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1 00:00:07 [piano playing]
2 00:00:16 [tempo increases]
3 00:00:47 [thunder rumbling]
4 00:00:57 [sighs heavily]
5 00:01:05 [clock ticking]
6 00:01:11 [lock screen clicks]
7 00:01:13 [sighs]
8 00:01:18 [outbound text swooshes]
9 00:01:25 [phone ringing]
10 00:01:27 -[voicemail beeps]-[woman] Jamal.
11 00:01:30 God damn it. Where are you?
12 00:01:31 I've sent you four texts, no, five.
13 00:01:33 You can't text me back?
14 00:01:35 Call me.
15 00:01:40 -[ringing]-[voicemail beeps]
16 00:01:43 It's me again. Honey, I'm sorry. I--
17 00:01:48 I'm sorry. I-I didn't mean to get angry.
18 00:01:50 Call me, please.
19 00:01:53 [thunder crashes]
20 00:01:59 [phone ringing in the distance]
21 00:02:10 [lock screen clicks]
22 00:02:21 -[ringing]-[sighs]
23 00:02:26 -[male voice] Hello. Hey, it's Jeffrey.-Hi, this is-- [scoffs]
24 00:02:28 -Shit.-Leave a message,
25 00:02:30 and I'll get back to you.
26 00:02:31 [beeps]
27 00:02:32 Jeffrey, this is Jamal's mother.
28 00:02:35 It's, uh... Tuesday--
29 00:02:37 No, Wednesday night... m-morning. Um...
30 00:02:39 [sighs]
31 00:02:42 I'm looking for Jamal.
32 00:02:43 He hasn't come home, and I...
33 00:02:45 I thought he might be with you.
34 00:02:47 I-I'm sorry to bother you,or, you know, call so early, but...
35 00:02:51 [door clicks]
36 00:02:52 If you get this message and he's with you,can you please have him call me?
37 00:02:56 -My number is 305---[door slams]
38 00:02:58 Well, it's on your--Oh, God, okay, hold on.
39 00:03:00 Just in case, no, um, 305-468-5900.
40 00:03:07 Okay.
41 00:03:08 -Sorry.-So I checked,
42 00:03:10 like you asked,and the car does show up.
43 00:03:12 -Yeah.-It shows up in the system.
44 00:03:14 -Shows---That's all we really know right now.
45 00:03:17 -Show-- Shows up how?-It just shows up, as, you know.
46 00:03:22 What's-- How does it end up comingto the attention of, you know...
47 00:03:25 Oh, it just was logged in, you know,from an incident.
48 00:03:28 It could've been ticketed,could've been towed...
49 00:03:30 But Jamal, my son, he was driving it,and he--
50 00:03:32 I thought you told me you weren'tsure whether or not he was...
51 00:03:35 Well, yeah. Yes. Okay,
52 00:03:36 yeah, I didn't see him drive away in it.
53 00:03:38 I did not actually see him getin the car. Correct.
54 00:03:41 But the car's not in our driveway.
55 00:03:44 He's been gonesince eight o'clock last night.
56 00:03:45 Going on eight-- I mean, nine hours.
57 00:03:48 -He's usually home at midnight.-Right.
58 00:03:50 He never came home.
59 00:03:52 And when I called the police,
60 00:03:53 they said something happenedto the car and--
61 00:03:55 I thought you told me they said it was--
62 00:03:57 Hold on. I wrote it down.
63 00:04:00 [officer sighs]
64 00:04:04 Okay, um, "An incident."[stammering] I, um--
65 00:04:07 That's what she said, an incident."Identified in an incident."
66 00:04:09 Yes. I understand.And, listen, I'm really very sorr--
67 00:04:12 I'm sure that he's gonna turn up.
68 00:04:14 And you've already told me that you're notthe registered owner of the vehicle.
69 00:04:18 So, I-I mean...
70 00:04:19 I told you I would verifythe vehicle information anyway.
71 00:04:21 And I did that, okay?
72 00:04:25 He has work.
73 00:04:28 -Sorry?-Well, an internship.
74 00:04:31 Jamal, he has a very prestigious...
75 00:04:34 He has some place to be this morning.
76 00:04:36 -Sure.-This isn't like him.
77 00:04:37 -Ma'am---Look,
78 00:04:38 can't you do a missing persons reportor something?
79 00:04:41 Not for 48 hours, no.
80 00:04:43 -Or if there's evidence of, you know---Foul play.
81 00:04:45 We don't really use that term.That's the movies.
82 00:04:47 Okay. Something bad. Whatever.
83 00:04:49 -Right.-He hasn't come home.
84 00:04:52 [sighs]
85 00:04:55 He's a responsible kid.
86 00:04:57 -His car could have been stolen.-We don't know that.
87 00:04:59 -He's missing!-Okay.
88 00:05:01 Isn't that enough?
89 00:05:02 Look, he's-- [scoffs] He's 16, 17.
90 00:05:05 Just turned 18.
91 00:05:07 Oh! Oh, so he's just aboutto graduate high school?
92 00:05:10 -Yeah.-So...
93 00:05:12 -So, what?-So he's probably...
94 00:05:15 out on South Beach
95 00:05:16 or, you know, well, I knowyou probably don't want to hear this,
96 00:05:19 but hanging out with some girl.
97 00:05:20 You know? Doing what teenage boys do.
98 00:05:23 Yeah.
99 00:05:24 I mean, that's what I was doingat that age.
100 00:05:26 Uh-huh.
101 00:05:30 Listen, I'd still appreciate itif you all would--
102 00:05:33 Ma'am, we will.
103 00:05:34 But you said that before,and you're leaving.
104 00:05:37 And I would really like to knowwhat is going on.
105 00:05:40 Look, I told you, as soon asthe AM liaison officer gets here--
106 00:05:42 -No, I mean now.-Sorry?
107 00:05:43 I want to know now.
108 00:05:45 Well, I will be happy to walk you back outto reception.
109 00:05:48 -You could check again to see---I was just at reception for half an hour.
110 00:05:52 -There's not much more I can---And the lady there,
111 00:05:54 -she was no help at all.-I-- I understand.
112 00:05:56 Look, she sent me to you.This can't be that hard.
113 00:05:58 -I'm very sorry, ma'am, I---Either he's in the system or he isn't.
114 00:06:01 Ma'am, no disrespect,but we have a protocol.
115 00:06:03 Listen, I may seem paranoid,but he's not home.
116 00:06:07 His car is showing up on your radar.
117 00:06:11 -Humor me.-Ma'am,
118 00:06:12 as soonas the AM liaison officer gets here.
119 00:06:14 Officer, please.
120 00:06:15 -I don't know what you expect me to do.-Well, don't you all have computers?
121 00:06:18 I don't know, a database with namesand DOBs you can--
122 00:06:21 Yes, but I am not authorizedto just go running down the rabbit hole.
123 00:06:24 -What if somebody walks in, and they...?-Please.
124 00:06:28 [sighs]
125 00:06:35 -Fine.-[weeping]
126 00:06:37 [softly] Thank you.
127 00:06:37 But I'm gonna needsome additional information.
128 00:06:39 -Sure.-All right.
129 00:06:40 Just let me-- Let me get something.
130 00:06:44 -[lock screen clicks]-[thuds]
131 00:06:46 [phone keyboard clicking]
132 00:06:52 Hmm.
133 00:06:53 [outbound text swooshes]
134 00:07:03 First name again?
135 00:07:04 Jamal, J-A-M-A-L.
136 00:07:06 Last name, Connor.
137 00:07:07 Yes. [chuckles]
138 00:07:09 -Is that E-R?-No, O-R.
139 00:07:11 C-O-N-N-O-R.
140 00:07:12 DOB?
141 00:07:13 5/1/2001.
142 00:07:15 Any priors?
143 00:07:17 Sorry?
144 00:07:18 Priors.Has he ever been arrested before?
145 00:07:21 Oh. No. [chuckles]
146 00:07:23 -Are you sure?-Yes.
147 00:07:24 -Even juvie.-Juvie?
148 00:07:26 -Does he have a juvenile record?-No.
149 00:07:28 -Nothing?-Nothing.
150 00:07:31 Not even a trespassingor resisting without, petty theft?
151 00:07:34 He's never so much as torn the tagoff a new mattress, okay?
152 00:07:37 -Excuse me?-Nothing.
153 00:07:39 No-- No arrest record at all.
154 00:07:42 Hmm. Uh, does he go by any other names?
155 00:07:45 Like a nickname?
156 00:07:46 I mean, his father calls him J.
157 00:07:47 No. Uh, AKAs?
158 00:07:51 -I'm sorry?-AKAs.
159 00:07:52 You know, "also known as."Like, street names.
160 00:07:55 Street names?
161 00:07:57 Yeah. Well, if he was taken into custodyunder a different alias, right?
162 00:08:00 He gave a different--Well, different from some other time
163 00:08:03 -is all I'm saying.-I just told you he's never been arrested.
164 00:08:05 But just in casehe might have been printed for,
165 00:08:08 I don't know, whatever.Or had a warning issued, or...
166 00:08:12 -A street name?-Right.
167 00:08:14 -Like Peanut? Or Black?-Exactly.
168 00:08:17 Or Pookie.
169 00:08:19 Yes, ma'am.
170 00:08:22 Well, there's June Bug.
171 00:08:24 -June Bug.-Yup.
172 00:08:25 -That's his street name?-Jesus Christ.
173 00:08:28 -[officer] Is it?-No.
174 00:08:30 It's not an alias. It's not a street name.
175 00:08:32 You sure?
176 00:08:33 It's what I used to call himwhen he was little.
177 00:08:36 It's what I call him nowwhen I want to knock the cool out of him
178 00:08:39 in front of his friends.He doesn't have a street name.
179 00:08:42 Can you please just run all thisthrough your computer...
180 00:08:45 -Ma'am! I am going to.-...and find out what is going on?
181 00:08:48 I just need to make sure that we haveall the correct information here,
182 00:08:51 so we aren't just spinning our wheels.
183 00:08:53 [thunder rumbling]
184 00:08:58 Fine.
185 00:09:04 Height?
186 00:09:05 Six-two.
187 00:09:07 Maybe a little tallersince last time we measured him.
188 00:09:09 -He really shot up this year---Uh-huh. Weight?
189 00:09:16 Uh, 180... 185, thereabouts.
190 00:09:27 Glasses.
191 00:09:28 Hmm.
192 00:09:30 Cornrows.
193 00:09:34 Light green eyes.
194 00:09:39 [officer] Okay, good.
195 00:09:40 Uh, do you remember what he was wearingwhen he left last night?
196 00:09:45 I-I don't know.Probably jeans and a T-shirt.
197 00:09:48 All right. Does he haveany distinguishing, you know...
198 00:09:54 Like a birthmark?
199 00:09:55 Yeah. Scars, tattoos, gold teeth.That kind of stuff.
200 00:10:00 No. No tattoos. No golds.
201 00:10:04 His only scar is on his stomach,right here.
202 00:10:07 Great. And that's from?
203 00:10:09 -The scar?-Yeah, where did he get it?
204 00:10:11 You mean, how did he get it?
205 00:10:13 Well, both, I guess, yeah.
206 00:10:15 -Does this matter?-[officer] Ma'am--
207 00:10:16 -It's not from a gang fight.-[officer] Okay.
208 00:10:18 -Lady, listen---Officer.
209 00:10:19 Respectfully, are therethat many 6'2" black boys
210 00:10:23 involved in incidents tonight,
211 00:10:25 you need to knowif they might just have
212 00:10:27 scars on their tummies?
213 00:10:28 Not unless you want to find him. I mean--
214 00:10:30 Okay, Jamal's sign is Tauruswith Virgo rising.
215 00:10:33 He's bashful, looks away when he smiles.
216 00:10:35 -Really, I am just looking for...-He plays the guitar.
217 00:10:38 -Especially likes blues and rock.-Ma'am.
218 00:10:39 -Old '70s and '80s bands.-[officer] Ma'am--
219 00:10:41 I tried to turn him on to Funkadelic
220 00:10:43 -and DeBarge...-Ma'am, I--
221 00:10:45 ...but he's strictlymainstream classic stuff.
222 00:10:46 -Clapton. Van Halen.-[officer, irritably] Okay.
223 00:10:48 He throws a mean breaking ball,whatever that means.
224 00:10:50 -All right. Listen---He's vegetarian,
225 00:10:52 hates fried chicken,and he's afraid of clowns.
226 00:10:54 -Ma'am---He walks like a jock,
227 00:10:56 but he can recitealmost any Emily Dickinson poem.
228 00:10:59 -Okay.-And he still gets a tear in his eye
229 00:11:01 whenever he hears"Puff the Magic Dragon."
230 00:11:04 [thunder rumbling]
231 00:11:06 [woman sighs]
232 00:11:08 Sorry.
233 00:11:20 I-I love Emily Dickinson.
234 00:11:24 "It is a far, far better thing I dothan I've ever done.
235 00:11:29 -It is a far, far better..."-That's Charles Dickens.
236 00:11:33 Mmm... I don't think so.
237 00:11:38 Anyway, uh, let me seewhat I can find out, okay?
238 00:11:40 Oh, hey, was he angry or upsetabout anything last night?
239 00:11:45 Why?
240 00:11:46 Well, just in case he had a reason to,you know, run off
241 00:11:49 and chill for a while.
242 00:11:52 No.
