(somber music)
(Ramsey) Millions of people were introduced
to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
for the first time after Stephen Paddock opened fire
on a large crowd of Vegas concertgoers...
...killing 58 people and wounding over 500.
In the days following the deadliest mass shooting
in U.S. history,
a sympathetic public looking for light in the darkness
latched on to stories of heroism
from that tragic night.
Many saw LVMPD Sheriff Joe Lombardo
as a heroic figure.
I wanna thank you for letting me be your sheriff,
and Vegas Strong.
(Ramsey) Sheriff Lombardo even had President Trump
kissing up to him
and celebrating LVMPD officers as heroes.
And then...things changed.
Sheriff Lombardo was caught lying
about Stephen Paddock's check-in dates.
(reporter) Was the official timeline changed-
Please stop asking your question.
(Ramsey) After the sheriff changed the timeline
for a third time,
the LVMPD was sued by seven media companies
for failing to release public records
from the night of the shooting,
leaving some to wonder
if the sheriff was manipulating the facts
to minimize Mandalay Bay's legal liability
since their parent company, MGM,
had given a lot of money
to Lombardo's reelection campaign.
And when a reporter broke the news
that the LVMPD appeared to be trying to hide the fact
that an officer fired a gun in Stephen Paddock's room,
many were surprised.
I wasn't.
I had a history with the LVMPD
and knew what this department was capable of.
My name is Ramsey Denison
and I've spent most of my career
editing television shows
about good cops
who catch bad criminals.
(music)
Until my encounter with the LVMPD
I'd never seen police as anything but the good guys.
(music)
I just finished editing a really difficult television show,
so I made the four hour trip to Vegas to relax
and hang out with my friend Rhett.
(music)
He'd had a pretty crappy day...
(music)
...so I took him out, cheered him up.
We had fun.
(distant siren)
Around 4 AM, we called it a night and left the club.
(Rhett) As we were walking through the parking lot,
there was a suspect in handcuffs,
and the officer was screaming at him about his mother.
"Did you know your mama raised an f-up?
Did you know your mama raised an f-up?"
I'm lookin' at Rhett, he's lookin' at me,
his mouth open just kinda wonderin'
what in the hell these police officers are doing.
I leaned over to Ramsey and I said, "Man, look,
all my years on the SWAT team, I never saw anything like this.
I don't understand what's going on here."
I worked with the Las Vegas SWAT team
for seven years as a videographer,
and I saw a lot of situations where people were arrested,
and I never saw a situation like this
where officers acted so unprofessional.
They had this guy bent over with the handcuffs,
and they were squeezin' his handcuffs tighter,
and I could tell it was just to give this guy pain.
(music)
(Ramsey) I saw four cops laughing at this guy
as he's screaming his head off being tortured.
(music)
I didn't know who this guy was,
I didn't know what he'd done to get arrested,
but I knew there's nothin' right
about what the police were doing to him.
(music)
You could see that they were enjoying it.
(music)
(Rhett) I saw Ramsey pull out his phone,
he was pacing pretty fast back and forth
'cause he didn't like what he saw,
and, uh, he called 9-1-1.
(music)
(operator) 9-1-1 emergency.
(Ramsey) I want to report improper conduct
by a police officer.
(operator) Is it happening right now?
(Ramsey) It's happening right now.
(operator) Okay, what is your name?
(Ramsey) My name is Ramsey Denison.
(operator) I will let the dispatcher know
and have him make contact with you, okay?
-Okay. -All right, thank you.
Next thing you know,
I'm getting beaten, arrested,
and thrown in jail.
(music)
(Rhett) And what's so disturbing to me
is here you have somebody
who's really just trying to do a good thing
going to jail for three days.
(music)
(Ramsey) After I was released from
the Clark County Detention Center,
I started to investigate.
In a town where you can get beaten, arrested,
and thrown in jail just for making a phone call
to report police brutality,
I couldn't help but wonder what else
has the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department done?
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(Philip) Trevon was a big teddy bear.
He had, like, a smile ear to ear all the time.
Cared about his friends, cared about his family.
The store that we worked at was family.
(Josh) He even would pull me in
for the big bear hug
either to start the day or before he left for the day,
or even if he saw I was having a rough day,
it was "Come here and give me the big hug,"
and he wouldn't let me go until I had a smile on my face,
so that's just- it's kind of who he was.
(music)
He was in love and excited to have a baby,
you know, like, that was apparent.
The whole staff knew that he was gonna have a kid,
and we were all very excited for him.
Had an extra glow, and it seemed like
it just added a little bit more purpose to why
he was makin' money and doin' what he did.
(Josh) I'd say probably about
six months into the pregnancy,
he really started to get focused on what he needed to do
to be able to provide for them.
He was usually a top ten in the store.
We had about 80 employees,
so he was always one of the top sellers.
For Trey, you know, for a top performer,
they get 25 hours a week at nine dollars an hour.
That's not a lot of money when you got a girlfriend at home
and a baby on the way.
I think the desire to get out of where he was
and to provide a safe and stable life for Sequoia and the baby
was the only reason he was selling marijuana.
(Andre) Officer Bryan Yant
was searching Craigslist
for people selling drugs,
and he found Trevon Cole.
They set up a buy with Trevon Cole
where he sold the police
a very small amount of marijuana.
That was all on tape.
Instead of arresting him,
the decision was made to raid his apartment...
because the raid was gonna be televised.
The arrest could have been made with one,
two, three, even four people
if you want to go on the maximum end.
Here, this arrest involved ten people
in body armor type suits going in with AR-15s.
The police officers went inside
directly to the bedroom.
Trevon Cole was in his bathroom
dumping a bag of marijuana
when Bryan Yant kicked open the door
and shot him with an AR-15 in the head.
(music)
Bryan Yant said the reason that he shot Trevon Cole
was because a "furtive movement" was made.
And what is a "furtive movement"?
It's a very vague term, isn't it?
And that's why they use it.
A furtive movement means a movement made
that's gonna somehow endanger the police officer's life,
and clearly Trevon Cole's act
of looking up while dumping marijuana
did not meet the definition of a furtive movement.
There really is no accountability.
They get to go on a paid vacation, you know,
for shooting somebody that didn't have a weapon,
and as long as they feared for their lives, it's okay.
(Andre) At the time of the shooting,
Trevon Cole was living
with his high school sweetheart and fiancée Sequoia Pearce.
She was also nine months pregnant.
She was due to have their baby in just a few days.
In fact, the shooting occurred on June 10th,
and on June 16th, she had her baby.
(music)
The shooting deprived Trevon's newborn baby
of her dad for the rest of her life.
It deprived his high school sweetheart,
partner of a husband for the rest of her life.
It deprived their entire family
of somebody who was widely acknowledged
to be an all-around great guy, big teddy bear.
(music)
He made a mistake,
he sold marijuana,
and paid for that mistake with his life.
(music)
And I knew that he was a good person.
And I know where he is,
and I'm okay with that now
because I know he's in a safe place.
(music)
And I just want to thank God for the 21 years
that He allowed me to spend with such a beautiful person.
(music)
Until we meet again, sweetheart, I love you.
(Andre) A short time after
the shooting of Trevon Cole,
Sequoia Pearce moved in with her mom.
Sequoia Pearce needed the comfort of her family
after this very traumatic event.
She didn't expect the police officers to come over
and search her apartment without a warrant.
I think they were trying to find anything and everything
that would somehow vilify Trevon Cole,
somehow make him look bad.
The first thing Metro did was start
the-the character assassination of Trey.
That's the first thing they did.
"Oh, he's a drug dealer,
he's a hardened criminal."
He didn't have a lengthy criminal record.
He was a guy trying to make a few extra bucks
'cause he had a kid on the way.
(Andre) If the public believes
that a decent human being
was killed for the wrong reason,
the public's gonna be outraged,
so as a result, what the police do
is they try to dehumanize the victims,
essentially saying, "Well, maybe they deserved it.
Maybe he should have been killed
because he was dealing marijuana."
(Josh) The idea of raiding
the guy's apartment
in the middle of the night
over less than an ounce
of marijuana, of a plant,
it's absolutely crazy to me
that he died for nothing.
The whole Trevon Cole investigation
was basically planned
with the idea that it would be televised.
That's why the buy with the small amount of marijuana
was televised inside the car,
and that's why they planned the raid
with the idea that television cameras would be there.
This raid was a made-for-TV raid.
Langley Productions and John Langley
separately made $10,000 donations
to the reelection campaign of Sheriff Doug Gillespie.
At the same time, Langley Productions
was granted authority to film various police activities
by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
They got lucky enough to actually film somebody
sell some marijuana-
just a small amount, but they got it on film,
so now all they needed to do was wrap that segment up
and they could make really good TV
with a dramatic bust.
See, in reality, they could have got him
just walking into 7-Eleven,
but that wouldn't make very good TV.
Instead what they did is they waited,
um, they waited till they could get a search warrant
for Trevon Cole.
The problem is, Trevon Cole,
his crimes weren't worthy
of a no-knock, high risk search warrant
late at night when everybody's sleeping,
busting down the door.
(Andre) When they drafted the search warrant,
they took a different Trevon Cole
with a different physical description,
a different age,
and a different criminal history
and inserted it in place of this Trevon Cole
that they were dealing with,
and based on the information that they used
from the other Trevon Cole,
got a search warrant.
(Doug) We made mistakes,
uh, that led up to that search warrant
and the execution of that search warrant.
(dark music)
(Rhett) He was actually a hundred pounds different,
not even the same height.
