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[Ricardo Thomas]
This is Ma-ma in real form.
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You'll never see her like this.
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You only seeing this,
'cause this is home video.
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You know, the hair
ain't combed, you know,
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she got her little robe on.
That's rare footage.
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[speaking]
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And then she got that karaoke
machine and that just gave her life.
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Oh, yeah. Look at that.
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Seem like it was yesterday.
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We was just having
a good time dancing,
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and those were
the good old days.
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And it all changed.
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[siren blaring]
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[woman speaking]
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It was like a movie.
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A horror movie.
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Like, I trusted you
around these people,
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and you betrayed me.
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[indistinct chatter]
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[narrator] It's August 18th,
1984, in Washington D.C.
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and a special time for
22-year-old Belinda Glenn.
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My wedding day.
It was amazing day.
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A lot of old-time friends, aunts and
uncles that came from out of town
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for this special occasion.
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[woman speaking]
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We all just had a ball.
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[narrator] Belinda's
43-year-old mom, Mamie,
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waits patiently with the guests.
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[Belinda] My mom was just in
charge, so her role was everything.
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She was here, there, everywhere.
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Wherever she was needed,
she was there
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if something wasn't going right.
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Oh, my gosh.
You look so beautiful.
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I was my sister's maid of honor.
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Since Belinda got married first,
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I think that was the opportunity
for my mother to just...
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do it big, because
my mother did everything big.
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It was just amazing to see my mom.
The expression on my mother's face,
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seeing her daughter
come down the aisle.
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[wedding march playing]
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[narrator] 45-year-old Dewitt
Glenn is the proud father
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who is about to give
his daughter away.
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He and Mamie divorced
12 years ago.
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My dad's role at the wedding was to do
nothing but walk his daughter down the aisle.
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[laughing] And be happy.
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And I think that he was really
excited and he was real proud.
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Dad's don't really do
anything. Mom's do everything.
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Go!
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[horns honking]
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[narrator] Mamie hosts the
wedding reception at her home
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in Oxon hill,
just south of D.C.
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[Belinda] She lived in
an apartment complex
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and, um, she kind of
rented out the pool area.
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And so we was playing music,
had a DJ,
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you could swim
if you wanted to, um...
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Me and Rick took our
first dance there.
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Mom was making sure everybody was
comfortable, they had everything they needed.
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The ones that traveled you know
she was thanking them for coming.
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She was greeting everybody
walking around.
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And she wanted everybody
to feel like they were at home.
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She was just-- was
a amazing host, you know.
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Can't no words express
the way I felt that day.
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It seemed like
the best day ever.
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And my mom,
she made me feel so special.
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Oh, look there.
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Oh, my mama was right
in her element right there.
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She's very proud that her baby
daughter just got married, you know.
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And she put this beautiful wedding together
and this gorgeous reception together,
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outside in the summertime.
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That's the fruits of her labor,
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everything that she does,
she does it to the T.
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[narrator] Mamie has every right to be
proud of what she has accomplished.
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[Glenda] After my
parents divorced,
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my dad left the
Washington D.C. area,
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but after he left, it was
life as normal, life as usual.
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My mother kept moving,
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she didn't falter, she didn't...
she didn't get in a depression.
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I'm not taking anything away
from my dad,
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but he wasn't there
like she was there.
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So, I give her all glory,
all honor.
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[Belinda] My mom pretty much
raised us, you know, on her own.
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Me and my sister
and my brother Shaun.
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She made sure that she got up to work
everyday, so she can keep a roof over our head.
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At one point,
she had to get on food stamps
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to help feed us and everything.
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What my mom instilled in me was,
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in order to get what you want,
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you're gonna have to
work for it.
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My mother went
back to school herself.
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She went to the University of
the District of Colombia
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and winded up at
the US Department of Labor.
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From going to school.
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[Belinda] My mom was
single on my wedding,
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because she was little,
you know, picky.
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But, um, I already knew Mom was
going to meet somebody special,
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you know,
and she was gonna run off.
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But she wasn't gonna run far, she
wasn't gonna leave us, but at same time,
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I knew she would get
a life back.
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[narrator] Mamie meets her
special somebody four years later.
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Shabaka WaQlimi is just
39 years old to Mamie's 48.
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They marry in 1988.
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My first impression of him
was really remarkable.
