specialize in cases
of alleged police abuse.
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So, tell me what happened.
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Uh, well, first off...
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Increasingly they are using
Copwatch material
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in their court battles with the NYPD.
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Keep on going.
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Today, they are meeting
Christen 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 defense.
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Of course, I looked to see
what was going on,
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'cause this is where I live,
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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While this was going on,
officers are kicking my legs.
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They're trying to push you down.
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00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.320
They're pushing me down on the floor.
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Let's... From the start for a second.
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One, two, three, four, five, six.
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You can see me under here.
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00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:55.160
And there you are there.
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00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:00.480
You have seven guys as we counted,
maybe more on top of you now.
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00:25:01.520 --> 00:25:03.240
It's a dogpile.
What are you saying at that point?
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At that point,
I'm trying to tell them...
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00:25:04.788 --> 00:25:06.500
I'm gasping for air, telling them,
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00:25:06.120 --> 00:25:08.920
"I can't breathe, I can't breathe!"
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00:25:09.600 --> 00:25:13.800
I'm against the ground with three or
four different officers on my back.
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How am I supposed to breathe?
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Eric Garner didn't get a chance
to tell his story.
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I wound up spending the night
in the hospital. Just madness, man.
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00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:31.960
Christen 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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You're going to go to court?
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Yeah, me and mommy are
gonna go to court.
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Just in case anything happens,
mommy is going to come with me.
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I don't think anything is
going to happen,
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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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The gulf between cop watchers
and the NYPD has never been greater.
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- We're here tonight...
- We're here tonight...
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-...'cause black lives matter.
-'Cause black lives matter.
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Each week, they meet
to remember a person of color
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who's died at the hands of the police.
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Every Monday, for over a year,
we've been highlighting different cases
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of police brutality, and unfortunately,
we're not running out of names.
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They're going to shut down the streets,
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they're gonna do some civil disobedience
to draw attention to the issue.
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Are they going to get arrested?
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Most likely some of them will.
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What do we want?
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-Justice.
-And when do we want it?
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00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:53.560
Now!
440
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:54.680
What do we want?
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00:26:54.800 --> 00:26:56.880
-Justice!
-And when do we want it?
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00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:57.800
Now!
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-And if we don't get it?
-Shut it down.
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00:27:00.800 --> 00:27:02.000
-And if we don't get it?
-Shut it down.
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There is some brave people willing to
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put their lives at the hands
of the police, you know?
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All I can do is watch their backs
as long as...
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Just filming as much as I'm able to do.
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00:27:17.280 --> 00:27:19.560
-And if we don't get it?
-Shut it down!
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-And if we don't get it?
-Shut it down!
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These two sides now view
each other with complete hostility.
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00:27:33.320 --> 00:27:35.800
Sorry to disrupt your shopping!
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00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:37.240
Sorry to disrupt your shopping!
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-But while you're shopping...
-But while you're shopping.
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00:27:40.560 --> 00:27:43.800
-Black people are dying.
-Black people are dying.
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00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:46.880
-By the hands of the police.
-By the hands of the police.
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00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:50.160
-Put your fist in the air.
-Put your fist in the air.
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00:27:51.400 --> 00:27:54.720
-Our lives matter.
-Black lives matter.
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00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:58.960
-Our lives matter.
-Black lives matter.
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00:28:04.840 --> 00:28:07.480
Rather than target
the main demonstration,
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00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:10.800
the police single out one
of the cop watchers they know well.
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00:28:26.760 --> 00:28:28.120
Go back over there and film over there.
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00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:31.560
This is the seventy-fifth time
Dennis has been arrested.
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You've got to get back
in your little space.
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What's happened, Dennis?
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00:28:36.320 --> 00:28:38.640
There are arresting me. I have no clue.
467
00:28:38.800 --> 00:28:40.880
I have no idea why they
are arresting me.
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00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:43.160
They haven't told me
why am I being arrested.
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00:28:43.600 --> 00:28:46.800
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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00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:55.800
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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00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.440
It is our duty to fight
for our freedom.
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00:29:00.520 --> 00:29:03.840
-It is our duty to win.
-It is our duty to win.
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00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:05.960
We must love and support each other.
