1 00:00:15,258 --> 00:00:17,618 [news anchor] The murder of Notorious B. I. G., 2 00:00:17,661 --> 00:00:20,331 it remains one of the biggest mysteries in hip-hop. 3 00:00:20,363 --> 00:00:23,303 [Voletta] Someone murdered my son, 4 00:00:23,333 --> 00:00:26,873 and the LAPD knew all about it. 5 00:00:31,474 --> 00:00:34,244 It was a bombshell that dirty cops 6 00:00:34,277 --> 00:00:37,217 may have been involved in Biggie’s murder. 7 00:00:37,247 --> 00:00:40,987 The repercussions for the LAPD are unimaginable, 8 00:00:41,017 --> 00:00:43,427 that the LAPD would have to basically dissolve. 9 00:00:43,453 --> 00:00:46,723 There’s a $400 million civil lawsuit on the line here. 10 00:00:46,756 --> 00:00:51,796 Anybody that says that that does not come into play is a fool. 11 00:01:07,711 --> 00:01:10,811 [cheering and applause] 12 00:01:14,150 --> 00:01:15,480 [Puffy] B. I. G., wake up. 13 00:01:15,518 --> 00:01:17,748 [Biggie] I’m up, Diddy. What the [bleep], man? What’s up? 14 00:01:17,787 --> 00:01:19,297 [Puffy] Come on now, it’s quarter to 6:00. 15 00:01:19,322 --> 00:01:21,862 We got the 7:30 flight leaving Kennedy... 16 00:01:21,891 --> 00:01:23,791 -[Biggie] Kennedy. -[Puffy] ...going to LAX. 17 00:01:23,827 --> 00:01:25,367 [Biggie] Oh, Cali? 18 00:01:25,395 --> 00:01:26,935 [Puffy] No doubt, baby. 19 00:01:28,331 --> 00:01:29,761 Biggie wanted to go to the West Coast 20 00:01:29,799 --> 00:01:32,369 because he was wrapping up his album, Life After Death. 21 00:01:32,402 --> 00:01:36,102 ♪ I’m going, going, back, back To Cali, Cali ♪ 22 00:01:36,139 --> 00:01:37,669 ♪ Going back to Cali ♪ 23 00:01:37,707 --> 00:01:40,677 And Puffy wanted to start doing, like, some early promo for him. 24 00:01:40,710 --> 00:01:42,010 And B. I. G. loved LA. 25 00:01:42,045 --> 00:01:44,245 He loved the whole vibe of California. 26 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,980 [radio jockey] So it’s sunshine today, 60s all over the Bay Area. 27 00:01:47,017 --> 00:01:48,957 Notorious B. I. G. is in studio. 28 00:01:48,985 --> 00:01:51,325 Thank you right off the bat for coming in. 29 00:01:51,354 --> 00:01:54,154 I’m just getting over, you know, seeing this whole situation 30 00:01:54,190 --> 00:01:56,060 with this East Coast, West Coast thing, you know? 31 00:01:56,092 --> 00:01:57,862 -[radio jockey] Right. -They was going through their things 32 00:01:57,894 --> 00:01:59,094 and we was going through our things. 33 00:01:59,129 --> 00:02:00,359 The tension was still high. 34 00:02:00,397 --> 00:02:03,337 You just lost one of the greatest rappers from the West Coast. 35 00:02:03,366 --> 00:02:06,506 So B. I. G was really trying to shift the energy as well 36 00:02:06,536 --> 00:02:08,706 and let them know, like, "Yo, all this stuff should be dead. 37 00:02:08,738 --> 00:02:10,168 I’m here to show love." 38 00:02:10,206 --> 00:02:12,276 That just came over me, you know what I’m saying, 39 00:02:12,308 --> 00:02:14,208 trying to like basically squash it. 40 00:02:14,244 --> 00:02:17,684 Tupac fans were still very angry about his death. 41 00:02:17,714 --> 00:02:20,284 Emotions were still raw. 42 00:02:20,316 --> 00:02:22,656 Don’t have your people in California. 43 00:02:22,686 --> 00:02:24,026 It’s too early. 44 00:02:24,054 --> 00:02:28,324 "The audacity of Bad Boy and Puffy to bring Biggie to Los Angeles, 45 00:02:28,358 --> 00:02:32,898 and we’re still mourning the death of Tupac," that’s what they felt. 46 00:02:33,530 --> 00:02:35,200 "Get the hell out of here." 47 00:02:40,270 --> 00:02:44,240 [Greg] Approximately six months after the murder of Tupac Shakur, 48 00:02:44,274 --> 00:02:47,774 Biggie Smalls, Puffy Combs, other members of Bad Boy Records 49 00:02:47,811 --> 00:02:51,681 were in Los Angeles to attend the Soul Train Awards. 50 00:02:51,715 --> 00:02:55,555 And also, the following night, there would be a party at the Petersen Auto Museum. 51 00:02:59,589 --> 00:03:01,689 That’s the Petersen Auto Museum. 52 00:03:01,725 --> 00:03:04,495 It looks much different today than it did back then. 53 00:03:04,527 --> 00:03:07,367 It’s completely redone on the outside. 54 00:03:08,898 --> 00:03:12,268 But, yeah, this is, this is where it all happened. 55 00:03:20,410 --> 00:03:21,870 It was the awards weekend. 56 00:03:21,911 --> 00:03:24,281 It’s like an after-party for the, for the awards. 57 00:03:24,314 --> 00:03:25,854 It was a great night. 58 00:03:25,882 --> 00:03:27,312 The energy was great. 59 00:03:32,956 --> 00:03:36,796 [Eugene] Prior to the party, I had got some intel. 60 00:03:36,826 --> 00:03:38,766 I got a call from my friend. 61 00:03:38,795 --> 00:03:41,465 He was in the federal penitentiary out in California. 62 00:03:42,532 --> 00:03:44,202 And he says, "Vest up." 63 00:03:44,234 --> 00:03:48,174 I said... I told Puff, I said, "Yo, Puff, I got some intel. 64 00:03:48,204 --> 00:03:50,544 Some people are gonna come and try to kill us tonight." 65 00:03:50,573 --> 00:03:54,143 He said, "Gene, I don’t want to hear that [bleep]. 66 00:03:54,177 --> 00:03:55,947 You ain’t got to go if you don’t want to go." 67 00:03:58,014 --> 00:04:03,284 But I couldn’t let those kids go out knowing that a threat is there. 68 00:04:06,089 --> 00:04:11,219 I couldn’t live with myself knowing I didn’t try to do anything. 69 00:04:14,964 --> 00:04:16,934 [Greg] Hundreds and hundreds of people are at this party. 70 00:04:16,966 --> 00:04:20,336 In fact, it’s so crowded inside that the fire marshal 71 00:04:20,370 --> 00:04:23,340 comes and makes the determination that it’s unsafe. 72 00:04:23,373 --> 00:04:25,103 The fire department came and shut it down 73 00:04:25,141 --> 00:04:27,371 and everybody was going out at the same time. 74 00:04:27,410 --> 00:04:30,210 We grabbed B. I. G. and we started heading towards the door. 75 00:04:30,246 --> 00:04:33,356 We were just waiting for the truck to pull up. 76 00:04:33,383 --> 00:04:36,753 Just imagine a bunch of people over there, having a good time 77 00:04:36,786 --> 00:04:39,756 and walking around and traffic’s congested 78 00:04:39,789 --> 00:04:43,389 and everybody is waiting for their turn to get out into the street here. 79 00:04:43,426 --> 00:04:45,536 [horns honking] 80 00:04:51,334 --> 00:04:56,744 [Eugene] When we came outside, I kept my weapon in my hand at all times under my shirt. 81 00:04:56,773 --> 00:04:59,613 I’m just standing by and Puff is in the car right now. 82 00:05:03,613 --> 00:05:04,983 A guy... 83 00:05:07,317 --> 00:05:11,657 who dressed as he was from the Nation of Islam, blue suit, white shirt, 84 00:05:11,688 --> 00:05:15,628 blue bow tie, he was started getting close to Puff’s car. 85 00:05:15,658 --> 00:05:17,888 When he saw me, he stopped. 