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[static whirs]
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[bright tone]
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- Here, here, here, here.
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He's here.
- Okay, you got him?
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- Yeah, he's here.
He's here, he's here.
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- I'd hit play.
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- I got one officer down.
I got one officer down.
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Police.
Send the medics over here.
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- They're coming,
they're coming, they're coming.
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[sirens approaching]
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- This another officer?
- [shouting indistinctly]
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- Don't worry.
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- Oh, my God.
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- Sean, no!
Sean!
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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Sean!
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- Don't worry.
- Sean! Sean!
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Sean!
- Do you have the description?
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- No, I don't have
a description.
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- I need Foxtrot,
I need Foxtrot.
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I need that unit medic
right now.
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- Sean!
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[dramatic music]
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- Hold on, hold on.
Get his legs, get his legs.
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- We should wait for the medic.
[indistinct radio chatter]
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- Transport him in a car.
Officer's down.
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Officer down.
[indistinct]
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We got to transport.
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- We got any suspect
information?
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- I didn't see anyone.
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- Sean was calling me
to come over here,
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and I came around the corner,
and shots were fired.
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I was watching the other side.
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♪ ♪
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- Come on, bud, what happened?
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- We were watching
'cause we thought
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we saw someone in the alley.
- Uh-huh.
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- Sean was covering
that corner,
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and I was covering over there.
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All of a sudden,
Sean called me over.
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As I was running around
the corner,
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he started firing,
and as he started firing,
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Sean fell.
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I didn't even see where
the shots were coming from.
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- Did you fire?
- I did not fire.
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- Okay, okay.
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♪ ♪
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- Baltimore City Police
Detective Sean Suiter has died.
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- A man who protected this city
for nearly two decades.
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- Suspicious killing
of a police officer
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roiling the city
of Baltimore.
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- A father of five.
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- Someone who gave his life
in the line of duty.
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[siren wails]
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- Everybody in a bad spot,
let's get covered.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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- Just before 5:00,
our 18-year veteran
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homicide detective
was shot in the head.
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- Officer's gun and
officer's radio back there.
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- They were investigating
a murder.
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They observed a man engaged
in suspicious behaviors.
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Detective Suiter
got out of his car,
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badge displayed
on his waistband.
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- There was no eyewitness
to the shooting.
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- Suiter was gunned down in
the violent Harlem Park area.
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- His partner was around
the corner, shots rang out.
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♪ ♪
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- This ain't "Law & Order"
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where they find a gun
every episode.
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You got to work
for that shit.
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♪ ♪
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- We have notoriously
one of the most corrupt
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police forces in the country.
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- I hope they looking
for the truth.
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I want the truth.
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- He was shot in the head.
How did this happen?
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Who did it?
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- Officer down.
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♪ ♪
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- There are a myriad of things
that could have taken place.
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I can theorize.
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Pshh, it's Baltimore,
don't be surprised
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about anything
that takes place here.
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all: We want justice!
We want justice!
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We want justice!
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- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
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- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
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- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
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- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
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- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
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- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
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- Sean deserves...
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- ♪ Tired of being strong ♪
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♪ In the face of wrong ♪
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♪ I'm looking
for the answers ♪
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♪ Nobody givin' chances ♪
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♪ Tired of being strong ♪
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♪ In the face of wrong ♪
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♪ I'm looking
for the answers ♪
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♪ Nobody givin' chances ♪
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♪ Oh, nobody givin' chances ♪
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♪ Oh ♪
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♪ Nobody givin' chances ♪
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- Without Sean,
life's been different.
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Very different.
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But, you know, even the strong
get weak sometimes.
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Everybody always say,
"You strong,
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you strong, you strong,"
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but...
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I'm not as strong
as everybody think I am.
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Especially losing your husband
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after 17 years
being together,
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that's tough.
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- [smooching]
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Give me my kiss.
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Mwah!
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Give me my kiss.
Kissy, kissy.
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Mwah!
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[keys clacking]
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- In Baltimore City,
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you can be the most
credible person in the world
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and have a video
of Sean Suiter
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actually being murdered,
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and you could take that
to the cops,
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and they probably
still wouldn't arrest
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whoever murdered that man
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or however
that situation happened.
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It would be hard for me
to believe
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that somebody can penetrate
the system with facts.
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Baltimore doesn't
work like that.
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- The Commissioner addressed
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whether the suspect
used detective Suiter's
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own gun to shoot him,
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saying nothing
has been ruled out.
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Ballistic tests on shell
casings recovered in the area
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show they're all from
a departmental service weapon,
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which was the only gun
recovered at the scene.
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- That doesn't mean that
there wasn't a second gun
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at that scene as well.
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- From the beginning of how
this thing was reported,
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we just sensed foul play.
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- ...about the possibility
that someone...
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- I saw Twitter blowing up.
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- ...gunshot wound that may
have been related, but...
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- So I'm an editor
at Salon.com.
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And I really wanted
to figure out
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who murdered
Detective Suiter and why.
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What developed for me
out of the whole story
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is this whole idea of Black
lives really don't matter.
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Like, even if you're a police
officer, they really don't.
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This Suiter thing
happening in my hometown
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made it extremely
urgent for me,
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because if a police officer
cannot be treated fairly,
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imagine how they would
treat a person like me.
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- I'm chillin' on the steps.
For what?
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What are you
touching me for?
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- Oh, my God.
- What the fuck?
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Hey, yo, what the fuck?
[indistinct shouting]
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- ♪ It ain't no sunshine
around my motherfuckin' way ♪
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♪ I know you heard that
they killed Freddie Gray ♪
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♪ The other day ♪
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♪ That's why they got us
out here prayin' ♪
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♪ Like some fuckin' slaves ♪
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- Sean Suiter's death occurred
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when this police department
is still very much reeling
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from the 2015 uprising
over the death of Freddie Gray.
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They're unable to stop crime
in the city.
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Crime was at a three-year,
nonstop spike.
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You know, just a lack of trust
in this police department
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and its ability
to investigate a crime
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and tell the truth about
an investigation of a crime.
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- It does happen in the midst
of this massive corruption,
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of this huge scandal.
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One of the worst
police corruption cases
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in recent American history.
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Mind-blowing.
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Mind-blowing!
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♪ ♪
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- This is a police department
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that was very much
on the ropes.
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In a way, you know, a hero's
funeral for a fallen officer
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was a change of pace.
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It offered a time
to appreciate
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what police officers
do every day,
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to hold up an officer who gave
his life in the line of duty
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trying to investigate a crime.
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It was an awful thing
that happened,
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but as far as the narrative
is concerned,
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all the shit that the Baltimore
Police Department was taking,
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suddenly, people were focused
on hardworking cop
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losing his life
in the line of duty.
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- Detective Sean Suiter
lived and died a hero.
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- The funeral was--
it was huge.
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I think it was
too much for him,
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more than
what he would like,
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'cause he's not into
all the fluff and frill.
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- You've taught me
so many things,
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like how to love myself,
family values,
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and how to remain calm in some
of the toughest situations.
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One thing we didn't get to go
over was how to handle this.
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- I was heartbroken,
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losing a partner,
losing a friend.
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Hell, the day
that he was killed,
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he looked at us and was like,
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"All right, man, let me
go out on the street
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and try to find this witness."
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And I was looking around like,
"Okay, I'll go out with you."
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He was like,
"No, you're gonna rush me."
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So I left,
'cause he knew I had to go
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and pick my son
up from school.
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So he was dedicated,
and that was the last--
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last I spoke
with him from there.
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He was a good guy.
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He was a good person.
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That smile radiated
before he opened the door.
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That laughter came through
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right as soon
as he began to talk.
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Sitting in a car together,
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talking about everything
from our family to me
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trying to figure out how a D.C.
guy who works in Baltimore
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and lives in P.G.
is a Dallas Cowboys fan.
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I said, "Man, you must be
the most confused cat
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I've ever met
before in my life."
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- It's hard to find the words
to tell a story like this.
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It has been
a very emotional day.
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When he was pronounced dead,
like, I knew who he was.
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I knew I saw him
on an earlier murder.
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I had a tweet ready
to go with his picture,
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and immediately
the tweet got retweeted.
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And that's when I realized
that this guy
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is a pretty well-loved guy.
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- I knew him for years,
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when he was patrolling
this area.
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He was a good officer,
he was real friendly.
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He ain't give nobody trouble
unless you gave him trouble.
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Let me say that.
- He got a lot of respect.
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- We called him Scarface
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because he had a scar
on his face.
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- My uncles were cops.
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My dad was a cop.
My cousins were cops.
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I come from
a long line of blue.
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And so I grew up in the
culture, and so I know it.
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As a reporter,
it's worked in my favor.
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But, you know,
when you cover
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a story like this
from my perspective
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and I'm talking
to Nicole Suiter
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and I'm seeing the casket,
it resonates
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because I know
my mother spent 25 years
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fearing what could happen
because her husband was a cop.
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- When a cop is killed, it's
an attack on American policing.
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- What else
can you give us right now?
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Anything?
256
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- No, I never saw the shooter.
- He was there?
257
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- Sean was behind
the white van.
258
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Sean peeked out as I was
watching the corner here
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and from that alley.
- Yes.
260
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- Sean waved me on,
he said--like this.
261
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And so I started--
- And then Sean went in?
262
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- Sean went in, and he yelled,
"Stop! Stop! Stop!"
263
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So I went running,
and as I went running,
264
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the shots started to fire.
265
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I saw Sean hit the ground,
and I saw, like, parts--
266
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- Where did you see that from?
Here?
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- No. No, no, Sarge.
268
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I ran toward the alley
where he went in.
269
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- Okay.
- You saw where they found him?
270
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So I got to that point,
and the shots started firing.
271
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So I started backing out
and looking around.
272
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- You don't know if it was
from a house or from the street?
273
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- No.
274
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- So he saw something, so most
likely he was on foot, right?
275
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- Most likely this guy
was on foot.
276
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- All right, let me
get that information.
277
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- In the moments
and hours and days
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after Detective Suiter
was killed,
279
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it clearly appeared
to be a homicide.
280
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- Be advised...
281
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- There was no reason to think
it was anything else
282
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based on what was being said
and just the way it played out.
283
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You know, we had
an officer shot and killed
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in the line of duty.
285
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They were searching
for a suspect.
286
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- He is only described as
an adult African American male
287
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wearing a black jacket
with a white stripe
288
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on the black jacket.
289
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- They told me
that my husband was shot,
290
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and I still didn't--it still
didn't register in my head.
291
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Like, someone came up
to me and said,
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he was a--
he was a good man.
293
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I was like, "What you mean,
he was a good man?"
294
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And they was like,
"No, no, no, no, no.
295
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That's not what she meant."
296
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And I just broke down.
297
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- He couldn't, you know,
say what he wanted to say
298
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'cause he was in the bed
with tubes in his mouth
299
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and blood coming down, and...
300
00:14:23,543 --> 00:14:26,210
I just couldn't
hear his voice
301
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telling me that he's okay.
302
00:14:29,543 --> 00:14:32,418
- The doctors in there,
the mayor in there,
303
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I'm like, what is--
this has got to be--this--
304
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what's going on?
305
00:14:39,085 --> 00:14:42,418
But no one, no one told me
he was shot in his head.
306
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- I remember that night
I was at shock trauma.
307
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- Questions?
- People had been telling us
308
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that he was dead--
it hadn't been confirmed.
309
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And there was
this great uncertainty
310
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about what happened.
311
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And my phone rang, and I got
a call from someone saying,
312
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"This was a hit.
313
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"He was gonna testify tomorrow
against the dirty cops."
314
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It was someone I didn't know,
315
00:15:07,210 --> 00:15:10,877
and they sounded
a little nutty.
316
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So I kind of put that
in my back pocket.
317
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- A massive presence
of federal agents
318
00:15:16,752 --> 00:15:19,377
and Baltimore City Police
blanketed the area
319
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around Bennett Place
in West Baltimore,
320
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where Detective Sean Suiter
321
00:15:23,126 --> 00:15:25,085
was shot in the head
earlier this week.
322
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Police believe the killer
is still in Baltimore.
323
00:15:29,669 --> 00:15:32,418
- The initial information that
we had to work our way through
324
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was from Detective Bomenka,
325
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who was obviously
traumatized by the fact
326
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that he was just
with his partner,
327
00:15:40,252 --> 00:15:43,502
at least his partner
that day, who was shot.
328
00:15:48,460 --> 00:15:51,919
We were under the impression,
based on some tips that we got,
329
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that a suspect was
on the loose in the community.
330
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- Police had guns drawn,
waiting to move in,
331
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and used an armored car as
they searched for a suspect.
332
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[tense music]
333
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♪ ♪
334
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- We were held hostage
in these houses
335
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for at least five to six days.
336
00:16:13,502 --> 00:16:16,543
For us to be trapped--
even if the event took place,
337
00:16:16,627 --> 00:16:18,293
it took place way up there.
338
00:16:24,919 --> 00:16:27,210
- I remember being down
that street,
339
00:16:27,293 --> 00:16:30,710
and there were snipers setting
up to raid some of these houses.
340
00:16:30,794 --> 00:16:33,585
- Military tanks in this alley.
341
00:16:33,669 --> 00:16:35,877
He had this sawed-off shotgun
342
00:16:35,961 --> 00:16:39,460
out like this, like they
actually had a suspect!
343
00:16:42,627 --> 00:16:44,460
- The regular people
in Harlem Park,
344
00:16:44,543 --> 00:16:46,460
they had nothing
to do with any of this,
345
00:16:46,543 --> 00:16:48,835
but the abuse that they were
willing to subject them to,
346
00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:51,126
police that don't serve
and protect them,
347
00:16:51,210 --> 00:16:53,710
police that abuse them...
348
00:16:53,794 --> 00:16:56,794
who said, "Oh, we don't care
that we are supposed to be
349
00:16:56,877 --> 00:16:58,835
"operating
constitutionally now.
350
00:16:58,919 --> 00:17:01,043
Let's shut down Harlem Park."
351
00:17:01,126 --> 00:17:03,085
And so they're easy targets.
352
00:17:03,168 --> 00:17:06,085
- My name had came up
in a conversation that, uh,
353
00:17:06,168 --> 00:17:07,502
dealing with Sean Suiter,
354
00:17:07,585 --> 00:17:09,043
and that's when they came
and raided my house
355
00:17:09,126 --> 00:17:12,335
November the 19th and took me
down for questioning.
356
00:17:12,418 --> 00:17:13,585
- They trashed the house.
357
00:17:13,669 --> 00:17:15,418
Our living room set.
Trashed everything.
358
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We didn't get none
of that back--computers.
359
00:17:19,669 --> 00:17:22,752
- We had a great deal
of trouble
360
00:17:22,835 --> 00:17:25,168
recovering
all of the evidence.
361
00:17:25,252 --> 00:17:28,210
When Sean Suiter
runs into that space,
362
00:17:28,293 --> 00:17:32,210
Detective Bomenka
hears three gunshots.
363
00:17:32,293 --> 00:17:35,669
Pop, pop, pause,
and then pop.
364
00:17:37,835 --> 00:17:39,877
We couldn't find where
those bullets landed.
365
00:17:39,961 --> 00:17:42,543
We couldn't locate a strike
mark from those bullets,
366
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either in the ground
or on the adjacent walls.
367
00:17:47,418 --> 00:17:49,543
Did they strike
another person?
368
00:17:51,377 --> 00:17:54,961
We are absolutely certain
that the community will stand
369
00:17:55,043 --> 00:17:56,961
with the Baltimore
Police Department
370
00:17:57,043 --> 00:17:59,794
to bring this heartless,
ruthless,
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00:17:59,877 --> 00:18:02,961
soulless killer to justice.
372
00:18:03,043 --> 00:18:06,043
[somber music]
373
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♪ ♪
374
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- Coming up in East Baltimore,
the streets was home.
375
00:18:16,293 --> 00:18:17,919
So I hit the streets,
and I hit them hard,
376
00:18:18,002 --> 00:18:22,543
and I've done everything
from selling crack to heroin
377
00:18:22,627 --> 00:18:24,252
and back and forth again,
378
00:18:24,335 --> 00:18:26,919
and I had some good times,
and I had some bad times.
379
00:18:27,002 --> 00:18:28,961
And I made some really,
really good friends
380
00:18:29,043 --> 00:18:31,126
that I thought
would last forever.
381
00:18:31,210 --> 00:18:34,460
And one of them friends
put a gun right to my head.
382
00:18:34,543 --> 00:18:37,961
So I've pretty much, like,
saw everything in the streets
383
00:18:38,043 --> 00:18:40,460
and...
384
00:18:40,543 --> 00:18:43,794
in that time, you learn
about these police officers.
385
00:18:43,877 --> 00:18:45,835
You learn about how they move
and how they operate.
386
00:18:45,919 --> 00:18:49,418
You learn the intricate part
they play into the world
387
00:18:49,502 --> 00:18:51,168
that--that we lived in.
388
00:18:54,210 --> 00:18:57,293
I'm a person who has seen the
ugly side of law enforcement.