Different age completely.
It wasn't the same Trevon Cole,
and they knew this, they knew it very well,
but they went to the judge with a search warrant
for Trevon Cole,
and now they had their excuse
to do a high risk, no-knock search warrant
where they could make some great TV.
The raid was planned with the idea
that television cameras would be there.
At the very last minute,
another incident happened across town
where cameras went somewhere else,
but Metro still went forward with the raid.
(Stephen) So this officer, Bryan Yant,
this wasn't his first shooting on duty.
Wasn't even his second shooting on duty.
It was his third shooting on duty.
(music)
(Andre) One of the other shootings
that Bryan Yant was involved in
was a shooting involving Richard Travis Brown,
who was known as the "Candy Bar Robber."
Bryan Yant came upon a scene
where Richard Travis Brown was shoplifting,
chased him, and shot him in the back and killed him.
(music)
Bryan Yant still rakes in six figures,
over a hundred thousand dollars a year from taxpayers
in law enforcement
while Bryan Yant cost the city of Las Vegas
$1.7 million.
That was the payout to the family of Trevon Cole.
They lied to even justify being there in the way that they were.
It's as clear as murder gets in my opinion.
(Stephen) Bryan Yant is the perfect example
of an officer that was not properly disciplined.
He should have been fired.
(somber music)
(music)
Unfortunately, Bryan Yant now works for the Police Union.
One of his jobs is to counsel police officers
on how to properly handle police shootings.
It's like a giant middle finger to everybody good and decent
in the Las Vegas Valley.
(Norm) The reason, in my opinion,
that police officers are not prosecuted
is because the investigation is not completely objective.
Oftentimes the victim is vilified,
the dead person is- his criminal history
is released to the media.
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(Bill) And then they assassinate the character of the victim.
That's a very effective psychology
used all over the United States,
and Metro has perfected it.
After you kill somebody,
you find some way to disparage them.
You wipe out their character.
So my son was killed twice.
He was murdered by William Mosher's bullet,
and then his character was assassinated
in front of everybody.
They tried to turn him into some kind of a druggie.
Erik was a West Point graduate, class of '94.
He graduated in the top quarter of his class.
He was a very effective, very popular platoon leader.
A lot of laughing happened when Erik was around.
(dark music)
(music)
He and his girlfriend went into Costco
while they were in Las Vegas,
and Erik was legally carrying a firearm,
and he did that because his job often required
quickly going into any area of Las Vegas, day or night,
some good areas and not-so-good areas.
Been in there roughly an hour when somebody spotted the gun
when Erik squatted to see if three water bottles
would fit into a soft-sided cooler.
So Erik said that he was a legally licensed weapon carrier.
(Shai) We just told him that our policy is
we cannot allow firearms in the building.
(Bill) So this undercover security guy,
Shai Lierley, called the cops.
He made it sound like Erik Scott was crazy.
Dramatized the whole thing.
(Bill) The cops that arrived
at one time thought they had a crazy guy barricaded inside
waving three guns around.
Las Vegas Metro rolled in in force,
15 cruisers, helicopter, command staff.
(William) The decision was made to evacuate the business.
-Who makes that decision? -Uh, that decision is made
by both the business and by the watch commander
at that particular time.
So Erik and his girlfriend
calmly walked out with the crowd.
(lawyer) Was Erik posing any threat
to you or anyone in Costco
walking out of the store?
-No, sir. -And then Shai Lierley,
who was on a cell phone talkin' to dispatch,
pointed to Erik and said, "That's him."
(William) I told the suspect to show your hands,
to get down on the ground, get down on the ground.
Before he could do anything, Mosher fired.
(somber music)
(music)
Mosher did exactly the wrong thing.
Police policies and procedures
would never okay challenging a "suspect""-
Erik was not suspected of anything-
in the midst of a crowd of maybe a hundred people
that were milling around there,
and then start firing in the middle of that crowd.
But what I heard was the officer saying,
"Drop it," bam, bam, bam.
It was immediate.
There was not a one-second interval
between "drop it" and the three shots
that were fired directly into Scott.
He was stumbling backwards with his hands up...
(music)
...empty.
(music)
His hands were empty
before the other officers began shooting.
(Bill) As he fell, two other cops
put five more rounds in Erik's back
after he was on the ground and dying.
(music)
Many witnesses say after the shooting,
only one thing on the ground:
the Blackberry.
Erik never touched his gun,
but when Erik's body went into the ambulance,
the only gun that he carried was still in his holster.
Witnesses saw it, we know that.
But in order for the narrative to work,
which is Erik pulled a gun and we had to shoot him,
I believe that they took that gun out of the ambulance
and put it back on the ground
before the homicide detectives got there.
(music)
So when they got there and take pictures and everything,
the gun was on the ground right next to the Blackberry.
But one problem:
The AMR ambulance people, in their report, said,
"Found gun on the body."
(dark music)
So all of a sudden, Las Vegas Metro had a problem.
How can you have a gun on the ground at Costco
as supposed proof that Erik had drawn it
and justified Mosher killing him,
and yet the EMTs found a gun on the body in the ambulance?
But Erik only had one gun.
He never carried two.
We gotta have a second gun.
(music)
They had Erik's wallet.
They saw in the wallet that he had several guns,
so that's why they enlisted the aid
of the Public Administrator.
Why?
Because they had no grounds
to go get a warrant from a judge,
so they had to break into his condo.
They called my son Kevin three times.
(Steve) Yeah, Kevin, this is Steve Grodin
from the Public Administrator's office
up here in Nevada.
I spoke with you a little earlier
when the coroner's investigator, uh, spoke with you.
Uh, I need to get in touch with you right away
regarding your brother's property.
(Bill) They used the ploy, quasi-legal,
of the Public Administrator that says
when somebody has been killed
and there's nobody to protect the place-
which was wrong right away,
because the girlfriend was living with him, she was there.
Kevin, my other son, had already told 'em
that you are not allowed to go in that condo,
but they did anyway. They broke in.
(Steve) Uh, I've contacted a locksmith because we have no key
to get into your brother's apartment at this time
so I can go in there and secure what weapons
and variables that are still in the apartment.
(Bill) The little Ruger, little Ruger LCP,
that became the so-called second gun-
it's very small, about palm size-
they claimed that he had it in his front right pocket.
He didn't, he couldn't,
because that big wallet was in there.
There's no way he could have it in there.
But that's the only way the narrative played,
and that was their cover for having one on the ground,
as if Erik had pulled it.
(music)
Costco has cameras everywhere.
They feed several DVRs that record everything
that happens in the store, outside the store.
I believe the video would have shown
that Erik was literally murdered
for absolutely no reason.
Would have been lots of liability for Costco,
tons of liability for Las Vegas Metro.
That had to disappear, and it did.
Doug Gillespie was in the middle
of a very tight sheriff's reelection race at the time.
There had been several other shootings just before that-
the Trevon Cole shooting
roughly three weeks before Erik was killed.
And that was very controversial too.
Another cop did a very, very stupid thing
and killed a young man for no reason.
Well, Gillespie was under fire from that
and other shootings.
He didn't need this one too.
The Erik Scott case was going to be the one
that put him underwater.
His numbers, his poll numbers
were going in the tank at the time.
They could not afford to have cops murdering people
in front of Costco at high noon, basically.
So for the narrative to work,
Erik had to pull this gun.
Well, let's check the video, see exactly what happened.
Well, amazingly, that DVR eventually wound up
in Los Angeles at the Secret Service facility.
Their forensics experts went through it
and claimed that they could recover 96% of the data
that was on that hard disk.
Only 4% were considered unrecoverable
due to physical damage to the platters
in that hard disk.
Just happened to be the 4% covered the time
that Erik was in Costco and being killed outside.
(music)
We have four cops within Las Vegas Metro
that have said that they or somebody they talked to
in the first person saw the video of Erik being shot.
(Stephen) They shot him when he was standing,
they shot him when he was on his knees,
and they shot him even when he was on the ground.
Since then, one of those cops was caught selling a weapon
to a felon
and is no longer with the LVMPD.
(Bill) Probably the toughest thing
to deal with is the injustice.
Two of the officers that killed Erik
were honored by the Police Union
for their role in the Costco shooting,
and Police Union director Chris Collins
called their actions "heroic."
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
has a lot of experience in killing Las Vegas citizens
and tourists.
When they kill somebody,
they need to make it look as good as they can
when they can do that.
And one of their most common customs,
practices, and procedures
is to make the victim who is now dead
look as bad as they can to the public
to justify their actions.
They tried to make him out to look like a druggie,
uh, when he was basically at Costco
and had a customer service issue
like a lot of people who go to Costco.
(Bill) He was taking prescription pain medication.
He had 40% of his L5 vertebra broken off
jumpin' out of airplanes
when he got his Jump Wings in the army.
And he was down to three pills a day,
which Erik was very proud of. He said,
"I want to be off this stuff by the end of the year."
But the cops and the DA turned that into something horrible,
and they said he was acting crazy in Costco
because he was on this heavy duty pain medication.
Not true.
I know airline pilots, I know lawyers,
I know firemen, I know cops
who are taking exactly the same pain medication
and they function just fine, as did Erik.
But it doesn't matter.
If you can disparage
the person and his character,
there is this subtle psychology
that the American people have soaked up, and that is,
well, if the cops did something bad to this person,
then the guy must have deserved it, right,
because he was a bad person.
And the cops imply,
"Aren't you glad we took this person off the street?"
