01x06 - Et Tu, America?

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[rain falling]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

MAN: I don't know who
George Zimmerman was before,

but now he's a scary person.

WOMAN: I need to leave.
Somebody needs to

get here quick.
I'm really scared.

ALL: [chanting]
Black lives matter!

MAN: Trayvon's death became

the Black Lives Matter movement.

WOMAN: Black lives should have
mattered throughout history,

but they have not mattered.

MAN: We're gonna speak up
and say our lives matter.

Stop k*lling us.

WOMAN: It's begging
the country to heal.

But this was just the beginning.

Another Florida teenager
sh*t to death.

MAN: Then Eric Garner happens.

MAN: Michael Brown
in Ferguson happens.

REPORTER: Chaos on the streets
of Missouri.

Sometimes people
get sick and tired.

[dramatic music]

SYBRINA: And this is one
of those times.

MAN: It was an uprising.

It felt like we were on
the precipice of revolution.

We cannot ignore
the realities of the current

state of America.

I think celebrities,
we have to use our platform.

REPORTER: Colin Kaepernick
criticized by fans

and on social media.

MAN: Black Lives Matter

activated some very angry
white racists.

Get that son of a bitch
off the field.

We're talking about the
ethnic cleansing of America.

REPORTER: 21-year-old
Dylann Roof opened fire,

k*lling nine church-goers.

DONALD: We have to be bigger--

[screaming]

Better--

[horn honking]

And stronger than ever before,

and we will make
America great again.

[screaming]

[crowd shouting]

JAHVARIS: Right after
the verdict,

I felt probably
the biggest letdown.

Shakespeare wrote,
"Et tu, Brute?"

But I had posted a tweet
saying, "Et tu, America?"

Because I trusted that
the system was going to work.

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And it didn't.

[crowds shouting]

LISA: I understand that
people have opinions

about whether stand-your-
ground had an effect

of the case of Trayvon.

News flash: stand-your-ground
law didn't apply.

That wasn't even a factor
in this case.

LISA: Those are opinions.

The reality is that
stand-your-ground played

a significant decisive role.

When the law changed at
the behest of Marion Hammer

and the NRA, that changed
the substantive law

of self-defense in Florida.

A person doesn't have
to assert stand-your-ground

to benefit from it because
it changed expressly

the jury instructions.

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The jury in George Zimmerman's
trial was instructed

about stand-your-ground.

The last set of instructions
it received before

it deliberated was that
George Zimmerman had a right

to stand his ground.

And that was one of the
last things the jury heard.

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After that verdict
came out in July,

one of the jurors went on CNN
and told Anderson Cooper

that they did not convict
George Zimmerman

because of, quote,
stand-your-ground.

WOMAN: He had a right to defend
himself because of the heat

of the moment
and the stand-your-ground.

In essence, the NRA had its
thumb on the scale of justice

in that jury booth.

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LARRY: After George Zimmerman
was acquitted,

Angela Corey gave a very
strange press conference.

There's so many people
to thank starting with

Sheriff Eslinger and his entire
Sheriff's office--

She was thanking people.

It was just very unusual.

And then she gave that
interview a day or two later

to Headline News,
and she didn't come off well.

One word to describe
the verdict.

Our system.

Disappointing.

♪ ♪

George Zimmerman.

♪ ♪

m*rder*r.

♪ ♪

Lucky.

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That angered a lot
of defense lawyers,

including Zimmerman's own
lawyers who felt that

was out of bounds.

Prosecutors charged him
with a crime

they could never, ever prove.

Uh, sometimes I can be
a little more blunt.

I think the prosecution
of George Zimmerman

was disgraceful.

He didn't know why he was
turned into this monster,

but quite honestly you guys
had a lot to do with it.

You just did, 'cause you took
a story that was fed to you

and you ran with it
and you ran right over him.

♪ ♪

WOMAN: Do you think
this verdict

will hurt race relations?

♪ ♪

This verdict still has nothing

to do with civil rights.

Civil rights needs to be talked
about but not in the context

of the George Zimmerman verdict.

MAN: Thank you.

Thanks.

REPORTER: Today, protestors
across the country

took to the streets, rallying
against what they believe

is a grave injustice.

OBAMA: I think it's important
to recognize that

the African-American community
is looking at this issue

through a set of experiences
and a history

that doesn't go away.