243 00:11:54 -[thunder crashes]-Okay. Cool.
244 00:11:56 -Uh, help yourself to a donut.-Really?
245 00:11:59 Yeah. I know. What can I say?We really do like 'em.
246 00:12:02 -[indistinct police radio chatter]-[door clicks]
247 00:12:04 Unbelievable.
248 00:12:06 [door closes]
249 00:12:18 -[cell phone ringing]-[whispering] Oh, God.
250 00:12:23 Hey, you on your way down here, I hope?
251 00:12:28 O-Okay.
252 00:12:32 Not yet.
253 00:12:34 I don't know.
254 00:12:36 Scott-- No, Scott,I said I don't know.
255 00:12:39 I've been trying to find out.
256 00:12:41 Well, because they're being very evasive.
257 00:12:45 I have no idea why.
258 00:12:47 Well, that's not true.I have some idea why. I--
259 00:12:50 I am keeping my cool.
260 00:12:52 It's-- It's not helping.
261 00:12:53 That's why it'd be nice if you were here.
262 00:13:00 Well, I called you almost an hour ago.
263 00:13:05 Yeah, I'm keenly awareof what time it is.
264 00:13:10 Well, you know what?
265 00:13:12 Maybe if you were home in your own bed
266 00:13:15 instead of sleeping in someone else's,we wouldn't be having this discussion.
267 00:13:20 No, I'm not starting.
268 00:13:22 I said I'm not.
269 00:13:26 No, I'm dropping it.Okay, but you-- [sighs]
270 00:13:31 In a waiting room somewhere in the back.
271 00:13:35 When you come through the entrance,turn left, park in the main lot up front.
272 00:13:39 Go to the info desk.
273 00:13:41 Ask for Officer Larkin. Larkin.
274 00:13:45 I don't know, some...
275 00:13:47 low-level newbiewho ain't all that bright.
276 00:13:51 Yeah, okay. Bye.
277 00:13:53 [groans, chuckles]
278 00:13:56 Shit.
279 00:13:57 [siren wailing]
280 00:14:04 [sighs]
281 00:14:28 [lock screen clicks]
282 00:14:34 [ringing]
283 00:14:41 [sighs]
284 00:14:45 [voicemail beeps]
285 00:14:46 It's Mama again, baby.
286 00:14:50 I know you're still very upset,
287 00:14:52 and... we both said a lot of thingswe shouldn't have last night,
288 00:14:58 but I am worried about you.
289 00:15:00 Please call me.
290 00:15:03 [thunder crashing]
291 00:15:09 [door clicks]
292 00:15:15 -So?-[Larkin] Okay, there was an incident.
293 00:15:17 -An incident!-The car--
294 00:15:18 If you will allow me, please.
295 00:15:25 There was an incident. We don't know what.
296 00:15:29 The car was stopped,
297 00:15:31 and there is a pending investigation.
298 00:15:36 What does that mean?
299 00:15:38 That is all I can tell you.
300 00:15:39 Uh, Lieutenant Stokes,
301 00:15:41 he doesn't normally get inuntil about 8:00,
302 00:15:43 and I've been instructed that all furtherinformation needs to go through him.
303 00:15:46 I'm sorry, who?
304 00:15:47 Lieutenant Stokes.
305 00:15:48 Oh, he's the AM public affairsliaison officer.
306 00:15:51 Look, I'm-- I'm pretty new here.I don't know him personally.
307 00:15:54 They told me that he's been pagedto come down here immediately, but--
308 00:15:57 But he might not get herefor another few hours?
309 00:16:00 -He's been paged.-That's when he normally comes in.
310 00:16:02 Apparently.
311 00:16:03 Not acceptable.
312 00:16:05 No, ma'am. It is what it is. I...
313 00:16:06 No. I called the police
314 00:16:08 -at three o'clock in the morning.-[sighs]
315 00:16:10 -I'm told my car's been involved---It's not your car.
316 00:16:12 My son's car!
317 00:16:16 My son is missing.
318 00:16:18 Now you're telling me he's in custody?
319 00:16:21 -No.-He might be?
320 00:16:23 -No. We don't know that yet.-We don't really know anything yet.
321 00:16:25 We don't know much.
322 00:16:26 -No. That is my point.-Is my son in custody or not?
323 00:16:28 I told you,you're gonna have to be patient
324 00:16:30 and wait for the AM liaison officerto get here.
325 00:16:32 I sat out in that lobbyalmost half an hour
326 00:16:34 before I even got to speak to you.
327 00:16:36 I completely understand your concerns.
328 00:16:38 Respectfully, officer,I don't think you do.
329 00:16:40 -Ma'am, I have kids too.-[woman] Do you?
330 00:16:42 -Okay. I do.-How old are they?
331 00:16:44 -[Larkin] Well, they're---Any of them black?
332 00:16:49 Excuse me?
333 00:16:50 Do you have any black sons...
334 00:16:53 this big...
335 00:16:55 who might just be sittingin police custody
336 00:16:57 at four o'clock in the morning?
337 00:16:59 [sniffles]
338 00:17:02 -Look, Ms. Connor. I...-Ms. Ellis-Connor.
339 00:17:07 -Ms. Ellis-Connor...-[Ellis-Connor] Mm-hmm?
340 00:17:09 I am doing the best that I can...
341 00:17:11 -Do you have a black son?-...to help figure out--
342 00:17:13 Wow. We are really gonna go there?
343 00:17:15 Oh, we've been there for a while.
344 00:17:19 [Larkin] No, ma'am.
345 00:17:23 I have two...
346 00:17:26 young daughters.
347 00:17:30 White daughters.
348 00:17:39 Then let's skip the empathy tactic, okay?
349 00:17:44 Because, believe me...
350 00:17:47 you got no idea.
351 00:17:52 Fine.
352 00:17:59 Whatever.
353 00:18:00 You know what? I really thoughtthat we had developed a kind of--
354 00:18:03 Why are you still here?
355 00:18:04 -I'm sorry?-Go.
356 00:18:06 -[Larkin] Excuse me?-Please. Go find Jamal.
357 00:18:08 -Find my son.-I told you, Lieutenant Stokes
358 00:18:10 -will be here any minute.-I don't care who's on his way.
359 00:18:12 You got a badge too!
360 00:18:14 -You people...-Ma'am.
361 00:18:15 ...got computers and cell phones,police radios.
362 00:18:18 You mean to tell meyou can't walk out that door
363 00:18:20 in five minutesand find out where my son is?
364 00:18:23 -Look, I---Where is he?
365 00:18:25 I understand you're tense.
366 00:18:26 -[groans]-I understand this must be upsetting.
367 00:18:27 -Stop telling me you understand.-Ma'am, listen.
368 00:18:29 -And stop calling me "ma'am."-Okay.
369 00:18:33 Okay.
370 00:18:36 Listen...
371 00:18:38 [slowly] as soonas Lieutenant Stokes gets here,
372 00:18:42 I am going to seethat you speak to him immediately.
373 00:18:45 We are gonna find outwhere Jerome is and--
374 00:18:47 Jamal.
375 00:18:48 -Jamal. His name is Jamal!-I'm sorry.
376 00:18:50 -I'm sorry. I---God damn it!
377 00:18:52 -Stop screaming at me!-Okay! Okay.
378 00:18:54 Okay. [inhales sharply]
379 00:18:56 [thunder rumbling]
380 00:19:00 All right.
381 00:19:01 [breathes deeply]
382 00:19:03 Let me--
383 00:19:07 Let me start again.
384 00:19:13 I am... so sorry
385 00:19:15 if I implied or suggestedany bad faith on your part.
386 00:19:20 I-I completely understand your concerns.
387 00:19:22 [scoffs]
388 00:19:25 What?
389 00:19:28 You keep saying that,"I-I understand.
390 00:19:31 I... share your concerns."
391 00:19:35 Is that from some HR training videoor something?
392 00:19:38 -No.-"When dealing with a problem personality,
393 00:19:41 -put the person at ease."-What?
394 00:19:43 -"Diffuse the situation."-No.
395 00:19:44 -"Echo their feelings."-I don't know--
396 00:19:46 Look, I have a PhD in psychology.I teach at the university. Okay?
397 00:19:49 So I know when I'm being managed.
398 00:19:51 Ma'am. Ms. Connor.
399 00:19:53 -Ellis-Connor.-I am not managing you.
400 00:19:56 Jesus. I'm just trying to be nice.
401 00:20:00 Sure.
402 00:20:03 [softly] You...
403 00:20:04 Look...
404 00:20:06 we have a protocol.
405 00:20:10 [sighs]
406 00:20:19 I...
407 00:20:21 Look, I'm supposed to follow it,but, you know,
408 00:20:23 let me see if I can...
409 00:20:26 I-- if I can pull a few strings.
410 00:20:29 You know,before Lieutenant Stokes gets here.
411 00:20:33 Just get a little more info, okay?
412 00:20:35 -I would really appreciate that.-All right, just--
413 00:20:38 Just give me a few minutes.
414 00:20:41 -Do you-- Do you need anything?-[sighs]
415 00:20:44 I swear, I am just being nice.
416 00:20:56 [sighs] Some water.
417 00:20:59 There is a water fountain down the hall.
418 00:21:01 Great.
419 00:21:02 It's out the door,around the corner to your left.
420 00:21:04 -Thank you.-There's two, actually.
421 00:21:05 -They're right next to each other.-Two doors?
422 00:21:07 No, sorry. Two water fountains.
423 00:21:09 You can't miss them.They're right next to each other.
424 00:21:11 It's 'cause the building's really old,and when it was built, it was...
425 00:21:18 Segregated?
426 00:21:23 Yeah.
427 00:21:28 There's, um...
428 00:21:31 you know, above--above the water fountains,
429 00:21:33 there's, like, um...
430 00:21:35 there's, like, a commemorative plaque...
431 00:21:38 dedicated to, like, the Big Fiveor something.
432 00:21:41 The Big Six.
433 00:21:42 The Big Six!
434 00:21:43 Yeah. Yeah, Abernathy and, uh...
435 00:21:48 I can't remember all of them.It's just-- ah, it's...
436 00:21:50 fascinating, you know, just the history.
437 00:21:54 Well, you know, I mean...
438 00:21:57 all they did for...
439 00:22:01 people.
440 00:22:14 [vehicle approaching]
441 00:22:18 [under breath] Son of a bitch.
442 00:22:23 [door opens]
443 00:22:25 [sniffling]
444 00:22:27 [door closes]
445 00:23:03 -Excuse me. Are you---I was just texting Amy to get your ETA.
446 00:23:06 Jesus Christ, what took you so long?
447 00:23:08 -Excuse me?-Yeah. I'm sorry, sir.
448 00:23:10 It's just this lady has beenreally difficult and...
449 00:23:12 Yeah. I'm here about Jamal Connor.
450 00:23:14 Right, right.And she's gonna be right back so--
451 00:23:16 Okay. So far, um, all I know,
452 00:23:18 the car is pulled over.
453 00:23:20 Uh, three black males in a Lexus,like, a late model Lexus,
454 00:23:23 -I think.-Okay. Hold on.
455 00:23:25 Expired tags or the driver's texting,
456 00:23:26 not really clear on the reasonfor the stop.
457 00:23:28 -Exigent circumstances, I guess.-Okay.
458 00:23:30 There's not much in the system.Logged to the General Investigations Unit.
459 00:23:33 -The GIU?-Yeah, so, probably no big deal, right?
460 00:23:35 I mean, I got somebody in the GIUto give me a little bit of info...
461 00:23:38 -Listen. Slow down.-I know that's against protocol.
462 00:23:40 I'm just trying to keep the natives at bayuntil the cavalry arrives, you know?
463 00:23:44 Man, I'm glad you're here.
464 00:23:45 -Sorry. It's Officer Larkin, right?-Yeah.
465 00:23:47 Let me just back up,make sure I understand what it is...
466 00:23:49 Wait till you see this lady.Bitch is totally out of control.
467 00:23:51 I mean, I got kids too.
468 00:23:53 Right? But she went from, like,zero to ghetto in nothing flat.
469 00:23:57 [door closes]
470 00:23:58 [Larkin] Ma'am, this is Lieutenant...
471 00:24:00 -Hey.-[Scott] Hey.
472 00:24:01 -Jesus Christ, Scott.-[Scott] It's okay.
473 00:24:02 Everything's gonna be fine.
474 00:24:06 Where's our son?
475 00:24:13 Lieutenant Stokes is on his way.I'm really sorry for the delay.
476 00:24:16 They haven't told me anything, Scott.
477 00:24:17 -Not a thing.-Okay.
478 00:24:18 They don't know if Jamal's been arrestedor if he's in custody.
479 00:24:21 Calm down. I wanna talkto the GIU detective interrogating my son.
480 00:24:24 Listen, as I have been telling your...
481 00:24:27 her, I'm not at libertyto give you more information.
482 00:24:29 -Now.-I'm sorry. Who exactly are you?
483 00:24:31 I'm Scott Connor.I'm Jamal Connor's father.
484 00:24:33 -No. I'm talking about...-Oh. I'm an FBI agent.
485 00:24:36 Oh.
486 00:24:38 -I'm sorry if that confused you.-Yeah...
487 00:24:40 My son's a minor, we have a right to speakwith him before you interrogate him.
488 00:24:43 -I'm sorry, sir. I'm not authorized---Scott...