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I really found him to be
a great guy
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and I thought that
they were a perfect couple.
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Whatever she wanted done,
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or whatever he felt was
nice to do,
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he would do it for her.
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We just thought, "Okay, Mom
done met her somebody good."
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We just thought she had
met her soul mate.
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[narrator] Like Mamie, Shabaka
grew up in South Carolina.
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He works as a public speaker to
campaign for changes to the justice system.
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And he helps out at
a homeless shelter in D.C.
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[narrator] His words have the
power to both inspire activists
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and comfort Mamie's children.
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[Glenda] Whenever we were
crying or we were hurt
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or we needed advice
or we needed this,
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he was always that guy
that was like, "Listen,
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daughter,
don't worry about this.
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It's gonna be okay." Whatever
the situation we were discussing,
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he would break it down for you,
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and you felt like you had been
in your dad's arms.
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[narrator] By 1995, the couple
shows no signs of the seven-year itch.
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[Shabaka speaking]
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[Mamie speaking]
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They bought a house in
Fort Washington, Maryland.
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[Mamie speaking]
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That was the love house,
that was just the house where
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you just felt comfortable
in there.
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You felt-- you know,
you felt at home
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when you came to Mama's house.
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There was always
music in the house,
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you know,
she would turn the music up,
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and she would get on the karaoke
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and have you singing
and laughing
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and she had a pool table
down there,
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so everybody was shooting pool.
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[Shabaka] Well, as you can see,
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we're still in front of
Sam and Lucy's...
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[narrator] Mamie's
large circle of friends
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welcome Shabaka with open arms.
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Shabaka films the anniversary party of
Mamie's close friend, Lucy Strait, in 1996.
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[narrator] Shabaka captures
all the guests.
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And, occasionally,
the guests capture him.
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[woman speaking]
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[Glenda] At the time when
she found love again,
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we were really excited for her.
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That meant that, um...
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she would have a companion.
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She would have someone
to love her,
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and, you know, travel and do...
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and just be in love again.
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[Belinda] It's just amazing
how they...
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grew together to know each
other, like, inside and out.
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Like, they just reading
each other minds, you know.
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[Shabaka speaking]
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[Mamie] I'm about to
yo-yo you upside your head.
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[narrator]
December 25th, 1998.
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Shabaka and Mamie arrive at the
home of Mamie's daughter, Glenda,
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to spend Christmas day
with the family.
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They take turns behind the camera to
film Mamie's children and grandchildren.
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[kid speaking]
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I'm taking a break.
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[Ricardo] I remember when Shabaka first
came around, it was just kind of, like...
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the big-bang theory.
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It was just like boom,
and he was there.
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And then life just went on,
and he fit in so well with us.
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[Karissa Hayden] My earliest memory
of Shabaka was that he was always there.
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It was Ma-ma and Shabaka,
they were a duo.
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It was never her and not him.
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[woman speaking]
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Although he was not my biological
grandfather, he meant just as much to me.
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He was like my grandfather.
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My relationship with Ma-ma
and Shabaka was...
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very strong in those early
years, because they were
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giving us good Christmas,
just giving us good birthdays.
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[Troy speaking]
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And as I got older, the talks I had
with Shabaka would be more so
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understanding what it means to
be a young Black man in America.
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Um, understanding
what he's been through.
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[narrator] Shabaka burns with
a sense of injustice
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as is evident when he appears
on ABC's Nightline.
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My name is Shabaka WaQlimi.
I spent 14 years on death row.
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[narrator] TV appearances like this
one gives Shabaka the opportunity
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to tell his story to
a nationwide audience.
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If you're in a situation with,
each and every awakening hour,
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someone is keeping some type of
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dehumanizing process
against you...
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[narrator] In 1973, 23-year-old
Shabaka is known by a different name,
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Joseph Green Brown.
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[J Michael Shea] Joe was
a guy from South Carolina
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who was down in Tampa,
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and I think he would even tell
you that he was raised in hell,
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and that's what
he was all about.
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[narrator] On July 7th, Joseph
and his accomplice, Ronald Floyd,
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rob a couple at gunpoint
at a hotel in Tampa, Florida.
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[Michael] He began to have remorse and
he went to the Tampa Police Department
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and turned himself in
for that armed robbery.
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[narrator] But Joseph's fate
hinges on the investigation
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into another
even more horrific crime.