477
00:29:06.800 --> 00:29:07.920
We must love and support each other.
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00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.000
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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00:29:10.800 --> 00:29:12.200
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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00:29:12.280 --> 00:29:14.840
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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Dennis is driven to the nearest
police station for processing.
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00:29:24.120 --> 00:29:27.800
But just two hours later,
he's released on bail.
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00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:28.360
Look what they gave me.
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They locked me up,
kept me in there for an hour,
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00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:35.880
and they gave me a ticket
for disorderly conduct,
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'cause they claim that
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I was crossing the street
when there was a red light.
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Luckily for me,
I videotaped the entire thing.
489
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.600
As I crossed the street,
490
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.840
I made sure I documented
the traffic signal.
491
00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:51.840
I don't even jaywalk when I cop watch.
492
00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:54.560
I recorded myself being stopped
in the middle of the street
493
00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:59.280
when it was still my turn to cross
and I was arrested for doing nothing.
494
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:04.680
Kim is in court today.
495
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:08.800
Six months ago, she was also
arrested when filming the police.
496
00:30:13.520 --> 00:30:15.800
He wasn't doing anything!
497
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:20.000
-Are you nervous about today?
-No, I'm not nervous.
498
00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:24.000
I have video evidence that it was
a completely bogus arrest.
499
00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:27.400
I'm not nervous at all. If anything,
it's just inconvenient
500
00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:30.160
that I have to keep taking time out
to keep doing this
501
00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:32.560
and I'm not going to fall for
this bogus charge
502
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:34.440
just because that's what they want.
503
00:30:41.280 --> 00:30:43.360
But when Kim's case is called,
504
00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:47.240
the arresting officer doesn't turn up
and her trial is postponed.
505
00:30:47.600 --> 00:30:50.120
She believes it's part
of a deliberate strategy
506
00:30:50.280 --> 00:30:51.920
to wear cop watchers down.
507
00:30:53.560 --> 00:30:57.160
The irony, I think,
is that had I not shown up,
508
00:30:57.240 --> 00:30:59.873
I would have had a
warrant for my arrest,
509
00:30:59.874 --> 00:31:01.737
but he can come as he pleases
510
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:03.160
or not come at all.
511
00:31:05.320 --> 00:31:07.400
I mean, let's be perfectly honest.
512
00:31:07.120 --> 00:31:09.400
You know,
this is a white supremacist country.
513
00:31:09.560 --> 00:31:14.000
The laws, the courts, the police,
everything runs on white supremacy,
514
00:31:14.800 --> 00:31:16.720
so you have the cards stacked
against you.
515
00:31:16.800 --> 00:31:19.320
If you're a person of color,
you have the cards stacked against you.
516
00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:22.760
If you're a poor person, you have
the cards stacked against you.
517
00:31:22.840 --> 00:31:24.200
If you're a woman of color.
518
00:31:24.280 --> 00:31:26.560
What about people
who say you're exaggerating?
519
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:29.720
I would ask those people to come
and sit down and I would ask
520
00:31:29.800 --> 00:31:32.440
those people to witness
what we witness all the time.
521
00:31:32.520 --> 00:31:33.720
I would also be insulted
522
00:31:33.800 --> 00:31:35.680
because someone
that would say that I'm exaggerating
523
00:31:35.760 --> 00:31:37.400
is probably someone
that lives in the suburbs
524
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:39.960
and has no idea the issues
that I'm talking about,
525
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:42.240
because it doesn't affect
or pertain to them.
526
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.840
Is there a reason
behind all these arrests
527
00:31:50.120 --> 00:31:52.800
and seemingly heavy-handed
police tactics?
528
00:31:54.600 --> 00:31:58.960
One serving NYPD officer
with 17 years experience
529
00:31:59.560 --> 00:32:01.200
is prepared to speak out.
530
00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:06.400
This was actually my graduation,
one of my graduation jackets.
531
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:11.400
Julio Diaz is president of
New York's Latino Officers Association.
532
00:32:11.280 --> 00:32:14.280
-When was your graduation?
-1999.
533
00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:18.920
He's now bringing
a class action lawsuit against the NYPD
534
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:23.960
claiming the existence of secret
and illegal arrest quotas.