489 00:24:45 I don't want you to be sorry. Take meto whoever is interrogating my son.
490 00:24:49 -Scott!-What?
491 00:24:50 His birthday was last month.Remember? He's 18.
492 00:24:55 -Shit. I knew that.-[Ellis-Connor] It's okay.
493 00:24:56 -Of course.-God damn it. I got him the car.
494 00:24:58 -You know I knew that.-Hey, I said it's okay.
495 00:25:00 It's four o'clock in the morning.I haven't had a cup of coffee.
496 00:25:02 -I understand.-Look--
497 00:25:03 Lieutenant Stokesshould be here very soon.
498 00:25:05 I wanna know what's going on with my son,you've been in contact with the detective.
499 00:25:08 I'd like to have a word.
500 00:25:09 -[Larkin] No, sir.-Excuse me?
501 00:25:11 I have not been in contactwith the GIU detective.
502 00:25:13 [Scott] Two seconds ago,you just said you had.
503 00:25:15 No, sir. That is not correct.I got somebody in GIU
504 00:25:18 to-- to read me a bit of information,secondhand, off the daily log sheet.
505 00:25:21 -That is all.-Uh-huh.
506 00:25:23 I've not been able to speak with anybodyabout the case yet.
507 00:25:25 There's a protocol that we have to follow,and it involves the AM liaison officer.
508 00:25:29 -And you don't know when he'll be here?-Very soon, I hope.
509 00:25:36 But if you'd rather not wait here,that's fine.
510 00:25:38 Uh, you can leave me your cell number.I'd be happy to call you when he arrives.
511 00:25:42 There's a Denny's on the corner.
512 00:25:43 -Yeah, it's a very short walk.-Thank you. We'll wait.
513 00:25:47 Sure.
514 00:25:49 Can I-- Can I get you anything?
515 00:25:51 -Coffee?-I'm fine.
516 00:25:52 Coffee would be great.
517 00:25:53 -[Larkin] Cream? Sugar?-No, I like it black.
518 00:25:55 Well...
519 00:26:01 [Larkin] Listen, I'm surethat this is no big deal.
520 00:26:03 I just started working here,but they tell me this happens every night.
521 00:26:06 [scoffs]
522 00:26:07 We have a skeleton crew in adminon the late shift.
523 00:26:10 It can take forever for informationto filter down, so...
524 00:26:13 Well, I apologize if I was, you know...
525 00:26:15 [Larkin] No, not at all.
526 00:26:16 And, listen, I'm really sorryabout when you came in and I--
527 00:26:19 -Yeah.-Sorry about what?
528 00:26:21 Nothing.
529 00:26:29 -FBI, huh?-Yeah.
530 00:26:30 -That's awesome.-[Scott] Thanks.
531 00:26:31 [Larkin] It's my dream job.
532 00:26:32 -Is it?-Mm-hmm. Behavioral analysis.
533 00:26:34 -Really?-Yeah. I applied,
534 00:26:36 but they told meI needed investigative experience,
535 00:26:38 which is why I joined the force.
536 00:26:39 [Scott] Well, I hope you kicked assin differential equations
537 00:26:42 -or whatever...-[chuckling] Yeah.
538 00:26:43 BS in Forensics at Jacksonville State.Go, Gamecocks!
539 00:26:46 Good. 'Cause those guysin the Ted Bundy Brigade,
540 00:26:48 they're smart as hell.
541 00:26:49 [Larkin chuckling] The Ted Bundy Brigade,that is awesome.
542 00:26:51 Yeah. They don't like to be called that.
543 00:26:53 It's what the rest of us call 'emwhen we wanna piss 'em off.
544 00:26:55 Right.
545 00:26:56 I'd be happy to put a good word in for youwhen the time comes.
546 00:26:59 -[Larkin] Really?-Give me a call.
547 00:27:00 That would be so awesome.
548 00:27:01 -Thank you so much.-[Scott] You bet.
549 00:27:02 So, the Lexus.
550 00:27:04 It's registered to me.
551 00:27:06 -The...-The car,
552 00:27:07 my son's car, is registered in my name.
553 00:27:09 Scott Alan Connor.
554 00:27:10 -It was a birthday gift.-[Larkin] Oh, nice.
555 00:27:12 Yeah. Well, pre-owned.Still a little indulgent, I guess...
556 00:27:15 Oh, yeah. Whatever.
557 00:27:16 He worked very hard.
558 00:27:17 -Bit of a reach for us, but...-We thought he'd earned it.
559 00:27:19 [Scott] Anyway, we kept it in my namefor the insurance.
560 00:27:21 But I can tell all thatto the GIU guy myself
561 00:27:24 when you bring me down thereto talk to him.
562 00:27:26 Right. So, coffee...
563 00:27:28 No cream, no sugar.
564 00:27:29 I'm on it.
565 00:27:36 [Scott sighs]
566 00:27:40 What?
567 00:27:42 -What?-Nothing.
568 00:27:43 No, not nothing. What?
569 00:27:45 Why don't you just offerto cut and blow out his hair,
570 00:27:47 give him a hand massage, for God's sake?
571 00:27:49 -Kendra.-I mean...
572 00:27:50 -I'm just trying to be civil.-Whatever.
573 00:27:52 -Acting all crazy...-Who's acting crazy?
574 00:27:53 ...isn't gonna help the situation.
575 00:27:56 They have our son.
576 00:27:58 We wanna know where he is.They can tell us.
577 00:28:00 This ain't complicated.
578 00:28:01 This is a bureaucracy.
579 00:28:02 I think you're assuming the worst,when the truth be told,
580 00:28:05 the current situationis probably a whole nother thing.
581 00:28:06 -Oh...-Look, I work at a bureaucracy.
582 00:28:08 I'm telling you,you're not gonna get anywhere
583 00:28:10 chewing out some low-level yes-man.
584 00:28:12 I've been here for almost an hour.
585 00:28:13 -Look, alls I'm saying---"All."
586 00:28:15 All?
587 00:28:16 "All you're saying."
588 00:28:17 "All" is not plural.It's not a possessive.
589 00:28:20 There's no such word as "alls."Just "all."
590 00:28:24 Seriously?
591 00:28:26 Jamal doesn't "ax a question."
592 00:28:28 He doesn't speak Ebonics.
593 00:28:29 -You don't get to speak white trash.-Oh, Christ, Kendra...
594 00:28:32 "Alls I'm saying."
595 00:28:33 "A whole nother."
596 00:28:34 Just purge that shit.
597 00:28:36 -I'm sorry. "A whole nother"?-Yeah.
598 00:28:37 "The current situation is probablya whole nother thing."
599 00:28:40 Sweet sweating Jesus, Kendra.
600 00:28:41 -The word is "another." One word.-Okay.
601 00:28:43 Don't go shoving the word "whole"in the middle of it.
602 00:28:45 Can we not just go off in the weedson some...
603 00:28:47 This isn't "off in the weeds."
604 00:28:50 You know how I killed myself to make sureJamal speaks proper English.
605 00:28:53 -Yeah, believe me, I know. Yeah.-Okay? Good.
606 00:28:57 [thunder rumbling]
607 00:29:05 I mean, you just said "ain't"two seconds ago,
608 00:29:07 but I ain't allowed to.That makes perfect sense.
609 00:29:09 I said "ain't" for emphasis.
610 00:29:11 -You just speak bad English.-Jesus.
611 00:29:13 It's like every little thingwith you lately.
612 00:29:15 No, this isn't every little thing.
613 00:29:18 As hard as I worked to make him fit in,
614 00:29:22 it's a slap in my facewhen you cavalierly lapse
615 00:29:25 into "Okie from Muskogee."
616 00:29:27 Can we just--
617 00:29:28 Let's see if we can get our armsaround the here and now.
618 00:29:30 Find out where J's at and not, you know,
619 00:29:32 rehash the last five yearsof our marriage.
620 00:29:34 -Would that be okay?-[Kendra] Sure.
621 00:29:35 Good.
622 00:29:38 [lock screen clicks]
623 00:29:40 And I've never forced youto make him fit in.
624 00:29:42 -Whatever.-Hey, I let you name him Jamal.
625 00:29:44 -Didn't I?-"Let me"?
626 00:29:46 -Here we go again.-Right?
627 00:29:48 Baby, I'm sorry,
628 00:29:49 I love your Irish people and all,
629 00:29:52 but I simply wasn't gonna go through lifewith a son named--
630 00:29:54 What was it you were putting on the tableat the time?
631 00:29:57 Seamus.
632 00:29:58 -[chuckling] Hell, no.-[Scott chuckling]
633 00:30:01 I'd have gone with something else.Liam, Aidan...
634 00:30:04 Lord.
635 00:30:06 [laughing]
636 00:30:08 I needed to commemorate my brother.
637 00:30:14 I thought you understood that.
638 00:30:17 I did.
639 00:30:18 [scoffs]
640 00:30:19 You know...
641 00:30:20 you may not remember,but in Arabic, Jamal means beauty.
642 00:30:23 Means beauty. Yes, how could I forget?
643 00:30:27 "Hey, Beauty.You wanna toss a football around?"
644 00:30:29 -[scoffs]-I can't wait 'til he's 21
645 00:30:31 so me and the guys can head on overto the tavern
646 00:30:33 and hoist a glass of whiskeywith ol' Beauty.
647 00:30:35 -My, oh, my.-Maybe he'll bring his friends
648 00:30:37 Chastity and Mother's Milkalong as designated drivers.
649 00:30:39 Is your sense of masculinityreally that delicate?
650 00:30:41 -[outbound text swoosh]-Of course not, Kenny. Come on.
651 00:30:44 It's just a hell of a fun button to push.
652 00:30:46 His name is fine, all right?
653 00:30:52 You can't even say it half the time.
654 00:30:55 It's always "J" this, "J" that.
655 00:30:57 Oh, come on. I got a nickname for my son.That's just a male bonding thing.
656 00:31:00 Just man up and say it.
657 00:31:01 You've always hated his name...
658 00:31:03 because it's too black.
659 00:31:05 You're the one who just said
660 00:31:07 -Seamus was too Irish.-You think his name's a handicap.
661 00:31:10 Well, you know what? On a scale from...
662 00:31:13 Eric Holder to, you know, Darnell Jackson,
663 00:31:17 Jamal is brushingright up against Darnell.
664 00:31:21 It must be terrible feeling so alienatedfrom your own flesh and blood.
665 00:31:26 Hey, I'd challenge hell's furiesfor that kid, and you know that.
666 00:31:31 My only son.
667 00:31:36 -Should we try calling him again?-I've already tried about 15 times.
668 00:31:40 I just keep getting his voicemail.
669 00:31:41 Yeah, me too."Hey, this is Jamal. Have a blessed day."
670 00:31:44 When did that bullshit start?
671 00:31:46 He's been goingwith me and Mama to church.
672 00:31:50 Thank you, by the way.
673 00:31:51 -[Scott] For what?-For taking her to dialysis.
674 00:31:53 -[Scott] Oh, please.-No, it's a huge help.
675 00:31:55 Bobby's like my own mother, you know that.
676 00:31:57 -[Kendra] I know.-She is a tough old broad.
677 00:31:59 She thinks the sun rises and sets on you.
678 00:32:05 She blames me for all of this.
679 00:32:08 [scoffs]
680 00:32:15 [sighs]
681 00:32:17 You look good.
682 00:32:18 -Oh, Jesus.-[Scott] Well, you do.
683 00:32:20 Please don't go there.
684 00:32:21 We haven't reallyseen each other since... you know.
685 00:32:23 -Oh, I know.-Oh, can't I just notice?
686 00:32:25 What did you expect, Scott?
687 00:32:26 Four months without you,and I'd completely fall apart?
688 00:32:28 Is that what you were hoping?
689 00:32:29 -Christ. Forget I said anything.-Yes! Let's just forget it.
690 00:32:32 Let's just find our son and go backto our respective corners, okay?
691 00:32:35 -[Scott] Fine.-[phone chimes]
692 00:32:39 Is it Jamal?
693 00:32:42 No.
694 00:32:43 So, where was he last night?
695 00:32:45 -I assume he went out.-Yeah.
696 00:32:47 -With who?-I don't know.
697 00:32:48 You don't know?
698 00:32:49 -Why should I know?-Jesus Christ. Kendra.
699 00:32:52 I don't grill him every timehe leaves the house.
700 00:32:54 He's a grown man. I trust his judgment.
701 00:32:55 You're the one who insistedthat J live with you.
702 00:32:58 -[chuckles]-Which I was okay with.
703 00:32:59 But you took on an obligationto be responsible--
704 00:33:01 I thought we weren't going to rehashour entire relationship?
705 00:33:04 -Okay. Fine.-[Kendra] Fine.
706 00:33:05 It's just, I hate to keep harping on it,
707 00:33:06 but this kid's going to West Pointin, like, a month.
708 00:33:09 -It is just not acceptable that he---Here we go.
709 00:33:12 It's not, Kenny.
710 00:33:15 Last few times he stayed at my place,he looked like a goddamned gangster.
711 00:33:18 A gangster?
712 00:33:19 Yeah. A "gangsta." There, I said it.
713 00:33:21 Why? Because he's not wearingBrooks Brothers?
714 00:33:24 Oh, the baggy pants, the cornrows,
715 00:33:26 that stupid loping,surly walk he suddenly developed.
716 00:33:30 He's a teenage boy, okay?
