1 00:00:01,056 --> 00:00:02,785 In the criminal justice system... 2 00:00:02,858 --> 00:00:06,760 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: 3 00:00:06,829 --> 00:00:08,626 The police who investigate crime... 4 00:00:08,697 --> 00:00:11,325 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,197 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,570 --> 00:00:17,562 Yo, Charlene is just too fine, you know what I'm saying, man? 7 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,440 What you been smoking, jack? Charlene is a fine canine, that's what. 8 00:00:21,510 --> 00:00:23,944 Don't be going dissing my lady, you know what I'm saying? 9 00:00:24,013 --> 00:00:27,039 I'm dissing your mother for making you blind like a hydrant. 10 00:00:27,116 --> 00:00:28,309 What's up, 'lil Luther? What's up? 11 00:00:28,383 --> 00:00:29,441 Where's Fred been hanging out? 12 00:00:29,517 --> 00:00:32,315 He took Queen Mary to Paris, you know what I'm saying? 13 00:00:32,387 --> 00:00:35,083 When you see him, tell him Eve's been waiting on him, all right? 14 00:00:35,156 --> 00:00:38,592 The Heat, man. Harold Miner, number 32. 15 00:00:38,660 --> 00:00:41,686 That ain't no basketball that they be playing there in Miami. 16 00:00:41,763 --> 00:00:44,425 Man, I'm talking about some Jordan, that's what I'm talking about. 17 00:00:44,499 --> 00:00:47,764 You're a moron, you know that, Luther. Damn, Jerome! 18 00:00:50,171 --> 00:00:51,468 Damn, man. 19 00:00:51,539 --> 00:00:54,201 What did you throw it over his head for? You almost hit a window. 20 00:01:01,982 --> 00:01:05,179 Damon Fox, 12 years old. Gone before we got here. 21 00:01:06,853 --> 00:01:08,286 Hit-and-run? 22 00:01:09,423 --> 00:01:11,391 All right, have someone stay with the body. 23 00:01:11,458 --> 00:01:13,483 We're going to need the clothes for Forensics. 24 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,792 This is the headlight. Probably domestic, looks General Motors. 25 00:01:18,765 --> 00:01:22,030 Judging from the body, hit on the right side. 26 00:01:22,102 --> 00:01:24,764 Well, at least he buys American. Thanks. 27 00:01:24,838 --> 00:01:27,329 A car with a dent in Harlem. Piece of cake. 28 00:01:27,407 --> 00:01:28,499 Mike... 29 00:01:28,942 --> 00:01:31,502 this is the victim's friend. His name is Luther Heywood. 30 00:01:31,578 --> 00:01:34,603 How are you doing, Luther? So, did you see anything? 31 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:36,978 Yeah, a white guy in a blue Caddy. 32 00:01:37,049 --> 00:01:39,074 You didn't happen to get a license plate number? 33 00:01:39,151 --> 00:01:41,449 He just hit Damon and tore ass, man. 34 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,351 Now we know it's a he. 35 00:01:43,422 --> 00:01:46,357 It was a Jew, man. What, was he wearing a little hat? 36 00:01:46,425 --> 00:01:49,121 You don't think I know a Jew when I see one? 37 00:01:50,262 --> 00:01:52,093 Thanks a lot, Luther. 38 00:01:52,932 --> 00:01:55,366 Peace on earth and brotherhood to all men. 39 00:01:55,434 --> 00:01:58,369 Yeah, the brothers haven't heard the news yet. 40 00:02:51,255 --> 00:02:53,985 I was taking tomorrow off from work. It's... 41 00:02:55,526 --> 00:02:57,892 Parent-Teachers Day at school. 42 00:02:59,563 --> 00:03:01,656 I guess there's no need. 43 00:03:04,034 --> 00:03:08,368 I told him to stay inside... 44 00:03:08,438 --> 00:03:10,804 until I got back from the store. 45 00:03:13,010 --> 00:03:17,275 It's that Luther Heywood. His mother doesn't... 46 00:03:20,049 --> 00:03:22,779 I'm very sorry, Mrs. Fox. 47 00:03:25,188 --> 00:03:26,917 Have you found the man? 48 00:03:26,989 --> 00:03:30,117 A hit-and-run case, it's not always that simple. 49 00:03:30,359 --> 00:03:34,193 Problem is we only have a vague description of the driver. 50 00:03:34,764 --> 00:03:37,562 What's a white man doing up there, anyway? 51 00:03:39,268 --> 00:03:43,534 Lieutenant, there's a Reverend Ott here. He says he's with Mrs. Fox. 52 00:03:47,042 --> 00:03:48,168 Mary. 53 00:03:49,578 --> 00:03:51,136 They haven't found him yet. 54 00:03:51,213 --> 00:03:53,306 Things like this take time, Reverend. 55 00:03:53,381 --> 00:03:56,544 May I ask, how many men do you have assigned to this case? 56 00:03:56,818 --> 00:04:01,016 Detectives Briscoe and Logan are running point on the investigation. 57 00:04:01,623 --> 00:04:05,024 Two men? I can see this isn't a high priority. 58 00:04:05,227 --> 00:04:07,957 We're doing the best with what we have, sir. 59 00:04:08,029 --> 00:04:11,624 Well, maybe it's not quite good enough, if I'm bringing in eyewitnesses. 60 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:12,894 Evelyn. 61 00:04:13,001 --> 00:04:15,936 He drove right by me. It was a blue Cadillac. 62 00:04:16,037 --> 00:04:18,267 Did you see the license plate? 63 00:04:18,773 --> 00:04:22,367 Part of it. It was 2XQR. 64 00:04:22,443 --> 00:04:23,808 Thank you. 65 00:04:24,311 --> 00:04:26,245 Evelyn, Mary. 66 00:04:33,187 --> 00:04:36,054 Can I assume that you'll get to this before lunch? 67 00:04:36,123 --> 00:04:39,217 Sure, right after we have a couple of doughnuts. 68 00:04:42,696 --> 00:04:44,095 Van Buren. 69 00:04:45,766 --> 00:04:46,892 Okay. 70 00:04:49,270 --> 00:04:51,238 You'll keep us informed. 71 00:04:57,110 --> 00:05:01,706 There's a Mr. Joshua Berger and his attorney in Interview One. 72 00:05:01,781 --> 00:05:04,545 Let's talk to him. Before the doughnuts. 73 00:05:06,386 --> 00:05:07,785 I don't know. 74 00:05:07,854 --> 00:05:11,620 I've been driving in this city for 40 years. I've never had anything like this. 75 00:05:11,691 --> 00:05:15,058 Why don't you just tell us what happened, Mr. Berger? 76 00:05:16,262 --> 00:05:19,026 I was at our warehouse, up in the Bronx. 77 00:05:19,132 --> 00:05:22,465 I was supposed to meet my wife at The Palm for lunch. 78 00:05:23,002 --> 00:05:24,902 It was our anniversary. 79 00:05:24,971 --> 00:05:27,097 Well, The Palm is on 44th Street... 80 00:05:27,172 --> 00:05:28,639 so what were you doing in Harlem? 81 00:05:28,707 --> 00:05:31,642 Traffic on the FDR is bad enough at that hour of the day. 82 00:05:31,710 --> 00:05:36,079 Then a water main breaks. I got off at 125th. 83 00:05:36,481 --> 00:05:39,348 I swear the kid came out of nowhere. 84 00:05:39,418 --> 00:05:41,010 How fast were you going? 85 00:05:41,086 --> 00:05:45,955 I don't know, 30, maybe 35. I was not speeding. 86 00:05:50,529 --> 00:05:52,258 Is he all right? 87 00:05:56,935 --> 00:05:58,334 Oh, my God. 88 00:06:00,738 --> 00:06:05,004 Mr. Berger called my office immediately. I was in court all day. 89 00:06:05,076 --> 00:06:08,477 He wanted to turn himself in. He just wanted to speak with me first. 90 00:06:08,546 --> 00:06:12,983 If your client is such an upstanding citizen, why did he leave the scene? 91 00:06:14,552 --> 00:06:16,213 Let me ask you. 92 00:06:17,154 --> 00:06:21,090 You just ran over a black boy in Harlem. 93 00:06:21,158 --> 00:06:23,058 Are you going to hang around? 94 00:06:23,127 --> 00:06:25,687 Well, I understand what you're saying... 95 00:06:25,763 --> 00:06:28,789 but obviously you can't hit somebody and just ride off. 96 00:06:28,866 --> 00:06:32,063 I know that! That was wrong. I was scared. 97 00:06:32,436 --> 00:06:34,062 That's why I'm here now. 98 00:06:34,137 --> 00:06:37,300 We're willing to plead nolo contendre to leaving the scene. 