1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:15,624 --> 00:00:19,367 What made me think that everything was, um, 4 00:00:19,410 --> 00:00:22,544 a coverup was, for me, 5 00:00:22,587 --> 00:00:25,329 as an experienced homicide detective, 6 00:00:25,373 --> 00:00:31,335 was just that first meeting with the medical examiner. 7 00:00:31,379 --> 00:00:35,035 Um, for you to relate to me 8 00:00:35,078 --> 00:00:38,342 the way you ruled it and why you ruled it, 9 00:00:38,386 --> 00:00:41,041 a red flag goes up, something is wrong. 10 00:00:41,084 --> 00:00:42,825 Body parts are missing. 11 00:00:42,868 --> 00:00:44,479 Evidence is missing. 12 00:00:44,522 --> 00:00:46,002 That's another red flag. 13 00:00:46,046 --> 00:00:47,177 In homicide cases, 14 00:00:47,221 --> 00:00:50,311 even though everything is not perfect, 15 00:00:50,354 --> 00:00:55,055 but stuff just ain't missing like that, that's evidence. 16 00:00:55,098 --> 00:00:57,492 This is the first case I can recall 17 00:00:57,535 --> 00:01:00,103 where as we were, um, 18 00:01:00,147 --> 00:01:03,019 on the task force to work with the federal government 19 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:05,239 in a case that far away from D.C. 20 00:01:05,282 --> 00:01:07,545 Why do you think that they did that? 21 00:01:07,589 --> 00:01:09,678 Well, to my understanding, um, 22 00:01:09,721 --> 00:01:11,810 they recused all of the federal agencies 23 00:01:11,854 --> 00:01:13,247 from being involved in the cases, 24 00:01:13,290 --> 00:01:15,727 therefore, an outside agency like ourselves, 25 00:01:15,771 --> 00:01:17,294 with homicide experience, 26 00:01:17,338 --> 00:01:19,166 was perfect for investigating the case. 27 00:01:19,209 --> 00:01:21,211 Why would they recuse themselves? 28 00:01:21,255 --> 00:01:23,822 Because, in this particular case, 29 00:01:23,866 --> 00:01:27,348 the two persons who were listed as persons of interest, 30 00:01:27,391 --> 00:01:29,437 their father was an FBI agent. 31 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:33,441 It was just something about that case 32 00:01:33,484 --> 00:01:35,530 that just made me feel as though, 33 00:01:35,573 --> 00:01:39,011 because of who was involved, 34 00:01:39,055 --> 00:01:41,623 you have a star athlete, 35 00:01:41,666 --> 00:01:43,059 he was one of the Vale boys, 36 00:01:43,103 --> 00:01:44,321 star athlete, 37 00:01:44,365 --> 00:01:48,978 and the father's a decorated FBI agent. 38 00:01:49,021 --> 00:01:52,808 Um, something just wasn't right. 39 00:01:52,851 --> 00:01:55,767 Snotty-nosed smiling. 40 00:01:55,811 --> 00:01:56,855 Just busy. 41 00:01:59,902 --> 00:02:01,425 He was smilin', always doing something. 42 00:02:01,469 --> 00:02:04,167 I rememember this one right here, 43 00:02:04,211 --> 00:02:05,473 when he lost his teeth that time. 44 00:02:05,516 --> 00:02:07,692 Didn't have no hair. 45 00:02:07,736 --> 00:02:09,216 There goes those ears. 46 00:02:09,259 --> 00:02:10,608 ♪ 47 00:02:10,652 --> 00:02:12,915 There's him doing what he do best. 48 00:02:12,958 --> 00:02:16,048 ♪ 49 00:02:16,092 --> 00:02:17,920 There's him running the ball. 50 00:02:17,963 --> 00:02:19,400 ♪ 51 00:02:19,443 --> 00:02:21,141 -Here. -Long time. 52 00:02:21,184 --> 00:02:23,186 Time to take it in the goal line. 53 00:02:23,230 --> 00:02:33,153 ♪ 54 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,863 Well, the body of a Lowndes County High School student 55 00:04:14,906 --> 00:04:17,431 still has investigators putting together the pieces 56 00:04:17,474 --> 00:04:18,867 of what took place. 57 00:04:18,910 --> 00:04:21,826 ♪ 58 00:04:21,870 --> 00:04:23,306 The body was found in the gym 59 00:04:23,350 --> 00:04:25,787 at Lowndes County High School early Friday morning. 60 00:04:25,830 --> 00:04:27,745 Now, Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine 61 00:04:27,789 --> 00:04:29,138 officially released the name 62 00:04:29,181 --> 00:04:30,879 of the deceased individual today 63 00:04:30,922 --> 00:04:34,012 as 17-year-old sophomore Kendrick L. Johnson. 64 00:04:34,056 --> 00:04:35,623 Johnson was reportedly found in the gym 65 00:04:35,666 --> 00:04:37,320 next to several rolled-up mats, 66 00:04:37,364 --> 00:04:40,323 and suffered no gunshots or trauma to his body. 67 00:04:40,367 --> 00:04:42,717 Sheriff Prine says the incident is slightly puzzling 68 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,762 but one the department is working hard 69 00:04:44,806 --> 00:04:46,242 to find answers for. 70 00:04:46,286 --> 00:04:48,679 [directional clicking] 71 00:04:51,203 --> 00:04:54,381 KJ is all-- 72 00:04:54,424 --> 00:04:55,991 my husband and all my children, 73 00:04:56,034 --> 00:05:00,604 all their initials start with K and a J. 74 00:05:00,648 --> 00:05:02,737 I have three Kenneths for now. 75 00:05:02,780 --> 00:05:05,783 That's my husband, my oldest son, 76 00:05:05,827 --> 00:05:09,483 and my grandson is K-- we call him K3. 77 00:05:09,526 --> 00:05:11,485 And my daughter, she's Kenyetta. 78 00:05:11,528 --> 00:05:16,011 So that's Kenneth Senior, Kenneth Junior, um, 79 00:05:16,054 --> 00:05:19,928 Kenyetta, Kendrick, and Kenya, 80 00:05:19,971 --> 00:05:22,931 and my other granddaughter, Kennedy. 81 00:05:22,974 --> 00:05:26,195 All of them start with-- all of them are KJs. 82 00:05:28,371 --> 00:05:29,546 And we use his initials, 83 00:05:29,590 --> 00:05:32,462 we say that that means King Jesus. 84 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,037 We are here at the school. 85 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:49,958 ♪ 86 00:05:50,001 --> 00:05:53,527 This is the story of Kendrick Johnson. 87 00:05:53,570 --> 00:05:56,573 After a four-year undercover investigation 88 00:05:56,617 --> 00:05:59,402 into the facts of this case, 89 00:05:59,446 --> 00:06:02,362 our team has still not found the evidence 90 00:06:02,405 --> 00:06:05,756 to point the finger at a killer. 91 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,717 So at this time, we don't know who killed KJ. 92 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:10,979 However, we have collected 93 00:06:11,022 --> 00:06:13,677 a lot of facts and pieces of evidence, 94 00:06:13,721 --> 00:06:16,985 and we wanted to show the public what we found 95 00:06:17,028 --> 00:06:19,988 and let them make up their own minds. 96 00:06:20,031 --> 00:06:22,382 This is Kendrick's dad, Kenneth, 97 00:06:22,425 --> 00:06:24,558 and his mom, Jackie Johnson. 98 00:06:24,601 --> 00:06:26,124 They got married and have lived 99 00:06:26,168 --> 00:06:29,432 in Valdosta, Georgia, their entire lives. 100 00:06:29,476 --> 00:06:31,086 Kenneth is a truck driver. 101 00:06:31,129 --> 00:06:33,871 Together, he and Jackie have raised a family 102 00:06:33,915 --> 00:06:37,309 and an extended family of many loved ones. 103 00:06:37,353 --> 00:06:40,748 This is their oldest daughter, Kenyetta Johnson. 104 00:06:40,791 --> 00:06:43,968 This is Jackie's mother and Kendrick's grandma. 105 00:06:44,012 --> 00:06:48,364 And these are Kendrick's aunts, Lydia and Stephanie. 106 00:06:48,408 --> 00:06:51,411 They are the people closest to Kendrick. 107 00:06:51,454 --> 00:06:55,327 So to try to put a human face on this situation, 108 00:06:55,371 --> 00:06:57,286 we wanted to give them a chance 109 00:06:57,329 --> 00:07:00,245 to finally tell their story. 110 00:07:00,289 --> 00:07:01,464 Yeah, I'm a truck driver, 111 00:07:01,508 --> 00:07:03,379 and I was coming out of New York at the time. 112 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:05,120 And he called me the day before that. 113 00:07:05,163 --> 00:07:06,817 He said, uh, "Dad," uh, 114 00:07:06,861 --> 00:07:08,993 he knew I was going to get a truck. 115 00:07:09,037 --> 00:07:10,734 He said, "Daddy, uh, you got a truck?" 116 00:07:10,778 --> 00:07:13,607 I said, "I'm on my way to get it now." 117 00:07:13,650 --> 00:07:16,436 I said, "I'll be home on Saturday morning." 118 00:07:16,479 --> 00:07:18,655 then that was the last conversation 119 00:07:18,699 --> 00:07:21,136 that I talked to him, it was about a truck. 120 00:07:21,179 --> 00:07:22,659 Then, the next day, 121 00:07:22,703 --> 00:07:25,227 that's when everything started to happen, you know, 122 00:07:25,270 --> 00:07:26,968 we can't get in touch with Kendrick. 123 00:07:27,011 --> 00:07:28,491 And after school was out, 124 00:07:28,535 --> 00:07:31,363 I asked his bus driver where was Kendrick. 125 00:07:31,407 --> 00:07:34,018 And she was like, "Um, he didn't ride home with me." 126 00:07:34,062 --> 00:07:38,980 Once I got home, um, I asked, um, my daughter. 127 00:07:39,023 --> 00:07:42,070 They was asking, like, did he call me or something. 128 00:07:42,113 --> 00:07:43,506 They'd say, like, "Was he stayin'?" 129 00:07:43,550 --> 00:07:46,335 For a basketball game or somethin' at the school. 130 00:07:46,378 --> 00:07:47,945 And I was just like, "No." 131 00:07:47,989 --> 00:07:49,512 So I called my husband. 132 00:07:49,556 --> 00:07:51,340 You know, she said, "Have you heard from Kendrick?" 133 00:07:51,383 --> 00:07:53,429 And I said, "Not heard from him today," 134 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:54,778 which I normally do, you know, 135 00:07:54,822 --> 00:07:56,301 by the end of the school day he'll call me. 136 00:07:56,345 --> 00:07:57,738 By then, we're worried. 137 00:07:57,781 --> 00:08:01,002 So she came and got me and we rode back to the school 138 00:08:01,045 --> 00:08:03,961 and, like, rode back around looking for him again. 139 00:08:04,005 --> 00:08:05,136 And it got dark. 140 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:06,268 "Have you heard from Kendrick yet?" 141 00:08:06,311 --> 00:08:07,965 "No, I still ain't heard from him." 142 00:08:08,009 --> 00:08:09,619 And he said, "Yeah, go on and call the police 143 00:08:09,663 --> 00:08:10,838 because something ain't right." 144 00:08:24,765 --> 00:08:27,202 So the sheriff's department came and he-- 145 00:08:27,245 --> 00:08:29,378 the first thing he said, um, 146 00:08:29,421 --> 00:08:30,640 "He's probably just somewhere laid up 147 00:08:30,684 --> 00:08:31,989 with some fast-tailed girl." 148 00:08:32,033 --> 00:08:34,426 And I was like, "No, my children know better. 149 00:08:34,470 --> 00:08:37,560 On a school night, you be in this house by 10:00. 150 00:08:37,604 --> 00:08:40,302 Not 10:01, not 10:02, at 10:00." 151 00:08:40,345 --> 00:08:41,956 And so he just took the report and said, 152 00:08:41,999 --> 00:08:44,524 "Well, I'll ride around to the school 153 00:08:44,567 --> 00:08:47,831 and around the blocks to see if I see him anywhere." 154 00:08:47,875 --> 00:08:49,006 So then I get in my truck 155 00:08:49,050 --> 00:08:50,573 and I ride out to the school house 156 00:08:50,617 --> 00:08:52,575 and circle through the school parking lot. 157 00:08:52,619 --> 00:08:54,098 Still no Kendrick. 158 00:08:54,142 --> 00:08:57,058 But by then, I know something is terribly wrong 159 00:08:57,101 --> 00:08:59,756 because it's, like, almost 12:00. 160 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,019 12:00, I knew he was dead. 161 00:09:02,063 --> 00:09:04,544 ♪ 162 00:09:04,587 --> 00:09:06,937 I got where I couldn't drive 163 00:09:06,981 --> 00:09:09,331 because it started to bother me so much. 164 00:09:09,374 --> 00:09:12,290 So I pulled over and I laid in my bed. 165 00:09:12,334 --> 00:09:14,684 ♪ 166 00:09:14,728 --> 00:09:16,294 I said, "My son dead." 167 00:09:16,338 --> 00:09:19,167 ♪ 168 00:09:19,210 --> 00:09:20,951 -I knew it. -Down deep in my heart, 169 00:09:20,995 --> 00:09:23,737 I knew Kendrick was dead somewhere, 170 00:09:23,780 --> 00:09:25,652 but I never would have thought in a million years 171 00:09:25,695 --> 00:09:28,176 at the school house and in the manner that he was. 172 00:09:28,219 --> 00:09:29,830 ♪ 173 00:09:29,873 --> 00:09:31,614 I didn't sleep at all. 174 00:09:31,658 --> 00:09:34,008 That morning, she said, "What do you want me to do?" 175 00:09:34,051 --> 00:09:36,097 I said, "You go to that school house." 176 00:09:36,140 --> 00:09:39,491 I was at the school house at 8:00 seeing what happened, 177 00:09:39,535 --> 00:09:41,363 had anybody seen Kendrick. 178 00:09:41,406 --> 00:09:45,193 It was a lot of people that were in and out of the gym. 179 00:09:45,236 --> 00:09:47,064 So I went to the front door, 180 00:09:47,108 --> 00:09:48,979 whatever, but they wouldn't let me in. 181 00:09:49,023 --> 00:09:50,938 One of the other resource officers, 182 00:09:50,981 --> 00:09:52,374 she comes up to me. 183 00:09:52,417 --> 00:09:53,767 And I asked her, I said, 184 00:09:53,810 --> 00:09:56,117 "Is that my son that they just found in the gym?" 185 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,815 And she was like, "Yes." 186 00:09:58,859 --> 00:10:00,512 And I just lost it. 187 00:10:00,556 --> 00:10:02,558 Then, all of a sudden, she start hollerin' 188 00:10:02,602 --> 00:10:04,691 and screamin' and cryin'. 189 00:10:04,734 --> 00:10:08,520 And it just went downhill from there. 190 00:10:08,564 --> 00:10:11,306 ♪ 191 00:10:16,964 --> 00:10:21,664 They pulled down the mat and his legs and feet 192 00:10:21,708 --> 00:10:23,057 were hanging out of the mat. 193 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:24,319 He wasn't moving. 194 00:10:24,362 --> 00:10:26,800 And the smell, it was-- it smelled bad. 195 00:10:26,843 --> 00:10:27,844 You could smell it. 196 00:10:27,888 --> 00:10:29,672 The shock had, you know, left us all, 197 00:10:29,716 --> 00:10:31,935 and we'd realized that one of our classmates 198 00:10:31,979 --> 00:10:35,156 had died in our school right beneath us. 199 00:10:35,199 --> 00:10:38,899 I'm in the middle of traffic driving, um, across town. 200 00:10:38,942 --> 00:10:42,554 So, she say, "They found a body at the school 201 00:10:42,598 --> 00:10:44,948 and it's Kendrick, you need to get to Jackie." 202 00:10:44,992 --> 00:10:46,820 So I said, "Where's my sister?" 203 00:10:46,863 --> 00:10:49,692 What I didn't--oh, uh-uh. 204 00:10:49,736 --> 00:10:51,085 I can't do this. 205 00:10:51,128 --> 00:10:53,000 I can't--I cannot do this. 206 00:10:53,043 --> 00:10:57,265 ♪ 207 00:10:57,308 --> 00:11:00,964 After they told us that, I was just empty. 208 00:11:01,008 --> 00:11:03,706 I didn't really feel nothing at the time. 209 00:11:03,750 --> 00:11:05,882 ♪ 210 00:11:05,926 --> 00:11:07,014 I stopped in the middle of the road 211 00:11:07,057 --> 00:11:08,537 and I just screamed. 212 00:11:08,580 --> 00:11:10,713 And I--I talked to this detective 213 00:11:10,757 --> 00:11:12,889 and I said, "What happened?" 214 00:11:12,933 --> 00:11:17,111 She said, "Something is on Kendrick's head." 215 00:11:17,154 --> 00:11:18,808 That's all she told me. 216 00:11:18,852 --> 00:11:21,071 And then she hung the phone up. 217 00:11:21,115 --> 00:11:23,639 Police told us that it was him. 218 00:11:23,683 --> 00:11:25,902 And all the kids was steady changing classes. 219 00:11:25,946 --> 00:11:29,123 And I guess, by then, it hit the news or Facebook. 220 00:11:29,166 --> 00:11:31,560 All these kids were just mulling around the building. 221 00:11:31,603 --> 00:11:33,562 It was basically a crime scene. 222 00:11:33,605 --> 00:11:35,172 -Oh yeah. -And they hadn't treated it 223 00:11:35,216 --> 00:11:38,088 like that, and they were telling you that he was dead. 224 00:11:38,132 --> 00:11:40,221 And everyone was still at the school walking around. 225 00:11:40,264 --> 00:11:42,136 Mm-hm, they were switching classes and everything 226 00:11:42,179 --> 00:11:45,095 as my mom was out there, like, screaming and crying. 227 00:11:45,139 --> 00:11:47,054 And one sheriff even came in there, 228 00:11:47,097 --> 00:11:49,970 resource officer from the sheriff's department, 229 00:11:50,013 --> 00:11:52,189 and he was like, "What are you screaming for? 230 00:11:52,233 --> 00:11:54,757 We don't even know if that's KJ." 231 00:11:54,801 --> 00:11:59,806 And I was like, "Has anybody else reported their child dead? 232 00:11:59,849 --> 00:12:01,503 Do he have dreads?" And he was like, "Yes." 233 00:12:01,546 --> 00:12:04,027 I said, "So you know that's my child." 234 00:12:04,071 --> 00:12:05,420 Did they take you to him? 235 00:12:05,463 --> 00:12:08,728 No, they never let us see him at all. 236 00:12:08,771 --> 00:12:12,383 I saw my sister sitting in a wheelchair. 237 00:12:12,427 --> 00:12:14,211 My sister looked like she was out of it. 238 00:12:14,255 --> 00:12:17,258 My sister looked like somebody had drugged her. 239 00:12:17,301 --> 00:12:18,781 Looked like somebody-- 240 00:12:18,825 --> 00:12:21,305 looked like life was just taken out of her. 241 00:12:21,349 --> 00:12:25,962 They tried to show my daughter a picture of a tennis shoe 242 00:12:26,006 --> 00:12:28,008 of a way of identifying him. 243 00:12:28,051 --> 00:12:29,400 ♪ 244 00:12:29,444 --> 00:12:31,402 Well, they let me identify him by a shoe. 245 00:12:31,446 --> 00:12:34,275 They didn't let my mama identify him. 246 00:12:34,318 --> 00:12:37,017 It was like the orange-- yeah, it was his orange shoe 247 00:12:37,060 --> 00:12:40,281 and one of the black shoes, they both was clean. 248 00:12:40,324 --> 00:12:44,024 Not long after that, the sheriff came in. 249 00:12:44,067 --> 00:12:46,200 "Well, we don't--we don't find any foul play." 250 00:12:46,243 --> 00:12:47,636 Well, that was real quick for me. 251 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:49,507 -The day of. -The day of. 252 00:12:49,551 --> 00:12:51,205 Just within the last 15 minutes, 253 00:12:51,248 --> 00:12:55,339 we saw several vehicles with investigators inside 254 00:12:55,383 --> 00:12:57,689 coming on and leaving the campus. 