717 00:33:32 -A second ago he was a grown man.-He's just trying to figure out who he is.
718 00:33:35 -Oh, he's trying to figure out who he is?-Explore his own identity.
719 00:33:38 Christ almighty. Today it's cornrows,
720 00:33:39 tomorrow he'll be out helping OJfind the real killer.
721 00:33:42 Okay. See that right there?Comments like that...
722 00:33:46 You just don't get it.His world is not your world, Scott.
723 00:33:49 Oh, yes, it is. It most certainly is.
724 00:33:51 Look, I completely appreciatehow you had to grow up.
725 00:33:54 Okay? The hard streets of Liberty City.
726 00:33:56 Interstate cutting through. Redlining.All of that.
727 00:33:59 I admire it. I always have.
728 00:34:02 It's one of the many reasons I...
729 00:34:06 You what?
730 00:34:12 -You what?-His world is not that world.
731 00:34:14 His world is definitely my world.
732 00:34:16 We worked hard to make it my world.
733 00:34:18 We spent almosta quarter of a million dollars
734 00:34:21 putting that kidthrough the best prep schools in the city.
735 00:34:23 He grew up in Coral Gables,for Christ's sake.
736 00:34:25 He's had every possible advantage.
737 00:34:27 I simply will not accept himregressing into...
738 00:34:29 Into what?
739 00:34:32 Just say it, Scott.
740 00:34:33 That young man has no excusefor getting himself into this situation.
741 00:34:36 What situation?
742 00:34:38 We don't even know what happened yet.
743 00:34:40 Something happened.I can take a pretty good guess what.
744 00:34:42 Why are you automatically gonna blame himbefore you even know anything?
745 00:34:46 You know he's driving aroundwith two black kids?
746 00:34:48 Oh, God forbid.
747 00:34:49 Oh, please don't. Don't do that.
748 00:34:50 Are you kidding me?
749 00:34:51 Look, Kenny, it's just you and me in here,so you can quit with the performance art.
750 00:34:54 -Seriously?-Kendra, come on.
751 00:34:56 He was out with two other black kids,that's the issue here?
752 00:34:58 I mean what if--
753 00:35:03 How do you know who he was with?
754 00:35:08 This guy.
755 00:35:10 -This cop?-Yeah.
756 00:35:11 -Well... when?-When I walked in.
757 00:35:18 [scoffs] So the whole hour I'm here,he doesn't know a thing.
758 00:35:21 The minute you walk in the door,he's full of answers.
759 00:35:24 I wouldn't necessarily say"full of answers."
760 00:35:26 But he told you Jamal was in a carwith two kids?
761 00:35:28 -They were stopped.-Two other black kids.
762 00:35:29 -Yeah.-Well, he never told me any of that.
763 00:35:31 I wonder why that might be.
764 00:35:33 Right now, I don't really care.I just wanna know who they are.
765 00:35:36 Didn't your new buddy there tell you?
766 00:35:37 No.
767 00:35:39 And I think you'll agree this demonstrates
768 00:35:41 -some pretty questionable judgment.-No.
769 00:35:43 -Not necessarily.-Really?
770 00:35:44 He's got a right to be in a carwith his friends
771 00:35:47 without getting dragged downtownat 3:00 a.m.
772 00:35:49 No one's sayinghe doesn't have a right--
773 00:35:51 Even if he's in a carwith his black friends!
774 00:35:52 -What black friends?-Oh, Scott, come on.
775 00:35:54 What are you--
776 00:35:56 Can't you see what you're saying?
777 00:35:57 This is exactly what I'm saying.Listen to me.
778 00:35:59 What black friends?
779 00:36:00 Was he with Jeffrey?
780 00:36:03 Was he out with Nate or Manny?Kids that we know and trust?
781 00:36:06 -Because that'd be one thing.-I told you, I don't know.
782 00:36:08 No. And he certainly wasn't out with Al.
783 00:36:10 No. Al's in Europe with his familyon vacation.
784 00:36:12 Yeah. And Al is the only black kidhe hangs out with,
785 00:36:15 -which is exactly my point.-Funny. That's exactly my point.
786 00:36:18 -Oh, look, Kendra, I---You think our bougie son
787 00:36:21 has no right to associatewith other black kids
788 00:36:23 without stamping a presumption of guiltall over himself?
789 00:36:27 No. I think our half-white, half-black,who-gives-a-shit-what-race-he-is son...
790 00:36:31 The one who got 1470 on his SATsand aced AP Physics,
791 00:36:34 knows better than to commitunforced errors in life
792 00:36:36 by taking stupid risks.
793 00:36:39 Especially, when he is on the cuspof doing great things.
794 00:36:41 I think he understands that,like it or not,
795 00:36:45 the way that you present yourself in lifehas consequences.
796 00:36:47 If you wear your pantshalfway down your ass
797 00:36:50 and ghetto hair, then you got--
798 00:36:52 Then you got no right to complainwhen you walk by
799 00:36:54 and a white lady clutches her purse?
800 00:36:57 You got no right to complainwhen you walk by
801 00:36:59 and any lady clutches her purse.
802 00:37:00 No. No, no, no, no, no. That is not-- No.
803 00:37:03 You are saying that associatingwith other black kids
804 00:37:05 is taking a stupid risk.
805 00:37:07 Oh, come on, Kenny,that's not what I'm saying.
806 00:37:09 -Let me ask you.-You know that!
807 00:37:10 If this little asshole had told youthat Jamal was in a car
808 00:37:12 with two white boys he barely knew,would you be blaming him then?
809 00:37:16 Would that be an unforced error?
810 00:37:17 If I didn't know 'em, if I hadn't met 'em,
811 00:37:19 black or white,you're damn right, it would be.
812 00:37:21 Scott...
813 00:37:23 no matter how many privileges he's got,
814 00:37:26 the world still looks at himlike it looks at me,
815 00:37:30 not you.
816 00:37:31 Oh, boy.
817 00:37:33 I tell you,I can see exactly what's been going on.
818 00:37:35 I'm out of the house a few months,and sure enough,
819 00:37:38 you are filling his mind
820 00:37:39 full of victimhood psychobabble.
821 00:37:41 -Oh, you know what?-"Pity me! Pity me!"
822 00:37:43 -I've done nothing of the sort.-[Scott] Yeah.
823 00:37:45 Instead of pointing a finger at me,
824 00:37:47 maybe you ought to be lookingin the mirror.
825 00:37:49 Oh, this is my fault now?
826 00:37:50 Well, you're the one who disappearedat the pivotal moment in his life.
827 00:37:54 Excuse me?
828 00:37:55 You know exactly what I'm saying.
829 00:37:57 I coached his baseball team for ten years.
830 00:37:59 -Mmm.-I went to every one of his concerts.
831 00:38:02 Have I ever missed a banquet
832 00:38:04 or a game or an event or a meet?
833 00:38:05 -That's not what I'm talking about.-What are you talking about?
834 00:38:08 You walked out on him.
835 00:38:13 I did not.
836 00:38:14 -Yes, you did.-Bullshit.
837 00:38:16 -You did.-No, I didn't.
838 00:38:17 I'm sorry, but that is exactly what you--
839 00:38:19 -[Scott] You know what?-You did!
840 00:38:20 You up and walked out on him.
841 00:38:22 I didn't walk out on him.I walked out on you.
842 00:38:31 Oh.
843 00:38:32 I didn't mean for itto come out like that.
844 00:38:46 I just--
845 00:38:48 I'm so sick and tired of havingthe same frickin' argument with you
846 00:38:52 over and over and over again.That is what I walked away from. Not--
847 00:38:56 You know.
848 00:39:01 Shit. Kenny, I'm sorry.
849 00:39:03 -Stop.-I didn't mean to...
850 00:39:05 Just put the shovel downand stop digging.
851 00:39:07 Listen, J is on his way to beinga commissioned officer
852 00:39:10 at one of the most elite institutionson Earth.
853 00:39:13 My job is done.
854 00:39:14 He is a man now.
855 00:39:16 A man I am so proud of.
856 00:39:17 I know.
857 00:39:18 So I cannot-- I cannot have you telling meI didn't do my job as a father.
858 00:39:23 Okay.
859 00:39:26 -I am not your father, Kendra.-[Kendra] Okay.
860 00:39:28 -That's what walking out looks like.-All right.
861 00:39:31 -So don't. Don't.-Scott.
862 00:39:32 -Please. Please.-I said I get it.
863 00:39:37 [thunder rumbling]
864 00:39:56 Hey.
865 00:39:59 -[sobbing]-[Scott] Kenny.
866 00:40:04 Everything's gonna be fine, all right?
867 00:40:06 -Let's just try and relax.-[sighs]
868 00:40:08 [shudders]
869 00:40:14 This time of night, I always get agitated.
870 00:40:19 You have no idea.
871 00:40:22 I'm usually awake about this time.
872 00:40:25 I don't know I've had a sleep-filled nightsince that boy was born.
873 00:40:35 Most nights, my eyes fire wide openout of a sound sleep.
874 00:40:40 Heart beating so hardI feel it throbbing in my ears.
875 00:40:44 Always right about this time.
876 00:40:49 Too late to go back to sleep...
877 00:40:53 too early to get on with the day.
878 00:40:56 [siren wailing]
879 00:40:58 [thunder rumbling]
880 00:41:00 You... just snoring away.
881 00:41:11 Usually, I go standin the door to his room...
882 00:41:18 and listen to him breathe.
883 00:41:22 Sometimes I go in and...touch the muscle on his neck.
884 00:41:30 Or shoulder.
885 00:41:34 Stand there and bullshit myself,
886 00:41:36 "Don't worry, Kendra,he is big and powerful.
887 00:41:41 This world can't hurt him."
888 00:41:46 Until that nagging feeling comes back,and I dwell on how fragile he is.
889 00:41:53 And whatever nightmarethat has just woke me up,
890 00:41:56 someone texting in an SUVor an errant punch in a bar fight,
891 00:42:01 a ruptured appendix
892 00:42:03 in some third world country. Most...
893 00:42:06 Most mothers can sit there in the darkand get rational,
894 00:42:09 go back to sleep.
895 00:42:10 But sometimes, in my nightmares,I see nooses and crosses
896 00:42:15 and white men with Brylcreem crew cuts.
897 00:42:33 Last summer... when Jamalwanted to drive with Jeff to Bonnaroo,
898 00:42:37 -I was-- I just...-[Scott] No, look, J and I just thought
899 00:42:41 you were a little over-the-topwith the mother hen thing,
900 00:42:44 thinking he was too young.
901 00:42:45 -Too young?-[Scott] We disagreed and we moved on.
902 00:42:47 Too younghad nothing to do with that shit.
903 00:42:49 My granddaddy was fighting in Okinawawhen he was 17.
904 00:42:52 Too young?
905 00:42:56 It wasn't that.
906 00:42:58 It was the prospect of himdriving through the Deep South.
907 00:43:06 My son, alone with a white boy
908 00:43:09 driving Sherman's March to the Seain reverse.
909 00:43:15 [sniffles] Maybe he and Jeff stoppedto get gas in some little town
910 00:43:19 'cause he doesn't know any better
911 00:43:21 because we raised him to believethat the world is full-- [inhales sharply]
912 00:43:26 full of goodness.
913 00:43:30 And he starts batting his doe eyesat some cute little white girl.
914 00:43:38 Maybe the two of them walkinto a burger joint,
915 00:43:40 happens to be an alt-right hangout.
916 00:43:46 Maybe... some guy with a swastikatattooed to his biceps
917 00:43:52 had a little too much to drink, and...
918 00:43:55 doesn't like the look...[crying] of this boy
919 00:43:59 who's poisoningthe country's racial purity.
920 00:44:03 But the worst one,the one that always comes back,
921 00:44:06 is I see him getting stopped by a copfor doing nothing in particular.
922 00:44:10 And I see ankle-high boots and...
923 00:44:15 badges...
924 00:44:19 and nightsticks.
925 00:44:25 And I think back on that night I was...
926 00:44:30 five years old...
927 00:44:32 and watchedmy stoic mother doubled over,
928 00:44:37 sobbing in the kitchen
929 00:44:39 because Arthur McDuffiehad been beaten to death by the cops...
930 00:44:42 [choking up]...and they'd acquitted those cops.
931 00:44:49 And you... [crying] were a little boyasleep on the other side of town,
932 00:44:54 dreaming of becoming one.
933 00:45:00 [sobs] I'm scared.
934 00:45:02 Don't be scared.
935 00:45:03 -[Kendra] Yeah?-Yeah.
936 00:45:04 This is just some frivolous nonsense.
937 00:45:05 They probably hadthe music cranked up too loud.
938 00:45:07 -You think?-Yeah, you know how he likes to do.
939 00:45:10 [scoffs]
940 00:45:12 Or his buddies had a couple of beersin the back seat, stupid shit,
941 00:45:15 kids sowing wild oats.
942 00:45:19 But let's not piss these people off, okay?
943 00:45:25 Let's just...
944 00:45:27 keep calm.
945 00:45:29 Half an hour,the three of us will be at Denny's...
946 00:45:33 having a teachable moment.
947 00:45:42 Have you talked to him recently?
948 00:45:44 I talk to him every day.
949 00:45:45 -Texting mostly, but...-[Kendra] No.
950 00:45:47 I mean, have you talked to him about...
951 00:45:51 [Scott] About what?
952 00:45:53 West Point.