535
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:32.800
The police department
will retaliate against you
536
00:32:32.520 --> 00:32:35.200
if they think you're saying
something they don't like.
537
00:32:35.280 --> 00:32:37.600
Quotas is something that they don't
want people to know about.
538
00:32:37.800 --> 00:32:42.280
If you put a system now that tells
police officers to go out there,
539
00:32:42.360 --> 00:32:45.560
and go stop people, and here's a number,
540
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:48.520
and if you don't come back with that
number, you're going to be disciplined,
541
00:32:48.600 --> 00:32:51.800
you're going to cause some problems
with the police department,
542
00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:55.280
with some police officers because
they might not know the balance now.
543
00:32:55.360 --> 00:32:57.320
They might go, "Okay, I've got to
get this at all costs."
544
00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:00.840
The minority communities, Latino
and African American communities,
545
00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:06.360
are being targeted as
enforcement strategy by the NYPD.
546
00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:09.920
Who are you going to target more?
547
00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:12.800
The poor people, the people who
are not going to sue you,
548
00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:16.480
the people who're not going to
fight back, the people that you know
549
00:33:16.560 --> 00:33:18.880
are not going to call a politician
to come after you?
550
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:20.360
These are the people
that are getting targeted.
551
00:33:22.840 --> 00:33:27.720
These allegations, that the
NYPD aggressively pursue arrest targets
552
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.600
were recently put
to Police Commissioner Bratton.
553
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.960
Bullshit! Bullshit is my
response to that. Quite clearly.
554
00:33:36.520 --> 00:33:38.480
If any of my cops out there still think
555
00:33:38.560 --> 00:33:41.175
we're pushing for the summons, etcetera,
556
00:33:41.176 --> 00:33:43.856
I'm sorry, we're pushing to
reduce crime.
557
00:33:51.800 --> 00:33:53.840
Despite this official denial,
558
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.800
Detective Miranda is adamant
quotas not only exist,
559
00:33:58.320 --> 00:34:01.760
but were a key factor
in the arrest of Eric Garner.
560
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.400
They went out here to put his ass
in jail for something that he didn't do.
561
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:10.800
To constitute the sale,
562
00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:12.280
they had to have seen the exchange
of money and the cigarettes.
563
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:15.920
Their own reports after the incident,
they never said
564
00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:20.440
that they saw an actual exchange between
Eric Garner and anybody else.
565
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.159
So if that was the premise
in why you stopped him,
566
00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:26.800
then your stop was illegal.
Your approach to him was illegal
567
00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.880
and you should never have
approached him to begin with.
568
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:32.400
I am minding my business, officer.
569
00:34:34.560 --> 00:34:36.960
I'm minding my business.
Please, just leave me alone.
570
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:39.960
He said, "These guys are targeting me,
they're planting evidence on me."
571
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:42.960
Every time you see me,
you want to mess with me.
572
00:34:43.600 --> 00:34:48.400
According to Miranda, not only were the
detectives aiming to hit their quota,
573
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:53.440
they were also punishing Eric
for daring to complain about harassment.
574
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:56.520
Prior to this,
he's already made allegations
575
00:34:56.600 --> 00:34:59.120
against a team at Staten Island,
the same officers,
576
00:34:59.200 --> 00:35:01.160
that they had planted evidence on him,
577
00:35:01.240 --> 00:35:03.640
and are falsely arresting him
and accusing him of a crime.
578
00:35:04.560 --> 00:35:05.480
Don't touch me!
579
00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:14.600
I can't breathe!
580
00:35:15.520 --> 00:35:18.600
To establish that they retaliated
against him was easy
581
00:35:18.680 --> 00:35:20.480
for any federal investigator,
582
00:35:20.600 --> 00:35:22.560
anybody with authority and oversight.
583
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:25.920
The City Council, all these people
who held the hearings,
584
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:28.880
nobody asked the right questions 'cause
they didn't want the right answers.
585
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:31.920
We should all be up in arms.
586
00:35:35.200 --> 00:35:38.720
Two years on and people
in the community are still angry.
587
00:35:40.560 --> 00:35:41.920
They cannot understand
588
00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:44.440
why the police have not been
held accountable.
