1 00:00:18,685 --> 00:00:21,855 - Ms. Harper! - KJ! Can we get a comment? 2 00:00:21,938 --> 00:00:24,524 Look this way, please! 3 00:00:26,609 --> 00:00:27,485 KJ! 4 00:00:27,569 --> 00:00:29,070 - Right here! - Ms. Harper! 5 00:00:31,072 --> 00:00:32,365 - KJ! - Ms. Harper! 6 00:00:34,534 --> 00:00:35,535 KJ! 7 00:00:51,342 --> 00:00:53,511 Yeah! All right, baby! 8 00:00:53,595 --> 00:00:55,096 You're almost there. Almost there. 9 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:58,516 - Almost out of the woods, baby. - I told you we'd get past this. 10 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,394 Three down, one to go. Fuck that prosecutor. 11 00:01:01,478 --> 00:01:05,356 And that's thanks to you. You and your brass fucking balls. 12 00:01:08,526 --> 00:01:11,362 We need to make a statement, press our advantage. 13 00:01:11,446 --> 00:01:13,823 Stand behind me, keep your mouth shut. 14 00:01:18,286 --> 00:01:19,579 It is over. 15 00:01:25,293 --> 00:01:26,252 Let's go. 16 00:01:26,336 --> 00:01:29,005 My client is a victim of a hate-fueled campaign 17 00:01:29,088 --> 00:01:31,591 by a race-baiting zealot of a prosecutor. 18 00:01:31,674 --> 00:01:33,676 Ms. Harper is making a name for herself, 19 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,972 but police officers who risk their lives every day for us are paying the price. 20 00:01:38,056 --> 00:01:39,599 Officer Jablonski, a number of your colleagues 21 00:01:39,682 --> 00:01:41,893 have been calling in sick, not reporting for duty, 22 00:01:41,976 --> 00:01:44,062 and now the city's facing a surge of violent crime. 23 00:01:44,437 --> 00:01:47,273 As far as what's going to stop the unrest, who knows? 24 00:01:47,357 --> 00:01:49,484 The governor calling in the National Guard? 25 00:01:49,567 --> 00:01:50,693 Another dead cop? 26 00:01:50,777 --> 00:01:54,114 There were 64 police officers killed in the line of duty this past year. 27 00:01:54,197 --> 00:01:56,491 Well, our son was murdered this year. 28 00:01:56,574 --> 00:01:59,536 Along with too many black boys to even count. So you do that math. 29 00:01:59,619 --> 00:02:02,664 - Okay, thank you for your time. - Well, where's your outrage for them? 30 00:02:03,081 --> 00:02:05,083 Where's the outrage for my son? 31 00:02:05,792 --> 00:02:07,836 What if it was your child? 32 00:02:07,961 --> 00:02:09,712 Where are our children in all of this? 33 00:02:09,796 --> 00:02:11,673 Mrs. Butler, how can this be a hate crime 34 00:02:11,756 --> 00:02:13,967 if the officer didn't know your son was black? 35 00:02:14,050 --> 00:02:16,928 We're simple people, we don't have money for fancy lawyers like you. 36 00:02:17,011 --> 00:02:18,847 - But we work hard. - Was your son in a gang... 37 00:02:18,930 --> 00:02:20,932 We live life right, we just want what's fair. 38 00:02:21,015 --> 00:02:24,060 We deserve justice! 39 00:02:24,144 --> 00:02:26,229 Our son deserves justice! 40 00:02:27,522 --> 00:02:29,357 In a surprising development today 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:30,817 in the Brenton Butler trial, 42 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:33,111 Prosecutor KJ Harper's mistake in court 43 00:02:33,194 --> 00:02:34,904 may have cost her the case. 44 00:02:34,988 --> 00:02:36,656 It was a stunning mistake 45 00:02:36,739 --> 00:02:38,408 for her to make in the courtroom. 46 00:02:38,491 --> 00:02:40,702 And as you can see, the response from the public, 47 00:02:40,785 --> 00:02:43,746 as in the courtroom, has really been quite dramatic. 48 00:02:45,248 --> 00:02:46,749 Get up! 49 00:02:47,584 --> 00:02:48,960 We got work to do! 50 00:02:49,335 --> 00:02:52,255 I know you've got a "Fuck off" in there, so let it out now, save some time. 51 00:02:52,338 --> 00:02:53,298 Gonna make coffee. 52 00:02:53,381 --> 00:02:55,008 I'm out of coffee. 53 00:02:56,217 --> 00:02:59,012 - I want to watch TV. - I fucked up. 54 00:02:59,095 --> 00:03:01,431 I let that kid die. Now get up. 55 00:03:01,514 --> 00:03:03,433 - I can't. - You do it. 56 00:03:03,516 --> 00:03:04,767 God! 57 00:03:06,102 --> 00:03:09,230 Pull yourself together. Come on. Jesus! 58 00:03:09,314 --> 00:03:10,231 Whoa. 59 00:03:13,735 --> 00:03:14,861 No, I... 60 00:03:16,279 --> 00:03:18,698 I walked right into it. 61 00:03:19,157 --> 00:03:23,661 I just handed her this prop for her goddamned show-and-tell. 62 00:03:24,537 --> 00:03:27,373 - I fucking blew it. - Join the fucking club. 63 00:03:27,916 --> 00:03:29,918 Doesn't mean you get to take your ball and go home. 64 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:32,962 It doesn't matter. He's not going away. 65 00:03:33,046 --> 00:03:36,382 You do realize he's not gonna do any real time. 66 00:03:36,466 --> 00:03:38,676 - We still have death by auto. - We have shit. 67 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,012 - And get off of me! I can walk! - Okay, then... 68 00:03:41,095 --> 00:03:41,930 Ow! 69 00:03:43,223 --> 00:03:44,599 Really? 70 00:03:45,016 --> 00:03:48,394 I picked up the purchase report from Jablonski's blue SUV. 71 00:03:48,478 --> 00:03:52,523 Oh, Jesus. We looked at that a million fucking times. 72 00:03:52,607 --> 00:03:55,860 Yeah, but we never looked for the grille guard. 73 00:03:56,653 --> 00:03:57,820 Look. 74 00:03:58,154 --> 00:04:00,156 It was there when Marie Jablonski bought the car, 75 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,492 but not when he drove to the hospital the morning of the hit-and-run. 76 00:04:02,575 --> 00:04:03,826 See? It's gone. 77 00:04:04,244 --> 00:04:07,497 And I checked the hospital footage for the day before the accident. 78 00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:10,083 They had a visit with the doctor and it was there. 79 00:04:10,625 --> 00:04:14,045 - So? - So, it could be direct evidence 80 00:04:14,128 --> 00:04:16,381 linking Jablonski to the accident. 81 00:04:16,464 --> 00:04:18,258 Forensics can match it with Brenton's injuries. 82 00:04:18,341 --> 00:04:21,594 You can make the case that this specific car hit Brenton. 83 00:04:21,678 --> 00:04:25,932 It's gone, with the car, with every fucking thing, and... 84 00:04:26,015 --> 00:04:29,435 you crawl back in that bottle and you die, 85 00:04:29,519 --> 00:04:32,939 or you get up off your ass and do your job. 86 00:04:33,523 --> 00:04:35,233 We broke a lot of promises. 87 00:04:38,194 --> 00:04:39,696 Pretty fucking epic ones. 88 00:04:40,655 --> 00:04:41,864 We don't get to quit. 89 00:04:45,201 --> 00:04:48,037 Bring up the grille guard in court and see who flinches. 90 00:04:53,376 --> 00:04:55,837 Ain't nobody tryin' to see him play the black papa. 91 00:04:57,255 --> 00:04:58,464 Ciao. 92 00:04:59,507 --> 00:05:00,842 Wow, Daryll, was that really... 93 00:05:00,925 --> 00:05:03,219 Your mom's gone, God rest her soul, 94 00:05:03,303 --> 00:05:06,222 and you still sucking them fucking cancer sticks. 95 00:05:06,306 --> 00:05:08,641 One of my vices. We all got 'em. 96 00:05:09,726 --> 00:05:11,853 Like you with that cop Jablonski. 97 00:05:11,936 --> 00:05:15,481 The advice was free, my time isn't. I came here to talk business. 98 00:05:15,815 --> 00:05:16,858 Business? 99 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,320 What, with all the trouble your boy caused? Please. 100 00:05:20,820 --> 00:05:22,613 Time for me to find a new partner. 101 00:05:22,697 --> 00:05:25,533 One of you bitches under every rock in the pond, man. 102 00:05:25,616 --> 00:05:27,493 The pond you refer to... 103 00:05:28,411 --> 00:05:29,996 is the size of a Dixie cup. 104 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:34,042 You better be grateful for what you got and you watch your fucking tone with me. 105 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:36,627 I wonder what your boy Jablonski would think 106 00:05:36,711 --> 00:05:40,590 when he finds out that you're the one that put the nine mil in the uncle's hand? 107 00:05:41,007 --> 00:05:44,927 He won't. 'Cause you're the only one privy. Ain't that right? 108 00:05:48,264 --> 00:05:49,432 Blaze don't know. 109 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:50,850 Nigga don't even fucking talk. 110 00:05:51,684 --> 00:05:52,602 But me? 111 00:05:52,685 --> 00:05:56,522 I'm a born conversationalist. Fucking soliloquies and shit. 112 00:05:57,940 --> 00:06:00,359 You threatening me, you cripple motherfucker? 113 00:06:00,860 --> 00:06:01,903 Look at you, man. 114 00:06:03,071 --> 00:06:05,740 You so soft for that boy, it makes me wonder, 115 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:10,203 that prosecutor drag my ass into court, you gonna be soft then too? 116 00:06:12,455 --> 00:06:14,332 Throw me under the fucking bus? 117 00:06:23,049 --> 00:06:26,552 You should've fucked that little white boy when you had the chance, man. 118 00:06:32,266 --> 00:06:33,226 What the fuck? 119 00:06:44,403 --> 00:06:46,280 You still good with 14 percent? 120 00:06:48,157 --> 00:06:50,201 - I'll make it work. - Yeah, you will. 121 00:06:51,994 --> 00:06:53,913 Throw this piece of shit in the river. 122 00:07:21,941 --> 00:07:23,151 Father God, 123 00:07:23,734 --> 00:07:25,778 I come before you today to... 124 00:07:26,404 --> 00:07:30,032 ask for your help and your guidance in Brenton's case. 125 00:07:39,417 --> 00:07:42,795 Why did you let this happen to an innocent child? 