Uprooted Saison 1 - (EN)
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00:00 - You ready? - No, but let's go.
00:03 - Ready to take a deep breath?
00:05 - In the dream, we're in the front yard and Keith is there.
00:15 And he starts to slowly walk off.
00:17 He never says bye to me.
00:21 He just says, "I gotta go."
00:24 If he would have left a note, he would have said goodbye.
00:29 - My name is Sherry Warren.
00:31 I had a brother named Keith,
00:33 who on July 31st, 1986, was found hanging from a tree.
00:37 - As soon as we got to the scene,
00:45 everything just went sideways.
00:47 This case has too many red flags.
00:51 It is impossible for anybody to commit suicide that way.
00:55 - How in the hell do you get a young black man
00:58 hanging from a tree and that not send alarm bells
01:01 all the way up through the police department?
01:03 - They ruled a suicide right away
01:12 without any type of investigation whatsoever.
01:15 - We started asking the questions that we believed
01:17 at the time the police should be asking.
01:19 - This boy, he was a teenager. He had a car.
01:21 He was a young man.
01:23 This boy, he was a teenager. He had a car.
01:25 He had friends. He was ready to go to college.
01:27 He was getting ready to start living his life.
01:29 - The story didn't make sense then.
01:32 It doesn't make sense now.
01:34 - For me, my motivation is,
01:39 somebody wanted to silence this.
01:42 Somebody wanted this to go away.
01:44 - Nobody was investigated. Nobody was interviewed.
01:50 You had no autopsy performed.
01:53 - You have to look at what it was in 1986.
01:55 There were racial tensions in all the suburbs.
01:58 - My mom did not put her head in the sand and quietly go away.
02:02 - No. - And I'm not doing it either.
02:04 - Mary Cooey went to her grave trying to figure out
02:06 what happened to her son.
02:08 - Her life drained every year,
02:12 trying to fight for justice for her child.
02:14 And she couldn't get it.
02:16 Not while she was here, but while I'm here,
02:18 I'm gonna fight for it too.
02:21 - I'm gonna fight for it too.
02:24 - I'm gonna fight for it too.
02:27 - I'm gonna fight for it too.
02:29 Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
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