86 00:05:27,871 --> 00:05:31,871 Even when he’s seen me put my weapon down, he didn’t say, 87 00:05:31,908 --> 00:05:33,378 "What’s with the gun, what’s with the weapon?" 88 00:05:33,409 --> 00:05:37,339 He didn’t say nothing. He just walked away. 89 00:05:42,652 --> 00:05:45,452 So I’m on point about them now. 90 00:05:46,556 --> 00:05:48,156 I’m thinking there’s a problem. 91 00:05:52,328 --> 00:05:55,158 [Greg] The Bad Boy group consisted of three vehicles, 92 00:05:55,198 --> 00:05:57,408 two Suburbans and a black Chevy Blazer. 93 00:05:57,433 --> 00:06:00,873 The first car had Puffy and Eugene Deal, a driver 94 00:06:00,904 --> 00:06:02,704 and a couple of other guys in there. 95 00:06:02,739 --> 00:06:07,339 And the second vehicle containing Biggie was driven by Gregory Young. 96 00:06:07,377 --> 00:06:09,217 Sitting behind Biggie was Lil’ Cease, 97 00:06:09,245 --> 00:06:11,815 and then there was a couple of other guys in the back of that car. 98 00:06:11,848 --> 00:06:15,458 And then the third car was the security guys. 99 00:06:15,485 --> 00:06:17,925 So as they’re going northbound on Fairfax here, 100 00:06:17,954 --> 00:06:20,294 the vehicles are approaching the intersection. 101 00:06:21,591 --> 00:06:23,761 Well, I said, "Kenny, run the next three lights! 102 00:06:24,894 --> 00:06:26,764 Run the next three lights, Kenny! 103 00:06:26,796 --> 00:06:27,896 Kenny said, "Why?" 104 00:06:27,931 --> 00:06:29,661 I say, "If you don’t want to run it, I’m gonna drive! 105 00:06:29,699 --> 00:06:32,869 Let me drive!" Kenny just takes off. 106 00:06:32,902 --> 00:06:36,772 [Greg] The vehicle with Puffy in it goes through the light. 107 00:06:36,806 --> 00:06:41,976 The light begins to turn red and the vehicle with Biggie slows to come to a stop. 108 00:06:43,513 --> 00:06:47,183 Just at that time, a dark Impala pulls up 109 00:06:47,216 --> 00:06:49,886 alongside the vehicle that Biggie is in. 110 00:06:49,919 --> 00:06:53,749 Once we get across the light, Tone, he’s looking back, 111 00:06:53,790 --> 00:06:58,460 he said, "Yo, somebody is pointing a gun at B. I. G." 112 00:06:58,494 --> 00:07:00,564 [Lil’ Cease] And I was behind B. I. G. He was in the passenger seat. 113 00:07:00,596 --> 00:07:03,236 And this car just rolled up on the side of us 114 00:07:03,266 --> 00:07:05,406 and just started shooting in the truck, firing in the car. 115 00:07:05,435 --> 00:07:07,905 Pow! Pow, pow, pow, pow! 116 00:07:07,937 --> 00:07:09,247 [man 1] You know, that is Biggie inside. 117 00:07:09,272 --> 00:07:10,742 -[man 2] Y’all get down. -[man 1] That is B. I. G. and them. 118 00:07:10,773 --> 00:07:12,043 [woman] Somebody got shot up in here. 119 00:07:12,075 --> 00:07:13,375 [man 2] Y’all get down. 120 00:07:14,243 --> 00:07:16,583 Kenny guns the car going forward. 121 00:07:16,612 --> 00:07:20,852 I’m screaming like, "Kenny, turn this MF around." 122 00:07:20,883 --> 00:07:23,223 I said, "He’s shooting at B. I. G., Kenny!" 123 00:07:23,252 --> 00:07:27,092 [Greg] The Impala then quickly makes a right onto Wilshire Boulevard. 124 00:07:27,123 --> 00:07:29,063 The security guy attempts to give chase 125 00:07:29,092 --> 00:07:32,122 but the black Impala has disappeared into the night. 126 00:07:35,798 --> 00:07:39,868 We go forward and we stop right in the middle, in front of B. I. G.’s car. 127 00:07:39,902 --> 00:07:42,742 -[woman 1] Yo, Biggie got shot! -[Eugene] Puff! 128 00:07:43,740 --> 00:07:45,970 [man 1] Oh, no. [bleep] 129 00:07:48,211 --> 00:07:49,541 [driver] Somebody’s dead! 130 00:07:50,146 --> 00:07:51,486 Somebody’s dead! 131 00:07:51,514 --> 00:07:54,154 [911 operator] Okay, sir. Did you see anything? Who did it? 132 00:07:54,183 --> 00:07:57,183 After the shots stopped, we all got out of the car 133 00:07:57,220 --> 00:08:00,250 and the only one car door didn’t open was B. I. G.’s. 134 00:08:00,289 --> 00:08:02,859 He was just kind of laying over the console. 135 00:08:02,892 --> 00:08:05,762 [caller] A man’s shot in our car right now. 136 00:08:05,795 --> 00:08:09,305 We’re... now we’re trying to roll him to the hospital. 137 00:08:09,332 --> 00:08:12,132 We tried our best to get to the hospital as fast as we can, running lights. 138 00:08:12,168 --> 00:08:14,538 [horn honking] 139 00:08:14,570 --> 00:08:16,800 You know, we were just really trying to get him there. 140 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:19,209 [911 operator] Sir, what I want you to do is pull over. 141 00:08:19,242 --> 00:08:21,542 [caller] I can’t pull over. We’re going to the hospital right now. 142 00:08:21,577 --> 00:08:23,187 [911 operator] Okay, what hospital are you going? 143 00:08:23,212 --> 00:08:25,112 [caller] I don’t know what hospital, I’m not from here. 144 00:08:25,148 --> 00:08:27,288 -[911 operator] What lane are you in? -[caller] I don’t know. 145 00:08:27,316 --> 00:08:28,926 [911 operator] Listen, calm down. 146 00:08:28,951 --> 00:08:31,151 [caller] I don’t know where the hell I’m at right now. 147 00:08:31,187 --> 00:08:33,327 [911 operator] Okay, that’s why I’m asking you to pull over... 148 00:08:33,356 --> 00:08:34,626 [caller] [bleep] What you doing? 149 00:08:34,657 --> 00:08:37,797 [Greg] Once they get to the hospital, they rush Biggie 150 00:08:37,827 --> 00:08:42,067 into the emergency room and begin to try to resuscitate him. 151 00:08:48,838 --> 00:08:52,108 [Eugene] And everybody’s in the corridor and Lil’ Cease says, 152 00:08:52,141 --> 00:08:58,441 "A Muslim shot B. I. G.," and he kept repeating that, "A Muslim shot B. I. G." 153 00:08:59,282 --> 00:09:00,452 I looked and I said, 154 00:09:00,483 --> 00:09:03,123 "He had a blue suit, white shirt, and a blue bow tie?" 155 00:09:03,152 --> 00:09:07,592 And Paul said, "Yeah." And they said, "How do you know, Gene?" 156 00:09:07,623 --> 00:09:09,693 I said, "He walked to Puff’s car first." 157 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,160 So I’m wondering, "Yo, this guy could be the same guy." 158 00:09:15,198 --> 00:09:18,308 The way he looked at me, the way he looked at Puff, 159 00:09:18,334 --> 00:09:20,434 then he walks in that direction. 160 00:09:20,470 --> 00:09:25,170 And then five to nine minutes later, B. I. G. was shot. 161 00:09:27,376 --> 00:09:31,486 [Greg] Unfortunately, he was shot four times and one of them fatal. 