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let's follow up on trade on martin three-run martin was a seventeen year
old african american born forego who was shot by george zimmerman
george simmerman up has not yet been charged we have been seeing an explosion
of the change dot orig
petition uh...
close to or maybe already passed one million signatures calling for the
prosecution of george zimmerman incredible lewis isn't it
uh... it's quite a responsive at the same time it makes perfect sense who
wouldn't be signing that petition
well you know who might not be signing the petition
members of the sanford police department we started to research the stanford
police department lewis
and there is actually a little bit of a history
racially-charged her potentially racially charged crimes which have gone
on prosecuted
completely unattended by the same for police department
um... we have now video which i'll play for you in a second of justin collison
who's the son of the sanford police officer
who was caught on camera sucker punching a homeless man named chairman where on
december fourth of twenty times the officers on the scene did not arresting
that night
an internal investigation clear to all of the officers of any of of wrongdoing
according to the orlando sentinel and it was only on january third of twenty
eleven
the collison voluntarily turned himself in
an oddly enough he agreed to pay for where's medical bills and make donations
to several non-profits no action by the police department louis let's take a
look at that video and you'll see
he goes up behind this homeless man
and and knocks him out with a punch the side of the head take a look at this
videotape
so this is the guy here who we have we have still friends
uh...
there is pressing phyllis at the sanford police department that we need to be
looking into
and um... did this story
we covered it monday at that time
it really had only been covered any real way
once or twice my hat by msnbc we were starting to see a grow uh... online
yesterday almost all lawrence o'donnell's one-hour program on msnbc
was focused on the story
i think it only makes perfect sense that this continue to become a bigger bigger
story
and afi like sometimes people are desensitized to this
and they say oh yeah
there's racism
some police departments are racist some individuals are racist it's the right
wing not george zimmerman who
part of this bullish of like a neighborhood watch
and people are desensitized that they don't realize this is a
seventeen-year-old kid with skills
who was just walking around
annie's dad
and the guy has been arrested
yeah i think it's easy to uh...
to remove yourself from its feel detached when you're seeing stories like
this all time
course not quite i'd guess not quite the of this magnitude all the time
but uh... over the years ripping tons of them there have been and you know we
have to be clear this is an about this kind of
uh... bleeding-heart liberal
kind of of make yourself feel good that you're supporting the black kid type of
thing i mean this this really isn't about that this really
that exists right out of the night of that exist
uh... this goes way beyond that i need is that what we're talking here about a
crime which is just not really being prosecuted
i do believe eventually george zimmerman was a man will be arrested will be
charged
and hopefully will be brought to justice because this is just so egregious and
we're starting to see the investigations
at the state and federal level go
so uh... in the time do you think i think that you agree eventually this is
going to be handled
i hope so
uh... mean certainly it's just a question of justice being done are
hopefully not only will they died he brought to justice but also the police
department
right it's it's a two-sided investigation now that really we need to
be doing breakdown
prophecy after tackle corruption the priest permits you
which is let's face a rampant who across the whole country
are ever nml individually most cops are good cops
that doesn't mean that they're instances of corruption all over the place all
over the course and by the way i'm not ignoring the acting kumon audio we just
haven't
the name of life and the gated independently yet
yesterday some additional audio came out it was a a different version of one of
the nine one one calls than the police had birth had released which indicated
george zimmerman appearing to say
f include when referring to tradeline martin
the reason i'm not talking about it more extensively
is that there's a question about whether what went on is that the police had
doctored that to remove that part
in part of our coverage
or whether it was simply added later by someone else to make it seem like there
were more racial
comments in the night one long calls
uh... did to outraged people
i don't know yet and i holidays and i think both of those scenarios can't be
right
brett eventually we will find out hopefully
as of right now though idon't have i don't feel comfortable going forward and
saying that is definitely an authentic part of that videotape i'm aware of it
we just don't know yet
unisom
and find it
unlikely that it would be added
because how do you and well that's the thing it doesn't we we sound like the
guy the acting was believed
and the cooling part sounds kind of very very much for the work i can say for
sure that it's even george zimmerman voice tone if you hear it you'll see
that it's
it's questionable
yeah they could go either way
we'll keep following it