389
00:19:04,877 --> 00:19:07,877
- It's now been 16 days since
the shooting of Sean Suiter.
390
00:19:07,961 --> 00:19:10,043
It happened back there
where that blue tarp is,
391
00:19:10,126 --> 00:19:11,919
back through this
very narrow little area,
392
00:19:12,002 --> 00:19:15,043
with very little opportunity
for people to see
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00:19:15,126 --> 00:19:17,377
what may have
happened back there.
394
00:19:17,460 --> 00:19:19,293
The Suiter case is not
the first time
395
00:19:19,377 --> 00:19:21,168
the Baltimore Police Department
was criticized
396
00:19:21,252 --> 00:19:22,710
for "sloppy scenes,"
397
00:19:22,794 --> 00:19:25,210
for not having proper
incident command.
398
00:19:25,293 --> 00:19:29,543
And, I mean, one of the
questions that exists right now
399
00:19:29,627 --> 00:19:31,293
is, how come this department
can't get it right?
400
00:19:31,377 --> 00:19:33,418
They didn't take photographs.
401
00:19:33,502 --> 00:19:36,543
They didn't properly record
parts of the crime scene.
402
00:19:36,627 --> 00:19:40,002
There were people traipsing in
and out of that scene at will.
403
00:19:44,335 --> 00:19:47,085
The suicide theory,
which did come up today,
404
00:19:47,168 --> 00:19:48,961
is just a possible theory.
405
00:19:49,043 --> 00:19:51,752
The commissioner says it's not
a leading theory at all,
406
00:19:51,835 --> 00:19:55,710
but it is under consideration.
407
00:19:55,794 --> 00:20:00,752
There was this "mistake made"
about the entry wound,
408
00:20:00,835 --> 00:20:03,085
allegedly by the hospital,
409
00:20:03,168 --> 00:20:06,002
that identified the entry wound
as the left side of the head
410
00:20:06,085 --> 00:20:08,085
as opposed to
the right side of head.
411
00:20:08,168 --> 00:20:09,418
Well, if his gun--
412
00:20:09,502 --> 00:20:12,168
if his radio is
in his left hand, which it was,
413
00:20:12,252 --> 00:20:16,085
and he's right-handed,
think of what you have do
414
00:20:16,168 --> 00:20:18,335
to get yourself
to get a gunshot wound
415
00:20:18,418 --> 00:20:21,502
into the left side of the head
and kill yourself, okay?
416
00:20:21,585 --> 00:20:26,669
So that information, which
they operated on for four days
417
00:20:26,752 --> 00:20:29,002
until it was cleared up
at autopsy,
418
00:20:29,085 --> 00:20:30,794
that, no, no, no, it's
the right side of the head
419
00:20:30,877 --> 00:20:32,627
and it's a close contact
gunshot wound,
420
00:20:32,710 --> 00:20:34,252
which is very indicative
421
00:20:34,335 --> 00:20:36,543
of potentially
a self-inflicted wound.
422
00:20:36,627 --> 00:20:39,794
So, for four days,
this investigation operated
423
00:20:39,877 --> 00:20:42,002
on a false assumption.
424
00:20:42,085 --> 00:20:44,710
And that is that he was shot
on the left side of the head.
425
00:20:48,126 --> 00:20:49,460
- The suicide theory emerged
426
00:20:49,543 --> 00:20:51,460
because there was factions
within the police department
427
00:20:51,543 --> 00:20:53,293
that believed there was
a cover-up taking place,
428
00:20:53,377 --> 00:20:55,293
that they were chasing
a phantom killer,
429
00:20:55,377 --> 00:20:57,210
that they were having
a hero's funeral,
430
00:20:57,293 --> 00:20:59,126
and they were offering
a giant reward
431
00:20:59,210 --> 00:21:01,710
and tearing apart the city
looking for somebody
432
00:21:01,794 --> 00:21:03,168
who didn't exist.
433
00:21:03,252 --> 00:21:04,710
But once that emerged,
434
00:21:04,794 --> 00:21:06,543
once that got into
the public domain,
435
00:21:06,627 --> 00:21:08,961
people started to believe that
that was a cover-up,
436
00:21:09,043 --> 00:21:11,293
that that was an attempt
for a police department
437
00:21:11,377 --> 00:21:13,210
that was making no inroads
438
00:21:13,293 --> 00:21:15,335
on solving the killing
of one of their own
439
00:21:15,418 --> 00:21:17,669
and was trying to
sort of redirect people
440
00:21:17,752 --> 00:21:20,002
and blame the officer himself.
441
00:21:22,085 --> 00:21:24,669
Both views of the case
are grounded
442
00:21:24,752 --> 00:21:27,252
in a distrust
of the police department.
443
00:21:30,085 --> 00:21:32,877
- And so now you have,
444
00:21:32,961 --> 00:21:35,252
was this a homicide,
445
00:21:35,335 --> 00:21:38,377
or was this a suicide?
446
00:21:38,460 --> 00:21:41,293
You're in that hole
without a lot of facts.
447
00:21:42,877 --> 00:21:44,377
I think it quickly became,
448
00:21:44,460 --> 00:21:46,585
well, which one do
we have evidence for,
449
00:21:46,669 --> 00:21:49,418
and which one
do you believe?
450
00:21:49,502 --> 00:21:51,418
I'm not paid to tell you
what I think.
451
00:21:51,502 --> 00:21:54,085
I'm paid to tell you
what I know,
452
00:21:54,168 --> 00:21:56,585
and we don't know shit
about this case.
453
00:22:01,293 --> 00:22:03,502
- A week after Baltimore
detective Sean Suiter
454
00:22:03,585 --> 00:22:05,752
was shot and killed,
the revelation
455
00:22:05,835 --> 00:22:08,043
from the city's police
commissioner was stunning.
456
00:22:08,126 --> 00:22:11,210
Suiter was set to testify
before a federal grand jury
457
00:22:11,293 --> 00:22:14,710
the next day against
eight elite Baltimore officers
458
00:22:14,794 --> 00:22:18,752
already indicted in a police
corruption investigation.
459
00:22:18,835 --> 00:22:21,002
- And that was...
460
00:22:21,085 --> 00:22:22,585
wow.
461
00:22:22,669 --> 00:22:26,835
This certainly throws
a wrinkle on the case big-time.
462
00:22:26,919 --> 00:22:28,460
- Suiter wasn't
just any officer
463
00:22:28,543 --> 00:22:30,168
who was shot and killed.
464
00:22:30,252 --> 00:22:33,710
He was also a federal witness
against other police officers.
465
00:22:33,794 --> 00:22:35,752
- If I'm about to go to court
466
00:22:35,835 --> 00:22:37,585
and you're supposed
to testify on me,
467
00:22:37,669 --> 00:22:39,627
and now you're gone?
468
00:22:39,710 --> 00:22:41,293
Come on.
469
00:22:43,794 --> 00:22:46,002
- It was a lot of reporting
about what he knew,
470
00:22:46,085 --> 00:22:47,126
what he didn't know,
471
00:22:47,210 --> 00:22:49,543
what he was
going to testify to.
472
00:22:49,627 --> 00:22:53,794
Was he going to get pulled
into this big, massive scandal?
473
00:22:53,877 --> 00:22:56,377
Was he a dirty cop?
Was he a dirty cop?
474
00:22:56,460 --> 00:22:58,002
Did he off himself
in an alley?
475
00:22:58,085 --> 00:23:00,043
Is this suicide?
476
00:23:00,126 --> 00:23:02,877
Or did someone along the way
in the police department
477
00:23:02,961 --> 00:23:04,418
make sure he was killed
478
00:23:04,502 --> 00:23:07,794
so he wouldn't testify
to what he knew?
479
00:23:09,794 --> 00:23:11,377
We don't know.
480
00:23:11,460 --> 00:23:14,043
Did he have
damning evidence
481
00:23:14,126 --> 00:23:16,002
on other officers
in the department?
482
00:23:16,085 --> 00:23:17,919
We don't know.
483
00:23:21,752 --> 00:23:26,043
- You cannot add more drama
and conspiracy to this.
484
00:23:28,210 --> 00:23:29,627
Being a media relations chief,
485
00:23:29,710 --> 00:23:32,961
coming into an environment
where there is a big trust gap,
486
00:23:33,043 --> 00:23:37,460
I'm trying to open up the doors
and give people a glimpse in
487
00:23:37,543 --> 00:23:40,794
without compromising the
integrity of investigations,
488
00:23:40,877 --> 00:23:43,543
which is also important.
489
00:23:43,627 --> 00:23:46,418
We know that people
are clamoring for information.
490
00:23:46,502 --> 00:23:49,752
We say so little, sometimes
it's not enough clarity.
491
00:23:49,835 --> 00:23:51,252
- Are there any other
fingerprints
492
00:23:51,335 --> 00:23:52,418
besides the detective's?
493
00:23:52,502 --> 00:23:55,418
- We're not going to get
into those--
494
00:23:55,502 --> 00:23:57,377
We're not getting
into all the specifics
495
00:23:57,460 --> 00:23:59,418
of every piece of evidence
we have.
496
00:24:03,794 --> 00:24:07,877
So it was just ripe
for conspiracy.
497
00:24:07,961 --> 00:24:10,210
It comes to--
look at the partner.
498
00:24:10,293 --> 00:24:11,835
The partner had something
to do with it.
499
00:24:11,919 --> 00:24:13,961
It's like, come on.
500
00:24:14,043 --> 00:24:16,794
When you know things
to be absolutely,
501
00:24:16,877 --> 00:24:19,002
unequivocally false,
502
00:24:19,085 --> 00:24:23,794
it's hard to sit back
and just listen to it.
503
00:24:23,877 --> 00:24:26,252
You talk about frustrating
and upsetting, it's like--
504
00:24:26,335 --> 00:24:29,085
people are
just making up stuff.
505
00:24:29,168 --> 00:24:30,961
Literally making it up.
506
00:24:31,043 --> 00:24:33,961
[somber piano music]
507
00:24:34,043 --> 00:24:37,126
♪ ♪
508
00:24:37,210 --> 00:24:41,252
- There is no information that
has been communicated to me
509
00:24:41,335 --> 00:24:44,335
that Detective Suiter
was anything other than
510
00:24:44,418 --> 00:24:48,377
a stellar detective,
great friend, loving husband,
511
00:24:48,460 --> 00:24:51,710
and dedicated father.
512
00:24:51,794 --> 00:24:54,752
When I asked the FBI
to take over the investigation,
513
00:24:54,835 --> 00:24:58,710
I did so knowing that
if they had any information
514
00:24:58,794 --> 00:25:00,460
or even a shred
of information
515
00:25:00,543 --> 00:25:02,210
that this could have been
a conspiracy
516
00:25:02,293 --> 00:25:06,126
to murder Sean Suiter that was
orchestrated by other cops,
517
00:25:06,210 --> 00:25:08,669
if the FBI thought that
that was the case
518
00:25:08,752 --> 00:25:11,002
for one millisecond,
in my opinion,
519
00:25:11,085 --> 00:25:14,418
they would have taken over that
investigation in a heartbeat.
520
00:25:14,502 --> 00:25:15,919
[indistinct chatter]
521
00:25:16,002 --> 00:25:18,835
The fact that they did not
take over the investigation
522
00:25:18,919 --> 00:25:20,752
was an indicator to me
523
00:25:20,835 --> 00:25:22,794
that they didn't
believe that theory.
524
00:25:22,877 --> 00:25:24,168
In the letter, it says,
525
00:25:24,252 --> 00:25:25,919
"No information
has been developed to indicate
526
00:25:26,002 --> 00:25:28,085
"Detective Suiter's death
was directly connected
527
00:25:28,168 --> 00:25:30,085
to an FBI investigation."
528
00:25:30,168 --> 00:25:31,877
- I think it's very strange
that the feds
529
00:25:31,961 --> 00:25:35,252
did not get involved in the
investigation of the shooting.
530
00:25:35,335 --> 00:25:36,961
This guy was killed the day
531
00:25:37,043 --> 00:25:39,877
he's supposed to go testify
in a grand jury for you,
532
00:25:39,961 --> 00:25:42,460
and he's dead
from a gunshot wound.
533
00:25:42,543 --> 00:25:46,002
Like, why wouldn't that be
a federal case?
534
00:25:46,085 --> 00:25:48,377
Leo Wise,
the Assistant U.S. Attorney,
535
00:25:48,460 --> 00:25:50,794
told me that as soon
as he got the phone call
536
00:25:50,877 --> 00:25:54,043
that Suiter had been shot,
he believed it to be a suicide.
537
00:25:54,126 --> 00:25:56,543
I found that to be
a remarkable statement.
538
00:25:56,627 --> 00:25:58,418
You wonder if that
has to do with the things
539
00:25:58,502 --> 00:26:00,335
that they had heard
along the way about him.
540
00:26:02,377 --> 00:26:05,085
- The information that was
given to me by the FBI
541
00:26:05,168 --> 00:26:06,627
and the U.S. Attorney's office,
542
00:26:06,710 --> 00:26:08,502
Sean Suiter was never
the target
543
00:26:08,585 --> 00:26:11,293
of any of their
corruption investigations.
544
00:26:11,377 --> 00:26:13,961
He was merely scheduled
to testify
545
00:26:14,043 --> 00:26:15,418
in front of a grand jury
546
00:26:15,502 --> 00:26:19,460
about an ongoing
corruption investigation.
547
00:26:19,543 --> 00:26:22,335
They told me, in fact,
word for word,
548
00:26:22,418 --> 00:26:24,961
"Sean Suiter was not
a dirty cop."
549
00:26:38,126 --> 00:26:42,210
- March 1, 2017,
earlier that year,
550
00:26:42,293 --> 00:26:44,585
seven members of
the Baltimore Police Department
551
00:26:44,669 --> 00:26:46,377
are arrested.
552
00:26:46,460 --> 00:26:48,377
- The case began
about a year ago.
553
00:26:48,460 --> 00:26:50,543
It involved
a covert investigation.
554
00:26:50,627 --> 00:26:53,418
The seven defendants
were members
555
00:26:53,502 --> 00:26:55,377
of the Gun Trace Task Force.
556
00:26:55,460 --> 00:26:58,126
I'm Sergeant Wayne Jenkins
of the Gun Trace Task Force.
557
00:26:58,210 --> 00:27:02,627
- Their job was to go out
and get guns off of people
558
00:27:02,710 --> 00:27:04,210
that were illegally
possessing them
559
00:27:04,293 --> 00:27:06,335
and carrying them
on the streets of Baltimore.
560
00:27:06,418 --> 00:27:09,627
Unfortunately, we found
out the methodology
561
00:27:09,710 --> 00:27:11,502
they were using
to go out there and do it.
562
00:27:11,585 --> 00:27:14,418
- The seven officers
are charged with racketeering.
563
00:27:14,502 --> 00:27:17,126
Some of the suspects
face up to life in prison.
564
00:27:17,210 --> 00:27:19,752
Others, decades in jail.
565
00:27:19,835 --> 00:27:21,919
- They were robbing
drug dealers in the city
566
00:27:22,002 --> 00:27:26,293
with precision
and investigatory skill.
567
00:27:26,377 --> 00:27:28,418
They had black hockey masks,
568
00:27:28,502 --> 00:27:31,002
fake guns that
they would place
569
00:27:31,085 --> 00:27:33,085
into people's cars
to frame them.
570
00:27:33,168 --> 00:27:34,961
It was a mob in the middle
of the city
571
00:27:35,043 --> 00:27:37,085
run by
the Baltimore Police Department.
572
00:27:37,168 --> 00:27:40,043
- Hey, come downstairs
right quick.
573
00:27:40,126 --> 00:27:42,210
They about to get it open.
574
00:27:42,293 --> 00:27:43,210
- They really got them.
575
00:27:43,293 --> 00:27:45,126
I mean, they had them
on wiretaps.
576
00:27:45,210 --> 00:27:47,919
Like, they had evidence, hard
evidence of what was going on.
577
00:27:48,002 --> 00:27:50,835
- Do not--nobody touches--
You understand me right now?
578
00:27:50,919 --> 00:27:52,794
- I'm keeping
the camera rolling.
579
00:27:52,877 --> 00:27:55,502
- This video, taken in
March 2016, in the basement
580
00:27:55,585 --> 00:27:57,543
of a Northeast Baltimore
drug dealer,
581
00:27:57,627 --> 00:28:00,085
shows former Baltimore
sergeant Wayne Jenkins,
582
00:28:00,168 --> 00:28:02,085
who led the
Gun Trace Task Force,
583
00:28:02,168 --> 00:28:05,002
recording the discovery
of a safe they blasted open.
584
00:28:05,085 --> 00:28:07,585
But federal prosecutors
say the video
585
00:28:07,669 --> 00:28:10,794
was really a reenactment
to cover up the fact
586
00:28:10,877 --> 00:28:13,919
another 200,000 was taken from
the same dealer by Jenkins
587
00:28:14,002 --> 00:28:15,669
and other members
of the gun squad.
