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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Imagine if you had an institution
00:04 where it was almost impossible to be held accountable.
00:08 What happened with the police, Mimi?
00:10 Scared of them?
00:11 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:14 No mother should have to bury their child.
00:19 Amir Locke was killed in a botched,
00:22 no-knock warrant situation.
00:25 I saw the body cam footage.
00:27 He snuffing this man out as he slept.
00:31 Now we stand here dealing with another murder
00:33 of a young black man.
00:36 How these cops operate in this country
00:39 has been America's dirty secret.
00:41 We're in a country of fearing black people,
00:44 rooted all the way back into slavery.
00:46 There seems to be two forms of policing in America,
00:49 one for white America and another for black America.
00:54 As a young police officer, you begin
00:56 to paint the community a certain way.
00:59 You don't even realize it before you're actually acting upon it.
01:02 The officer has the right to arrest.
01:04 And if you fight back, they put a hole in your chest.
01:07 Black people were accused falsely of things.
01:09 They were randomly picked up.
01:10 They were subject to police brutality.
01:14 That's the sound of the police.
01:16 You're the jury.
01:17 I am the defendant.
01:18 I'm guilty.
01:19 Not guilty.
01:19 Enough is enough.
01:22 The police kill 1,100 people a year,
01:25 but the highest number of convictions ever is 11 people.
01:30 I can't FaceTime with my son, but can an officer
01:33 still FaceTime with his?
01:35 All I have is memories.
01:38 That's the sound of the police.
01:39 The Kim took the veil off of the brutality
01:43 that people were facing.
01:44 That's the sound of the police.
01:48 I think about Amir every day.
01:51 Because of the color of his skin,
01:53 he didn't have a chance.
01:55 He was someone's son.
01:57 He was my son.
01:59 That's the sound of the police.
02:02 (whooshing)
02:04 (explosion)