162 00:09:31,514 --> 00:09:36,624 That bullet pierced his heart and he was pronounced dead at approximately 1:15 a. m. 163 00:09:37,854 --> 00:09:39,654 [news anchor 1] Despite being rushed to the hospital, 164 00:09:39,689 --> 00:09:41,849 Notorious B. I. G. was pronounced dead 165 00:09:41,891 --> 00:09:43,861 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 166 00:09:44,827 --> 00:09:47,437 [Eugene] If we hadn’t stopped at that light, 167 00:09:47,463 --> 00:09:50,863 those bullets would have been meant for Puff. 168 00:09:52,835 --> 00:09:59,775 We ran the light and B. I. G. was the one who got the bullets. 169 00:10:05,982 --> 00:10:07,282 I live with that. 170 00:10:08,151 --> 00:10:09,951 Puff was my principal. 171 00:10:09,986 --> 00:10:11,556 He was my responsibility. 172 00:10:13,189 --> 00:10:14,419 Professionally... 173 00:10:16,459 --> 00:10:18,419 I’m glad I did my damn job. 174 00:10:23,633 --> 00:10:24,863 But... 175 00:10:27,236 --> 00:10:28,906 it messes me up 176 00:10:31,407 --> 00:10:34,747 that I had to see that kid go down like that. 177 00:10:40,383 --> 00:10:46,753 I get angry because he told me that he was going to, uh, 178 00:10:47,823 --> 00:10:49,223 to Atlanta. 179 00:10:49,258 --> 00:10:51,118 That’s where he was looking for a house. 180 00:10:52,261 --> 00:10:55,931 We made plans together, and I miss that. 181 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:59,670 He should never have gone to California. 182 00:11:01,070 --> 00:11:04,970 If he hadn’t gone, I’m sure he would be alive today. 183 00:11:05,875 --> 00:11:07,745 He shouldn’t have gone there. 184 00:11:10,146 --> 00:11:11,846 [news anchor 2] The initial reaction is that 185 00:11:11,881 --> 00:11:13,811 this could have been a revenge killing. 186 00:11:13,849 --> 00:11:15,679 [police officer] That’s just what it looks like on the street. 187 00:11:15,718 --> 00:11:16,948 It looks like it was a retaliation. 188 00:11:16,986 --> 00:11:18,026 [reporter] For what? 189 00:11:18,054 --> 00:11:19,424 [police officer] For Tupac’s death. 190 00:11:19,455 --> 00:11:21,255 [Stephane] There’s no doubt that people thought that 191 00:11:21,290 --> 00:11:24,590 Death Row and Suge Knight had something to do with Biggie’s murder. 192 00:11:24,627 --> 00:11:27,237 Tupac, their artist, was taken. 193 00:11:27,263 --> 00:11:28,463 [police officer] Given the fact that... 194 00:11:28,497 --> 00:11:30,807 that they were both gangsta rap artists, 195 00:11:30,833 --> 00:11:34,333 naturally our people will be contacting the Las Vegas authorities 196 00:11:34,370 --> 00:11:36,500 to see if there’s any connection in the two. 197 00:11:36,539 --> 00:11:40,669 I believe the best thing we can do as far as preventing any further violence 198 00:11:40,710 --> 00:11:44,110 or any paybacks on this is solving this murder as quickly as possible. 199 00:11:44,146 --> 00:11:47,356 [Greg] Even nine years later, in 2006, 200 00:11:47,383 --> 00:11:52,493 when I began to investigate the case, Biggie’s murder was still shrouded 201 00:11:52,521 --> 00:11:54,691 in mystery and speculation. 202 00:11:54,724 --> 00:11:57,964 So, our goal was to get outside of all the noise 203 00:11:57,994 --> 00:12:00,664 that had been surrounding the case for years 204 00:12:00,696 --> 00:12:02,736 and through all the conspiracy theory 205 00:12:02,765 --> 00:12:06,135 that the police department was involved, that the LAPD covered it up. 206 00:12:07,470 --> 00:12:10,300 In the course of me looking at this case, 207 00:12:10,339 --> 00:12:14,709 I was trying to find out if LAPD was involved in orchestrating 208 00:12:14,744 --> 00:12:19,454 and committing this murder, and the evidence, it’s overwhelming. 209 00:12:26,222 --> 00:12:29,422 [news anchor 3] The mystery surrounding the murder of Notorious B. I. G. 210 00:12:29,458 --> 00:12:30,858 deepens every day. 211 00:12:30,893 --> 00:12:33,993 Los Angeles Police Department have appealed for information 212 00:12:34,030 --> 00:12:37,030 from any witnesses to the shooting to come forward. 213 00:12:37,066 --> 00:12:38,566 I’m Randall Sullivan. 214 00:12:38,601 --> 00:12:40,431 I’m an author and journalist. 215 00:12:40,469 --> 00:12:46,039 I was asked to write a piece about the police corruption scandal in Los Angeles. 216 00:12:46,075 --> 00:12:48,875 That was how I found my way to Russell Poole 217 00:12:48,911 --> 00:12:53,451 who was assigned at the time to investigate the murder of Notorious B. I. G. 218 00:12:55,518 --> 00:12:57,388 Now Russell Poole was as straight an arrow 219 00:12:57,420 --> 00:12:59,920 as you will ever find on the LAPD. 220 00:12:59,955 --> 00:13:02,195 The job meant everything to him. 221 00:13:02,224 --> 00:13:04,964 [news anchor 4] Poole believes that Death Row Records’ CEO 222 00:13:04,994 --> 00:13:08,034 Suge Knight gave the order for Biggie’s murder. 223 00:13:08,064 --> 00:13:11,034 He is also certain that Los Angeles police officers 224 00:13:11,067 --> 00:13:13,877 assisted Knight in setting it up. 225 00:13:13,903 --> 00:13:18,203 Very quickly he got word that there were a group of police officers 226 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,910 who were working for Suge Knight, the head of Death Row Records, 227 00:13:20,943 --> 00:13:23,583 and that they could be connected to this. 228 00:13:23,612 --> 00:13:27,652 But the LAPD refused to let him get search warrants. 229 00:13:27,683 --> 00:13:29,723 They refused to let him interview witnesses. 230 00:13:29,752 --> 00:13:32,592 They refused to let him obtain forensic evidence. 231 00:13:32,621 --> 00:13:34,891 [news anchor 5] Poole states in a federal lawsuit 232 00:13:34,924 --> 00:13:38,724 that Chief Bernard Parks shut his investigation down. 233 00:13:38,761 --> 00:13:41,131 There’s still so many unanswered questions. 234 00:13:41,163 --> 00:13:44,633 Poole did become a pariah within the LAPD 235 00:13:44,667 --> 00:13:46,907 because a lot of the other cops felt, 236 00:13:46,936 --> 00:13:49,546 "You can see that this is going to be a problem for us all. 237 00:13:49,572 --> 00:13:51,302 You’re threatening the whole department." 238 00:13:51,340 --> 00:13:53,210 And he wouldn’t shut up. 239 00:13:53,242 --> 00:13:57,242 And when all else failed, he decided to submit his resignation 240 00:13:57,279 --> 00:13:58,939 and decided that he would sue them. 241 00:14:00,583 --> 00:14:03,583 I provided the chief with enough, uh, information 242 00:14:03,619 --> 00:14:07,019 and evidence that would warrant a full probe. 243 00:14:07,056 --> 00:14:12,836 And at that meeting, I was ordered not to, uh, investigate any further. 244 00:14:12,862 --> 00:14:14,062 He had... 245 00:14:14,096 --> 00:14:16,736 deeply held belief that justice will finally be done, 246 00:14:16,766 --> 00:14:18,036 the truth will come out. 247 00:14:18,067 --> 00:14:20,977 [Russell] I think I was getting too close to the truth. 