588
00:28:20,085 --> 00:28:21,543
- This was seven officers,
589
00:28:21,627 --> 00:28:22,919
it went on to be eight,
you know,
590
00:28:23,002 --> 00:28:25,335
charged with just,
like, blatant corruption,
591
00:28:25,418 --> 00:28:26,877
blatant misconduct.
592
00:28:26,961 --> 00:28:28,252
Some of their best
and brightest,
593
00:28:28,335 --> 00:28:29,418
some of their most efficient,
594
00:28:29,502 --> 00:28:32,835
and they're being accused
of egregious crimes
595
00:28:32,919 --> 00:28:35,293
over a long period of time.
596
00:28:39,627 --> 00:28:42,002
We put this here to try
to visualize everybody,
597
00:28:42,085 --> 00:28:46,002
to see how
they're connected.
598
00:28:46,085 --> 00:28:48,669
You have these officers
who pleaded guilty
599
00:28:48,752 --> 00:28:52,126
who are trying
to get lesser sentences.
600
00:28:52,210 --> 00:28:54,085
Before he became
a homicide detective,
601
00:28:54,168 --> 00:28:57,335
Suiter was working
with these guys.
602
00:28:57,418 --> 00:29:00,752
Jenkins is the leader of the
squad when they get indicted.
603
00:29:00,835 --> 00:29:04,961
Suiter had worked with Ward.
He'd worked with Jenkins.
604
00:29:05,043 --> 00:29:08,627
He'd worked with Rayam
and Gondo at times.
605
00:29:08,710 --> 00:29:10,627
Of course,
his grand jury testimony
606
00:29:10,710 --> 00:29:13,252
was about a case
in which he and Jenkins
607
00:29:13,335 --> 00:29:15,502
had arrested somebody.
608
00:29:17,168 --> 00:29:19,293
So he was being asked
to come in to testify
609
00:29:19,377 --> 00:29:22,085
before a grand jury
about his role in that.
610
00:29:25,835 --> 00:29:28,669
- This is the case in which
Detective Sean Suiter
611
00:29:28,752 --> 00:29:30,752
was scheduled to appear
before a grand jury,
612
00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:33,168
the day after he was murdered.
613
00:29:33,252 --> 00:29:35,669
Suiter was going to testify
about this scene
614
00:29:35,752 --> 00:29:38,335
back in 2010 where
a high-speed chase
615
00:29:38,418 --> 00:29:41,002
ended with a collision
with another car, killing one
616
00:29:41,085 --> 00:29:44,627
and destroying this front porch
in Northwest Baltimore.
617
00:29:44,710 --> 00:29:47,877
[uneasy music]
618
00:29:47,961 --> 00:29:50,835
- On this particular day,
these police officers,
619
00:29:50,919 --> 00:29:54,085
they saw a couple
Black guys in a car,
620
00:29:54,168 --> 00:29:56,168
figured they might have
something on them.
621
00:29:56,252 --> 00:29:58,460
"Let's take a run at them."
622
00:29:58,543 --> 00:30:01,252
You can't do that,
but they did it,
623
00:30:01,335 --> 00:30:04,377
and they did it every day...
624
00:30:04,460 --> 00:30:06,585
all over the city.
625
00:30:06,669 --> 00:30:10,585
- The only thing true about
that particular police report
626
00:30:10,669 --> 00:30:14,877
was that we had a car accident
and somebody died.
627
00:30:14,961 --> 00:30:16,418
Everything else was a lie.
628
00:30:16,502 --> 00:30:21,377
♪ ♪
629
00:30:21,460 --> 00:30:24,919
- This is the actual spot
that I was parked in.
630
00:30:25,002 --> 00:30:27,168
I noticed
631
00:30:27,252 --> 00:30:29,418
through my side view mirror
632
00:30:29,502 --> 00:30:33,043
that a car was approaching.
633
00:30:33,126 --> 00:30:35,210
There was two cars
that pulled up.
634
00:30:35,293 --> 00:30:39,210
One pulled in the front,
and one pulled behind me.
635
00:30:42,543 --> 00:30:46,752
- Wayne Jenkins and Ryan Guinn
were in the first car.
636
00:30:46,835 --> 00:30:50,293
Detective Suiter
was in the rear car.
637
00:30:50,377 --> 00:30:55,669
Like a car pulling up
not wanting to damage the car,
638
00:30:55,752 --> 00:30:57,585
but it was more so,
I believe,
639
00:30:57,669 --> 00:31:00,502
them to get us
tight in as possible
640
00:31:00,585 --> 00:31:01,961
so they can do whatever it is
641
00:31:02,043 --> 00:31:04,418
that they were
attempting to do.
642
00:31:04,502 --> 00:31:07,460
Now the car in back
of me bumps me.
643
00:31:07,543 --> 00:31:12,585
I turned my head to see, and
then I heard doors opening.
644
00:31:12,669 --> 00:31:15,085
And that alerted
my attention to the front,
645
00:31:15,168 --> 00:31:19,377
and they was actually out
the car with guns drawn,
646
00:31:19,460 --> 00:31:24,085
with masks on their face, and
all I could see was their eyes.
647
00:31:27,418 --> 00:31:29,168
- These were not police cars.
648
00:31:29,252 --> 00:31:30,794
Our clients, of course,
would not know
649
00:31:30,877 --> 00:31:32,293
that they were police cars.
650
00:31:32,377 --> 00:31:34,252
There were no lights,
there were no sirens.
651
00:31:34,335 --> 00:31:36,669
When they took off,
they genuinely believed
652
00:31:36,752 --> 00:31:38,669
that they were being robbed.
653
00:31:38,752 --> 00:31:41,085
- They know why we fled.
654
00:31:41,168 --> 00:31:43,627
You know, we didn't know
who the hell they were.
655
00:31:43,710 --> 00:31:46,335
They were right on our tail
the whole time.
656
00:31:46,418 --> 00:31:50,543
The only thing we was thinking
about is our lives.
657
00:31:52,210 --> 00:31:56,460
- I began to go on very fast
down Belle Avenue.
658
00:31:56,543 --> 00:32:00,502
I could see another car
at a stop sign.
659
00:32:00,585 --> 00:32:03,543
So I'm trying to turn away
from the car,
660
00:32:03,627 --> 00:32:06,418
and we end up
turning the same way.
661
00:32:09,835 --> 00:32:11,669
- Police say it was these two,
662
00:32:11,752 --> 00:32:13,710
Umar Burley
and Brent Matthews,
663
00:32:13,794 --> 00:32:16,043
who were fleeing police
and crashed into a car
664
00:32:16,126 --> 00:32:19,210
on the corner
of Belle and Gwynn Oak Avenue,
665
00:32:19,293 --> 00:32:22,210
killing the father of a
Baltimore City police officer.
666
00:32:25,585 --> 00:32:27,543
- The officers,
they realized
667
00:32:27,627 --> 00:32:31,002
they had a serious problem
on their hands.
668
00:32:31,085 --> 00:32:32,835
It was a high-speed chase.
669
00:32:32,919 --> 00:32:38,126
Couldn't justify the chase,
the stop, nothing.
670
00:32:38,210 --> 00:32:41,543
Didn't find any drugs
in the car,
671
00:32:41,627 --> 00:32:43,794
didn't find any weapons
in the car.
672
00:32:43,877 --> 00:32:46,627
They jacked up
these two men
673
00:32:46,710 --> 00:32:50,418
for no reasonable
articulable suspicion,
674
00:32:50,502 --> 00:32:52,752
no criminality afoot.
675
00:32:52,835 --> 00:32:53,877
So what did they do?
676
00:32:53,961 --> 00:32:58,752
They got on the phone,
and they called in for heroin
677
00:32:58,835 --> 00:33:00,877
to plant inside the vehicle.
678
00:33:00,961 --> 00:33:04,335
My clients believed that
Gladstone was the officer
679
00:33:04,418 --> 00:33:07,210
that showed up
with the heroin.
680
00:33:07,293 --> 00:33:10,168
Matthews and Burley
were wrongly convicted
681
00:33:10,252 --> 00:33:12,877
and sent to prison.
682
00:33:12,961 --> 00:33:15,835
They framed Mr. Burley
and Mr. Matthews
683
00:33:15,919 --> 00:33:19,335
to justify
their own criminality.
684
00:33:21,043 --> 00:33:24,669
- 28 grams of heroin.
[chuckles]
685
00:33:24,752 --> 00:33:28,460
That's a lot of heroin
to just pop up in the car.
686
00:33:28,543 --> 00:33:29,669
[scoffs]
687
00:33:29,752 --> 00:33:35,126
The depths that people go
through to save their own skin.
688
00:33:35,210 --> 00:33:38,168
[uneasy music]
689
00:33:38,252 --> 00:33:42,794
♪ ♪
690
00:33:42,877 --> 00:33:45,669
- Sergeant Wayne Jenkins
was already a key player
691
00:33:45,752 --> 00:33:47,710
in the Baltimore
police corruption case.
692
00:33:47,794 --> 00:33:50,418
Now he faces
another 20 years in prison,
693
00:33:50,502 --> 00:33:53,961
the result of new charges
that he planted drugs in a car
694
00:33:54,043 --> 00:33:58,085
in 2010 to justify chasing
the driver and a passenger.
695
00:33:58,168 --> 00:34:01,794
Sean Suiter was involved in the
original stop of the vehicle
696
00:34:01,877 --> 00:34:03,877
and the chase,
the indictment says.
697
00:34:03,961 --> 00:34:07,961
It suggests he was set up
to recover the drugs.
698
00:34:08,043 --> 00:34:10,168
- Obviously
it was a concerted effort,
699
00:34:10,252 --> 00:34:12,002
as they were blocked in.
700
00:34:12,085 --> 00:34:16,710
Jenkins and Guinn got out
of the car with guns and masks.
701
00:34:16,794 --> 00:34:19,835
It would be difficult to
imagine that the car back here,
702
00:34:19,919 --> 00:34:22,502
that detective Suiter
wouldn't have seen that.
703
00:34:22,585 --> 00:34:24,418
Unfortunately, you know,
704
00:34:24,502 --> 00:34:27,126
we're never going to exactly
know who planted the drugs,
705
00:34:27,210 --> 00:34:28,627
whether it was
Jenkins himself.
706
00:34:28,710 --> 00:34:30,669
Jenkins denied planting them.
707
00:34:30,752 --> 00:34:32,085
It could be Suiter--
we don't know.
708
00:34:32,168 --> 00:34:34,961
Suiter was the one
that recovered them.
709
00:34:35,043 --> 00:34:37,585
I'm not sure that you can
believe any of the officers
710
00:34:37,669 --> 00:34:39,752
'cause it's all self-serving,
711
00:34:39,835 --> 00:34:43,460
but we do know
they were working together.
712
00:34:43,543 --> 00:34:50,585
♪ ♪
713
00:35:10,252 --> 00:35:13,168
- Getting to the truth in
these incidents is difficult.
714
00:35:13,252 --> 00:35:16,335
I think that there are people
lying on all sides.
715
00:35:16,418 --> 00:35:19,168
We do not have
an independent eyewitness
716
00:35:19,252 --> 00:35:21,460
between the officers
and Umar Burley.
717
00:35:21,543 --> 00:35:24,168
One idea I had was to do
a public records request to see
718
00:35:24,252 --> 00:35:25,543
if they would turn over
the dispatch audio,
719
00:35:25,627 --> 00:35:26,961
so I got that today.
720
00:35:29,126 --> 00:35:30,919
This audio
is from the moment.
721
00:35:31,002 --> 00:35:32,627
This is real time,
what they were saying
722
00:35:32,710 --> 00:35:35,210
before anybody knew that
this was going to happen.
723
00:35:37,710 --> 00:35:39,585
I'm trying to figure out
how this--
724
00:35:39,669 --> 00:35:41,835
was Wayne Jenkins
and Sean Suiter,
725
00:35:41,919 --> 00:35:43,710
were they robbing people
with masks on
726
00:35:43,794 --> 00:35:45,418
in the middle
of the day in 2010?
727
00:35:45,502 --> 00:35:46,961
Because if that's true,
728
00:35:47,043 --> 00:35:49,710
Sean Suiter
is incredibly corrupt.
729
00:35:49,794 --> 00:35:52,168
Going back seven years
before his death,
730
00:35:52,252 --> 00:35:53,669
he was rolling around the city
731
00:35:53,752 --> 00:35:55,877
in the middle of the day
with masks on robbing people.
732
00:35:55,961 --> 00:35:58,752
So...
733
00:35:58,835 --> 00:36:00,293
yep.
734
00:36:00,377 --> 00:36:02,418
They actually
give the tag number
735
00:36:02,502 --> 00:36:04,418
before the crash,
before the chase even.
736
00:36:04,502 --> 00:36:05,919
There is no doubt about it.
737
00:36:06,002 --> 00:36:08,460
They're discussing
stopping this guy on the radio
738
00:36:08,543 --> 00:36:10,168
that other officers
are listening to.
739
00:36:10,252 --> 00:36:11,669
I think that's telling.
740
00:36:11,752 --> 00:36:14,585
If you're robbing somebody,
I don't know that you do that.
741
00:36:14,669 --> 00:36:16,293
That's a good thing
for Sean Suiter's case
742
00:36:16,377 --> 00:36:19,627
that he's not corrupt.
743
00:36:19,710 --> 00:36:22,961
But that's with the caveat
that these guys lied,
744
00:36:23,043 --> 00:36:25,460
they covered their tracks,
they knew how to do it.
745
00:36:25,543 --> 00:36:27,627
So anything's possible.
746
00:36:27,710 --> 00:36:29,961
- A car crash.
747
00:36:30,043 --> 00:36:32,252
Guys, they're running,
trying to shoot each other.
748
00:36:32,335 --> 00:36:34,252
There is a 911 call
from a citizen,
749
00:36:34,335 --> 00:36:36,460
who is coming on to this
as it's happening.
750
00:36:36,543 --> 00:36:38,835
And she sees a car crashed
into a fire hydrant.
751
00:36:38,919 --> 00:36:41,252
She thinks it's regular
people just chasing
752
00:36:41,335 --> 00:36:43,627
after each other with guns,
and--which is interesting.
753
00:36:43,710 --> 00:36:45,752
I mean, if they had
their lights and sirens on,
754
00:36:45,835 --> 00:36:47,585
wouldn't you know
that they were cops?
755
00:36:47,669 --> 00:36:49,252
Three of them.
756
00:36:49,335 --> 00:36:50,627
- The one with the gun had
on an orange sweatshirt?
757
00:36:50,710 --> 00:36:52,377
- Right.
758
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:54,669
- There's things on this
that go towards one narrative
759
00:36:54,752 --> 00:36:56,961
and things that go
towards the other narrative.
760
00:36:58,460 --> 00:37:01,002
- Federal Prosecutors now say
761
00:37:01,085 --> 00:37:02,877
Burley and Matthews
are innocent.
762
00:37:02,961 --> 00:37:04,835
Today their convictions
were vacated.
763
00:37:04,919 --> 00:37:08,752
- I may have been released,
but nothing has changed.
764
00:37:08,835 --> 00:37:11,752
My life will never be
the same again.
765
00:37:19,627 --> 00:37:21,627
- We've had,
as a firm, as a lawyer,
766
00:37:21,710 --> 00:37:23,502
and as a resident
of Baltimore,
767
00:37:23,585 --> 00:37:26,961
some familiarity
with these rogue police units.
768
00:37:27,043 --> 00:37:31,502
But I had never seen
a situation
769
00:37:31,585 --> 00:37:35,377
where the federal government
overtly made efforts
770
00:37:35,460 --> 00:37:38,877
to pull someone out
of prison and release them.
771
00:37:38,961 --> 00:37:41,168
- The federal judge called
their convictions
772
00:37:41,252 --> 00:37:44,794
the result of
"raw, crude police corruption."
773
00:37:51,002 --> 00:37:54,877
- The key player in the
investigation of Sean Suiter
774
00:37:54,961 --> 00:37:57,043
is Wayne Jenkins...
775
00:37:57,126 --> 00:37:58,669
because Suiter was the one
776
00:37:58,752 --> 00:38:03,669
who was supposed to testify
against Jenkins.
777
00:38:03,752 --> 00:38:04,877
You know, I would never say
778
00:38:04,961 --> 00:38:06,835
that a person
committed a murder
779
00:38:06,919 --> 00:38:08,502
unless I knew they did it.
780
00:38:08,585 --> 00:38:11,002
I would never say a person
had ordered a murder
781
00:38:11,085 --> 00:38:12,168
unless I knew they did it,
782
00:38:12,252 --> 00:38:14,377
but what I will say is that
they're very capable of it.
783
00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:16,085
Police officers kill people
all the time.
784
00:38:16,168 --> 00:38:22,752
♪ ♪
785
00:38:22,835 --> 00:38:24,085
If I was the suspect
786
00:38:24,168 --> 00:38:25,752
I'm probably going
to go this way,
787
00:38:25,835 --> 00:38:28,043
because that's too open
and that's too open.
788
00:38:28,126 --> 00:38:30,418
This shit is too residential.
789
00:38:35,835 --> 00:38:37,710
And I'm gone.