589
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:47.160
-You telling the true story?
-You tell them what's true.
590
00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:48.840
Are you sure?
591
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:55.160
If it can happen to him,
it can happen to my sons, you know,
592
00:35:55.240 --> 00:35:57.680
my sisters, my brothers,
and it's been happening.
593
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:01.560
To find out later
when it came out and it said
594
00:36:01.680 --> 00:36:07.720
he was not going to be prosecuted,
the police officer, I lost it.
595
00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:11.280
The whole damn system is guilty as hell.
596
00:36:14.600 --> 00:36:15.880
For many New Yorkers,
597
00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:19.240
the fact the officers involved
in the choke hold death of Eric Garner
598
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:20.760
face no charges...
599
00:36:22.600 --> 00:36:27.400
...while Ramsey Orta, the man who
filmed it all, faces years in jail,
600
00:36:27.240 --> 00:36:29.280
shows the imbalance in the system.
601
00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:33.120
The whole damn system is guilty as hell.
602
00:36:33.200 --> 00:36:35.120
Ramsey is out on bail,
603
00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:38.120
but he cannot afford
to be caught out again.
604
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.920
With his trial looming,
Ramsey's lawyers call a crisis meeting.
605
00:36:48.120 --> 00:36:52.400
I expect the DA
to ask to increase the bail.
606
00:36:52.120 --> 00:36:53.520
We will do everything we can
to make sure
607
00:36:53.600 --> 00:36:56.280
you walk out of that court room
with us on Wednesday.
608
00:36:56.360 --> 00:36:58.880
But, now that there's more in
from yesterday,
609
00:36:59.600 --> 00:37:02.402
every single one is gonna
make our lives,
610
00:37:02.403 --> 00:37:04.453
make your life more difficult.
611
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.440
-So we're not getting another one, right?
-No.
612
00:37:07.520 --> 00:37:10.720
Be mentally prepared, we're gonna fight
like hell to keep it from happening.
613
00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:11.880
Be mentally prepared.
614
00:37:11.960 --> 00:37:15.360
Play the game because right now
they hold the cards.
615
00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:21.760
The man who inspired
the movement, faces the prospect
616
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.240
of no longer being able to cop watch.
617
00:37:24.960 --> 00:37:27.680
Ramsey knows this.
We've had this conversation with him
618
00:37:27.840 --> 00:37:29.640
very seriously many, many times.
619
00:37:30.160 --> 00:37:32.880
This case has to be
resolved at some point.
620
00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:38.200
Do I expect that all the police officers
will be saying nothing,
621
00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:40.120
but all the truth? No.
622
00:37:40.680 --> 00:37:44.960
I assume the police officers
are going to be lying on the stand
623
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:46.760
to get done what they want,
624
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:49.240
to get done what they think
is in their interest.
625
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:53.400
If everything went wrong,
118 years maximum.
626
00:37:53.480 --> 00:37:56.200
He's theoretically facing 118 years.
627
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:03.960
For some, Ramsey is a career-criminal
hiding behind allegations
628
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:05.880
of NYPD brutality.
629
00:38:07.520 --> 00:38:10.160
To others, he's a hero.
630
00:38:11.680 --> 00:38:18.400
I exposed, literally,
the modern-day lynching.
631
00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:21.520
That's what happened.
They choked him to death.
632
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:27.440
I don't regret it, but I don't want
to be dealing with this shit.
633
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:32.480
I'm about to go give up some time
of my life for taking a video.
634
00:38:34.200 --> 00:38:35.720
It's going to be a rough ride,
635
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:38.760
but hopefully I've
got my head on my shoulders
636
00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:40.200
by the time I get in there.
637
00:38:43.800 --> 00:38:45.680
What's the worst it can be now?
What's the worst?
638
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:46.600
Death.
639
00:38:48.160 --> 00:38:49.400
Pretty much.
640
00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:51.440
You'll probably be doing me a favor
641
00:38:51.520 --> 00:38:53.120
because I ain't gotta go
through this bullshit
642
00:38:53.200 --> 00:38:54.360
that I'm going through now.
643
00:39:24.200 --> 00:39:25.480
I had a great career.