Las Vegas Metro is really good
at disparaging the people that they kill using the media.
They're even more skilled at keeping the crimes
of their own top brass out of the headlines,
like when the sheriff, Doug Gillespie,
had an issue at his house one night,
and the cops rolled in.
People say it was domestic violence.
People say when officers arrived,
he wouldn't let 'em in.
People say that the record in the computer
was altered or destroyed or deleted.
That is a call that did come out of the sheriff's house,
and the event was changed.
It was changed from an original domestic violence call,
and six hours later it was reported as a burglary alarm.
Where's the integrity? Where's the integrity
for everybody who responded to that call?
It wasn't one person, it wasn't two people,
it was a lot of people.
And if it wasn't a domestic violence call,
then why in the world did the domestic violence lieutenant
get called out on his day off to show up?
I'm just using a little bit of common sense here.
(Bill) There was a very good reporter in town at the time,
and he ferreted that story out, and he was writing it,
and then instantly, he left town.
And that seems to happen to a lot of reporters.
(somber music)
Who do they answer to?
The billionaires who run the Strip.
(music)
You just don't hear about bad cops there,
because the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Bureau
spends well over $300 million a year advertising,
"Come to Vegas and have a good time."
(music)
The whole idea is keep the money flowing.
How many news organizations across the nation
are gonna risk losing a few million bucks of advertising
to run a bad story
showing how the cops covered up
a white, redheaded kid?
They don't count.
Gillespie said, after Erik was killed,
to a roomful of his own cops,
"I'm not losin' much sleep over the Erik Scott shooting.
I don't want you guys thinking 'Shoot, don't shoot' out there.
I want you to do whatever you have to and go home at night."
(music)
A big hole has been ripped in my heart that'll never be filled.
Time smooths the jagged edges,
but it never makes the hurt go away.
And so many of these cops that are out there now saying,
"Do whatever you have to do, but go home at night,"
if they had even an inkling of how much damage they cause...
The cops are never around to see how it affects
many, many families.
(music)
(Rondha) When he was with his friends,
he went by Lance.
That was his nickname, was Lance down in the hood.
(sighs)
(music)
I met Stan August 27th of 2000.
(music)
We started playing Foosball.
(laughs)
He took me to dinner.
But we were together every day since then.
We called ourselves two orphans against the world.
(music)
He's probably the only man I could ever love.
(music)
The life he gave me...
He tried to make everything perfect for me,
regardless.
He thought I had to have the best of everything.
You know, and he made sure that I had it too.
(music)
(Stanley) Young war hero, yeah.
And you know it.
I'm a war hero.
Y'all wish y'all was a war hero too.
Look at them medals back there.
Don't even act like you can't see 'em 'cause you do.
Yeah, you see those medals.
(Rondha) He went into the war in '89 at the age of 19.
And his job basically in the war
was to clean up the dead bodies.
(gunfire)
He had to go out there when the bombs went off,
which they used depleted uranium,
and basically what depleted uranium does,
it fuses and it melts everything together
except for metal.
For a 19, 20-year-old kid to go out there
and have to see babies and moms melted together,
that's nothin' for anybody to see.
He come back, he developed cancer
from the depleted uranium.
He had lost the muscle movement on the side of his face
so everybody thought that he was kind of, like, different,
but he never looked at himself like different.
He understood what he had wrong with him and everything,
so he just kept on movin' and groovin'
like there was just nothin' wrong with him,
which to me it wasn't.
It was just something that happened in the service,
and he just learned to deal with it.
(Rondha) His face kinda got a little bit messed up
because they took the nerves out of his right side.
He told me, he goes, "I don't know how
you can love somebody as ugly as me."
I don't look at that, I said, "I look at
the man who's inside."
I look at the heart that he had.
His heart was so big.
I gave him Shalifi when he was six weeks old.
He was in my backpack, I had come home from work.
That dog stuck his head out.
He looked at that dog and he screamed like a little girl,
and they were best friends since then.
(music)
(Stanley) Get it, get it, son, get it!
(music)
Get it, son!
(music)
-Come on, son. -People live here.
(Stanley) Wife's walkin' the monster.
As you can see, she's being dragged down the street.
(William) He started losing weight
and he started gettin' more worried
when the VA started messin' with his medication and his money
because he had no other way to live.
He was dependent on the medicine that the VA
was givin' him for his cancer.
And then once they start takin' stuff from him,
he started gettin', you know, a little upset.
"I went to the Army, I did what they asked me,
I come home sick, and they just don't want
to do anything for me,
so it seemed like I just went to the Army
to help them out, but when I came home,
they would rather me just be on the street as a homeless man."
(Cal) He was suffering from post-traumatic stress.
He was off of his medication
because the Veterans Administration
wasn't treating him properly,
so he was having difficulties.
(Kelly) And it also affected his memory.
So he got confused about the place he had moved into,
and he went into the wrong apartment complex.
(William) Rondha and Stan had just moved to those apartments.
All the buildings looked just alike,
but at the time, he was off his meds.
The door looked just like his apartment door did,
so he thought he was at home.
All he wanted to do was get back home.
(Kelly) And somebody saw him try to open the door
and they thought he was trying to break in
and they called the police.
(Jesus) First call that I hear comes out
is of a black male in a white Cadillac
trying to break into a condo.
(William) He got back in the car and he was just
driving around the complex trying to find his apartment.
(Kelly) After the police had shown up, he came back,
and they saw him so they went and they blocked his car in.
(Jesus) When I pulled in,
there was really not
a whole lot of action goin' on.
He was kind of relaxed.
You know, I think he was on- laying on his seat,
laying on the floorboard.
Officers try to approach the vehicle.
The person in the vehicle doesn't respond.
And everybody got their guns drawn,
so he was kinda scared.
He hunkered down in the car.
And basically he's having a panic attack,
and he's not coherent enough to even realize
that he's in the middle of a police standoff.
He's basically just trying to drive his car away.
But they had the car blocked in to the point where
his tires are spinning and smoke coming off the tires,
and the car is not going anywhere,
so there's no way he could have got away.
A sergeant and a lieutenant arrived, and they had a plan
to blow out the back window with a low-lethal shotgun,
which is a bean bag that would hopefully break the window,
and then they'd put in pepper spray
and see if they can make him get out.
I was lethal coverage
in case he came out shooting.
(tires spinning)
I hear a gun shot.
I return fire to eliminate the threat.
(gunfire)
And then the car stopped, everything got real silent,
everything just stopped.
(music)
As soon as it happened, I was pissed. I'm like,
"This guy made me fuckin' shoot him
because he shot at us."
I thought he shot at us.
And then I remember it was...
Noel Lefebvre walks up to me and tells me,
"Hey, they didn't find a gun.
That gunshot you heard was Grego-Smith
shootin' the bean bag at the car."
If I would have heard, "Hey, we're re-implementing the plan.
We're gonna fire the bean bag round,"
I would have known that gun shot I heard
was a bean bag from another officer,
and wouldn't have opened fire.
But the radio system didn't work.
I'm sittin' there lookin' at the TV,
and I saw our car on TV.
(music)
I saw that damn car on TV.
(music)
And I called Metro,
and I said, "I think that's my husband."
(Stephen) Sheriff Gillespie went to the media
and told the press that Stanley Gibson
was using his car as a battering ram
and police officers had to protect themselves.
It was a total lie.
What Sheriff Gillespie didn't know
was that somebody from the apartment complex
was filming the entire thing.
The video was broadcast on local news,
and it showed Stanley Gibson
surrounded by empty police cruisers.
Police officers were at a safe distance away
when Jesus Arevalo fired seven shots.
(gunfire)
(William) Man, you guys murdered this guy.
You slaughtered him in the streets.
I've seen gang shootings go lighter than this,
and this is an officer of the law.
You took this helpless man's life for nothing.
I still can't figure out what would make the police
do something to this- this sick guy, you know?
Here, probably the best action would have been just to wait.
He was pinned in, there was no need to do what they did.
Some of the things that occurred in this case
were just unbelievable. He used his own weapon.
(William) Brings out his personal AR-15
that he had tricked out.
I didn't know officers could bring their own weapons to work.
-Why would you? -Officer Jesus Arevalo's wife
called a local radio show host
and made statements on tape
that Jesus Arevalo wanted to shoot somebody
so that he could get paid time off.
(Catherine) I mean, just literally looked at me and went,
"So am I a bad person for not feeling guilty
about killing that nigger?"
(dark music)
(William) I don't believe it was a mistake.
I believe he came to kill somebody
and get time off with pay, and it worked.
In my early career, it was like,
you get six weeks off if you shoot some fucker,
and it's good if you do it by Christmas,
you get six weeks off at Christmas.
(Catherine) He was bragging about, you know,
"That's pretty good gettin' off
seven shots in two seconds."
I can't even imagine how his poor wife feels.
(somber music)
(music)
(Rondha) I come up here and I try to connect.
(music)
Try to make sense.
They always say, you know,
if you get robbed, you know,
you call the local police, you call them,
they'll come help you.
You know, my question is,
who do you call when Metro robs you?
(music)
(Cal) She went through loss of her husband,
and then as a result of that,
the Veterans Administration
wouldn't take care of her.
She lost her home,
she lost everything that she had.
(Rondha) For two and a half years,
every single door in this city
was slammed in my face.
I could not get no help from anywhere.
Jesus had everything handed to him.
He was still gettin' a paycheck every week.
He was still gettin' his stuff covered,
still gettin' everything paid.