255 00:12:57,733 --> 00:13:00,431 The information surrounding their classmate's death 256 00:13:00,475 --> 00:13:02,433 stopped the school in its tracks. 257 00:13:02,477 --> 00:13:04,261 Everybody was quiet. 258 00:13:04,305 --> 00:13:06,176 We went to lunch and there was not a word said. 259 00:13:06,220 --> 00:13:08,657 You could walk outside and hear a pin drop. 260 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:10,354 I'm not sure if it's hit me yet. 261 00:13:10,398 --> 00:13:14,315 We're all going through this and we'll get through it. 262 00:13:14,358 --> 00:13:16,273 I'm very thankful. 263 00:13:16,317 --> 00:13:18,362 I'm thankful it wasn't my son. 264 00:13:18,406 --> 00:13:19,668 Not knowing what happened, 265 00:13:19,711 --> 00:13:22,105 you just wonder, you know, 266 00:13:22,149 --> 00:13:25,413 how people might retaliate or... 267 00:13:25,456 --> 00:13:26,806 It's just scary. 268 00:13:26,849 --> 00:13:28,677 The sheriff's office and Lowndes County Schools 269 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:29,809 had this to say: 270 00:13:29,852 --> 00:13:31,201 "Nothing has been discovered 271 00:13:31,245 --> 00:13:33,725 to indicate foul play was involved." 272 00:13:33,769 --> 00:13:35,640 When I tell ya, I remember this like it-- 273 00:13:35,684 --> 00:13:37,991 just, like, vivid, like it happened just yesterday. 274 00:13:38,034 --> 00:13:40,558 My sister let out a cry. 275 00:13:40,602 --> 00:13:43,605 She said, "Y'all killed my son. 276 00:13:43,648 --> 00:13:45,825 Y'all killed my son." 277 00:13:45,868 --> 00:13:47,739 I was up on-- 278 00:13:47,783 --> 00:13:49,698 up there on 81. 279 00:13:49,741 --> 00:13:52,614 I think it was in their master plans 280 00:13:52,657 --> 00:13:54,877 not to have me here. 281 00:13:54,921 --> 00:13:56,531 Because if I was here, 282 00:13:56,574 --> 00:13:57,880 it wouldn't have went down like that. 283 00:13:57,924 --> 00:13:59,403 I would have viewed my son's body. 284 00:13:59,447 --> 00:14:01,231 There wasn't nothing they could have done 285 00:14:01,275 --> 00:14:03,190 that they could've kept me out of that gym. 286 00:14:03,233 --> 00:14:09,631 ♪ 287 00:14:09,674 --> 00:14:11,415 Investigators say on Thursday 288 00:14:11,459 --> 00:14:14,505 Johnson didn't show up to his fourth period class. 289 00:14:14,549 --> 00:14:16,377 Friday morning, he was found dead 290 00:14:16,420 --> 00:14:18,770 inside a rolled-up gym mat. 291 00:14:18,814 --> 00:14:20,860 These mats, to describe 'em just a little bit, 292 00:14:20,903 --> 00:14:22,818 they're actually very large floormats, 293 00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:24,472 but when you roll 'em up, 294 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:25,777 of course, it creates a circle 295 00:14:25,821 --> 00:14:28,563 and leaves an opening in the middle 296 00:14:28,606 --> 00:14:30,739 that's approximately two foot wide. 297 00:14:30,782 --> 00:14:33,960 Investigators say it appears Johnson was on top of mats 298 00:14:34,003 --> 00:14:36,701 that were standing upright when he possibly fell 299 00:14:36,745 --> 00:14:38,529 or reached inside the hole of the mat 300 00:14:38,573 --> 00:14:40,923 to get a shoe and got stuck. 301 00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:42,098 From the evidence that we found, 302 00:14:42,142 --> 00:14:44,274 this is not a murder. 303 00:14:44,318 --> 00:14:47,451 It appears just to be a terrible, terrible tragedy 304 00:14:47,495 --> 00:14:49,801 that resulted in a young man losing his life. 305 00:14:49,845 --> 00:14:54,937 All I can say is that until an autopsy is done 306 00:14:54,981 --> 00:14:57,722 we cannot determine the cause of death. 307 00:14:57,766 --> 00:15:00,464 There does not appear to be, uh, 308 00:15:00,508 --> 00:15:02,814 any trauma to the body. 309 00:15:02,858 --> 00:15:05,295 How can you fall over in a wrapped-up mat? 310 00:15:05,339 --> 00:15:07,732 Still overcome with grief and anger, 311 00:15:07,776 --> 00:15:09,212 these distraught family members 312 00:15:09,256 --> 00:15:12,781 are now asking the community for prayers and support. 313 00:15:12,824 --> 00:15:14,696 Everything was different. 314 00:15:14,739 --> 00:15:16,219 In what way? 315 00:15:16,263 --> 00:15:18,787 We had--we usually would post up, 316 00:15:18,830 --> 00:15:21,224 like, right in front of, uh, 317 00:15:21,268 --> 00:15:22,660 in front of E Wing, 318 00:15:22,704 --> 00:15:24,445 where all the kids would be there 319 00:15:24,488 --> 00:15:26,186 in between classes. 320 00:15:26,229 --> 00:15:28,884 We all post up there normally. 321 00:15:28,928 --> 00:15:31,626 Okay, so after KJ passed away, 322 00:15:31,669 --> 00:15:34,020 we started having two officers post up. 323 00:15:34,063 --> 00:15:37,719 So KJ dies and then they send officers 324 00:15:37,762 --> 00:15:40,940 -to your spots. -Yeah, they start-- 325 00:15:40,983 --> 00:15:43,725 start doing a lot of crazy stuff, man. 326 00:15:43,768 --> 00:15:48,208 Let's do a quick breakdown of the early key facts. 327 00:15:48,251 --> 00:15:51,211 Kendrick was found upside down, 328 00:15:51,254 --> 00:15:57,043 rolled in a gym mat around 10:30 AM on January 11th. 329 00:15:57,086 --> 00:15:59,045 He went missing the day before 330 00:15:59,088 --> 00:16:04,180 at approximately 1:20 PM on video cameras in this gym. 331 00:16:04,224 --> 00:16:07,183 Kendrick is 5'10", 332 00:16:07,227 --> 00:16:11,840 and the gym mat he supposedly went into head first 333 00:16:11,883 --> 00:16:14,016 is six feet tall. 334 00:16:14,060 --> 00:16:17,150 Kendrick's shoulders measured 19 inches, 335 00:16:17,193 --> 00:16:20,501 and according to the police's own incident report, 336 00:16:20,544 --> 00:16:24,244 the opening of the mat measured 14 inches. 337 00:16:24,287 --> 00:16:27,551 But the sheriff's office is somehow saying 338 00:16:27,595 --> 00:16:31,903 he fit his body into the mat and got stuck 339 00:16:31,947 --> 00:16:34,254 while trying to retrieve a shoe 340 00:16:34,297 --> 00:16:36,952 at the bottom of the mat. 341 00:16:36,996 --> 00:16:39,868 There was a pool of blood under Kendrick's head 342 00:16:39,911 --> 00:16:41,565 when they moved the mat, 343 00:16:41,609 --> 00:16:45,395 but somehow the shoe they claimed he was going for 344 00:16:45,439 --> 00:16:49,138 is perfectly clean and doesn't have a thing on it. 345 00:16:49,182 --> 00:16:51,358 I knew it was, you know, something shady was going on 346 00:16:51,401 --> 00:16:53,012 from the very beginning. 347 00:16:53,055 --> 00:16:54,622 From the very beginning. 348 00:16:54,665 --> 00:16:58,843 And so that's when it came down to the rally. 349 00:16:58,887 --> 00:17:01,150 We had a rally downtown at the courthouse. 350 00:17:01,194 --> 00:17:02,891 A lot of people showed up. 351 00:17:02,934 --> 00:17:05,502 News media showed up. 352 00:17:05,546 --> 00:17:09,071 And we demanded that Kendrick's body 353 00:17:09,115 --> 00:17:11,639 do not leave Lowndes County 354 00:17:11,682 --> 00:17:16,818 till me or his mother identified his body. 355 00:17:16,861 --> 00:17:21,562 Hour and a half later, um, I get a phone call. 356 00:17:21,605 --> 00:17:25,740 He said, "Well, come down to the crime lab." 357 00:17:25,783 --> 00:17:29,004 We walked in, first thing I said on my mind, 358 00:17:29,048 --> 00:17:31,659 "Damn, it's kind of hot in here." 359 00:17:31,702 --> 00:17:33,008 Then I thought to myself, I said, 360 00:17:33,052 --> 00:17:36,490 "Well, maybe I'm a little nervous 361 00:17:36,533 --> 00:17:38,448 about what I'm finna see." 362 00:17:38,492 --> 00:17:40,624 When they pulled the drawer out, 363 00:17:40,668 --> 00:17:44,541 instead of a gush of cool air come out, 364 00:17:44,585 --> 00:17:46,543 a gush of hot air come out. 365 00:17:46,587 --> 00:17:48,850 ♪ 366 00:17:48,893 --> 00:17:53,637 And I'm like, "Damn, what the hell going on here?" 367 00:17:53,681 --> 00:17:55,117 I didn't say nothin'. 368 00:17:55,161 --> 00:17:57,380 They took the bag, unzipped the bag. 369 00:17:57,424 --> 00:17:59,643 All the way-- all the way down to his foot. 370 00:17:59,687 --> 00:18:01,036 ♪ 371 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:03,256 And I looked at my son. 372 00:18:03,299 --> 00:18:06,737 ♪ 373 00:18:06,781 --> 00:18:09,740 I looked at the detective, I said, "Clearly," I said, 374 00:18:09,784 --> 00:18:14,093 "You can see clearly that he was in a fight." 375 00:18:14,136 --> 00:18:15,442 I said, "Man, look at his face." 376 00:18:15,485 --> 00:18:18,619 I said, "Look at one side of his face swole up." 377 00:18:18,662 --> 00:18:22,753 How they had Kendrick arm, 378 00:18:22,797 --> 00:18:25,321 is he was like this. 379 00:18:25,365 --> 00:18:26,366 In the bag? 380 00:18:26,409 --> 00:18:27,541 Yeah, in the bag. 381 00:18:27,584 --> 00:18:28,803 They wouldn't even put his arms down? 382 00:18:28,846 --> 00:18:30,979 No, no, he was-- he had his arm like this. 383 00:18:31,022 --> 00:18:32,285 When they opened the bag up? 384 00:18:32,328 --> 00:18:34,025 When they opened the bag up, 385 00:18:34,069 --> 00:18:36,332 he was lying just like this, 386 00:18:36,376 --> 00:18:38,029 and he had one arm here. 387 00:18:38,073 --> 00:18:40,031 ♪ 388 00:18:40,075 --> 00:18:42,947 When I seen Kendrick in the crime lab, 389 00:18:42,991 --> 00:18:45,863 I thought they picked Kendrick up off the floor 390 00:18:45,907 --> 00:18:48,170 like that, right? 391 00:18:48,214 --> 00:18:50,346 Until I--till later on, 392 00:18:50,390 --> 00:18:51,869 we started getting the crime scene-- 393 00:18:51,913 --> 00:18:53,393 we got the crime scene photo. 394 00:18:53,436 --> 00:18:57,571 We were called over to the house to see, um, 395 00:18:57,614 --> 00:19:00,313 a picture of Kendrick. 396 00:19:00,356 --> 00:19:01,531 When the lady went to put it, 397 00:19:01,575 --> 00:19:05,579 we seen that picture of KJ on the end there. 398 00:19:05,622 --> 00:19:11,411 That was the worst day of my life, like, oh my Lord. 399 00:19:11,454 --> 00:19:12,673 ♪ 400 00:19:12,716 --> 00:19:14,196 It felt like I was losing my mind 401 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,503 when I seen KJ disfigured like that, 402 00:19:16,546 --> 00:19:18,200 but I had to think 403 00:19:18,244 --> 00:19:19,897 that was just something they put out there 404 00:19:19,941 --> 00:19:21,508 and it just made me push a little bit harder 405 00:19:21,551 --> 00:19:23,249 for Kendrick. 406 00:19:23,292 --> 00:19:25,076 Yeah, you gave me this, and this is what I'm gonna do, 407 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:26,382 I'm gonna give it back to y'all. 408 00:19:26,426 --> 00:19:28,123 And every chance I get, 409 00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:30,169 I share that photo of what they did. 410 00:19:30,212 --> 00:19:33,868 I'll never let them forget that's my child right there. 411 00:19:33,911 --> 00:19:35,304 ♪ 412 00:19:35,348 --> 00:19:38,786 When the images of KJ were released to the public 413 00:19:38,829 --> 00:19:41,876 and his mother shared them over and over, 414 00:19:41,919 --> 00:19:44,705 many people connected what was happening 415 00:19:44,748 --> 00:19:47,534 to the story of Emmett Till. 416 00:19:47,577 --> 00:19:50,624 It was August 1955 417 00:19:50,667 --> 00:19:54,497 when the 14-year-old was sent to the South for the summer. 418 00:19:54,541 --> 00:19:56,369 One day on the street, 419 00:19:56,412 --> 00:20:00,460 a white woman created a terrible rumor about Emmett 420 00:20:00,503 --> 00:20:03,854 that he had touched her and tried to rape her. 421 00:20:03,898 --> 00:20:07,815 That night, the woman's husband and his friend 422 00:20:07,858 --> 00:20:10,818 went to Emmett's house in the middle of the night, 423 00:20:10,861 --> 00:20:14,648 dragged him out of bed, and then murdered him 424 00:20:14,691 --> 00:20:16,737 and left him for dead. 425 00:20:16,780 --> 00:20:21,220 Emmett's mother bravely decided to have an open casket 426 00:20:21,263 --> 00:20:25,702 and show the world what these two men did to her son. 427 00:20:25,746 --> 00:20:29,097 The two men were put on a very public trial 428 00:20:29,140 --> 00:20:33,884 and found not guilty by an all-white jury. 429 00:20:33,928 --> 00:20:37,714 The clear injustice and grotesque images 430 00:20:37,758 --> 00:20:40,282 of Emmett seen around the world 431 00:20:40,326 --> 00:20:43,503 became a tipping point for civil rights. 432 00:20:43,546 --> 00:20:45,983 White America could no longer ignore 433 00:20:46,027 --> 00:20:49,552 the ongoing terror of Black America. 434 00:20:49,596 --> 00:20:53,295 The release of Emmett's photos even today 435 00:20:53,339 --> 00:20:55,645 is seen as one of the most important moments 436 00:20:55,689 --> 00:20:58,039 in American history. 437 00:20:58,082 --> 00:21:00,868 And here's the sad kicker. 438 00:21:00,911 --> 00:21:04,828 Sixty years later, the lady finally admitted 439 00:21:04,872 --> 00:21:09,137 that Emmett didn't touch her and did nothing wrong. 440 00:21:09,180 --> 00:21:10,660 We've all heard the gory details, 441 00:21:10,704 --> 00:21:11,922 that he whistled at her, 442 00:21:11,966 --> 00:21:14,055 that he made a sexual advance towards her. 443 00:21:14,098 --> 00:21:17,624 And all these years later, she says what to you? 444 00:21:17,667 --> 00:21:22,368 She said, uh, with respect to the, um, 445 00:21:22,411 --> 00:21:25,022 it had been a physical assault on her 446 00:21:25,066 --> 00:21:26,633 or anything menacing or sexual, 447 00:21:26,676 --> 00:21:29,244 that that part isn't true. 448 00:21:29,288 --> 00:21:32,247 Lynchings in the South were such a regular 449 00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:34,423 and accepted part of the culture 450 00:21:34,467 --> 00:21:37,078 that they became public entertainment. 451 00:21:37,121 --> 00:21:39,863 Crowds would gather as if it were a parade 452 00:21:39,907 --> 00:21:42,083 or social gathering. 453 00:21:42,126 --> 00:21:45,478 They would bring their blankets and picnic lunches. 454 00:21:45,521 --> 00:21:48,829 As the gruesome event played out in front of them, 455 00:21:48,872 --> 00:21:52,180 the lynchers would make sure they put on a good show 456 00:21:52,223 --> 00:21:54,313 so the public wouldn't leave. 457 00:21:54,356 --> 00:21:56,140 They would drag out the torture 458 00:21:56,184 --> 00:21:58,404 to the crowd's delight. 459 00:21:58,447 --> 00:22:02,321 Once dead, the body would normally be burned, 460 00:22:02,364 --> 00:22:04,932 swinging over the children and dogs 461 00:22:04,975 --> 00:22:06,803 as they played below. 462 00:22:06,847 --> 00:22:08,370 ♪ 463 00:22:08,414 --> 00:22:10,720 And to capture the moment, 464 00:22:10,764 --> 00:22:15,116 souvenirs and postcards were created and sold. 465 00:22:15,159 --> 00:22:17,640 And these postcards can still be found 466 00:22:17,684 --> 00:22:20,164 in the homes of Southerners today. 467 00:22:20,208 --> 00:22:23,907 Some of the postcards tell you where to write 468 00:22:23,951 --> 00:22:26,257 and the discount you'll get 469 00:22:26,301 --> 00:22:29,696 if you buy one, 10, or a hundred. 470 00:22:29,739 --> 00:22:32,438 That man made 50,000 prints of that photo 471 00:22:32,481 --> 00:22:34,483 and sold them for 50 cents apiece 472 00:22:34,527 --> 00:22:37,486 before the governor of the state, uh, 473 00:22:37,530 --> 00:22:39,183 got him to stop printing. 474 00:22:39,227 --> 00:22:42,491 To illustrate how common and widely accepted 475 00:22:42,535 --> 00:22:46,408 youth lynching was in America before Emmett Till, 476 00:22:46,452 --> 00:22:48,758 all we need to do is look at the murder 477 00:22:48,802 --> 00:22:52,588 of Ernest Green and Charlie Lang. 478 00:22:52,632 --> 00:22:57,071 In 1942, the lynching of these two Black youths 479 00:22:57,114 --> 00:23:00,466 made big news because of the image of their bodies 480 00:23:00,509 --> 00:23:04,383 with the noose still around their necks. 481 00:23:04,426 --> 00:23:06,080 Just like Emmett, 482 00:23:06,123 --> 00:23:09,431 these two teens were also falsely accused 483 00:23:09,475 --> 00:23:12,608 of interactions with a white girl. 484 00:23:12,652 --> 00:23:14,349 They were thrown in jail, 485 00:23:14,393 --> 00:23:17,613 then taken from their cells by a white mob, 486 00:23:17,657 --> 00:23:20,311 then brought to a bridge nearby 487 00:23:20,355 --> 00:23:23,271 that was used so often for lynchings 488 00:23:23,314 --> 00:23:26,883 the town called it The Hanging Bridge. 489 00:23:26,927 --> 00:23:31,671 The New York Times was sent the images and the report, 490 00:23:31,714 --> 00:23:33,542 and they buried the story, 491 00:23:33,586 --> 00:23:35,979 refused to run the photo, 492 00:23:36,023 --> 00:23:38,721 and put it on page 24. 493 00:23:38,765 --> 00:23:40,810 This is a part of American history 494 00:23:40,854 --> 00:23:45,206 that most Americans still haven't dealt with. 495 00:23:45,249 --> 00:23:47,469 Its legacy lives on today 496 00:23:47,513 --> 00:23:50,472 with the nearly daily documentation 497 00:23:50,516 --> 00:23:54,911 of Black people killed for seemingly minor events, 498 00:23:54,955 --> 00:23:59,786 like selling cigarettes, walking in the street, 499 00:23:59,829 --> 00:24:03,572 playing with a toy gun, or wearing a hoodie. 500 00:24:03,616 --> 00:24:05,182 ♪ 501 00:24:05,226 --> 00:24:09,143 So when a 17-year-old is found dead, 502 00:24:09,186 --> 00:24:11,406 rolled up in a gym mat, 503 00:24:11,450 --> 00:24:15,279 with his death going unanswered by law enforcement, 504 00:24:15,323 --> 00:24:17,456 we have to remember that this incident 505 00:24:17,499 --> 00:24:19,588 didn't just happen in a bubble. 506 00:24:19,632 --> 00:24:24,071 It is connected to a long and ongoing history 507 00:24:24,114 --> 00:24:28,379 of devaluing Black lives in this country. 