00:00We come here today to this spot to remember George Floyd, who was tortured, who was tortured to death.
00:11Why didn't we have equal justice and due process for the benefit of Ahmaud Arbery like you would have had if it was a young white man laying dead on the ground?
00:23While America is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, we in black America are dealing with the 1619 pandemic.
00:53It's become painfully obvious that what we have right now are two systems of justice, one for white Americans and another for black Americans.
01:53Trayvon's parents were heartbroken with this news, knowing that the killer of their child was never going to be held criminally liable for taking his life.
02:22The killer of George Floyd was never going to be held criminally liable for taking his life.
02:34An adult follows and kills a child and nothing happens to him.
03:01It's just a terrible thing that should have never happened.
03:04You've seen his children.
03:20They are horrified at what they witnessed on this video.
03:25I think every human being who has any humanity in them are horrified what they see on this video.
03:38The only question is, why weren't those police officers horrified?
03:49When they kill us, we expect full justice. We expect justice for the civil rights that you took from this human being.
04:06The pain in his father.
04:09Can you imagine? This is real.
04:12This is real, America.
04:15This is real.
04:29We have video surveillance that pretty much shows everybody what happened.
04:34So we don't need to try to speculate or narrate for anybody.
04:39You can see it with your own eyes.
04:40You look at that video, you don't see him resisting or doing anything.
04:45He is simply compliant.
05:03Some people worry that by chasing civil cases rather than concentrating on the criminal cases or pushing for justice in the criminal courts, you're not delivering justice.
05:17You're just delivering money.
05:18What do you say to that?
05:20I don't get to do anything with the criminal case.
05:23Only the government, elected government officials are the only people who can arrest people, charge them and convict them of a crime.
05:31So that's all the prosecutor's responsibility.
05:34Now, what we do, we are private lawyers.
05:37Private lawyers get to sue for wrong for death.
05:41And the only thing you can recover is money.
05:44There's nothing else.
05:45You can't bring the person back to life.
05:47And so in getting these people some measure of justice, since justice has eluded them based on the failures of the prosecutor, what we are doing is getting some justice for the families.
06:00And we have never lost the case.
06:02In all these cases, we have always won the civil judgments or got settlements for Black people in America.
06:10Until we have transparency plus accountability, we can never bridge this divide of mistrust between communities of color and law enforcement.
06:36It's real simple.
06:38It's about trust.
06:40And neither side seem to trust the other.
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