(Stephen) Officer Jesus Arevalo
was on administrative leave
for 22 months.
He made over $200,000
to stay home.
While he was on paid administrative leave,
he spent his time riding around on a motorcycle
trying to act like this fake badass,
flipping people off and trying to cause problems.
(Jesus) They made me to be the poster child for bad cops.
"Oh, it's Arevalo's fault.
We can make it look like
Arevalo's a bad officer.
We can make it look like
Officer Arevalo's decision-making is bad,
and we won't even talk about the radio system
because, oh, we don't want the public to know
we paid over $40 million for this radio system,
and it failed that night.
And that failure got somebody killed."
(Rhett) It was important for the public
not to understand that the radio failed,
because Assistant Sheriff Joe Lombardo,
who was in charge of the technical services at Metro,
was Gillespie's boy.
He was the one that was
climbing the ranks fast
and was tapped out to be the next sheriff.
If the public knew that the technical services division
that Joe Lombardo was in charge of
had just blown over $40 million
that the public paid for for a radio system that didn't work,
that might affect his chances of being the next sheriff.
The headlines are gonna say one of two things.
They're either gonna say a radio failed
that the public had just paid $40 million-plus for,
and somebody died innocently because of that,
or they're gonna spin it the other way and say
this is a bad officer who killed somebody,
and we need to get rid of him.
The finding rendered during the critical incident review process
led the board to recommend he, officer Jesus Arevalo,
be terminated.
After a thorough review by myself,
I have approved that board's recommendation.
(Rhett) Sure enough, after Doug Gillespie fired Jesus Arevalo,
Joe Lombardo announced he's running for sheriff.
I think Jesus Arevalo was simply made a scapegoat
to cover up the fact that this radio purchase was horrible.
Jesus Arevalo hasn't did a day in jail,
will never do a day in jail.
Not only will he never be punished for this crime,
they're giving him a very big lump sum
for disability every month.
You get disability 'cause you killed somebody?
-That's bullshit. -That, to me,
was a slap in the face.
You know, to serve and protect, you know,
they serve and protect their own.
(somber music)
(music)
"She should be happy now. She's got all that money."
She didn't want the money.
She wanted her husband.
She had her husband until that day.
People tell me, "Well, you need money to survive."
Well, yeah, you need money to survive,
but you also need a partner in your life to help you survive.
You need somebody in your life...
that's always there for you,
that doesn't care about
how you look in the morning.
You need somebody that truly loves you for you.
(music)
And I had that.
I had that until Jesus decided to change all that.
(William) She's still dealing with all the pain and anguish
of how her husband was murdered in the streets,
and, you know, it's a pretty big house,
but it's a big, lonely house.
The money doesn't mean nothin' to her.
I'm sure she would give it back
just to see her husband one more time.
Alive.
(Kelly) I knew Stanley Gibson in high school,
and I hadn't seen him in a long time,
and the first time I saw him in decades
was when I saw the report
that he'd been murdered by the police on TV.
And that's what inspired me to get involved in activism.
(music)
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
actually formed a task force to investigate, charge,
and arrest us for writing on the sidewalk with chalk.
(Jennifer) I heard about it, and I was flabbergasted,
because how could someone be put in jail for using chalk?
(Kelly) We had two charges for graffiti,
and we had two charges of conspiracy
because, you know, we sat down and planned
to write stuff on the sidewalk.
We were facing four years.
(Jennifer) We live in Sin City.
Any sick, twisted desire you want
you can have come true in this city.
We have the highest rate of sex trafficking among children,
and they're using their time and effort
to go after guys with chalk?
(Kelly) They tried to say it took $1500
to wash the chalk off the sidewalk.
(Jennifer) Because they used a graffiti abatement team
when me as a mom and anybody who knows
you can get chalk cleaned up with water and a broom.
So I organized a protest.
We wanted to show them how ridiculous they looked,
and we brought water and we had all the media there
and we all chalked on the ground,
and then washed it all away with water and a broom
like they could have used.
(music)
(Kelly) District Attorney Steve Wolfson said that he takes
people writing with chalk very seriously,
but obviously he doesn't take cops murdering people
very seriously.
The three most publicized shootings in the past decade
in Las Vegas-
Trevon Cole, Stanley Gibson, and Erik Scott-
all three shootings could have been avoided
if the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
had deescalated the situation instead of escalating.
(music)
You would have three very important lives saved
and three families whole.
(music)
(Rhett) So even after Rondha got her money,
she continued to speak out about the lack of accountability
and problems with the department,
and finally the community was listening.
The community was getting just as fed up as she was
about the senseless shootings
and problems with the department lack of accountability.
So it probably wasn't a good time
for the sheriff to introduce the more cops tax,
which was the sheriff's plan
to increase the sales tax
to get more cops on the street.
(music)
(Kelly) Personally, I haven't seen any evidence
that there's a shortage of cops.
They had enough cops to conduct a two-month investigation
of some people writing on sidewalks with chalk.
They have enough cops to have undercover cops
going up and down the Strip
to make sure that somebody isn't selling water
because they're competing with casinos.
The fact that it was called "unprecedented"
when the Use of Force Board recommended
that somebody be fired for shooting somebody
because they thought his hat was a gun is disgraceful.
The fact that Sheriff Gillespie over here
refused that recommendation is beyond disrespectful,
it's an insult to this community.
(judge) Motion fails.
(cheers and applause)
After the more cops tax failed in the legislature,
County Commissioner Steve Sisolak
accused Sheriff Gillespie of not playing by the rules
in an arbitration agreement,
and Sheriff Gillespie just came unglued.
It was temper tantrum time.
I'm offended by what an individual said
not only about me
but as well as my organization,
what I believe to be the finest police department in America.
It's very dangerous having someone like Doug Gillespie
at the helm, because the leaders underneath
will take on that bullying persona.
The fish does rot from the head,
and Gillespie is about as rotten as they get.
I've seen him throw a tantrum
and call the minority community cockroaches.
The tone of the entire department
is set by the leadership
at the highest levels,
and we have a sheriff that's essentially above the law.
Even right below him, Ted Moody,
had a domestic violence call to his house.
Third in command, Joe Lombardo,
in charge of a communication system.
$40 million later, it doesn't work.
Fourth in command, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill.
According to court documents,
he was part of a team that caught a woman with drugs,
and they promised her that if she would show them her vagina,
they would let her off.
He cost taxpayers thousands of dollars,
and he resigned.
But they let him back.
I used to say that there was
a massive breakdown on leadership
starting at the top,
but how do you have a breakdown
if the integrity was never there?
And these are the people that are supposed to be
holding other officers accountable.
(Norm) When you have the confidence
that you can do just about anything
and your partners are gonna look the other way
or not speak up about it and cover for you,
you can create a monster.
Every bad cop that kills somebody,
and then the good ones have to help cover it up
because of the blue wall of silence nonsense,
what does it do to them?
What does it do to their psyche?
What does it do to their level of cynicism
about their own field, about their own colleagues?
And the good officers,
they don't even want to be a part of it.
Morale right now is not good.
You know, there is a feeling around the department
that our current sheriff doesn't care about us.
He's autocratic, talks down to folks.
It's either his way or the highway.
That's just not conducive
to the people business that we're in.
We're here to serve the people,
and everything we do
revolves on how we treat the community.
There's a huge schism within the department out there
between the good ones that are trying to do their job
and these bad ones.
Unfortunately, the leadership falls in the bad side,
and at the academy today,
good cops tell me they are training the new cops,
the cadets, who are gonna be rookies soon,
that we are at war with the community.
(Rhett) The department wasn't always this broken.
We've had good sheriffs in the past.
Sheriff Jerry Keller, for instance,
the father of "Partners with the Community" slogan.
He was a great sheriff,
and he wanted everybody in the police department
to understand that they were to be
"Partners with the Community."
I think that's something that's been lost
in today's department.
(soft music)
I grew up in a law enforcement home.
My stepfather, whom I love very much,
was highway patrol.
Some of my best friends to this day are cops.
I served seven years on the SWAT team
as a videographer.
So, I'm about as far away
from what you'd call a cop hater
as you could possibly be.
And I think Ramsey having the experience that he had
isn't quite feeling the same.
I think it's important that I show him some cops
that I know he'll respect.
(Ramsey) Rhett's told me a lot about you,
he says you guys worked on the, uh, SWAT team.
(Larry) We did, yeah, we spent a lot of time together.
Known each other for a number of years now.
(Rhett) It was kind of an unprecedented thing.
It was something that Larry started within the department
to bring on volunteers to photo
and video these SWAT incidents.
(Larry) And you find that things do change.
Little things like language that is being used is, uh,
suddenly better than perhaps it would be
without being recorded.
And so there were no disadvantages to this
because we were doing the right thing.
The advent of cameras, that's law enforcement's friend,
and then that helps us to weed out those individuals
who have no business within law enforcement.
(Ramsey) I never really thought bad cops were out there
until I saw it ten feet in front of my eyes.
Rhett and I actually saw somebody
being basically beaten up and tortured by the cops.
I was shocked at what I was seeing,
Rhett was shocked at what he was seeing.
I actually called 9-1-1 and reported this.
And a couple minutes later, I'm getting beaten up,
arrested, and thrown in jail by those same cops.
(dark music)
And then I was shocked at how they took that
and they turned it around on me
to justify what they'd done.
(music)
It is incredible to read a police report
filled with absolute complete lies.
I'm not sure what your arrest was,
but I'm sure it was something along the lines
of obstructing and resisting.