508 00:24:28,423 --> 00:24:30,599 They said, "We heading down to the corner." 509 00:24:30,643 --> 00:24:32,427 I said, "Well, what corner we going down to?" 510 00:24:32,471 --> 00:24:34,081 "Down to the corner, downtown." 511 00:24:34,124 --> 00:24:35,561 And from that day, 512 00:24:35,604 --> 00:24:38,781 my sister stayed down there on that corner. 513 00:24:38,825 --> 00:24:40,522 Sun up, sun down. 514 00:24:40,566 --> 00:24:42,481 Rain, hail, sleet, and snow. 515 00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:45,179 -No justice! -Supporters of Johnson's family 516 00:24:45,222 --> 00:24:47,703 have held rallies, alleging a coverup. 517 00:24:47,747 --> 00:24:50,010 They've demanded a federal investigation. 518 00:24:50,053 --> 00:24:51,533 Our family would get together every day 519 00:24:51,577 --> 00:24:53,927 and we went down to Lowndes County Courthouse 520 00:24:53,970 --> 00:24:56,712 and stood there and we asked, "What if this was your child? 521 00:24:56,756 --> 00:24:58,192 Who killed Kendrick?" 522 00:24:58,235 --> 00:25:00,150 -We're fired up! -Ready to go! 523 00:25:00,194 --> 00:25:01,674 Supporters for Kendrick's family 524 00:25:01,717 --> 00:25:04,677 are calling for a Department of Justice investigation. 525 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,679 -What do you want? -Justice! 526 00:25:06,722 --> 00:25:08,202 The Johnsons and their supporters 527 00:25:08,245 --> 00:25:11,466 now hope the FBI will get an answer to their question. 528 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:13,729 What happened to Kendrick Johnson? 529 00:25:13,773 --> 00:25:16,340 There was a major coverup going on 530 00:25:16,384 --> 00:25:18,517 and we want to expose that coverup. 531 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,562 For four days, Malika Mahogany 532 00:25:20,606 --> 00:25:22,346 and a dozen members of the community 533 00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:26,176 walked 17 miles a day from Atlanta to Valdosta 534 00:25:26,220 --> 00:25:29,615 to symbolize the 17 years of Kendrick Johnson's life. 535 00:25:29,658 --> 00:25:31,617 I actually wanted to come here 536 00:25:31,660 --> 00:25:33,227 and present them with demands. 537 00:25:33,270 --> 00:25:34,533 They won't allow us to. 538 00:25:34,576 --> 00:25:36,622 When protestors got to Lowndes High School, 539 00:25:36,665 --> 00:25:39,450 they were greeted by the Lowndes County Sherriff's Department, 540 00:25:39,494 --> 00:25:42,192 -including the sheriff. -If they want to address 541 00:25:42,236 --> 00:25:44,499 anything to do with Kendrick Johnson, 542 00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:46,501 in this case, they can address it by U.S. mail. 543 00:25:46,545 --> 00:25:48,068 According to the sheriff, 544 00:25:48,111 --> 00:25:50,461 the school did not want any letters from the protestors 545 00:25:50,505 --> 00:25:53,247 and asked that they be kept off school property. 546 00:25:53,290 --> 00:25:55,162 How would you feel if your son went to school 547 00:25:55,205 --> 00:25:58,644 and never came home, never returned home? 548 00:25:58,687 --> 00:26:00,384 And then the next day you found out 549 00:26:00,428 --> 00:26:02,299 he was rolled up in a gym mat. 550 00:26:02,343 --> 00:26:07,174 My thing is to let people know that they have a voice. 551 00:26:07,217 --> 00:26:08,654 They don't have to be silent. 552 00:26:08,697 --> 00:26:10,830 They don't have to be scared to fight no more. 553 00:26:10,873 --> 00:26:12,614 They can speak out. 554 00:26:12,658 --> 00:26:14,834 One lady said, "You guys need to get a job." 555 00:26:14,877 --> 00:26:17,793 I said, "I got two!" 556 00:26:17,837 --> 00:26:19,621 Yeah, we got a job, 557 00:26:19,665 --> 00:26:21,231 but this is also our job too, 558 00:26:21,275 --> 00:26:22,972 so don't get it twisted. 559 00:26:23,016 --> 00:26:26,628 On Facebook, Johnson's father posted this picture of himself, 560 00:26:26,672 --> 00:26:29,892 wondering how anyone could squeeze into a gym mat. 561 00:26:29,936 --> 00:26:31,851 Supporters from around the world writing, 562 00:26:31,894 --> 00:26:33,069 "I smell a cover up," 563 00:26:33,113 --> 00:26:35,158 and, "This case makes no sense." 564 00:26:35,202 --> 00:26:40,642 I've never met anybody as strong as she is in my life. 565 00:26:40,686 --> 00:26:44,472 I have never met someone like her. 566 00:26:44,515 --> 00:26:46,300 It's just unbelievable. 567 00:26:46,343 --> 00:26:47,344 I mean... 568 00:26:47,388 --> 00:26:49,477 ♪ 569 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:50,696 [exhales] 570 00:26:50,739 --> 00:26:52,132 ♪ 571 00:26:52,175 --> 00:26:53,873 They killed the wrong child this time. 572 00:26:53,916 --> 00:26:55,962 We ain't goin' nowhere. 573 00:26:56,005 --> 00:26:57,050 Nowhere. 574 00:26:57,093 --> 00:26:58,660 My baby's life matter. 575 00:26:58,704 --> 00:27:00,880 -We want justice! -Hundreds have rallied 576 00:27:00,923 --> 00:27:03,883 for a federal investigation and the Department of Justice 577 00:27:03,926 --> 00:27:05,624 is reviewing the case. 578 00:27:05,667 --> 00:27:07,800 No matter who you are, 579 00:27:07,843 --> 00:27:10,498 how much money your parents have, 580 00:27:10,541 --> 00:27:11,978 the color of your skin, 581 00:27:12,021 --> 00:27:14,633 everyone deserves justice. Everyone. 582 00:27:14,676 --> 00:27:17,636 Seven of us even took it upon ourselves 583 00:27:17,679 --> 00:27:20,682 to get--bring more awareness, and we went to jail, 584 00:27:20,726 --> 00:27:23,467 we stood and blocked the courthouse doors 585 00:27:23,511 --> 00:27:25,687 and would not let anybody in. 586 00:27:25,731 --> 00:27:26,732 ♪ 587 00:27:26,775 --> 00:27:28,995 This is the mother and the father 588 00:27:29,038 --> 00:27:31,388 of Kendrick Johnson. 589 00:27:31,432 --> 00:27:33,129 They are marching to... 590 00:27:33,173 --> 00:27:35,697 ♪ Turn me 'round, turn me 'round ♪ 591 00:27:35,741 --> 00:27:38,744 ...Lowndes County Judicial Building. 592 00:27:38,787 --> 00:27:40,702 ♪ Turn me 'round ♪ 593 00:27:40,746 --> 00:27:42,617 This is not a game, this is serious business. 594 00:27:42,661 --> 00:27:47,796 ♪ Keep on walkin', walkin' on a freedom walk ♪ 595 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,234 I was thinking, I was like, "I could lose my job. 596 00:27:51,278 --> 00:27:53,062 Um, people will be upset with me about this." 597 00:27:53,106 --> 00:27:54,585 But then I thought about it. 598 00:27:54,629 --> 00:27:57,327 This is my sister, this is my nephew. 599 00:27:57,371 --> 00:27:59,329 So we had to make some noise. 600 00:27:59,373 --> 00:28:01,984 So, civil disobedience. 601 00:28:02,028 --> 00:28:05,335 We went there with a sole purpose 602 00:28:05,379 --> 00:28:09,949 of bringing some attention to what was really going on, 603 00:28:09,992 --> 00:28:11,559 some national attention. 604 00:28:11,602 --> 00:28:13,213 Went right up to the front of the courthouse door 605 00:28:13,256 --> 00:28:15,128 with locked arms. 606 00:28:15,171 --> 00:28:17,217 Wouldn't let nobody in. 607 00:28:17,260 --> 00:28:20,568 And, uh, they're trying to get out, 608 00:28:20,611 --> 00:28:22,483 you know, and try to break us apart. 609 00:28:22,526 --> 00:28:24,790 Then you see people trying to go in, 610 00:28:24,833 --> 00:28:26,574 trying to go in the building, 611 00:28:26,617 --> 00:28:29,708 and they couldn't go in because Jackie wouldn't move. 612 00:28:29,751 --> 00:28:31,057 Nobody would move. 613 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:32,798 And that thing just did something to me, 614 00:28:32,841 --> 00:28:34,364 and I was like, "Okay." 615 00:28:34,408 --> 00:28:36,018 So then I saw the police officers, 616 00:28:36,062 --> 00:28:37,324 the sheriffs, the deputies come out. 617 00:28:37,367 --> 00:28:38,804 They was pullin' and tuggin' 618 00:28:38,847 --> 00:28:40,762 and just bein' real rough. 619 00:28:40,806 --> 00:28:42,851 [chanting] 620 00:28:42,895 --> 00:28:44,374 Okay, you understand you can let go 621 00:28:44,418 --> 00:28:47,247 or you're gonna be arrested, Jackie. 622 00:28:47,290 --> 00:28:48,727 Is that what you're wanting to do? 623 00:28:48,770 --> 00:28:53,557 ♪ Keep on walkin', walkin' to freedom land ♪ 624 00:28:53,601 --> 00:28:55,037 [chanting continues] 625 00:28:55,081 --> 00:28:57,387 Cameras are watchin', cameras are watchin'. 626 00:28:57,431 --> 00:29:00,260 [chanting continues] 627 00:29:00,303 --> 00:29:02,523 You can't drag his mother. 628 00:29:02,566 --> 00:29:05,308 You cannot drag his mother and father, sir. 629 00:29:05,352 --> 00:29:07,746 Let him off, let him off, let him off. 630 00:29:07,789 --> 00:29:09,138 Go willingly, go willingly, 631 00:29:09,182 --> 00:29:11,575 -go willingly. -Let him off, let him off. 632 00:29:11,619 --> 00:29:14,491 -Thank you. -Come on in, please. 633 00:29:14,535 --> 00:29:16,972 [chanting continues] 634 00:29:17,016 --> 00:29:19,322 ♪ 635 00:29:19,366 --> 00:29:21,542 They got Keisha, then they got me. 636 00:29:21,585 --> 00:29:22,891 And they told me, 637 00:29:22,935 --> 00:29:25,415 "You want everybody to go to jail out there?" 638 00:29:25,459 --> 00:29:26,677 They are taking them into custody, 639 00:29:26,721 --> 00:29:27,940 they are taking 'em away from my sight. 640 00:29:27,983 --> 00:29:29,768 They have not put 'em in handcuffs, 641 00:29:29,811 --> 00:29:31,857 but they're taking them to the back. 642 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:34,511 I said, "Man, y'all gotta do what y'all gotta do today 643 00:29:34,555 --> 00:29:36,339 because we ain't goin' nowhere." 644 00:29:36,383 --> 00:29:38,211 But my sister was standing up there by herself 645 00:29:38,254 --> 00:29:40,822 and I was standing right down on the steps watching her. 646 00:29:40,866 --> 00:29:42,781 'Cause I was saying, "If anything pop off, 647 00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:45,261 then, yep, I'm going to jail for that." 648 00:29:45,305 --> 00:29:47,002 But then I thought about it. 649 00:29:47,046 --> 00:29:51,224 Somebody fought for us back in the days, 650 00:29:51,267 --> 00:29:53,400 back in the '50s, '60s, you know, 651 00:29:53,443 --> 00:29:55,141 so somebody fought for us. 652 00:29:55,184 --> 00:29:56,838 Somebody stood up. 653 00:29:56,882 --> 00:29:58,666 If we don't stand up for ourselves 654 00:29:58,709 --> 00:29:59,841 then nobody else will. 655 00:29:59,885 --> 00:30:01,277 I said, "I don't know what--" 656 00:30:01,321 --> 00:30:02,539 I said, "I don't know what I'm doin'," I said, 657 00:30:02,583 --> 00:30:04,150 "but I'm finna go, I'm gonna go up there." 658 00:30:04,193 --> 00:30:05,368 I said, "I gotta stand up there with her. 659 00:30:05,412 --> 00:30:07,153 I can't leave her hanging by herself." 660 00:30:07,196 --> 00:30:08,894 And I went up there and I stood with her. 661 00:30:08,937 --> 00:30:12,027 So, um, they moved us from the outside to the inside 662 00:30:12,071 --> 00:30:14,160 and we blocked the scanners. 663 00:30:14,203 --> 00:30:16,553 I want everybody to see you taking his mother. 664 00:30:16,597 --> 00:30:20,209 Yes, the mother of the man that was slain 665 00:30:20,253 --> 00:30:21,515 at Lowndes County High School. 666 00:30:21,558 --> 00:30:22,864 And waiting for answers. 667 00:30:22,908 --> 00:30:25,388 [indistinct remarks] 668 00:30:25,432 --> 00:30:26,433 ♪ 669 00:30:26,476 --> 00:30:27,434 A mother! 670 00:30:27,477 --> 00:30:28,696 ♪ 671 00:30:28,739 --> 00:30:29,784 A mother! 672 00:30:29,828 --> 00:30:31,264 ♪ 673 00:30:31,307 --> 00:30:33,832 [indistinct remarks] 674 00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:35,050 This is serious. 675 00:30:35,094 --> 00:30:36,922 -A grandmother! -This is not a game. 676 00:30:36,965 --> 00:30:38,967 [shouting] 677 00:30:39,011 --> 00:30:41,840 And we took, I think, about three steps. 678 00:30:41,883 --> 00:30:43,537 And when we took that last step, 679 00:30:43,580 --> 00:30:45,060 that one deputy, 680 00:30:45,104 --> 00:30:47,019 he pulled my sister and twisted her arm. 681 00:30:47,062 --> 00:30:49,760 And it was like chaos. 682 00:30:49,804 --> 00:30:51,588 They took us and they rushed us to the back. 683 00:30:51,632 --> 00:30:54,113 Don't--no resist, no resist! 684 00:30:54,156 --> 00:30:58,247 Drop! Drop! Drop! Drop! 685 00:30:58,291 --> 00:30:59,379 Drop to the floor! 686 00:30:59,422 --> 00:31:01,511 No justice! No peace! 687 00:31:01,555 --> 00:31:03,513 This is Lowndes County, Georgia, 688 00:31:03,557 --> 00:31:04,775 Valdosta, 689 00:31:04,819 --> 00:31:06,603 Title Town, USA. 690 00:31:06,647 --> 00:31:08,388 Home of Moody Air Force Base, 691 00:31:08,431 --> 00:31:09,389 Cypress Lake. 692 00:31:09,432 --> 00:31:11,391 This is where we live. 693 00:31:11,434 --> 00:31:13,697 Yesterday, the family and friends of Kendrick Johnson 694 00:31:13,741 --> 00:31:16,222 protested in front of the Lowndes County Courthouse, 695 00:31:16,265 --> 00:31:19,703 and they were protesting because there was no information 696 00:31:19,747 --> 00:31:20,791 about Kendrick Johnson. 697 00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:22,184 Now, the protesters were arrested, 698 00:31:22,228 --> 00:31:23,577 and the protesters who were arrested 699 00:31:23,620 --> 00:31:25,579 were Kendrick's father and mother, 700 00:31:25,622 --> 00:31:27,233 Jacqueline and Kenneth Johnson. 701 00:31:27,276 --> 00:31:30,105 Now they have all been charged with misdemeanor interference 702 00:31:30,149 --> 00:31:31,411 with government property. 703 00:31:31,454 --> 00:31:34,805 And tonight, Jackie Johnson is out on bail. 704 00:31:34,849 --> 00:31:37,591 The white man is running everything here. 705 00:31:37,634 --> 00:31:39,201 As long as it's not a white person 706 00:31:39,245 --> 00:31:41,160 getting killed or shot up, 707 00:31:41,203 --> 00:31:43,902 they do not care in this city. 708 00:31:43,945 --> 00:31:45,381 Well, the history of Valdosta, 709 00:31:45,425 --> 00:31:47,818 it's always been this racist town. 710 00:31:47,862 --> 00:31:51,518 Two people, Black and the white person do the same thing. 711 00:31:51,561 --> 00:31:54,782 White person goes, gets sent home. 712 00:31:54,825 --> 00:31:56,653 Black person in jail. 713 00:31:56,697 --> 00:31:57,916 Every time you want to say something, 714 00:31:57,959 --> 00:31:59,352 they snatch that chain. 715 00:31:59,395 --> 00:32:01,702 That means be quiet. 716 00:32:01,745 --> 00:32:03,399 And what do a lot of them do 717 00:32:03,443 --> 00:32:06,141 here in this town that I know of? 718 00:32:06,185 --> 00:32:08,230 A lot of them be quiet. 719 00:32:08,274 --> 00:32:10,319 People can't say what they want to say. 720 00:32:10,363 --> 00:32:14,323 Customers not wanting, you know, Black people to wait on 'em. 721 00:32:14,367 --> 00:32:19,459 I've experienced that several times over the years 722 00:32:19,502 --> 00:32:21,765 and still experience it today. 723 00:32:21,809 --> 00:32:23,115 And it's just sad, 724 00:32:23,158 --> 00:32:26,248 but that's just the way it is here in Valdosta. 725 00:32:26,292 --> 00:32:28,337 ♪ 726 00:32:28,381 --> 00:32:32,167 When the news broke of this death from Atlanta, 727 00:32:32,211 --> 00:32:35,997 like many in America, we thought it was near Atlanta. 728 00:32:36,041 --> 00:32:38,391 But after doing some research, 729 00:32:38,434 --> 00:32:42,134 we quickly realized that Valdosta and Atlanta 730 00:32:42,177 --> 00:32:44,701 are two separate worlds. 731 00:32:44,745 --> 00:32:47,966 Valdosta is the Deep South, 732 00:32:48,009 --> 00:32:50,577 very close to the Florida Panhandle, 733 00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:54,407 a place where Confederate flags still fly high and proud 734 00:32:54,450 --> 00:32:59,064 alongside statues of Confederate leaders. 735 00:32:59,107 --> 00:33:02,415 The roots of racism run deep here. 736 00:33:02,458 --> 00:33:05,809 Lowndes County, where Valdosta is, 737 00:33:05,853 --> 00:33:08,769 became famous in the early 1900s 738 00:33:08,812 --> 00:33:11,772 for one of the most heinous acts of lynching 739 00:33:11,815 --> 00:33:13,948 in the history of our country. 740 00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:18,431 Mary Turner's baby was cut out her stomach, 741 00:33:18,474 --> 00:33:20,824 the white man cut it out her stomach, 742 00:33:20,868 --> 00:33:23,349 and the baby fell to the ground while she was hanging 743 00:33:23,392 --> 00:33:24,698 and he stomped her. 744 00:33:24,741 --> 00:33:28,528 In 1918, Mary Turner and her baby 745 00:33:28,571 --> 00:33:31,922 were brutally killed here in Lowndes County, 746 00:33:31,966 --> 00:33:35,404 and their story became worldwide news. 747 00:33:35,448 --> 00:33:38,407 Mary's husband had been lynched 748 00:33:38,451 --> 00:33:40,844 and she had spoken out against it. 749 00:33:40,888 --> 00:33:42,977 For speaking her truth, 750 00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:46,459 an angry, racist mob tracked her down. 751 00:33:46,502 --> 00:33:50,637 They tied her up, cut her stomach out, 752 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:55,903 ripped her baby out, and stomped on the baby's head. 753 00:33:55,946 --> 00:33:58,906 Then they lynched Mary. 754 00:33:58,949 --> 00:34:01,691 These are the stories of this region, 755 00:34:01,735 --> 00:34:03,345 and when you look closely 756 00:34:03,389 --> 00:34:05,826 you find the history of Valdosta 757 00:34:05,869 --> 00:34:10,091 and the history of racism in this country go hand-in-hand. 758 00:34:10,135 --> 00:34:14,095 Valdosta was originally created because the railroad company 759 00:34:14,139 --> 00:34:16,750 was building across Southern Georgia. 