99 00:06:37,374 --> 00:06:40,207 But that is the extent of Mr. Berger's wrongdoing. 100 00:06:40,276 --> 00:06:41,436 We don't do pleas here. 101 00:06:41,511 --> 00:06:43,411 What, am I under arrest? 102 00:06:44,614 --> 00:06:47,708 Make yourself comfortable until the DA gets here. 103 00:06:55,291 --> 00:06:59,022 Two people, wrong place, wrong time. Look at this. 104 00:06:59,596 --> 00:07:01,496 Your driver may have hit the brakes sooner... 105 00:07:01,564 --> 00:07:03,191 but this is where he locks them up. 106 00:07:03,266 --> 00:07:05,928 By this point, the car is in a full-blown skid. 107 00:07:06,002 --> 00:07:07,901 Well, if I read the skid marks right... 108 00:07:07,970 --> 00:07:10,939 he hit the breaks way before he made contact. 109 00:07:11,006 --> 00:07:12,871 Nice to know he wasn't gunning for the kid. 110 00:07:12,941 --> 00:07:14,670 So, how fast was he going, Marks? 111 00:07:14,743 --> 00:07:18,372 By comparing the coefficient of friction to the gross vehicular weight... 112 00:07:18,447 --> 00:07:20,677 he's doing 20, maybe 25. 113 00:07:20,749 --> 00:07:23,980 Any give in these numbers? Well, nothing's perfect. 114 00:07:24,053 --> 00:07:27,284 Change the tire pressure a few pounds either way... 115 00:07:27,356 --> 00:07:29,221 you get a whole new set of equations. 116 00:07:29,291 --> 00:07:31,384 So, in your expert opinion? 117 00:07:31,894 --> 00:07:33,953 Berger did nothing wrong. 118 00:07:35,297 --> 00:07:37,925 I'll talk to his lawyer about a plea. 119 00:07:38,033 --> 00:07:39,397 What do you think? 120 00:07:39,467 --> 00:07:42,766 Suspended license. 100 hours of community service. 121 00:07:45,506 --> 00:07:48,270 What do you mean you found the man, but you didn't arrest him? 122 00:07:48,342 --> 00:07:51,004 Mr. Berger has pled to leaving the scene. 123 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:52,671 Mr. Berger? I see. 124 00:07:52,747 --> 00:07:55,841 A fine, upstanding Jewish citizen would never lie to the police. 125 00:07:55,917 --> 00:07:59,080 The fact that Mr. Berger is Jewish has nothing to do with it. 126 00:07:59,153 --> 00:08:03,556 Our accident reconstruction technician concluded that Mr. Berger wasn't speeding. 127 00:08:03,624 --> 00:08:05,922 And of what religious persuasion is he, may I ask? 128 00:08:05,993 --> 00:08:07,620 Yeah, that's right, Reverend. 129 00:08:07,695 --> 00:08:11,631 There's this great Jewish conspiracy to knock off the black man one by one. 130 00:08:11,699 --> 00:08:13,996 That's why they all drive big Cadillacs, so they can't miss. 131 00:08:14,067 --> 00:08:18,163 Well, that's it. Another 12-year-old black boy is dead. Close the file. 132 00:08:18,238 --> 00:08:20,706 Hell. Living up in Harlem, he probably wouldn't have lasted... 133 00:08:20,774 --> 00:08:22,241 till his 13th birthday anyway. 134 00:08:22,309 --> 00:08:24,334 The Jew did him a favor. 135 00:08:24,411 --> 00:08:25,901 Why don't we give him the key to the city? 136 00:08:25,979 --> 00:08:29,073 Look, Reverend. Nobody, and I'm talking man of God... 137 00:08:29,149 --> 00:08:30,912 or garbage man, walks in my office... 138 00:08:30,984 --> 00:08:34,920 and accuses my officers of giving anybody special treatment. 139 00:08:35,856 --> 00:08:38,290 Now, I think you'd better go. 140 00:08:48,801 --> 00:08:52,760 You know what gets me? Jesse Jackson talking about "Hymietown"... 141 00:08:52,838 --> 00:08:56,171 Farrakhan yelling about how the Jews are keeping his people down. 142 00:08:56,242 --> 00:08:59,507 They forget who was marching with Martin Luther King back in the '60s. 143 00:08:59,578 --> 00:09:04,311 Yeah, I remember when Lindsay tried to get low-cost housing for blacks in Forest Hills. 144 00:09:04,383 --> 00:09:08,149 All those liberals put their civil rights banners in the closet real fast. 145 00:09:08,220 --> 00:09:12,520 Hate to ruin your dinner, but your buddy Reverend Ott is down in Interrogation One. 146 00:09:12,591 --> 00:09:14,786 He says he's got another eyewitness. 147 00:09:15,294 --> 00:09:16,625 You mind if I... 148 00:09:16,695 --> 00:09:20,494 We didn't even discuss the Italians. Go crazy, Profaci. 149 00:09:22,167 --> 00:09:24,294 I was looking out of my window when it happened. 150 00:09:24,369 --> 00:09:26,360 Just tell us what you saw, Bobby. 151 00:09:26,437 --> 00:09:29,031 I saw the little brothers, they was playing some ball. 152 00:09:29,107 --> 00:09:31,268 You're talking about Damon Fox and Luther Heywood? 153 00:09:31,342 --> 00:09:32,502 That's right. 154 00:09:32,577 --> 00:09:34,772 And the ball goes flying over Damon's head. 155 00:09:34,846 --> 00:09:37,212 And Damon flies after it into the street. 156 00:09:37,282 --> 00:09:41,184 It wasn't like that. I mean, he wasn't in no hurry or anything. 157 00:09:41,619 --> 00:09:43,450 And there were no cars coming. 158 00:09:43,621 --> 00:09:46,988 Then, boom! The Jew in the blue Caddy comes flying out of nowhere. 159 00:09:47,058 --> 00:09:49,049 Must've been going 50. 160 00:09:50,929 --> 00:09:55,092 He's going 50 on a New York City street in the middle of the day? 161 00:09:58,569 --> 00:10:02,198 You know what I think? I think you're full of crap, Bobby. 162 00:10:02,873 --> 00:10:07,105 Ain't that for the jury to decide, man? Look, I know what I saw. 163 00:10:09,146 --> 00:10:13,014 That should be sufficient for an indictment. If you believe him. 164 00:10:13,317 --> 00:10:16,286 Oh, so you'd rather believe the word of two white detectives. 165 00:10:16,353 --> 00:10:20,585 No, I believe the scientists in our Forensics lab. 166 00:10:20,691 --> 00:10:23,421 So, you're just going to ignore eyewitness testimony? 167 00:10:23,493 --> 00:10:27,758 You really think the only way to get justice is through lying and cheating? 168 00:10:28,531 --> 00:10:31,830 If it does produce justice, yes, I do. 169 00:10:36,172 --> 00:10:37,571 It's happened before. 170 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,871 The forensic evidence contradicts an eyewitness account. 171 00:10:40,943 --> 00:10:42,808 How credible is this eyewitness? 172 00:10:42,878 --> 00:10:45,176 It depends on what part of town you live in. 173 00:10:45,248 --> 00:10:47,648 You suspect he fabricated his story? 174 00:10:47,750 --> 00:10:49,741 I suspect he had a little coaching. 175 00:10:49,819 --> 00:10:52,253 Let me guess, the Reverend Ott. 176 00:10:53,956 --> 00:10:56,322 He's called six times since yesterday. 177 00:10:56,459 --> 00:10:58,484 Not your biggest fan, Lieutenant. 178 00:10:58,561 --> 00:11:02,997 Look, maybe another expert looks at the evidence, draws a different conclusion. 179 00:11:03,064 --> 00:11:06,864 I don't want to tell you what to do, but like they say, every action... 180 00:11:06,935 --> 00:11:08,562 Thank you, Lieutenant. 181 00:11:15,910 --> 00:11:18,743 I want to book a large block of time with the grand jury. 182 00:11:18,813 --> 00:11:23,341 You want a grand jury for a witness that the police don't even believe? 183 00:11:23,418 --> 00:11:27,184 Even if we get an indictment, the defense would call our forensics expert at trial. 184 00:11:27,255 --> 00:11:29,018 We'd never get a conviction. 185 00:11:29,090 --> 00:11:31,684 This could turn into the city's worst nightmare. 