It said "resisting arrest."
He saw me on the phone and said, "What are you doing?"
I said, "Well, I saw what you're doing,
there's nothing right about what you're doing,
so I called 9-1-1 and told them about it."
And he said, "You better get the hell out of here
or I'm gonna have you arrested."
And as Rhett and I are walking away,
I said, "Arrested for what?"
And the next second I'm on the ground
with a guy sticking his boot on my head, literally,
like you just look at my mugshot
and there's a-a print from a boot on my head.
Of course, I go to jail for three days,
only time I've ever been to jail in my life.
And I got out and the first thing I did
was get on that phone.
I called up Internal Affairs and reported this.
They opened up an investigation.
I called up the club and asked for the video.
And you know what they said to me?
They said, "The cameras weren't recording that night.
We don't always run those cameras."
That video...
(music)
...never surfaced.
It went and disappeared.
(Larry) It is your friend
when you are doing things that are proper.
When you are not, it becomes an enemy.
(soft music)
One night I was filming them arresting a woman.
-Don't touch me! -And as I was doing that,
one of them came over to me and told me
that I was not allowed to film.
(officer 1) Move on.
(Kelly) I'm not moving on.
I told him he was wrong,
that I am allowed to film in public
and that that's part of the First Amendment.
-You want to go to jail? -For what?
-Obstructing? -He insisted
that I was not allowed to film.
-You want to go to jail? -Recording is not obstructive.
-Obstruct- -I''m not obstructing anything.
-Let's go. -Fuck that, dude.
Will you stop?
Stop!
-I''m not doing anything. -You need to stop right now.
(female bystander) He's just recording. That's not okay!
He did not do nothing wrong. That's not fair!
They threw me in the street
and then charged me for being in the street.
(female bystander) Get off of him, get off of him!
(Kelly) I'm not doing anything, I was recording in public.
It was ridiculous.
But the LVMPD is really good at being ridiculous.
(Ramsey) And really bad at holding officers accountable.
-Are you an idiot? -No, I'm not.
(Ramsey) Internal Affairs opened an investigation
into the incident and punished the officer
by giving him a stern talking to.
(officer 1) I told your dumb ass to move.
(Kelly) I got arrested, I was thrown in jail,
I was assaulted, had some injuries,
and this cop basically just had his supervisor
sit him down and have a talk with him.
And that lack of accountability
is what really encourages them
to go out and do the abuses that they do.
That's why it's important that we videotape them
because that puts pressure on them not to act that way.
(music)
Good officers actually like cameras
because they realize cameras can be a protector
against false accusations.
That's one of the reasons I was actually brought on
to the SWAT team.
It actually served as a protection to them.
I was just in awe as I watched Larry work,
as I watched the compassion that he had
on these horrific hostage barricade situations
where there's a person with a gun, you know,
willing to kill anybody,
and countless number of times
I saw those situations turn out well
where the hostages were saved.
(somber music)
After he was a SWAT commander,
he was promoted to captain
and assigned to the Bolden Area Command,
that's located in one of the poorest,
most crime-ridden areas of Las Vegas.
Probably the toughest place to be a captain in this town.
(music)
(Larry) It was very common
that someone commits a crime
right in broad daylight in front of many people.
The officers come in to investigate that,
and suddenly nobody saw anything.
Now, what causes that?
It's simply a disrespect for law enforcement.
Crime was very high.
And when I speak of crime,
I'm talking about robbery,
assaults with a deadly weapon,
rape, murder.
What I had the advantage of,
is 25 years before
working in that community as an officer.
What I saw was is that we were doing the same thing
over and over and over again
and we got the same results.
(Ramsey) And what was it that you guys were doing
-over and over again? -Trying to arrest our way
out of the problems that we had.
We failed to connect with the community
on any sustained way.
So, we changed that.
The idea was 180 officers going into the field
would go out and make two contacts a day
with anyone of any age,
of any status in the community,
and simply introduce themselves,
doing that two times a day,
180 officers.
Over a week,
over a month,
over a year,
what does that do?
I remember going to a barbershop
and walking into the barbershop
and having the barbers and the clients,
I was in uniform, look at me like,
"What are you doing here?"
And I was going to meet the owner
of the barbershop who had an issue.
(Mack) Had somebody in the parking lot
that I didn't want to have,
and I called and he responded.
And, uh, after that,
he gave me his card and everything,
and we just, from that, gradually become good friends.
By the time three years were up,
I was shaking hands and high-fiving
the barbers that were in the shop.
He kind of wanted to know
the shop owners and different people,
so if something was going on
they know who to contact.
They tried to build a relationship
with all the business owners
up and down Martin Luther King.
I worked for Larry Burns at the Bolden Area Command
for three years, he was my captain,
and we really wanted to change the perception
of the police in that community,
and we did that.
We reached out to church leaders,
to community organizations, to schools.
(Larry) When you feed those children,
when you have a little barbecue
and you give them the only food
they've had for that day,
that information spreads like wild fire.
(Ramsey) What you're talking about is policing with respect,
policing with compassion.
And I've talked to people
that think that makes you a softie.
Larry Burns is a softie.
13 years, uh, in SWAT,
seven years as a tactical commander.
Anything but soft.
But my experience had taught me
that toughness is required
a very small portion of the time.
But compassion is what really changes a community.
And the answer was love.
The answer was to care about others
the way you care about your own.
(Kevin) The first time I met Larry Burns,
he busted me selling drugs
in addition to a gun I had on me.
And I was a young bad kid that didn't have no respect
for even Larry Burns at the time.
I was arrested 47 times before I was 19 years old.
I was a hardcore gang member.
So when I met him, it was just pretty much,
"You're one of them and I'm over here
trying to keep doing the crime
and you gotta catch me."
So that's how I met Larry.
He put the bad cop thing down.
We saw them as bad,
and he would make it personal every time.
It wasn't, "Get on the car!"
It was like, "Can I talk to you for a minute?
You gotta stop it.
You gotta stop it and I'll tell you why you gotta stop it.
You're better than this.
I mean, you stood out here hours at a time selling drugs.
It's easier to go get a job and make money,
and it's your money."
That's what Larry Burns was about.
He was about trying to change what-
the bad in you and make it good.
He didn't give up on you.
(music)
When I got shot at the City Hall,
he was the only officer to come and say,
"You almost could have died."
I remember him coming to the hospital,
"Kevin, you're gonna lose your life if you don''t-
you got a child."
(music)
But I was charged with racketeering and murder,
and I had a 22-count indictment.
And that's the last thing society remembered.
Kevin Lay was convicted of first degree murder,
he was one vote away from being on Death Row,
and he's gone.
While I was in prison, I had committed to myself
that I had to do something
about this so-called legacy I left out here.
'Cause when I came home,
the gang unit and the task force
was there watching me like a hawk.
Larry Burns took a chance and said,
"You're gonna get it right this time."
(music)
I started as a regular laborer at a construction company
and now I'm the superintendent.
He just saw something good in me
that later was revealed
through some of the things we do now.
He had influence and I did too,
and with it together
we knew we could do great things together.
"Hey, Kevin, there's a situation
where we know this guy has a gun
and we can't get it off the streets.
I'm not asking you to tell on him,
I'm not asking you to do anything like that,
but we need this gun off the street.
This guy is dangerous."
"I agree, Larry.
I agree what you're saying.
And if I can use my influence, I'll get it."
I got the machine gun and I let Larry know,
"The machine gun is behind the store.
It's all yours.
We got that gun off the street."
"Whose gun?"
"That's a different story,
that's none of- I can't give you that.
You wanted the gun, the gun is gone."
The respect is incredible.
When you bring a community together,
people see that,
they feel that,
and it changes attitudes.
And the citizens knew
they could contact us,
tell us what they knew.
Now you've got a coalition of good,
and good things are happening.
Homicides, robberies, assaults all went down
some 60% initially,
and it continued from there.
(music)
(Rhett) Even though Larry's area,
the Bolden Area Command,
was the only area in town
where crime was actually going down,
some of the members of Doug Gillespie's executive staff
felt that Larry's methods were too soft on crime,
that they needed to send in saturation teams
and beef up police presence.
(Larry) Saturation teams are groups of officers
that are gathered together to go in a high-crime area,
it's a zero tolerance approach to a neighborhood
to reduce crime, and it does,
while the saturation team is in place.
The moment that they leave,
you have two things that occur:
an increase in crime, again,
and you have a decrease
in public relations with the police.
So, I would not allow them access to my area command.
That caused a great deal of consternation
at the top of the organization.
(Silk) These saturation teams in my area
have been crazy off-the-hook.
It's rarely that I go out and do not see
at least two cop cars.
Three or four cop cars sometimes.
Saturation teams are just looking for stuff to happen.
When we pulled up to Sahara and Valley View,
we noticed some cops on the side of us looking at us.
It's two black men riding in a nice Lexus,
of course something had to be wrong with that.
(music)
Before we get to the next light, we get pulled over.
Questioned why we were pulled over and they said for speeding.
And who speeds in front of a cop?
I was just sitting there minding my own business
in the passenger seat, I was sitting there,
and the officer looks over at me and says,
"Do you have your ID?" I said, "Yes."
He said, "May I see it?" I say, "No, you may not."
If you're in the passenger seat in a car
and you're doing nothing,
you do not have to present an ID.
So, they got mad about that because I knew about that
and wouldn't give my ID.
I think four or five more cops pull up.
They all get out the car.
Order me out the car.
This was rolling the whole time.