126 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:45,798 Where was your mercy? 127 00:07:48,217 --> 00:07:51,304 I can't even close my eyes without seeing his... 128 00:07:52,138 --> 00:07:53,598 last seconds. 129 00:07:54,348 --> 00:07:56,476 How alone he must have been. 130 00:07:58,394 --> 00:08:00,021 Show me something. 131 00:08:02,064 --> 00:08:03,900 Show me something... 132 00:08:04,442 --> 00:08:07,570 besides what's in my head. Please. 133 00:08:09,739 --> 00:08:13,659 'Cause I can't see past it right now. 134 00:08:20,082 --> 00:08:23,503 Show me that you were there with him. 135 00:08:24,629 --> 00:08:25,713 Please. 136 00:08:38,142 --> 00:08:40,603 Black lives matter! Black lives matter! 137 00:08:40,686 --> 00:08:43,022 Blue lives matter! Blue lives matter! 138 00:08:43,105 --> 00:08:45,650 Blue lives matter! Blue lives matter! 139 00:08:45,733 --> 00:08:47,360 She's gonna push to have all charges dismissed, 140 00:08:47,443 --> 00:08:49,862 so you have to convince the judge on this grille guard business. 141 00:08:49,946 --> 00:08:51,864 - Yeah, I know. - Emphasize, use the actual words, 142 00:08:51,948 --> 00:08:54,617 - see if one of them cracks. - Will you give me some space here, okay? 143 00:09:09,131 --> 00:09:11,050 I thought she was the one with the conscience. 144 00:09:12,927 --> 00:09:14,136 She was. 145 00:09:16,264 --> 00:09:17,265 All rise. 146 00:09:18,558 --> 00:09:21,477 Court is now in session. The honorable Judge Robert Dolan presiding. 147 00:09:21,561 --> 00:09:22,812 Please be seated. 148 00:09:22,895 --> 00:09:26,148 Outbursts like the one yesterday will not be tolerated. 149 00:09:26,232 --> 00:09:28,067 I hope I am making myself very clear. 150 00:09:28,651 --> 00:09:31,153 Ms. Hennessy, before I recall the jury, 151 00:09:31,237 --> 00:09:33,656 I'll hear arguments on your motion to dismiss. 152 00:09:33,739 --> 00:09:34,657 Yes, Your Honor. 153 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:38,244 Given that we heard testimony from the State's own witness 154 00:09:38,327 --> 00:09:41,247 proving that the victim's race was indeterminable, 155 00:09:41,706 --> 00:09:45,001 I move to dismiss the hate crime charge against my client. 156 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,338 Furthermore, the State hasn't proven any elements of the other charges. 157 00:09:49,422 --> 00:09:53,426 - Therefore, I move to dismiss all charges. - This is a gross overreach, Your Honor. 158 00:09:53,509 --> 00:09:56,012 The State is far from finished presenting its case. 159 00:09:56,095 --> 00:09:58,931 Upon redirect with Mr. Lee, we will establish evidence 160 00:09:59,015 --> 00:10:02,476 directly tying Officer Jablonski's car to the accident. 161 00:10:04,604 --> 00:10:08,357 The defendant's SUV originally had a grille guard attached to the front. 162 00:10:08,941 --> 00:10:12,278 We believe it sustained the lion's share of the accident impact. 163 00:10:19,910 --> 00:10:22,872 For the prosecution to introduce new evidence at this late stage... 164 00:10:22,955 --> 00:10:24,498 Hardly new evidence, Your Honor. 165 00:10:24,582 --> 00:10:27,627 It's a separate line of questioning based on evidence already in record. 166 00:10:27,710 --> 00:10:32,256 Evidence which, even if true, is nowhere near establishing my client's guilt. 167 00:10:33,549 --> 00:10:36,135 I think that's for the jury to decide, Ms. Hennessy. Not you. 168 00:10:38,137 --> 00:10:39,805 And the State will be presenting further evidence 169 00:10:39,889 --> 00:10:41,599 substantiating the hate crime charge. 170 00:10:43,017 --> 00:10:46,020 I'll give you some leeway, Ms. Harper, but not much. 171 00:10:46,103 --> 00:10:48,147 Defense's motion to dismiss is denied. 172 00:10:48,856 --> 00:10:51,025 Your Honor, I still need time to prepare. 173 00:10:51,108 --> 00:10:52,234 You have an hour. 174 00:10:52,652 --> 00:10:54,904 Then I'll be bringing the jury back in to hear testimony. 175 00:10:54,987 --> 00:10:56,822 Court stands in recess until 2:00 p. m. 176 00:11:04,622 --> 00:11:05,706 Should I be worried? 177 00:11:15,007 --> 00:11:16,050 Right. 178 00:11:18,594 --> 00:11:19,553 We're good. 179 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:23,516 Trice. 180 00:11:27,186 --> 00:11:28,604 Did you know about Brenton? 181 00:11:29,563 --> 00:11:31,023 I had thoughts. 182 00:11:32,733 --> 00:11:34,443 I believed he told me everything. 183 00:11:36,404 --> 00:11:38,155 Well, you raised him so he could. 184 00:11:39,323 --> 00:11:40,658 I'm not sure I did. 185 00:11:43,119 --> 00:11:45,704 Isaiah, I had no right to say that to you. 186 00:11:46,580 --> 00:11:49,083 To say that you didn't love him. I know you did. 187 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:06,475 - What the fuck is going on? - Shut the fuck up, man. 188 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,395 - The prosecutor knows where it is? - If she did, it'd be on display right now, 189 00:12:09,478 --> 00:12:10,563 front and center. 190 00:12:13,732 --> 00:12:16,152 If Jablonski cracks, that grille guard's the only thing 191 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:18,904 guaranteeing this shit lands squarely on him. 192 00:12:18,988 --> 00:12:19,989 All right? 193 00:12:20,739 --> 00:12:23,826 You think I'm gonna listen to you of all people on strategy? 194 00:12:26,203 --> 00:12:27,288 Yeah. 195 00:12:27,788 --> 00:12:32,334 'Cause out of all of us, my hands are the only ones stayed clean. 196 00:12:43,888 --> 00:12:46,056 - Doing okay? Look a little queasy. - Get outta my face. 197 00:12:46,140 --> 00:12:48,434 If you're not feeling well, you should go to the hospital. 198 00:12:48,517 --> 00:12:50,895 Maybe have the doctor take a look at those scratches on your arm. 199 00:12:53,230 --> 00:12:56,400 Did she look you in the eye when you shoved the needle in her? 200 00:12:59,361 --> 00:13:01,405 Oh, you motherfucker, it was you. 201 00:13:02,948 --> 00:13:05,034 Hey, you better believe I'm coming right at you. 202 00:13:09,038 --> 00:13:11,499 The presence of a grille guard could certainly account 203 00:13:11,582 --> 00:13:15,252 for the low number of paint samples found in the victim's hair, yes. 204 00:13:15,336 --> 00:13:18,631 Are Brenton Butler's injuries consistent with this type of grille guard? 205 00:13:18,714 --> 00:13:19,548 They are. 206 00:13:21,008 --> 00:13:23,886 Mr. Lee, can you show the jury which of the victim's wounds 207 00:13:23,969 --> 00:13:25,971 match the pattern of the defendant's grille guard? 208 00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:28,641 These marks on the victim's scalp 209 00:13:28,724 --> 00:13:31,310 at the anterior side of the skull 210 00:13:31,393 --> 00:13:34,438 match the metal rod on this particular grille guard. 211 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:37,274 - Objection, Your Honor. - On what grounds? 212 00:13:37,358 --> 00:13:39,360 Counselors, approach the bench. 213 00:13:41,153 --> 00:13:42,821 Your Honor, this is a blatant attempt 214 00:13:42,905 --> 00:13:45,157 to interrupt the flow of this witness' testimony. 215 00:13:46,408 --> 00:13:48,869 I'd like to renew my argument the trial be continued 216 00:13:48,953 --> 00:13:50,871 until after I have a chance to study this new evidence. 217 00:13:50,955 --> 00:13:53,207 Your Honor, you already ruled on this motion. 218 00:13:53,290 --> 00:13:55,876 That was until I understood the scope of the State's questions. 219 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:58,462 The State should at least be allowed to finish questioning. 220 00:13:59,004 --> 00:14:02,841 Your Honor, the defense needs ample time to study this new evidence. 221 00:14:02,925 --> 00:14:05,177 At least over this coming weekend. 222 00:14:07,388 --> 00:14:08,347 Oh, my God! 223 00:14:08,430 --> 00:14:09,598 - Back up! - T! 224 00:14:10,975 --> 00:14:13,435 Come on, give her some room! 225 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:16,355 - Teresa! - Take it easy, take it easy. 226 00:14:16,438 --> 00:14:18,274 - She's all right. - Easy, easy. 227 00:14:28,576 --> 00:14:32,621 Oh, my God, you're shaking like a leaf and you're so pale. 228 00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:35,708 - Are you sure you're okay? - Stop, I'm fine, I told you. 229 00:14:35,791 --> 00:14:39,628 But you're not fine. You just passed out in there. 230 00:14:40,754 --> 00:14:44,300 You need to take her to the urgent care. She needs to see a doctor. 231 00:14:44,383 --> 00:14:45,718 - No. - No, she don't. 232 00:14:49,013 --> 00:14:50,222 We got news. 233 00:14:50,723 --> 00:14:51,849 What news? 234 00:14:53,267 --> 00:14:55,311 I guess she's still got that conscience. 235 00:14:55,394 --> 00:14:57,396 - Oh, my God! - Yeah. 236 00:15:00,149 --> 00:15:03,110 None of the others even blinked at the mention of the grille guard. 237 00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:05,279 Osorio's the one that killed Nadine. 238 00:15:06,488 --> 00:15:08,490 He's got scratch marks up and down his arm. 239 00:15:08,574 --> 00:15:10,701 I can get one of the office detectives to follow Teresa. 240 00:15:10,784 --> 00:15:12,536 You probably shouldn't be around them. 241 00:15:12,620 --> 00:15:13,662 I'm doing this. 242 00:15:14,496 --> 00:15:16,206 Something to keep in mind though about this crew 243 00:15:16,290 --> 00:15:17,917 and how they handle loose ends, 244 00:15:18,959 --> 00:15:20,461 Messiah's missing too. 245 00:15:20,544 --> 00:15:21,879 They're cleaning house. 