186 00:11:31,793 --> 00:11:34,886 I want us to be cleaner here than Caesar's wife. 187 00:11:40,467 --> 00:11:43,402 Yes, I was in a hurry. I was meeting my wife. 188 00:11:43,804 --> 00:11:48,468 But speeding on a city street? I have more sense than that. 189 00:11:49,176 --> 00:11:52,771 Sir, an eyewitness already testified that he saw your car... 190 00:11:52,846 --> 00:11:56,475 moving south on Lenox at 50 miles an hour. 191 00:11:57,551 --> 00:12:00,486 Look. I lived in this city all my life. 192 00:12:01,021 --> 00:12:05,855 I seen cars go through red lights, come out of driveways without any warning. 193 00:12:06,192 --> 00:12:09,593 I've seen little children run out into the street without looking. 194 00:12:09,662 --> 00:12:13,189 I know better than to drive 50 miles an hour. 195 00:12:13,966 --> 00:12:17,129 Why did you leave the scene of an accident, sir? 196 00:12:19,972 --> 00:12:22,304 I have three children of my own. 197 00:12:23,176 --> 00:12:25,235 Five grandchildren. 198 00:12:26,245 --> 00:12:30,909 I can't even imagine the pain that that woman is going through. 199 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,016 You haven't answered the question, sir. 200 00:12:40,859 --> 00:12:44,056 I was alone. I was in Harlem. 201 00:12:44,696 --> 00:12:46,186 I was scared. 202 00:12:48,900 --> 00:12:51,733 I've never seen a grand jury refuse to indict that quickly. 203 00:12:51,803 --> 00:12:54,169 As long as we dotted the I's and crossed the t's. 204 00:12:54,239 --> 00:12:57,970 What are you talking about - The new white mayor wants it clear... 205 00:12:58,043 --> 00:13:00,603 that this office treats everyone equally under the law. 206 00:13:00,712 --> 00:13:03,010 He pled to leaving the scene. He'll be punished. 207 00:13:03,081 --> 00:13:07,745 A suspended license and 100 hours picking up cigar butts in Central Park... 208 00:13:07,853 --> 00:13:10,253 isn't exactly what His Honor had in mind. 209 00:13:12,390 --> 00:13:15,018 Wait until you see what's going on. 210 00:13:15,393 --> 00:13:17,418 Reports of injury are unavailable. 211 00:13:17,495 --> 00:13:19,622 Following the Reverend Ott's address... 212 00:13:19,697 --> 00:13:22,393 lambasting the DA's office for not bringing charges... 213 00:13:22,466 --> 00:13:25,765 against the man accused of killing 12-year-old Damon Fox... 214 00:13:25,836 --> 00:13:27,895 the city has erupted in violence. 215 00:13:49,893 --> 00:13:54,227 Excuse me, fellows. Excuse me. 216 00:13:56,266 --> 00:13:58,598 Barnes, what do you got? 217 00:13:58,668 --> 00:14:00,465 Guy's name is John De Santis. 218 00:14:00,637 --> 00:14:03,333 By the time the ambulance got through the crowd, he was history. 219 00:14:03,406 --> 00:14:06,671 Any arrests? Did you see what it was like down here? 220 00:14:06,743 --> 00:14:08,040 Means no witnesses. 221 00:14:08,111 --> 00:14:10,011 Well, the guy's wife was in the car... 222 00:14:10,079 --> 00:14:12,172 but I'm not sure how much help she's gonna be. 223 00:14:12,248 --> 00:14:15,775 They just loaded her into an ambulance. I think she's in shock. 224 00:14:16,252 --> 00:14:19,743 It would have been much worse if that guy hadn't pulled her from the car. 225 00:14:19,822 --> 00:14:22,450 His name is Graves. Thanks. 226 00:14:22,524 --> 00:14:24,219 John De Santis. 227 00:14:24,293 --> 00:14:28,127 Blame it on the Jews, sometimes you get an Italian by mistake. 228 00:14:29,398 --> 00:14:32,856 Mr. Graves? I'm Det. Logan. This is Det. Briscoe. 229 00:14:33,101 --> 00:14:34,625 Now, can you tell us what you saw? 230 00:14:34,703 --> 00:14:37,035 They were screaming, "Get the Jew! Get the Jew!" 231 00:14:37,105 --> 00:14:41,041 We hear they would have gotten his wife, too, if it wasn't for you. 232 00:14:41,109 --> 00:14:43,009 Did you know any of those people? 233 00:14:43,078 --> 00:14:46,570 Yeah, right, it's a secret club. We all know each other. 234 00:14:46,648 --> 00:14:48,115 That's not what I meant. 235 00:14:48,183 --> 00:14:51,413 A black boy at the scene of a riot. Must be up to no good. 236 00:14:51,786 --> 00:14:54,448 I was on my way to Sam Goody's to pick up a couple of CDs... 237 00:14:54,522 --> 00:14:57,423 for my daughter's birthday. They was beating the crap out of that man. 238 00:14:57,492 --> 00:15:00,984 The guy from the news was filming the damn thing. Somebody had to help her. 239 00:15:01,062 --> 00:15:03,189 Would you be able to recognize any faces? 240 00:15:03,264 --> 00:15:07,098 Yeah. A white lady who just saw her husband's skull bashed in. 241 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:24,110 I saw Johnny at his office. I met him there. 242 00:15:25,185 --> 00:15:27,983 He's a lawyer at landlord-tenant court. 243 00:15:32,025 --> 00:15:34,016 We were going home early. 244 00:15:34,427 --> 00:15:36,588 We're trying to have a baby. 245 00:15:37,531 --> 00:15:39,396 They took my purse. 246 00:15:39,766 --> 00:15:41,393 How am I going to get into the apartment? 247 00:15:41,468 --> 00:15:43,163 Mrs. De Santis. 248 00:15:44,037 --> 00:15:46,699 Did you get a look at the man who... 249 00:15:49,242 --> 00:15:51,335 They were all over the car. 250 00:15:53,079 --> 00:15:55,980 We thought they were going to flip us over. 251 00:16:01,654 --> 00:16:05,988 He was young, maybe 20 years old. 252 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:09,588 Tall. 253 00:16:12,598 --> 00:16:14,088 Do you think there's any chance? 254 00:16:14,166 --> 00:16:16,430 Maybe if you could look at some pictures. 255 00:16:23,609 --> 00:16:25,941 Haven't shot stuff this good since Nam. 256 00:16:26,345 --> 00:16:29,712 Any idea how hard it is to get this kind of quality? 257 00:16:30,015 --> 00:16:31,709 Hello, Pulitzer. 258 00:16:31,783 --> 00:16:33,478 You want to slow it down a little? 259 00:16:33,551 --> 00:16:34,779 Yeah. 260 00:16:39,023 --> 00:16:40,456 There's your man. 261 00:16:40,658 --> 00:16:44,560 Great, now all we need is the mug book with all the back-of-the-neck shots. 262 00:16:44,629 --> 00:16:48,190 Sorry, that's as good as it gets. Your boy is camera shy. 263 00:16:48,933 --> 00:16:52,733 Yeah, but this one has got a bird's-eye view. 264 00:16:55,239 --> 00:16:57,764 Can you push it up a few frames? 265 00:17:00,945 --> 00:17:02,173 There. 266 00:17:02,246 --> 00:17:05,681 What's that on his cap, Lennie? You see it? S-Y-D? 267 00:17:06,416 --> 00:17:08,213 Some kind of a logo. I can't make it out. 268 00:17:08,285 --> 00:17:12,244 Maybe he works in a candy store, a butcher shop, a hardware store... 269 00:17:12,322 --> 00:17:14,688 No, it looks like a gas station cap. 270 00:17:14,758 --> 00:17:16,419 Can we get a blowup of that? 271 00:17:16,493 --> 00:17:17,790 Take 15 minutes. 272 00:17:17,861 --> 00:17:19,590 Yeah, we'll wait. 273 00:17:21,198 --> 00:17:22,927 One of the kids from the picture looks like... 274 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,763 he was wearing a hat from a gas station. 275 00:17:24,835 --> 00:17:27,167 Yeah, we checked every station above 106th Street. 276 00:17:27,237 --> 00:17:30,138 Nothing? Well, sometimes fliers pan out. 277 00:17:30,207 --> 00:17:32,767 The problem is no one up there is sorry this guy got killed. 278 00:17:32,843 --> 00:17:34,572 I mean, we're not getting much cooperation. 279 00:17:34,645 --> 00:17:37,511 Maybe I should give this to a couple of black cops. 280 00:17:37,780 --> 00:17:39,645 You know what I meant. 281 00:17:39,715 --> 00:17:44,152 Anyway, we got all the computer geeks pulling yellows on everybody named Syd. 282 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:46,552 You know the kid's name? No, it was on his hat. 283 00:17:46,756 --> 00:17:48,656 Let me see the picture. 