248 00:14:21,003 --> 00:14:25,303 I think they feared that the truth would be a scandal. 249 00:14:25,341 --> 00:14:27,571 But he was, you know, being beaten back 250 00:14:27,610 --> 00:14:31,910 to an extraordinary degree and he was broken. 251 00:14:31,947 --> 00:14:36,027 Russell Poole had never wavered in his belief that LAPD officers, 252 00:14:36,051 --> 00:14:39,491 David Mack and Rafael Perez, were involved in Biggie’s murder. 253 00:14:45,361 --> 00:14:48,991 I lost something very, very special. 254 00:14:49,031 --> 00:14:54,071 There are friends out there who lost, God, a very nice human being. 255 00:14:56,338 --> 00:14:59,308 [Lil’ Cease] It was just a great feeling just to see all the people come out 256 00:14:59,341 --> 00:15:01,571 and show their true, true love for him. 257 00:15:03,646 --> 00:15:07,616 People was on top of the cars, on the fire escapes, out their windows. 258 00:15:07,650 --> 00:15:10,750 So just to see all of them people out there, 259 00:15:10,786 --> 00:15:13,756 on our old block where we grew up at, you know, 260 00:15:13,789 --> 00:15:15,959 just a moment away from the sadness. 261 00:15:17,159 --> 00:15:19,059 It definitely lifted us because, you know, 262 00:15:19,094 --> 00:15:20,694 we was all going through a lot at that time. 263 00:15:22,565 --> 00:15:23,865 [Voletta] They took a life. 264 00:15:25,501 --> 00:15:27,101 No, they didn’t take a life. 265 00:15:27,136 --> 00:15:28,406 They took lives. 266 00:15:29,839 --> 00:15:33,339 They ripped lives apart whoever did it. 267 00:15:43,152 --> 00:15:44,922 [Phil] My name is Phil Carson. 268 00:15:44,954 --> 00:15:47,394 I’m a retired FBI special agent. 269 00:15:48,791 --> 00:15:51,561 I first got involved in the Biggie Smalls case 270 00:15:51,594 --> 00:15:56,334 when I was working other police corruption cases that involved the LAPD. 271 00:15:56,365 --> 00:16:00,105 I was watching a documentary on the case one night, 272 00:16:00,135 --> 00:16:03,245 and there was allegations that there might have been 273 00:16:03,272 --> 00:16:05,742 some police corruption involvement. 274 00:16:05,774 --> 00:16:09,384 And seeing how it took place and in knowing 275 00:16:09,411 --> 00:16:13,981 how these police officers were able to orchestrate and pull off these crimes, 276 00:16:14,016 --> 00:16:18,756 I went and talked to my bosses at the FBI and said, "There’s something here." 277 00:16:18,787 --> 00:16:23,097 David Mack and Rafael Perez were partners over at the Rampart Division. 278 00:16:23,125 --> 00:16:27,035 They did do off-duty police work at Death Row Records, 279 00:16:27,062 --> 00:16:29,632 and they were known Blood gang members. 280 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,000 [Joe Cool] I saw Officer Perez and Officer Mack 281 00:16:34,036 --> 00:16:36,476 at Death Row Records several times. 282 00:16:36,505 --> 00:16:40,015 You’re making $50,000 a year, 45,000 a year and Suge Knight 283 00:16:40,042 --> 00:16:41,942 throwing you a little extra, like double that, 284 00:16:41,977 --> 00:16:44,587 man, you’re gonna be like, "Hell yeah, I’ll work for you." Shh! 285 00:16:45,581 --> 00:16:47,051 Perez was there a lot. 286 00:16:47,082 --> 00:16:48,882 I knew he was police. 287 00:16:48,918 --> 00:16:52,388 I know that Suge had power with LAPD. 288 00:16:52,421 --> 00:16:55,421 I know that he had power with the [bleep]. 289 00:16:55,457 --> 00:16:59,127 David Mack and Rafael Perez were not only dirty cops, 290 00:16:59,161 --> 00:17:02,131 but they took it to a whole ’nother level that we have never seen. 291 00:17:06,969 --> 00:17:09,969 What really brought David Mack into the Biggie investigation 292 00:17:10,005 --> 00:17:12,745 was him being arrested for the bank robbery. 293 00:17:14,276 --> 00:17:18,846 In November of 1997, David Mack robbed the Bank of America branch 294 00:17:18,881 --> 00:17:23,121 in downtown Los Angeles and opened up an entire new avenue 295 00:17:23,152 --> 00:17:25,252 into the investigation of Biggie’s murder. 296 00:17:25,287 --> 00:17:28,157 Mack walked in with a TEC-9 pistol, 297 00:17:28,190 --> 00:17:30,620 which was like a machine pistol, under his coat, 298 00:17:30,659 --> 00:17:34,659 loaded $700,000 in cash into duffel bags, 299 00:17:34,697 --> 00:17:37,107 carried them out, while his two accomplices 300 00:17:37,132 --> 00:17:39,572 held a gun on the security guard. 301 00:17:39,602 --> 00:17:40,872 He got to jail. 302 00:17:40,903 --> 00:17:43,003 He immediately announced to the other inmates, 303 00:17:43,038 --> 00:17:44,838 "Look, I’m a mob hired Blood. 304 00:17:44,873 --> 00:17:46,813 Anybody Fs with me, they’re dead." 305 00:17:48,344 --> 00:17:50,144 David Mack was sentenced to 14 years 306 00:17:50,179 --> 00:17:52,239 and told people he could do it standing on his head. 307 00:17:53,916 --> 00:17:55,316 He never cooperated. 308 00:17:55,351 --> 00:17:57,951 He got way with $722,000. 309 00:17:57,987 --> 00:18:00,197 They never found any of it. 310 00:18:00,222 --> 00:18:03,292 After the bank robbery, law enforcement arrested Mack 311 00:18:03,325 --> 00:18:06,135 and essentially raided his home. 312 00:18:06,161 --> 00:18:08,131 They found a significant amount of evidence 313 00:18:08,163 --> 00:18:11,903 that suggested there could be a connection to the Biggie murder. 314 00:18:11,934 --> 00:18:14,504 [Phil] They find that David Mack was the owner 315 00:18:14,536 --> 00:18:19,046 of a 1995 SS Impala dark-colored with chrome wheels, 316 00:18:19,074 --> 00:18:23,384 which is the exact same description that witnesses saw the shooter 317 00:18:23,412 --> 00:18:25,612 sitting in as he shot at Biggie. 318 00:18:25,648 --> 00:18:27,258 They found numerous guns. 319 00:18:27,282 --> 00:18:32,082 They found a blue steel-plated revolver, 9-millimeter, 320 00:18:32,121 --> 00:18:34,621 which is the exact same description 321 00:18:34,657 --> 00:18:37,927 that was given by one of the occupants of Biggie’s car. 322 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,090 There were these boxes of ammunition in the garage, 323 00:18:41,130 --> 00:18:44,330 and they were a brand called GECO, German-made, 9-millimeter, 324 00:18:44,366 --> 00:18:47,706 and Biggie had been killed with GECO bullets. 325 00:18:50,973 --> 00:18:53,873 But they wouldn’t let Poole look at Mack’s finances. 326 00:18:53,909 --> 00:18:56,069 They wouldn’t let him do any testing. 