246 00:15:22,338 --> 00:15:24,882 Which means we need to be extra careful with how we handle Teresa. 247 00:15:25,257 --> 00:15:27,801 Look, offer her immunity, just whatever you need. 248 00:15:27,885 --> 00:15:30,930 I'll do some research, dig up any skeletons if I can. 249 00:15:32,264 --> 00:15:34,683 Just don't let her out of your sight, okay? 250 00:15:35,517 --> 00:15:38,103 - Mrs. Butler. - Today went well, right? 251 00:15:38,187 --> 00:15:40,606 The testimony today establishes damage. 252 00:15:40,689 --> 00:15:42,441 Is it enough to put him away? 253 00:15:43,192 --> 00:15:46,445 Probably not. Uh, but court's in recess until Monday 254 00:15:46,528 --> 00:15:49,907 and I have another lead. It could be the break that we need. 255 00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:54,662 That man has the cops, the press, the entire justice system on his side. 256 00:15:57,164 --> 00:15:58,374 I have you. 257 00:17:27,254 --> 00:17:29,089 Get the fuck outta here. 258 00:17:32,009 --> 00:17:33,719 We need to get you to a hospital. 259 00:17:33,802 --> 00:17:35,721 - Don't touch me! - All right. I won't, I won't. 260 00:17:35,804 --> 00:17:38,474 Don't touch me. Don't touch me. 261 00:17:41,810 --> 00:17:42,895 How about... 262 00:17:44,938 --> 00:17:46,190 I just sit here? 263 00:17:51,695 --> 00:17:53,572 For as long as you want. 264 00:17:59,578 --> 00:18:01,497 Seriously, you didn't have to do this. 265 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:02,706 Yeah, we did. 266 00:18:02,790 --> 00:18:06,043 It's a big deal. You're having a baby. 267 00:18:06,168 --> 00:18:08,879 You need this, especially now. 268 00:18:08,962 --> 00:18:11,673 - Hey, come on, get off. - You gotta have some fun. 269 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:12,966 Isn't that bad luck? 270 00:18:13,050 --> 00:18:16,762 - Hey, listen up. Ladies, shut up. - You're gonna be a great mom. 271 00:18:16,845 --> 00:18:17,846 All right, get up. 272 00:18:18,180 --> 00:18:21,975 I know it's early, but fuck it. We have got to celebrate good news for once. 273 00:18:22,059 --> 00:18:23,727 Watch your fucking language, babe. 274 00:18:23,811 --> 00:18:26,146 Speech, speech, speech, speech. 275 00:18:26,230 --> 00:18:27,773 You're one hell of a cop. 276 00:18:28,357 --> 00:18:30,150 You're gonna be one hell of a dad. 277 00:18:30,234 --> 00:18:32,611 The fuck is the matter with you? ¿Que te pasa, coño? 278 00:18:32,736 --> 00:18:35,989 Yo, get the fuck off of me with that shit! Are you serious? 279 00:18:36,073 --> 00:18:38,325 - No! No! - Hey, hey, hey! Get the fuck off! 280 00:18:38,408 --> 00:18:40,452 - Walk away! Walk away! - He's fucking drunk! 281 00:18:40,536 --> 00:18:41,787 - He's a fucking idiot. - Bitch! 282 00:18:41,870 --> 00:18:43,539 Hey! Watch your fucking tone. All right? 283 00:18:43,622 --> 00:18:45,582 Come sit down. He's an asshole. 284 00:18:45,666 --> 00:18:48,043 Don't know what's wrong with him. He's acting crazy. 285 00:18:48,127 --> 00:18:50,504 - Manny, you know what's wrong? - Nah, it's nothing. 286 00:18:50,587 --> 00:18:52,840 - He's not sleeping. - Forget about it. 287 00:18:52,923 --> 00:18:55,759 - It's cute, right? - It's so cute. 288 00:18:55,843 --> 00:18:59,138 Our kids are gonna grow up together, just like we did. 289 00:18:59,930 --> 00:19:01,765 We're gonna be mommies together. 290 00:19:04,768 --> 00:19:06,478 You're gonna do great in court. 291 00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:08,814 I trust you. 292 00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:11,817 Mm-hmm. 293 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:14,403 All right? You drink with me. 294 00:19:15,112 --> 00:19:16,029 Salud. 295 00:19:16,613 --> 00:19:17,698 Here's to us. 296 00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:21,743 To justice. Right? 297 00:19:29,209 --> 00:19:30,252 Fuck him. 298 00:19:32,254 --> 00:19:33,422 Fuck him. 299 00:19:35,007 --> 00:19:36,842 Petey, I need to tell you something. 300 00:19:37,134 --> 00:19:39,178 - DiAngelo... - No, hey, hey. 301 00:19:39,261 --> 00:19:43,515 - I need to talk to you about something. - Let me grab you another beer. All right? 302 00:19:44,016 --> 00:19:46,518 - I ain't going to let them hurt you. - Hey, no. 303 00:19:48,312 --> 00:19:49,938 No, no, no, no, no, no. 304 00:19:50,022 --> 00:19:52,649 - You can't smoke, you're pregnant. - Come on, stop, T. 305 00:19:52,733 --> 00:19:54,776 - You're pregnant. - Come on, you gotta quit that shit. 306 00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:56,695 You want your kid to come out with crab claws? 307 00:19:56,778 --> 00:19:59,990 I know a girl on the shore, her kid came out with fucking pincers, I swear to God. 308 00:20:00,073 --> 00:20:02,993 - Oh, it's my last one. Promise. - Come on, you don't need to do that. 309 00:20:03,076 --> 00:20:05,120 - Promise. - Come on, stop, stop, stop. 310 00:20:46,286 --> 00:20:49,581 Fuck! What the fuck? What the fuck? 311 00:20:51,667 --> 00:20:52,709 Hey. 312 00:20:55,671 --> 00:20:57,839 I guess congratulations are in order. 313 00:20:58,215 --> 00:21:01,009 - Little girls, man, they're the best. - You're spying on us now? 314 00:21:01,093 --> 00:21:03,762 First time you see that face, it's gonna break your heart. 315 00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:06,765 Break your kid's heart too, knowing she's gotta visit you in the clink. 316 00:21:06,848 --> 00:21:08,934 Get out of here. You can't be here. It's trespassing. 317 00:21:09,017 --> 00:21:10,936 I think it's good that you know the law. 318 00:21:11,728 --> 00:21:13,272 It means you know what an accessory is. 319 00:21:13,814 --> 00:21:17,192 So you know not talking about those cops killing that kid 320 00:21:17,276 --> 00:21:20,279 and crushing his head under that SUV that you like to drive around... 321 00:21:20,362 --> 00:21:22,030 You don't leave now, I will call them out here. 322 00:21:22,114 --> 00:21:23,699 Let's do it. You should do it! 323 00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:25,200 Call them! 324 00:21:27,411 --> 00:21:29,705 Ask them about Nadine, the other little kid they killed. 325 00:21:30,789 --> 00:21:32,541 What are you talking about? 326 00:21:36,503 --> 00:21:39,298 Yeah. She was 15 years old. 327 00:21:39,381 --> 00:21:41,049 She was gonna put 'em all away. 328 00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:42,092 Look at her. 329 00:21:44,636 --> 00:21:46,054 Your friends in there... 330 00:21:46,888 --> 00:21:49,766 left her to rot in some swamp. 331 00:21:49,850 --> 00:21:51,977 - Look at her! - Stop it! 332 00:21:52,060 --> 00:21:54,646 They're worse than animals, 333 00:21:55,147 --> 00:21:56,356 those people in there. 334 00:21:57,607 --> 00:21:59,609 And they're all lying to you. 335 00:22:00,193 --> 00:22:01,653 Even that cousin of yours. 336 00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:05,490 - Don't talk about my cousin, you asshole. - No. Why? Hey. 337 00:22:05,574 --> 00:22:08,327 You stay away from her, you stay away from me! 338 00:22:08,410 --> 00:22:09,578 - Okay! Hey, okay! - Hey, guys! 339 00:22:09,661 --> 00:22:11,079 Hey, shh. 340 00:22:11,788 --> 00:22:13,665 Know how to reach me if you change your mind. 341 00:22:13,749 --> 00:22:15,500 Same place your old man works. 342 00:22:44,738 --> 00:22:46,114 Come get breakfast. 343 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,704 Whether or not Brenton Butler was a gang member, 344 00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:56,583 the 15-year-old did in fact have a juvenile record for drug possession. 345 00:23:03,298 --> 00:23:04,800 All I got is cereal. 346 00:23:06,676 --> 00:23:08,053 That'll work. 347 00:23:25,028 --> 00:23:26,655 What about you and Mrs. Butler? 348 00:23:27,572 --> 00:23:29,491 Y'all ain't checking for each other no more? 349 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:35,372 Just saying, Brenton would've wanted y'all to work it out. 350 00:23:35,455 --> 00:23:37,040 Ain't that what you want? 351 00:23:37,124 --> 00:23:38,583 Not everything's up to me. 352 00:23:39,793 --> 00:23:41,503 Finally made my peace with that. 353 00:23:46,633 --> 00:23:48,885 I am thinking about starting a new job though. 354 00:23:51,012 --> 00:23:52,055 Doing what? 355 00:23:53,181 --> 00:23:54,182 Painting. 356 00:23:55,475 --> 00:23:57,477 Something I been into since I was a kid. 357 00:23:57,561 --> 00:23:59,437 So you trying to be an artist now? 358 00:23:59,980 --> 00:24:02,065 - Like museums and shit? - Nah. 359 00:24:02,149 --> 00:24:04,442 Just, you know, painting old houses, buildings. 360 00:24:04,526 --> 00:24:05,944 Putting some color back. 361 00:24:06,027 --> 00:24:07,028 Some light. 362 00:24:08,238 --> 00:24:09,156 Life. 363 00:24:12,951 --> 00:24:15,078 I might need some help if you're interested in a job. 364 00:24:15,412 --> 00:24:16,788 I ain't no employee. 365 00:24:17,247 --> 00:24:18,290 Shit. 366 00:24:18,915 --> 00:24:20,750 If you're looking for a partner though... 367 00:24:21,585 --> 00:24:22,627 we could talk. 368 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,213 I just might be. 369 00:24:26,798 --> 00:24:29,593 You know, you always got a place to stay if you need it. 370 00:24:45,901 --> 00:24:47,986 I appreciate the offer, but... 371 00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:50,572 I got an aunt out in Mobile. 