When Trayvon Martin
was first sh*t,

uh, I said that this could
have been my son.

Uh, another way of saying
that is Trayvon Martin

could have been me, uh,


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[crowd chanting]

OBAMA: There are very few
African-American men

in this country who haven't
had the experience of being

followed when they were shopping

in the department store.
That includes me.

PATRISSE: I think
it was important

for our country to hear

the nation's President
identify with someone who was

k*lled by a vigilante.

MYCHAL: And we looked
at Barack Obama--

first black President--
and we all just knew

there were always going to be
more Trayvon Martins than

there were Barack Obamas.

PATRISSE: After
Trayvon Martin was k*lled,

you basically are seeing
a community

at their breaking point.

[crowd chanting]

ANGELA: This was a time
when we had

to create justice for ourselves.

And I think that's what
movements do.

[chanting] Trayvon Martin!
Trayvon Martin!

PATRISSE: How does it not just
become another protest?

How do we make this thing big?

We needed a sustained movement.

We wanted to harness
that energy.

Black Lives Matter was
the demand that the world

affirm our dignity.

We started to circulate
it on social media.

I bought the domain name,
went to Twitter and Facebook

and launched the page.

It was this rallying call
that everyone could get behind

that very clearly and plainly
stated that black lives

indeed matter.

[chanting] Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!

They may not matter
to George Zimmerman.

But they matter to us.

When he was acquitted,
he just jumped in his car

and took off.
He was just gone.

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DENNIS: I worked 30 years
for the sheriff.

I'm very familiar with the
area and how to find people.

I began searching
for Mr. Zimmerman.

Since the Trayvon incident, uh,
George has been involved

in a number of situations
where police were called.

WOMAN: 911, do you need
police, fire, or medical?

WOMAN: Hands up!

MAN: Keep coming!

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DENNIS: George was living with
a girlfriend.

They'd get into an argument.

George points a shotgun at her,

breaks some of her furniture.

MAN: Okay, all right,
step out this way for me.

You need help?
GEORGE: I have a bad back, so--

MAN: Need a little help?
GEORGE: No, no,

I think I'm good.

DANNY: Another girlfriend,
Brittany Brunelle,

was leaving George's residence.

A police officer pulls her over.

DANNY: They ask her
for a statement,

and she says, "Hell no."
She says, "I'm not crazy.

"That guy's gonna come k*ll my
whole family if I give you

a statement."

[dramatic music]

OPAL: Sadly after
Trayvon Martin was k*lled,

many others have come after.

WOMAN: Eric Garner
is originally confronted

for allegedly selling
loose cigarettes.

Watch your back, sir.

Please, don't touch me.
Don't touch me.

Hold up, hold up, hold up.

Don't touch me, please.

Hang on.

Don't touch me.

[all talking at once]

MAN: Damn, man.

[all talking at once]

Give us your hands, buddy.

Put your hand behind your back.

REPORTER: The city medical
examiner ruled today

that the death is a homicide
caused by a police chokehold.

BENJAMIN: The chokehold
is outlawed in New York City,

but who cares about those
little policy procedures

if we can keep the status quo?

REPORTER: The police union
says Daniel Pantaleo

did nothing wrong.

He's the model of what we want
a police officer to be.

WOMAN: Eric Garner is k*lled,

and no one gets held
accountable.

Right to that expl*sive
grand jury decision--

no indictment for New York City
police officer in the death

of Eric Garner from a chokehold.

PATRISSE:
Lack of accountability

is the driving force

for us getting into the streets.

REPORTER:
Hundreds of protesters

shut down major highways
across the country.

[chanting] I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!

AL: I remember when we
protested Eric Garner.

And I get a call--Michael Brown
in Ferguson happened.

An unarmed African-American
teenager was sh*t and k*lled

by police in the St. Louis
suburb of Ferguson, Missouri.

BENJAMIN: Two teenage boys
walking in the middle

of the day, broad daylight,
and the first thing

the police officer says
to them is,

"Get the **** out the street
or there's gonna be trouble."

He's running this way, he turns
his body towards this way.

Hands in the air,
being compliant.

He gets sh*t in his face and
chest and goes down and dies.

BENJAMIN: This happens again
and again.

And it's swept under the rug
again and again.