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That same day, also in Tampa,
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an attacker raped and murdered
35-year-old Earlene Barksdale
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inside the children's clothing
store that she managed.
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[Michael] A Tampa detective
got it in his belief
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that there was something
related to these two incidences.
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And when I got to
Hillsborough County jail,
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I said, "Well, I'm here to see
Joseph Green Brown.
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I believe he's charged
with, um, armed robbery.
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He says, "Nope,
he's charged with murder."
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[narrator] Ronald Floyd
strikes a deal with prosecutors.
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He agrees to testify against Joseph
for the murder of Earlene Barksdale
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in return for lenient
sentencing for the hotel robbery.
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Joseph Green Brown was found guilty
of rape, robbery and first-degree murder.
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He was sentenced to death
by electrocution.
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[narrator] Joseph stays
on death row for 14 years.
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[Michael] September of '83, it was time
for the governor to sign the death warrant.
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And so when you
get down to the...
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the last 24 hours, or so, the prisoner
is moved to the Death Watch cell.
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[narrator] Joseph described
this experience
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at a public speaking
engagement in 2011.
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[narrator] A judge issues a stay
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just 15 hours before
Joseph's scheduled execution.
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Then, in 1986,
a federal court rules that
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the state of Florida should
have revealed at Joseph's trial
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that Ronald Floyd received
leniency in exchange for his testimony.
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[Michael] I asked the question
was there a deal made?
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I asked it to Ronald Floyd in
his deposition and in open trial.
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He said "no,"
which was of course not true.
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It was a lie.
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The two prosecutors knew
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that this witness was lying
to the court and the jury.
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[narrator] The court throws
out Joseph's conviction.
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Joseph Green Brown
is a free man.
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He changes his name
to Shabaka WaQlimi,
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a Swahili term that means
"uncompromising teacher of truth."
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And then he went off to start
a new life in Washington, D.C.
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[exhales]
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He had really matured
into a fine human being.
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And he did a lot of work
for charities.
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Helped in homeless shelters
and so forth.
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So he really became
a caring person
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as part of this experience.
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[indistinct chatter]
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I feel like it was a miracle that
Shabaka survived death row,
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coming into a whole nother
situation of a loving family,
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and I feel like he fit right in
that mode of the family setting.
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When he came into our lives,
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he brought so much
joy and happiness.
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[narrator] Shabaka credits
Mamie for his rehabilitation.
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[Mamie speaking]
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[narrator] Mamie and Shabaka are
a carefree couple that likes to party.
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But Mamie's daughters
have concerns.
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I started to see cracks
appearing in the relationship.
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My mom and Shabaka used
to have great parties,
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but he had to have alcohol,
he had to have liquor.
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You know, his inebriation
was ridiculous.
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You know, so, he would drink
to get-- just drunk.
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I witnessed my mom
speaking to Shabaka,
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telling him that, "Listen,
you drinking too much.
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You need to
stop drinking so much."
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[Mamie speaking]
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They just looked so happy.
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And, you know, like, they
hadn't a care in the world.
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You don't know what goes on
behind close doors.
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Only thing that you see
is what you see.
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Well, life has a way of
making you change.
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Aw, Tracy.
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Hello there.
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[narrator] Mamie Brown works
for over 34 years
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at the US Department of Labor
in Washington, D.C.
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She retires in 2010
at the age of 69.
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[Belinda] I'm just so happy
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that she finally retired after
all those working years
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and just do
what she wanted to do.
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I just wanted her
to travel the world.
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You know, go places, go
visit her brother in Mississippi.
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You know her brother in Detroit.
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You know,
just start doing stuff.
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Yes, hello.
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[narrator] Mamie and her
husband Shabaka have other plans.
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They relocate to a small
apartment in North Carolina
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that's close to Mamie's
children and grandchildren.
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[Karissa] It was very exciting to know
that we were gonna have her closer.
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Especially since they decided to move
right down the street from where I lived.
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It was actually awesome to know
that they were going to be close to me.
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[narrator] After the move,
Mamie reveals to her family
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that she downsized
for another reason.
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She and Shabaka
are close to broke.
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[Glenda] Shabaka received
money from speaking engagements,
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and there was never any taxes
paid on those funds.
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So she was paying the taxes, for a
situation that was incurred by him.