They didn't know that.
They searched my car for marijuana,
which I'm a union heavy equipment operator
for Local 12 Operators Union,
I do not smoke weed.
We have a random drug test.
And one officer said, "I smell weed.
There's weed in here.
Where's the weed?
Help me find the weed, we gotta find the weed."
You even hear the jackass say it.
"Do what you gotta do 'cause we've gotta find something."
'Cause they're not finding nothing in my car.
"Do what you gotta do 'cause you have to find-
we have to find something."
They know they just pulled us over for no reason,
and they gotta find something.
And when they don't, they make up a bogus charge
about obstructing an officer
and take me to jail and have me strip-searched
and charged for just exercising my constitutional rights
to saying, "I don't want to give you ID
'cause I've done nothing wrong."
It's like a kick in the face.
You strive, you work hard, you pay your bills,
you move up, you know, you study
to do better stuff for your family.
And then these cops come and take it all away from you
for being a black man in a Lexus.
So we get the body cam footage
back from Silk's case.
Now the police officer said that he was speeding,
going 55 miles per hour, in the report,
and not only does it show on the body cam
that they were under 45 miles per hour, the speed limit,
but as they approached the car, they tell the driver,
"Oh, we were pacing you, you were flying."
(officer 2) You were flying back there on Sahara,
you were going at least 60.
-...speed limit? -Yeah.
Then a few seconds later,
"Oh, you were going 65 miles per hour."
(officer 2) Yeah, you were going at least 65.
And then when the officer shows up,
"Oh, they were going 55."
So which is it?
(music)
(Cal) Unfortunately, Las Vegas has a very, very sad history
in terms of race.
My client was an African American
who had been booked into the Clark County Detention Center
as Bill with the n-word as his middle name.
The judge was incensed
because when the case came in for the arraignment,
he originally called him by this name
that an officer thought was appropriate
to book him under.
I'm terrified to be around those cops, you know,
if they pull me over I'm like,
"I could be the next one," you know?
Even though I might not have did nothing,
they might have stopped me for a broken tail light.
Next day, you know, whatever they tell the press
is what I did.
And I might didn't do nothing but reach in my pocket
for my driver's license and they shoot me up
and then, you know, I'm the next guy that,
"Oh, he reached for something."
It's hard to be black out here right now.
(music)
The guy that got shot at the 7-Eleven,
he was actually a coworker of my brother's.
They used to cook together at Union Plaza.
He was actually cooking until he got shot.
And he said when he went in the store,
he just grabbed something to snack on.
He said when the police opened the door,
told him to, "Freeze, freeze," he panicked.
(music)
The next thing you know, he's shot.
(gunshot)
(music)
(Rhett) They shot the wrong guy.
Antoine Hodges was not the homicide suspect
that they were looking for.
After he was on the ground,
they put a knee in his back, handcuffed him,
and then had an officer go in front of the public
and justify to the public why they shot him
even though he was the wrong guy.
As, again, the clerk stated he heard
Officer Evans yell out several times
for Hodges to show him his hands.
The clerk stated that Hodges still didn't comply
and he stepped backward further into the store,
stepping slightly behind a merchandise rack.
(Norm) And the police department
tried to put a positive spin on it
by saying, "See, his arm went behind his back.
The officer has a split-second to make that decision,
and he chose to fire."
(gunshot)
(music)
You get a breaking point, you know,
there's a critical mass.
(music)
So much violence,
so many questionable shootings,
so little of accountability to the public
has reached a breaking point.
The only hope right now to really rapidly repair that
is to have a new sheriff.
November is the time to elect a new sheriff
and give him a chance to change Metro for the better.
(music)
(Rhett) There was a group of officers in the department
that wanted change,
and they knew that if Joe Lombardo was elected sheriff
there wouldn't really be change
because he's basically a clone of Doug Gillespie.
So they decided to go out and recruit Larry Burns
to run against Joe Lombardo.
(music)
That group that encouraged me to run for sheriff,
that had the greatest impact on me,
because what they saw in me
or what they saw in what we were doing is that,
"Captain, if you can do what you are in the process of doing
here at Bolden Area Command,
this one little sliver of this county,
how great would it be if you could do it
for the entire county?"
We don't need more arrests
to make this a safer community.
We need better relationships.
We can restore the kind of faith in this community
so that everyone who sees something says something,
everyone who hears something says something.
And I promise you as sheriff I will listen,
I will reboot the Metropolitan Police Department
on the first day that I walk into that office.
(cheering, applause)
(dramatic music)
(Troy) Everybody is 100% backing Larry.
Everybody I've talked to, it's department-wide,
and everybody's saying, like,
there's no way-no way they're gonna let him lose.
Everybody's standing behind him.
This is the best candidate since Jerry Keller.
One of the greatest sheriffs that ever was
in the history of Las Vegas Metropolitan Department,
please welcome Jerry Keller to the stage.
(cheering, applause)
I've known Larry for all of his 28 years.
He was a leader when he was a police officer,
an informal leader,
he was a leader when he was a sergeant,
he was a SWAT commander for seven years
and led numerous operations that saved lives.
And now he's been the captain
of Bolden Area Command for three years,
where for the first time in recorded history
crime has gone down,
violent crime has gone down.
(cheering, applause)
The new sheriff of Clark County,
Larry Burns.
(cheering, applause)
In this election, you know,
Gillespie anointed Joe Lombardo,
and I think he was really surprised that the, uh,
police unions didn't support Joe Lombardo,
they support Larry Burns.
When I was a police officer
and I worked anywhere near
or around Joe Lombardo,
it was very easy to see
that he was the type of officer
that was condescending,
was rude and disrespectful to other police officers,
and that's the last thing that we need as a sheriff.
I worry that if Joe Lombardo is elected sheriff,
how many good police officers that have the tenure
and have the ability to retire are gonna retire?
I'll tell you right now, if Joe Lombardo gets elected sheriff,
Laurie Bisch is retiring.
(music)
Joe's done a lot of damage to our police department.
He was in charge of a $40 million radio system
that is no longer working.
And now Motorola's coming in and taking over
and implementing a new radio system,
and I just find it really interesting
that Motorola's a big contributor
to Joe Lombardo's campaign.
The establishment usually goes with
whoever the anointed sheriff's candidate is,
whoever the current sheriff anoints,
and when I mean establishment
I'm talking about big casino money.
Crime is bad for business in Las Vegas.
In fact, pretty much anything negative in the headlines
is bad for business.
So if you have a sheriff
that can kind of spin things
the way that they need to be spun,
then you can keep that negativity and crime
out of the headlines and keep the registers ringing.
(Kelly) They cover up a lot of stuff because they don't want
to scare away potential customers.
They want everybody to come here and feel safe.
(music)
(Bill) When you have 43 million people plus
going to Las Vegas every single year
to have a good time, spend a lot of money,
we're talking billions of dollars,
and nobody wants to risk that.
(music)
The big money out there absolutely ensures,
through the elections,
that one of their boys always gets elected
to be sheriff.
(Rhett) The way campaign finance works here in Nevada
is an individual or a business can give up to $10,000
to a sheriff's candidate.
Power brokers want to give more.
And there's a way around that.
What they do is they often own multiple entities
and they can take that $10,000 limit
and do it from every single entity
and end up giving the candidate a lot more
than they're supposed to be able to.
For instance, the Fertitta brothers.
They own Station Casinos.
In this particular election,
they gave Joe Lombardo over $100,000.
They did it by simply funneling $10,000
through each one of their businesses to that candidate.
Is it legal?
Yes, they legally can do that.
But the law was written to prevent that very thing.
But if you're Joe Lombardo,
you're not particularly concerned
whether it's ethical or not
because, after all,
this is a candidate that his main slogan was,
"Endorsed by Law Enforcement."
The truth of the matter is the police union
actually took a vote of its members
to see who it was going to endorse for sheriff.
96% of the entire police union that voted
voted for Larry Burns.
So, when Joe Lombardo says, "Endorsed by Law Enforcement,"
technically he's correct.
Four percent of law enforcement endorsed him,
maybe the mall cops in Mesquite
or something like that.
So now the average person, "Joe Lombardo.
Oh, the cops are behind him.
He's endorsed by law enforcement."
It's an absolute lie.
Larry's definitely the underdog in this race.
He's outspent, he doesn't have the endorsement of the sheriff,
which has typically been the way
that our next sheriff is elected here in Clark County.
You have the outgoing sheriff
who is trying to get his boy elected.
The rest of the department doesn't want it,
but that's where the money flows, unfortunately.
(bright music)
(music)
This girl right here comes with these children
every single week.
She's got these little ones in tow.
That's your backpack?
Gosh, that's great.
People like Laurie Bisch
work a graveyard shift
and then they turn around with very little rest
to handle a morning event like this.
(Laurie) When you keep focus on, you know,
what the goal is at the end,
it's worth it, every-
every sleepless night is worth it.
(Larry) I feel like it's it, you know, it's not me,
it's this thing that we believe in,
that we're going to push forward,
and I'm representative of that and that's it.
(cheering, applause)
Think, for a moment, with this great army,
about every ten minutes that passes by on your watch,
we will have affected about 150 households
every ten minutes, every ten minutes,
every ten minutes.
(Laurie) The results of the latest poll
that came out from Channel 8
was Larry was ahead 34%, I believe, to 26%,
43% were undecided.
And, uh, to come out that high in the first poll,
being the underdog, it's just phenomenal.
It's all about the team pulling together
and you have 5,000 employees that are out there
working hard to get Larry Burns elected.