Not this time.

BENJAMIN: After
Trayvon Martin,

I'm starting to represent
a lot of young black victims

to try to establish a legacy
that their lives mattered.

SYBRINA: Sometimes people
get sick and tired

and they wanna do
something about things,

and they wanna try
to make a change

and try to make a difference.

And so this is one
of those times.

MYCHAL: Everyone reaches
a breaking point.

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And in Ferguson...
they had reached theirs.

[popping]

[explosions booming]

MAN: Oh, ****!

MYCHAL: Tanks, sn*pers,
tear gas.

These police looked like
an army.

The people were, like,
going to w*r.

I remember going out with
the gas mask on.

MAN: Stay down.
They're sh**ting real rounds.

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This was a cauldron of v*olence.

JOY-ANN: They were unleashing
militaristic terror

on civilian communities.

MAN: The Grand Jury
deliberated over two days.

They determined that no
probable cause exists to file

any charge against
Officer Wilson.

REPORTER: Mayhem on the
streets of Ferguson.

REPORTER: The National Guard
is on alert.

AL: The people that rioted
in Ferguson were the kids

that had had enough.

MYCHAL: This was a community
ready to fight back

in a very real way.

♪ ♪

There was a line from Trayvon
to the uprising in Ferguson.

ANGELA: That sense of outrage
continued to grow.

[police radio chatter]

They gonna keep k*lling us, man.

♪ ♪

They gonna keep k*lling us.
It ain't gonna never stop, man.

♪ ♪

REPORTER: Breaking news
from Cleveland tonight--


has d*ed from a g*nsh*t wound.

REPORTER: The 12-year-old
was at a recreation center

playing with his airsoft g*n
when he was sh*t

and k*lled by a police officer.

The Cleveland Police Department
sh*t that baby

and watched him die in the snow.

BENJAMIN: The family has many,
many questions

that need to be answered.

REPORTER: Outrage over this
incident stems from one

underlying worry that in the
eyes of the judicial system,

black lives don't matter.

[chanting] Hands up,
don't sh**t!

MAN: These are the things
that are happening to us

every day.

[screaming]

PATRISSE: Philando Castille's
girlfriend can't control

what's happening.

But what she can do
is make sure that

the world is watching.

I just need the world to watch.

I have control over this
medium, even though I don't

have control over
my real life right now.

m*rder*r!
[screams]

It's okay.
I'm right here with you.

Mmm.

BENJAMIN: And we all believed
that if we had video,

then that would all change
because they'll see it

with their own eyes
and they'll do something

about it.
Boy, were we naive.

Boy, were we naive.

Freddie Gray case,
Terence Crutcher,

Sandra Bland.

Alton Sterling doesn't even
get a trial.

They saw the video.

They said,
"Oh, that's horrible."

And they went back
to eating their dinner.

We cannot ignore the realities
of the current state

of America.

Trayvon Martin.
Michael Brown.

Tamir Rice.
Eric Garner.

It's time to look in the mirror
and ask ourselves,

what are we doing
to create change?

As an athlete, we have
the loudest voices.

Our message to our fellow
athletes was,

"What are we gonna do?"

It's time for us to do
something about it.

Colin sacrificed himself
for what he believed in.

REPORTER: Colin Kaepernick
has been blasted by fans

and on social media,
claiming he's disgracing

the flag and the m*llitary.

You know, this country stands
for freedom, liberty,

justice for all.

And it's not happening
for all right now.

PATRISSE: This is not new,
but what is new

is more awareness.

And this new awareness
challenges white people.

MICHAEL: It's very difficult
for white people to talk

about racism because we have
been brainwashed to be r*cist.

And we don't want
to accept that.

And we think we're not r*cist.

JEFF: Whites in America can
feel so tired of hearing

about this.

And the question is,
if you're that tired

of hearing about it,
how tired do you think you'd be

of living with it?

PATRISSE: So many white people
are questioning this country

in a way that they
hadn't had to.

But on the other hand,
Black Lives Matter challenges

white people's bubbles.

You know, my daughter was
watching that one night.

She's 12 years old.

She said, "Mommy, does that
mean my life doesn't matter?"

I mean, it's crazy.

PATRISSE: There
is this real fear.

I can say I believe
in world peace.

And I can get


"You are part of a t*rror1st
organization."