760 00:34:16,793 --> 00:34:19,840 There was no city where the stop would be, 761 00:34:19,883 --> 00:34:22,103 so they put one there and named it 762 00:34:22,147 --> 00:34:26,629 after the governor's plantation where he kept all his slaves. 763 00:34:26,673 --> 00:34:28,762 Due to the railroad stop, 764 00:34:28,805 --> 00:34:31,808 Valdosta became a central hub of commerce 765 00:34:31,852 --> 00:34:35,682 to trading food, goods, services, 766 00:34:35,725 --> 00:34:38,250 and, of course, slaves. 767 00:34:38,293 --> 00:34:40,861 Shortly after the Civil War, 768 00:34:40,904 --> 00:34:45,866 an event called The Clift Affair made big news. 769 00:34:45,909 --> 00:34:49,565 A republican politician by the name of Clift 770 00:34:49,609 --> 00:34:52,873 was garnering support of freed slaves 771 00:34:52,916 --> 00:34:56,964 by speaking out against white supremacy. 772 00:34:57,007 --> 00:35:00,010 This angered the whites of Valdosta. 773 00:35:00,054 --> 00:35:02,056 So on the day of the event, 774 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:06,060 the local KKK chapter set five bombs 775 00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:07,975 to go off in the crowd, 776 00:35:08,018 --> 00:35:09,890 but one went off. 777 00:35:09,933 --> 00:35:11,457 No one was hurt, 778 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,981 but the news of the attempted bombing 779 00:35:14,024 --> 00:35:15,896 reached far and wide, 780 00:35:15,939 --> 00:35:18,638 and Valdosta was at the center of it. 781 00:35:18,681 --> 00:35:21,684 Valdosta made worldwide news once again 782 00:35:21,728 --> 00:35:27,342 because of their horrible killing in 1918 of Mary Turner. 783 00:35:27,386 --> 00:35:30,998 In 1922, this now famous group shot 784 00:35:31,041 --> 00:35:34,915 of the Valdosta KKK chapter was released. 785 00:35:34,958 --> 00:35:39,180 And in 2018, workers at the local Jimmy John's 786 00:35:39,224 --> 00:35:42,923 made news when a video surfaced online 787 00:35:42,966 --> 00:35:47,841 of them playing with a KKK outfit inside the store. 788 00:35:47,884 --> 00:35:50,539 And on the anniversary of Mary Turner's death, 789 00:35:50,583 --> 00:35:53,977 her memorial was shot up with bullets. 790 00:35:54,021 --> 00:35:57,677 Although Black Americans are the majority of the town, 791 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:01,202 making up more than 50% of the population, 792 00:36:01,246 --> 00:36:03,813 political power is still concentrated 793 00:36:03,857 --> 00:36:05,902 in the hands of the whites. 794 00:36:05,946 --> 00:36:10,907 This minority wills its control with a vice-like grip 795 00:36:10,951 --> 00:36:12,735 that keeps the Black majority 796 00:36:12,779 --> 00:36:16,522 under a constant state of terror. 797 00:36:16,565 --> 00:36:19,002 They did what we wanted them to do, 798 00:36:19,046 --> 00:36:20,178 arrested us. 799 00:36:20,221 --> 00:36:21,788 That was gonna bring a lot of attention 800 00:36:21,831 --> 00:36:23,964 to what was going on, and it did. 801 00:36:24,007 --> 00:36:25,618 We got what we wanted. 802 00:36:25,661 --> 00:36:27,489 We got the attention that we wanted. 803 00:36:27,533 --> 00:36:29,665 ♪ 804 00:36:29,709 --> 00:36:31,928 Part of the problem the family had 805 00:36:31,972 --> 00:36:33,887 with the sheriff's department 806 00:36:33,930 --> 00:36:37,369 was the way they actually investigated the crime, 807 00:36:37,412 --> 00:36:42,112 or rather the way they didn't investigate. 808 00:36:42,156 --> 00:36:44,332 The coroner even said that, 809 00:36:44,376 --> 00:36:46,247 "If y'all unrolled him, 810 00:36:46,291 --> 00:36:49,511 why did you all re-roll him up again in the mat?" 811 00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:50,904 Trying to position him in the way 812 00:36:50,947 --> 00:36:53,298 they wanted him to be positioned. 813 00:36:53,341 --> 00:36:55,343 -For the photograph. -For the photograph. 814 00:36:55,387 --> 00:36:57,737 But always--you're gonna always miss something. 815 00:36:57,780 --> 00:37:00,000 Coroner Bill Watson was called to the scene 816 00:37:00,043 --> 00:37:02,611 five hours after detectives had arrived, 817 00:37:02,655 --> 00:37:04,918 although Georgia law requires investigators 818 00:37:04,961 --> 00:37:08,487 to call the coroner as soon as a body is found. 819 00:37:08,530 --> 00:37:11,054 The body had been moved. 820 00:37:11,098 --> 00:37:14,667 The scene, in my opinion, had been compromised. 821 00:37:14,710 --> 00:37:16,495 It's a very time-consuming process 822 00:37:16,538 --> 00:37:19,149 to basically work your way from the outside in. 823 00:37:19,193 --> 00:37:22,109 Once our investigators got to the deceased, 824 00:37:22,152 --> 00:37:24,154 the coroner was contacted immediately. 825 00:37:24,198 --> 00:37:26,418 We also received an email from him 826 00:37:26,461 --> 00:37:28,507 a few days after our interview on camera 827 00:37:28,550 --> 00:37:29,769 in which he told us that. 828 00:37:29,812 --> 00:37:31,379 I want to put up part of the email, Anderson. 829 00:37:31,423 --> 00:37:32,815 And he writes in that email: 830 00:37:41,563 --> 00:37:45,088 Several key pieces of evidence at the scene 831 00:37:45,132 --> 00:37:48,701 have a number of strange inconsistencies. 832 00:37:48,744 --> 00:37:52,313 The first pieces of evidence that don't make sense 833 00:37:52,357 --> 00:37:54,533 are all the sneakers in the gym, 834 00:37:54,576 --> 00:37:58,188 specifically three pairs catch our attention. 835 00:37:58,232 --> 00:37:59,494 The first pair, 836 00:37:59,538 --> 00:38:02,889 black sneakers with orange laces that were found, 837 00:38:02,932 --> 00:38:04,499 were not even KJ's. 838 00:38:04,543 --> 00:38:07,067 However, they appeared to have blood on them. 839 00:38:07,110 --> 00:38:08,634 They found another pair of tennis shoes 840 00:38:08,677 --> 00:38:10,810 at the crime scene, they didn't take 'em. 841 00:38:10,853 --> 00:38:12,986 They found blood on the wall in the gym, 842 00:38:13,029 --> 00:38:15,336 -they didn't test it. -Orange and black gym shoes 843 00:38:15,380 --> 00:38:18,687 investigators found just yards from Kendrick's body. 844 00:38:18,731 --> 00:38:21,124 But investigators say tests show the stains 845 00:38:21,168 --> 00:38:22,996 are something other than blood, 846 00:38:23,039 --> 00:38:26,608 so the shoes were not collected as potential evidence. 847 00:38:26,652 --> 00:38:28,349 If you were on this scene, 848 00:38:28,393 --> 00:38:30,873 would this have been something you would have left? 849 00:38:30,917 --> 00:38:32,701 No, bag and tag. 850 00:38:32,745 --> 00:38:37,315 The second two pairs of sneakers in the gym were KJ's, 851 00:38:37,358 --> 00:38:39,491 but their placement and condition 852 00:38:39,534 --> 00:38:41,536 tell a story that is very different 853 00:38:41,580 --> 00:38:44,539 than the official cause of death given. 854 00:38:44,583 --> 00:38:46,149 The shoes that were under his head 855 00:38:46,193 --> 00:38:48,891 was the shoes that he always changed in. 856 00:38:48,935 --> 00:38:52,678 But the shoes that were threw in behind him 857 00:38:52,721 --> 00:38:54,244 were the tennis shoes that he had on, 858 00:38:54,288 --> 00:38:56,595 the Griffin tennis shoes that were his, 859 00:38:56,638 --> 00:38:58,379 what he wore in the gym. 860 00:38:58,423 --> 00:39:00,294 Kendrick had vomited and everything. 861 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:02,252 They got pictures and everything 862 00:39:02,296 --> 00:39:03,863 of the vomit and the blood. 863 00:39:03,906 --> 00:39:06,518 But where's the blood on the tennis shoe? 864 00:39:06,561 --> 00:39:08,520 And where's the vomit on the tennis shoe? 865 00:39:08,563 --> 00:39:10,739 ♪ 866 00:39:10,783 --> 00:39:13,220 -Why didn't he have shoes on? -It was like Kendrick 867 00:39:13,263 --> 00:39:15,657 was lying down flat somewhere, the mat was-- 868 00:39:15,701 --> 00:39:18,573 as they rolled him up, they threw those shoes 869 00:39:18,617 --> 00:39:20,009 and then they rolled the mat on up, 870 00:39:20,053 --> 00:39:21,446 because Kendrick's legs are twisted. 871 00:39:21,489 --> 00:39:23,317 You go down in a mat trying to get something, 872 00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:27,190 you're not gonna twist your legs up in a mat going down. 873 00:39:27,234 --> 00:39:28,931 If he was reaching for the shoe, 874 00:39:28,975 --> 00:39:32,718 why is it on top of him if he's reaching for it? 875 00:39:32,761 --> 00:39:33,936 In statements released 876 00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:35,416 by Lowndes County Sherriff's Office, 877 00:39:35,460 --> 00:39:37,810 students wrote, "We always leave our shoes 878 00:39:37,853 --> 00:39:39,725 inside the mats during class, 879 00:39:39,768 --> 00:39:43,163 but to retrieve the shoes we tilt the mats over 880 00:39:43,206 --> 00:39:45,295 and get the shoes from the bottom." 881 00:39:45,339 --> 00:39:49,648 The shoes are never actually inside the mat. 882 00:39:49,691 --> 00:39:51,171 When you put your shoes in there, 883 00:39:51,214 --> 00:39:52,912 you toss 'em over the mats, because there's like, 884 00:39:52,955 --> 00:39:55,958 probably, like, I wanna say six or seven other mats. 885 00:39:56,002 --> 00:39:59,266 And there's a whole area behind it where there's no mat. 886 00:39:59,309 --> 00:40:00,746 You don't climb over the mats. 887 00:40:00,789 --> 00:40:02,661 All you do is move this mat out of the way, 888 00:40:02,704 --> 00:40:05,446 you go and get your shoes, and you come back around. 889 00:40:05,490 --> 00:40:06,969 That's how everybody does it. 890 00:40:07,013 --> 00:40:10,495 When they said he climbed inside the mat to get the shoes, 891 00:40:10,538 --> 00:40:12,105 I already knew that was a lie. 892 00:40:12,148 --> 00:40:13,715 You can't get inside the mat 893 00:40:13,759 --> 00:40:16,588 because it's wrapped tight and the hole is but so big. 894 00:40:16,631 --> 00:40:21,462 The medical examiner explained that more than likely 895 00:40:21,506 --> 00:40:25,466 he threw the shoe-- the shoes down in the mat, 896 00:40:25,510 --> 00:40:28,643 more than likely he tried to retrieve his shoes 897 00:40:28,687 --> 00:40:31,646 in the mat and got stuck. 898 00:40:31,690 --> 00:40:36,695 The mat is--is most definitely deeper than--than my height, 899 00:40:36,738 --> 00:40:38,827 so how am I gonna get back out? 900 00:40:38,871 --> 00:40:41,395 Why I just can't knock the mat over to get my shoes? 901 00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:42,614 And what did she say? 902 00:40:42,657 --> 00:40:45,573 She said, "Well, based on--" 903 00:40:45,617 --> 00:40:49,664 based on what was told to her on what kids would normally do, 904 00:40:49,708 --> 00:40:51,666 that they would throw their shoes in the mat 905 00:40:51,710 --> 00:40:55,104 and they would go down in the mat while the mats are up 906 00:40:55,148 --> 00:40:57,280 to get--to retrieve the shoes. 907 00:40:57,324 --> 00:40:58,368 Well, I'm like, "Well, how many other kids 908 00:40:58,412 --> 00:40:59,935 have died doing that?" 909 00:40:59,979 --> 00:41:01,807 And I told her, I said, "You have not given me 910 00:41:01,850 --> 00:41:05,898 one fact yet about how he died." 911 00:41:05,941 --> 00:41:08,770 Because once--once you make a ruling accidental, 912 00:41:08,814 --> 00:41:11,599 then all investigative purposes basically stop 913 00:41:11,643 --> 00:41:13,732 because you done made your ruling this was an accident, 914 00:41:13,775 --> 00:41:15,516 so therefore nothing else is gonna be done. 915 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,127 Based on my experience and all the doctors I've worked with, 916 00:41:18,171 --> 00:41:23,959 they made their decisions based on facts, no theories. 917 00:41:24,003 --> 00:41:26,266 Had you ever experienced that before in your career? 918 00:41:26,309 --> 00:41:28,311 No, never, and I've been-- 919 00:41:28,355 --> 00:41:30,531 I've investigated homicides for 23 years. 920 00:41:30,575 --> 00:41:33,012 I've never had a doctor tell me 921 00:41:33,055 --> 00:41:36,450 based on their theory they gonna make a ruling. 922 00:41:36,494 --> 00:41:40,454 Just for me to hear her say "theory" 923 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:41,803 sort of got to me 924 00:41:41,847 --> 00:41:44,980 because I've been to a lot of autopsies, 925 00:41:45,024 --> 00:41:49,202 and, um, if they were not facts, a ruling was not made. 926 00:41:49,245 --> 00:41:50,856 Because if doctors are not sure, 927 00:41:50,899 --> 00:41:52,640 they normally leave it undetermined. 928 00:41:52,684 --> 00:41:55,338 Cases can be left undetermined for years. 929 00:41:55,382 --> 00:41:58,559 They also found a hoodie that was not KJ's 930 00:41:58,603 --> 00:42:01,562 but appeared to maybe have blood on it as well. 931 00:42:01,606 --> 00:42:02,955 Look real close, 932 00:42:02,998 --> 00:42:05,914 there's something on this particular cuff. 933 00:42:05,958 --> 00:42:10,049 And then the question is: Was it blood? Did you test it? 934 00:42:10,092 --> 00:42:13,139 According to the crime lab report: no. 935 00:42:13,182 --> 00:42:16,359 The last piece of evidence that is glaring 936 00:42:16,403 --> 00:42:19,014 is all the blood found on the wall. 937 00:42:19,058 --> 00:42:21,234 Here's what Lowndes County Lieutenant Stryde Jones 938 00:42:21,277 --> 00:42:23,497 told CNN about that wall in May. 939 00:42:23,541 --> 00:42:25,064 And we tested it and it was blood. 940 00:42:25,107 --> 00:42:27,066 And then we did DNA testing and it was not the blood 941 00:42:27,109 --> 00:42:28,633 of Kendrick Johnson. 942 00:42:28,676 --> 00:42:31,853 If it wasn't Kendrick's blood, whose blood was it? 943 00:42:31,897 --> 00:42:34,726 Did you ever find out who it was or any involved-- 944 00:42:34,769 --> 00:42:36,771 No, as of now, we haven't, no, 945 00:42:36,815 --> 00:42:38,381 but it doesn't appear to be related to our crime 946 00:42:38,425 --> 00:42:40,601 -in any way. -There's one, two, 947 00:42:40,645 --> 00:42:43,430 three, four, five six. 948 00:42:43,473 --> 00:42:44,605 Six impacts. 949 00:42:44,649 --> 00:42:47,129 But beyond all this evidence, 950 00:42:47,173 --> 00:42:50,568 the shoes, the blood, the position of the body, 951 00:42:50,611 --> 00:42:52,961 there's still one bit of evidence 952 00:42:53,005 --> 00:42:55,094 that was unquestionable. 953 00:42:55,137 --> 00:42:57,836 The closed-circuit TV cameras. 954 00:42:57,879 --> 00:43:00,708 At least they should have been unquestionable, 955 00:43:00,752 --> 00:43:03,189 but as with most evidence in this case, 956 00:43:03,232 --> 00:43:05,931 there seems to be issues. 957 00:43:05,974 --> 00:43:09,587 FBI agents will be at Lowndes High School, likely today, 958 00:43:09,630 --> 00:43:12,807 to seize the hard drives from the surveillance system 959 00:43:12,851 --> 00:43:15,854 -at Lowndes High School. -I saw... 960 00:43:15,897 --> 00:43:19,118 Kendrick walking in the gym. 961 00:43:19,161 --> 00:43:21,250 Then, all of a sudden, he's gone. 962 00:43:21,294 --> 00:43:24,602 There is hole of time where none of the cameras 963 00:43:24,645 --> 00:43:27,953 provide any record that--that I've been provided. 964 00:43:27,996 --> 00:43:32,131 But there was, like, seconds missing from the tape. 965 00:43:32,174 --> 00:43:35,830 And that really sort of-- 966 00:43:35,874 --> 00:43:37,440 sort of got me thinking like, 967 00:43:37,484 --> 00:43:39,094 "Hold on for a minute. 968 00:43:39,138 --> 00:43:40,922 Am I the only one that noticed this?" 969 00:43:40,966 --> 00:43:43,229 And I was just disturbed on 970 00:43:43,272 --> 00:43:46,232 why is there seconds missing? 971 00:43:46,275 --> 00:43:49,496 There are four cameras in the gym that records motion 972 00:43:49,539 --> 00:43:51,454 from when the lights turn on in the morning 973 00:43:51,498 --> 00:43:53,413 until when the lights are turned off at night, 974 00:43:53,456 --> 00:43:55,371 except for the area of interest. 975 00:43:55,415 --> 00:43:58,984 The moments before Kendrick Johnson enters the gym. 976 00:43:59,027 --> 00:44:00,594 Look at what happens to the recordings 977 00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:02,814 from these four cameras in the gym. 978 00:44:02,857 --> 00:44:05,991 The time is recorded with the video. 979 00:44:06,034 --> 00:44:07,645 The first camera captures images 980 00:44:07,688 --> 00:44:10,822 from the start of the day until 12:04 PM. 981 00:44:10,865 --> 00:44:12,345 Then, nothing. 982 00:44:12,388 --> 00:44:15,348 And picks up again at 1:09 PM. 983 00:44:15,391 --> 00:44:16,654 There's consistent surveillance 984 00:44:16,697 --> 00:44:19,700 from the second camera until 11:05 AM, 985 00:44:19,744 --> 00:44:21,876 then it stops and picks up again 986 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,793 more than two hours later at 1:15 PM. 987 00:44:25,837 --> 00:44:28,666 The third camera also drops at 11:05 AM. 988 00:44:28,709 --> 00:44:31,799 It picks up again at 1:16 PM. 989 00:44:31,843 --> 00:44:33,496 And from the final camera, 990 00:44:33,540 --> 00:44:36,369 there's surveillance until 12:04 PM, 991 00:44:36,412 --> 00:44:38,719 no recording for more than an hour, 992 00:44:38,763 --> 00:44:41,722 then it picks up again at 1:09 PM. 993 00:44:41,766 --> 00:44:43,289 Here's why Fredericks would have expected 994 00:44:43,332 --> 00:44:47,032 the motion-activated system to record during that time. 995 00:44:47,075 --> 00:44:48,642 During that hour and five minutes, 996 00:44:48,686 --> 00:44:49,774 several students are seen 997 00:44:49,817 --> 00:44:52,211 walking into and out of the old gym, 998 00:44:52,254 --> 00:44:55,693 from the surveillance camera just outside the gym door. 999 00:44:55,736 --> 00:44:58,130 We count seven male students, 1000 00:44:58,173 --> 00:44:59,653 and three of them walk into the gym 1001 00:44:59,697 --> 00:45:03,004 within three minutes prior to Kendrick Johnson walking in. 1002 00:45:03,048 --> 00:45:06,007 When surveillance in the gym resumes at 1:09, 1003 00:45:06,051 --> 00:45:08,227 we see just these few frames 1004 00:45:08,270 --> 00:45:10,664 of Kendrick Johnson running in the gym. 1005 00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:12,361 Here's that moment from all of the cameras 1006 00:45:12,405 --> 00:45:15,060 in the gym, although there's a record from only two, 1007 00:45:15,103 --> 00:45:17,279 and the camera just outside the door. 1008 00:45:17,323 --> 00:45:19,281 Notice the hall camera timestamp 1009 00:45:19,325 --> 00:45:21,501 appears to be 10 minutes behind 1010 00:45:21,544 --> 00:45:22,763 and there's no confirmation 1011 00:45:22,807 --> 00:45:26,201 either time matches the exact time of day. 1012 00:45:26,245 --> 00:45:29,814 It is the last time his image is captured on video. 