[laughs]
790
00:38:37,794 --> 00:38:40,002
I'm gonna hit this corner,
and I'm gone.
791
00:38:41,627 --> 00:38:42,877
[chuckles]
792
00:38:42,961 --> 00:38:44,168
They took the black jacket off
793
00:38:44,252 --> 00:38:45,919
and put their police uniform
back on.
794
00:38:46,002 --> 00:38:50,710
[chuckles] And then they just
went ahead about their business.
795
00:38:50,794 --> 00:38:52,543
When I was a kid, right,
796
00:38:52,627 --> 00:38:54,710
I had a real good friend
named D.I.,
797
00:38:54,794 --> 00:38:56,752
and he got shot in the head.
798
00:38:56,835 --> 00:38:59,460
He was holding a Walkman,
and the first thing he did
799
00:38:59,543 --> 00:39:02,002
was drop the Walkman
before he hit the ground.
800
00:39:02,085 --> 00:39:03,835
And that was the first thing
I thought about
801
00:39:03,919 --> 00:39:06,835
when I started, like,
piecing together information
802
00:39:06,919 --> 00:39:08,377
on what happened
to Sean Suiter.
803
00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:11,627
You shoot yourself in the back
of your head, as they say,
804
00:39:11,710 --> 00:39:13,961
and you still squeezing
your radio tight, it's just--
805
00:39:14,043 --> 00:39:15,585
I don't know,
it's a little strange to me.
806
00:39:15,669 --> 00:39:17,252
It doesn't really--
it doesn't sound right.
807
00:39:34,919 --> 00:39:37,252
- I first heard
about D. Watkins--
808
00:39:37,335 --> 00:39:39,043
I read a review
of one of his books
809
00:39:39,126 --> 00:39:40,377
in "The New York Times."
810
00:39:40,460 --> 00:39:43,961
I mean, I was interested
in an actual, authentic story
811
00:39:44,043 --> 00:39:45,502
from somebody
who was in the game,
812
00:39:45,585 --> 00:39:46,877
who was in the street,
813
00:39:46,961 --> 00:39:49,002
who was sort of, I guess,
on the other side,
814
00:39:49,085 --> 00:39:50,919
if that makes sense.
815
00:39:53,293 --> 00:39:55,585
I think Sean Suiter
was killed
816
00:39:55,669 --> 00:39:58,502
because he was going to testify
in front of a grand jury.
817
00:39:58,585 --> 00:40:00,460
- What would you be thinking
in your office?
818
00:40:00,543 --> 00:40:02,126
Would you be like,
"Yo, we got to look into this,"
819
00:40:02,210 --> 00:40:04,002
or you'd just be like--
820
00:40:04,085 --> 00:40:07,627
- I would be thinking,
who's left?
821
00:40:07,710 --> 00:40:09,961
[chuckles] Who's left
from the Gun Trace Task Force
822
00:40:10,043 --> 00:40:11,794
who hasn't been
federally indicted?
823
00:40:11,877 --> 00:40:14,126
And I don't mean
the core group of guys.
824
00:40:14,210 --> 00:40:17,794
I mean supervisors,
825
00:40:17,877 --> 00:40:20,293
outside people, you know,
826
00:40:20,377 --> 00:40:22,002
and the city police department
may not know.
827
00:40:22,085 --> 00:40:23,877
Only the feds may know
that information.
828
00:40:23,961 --> 00:40:27,543
But there's obviously
somebody else out there
829
00:40:27,627 --> 00:40:29,085
with something to lose.
830
00:40:29,168 --> 00:40:31,877
The Gun Trace Task Force
was making somebody look good
831
00:40:31,961 --> 00:40:34,460
because they're bringing in
so many gun arrests.
832
00:40:34,543 --> 00:40:37,585
And those commanders
don't want to know.
833
00:40:37,669 --> 00:40:39,502
They don't want to know
what they're doing
834
00:40:39,585 --> 00:40:40,710
to get all these guns.
835
00:40:40,794 --> 00:40:42,085
They don't care.
836
00:40:42,168 --> 00:40:44,210
They don't want to know
how the food's being made.
837
00:40:44,293 --> 00:40:45,710
They just want to eat it.
838
00:40:45,794 --> 00:40:48,002
- Suiter probably thought
the department had his back,
839
00:40:48,085 --> 00:40:50,627
and they probably did, all
the way up until they didn't.
840
00:40:50,710 --> 00:40:52,043
- But remember,
841
00:40:52,126 --> 00:40:56,293
Suiter was testifying
to events back from 2010
842
00:40:56,377 --> 00:40:59,377
when he worked with some of
the guys in another drug unit.
843
00:40:59,460 --> 00:41:02,543
There are other people involved
in that scandal
844
00:41:02,627 --> 00:41:06,252
that I'm sure are trying to
protect themselves at all costs.
845
00:41:06,335 --> 00:41:09,252
[tense music]
846
00:41:09,335 --> 00:41:16,293
♪ ♪
847
00:41:19,043 --> 00:41:21,210
- A major development
from the witness stand
848
00:41:21,293 --> 00:41:24,293
where former Baltimore City
Police detective Momodu Gondo
849
00:41:24,377 --> 00:41:25,752
made a stunning admission.
850
00:41:25,835 --> 00:41:27,919
He says Detective Sean Suiter
851
00:41:28,002 --> 00:41:30,043
stole money
when the two worked together
852
00:41:30,126 --> 00:41:33,460
in a specialized enforcement
unit a decade ago.
853
00:41:43,710 --> 00:41:47,252
- Detective Gondo was,
I think, pretty unequivocal
854
00:41:47,335 --> 00:41:50,752
that he had stolen money with
other officers for a long time,
855
00:41:50,835 --> 00:41:53,543
and he described it as being
something that officers did
856
00:41:53,627 --> 00:41:56,252
to sort of fit in,
to gain each other's trust.
857
00:41:56,335 --> 00:41:58,126
That if I know that
you're stealing money
858
00:41:58,210 --> 00:41:59,752
and you know that
I'm stealing money
859
00:41:59,835 --> 00:42:01,126
then we've got
each other's back.
860
00:42:01,210 --> 00:42:02,543
We're both in
on this together,
861
00:42:02,627 --> 00:42:05,585
and he said he was stealing
money with Sean Suiter.
862
00:42:08,835 --> 00:42:12,043
- Gondo was,
without question, reliable,
863
00:42:12,126 --> 00:42:14,752
the most trustworthy,
864
00:42:14,835 --> 00:42:18,293
truthful cooperator
that they had, and...
865
00:42:18,377 --> 00:42:22,585
- Gondo said he was dirty
on the witness stand.
866
00:42:22,669 --> 00:42:27,502
So, if you look at those weeks
leading up to November 15th,
867
00:42:27,585 --> 00:42:30,669
what's Sean Suiter looking at
868
00:42:30,752 --> 00:42:33,961
as he headed for that
grand jury appearance?
869
00:42:35,919 --> 00:42:40,460
He knows that Momodu Gondo
has pleaded guilty.
870
00:42:40,543 --> 00:42:42,627
He was cooperating
with the feds,
871
00:42:42,710 --> 00:42:45,210
and he was willing to talk.
872
00:42:45,293 --> 00:42:50,835
October 24th, the FBI
came to visit Sean Suiter.
873
00:42:50,919 --> 00:42:53,460
He refused to be
interviewed by them,
874
00:42:53,543 --> 00:42:55,585
and they delivered a subpoena
for him to appear
875
00:42:55,669 --> 00:42:57,502
before the federal grand jury.
876
00:42:57,585 --> 00:42:59,919
What we learned
after Suiter's death
877
00:43:00,002 --> 00:43:03,293
is that Gondo told
the federal authorities,
878
00:43:03,377 --> 00:43:05,627
while he was cooperating,
that Suiter was dirty.
879
00:43:05,710 --> 00:43:07,919
There's a lot to look at.
880
00:43:10,961 --> 00:43:14,043
- He's gone from an officer
who died in the line of duty
881
00:43:14,126 --> 00:43:16,794
investigating a homicide
in a dangerous part of town
882
00:43:16,877 --> 00:43:18,710
to having his whole history
questioned,
883
00:43:18,794 --> 00:43:21,502
is sort of
a shocking development.
884
00:43:25,335 --> 00:43:28,835
- Before we be too judgmental,
you know,
885
00:43:28,919 --> 00:43:30,919
I mean, it's enticing.
886
00:43:31,002 --> 00:43:32,710
You know, you're dealing
with a dope dealer.
887
00:43:32,794 --> 00:43:34,002
Who's going to believe him?
888
00:43:34,085 --> 00:43:35,502
It's not like
he earned this money.
889
00:43:35,585 --> 00:43:36,794
I mean, you know, it's greed.
890
00:43:36,877 --> 00:43:38,210
It's greed
that's motivated this,
891
00:43:38,293 --> 00:43:40,460
but, I mean, that's
what you see all over,
892
00:43:40,543 --> 00:43:41,669
from top to bottom.
893
00:43:41,752 --> 00:43:43,543
From Washington
to, you know, to Baltimore,
894
00:43:43,627 --> 00:43:45,835
the motivating factor
was the greed.
895
00:43:45,919 --> 00:43:49,126
[sirens blaring]
896
00:43:55,335 --> 00:44:00,210
- Sean's death showed me how
cruel life can be sometimes.
897
00:44:00,293 --> 00:44:05,752
And his love showed me
how life can also be good.
898
00:44:08,710 --> 00:44:11,585
We just have a lot
of unanswered questions.
899
00:44:13,377 --> 00:44:17,043
I always believe
someone seen something.
900
00:44:17,126 --> 00:44:19,418
I always believe that.
901
00:44:19,502 --> 00:44:22,126
Love you, Sean.
902
00:44:28,168 --> 00:44:30,252
- There exists
a serious tug-of-war
903
00:44:30,335 --> 00:44:31,794
within
the Baltimore Police Department
904
00:44:31,877 --> 00:44:33,794
over what this case is.
905
00:44:33,877 --> 00:44:36,293
The people advocating
the suicide theory say
906
00:44:36,377 --> 00:44:38,460
the evidence
was mischaracterized
907
00:44:38,543 --> 00:44:40,710
and it wasn't explained.
908
00:44:40,794 --> 00:44:41,877
There was a suspect.
909
00:44:41,961 --> 00:44:44,293
There was a guy seen with
a white stripe on his jacket.
910
00:44:44,377 --> 00:44:47,002
It turns out, as more
information came along,
911
00:44:47,085 --> 00:44:49,002
that that was somebody
that they had spotted
912
00:44:49,085 --> 00:44:51,835
earlier in the afternoon.
913
00:44:51,919 --> 00:44:53,585
And people say
that Detective Suiter,
914
00:44:53,669 --> 00:44:55,752
maybe he sensed
that trouble was coming.
915
00:44:55,835 --> 00:44:57,460
He's a father of five.
916
00:44:57,543 --> 00:44:59,043
There's a financial incentive
917
00:44:59,126 --> 00:45:02,752
to have the death
appear to be a murder...
918
00:45:02,835 --> 00:45:04,377
that that would be
the kind of death
919
00:45:04,460 --> 00:45:07,085
that his family would
continue to receive benefits.
920
00:45:07,168 --> 00:45:08,794
If it's a straight-up
suicide,
921
00:45:08,877 --> 00:45:10,585
it's ruled that
and everybody knows it,
922
00:45:10,669 --> 00:45:13,168
you don't get benefits.
923
00:45:13,252 --> 00:45:14,961
You know, people
within the police department,
924
00:45:15,043 --> 00:45:16,335
they're pointing to dirt
on his leg
925
00:45:16,418 --> 00:45:18,669
and saying that that's proof
of a violent struggle.
926
00:45:18,752 --> 00:45:21,168
Is that proof
of a violent struggle?
927
00:45:21,252 --> 00:45:22,502
- Hold on, get his legs,
get his legs.
928
00:45:22,585 --> 00:45:24,418
- We should wait
for the medic.
929
00:45:24,502 --> 00:45:26,669
- Transport him in a car.
Officer's down.
930
00:45:26,752 --> 00:45:28,418
Officer down.
931
00:45:28,502 --> 00:45:30,710
- I actually attended
the academy with Sean Suiter.
932
00:45:30,794 --> 00:45:32,835
Really quiet guy,
really nice.
933
00:45:32,919 --> 00:45:35,293
Always, like, you know--
even though he's quiet,
934
00:45:35,377 --> 00:45:39,418
he was always smiling,
easy to get along with.
935
00:45:39,502 --> 00:45:41,210
I would cross paths
with him here or there,
936
00:45:41,293 --> 00:45:43,126
and we remembered each other
from the academy
937
00:45:43,210 --> 00:45:46,252
and would kind of like, just
like, "Hey, what's going on?"
938
00:45:46,335 --> 00:45:49,794
In Internal Affairs, I handled
all specialized units,
939
00:45:49,877 --> 00:45:52,335
which would've included
units Sean Suiter was in.
940
00:45:52,418 --> 00:45:55,210
So I never saw his name
in a complaint.
941
00:45:55,293 --> 00:45:58,377
I never heard of him
being involved in a complaint.
942
00:45:58,460 --> 00:46:00,752
I never heard a supervisor
or another cop
943
00:46:00,835 --> 00:46:03,085
ever say anything negative
about Sean.
944
00:46:03,168 --> 00:46:05,543
He's just a guy
I could never imagine even--
945
00:46:05,627 --> 00:46:08,585
even doing anything wrong.
946
00:46:08,669 --> 00:46:10,710
I know for a fact
that there are plenty
947
00:46:10,794 --> 00:46:12,919
of corrupt cops
within the department,
948
00:46:13,002 --> 00:46:14,377
because I investigated
some of them
949
00:46:14,460 --> 00:46:17,835
and they remain
in that department.
950
00:46:17,919 --> 00:46:19,335
Jenkins waited for me
951
00:46:19,418 --> 00:46:22,335
after work one day
at Internal Affairs
952
00:46:22,418 --> 00:46:25,835
because I was investigating
some of his guys.
953
00:46:25,919 --> 00:46:27,543
And he, like, corners me
in the parking lot,
954
00:46:27,627 --> 00:46:29,002
and he's, like,
right up in my face.
955
00:46:29,085 --> 00:46:30,293
Like, I thought he was
going to hit me.
956
00:46:30,377 --> 00:46:33,168
Like, that was it,
we were going to go.
957
00:46:33,252 --> 00:46:37,126
Mentally I just broke.
I couldn't take it anymore.
958
00:46:37,210 --> 00:46:39,919
I attempted suicide twice.
959
00:46:40,002 --> 00:46:43,085
I mean, for years, I had been
sort of struggling
960
00:46:43,168 --> 00:46:46,794
with what the mission
of the police department was.
961
00:46:46,877 --> 00:46:48,252
I was afraid to speak up
962
00:46:48,335 --> 00:46:50,961
about a lot of the things
I had seen.
963
00:46:51,043 --> 00:46:53,919
I was investigating cases
where I felt like
964
00:46:54,002 --> 00:46:56,043
maybe I was in danger,
965
00:46:56,126 --> 00:46:59,710
you know, retaliation
from cops I was investigating.
966
00:46:59,794 --> 00:47:02,543
I finally realized, I mean,
I can't work in the police--
967
00:47:02,627 --> 00:47:04,460
I can't stay.
I just had to quit.
968
00:47:04,543 --> 00:47:05,669
It was going to kill me.
969
00:47:05,752 --> 00:47:06,877
It was going to kill me
one way or the other.
970
00:47:06,961 --> 00:47:10,543
[dark music]
971
00:47:10,627 --> 00:47:14,835
I just didn't understand
how shitty cops
972
00:47:14,919 --> 00:47:17,877
get through that department
unscathed, unpunished,
973
00:47:17,961 --> 00:47:20,919
and Sean lost his life
in that department.
974
00:47:21,002 --> 00:47:27,961
♪ ♪
975
00:47:33,043 --> 00:47:36,085
- When I became the Baltimore
Police Commissioner in 2015,
976
00:47:36,168 --> 00:47:40,168
I was on Larry Young's
morning talk show on WOLB.
977
00:47:40,252 --> 00:47:45,293
He said, "Make sure you rent
and don't buy."
978
00:47:45,377 --> 00:47:47,710
The mayor, Catherine Pugh,
979
00:47:47,794 --> 00:47:50,252
wanted Sean Suiter's
investigation
980
00:47:50,335 --> 00:47:52,752
to be solved in a hurry.
981
00:47:52,835 --> 00:47:56,210
She saw it as a stain
on her mayoral administration,
982
00:47:56,293 --> 00:47:59,002
and she grew
growingly frustrated with me
983
00:47:59,085 --> 00:48:00,794
that it wasn't solved,
984
00:48:00,877 --> 00:48:03,669
and I grew
growingly frustrated with her
985
00:48:03,752 --> 00:48:06,168
that she was interfering
with the integrity
986
00:48:06,252 --> 00:48:08,168
of a murder investigation.
987
00:48:08,252 --> 00:48:10,543
- It has been a revolving door
988
00:48:10,627 --> 00:48:12,168
at the top
of the Police Department.