I just said I believe
in world peace.

So it doesn't actually
matter what I say.

It's what I look like.

This is a movement that, uh,
promotes the execution

of police officers.

PATRISSE: On the one hand,
it's laughable.

On the other hand,
it's frightening

because people actually
believe it.

It really becomes a political
sticking point.

Black lives matter.
White lives matter.

All lives matter.

Why do black lives matter
and not all lives matter?

Why can't it also be about me?

TRACY: Not all lives is
getting choked out for selling

a pack of cigarettes
on the street.

Not all lives matter
that you're 12 years old

and you're on the playground
with a toy g*n

and you get sh*t.

OPAL: We're actually demanding
that all lives matter

by asserting that black
lives must matter.

DONALD: I was watching the
head of Black Lives Matter

being interviewed
the other night,

and I said to myself,
"Give me a break."

All lives matter.

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MARC: You have white people
who are offended by the idea

of people saying black
lives matter.

GEORGE: Whites are afraid to
confront their own whiteness,

because if they're
gonna do that,

then they have to admit that
they're oppressors.

GEORGE: So then some of those
white people say

white lives matter.

HEIDI: White Lives Matter
engendered this backlash

among white people.

It's the idea that black folks
should never

assert their rights.

How dare they?

And Black Lives Matter
activated some very angry

white racists.

♪ ♪

REPORTER: Breaking news out
of Charleston,

South Carolina, tonight,
where there was

a tragic sh**ting
inside of a church.

Nine people have been k*lled.

REPORTER: 21-year-old
Dylann Roof has been caught.

HEIDI: And when he typed in
information about Trayvon,

he landed on the Council of
Conservative Citizens website

that said that black people
were slaughtering white people

in the streets and something
had to be done.

These are all basically lies
about the black community.

HEIDI: Donald Tr*mp went down
that escalator

and announced he was running
for President

one day before Dylann Roof's
sh**ting rampage happened.

And those same white
supremacists that trained up

Dylann Roof served as a pretty
large support base

for Donald Tr*mp.

Tr*mp during the campaign
tweeted out fake

black-on-white
hate-crime statistics--

the same propaganda that
motivated Dylann Roof.

I am officially running...

[cheers and applause]

For President
of the United States.

The American Dream is dead.

[somber music]

MAN: You know,
since the verdict was read,

there's this black cloud
that looms over

Sanford Police Department.

We've lost officers because
they couldn't keep up

with the stressors of the job.

Either they left,
or they're dead.

I've had three strokes,
which led to my retirement.

I suffered a heart att*ck.
I decided to resign.

I left the department about two
years ago in July of 2015.

I remember somebody called me
and said,

"Hey, I've been speaking
to Serino."

He's like, "Man,
I'm telling you, he's bad."

MAN: After the Trayvon Martin
case,

Chris was just different.

J: I heard that he was
having back surgery.

That's the one I always hear
people taking

hard-core opiates for.

The conditions were perfect
to pick up an addiction.

ANTHONY: Word trickled out
that we were responding

to his residence.

Just tough.

♪ ♪

MAN: And that was
on the day he d*ed.

MAN:
This case k*lled Chris Serino.

There's no doubt about it.

♪ ♪

MARC: The Trayvon Martin case
had local backlash.

But what I thought was
interesting was that there was

also a political backlash in
the 2016 presidential election

which we didn't foresee.

Florida's the largest swing
state in the country.

But we're the crazy person
at the party.

[warning bells ringing]

In Florida,
Trayvon Martin's case

inalterably changed
our politics.

These very kind of raw racial
issues came to the fore,

and that didn't benefit
the Democratic party

apparently as much
as it did Donald Tr*mp.

REPORTER: I want to turn
right now, though,

to the Tr*mp campaign.
He is in Sanford, Florida.

That is where Donald Tr*mp
is gonna take the stage

any moment...

MARC: In Florida, the white
turnout for Tr*mp

in certain counties
was unexpectedly large.

You watch.
You watch.

[cheers and applause]

MARC: We didn't expect him
to run up the score

the way he did.

But in hindsight,
it might not surprise us

so much that he did.

ANDY: You know,
Donald Tr*mp isn't part

of the establishment
in this country.

I think that he's willing
to stand up and say something

to get a conversation started
about what's actually happening

in this country.