1013 00:45:29,857 --> 00:45:31,554 We got people in the gym playing basketball 1014 00:45:31,598 --> 00:45:32,642 on one of the cameras, 1015 00:45:32,686 --> 00:45:34,557 but over there where the mats were, 1016 00:45:34,601 --> 00:45:36,559 when that part appeared on the camera, 1017 00:45:36,603 --> 00:45:38,300 no one is over there. 1018 00:45:38,344 --> 00:45:39,954 And I'm like, "Where did Kendrick go?" 1019 00:45:39,998 --> 00:45:42,696 So people were trying to explain to us that it's their system, 1020 00:45:42,740 --> 00:45:45,525 it's the old system, it's just how it works. 1021 00:45:45,568 --> 00:45:47,048 To go there and to find out that they have 1022 00:45:47,092 --> 00:45:49,137 all of these different cameras working, 1023 00:45:49,181 --> 00:45:52,314 and everything is not working, 1024 00:45:52,358 --> 00:45:55,056 but there are a lot of cameras that are working, 1025 00:45:55,100 --> 00:45:58,625 but the parts that we need to work are not working. 1026 00:45:58,668 --> 00:46:00,975 For the next hour, there are multiple gaps 1027 00:46:01,019 --> 00:46:02,803 in the video surveillance in the gym, 1028 00:46:02,847 --> 00:46:05,980 and there's no videos showing the initial discovery 1029 00:46:06,024 --> 00:46:07,852 of a body in the gym. 1030 00:46:07,895 --> 00:46:09,897 The next time we see Kendrick Johnson 1031 00:46:09,941 --> 00:46:12,247 is the following day when he's being wheeled out 1032 00:46:12,291 --> 00:46:14,423 of the gym in a body bag. 1033 00:46:14,467 --> 00:46:16,034 I used to work at that high school. 1034 00:46:16,077 --> 00:46:17,122 I used to be a substitute teacher. 1035 00:46:17,165 --> 00:46:19,254 And I did that for about 12 years. 1036 00:46:19,298 --> 00:46:21,387 There's a camera everywhere you go 1037 00:46:21,430 --> 00:46:22,780 from every angle. 1038 00:46:22,823 --> 00:46:24,520 They caught me one day, you know, 1039 00:46:24,564 --> 00:46:26,653 roaming the halls during planning period. 1040 00:46:26,696 --> 00:46:27,785 Yes, I was. 1041 00:46:27,828 --> 00:46:29,699 Uh, so I know it could have caught-- 1042 00:46:29,743 --> 00:46:31,484 it could have caught something. 1043 00:46:31,527 --> 00:46:33,268 But when we see the tapes, 1044 00:46:33,312 --> 00:46:35,270 it's kids playing basketball, 1045 00:46:35,314 --> 00:46:37,838 it's kids horseplaying. 1046 00:46:37,882 --> 00:46:39,492 Can you tell me why 1047 00:46:39,535 --> 00:46:41,276 nobody there see Kendrick go get in the mat 1048 00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:42,582 when there's a gym full of kids? 1049 00:46:42,625 --> 00:46:44,714 Can you tell me why? 1050 00:46:44,758 --> 00:46:46,978 It's just so obvious. 1051 00:46:47,021 --> 00:46:49,415 It's the second time Jacqueline Johnson cried 1052 00:46:49,458 --> 00:46:51,765 next to her son Kendrick's grave. 1053 00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:54,550 The first time, he was being lowered into the ground. 1054 00:46:54,594 --> 00:46:55,987 [chain grates] 1055 00:46:56,030 --> 00:46:58,598 In June, Kendrick's body was sent to Florida. 1056 00:46:58,641 --> 00:47:00,774 The Johnsons hired Dr. Bill Anderson 1057 00:47:00,818 --> 00:47:03,298 to conduct an independent second autopsy. 1058 00:47:03,342 --> 00:47:04,778 I'm a forensic pathologist. 1059 00:47:04,822 --> 00:47:06,998 I've been actually practicing over 40 years 1060 00:47:07,041 --> 00:47:09,087 in the field of forensic pathology 1061 00:47:09,130 --> 00:47:10,653 and pathology in general. 1062 00:47:10,697 --> 00:47:14,179 And one of the things that immediately stuck out was, uh, 1063 00:47:14,222 --> 00:47:16,224 the findings in the lungs. 1064 00:47:16,268 --> 00:47:17,878 Now, in a positional asphyxia, 1065 00:47:17,922 --> 00:47:19,097 where someone is trapped 1066 00:47:19,140 --> 00:47:21,142 in something where they can't breathe, 1067 00:47:21,186 --> 00:47:23,014 they fight for breath, so forth, 1068 00:47:23,057 --> 00:47:24,885 and over a period of time, 1069 00:47:24,929 --> 00:47:29,020 their muscles begin to wear out, essentially, 1070 00:47:29,063 --> 00:47:30,848 so they're not breathing as well. 1071 00:47:30,891 --> 00:47:33,241 And this causes, basically, the heart to start failing 1072 00:47:33,285 --> 00:47:35,635 and fluid to build up in the lungs, 1073 00:47:35,678 --> 00:47:36,854 and get more and more fluid, 1074 00:47:36,897 --> 00:47:38,899 and this basically suffocates them. 1075 00:47:38,943 --> 00:47:40,379 Well, in Kendrick Johnson's case, 1076 00:47:40,422 --> 00:47:42,033 the lungs not only had no fluid in them 1077 00:47:42,076 --> 00:47:43,382 but they were basically normal. 1078 00:47:43,425 --> 00:47:45,645 The diagnosis of positional asphyxia, 1079 00:47:45,688 --> 00:47:47,125 if you're gonna make that diagnosis, 1080 00:47:47,168 --> 00:47:50,215 when you look at the lungs under the microscope, 1081 00:47:50,258 --> 00:47:51,912 you can see the fluid in the lungs. 1082 00:47:51,956 --> 00:47:53,914 When you look at the weights of the lungs, 1083 00:47:53,958 --> 00:47:58,484 which are normally around 250 grams and 280 grams, 1084 00:47:58,527 --> 00:48:01,052 they will be much heavier, three to four times that weight. 1085 00:48:01,095 --> 00:48:03,445 Well, Kendrick's were actually normal weight. 1086 00:48:03,489 --> 00:48:06,709 So, according to the state's own documents, 1087 00:48:06,753 --> 00:48:08,798 -which you have, right? -Correct. 1088 00:48:08,842 --> 00:48:11,192 His lungs weighed the normal weight. 1089 00:48:11,236 --> 00:48:12,846 Absolutely, that was-- in fact, 1090 00:48:12,890 --> 00:48:14,239 that was the first red flag 1091 00:48:14,282 --> 00:48:17,764 that was there that caught my attention. 1092 00:48:17,807 --> 00:48:20,332 So if you find this dichotomy, basically, 1093 00:48:20,375 --> 00:48:22,421 then you have to figure out, well, what was it? 1094 00:48:22,464 --> 00:48:25,076 Was it something else that was going on? 1095 00:48:25,119 --> 00:48:29,950 But in the absence of the lungs being heavy, 1096 00:48:29,994 --> 00:48:33,214 you cannot make the diagnosis of positional asphyxia. 1097 00:48:33,258 --> 00:48:35,260 So, because of that, then we decided, 1098 00:48:35,303 --> 00:48:37,740 "Well, all right, we don't have any information." 1099 00:48:37,784 --> 00:48:39,786 So we decided we would go ahead 1100 00:48:39,829 --> 00:48:43,442 and exhume the body and do a second autopsy. 1101 00:48:43,485 --> 00:48:46,445 Digging him up... 1102 00:48:46,488 --> 00:48:48,882 It's just unexplainable to stand there and watch, 1103 00:48:48,926 --> 00:48:52,103 you know, your child coming back out of the ground again. 1104 00:48:52,146 --> 00:48:54,453 Well, we opened the body, in this particular case, 1105 00:48:54,496 --> 00:48:56,716 and the organs were not there. 1106 00:48:56,759 --> 00:48:59,849 Uh, the body had--basically, paper had been stuffed 1107 00:48:59,893 --> 00:49:02,287 into the cavity to fill it up, 1108 00:49:02,330 --> 00:49:05,638 and so the organs actually were not in the body at all. 1109 00:49:05,681 --> 00:49:08,249 Every organ from the top of Kendrick's head 1110 00:49:08,293 --> 00:49:10,817 -to his pelvis, gone. -When I found out 1111 00:49:10,860 --> 00:49:13,951 the organs were missing, um, 1112 00:49:13,994 --> 00:49:17,215 I was like, "How is that possible?" 1113 00:49:17,258 --> 00:49:21,001 Because I've sat through many autopsies 1114 00:49:21,045 --> 00:49:26,354 and the organs are taken out, examined, 1115 00:49:26,398 --> 00:49:29,227 and they're placed in a bag. 1116 00:49:29,270 --> 00:49:30,968 Everything--everything you take out 1117 00:49:31,011 --> 00:49:32,186 you put inside of a bag. 1118 00:49:32,230 --> 00:49:33,274 Then once it's back inside of the bag, 1119 00:49:33,318 --> 00:49:35,015 the body is sewed up. 1120 00:49:35,059 --> 00:49:39,498 So everything is put back inside the victim. 1121 00:49:39,541 --> 00:49:41,413 Have you ever opened a body in 40 years 1122 00:49:41,456 --> 00:49:42,849 and had that happen to you? 1123 00:49:42,892 --> 00:49:45,243 It was unexpected for a medical examiner case. 1124 00:49:45,286 --> 00:49:48,420 President of the National Association of Medical Examiners 1125 00:49:48,463 --> 00:49:51,553 who told CNN he's, "Never heard of this practice." 1126 00:49:51,597 --> 00:49:53,555 You see cuts there by his nails. 1127 00:49:53,599 --> 00:49:55,209 Yeah, I see those cuts right. 1128 00:49:55,253 --> 00:49:56,428 You see these cuts. 1129 00:49:56,471 --> 00:49:58,169 This goes in line with the family's theory 1130 00:49:58,212 --> 00:49:59,518 that there was a fight. 1131 00:49:59,561 --> 00:50:01,955 This is indicative of something that is fresh. 1132 00:50:01,999 --> 00:50:05,437 These are not healing insults or injuries that he has. 1133 00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,091 These little areas right here are-- 1134 00:50:07,134 --> 00:50:08,657 So that'd be close to time of death? 1135 00:50:08,701 --> 00:50:11,399 Yeah, absolutely, and I'm finding it very interesting 1136 00:50:11,443 --> 00:50:13,532 that these are what we refer to as curvilinear. 1137 00:50:13,575 --> 00:50:15,577 These could be consistent with fingernail marks. 1138 00:50:15,621 --> 00:50:17,666 The attorney for the funeral home who says, yes, 1139 00:50:17,710 --> 00:50:20,191 those clothes did make it to the funeral home, 1140 00:50:20,234 --> 00:50:22,323 a couple of days later I got an email saying, 1141 00:50:22,367 --> 00:50:23,977 "No, we never received the clothes." 1142 00:50:24,021 --> 00:50:27,633 A spokeswoman for the state tells CNN after its autopsy, 1143 00:50:27,676 --> 00:50:30,070 "The organs were placed in Johnson's body, 1144 00:50:30,114 --> 00:50:31,463 the body was closed, 1145 00:50:31,506 --> 00:50:34,422 then the body was released to the funeral home." 1146 00:50:34,466 --> 00:50:35,771 State investigators say 1147 00:50:35,815 --> 00:50:37,382 it's their normal practice. 1148 00:50:37,425 --> 00:50:39,253 It's a Black Friday ad, 1149 00:50:39,297 --> 00:50:41,386 JC Penny ad. 1150 00:50:41,429 --> 00:50:42,909 Yes. 1151 00:50:42,952 --> 00:50:45,781 Stuffin' that newspaper in like he was a garbage can. 1152 00:50:45,825 --> 00:50:47,435 From what was left, 1153 00:50:47,479 --> 00:50:48,915 what could you derive? 1154 00:50:48,958 --> 00:50:51,265 So, what we did, we still had the rest of the body, 1155 00:50:51,309 --> 00:50:54,138 so we looked for other injuries 1156 00:50:54,181 --> 00:50:56,096 that might have been overlooked 1157 00:50:56,140 --> 00:50:57,402 or not dissected 1158 00:50:57,445 --> 00:50:59,099 during the first autopsy, 1159 00:50:59,143 --> 00:51:02,537 something that might conceivably result in 1160 00:51:02,581 --> 00:51:05,366 an explanation for why this child, 1161 00:51:05,410 --> 00:51:07,455 who has supposedly died of positional asphyxia 1162 00:51:07,499 --> 00:51:09,327 had normal lungs. 1163 00:51:09,370 --> 00:51:11,111 So, what we did, we continued, 1164 00:51:11,155 --> 00:51:13,809 basically, to look up near the angle of the jaw, 1165 00:51:13,853 --> 00:51:15,463 underneath the jaw. 1166 00:51:15,507 --> 00:51:18,771 At that point, we found an area of bleeding, 1167 00:51:18,814 --> 00:51:20,251 hemorrhage, 1168 00:51:20,294 --> 00:51:22,340 which had not been described. 1169 00:51:22,383 --> 00:51:25,299 This particular area happens to be very close, 1170 00:51:25,343 --> 00:51:27,214 in fact, involving, 1171 00:51:27,258 --> 00:51:31,088 a nerve structure 1172 00:51:31,131 --> 00:51:33,220 called the carotid sinus. 1173 00:51:33,264 --> 00:51:35,135 And the carotid sinus, basically, 1174 00:51:35,179 --> 00:51:36,963 controls blood pressure. 1175 00:51:37,006 --> 00:51:40,358 And the idea is if blood pressure goes too high, 1176 00:51:40,401 --> 00:51:44,057 the carotid sinus will, basically, sense that 1177 00:51:44,101 --> 00:51:46,712 and slow the heart rate. 1178 00:51:46,755 --> 00:51:49,193 Well, one of the other ways you can slow the heart rate is 1179 00:51:49,236 --> 00:51:53,893 severe compression of the area around the carotid sinus, 1180 00:51:53,936 --> 00:51:57,375 and that has even resulted in people dying suddenly. 1181 00:51:57,418 --> 00:51:58,637 And this was distinctly different 1182 00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,465 from all the other tissue around it, 1183 00:52:00,508 --> 00:52:02,728 so it appeared to be 1184 00:52:02,771 --> 00:52:04,860 due to blunt force trauma to the area. 1185 00:52:04,904 --> 00:52:08,821 So, we basically had absolute proof that this was 1186 00:52:08,864 --> 00:52:10,127 a hemorrhage in that area, 1187 00:52:10,170 --> 00:52:11,954 in an area that if pressure is applied, 1188 00:52:11,998 --> 00:52:14,174 could result in sudden death. 1189 00:52:14,218 --> 00:52:17,525 Well, this would make things a little more reasonable 1190 00:52:17,569 --> 00:52:21,529 as far as explaining why 1191 00:52:21,573 --> 00:52:23,662 you have the lungs 1192 00:52:23,705 --> 00:52:25,272 having no fluid 1193 00:52:25,316 --> 00:52:27,535 because, obviously, it would mean he was dead 1194 00:52:27,579 --> 00:52:29,363 when he was put in the gym mat. 1195 00:52:29,407 --> 00:52:30,973 ♪ 1196 00:52:31,017 --> 00:52:32,453 According to the paramedics' report, 1197 00:52:32,497 --> 00:52:36,240 there was bruising noted to right side jaw. 1198 00:52:36,283 --> 00:52:38,720 The parents hired their own medical examiner, 1199 00:52:38,764 --> 00:52:40,505 who said this was a killing, 1200 00:52:40,548 --> 00:52:42,768 blunt force trauma to the neck. 1201 00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:44,813 A major victory for a mother and father 1202 00:52:44,857 --> 00:52:46,641 desperate for answers about their son. 1203 00:52:46,685 --> 00:52:47,860 For ten months, 1204 00:52:47,903 --> 00:52:49,644 those parents have searched for answers. 1205 00:52:49,688 --> 00:52:51,168 And tonight, two major developments. 1206 00:52:51,211 --> 00:52:54,083 Federal prosecutors now saying they will investigate. 1207 00:52:54,127 --> 00:52:57,086 A federal prosecutor in Georgia said today 1208 00:52:57,130 --> 00:53:00,786 he will conduct a formal review into the death of a teenager 1209 00:53:00,829 --> 00:53:03,484 whose body was found in his high school gym. 1210 00:53:03,528 --> 00:53:05,530 First, what was the cause 1211 00:53:05,573 --> 00:53:07,923 of Mr. Johnson's death? 1212 00:53:07,967 --> 00:53:12,145 Second, was Mr. Johnson's death the result of a crime? 1213 00:53:12,189 --> 00:53:15,540 Third, if Mr. Johnson's death was the result of a crime, 1214 00:53:15,583 --> 00:53:16,932 who committed that crime? 1215 00:53:16,976 --> 00:53:19,674 I will follow the facts wherever, 1216 00:53:19,718 --> 00:53:20,980 wherever they lead. 1217 00:53:21,023 --> 00:53:22,851 Huddled around a portable television 1218 00:53:22,895 --> 00:53:24,462 on the South Georgia street corner, 1219 00:53:24,505 --> 00:53:26,942 where they've staged an eight-month sit-in, 1220 00:53:26,986 --> 00:53:29,858 the family of Kendrick Johnson watched the announcement 1221 00:53:29,902 --> 00:53:32,905 -they've been waiting for. -Hallelujah! 1222 00:53:32,948 --> 00:53:34,863 -Thank you, Jesus! -Thank you, Jesus! 1223 00:53:34,907 --> 00:53:37,301 Justice for KJ is coming! 1224 00:53:37,344 --> 00:53:39,259 Kendrick's family is grateful for the investigation, 1225 00:53:39,303 --> 00:53:41,261 but they call it a stepping stone. 1226 00:53:41,305 --> 00:53:44,177 They say their push for answers will continue. 1227 00:53:44,221 --> 00:53:46,440 Got to continue to fight on 1228 00:53:46,484 --> 00:53:49,008 'till justice is done for KJ. 1229 00:53:49,051 --> 00:53:51,184 As the investigation heated up 1230 00:53:51,228 --> 00:53:54,318 and students began to be subpoenaed, 1231 00:53:54,361 --> 00:53:56,494 the story of KJ and the Bell brothers 1232 00:53:56,537 --> 00:53:58,713 started circulating the community. 1233 00:53:58,757 --> 00:54:01,368 There had definitely been some problems. 1234 00:54:01,412 --> 00:54:04,502 A brief fight between Brian and Kendrick on a team bus. 1235 00:54:04,545 --> 00:54:06,025 A year before, I mean, 1236 00:54:06,068 --> 00:54:08,419 -we were still friends. -What was it about, anyway? 1237 00:54:08,462 --> 00:54:09,811 I can't even remember. 1238 00:54:09,855 --> 00:54:13,162 I mean, it was so, it was so small to us. 1239 00:54:13,206 --> 00:54:14,251 I remember the fight. 1240 00:54:14,294 --> 00:54:17,210 He called me at the school. 1241 00:54:17,254 --> 00:54:18,603 We was on a bus trip 1242 00:54:18,646 --> 00:54:20,996 for a playoff game, 1243 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,783 and Brian, you know, the kind of person he is, 1244 00:54:24,826 --> 00:54:27,176 he jokin' around, he playin'. 