327 00:18:56,111 --> 00:18:58,811 They wouldn’t let him run forensics on the car. 328 00:19:00,516 --> 00:19:02,386 One of the things that I wanted to do was obviously 329 00:19:02,418 --> 00:19:05,828 compare that ammunition that was found at the crime scene of Biggie 330 00:19:05,854 --> 00:19:08,924 versus the kind of bullets that were found in Mack’s house. 331 00:19:08,957 --> 00:19:12,667 And LAPD did say that they were running ballistics, 332 00:19:12,695 --> 00:19:14,235 but I never got an answer from them. 333 00:19:14,263 --> 00:19:17,263 And to this day, if there’s a report that’s been done, 334 00:19:17,299 --> 00:19:18,899 I’ve never been made aware of it. 335 00:19:22,604 --> 00:19:26,144 [news anchor 6] Rafael Perez, a former officer in the LAPD, 336 00:19:26,175 --> 00:19:30,315 has already confessed to intimidating suspects planting evidence 337 00:19:30,345 --> 00:19:32,645 and giving false statements in court. 338 00:19:32,681 --> 00:19:35,111 [Randall] So a few months after Mack’s bank robbery, 339 00:19:35,150 --> 00:19:39,150 Rafael Perez is arrested for stealing something 340 00:19:39,188 --> 00:19:43,728 close to a million dollars of cocaine from the LAPD evidence locker. 341 00:19:43,759 --> 00:19:48,429 Perez would replace it with something like Bisquick or baby laxative 342 00:19:48,464 --> 00:19:51,034 and keep the cocaine and sell it on the street. 343 00:19:51,066 --> 00:19:53,376 [news anchor 7] Perez, a former police officer, 344 00:19:53,402 --> 00:19:57,202 has implicated himself and others in an attempt to reduce his sentence 345 00:19:57,239 --> 00:20:01,739 after being convicted of stealing cocaine from a police evidence locker. 346 00:20:01,777 --> 00:20:04,347 This has launched one of the biggest investigations 347 00:20:04,379 --> 00:20:07,079 into police corruption in recent history. 348 00:20:07,116 --> 00:20:09,486 Perez was facing a significant prison sentence, 349 00:20:09,518 --> 00:20:12,188 and he approached the District Attorney’s office 350 00:20:12,221 --> 00:20:15,851 and said, "Look, I can give you a whole lot of information 351 00:20:15,891 --> 00:20:20,691 on these dirty cops in the Rampart Division of the LAPD 352 00:20:20,729 --> 00:20:22,429 if you’ll give me a deal." 353 00:20:22,464 --> 00:20:26,164 [news anchor 7] There are 20 officers currently being investigated 354 00:20:26,201 --> 00:20:30,641 following accusations of unjustified shootings and planting evidence. 355 00:20:30,672 --> 00:20:33,612 [Randall] So, he made a deal that exempted him from any crimes 356 00:20:33,642 --> 00:20:36,282 and implicated all these other officers 357 00:20:36,311 --> 00:20:39,481 that was mostly made up by him. 358 00:20:39,515 --> 00:20:44,385 So Perez’s story turned into what became known as the Rampart scandal, 359 00:20:44,419 --> 00:20:47,489 and it worked perfectly to sort of smother 360 00:20:47,523 --> 00:20:50,563 this other investigation of all the cops working for Death Row. 361 00:20:55,063 --> 00:20:58,063 [news anchor 7] The LAPD are investigating whether former officer, 362 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:00,770 David Mack, was present at the Petersen Museum 363 00:21:00,803 --> 00:21:03,503 the night Notorious B. I. G. was shot. 364 00:21:03,539 --> 00:21:07,409 Mack may have set up the shooting on behalf of Death Row’s Suge Knight, 365 00:21:07,442 --> 00:21:09,142 who is currently in prison. 366 00:21:09,178 --> 00:21:12,288 [Phil] The night that Biggie was killed, both David Mack 367 00:21:12,314 --> 00:21:15,454 and Rafael Perez were present at the Petersen. 368 00:21:17,419 --> 00:21:20,189 Rafael Perez was seen picking up shell casings, 369 00:21:20,222 --> 00:21:24,462 and actually he’s on a log as an LAPD officer on site. 370 00:21:24,493 --> 00:21:29,803 And David Mack was identified by witnesses who were part of Biggie’s entourage, 371 00:21:29,832 --> 00:21:34,372 saw David Mack at the entrance when they went inside with Biggie. 372 00:21:34,403 --> 00:21:38,103 There were numerous people that had to help orchestrate to pull this thing off, 373 00:21:38,140 --> 00:21:39,400 especially in public. 374 00:21:47,883 --> 00:21:51,723 This is a huge party, lots of celebrities, 375 00:21:51,753 --> 00:21:54,923 and to be able to pull off a hit like this, 376 00:21:54,957 --> 00:21:58,067 they had to coordinate to where there would be no police present. 377 00:21:58,093 --> 00:22:03,603 They would have had to use spotters, radios, getaway cars. 378 00:22:03,632 --> 00:22:07,902 Now Phil Carson will suggest that the murder of Biggie Smalls 379 00:22:07,936 --> 00:22:10,476 was some type of sophisticated hit. 380 00:22:10,505 --> 00:22:13,675 Unless you’ve investigated a whole bunch of drive-by shootings 381 00:22:13,709 --> 00:22:15,009 in Los Angeles, 382 00:22:15,043 --> 00:22:17,543 you’d realize that that’s just a drive-by shooting. 383 00:22:17,579 --> 00:22:20,079 It’s no different than what took place in Las Vegas. 384 00:22:22,084 --> 00:22:23,884 You had a guy lie in wait. 385 00:22:23,919 --> 00:22:26,789 He waited to either get information about where Biggie was 386 00:22:26,822 --> 00:22:30,292 or he saw Biggie and simply pulled up and shot him. 387 00:22:30,325 --> 00:22:33,195 This is a standard drive-by shooting. 388 00:22:33,228 --> 00:22:35,128 There’s nothing sophisticated about this. 389 00:22:35,163 --> 00:22:36,903 This was not a drive-by shooting. 390 00:22:36,932 --> 00:22:37,962 It was an ambush. 391 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,600 This isn’t some drive-by or random act. 392 00:22:40,636 --> 00:22:45,476 And on top of that, to take six shots in such a short amount of time 393 00:22:45,507 --> 00:22:47,617 and not to hit anybody else in the car 394 00:22:47,643 --> 00:22:50,283 or hit any other part of the car other than directly 395 00:22:50,312 --> 00:22:52,442 where Biggie is tells me that that’s somebody 396 00:22:52,481 --> 00:22:54,051 that knew what they were doing. 397 00:22:54,082 --> 00:22:56,652 This person was allowed to commit the shooting. 398 00:22:56,685 --> 00:22:58,725 There were no police around to chase after them. 399 00:22:58,754 --> 00:23:00,324 They never laid eyes on the car. 400 00:23:00,355 --> 00:23:04,395 They never did any type of pursuit, which is 100% unheard of. 401 00:23:28,450 --> 00:23:32,580 [Greg] In 2006, when I was assigned to the reinvestigation 402 00:23:32,621 --> 00:23:37,621 of Biggie Smalls’ murder, the eyewitness testimony was complicated. 403 00:23:38,827 --> 00:23:42,237 These were the two sketches of the suspect 404 00:23:42,264 --> 00:23:45,264 based on the witnesses’ observations. 405 00:23:45,300 --> 00:23:50,170 So this first one was done one day after Biggie’s shooting. 