REPORTER: Florida
g*n Supply is being sued

after the owner
declared his store

was a Muslim-free zone.

ANDY: And somebody came
to the back room and said,

"Andy, George Zimmerman
is on the phone."

And I said, "No way."

And I was honored that I would
receive a phone call, uh,

from George Zimmerman.

His initial introduction
is that of meek,

mild, humble, quiet.

The more you meet with him,
the more that charade

wears off.

He said, "Andy, I was just
doing this painting.

The Confederate Flag."

He said, "What I wanna do is
I wanna sell a limited number

"of these prints all signed
by me and we will give a lot

of the money to charity,
and we'll split the rest."

He's doing all this good stuff
and we're gonna donate

some money to charity.
I'm in.

I completely understand
that people think

the Confederate flag
to be a r*cist symbol,

but the vast majority
of people believe that it's

a symbol of heritage.
It's a symbol of our history

that people think is associated
with the South

and the South was fighting
for sl*very.

That's a common misconception
about what actually took place.

When you study the history,
that was one thing

that the w*r was about.

People don't go to w*r
for one issue.

Uh, I mean, I'm not a historian.

I--I mean, you're putting me
on the spot for something I--

You know...

Um--Um--The Confederate--
The, um...

In general,
the w*r was about tyranny.

Tyranny is any time
a government overreaches

and they control
a life too much.

♪ ♪

JEFF: What if we went back
to the guy who made

the Confederate flag,
William Thompson?

What he said is,
"The flag is a representative

"of the superiority
of the white race

over the inferior
colored race."

When you say, "No, it wasn't
about sl*very.

It was about states' rights,"
that's true.

But the states' rights that
they were defending

were the rights to own people.

♪ ♪

ANDY: When you're sitting
in conversation with George

and you refer to black people,
it's not black people

or the African-Americans
or, you know,

a different community.
It's monkeys.

And he literally
says those words.

"Oh, they're monkeys.
Oh, another monkey."

And one of the big party
tricks that George would do

is he would always have
a few bags of Skittles

in his pocket so that when
somebody mentioned something,

you know, like, "Hey, good job,"

George's response would be
take a bag of Skittles,

sign it, and hand it out.

♪ ♪

JOY-ANN: George Zimmerman goes
on to sort of exploit it

and turn this k*lling into
a perverse kind of fame.

He winds up auctioning
off the g*n

that k*lled Trayvon Martin.

REPORTER: And despite
a torrent of criticism

and one website removing
his auction,

NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports
Zimmerman is not backing down.

It's, I think, uncomfortable
to most people that George

is autographing g*ns,
autographing bags of Skittles.

He makes racial statements
to people.

I've heard 'em.
They're recorded.

The bar owner says--tells
the cops,

"Look, he comes in here
all the time.

"He's always got a g*n on,
always stirs up stuff.

I just want him gone."

According to another event,
a scuffle ensues,

the police come.

They stop this guy
down the road.

SYBRINA: Right now we rely on
a lot of politicians

to change laws,
and sometimes you have to be

a part of those changes.

Do you affirm the testimony
you're about to give

before the committee will be
the truth, the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?

MAN: I do. Thank you.

SYBRINA: I remember going
and speaking in Congress

about stand-your-ground.

Our first witness
is Sybrina Fulton.

Ms. Fulton is the mother
of Trayvon Martin.

I just wanted to let you know
how important it is that we

amend this stand-your-ground.

None of us in this hearing room
were there that night.

We also know that
stand-your-ground was not

a defense that
Mr. Zimmerman raised.

MAN: It wasn't like
they were really ever

gonna consider anything.

LISA: Because
of the Republican Congress

funded by the NRA,
these stand-your-ground laws

were not repealed.

SYBRINA: Of course I was
very disappointed,

but I realized
that you can't give up.

You gotta continue this fight.

We had our time to grieve,
but it was time for us

to help somebody else.

And so we started
establishing programs.

Even though
I was hurting, myself,

on the inside, I felt obligated

to help other mothers.

The primary mission
of the Circle of Mothers

was to heal mothers,

was to help mothers,
to bring mothers

in the same room
so we can connect together,

so we can bond together.

Tracy handled the fathers,

'cause I think
that's his specialty.

TRACY: We're here
for the community.