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[laughs]
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[narrator] Shabaka does
nothing to help clear his debts.
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[Glenda] And she said,
"Now I'm paying all the bills,
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and now I'm short,
because you're not working.
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You're not doing anything
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but sitting around here
drinking daily."
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You're a grown man. Why are
you not finding something to do?
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Go wash a car.
Go flip a burger.
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It had started to become a
little different when I would visit.
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It wasn't so happy.
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His drinking habits
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and the things that
he wanted to eat,
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she was, you know, tired
of buying it and paying for it.
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[Glenda] They had gotten to the
point where it was just getting bad.
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The constant bickering
back and forth.
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That's when I started realizing
it was getting, like, serious.
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Like, this is not just, you know,
something that's fizzling out, like,
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they really having problems.
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[narrator]
September 13th, 2012.
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Mamie's daughter,
Belinda and Glenda,
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are preparing a birthday
house party for the whole family.
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[Glenda] September is a big
birthday month for us.
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My mother's birthday
was September 2nd.
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My birthday
was September the 6th.
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Ric is September the 19th.
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So, September was a
good month for us.
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The plan was to just--
I wanted to go pick her up.
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You don't have to drive,
you can get in the car with me.
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[narrator] Belinda calls ahead
to make sure that Mamie is ready.
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[line ringing]
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[Belinda] Ric was
picking her up Thursday.
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And we couldn't get her
on the phone.
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Mama was going to
answer her cell phone
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or her house phone,
no matter what.
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If she was asleep,
she'll say, "Look,
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I'm sleeping,
I'll call you back."
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But we wasn't getting an answer.
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[narrator] Belinda called
Shabaka's cell.
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[line ringing]
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No answer.
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I just kept having this
really bad feeling.
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In my spirit, I just kept
feeling something was wrong.
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Because I kept calling her.
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Her cell phone, her house
phone, her cell phone,
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00:25:09,108 --> 00:25:12,109
back and forth,
and she wasn't answering.
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00:25:13,979 --> 00:25:17,248
[narrator] Glenda asked police
to do a welfare check.
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[women speaking]
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And, I also talked to my daughter,
Karissa, and I was telling her
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to go check on Mama.
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00:25:42,475 --> 00:25:44,174
And I said,
"But don't go by yourself,
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I'm feeling some kind of way.
I'm feeling something is not right."
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[Karissa] So I asked one
of my co-workers
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if he would follow me
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to my grandmother's house,
and he said sure.
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As we pulled up,
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00:26:00,092 --> 00:26:03,027
I saw that there were
two police cars outside.
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00:26:08,199 --> 00:26:12,303
I got out of the car, and as I
stand there, I noticed that...
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there's another
police car that pulls up,
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and then another one, and then
another one, and then another one.
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I started to walk up the steps,
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I had the key in my hand,
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00:26:26,118 --> 00:26:28,986
and I saw the police officers
looking at me,
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wondering where I was going.
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00:26:33,725 --> 00:26:36,493
And she said, "Can you please
go stand by your car?"
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So, at this point,
I'm kind of starting to panic.
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Our officers had received
several 911 calls
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asking us to check
on the welfare, um,
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at this particular apartment.
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There were no signs
of forced entry.
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00:26:58,818 --> 00:27:01,552
We found that the
living room, the kitchen,
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most of the bedroom,
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and the parts of the
apartment were very orderly.
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When we walked into
the bedroom itself,
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we noticed a large amount
of suspected blood
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on the carpet as well as
a broken perfume bottle.
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00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:24,375
And attached to the master
bedroom is also a bathroom.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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00:27:30,749 --> 00:27:34,518
That's when we located
our victim, deceased,
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covered with a blanket
on the bathroom floor.
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We did see multiple stab wounds
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about the victim's body.
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Forensic pathologists later report
the contributing factors of strangulation.
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I'm just on the phone
with my mom,
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and she's asking me
what's happening,
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00:27:56,108 --> 00:27:58,342
and two detectives
come over to me.
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And I said, uh,
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you know, "What's going on?
What's going on?"
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00:28:03,549 --> 00:28:06,016
And he said, "You know, I'm
not gonna lie to you, ma'am.
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00:28:06,018 --> 00:28:08,118
There is a deceased
in the house."
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And, um...