(chanting "Larry!")
-Hey, Larry. -Hi, Joe!
(Laurie) We have the one thing
that Joe Lombardo can't buy,
and that's the support of the men and women in Metro.
(female in crowd) All right, Burns!
(Laurie) And that is what is gonna win this election.
(Larry) What does the shirt say?
-Papa for Sheriff. -Papa for Sheriff.
Is Papa gonna be the next sheriff?
-Mm-hm. -Uh-huh.
-Are you sure? -Yeah.
(Larry) Oh, that is so great.
(soft music)
(Rondha) I feel in my heart that I need to meet with
the officer that shot my husband.
I don't know if it's gonna do me any good,
if it's gonna hurt me, or if it's gonna keep me where I'm at,
but there's something inside me,
something that's pushing me towards this.
I've been thinking about it for a good six months.
I just want to look in his eyes, I just want to say, "Why?"
(dark music)
(music)
You know, you took from me the only person
that ever cared I was alive.
(music)
He was the only person who ever cared.
(music)
My life is so fucked up because of you guys.
I don't trust in nobody anymore.
-I''m the same way. -I don't like me
because of you guys.
I don't like who I am.
I'm sorry.
What happened that night should never have happened.
(Rondha) You guys took from my granddaughter.
She couldn't even see her grandpa
when she came out here.
You know how she got to meet him?
She went to his grave site.
You think that's fair to her?
No, it's not.
(music)
The thing that really bothers me about the whole situation
is Metro really never took full responsibility.
Along with this radio system that-
(Rondha) I don't care about the radio-no, no, see,
that's a cop out right there, you know?
Stop blaming the radio station or the radios,
whatever it was, 'cause you know what?
The radio didn't shoot my husband.
The radio did not take him from me.
You pulled the trigger, not him.
-Yeah. -And why did you have
to pull seven shots?
Why did you have to keep shooting?
My perception, now that I know after the fact-
-after it happened- -After is too-
after my life is completely ruined.
Exactly, mine is too.
(Rondha) To hear that you got disability
due to the shooting...
It wasn''t-I mean,
I felt like I got slapped in the face
all over again, you know?
And I'm like what the hell kind of shit is this,
you're getting disability due to the killing of my husband?
(music)
I know that's hard for you to understand.
(Rondha) It is, yeah.
It's not easy remembering this every day.
(Rondha) I want so bad to be back to who I was,
to be this person that I was when Stan was here.
(music)
The car is still in exact same shape
as it was the night you guys did this.
I haven't done anything to it.
(music)
The blood is still there.
The memories are still there.
(music)
(cheering, applause)
(Dennis) You know, you've got so many people
that have put so much time and effort into this
hoping to get that change that not just Larry wants
but the whole agency wants.
(Larry) I think we put that message out there
that resonated with the community,
that the community needs to be part of the police department
and the police department needs to be part of the community.
And if we have done that,
then we have been successful.
(cheering, applause)
(soft music)
(music)
So what's it like to be Larry Burns right now?
(Larry laughs)
It will be a lot better in about, uh, three hours.
Just keeping our fingers crossed, you know?
Everybody's just waiting for those numbers to post.
(cheering, applause)
(music)
(interviewer) You have a grassroots operation.
That's been a challenge in and of itself.
(Larry) It's a challenge, we've been outspent
two to one and look at us tonight,
so we know who the cops are behind.
(cheering, applause)
(music)
(groaning)
(music)
As we take a look at the more than 100,000 votes
left to be cast,
we need to make up about 8,000 at this point in time
and we're gonna hang around here for a bit.
Don't you quit on me.
-Nobody's quittin'! -All right.
(applause, cheering)
Give me a little more time and I'll give you a victory.
Thank you so much.
(cheering, applause)
(dramatic music)
(music)
I hope the numbers come back up and we, uh,
win it.
(music)
(somber music)
(music)
(Jerry) Thinking hard about Larry, you know?
-Mm-hm. -He fought a great fight.
(music)
The right fight.
And, uh, you know,
every community deserves the sheriff they insist upon,
and, uh, they've insisted upon the other guy, so,
it's a sad day for the department.
(applause)
Joe Lombardo's campaign was basically,
"The LVMPD is great.
Doug Gillespie is great.
I will continue exactly what he's been doing."
(music)
He raised the most money,
he got his name out there.
You elect somebody based on
who's got the best television commercial.
That's really what happens.
(music)
(Bill) The big money says, "Do whatever you have to,
but keep the money flowing."
(music)
-Congratulations, Sheriff- -Thank you.
(applause)
My goal is to make this place better
than when I showed up
and when I took the reigns as your sheriff.
I just want to make it a little bit better.
And the reason why I say a little bit versus a lot
because I think we're a great organization.
And if we just take a little step,
we're gonna even be a greater organization.
(music)
(dark music)
(music)
(Kenneth) Stop, don't move!
You're gonna get tased!
Taser, taser, taser!
Taser, taser!
Don't move! Don't move!
Stop right there.
Get on your stomach.
-Get on your stomach! -I will!
I will, I will.
Stop, stop.
(grunting)
(Kenneth) Stop!
You're gonna get it again!
You're gonna get it!
Get on your stomach!
(sirens)
Get on your stomach!
(grunting)
Get on your stomach!
(sirens)
(music)
(unintelligible radio chatter)
Farmer approached Officer Lopera and his partner
at a coffee shop inside the Venetian Hotel.
Farmer appeared to be sweating heavily, looked panicked,
and told the officer that people were chasing him.
Tashii Farmer Brown went to the police for help,
and when they started to treat him like a criminal
when he didn't do anything wrong and he didn't feel safe,
he tried to get out of there.
And at the time that Lopera started choking him,
he had already tased him seven times.
And then when the other officers arrived,
you can hear them on the video telling him to stop.
And he refuses to stop,
he holds him for over a minute until he dies.
(sirens)
(music)
This has got to be the worst Mother's Day in history.
It will never be the same.
I never even got my, uh,
I found the Mother's Day cards that he got for me.
It just tore me up because it mentioned the hugs, you know?
He was like, "Mom, you can run out of milk,
but you will never run out of hugs."
It made me laugh, but it made me cry too, you know?
To know he won't be here to hug me no more.
(Kevin) Our involved officer
in this incident is Kenneth Lopera,
and that's spelled L-O-P-E-R-A.
Farmer's charges.
At the present time, the Force Investigation Team
has concluded that there are no applicable charges
that would have been levied against Mr. Farmer
had he survived this incident.
(Ramsey) Even after admitting
that Tashii Farmer had committed no crime,
Undersheriff Kevin McMahill referred to him
as "the suspect."
The suspect in this case is Tashii,
last name Farmer.
He also brought up
"the suspect's" past criminal charges,
some of which were from over 20 years ago.
On the screen to your- to my left, again,
is the criminal history for Farmer.
And as you can see, couple of DUIs, um,
1996 in Hawaii.
How can you smear someone...
(music)
...you done already eliminated?
(music)
You took him for no reason.
And now you want to smear his name?
Why?
(Ramsey) Kevin McMahill,
the cop who once cost taxpayers money
because he told a woman he was going to arrest
that he'd let her off if she showed him her vagina,
was doing everything he could to dirty up the dead man,
trying to convince the public
that Tashii Farmer was a scumbag.
(Kevin) Parole violation in Hawaii
in 2009 as well as an assault.
And the most current arrest was a DUI in 2016
here in Nevada.
When he got the DUI recently,
he was like, "Mom, I went to pull over to help somebody."
You know, her car had stalled out in the middle of the Strip.
Turns out it was an off-duty police officer.
She smelled alcohol on his breath and had him arrested.
He saw a female in distress,
and knowing Tashii, charming,
he gonna go help.
I mean, he'd give you the-
he came home with no shirt on-
I mean, no jacket on one night
and it was 60 degrees, "Where's your coat?"
"I gave it to this girl at the bus stop. She was cold."
But that's just the type of stuff
Tashii used to do, you know?
And I know he had some issues,
but he always 'fessed up to 'em, you know?
He-if he did wrong, he took his punishment.
But doing that time, he, uh,
he learned, he grew up.
He earned degrees in accounting
and he got OSHA certified
and he's an electrician
and plumbing.
And when he came here,
he immediately started his own business.
This is one of Tashii's designs
he was just starting to get up off the ground.
Forty Brix.
This is one of 'em.
This is Sweet Tooth Tony.
Tashii said he grew up in Gary, Indiana,
on the corner eating lollipops or something like that.
That's why he called him Sweet Tooth Tony,
he always had lollipops.
And he also created beanies.
Very creative.
I was stunned just to see
that he came up with all of this.
And I was happy because maybe I don't have to work again.
He was like, "Mom, you ain't never gotta work again
because I'ma change the world."
He literally sat in the kitchen and made this stuff, you know?
It's so cute.
He worked so hard...
(music)
...to try to make it work.
(music)
He put his heart and soul into this.
(music)
Just makes me sad...
(music)
...that he didn't get a chance to...
(music)
...make it happen the way he wanted to, you know.
(music)
-Hey, hey. -Hey, hey.
-Ho, ho. -Ho, ho.
(protestor) These racist police, they've got to go.
(Ramsey) A couple weeks after Tashii Farmer
was killed at the Venetian,
there was a protest in front of the hotel.
(protestor) Murder at the Venetian.
(shouting)
Las Vegas Metro, guilty of murder.
(crowd) We're gonna get justice!
We're gonna shut it down!