The community
has been here for us.

Thank you all.

Enjoy the rest of the evening.

We gonna continue to be
the voice for the voiceless.

SYBRINA: Eventually, we were
invited by President Obama

to the White House.

It was an honor to meet
the first black president.

They were just bigger than life.

The initiative,
My Brother's Keeper,

came about
because of Trayvon Martin.

♪ ♪

In January of 2016,

Hillary contacted me to find out

if I would work
with her campaign.

That's where the mothers
of the movement came about.

We might be the seven
that are sitting here,

but it's so much bigger than us.

It's something that has been
placed inside us

that says you can't help your
son or daughters,

but you certainly can help
other children.

It felt natural,
and we campaigned for her

up until the election
and actually we were there

on Election Day in New York
at the Convention Center.

We were just so excited.

Once some of the results
started coming in,

it was very quiet.

It was very sad.

We didn't say anything.

When we thought that we had
came so much further,

we had not.

Hail Tr*mp, hail our people,
hail victory!

[cheers and applause]

SYBRINA: We have
a long way to go.

[cheers and applause]

My name is Sybrina Fulton.

My son who's in Heaven
was Trayvon Martin.

The Women's March was awesome.

It was refreshing to see
so many women standing up

for the same cause.

It was an honor to speak.

We will continue to stand tall.

Women's rights are human rights.

Thank you.

[cheers and applause]

Donald Tr*mp has divided this
country so much.

We're more divided
than we have ever been.

A lot of people didn't even
know that that much hatred--

that much racism--was still
going on in this country.

So maybe it opened
some people's eyes.

JEFF: Donald Tr*mp represents
what we saw in action

in the Trayvon Martin case.

It's just that he's bringing it
out of the closet

and putting it right
in the fresh air

where everybody
can take a look at it.

[dark music]

HEIDI: There was a recent
"Washington Post"

ABC News poll that said
that 9% of people thought

it was okay to have
white supremacist

or Neo-n*zi beliefs.

If you expand that out
to the U.S. population,

that's 30 million people.

♪ ♪

[crowd barking in unison]

[shouting]

[chanting] Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!

Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!

[overlapping chatter, commotion]

MAN: Sir, can I ask you which
group you're with?

America!

sh**t!

HEIDI: About half of the
organizations that were at

the Charlottesville protests...

[air horn honking]

Were groups that
were new from the Tr*mp era.

And that's sort of astounding.

Daily Stormer went from
one chapter to 30 chapters

during Tr*mp's run.

Groups like Identity Evropa,
Vanguard America--

these organizations,
they did not exist

until Donald Tr*mp
ran for office.

And many of them are
the millennial types

that earned their stripes
in the period

when Trayvon Martin's
sh**ting happened.

REPORTER: When did you get
into, as you said,

the racial stuff?

When the Trayvon Martin
case happened,

every single case it's some
little black assh*le

behaving like a savage and he
gets himself in trouble,

shockingly enough.

We're talking about the ethnic
cleansing of America.

At some point, we will have
enough power that we will

clear them from
the streets forever.

That which is degenerate
in white countries

will be removed.

[dark music]

[screaming]

WOMAN: Oh, my God!

[dark music]

♪ ♪

MAN: Medic!

[shouting]

And now we got bodies
to the ground.

[screaming]

[heavy music]

♪ ♪

DENNIS: After researching
George for a couple months,

I was alerted by the producer
of the show that George

was sending threats to him
via his text and his emails.

♪ ♪

And then George started
sending them to him

about me and my family,
saying that, uh,

he's gonna slam
my face into a wall

and he's coming to my house.

You might wanna let
Mrs. Warren know.

♪ ♪

And then two or three days
later, I started getting them

via text, via email,
and via my voice mail.

The voice mails that he leaves
are interesting.

They're cryptic.

He doesn't talk
on them specifically.

There's several where you hear--

it's like a xylophone
being played.

[melodic noises]

And it's slow at first,
then it starts going faster

and faster and faster and
faster and faster and faster,

and then it--call cuts off.

REPORTER: Tonight
George Zimmerman is back

in the news,
now charged with stalking.

REPORTER: Zimmerman
made alleged threats

to Dennis Warren,
a former member

of Florida law enforcement,

saying, "I know how to
handle people who F with me.