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00:28:12,591 --> 00:28:15,926
my mom said, "Ask him if
it's male or female,"
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00:28:15,928 --> 00:28:19,296
and I said, "Is it male or
female?" And he said... um...
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"It's a female."
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[Glenda] Karissa calls me,
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and I'm panicking right now,
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00:28:36,015 --> 00:28:37,981
'cause I'm not believing this.
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00:28:37,983 --> 00:28:40,818
So I said, "Belinda, Belinda,
Mama's dead, Mama's dead!"
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She was like, "What are you talking
about? What are you talking about?"
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I said, "Just get in the car,
just get in the car."
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[Belinda] And when
we finally got there...
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I said, "Oh, my God." And we
just grabbed each other hand,
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00:28:52,965 --> 00:28:57,434
you know, and everything was
just lit up, all around us.
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00:28:58,803 --> 00:29:00,571
And that's when we find out...
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that she's been murdered.
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00:29:04,776 --> 00:29:07,010
[inaudible]
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[Glenda] We never
got opportunity
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00:29:10,950 --> 00:29:13,550
to say goodbye to my mother.
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00:29:13,552 --> 00:29:16,787
We never got a opportunity
to look at her,
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00:29:16,789 --> 00:29:20,124
or talk to her, or...
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00:29:20,126 --> 00:29:24,561
tell her we love her, or to
thank her for being a great mom.
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00:29:24,563 --> 00:29:28,132
We never got that opportunity.
That was taken from us.
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00:29:32,871 --> 00:29:34,404
[camera shutter clicking]
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00:29:42,547 --> 00:29:45,616
[Grande] What we discovered
was what appeared to be
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00:29:45,618 --> 00:29:48,886
drag marks or move marks
of present blood
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00:29:48,888 --> 00:29:51,789
from one side of the bed,
around the foot of the bed,
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00:29:51,791 --> 00:29:53,490
all the way into the bathroom.
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00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:57,594
And the fact that it had been
cleaned up concerned me
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00:29:57,596 --> 00:30:01,064
that there was a suspect that
was trying to clean up the scene,
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00:30:01,066 --> 00:30:03,333
and make it look better
than it really was.
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00:30:04,536 --> 00:30:07,971
Any time we see anything
like stabbing or strangulation,
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00:30:07,973 --> 00:30:10,974
it usually indicates
some level of intimacy
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between the victim
and the suspect.
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00:30:12,878 --> 00:30:14,144
So, they knew each other.
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00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:17,548
It also tells us
a lot about their rage.
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00:30:19,017 --> 00:30:21,885
[narrator] Mamie's car
is missing.
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00:30:21,887 --> 00:30:25,122
[Grande] A review of the
apartment security surveillance
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00:30:25,124 --> 00:30:27,558
show that that vehicle
was seen leaving the gate
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00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,259
around 6:45
in the morning.
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00:30:29,261 --> 00:30:31,762
[indistinct shouting]
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00:30:31,764 --> 00:30:34,531
We did speak to one neighbor
close to the victim's apartment
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00:30:34,533 --> 00:30:36,700
that had reported
hearing an argument
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00:30:36,702 --> 00:30:38,936
in the apartment
around 2:30 in the morning.
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00:30:38,938 --> 00:30:42,973
The fact that the victim's
vehicle was shared between
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00:30:42,975 --> 00:30:48,212
the victim and Mr. Brown told us that
we definitely need to locate Mr. Brown.
425
00:30:51,149 --> 00:30:54,251
[narrator] Investigators have
a time frame for the murder
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00:30:54,253 --> 00:30:56,520
and a potential suspect.
427
00:30:56,522 --> 00:30:59,423
But why would Shabaka
kill his own wife?
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00:31:04,262 --> 00:31:08,265
Granddaughter Karissa tells detectives
about her visit to Mamie's apartment
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00:31:08,267 --> 00:31:10,400
eleven days before the murder.
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00:31:11,936 --> 00:31:13,704
[Karissa] She invited me over,
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00:31:13,706 --> 00:31:16,006
and I went to her house.
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00:31:16,008 --> 00:31:21,845
There was a little
eerie vibe in there.
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00:31:21,847 --> 00:31:23,547
She really
wanted to take pictures.
434
00:31:24,015 --> 00:31:27,017
Um, so we took selfies.