644
00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:31.000
I did, I had a great career.
645
00:39:35.400 --> 00:39:39.440
For Detective Miranda, the criminal
justice system is out of control.
646
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:45.720
He's seen the prison population of
America increase by two million people
647
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:50.160
and maintains each
arrest, trial and conviction
648
00:39:50.720 --> 00:39:52.760
helps hit a financial target.
649
00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:57.789
People make money from
this whole process.
650
00:39:57.790 --> 00:39:59.390
This is a money-making system.
651
00:39:59.160 --> 00:40:03.280
The summons generate income,
the arrests generate an entire system.
652
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:06.400
When you arrest somebody,
everybody is making money.
653
00:40:06.120 --> 00:40:07.800
The courts make money,
the jails make money,
654
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:11.360
the court officers make money,
the correction officers make money.
655
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:13.000
It's a money-generating system
656
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:15.200
that nobody wants
to correct the imbalance,
657
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:16.680
because if you make it fair,
658
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:19.200
then there won't be as much
income in the system.
659
00:40:19.680 --> 00:40:21.480
That's just the reality of it.
There's not enough...
660
00:40:21.560 --> 00:40:23.840
The city won't make
the same amount of money.
661
00:40:26.200 --> 00:40:28.120
I think Copwatch should be everybody.
662
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:30.480
I think everybody who owns a camera now,
663
00:40:30.560 --> 00:40:33.240
everyone who owns a cellphone
should be a part of Copwatch.
664
00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:36.200
Every time you see something going on,
you should take the picture.
665
00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:46.920
Despite the cop watcher's video,
666
00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:49.640
Christen Conyers is back in court today.
667
00:40:50.600 --> 00:40:53.400
If convicted, he faces
a one-year sentence.
668
00:41:01.600 --> 00:41:04.240
Go in there and do
what you got to do today, man.
669
00:41:09.200 --> 00:41:13.960
Behave and do a good job today.
All right? No complaints, all right?
670
00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:15.960
-All right?
-Okay.
671
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:17.400
Give me some.
672
00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:20.800
See you later.
673
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:23.360
Who's going to pick me up
from school today?
674
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:24.280
Huh?
675
00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:27.400
Who's going to pick me up
from school today?
676
00:41:27.120 --> 00:41:31.240
Either me or mommy should be able
to pick you up. All right?
677
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:34.800
If anything, at the most, Grandpa.
678
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.400
But it'll probably be me and mommy,
all right?
679
00:41:38.200 --> 00:41:39.400
All right.
680
00:41:39.120 --> 00:41:42.200
I love you. See you later.
681
00:41:44.160 --> 00:41:46.280
Go ahead, man.
682
00:41:56.360 --> 00:42:01.240
This seems a community
more divided than united by the police.
683
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:08.320
This is the view from my son's bedroom.
684
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:09.920
Police sitting right here.
685
00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:14.840
They're here every day,
day and night, 24/7.
686
00:42:19.400 --> 00:42:21.960
Think about it. They're right here.
687
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.640
It's almost like an invasion
of your privacy.
688
00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:29.440
It's supposed to be New York City
public housing, you know?
689
00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:34.720
But when you come home,
they sit right outside your window.
690
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:36.280
You're not free.
691
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:42.160
Who's anyone to say that you're free
walking around in New York City
692
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:44.800
or anywhere in America right now?
693
00:42:44.160 --> 00:42:46.800
I mean, especially being a black man.
694
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:09.200
Do you think...
Do you see that it's round?
695
00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:11.800
Because you have no glasses.
696
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:13.120
I can't see from here.
697
00:43:13.200 --> 00:43:15.520
How do you see all of this
from down here?
698
00:43:15.640 --> 00:43:17.640
Because he got them good ol' glasses.
699
00:43:17.720 --> 00:43:19.560
And I can see without it.
700
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:22.153
Just imagine if those videos
wasn't there,
701
00:43:22.154 --> 00:43:23.832
you would have been still in jail.
702
00:43:24.600 --> 00:43:26.000
People need to wake up.
703
00:43:31.640 --> 00:43:33.360
We gonna be all right.
704
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:36.880
I just don't want to keep losing you.
58531
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