953 00:45:55 What about it?
954 00:45:57 -I don't wanna get in the middle of this.-[Scott] What about it?
955 00:46:01 -Well, he's...-[Scott] He's what?
956 00:46:03 He's rethinking it.
957 00:46:06 He's rethinking what?
958 00:46:10 You should talk to him.
959 00:46:11 About what, Kendra?
960 00:46:13 [sighs]
961 00:46:15 He's thinking about takingthe farm team contract.
962 00:46:18 Or maybe seeingwhere the guitar thing might go.
963 00:46:20 Really?
964 00:46:22 -Listen...-Jesus Christ, Kenny. Again?
965 00:46:23 It'd probably just be a deferment.He's afraid to tell you.
966 00:46:26 Yeah, well, he should be.
967 00:46:30 I hope this wasn't your idea.
968 00:46:31 -Okay, look.-Are you encouraging this nonsense?
969 00:46:33 He doesn't have the arm speedto make it out of Double-A ball.
970 00:46:36 He doesn't have the talent.
971 00:46:40 A brutal reckoning that I, his father,
972 00:46:43 not you, got to make with him, thank you.
973 00:46:45 And the guitar?
974 00:46:47 He's gonna, what?Play the guitar, like, for a living?
975 00:46:49 Just because you were too scaredto pursue your dreams,
976 00:46:52 -don't take it out on him.-Oh, please.
977 00:46:53 Let him try while he's young.
978 00:46:55 At worst,he spends some time finding himself.
979 00:46:58 Oh, sure.You kick around trying to "find yourself,"
980 00:47:00 and before you know it,you're a 40-year-old dude
981 00:47:02 with a 150 IQ and no college degree.
982 00:47:07 Then you're making, what, 450 a weekin a goddamn wedding cover band.
983 00:47:12 Being hired by a guy
984 00:47:13 who can afford to drop $100Kon the wedding
985 00:47:16 because he didn't wasteten years of his life
986 00:47:18 pursuing his dreams of, you know,the Olympic curling team,
987 00:47:20 or writing the next great American novel.
988 00:47:23 -That's not what I meant.-The men in my family have
989 00:47:25 served this country every generationsince they got here.
990 00:47:27 He is not entitledto break that tradition.
991 00:47:29 -Scott.-It's not an option.
992 00:47:30 -End of discussion.-[door closes]
993 00:47:32 [Larkin] Sorry to interrupt.
994 00:47:34 Coffee. No cream, no sugar.
995 00:47:36 -[Scott] Thanks.-[lock screen clicks]
996 00:47:37 So, I got some more information for you.
997 00:47:40 It's not a lot.
998 00:47:41 I checked the computer intake log again.
999 00:47:44 [clears throat]
1000 00:47:46 Your son was identifiedas a vehicle occupant
1001 00:47:50 in a traffic stop in your Lexus.
1002 00:47:52 I also confirmed there weretwo other black males
1003 00:47:56 in the vehicle when it was stopped.
1004 00:47:57 Why were they stopped?
1005 00:47:59 The log's not really that specific.
1006 00:48:00 The general "infraction" categorywas checked off.
1007 00:48:02 What does that mean?
1008 00:48:04 It's just whateverthe patrol officer logged in
1009 00:48:07 from his laptop in the patrol car.
1010 00:48:09 He, like, checks off a box.
1011 00:48:10 So this tells us nothing.
1012 00:48:12 Well, it's not showing upas a pursuit following felony,
1013 00:48:15 a stolen car, BOLO.You know, the really bad stuff...
1014 00:48:17 -Okay.-...you can check off.
1015 00:48:19 -[Scott] Who were the other boys?-Yeah, I'm not allowed to, um...
1016 00:48:25 Okay, this stays between us.Badge to badge.
1017 00:48:31 DaShawn Rolle and Jarvis Bell.
1018 00:48:34 You know them?
1019 00:48:35 Uh, Bell is a 20-year-oldwith misdemeanor convictions.
1020 00:48:38 He had an open warrant.
1021 00:48:39 -For what?-That I cannot tell you.
1022 00:48:41 You see, Ken? Do you see what I'm saying?
1023 00:48:43 Um, one other thing.
1024 00:48:45 I gave your son's social media accountsa quick look over.
1025 00:48:48 Really? That's what you've been doingwhile we're standing around in here?
1026 00:48:51 Social media is, like, the first stopin missing persons cases.
1027 00:48:54 -Oh, please.-Fact!
1028 00:48:59 And that I did learn in a training video.
1029 00:49:05 Your son posted something on Instagram.
1030 00:49:08 A photo of a bumper stickeron the back of your Lexus.
1031 00:49:14 "Shoot cops with your camera phonewhenever they make a bust."
1032 00:49:19 -Excuse me?-That is what it says.
1033 00:49:21 -"Shoot cops"?-Yeah, yeah.
1034 00:49:23 And those wordswere in, like, huge letters, okay?
1035 00:49:26 -I think you're mistaken.-The rest of it in little fonts,
1036 00:49:28 so all anyone who wasn't two feet awayfrom the bumper could see
1037 00:49:30 is a Lexus that says, "Shoot cops."
1038 00:49:32 No... [chuckling] No, not my son.
1039 00:49:35 [sniffles]
1040 00:49:38 Afraid so.
1041 00:49:53 "Shoot cops."
1042 00:49:54 Shoot people just trying to do their jobs.
1043 00:49:56 -That's all you can see?-Yup.
1044 00:49:58 -Jesus Christ.-Shoot people with wives and kids.
1045 00:50:00 Son of a bitch.
1046 00:50:01 Just shoot 'em 'cause you're partof the revolution or whatever, I guess.
1047 00:50:04 -Kendra.-What?
1048 00:50:05 -That car is registered in my name.-God...
1049 00:50:08 This isn't about us, remember?Our son is in police custody.
1050 00:50:11 Our son has a bumper stickeron his car that says, "Shoot cops."
1051 00:50:14 -My son. I'm the cops.-[Kendra] Scott.
1052 00:50:16 -God damn it. I'm the cops!-This is about a camera phone.
1053 00:50:20 Jesus, Scott!
1054 00:50:21 Right now, I couldn't care lessabout you and him
1055 00:50:23 and your goddamn thin blue line.
1056 00:50:25 I care about finding our son.
1057 00:50:26 Did you know about this? Had you seen it?
1058 00:50:28 Kenny, please tell methat you didn't know about this.
1059 00:50:30 -Please tell me that you didn't---Listen to me.
1060 00:50:34 There are three black kids in his school.
1061 00:50:37 Three out of 400 and something.
1062 00:50:40 And the other two are dating each other.
1063 00:50:42 -He's...-Oh, no, I totally get it.
1064 00:50:44 Being one of the only black kids
1065 00:50:45 at the most expensive prep schoolin the city...
1066 00:50:48 versus being a black kid at,you know, MLK Senior,
1067 00:50:50 where you gotta go through metal detectorsevery day,
1068 00:50:52 that entitles you to put a bumper stickeron your Lexus
1069 00:50:56 that says, "Shoot the stupid dumbasswho bought me this car."
1070 00:50:59 He is grappling with a lot right now.
1071 00:51:02 -He's depressed.-Oh, Jesus.
1072 00:51:05 He's confused.
1073 00:51:06 Bullshit. Look, I'm sorry to be ventinglike this in front of you.
1074 00:51:09 Oh, no, listen, I totally hear you.
1075 00:51:11 Where is Jamal now?
1076 00:51:13 What I just told you,that is all that is in the system,
1077 00:51:16 and I wasn't even supposedto tell you that.
1078 00:51:18 I'm really supposed to wait
1079 00:51:19 for this Lieutenant Stokes guyto get here.
1080 00:51:22 But, I tell you what,I will go and check the computer again,
1081 00:51:25 see if someone might havelogged something in
1082 00:51:27 in the last few minutes.
1083 00:51:30 [Kendra] You know what?
1084 00:51:32 I sat around here almost half an hour.
1085 00:51:34 You couldn't tell me a damn thing.
1086 00:51:36 Except for maybe how to go on
1087 00:51:38 a self-guided, Jim Crow tourthrough the building...
1088 00:51:40 And then as soon as my husband shows up,my white husband,
1089 00:51:44 suddenly you are as helpful as can be.
1090 00:51:47 -[Scott] Kendra!-Why is that?
1091 00:51:49 Do you not want me to go lookat the computer again?
1092 00:51:52 -[Kendra huffs]-If you wouldn't mind too much.
1093 00:51:54 I'm sorry, I didn't get your first name.
1094 00:51:56 Paul.
1095 00:51:57 Paul, if you wouldn't mind,we'd really appreciate it.
1096 00:52:01 Sure thing.
1097 00:52:04 -Refill?-That'd be great.
1098 00:52:15 "That'd be great."
1099 00:52:17 You know what else would be great?
1100 00:52:18 If you took my side at some point.
1101 00:52:21 Damn it, Kendra.
1102 00:52:22 You're so goddamn nice to him,it's making me sick.
1103 00:52:24 -"Shoot cops"? For Christ's sake.-That's why you're kissing this guy's ass?
1104 00:52:27 No. I'm ready to put my fistthrough the goddamn wall.
1105 00:52:29 Put yourself in Jamal's place.
1106 00:52:30 -Oh, give me a break.-No! Just for one minute,
1107 00:52:33 put yourself in your son's place.
1108 00:52:42 He is the only black person
1109 00:52:44 most of those little white kidsat his school know.
1110 00:52:48 Most of 'em...
1111 00:52:50 only black peoplethey've ever exchanged two words with
1112 00:52:53 are the Jamaican hospice womanwho wipes bubbie's ass,
1113 00:52:57 and the peopleat some Habitat for Humanity house
1114 00:53:00 they helped buildjust so they had something
1115 00:53:02 to put on their application to Princeton.
1116 00:53:03 -Look, I get that.-You have to understand, Scott.
1117 00:53:05 Jamal is going through...
1118 00:53:15 an awakening.
1119 00:53:17 -An awakening? To what?-[Kendra] Yes.
1120 00:53:19 To this.
1121 00:53:39 Okay.
1122 00:53:41 And? [exhales]
1123 00:53:44 And...
1124 00:53:46 Philando Castile.
1125 00:53:50 And Eric Garner.
1126 00:53:53 And Tamir Rice.
1127 00:53:56 Every time it happens,
1128 00:53:58 he feels the worldclose in on him a little.
1129 00:54:00 And it's coming at him from both sides
1130 00:54:03 because all of his white friendsthink he represents the entire race.
1131 00:54:07 It's not like if he was at a schoolwith other black kids he could lean on.
1132 00:54:11 He is the one all the white kids look to.
1133 00:54:14 There is immense pressure on him to--
1134 00:54:18 [chuckles] I'll tell you what he calls it,"the face of the race."
1135 00:54:23 That's what he says,"I feel like I am the face of the race."
1136 00:54:28 -He told you this?-[Kendra] Many times.
1137 00:54:32 He never said anything like that to me.
1138 00:54:38 Baby, look at you...
1139 00:54:40 and look at meand reckon why that might be.
1140 00:54:48 When these men get shot down,
1141 00:54:50 he can feel their ghosts.
1142 00:54:55 That bumper sticker was--
1143 00:54:58 Was what?
1144 00:55:01 No, really, I--I...
1145 00:55:04 -I want to understand.-[sobbing]
1146 00:55:07 [groans]
1147 00:55:09 [chuckling]
1148 00:55:15 Can you see that Jamalis also right, here?
1149 00:55:20 Filming cops is all these kids have.
1150 00:55:23 It is their last line of defense.
1151 00:55:25 Shit. God forbid I'm stopped,it's mine too.
1152 00:55:28 That is the world we live in.
1153 00:55:31 Whether you get it or not.
1154 00:55:36 [thunder rumbling]
1155 00:55:41 No, I get it. I do.
1156 00:55:45 I get it.
1157 00:55:48 I just--
1158 00:55:52 He still should've knownwhere this kind of thing can lead.
1159 00:55:55 Where?
1160 00:55:56 Here? [sniffles]
1161 00:55:58 -Tonight?-Yeah.
1162 00:55:59 -Because of a bumper sticker?-Yes.
1163 00:56:01 You really thinkthat's what this is about?
1164 00:56:02 -Sure didn't help.-A bumper sticker?
1165 00:56:04 Look, if I'm a cop rolling down the streetat 2:00 a.m.,
1166 00:56:06 and it's a close call on probable cause...
1167 00:56:08 The bumper sticker would push youover the edge?
1168 00:56:10 -You bet.-Oh... [chuckling]
1169 00:56:12 Especially, if after I makea warning stop,
1170 00:56:14 I got some uppity assholelecturing me about his rights.
1171 00:56:18 [whispering] Son of a bitch.
1172 00:56:20 What?
1173 00:56:23 "Uppity"?
1174 00:56:25 -Oh, come on.-Is that what you just said?
1175 00:56:27 -[Scott] Kendra, please.-Unbelievable.
1176 00:56:29 -[Scott] Jesus Christ.-From you?
1177 00:56:30 I don't even know what to say.
1178 00:56:32 God damn it, don't make this abouthow I tripped on some coded word fossil.
1179 00:56:40 I cannot have J lapsing into a life
1180 00:56:43 where he makes excuses for himselfall the time. I won't.
1181 00:56:46 And I won't have him walking aroundapologizing for who he is.