284 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:53,920 Tell the geeks to kill the power on the PC. 285 00:17:53,996 --> 00:17:55,725 Well, do you want to give us a hint? 286 00:17:55,798 --> 00:17:59,290 Black cops would have known. Syd's Sneaker World. 287 00:17:59,368 --> 00:18:03,737 129th and Lexington. Air-Jordans, 50% off. 288 00:18:07,810 --> 00:18:09,744 You recognize this kid? 289 00:18:10,745 --> 00:18:13,805 Don't bother to lie. Hey, you! 290 00:18:23,191 --> 00:18:24,624 Mike. 291 00:18:39,307 --> 00:18:41,502 Get those cuffs. You're under arrest. 292 00:18:41,576 --> 00:18:43,669 You have the right to remain silent. 293 00:18:43,744 --> 00:18:44,870 Anything you do say... 294 00:18:44,945 --> 00:18:47,277 Give me your arm!... can and will be used against you. 295 00:18:48,382 --> 00:18:51,840 Johnson, Daryl. 19. 296 00:18:52,586 --> 00:18:56,852 Couple of misdemeanors. Here we go, assault one, robbery one. 297 00:18:56,924 --> 00:18:58,585 Kid's smart, he'll cop a plea... 298 00:18:58,659 --> 00:19:01,253 before Clinton passes his three strikes and you're out. 299 00:19:01,328 --> 00:19:05,594 Well, since Mike already kicked his butt, this one's yours, Lennie. 300 00:19:05,666 --> 00:19:08,533 Be gentle. Ain't I always? 301 00:19:11,805 --> 00:19:15,605 Well, hiya, Daryl. Here, let me get those. 302 00:19:18,010 --> 00:19:19,637 There you go. 303 00:19:25,685 --> 00:19:28,085 I get popcorn with this show? 304 00:19:28,154 --> 00:19:31,419 Now, the law says you have the right to an attorney, Daryl. 305 00:19:31,491 --> 00:19:33,015 Yeah, right. 306 00:19:33,092 --> 00:19:37,791 How many years they go to school to learn to say, "Keep your mouth shut, Daryl"? 307 00:19:37,864 --> 00:19:40,560 Well, the law says you have that right. 308 00:19:41,734 --> 00:19:43,702 I got the ticket, man. 309 00:19:43,770 --> 00:19:47,934 I call the lawyer, then you and me, we can't talk. 310 00:19:48,007 --> 00:19:50,975 Then the DA fries my butt for something I didn't do. 311 00:19:51,042 --> 00:19:55,035 Except we know you were there, Daryl. They caught you on TV. 312 00:19:55,113 --> 00:19:57,104 Don't you watch the news? 313 00:19:58,884 --> 00:20:00,749 That don't even look like me, man. 314 00:20:00,819 --> 00:20:02,753 Oh, yeah, they tried that one in LA. 315 00:20:02,821 --> 00:20:04,482 Worked, didn't it? 316 00:20:05,857 --> 00:20:07,620 Daryl, we're the good guys here. 317 00:20:07,692 --> 00:20:10,160 See, we don't really give a damn about these people... 318 00:20:10,228 --> 00:20:12,822 looting and busting up people's cars. 319 00:20:12,898 --> 00:20:15,264 That's not our department. We're in homicide. 320 00:20:15,333 --> 00:20:16,595 So? 321 00:20:16,668 --> 00:20:19,728 So, your friend there is "homiciding" somebody. 322 00:20:20,272 --> 00:20:22,797 He ain't my friend. Yeah, well that's too bad. 323 00:20:22,874 --> 00:20:24,602 Because if you could have told us who he is... 324 00:20:24,675 --> 00:20:26,267 we wouldn't have to charge you with murder. 325 00:20:26,343 --> 00:20:27,935 I told you, I didn't kill nobody. 326 00:20:28,012 --> 00:20:30,981 Yeah, but the jury has to blame somebody, Daryl. 327 00:20:31,048 --> 00:20:33,073 And you're standing right there. 328 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,880 The smart move would be to trade up. 329 00:20:39,790 --> 00:20:43,988 Now, in case you lost your sense of direction, he's up. 330 00:20:50,568 --> 00:20:52,832 You don't tell Isaac it was me, all right? 331 00:20:52,903 --> 00:20:54,871 You know where he lives? 332 00:20:55,639 --> 00:20:59,699 With his grandma. On 128th and Lenox. 333 00:20:59,776 --> 00:21:01,767 Upstairs from the Lotto. 334 00:21:02,946 --> 00:21:05,608 Maybe I better call my lawyer now. 335 00:21:07,383 --> 00:21:09,442 Police officers! Open up! 336 00:21:10,587 --> 00:21:12,452 Open it up! Do it now! 337 00:21:14,824 --> 00:21:17,156 What in the world is going on? 338 00:21:17,227 --> 00:21:19,195 We have a warrant for the arrest of Isaac Roberts. 339 00:21:19,262 --> 00:21:21,856 He isn't here. You know where he is? 340 00:21:22,632 --> 00:21:25,032 Your grandson, ma'am, is wanted for murder. 341 00:21:25,101 --> 00:21:26,796 No, you don't know him. 342 00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:27,996 Please. 343 00:21:28,071 --> 00:21:30,038 My Isaac would never do anything like that. 344 00:21:30,105 --> 00:21:32,073 I know my grandchild. Ma'am! 345 00:21:33,108 --> 00:21:36,805 We're going to have to ask you to come down to the precinct, okay? 346 00:21:36,879 --> 00:21:38,574 Let me get my coat. 347 00:21:38,647 --> 00:21:42,413 Damn! Why don't you arrest us all while you're at it? 348 00:21:49,258 --> 00:21:51,055 A little dramatic, isn't it, Counselor? 349 00:21:51,126 --> 00:21:54,823 Dragging a 54-year-old grandmother down here in a patrol car? 350 00:21:54,897 --> 00:21:57,297 Your client may have committed a felony. 351 00:21:57,366 --> 00:22:00,130 Okay, we confess. Mr. Muldrue at the corner store... 352 00:22:00,202 --> 00:22:04,695 charged Mrs. Roberts for a dozen tomatoes and she had 13 in her bag. 353 00:22:04,772 --> 00:22:06,899 Corina, I knew we should've grabbed that picture of you... 354 00:22:06,974 --> 00:22:08,498 out of the post office while we could. 355 00:22:08,576 --> 00:22:11,773 Ms. Green, I just can't afford to be in a laughing mood today. 356 00:22:11,846 --> 00:22:15,304 I'm sorry, next time I'll bring Richard Pryor with me. 357 00:22:17,018 --> 00:22:19,543 Mrs. Roberts, we have reason to believe... 358 00:22:19,620 --> 00:22:22,521 that your grandson murdered an innocent man. 359 00:22:22,590 --> 00:22:26,822 Now, if you are concealing him, we could charge you with conspiracy... 360 00:22:26,894 --> 00:22:28,361 and harboring a fugitive. 361 00:22:28,429 --> 00:22:32,024 If you know where Isaac is, Mrs. Roberts, you'd be doing yourself... 362 00:22:32,099 --> 00:22:34,693 and your grandson a favor by telling us now. 363 00:22:34,969 --> 00:22:39,462 The rest of his life in a white man's jail? I've had better offers. 364 00:22:40,473 --> 00:22:44,000 Mrs. Roberts, where is your grandson? 365 00:22:44,077 --> 00:22:46,204 She told you she has nothing to say. 366 00:22:46,279 --> 00:22:48,372 Then you give me no choice. 367 00:22:58,725 --> 00:23:00,750 Mrs. Roberts, you are under arrest. 368 00:23:00,827 --> 00:23:03,159 And please read her, her rights. 369 00:23:03,863 --> 00:23:05,353 Well, this is wonderful. 370 00:23:05,432 --> 00:23:08,196 Joshua Berger gets off with a suspended license... 371 00:23:08,268 --> 00:23:10,462 and Corina Roberts is on her way to Rikers. 372 00:23:10,536 --> 00:23:12,231 Now, what is wrong with this picture? 373 00:23:12,304 --> 00:23:14,329 Mr. Berger did not commit a felony. 374 00:23:15,341 --> 00:23:17,206 I have no problem with the law, Counselor. 375 00:23:17,276 --> 00:23:19,972 It's the application thereof, now that's another story. 376 00:23:20,045 --> 00:23:23,845 Ms. Green, I assume you have no knowledge of his whereabouts? 377 00:23:24,516 --> 00:23:28,043 Always room for one more in that cell, right, Counselor? 378 00:23:33,525 --> 00:23:36,517 Thirty years ago, the blacks and the Jews and everyone else... 379 00:23:36,595 --> 00:23:38,426 lived in this city together. 