372 00:24:51,198 --> 00:24:53,158 She's been hitting me up for a while. 373 00:24:53,241 --> 00:24:54,993 Everything that's been going down, 374 00:24:55,076 --> 00:24:56,745 seems like a good idea. 375 00:24:58,038 --> 00:25:01,416 Think I could make it as some country Alabama boy? 376 00:25:02,417 --> 00:25:03,418 I do. 377 00:25:08,590 --> 00:25:10,967 Dear Heavenly Father, may you bless this food 378 00:25:11,676 --> 00:25:15,555 for the nourishment of our bodies, minds, and spirits. 379 00:25:15,639 --> 00:25:17,307 Bless all our loved ones and... 380 00:25:17,807 --> 00:25:19,601 those who aren't here to be loved. 381 00:25:41,873 --> 00:25:42,999 I spooked her. 382 00:25:43,625 --> 00:25:46,169 She knows something, but she's not talking. 383 00:25:46,253 --> 00:25:49,756 And she's in deeper than we thought too. She's about to have Wilcox's demon child. 384 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:51,174 But other than that... 385 00:25:51,967 --> 00:25:53,051 How about you? 386 00:25:53,134 --> 00:25:54,010 Nothing. 387 00:25:54,094 --> 00:25:56,721 Past jobs, old boyfriends, 388 00:25:56,805 --> 00:25:59,266 I couldn't come up with anything to use as leverage. 389 00:25:59,349 --> 00:26:00,517 What about the cousin, Marie? 390 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,353 One mention of her and she went nuts, like a Pekingese on PCP. 391 00:26:03,436 --> 00:26:05,397 They grew up on the same block together. 392 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,233 But if she's about to start a family with Wilcox, 393 00:26:08,316 --> 00:26:10,193 there's no way she's turning any of them in. 394 00:26:10,277 --> 00:26:11,695 What about the other witnesses? 395 00:26:12,112 --> 00:26:14,155 Messiah's AWOL, she's the last one. 396 00:26:14,656 --> 00:26:18,493 Without that grille guard, auto death is mostly speculation. 397 00:26:18,576 --> 00:26:19,995 And hate crime's a Hail Mary. 398 00:26:20,745 --> 00:26:23,707 He had to have seen that blood near the ditch. 399 00:26:23,790 --> 00:26:25,917 And those shoes, they were right there in plain sight. 400 00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:27,877 Can't introduce the Timberlands without Nadine. 401 00:26:27,961 --> 00:26:28,878 I know. 402 00:26:29,337 --> 00:26:30,630 But Jablonski must've seen them. 403 00:26:30,714 --> 00:26:33,174 If he did, he had to have known there was a kid in that ditch. 404 00:26:33,258 --> 00:26:36,136 Have to do better than that. "Must have's" are not gonna sway a jury. 405 00:26:37,345 --> 00:26:39,889 We got a couple hours before the trial. I'm gonna help you prep. 406 00:26:40,015 --> 00:26:43,018 I'm gonna get some moo shu and we're gonna do a little mock trial here. 407 00:26:43,101 --> 00:26:43,977 - No. No. - Huh? 408 00:26:44,060 --> 00:26:47,188 You sat on Teresa all weekend, you did your part. 409 00:26:48,064 --> 00:26:51,276 I just... I need to think, okay? 410 00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:53,611 Let me do my job. 411 00:26:53,695 --> 00:26:54,821 You sure? 412 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:56,865 I do a mean Jersey girl. 413 00:26:58,033 --> 00:26:59,576 I already got the gum. See? 414 00:27:00,410 --> 00:27:01,328 Go. 415 00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:03,997 You're gonna do good tomorrow. 416 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:05,874 Goodnight, Fish. 417 00:27:05,957 --> 00:27:07,083 Night. 418 00:27:21,556 --> 00:27:23,224 I didn't mean to scare you. 419 00:27:24,392 --> 00:27:25,518 You didn't. 420 00:27:27,771 --> 00:27:31,358 You know what kind of message it sends, you disrespecting me in public. 421 00:27:33,443 --> 00:27:36,780 - Don't walk away from me! - I'm walking to my car, Officer. 422 00:27:36,863 --> 00:27:38,865 There's a time and a place to discuss legal matters. 423 00:27:38,948 --> 00:27:41,618 How is it you still don't get that we're a team? 424 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,247 The N. A. P. wanted their best man on this case, 425 00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:48,333 and like it or not, it was me. 426 00:27:49,334 --> 00:27:52,754 You wanna be a part of a team, join a softball league. 427 00:27:53,588 --> 00:27:55,131 With a little more conviction. 428 00:27:56,925 --> 00:27:58,051 Excuse me? 429 00:27:59,094 --> 00:28:00,595 You didn't really own it. 430 00:28:02,055 --> 00:28:03,681 I caught a little quiver in your cheek. 431 00:28:05,266 --> 00:28:06,893 I got something for you. 432 00:28:14,234 --> 00:28:16,778 You want to shake her up tomorrow, use this. 433 00:28:18,238 --> 00:28:19,280 What is it? 434 00:28:19,614 --> 00:28:22,117 That's a little thing called "inherent bias." 435 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,035 It works both ways. 436 00:28:25,578 --> 00:28:27,414 People gunning for us, 437 00:28:27,497 --> 00:28:29,332 'cause they can't raise their own families 438 00:28:29,416 --> 00:28:31,251 without asking us for our help. 439 00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:35,380 At the end of the day, 440 00:28:36,339 --> 00:28:39,759 this whole thing is one big clusterfuck of Mommy and Daddy issues. 441 00:28:39,843 --> 00:28:43,596 Like I said, you're gonna enjoy what is on that. 442 00:28:47,058 --> 00:28:49,060 And whatever you think about me... 443 00:28:52,313 --> 00:28:53,732 he's a good kid. 444 00:28:54,315 --> 00:28:55,483 A naive one... 445 00:28:56,359 --> 00:28:57,986 with his own Daddy issues. 446 00:28:59,654 --> 00:29:03,450 But that's how you like 'em. Fatherless sons. 447 00:29:03,908 --> 00:29:05,076 Do your job. 448 00:29:07,078 --> 00:29:08,538 Get Jablonski off. 449 00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:25,180 Is it... Is it true, in fact, Ms. Tonelli, that... 450 00:29:27,182 --> 00:29:28,433 Come on, KJ. 451 00:29:29,184 --> 00:29:30,518 That you are... 452 00:29:36,316 --> 00:29:38,735 Oh, shit. 453 00:29:41,237 --> 00:29:42,363 You ready to go? 454 00:29:42,447 --> 00:29:45,492 - Give me a minute, I gotta change. - We're gonna be late, giddyup. 455 00:29:46,117 --> 00:29:48,286 Put the yellow folders in my bag. 456 00:29:48,369 --> 00:29:49,996 - Please. - Where are they? 457 00:29:50,371 --> 00:29:52,207 On the couch or somewhere. 458 00:29:53,333 --> 00:29:54,918 The city's gonna condemn this place. 459 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:56,878 I'm telling you, it looks like my Uncle Joe's, 460 00:29:56,961 --> 00:29:58,505 and that guy was a bona fide hoarder. 461 00:29:58,588 --> 00:30:01,925 He used to use plastic bags as a toilet. 462 00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:03,927 I'm telling you, it's a slippery slope, KJ. 463 00:30:04,010 --> 00:30:06,930 ...Ms. Harper's bias against the police may prove her unfit 464 00:30:07,013 --> 00:30:08,765 to try the Brenton Butler case. 465 00:30:08,848 --> 00:30:12,185 - Like you know how to do your job. - Excuse me? 466 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:17,273 - Agh! Now you want to act like a cop. - What'd you say to me? 467 00:30:17,357 --> 00:30:21,152 - You heard me the first time. - So tell that 468 00:30:21,236 --> 00:30:25,114 - to give me my car back! - Calm down, ma'am. 469 00:30:26,908 --> 00:30:30,537 Why don't you mind your business? 470 00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:32,413 - You're all racist... - Let's go. Come on. 471 00:30:32,497 --> 00:30:34,082 - Let's go. - ...every one of you cops! 472 00:30:34,165 --> 00:30:37,210 I am an assistant prosecutor. 473 00:30:43,424 --> 00:30:46,052 Seriously. Come on. 474 00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:02,694 Sit down. Cool your jets. 475 00:31:04,362 --> 00:31:05,280 Sit down. 476 00:31:07,740 --> 00:31:08,867 All rise. 477 00:31:09,951 --> 00:31:12,161 The honorable Judge Robert Dolan presiding. 478 00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:17,500 Bring the jury in. 479 00:31:26,843 --> 00:31:28,011 Everyone be seated. 480 00:31:32,140 --> 00:31:33,600 May counsel approach? 481 00:31:41,441 --> 00:31:45,069 Your Honor, we're all painfully aware of the news cycle this morning. 482 00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:46,362 Your point, Counselor? 483 00:31:47,155 --> 00:31:51,075 Frankly, it makes these proceedings look like an episode of the Jersey Shore. 484 00:31:51,451 --> 00:31:53,536 The State may benefit from new counsel. 485 00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:56,998 With all due respect, Your Honor, that's not the court's decision to make. 486 00:31:57,081 --> 00:32:00,877 Agreed. Now, ladies, can we get back to the point at hand? 487 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,296 Yes? Good. Thank you. 488 00:32:03,379 --> 00:32:05,840 Ms. Harper, you may proceed. 489 00:32:08,134 --> 00:32:09,469 I know you did it. 490 00:32:09,552 --> 00:32:12,889 And what are you gonna do? Throw a punch at me too? Go ahead. 491 00:32:24,150 --> 00:32:26,527 The State calls Teresa Tonelli. 492 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:50,551 Raise your right hand. 493 00:32:51,094 --> 00:32:52,595 - It's the other hand, ma'am. - Sorry. 494 00:32:52,679 --> 00:32:53,930 Left hand on the Bible. 