435
00:31:27,019 --> 00:31:29,786
Um, I took pictures with her
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00:31:29,788 --> 00:31:34,458
in certain spots of the home that
she wanted to be photographed in.
437
00:31:36,828 --> 00:31:39,863
We took pictures
in his bathroom and hers,
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00:31:39,865 --> 00:31:42,366
and we also took pictures
in her bedroom.
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00:31:44,068 --> 00:31:48,038
She also wanted
to hear a particular song.
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00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,973
And this song...
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00:31:50,842 --> 00:31:54,111
still replays in my head
to this day.
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00:31:55,747 --> 00:31:57,547
Some of the lyrics were,
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00:31:57,549 --> 00:32:00,050
"I know my ship
is coming in."
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00:32:01,953 --> 00:32:04,221
She knew that
something was wrong.
445
00:32:04,989 --> 00:32:10,827
She wanted me to see
her beneficiary information.
446
00:32:10,829 --> 00:32:15,465
She really wanted me to see
what was on her beneficiary form.
447
00:32:17,802 --> 00:32:20,904
I remember specifically her
telling me, like, "Well, you know,
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00:32:20,906 --> 00:32:22,339
he's not getting anything."
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00:32:24,909 --> 00:32:27,010
Mamie had worked
for over 40 years
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00:32:27,012 --> 00:32:28,512
and had built up
a retirement package,
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00:32:28,514 --> 00:32:31,181
so she was financially stable.
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00:32:31,183 --> 00:32:34,885
But Joseph Brown had not
worked any stable job all his life.
453
00:32:34,887 --> 00:32:37,387
He basically lived off
of Mamie Brown.
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00:32:38,756 --> 00:32:41,792
She had written information
out of all of her benefits
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00:32:41,794 --> 00:32:45,629
and her will, so that he wouldn't
receive anything from her.
456
00:32:45,631 --> 00:32:48,999
So there were preparations that
we had discovered had been made
457
00:32:49,001 --> 00:32:51,969
that this relationship
was coming to an end.
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00:32:51,971 --> 00:32:56,440
[Karissa] She didn't have, you know,
a silent tongue. She spoke her mind.
459
00:32:56,442 --> 00:32:58,575
And she didn't hold back.
460
00:32:59,210 --> 00:33:00,911
At all.
461
00:33:00,913 --> 00:33:03,914
And, when it came
down to Shabaka,
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00:33:03,916 --> 00:33:07,017
she told him exactly how
she felt when she felt it.
463
00:33:07,019 --> 00:33:08,385
[Mamie speaking]
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00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:15,859
[narrator] All the signs
suggest that Mamie wanted out.
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00:33:15,861 --> 00:33:17,527
And for good reason.
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00:33:20,898 --> 00:33:23,033
[Grande] We have
looked at their history of
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00:33:23,035 --> 00:33:27,571
interaction with the police and found
out that 911 had been called several times
468
00:33:27,573 --> 00:33:31,008
over the course of a few years
before this murder happened.
469
00:33:31,010 --> 00:33:34,111
Each of those calls indicated that
there was some sort of an argument,
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00:33:34,113 --> 00:33:36,713
or a potential assault
that had occurred,
471
00:33:36,715 --> 00:33:38,949
and the two people that
were involved in each of these
472
00:33:38,951 --> 00:33:40,817
were both Mamie Brown
and Joseph Brown.
473
00:33:40,819 --> 00:33:42,986
[indistinct shouting]
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00:33:44,956 --> 00:33:46,823
And in every one of them,
it was Mamie alleging
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00:33:46,825 --> 00:33:49,426
that Joseph Brown
had done something to her.
476
00:33:53,664 --> 00:33:56,666
This told us we were dealing
with a very violent individual
477
00:33:56,668 --> 00:33:59,236
that had to be apprehended
as quickly as possible.
478
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:05,142
[narrator] Shabaka
is strapped for cash.
479
00:34:05,144 --> 00:34:08,945
So detectives put a trace
on Mamie's bank card.
480
00:34:10,014 --> 00:34:11,948
[Grande] The card was
not only active,
481
00:34:11,950 --> 00:34:16,053
but it indicated a path moving
away from the residence.
482
00:34:16,055 --> 00:34:19,122
We noticed that some money
had been withdrawn from an ATM
483
00:34:19,124 --> 00:34:21,091
not too far from
the apartment complex.