380 00:23:39,398 --> 00:23:41,389 We didn't see riots in our neighborhoods. 381 00:23:41,467 --> 00:23:44,492 In those days, we had Adam Clayton Powell working the system... 382 00:23:44,569 --> 00:23:46,036 not Reverend Ott destroying it. 383 00:23:46,104 --> 00:23:48,595 Well, there's a reason for the Reverend Otts of the world. 384 00:23:48,673 --> 00:23:50,265 To promote anti-Semitism? 385 00:23:50,341 --> 00:23:52,605 To remind us that there's a long way to go. 386 00:23:55,713 --> 00:23:58,147 That does not justify violence in the streets, sir. 387 00:23:58,216 --> 00:24:00,946 I want you to release the Roberts woman. 388 00:24:04,389 --> 00:24:07,017 By releasing her, we condone a felony. 389 00:24:07,091 --> 00:24:10,060 And by putting her in jail we draw a line in the sand. 390 00:24:10,128 --> 00:24:14,462 So you're guilty until a percentage of the population threatens violence? 391 00:24:14,766 --> 00:24:16,426 The grandson is out there. 392 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:18,627 Keep her in jail a week, and then we'll let her go. 393 00:24:18,702 --> 00:24:22,798 And if she's back in her apartment, he'll contact her sooner than that. 394 00:24:22,873 --> 00:24:26,639 Get a warrant for a wiretap. Twenty-four hour surveillance. 395 00:24:31,548 --> 00:24:34,073 They've been on her for 48 hours. Nothing. 396 00:24:34,151 --> 00:24:35,482 What about the phones? 397 00:24:35,552 --> 00:24:39,010 Two calls. One to her dentist and one to her sister in Detroit. 398 00:24:40,057 --> 00:24:41,354 This may be something. 399 00:24:41,425 --> 00:24:43,893 Isaac's homeboy Daryl from the sneaker store. 400 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,928 His one phone call wasn't to a shyster. 401 00:24:45,996 --> 00:24:48,123 It was to a church on 112th. 402 00:24:48,465 --> 00:24:49,931 Reverend Ott. 403 00:24:50,633 --> 00:24:53,932 Call the DA's office. I don't want any screwups. 404 00:24:58,207 --> 00:24:59,970 A little late for morning prayer. 405 00:25:00,042 --> 00:25:02,033 Or perhaps you just want to confess your sins. 406 00:25:02,111 --> 00:25:04,306 We have a warrant to search the premises, sir. 407 00:25:04,380 --> 00:25:05,574 Mike! 408 00:25:08,617 --> 00:25:10,209 Isaac Roberts, you're under arrest. 409 00:25:10,286 --> 00:25:11,844 You can hold your breath, Detective. 410 00:25:11,921 --> 00:25:13,821 I've given Mr. Roberts sanctuary. 411 00:25:13,889 --> 00:25:15,550 What the hell are you talking about? 412 00:25:15,624 --> 00:25:18,184 My attorney tells us as long as he's in a house of God... 413 00:25:18,260 --> 00:25:19,386 you can't touch him. 414 00:25:19,462 --> 00:25:22,260 And while you're here, will you please watch your mouth? 415 00:25:22,331 --> 00:25:23,661 Counselor? 416 00:25:23,865 --> 00:25:27,232 Keep him under surveillance until we can sort it out. 417 00:25:30,171 --> 00:25:31,661 Sanctuary? 418 00:25:32,207 --> 00:25:33,902 What is this, medieval England? 419 00:25:33,975 --> 00:25:36,808 You really plan to argue this in front of a judge? 420 00:25:37,078 --> 00:25:39,876 And the Appellate Division and the Court of Appeals... 421 00:25:39,948 --> 00:25:42,007 and the Supreme Court, if necessary. 422 00:25:42,083 --> 00:25:45,143 So your client is going to stay in this church... 423 00:25:45,220 --> 00:25:48,348 until your exercise in futility is completed? 424 00:25:48,423 --> 00:25:51,017 Considering the alternative, you bet. 425 00:25:52,060 --> 00:25:53,721 That is, of course... 426 00:25:53,795 --> 00:25:57,127 unless you'd like to save us all a lot of time and energy. 427 00:25:57,197 --> 00:25:58,789 Well, what does that mean? 428 00:25:58,866 --> 00:26:00,891 Man two, he serves the minimum. 429 00:26:00,968 --> 00:26:05,234 Your client savagely killed Mr. John De Santis on the local news. 430 00:26:05,305 --> 00:26:07,296 We call that murder two. 431 00:26:08,675 --> 00:26:11,166 Then clear your calendar, Counselor... 432 00:26:11,245 --> 00:26:14,442 you're going to be busy for the next decade or so. 433 00:26:20,687 --> 00:26:23,212 You've got to admire her creativity. 434 00:26:24,458 --> 00:26:26,085 Shambala Green's? 435 00:26:28,028 --> 00:26:30,461 Queen of the specious motion. 436 00:26:30,530 --> 00:26:34,364 She's representing her client with the zealousness required by the canons. 437 00:26:34,433 --> 00:26:37,800 And I'm sure she thinks we should have exhibited a little more of it... 438 00:26:37,870 --> 00:26:40,202 in prosecuting Joshua Berger. 439 00:26:41,807 --> 00:26:44,776 You can't compare what Joshua Berger did... 440 00:26:44,844 --> 00:26:46,835 with what Isaac Roberts did. 441 00:26:46,946 --> 00:26:48,436 Of course not. 442 00:26:49,015 --> 00:26:51,575 But, suppose this crazy motion actually works? 443 00:26:51,651 --> 00:26:54,085 A judge buys Green's argument? 444 00:26:54,387 --> 00:26:58,084 Would you drag an innocent man out of a car... 445 00:26:58,157 --> 00:27:00,091 and bash his brains in? 446 00:27:01,928 --> 00:27:04,157 You know, I don't know how I would react... 447 00:27:04,229 --> 00:27:07,357 if I'd been screwed by the system my whole life. 448 00:27:13,705 --> 00:27:15,332 The concept of sanctuary... 449 00:27:15,407 --> 00:27:17,272 since ancient and medieval times... 450 00:27:17,342 --> 00:27:20,436 is founded on the idea of a religious place of refuge... 451 00:27:20,512 --> 00:27:23,310 for those who have offended civil authorities. 452 00:27:23,381 --> 00:27:27,283 I want to emphasis the importance of a church in a black community. 453 00:27:27,352 --> 00:27:30,515 If Counselor could please cite one post-medieval case? 454 00:27:30,589 --> 00:27:33,217 How's 1991, Counselor? 455 00:27:33,291 --> 00:27:36,384 A church right here in Manhattan was willing to provide refuge... 456 00:27:36,460 --> 00:27:39,793 to military personnel in danger of deployment to the Middle East... 457 00:27:39,863 --> 00:27:43,959 Pending the determination of their status as conscientious objectors. 458 00:27:44,034 --> 00:27:47,231 Murder is a far cry from moral opposition to a war. 459 00:27:47,304 --> 00:27:51,365 In this case, it's not. We are talking about civil disobedience. 460 00:27:51,809 --> 00:27:55,040 My client violently opposed the inequitable treatment... 461 00:27:55,112 --> 00:27:57,046 of his race under the law. 462 00:27:57,414 --> 00:27:59,279 So he killed somebody? 463 00:27:59,650 --> 00:28:02,141 It's a nice try, Ms. Green, but... 464 00:28:02,219 --> 00:28:06,622 being that your client is not a hunchback ringing a bell in a Paris cathedral... 465 00:28:06,690 --> 00:28:08,589 I'm denying your motion. 466 00:28:08,658 --> 00:28:11,456 If I lose at trial, you've just given me grounds for appeal. 467 00:28:11,527 --> 00:28:15,327 And lucky for me, I'll be in Palm Beach collecting social security... 468 00:28:15,398 --> 00:28:19,459 if and when this nonsense should ever return to this courtroom. 469 00:28:28,278 --> 00:28:31,509 What are they doing in there? Final confession. 470 00:28:35,485 --> 00:28:38,921 I hope you know you have violated the sanctity of our church. 471 00:28:38,988 --> 00:28:41,286 That'll be 10 Hail Marys, Mike. 472 00:28:41,357 --> 00:28:42,948 Excuse me, Reverend. 473 00:28:43,292 --> 00:28:46,750 Isaac Roberts, you're under arrest for the murder of John De Santis. 474 00:28:46,828 --> 00:28:49,194 You have the right to remain silent... 