495 00:32:55,223 --> 00:32:57,684 Swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, 496 00:32:57,767 --> 00:32:58,851 so help you God? 497 00:32:59,394 --> 00:33:01,229 I do. Okay. 498 00:33:03,731 --> 00:33:04,774 Ms. Tonelli, 499 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,319 when you borrowed the blue Ford Escape 500 00:33:09,237 --> 00:33:11,447 on the morning of February 22nd, 501 00:33:12,865 --> 00:33:16,160 you had an altercation with the defendant, correct? 502 00:33:16,244 --> 00:33:17,495 I don't remember. 503 00:33:18,496 --> 00:33:20,081 I just, um... 504 00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:21,541 Petey was upset, whatever. 505 00:33:21,624 --> 00:33:24,043 Because you drove his car seven days after the hit-and-run? 506 00:33:24,127 --> 00:33:25,920 No, 'cause Marie had been in the hospital. 507 00:33:26,629 --> 00:33:28,548 They lost their baby girl last year. 508 00:33:28,881 --> 00:33:30,550 She was stillborn. 509 00:33:30,633 --> 00:33:31,759 It was terrible. 510 00:33:34,470 --> 00:33:36,180 "You ever touch this truck again, 511 00:33:36,264 --> 00:33:38,933 and I swear to God, I'll fucking kill you." 512 00:33:41,519 --> 00:33:44,022 Do you recall the defendant saying those words to you? 513 00:33:44,397 --> 00:33:46,441 Can the clerk please mark the interview with the neighbor, 514 00:33:46,524 --> 00:33:49,110 Mr. Howard Beggs, as State's Exhibit S-3. 515 00:33:50,611 --> 00:33:53,990 I'd like to direct your attention to line ten, page five. 516 00:33:54,073 --> 00:33:56,784 And I remind you, you're under oath. 517 00:33:59,829 --> 00:34:01,164 Yeah, he said that. 518 00:34:02,457 --> 00:34:05,918 Whatever. He told me to get out of the car. It wasn't a big deal. 519 00:34:06,002 --> 00:34:09,047 He grabbed you by the neck, dragged you out of the car, 520 00:34:09,130 --> 00:34:10,298 and threw you against it. 521 00:34:10,381 --> 00:34:11,632 - Really? - Objection. 522 00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:14,093 - Is that a question, Your Honor? - It is. Sit down. 523 00:34:14,177 --> 00:34:17,138 I'll be the arbitrator of that, not you, Ms. Harper. 524 00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:19,432 Your objection, Ms. Hennessy, is overruled. 525 00:34:23,186 --> 00:34:24,228 Counselor. 526 00:34:27,356 --> 00:34:29,525 Are you afraid of the defendant, Ms. Tonelli? 527 00:34:30,651 --> 00:34:31,861 No. 528 00:34:31,944 --> 00:34:33,988 Are you afraid he might hurt your cousin? 529 00:34:36,657 --> 00:34:37,909 He better not. 530 00:34:39,619 --> 00:34:42,663 Yet he left a boy out in the cold to die. 531 00:34:43,164 --> 00:34:45,166 A child, a black child... 532 00:34:45,249 --> 00:34:46,667 Objection, speculation. 533 00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:48,211 Sustained. 534 00:34:48,294 --> 00:34:50,129 Why did you go to Brenton Butler's vigil? 535 00:34:54,967 --> 00:34:56,761 He was just a kid. 536 00:34:59,013 --> 00:35:01,390 He shouldn't have died like that. 537 00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:04,310 He could have lived. 538 00:35:04,393 --> 00:35:07,688 If one person spoke up. Just one. 539 00:35:09,357 --> 00:35:10,691 I know you're scared. 540 00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:13,402 And I know how easy it is 541 00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:16,489 to walk away and to say nothing, 542 00:35:17,323 --> 00:35:20,243 but you know the truth, and you know right from wrong. 543 00:35:20,326 --> 00:35:21,494 Objection! 544 00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:23,830 Don't leave him out in the cold, Teresa, please. 545 00:35:23,913 --> 00:35:26,249 Objection! Is there a question here, Your Honor? 546 00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:28,126 Ask the question, Counselor. 547 00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:30,628 - Where's the blue SUV? - I don't know. 548 00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:33,881 You do know, that's why you went to the park, to the vigil. 549 00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:36,843 - I said I don't know where it is. - This is outrageous, Your Honor. 550 00:35:36,926 --> 00:35:39,554 - Where's the missing grille guard? - She's harassing her own witness. 551 00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:43,015 - Where is it, Teresa? Tell me. - Counselors, approach now. 552 00:35:43,432 --> 00:35:45,726 He was bleeding and screaming 553 00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:49,105 - and dying alone. A child. - Objection! Your Honor, please. 554 00:35:49,188 --> 00:35:51,190 - Be that one person, Teresa... - She is violating... 555 00:35:51,274 --> 00:35:52,942 ...and tell me where the missing grille guard is. 556 00:35:53,025 --> 00:35:54,318 It's not missing! 557 00:35:59,365 --> 00:36:00,992 It's in his backyard. 558 00:36:07,081 --> 00:36:08,499 Teresa! 559 00:36:11,127 --> 00:36:12,420 Teresa! 560 00:36:15,089 --> 00:36:16,174 How could you do that? 561 00:36:16,257 --> 00:36:17,383 Get Mikey. Go quick. 562 00:36:17,466 --> 00:36:19,719 - We can go now before it's too late. - You're crazy! 563 00:36:19,802 --> 00:36:23,472 Me? How can you not see what they are? They planted that thing in your pool. 564 00:36:23,556 --> 00:36:25,308 - They don't care about you. - Fucking bitch! 565 00:36:25,391 --> 00:36:28,519 - You fucking bitch! You fucking bitch! - Get off! 566 00:36:28,603 --> 00:36:29,770 You fucking bitch! 567 00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:31,439 You son of a bitch! 568 00:36:31,522 --> 00:36:32,440 The baby! 569 00:36:32,523 --> 00:36:34,442 There won't be a baby! 570 00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:37,945 You think I'm gonna bring your child into this world? For what? 571 00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:39,906 What kind of father are you gonna be? 572 00:36:39,989 --> 00:36:42,325 You kill kids and you're looking at me like that? 573 00:36:42,408 --> 00:36:44,744 - Yo, stop! Stop! Come on. - Fuck you. 574 00:36:45,411 --> 00:36:49,165 Now we got something in common, Pete. You and me. 575 00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:51,584 We're the same. 576 00:36:53,336 --> 00:36:55,046 Fuck! 577 00:37:06,474 --> 00:37:09,310 Hey, hey. I didn't have nothing to do with this. 578 00:37:09,393 --> 00:37:11,270 I told them to get rid of it. Fuck. 579 00:37:11,354 --> 00:37:13,231 Babe, come on, let's go, let's go. 580 00:37:14,398 --> 00:37:15,900 You stupid fuck! 581 00:37:16,692 --> 00:37:19,237 Hey! I'm talking to you! I'm fucking talking to you! 582 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:20,863 Back the fuck off! 583 00:37:21,489 --> 00:37:23,824 No one is listening to you no more! 584 00:37:24,533 --> 00:37:27,161 You destroy everyone around you! 585 00:37:27,536 --> 00:37:29,372 Everything you fucking touch! 586 00:37:30,665 --> 00:37:32,166 Just look around you, man. 587 00:37:33,084 --> 00:37:34,085 Just look. 588 00:37:37,755 --> 00:37:39,507 Let's get the fuck out of here. 589 00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:03,322 - What is this? - Mrs. Butler, Mr. Butler. 590 00:38:03,406 --> 00:38:05,408 What is this? What does this mean for the case? 591 00:38:05,491 --> 00:38:06,701 It means we got him. 592 00:38:07,201 --> 00:38:10,663 And we can get the other three now too by turning Jablonski against them. 593 00:38:10,746 --> 00:38:12,665 - In exchange for a plea. - A plea? 594 00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:15,209 We won't agree. He's got to pay for what he did. 595 00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:17,128 He'll still do time, I promise you that. 596 00:38:17,211 --> 00:38:19,839 - But we can get all of them with this. - How much time? 597 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:24,051 I have to be reasonable or he won't agree to it. Eight years. 598 00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:28,306 You make him get on that stand and say what he did. 599 00:38:28,389 --> 00:38:29,223 Yeah. 600 00:38:30,099 --> 00:38:33,144 You're right. He's got to. He's got to get up on that stand, KJ. 601 00:38:33,227 --> 00:38:35,896 I need to hear those words come out of his mouth. 602 00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:38,065 - I want that whole courtroom to hear it. - I understand. 603 00:38:38,149 --> 00:38:40,651 - I need to hear what happened to Brenton! - He will. I understand. 604 00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:43,696 All right, baby. It's almost over. 605 00:38:43,779 --> 00:38:46,574 - I need to hear him say it. - It's almost over. 606 00:39:02,882 --> 00:39:05,176 He'll give a written statement, that's it. 607 00:39:05,593 --> 00:39:08,054 I won't have my hands tied if this thing goes south. 608 00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:11,766 There's no deal if your client doesn't testify in open court. 609 00:39:12,850 --> 00:39:17,313 Okay. I know your experience is limited, so let me break this down for you. 610 00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:22,485 My client is guaranteed death by auto, five to ten years, 611 00:39:22,568 --> 00:39:25,029 if the jury hears him confess to the accident. 612 00:39:25,488 --> 00:39:27,365 Would you rather gamble with 30? 613 00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:29,617 That's if you can prove a hate crime. 