989
00:48:12,252 --> 00:48:15,252
This is the third
commissioner since 2015.
990
00:48:15,335 --> 00:48:16,543
- Commissioner Kevin Davis
991
00:48:16,627 --> 00:48:18,335
was fired in January.
992
00:48:18,418 --> 00:48:19,961
And the Mayor installed
993
00:48:20,043 --> 00:48:21,585
Darryl De Sousa
as Commissioner.
994
00:48:21,669 --> 00:48:23,002
One of my topics
to talk to him about
995
00:48:23,085 --> 00:48:24,252
was the Sean Suiter case.
996
00:48:24,335 --> 00:48:26,961
Do you have an idea
of what you think happened?
997
00:48:27,043 --> 00:48:28,961
- I have an idea I'm not
going to share it right now,
998
00:48:29,043 --> 00:48:31,794
but I can tell you that
I am bringing a independent,
999
00:48:31,877 --> 00:48:34,168
outside source to come
in and take a look at it.
1000
00:48:34,252 --> 00:48:35,919
- And that was the big headline
that came out of that
1001
00:48:36,002 --> 00:48:38,460
was the new commissioner
was going to push forward
1002
00:48:38,543 --> 00:48:41,669
on an independent review board
on the Sean Suiter case.
1003
00:48:50,377 --> 00:48:52,543
- We all went up
to the police headquarters,
1004
00:48:52,627 --> 00:48:54,710
and they put on a big
dog-and-pony show for us
1005
00:48:54,794 --> 00:48:57,377
about who's going to be looking
into this and who's that.
1006
00:48:57,460 --> 00:48:59,210
Everyone had a great résumé.
1007
00:48:59,293 --> 00:49:02,335
There's some old homicide cops
on there from BPD,
1008
00:49:02,418 --> 00:49:04,043
police officers
from around the country.
1009
00:49:04,126 --> 00:49:06,752
- It's an open criminal
investigation
1010
00:49:06,835 --> 00:49:08,543
requiring confidentiality.
1011
00:49:08,627 --> 00:49:11,168
- They said they are not going
to reinvestigate the homicide.
1012
00:49:11,252 --> 00:49:13,335
They're going to look
at everything around it.
1013
00:49:13,418 --> 00:49:15,585
And they said,
"But it's not going to be done
1014
00:49:15,669 --> 00:49:16,835
"out in the public,
1015
00:49:16,919 --> 00:49:18,794
"so we're gonna vote
to close the meeting,
1016
00:49:18,877 --> 00:49:21,043
and then that's the last thing
we're gonna hear."
1017
00:49:21,126 --> 00:49:22,835
- I want to thank you all
for coming
1018
00:49:22,919 --> 00:49:24,543
and for being so cooperative.
1019
00:49:24,627 --> 00:49:26,252
Thank you all very much.
1020
00:49:26,335 --> 00:49:28,252
- And then
sandwiches came,
1021
00:49:28,335 --> 00:49:30,585
and all of the journalists
had to go.
1022
00:49:30,669 --> 00:49:32,085
People want to know
what happened,
1023
00:49:32,168 --> 00:49:34,752
and they're going to try
to put something together
1024
00:49:34,835 --> 00:49:36,293
to make people
feel comfortable.
1025
00:49:36,377 --> 00:49:38,919
You know,
they got to have a story,
1026
00:49:39,002 --> 00:49:41,418
'cause you can't let
a cop die without a story,
1027
00:49:41,502 --> 00:49:46,002
not in America, definitely
not in Baltimore City.
1028
00:49:46,085 --> 00:49:49,002
[somber music]
1029
00:49:49,085 --> 00:49:56,043
♪ ♪
1030
00:49:58,669 --> 00:50:00,085
- Could you talk to us
a little bit
1031
00:50:00,168 --> 00:50:02,502
just about your client's state
of mind right now?
1032
00:50:02,585 --> 00:50:06,126
- Well, as he said in court,
Mr. Ward is very remorseful,
1033
00:50:06,210 --> 00:50:08,752
very sorry
about what happened.
1034
00:50:15,877 --> 00:50:17,794
- What happened?
1035
00:50:17,877 --> 00:50:20,460
- Wayne Jenkins received
25 years in prison.
1036
00:50:20,543 --> 00:50:23,210
It was not the maximum.
1037
00:50:23,293 --> 00:50:25,460
He turned around
and faced the crowd,
1038
00:50:25,543 --> 00:50:27,710
and for several minutes
apologized for his conduct.
1039
00:50:27,794 --> 00:50:28,794
He was sobbing.
1040
00:50:28,877 --> 00:50:31,002
His voice was cracking
throughout.
1041
00:50:33,043 --> 00:50:34,252
- I'm sorry for your loss.
1042
00:50:34,335 --> 00:50:36,043
- Thank you.
1043
00:50:42,335 --> 00:50:45,293
- When I look at the whole
case as presented,
1044
00:50:45,377 --> 00:50:48,126
the most shocking thing to me
1045
00:50:48,210 --> 00:50:52,460
was on April 27, 2015,
1046
00:50:52,543 --> 00:50:55,794
when the drug stores
were being burned and looted,
1047
00:50:55,877 --> 00:50:58,002
Jenkins was stealing the drugs.
1048
00:50:58,085 --> 00:51:01,126
He was looting the looters.
1049
00:51:01,210 --> 00:51:04,502
Trash bags full
of stolen pharmaceuticals.
1050
00:51:04,585 --> 00:51:06,460
You talk about brazen.
1051
00:51:06,543 --> 00:51:09,002
A Baltimore police sergeant
in charge
1052
00:51:09,085 --> 00:51:11,293
of an elite
Gun Trace Task Force
1053
00:51:11,377 --> 00:51:13,418
was looting.
1054
00:51:13,502 --> 00:51:16,669
I mean, we had to have the
National Guard come in here.
1055
00:51:18,168 --> 00:51:22,293
That really kind of sums up
the brazenness
1056
00:51:22,377 --> 00:51:27,710
with which this group
of people operated.
1057
00:51:27,794 --> 00:51:30,919
- In Baltimore, there was
a Viking-like mentality
1058
00:51:31,002 --> 00:51:33,210
for many, many years
that encouraged
1059
00:51:33,293 --> 00:51:35,335
the slippery slope behaviors
1060
00:51:35,418 --> 00:51:38,502
that that Gun Trace Task Force
went down.
1061
00:51:38,585 --> 00:51:41,293
We tend to give those
all-star cops a pass
1062
00:51:41,377 --> 00:51:42,585
because they do what?
1063
00:51:42,669 --> 00:51:44,210
They go out,
they hunt, they gather,
1064
00:51:44,293 --> 00:51:45,919
they bring back bad guys
and drugs
1065
00:51:46,002 --> 00:51:49,585
and guns and search warrants
and cash.
1066
00:52:09,627 --> 00:52:12,126
- He didn't deserve this.
He was a good person.
1067
00:52:12,210 --> 00:52:14,293
You're either a good person
or a bad person.
1068
00:52:14,377 --> 00:52:16,043
He was a good person.
1069
00:52:16,126 --> 00:52:18,460
- The first time I ever
got kicked in the ribs
1070
00:52:18,543 --> 00:52:20,085
by a cop when I was
laying on the ground
1071
00:52:20,168 --> 00:52:22,252
for saying something
slick out my mouth,
1072
00:52:22,335 --> 00:52:25,794
this officer,
his name was Daniel Hersl.
1073
00:52:25,877 --> 00:52:28,794
This hero, that was him.
1074
00:52:28,877 --> 00:52:30,752
[overlapping shouting]
1075
00:52:30,835 --> 00:52:32,835
- I was in my 20s,
early 20s,
1076
00:52:32,919 --> 00:52:35,043
and he kicked the shit
out of me.
1077
00:52:35,126 --> 00:52:37,710
And I'm like, "Bitch..."
[chuckles] Right?
1078
00:52:37,794 --> 00:52:39,085
But you can't do nothing.
1079
00:52:39,168 --> 00:52:42,043
♪ ♪
1080
00:52:42,126 --> 00:52:43,710
People in the neighborhood,
they knew Hersl.
1081
00:52:43,794 --> 00:52:46,043
They knew Hersl wanted money...
all the time.
1082
00:52:46,126 --> 00:52:48,168
It's like
he always had a bill due.
1083
00:52:48,252 --> 00:52:51,002
Daniel Hersl should have, like,
$100 million buried somewhere
1084
00:52:51,085 --> 00:52:53,669
'cause he was always
on the prowl.
1085
00:52:57,585 --> 00:53:00,126
And as you can tell by the big
smile on Danny Hersl's face,
1086
00:53:00,210 --> 00:53:02,126
they are having a good time,
1087
00:53:02,210 --> 00:53:03,418
and this is just
boxes of stuff
1088
00:53:03,502 --> 00:53:05,794
they're stealing out
of these people's apartment.
1089
00:53:05,877 --> 00:53:07,835
- So, when my editor
first asked me
1090
00:53:07,919 --> 00:53:09,961
to get into the human side
of Danny Hersl,
1091
00:53:10,043 --> 00:53:11,627
I was like, "Yo, fuck that."
1092
00:53:11,710 --> 00:53:13,877
He lost his ability
to be defined as a human
1093
00:53:13,961 --> 00:53:16,877
when he started
fucking robbing and stealing
1094
00:53:16,961 --> 00:53:20,126
and ripping off taxpayers
while we pay his salary.
1095
00:53:20,210 --> 00:53:21,961
So it's like, how do you
get to be a human?
1096
00:53:22,043 --> 00:53:24,210
I thought that was like some
classic white privilege shit.
1097
00:53:24,293 --> 00:53:26,335
You know, you do some evil shit,
and we got to say,
1098
00:53:26,418 --> 00:53:28,627
"Oh, he was a lone wolf.
Oh, he was tortured."
1099
00:53:28,710 --> 00:53:30,085
You know, I was like,
1100
00:53:30,168 --> 00:53:33,210
how the fuck
am I going to do that?
1101
00:53:33,293 --> 00:53:35,335
But then I had
to sit back and realize,
1102
00:53:35,418 --> 00:53:36,669
well, you know what?
1103
00:53:36,752 --> 00:53:39,335
[chuckles] D. Watkins,
you did some fucked-up things.
1104
00:53:39,418 --> 00:53:41,002
You know,
you ran these streets,
1105
00:53:41,085 --> 00:53:42,669
and you did
all this wild stuff,
1106
00:53:42,752 --> 00:53:44,502
so you don't deserve
to be treated as a human.
1107
00:53:44,585 --> 00:53:47,085
There's no shot
at redemption for you.
1108
00:53:58,210 --> 00:54:00,460
I'm from East Baltimore,
1109
00:54:00,543 --> 00:54:05,085
and Daniel Hersl
is from East Baltimore.
1110
00:54:05,168 --> 00:54:06,293
I like difficult.
1111
00:54:06,377 --> 00:54:09,752
This is a chance
to define a cultural moment
1112
00:54:09,835 --> 00:54:12,835
and tell the story of two boys
from East Baltimore
1113
00:54:12,919 --> 00:54:16,002
who completely
had opposite paths.
1114
00:54:16,085 --> 00:54:17,377
I started out in the street,
1115
00:54:17,460 --> 00:54:19,210
and I ended up
as a college professor.
1116
00:54:19,293 --> 00:54:21,377
He started out
as a police officer
1117
00:54:21,460 --> 00:54:24,377
and then ended up doing
18 years in federal prison.
1118
00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:27,418
[indistinct shouting]
1119
00:54:33,961 --> 00:54:37,002
Danny Hersl and I have
a whole lot of parallels.
1120
00:54:37,085 --> 00:54:38,669
We both lost family members.
1121
00:54:38,752 --> 00:54:40,710
We went to some
of the same schools.
1122
00:54:40,794 --> 00:54:43,002
Some of his friends
who I got to talk
1123
00:54:43,085 --> 00:54:44,418
said that he was a loyal guy.
1124
00:54:44,502 --> 00:54:47,377
He was a person that was down
to do whatever for his friends.
1125
00:54:52,126 --> 00:54:54,502
I didn't sign up
for something easy.
1126
00:54:54,585 --> 00:54:58,002
Talking about race and trying
to see humanity in a person
1127
00:54:58,085 --> 00:55:00,752
that has been a devil to you
and a devil
1128
00:55:00,835 --> 00:55:03,585
to a whole lot of people
you know isn't an easy task.
1129
00:55:03,669 --> 00:55:05,502
- Hey, you the author, right?
- Yeah, what's up?
1130
00:55:05,585 --> 00:55:07,460
- You came to my school.
- What school you go to?
1131
00:55:07,543 --> 00:55:09,085
- I go to City.
I like your book, man.
1132
00:55:09,168 --> 00:55:12,418
- Thank you,
I appreciate it.
1133
00:55:12,502 --> 00:55:15,418
Hersl and I are both victims
of the drug war.
1134
00:55:15,502 --> 00:55:18,210
He was on one side.
I was on the other side.
1135
00:55:18,293 --> 00:55:19,919
Did he have a chance
to know right from wrong?
1136
00:55:20,002 --> 00:55:21,710
Yeah, he did.
But he chose wrong.
1137
00:55:21,794 --> 00:55:23,418
Did I have chances to know
right from wrong?
1138
00:55:23,502 --> 00:55:25,961
Yes, I did,
and I chose wrong
1139
00:55:26,043 --> 00:55:29,043
until I felt like it was time
for me to choose right.
1140
00:55:29,126 --> 00:55:32,210
It's just like musical chairs.
I chose before I fell.
1141
00:55:32,293 --> 00:55:34,919
I take personal responsibility
for my actions,
1142
00:55:35,002 --> 00:55:37,543
just like I think he should
take personal responsibilities
1143
00:55:37,627 --> 00:55:38,961
for his actions.
1144
00:55:39,043 --> 00:55:41,961
But the one thing that me
and that clown have in common
1145
00:55:42,043 --> 00:55:44,460
is that
we both did what we saw.
1146
00:55:44,543 --> 00:55:46,543
That's what we saw, that's what
we saw people doing around us,
1147
00:55:46,627 --> 00:55:48,126
so that's what we tried to do.
1148
00:55:50,835 --> 00:55:53,377
- The eighth largest police
department in the country
1149
00:55:53,460 --> 00:55:54,460
in turmoil tonight.
1150
00:55:54,543 --> 00:55:56,585
- Darryl De Sousa is done.
1151
00:55:56,669 --> 00:55:59,585
The commissioner of just four
months resigned this morning
1152
00:55:59,669 --> 00:56:02,252
as he battles federal charges
of willfully
1153
00:56:02,335 --> 00:56:04,961
not filing his taxes
for three years.
1154
00:56:05,043 --> 00:56:07,460
- I tell you,
when De Sousa was made chief,
1155
00:56:07,543 --> 00:56:11,043
I got a list of questions
from the press
1156
00:56:11,126 --> 00:56:12,961
that involved his vetting,
1157
00:56:13,043 --> 00:56:15,710
and I remember calling
City Hall and saying,
1158
00:56:15,794 --> 00:56:17,627
"Hey, we have answers
to these?"
1159
00:56:17,710 --> 00:56:20,502
I mean, some of them
were so basic.
1160
00:56:20,585 --> 00:56:23,669
It seemed to be
an emotional selection
1161
00:56:23,752 --> 00:56:25,794
without due diligence.
1162
00:56:25,877 --> 00:56:28,335
All of this
could have been avoided.
1163
00:56:30,210 --> 00:56:33,043
- The truth is that the mayor
of Baltimore controls
1164
00:56:33,126 --> 00:56:36,877
the Baltimore Police Department
to a large extent.
1165
00:56:36,961 --> 00:56:40,168
Everything goes back
to the political leadership,
1166
00:56:40,252 --> 00:56:42,002
the political
"misleadership" class
1167
00:56:42,085 --> 00:56:45,210
that seems to always
be in office.
1168
00:56:45,293 --> 00:56:47,252
People have been interested
1169
00:56:47,335 --> 00:56:49,794
more in
currying favor with power
1170
00:56:49,877 --> 00:56:51,961
than they have
with elevating the people
1171
00:56:52,043 --> 00:56:54,252
that needed their support.
1172
00:56:54,335 --> 00:56:59,502
The fact that this city
has basically bled dry
1173
00:56:59,585 --> 00:57:02,710
entire communities
for decades,
1174
00:57:02,794 --> 00:57:04,919
giving people nothing,
1175
00:57:05,002 --> 00:57:08,252
inadequate education,
not even a trash pickup.
1176
00:57:08,335 --> 00:57:11,877
There's no economic engine
in many communities
1177
00:57:11,961 --> 00:57:15,002
intentionally for a long time
other than the drug trade.
1178
00:57:15,085 --> 00:57:17,543
That isn't the fault
of the people.
1179
00:57:17,627 --> 00:57:19,877
That's the political
establishment
1180
00:57:19,961 --> 00:57:22,210
creating that environment.
1181
00:57:27,961 --> 00:57:29,669
- We're awaiting
the final report
1182
00:57:29,752 --> 00:57:32,377
from the independent
review board.