406 00:23:50,205 --> 00:23:53,515 It’s an African-American individual with a bow tie, 407 00:23:53,542 --> 00:23:56,242 mustache, and receding hairline, 408 00:23:56,278 --> 00:24:00,388 pretty consistent with the combined witness statements. 409 00:24:00,415 --> 00:24:06,055 Nine days later, LAPD investigators go to New York to talk to witnesses 410 00:24:06,088 --> 00:24:07,898 and they get a second composite. 411 00:24:07,923 --> 00:24:11,993 Well, those are quite different. 412 00:24:12,027 --> 00:24:16,867 They look like two completely different individuals. 413 00:24:16,898 --> 00:24:19,028 This all happens extremely fast. 414 00:24:19,067 --> 00:24:20,907 And you realize that these guys 415 00:24:20,936 --> 00:24:23,006 just caught little glimpses of time. 416 00:24:25,774 --> 00:24:30,284 You get completely different impressions now of what people claim to have seen. 417 00:24:35,550 --> 00:24:39,890 Out of all the eyewitnesses, the one that is most amazing 418 00:24:39,921 --> 00:24:44,591 that the LAPD simply ignored was Eugene Deal. 419 00:24:44,626 --> 00:24:48,066 [Greg] Eugene Deal draws a conclusion based on this 420 00:24:48,096 --> 00:24:50,606 uncomfortable encounter that he has with this 421 00:24:50,632 --> 00:24:52,732 Nation-of-Islam-looking person. 422 00:24:52,768 --> 00:24:57,108 And then he hears at the hospital through one of the other parties 423 00:24:57,139 --> 00:25:00,869 that the shooter was wearing suit and bow tie. 424 00:25:00,909 --> 00:25:04,579 So then he concludes that those are one and the same people. 425 00:25:07,349 --> 00:25:09,979 But there’s no evidence to support the idea 426 00:25:10,018 --> 00:25:12,778 that these were in fact the same individuals. 427 00:25:12,821 --> 00:25:15,221 And Eugene Deal never sees the shooter. 428 00:25:15,257 --> 00:25:17,627 Come on, it’s the same person. 429 00:25:18,693 --> 00:25:20,033 Greg Kading’s wrong. 430 00:25:20,062 --> 00:25:21,262 He’s just wrong. 431 00:25:21,296 --> 00:25:23,136 He is wrong. 432 00:25:23,165 --> 00:25:25,935 There’s another piece of evidence that makes Eugene Deal 433 00:25:25,967 --> 00:25:27,677 very, very credible. 434 00:25:27,702 --> 00:25:32,102 And that is, is he was shown a photograph by LAPD detectives 435 00:25:32,140 --> 00:25:35,940 where it shows him and who he believed was the shooter 436 00:25:35,977 --> 00:25:38,147 standing right next to Puffy’s car. 437 00:25:38,180 --> 00:25:41,380 There were two police officers from the LAPD, 438 00:25:41,416 --> 00:25:45,886 came to interview me two weeks after B. I. G.’s murder. 439 00:25:47,489 --> 00:25:51,719 I wasn’t supposed to see it, but I see this photo of this guy 440 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:58,560 who had a suit on, white shirt, and a bow tie. 441 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:03,500 It was actually the picture of when the guy approached me and Puff. 442 00:26:08,810 --> 00:26:10,840 I grabbed the photo and I looked at it. 443 00:26:10,879 --> 00:26:12,339 I said, "This is the guy right here." 444 00:26:14,049 --> 00:26:15,979 I said, "What happened to his face?" 445 00:26:16,017 --> 00:26:22,627 Everything in the picture was picture perfectly clear except the individual’s face. 446 00:26:22,657 --> 00:26:26,127 And the officer said, "We’re going to, uh, fix it 447 00:26:26,161 --> 00:26:28,231 and do some kind of computer generation. 448 00:26:28,263 --> 00:26:30,803 We’re going to either come back or have you come to LA." 449 00:26:36,872 --> 00:26:38,402 They never came back. 450 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,540 They never called, didn’t hear anything. 451 00:26:47,849 --> 00:26:52,249 When I first was going through the entire case file, I saw that picture. 452 00:26:52,287 --> 00:26:54,357 And that photo was part of the murder book. 453 00:26:54,389 --> 00:26:56,689 It showed Gene clear as a day. 454 00:26:56,725 --> 00:26:59,025 It showed Puffy’s car clear as day. 455 00:26:59,060 --> 00:27:02,890 It showed the other person clear as day other than his face. 456 00:27:02,931 --> 00:27:05,561 And it... it was quite obvious that, 457 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,700 that it was done intentionally to blur his face out. 458 00:27:08,737 --> 00:27:11,607 Gene specifically said, "That’s your shooter." 459 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,410 And when we went back, that photo had been taken out of the murder book. 460 00:27:15,443 --> 00:27:19,443 It’s like if you’ve got four of these photos on a page, 461 00:27:19,481 --> 00:27:20,751 then you flip to the next page, 462 00:27:20,782 --> 00:27:23,552 you’ve got four more on the front and back, 463 00:27:23,585 --> 00:27:26,185 and suddenly there’s a spot that’s open. 464 00:27:26,221 --> 00:27:31,221 It’s quite obvious that a photo used to be there, but no longer is there. 465 00:27:31,259 --> 00:27:34,089 And we’re realizing that stuff that is... is... 466 00:27:34,129 --> 00:27:40,129 completely evidentiary to this case is missing or being withheld or hidden. 467 00:27:41,536 --> 00:27:45,276 And so, I wrote up a document and we sent it over to the LAPD 468 00:27:45,307 --> 00:27:49,317 and said, "We want to not only see all the photos of the Biggie Smalls’ case, 469 00:27:49,344 --> 00:27:52,784 but specifically this one photo that Big Gene was shown." 470 00:27:52,814 --> 00:27:55,954 And they tell me, "This photo doesn’t exist." 471 00:27:55,984 --> 00:27:58,954 I’m like, "You’ve got to be kidding me." 472 00:27:58,987 --> 00:28:00,857 First of all, I’ve seen the photo. 473 00:28:00,889 --> 00:28:02,919 And second of all, it’s documented. 474 00:28:02,958 --> 00:28:06,068 That’s the part that’s mind-blowing to me. 475 00:28:06,094 --> 00:28:11,604 It’s documented by LAPD that they showed him this photo. 476 00:28:11,633 --> 00:28:14,033 So, how can you say this photo doesn’t exist? 477 00:28:21,243 --> 00:28:26,513 [Eugene] In 2001, three or four years after B. I. G.’s death, 478 00:28:26,548 --> 00:28:30,158 I was shown this photo lineup by a documentary filmmaker. 479 00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:33,489 LAPD never showed it to me. 480 00:28:34,990 --> 00:28:39,060 That was the individual who walked up to me and Puff 481 00:28:39,094 --> 00:28:42,164 while we were in the parking garage at the Petersen Museum. 