1182 00:56:49 -No one is asking him to do that.-Yes, they are.
1183 00:56:55 "Keep your hands on the wheel, boy.Look straight ahead.
1184 00:56:58 Don't make any sudden moves.
1185 00:57:00 Wouldn't want to make the manin the bulletproof vest nervous
1186 00:57:04 when he walks up to your windowpointing a glock at your head."
1187 00:57:12 Your father ever tell you that?
1188 00:57:14 -He never had to.-You're goddamn right, he didn't.
1189 00:57:21 -[rain pattering]-[thunder rumbling]
1190 00:57:32 Look, Kenny.
1191 00:57:38 I'm as eager to sort this out as you are.He is my son, too.
1192 00:57:43 I just don't think that, you know,
1193 00:57:45 lecturing these peopleon Black Lives Matter is gonna help.
1194 00:57:50 Let's try...
1195 00:57:53 catching flies with honey, okay?
1196 00:57:55 Maybe they need a little lecture.
1197 00:57:58 They sure fittin' to get onewhen I sue their asses.
1198 00:58:01 Look, alls I'm saying...
1199 00:58:02 all...
1200 00:58:05 all I'm saying...
1201 00:58:06 is let's give these peoplethe benefit of the doubt
1202 00:58:09 and not act like we'rein some ass-backwards Klan county
1203 00:58:12 in South Carolina.This is Miami, for God's sake.
1204 00:58:14 Where my black, PhD-having ass
1205 00:58:17 still has to drive downsomething called "South Dixie Highway"
1206 00:58:20 to get to work every day.
1207 00:58:22 Kenny, I see your point. I do.
1208 00:58:26 But throwing all that upin white people's faces
1209 00:58:28 makes them feel like shit.
1210 00:58:29 And when you make people feel like shit,they tend to not wanna help you.
1211 00:58:32 [Southern accent]Yes, sir, Massa Scott.
1212 00:58:34 Auntie Kendra don't wanna hurtnobody feelings.
1213 00:58:36 I sorry, Massa Scott.
1214 00:58:38 [laughing]
1215 00:58:43 What is so funny?
1216 00:58:46 [coughs, clears throat]
1217 00:58:48 You.
1218 00:58:51 Being ridiculous.
1219 00:58:52 [laughing]
1220 00:58:54 My husband laughswhen I pretend to be a house slave,
1221 00:58:58 -and I wonder why we're separated.-[Scott] Oh, Jesus.
1222 00:59:03 Boy. I tell you,did you and I ever agree on anything?
1223 00:59:07 -Oh, come on.-No, did we?
1224 00:59:09 Seriously?
1225 00:59:13 Seriously?
1226 00:59:27 The importance of hard work.
1227 00:59:30 Frugality.
1228 00:59:34 Respect for our elders.
1229 00:59:39 Bourbon Manhattans at duskout on the patio.
1230 00:59:42 -Okay.-[chuckles softly]
1231 00:59:45 -Thelonious Monk. Right?-Mmm.
1232 00:59:47 Yeah. We always agreed on Thelonious Monk.
1233 00:59:49 Yes, we did.
1234 00:59:53 Thai food.
1235 00:59:56 -Right.-The U.
1236 00:59:57 [laughing] Yes.
1237 01:00:00 [chuckles]
1238 01:00:02 -Cormac McCarthy.-Mmm. [chuckles]
1239 01:00:04 The Cayman Islands.
1240 01:00:06 Sex.
1241 01:00:08 Yeah.
1242 01:00:34 The morning J was bornwas the best day of our lives.
1243 01:00:37 -We definitely agree on that.-Right?
1244 01:00:52 I mean, I still can't.
1245 01:00:58 I just can't...
1246 01:01:01 I mean, Jesus Christ.
1247 01:01:07 [sighs]
1248 01:01:09 When I was at that conference in Atlantaa couple months ago,
1249 01:01:12 I saw another bumper sticker,
1250 01:01:14 "Don't Blame Me,I Voted for Jefferson Davis."
1251 01:01:18 Nobody was pulling him over.
1252 01:01:19 That's just some bigoted asshole, Kenny.
1253 01:01:21 But in Atlanta.
1254 01:01:23 In the capital of black America,
1255 01:01:25 white people get to glue their angerall over their car bumpers.
1256 01:01:29 Well, I cannot answerfor every racist white person.
1257 01:01:32 No? You're not the "face of the race"?
1258 01:01:34 [scoffs]
1259 01:01:35 Well, I'm glad to see that this isthe standard we're holding our son to.
1260 01:01:38 What standard is that?
1261 01:01:39 Looking for a bigot behind every tree.
1262 01:01:41 Because that's what this shit leads to.
1263 01:01:43 "Shoot cops" bumper stickersand all this micro-aggression bullshit...
1264 01:01:46 -Can we drop it?-...on college campuses.
1265 01:01:47 I mean, seriously, Kendra,what were you thinking?
1266 01:01:50 He just put it on the car todayor yesterday,
1267 01:01:52 I'm losing track of time here.
1268 01:01:53 -So you did know it was there?-Scott, yes, I saw it.
1269 01:01:56 I didn't like it either,
1270 01:01:58 but Jamal has been on edgeabout everything lately.
1271 01:02:00 You weren't around.It was up to me to do triage.
1272 01:02:03 I decided the bumper sticker was a battlethat could wait till morning.
1273 01:02:06 I-- I told him not to get in that caruntil he got rid of it.
1274 01:02:09 Okay. Fine. But once this is done,
1275 01:02:11 we're gonna sit down,have a little chat
1276 01:02:12 about the quality of your judgmenton this.
1277 01:02:17 Wow.
1278 01:02:19 Okay.
1279 01:02:21 You know what?
1280 01:02:22 I'm not running cover for you anymore.
1281 01:02:25 He put the bumper sticker on the carto get back at you.
1282 01:02:29 He's furious with you.
1283 01:02:32 What? For what?
1284 01:02:34 What do you think, Scott?
1285 01:02:35 For leaving him.
1286 01:02:37 Sorry, leaving me.
1287 01:02:38 -He told you this?-Told me...
1288 01:02:40 I had to watch my six-foot tall son
1289 01:02:43 cry his eyes dryabout three nights running.
1290 01:02:46 Calling you namesthey haven't invented yet.
1291 01:02:49 That poor child was curled up in my armslike a little baby.
1292 01:02:53 -I... I...-I...
1293 01:02:55 Yeah. That's what all this is about.The bumper sticker. The cornrows.
1294 01:02:58 -It is a rebellion against you.-No. No.
1295 01:03:00 -Bullshit.-No, honey. It's not bullshit.
1296 01:03:02 It's calledthe science of human psychology.
1297 01:03:05 This is what young men do
1298 01:03:08 when the person they have modeledtheir whole identity and moral code over--
1299 01:03:14 Hell, what is the clinical term?
1300 01:03:16 -"Fucks over his family."-Kenny...
1301 01:03:17 [Kendra] He hates you right now!
1302 01:03:19 And for the first time in his life,he hates being half-white!
1303 01:03:30 I told you,
1304 01:03:31 I am not happyabout the goddamn bumper sticker
1305 01:03:34 or the cornrows or the baggy pants,
1306 01:03:36 but it is just a phase he will get over.Hopefully a short one.
1307 01:03:39 I am just trying to help him reassemblea very fragile identity,
1308 01:03:45 an identity that you busted into pieceswhen you walked out that door.
1309 01:03:50 So get off my back about this
1310 01:03:52 because you don't getto take the high road here.
1311 01:03:54 -Stop it.-[phone chimes]
1312 01:03:55 No! You--
1313 01:03:57 [lock screen clicks]
1314 01:03:58 It's not J. Fuck.
1315 01:04:00 You really need to be texting her now?
1316 01:04:01 -It's my brother.-What?
1317 01:04:03 -He sent a link, he said it's urgent.-Dwyane Wade dunking?
1318 01:04:05 You two can't bond over your man crushsome other time?
1319 01:04:09 [man] Aw, man. Aw, man.
1320 01:04:12 -[man 2] Don't do it, man.-[man 3] Nigga, stay down.
1321 01:04:15 [man 2] Don't do it, man!
1322 01:04:16 [man 3] Stay down, nigga.
1323 01:04:18 [gunshots firing]
1324 01:04:21 Jesus.
1325 01:04:22 Scott, what is that?
1326 01:04:23 It's, um...
1327 01:04:25 I-- I don't...
1328 01:04:27 -Uh...-Scott?
1329 01:04:30 -I-- No. Nope. No, honey?-Yes.
1330 01:04:32 Kendra, stop it.God damn it, honey, please don't.
1331 01:04:36 [man] Aw, man. Aw, man.
1332 01:04:39 -[man 2] Don't do it, man.-[man 3] Nigga, stay down.
1333 01:04:41 [man 2] Don't do it, man!
1334 01:04:43 [man 3] Stay down, nigga.
1335 01:04:45 -[gunshots firing]-[gasps]
1336 01:04:46 Okay.
1337 01:04:49 Jesus.
1338 01:04:54 What...
1339 01:04:56 -What's it mean?-I don't know.
1340 01:05:00 -Is that Jamal?-Jesus.
1341 01:05:02 -Scott, is that him?-I don't know.
1342 01:05:03 Is that him?
1343 01:05:05 No, Kendra, I don't know.Give me a second.
1344 01:05:06 -Well, what does the text say?-I wasn't paying attention. Um...
1345 01:05:10 "Look ASAP, AM stringer posted thison the CBS4 site. Is this J?"
1346 01:05:13 Let me see. Let me see it.
1347 01:05:15 -[indistinct yelling on phone]-[man] Aw, man.
1348 01:05:18 Scott, I think that's him.
1349 01:05:19 Is that him? The one running?
1350 01:05:21 -Kendra.-No-- No, God. In the blue shirt.
1351 01:05:23 -[man 3] Stay down, nigga.-I think that's his shirt.
1352 01:05:25 Let's just take thisone step at a time, okay?
1353 01:05:27 -Okay.-I'm gonna call my brother at the station.
1354 01:05:29 -I wanna see it again, make sure.-Give me a second.
1355 01:05:30 Let me get a hold of my brother,see if he knows anything.
1356 01:05:32 Hey, John. It's me.
1357 01:05:34 So is that J in the...?
1358 01:05:39 -Well, did he say whether or not he...-What did he say?
1359 01:05:44 Okay.
1360 01:05:47 Well, can you text me his numberso that I can...
1361 01:05:49 -Who? Who is he?-You don't? Okay.
1362 01:05:50 -[John] All right?-Yeah. Thanks.
1363 01:05:51 What did he say?
1364 01:05:53 Just that the police station monitors,the-- the police scanner,
1365 01:05:56 and they heard reportsof a warrant stop, a traffic stop,
1366 01:05:58 and a witness, a bystander,some guy happens to be there
1367 01:06:01 and he sends in this footage.
1368 01:06:03 -Is it Jamal? Was he hurt?-John doesn't know.
1369 01:06:05 Just that the chatter came backwith my car, and he sent the link.
1370 01:06:08 -He doesn't know.-Wait.
1371 01:06:09 It could be him, Scott. He could be hurt.
1372 01:06:11 Jamal could be hurt.
1373 01:06:13 -We have to...-I don't know.
1374 01:06:14 I saw what you saw, okay? I mean, I--
1375 01:06:16 -Hey!-I got your refill.
1376 01:06:17 -Have you seen this?-Huh?
1377 01:06:18 Have you seen this?
1378 01:06:19 No-- No. Seen what?
1379 01:06:25 [indistinct yelling]
1380 01:06:27 [man] Aw, man. Aw, man.
1381 01:06:30 -[man 2] Don't do it, man.-[man 3] Nigga, stay down.
1382 01:06:32 [man 2] Don't do it, man!
1383 01:06:34 [man 3] Stay down, nigga.
1384 01:06:35 -[gunshots firing]-[gasps]
1385 01:06:37 I want to knowwhat's going on with my son, now.
1386 01:06:40 I don't know what this is.
1387 01:06:41 It's a video.Apparently from a traffic stop.
1388 01:06:43 What video, from what stop?
1389 01:06:44 The stop where--I don't know, that's why I'm asking.
1390 01:06:46 Our son and other kids, we think.
1391 01:06:49 -Where did you get it?-Forget about where we got it.
1392 01:06:51 I'm trying to understand why you thinkthis has to do with your son.
1393 01:06:53 His brother sent itand thinks it could be Jamal.
1394 01:06:56 Forget about all that. Where is our son?
1395 01:06:57 We just wanna know if he's okay.
1396 01:06:59 Look, I told you, Lieutenant Stokesis on his way down here.
1397 01:07:02 He'll be able to tell you.
1398 01:07:03 Okay. Listen to me. I have been--
1399 01:07:04 We have been waitingand we've been patient.
1400 01:07:06 But our son is in custody, your custody.You have him.
1401 01:07:09 We would like to know where he is.We would like to talk to him.
1402 01:07:12 -[Larkin] I understand.-We want to talk to him.
1403 01:07:13 -[Larkin] I'm doing everything I can.-[Scott] This is easy!
1404 01:07:15 I'm gonna make this very easy for you.
1405 01:07:17 I wanna know where my son is right now!I wanna talk to him.
1406 01:07:21 Okay. As I have explained,
1407 01:07:24 I am not authorized to tell you that.