475 00:28:50,399 --> 00:28:53,334 The Reverend says, if we convict the Roberts kid... 476 00:28:53,435 --> 00:28:55,733 this city, and I quote: 477 00:28:55,804 --> 00:28:57,704 "Ain't seen nothin' yet." 478 00:28:58,907 --> 00:29:01,398 He thinks he can hold this entire city hostage? 479 00:29:01,476 --> 00:29:03,137 No, only the jury. 480 00:29:03,478 --> 00:29:06,413 I think the system deserves a little more credit than that. 481 00:29:06,481 --> 00:29:07,470 Right. 482 00:29:07,549 --> 00:29:11,576 Remind me what happened to those kids who beat up that truck driver in LA. 483 00:29:12,054 --> 00:29:14,113 Offer her man one with a recommendation. 484 00:29:14,189 --> 00:29:16,782 And that's in the interests of justice, sir? No. 485 00:29:16,857 --> 00:29:19,257 It's in the interests of finality. 486 00:29:19,660 --> 00:29:21,150 Put an end to this, quick. 487 00:29:21,228 --> 00:29:24,629 Shambala Green will only take man two. 488 00:29:25,633 --> 00:29:28,568 Well, there just might be someone else... 489 00:29:28,636 --> 00:29:31,230 who has more influence over this boy. 490 00:29:32,707 --> 00:29:35,005 How many times, Mr. Stone? 491 00:29:37,111 --> 00:29:40,478 How many times does a black man have to roll over and play dead? 492 00:29:40,548 --> 00:29:42,743 Mrs. Roberts, I am not suggesting that he roll over... 493 00:29:42,817 --> 00:29:44,011 Please. 494 00:29:45,219 --> 00:29:47,346 My son, Isaac's father... 495 00:29:48,055 --> 00:29:51,490 was a night janitor in a midtown office building. 496 00:29:52,258 --> 00:29:54,852 There was a robbery during his shift. 497 00:29:55,628 --> 00:29:59,359 His lawyer said, "If we go to trial, you don't have a chance." 498 00:29:59,766 --> 00:30:01,563 Rickie took the deal. 499 00:30:02,502 --> 00:30:04,493 That was three years ago. 500 00:30:06,172 --> 00:30:07,901 This family... 501 00:30:08,675 --> 00:30:11,166 has bartered enough lives already. 502 00:30:11,511 --> 00:30:14,139 Mrs. Roberts, I am not trying your son. 503 00:30:14,214 --> 00:30:18,480 I'm trying your grandson and there is no doubt in my mind what he did. 504 00:30:31,397 --> 00:30:34,889 In the future, you want to talk to Mrs. Roberts, you talk to me first. 505 00:30:34,967 --> 00:30:38,095 Shambala, do you really think that you're doing a client a service... 506 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:39,262 by refusing to plea? 507 00:30:39,338 --> 00:30:43,274 Why don't you let me determine what's in the best interest of my client? 508 00:30:43,609 --> 00:30:47,136 Thanks for coming. You saved me the price of a messenger. 509 00:30:50,082 --> 00:30:53,108 It's my notice to call Dr. Myron Jansen as an expert to testify... 510 00:30:53,185 --> 00:30:55,652 as to my client's mental capacity. 511 00:31:00,258 --> 00:31:04,160 If we learned nothing from the riots in Los Angeles, we learned... 512 00:31:04,228 --> 00:31:08,358 that peace-loving individuals can be pushed to a point of extreme violence. 513 00:31:08,433 --> 00:31:10,958 The law requires a modicum of self-control. 514 00:31:11,035 --> 00:31:13,936 Nobody is arguing with that, in the normal course of events. 515 00:31:14,005 --> 00:31:16,735 But when one's normal powers of judgment are suspended... 516 00:31:16,808 --> 00:31:17,968 Let me get this right. 517 00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:20,169 You're claiming your client was legally insane? 518 00:31:20,244 --> 00:31:22,303 Your Honor, Dr. Jansen will testify... 519 00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:26,407 that individuals swept up in a riot, can succumb to a collective frenzy... 520 00:31:26,484 --> 00:31:30,044 that can minimize their ability to distinguish right from wrong. 521 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,554 So, the mob is guilty, and no individual is? 522 00:31:32,622 --> 00:31:34,214 Exactly. 523 00:31:34,291 --> 00:31:36,987 The scientists call it group contagion. 524 00:31:40,063 --> 00:31:41,997 I'll listen to your expert, Ms. Green. 525 00:31:42,065 --> 00:31:44,260 But I'm going to reserve my decision on admissibility... 526 00:31:44,334 --> 00:31:46,802 until after you present your entire case. 527 00:31:47,170 --> 00:31:50,731 Don't blame me for murdering them, they were horrible parents. 528 00:31:50,807 --> 00:31:54,709 And don't blame me for mutilating my husband in his sleep, he abused me. 529 00:31:54,778 --> 00:31:56,245 It's called diminished capacity. 530 00:31:56,313 --> 00:31:58,406 It's called fabricating jury sympathy. 531 00:31:58,482 --> 00:32:00,780 And sympathy is part and parcel of justice. 532 00:32:00,851 --> 00:32:03,478 Right, and my sympathy is definitely with Mrs. De Santis. 533 00:32:03,552 --> 00:32:05,486 Of course it does, because you can empathize with her. 534 00:32:05,554 --> 00:32:07,579 You have no idea what it's like to be Isaac Roberts. 535 00:32:07,656 --> 00:32:09,817 To feel exploited, to be unemployed... 536 00:32:09,892 --> 00:32:12,292 to feel like you have no opportunities in this life. 537 00:32:12,361 --> 00:32:15,524 You pump enough air into a balloon, eventually it goes pop. 538 00:32:15,598 --> 00:32:19,728 So, the have-nots can take their frustrations out on the haves without recrimination? 539 00:32:19,802 --> 00:32:20,894 That's a hate crime. 540 00:32:20,970 --> 00:32:23,530 It's been happening the other way for centuries. 541 00:32:23,606 --> 00:32:26,769 Look, maybe you did march with Martin in the '60s, but you know what? 542 00:32:26,842 --> 00:32:31,438 Hanging a picture of Bobby on your wall just isn't going to cut it anymore. 543 00:32:37,418 --> 00:32:39,045 We were just hanging out. 544 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:40,815 You and Mr. Roberts? 545 00:32:40,922 --> 00:32:42,389 That's right. 546 00:32:42,790 --> 00:32:44,985 And then we saw people jumping all over the car. 547 00:32:45,059 --> 00:32:47,550 And you joined them? Sure. 548 00:32:47,862 --> 00:32:50,456 I didn't think anyone was going to get hurt. 549 00:32:50,532 --> 00:32:52,261 What happened next? 550 00:32:53,101 --> 00:32:54,363 Isaac. 551 00:32:55,670 --> 00:32:59,037 He started pounding the guy. Did he say why? 552 00:32:59,107 --> 00:33:00,096 Uh-uh. 553 00:33:00,842 --> 00:33:02,776 He wasn't talking much. 554 00:33:04,045 --> 00:33:05,376 Thank you. 555 00:33:11,218 --> 00:33:14,381 Was there ever a time when you heard Isaac say: 556 00:33:14,454 --> 00:33:16,319 "Let's go beat up a Jew?" 557 00:33:17,291 --> 00:33:18,315 No. 558 00:33:18,792 --> 00:33:23,229 Was there ever a time that you saw Isaac beat up anyone else before this? 559 00:33:24,398 --> 00:33:25,422 No. 560 00:33:26,533 --> 00:33:27,591 So... 561 00:33:27,668 --> 00:33:31,263 would you say that he wasn't acting like himself? 562 00:33:32,439 --> 00:33:34,270 Yeah, I guess. 563 00:33:35,042 --> 00:33:36,942 Man, you got to understand. 564 00:33:37,077 --> 00:33:40,376 We heard what the Reverend said, and it got us going. 565 00:33:42,381 --> 00:33:43,712 Thank you. 566 00:33:45,217 --> 00:33:49,950 I screamed at John, "Just step on the gas, they'll get out of the way." 567 00:33:50,022 --> 00:33:51,614 But he didn't do that? 568 00:33:51,691 --> 00:33:54,854 They were all around us. We couldn't do anything. 569 00:33:55,561 --> 00:33:57,461 So what happened next? 570 00:33:58,497 --> 00:34:01,125 He broke Johnny's window with a brick. 571 00:34:01,667 --> 00:34:03,897 Are you referring to the defendant? 