484
00:34:21,093 --> 00:34:24,494
It was used at a gas station,
driving down the Interstate.
485
00:34:24,496 --> 00:34:27,330
And then again, down in
Charleston, South Carolina.
486
00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:31,735
We were able to locate the
vehicle at a motel complex.
487
00:34:31,737 --> 00:34:33,336
[suspenseful music playing]
488
00:34:36,941 --> 00:34:41,178
We notified our Violent
Criminal Apprehension Team.
489
00:34:41,180 --> 00:34:43,747
These are officers that are
trained in higher-level tactics
490
00:34:43,749 --> 00:34:45,415
with extra weapons
491
00:34:45,417 --> 00:34:47,918
for their own defense
and protection.
492
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,089
Um, and they do everything that they
can to peacefully apprehend that suspect.
493
00:34:52,890 --> 00:34:55,392
[banging]
494
00:35:00,064 --> 00:35:01,832
[suspenseful music playing]
495
00:35:01,834 --> 00:35:04,167
[Glenda] It was
a sigh of relief.
496
00:35:04,169 --> 00:35:06,837
We're thinking
he might come for us.
497
00:35:06,839 --> 00:35:12,042
So, of course, we were overjoyed when
we found out that they had arrested him.
498
00:35:21,986 --> 00:35:26,523
[narrator] In custody, Shabaka claims
that he has no memory of what happened.
499
00:35:26,525 --> 00:35:30,093
He requests a lawyer
and says nothing more.
500
00:35:30,095 --> 00:35:32,195
[Belinda] Shabaka
didn't wanna speak about it.
501
00:35:32,197 --> 00:35:35,732
Like, he didn't remember
any of it, you know, like,
502
00:35:35,734 --> 00:35:37,767
he had got amnesia.
503
00:35:37,769 --> 00:35:41,037
I think Shabaka pretended
he didn't remember,
504
00:35:41,039 --> 00:35:45,142
because he knew that he had
hurt me, he had hurt my sister,
505
00:35:45,144 --> 00:35:48,845
he had hurt my son, he had
let the grandchildren down,
506
00:35:48,847 --> 00:35:50,347
he let everybody down.
507
00:35:53,084 --> 00:35:55,185
[Grande] It's frustrating when
they don't answer those questions
508
00:35:55,187 --> 00:35:57,187
that we can give the family.
509
00:35:57,189 --> 00:35:58,722
"Why did this happen?"
510
00:35:58,724 --> 00:36:00,123
"What happened
in the argument?"
511
00:36:00,125 --> 00:36:02,526
"What took place
that led him to this point
512
00:36:02,528 --> 00:36:04,961
to commit such
a brutal crime?"
513
00:36:21,412 --> 00:36:25,282
[Grande] In the course of the investigation,
we discovered that there were several videos
514
00:36:25,284 --> 00:36:29,019
showing Joseph Brown talking
about the criminal justice system.
515
00:36:29,021 --> 00:36:32,022
He talked about his guilty
conviction down in Florida,
516
00:36:32,024 --> 00:36:33,957
his experiences on death row.
517
00:36:34,759 --> 00:36:36,359
[Joseph speaking]
518
00:37:39,557 --> 00:37:43,860
[Grande] When I saw that video
for the first time, that told me motive.
519
00:37:43,862 --> 00:37:46,363
I think he knows exactly what
was going through his mind.
520
00:37:46,365 --> 00:37:47,998
He had predicted it.
521
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,332
It's gonna come.
522
00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:52,068
Because we're human.
523
00:37:58,542 --> 00:38:00,076
[narrator] Detectives piece
together what happened
524
00:38:00,078 --> 00:38:03,446
on the night of
September 12th, 2012.
525
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,254
[Grande] Based on the behavior
that we'd learned of him,
526
00:38:12,523 --> 00:38:17,027
his controlling, his anger,
everything about his personality
527
00:38:17,029 --> 00:38:19,896
told us that eventually Mamie
Brown was gonna put him out.
528
00:38:19,898 --> 00:38:21,464
She was gonna
end the relationship.
529
00:38:24,769 --> 00:38:29,072
They had an argument about this
relationship that was going downhill.
530
00:38:48,826 --> 00:38:51,161
That argument grew
to physical assault.
531
00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:58,001
There were things that were
broken, such as a perfume bottle.