1408 01:07:27 All right? I think thatif we all just calm down here for a second
1409 01:07:30 and stop jumping to conclusions--
1410 01:07:31 -Oh, God!-Where is my son?
1411 01:07:33 [shouting] Where is my son?
1412 01:07:35 Sir, you just committed a batteryon a law enforcement officer.
1413 01:07:37 -That is a second-degree felony.-Listen to me, you little shit.
1414 01:07:39 If you don't tell mewhere my son is right now,
1415 01:07:41 I'm gonna commit a capital felony.We are done being strung along!
1416 01:07:45 -[Kendra] Scott.-[man] Sir!
1417 01:07:46 I'm gonna ask, please,take a seat and calm down.
1418 01:07:48 -Who are you?-Sir, please.
1419 01:07:49 Take your fuckin' hands off me.
1420 01:07:50 -I'm gonna ask you nice one more time.-Sorry, who the fuck is this?
1421 01:07:54 Officer, your cuffs, please.
1422 01:07:56 -You have the right to remain silent.-You kidding me?
1423 01:07:58 [man] Anything you do or saymay be used against you...
1424 01:08:00 -You're kidding.-You have the right to consult an attorney
1425 01:08:02 -before speaking with police.-You kidding?
1426 01:08:04 -[man] Afraid not.-Why am I arrested?
1427 01:08:05 You have the right to an attorney...
1428 01:08:07 -What is happening?-You are kidding me.
1429 01:08:09 If you can't afford an attorney,one will be appointed
1430 01:08:11 free of charge before any questioning,if you wish.
1431 01:08:13 If you decide-- Stop.
1432 01:08:14 Listen to me. You wanna keep onracking up charges
1433 01:08:16 -or calm down and get this over with?-Just don't fucking touch me.
1434 01:08:19 Officer, give me a hand.Turn and face the wall.
1435 01:08:21 -I'm not gonna turn---Don't resist.
1436 01:08:23 -Take your goddamn hands off me.-[Larkin] Sir!
1437 01:08:25 -[Scott] Take your hands off me!-Stop it.
1438 01:08:27 -Let me go.-Stop it. No!
1439 01:08:28 -Let me go!-He has a heart murmur.
1440 01:08:31 -Sit him down.-He has a heart murmur!
1441 01:08:33 Son of a bitch. Fuck.
1442 01:08:35 -Hey.-[Kendra crying]
1443 01:08:37 What is wrong with you people?
1444 01:08:39 -That's enough.-What is wrong with you?
1445 01:08:40 I said that's enough. You injured?
1446 01:08:43 -Uh...-Are you injured?
1447 01:08:45 -Well, he certainly could have been.-[man] Sir?
1448 01:08:47 Get pictures of him. His face and hands.
1449 01:08:50 Yours and mine, too.
1450 01:08:52 Was that at all necessary?
1451 01:08:53 -Unfortunately, it was.-[camera shutter snapping]
1452 01:08:56 Now, we all calm?
1453 01:09:01 We all settled down?
1454 01:09:04 Good. My name is Lieutenant John Stokes.
1455 01:09:07 I'm the AM shift liaison officer.
1456 01:09:09 I understand there was an incident.
1457 01:09:11 -We wanna know where our son is.-Quiet.
1458 01:09:12 We wanna know now.We wanna know right now.
1459 01:09:14 Okay, I'm gonna try this one more time.
1460 01:09:16 I don't wanna take you into custody.
1461 01:09:18 I'd hate to see you losethat badge and pension
1462 01:09:20 I'm sure you've worked very hard for.
1463 01:09:21 I have a right to knowwhere my son is.
1464 01:09:23 You're mistaken.You have no such right, sir.
1465 01:09:25 Your son is an adultwho's the subject of an investigation.
1466 01:09:28 Right now, you have the rightto sit down and shut up.
1467 01:09:32 -Do you understand?-He understands.
1468 01:09:33 I'm talking to him. Do you understand?
1469 01:09:35 -Fuck you!-Scott, please.
1470 01:09:37 -Take him up to intake and book him.-No.
1471 01:09:39 Two counts batteryon a law enforcement officer,
1472 01:09:41 two counts resisting with violence.
1473 01:09:42 And every time he so much as flinchesor looks at you cross-eyed
1474 01:09:46 between now and being fingerprinted,
1475 01:09:48 add a charge of resisting without. Got it?
1476 01:09:50 Yes, sir.
1477 01:09:51 Do I take him into custody?
1478 01:09:53 If he can calm himself, give hima "promise to appear" and cut him loose.
1479 01:09:56 You people are animals.
1480 01:09:57 Do I need to call in a taser and backup,or you gonna hold it together?
1481 01:10:00 -I'm fine.-[Stokes] All right.
1482 01:10:01 -And you'll be hearing from my lawyer.-And you'll be hearing from mine.
1483 01:10:04 My lawyer's name is the state attorney.
1484 01:10:06 What's your lawyer's name?
1485 01:10:09 Get him out of here.
1486 01:10:21 Now, again...
1487 01:10:23 my name is Lieutenant John Stokes.
1488 01:10:26 I would very much like to knowif my son is okay.
1489 01:10:28 If you will be still, I will tell youeverything I currently know.
1490 01:10:32 I will not be lectured
1491 01:10:34 and this will not devolveinto a shouting match.
1492 01:10:36 When did I ever shout at you?
1493 01:10:38 Ma'am...
1494 01:10:42 Fine.
1495 01:10:42 I will tell you what I know.
1496 01:10:44 You will quietly and politely listen,
1497 01:10:47 or I will simply walk out that door
1498 01:10:49 and you can find out what it isyou want to know in due course.
1499 01:10:52 Understood?
1500 01:10:55 Who is your supervisor?
1501 01:11:02 Sorry, understood.
1502 01:11:05 Excuse me?
1503 01:11:13 I said "understood."
1504 01:11:15 Good.
1505 01:11:17 This is what I know.
1506 01:11:19 At approximately 02:15 this morning,
1507 01:11:22 a late model silver Lexus was pulled overby a patrol officer.
1508 01:11:27 That Lexus is registeredto a Scott Alan Connor.
1509 01:11:30 That's my husband.
1510 01:11:31 Three African-American maleshave been taken into police custody
1511 01:11:34 in connection with the incident.
1512 01:11:36 We don't know much moreabout the stop except...
1513 01:11:38 -The cop shot at someone.-I won't compete
1514 01:11:39 -with your outrage and speculation.-I saw a video.
1515 01:11:42 There were shots fired.
1516 01:11:45 -I don't have confirmation of that.-But I heard it.
1517 01:11:48 [voice cracking] I heard it.
1518 01:11:49 You heard noises on a grainy video.I'm trying to get facts.
1519 01:11:53 He called one of the kids a nigger.
1520 01:11:56 If you'll let me finish...
1521 01:11:57 He called him a nigger.I saw it. I heard it.
1522 01:11:59 -No, ma'am.-You saw it!
1523 01:12:01 Incorrect.
1524 01:12:02 One of the people taken into custodywas a bystander,
1525 01:12:05 a black bystander,
1526 01:12:07 who shot that footage with his cell phone.
1527 01:12:09 It's his voice you hear on the video.
1528 01:12:11 Not the voiceof a law enforcement officer.
1529 01:12:23 [choking up]
1530 01:12:25 Why was Jamal stopped?He-- He doesn't drink.
1531 01:12:29 We just bought the car.The brake lights were working.
1532 01:12:31 -Ma'am---He had his registration
1533 01:12:33 and insurance card with him.
1534 01:12:34 -I made sure of that.-Ma'am.
1535 01:12:36 He wouldn't have given anyoneany reason to stop him.
1536 01:12:38 No one has said your son was stopped.
1537 01:12:41 There are at least three individualsinvolved in this incident.
1538 01:12:45 I don't know who was driving the vehiclewhen it was pulled over,
1539 01:12:49 and neither do you.
1540 01:12:50 [sobbing]
1541 01:12:52 [Stokes] You'll cause yourselfa lot less heartache
1542 01:12:54 if you'll stop jumping to conclusions.
1543 01:12:57 At the moment... I don't knowwhy the car was stopped. Okay?
1544 01:13:01 Okay.
1545 01:13:02 And right now,what I've told you is all I know.
1546 01:13:05 All right.
1547 01:13:05 As soon as I know anything else,I'll immediately--
1548 01:13:07 Fine!
1549 01:13:15 [Stokes] I will tell you this.
1550 01:13:18 The car had a bumper sticker on itthat raises some concerns.
1551 01:13:25 I am aware of that.
1552 01:13:29 Kind of makes your close scrutinyof your son's insurance
1553 01:13:32 and registration card moot,now doesn't it?
1554 01:13:35 I don't see how.
1555 01:13:36 Come on, my sister,I know you know better than that.
1556 01:13:38 I am not your sister.
1557 01:13:40 A black boy in that car
1558 01:13:41 with a bumper sticker like that?
1559 01:13:43 He's asking for trouble.
1560 01:13:44 And what does that tell you?
1561 01:13:46 It tells me that the world is not the samefor people who look like you and me.
1562 01:13:51 -Oh, Jesus Christ.-Yes.
1563 01:13:53 That's what it tells me.
1564 01:13:54 And it tells me that the peoplewho patrol the streets
1565 01:13:58 with legal authority to use deadly forceare not robots.
1566 01:14:01 They help their kidsbrush their teeth at night
1567 01:14:04 and read them Dr. Seuss
1568 01:14:05 and pray they get to do it againthe next night.
1569 01:14:08 And when they see some nihilistic,agitating young thug,
1570 01:14:12 -pride may get the best of them.-Who do you think you are
1571 01:14:14 calling my son a thug?
1572 01:14:16 Running cover for some cracker-ass cop.
1573 01:14:19 The cop is black.
1574 01:14:22 The one who made the stop...
1575 01:14:24 he's black as you and me.
1576 01:14:26 Let me tell you something, lady.
1577 01:14:28 I parachuted out of planes.
1578 01:14:30 I crawled through VC tunnels in Vietnam,
1579 01:14:33 but the most scared I have ever beenin my life, ever,
1580 01:14:37 was when I made my first traffic stopon a ghetto street.
1581 01:14:40 You know why?
1582 01:14:41 Because there are hip-hop songsand bumper stickers
1583 01:14:45 and mobs shutting down the interstate
1584 01:14:47 saying that the cops are the enemy.
1585 01:14:49 So it's okay to challenge them,it's okay to question them.
1586 01:14:52 If they pull you over,it's okay to bust out with an attitude
1587 01:14:54 and act like gangstersand have swagger.
1588 01:14:56 You step up to a cop,that makes you hard, right?
1589 01:14:59 Well, all that bullshit gets cops killed.
1590 01:15:01 I don't know who you're talking about,but that is not my son.
1591 01:15:04 My son was taught to be respectfuland assert his rights.
1592 01:15:08 When I pull you over, you got no groundsto "assert your rights."
1593 01:15:12 You know what you got the right to do?
1594 01:15:14 Shut up and do what I say.
1595 01:15:18 I can't believe what I'm hearing.
1596 01:15:20 You serve us. Not the other way around.
1597 01:15:23 What if your car matches onein an Amber Alert?
1598 01:15:27 What if you fit the BOLO of someonewho just shot up a school?
1599 01:15:31 When you get pulled over,you got no idea what it might be.
1600 01:15:34 Some hard-acting fooljust gets in the way.
1601 01:15:37 Maybe if you'd have grown upin the Pork 'n' Beans like me,
1602 01:15:40 you'd understand that black boysdon't act gangsta to be hard.
1603 01:15:44 They do it to hide their fear.
1604 01:15:46 I come up in Overtown, lady.
1605 01:15:48 Ain't nobody got to tell mewhy they do what they do.
1606 01:15:51 But hold up.
1607 01:15:52 Y'all's family is livingthe American Dream, ain't ya?
1608 01:15:56 Your son got no reasonto be afraid, right?
1609 01:15:58 Is that what I'm supposed to be doing?
1610 01:16:01 Teaching him to be scared?
1611 01:16:03 Be a good boy, keep his mouth shut?
1612 01:16:05 -Damn right.-[Kendra chuckles]
1613 01:16:07 And make sure he understands,that for us...
1614 01:16:10 there ain't no American Dream.
1615 01:16:14 Well, I guess I just wasn't raisedto be a bitter Uncle Tom like you.
1616 01:16:18 [scoffs]
1617 01:16:19 Lady, you got a nerve.
1618 01:16:20 You damn right, I do.
1619 01:16:22 -[Stokes] I'll tell ya...-Mm-hmm.
1620 01:16:23 ...two minutes with you,
1621 01:16:25 and I know your whole adult life.
1622 01:16:27 -Oh, bullshit.-No, but I do.
1623 01:16:29 I know you got a husband
1624 01:16:32 carries around a picture of youon his phone,
1625 01:16:34 and every time he saysome fool-ass racist remark,
1626 01:16:37 he pull out that picture and go,
1627 01:16:39 "Oh, no, not me.'Cause looky here at my black wife."
1628 01:16:43 I know you could never explain to himthat pain in your heart.
1629 01:16:48 That pain that claws out your contentment
1630 01:16:51 because every public service announcementfor hepatitis C
1631 01:16:54 and every malt liquor billboardgot somebody on it
1632 01:16:57 look just like your baby boy.