572 00:34:04,170 --> 00:34:05,228 Yes. 573 00:34:06,172 --> 00:34:07,901 Then he opened the door... 574 00:34:08,507 --> 00:34:11,271 and he dragged Johnny onto the ground... 575 00:34:12,445 --> 00:34:14,344 and he just hit him... 576 00:34:15,180 --> 00:34:16,613 and hit him. 577 00:34:20,318 --> 00:34:23,913 Mrs. De Santis, are you absolutely sure... 578 00:34:23,989 --> 00:34:27,117 that it was the defendant that hit your husband? 579 00:34:28,727 --> 00:34:30,092 It was him. 580 00:34:33,098 --> 00:34:34,429 Thank you. 581 00:34:38,937 --> 00:34:43,203 There was a lot of commotion on the street that day, isn't that correct? 582 00:34:43,675 --> 00:34:44,835 Yes. 583 00:34:44,909 --> 00:34:47,502 There were people screaming? Yes. 584 00:34:47,778 --> 00:34:50,406 When my client broke the car window... 585 00:34:50,814 --> 00:34:52,975 did your husband try to talk to him? 586 00:34:53,050 --> 00:34:54,745 Are you kidding? He was like an animal. 587 00:34:54,818 --> 00:34:56,718 You mean he was out of control? 588 00:35:02,593 --> 00:35:03,787 We aren't even Jewish. 589 00:35:03,861 --> 00:35:06,762 My husband is dead because he had black hair. 590 00:35:06,830 --> 00:35:08,127 Is that right? 591 00:35:08,198 --> 00:35:09,859 No more questions. 592 00:35:12,436 --> 00:35:16,839 It's basically a matter of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 593 00:35:17,074 --> 00:35:19,838 A crowd acts very differently than an individual. 594 00:35:20,376 --> 00:35:23,709 In other words, because of the circumstances... 595 00:35:24,414 --> 00:35:27,281 a good person will do bad things? 596 00:35:27,350 --> 00:35:30,842 Well, look at the fans at a soccer match in England. 597 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,013 Hysteria invades the crowd. 598 00:35:33,089 --> 00:35:35,114 Because of the collective frenzy... 599 00:35:35,191 --> 00:35:37,489 the individual has no power to resist. 600 00:35:37,794 --> 00:35:39,455 Thank you, Doctor. 601 00:35:40,263 --> 00:35:43,391 Doctor, did you ever hear the defendant say... 602 00:35:43,466 --> 00:35:46,162 that he heard voices telling him... 603 00:35:46,502 --> 00:35:48,060 to kill Mr. De Santis? 604 00:35:48,137 --> 00:35:50,105 As a matter of fact, he did. 605 00:35:50,173 --> 00:35:54,700 He heard Reverend Ott telling him about the substandard treatment of his people. 606 00:35:54,776 --> 00:35:57,836 He heard hundreds of voices in the crowd screaming: 607 00:35:57,913 --> 00:35:59,039 "Get the Jew!" 608 00:35:59,114 --> 00:36:00,809 So, in your opinion... 609 00:36:00,916 --> 00:36:05,649 the defendant is not legally responsible for killing Mr. De Santis. 610 00:36:05,954 --> 00:36:07,046 That is correct. 611 00:36:07,122 --> 00:36:10,319 So I assume you'd have to have the same feeling about a crowd... 612 00:36:10,392 --> 00:36:11,825 of good old boys... 613 00:36:11,893 --> 00:36:13,793 a tree, a noose... 614 00:36:13,862 --> 00:36:15,762 and a dead black man in Mississippi. 615 00:36:15,831 --> 00:36:18,061 Objection. Sustained. 616 00:36:31,278 --> 00:36:35,442 Nothing like invoking a good old-fashioned lynching to blind a jury. 617 00:36:35,516 --> 00:36:39,213 Nothing like confusing them with a bellyful of self-pity. 618 00:36:40,888 --> 00:36:44,051 Why don't we just take the gloves off, all right? 619 00:36:44,925 --> 00:36:47,325 And stop behaving like advocates. 620 00:36:49,029 --> 00:36:53,056 He killed a man. That's a crime. Hell, maybe it's even a sin. 621 00:36:53,134 --> 00:36:54,897 But he was provoked. 622 00:36:54,969 --> 00:36:56,561 Do you really believe that? 623 00:36:56,637 --> 00:36:59,367 That he was provoked by a couple of hundred hooligans? 624 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,839 By a couple of centuries of hate. 625 00:37:04,878 --> 00:37:06,607 Between you and me, Ben... 626 00:37:06,946 --> 00:37:09,744 as a black woman, I am ashamed of what happened on that street. 627 00:37:09,816 --> 00:37:10,942 Are you? 628 00:37:11,017 --> 00:37:12,848 You have a hell of a way of showing it. 629 00:37:12,919 --> 00:37:14,352 You don't get it, do you? 630 00:37:14,420 --> 00:37:17,218 I don't want that to happen again. 631 00:37:17,290 --> 00:37:18,814 No, you don't get it. 632 00:37:19,159 --> 00:37:21,684 By infantilizing your own people... 633 00:37:21,761 --> 00:37:24,821 you are guaranteeing that it will happen again. 634 00:37:26,699 --> 00:37:30,066 After all these years, you really had me fooled. 635 00:37:30,236 --> 00:37:33,671 I had no idea that your suit of liberalism only came out of the closet... 636 00:37:33,739 --> 00:37:35,707 when it was fashionable. 637 00:37:37,776 --> 00:37:39,368 Shambala. 638 00:37:39,444 --> 00:37:42,902 Just once I want someone to stand up in this country and say... 639 00:37:42,981 --> 00:37:44,346 "I did it. 640 00:37:45,284 --> 00:37:47,275 "I'm responsible for my actions. 641 00:37:47,352 --> 00:37:50,913 "Not my television set, and not the color of my skin." 642 00:37:52,090 --> 00:37:54,149 And if it makes you feel good... 643 00:37:54,259 --> 00:37:57,319 to call me a racist. 644 00:37:57,496 --> 00:37:58,622 Fine. 645 00:37:59,264 --> 00:38:03,257 But if you're really looking for who is responsible for racism these days... 646 00:38:03,335 --> 00:38:05,633 take a good look in a mirror. 647 00:38:11,609 --> 00:38:13,804 The Reverend finished talking, and... 648 00:38:14,278 --> 00:38:16,109 I don't know, people were like... 649 00:38:16,180 --> 00:38:17,841 crazy or something. 650 00:38:17,915 --> 00:38:21,146 Tell us what happened when you saw Mr. De Santis. 651 00:38:21,786 --> 00:38:25,244 Well, there was a lot of pushing and shoving and screaming. 652 00:38:25,957 --> 00:38:28,118 I didn't know what was going on. 653 00:38:28,226 --> 00:38:29,989 People were screaming: 654 00:38:30,061 --> 00:38:31,858 "The Jew killed Damon." 655 00:38:32,897 --> 00:38:35,627 Do you remember breaking the car window? 656 00:38:36,033 --> 00:38:37,125 No. 657 00:38:37,201 --> 00:38:40,135 How about dragging Mr. De Santis from the car? 658 00:38:40,203 --> 00:38:42,262 No. Hitting him? 659 00:38:43,373 --> 00:38:44,431 No. 660 00:38:45,075 --> 00:38:47,305 I just remember the screaming. 661 00:38:48,645 --> 00:38:49,976 Thank you. 662 00:38:54,918 --> 00:38:56,442 Mr. Roberts. 663 00:38:59,155 --> 00:39:02,318 Do you regret killing Mr. De Santis? 664 00:39:02,392 --> 00:39:05,088 Sure, I don't want to see anybody dead. 665 00:39:05,195 --> 00:39:07,163 What about Mr. Berger... 666 00:39:07,864 --> 00:39:10,424 the man who killed Damon Fox? 667 00:39:12,002 --> 00:39:14,435 A little kid gets run down in the street... 668 00:39:14,503 --> 00:39:16,994 and nothing happens to the guy who did it. 669 00:39:17,106 --> 00:39:19,438 What if it was some white kid on Park Avenue... 670 00:39:19,508 --> 00:39:21,135 and the car was driven by a brother? 671 00:39:21,210 --> 00:39:22,302 But it wasn't. 672 00:39:22,378 --> 00:39:24,846 It was a Jewish businessman up in Harlem. 673 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,877 He's walking the streets... 674 00:39:27,416 --> 00:39:31,011 and you could go to prison for the rest of your life. 675 00:39:31,420 --> 00:39:33,047 What else is new? 676 00:39:33,122 --> 00:39:35,386 They own the banks, the buildings. 677 00:39:35,524 --> 00:39:38,823 A Jew snaps his finger and everybody comes running. 