482 00:28:43,031 --> 00:28:46,601 You don’t forget nothing like that. 483 00:28:47,902 --> 00:28:49,732 [producer speaking] 484 00:28:51,339 --> 00:28:52,899 Like I feel now. 485 00:28:54,643 --> 00:28:56,673 Like [bleep] up. 486 00:28:57,612 --> 00:28:59,442 I can’t explain in no other way. 487 00:28:59,481 --> 00:29:02,511 I... I can’t articulate it. I can’t... 488 00:29:03,985 --> 00:29:05,955 sugarcoat it in no kind of way. 489 00:29:08,123 --> 00:29:09,923 I don’t even want to hold this. 490 00:29:18,166 --> 00:29:21,336 [Phil] The person that Big Gene identified in that six-pack 491 00:29:21,369 --> 00:29:23,069 goes by the name of Amir Muhammad 492 00:29:23,104 --> 00:29:25,044 and he also goes by the name of Harry Billups. 493 00:29:26,341 --> 00:29:29,071 [Greg] Amir Muhammad was the godfather to Mack’s children. 494 00:29:29,110 --> 00:29:32,510 And also we know how close they must have been 495 00:29:32,547 --> 00:29:34,557 because as soon as David Mack was arrested, 496 00:29:34,582 --> 00:29:37,982 Amir Muhammad was the one and only person who came to visit him in jail. 497 00:29:40,455 --> 00:29:43,125 [Phil] Amir Muhammad used false identification, 498 00:29:43,158 --> 00:29:47,298 so the record would not be showing that Amir Muhammad was the one 499 00:29:47,329 --> 00:29:49,189 that was actually visiting him. 500 00:29:51,633 --> 00:29:54,333 The one thing that he changed is the last four digits 501 00:29:54,369 --> 00:29:58,869 of his Social Security, because he knows that this visitor’s log 502 00:29:58,907 --> 00:30:02,077 is viewed by many people, including other inmates. 503 00:30:02,110 --> 00:30:06,410 So he’s smart enough to realize that I don’t need my identity stolen 504 00:30:06,448 --> 00:30:08,258 by putting my Social Security number 505 00:30:08,283 --> 00:30:11,153 down on a document that anybody can take. 506 00:30:11,186 --> 00:30:15,096 The conspiracy theorists will use the idea that, 507 00:30:15,123 --> 00:30:17,093 "Look, he’s trying to hide his identity," 508 00:30:17,125 --> 00:30:22,035 but it’s an old friend who just happens to be associated with a bad cop 509 00:30:22,063 --> 00:30:23,933 because of a relationship in college. 510 00:30:26,134 --> 00:30:28,874 The reason that he went to see David Mack in jail 511 00:30:28,903 --> 00:30:30,943 is because David Mack needed someone 512 00:30:30,972 --> 00:30:32,972 to look after the family while he’s gone. 513 00:30:33,007 --> 00:30:35,717 He’s not providing his information to a prison inmate. 514 00:30:35,744 --> 00:30:40,784 It’s a login book that the wardens require to go into any prison. 515 00:30:40,815 --> 00:30:42,515 He’s wrong. 516 00:30:43,585 --> 00:30:47,225 Simply put, he is wrong. 517 00:30:49,357 --> 00:30:53,797 [Kenneth Boagni speaking] 518 00:31:15,116 --> 00:31:17,486 [news anchor] Investigators are exploring Mack’s connection 519 00:31:17,519 --> 00:31:19,349 with Death Row and Suge Knight. 520 00:31:19,387 --> 00:31:22,257 It is thought Mack may have hired Wallace’s shooter, 521 00:31:22,290 --> 00:31:26,590 a suspect by the name of Amir Muhammad and Mack’s longtime friend 522 00:31:26,628 --> 00:31:28,738 who now appears to have disappeared. 523 00:31:35,103 --> 00:31:37,743 Amir Muhammad was never questioned by the LAPD 524 00:31:37,772 --> 00:31:40,972 about Biggie’s murder, but there were numerous informants 525 00:31:41,009 --> 00:31:43,909 who presented evidence that implicated David Mack 526 00:31:43,945 --> 00:31:46,885 and Amir Muhammad and Suge Knight in Biggie’s murder. 527 00:33:40,762 --> 00:33:42,632 My name is Xavier Hermosillo. 528 00:33:42,664 --> 00:33:47,304 I’ve been involved with the LAPD’s disciplinary system for about 20 years. 529 00:33:49,337 --> 00:33:54,377 During one particular disciplinary hearing involving the Rampart scandal, 530 00:33:54,409 --> 00:33:56,809 we heard testimony from a couple of inmates, 531 00:33:56,844 --> 00:34:01,314 Kenny Boagni and Felipe Sanchez, who had been in cells 532 00:34:01,349 --> 00:34:04,979 with Rafael Perez two years apart. 533 00:34:10,358 --> 00:34:11,468 During their questioning, 534 00:34:11,492 --> 00:34:13,932 Kenny Boagni started to ask a question, 535 00:34:13,962 --> 00:34:16,792 and the prosecutor on behalf of the department jumped up, 536 00:34:16,831 --> 00:34:19,261 said, "I told you to shut up and keep your mouth shut. 537 00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:21,070 You’re not supposed to talk about that." 538 00:34:21,102 --> 00:34:23,232 We were shocked. We were astonished. 539 00:34:34,782 --> 00:34:37,652 [Xavier] And these prisoners began to give a very similar story 540 00:34:37,685 --> 00:34:41,025 about how they had been visited the week before this... 541 00:34:41,055 --> 00:34:43,825 this trial board by two members 542 00:34:43,858 --> 00:34:45,458 of the Los Angeles Police Department. 543 00:35:08,349 --> 00:35:11,119 They threatened both of these prisoners 544 00:35:11,152 --> 00:35:12,922 that if they came and testified, 545 00:35:12,954 --> 00:35:18,324 that they would be shanked, stabbed in... in the prison. 546 00:35:18,359 --> 00:35:22,459 Both Kenny Boagni and Felipe Sanchez testified that 547 00:35:22,497 --> 00:35:26,937 when they were in jail with Perez, he confessed to being involved 548 00:35:26,968 --> 00:35:32,878 in the murder of Biggie Smalls and participating in it with David Mack. 549 00:35:36,144 --> 00:35:39,644 [Kenneth speaking] 550 00:36:17,118 --> 00:36:18,288 [gunshots] 551 00:36:23,324 --> 00:36:25,764 One of my responsibilities was to keep track of all the evidence. 552 00:36:25,793 --> 00:36:28,393 And a particular piece of evidence was introduced. 553 00:36:28,429 --> 00:36:29,489 It was a photograph. 554 00:36:29,530 --> 00:36:33,060 And I look at it, and I was stunned. 555 00:36:33,101 --> 00:36:35,801 Very few things in life have stunned me like this. 556 00:36:35,837 --> 00:36:41,017 It was a picture of David Mack on one side, Rafael Perez on the other side, 557 00:36:41,042 --> 00:36:42,912 dressed in red from head to toe, 558 00:36:42,944 --> 00:36:44,944 which stands for the Bloods gang. 559 00:36:44,979 --> 00:36:48,679 And standing in between with a knife ready to cut a cake 560 00:36:48,716 --> 00:36:54,896 that says Bloods Rule was a lady wearing an all red dress. 561 00:36:54,922 --> 00:36:59,522 And that woman was none other than the daughter 562 00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,130 of LAPD chief, Bernard Parks. 563 00:37:02,163 --> 00:37:06,803 And to see the chief’s daughter dressed like a gang member 564 00:37:06,834 --> 00:37:09,404 flanked by two LA police officers 565 00:37:09,437 --> 00:37:12,477 who were gang members was disgusting. 566 00:37:12,507 --> 00:37:16,077 This kind of filth, these rotten guys, 567 00:37:16,110 --> 00:37:20,040 could be Los Angeles police officers. It was disgusting. 