1245 00:54:27,220 --> 00:54:29,135 But when he's playin', he's playin' rough. 1246 00:54:29,178 --> 00:54:30,005 You know what I'm saying? 1247 00:54:30,049 --> 00:54:31,833 Kinda almost like a bully. 1248 00:54:31,877 --> 00:54:36,577 So, him and KJ are sittin' together in the back seat, 1249 00:54:36,621 --> 00:54:38,318 and he grabbed his dreads, 1250 00:54:38,362 --> 00:54:40,015 and he hold his head down with his dreads, 1251 00:54:40,059 --> 00:54:41,452 and he's laughin', 1252 00:54:41,495 --> 00:54:43,671 and he's pickin' at him. 1253 00:54:43,715 --> 00:54:45,586 So, when KJ get up, 1254 00:54:45,630 --> 00:54:48,459 and he get his hands off of his dreads, 1255 00:54:48,502 --> 00:54:50,199 they start fightin'. 1256 00:54:50,243 --> 00:54:52,593 I was in the seat right in front of them. 1257 00:54:52,637 --> 00:54:54,508 Seen the whole thing. 1258 00:54:54,552 --> 00:54:57,076 Anybody, anybody in that situation is gonna fight. 1259 00:54:57,119 --> 00:54:58,947 So, they got to fightin'. 1260 00:54:58,991 --> 00:55:00,906 He got the best of him. 1261 00:55:00,949 --> 00:55:02,211 -KJ? -Brian, yeah, Brian. 1262 00:55:02,255 --> 00:55:03,561 Brian ain't like that too much. 1263 00:55:03,604 --> 00:55:04,910 After that fight, 1264 00:55:04,953 --> 00:55:07,391 they made KJ go and ride in the, 1265 00:55:07,434 --> 00:55:09,131 in the deputy's car. 1266 00:55:09,175 --> 00:55:11,351 But they let Brian sit in the stand with his parents 1267 00:55:11,395 --> 00:55:12,831 and watch the game. 1268 00:55:12,874 --> 00:55:14,876 Kendrick came home one day, he said, "Dad." 1269 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:16,182 I said, "Yeah?" 1270 00:55:16,225 --> 00:55:18,837 He said, "You know how you can be standin' up, 1271 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,882 you know, you can be standin' up doin' somethin', 1272 00:55:20,926 --> 00:55:23,320 and you just feel somebody lookin' at you?" 1273 00:55:23,363 --> 00:55:24,321 I said, "Yeah." 1274 00:55:24,364 --> 00:55:25,974 He said, "Well, I turned around 1275 00:55:26,018 --> 00:55:29,021 and seen Brandon starin' at me. 1276 00:55:29,064 --> 00:55:30,588 Just standin' there starin' at me. 1277 00:55:30,631 --> 00:55:33,721 And I been hearin' he's tellin' people at school 1278 00:55:33,765 --> 00:55:35,288 that it's not over." 1279 00:55:35,332 --> 00:55:36,115 He said, "But I ain't worried about it." 1280 00:55:36,158 --> 00:55:37,551 [indistinct] 1281 00:55:37,595 --> 00:55:39,597 He said, "I wish he would say somethin' to me!" 1282 00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:41,033 So, one other day, 1283 00:55:41,076 --> 00:55:44,341 Kendrick came home, he said, "You know Rick Bell, 1284 00:55:44,384 --> 00:55:45,994 Brian's daddy, 1285 00:55:46,038 --> 00:55:48,388 came up to me at school? 1286 00:55:48,432 --> 00:55:53,393 He said, he told me that the fight was on the bus 1287 00:55:53,437 --> 00:55:55,221 wasn't a fair fight. 1288 00:55:55,264 --> 00:55:57,092 That I should come over to their house 1289 00:55:57,136 --> 00:55:59,443 and re-fight Brian." 1290 00:55:59,486 --> 00:56:01,967 So, I said, "Kendrick, what'd you say?" 1291 00:56:02,010 --> 00:56:03,447 He said, "I looked at him like he was crazy, 1292 00:56:03,490 --> 00:56:05,100 and I turned around and walked off." 1293 00:56:05,144 --> 00:56:06,798 But you're an FBI agent, 1294 00:56:06,841 --> 00:56:09,322 you're supposed to make sure stuff goin' right every day, 1295 00:56:09,366 --> 00:56:11,585 but you want kids to come fight again. 1296 00:56:11,629 --> 00:56:12,847 And he, of course, denies 1297 00:56:12,891 --> 00:56:14,458 -this conversation? -Of course, you know, 1298 00:56:14,501 --> 00:56:16,068 of course, of course. 1299 00:56:16,111 --> 00:56:18,375 And then, we come back to school, 1300 00:56:18,418 --> 00:56:20,159 and Brian is actin' funny. 1301 00:56:20,202 --> 00:56:22,988 Usually, he'd stop by and he'd speak to us 1302 00:56:23,031 --> 00:56:24,293 when he walked past, 1303 00:56:24,337 --> 00:56:26,948 walked past the wall that we sittin' on 1304 00:56:26,992 --> 00:56:29,081 in-between classes. 1305 00:56:29,124 --> 00:56:30,952 But after this happened, 1306 00:56:30,996 --> 00:56:32,258 he takes a different route. 1307 00:56:32,301 --> 00:56:34,391 He don't come through there no more. 1308 00:56:34,434 --> 00:56:36,654 And this before anybody even thinkin' it's him. 1309 00:56:36,697 --> 00:56:37,959 He just took it upon hisself 1310 00:56:38,003 --> 00:56:40,571 to go a different route to his classes. 1311 00:56:40,614 --> 00:56:42,703 Why, after this happened, 1312 00:56:42,747 --> 00:56:45,053 do you start takin' different routes around the school? 1313 00:56:45,097 --> 00:56:47,882 That was like, you know, that's like a no-brainer. 1314 00:56:47,926 --> 00:56:50,407 You're movin' different. 1315 00:56:50,450 --> 00:56:52,147 -Why? -When all this happened, 1316 00:56:52,191 --> 00:56:54,585 Kendrick didn't have no beef with nobody else. 1317 00:56:54,628 --> 00:56:57,022 Kendrick wasn't into it with nobody else. 1318 00:56:57,065 --> 00:56:58,110 They were the only ones. 1319 00:56:58,153 --> 00:56:59,807 And then, we come to find out, 1320 00:56:59,851 --> 00:57:01,461 they were the only ones 1321 00:57:01,505 --> 00:57:03,028 didn't get interviewed, 1322 00:57:03,071 --> 00:57:05,552 didn't wanna get questioned. 1323 00:57:05,596 --> 00:57:08,120 They were the only ones at the time lawyered up. 1324 00:57:08,163 --> 00:57:11,079 When it was clear to us 1325 00:57:11,123 --> 00:57:15,214 that if we couldn't make the case, 1326 00:57:15,257 --> 00:57:17,216 as far as what happened to Kendrick, 1327 00:57:17,259 --> 00:57:19,479 'cause of all this missin' evidence, 1328 00:57:19,523 --> 00:57:21,176 missin' body parts, all that, witnesses, 1329 00:57:21,220 --> 00:57:22,656 I mean, just all of that, when we realized 1330 00:57:22,700 --> 00:57:24,441 it was gonna be difficult to make the case, 1331 00:57:24,484 --> 00:57:26,007 we started concentrating on 1332 00:57:26,051 --> 00:57:27,835 obstruction. 1333 00:57:27,879 --> 00:57:29,750 So, we started lookin' at 1334 00:57:29,794 --> 00:57:31,404 the Bells' father, 1335 00:57:31,448 --> 00:57:32,884 who's an FBI agent, 1336 00:57:32,927 --> 00:57:35,582 for some of the things that 1337 00:57:35,626 --> 00:57:37,323 he was doin'. 1338 00:57:37,366 --> 00:57:39,760 Every time we would talk to someone, 1339 00:57:39,804 --> 00:57:41,588 a witness, 1340 00:57:41,632 --> 00:57:43,155 they would tell us how 1341 00:57:43,198 --> 00:57:46,027 Bell father met with them. 1342 00:57:46,071 --> 00:57:49,248 And we were like, 1343 00:57:49,291 --> 00:57:51,598 "You can't interfere with a grand jury investigation. 1344 00:57:51,642 --> 00:57:54,471 You have to leave it alone, but for somehow, 1345 00:57:54,514 --> 00:57:56,908 he kept meetin' with the witnesses 1346 00:57:56,951 --> 00:57:59,519 who we were tryin' to talk to. 1347 00:57:59,563 --> 00:58:00,738 And we finally talked to the witness, 1348 00:58:00,781 --> 00:58:03,392 we find out that they done talked to, 1349 00:58:03,436 --> 00:58:05,177 to the Bell, the Bell father. 1350 00:58:05,220 --> 00:58:07,571 They said they were not threatened directly. 1351 00:58:07,614 --> 00:58:09,137 They just felt that way. 1352 00:58:09,181 --> 00:58:10,748 They were always, they felt as though-- 1353 00:58:10,791 --> 00:58:14,055 Some said they always felt as though they were being followed. 1354 00:58:14,099 --> 00:58:16,362 I remember interviewing a young lady 1355 00:58:16,405 --> 00:58:19,800 who told us how Rick Bell would visit 1356 00:58:19,844 --> 00:58:21,410 her job, 1357 00:58:21,454 --> 00:58:24,196 or she would see him outside 1358 00:58:24,239 --> 00:58:25,545 of her job, 1359 00:58:25,589 --> 00:58:27,373 and that used to make her nervous. 1360 00:58:27,416 --> 00:58:28,461 And I felt as though 1361 00:58:28,505 --> 00:58:30,028 we were very close 1362 00:58:30,071 --> 00:58:32,160 to gettin' enough information, 1363 00:58:32,204 --> 00:58:36,208 whereas we can say he committed obstruction, 1364 00:58:36,251 --> 00:58:39,994 an FBI agent committed obstruction of justice. 1365 00:58:40,038 --> 00:58:43,171 The mornin' we did the raids, 1366 00:58:43,215 --> 00:58:45,347 plenty of agencies were involved, 1367 00:58:45,391 --> 00:58:47,611 and we went to a lot of different locations. 1368 00:58:47,654 --> 00:58:50,439 An FBI agent's home was raided last month 1369 00:58:50,483 --> 00:58:52,006 in connection with the investigation 1370 00:58:52,050 --> 00:58:53,921 into the death of a Valdosta teenager. 1371 00:58:53,965 --> 00:58:55,706 Karen Bell says her husband, Rick Bell, 1372 00:58:55,749 --> 00:58:58,317 is an agent in good standing with the FBI, 1373 00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:00,275 an arm of the US Justice Department, 1374 00:59:00,319 --> 00:59:02,582 but that the swarm of heavily-armed men and a woman, 1375 00:59:02,626 --> 00:59:05,411 most in full tactical gear, that rushed toward her house 1376 00:59:05,454 --> 00:59:07,935 about 5:16 AM, July 21st 1377 00:59:07,979 --> 00:59:10,634 came from an arm of the US Justice Department too, 1378 00:59:10,677 --> 00:59:13,071 -the US Marshall Service. -This is 1379 00:59:13,114 --> 00:59:15,552 where they knocked the morning of 1380 00:59:15,595 --> 00:59:16,683 around 5:00 AM. 1381 00:59:16,727 --> 00:59:17,684 I was layin' in bed, 1382 00:59:17,728 --> 00:59:19,164 I got a bang on my door. 1383 00:59:19,207 --> 00:59:21,427 -Tactical gear? -Yes, sir, to the nth degree. 1384 00:59:21,470 --> 00:59:23,603 They were just like, "It's about the Kendrick Johnson case, 1385 00:59:23,647 --> 00:59:26,911 the ongoing Kendrick Johnson investigation." 1386 00:59:26,954 --> 00:59:29,261 In order for a judge 1387 00:59:29,304 --> 00:59:31,829 to sign 1388 00:59:31,872 --> 00:59:34,048 search warrants, 1389 00:59:34,092 --> 00:59:36,964 meaning several, for several locations, 1390 00:59:37,008 --> 00:59:40,098 therefore, evidence 1391 00:59:40,141 --> 00:59:44,363 was submitted that he believed we were onto somethin'. 1392 00:59:44,406 --> 00:59:48,541 So these search warrants, several, were signed. 1393 00:59:48,585 --> 00:59:50,674 Deputy US Marshal serving search warrants 1394 00:59:50,717 --> 00:59:52,066 in connection with the mysterious death 1395 00:59:52,110 --> 00:59:53,459 of Kendrick Johnson 1396 00:59:53,502 --> 00:59:55,983 at Lowndes High School in 2013. 1397 00:59:56,027 --> 00:59:58,507 -I was just really shocked. -I broke down and cried. 1398 00:59:58,551 --> 01:00:01,554 I really had no reason in my head why they would be here. 1399 01:00:01,598 --> 01:00:02,773 It just keeps on gettin' worse. 1400 01:00:02,816 --> 01:00:05,079 Documents provided by the Bells' legal team 1401 01:00:05,123 --> 01:00:07,386 indicate property seized with the search warrant included 1402 01:00:07,429 --> 01:00:09,214 smart phones, thumb drives, laptops, 1403 01:00:09,257 --> 01:00:10,432 discs, and the like. 1404 01:00:10,476 --> 01:00:12,913 Deals with obstructing investigations, 1405 01:00:12,957 --> 01:00:15,089 destroying evidence, witness tampering. 1406 01:00:15,133 --> 01:00:16,700 I'm gonna ask my photographer to 1407 01:00:16,743 --> 01:00:18,789 push in tight on your face. 1408 01:00:18,832 --> 01:00:20,312 Okay. 1409 01:00:20,355 --> 01:00:23,532 Our viewers can read your expression. 1410 01:00:23,576 --> 01:00:27,754 Did you have anything to do 1411 01:00:27,798 --> 01:00:29,669 with the death of Kendrick Johnson? 1412 01:00:29,713 --> 01:00:32,193 No. 1413 01:00:32,237 --> 01:00:34,152 He was like one of my good friends. 1414 01:00:36,545 --> 01:00:38,547 Even at the time of his death? 1415 01:00:38,591 --> 01:00:40,158 -Even at the time of his death. -And I want everybody to 1416 01:00:40,201 --> 01:00:41,594 know the truth, and, I mean, 1417 01:00:41,638 --> 01:00:44,553 they can ridicule me, and they can, 1418 01:00:44,597 --> 01:00:45,685 they can say whatever they want, 1419 01:00:45,729 --> 01:00:47,295 but in the end, the truth will prevail, 1420 01:00:47,339 --> 01:00:49,558 and everybody will find that me and my brother 1421 01:00:49,602 --> 01:00:51,952 have been innocent, and always will be innocent. 1422 01:00:51,996 --> 01:00:54,825 But both Bells maintain the have rock-solid alibies. 1423 01:00:54,868 --> 01:00:56,957 Did you see Kendrick Johnson? 1424 01:00:57,001 --> 01:00:59,177 No, sir, not at any point during that day. 1425 01:00:59,220 --> 01:01:00,091 Where were you? 1426 01:01:00,134 --> 01:01:02,180 I was in class. 1427 01:01:02,223 --> 01:01:05,357 I was in class first block, second block, third block, 1428 01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:07,533 and fourth block. 1429 01:01:07,576 --> 01:01:09,361 Close to the gym? 1430 01:01:09,404 --> 01:01:11,580 -No. -Did you see Kendrick that day? 1431 01:01:11,624 --> 01:01:14,279 No. 1432 01:01:14,322 --> 01:01:15,410 I did not. 1433 01:01:15,454 --> 01:01:17,021 Have you prayed for the Johnsons? 1434 01:01:17,064 --> 01:01:18,326 Yes, sir, I have. 1435 01:01:18,370 --> 01:01:19,850 I hope that they found justice, 1436 01:01:19,893 --> 01:01:22,156 and I hope they do find out the truth about their son. 1437 01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:24,898 And now, WJCL News, 1438 01:01:24,942 --> 01:01:27,509 working for you. 1439 01:01:27,553 --> 01:01:30,730 New developments in the Kendrick Johnson death investigation. 1440 01:01:30,774 --> 01:01:33,515 We have uncovered an email whose sender claims 1441 01:01:33,559 --> 01:01:36,301 to know who killed Johnson. 1442 01:01:36,344 --> 01:01:39,130 And tonight, I have been lookin' through these 22 pages 1443 01:01:39,173 --> 01:01:40,348 that we requested 1444 01:01:40,392 --> 01:01:42,568 that could possibly answer the question, 1445 01:01:42,611 --> 01:01:45,179 what happened to Kendrick Johnson? 1446 01:01:45,223 --> 01:01:48,574 Some of the kids that know scared, 1447 01:01:48,617 --> 01:01:50,445 but they should never be scared. 1448 01:01:50,489 --> 01:01:53,448 This week, WJCL learned US Attorney, Michael Moore, 1449 01:01:53,492 --> 01:01:57,409 subpoenaed more than 120 students and parents at Valdosta 1450 01:01:57,452 --> 01:01:59,628 to testify in front of a grand jury. 1451 01:01:59,672 --> 01:02:01,718 What happened to Kendrick last January 1452 01:02:01,761 --> 01:02:03,589 is a question the family has been asking 1453 01:02:03,632 --> 01:02:05,286 for more than a year now, 1454 01:02:05,330 --> 01:02:07,898 and this week, that question may have an answer. 1455 01:02:07,941 --> 01:02:10,335 WJCL learned deputies in Lowndes county 1456 01:02:10,378 --> 01:02:12,467 received an anonymous email. 1457 01:02:12,511 --> 01:02:14,948 Because those mentioned in the email are minors, 1458 01:02:14,992 --> 01:02:18,212 their names have been changed to Jane and Joe. 1459 01:02:18,256 --> 01:02:19,779 Here's what the email says, 1460 01:02:19,823 --> 01:02:22,651 My best friend was at a party Saturday night with Jane, 1461 01:02:22,695 --> 01:02:24,218 and she was upset about something 1462 01:02:24,262 --> 01:02:25,872 that Joe had said to her. 1463 01:02:25,916 --> 01:02:28,135 She said that about a little over a year ago, 1464 01:02:28,179 --> 01:02:31,051 she had sexual intercourse with Kendrick Johnson 1465 01:02:31,095 --> 01:02:32,879 while she was dating Joe. 1466 01:02:32,923 --> 01:02:35,273 Joe found out and threatened KJ. 1467 01:02:35,316 --> 01:02:38,537 KJ told Joe to meet him in the old gym after third block 1468 01:02:38,580 --> 01:02:40,713 and he would have his knife ready. 1469 01:02:40,757 --> 01:02:42,976 Joe and Joe's friend met KJ 1470 01:02:43,020 --> 01:02:44,282 and killed him. 1471 01:02:44,325 --> 01:02:46,763 Joe has also been heard admitting to killing KJ 1472 01:02:46,806 --> 01:02:48,460 more than once over the phone. 1473 01:02:48,503 --> 01:02:51,724 His brother also got drunk at a party on the 4th of July 1474 01:02:51,768 --> 01:02:54,509 and told many people that Joe killed KJ, 1475 01:02:54,553 --> 01:02:57,643 and that Joe's brother was tired of keeping it a secret. 1476 01:02:57,686 --> 01:03:00,211 And my sources told me one of the boys in the email 1477 01:03:00,254 --> 01:03:02,126 is the son of an FBI agent. 1478 01:03:02,169 --> 01:03:05,999 His father originally told him not to talk to investigators, 1479 01:03:06,043 --> 01:03:08,567 but is now forced to talk because of the subpoena. 1480 01:03:08,610 --> 01:03:12,223 There's been several people that has come forth 1481 01:03:12,266 --> 01:03:13,833 with the truth. 1482 01:03:13,877 --> 01:03:17,315 But then, you got them goin' to jail, 1483 01:03:17,358 --> 01:03:18,751 bein' locked up, bein' silenced 1484 01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:20,753 if you say anything, bein' threatened. 1485 01:03:20,797 --> 01:03:23,582 A supposed lead in the Kendrick Johnson investigation 1486 01:03:23,625 --> 01:03:24,888 has fizzled. 1487 01:03:24,931 --> 01:03:28,108 We identified the source of the email yesterday. 1488 01:03:28,152 --> 01:03:29,980 We went and interviewed that person last night, 1489 01:03:30,023 --> 01:03:31,590 and what we found was 1490 01:03:31,633 --> 01:03:33,026 they admitted they had sent the email, 1491 01:03:33,070 --> 01:03:36,247 but they did it out of a genuine interest in the case. 1492 01:03:36,290 --> 01:03:38,031 That this is information they had heard, 1493 01:03:38,075 --> 01:03:39,859 nothing first-hand, 1494 01:03:39,903 --> 01:03:41,818 all rumors and speculation. 