614 00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:31,702 Which you've failed at miserably up to now. 615 00:39:39,293 --> 00:39:41,796 Wait, we want a plea. 616 00:39:41,879 --> 00:39:43,923 - I ain't no rat. - Petey. 617 00:39:44,006 --> 00:39:45,800 They put that thing in our pool. 618 00:39:47,009 --> 00:39:48,969 You don't have to be loyal to them. 619 00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:51,222 Mrs. Jablonski. Please. 620 00:39:54,725 --> 00:39:56,435 Five years max, 621 00:39:56,519 --> 00:39:57,895 you get your confession. 622 00:39:57,978 --> 00:39:59,730 My last offer. 623 00:40:00,564 --> 00:40:01,565 Eight years. 624 00:40:05,694 --> 00:40:07,071 Can we have a minute? 625 00:40:17,748 --> 00:40:20,668 Eight years for him and 20 each for the other three. 626 00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:23,254 That's almost 70 years in total. 627 00:40:24,588 --> 00:40:27,174 Think a lifetime's long enough for the Butlers? 628 00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:32,847 Did you see the look on the jury's faces 629 00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:35,349 when she paraded around those autopsy photos? 630 00:40:35,433 --> 00:40:38,394 - They don't like you very much right now. - Fuck them. 631 00:40:38,477 --> 00:40:39,603 No. Fuck you. 632 00:40:40,062 --> 00:40:41,772 Fuck your wife, fuck your kid. 633 00:40:42,314 --> 00:40:44,859 He'll be 30 by the time you get out of prison. 634 00:40:47,194 --> 00:40:51,949 I urge you to consider eight years and a confession your best option. 635 00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:08,048 Hey, um, why don't you go inside? I'll be there in a minute. 636 00:41:08,382 --> 00:41:09,508 Okay. 637 00:41:32,781 --> 00:41:36,202 I'd kill you myself, but then I'd be no better than you are. 638 00:41:38,662 --> 00:41:39,955 But know this... 639 00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:44,335 you will meet your God. 640 00:41:46,212 --> 00:41:48,380 On that you can depend. 641 00:41:50,758 --> 00:41:51,926 You making threats? 642 00:41:52,009 --> 00:41:53,594 No, no need for threats. 643 00:41:54,845 --> 00:41:58,557 Prison's the one place a white man ain't no better than the rest of us. 644 00:42:00,017 --> 00:42:01,644 They gonna kill you in there. 645 00:42:07,274 --> 00:42:08,359 Oh, you don't know? 646 00:42:10,528 --> 00:42:12,196 Your boy's gonna give you up. 647 00:42:13,989 --> 00:42:15,449 He's gonna save himself. 648 00:42:21,789 --> 00:42:23,082 I see what you are. 649 00:42:26,669 --> 00:42:28,128 I know what you are. 650 00:42:30,130 --> 00:42:31,966 You ain't nothing but a coward. 651 00:42:35,553 --> 00:42:38,347 And the whole world's gonna see it now, too. 652 00:42:59,868 --> 00:43:01,704 His diaper's soaked. Just give me a minute. 653 00:43:01,787 --> 00:43:03,038 - We gotta go now. - What? 654 00:43:03,122 --> 00:43:04,915 I'll get the bag. But let's go now. 655 00:43:25,811 --> 00:43:27,438 I need to change Mikey. 656 00:43:30,816 --> 00:43:32,109 - I'll wait out here. - I'm fine. 657 00:43:32,192 --> 00:43:34,945 Just... I'll meet you inside. Hennessy might need to talk to you. 658 00:43:35,904 --> 00:43:37,656 It's gonna be okay, babe. 659 00:43:38,407 --> 00:43:41,702 I'm proud of you for doing this. You're doing this for us. 660 00:43:42,578 --> 00:43:44,121 - Okay? - Yeah. 661 00:43:45,789 --> 00:43:46,624 I love you. 662 00:43:57,259 --> 00:43:58,761 I know what you're gonna do. 663 00:44:05,142 --> 00:44:06,143 Do it. 664 00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:11,482 Do it for your family, your son. 665 00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:14,652 I understand. 666 00:44:21,950 --> 00:44:23,035 It was me. 667 00:44:25,579 --> 00:44:28,082 I made you drive away. 668 00:44:31,710 --> 00:44:33,003 So you go in there, 669 00:44:34,588 --> 00:44:36,006 and you tell them the truth. 670 00:44:39,635 --> 00:44:40,678 Go on. 671 00:44:42,054 --> 00:44:43,097 Go. 672 00:45:16,171 --> 00:45:17,339 Mrs. Butler. 673 00:45:19,258 --> 00:45:20,467 I'm so... 674 00:45:21,844 --> 00:45:23,720 so sorry for your loss. 675 00:45:26,223 --> 00:45:27,307 I can't... 676 00:45:29,059 --> 00:45:34,273 I can't imagine what you're going through, and I can't imagine losing my child. 677 00:45:35,232 --> 00:45:36,316 I know... 678 00:45:37,276 --> 00:45:41,113 there's nothing I can do to make it up to you. I know that. 679 00:45:43,282 --> 00:45:44,825 But it was an accident. 680 00:45:47,911 --> 00:45:50,247 My husband is a good man. 681 00:45:52,082 --> 00:45:55,127 Your husband drove away from my child. 682 00:45:56,503 --> 00:45:58,672 How could you sit in that courtroom 683 00:45:59,131 --> 00:46:01,592 knowing what you know and say those words to me? 684 00:46:01,675 --> 00:46:02,801 He didn't know. 685 00:46:02,885 --> 00:46:05,721 He would've never done that if he knew. 686 00:46:06,346 --> 00:46:07,264 He wouldn't. 687 00:46:07,347 --> 00:46:10,517 There's a whole lot he doesn't know, that you don't know. 688 00:46:12,644 --> 00:46:14,563 That man you sit next to... 689 00:46:15,689 --> 00:46:16,690 in court... 690 00:46:17,983 --> 00:46:19,067 every day? 691 00:46:19,693 --> 00:46:21,445 The one you let hold your baby? 692 00:46:22,696 --> 00:46:24,364 He wanted your husband dead. 693 00:47:08,534 --> 00:47:09,660 All rise. 694 00:47:11,828 --> 00:47:13,914 The honorable Judge Robert Dolan presiding. 695 00:47:21,547 --> 00:47:24,341 Can you state your name and rank for the record? 696 00:47:24,424 --> 00:47:28,053 Officer Peter Michael Jablonski, Jersey City Police Department. 697 00:47:28,470 --> 00:47:31,181 You transferred from the East District to the South. 698 00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:33,559 What was the reason for this transfer? 699 00:47:33,642 --> 00:47:37,604 I joined the Anti-Gang and Narcotics Unit, which is based out of the South. 700 00:47:38,146 --> 00:47:41,024 Your ranking officer is Sergeant Michael DiAngelo. 701 00:47:41,608 --> 00:47:44,695 And you're expected to obey his orders, is that true? 702 00:47:46,863 --> 00:47:48,156 That's correct. 703 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:50,701 Directing your attention to the morning of February 15th, 704 00:47:51,618 --> 00:47:55,122 can you recount the events that transpired in Liberty Park? 705 00:47:56,456 --> 00:47:58,875 I'd just gotten a call from my wife's cousin. 706 00:47:59,876 --> 00:48:02,212 Said Marie, my wife, 707 00:48:02,296 --> 00:48:03,547 was in the hospital. 708 00:48:06,717 --> 00:48:08,635 I was driving, on the phone, 709 00:48:09,303 --> 00:48:10,637 not paying attention... 710 00:48:12,055 --> 00:48:14,182 and I, uh... I hit something. 711 00:48:14,891 --> 00:48:15,934 Something? 712 00:48:18,812 --> 00:48:21,148 What did you hit, Mr. Jablonski? 713 00:48:22,190 --> 00:48:23,358 I didn't see. 714 00:48:24,943 --> 00:48:28,071 And when I got out of my car, I saw the grille guard hanging off. 715 00:48:29,364 --> 00:48:30,240 And... 716 00:48:31,325 --> 00:48:33,660 that bike underneath my wheels. 717 00:48:37,164 --> 00:48:41,209 Is it true that officers found that grille guard in your backyard 718 00:48:41,293 --> 00:48:43,462 after executing a search warrant last night? 719 00:48:48,967 --> 00:48:49,968 Yes. 720 00:48:50,969 --> 00:48:52,012 And this bike... 721 00:48:53,472 --> 00:48:55,390 is it present in the courtroom today? 722 00:48:56,266 --> 00:48:58,435 Yes. At the evidence table. 723 00:49:00,103 --> 00:49:03,690 So you were fully aware that you hit a human being? 724 00:49:04,775 --> 00:49:05,859 Not an animal, 725 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:07,444 not a tree. 726 00:49:08,695 --> 00:49:09,863 Maybe a black teenager? 727 00:49:09,946 --> 00:49:11,990 Objection, conjecture. 728 00:49:12,074 --> 00:49:13,909 I'll rephrase, Your Honor. 729 00:49:20,791 --> 00:49:23,126 Are narcotics officers like yourself 730 00:49:23,210 --> 00:49:27,381 aware that this particular brand of bike, the Sarongo Series, 731 00:49:27,464 --> 00:49:31,468 is used by members of the Five Kings, a black gang in Jersey City? 732 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:36,348 Yeah, but I didn't look too close at it. 733 00:49:36,431 --> 00:49:38,725 So it would be a reasonable assumption 734 00:49:38,809 --> 00:49:42,396 that whoever had been riding this bike could've been black? 735 00:49:45,899 --> 00:49:47,484 I wasn't thinking about the bike. 736 00:49:47,567 --> 00:49:50,028 Your Honor, the State agreed that questioning 737 00:49:50,112 --> 00:49:53,740 would be limited to the actual events of February 15th. 738 00:49:54,074 --> 00:49:56,326 Ms. Harper, you are aware of this. 739 00:49:58,453 --> 00:50:01,665 What happened next, after you exited your vehicle? 740 00:50:03,792 --> 00:50:06,211 I stood there on the road next to my car... 741 00:50:07,587 --> 00:50:09,256 looking at the statue. 742 00:50:09,548 --> 00:50:11,007 The Statue of Liberty. 743 00:50:12,384 --> 00:50:15,470 I could see her, even her torch, it was lit up. 744 00:50:15,554 --> 00:50:17,973 How long did you stand there, on the road? 745 00:50:18,056 --> 00:50:19,850 - I don't know. - Was it a few minutes? 746 00:50:19,933 --> 00:50:21,476 - A few seconds? - I don't know. 747 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,562 Did you go to the ditch to see who was down there? 