I have since February
of 2012."

Zimmerman is accused
of harassing

a private investigator who was
helping the producer

of a Trayvon Martin documentary.

REPORTER: He also allegedly
threatened

to feed the investigator
to an alligator.

REPORTER: Today in court,

Warren asked Judge Jerri Collins

for a restraining order
against Zimmerman.

All right? MAN: Thank you, Your Honor.

Thank you.

[heavy music]

DENNIS: Who knows what
he'll do next?

This man is a scary man
to be walking around drinking,

carrying a g*n on his side,
and wearing a bulletproof vest.

And, uh, that's just
common sense.

LISA: It's gotta be scary
to live in Florida.

[sirens wailing]

Just look at Parkland.

GIRL: To every politician
who is taking donations

from the NRA, shame on you.

[cheers and applause]

LISA: Those kids have really
articulated the core

moral issues.

[chanting] I will vote!
I will vote!

LISA: It's tremendous
seeing some hope

and some resistance to the NRA.

[chanting]

But even with this change,
no one yet is going to undo

these stand-your-ground laws.

♪ ♪

[chanting continues
in background]

WOMAN: You have
a right to vote,

and you can't just wait
until there's a big election

to get involved.

You have to get involved
in local elections.

You have to get
involved in state elections.

MAN: Because the NRA's power's
totally unchecked.

And the deck is just
repeatedly stacked in favor

of g*n owners like
George Zimmerman

and not an innocent black
teenager like Trayvon Martin.

PATRISSE: When you have
a network that's primary role

is to rally for the dead,

to rally for the grieving,

and to know that it's not gonna
end anytime soon,

it's pretty tragic.

REPORTER: Protestors flooded
the streets following

the death of Stephon Clark.

BENJAMIN: I continue to fight
all across America

to expose the legalized
genocide of colored people.

The solution is not gonna
happen in the courts.

The solution
is gonna happen in society.

♪ ♪

Trayvon serves as a beacon--
a light to all the people

out here so you guys'll never
have to go through the pain

and the hurt that these
guys went through.

TRACY: You can't
prepare yourself

for the loss of a child.

It's been six years,
but I smile every day

because I know God got him.
I know God got him.

[applause]

SYBRINA: This is about us
fighting for your children.

This is about you fighting
for your children.

'Cause I can stand before you
today and I can take off

a lot of things.
I can take off my earrings.

My pants.
My shoes.

My shirt.

But I cannot remove
the color of my skin.

The people are going to unite,

because we're all humans

and we have to live
in this world together.

♪ ♪

MYCHAL: Every single day
there's young black people

that we pass on the street

and we don't wonder about them.

Sometimes we don't
even see them.

They are invisible to us
until someone kills them.

Then suddenly we are all
invested in them.

We all want justice for them.

And the question is,
do we want justice for them

while they're living?

[somber, heavy music]

♪ ♪

SYBRINA: Every day I carry
a little piece

of my son with me.

♪ ♪

How people can just take a life

and just don't care

about how many people it affects

and about who he was...

♪ ♪

TRACY: I believe in God.
I believe in the Bible.

But I haven't found it
in my heart to even think

about forgiving.

If I have to go to my grave
being an imperfect soul,

I think I'll go to my grave
being an imperfect soul.

[heavy, somber music]

♪ ♪

- ♪ Rest in power,
rest in paradise ♪

♪ If I could change matters,
I would spare a life ♪

♪ 'Cause lives matter ♪

♪ There's clearly nothing
as dear as life ♪

♪ You have become a symbol
in the spirit life ♪

♪ In America,
one tradition that lasts ♪

♪ Is black blood woven
into the fibers of the flag ♪

♪ Not addressing the problems
of the past ♪

♪ To nowhere fast,
but following the path ♪

♪ So-called "leaders"
on hire for the Klan ♪

♪ Still rapin' and settin'
fire to the land ♪

♪ Well, that's the climate,
how can I become a man ♪

♪ If survival is a triumph
and we got the underhand?

♪ Listen ♪

♪ One k*ller, one child,
one w*apon ♪

♪ The sh**t
was unthreatened, 71 seconds ♪

♪ So many
unanswered questions ♪

♪ I see reflections
of myself ♪

♪ I feel like in fatherhood,
we are connected ♪

♪ ♪