1183
00:57:32,460 --> 00:57:35,210
I'm sure everybody in town is
going to be trying to get it
1184
00:57:35,293 --> 00:57:38,335
before it comes out,
myself included,
1185
00:57:38,418 --> 00:57:41,252
but we're just waiting.
1186
00:57:44,126 --> 00:57:47,043
[rising music]
1187
00:57:47,126 --> 00:57:54,085
♪ ♪
1188
00:58:00,460 --> 00:58:03,627
- Come on, man!
Killed himself?
1189
00:58:03,710 --> 00:58:06,210
Get the hell out of here.
That's bullshit.
1190
00:58:16,252 --> 00:58:19,252
- The safest thing
for Baltimore is to say,
1191
00:58:19,335 --> 00:58:22,585
"Police officers would never
kill another cop, never.
1192
00:58:22,669 --> 00:58:24,585
"They would never
kill another cop.
1193
00:58:24,669 --> 00:58:27,502
They'll never do that.
Suiter killed himself."
1194
00:58:27,585 --> 00:58:29,252
And that maintains
the narrative
1195
00:58:29,335 --> 00:58:31,293
that I'm working
so hard to dismantle.
1196
00:58:32,710 --> 00:58:34,752
- And what we now learn,
1197
00:58:34,835 --> 00:58:36,502
he wasn't just going
to testify as a witness.
1198
00:58:36,585 --> 00:58:38,961
He was testifying
under limited immunity,
1199
00:58:39,043 --> 00:58:42,502
which is a very different
kind of witness.
1200
00:58:46,752 --> 00:58:49,460
He wasn't so-called "target"
1201
00:58:49,543 --> 00:58:54,377
of the GTF investigation,
but he was a "subject" of it.
1202
00:58:54,460 --> 00:58:57,043
It means that the feds
didn't really know
1203
00:58:57,126 --> 00:59:00,252
what he knew or did.
1204
00:59:00,335 --> 00:59:02,293
- They released it the night
1205
00:59:02,377 --> 00:59:04,293
before they had
a press conference.
1206
00:59:04,377 --> 00:59:08,126
And along with it,
they released a piece of video
1207
00:59:08,210 --> 00:59:11,002
that I had been trying
to get my hands on forever.
1208
00:59:18,877 --> 00:59:21,002
They released
an audio clip
1209
00:59:21,085 --> 00:59:24,502
of Sean's
last audio transmission.
1210
00:59:24,585 --> 00:59:26,168
- [shouting indistinctly]
1211
00:59:26,252 --> 00:59:27,752
- Which was unintelligible,
1212
00:59:27,835 --> 00:59:30,752
but there's still some
sound there, you know, and...
1213
00:59:30,835 --> 00:59:32,126
- [shouting indistinctly]
1214
00:59:32,210 --> 00:59:34,293
- That was interesting to me.
1215
00:59:34,377 --> 00:59:35,919
And then I read the report.
1216
00:59:36,002 --> 00:59:38,335
And, you know, it was rumored
1217
00:59:38,418 --> 00:59:40,252
that it was going to
come out as suicide,
1218
00:59:40,335 --> 00:59:41,794
and then you read it
in black and white
1219
00:59:41,877 --> 00:59:43,710
where the IRB board said,
1220
00:59:43,794 --> 00:59:45,627
"We conclude
that this is suicide."
1221
00:59:58,835 --> 01:00:00,710
And I looked at that,
and I was like,
1222
01:00:00,794 --> 01:00:04,710
"Okay, now show me--
show me where it's at."
1223
01:00:04,794 --> 01:00:09,002
And so I read that report
three times that night.
1224
01:00:09,085 --> 01:00:12,043
I didn't see anything new--
1225
01:00:12,126 --> 01:00:14,502
no new physical evidence,
1226
01:00:14,585 --> 01:00:19,002
nothing to suggest that they
can conclude unanimously
1227
01:00:19,085 --> 01:00:21,502
that Sean Suiter
killed himself.
1228
01:00:21,585 --> 01:00:24,335
It wasn't there for me
as a reporter.
1229
01:00:25,752 --> 01:00:28,627
- Uh-huh, okay.
Thank you very much.
1230
01:00:28,710 --> 01:00:30,293
I'll call you
if there's anything--
1231
01:00:30,377 --> 01:00:34,794
I reached out to former
commissioner Kevin Davis.
1232
01:00:34,877 --> 01:00:38,752
I don't know, in any other town,
this might be shocking,
1233
01:00:38,835 --> 01:00:41,710
but he completely condemned
the police department,
1234
01:00:41,794 --> 01:00:44,418
and he said that there is
a culture there that,
1235
01:00:44,502 --> 01:00:46,377
you know, they were
culturally trying to,
1236
01:00:46,460 --> 01:00:48,460
you know, cover this up
because they couldn't handle
1237
01:00:48,543 --> 01:00:50,585
not being able
to solve the case.
1238
01:00:50,669 --> 01:00:55,252
He also said that he refused
to meet with the full board
1239
01:00:55,335 --> 01:00:59,002
because he didn't trust members
of the police department
1240
01:00:59,085 --> 01:01:00,585
who were on the board.
1241
01:01:00,669 --> 01:01:02,377
That's a pretty
shocking statement
1242
01:01:02,460 --> 01:01:05,377
from somebody who ran
the place for three years.
1243
01:01:05,460 --> 01:01:08,210
He is an outsider, and he ran
the place for three years,
1244
01:01:08,293 --> 01:01:09,877
and he's basically
telling the public
1245
01:01:09,961 --> 01:01:11,627
you can't trust
anybody over there,
1246
01:01:11,710 --> 01:01:14,669
and they are going
to sort of juke this case
1247
01:01:14,752 --> 01:01:16,168
to what they want it to be.
1248
01:01:16,252 --> 01:01:18,168
That's coming from someone
who ran the place
1249
01:01:18,252 --> 01:01:20,627
and saw it
from the inside out.
1250
01:01:20,710 --> 01:01:24,794
[gentle music]
1251
01:01:24,877 --> 01:01:26,627
- Questions?
1252
01:01:26,710 --> 01:01:30,252
- Mayor, do you accept
the finding of self-inflicted?
1253
01:01:30,335 --> 01:01:32,460
- Well, let me just say this--
you know, first of all,
1254
01:01:32,543 --> 01:01:36,293
you know, my condolences
are still with the family.
1255
01:01:36,377 --> 01:01:38,460
I'm also looking
forward to hearing
1256
01:01:38,543 --> 01:01:40,710
from the review committee
as well, you know,
1257
01:01:40,794 --> 01:01:43,460
because I think there needs
to be a thorough understanding
1258
01:01:43,543 --> 01:01:45,252
of their own findings.
1259
01:01:45,335 --> 01:01:47,919
- There's no question that
the Independent Review Board
1260
01:01:48,002 --> 01:01:49,460
that reviewed the evidence
in the case
1261
01:01:49,543 --> 01:01:53,585
and the facts of the case
has placed a lot of weight
1262
01:01:53,669 --> 01:01:56,335
on the connection
to the Gun Trace Task Force case
1263
01:01:56,418 --> 01:01:58,002
to the death of Sean Suiter.
1264
01:01:58,085 --> 01:02:00,335
- The commissioner says,
"Okay, there was a man
1265
01:02:00,418 --> 01:02:02,168
in a black leather jacket."
1266
01:02:02,252 --> 01:02:04,002
- Right, and that is what
the report says.
1267
01:02:04,085 --> 01:02:06,543
And the report reveals that
there were some inaccuracies.
1268
01:02:06,627 --> 01:02:08,210
- Knowing what you know now,
do you regret
1269
01:02:08,293 --> 01:02:11,794
the hero's funeral
with public road closings
1270
01:02:11,877 --> 01:02:14,126
and a vast PR campaign
surrounding it?
1271
01:02:14,210 --> 01:02:15,961
- Well, I didn't
orchestrate that,
1272
01:02:16,043 --> 01:02:19,126
so let me just say that,
again, these are findings
1273
01:02:19,210 --> 01:02:21,460
that are still being reviewed
and will be shared.
1274
01:02:21,543 --> 01:02:24,752
- So you don't feel at any point
that you were misled
1275
01:02:24,835 --> 01:02:26,627
by anyone
on the police department?
1276
01:02:26,710 --> 01:02:29,335
- I think we all--
well, according to this report,
1277
01:02:29,418 --> 01:02:31,794
we've all been misled.
1278
01:02:31,877 --> 01:02:37,502
- To hear someone totally drag
your homeboy, man...
1279
01:02:37,585 --> 01:02:39,710
Like, he just--
1280
01:02:39,794 --> 01:02:42,043
That's not him.
1281
01:02:46,418 --> 01:02:50,961
Like, to hear that from
people that didn't know him...
1282
01:02:52,961 --> 01:02:54,919
It was--it was--
it was jacked up.
1283
01:02:55,002 --> 01:02:56,502
It was a jacked-up day.
1284
01:03:01,877 --> 01:03:03,377
- The physical evidence
definitely takes you
1285
01:03:03,460 --> 01:03:06,252
to a self-inflicted
conclusion.
1286
01:03:07,794 --> 01:03:11,002
But when you really think
about the case,
1287
01:03:11,085 --> 01:03:13,669
either you've got Sean Suiter
1288
01:03:13,752 --> 01:03:17,585
who needs to make
his suicide look like murder,
1289
01:03:17,669 --> 01:03:20,961
and if he is targeted
because of what he may know
1290
01:03:21,043 --> 01:03:24,252
about other activities
of other officers,
1291
01:03:24,335 --> 01:03:27,002
you've got someone who needs
to make his murder
1292
01:03:27,085 --> 01:03:30,043
look like suicide.
1293
01:03:30,126 --> 01:03:32,377
- There wasn't ever supposed
to be a conclusion
1294
01:03:32,460 --> 01:03:34,919
drawn from the IRB.
1295
01:03:35,002 --> 01:03:37,002
I was shocked
when I found out
1296
01:03:37,085 --> 01:03:39,502
that there was
an actual conclusion.
1297
01:03:48,961 --> 01:03:52,210
[car horn honks]
1298
01:03:52,293 --> 01:03:55,669
- Can you address people
who may be looking at this
1299
01:03:55,752 --> 01:03:58,293
saying this is a really
far-fetched scenario?
1300
01:03:58,377 --> 01:04:01,126
- The totality of the evidence,
not individually,
1301
01:04:01,210 --> 01:04:02,752
but the totality
of the evidence
1302
01:04:02,835 --> 01:04:04,627
builds a compelling case
1303
01:04:04,710 --> 01:04:07,043
that the conclusion
is very well supported,
1304
01:04:07,126 --> 01:04:11,669
and there is unanimity
on all recommendations,
1305
01:04:11,752 --> 01:04:15,002
all findings, all conclusions
that were made in the report.
1306
01:04:15,085 --> 01:04:17,543
- To what extent
did your investigators
1307
01:04:17,627 --> 01:04:21,085
look at the theory
that many in the community
1308
01:04:21,168 --> 01:04:24,418
are saying this was a hit
put on Suiter by the BPD?
1309
01:04:24,502 --> 01:04:26,418
- I refer you to the report.
1310
01:04:26,502 --> 01:04:29,752
It turns out that we
were able to exactly time
1311
01:04:29,835 --> 01:04:32,085
sort of the sequence of events
1312
01:04:32,168 --> 01:04:33,877
and there was a total
of eight seconds
1313
01:04:33,961 --> 01:04:35,710
when somebody
wasn't being observed,
1314
01:04:35,794 --> 01:04:38,002
and you couldn't get in,
do that,
1315
01:04:38,085 --> 01:04:40,460
put the evidence in,
raise the arm up,
1316
01:04:40,543 --> 01:04:43,377
close the arm--
it was not possible.
1317
01:04:43,460 --> 01:04:45,835
- I just want to clear up
a factual matter.
1318
01:04:45,919 --> 01:04:49,669
It says that Hersl had pleaded
guilty and agreed to cooperate.
1319
01:04:49,752 --> 01:04:52,126
But he was one of the two
who didn't plead guilty.
1320
01:04:52,210 --> 01:04:53,710
Was there a mistake?
1321
01:04:53,794 --> 01:04:55,502
- No, I believe
it's the same Hersl.
1322
01:04:55,585 --> 01:04:57,585
- This is a big mistake.
1323
01:04:57,669 --> 01:04:59,502
This is a fairly
large public trial
1324
01:04:59,585 --> 01:05:02,293
that we all covered,
that he went to trial,
1325
01:05:02,377 --> 01:05:04,126
and it went on for weeks,
1326
01:05:04,210 --> 01:05:06,961
but it says in here
that he pled guilty.
1327
01:05:07,043 --> 01:05:10,168
But beyond that, did you guys
also interview other people
1328
01:05:10,252 --> 01:05:14,961
in his family or in his life
to help state of mind
1329
01:05:15,043 --> 01:05:17,835
that this grand jury may not
have been the only thing
1330
01:05:17,919 --> 01:05:21,669
that was stressing him out
to make him commit suicide?
1331
01:05:21,752 --> 01:05:23,835
- Let me just say this,
you know,
1332
01:05:23,919 --> 01:05:27,043
we followed the information,
and we followed the facts.
1333
01:05:27,126 --> 01:05:30,252
We do not attempt to understand
what his state of mind was
1334
01:05:30,335 --> 01:05:32,543
when he took
the actions that he did.
1335
01:05:32,627 --> 01:05:35,502
We can't surmise that
about Detective Suiter.
1336
01:05:35,585 --> 01:05:36,877
We can't.
1337
01:05:36,961 --> 01:05:40,710
- I didn't know
about the factual error
1338
01:05:40,794 --> 01:05:44,835
that was in the IRB report,
a big one.
1339
01:05:46,293 --> 01:05:50,919
I don't like embarrassment.
I don't like being wrong.
1340
01:05:51,002 --> 01:05:54,460
This shit should be right,
period!
1341
01:05:54,543 --> 01:05:57,502
This is not just a report.
1342
01:05:57,585 --> 01:06:00,168
This is somebody's life.
1343
01:06:00,252 --> 01:06:02,835
We're about to tell
someone's family
1344
01:06:02,919 --> 01:06:05,835
that we don't believe
your husband was killed.
1345
01:06:05,919 --> 01:06:08,752
We believe he did it himself.
Oh, sorry for this fact.
1346
01:06:08,835 --> 01:06:13,585
No, no, no, it's no margin
for error for that.
1347
01:06:13,669 --> 01:06:16,252
- Based on the fact
that no one knew my husband
1348
01:06:16,335 --> 01:06:17,627
better than I did,
1349
01:06:17,710 --> 01:06:19,752
I will not accept
the untimely death of Sean
1350
01:06:19,835 --> 01:06:22,919
as nothing other
than a murder...
1351
01:06:23,002 --> 01:06:24,252
which has been covered up
1352
01:06:24,335 --> 01:06:28,543
for reasons unbeknownst
to me or my family.
1353
01:06:28,627 --> 01:06:31,085
Sean did not deserve
to die in this manner,
1354
01:06:31,168 --> 01:06:33,919
and no one deserves
to get away with this.
1355
01:06:34,002 --> 01:06:36,585
- Nicole knew
that there were wolves.
1356
01:06:36,669 --> 01:06:39,752
I saw an effort
by certain individuals
1357
01:06:39,835 --> 01:06:42,377
within the Baltimore City
Police Department
1358
01:06:42,460 --> 01:06:44,543
to demonize Sean,
1359
01:06:44,627 --> 01:06:48,460
to turn him into another one
of these shadowy GTTF figures.
1360
01:06:50,377 --> 01:06:52,293
What does the Baltimore City
Police Department
1361
01:06:52,377 --> 01:06:54,585
have to gain
by lying about Sean?
1362
01:06:54,669 --> 01:06:56,293
- What do you think
is going on here?
1363
01:06:56,377 --> 01:06:58,126
Why do you think
this is happening?
1364
01:06:58,210 --> 01:07:02,919
- To be honest, I don't know
why this is happening.
1365
01:07:03,002 --> 01:07:05,543
But something's happening.
1366
01:07:10,335 --> 01:07:12,460
- There is nothing
to indicate to me
1367
01:07:12,543 --> 01:07:15,126
that he took his own life.
1368
01:07:15,210 --> 01:07:17,627
I am the one who reached out
to the U.S. Attorney's Office
1369
01:07:17,710 --> 01:07:20,377
and requested immunity.
1370
01:07:20,460 --> 01:07:23,961
He was not worried about
his involvement in this case.
1371
01:07:24,043 --> 01:07:26,502
The U.S. Attorneys handling
the investigation
1372
01:07:26,585 --> 01:07:28,502
made it clear to me
that they saw Sean
1373
01:07:28,585 --> 01:07:31,293
as a witness
to the Umar Burley case,
1374
01:07:31,377 --> 01:07:33,002
not a suspect.
1375
01:07:34,794 --> 01:07:37,335
Now I'm trying to make sure
that two things happen--
1376
01:07:37,418 --> 01:07:40,835
that his family gets benefits
and that somebody
1377
01:07:40,919 --> 01:07:42,794
actually investigates
his fucking murder,
1378
01:07:42,877 --> 01:07:46,835
which I really don't think
are two big things to ask.