678 00:39:38,928 --> 00:39:41,590 Now, is that what you were thinking about... 679 00:39:42,131 --> 00:39:44,156 when you saw Mr. De Santis? 680 00:39:47,535 --> 00:39:49,799 I don't know. Maybe. 681 00:39:49,871 --> 00:39:51,202 Come on. 682 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,899 You wanted revenge, right? 683 00:39:58,446 --> 00:40:00,414 You're damn straight, I did. 684 00:40:03,918 --> 00:40:05,215 So... 685 00:40:05,887 --> 00:40:08,515 I guess there is something you remember... 686 00:40:08,589 --> 00:40:11,285 about the attack after all. 687 00:40:16,864 --> 00:40:18,525 No more questions. 688 00:40:22,703 --> 00:40:24,364 The defense calls Joshua Berger. 689 00:40:24,438 --> 00:40:25,632 About what? 690 00:40:25,706 --> 00:40:26,968 He was not a witness. 691 00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,305 He can, however, testify as to the defendant's state of mind. 692 00:40:30,377 --> 00:40:33,540 I don't know where you're going, Ms. Green but you'd better get there fast. 693 00:40:33,613 --> 00:40:36,514 I'll give you time to prepare cross, Mr. Stone. 694 00:40:38,018 --> 00:40:40,885 Sir, after your grand jury appearance... 695 00:40:40,954 --> 00:40:43,445 you left the courthouse through the rear door. 696 00:40:43,523 --> 00:40:45,150 Isn't that true? 697 00:40:45,525 --> 00:40:47,459 The police thought it would be better. 698 00:40:47,527 --> 00:40:48,789 And you agreed with them? 699 00:40:48,862 --> 00:40:52,298 They said there was a lot of people out front, they might cause trouble. 700 00:40:52,366 --> 00:40:54,128 Who might cause trouble? 701 00:40:54,367 --> 00:40:56,801 Are you talking about blacks, sir? 702 00:40:57,536 --> 00:40:59,561 I said "people," Ms. Green. 703 00:41:00,106 --> 00:41:03,132 Sir, isn't it true that your excuse... 704 00:41:03,209 --> 00:41:06,975 for leaving the scene of the accident was that you were scared? 705 00:41:07,046 --> 00:41:10,243 I panicked. Because you were in Harlem. 706 00:41:10,416 --> 00:41:13,852 You're scared of blacks, isn't that right, Mr. Berger? 707 00:41:14,286 --> 00:41:15,480 I am not a racist. 708 00:41:15,554 --> 00:41:18,990 You're not only scared of them, you hate them, isn't that true? 709 00:41:19,058 --> 00:41:20,252 Look. 710 00:41:20,526 --> 00:41:22,790 Any middle-aged white person... 711 00:41:22,862 --> 00:41:25,490 Jew, Baptist, atheist, whatever... 712 00:41:25,564 --> 00:41:27,690 who says that he's not frightened... 713 00:41:27,766 --> 00:41:30,326 no, make that terrified... 714 00:41:30,402 --> 00:41:33,462 to find himself alone on a city street... 715 00:41:33,705 --> 00:41:36,503 being followed by two or three black teenagers... 716 00:41:36,941 --> 00:41:38,272 is a liar. 717 00:41:39,511 --> 00:41:40,535 Oh, I see. 718 00:41:41,012 --> 00:41:43,242 So you only hate some blacks. 719 00:41:43,581 --> 00:41:46,049 One-on-one, you don't mind blacks... 720 00:41:46,117 --> 00:41:48,881 but more than two of them together scare you. 721 00:41:49,421 --> 00:41:53,016 Do you read about Jewish teenagers carrying guns... 722 00:41:53,091 --> 00:41:55,082 and selling crack on street corners? 723 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,186 So, Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky didn't do anything wrong... 724 00:41:58,263 --> 00:42:00,389 until they were in their 20s? 725 00:42:00,697 --> 00:42:03,666 I'm sorry to disillusion you, Mr. Berger... 726 00:42:03,734 --> 00:42:06,726 but you are a racist. Objection. 727 00:42:06,804 --> 00:42:10,433 Sustained. Can you blame my client for being angry? 728 00:42:10,507 --> 00:42:12,099 In my chambers. 729 00:42:12,609 --> 00:42:14,201 As soon as this is over, Ms. Green... 730 00:42:14,278 --> 00:42:16,906 you can expect a briefcase full of sanctions to hit your desk. 731 00:42:16,980 --> 00:42:18,072 I was only trying to... 732 00:42:18,148 --> 00:42:21,379 To offer irrelevant evidence in order to inflame and prejudice a jury. 733 00:42:21,452 --> 00:42:23,943 Now we'll be lucky if this jury doesn't throw Berger in jail. 734 00:42:24,021 --> 00:42:26,615 I assume, Your Honor, that you will instruct the jury... 735 00:42:26,690 --> 00:42:29,750 to disregard Mr. Berger's testimony entirely. 736 00:42:29,827 --> 00:42:31,294 I'll do you one better, Mr. Stone. 737 00:42:31,361 --> 00:42:32,384 Berger's testimony is out... 738 00:42:32,462 --> 00:42:35,260 and so is everything having to do with this mob psychology crap. 739 00:42:35,331 --> 00:42:38,698 Then I have no defense. Tell that to the jury, Counselor. 740 00:42:45,341 --> 00:42:47,275 This should have been over in a couple of hours. 741 00:42:47,343 --> 00:42:49,368 What could they be talking about for eight days? 742 00:42:49,445 --> 00:42:52,414 There are 12 people in that room, not 12 computers. 743 00:42:52,482 --> 00:42:54,677 Roberts admitted he killed De Santis. 744 00:42:54,750 --> 00:42:57,685 The judge's instructions eliminate any possible justification. 745 00:42:57,787 --> 00:43:00,312 Yeah. Juries always listen to judges. 746 00:43:06,628 --> 00:43:07,720 Yes? 747 00:43:09,364 --> 00:43:10,922 You're kidding. 748 00:43:14,703 --> 00:43:17,331 Is there any reason to believe that further deliberation... 749 00:43:17,405 --> 00:43:19,566 would lead to a unanimous verdict? 750 00:43:19,641 --> 00:43:21,165 No, Your Honor. 751 00:43:23,011 --> 00:43:26,310 Then I have no alternative but to declare a mistrial. 752 00:43:53,007 --> 00:43:56,272 Three were for murder two. Four for man one. 753 00:43:56,343 --> 00:43:58,174 That leaves five for acquittal. 754 00:43:58,245 --> 00:44:02,511 On retrial we exclude their expert testimony... 755 00:44:03,050 --> 00:44:05,177 and the jury only hears our witnesses. 756 00:44:06,487 --> 00:44:08,512 Not going to be a retrial. 757 00:44:17,063 --> 00:44:20,692 Isaac Roberts killed an innocent man. You're going to let him walk? 758 00:44:20,767 --> 00:44:25,136 If I thought we could impanel a jury that would give us a chance of convicting... 759 00:44:25,471 --> 00:44:27,462 I'd try the case myself. 760 00:44:29,742 --> 00:44:32,643 Now, you'd think that 20 years in this office... 761 00:44:33,546 --> 00:44:35,776 you'd have a sense of reality. 762 00:44:37,083 --> 00:44:38,607 Reality? 763 00:44:38,685 --> 00:44:40,050 The reality is... 764 00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:43,782 that no one is willing to stand up and draw a line in the sand. 765 00:44:43,856 --> 00:44:47,018 Nobody is willing to say that the law is the law... 766 00:44:47,092 --> 00:44:49,287 and if you break it, you'll be prosecuted... 767 00:44:49,361 --> 00:44:52,421 win, lose, or draw. Nobody except you, of course. 768 00:44:52,631 --> 00:44:56,692 Adam, better to light a match than to curse the darkness. 769 00:44:57,035 --> 00:45:00,471 Even if it lights a fuse that could blow up the city. 770 00:45:01,607 --> 00:45:03,234 What do you want? 771 00:45:03,475 --> 00:45:04,533 Peace without justice? 772 00:45:04,610 --> 00:45:08,011 I'm willing to straddle a fence so this city can heal. 773 00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,448 Can you understand that? 774 00:45:15,087 --> 00:45:16,782 I understand that. 775 00:45:18,290 --> 00:45:19,881 And that cure... 776 00:45:20,391 --> 00:45:22,359 is worse than the disease. 777 00:45:36,507 --> 00:45:38,372 And it's a solution... 778 00:45:41,545 --> 00:45:43,536 that I just can't be part of.