748 00:50:23,937 --> 00:50:26,148 I told you, I stood on the road looking at the statue. 749 00:50:26,231 --> 00:50:29,234 There was blood everywhere and you didn't think to go and look? 750 00:50:29,317 --> 00:50:31,236 - Your Honor... - I was thinking about the statue 751 00:50:31,319 --> 00:50:34,281 and this time when I climbed the stairs inside her torch... 752 00:50:35,073 --> 00:50:36,783 when I was eight or nine. 753 00:50:38,034 --> 00:50:40,704 My mother was standing on the stairs in front of me. 754 00:50:41,663 --> 00:50:44,166 And I could see the bruises on the back of her legs. 755 00:50:44,875 --> 00:50:47,627 - That's what I was thinking about. - Mr. Jablonski. 756 00:50:49,629 --> 00:50:51,089 That's why I became a cop. 757 00:50:51,590 --> 00:50:53,592 Because of animals like my father. 758 00:50:53,675 --> 00:50:56,678 - I was never gonna be a coward like him. - Mr. Jablonski. 759 00:50:57,345 --> 00:50:58,972 What did you do next? 760 00:51:03,769 --> 00:51:05,228 Mr. Jablonski. 761 00:51:16,907 --> 00:51:18,158 I drove away. 762 00:51:26,166 --> 00:51:28,168 Let me remind you that you're under oath. 763 00:51:28,251 --> 00:51:30,295 Your Honor, the question's been asked and answered. 764 00:51:30,378 --> 00:51:32,589 - What did you do next? - I said I drove away. 765 00:51:32,672 --> 00:51:35,425 - That's not what you did and you know it. - Counselor, approach now. 766 00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:37,969 - What did you do after you exited? - Ms. Harper, that is enough! 767 00:51:38,053 --> 00:51:40,430 - Say it. Say what you did. - Your Honor, please. 768 00:51:40,514 --> 00:51:41,890 Say what you did, goddamn it! 769 00:51:41,973 --> 00:51:43,433 Remove Ms. Harper from my courtroom. 770 00:51:43,517 --> 00:51:44,976 Say what you did. Say what you did... 771 00:51:45,060 --> 00:51:46,186 - Let's go. - Don't touch me! 772 00:51:46,269 --> 00:51:47,187 Say what you did! 773 00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:50,357 - Arrest her for contempt of court. - Look at them and say what you did. 774 00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,526 - Get off. Get off of me. - Stop resisting. 775 00:51:52,609 --> 00:51:53,693 You're an asshole. 776 00:51:54,277 --> 00:51:55,278 Stop resisting. 777 00:51:55,362 --> 00:51:56,613 Take it easy. 778 00:51:57,447 --> 00:51:58,865 Get the fuck off me! 779 00:52:32,274 --> 00:52:33,984 We gotta stop meeting like this. 780 00:52:37,153 --> 00:52:39,614 Dolan wants to move forward, no bueno on the mistrial. 781 00:52:39,698 --> 00:52:41,950 And he's gonna let you do your closing tomorrow. 782 00:52:42,033 --> 00:52:43,451 Fair guy. 783 00:52:43,535 --> 00:52:46,788 Connelly, on the other hand, wants your resignation after. 784 00:52:46,872 --> 00:52:50,083 - And he sent you to deliver the message. - No, he told the press that. 785 00:52:51,376 --> 00:52:52,544 Of course he did. 786 00:52:55,171 --> 00:52:56,715 "Sit in the box, 787 00:52:57,924 --> 00:53:01,678 and see what the jury sees." It's Trial Prep 101. 788 00:53:04,681 --> 00:53:06,266 Today they saw 789 00:53:06,766 --> 00:53:08,518 a broken-hearted little boy 790 00:53:08,935 --> 00:53:10,854 gazing up at the Statue of Liberty. 791 00:53:11,730 --> 00:53:13,023 Fucking great. 792 00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:16,943 They don't get to see Brenton. 793 00:53:17,027 --> 00:53:19,237 - He doesn't get to take the stand. - Make them see him. 794 00:53:19,321 --> 00:53:21,323 I did, no one cares! 795 00:53:22,073 --> 00:53:24,951 I told you, no one puts cops away. 796 00:53:25,368 --> 00:53:28,747 I wasn't ever gonna win this. It was always about optics for Connelly, 797 00:53:28,830 --> 00:53:30,957 a black face for the black vote. 798 00:53:31,499 --> 00:53:33,627 It's the greatest show on earth, this shit. 799 00:53:36,588 --> 00:53:38,048 - Wanna know something else? - Hmm? 800 00:53:38,131 --> 00:53:39,716 - I'm a second-rate lawyer. - Mmm. 801 00:53:39,799 --> 00:53:42,218 I can't win. I won't win. So... 802 00:53:42,928 --> 00:53:44,012 just go. 803 00:53:44,095 --> 00:53:45,889 - That might be true. - It is fucking true. 804 00:53:45,972 --> 00:53:48,308 Okay, then it is. You suck. Now get up. 805 00:53:49,893 --> 00:53:54,022 You got a dead kid to speak for. You got two dead kids... to speak for. 806 00:53:54,481 --> 00:53:56,942 - You're all that they've got left. - It's over, Fish. 807 00:53:58,985 --> 00:54:00,153 Tell that to him. 808 00:54:01,821 --> 00:54:02,739 Not me. 809 00:54:03,365 --> 00:54:04,491 You wanna quit? 810 00:54:06,493 --> 00:54:07,619 But tell Brenton that. 811 00:54:10,413 --> 00:54:11,748 I'm sick of hearing it. 812 00:54:31,768 --> 00:54:35,814 This is your last call for departure to Baton Rouge. The bus... 813 00:54:45,365 --> 00:54:48,034 Mr. Butler told me you were leaving, so I... 814 00:54:49,452 --> 00:54:50,704 Can I sit down? 815 00:54:52,288 --> 00:54:54,207 I'd like to ask you something. 816 00:54:56,251 --> 00:54:58,628 You were the last person that Brenton saw. 817 00:54:59,754 --> 00:55:03,383 - The last person he talked to... - What do you want from me, Mrs. Butler? 818 00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:08,013 Anything. Just anything. I just... 819 00:55:08,555 --> 00:55:12,142 want to know what he... what he said, what he was thinking. 820 00:55:16,730 --> 00:55:20,567 I woke up that morning. Brenton was next to me. 821 00:55:21,484 --> 00:55:22,569 That's all. 822 00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:27,782 Was he happy? 823 00:55:35,331 --> 00:55:36,458 He was home. 824 00:55:40,670 --> 00:55:42,172 He sprayed that stuff... 825 00:55:44,049 --> 00:55:45,091 that cologne... 826 00:55:47,343 --> 00:55:48,803 before he left. 827 00:55:50,847 --> 00:55:52,098 He liked that stuff. 828 00:55:54,809 --> 00:55:56,686 My room still smelled like it. 829 00:56:00,523 --> 00:56:01,524 At night... 830 00:56:03,943 --> 00:56:06,696 he used to listen to the cars pass on the bridge. 831 00:56:09,324 --> 00:56:11,284 Brenton said it sounded like the ocean. 832 00:56:14,037 --> 00:56:17,040 Mobile, Alabama bus departs from gate five. 833 00:56:17,123 --> 00:56:18,833 Mobile, Alabama bus. 834 00:56:19,292 --> 00:56:20,502 Kadeuce. 835 00:56:20,585 --> 00:56:21,795 Kadeuce, don't go. 836 00:56:22,629 --> 00:56:24,047 Please don't go. 837 00:56:25,131 --> 00:56:26,466 This is home. 838 00:56:27,509 --> 00:56:28,551 Nah. 839 00:56:30,053 --> 00:56:31,721 Home is where your people at. 840 00:56:33,431 --> 00:56:34,474 You know? 841 00:56:39,395 --> 00:56:41,231 Oh, sweetheart. 842 00:57:27,694 --> 00:57:29,028 Thought you were gone. 843 00:57:30,947 --> 00:57:33,867 I was... I... 844 00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:35,994 You need a place to stay? 845 00:57:39,539 --> 00:57:40,457 Nah. 846 00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:44,711 I gotta find my own way. 847 00:57:47,464 --> 00:57:49,424 There's something out there, I just... 848 00:57:51,968 --> 00:57:53,678 I just gotta find it. You feel me? 849 00:58:01,311 --> 00:58:03,229 It's too big for one person. 850 00:58:05,648 --> 00:58:07,317 And Tricey ain't coming back. 851 00:58:11,905 --> 00:58:12,989 I don't blame her. 852 00:58:15,825 --> 00:58:17,118 Drove y'all away. 853 00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,331 My wife, my son, 854 00:58:21,831 --> 00:58:22,916 you. 855 00:58:26,002 --> 00:58:27,837 I could've done what she said. 856 00:58:28,922 --> 00:58:30,256 I could've just said it. 857 00:58:34,385 --> 00:58:35,595 At the hospital... 858 00:58:37,388 --> 00:58:39,432 she said, "Tell Brenton you love him." 859 00:58:44,270 --> 00:58:45,438 Now he'll never know. 860 00:58:48,733 --> 00:58:50,985 My son died not knowing I did. 861 00:58:55,073 --> 00:58:56,491 That day at the ocean... 862 00:59:01,371 --> 00:59:03,039 Yeah. 863 00:59:05,291 --> 00:59:06,292 You remember that day? 864 00:59:07,252 --> 00:59:08,336 You remember that? 865 00:59:12,382 --> 00:59:13,800 Isaiah, you gotta remember. 866 00:59:15,260 --> 00:59:16,261 You were there. 867 00:59:18,805 --> 00:59:21,266 I was working so much back when he was small. 868 00:59:22,809 --> 00:59:25,520 And Tricey got sick, there was so much to tend to. 869 00:59:29,482 --> 00:59:30,692 Why you bring this up? 870 00:59:30,775 --> 00:59:33,319 Why you think Brenton loved them seagulls so much? 871 00:59:36,781 --> 00:59:38,700 Because his father brought him there. 872 00:59:40,368 --> 00:59:41,953 Isaiah, you took that picture. 873 00:59:46,583 --> 00:59:49,752 Showed him the best day of his life. 874 00:59:52,755 --> 00:59:53,923 That's what he said. 875 00:59:56,759 --> 00:59:58,678 You ain't gotta say the words, 'Saiah. 876 01:00:00,179 --> 01:00:01,139 He knew. 877 01:00:04,475 --> 01:00:05,602 Your son... 878 01:00:07,437 --> 01:00:08,521 knew... 879 01:00:09,147 --> 01:00:10,356 that you loved him. 880 01:00:22,952 --> 01:00:24,704 I'm sorry for driving you off... 881 01:00:26,789 --> 01:00:27,999 for what I did. 882 01:00:32,170 --> 01:00:33,254 I'm sorry. 883 01:00:35,381 --> 01:00:37,050 You ain't gotta apologize, bro. 884 01:00:51,564 --> 01:00:52,774 I gotta go. 885 01:00:53,399 --> 01:00:54,484 Yeah. I gotta... 886 01:00:54,567 --> 01:00:56,402 Yeah. All right. 887 01:00:57,820 --> 01:00:59,030 You'll find it. 888 01:01:01,574 --> 01:01:02,784 What you're looking for. 889 01:01:07,830 --> 01:01:09,999 And when you do, hang on. 890 01:03:26,969 --> 01:03:28,679 Ms. Harper, you may begin. 