568 00:37:21,215 --> 00:37:22,585 I turned it over. 569 00:37:22,617 --> 00:37:26,227 I wrote the exhibit number, signed my name, 570 00:37:26,254 --> 00:37:29,954 and then I handed it over to my two captain partners. 571 00:37:29,991 --> 00:37:33,221 [Randall] That particular photograph that was entered into evidence 572 00:37:33,261 --> 00:37:36,531 was turned back over to the LAPD, and then it disappeared. 573 00:37:45,006 --> 00:37:48,676 [Randall] The LAPD was relentless and very skillful 574 00:37:48,709 --> 00:37:53,739 in coordination with the city, in closing off every avenue of investigation. 575 00:37:55,316 --> 00:37:57,186 Phil Carson was shut down from the moment 576 00:37:57,218 --> 00:38:00,658 he appeared on a witness list submitted by the attorneys 577 00:38:00,688 --> 00:38:04,958 for the Wallace family, who wanted to get him to testify in court 578 00:38:04,992 --> 00:38:10,262 about what he knew about the LAPD’s attempts to basically obstruct 579 00:38:10,298 --> 00:38:12,408 the investigation of the Biggie murder. 580 00:38:12,433 --> 00:38:14,033 I knew nothing about this witness list. 581 00:38:14,068 --> 00:38:15,968 I didn’t know I’d been put on a witness list. 582 00:38:16,003 --> 00:38:19,773 This attorney from the city attorney’s office comes over. 583 00:38:19,807 --> 00:38:23,117 He pointblank tells my bosses, "We cannot afford 584 00:38:23,144 --> 00:38:26,584 to have Agent Carson testify in this civil lawsuit 585 00:38:26,614 --> 00:38:29,654 because if he does, we stand a 50-50 chance 586 00:38:29,684 --> 00:38:32,624 of losing a $400 million settlement, 587 00:38:32,653 --> 00:38:34,953 and we can’t afford to have that happen." 588 00:38:34,989 --> 00:38:37,489 [Randall] If such a judgment was ever sustained, 589 00:38:37,525 --> 00:38:41,135 the LAPD would have to basically dissolve and it would not exist 590 00:38:41,162 --> 00:38:43,032 as the Los Angeles Police Department anymore. 591 00:38:43,064 --> 00:38:45,804 And they did everything that they could to stop it. 592 00:38:45,833 --> 00:38:49,133 There was another meeting that took place with LAPD 593 00:38:49,170 --> 00:38:51,070 and some of their senior staff, 594 00:38:51,105 --> 00:38:53,505 and somebody in that meeting stated, 595 00:38:53,541 --> 00:38:57,071 "It’s not worth solving the murder 596 00:38:57,111 --> 00:39:00,611 of a 400-pound Black rapper 597 00:39:00,648 --> 00:39:04,528 who used to be a cocaine dealer and possibly ruining 598 00:39:04,552 --> 00:39:08,922 the working relationship between the FBI and the LAPD." 599 00:39:08,956 --> 00:39:13,366 We just shook our heads and go, "This is... 600 00:39:13,394 --> 00:39:15,094 I can’t even believe I just heard that." 601 00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:18,930 That’s the lengths that they went to, 602 00:39:18,966 --> 00:39:22,606 to try to make sure that this case was not successful. 603 00:39:25,306 --> 00:39:28,046 After about two-plus years of my investigation, 604 00:39:28,075 --> 00:39:30,215 I put together a prosecutive report. 605 00:39:30,244 --> 00:39:32,684 We present it to the US Attorney’s Office, 606 00:39:32,713 --> 00:39:35,253 and... and they declined it. 607 00:39:35,283 --> 00:39:37,923 There was always a letter of declination 608 00:39:37,952 --> 00:39:42,822 and they specifically state why a case is being declined for prosecution. 609 00:39:42,857 --> 00:39:46,397 But we never got that letter of declination. 610 00:39:46,427 --> 00:39:49,167 There’s a $400 million civil lawsuit on the line here. 611 00:39:49,196 --> 00:39:54,636 Anybody that says that that does not come into play is a fool. 612 00:39:55,970 --> 00:39:58,270 [Randall] As the lawsuit was about to go to trial, 613 00:39:58,306 --> 00:39:59,746 the Wallace family and their attorneys knew 614 00:39:59,774 --> 00:40:03,044 they had overwhelming evidence that the LAPD had obstructed 615 00:40:03,077 --> 00:40:05,217 the investigation and suppressed evidence. 616 00:40:10,184 --> 00:40:12,724 But the judge ruled that before they could even present that, 617 00:40:12,753 --> 00:40:17,723 they had to show a preponderance of evidence that LAPD officers 618 00:40:17,758 --> 00:40:19,518 were involved in Biggie’s murder. 619 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,960 So it became more and more urgent to find witnesses who would support that. 620 00:40:23,998 --> 00:40:26,508 One day, I read an LA Times story and the story said, 621 00:40:26,534 --> 00:40:29,934 "Federal judge threatens to dismiss Biggie Smalls’ case 622 00:40:29,971 --> 00:40:32,841 because the department claims they didn’t have the evidence." 623 00:40:32,873 --> 00:40:36,443 And when I realized what it was that the family was asking for, 624 00:40:36,477 --> 00:40:40,817 I said, "Oh, my God, this stuff was all sent into evidence." 625 00:40:41,882 --> 00:40:43,952 My name is on the back, my initials. 626 00:40:45,786 --> 00:40:49,556 And then my wife came home from work and she says, "What’s the matter with you?" 627 00:40:49,590 --> 00:40:51,520 And I told her. 628 00:40:51,559 --> 00:40:56,229 And she says, "Aren’t you supposed to stay out of that stuff?" 629 00:40:56,263 --> 00:40:58,833 I said, "Sweetheart, we have five kids. 630 00:41:00,701 --> 00:41:02,601 If somebody murdered one of our kids 631 00:41:03,804 --> 00:41:06,304 and somebody had information, I’d want to know. 632 00:41:06,340 --> 00:41:07,870 We’d want to know. 633 00:41:07,908 --> 00:41:10,708 It was very emotional for me 634 00:41:10,745 --> 00:41:14,855 because I put myself in Mrs. Wallace’s place. 635 00:41:22,189 --> 00:41:25,459 And I had to draw a distinction between 636 00:41:25,493 --> 00:41:29,293 doing something that I had no business doing versus 637 00:41:29,330 --> 00:41:32,960 being a citizen who had information in a murder case 638 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,230 that should be brought forward. 639 00:41:37,371 --> 00:41:40,601 [Randall] Xavier Hermosillo knew what the LAPD was hiding. 640 00:41:40,641 --> 00:41:45,911 He knew he was the only one who could reveal this. 641 00:41:45,946 --> 00:41:51,326 I think Xavier just thought, "I can’t. I can’t just sit here silently 642 00:41:51,352 --> 00:41:54,052 when I know that this stuff exists." 643 00:41:54,088 --> 00:41:55,458 It was about doing the right thing. 644 00:41:55,489 --> 00:41:58,889 So I did what I had to do, and I don’t regret it. 645 00:42:02,129 --> 00:42:05,099 The judge said, "Here’s your search warrant, 646 00:42:05,132 --> 00:42:07,432 go lock up robbery, homicide." 647 00:42:07,468 --> 00:42:12,148 And in comes two US Marshals and they raided the LAPD.