-Shut it down. -Shut it down.
(protestor) Shut it down.
(Ramsey) During the protest,
a man attacked a woman and pulled a knife on her.
Several people stopped and disarmed him.
The LVMPD arrested the people who defended her,
but didn't arrest the man who pulled the knife on the woman.
(protestors) Let them go!
(protestors chanting "Let them go!"
(arrested protestor) Give me my phone, man.
(protestor) You should have these two officers
that committed murder,
you should be arresting them.
You should have them locked up right now.
We got police getting away with murder.
(officer 3) Put your hands behind your back.
(protestor) Hey, what the fuck?
(protestor) Hey, what did he do? What did he do?
(commotion)
(music)
As you may know, I'm Sheriff Joe Lombardo.
I'm here this afternoon to announce some new information
referencing the in-custody death of Tashii Farmer.
Officer Lopera will be charged with involuntary manslaughter
and oppression under the color of office.
(Ramsey) The LVPPA set up a GoFundMe account
to collect money to replace the salary
of Kenneth Lopera.
He's already collected over $40,000.
Meanwhile, Tashii's family
doesn't even have the money to bury him.
They also set up a GoFundMe which has collected
about $2,000 right now.
Kenneth Lopera is actually the first officer
with the LVMPD ever to be charged
for any crime whatsoever for killing somebody.
(Stephen) If this officer is convicted,
these charges are probationable.
He might not even spend one day in prison
for choking a man to death
that didn't feel safe
and asked police for help.
(Trinita) He came there for help.
And I feel bad because I told him
if he felt like he was getting overwhelmed,
they have this program called CIT and it would help him
'cause they would dispatch this team to help him,
and that's why he went there, you know?
But instead they chased him down
and beat him like an animal.
And I figure if you can't go to a police officer for help,
where are you gonna go?
You know, who do we go to for help
if we can't go to a police officer?
(music)
(crowd commotion)
(gunfire)
(screaming)
(gunfire, commotion)
(sirens)
(screaming)
(sirens)
(somber music)
(Christopher) Everybody's still in shock
and understandably so.
(music)
More than 500 injured.
You can't wrap your head around something like that.
(Laura) It doesn't feel like Vegas.
People come to Vegas to have a good time,
they come to Vegas to forget everything,
to do things that they wouldn't normally do elsewhere.
Vegas doesn't feel like that anymore.
It just feels spooky.
When you walk down the Strip
and you see the vigil and you see the posters
of the people who died and all of these candles lit,
it's forever changed.
(music)
(Kelly) I think there's a lot of people
that knew people at the concert.
(music)
They feel terrorized.
(music)
(sirens)
Paramedics rushed in there without any body armor,
without any weapons,
and went in and helped treat people.
And, really, Metro played it safe
and they waited 75 minutes to go into a room
where they knew there was a guy with a gun firing at people.
We are looking at in excess of 50 individuals dead.
Now, the suspect, his name is Stephen Paddock.
(Ramsey) Paddock was a regular
at Mandalay Bay and was a high roller,
this rich guy who was given free rooms and free food
because he spent huge amounts of money.
And the security guard this crazy high roller shot,
Jesus Campos,
he was supposed to do interviews today
with five members of the national media
and he's just disappeared, vanished,
nobody knows where he is.
Things are just getting stranger and stranger
in this case
and I'm looking forward to talking to, uh,
Mr. Stephen Stubbs
who has the lowdown on this case
because he's been working with Eric Paddock,
the shooter's brother,
and has been talking with the FBI and the LVMPD.
So I'm really anxious to see what he has to say.
(Stephen) I was approached
by the brother of Stephen Paddock
because he wanted to do something very nice
for the victims of this horrible tragedy.
And during that time, I was able to interact
with the FBI,
the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department,
and the family,
and I learned some very interesting things
about how things work in Las Vegas.
The Mandalay Bay and the casinos in Vegas
give a lot of money to Sheriff Lombardo,
and because of that, they are treated differently.
And Sheriff Lombardo protects those high rollers
that are at those casinos.
So much so that the casinos
don't even have to call normal 9-1-1
when something happens with a high roller in the casino.
They get to call a special back number
that isn't recorded like 9-1-1 is recorded
and they can protect the identities
of their valuable customers.
So that played an influence in the Vegas mass shooting,
is that what you're saying?
From the information I have
and the way things work in Las Vegas,
the Mandalay Bay didn't call 9-1-1;
they called police,
but they called the number that they have
for high rollers.
Stephen Paddock was a high roller,
Stephen Paddock was special,
and because he was special,
when that security guard got shot,
he was treated special.
And a different line was called
other than 9-1-1
and the 9-1-1 operators didn't have an opportunity
to link what happened to the security guard
to what happened at the event
because they didn't know about it.
Because it was a back line.
If they would have called 9-1-1,
the 9-1-1 operator could have linked the two much quicker
and the police could have gotten there quicker.
Less people would have died
and less people would have been hurt
if the Mandalay Bay did not treat
their high roller, Stephen Paddock, differently
and if the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
didn't allow casinos to treat high rollers differently.
The politics involved here
made more people get hurt.
This is the narrative that Joe Lombardo
doesn't want to be released.
But the truth's gonna come out, right?
If Mandalay Bay's lawyers can twist things,
they can do damage control
and they will have to pay less money to these victims.
Now, is it right? Well, hell no.
But that's how our justice system works.
We can only work with the facts we're given
and guess who's the only person collecting facts right now?
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
The same entity that is being paid millions
in campaign donations from these resort casinos.
You don't think they're protecting each other?
Why did Stephen Paddock do this?
From what I understand,
Stephen Paddock did this
because he wanted to hurt these casinos financially
and this is the best way he knew how.
I don't think anybody will argue
that Stephen Paddock was right in the head.
(music)
That's obviously not true.
(music)
He decided to do a horrible, horrible thing
to get back at these casinos.
(music)
It didn't have to be this bad.
If they would have treated him like anyone else,
it didn't have to be this bad.
(solemn music)
(music)
(Laura) Joseph Lombardo said
this guy, Stephen Paddock, the shooter,
checked into the Mandalay Bay hotel September 28th.
So then I started digging some more
and I discovered that he actually checked in on the 25th,
and I was able to receive confirmation
in the form of valet receipts.
They're not being honest.
They are conducting a misinformation campaign
regarding this Las Vegas massacre
and I confronted them at their press conference.
There have been receipts that have been obtained
from the valet security system-
Ma'am, ma'am, that's not how we conduct this service, okay?
(Laura) Well, it says that he checked in on the 25th.
Has your timeline changed?
Please stop asking your question.
She basically forced him to change his official timeline.
(reporter) And what date did he check into the hotel?
Um, to the best of my recollection
we have information on the 25th.
Um, I had told you previously the 28th.
The timeline associated with the original shot
and Mr. Campos has changed.
Now they're saying he got shot at 9:59
and the initial shooting didn't start till 10:05.
Mr. Campos was encountered by the suspect
prior to his shooting to the outside world.
(Laura) MGM just recently came out with a statement
the other day saying that,
"Oh, we're, um, not really sure
that we can trust the official police timeline
of this investigation."
(Doug) MGM puts a statement out
saying, "We believe Officer Campos was shot
within 40 seconds of when the gunman was firing."
And then MGM got into a big battle with them
in the newspaper.
(Ramsey) Sheriff Lombardo then changed the timeline
a third time,
now claiming that MGM was right.
Security Guard Jesus Campos was shot by Stephen Paddock
after he opened fire on the crowd.
(gunfire, commotion)
Interestingly,
this timeline appears to minimize MGM's legal liability,
allowing lawyers to argue that Jesus Campos
helped stop the shooting.
(music)
Also interesting?
The fact that MGM has contributed large sums of money
to Lombardo's upcoming sheriff's reelection campaign.
(Lombardo) Now this is an opportunity
for me to tell you something.
Mandalay Bay security was fantastic.
I don't want anybody assuming that they're unsafe
by, you know, staying at one of our hotels.
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(Ramsey) For weeks, Sheriff Lombardo
didn't say a word about an LVMPD officer
firing gunshots in Stephen Paddock's room.
(reporter) Did police or security guards
fire any shots any time during the encounter?
Um...you mean while he was discharging his weapon?
-Yes. -We are not aware of that.
(Ramsey) But after an ex-cop
studying the police dispatch recordings
learned that a shot had been fired...
(police dispatch) We also have one shot officer that did fire.
(Ramsey) ...and alerted local media,
Lombardo was forced to admit the truth
and claimed it was an accidental discharge.
Why had the sheriff waited almost a month
to reveal that an LVMPD officer fired his gun
in Stephen Paddock's room,
and only admitted this fact
after being called out by journalists?
(music)
The LVMPD has been sued by seven news organizations
for failing to release the 9-1-1 calls and public records
from the night of the Vegas mass shooting...
(music)
...leaving many to wonder if the department
is telling the truth about what really happened.
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(Stephen) Do we really have confidence
that they're gonna do the right thing
for the right reason?
That's what we need. We need police officers
and we need higher-ups,
we need leaders that will do the right thing
for the right reason and nothing else.
We have to restore the public's confidence in police.
The public's confidence in the police,
because all this is happening,
is diminishing and diminishing and diminishing.
There will come a day
when those people that give the police
the benefit of the doubt,
those people who support the police
just because they're police,
those people that have this idea in their mind
that police are like Andy Griffith
and everybody's honest,
there will come a day
when those people don't exist anymore.
(music)
(somber music)