1495 01:03:41,861 --> 01:03:44,081 And the other little guy, he was tellin' people about 1496 01:03:44,124 --> 01:03:46,039 what happened to Kendrick, 1497 01:03:46,083 --> 01:03:48,259 and they found out, and they got him 1498 01:03:48,302 --> 01:03:50,957 and then kept him for so many months. 1499 01:03:51,001 --> 01:03:52,306 Nobody could get him out. 1500 01:03:52,350 --> 01:03:53,568 And then when he got out, 1501 01:03:53,612 --> 01:03:55,222 he recanted his whole story, 1502 01:03:55,266 --> 01:03:57,529 he said he wasn't tellin' the truth. 1503 01:03:57,572 --> 01:04:00,445 When it comes to justice in this county, 1504 01:04:00,488 --> 01:04:02,882 it's more about who you know. 1505 01:04:02,926 --> 01:04:03,970 In this case, 1506 01:04:04,014 --> 01:04:06,668 you have Lowndes County High School, 1507 01:04:06,712 --> 01:04:08,714 the superintendent's office, 1508 01:04:08,757 --> 01:04:13,197 the GBI, the FBI, and the DOJ. 1509 01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:15,460 The cover-up started with 1510 01:04:15,503 --> 01:04:17,288 one of their own 1511 01:04:17,331 --> 01:04:18,463 GBI agents 1512 01:04:18,506 --> 01:04:20,508 and his children. 1513 01:04:20,552 --> 01:04:24,208 When they found out it was him, the cover-up started there, 1514 01:04:24,251 --> 01:04:27,907 and then it trickled on down to the medical examiner, 1515 01:04:27,951 --> 01:04:30,823 then on over to the funeral home. 1516 01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:32,651 All that just, it was just, 1517 01:04:32,694 --> 01:04:35,175 all this just goin' on and on, and I'm like, 1518 01:04:35,219 --> 01:04:37,351 "But y'all will go through all this 1519 01:04:37,395 --> 01:04:39,876 just to cover 1520 01:04:39,919 --> 01:04:41,834 for these children?" 1521 01:04:41,878 --> 01:04:44,010 I think lots of people know 1522 01:04:44,054 --> 01:04:45,969 just coverin' it up 1523 01:04:46,012 --> 01:04:48,536 'cause they work together. 1524 01:04:48,580 --> 01:04:51,409 But Stroud was the main one that we were talkin' to, 1525 01:04:51,452 --> 01:04:54,673 and so he would just keep comin' and give us 1526 01:04:54,716 --> 01:04:56,153 different little lies. 1527 01:04:56,196 --> 01:04:58,677 And every time he would come back with a story, 1528 01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,158 we would come back and tell him, "You know, that's not so." 1529 01:05:01,201 --> 01:05:03,987 Then, in November 2015, 1530 01:05:04,030 --> 01:05:06,598 the US attorney in charge of this case, 1531 01:05:06,641 --> 01:05:09,601 Michael Moore, suddenly resigned. 1532 01:05:09,644 --> 01:05:12,604 This was astonishing because this was the attorney 1533 01:05:12,647 --> 01:05:15,215 who put the Bell boys as the target 1534 01:05:15,259 --> 01:05:16,956 of the investigation. 1535 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,523 Michael Moore, I don't know, 1536 01:05:18,566 --> 01:05:20,351 I know he ran scared. 1537 01:05:20,394 --> 01:05:22,744 These people here scared him out of his job, 1538 01:05:22,788 --> 01:05:24,181 I know that 1539 01:05:24,224 --> 01:05:28,228 because how do you come out and say you're gonna 1540 01:05:28,272 --> 01:05:31,188 take this case and look at it at every angle, 1541 01:05:31,231 --> 01:05:33,755 but soon as it gets hot, soon as you're gettin' threats, 1542 01:05:33,799 --> 01:05:35,975 you go run and take cover? 1543 01:05:36,019 --> 01:05:37,846 When Michael Moore resigned, 1544 01:05:37,890 --> 01:05:41,981 his cases went to his successor, except Kendrick. 1545 01:05:42,025 --> 01:05:45,289 For some reason, KJ's case was moved 1546 01:05:45,332 --> 01:05:47,769 from Georgia to Ohio. 1547 01:05:47,813 --> 01:05:52,078 Goin' to Ohio with this case was mind-boggling to me. 1548 01:05:52,122 --> 01:05:54,689 There had to have been discussions in Washington 1549 01:05:54,733 --> 01:05:56,517 as to how you're gonna have a change in venue 1550 01:05:56,561 --> 01:05:58,476 from one state to another state? 1551 01:05:58,519 --> 01:06:00,173 You know, I think that your prosecutors are really 1552 01:06:00,217 --> 01:06:03,176 the gatekeeper for the court system 1553 01:06:03,220 --> 01:06:04,569 and for the justice system. 1554 01:06:04,612 --> 01:06:07,093 And if you're not willin' to keep the gate, 1555 01:06:07,137 --> 01:06:08,660 then that means nothing. 1556 01:06:08,703 --> 01:06:12,446 How the US attorney for the middle district of Georgia 1557 01:06:12,490 --> 01:06:14,753 all of a sudden just abruptly quit his position 1558 01:06:14,796 --> 01:06:16,755 and joined a law firm in Atlanta? 1559 01:06:16,798 --> 01:06:17,974 At Pope McGlamry, 1560 01:06:18,017 --> 01:06:20,367 we represent people who find and report 1561 01:06:20,411 --> 01:06:23,588 the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money. 1562 01:06:23,631 --> 01:06:26,112 We handle these cases, sometimes called whistleblower 1563 01:06:26,156 --> 01:06:27,635 or false claims cases 1564 01:06:27,679 --> 01:06:30,029 for all kinds of individuals. 1565 01:06:30,073 --> 01:06:32,292 -I mean, why? -Why? 1566 01:06:32,336 --> 01:06:34,860 -Yeah, why, the question is why? -But why? 1567 01:06:34,903 --> 01:06:37,863 You have to ask the question, why all of these whys? 1568 01:06:37,906 --> 01:06:41,040 We got to the point where we really thought 1569 01:06:41,084 --> 01:06:43,129 either we were gonna make an arrest of him, 1570 01:06:43,173 --> 01:06:45,697 of he may have been getting indicted. 1571 01:06:45,740 --> 01:06:50,658 But for us to get a notification 1572 01:06:50,702 --> 01:06:53,748 that we were no longer goin' back to Georgia, 1573 01:06:53,792 --> 01:06:55,576 I was like, 1574 01:06:55,620 --> 01:06:56,838 "Huh?" 1575 01:06:56,882 --> 01:06:58,492 That's impossible. 1576 01:06:58,536 --> 01:07:01,234 "No, you're not goin' back, you have work to do in D.C." 1577 01:07:01,278 --> 01:07:02,801 I'm like, "What work?" 1578 01:07:02,844 --> 01:07:05,891 A very disappointing day for the parents of Kendrick Johnson, 1579 01:07:05,934 --> 01:07:09,677 three and a half years after the 17 year old was found dead 1580 01:07:09,721 --> 01:07:11,288 in his high school gym. 1581 01:07:11,331 --> 01:07:13,246 Kendrick Johnson's parents say they're not giving up 1582 01:07:13,290 --> 01:07:16,728 on either civil or criminal charges in his 2013 death. 1583 01:07:16,771 --> 01:07:18,382 They say federal prosecutors told them 1584 01:07:18,425 --> 01:07:21,602 there was not enough evidence to pursue a criminal case, 1585 01:07:21,646 --> 01:07:24,692 but they still believe he was murdered by schoolmates. 1586 01:07:24,736 --> 01:07:26,955 And Monday, the Johnsons said federal prosecutors 1587 01:07:26,999 --> 01:07:29,349 didn't entirely rule out that possibility. 1588 01:07:29,393 --> 01:07:32,570 They simply concluded there was not enough evidence to prove it. 1589 01:07:32,613 --> 01:07:34,180 And they all but came out and said 1590 01:07:34,224 --> 01:07:35,181 they know he was murdered, 1591 01:07:35,225 --> 01:07:37,879 but nothin' to be done about it. 1592 01:07:37,923 --> 01:07:41,535 The jury has just come back and has returned a verdict of 1593 01:07:41,579 --> 01:07:42,710 not guilty, 1594 01:07:42,754 --> 01:07:45,844 thus the defendants, Milam and Bryant, 1595 01:07:45,887 --> 01:07:48,542 are free men in this community 1596 01:07:48,586 --> 01:07:51,284 of Sumner, Mississippi. 1597 01:07:51,328 --> 01:07:53,112 How do you folks feel now that it's all over? 1598 01:07:53,156 --> 01:07:55,767 Roy, how 'bout you? 1599 01:07:55,810 --> 01:07:57,421 I'm just glad it's over with. 1600 01:07:57,464 --> 01:08:00,163 -J.W.? -I am too. 1601 01:08:00,206 --> 01:08:02,687 -And Mrs. Bryant, uh-- -Yes, sir. 1602 01:08:02,730 --> 01:08:06,865 ♪ 1603 01:08:06,908 --> 01:08:09,868 We, law enforcement, 1604 01:08:09,911 --> 01:08:11,435 justice department, 1605 01:08:11,478 --> 01:08:13,698 we let them down. 1606 01:08:13,741 --> 01:08:15,352 We let them down, man. 1607 01:08:15,395 --> 01:08:17,180 And that's just not-- We're not supposed to, 1608 01:08:17,223 --> 01:08:19,486 we're not supposed to let families down. 1609 01:08:19,530 --> 01:08:21,793 We sat in a room, it's probably about 1610 01:08:21,836 --> 01:08:23,142 seven or eight of them. 1611 01:08:23,186 --> 01:08:25,840 It was all DOJ representatives? 1612 01:08:25,884 --> 01:08:28,191 Yeah, so they basically said, 1613 01:08:28,234 --> 01:08:30,193 they said they didn't have enough evidence 1614 01:08:30,236 --> 01:08:32,630 to prove a reasonable doubt. 1615 01:08:32,673 --> 01:08:34,806 They didn't say they didn't have no evidence. 1616 01:08:34,849 --> 01:08:37,722 They said they didn't have enough to prove it. 1617 01:08:37,765 --> 01:08:39,811 You know what they said? 1618 01:08:39,854 --> 01:08:41,769 The shoe was planted there. 1619 01:08:41,813 --> 01:08:44,468 -So, what's that tell you? -The DOJ said that? 1620 01:08:44,511 --> 01:08:46,296 They said right there in the meeting 1621 01:08:46,339 --> 01:08:47,949 that the shoe was planted there. 1622 01:08:47,993 --> 01:08:50,952 "Mr. Johnson, you're right, the shoe was planted there." 1623 01:08:50,996 --> 01:08:54,086 You would sit in the room with us and tell us 1624 01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:57,568 you know that somebody planted that shoe under Kendrick's head, 1625 01:08:57,611 --> 01:09:00,179 but, yet, y'all still can't call this a murder? 1626 01:09:00,223 --> 01:09:03,661 She said, "We know, Mr. Johnson, 1627 01:09:03,704 --> 01:09:05,619 we know something happened, 1628 01:09:05,663 --> 01:09:07,795 but we just don't know who did it." 1629 01:09:07,839 --> 01:09:10,189 She said, "Dr. Anderson's report 1630 01:09:10,233 --> 01:09:12,974 is the most accurate report." 1631 01:09:13,018 --> 01:09:15,194 I just felt like we still wasn't gonna stop. 1632 01:09:15,238 --> 01:09:17,457 Regardless of them droppin' it, whatever, 1633 01:09:17,501 --> 01:09:19,372 we still gotta keep goin'. 1634 01:09:19,416 --> 01:09:22,201 They can drop it, but we're not gonna drop it. 1635 01:09:22,245 --> 01:09:25,813 ♪ 1636 01:09:25,857 --> 01:09:29,948 This town feels like they really run the world. 1637 01:09:29,991 --> 01:09:32,733 Seven judges recused themselves, how? 1638 01:09:32,777 --> 01:09:34,648 Seven. 1639 01:09:34,692 --> 01:09:36,302 How? When this is your job, 1640 01:09:36,346 --> 01:09:38,522 I don't care 'cause that's your friend. 1641 01:09:38,565 --> 01:09:42,743 If it wasn't an FBI agent's kids, 1642 01:09:42,787 --> 01:09:44,484 would seven judges 1643 01:09:44,528 --> 01:09:48,227 -have recused themselves? -Right. 1644 01:09:48,271 --> 01:09:51,622 Would Michael Moore have gave up his position? 1645 01:09:55,930 --> 01:09:57,454 To fully understand 1646 01:09:57,497 --> 01:10:01,371 the FBI's actions towards KJ, 1647 01:10:01,414 --> 01:10:05,157 we first need to go back to the roots of the organization. 1648 01:10:05,201 --> 01:10:07,551 A man named J. Edgar Hoover 1649 01:10:07,594 --> 01:10:10,075 first created the FBI. 1650 01:10:10,118 --> 01:10:13,339 The FBI will continue to be objective 1651 01:10:13,383 --> 01:10:15,341 in its investigations 1652 01:10:15,385 --> 01:10:19,389 and will stay within the bounds of its authorized jurisdiction. 1653 01:10:19,432 --> 01:10:22,348 He ran it with unparalleled control 1654 01:10:22,392 --> 01:10:24,568 for nearly 50 years. 1655 01:10:24,611 --> 01:10:26,613 He served through eight presidents. 1656 01:10:26,657 --> 01:10:28,659 He collected counter intelligence 1657 01:10:28,702 --> 01:10:30,748 on every presidential candidate 1658 01:10:30,791 --> 01:10:32,489 before they were elected 1659 01:10:32,532 --> 01:10:35,796 so he could control them while they were in office. 1660 01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:39,670 He was literally the most famous man in Washington, 1661 01:10:39,713 --> 01:10:43,413 and one of the most powerful men in the world for half a century. 1662 01:10:43,456 --> 01:10:45,284 Once you realize this, 1663 01:10:45,328 --> 01:10:48,331 it's impossible to ignore the impacts 1664 01:10:48,374 --> 01:10:51,464 of his tyrannical work still lingering 1665 01:10:51,508 --> 01:10:53,379 throughout our system today. 1666 01:10:53,423 --> 01:10:55,425 During his reign, Hoover would say 1667 01:10:55,468 --> 01:10:58,515 he was protecting America from Communists 1668 01:10:58,558 --> 01:11:00,386 and domestic hate groups. 1669 01:11:00,430 --> 01:11:02,823 But a closer look at his actions 1670 01:11:02,867 --> 01:11:05,435 reveals a very different story. 1671 01:11:05,478 --> 01:11:07,132 What Hoover actually did 1672 01:11:07,175 --> 01:11:11,136 was create a clandestine domestic terrorism unit 1673 01:11:11,179 --> 01:11:12,964 named Cointelpro 1674 01:11:13,007 --> 01:11:15,880 and ran it with no Congressional oversight 1675 01:11:15,923 --> 01:11:18,274 or even knowledge that it existed. 1676 01:11:18,317 --> 01:11:22,887 It was designed specifically to destruct and destroy 1677 01:11:22,930 --> 01:11:25,629 Black America's Civil Rights Movement. 1678 01:11:25,672 --> 01:11:28,066 It was not until 1971 1679 01:11:28,109 --> 01:11:29,589 that the nation heard 1680 01:11:29,633 --> 01:11:31,330 the name of this program. 1681 01:11:31,374 --> 01:11:34,202 It took eight brave activists 1682 01:11:34,246 --> 01:11:36,117 to break into the FBI building 1683 01:11:36,161 --> 01:11:38,990 and steal documents proving 1684 01:11:39,033 --> 01:11:41,471 their illegal operations. 1685 01:11:41,514 --> 01:11:44,778 In the stolen documents released to the press, 1686 01:11:44,822 --> 01:11:46,389 was a detailed program 1687 01:11:46,432 --> 01:11:48,652 of hate, intimidation, 1688 01:11:48,695 --> 01:11:50,262 and harassment. 1689 01:11:50,306 --> 01:11:53,221 Cointelpro was so far-reaching 1690 01:11:53,265 --> 01:11:55,746 that there were 50,000 pages 1691 01:11:55,789 --> 01:11:58,792 finally released about Hoover's dirty work 1692 01:11:58,836 --> 01:12:03,406 and a Congressional hearing on the matter in 1975. 1693 01:12:03,449 --> 01:12:06,060 What came out were horror stories 1694 01:12:06,104 --> 01:12:10,500 of the FBI's racism and bullying tactics. 1695 01:12:10,543 --> 01:12:14,678 I've been told for years 1696 01:12:14,721 --> 01:12:16,897 by, among others, 1697 01:12:16,941 --> 01:12:20,205 some of my own family 1698 01:12:20,248 --> 01:12:22,512 that this is exactly what the bureau was doing 1699 01:12:22,555 --> 01:12:25,036 all the time. 1700 01:12:25,079 --> 01:12:27,517 And in my great wisdom, 1701 01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:29,910 and high office, 1702 01:12:29,954 --> 01:12:32,652 I assured them they were 1703 01:12:32,696 --> 01:12:34,437 on pot, 1704 01:12:34,480 --> 01:12:36,395 that this just wasn't true. 1705 01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:40,094 What you've described is a series of illegal actions 1706 01:12:40,138 --> 01:12:43,881 intended squarely to deny first amendment rights 1707 01:12:43,924 --> 01:12:46,710 to some Americans. 1708 01:12:46,753 --> 01:12:49,930 That's what my children have told me is going on. 1709 01:12:49,974 --> 01:12:52,759 Documents also revealed 1710 01:12:52,803 --> 01:12:56,415 a bonus payment of $175 1711 01:12:56,459 --> 01:12:59,113 to an undercover FBI agent 1712 01:12:59,157 --> 01:13:02,987 inside the KKK for beating up a Black man. 1713 01:13:03,030 --> 01:13:05,424 Hoover would later tell the agent, 1714 01:13:05,468 --> 01:13:07,383 "You're one of the greatest Americans 1715 01:13:07,426 --> 01:13:09,776 this country has ever had." 1716 01:13:09,820 --> 01:13:12,039 Another shocking page 1717 01:13:12,083 --> 01:13:14,955 was an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King, 1718 01:13:14,999 --> 01:13:19,046 which the bureau wrote and sent to him 1719 01:13:19,090 --> 01:13:23,137 one month before he received the Nobel Peace Prize. 1720 01:13:23,181 --> 01:13:24,922 The letter berated King, 1721 01:13:24,965 --> 01:13:27,577 and in the last paragraph suggested 1722 01:13:27,620 --> 01:13:30,536 he commit suicide. 1723 01:13:30,580 --> 01:13:33,017 The bureau went so far as to mail 1724 01:13:33,060 --> 01:13:36,020 anonymous letters to Dr. King and his wife 1725 01:13:36,063 --> 01:13:39,980 and finishes with this 1726 01:13:40,024 --> 01:13:41,460 suggestion, 1727 01:13:41,504 --> 01:13:43,897 "King, there is only one thing left for you to do, 1728 01:13:43,941 --> 01:13:45,421 you know what it is. 1729 01:13:45,464 --> 01:13:48,293 you have just 34 days in which to do it. 1730 01:13:48,336 --> 01:13:49,773 You are done." 1731 01:13:49,816 --> 01:13:52,993 ♪ 1732 01:13:53,037 --> 01:13:54,473 If I can interrupt you. 1733 01:13:54,517 --> 01:13:56,257 that was taken by Dr. King 1734 01:13:56,301 --> 01:13:57,998 to mean a suggestion for suicide, 1735 01:13:58,042 --> 01:14:00,000 -was it not? -That's our understanding, 1736 01:14:00,044 --> 01:14:01,306 senator. 1737 01:14:01,349 --> 01:14:03,482 ♪ 1738 01:14:03,526 --> 01:14:05,789 Decades after Hoover's death, 1739 01:14:05,832 --> 01:14:09,445 the FBI's actions show they haven't changed. 1740 01:14:09,488 --> 01:14:13,318 The assault on Black America's political movements 1741 01:14:13,361 --> 01:14:15,538 continues to this day. 1742 01:14:15,581 --> 01:14:18,976 We saw it first-hand when many of the peaceful protestors 1743 01:14:19,019 --> 01:14:22,066 in Ferguson were investigated, tracked, 1744 01:14:22,109 --> 01:14:24,503 and labeled by the FBI as 1745 01:14:24,547 --> 01:14:27,332 Black identity extremists. 1746 01:14:27,375 --> 01:14:29,377 Black identity extremists 1747 01:14:29,421 --> 01:14:32,946 now considered a domestic terror threat by the FBI. 1748 01:14:32,990 --> 01:14:35,427 The bureau releasing an explosive new report. 