1379
01:07:46,919 --> 01:07:50,460
[siren wails]
1380
01:07:50,543 --> 01:07:52,919
- The intricate plan
on staging this
1381
01:07:53,002 --> 01:07:56,293
for insurance purposes
just bothers me the most.
1382
01:07:56,377 --> 01:07:58,627
As Black families,
we just go through shit.
1383
01:07:58,710 --> 01:07:59,961
We go through shit.
1384
01:08:00,043 --> 01:08:01,418
We go through shit,
and then we go through shit
1385
01:08:01,502 --> 01:08:02,835
while we're getting
through other shit
1386
01:08:02,919 --> 01:08:04,627
that we're going through--
that's not strange.
1387
01:08:04,710 --> 01:08:06,335
He wasn't some corporate guy
on Wall Street
1388
01:08:06,418 --> 01:08:07,502
running a foundation.
1389
01:08:07,585 --> 01:08:09,377
He was a fucking cop.
He's in the street.
1390
01:08:09,460 --> 01:08:11,752
He's seen pain.
He's been through shit.
1391
01:08:11,835 --> 01:08:14,002
So to tell me that he can't
stomach doing a little three,
1392
01:08:14,085 --> 01:08:16,335
four years in the joint,
come on, man.
1393
01:08:21,794 --> 01:08:26,335
- Your partner is close by
in daylight...
1394
01:08:26,418 --> 01:08:28,585
in a fairly populated
part of town,
1395
01:08:28,669 --> 01:08:32,502
and you are going
to contort yourself
1396
01:08:32,585 --> 01:08:37,002
in a way that makes it
look like someone killed you,
1397
01:08:37,085 --> 01:08:39,002
but you're killing yourself.
1398
01:08:39,085 --> 01:08:40,460
You're going to fire
three shots,
1399
01:08:40,543 --> 01:08:41,752
two of them randomly
1400
01:08:41,835 --> 01:08:44,418
and then the third
into the back of your head.
1401
01:08:44,502 --> 01:08:46,126
If you wanted to kill
yourself on the job
1402
01:08:46,210 --> 01:08:48,794
specifically to get
the benefits to your family,
1403
01:08:48,877 --> 01:08:51,126
there are a million other
easier ways to do this
1404
01:08:51,210 --> 01:08:55,126
than to concoct
this incredible scene here.
1405
01:08:57,002 --> 01:08:59,085
What's at stake here
is Nicole Suiter
1406
01:08:59,168 --> 01:09:02,377
and her family
and this man's legacy.
1407
01:09:02,460 --> 01:09:04,794
What's at stake here
is maybe their benefits,
1408
01:09:04,877 --> 01:09:07,335
which could total
a half a million dollars.
1409
01:09:07,418 --> 01:09:11,043
What's at stake here is
how this man is remembered.
1410
01:09:15,126 --> 01:09:18,502
- It just don't make sense.
He had no reason.
1411
01:09:21,002 --> 01:09:23,877
He wasn't involved
in anything.
1412
01:09:23,961 --> 01:09:27,418
Tell me he was involved
in something.
1413
01:09:30,002 --> 01:09:32,126
The only thing
Sean probably guilty of
1414
01:09:32,210 --> 01:09:34,293
is knowing that
his partners was dirty
1415
01:09:34,377 --> 01:09:36,961
and didn't turn 'em in.
1416
01:09:37,043 --> 01:09:38,293
If he's guilty of anything,
1417
01:09:38,377 --> 01:09:40,502
that's the only thing
he's guilty of.
1418
01:09:46,043 --> 01:09:48,752
I'm not angry
at the police department.
1419
01:09:48,835 --> 01:09:51,460
I just want justice
for my husband.
1420
01:09:53,794 --> 01:09:55,418
I don't think
I'll be able to get that
1421
01:09:55,502 --> 01:09:57,585
with a lot of anger
in my heart.
1422
01:10:09,002 --> 01:10:11,794
- People are still,
still working the case.
1423
01:10:15,210 --> 01:10:17,210
Like I said,
I stay away from it
1424
01:10:17,293 --> 01:10:19,877
because of how close I am.
1425
01:10:19,961 --> 01:10:21,543
What's up, player?
1426
01:10:25,252 --> 01:10:27,877
I was good this morning,
you know?
1427
01:10:27,961 --> 01:10:32,126
Just interesting
because this case right here
1428
01:10:32,210 --> 01:10:33,919
that I'm on out here for
1429
01:10:34,002 --> 01:10:38,293
is a case we were working
on together, you know?
1430
01:10:38,377 --> 01:10:41,460
Damn, I wasn't trying even to--
1431
01:10:41,543 --> 01:10:44,460
Come on, man.
[chuckles]
1432
01:10:44,543 --> 01:10:46,335
All right, champ,
get me together.
1433
01:10:46,418 --> 01:10:47,794
Let's get this going.
1434
01:10:47,877 --> 01:10:49,585
All right.
[sniffles] Sorry about that.
1435
01:10:49,669 --> 01:10:52,669
All right, so, yeah...
1436
01:10:52,752 --> 01:10:54,502
it's kind of rough.
1437
01:10:57,168 --> 01:11:00,085
[uneasy music]
1438
01:11:00,168 --> 01:11:07,168
♪ ♪
1439
01:11:11,126 --> 01:11:14,210
- I want to go
where he was killed,
1440
01:11:14,293 --> 01:11:17,585
so the community down there
can remember Sean.
1441
01:11:19,293 --> 01:11:21,293
I want it to resurface
1442
01:11:21,377 --> 01:11:23,961
so his killing
don't go in vain.
1443
01:11:25,418 --> 01:11:29,002
- In a quarter mile,
make a right turn.
1444
01:11:29,085 --> 01:11:32,168
[sirens wail]
1445
01:11:32,252 --> 01:11:37,460
♪ ♪
1446
01:11:37,543 --> 01:11:40,502
- Waking up this morning
was kind of hard.
1447
01:11:40,585 --> 01:11:43,835
Getting myself together
was kind of hard.
1448
01:11:43,919 --> 01:11:47,460
Just reopening wounds
all over again.
1449
01:11:47,543 --> 01:11:50,293
Doesn't seem like
it's been a year, though.
1450
01:11:57,168 --> 01:12:01,043
- That day, we were
going to go out together.
1451
01:12:01,126 --> 01:12:04,543
I didn't know that he was set
to testify at the grand jury
1452
01:12:04,627 --> 01:12:07,377
in this GTTF shit,
and some people were like,
1453
01:12:07,460 --> 01:12:10,669
"Well, you're his partner.
Why wouldn't he tell you?"
1454
01:12:10,752 --> 01:12:14,210
That's something
that he had to deal with.
1455
01:12:14,293 --> 01:12:16,377
I didn't know about it.
1456
01:12:16,460 --> 01:12:18,210
I didn't know.
1457
01:12:21,168 --> 01:12:24,460
- My husband was never
a coward to commit suicide.
1458
01:12:24,543 --> 01:12:26,252
Let's just say that Sean,
1459
01:12:26,335 --> 01:12:28,002
if he was involved
in something,
1460
01:12:28,085 --> 01:12:31,835
which he wasn't, he's going to
take his punishment like a man.
1461
01:12:52,752 --> 01:12:55,126
- Being there that day
at the vigil,
1462
01:12:55,210 --> 01:12:58,961
it was a strange feeling
because it was no feeling.
1463
01:12:59,043 --> 01:13:01,502
It hurt for so long
that it just--
1464
01:13:01,585 --> 01:13:03,919
the pain couldn't be any more.
1465
01:13:04,002 --> 01:13:05,002
- Sean is all right.
1466
01:13:05,085 --> 01:13:09,168
Sean has made that journey
that we all have to make.
1467
01:13:09,252 --> 01:13:12,210
- [sobbing]
1468
01:13:26,085 --> 01:13:28,460
- Brian unveils
new information tonight
1469
01:13:28,543 --> 01:13:31,126
that Suiter's attorneys say
further discredits
1470
01:13:31,210 --> 01:13:32,502
the suicide theory.
1471
01:13:32,585 --> 01:13:34,418
- This is Sean Suiter.
1472
01:13:34,502 --> 01:13:37,752
Taken just days before
a review board says
1473
01:13:37,835 --> 01:13:39,418
he killed himself.
1474
01:13:39,502 --> 01:13:42,835
The last intimate moment
Nicole and her husband shared.
1475
01:13:42,919 --> 01:13:45,377
She texted this video
to him an hour
1476
01:13:45,460 --> 01:13:48,585
before he was shot on
November 15th last year.
1477
01:13:48,669 --> 01:13:50,543
He called, they laughed,
1478
01:13:50,627 --> 01:13:52,543
he said he would
stay up for her
1479
01:13:52,627 --> 01:13:55,043
when she got home
from her night shift.
1480
01:13:55,126 --> 01:13:59,710
The main theory of this
independent review board
1481
01:13:59,794 --> 01:14:03,002
is that the day
Sean killed himself,
1482
01:14:03,085 --> 01:14:06,168
he chose
a junior homicide detective.
1483
01:14:06,252 --> 01:14:08,835
I guess the implication
is that he wouldn't know
1484
01:14:08,919 --> 01:14:11,502
what Sean was doing.
1485
01:14:12,919 --> 01:14:14,710
That was their theory.
1486
01:14:16,335 --> 01:14:18,252
- Did it sound like
they were coming from up?
1487
01:14:18,335 --> 01:14:20,168
- It sounded like it came
just from the alley.
1488
01:14:20,252 --> 01:14:21,877
That corner--
it's all T'd off.
1489
01:14:21,961 --> 01:14:24,961
It was vibrating
back and forth.
1490
01:14:25,043 --> 01:14:27,752
I didn't see the shooter.
I didn't hear any cars.
1491
01:14:27,835 --> 01:14:29,252
I didn't see
any cars speed off.
1492
01:14:29,335 --> 01:14:31,377
I didn't see anybody run.
1493
01:14:31,460 --> 01:14:34,043
- I come to find out
that it wasn't
1494
01:14:34,126 --> 01:14:36,002
Sean's case that they were
on the street for.
1495
01:14:36,085 --> 01:14:38,252
It was that
junior detective's case,
1496
01:14:38,335 --> 01:14:41,085
and there's paperwork
to that effect.
1497
01:14:41,168 --> 01:14:43,043
In fact,
it was David Bomenka
1498
01:14:43,126 --> 01:14:45,877
who had the more active case
on that block.
1499
01:14:45,961 --> 01:14:47,919
It partly relied
on the witness testimony
1500
01:14:48,002 --> 01:14:50,543
of a woman in the 900 block
of Bennett Place.
1501
01:14:50,627 --> 01:14:53,210
The documents show she was
located on the morning
1502
01:14:53,293 --> 01:14:55,794
Suiter was shot
but refused to cooperate
1503
01:14:55,877 --> 01:14:57,877
with the homicide
operations team
1504
01:14:57,961 --> 01:15:00,043
dispatched to bring her in.
1505
01:15:00,126 --> 01:15:02,418
Sources close
to the investigation say
1506
01:15:02,502 --> 01:15:05,710
Detective Bomenka was then
ordered to return to the block
1507
01:15:05,794 --> 01:15:08,502
later that day and convince
the witness himself
1508
01:15:08,585 --> 01:15:10,961
and that Sean Suiter
was simply
1509
01:15:11,043 --> 01:15:14,460
the only other detective
available to go with him.
1510
01:15:14,543 --> 01:15:15,961
- "Take Suiter with you,"
1511
01:15:16,043 --> 01:15:18,293
because Sean was
the only guy on the floor.
1512
01:15:18,377 --> 01:15:20,002
That's what sources
have told me,
1513
01:15:20,085 --> 01:15:22,335
and I've confirmed that
three or four different times,
1514
01:15:22,418 --> 01:15:24,168
which questions
the IRB's conclusion
1515
01:15:24,252 --> 01:15:26,794
that Suiter pushed
to go out there that day
1516
01:15:26,877 --> 01:15:30,002
and work with a rookie cop
in order to kill himself.
1517
01:15:32,377 --> 01:15:35,502
[keys clacking]
1518
01:15:37,961 --> 01:15:40,919
- It's a big sticking point
for Suiter's supporters
1519
01:15:41,002 --> 01:15:44,043
that, you know,
the IRB got it wrong.
1520
01:15:44,126 --> 01:15:46,460
It discredits the IRB's work
in that regard.
1521
01:15:46,543 --> 01:15:49,919
I don't know that the whole
theory disintegrates.
1522
01:15:52,418 --> 01:15:54,752
- In concluding Sean Suiter
took his own life,
1523
01:15:54,835 --> 01:15:58,126
an independent review board
cited the lack of evidence
1524
01:15:58,210 --> 01:16:01,502
of a second person through
DNA testing or fingerprints.
1525
01:16:01,585 --> 01:16:04,002
Now we've learned
there is DNA evidence
1526
01:16:04,085 --> 01:16:06,669
that could suggest
a second person.
1527
01:16:06,752 --> 01:16:08,335
It was found
on Suiter's gun,
1528
01:16:08,418 --> 01:16:10,961
according to a source familiar
with the investigation,
1529
01:16:11,043 --> 01:16:13,460
and does not belong to Suiter.
1530
01:16:13,543 --> 01:16:15,335
But it is not traceable.
1531
01:16:15,418 --> 01:16:18,460
It has not been linked
to a specific person.
1532
01:16:18,543 --> 01:16:20,460
- All of these
different reporters, you know,
1533
01:16:20,543 --> 01:16:22,126
"Suiter's DNA
is here and there.
1534
01:16:22,210 --> 01:16:24,168
There's another DNA.
There's no DNA."
1535
01:16:24,252 --> 01:16:25,794
There's no,
you know, whatever.
1536
01:16:25,877 --> 01:16:27,961
And all of the information
coming from the police
1537
01:16:28,085 --> 01:16:29,585
makes perfect sense
1538
01:16:29,669 --> 01:16:32,710
if your department's
not full of liars.
1539
01:16:38,043 --> 01:16:40,418
- Hey, is there anything
going down
1540
01:16:40,502 --> 01:16:42,502
that I should know about?
1541
01:16:42,585 --> 01:16:44,252
Yeah.
Yes, really?
1542
01:16:44,335 --> 01:16:47,627
Okay, can you fill me in
so I'm not behind the 8 ball?
1543
01:16:48,961 --> 01:16:51,877
Fuck, I had no idea
how to confirm that.
1544
01:16:51,961 --> 01:16:54,210
Hmm.
1545
01:16:54,293 --> 01:16:56,835
[sighs]
1546
01:16:56,919 --> 01:16:59,252
There's going to be
a big report tonight.
1547
01:16:59,335 --> 01:17:00,835
Before you got here,
1548
01:17:00,919 --> 01:17:03,210
our former police commissioner
pleading guilty,
1549
01:17:03,293 --> 01:17:05,961
and now this is going on.
1550
01:17:06,043 --> 01:17:08,502
- It remains one
of the biggest open wounds
1551
01:17:08,585 --> 01:17:10,669
from last year's record-setting
violent-crime rate--
1552
01:17:10,752 --> 01:17:13,085
the death of homicide
Detective Sean Suiter,
1553
01:17:13,168 --> 01:17:16,085
shrouded in mystery, a litany
of unanswered questions.
1554
01:17:16,168 --> 01:17:18,627
Tonight this is at least
one of the leads
1555
01:17:18,710 --> 01:17:22,252
police gathered in the weeks
after his shooting.
1556
01:17:25,961 --> 01:17:27,210
This is an interview
1557
01:17:27,293 --> 01:17:30,085
inside the Baltimore Police
Department's Homicide Section
1558
01:17:30,168 --> 01:17:32,835
on December 8, 2017.
1559
01:17:32,919 --> 01:17:34,877
The man being interviewed
is Donte Pauling,
1560
01:17:34,961 --> 01:17:36,877
picked up
on a gun possession charge
1561
01:17:36,961 --> 01:17:38,377
three weeks after the death
1562
01:17:38,460 --> 01:17:40,627
of homicide detective
Sean Suiter.
1563
01:17:40,710 --> 01:17:42,752
- This is a hard-core leak.
1564
01:17:42,835 --> 01:17:44,710
- Pauling tells these officers
1565
01:17:44,794 --> 01:17:46,418
he heard what happened
to Sean Suiter
1566
01:17:46,502 --> 01:17:48,543
and began detailing
how he knew the guy
1567
01:17:48,627 --> 01:17:49,961
who knew how it happened.
1568
01:18:02,794 --> 01:18:04,210
This is the video released
1569
01:18:04,293 --> 01:18:06,168
by the independent review
board this summer.
1570
01:18:06,252 --> 01:18:08,168
That is Suiter
behind the van.
1571
01:18:08,252 --> 01:18:12,293
The IRB used this video as
evidence to say he was pacing,
1572
01:18:12,377 --> 01:18:14,585
working up the courage
to jump into the alley
1573
01:18:14,669 --> 01:18:15,877
and shoot himself.