532
00:38:58,003 --> 00:39:00,003
It appears that, at that point,
533
00:39:00,005 --> 00:39:02,539
Joseph Brown was not
only strangling Mamie Brown,
534
00:39:02,541 --> 00:39:05,008
but also stabbing
her with a knife.
535
00:39:06,677 --> 00:39:11,514
The excessive blood that was there on the
floor suggested a large amount of blood loss.
536
00:39:14,919 --> 00:39:17,854
The drag marks in the
carpet, around the bed,
537
00:39:17,856 --> 00:39:22,192
shows us that he moved her from
that side of the bed over to the bathroom.
538
00:39:31,635 --> 00:39:34,270
[narrator] Shabaka covers
Mamie with a blanket.
539
00:39:37,174 --> 00:39:41,211
Then he makes a crude
attempt to clean up her blood.
540
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:51,621
[Grande] He took
a lot of time with that scene,
541
00:39:51,623 --> 00:39:54,290
and again, for whatever
reason, we may never know,
542
00:39:54,292 --> 00:39:57,961
but we can only speculate
that he wanted this to appear...
543
00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:02,098
less violent than it really was.
544
00:40:07,037 --> 00:40:09,539
Shabaka pleads guilty to
second-degree murder
545
00:40:09,541 --> 00:40:12,108
to avoid another trip
to death row.
546
00:40:13,911 --> 00:40:16,679
On September 12th, 2013,
547
00:40:16,681 --> 00:40:19,749
the judge sentences
him to 18 years in prison
548
00:40:19,751 --> 00:40:22,218
with no possibility of parole.
549
00:40:25,489 --> 00:40:28,258
Mamie's family
attends the hearing.
550
00:40:35,699 --> 00:40:39,202
[Karissa] I remember, in the
hallway, his attorney came up to me,
551
00:40:39,204 --> 00:40:45,375
and she hugged me, and she said,
"Joseph... speaks very highly of you."
552
00:40:47,144 --> 00:40:49,946
[Joseph speaking]
553
00:40:50,013 --> 00:40:51,347
It hurt.
554
00:40:52,183 --> 00:40:54,884
And I just couldn't fathom
555
00:40:54,886 --> 00:40:58,021
him doing such a horrible thing.
556
00:40:58,023 --> 00:40:59,556
And I didn't wanna believe it.
557
00:41:00,858 --> 00:41:02,358
He took her away.
558
00:41:03,060 --> 00:41:04,994
He took her away.
559
00:41:05,062 --> 00:41:06,663
[Ricardo] It's like...
560
00:41:06,665 --> 00:41:09,532
It's just one day I woke up,
and my grandparents were gone.
561
00:41:09,534 --> 00:41:13,136
And this monster came
in and killed both of them.
562
00:41:13,138 --> 00:41:15,238
That's kinda what it was like.
563
00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:17,507
You know what I mean,
and it's like...
564
00:41:17,509 --> 00:41:19,242
Shabaka died that night, too.
565
00:41:21,078 --> 00:41:24,848
[Troy] That's the same man
that I saw, as a young kid,
566
00:41:24,850 --> 00:41:28,952
loving her and dancing
and teaching me things
567
00:41:28,954 --> 00:41:33,022
turns out to be the man
who kills my grandmother.
568
00:41:33,024 --> 00:41:37,527
And it's, uh...
It's difficult to process.
569
00:41:39,697 --> 00:41:43,099
[Glenda] What we saw was
him being a loving husband,
570
00:41:43,601 --> 00:41:46,402
him being kind to her children,
571
00:41:47,271 --> 00:41:51,207
him being, you know,
a great father figure to us.
572
00:41:51,209 --> 00:41:54,143
So, killers have two faces.
573
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,916
What Shabaka didn't
take away from me
574
00:41:59,918 --> 00:42:01,451
that my mother gave me
575
00:42:01,852 --> 00:42:03,319
was joy.
576
00:42:05,155 --> 00:42:09,125
He didn't take away my hope.
He didn't take away my future.
577
00:42:09,127 --> 00:42:13,196
He didn't take away anything
that my mother gave me.
578
00:42:13,198 --> 00:42:18,101
If I were to see her right now, I
would just hug and love on her
579
00:42:18,103 --> 00:42:23,506
and tell her how thankful I
am that she made me who I am.