1633 01:17:00 Or why your son was the tallestand the smartest kid in third grade,
1634 01:17:05 but the teacher never seemedto call on him
1635 01:17:07 no matter how highhe raised his little brown hand.
1636 01:17:10 See, 'cause that's a painyour man could never understand.
1637 01:17:14 So you tried to kill that painby making your son proud
1638 01:17:17 and telling him to livethe American Dream
1639 01:17:19 and teaching him to assert his rights,
1640 01:17:22 instead of teaching him how to surviveas a black man in this country.
1641 01:17:25 Fuck you!
1642 01:17:28 One thing I already know for sureabout this incident.
1643 01:17:31 Just like almost every other one of them,
1644 01:17:34 if the young brotherswould have just shut their mouths
1645 01:17:36 and done what they were told,
1646 01:17:38 none of us would be here tonight,
1647 01:17:41 which is what I suggest you do.
1648 01:17:44 Sit tight.
1649 01:17:46 And shut up.
1650 01:17:49 And, sister,
1651 01:17:51 next time you call a black manan Uncle Tom,
1652 01:17:54 it'd play a whole lot betterif that black man
1653 01:17:56 hadn't just dragged your white husbandout the room in handcuffs.
1654 01:18:05 [door opens]
1655 01:18:08 [door closes]
1656 01:18:12 [thunder crashing]
1657 01:18:20 -[sobbing]-[door opens]
1658 01:18:24 They booked me.Gave me a "promise to appear."
1659 01:18:27 Stupid. Stupid...
1660 01:18:28 I don't understand this.I don't understand...
1661 01:18:30 Why did you walk up to meat Carl and Joy's party?
1662 01:18:33 What?
1663 01:18:34 The first time we ever met,why did you walk up to me?
1664 01:18:37 Why did I... oh...
1665 01:18:38 -Kenny... What? Now?-Tell me.
1666 01:18:41 -Tell me again. Please.-Babe. I...
1667 01:18:43 [groans, sighs]
1668 01:18:45 Hey.
1669 01:18:49 Because...
1670 01:18:52 [sniffles]
1671 01:18:54 Because I was staring at you?
1672 01:18:55 No. I was staring at you.I couldn't help myself.
1673 01:18:57 -What else?-I, um...
1674 01:18:58 What else?
1675 01:18:59 You don't think Jamal got himselfinto some kind of situation...
1676 01:19:02 We were standing on Carl and Joy's patioand we were staring at each other...
1677 01:19:06 That's right.We were staring at each other.
1678 01:19:07 We couldn't take our eyes off each other.
1679 01:19:09 -[Kendra] And?-And I...
1680 01:19:11 walked over.
1681 01:19:12 You walked over to me.
1682 01:19:13 [Scott] And my heart was beatingso fast I could hardly talk.
1683 01:19:16 And there were all these girlsparading back and forth to the bar,
1684 01:19:19 but you never looked at one of them.
1685 01:19:20 You just kept walking and staring at me.
1686 01:19:24 -[Scott] Yeah.-[sobbing]
1687 01:19:26 -But then you looked up.-[Scott] I looked up.
1688 01:19:28 Right past me.
1689 01:19:29 And I thought... "Okay. Maybe not."
1690 01:19:33 -[Scott] But I...-[Kendra] But you...
1691 01:19:35 [Scott] ...put my hand on your shoulder.
1692 01:19:36 [Kendra] And you pointed out a bird...
1693 01:19:40 in a tree.
1694 01:19:45 This gorgeous little red bird.
1695 01:19:48 [Scott] And it flew away.
1696 01:19:49 [Kendra]And you told me it was tired of being...
1697 01:19:52 [both] The second most beautiful creatureat the party.
1698 01:19:56 -[Kendra] That's what you said.-[Scott] That's right.
1699 01:19:59 [Kendra cries]
1700 01:20:00 -[sighs]-Hey.
1701 01:20:02 Hey, come here.
1702 01:20:04 [sobbing quietly]
1703 01:20:07 It's okay. It's okay.
1704 01:20:10 [crying]
1705 01:20:12 -It's coming apart.-Mm-mmm.
1706 01:20:14 Yeah, everything's coming apart.
1707 01:20:17 Kenny.
1708 01:20:22 I know you're not coming back.
1709 01:20:28 [sniffles] It-- it hurts, Scott.
1710 01:20:34 It hurts.
1711 01:20:36 And the fact that she's white
1712 01:20:38 makes it almost unbearable.
1713 01:20:42 [sobbing]
1714 01:20:45 I don't love her.
1715 01:20:47 Oh...
1716 01:20:50 [sniffles] Then why?
1717 01:20:54 I just...
1718 01:20:58 [stammering] I don't...
1719 01:21:01 [thunder rumbling]
1720 01:21:05 [bird chirping]
1721 01:21:25 -[crying] Kenny. Ken.-[Kendra] No.
1722 01:21:29 [sobbing]
1723 01:21:35 We made a magnificent person,didn't we?
1724 01:21:39 We did.
1725 01:21:42 I was thinking...
1726 01:21:45 before you came back,
1727 01:21:46 about that timewhen you and I were fighting--
1728 01:21:48 I don't even remember what it was about--
1729 01:21:50 But Jamal was a baby, and I was upset.
1730 01:21:55 And he thought that I was cryingabout the thunder and the lightning...
1731 01:21:58 -I remember.-And he said...
1732 01:22:02 "Don't cry, Mama.
1733 01:22:04 It's just God taking picturesof the rain."
1734 01:22:08 [laughing] Yeah. We...
1735 01:22:10 We put it in his baby book. [laughs]
1736 01:22:13 [Kendra] And he... He grabbed my tears
1737 01:22:16 with his itty-bitty handsand he tried to put them back in my eyes.
1738 01:22:24 [sobbing] Oh!
1739 01:22:29 -[Scott mutters]-Last night, I told him...
1740 01:22:32 [thunder rumbles]
1741 01:22:33 [Scott] What?
1742 01:22:35 [thunder rumbling]
1743 01:22:37 What?
1744 01:22:39 -Ken. Kenny? Kenny.-No.
1745 01:22:42 -[rain pattering]-[thunder rumbling]
1746 01:22:51 We were both furious,and he was yelling at me, and-- and I...
1747 01:22:57 -You what?-[Kendra] I said things to him.
1748 01:22:59 Okay. What things?
1749 01:23:01 -Oh, God.-Kendra. Hey, hey.
1750 01:23:03 -Ken...-Horrible...
1751 01:23:05 Hey.
1752 01:23:06 ...ugly...
1753 01:23:10 things a mothershould never say to a child.
1754 01:23:13 -Okay.-Oh, God.
1755 01:23:19 [voice trembling] I just wanna hold him.
1756 01:23:25 I wanna look him in the eyesand I just wanna--
1757 01:23:28 I wanna take every word I saidout of his head
1758 01:23:31 and bury it in the ground.
1759 01:23:33 -It's okay.-God damn it! "Shoot cops."
1760 01:23:36 -[thunder rumbling]-[sighs]
1761 01:23:41 [gasps] I should-- I should havegone out there with a razor
1762 01:23:45 and peeled that goddamn thingoff his car.
1763 01:23:48 No.
1764 01:23:48 I should've gone out thereas soon as I saw it.
1765 01:23:50 Shouldn't matter,shouldn't make a difference.
1766 01:23:52 It's not your fault. It's not his fault.
1767 01:23:54 I'll never say a cross word to him again.I just need to know he's okay.
1768 01:23:57 He is. He's okay.
1769 01:23:59 -Please, Jesus, let him be okay.-He's okay.
1770 01:24:01 He's okay.
1771 01:24:05 -[door clicks]-He's okay.
1772 01:24:18 Your son, Jamal Connor,was a rear seat passenger
1773 01:24:23 in a vehicle with a Jarvis Bell
1774 01:24:26 and a DeShawn Rolle.
1775 01:24:29 Bell was wanted on a misdemeanor warrantfor possession.
1776 01:24:33 The car was tailed by a Metro cruiser
1777 01:24:36 near the Scott Projects in Liberty City,
1778 01:24:38 where the driver was observedpurchasing a nickel bag.
1779 01:24:42 God damn it.
1780 01:24:43 Following the purchase,while driving westbound on 79th Street,
1781 01:24:48 the car was approachedby a marked patrol car.
1782 01:24:50 Officer Rodney Banks,who had witnessed the purchase,
1783 01:24:54 pulled the car over.
1784 01:24:57 The camera on the patrol car
1785 01:24:59 shows Officer Banks approachingthe driver's side of the vehicle.
1786 01:25:03 Mr. Bell was driving the car.
1787 01:25:06 The officer returns to his vehiclewith the occupants' identification
1788 01:25:10 and apparently begins checking themon his laptop.
1789 01:25:14 After approximately 30 seconds,Mr. Bell exits the vehicle
1790 01:25:20 and attempts to approach the officer.
1791 01:25:22 The officer pulls his gunand gets Mr. Bell to the ground.
1792 01:25:25 Oh, God.
1793 01:25:26 [Stokes] As the officer calls for backup,
1794 01:25:28 DeShawn Rolle exitsfrom the rear of the vehicle.
1795 01:25:32 The officer trains his gun on Rolle.
1796 01:25:35 At that moment,Jamal Connor exits the vehicle
1797 01:25:38 in an apparent effortto place his hands on the hood of the car.
1798 01:25:41 -No.-[Stokes] It's wet, he may have slipped,
1799 01:25:43 as Jarvis Bell simultaneouslybegins to stand up and take flight.
1800 01:25:48 The officer, now confrontedwith all three vehicle occupants,
1801 01:25:52 one of whom has a warrant,
1802 01:25:53 and not having searched the vehiclefor a possible weapon...
1803 01:25:55 Oh, no.
1804 01:25:57 ...fires three shotsat the fleeing suspect.
1805 01:26:00 Either a stray shot or a ricochet,we don't know which yet,
1806 01:26:04 strikes Jamal Connor in the head...
1807 01:26:07 killing him instantly.
1808 01:26:12 I am...
1809 01:26:13 terribly sorry for your loss.
1810 01:26:15 No...
1811 01:26:16 [screaming] No!
1812 01:26:18 There will be a full inquiry.
1813 01:26:21 [sobbing] No, no.
1814 01:26:22 I'll give you a moment.
1815 01:26:26 No...
1816 01:26:28 [wailing]
1817 01:26:34 [gasps] I can't breathe. [groans]
1818 01:26:36 [wailing continues]
1819 01:26:40 [somber music playing]
1820 01:27:13 ["Idea" by the O'My'sft. Chance the Rapper]
1821 01:27:25 ♪ My hands, my eyes ♪
1822 01:27:31 ♪ Were closed and tight ♪
1823 01:27:36 ♪ They always told me I was blind ♪
1824 01:27:42 ♪ I couldn't see beyond the lies ♪
1825 01:27:47 ♪ Falling was all I knew ♪
1826 01:27:50 ♪ Moving too fast ♪
1827 01:27:53 ♪ No foot on solid ground ♪
1828 01:27:56 ♪ How could I last? ♪
1829 01:27:59 ♪ Falling was all I knew ♪
1830 01:28:02 ♪ Moving too fast ♪
1831 01:28:05 ♪ No foot on solid ground ♪
1832 01:28:07 ♪ How could I last? ♪
1833 01:28:09 -♪ There was no light ♪-♪ I had to feel to find my way ♪
1834 01:28:15 ♪ Nothing but rain ♪
1835 01:28:17 ♪ Washing over me ♪
1836 01:28:20 -♪ So glad that I know ♪-♪ So glad ♪
1837 01:28:24 ♪ Finally found it shining ♪
1838 01:28:28 ♪ Shining ♪
1839 01:28:32 [Chance raps] ♪ The map was useless ♪
1840 01:28:35 ♪ The captain clueless ♪
1841 01:28:36 ♪ The crew was hopeless ♪
1842 01:28:38 ♪ The code was Rubiks ♪
1843 01:28:39 ♪ The cold was ruthless ♪
1844 01:28:41 ♪ The wind was music ♪
1845 01:28:42 ♪ Fantasizing 'bout diamondsShining like Stanley Kubrick ♪
1846 01:28:45 ♪ Mudslides and swashbucklingMop bucket ♪
1847 01:28:47 ♪ Clean enough to see your reflectionAnd not touch it ♪
1848 01:28:50 ♪ Clear enough to hear your own mindAnd not trust it ♪
1849 01:28:53 ♪ Close enough that the goalBecame dry land ♪
1850 01:28:56 ♪ And sirens sang of homeAnd the boat became an island ♪
1851 01:28:58 ♪ Cash turn to ashOnce the sea became silent ♪
1852 01:29:01 ♪ No one saw it comingMan, they all gone ♪
1853 01:29:04 ♪ Everybody except Paul, manPaul walked home ♪
1854 01:29:06 [singing] ♪ There was no light ♪
1855 01:29:08 ♪ Yeah, there as no lightThere as no light ♪
1856 01:29:11 -Huh!-♪ Nothing but rain ♪
1857 01:29:14 ♪ Nothing but rainNothing but rain ♪
1858 01:29:18 ♪ So now that I know ♪
1859 01:29:19 ♪ So glad, so glad, so glad ♪
1860 01:29:23 ♪ So glad I know ♪
1861 01:29:26 ♪ So glad I know ♪
1862 01:29:29 ♪ When there was no lightThere was no light ♪
1863 01:29:35 ♪ When there was no lightThere was no light ♪