891 01:03:48,074 --> 01:03:50,034 I went to the park this morning, 892 01:03:52,161 --> 01:03:54,872 to the place where Brenton Butler lay dying. 893 01:03:58,459 --> 01:04:00,086 I wanted to imagine... 894 01:04:00,962 --> 01:04:02,088 what he felt... 895 01:04:03,589 --> 01:04:06,175 as he watched the first light of the morning come, 896 01:04:07,051 --> 01:04:09,470 and the last light of day fade away. 897 01:04:11,597 --> 01:04:12,807 As he lay there, 898 01:04:14,100 --> 01:04:15,351 in that ditch... 899 01:04:16,686 --> 01:04:18,104 for 12 hours... 900 01:04:20,189 --> 01:04:21,148 wondering what? 901 01:04:22,817 --> 01:04:23,943 For his mother, 902 01:04:25,027 --> 01:04:26,195 and for his father, 903 01:04:27,488 --> 01:04:31,033 it is a terrible thing to have to imagine, 904 01:04:32,243 --> 01:04:33,578 and not even know, 905 01:04:34,328 --> 01:04:35,538 but imagine, 906 01:04:35,913 --> 01:04:37,832 your child's last seconds. 907 01:04:40,376 --> 01:04:41,878 "Did he cry out for me? 908 01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:47,967 Did he wonder why I didn't come? Why no one did?" 909 01:04:50,219 --> 01:04:51,554 This is what we know: 910 01:04:52,013 --> 01:04:54,599 The defendant's blue Ford Escape 911 01:04:54,682 --> 01:04:58,227 collided with the victim's bike on an icy road 912 01:04:58,311 --> 01:05:00,354 on the morning of February 15th. 913 01:05:01,314 --> 01:05:04,233 The grille guard from Peter Jablonski's car, 914 01:05:04,317 --> 01:05:07,778 in addition to his own testimony, are proof of this. 915 01:05:08,613 --> 01:05:12,950 Ladies and gentlemen, the State submits you have no other choice 916 01:05:13,034 --> 01:05:17,496 but to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt 917 01:05:17,580 --> 01:05:18,831 of death by auto. 918 01:05:23,419 --> 01:05:25,338 Peter Jablonski testified... 919 01:05:26,964 --> 01:05:28,716 that after hitting Brenton Butler 920 01:05:29,592 --> 01:05:31,260 and exiting his vehicle, 921 01:05:32,219 --> 01:05:36,933 all he saw as he stood on the road next to his car 922 01:05:37,016 --> 01:05:38,434 was the Statue of Liberty. 923 01:05:39,060 --> 01:05:43,356 I want you to remember how he described that her torch was lit up 924 01:05:43,439 --> 01:05:45,274 like a beacon in the sun. 925 01:05:45,691 --> 01:05:48,819 And now I want you to think about the crime scene photos 926 01:05:48,903 --> 01:05:52,031 that I've shown you over the course of this trial. 927 01:05:54,325 --> 01:05:55,534 This morning... 928 01:05:56,619 --> 01:05:58,204 I too stood on that road, 929 01:05:59,038 --> 01:06:02,917 in the exact same spot the defendant stood. 930 01:06:03,626 --> 01:06:04,669 Right here. 931 01:06:06,337 --> 01:06:09,840 It's impossible to see the Statue of Liberty from the road. 932 01:06:09,924 --> 01:06:11,759 It is completely blocked. 933 01:06:11,842 --> 01:06:13,177 This... 934 01:06:13,469 --> 01:06:15,805 is the view from the edge of the ditch. 935 01:06:16,931 --> 01:06:20,851 So Peter Jablonski can only have seen the Statue of Liberty 936 01:06:20,935 --> 01:06:25,856 if he stood at the edge of the ditch, which means he saw Brenton Butler. 937 01:06:30,903 --> 01:06:34,198 How long did he stand there? 938 01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:37,576 How many seconds... 939 01:06:38,285 --> 01:06:41,247 did he look down at Brenton? 940 01:06:42,123 --> 01:06:43,249 One second? 941 01:06:44,458 --> 01:06:45,626 Two seconds? 942 01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:48,963 Three? 943 01:06:52,675 --> 01:06:53,843 Four? 944 01:06:55,011 --> 01:06:56,137 Five? 945 01:06:58,764 --> 01:07:00,016 Six seconds? 946 01:07:02,143 --> 01:07:03,436 Seven seconds? 947 01:07:08,774 --> 01:07:10,651 Peter Jablonski walked away. 948 01:07:13,446 --> 01:07:14,947 And Brenton Butler died. 949 01:07:17,199 --> 01:07:18,784 When he could have lived. 950 01:07:21,328 --> 01:07:24,290 Would he have walked away if Brenton were white? 951 01:07:27,043 --> 01:07:28,044 Would you? 952 01:07:30,629 --> 01:07:35,301 You must also consider this a hate crime, because there is a bigger crime, 953 01:07:36,552 --> 01:07:38,679 a bigger problem. 954 01:07:38,763 --> 01:07:40,347 We have a problem, 955 01:07:40,848 --> 01:07:43,434 and our country has a problem. 956 01:07:43,893 --> 01:07:45,394 Our children are dying, 957 01:07:45,478 --> 01:07:46,854 in plain sight, 958 01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:50,274 left like roadkill on our playgrounds, 959 01:07:50,357 --> 01:07:52,151 our streets, and our sidewalks. 960 01:07:52,568 --> 01:07:53,819 Turn on the news. 961 01:07:55,071 --> 01:07:56,280 Open a paper. 962 01:07:57,281 --> 01:07:59,116 And read their names. 963 01:07:59,617 --> 01:08:04,789 Each is a clear message to every black woman, man, and child 964 01:08:04,872 --> 01:08:08,667 that our lives and our bodies have no value. 965 01:08:08,751 --> 01:08:11,087 So how many names are enough, 966 01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:14,715 before we, before you say, 967 01:08:15,716 --> 01:08:16,717 "Enough"? 968 01:08:21,180 --> 01:08:24,809 The defendant said that he never saw Brenton Butler. 969 01:08:25,768 --> 01:08:28,813 I'd like you to see Brenton now. 970 01:08:29,772 --> 01:08:32,608 And not how he died, 971 01:08:34,318 --> 01:08:35,569 but how he lived. 972 01:08:36,278 --> 01:08:39,532 See those seconds near that icy road. 973 01:08:41,951 --> 01:08:45,454 Before a car met a boy on a bike. 974 01:08:47,331 --> 01:08:52,044 See the sky above and the earth below. 975 01:08:53,337 --> 01:08:56,090 And in these last seconds of a life, 976 01:08:57,258 --> 01:08:58,801 see how beautiful it is, 977 01:09:00,094 --> 01:09:04,140 how endless and precious his life is. 978 01:09:06,350 --> 01:09:07,560 Do you see him? 979 01:09:09,854 --> 01:09:11,272 Then let Brenton know... 980 01:09:15,484 --> 01:09:16,694 his life mattered. 981 01:10:00,905 --> 01:10:04,867 Father God, look down on us today with your mercy, 982 01:10:04,950 --> 01:10:06,911 your great love. 983 01:10:06,994 --> 01:10:09,705 Find justice for our child, your child, 984 01:10:09,788 --> 01:10:11,165 - as you see fit. - Yes. 985 01:10:11,457 --> 01:10:15,336 Give his mother and father the strength and fortitude 986 01:10:15,419 --> 01:10:17,546 to bear whatever you bring to them today. 987 01:10:17,630 --> 01:10:18,547 Yes, Father. 988 01:10:18,631 --> 01:10:20,799 Your wisdom is bountiful, 989 01:10:20,883 --> 01:10:23,928 vaster than the oceans and mountains of your great earth. 990 01:10:24,303 --> 01:10:26,639 - See us today, Father God. - See us. 991 01:10:26,722 --> 01:10:28,641 - Hear us today, Father God. - Hear us. 992 01:10:28,724 --> 01:10:30,351 - Amen. - Amen. 993 01:10:47,660 --> 01:10:49,995 Mr. Foreman, do you have a verdict? 994 01:10:50,371 --> 01:10:51,580 We do, Your Honor. 995 01:11:05,135 --> 01:11:06,470 Mr. Jablonski. 996 01:11:12,393 --> 01:11:15,187 All right, will the clerk please publish the verdict? 997 01:11:15,437 --> 01:11:19,817 The State of New Jersey v. Peter Michael Jablonski. 998 01:11:19,900 --> 01:11:24,947 On the charge of hate crime, the jury finds the defendant not guilty. 999 01:11:26,073 --> 01:11:31,662 On the charge of death by auto, the jury finds the defendant guilty. 1000 01:11:34,373 --> 01:11:38,335 Based on the outstanding record of the defendant as an officer of the law, 1001 01:11:38,419 --> 01:11:42,506 Mr. Jablonski is sentenced to 364 days in county jail, 1002 01:11:42,589 --> 01:11:45,175 eligible for parole in 30 days time. 1003 01:11:45,259 --> 01:11:47,177 - Oh, my God. - That ain't right. 1004 01:11:47,261 --> 01:11:48,429 You can do it, Pete. 1005 01:11:48,887 --> 01:11:51,390 The defendant is remanded. 1006 01:11:55,894 --> 01:11:56,854 Marie? 1007 01:11:58,063 --> 01:11:59,064 Marie! 1008 01:12:01,025 --> 01:12:04,069 Ladies and gentleman, thank you for your service. You are dismissed. 1009 01:12:06,238 --> 01:12:07,323 All rise. 1010 01:13:56,473 --> 01:13:58,559 Today, justice was served. 1011 01:13:59,268 --> 01:14:02,104 We were given proof that no one is above the law. 1012 01:14:02,187 --> 01:14:04,648 And everyone, including the police, 1013 01:14:04,731 --> 01:14:06,859 will be held accountable for their actions. 1014 01:14:07,526 --> 01:14:11,405 Now this victory may not lessen the tragedy of a young life cut short, 1015 01:14:11,488 --> 01:14:15,451 nor heal the hearts of a family who suffered unspeakable loss. 1016 01:14:16,034 --> 01:14:17,536 But we must move forward. 1017 01:16:31,628 --> 01:16:34,339 I once thought that blindfold was a good thing. 1018 01:16:37,301 --> 01:16:39,136 Her back's turned to us, too. 1019 01:16:40,178 --> 01:16:41,722 Unless that's her... 1020 01:16:42,973 --> 01:16:44,933 - Say it. - I wasn't gonna. 1021 01:16:48,020 --> 01:16:49,563 Then you've really changed. 1022 01:16:50,355 --> 01:16:51,690 Yeah, you have too. 1023 01:17:05,871 --> 01:17:06,955 We failed him. 1024 01:17:08,540 --> 01:17:09,833 Maybe we all did. 1025 01:17:14,671 --> 01:17:17,758 It was good working with you, KJ Harper. 1026 01:17:21,553 --> 01:17:23,180 Yeah. You too, Fish. 1027 01:17:26,683 --> 01:17:28,310 - See ya around. - Yep. 1028 01:17:28,852 --> 01:17:30,812 - Don't forget about those mints. - Yeah.