1574
01:18:15,961 --> 01:18:18,418
But Pauling is now
telling detectives this is
1575
01:18:18,502 --> 01:18:20,627
when Suiter decided
to run into the alley
1576
01:18:20,710 --> 01:18:23,710
to confront a suspect
leaning over his drug stash,
1577
01:18:23,794 --> 01:18:25,627
gun drawn in plain clothes.
1578
01:18:25,710 --> 01:18:28,043
Pauling never did
get the man's name
1579
01:18:28,126 --> 01:18:29,919
who allegedly
overpowered Suiter
1580
01:18:30,002 --> 01:18:32,252
and killed him
with his own service weapon.
1581
01:18:32,335 --> 01:18:33,585
- We still didn't even know
1582
01:18:33,669 --> 01:18:35,168
it was an officer yet...
1583
01:18:35,252 --> 01:18:38,002
- What is unclear is
what ever came of this tip.
1584
01:18:38,085 --> 01:18:40,043
It is important to note
that the IRB report says
1585
01:18:40,126 --> 01:18:42,293
police ran down 54 tips
1586
01:18:42,377 --> 01:18:44,377
and that
"all leads were exhausted,"
1587
01:18:44,460 --> 01:18:47,168
but the report does not mention
this lead specifically.
1588
01:18:47,252 --> 01:18:49,585
- All right,
I got to make a phone call.
1589
01:18:49,669 --> 01:18:51,961
Tell me why this wasn't
a credible tip
1590
01:18:52,043 --> 01:18:54,543
so I can offer another side
of the story.
1591
01:18:54,627 --> 01:18:55,669
I'm like, you can't
"no comment" this.
1592
01:18:55,752 --> 01:18:58,377
People are gonna--
people are so distrusting.
1593
01:18:58,460 --> 01:19:00,794
You've got to say something.
1594
01:19:00,877 --> 01:19:03,835
[uneasy music]
1595
01:19:03,919 --> 01:19:08,961
♪ ♪
1596
01:19:09,043 --> 01:19:11,293
- We have, notoriously,
1597
01:19:11,377 --> 01:19:14,627
one of the most corrupt
police forces in the country.
1598
01:19:14,710 --> 01:19:18,418
There is still
a great deal of denial.
1599
01:19:18,502 --> 01:19:22,043
In a culture where there is
not only no duty to report,
1600
01:19:22,126 --> 01:19:24,210
no protection
for whistleblowers,
1601
01:19:24,293 --> 01:19:28,418
there's actually
a coercion to go along.
1602
01:19:28,502 --> 01:19:31,460
Good officers that go
into the department
1603
01:19:31,543 --> 01:19:33,377
idealistically thinking,
1604
01:19:33,460 --> 01:19:34,877
"I'm going to be
a good officer,
1605
01:19:34,961 --> 01:19:36,460
I'm going to serve
and protect the community,"
1606
01:19:36,543 --> 01:19:37,835
they go into this system,
1607
01:19:37,919 --> 01:19:41,043
and they have superiors
that are part of this culture,
1608
01:19:41,126 --> 01:19:45,043
and they are pressured
to conform to the culture.
1609
01:19:45,126 --> 01:19:52,126
♪ ♪
1610
01:20:01,835 --> 01:20:06,085
- It's very rare for any police
officer in Baltimore City
1611
01:20:06,168 --> 01:20:07,710
that's in the streets
to be squeaky clean.
1612
01:20:07,794 --> 01:20:09,502
Everybody got some dirt
on them.
1613
01:20:09,585 --> 01:20:11,252
That's why nothing
ever gets done.
1614
01:20:11,335 --> 01:20:13,585
- I'm with Detective Rayam
here approaching this vehicle,
1615
01:20:13,669 --> 01:20:15,502
this Honda minivan--
1616
01:20:15,585 --> 01:20:18,252
- Sean Suiter
worked with Wayne Jenkins.
1617
01:20:18,335 --> 01:20:21,210
I know Sean Suiter
had warned
1618
01:20:21,293 --> 01:20:24,543
Gondo and Rayam about working
with Wayne Jenkins.
1619
01:20:24,627 --> 01:20:26,877
That means he knows
Jenkins is dirty.
1620
01:20:26,961 --> 01:20:29,043
If you telling Gondo
and you telling Rayam,
1621
01:20:29,126 --> 01:20:30,377
"Yo, look out for Jenkins.
1622
01:20:30,460 --> 01:20:32,669
Watch him.
He up to something," right?
1623
01:20:32,752 --> 01:20:35,002
But you don't really say
nothing to the powers that be,
1624
01:20:35,085 --> 01:20:37,210
then you a part of the problem,
straight up.
1625
01:20:40,543 --> 01:20:42,669
One of the questions
that I get hit with a lot
1626
01:20:42,752 --> 01:20:46,126
is the amount of Black
police officers we have
1627
01:20:46,210 --> 01:20:48,168
and the amount
of Black politicians.
1628
01:20:48,252 --> 01:20:51,543
The problem is the system
is racist.
1629
01:20:51,627 --> 01:20:53,460
The people are pawns.
1630
01:20:56,877 --> 01:20:58,627
We knew this for years.
1631
01:20:58,710 --> 01:21:00,794
You know, even when, like,
some other publications
1632
01:21:00,877 --> 01:21:02,585
write about them,
1633
01:21:02,669 --> 01:21:05,126
they still think that
it's maybe, like, a handful,
1634
01:21:05,210 --> 01:21:07,126
but it's more than a handful,
it's large groups,
1635
01:21:07,210 --> 01:21:11,002
because it's a tradition
in America for police officers
1636
01:21:11,085 --> 01:21:13,919
to treat Black people
a certain kind of way--
1637
01:21:14,002 --> 01:21:16,710
devilish, evil, steal, oppress,
1638
01:21:16,794 --> 01:21:19,585
anger, aggression, bullshit.
1639
01:21:19,669 --> 01:21:22,043
It's what they do,
so, like, we know this.
1640
01:21:22,126 --> 01:21:24,835
So we know
it's not over yet.
1641
01:21:35,085 --> 01:21:37,335
- I never intended
to do anything
1642
01:21:37,418 --> 01:21:40,835
that could not stand up
to scrutiny.
1643
01:21:47,460 --> 01:21:50,961
- Number 51 is on the books.
1644
01:21:51,043 --> 01:21:52,335
[applause]
1645
01:21:52,418 --> 01:21:54,293
Bernard C. "Jack" Young
1646
01:21:54,377 --> 01:21:56,502
was sworn in
as Baltimore's next mayor
1647
01:21:56,585 --> 01:21:58,794
in front
of a standing-room-only crowd
1648
01:21:58,877 --> 01:22:00,877
at the War Memorial Building...
1649
01:22:05,669 --> 01:22:08,919
- In my lifetime,
nothing has ever changed.
1650
01:22:09,002 --> 01:22:11,710
Like, I've seen so many mayors
come through this city.
1651
01:22:11,794 --> 01:22:14,335
I've seen so many politicians
come through my neighborhood,
1652
01:22:14,418 --> 01:22:16,710
knock on my door,
knock on this door
1653
01:22:16,794 --> 01:22:19,210
and talk
about what they gonna do,
1654
01:22:19,293 --> 01:22:21,585
and nothing has happened.
1655
01:22:21,669 --> 01:22:23,710
Everybody wants change, right?
1656
01:22:23,794 --> 01:22:27,168
When we talking about change,
it's a slow hustle.
1657
01:22:27,252 --> 01:22:29,794
It takes a long time.
1658
01:22:29,877 --> 01:22:32,002
It means all of the work
and the time it takes
1659
01:22:32,085 --> 01:22:35,168
for you to move the ball
forward just an inch.
1660
01:22:37,627 --> 01:22:39,043
- In the news tonight,
1661
01:22:39,126 --> 01:22:40,794
The Baltimore City
Police Department
1662
01:22:40,877 --> 01:22:42,794
says the case is closed.
1663
01:22:42,877 --> 01:22:45,168
Detective Sean Suiter
killed himself
1664
01:22:45,252 --> 01:22:47,043
two years ago in Harlem Park.
1665
01:22:47,126 --> 01:22:49,669
- It was a statement
few saw coming,
1666
01:22:49,752 --> 01:22:51,418
brief and with no context,
1667
01:22:51,502 --> 01:22:53,168
issued by the city
police commissioner.
1668
01:22:58,002 --> 01:23:00,252
Case closed.
1669
01:23:00,335 --> 01:23:02,043
- If the commissioner thought
he was putting an end
1670
01:23:02,126 --> 01:23:05,877
to all this with his statement
yesterday, he did anything but.
1671
01:23:05,961 --> 01:23:07,585
- I just want to know
how many times
1672
01:23:07,669 --> 01:23:09,418
y'all gonna kill my husband?
1673
01:23:09,502 --> 01:23:13,418
This is an embarrassment
to our family, his friends.
1674
01:23:15,418 --> 01:23:16,710
We ready for war.
1675
01:23:16,794 --> 01:23:19,293
Like my lawyer said,
we ready for war.
1676
01:23:22,085 --> 01:23:25,752
- If that's how they want it,
then they better be ready.
1677
01:23:27,210 --> 01:23:29,543
- We're not wearing
these shirts for nothing.
1678
01:23:31,752 --> 01:23:35,585
- Baltimore's top prosecutor
says this case is not over.
1679
01:23:35,669 --> 01:23:37,585
- With all open
and pending matters,
1680
01:23:37,669 --> 01:23:39,961
I cannot ethically comment
on them.
1681
01:23:40,043 --> 01:23:42,460
- The State's Attorney's office
did not respond to our question
1682
01:23:42,543 --> 01:23:44,252
about what
they may be pursuing.
1683
01:23:44,335 --> 01:23:45,794
- So open and pending
meaning there is
1684
01:23:45,877 --> 01:23:46,877
an investigation
by your office.
1685
01:23:46,961 --> 01:23:48,252
- It is an open
and pending matter.
1686
01:23:48,335 --> 01:23:49,752
- That was all
the State's Attorney
1687
01:23:49,835 --> 01:23:51,043
would say today,
1688
01:23:51,126 --> 01:23:53,710
but for its part, the office
of the chief medical examiner
1689
01:23:53,794 --> 01:23:57,418
says Suiter's death
does remain a homicide.
1690
01:23:57,502 --> 01:23:59,043
- The chief medical examiner
1691
01:23:59,126 --> 01:24:02,252
said that he had some
real concerns about the case.
1692
01:24:02,335 --> 01:24:04,919
He noted the fact
that the casings
1693
01:24:05,002 --> 01:24:08,002
couldn't definitively
be linked to the gun,
1694
01:24:08,085 --> 01:24:11,126
just that they were
the same type of gun.
1695
01:24:11,210 --> 01:24:14,043
He said it just
wasn't good enough,
1696
01:24:14,126 --> 01:24:17,377
but the biggest thing
for him was that
1697
01:24:17,460 --> 01:24:20,126
Suiter had gone
through their training
1698
01:24:20,210 --> 01:24:22,168
on how to tell the difference
between a homicide
1699
01:24:22,252 --> 01:24:24,168
and a suicide.
1700
01:24:24,252 --> 01:24:26,002
Shooting yourself
in the head,
1701
01:24:26,085 --> 01:24:28,961
Suiter would have known
that's a clear sign
1702
01:24:29,043 --> 01:24:31,126
that someone
shot themselves
1703
01:24:31,210 --> 01:24:32,502
and that he wouldn't have
done it that way.
1704
01:24:32,585 --> 01:24:34,126
He would have shot himself
in the chest
1705
01:24:34,210 --> 01:24:36,794
because that is less likely
to appear as a suicide.
1706
01:24:36,877 --> 01:24:39,002
So the chief medical examiner
1707
01:24:39,085 --> 01:24:42,543
felt as though the way
he did it was, in some ways,
1708
01:24:42,627 --> 01:24:45,627
too obvious of a suicide
to be a suicide.
1709
01:24:47,919 --> 01:24:50,210
all: Give us the shooter...
- For Sean Suiter!
1710
01:24:50,293 --> 01:24:52,460
all: Give us the shooter...
- For Sean Suiter!
1711
01:24:52,543 --> 01:24:54,543
all: Give us the shooter...
- For Sean Suiter!
1712
01:24:54,627 --> 01:24:56,877
all: Give us the shooter...
- For Sean Suiter!
1713
01:24:56,961 --> 01:24:59,293
all: Give us the shooter...
- For Sean Suiter!
1714
01:24:59,377 --> 01:25:01,377
all: Give us the shooter...
- For Sean Suiter!
1715
01:25:01,460 --> 01:25:03,168
- My husband
did not kill himself.
1716
01:25:03,252 --> 01:25:04,877
It was a homicide,
not a suicide.
1717
01:25:04,961 --> 01:25:08,085
- Where are the police today?
1718
01:25:08,168 --> 01:25:10,961
Where are the people that said
they were his friends?
1719
01:25:11,043 --> 01:25:13,002
- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
1720
01:25:13,085 --> 01:25:15,877
- I want you to look around
and tell me where the mayor is.
1721
01:25:15,961 --> 01:25:18,002
I want you to tell me
where the commissioner is,
1722
01:25:18,085 --> 01:25:20,126
because I assure you
they're all standing behind me
1723
01:25:20,210 --> 01:25:21,335
looking out of the damn window.
1724
01:25:21,418 --> 01:25:22,502
all: Justice!
1725
01:25:22,585 --> 01:25:24,835
- And I never knew that
when we got the call
1726
01:25:24,919 --> 01:25:28,835
this same day two years ago
that two years later
1727
01:25:28,919 --> 01:25:31,252
we would still be fighting
the same battle.
1728
01:25:31,335 --> 01:25:33,252
- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
1729
01:25:33,335 --> 01:25:34,710
- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
1730
01:25:34,794 --> 01:25:36,293
- Sean deserves...
all: Justice!
1731
01:25:36,377 --> 01:25:37,543
- Sean deserves...
1732
01:25:37,627 --> 01:25:40,543
[somber music]
1733
01:25:40,627 --> 01:25:42,002
♪ ♪
1734
01:25:42,085 --> 01:25:45,335
- Did Sean Suiter
kill himself?
1735
01:25:45,418 --> 01:25:48,418
Did somebody
in the alley shoot him?
1736
01:25:48,502 --> 01:25:49,418
Was it a hit
1737
01:25:49,502 --> 01:25:52,835
from the Baltimore City
Police Department?
1738
01:25:52,919 --> 01:25:56,585
At the end of the day,
Sean has joined a list
1739
01:25:56,669 --> 01:25:59,377
of a whole lot
of Black people in the city
1740
01:25:59,460 --> 01:26:01,794
whose killing
will never be solved
1741
01:26:01,877 --> 01:26:03,543
because the system is broken
1742
01:26:03,627 --> 01:26:05,543
and it has been
for a long time.
1743
01:26:05,627 --> 01:26:07,377
[indistinct chatter]
1744
01:26:07,460 --> 01:26:09,502
- Push it back, push it back.
1745
01:26:09,585 --> 01:26:13,126
- And we keep doing the same
things to try to fix it.
1746
01:26:13,210 --> 01:26:16,794
Elect a new mayor,
hire a new police commissioner,
1747
01:26:16,877 --> 01:26:18,919
hire 10,000
brand-new police officers.
1748
01:26:19,002 --> 01:26:23,002
They all come in and
subscribe to the same shit.
1749
01:26:23,085 --> 01:26:26,961
[indistinct chanting]
1750
01:26:27,043 --> 01:26:29,627
Poor leadership
breeds revolutionaries,
1751
01:26:29,710 --> 01:26:32,919
and we just got to be there
to pick up the pieces.
1752
01:26:33,002 --> 01:26:39,919
♪ ♪
1753
01:26:56,710 --> 01:26:59,126
- Give me my kiss.
1754
01:26:59,210 --> 01:27:01,168
Mwah!
1755
01:27:24,377 --> 01:27:27,126
- ♪ Tired of being strong ♪
1756
01:27:27,210 --> 01:27:29,252
♪ In the face of wrong ♪
1757
01:27:29,335 --> 01:27:33,585
♪ I'm looking
for the answers ♪
1758
01:27:33,669 --> 01:27:36,669
♪ Nobody givin' chances ♪
1759
01:27:36,752 --> 01:27:39,877
- ♪ Tired of being strong ♪
1760
01:27:39,961 --> 01:27:41,710
♪ In the face of wrong ♪
1761
01:27:41,794 --> 01:27:46,126
♪ I'm looking
for the answers ♪
1762
01:27:46,210 --> 01:27:50,126
♪ Nobody givin' chances ♪
1763
01:27:50,210 --> 01:27:52,210
♪ Oh ♪
1764
01:27:52,293 --> 01:27:56,126
♪ Nobody givin' chances ♪
1765
01:27:56,210 --> 01:27:58,460
♪ Ohh ♪
1766
01:27:58,543 --> 01:28:02,293
♪ Nobody givin' chances ♪
1767
01:28:02,377 --> 01:28:09,335
♪ ♪
1768
01:28:29,502 --> 01:28:32,418
[bright tone]