1749 01:14:35,471 --> 01:14:39,692 And has the FBI and the American public denounced Hoover? 1750 01:14:39,736 --> 01:14:41,215 Far from it? 1751 01:14:41,259 --> 01:14:44,871 Even today, you can go and visit the FBI building in D.C., 1752 01:14:44,915 --> 01:14:47,961 which still carries his name proudly. 1753 01:14:48,005 --> 01:14:52,531 And has the FBI been fighting real terrorist hate groups too? 1754 01:14:52,575 --> 01:14:56,796 Or, have they just been focused on the civil rights activists? 1755 01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,843 Well, a 2018 study show that 1756 01:14:59,886 --> 01:15:01,497 US hate groups 1757 01:15:01,540 --> 01:15:03,499 have reached an all-time high. 1758 01:15:03,542 --> 01:15:05,588 So, who is the FBI against 1759 01:15:05,631 --> 01:15:07,459 and who are they for? 1760 01:15:07,503 --> 01:15:09,722 For us to 1761 01:15:09,766 --> 01:15:12,464 not make an arrest, 1762 01:15:12,508 --> 01:15:14,248 for me to find out later 1763 01:15:14,292 --> 01:15:16,337 the case was dismissed, 1764 01:15:16,381 --> 01:15:18,557 just my personal feelin', 1765 01:15:18,601 --> 01:15:21,821 I felt as though somethin' had to have occurred, 1766 01:15:21,865 --> 01:15:25,303 and I really thought that they must have 1767 01:15:25,346 --> 01:15:26,783 struck a deal with Rick Bell. 1768 01:15:26,826 --> 01:15:28,262 He lost his job 1769 01:15:28,306 --> 01:15:30,134 because the DOJ 1770 01:15:30,177 --> 01:15:32,702 had evidence of corruption. 1771 01:15:32,745 --> 01:15:35,052 I said, "They actually told me that" 1772 01:15:35,095 --> 01:15:37,358 on the phone, we were on a phone conference. 1773 01:15:37,402 --> 01:15:39,230 They said, "Mr. Johnson, we're gonna tell you. 1774 01:15:39,273 --> 01:15:41,449 They are not gonna lock him up, and they are not gonna fire him, 1775 01:15:41,493 --> 01:15:42,712 but they're gonna make him resign." 1776 01:15:42,755 --> 01:15:44,322 They said, "We got evidence 1777 01:15:44,365 --> 01:15:46,367 of corruption of Rick Bell. 1778 01:15:46,411 --> 01:15:48,456 And what we're gonna do, 1779 01:15:48,500 --> 01:15:50,633 we're gonna turn it over to the FBI." 1780 01:15:50,676 --> 01:15:52,460 And shortly after that, he resigned. 1781 01:15:52,504 --> 01:15:53,505 I felt as though if we would have 1782 01:15:53,549 --> 01:15:55,681 continued our investigation, 1783 01:15:55,725 --> 01:15:58,205 not only would we have made 1784 01:15:58,249 --> 01:16:00,164 an arrest with Bell for obstruction, 1785 01:16:00,207 --> 01:16:02,079 I really believe we would have got to the bottom 1786 01:16:02,122 --> 01:16:03,863 of what happened to Kendrick 1787 01:16:03,907 --> 01:16:06,866 if Bell would have been charged with obstruction of justice. 1788 01:16:06,910 --> 01:16:10,217 I'm lookin' at Kendrick's father. 1789 01:16:10,261 --> 01:16:12,872 I'm lookin' at myself. 1790 01:16:12,916 --> 01:16:17,573 And I'm sayin' to myself, as I look at Kendrick's father, 1791 01:16:17,616 --> 01:16:19,531 is that 1792 01:16:19,575 --> 01:16:22,012 I'd probably be in jail for murder. 1793 01:16:22,055 --> 01:16:24,492 [chains clinking] 1794 01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:30,890 Well, the sounds of those screeching chains 1795 01:16:30,934 --> 01:16:33,980 echoed through the Sunset Cemetery in Valdosta today 1796 01:16:34,024 --> 01:16:36,113 as Kendrick Johnson's grave 1797 01:16:36,156 --> 01:16:38,637 was exhumed for the second time. 1798 01:16:38,681 --> 01:16:41,945 The Johnson family is hoping a third autopsy 1799 01:16:41,988 --> 01:16:44,164 will help them figure out what happened 1800 01:16:44,208 --> 01:16:46,819 -to their son. -We're looking at the pictures. 1801 01:16:46,863 --> 01:16:49,343 There was an area on the right side of the chest 1802 01:16:49,387 --> 01:16:50,606 that looked like hemorrhage, 1803 01:16:50,649 --> 01:16:52,433 so we did a third autopsy. 1804 01:16:52,477 --> 01:16:55,523 It turns out, we used the same techniques we did before. 1805 01:16:55,567 --> 01:16:57,656 It did show that there had been blunt force trauma 1806 01:16:57,700 --> 01:16:59,179 to the right side of the chest. 1807 01:16:59,223 --> 01:17:01,529 So we had two areas of trauma for sure. 1808 01:17:01,573 --> 01:17:03,662 So I'm fairly confident that 1809 01:17:03,706 --> 01:17:05,577 we pretty much have the mechanism 1810 01:17:05,621 --> 01:17:08,014 of how this kid died. 1811 01:17:08,058 --> 01:17:12,062 So, when you went and you presented your evidence, 1812 01:17:12,105 --> 01:17:13,280 what happened? 1813 01:17:13,324 --> 01:17:18,068 We contacted the medical examiner in Georgia, 1814 01:17:18,111 --> 01:17:20,810 and the state attorney, 1815 01:17:20,853 --> 01:17:23,769 and I told them that we had the, 1816 01:17:23,813 --> 01:17:26,076 we had the photos, we had the microscopic slides, 1817 01:17:26,119 --> 01:17:29,688 and so forth, and the response we got was, 1818 01:17:29,732 --> 01:17:31,777 "We're not interested in looking at them." 1819 01:17:31,821 --> 01:17:34,650 Nobody has basically requested to look at the slides 1820 01:17:34,693 --> 01:17:37,740 except the US Attorney's office. 1821 01:17:37,783 --> 01:17:40,699 Clearly, there's something on these slides 1822 01:17:40,743 --> 01:17:42,832 that Dr. Anderson made 1823 01:17:42,875 --> 01:17:45,704 the state of Georgia doesn't want you to see. 1824 01:17:45,748 --> 01:17:48,011 So for the first time ever, 1825 01:17:48,054 --> 01:17:49,229 here they are. 1826 01:17:49,273 --> 01:17:51,579 You can see here, this is all dried out, 1827 01:17:51,623 --> 01:17:53,364 embalmed tissue. 1828 01:17:53,407 --> 01:17:57,281 Now, when we opened this area, we see this distinct area, 1829 01:17:57,324 --> 01:17:59,457 which I'm gonna use the cursor to show, 1830 01:17:59,500 --> 01:18:01,067 of hemorrhage. 1831 01:18:01,111 --> 01:18:02,982 That red coloration, 1832 01:18:03,026 --> 01:18:05,593 distinctly different than the other area. 1833 01:18:05,637 --> 01:18:08,205 Now this is the area under the microscope, 1834 01:18:08,248 --> 01:18:11,904 and we can see all these red 1835 01:18:11,948 --> 01:18:13,819 areas here. 1836 01:18:13,863 --> 01:18:15,299 Now the question then becomes, 1837 01:18:15,342 --> 01:18:17,605 "Well, are these really red blood cells?" 1838 01:18:17,649 --> 01:18:20,783 So that's when we do the immunohistochemistry, 1839 01:18:20,826 --> 01:18:26,005 and that's a picture of the immunostaining, we call it. 1840 01:18:26,049 --> 01:18:28,094 And the areas in brown, 1841 01:18:28,138 --> 01:18:30,270 that's the antibody picking up 1842 01:18:30,314 --> 01:18:32,751 the antigen, which is the hemoglobin. 1843 01:18:32,795 --> 01:18:35,449 So that's basically how we prove that this is actually 1844 01:18:35,493 --> 01:18:37,190 hemorrhaged not artifact, 1845 01:18:37,234 --> 01:18:39,976 and that made our diagnosis pretty firm 1846 01:18:40,019 --> 01:18:42,413 that this was an area of blunt force trauma to the neck. 1847 01:18:42,456 --> 01:18:47,200 I sent it to two other pathologists to look at myself 1848 01:18:47,244 --> 01:18:49,246 before we even came up with our decision. 1849 01:18:49,289 --> 01:18:50,508 And everyone agreed? 1850 01:18:50,551 --> 01:18:52,510 Yeah. 1851 01:18:52,553 --> 01:18:54,555 I mean, you just can't make a murder an accident 1852 01:18:54,599 --> 01:18:56,079 when it's a murder. 1853 01:18:56,122 --> 01:18:58,255 How can you? 1854 01:18:58,298 --> 01:19:00,823 Whatever's left of him's tellin' a story 1855 01:19:00,866 --> 01:19:04,130 that they're still tryin' to cover. 1856 01:19:04,174 --> 01:19:06,654 Kendrick is still speakin' from the grave. 1857 01:19:06,698 --> 01:19:08,352 So let me get this straight, 1858 01:19:08,395 --> 01:19:12,486 a 5 foot 10 kid decided to go head first 1859 01:19:12,530 --> 01:19:14,575 into a six-foot mat, 1860 01:19:14,619 --> 01:19:17,230 then realized after he was stuck 1861 01:19:17,274 --> 01:19:19,232 that he was gonna die down there, 1862 01:19:19,276 --> 01:19:22,496 and then he died down there, stuck, 1863 01:19:22,540 --> 01:19:25,586 somehow silently, with a gym full of kids 1864 01:19:25,630 --> 01:19:29,112 playing basketball and changing classes around him. 1865 01:19:29,155 --> 01:19:31,592 Then his shoes magically appeared 1866 01:19:31,636 --> 01:19:33,290 on the top of his body 1867 01:19:33,333 --> 01:19:36,815 inside the mat, shoved into the hole. 1868 01:19:36,859 --> 01:19:40,079 His legs became twisted in the mat. 1869 01:19:40,123 --> 01:19:43,343 And all of this happened in the middle of the school day 1870 01:19:43,387 --> 01:19:45,258 in a gym full of kids. 1871 01:19:45,302 --> 01:19:47,434 Then, somehow, the video tape 1872 01:19:47,478 --> 01:19:49,915 from only those moments is missing. 1873 01:19:49,959 --> 01:19:53,005 Then, Kendrick's organs go missing. 1874 01:19:53,049 --> 01:19:56,748 Seven judges recuse themselves. 1875 01:19:56,792 --> 01:20:00,404 The US attorney working on the case resigns, 1876 01:20:00,447 --> 01:20:02,885 and then your case moves to Ohio. 1877 01:20:02,928 --> 01:20:07,324 Then, it's officially closed by the justice department, 1878 01:20:07,367 --> 01:20:08,847 who tells you in a meeting 1879 01:20:08,891 --> 01:20:11,850 the crime scene has planted objects, 1880 01:20:11,894 --> 01:20:14,940 your autopsy report is correct, 1881 01:20:14,984 --> 01:20:16,986 your child was murdered, 1882 01:20:17,029 --> 01:20:19,771 and there's nothing else we can do about it. 1883 01:20:19,815 --> 01:20:23,427 One thing we kept hearing over and over again 1884 01:20:23,470 --> 01:20:27,257 was about this missing FBI report 1885 01:20:27,300 --> 01:20:30,260 regarding the security tape hard drive 1886 01:20:30,303 --> 01:20:32,566 and the blacked out footage. 1887 01:20:32,610 --> 01:20:34,786 So, we looked into finding that report 1888 01:20:34,830 --> 01:20:36,832 to see if we could locate it, 1889 01:20:36,875 --> 01:20:38,268 and we did. 1890 01:20:38,311 --> 01:20:41,227 However, the report was heavily redacted. 1891 01:20:41,271 --> 01:20:45,928 But then, we were able to find the un-redacted FBI report, 1892 01:20:45,971 --> 01:20:48,365 and what we discovered blew us away. 1893 01:20:48,408 --> 01:20:51,150 You see, in the redacted report, 1894 01:20:51,194 --> 01:20:53,979 you can barely see any of the video frames. 1895 01:20:54,023 --> 01:20:56,590 Most of the frames are blacked out, 1896 01:20:56,634 --> 01:21:00,464 and the ones with KJ are barely recognizable. 1897 01:21:00,507 --> 01:21:02,814 In the un-redacted report, 1898 01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:06,426 we were able to see all the video frames in full color. 1899 01:21:06,470 --> 01:21:10,909 The report follows KJ, Brian, and Brandon's movement 1900 01:21:10,953 --> 01:21:13,694 throughout the school for the entire day 1901 01:21:13,738 --> 01:21:15,914 and records where they were. 1902 01:21:15,958 --> 01:21:18,786 Not only is this further video evidence 1903 01:21:18,830 --> 01:21:21,267 that the Bell boys were on campus 1904 01:21:21,311 --> 01:21:23,400 when KJ went missing, 1905 01:21:23,443 --> 01:21:27,360 we found something that the FBI clearly didn't want us to see. 1906 01:21:27,404 --> 01:21:29,536 Let us put them side by side 1907 01:21:29,580 --> 01:21:31,843 so you can see what we found. 1908 01:21:31,887 --> 01:21:33,018 Here they are. 1909 01:21:33,062 --> 01:21:35,325 Can you see something a little odd? 1910 01:21:35,368 --> 01:21:36,587 Look closely. 1911 01:21:36,630 --> 01:21:39,938 There appears to be a frame on both pages 1912 01:21:39,982 --> 01:21:41,461 that matches. 1913 01:21:41,505 --> 01:21:42,767 How could this be? 1914 01:21:42,810 --> 01:21:46,510 What tipped us off is KJ's yellow folder. 1915 01:21:46,553 --> 01:21:49,469 We were going through Brian's movements, and all of a sudden, 1916 01:21:49,513 --> 01:21:52,516 KJ's folder appeared on screen. 1917 01:21:52,559 --> 01:21:55,780 That's right, there's a frame on KJ's side 1918 01:21:55,823 --> 01:21:57,738 and Brian's side 1919 01:21:57,782 --> 01:21:59,218 that is identical. 1920 01:21:59,262 --> 01:22:02,656 The boys are standing seemingly right next to each other 1921 01:22:02,700 --> 01:22:04,267 in the hallway. 1922 01:22:04,310 --> 01:22:09,837 ♪ 1923 01:22:09,881 --> 01:22:11,491 Did you see Kendrick that day? 1924 01:22:11,535 --> 01:22:14,277 No. 1925 01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:15,365 I did not. 1926 01:22:15,408 --> 01:22:17,802 Seeing the alleged killer of KJ 1927 01:22:17,845 --> 01:22:20,022 standing next to him in the hallway 1928 01:22:20,065 --> 01:22:22,198 the day he died in school 1929 01:22:22,241 --> 01:22:25,810 has sent chills down our spines. 1930 01:22:25,853 --> 01:22:28,204 How did no one see this frame? 1931 01:22:28,247 --> 01:22:31,120 How did the FBI let this go? 1932 01:22:31,163 --> 01:22:35,124 Why did it take six years and an independent filmmaker 1933 01:22:35,167 --> 01:22:36,995 to find this? 1934 01:22:37,039 --> 01:22:41,217 These are all questions that may never go answered. 1935 01:22:41,260 --> 01:22:43,741 But what we do know for sure 1936 01:22:43,784 --> 01:22:47,136 is that we have more facts now than we ever had, 1937 01:22:47,179 --> 01:22:50,269 and this case needs to be re-opened 1938 01:22:50,313 --> 01:22:51,792 and re-examined 1939 01:22:51,836 --> 01:22:55,492 with a fine-tooth comb. 1940 01:22:55,535 --> 01:22:58,843 After finding this game-changing evidence, 1941 01:22:58,886 --> 01:23:01,977 our crew flew to Georgia to show Kendrick's parents 1942 01:23:02,020 --> 01:23:03,717 as soon as possible. 1943 01:23:03,761 --> 01:23:05,806 ♪ 1944 01:23:07,417 --> 01:23:09,375 Had you seen that frame? 1945 01:23:09,419 --> 01:23:11,987 Mm-mm. 1946 01:23:12,030 --> 01:23:14,206 Can you believe that? 1947 01:23:14,250 --> 01:23:17,079 Mm-mm. 1948 01:23:17,122 --> 01:23:20,038 -Hm. -They are next to each other. 1949 01:23:20,082 --> 01:23:24,042 That's the morning of. 1950 01:23:24,086 --> 01:23:27,915 And that's in their own report. 1951 01:23:27,959 --> 01:23:30,875 And we have their paperwork. 1952 01:23:30,918 --> 01:23:33,182 And they saw that. 1953 01:23:39,101 --> 01:23:42,278 All the adults... 1954 01:23:42,321 --> 01:23:46,108 authorities and school personnel, 1955 01:23:46,151 --> 01:23:49,807 show you to the extent that 1956 01:23:49,850 --> 01:23:52,679 how much they covered up. 1957 01:23:52,723 --> 01:23:55,378 How are you feeling right now? 1958 01:23:55,421 --> 01:23:56,901 It's just crazy, just to let you know 1959 01:23:56,944 --> 01:23:59,556 we were right all along. 1960 01:24:02,037 --> 01:24:05,170 What do you think's gonna happen when we release this photograph? 1961 01:24:05,214 --> 01:24:07,694 They gonna try to come out with some more lies. 1962 01:24:07,738 --> 01:24:10,132 What do you think they're gonna say about it? 1963 01:24:10,175 --> 01:24:11,959 Somebody photo-cropped it. 1964 01:24:12,003 --> 01:24:13,091 In their own report? 1965 01:24:13,135 --> 01:24:14,701 In their own report. 1966 01:24:14,745 --> 01:24:17,226 All along, we know it was bullshit. 1967 01:24:17,269 --> 01:24:19,489 We know it was bullshit. 1968 01:24:27,323 --> 01:24:29,760 They pushed a real large 1969 01:24:29,803 --> 01:24:32,676 social media campaign against us, 1970 01:24:32,719 --> 01:24:35,548 about Kendrick and Brian didn't never see each other 1971 01:24:35,592 --> 01:24:37,768 none that day. 1972 01:24:37,811 --> 01:24:39,465 And it goes to show you, we was right, 1973 01:24:39,509 --> 01:24:41,946 they was lyin' the whole damn while. 1974 01:24:45,210 --> 01:24:48,561 Go grab myself a tissue. 1975 01:24:48,605 --> 01:24:52,087 Yeah, that's what they done. 1976 01:24:54,567 --> 01:24:57,396 After KJ's mom told our crew 1977 01:24:57,440 --> 01:24:59,137 she thought they were gonna say 1978 01:24:59,181 --> 01:25:01,052 that we faked this photo, 1979 01:25:01,096 --> 01:25:03,881 we decided to go back into the FBI's report 1980 01:25:03,924 --> 01:25:05,404 to see if there was anything else 1981 01:25:05,448 --> 01:25:07,580 we can show to prove it. 1982 01:25:07,624 --> 01:25:08,929 Lo and behold! 1983 01:25:08,973 --> 01:25:11,758 The page after the photo was a grid 1984 01:25:11,802 --> 01:25:16,023 that the FBI wrote describing each picture. 1985 01:25:16,067 --> 01:25:17,938 In their own words, 1986 01:25:17,982 --> 01:25:19,636 they wrote, 1987 01:25:19,679 --> 01:25:22,726 "KJ observed in covered walkway 1988 01:25:22,769 --> 01:25:24,684 moving towards camera. 1989 01:25:24,728 --> 01:25:28,558 Bell observed in same location at this time." 1990 01:25:28,601 --> 01:25:30,168 So there you have it. 1991 01:25:30,212 --> 01:25:33,954 The FBI not only included the photo 1992 01:25:33,998 --> 01:25:37,175 of Brian and Kendrick in their report, 1993 01:25:37,219 --> 01:25:41,136 they included a spreadsheet explaining the photos 1994 01:25:41,179 --> 01:25:43,964 that back up exactly what we are seeing, 1995 01:25:44,008 --> 01:25:48,099 KJ and Brian standing next to each other 1996 01:25:48,143 --> 01:25:51,146 the morning this all happened. 1997 01:25:51,189 --> 01:25:55,585 After showing our new evidence to the Johnson family, 1998 01:25:55,628 --> 01:25:58,631 we flew to D.C. to get a third-party perspective 1999 01:25:58,675 --> 01:26:02,157 on this FBI report from Mitch. 2000 01:26:02,200 --> 01:26:04,289 KJ and Brian 2001 01:26:04,333 --> 01:26:06,204 standing next to each other 2002 01:26:06,248 --> 01:26:09,076 the morning this all happened. 2003 01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:11,383 ♪ 2004 01:26:16,345 --> 01:26:18,129 Hold up. 2005 01:26:22,438 --> 01:26:25,615 I'm stuck. 2006 01:26:25,658 --> 01:26:29,706 I'm--No, really, I'm stuck because 2007 01:26:29,749 --> 01:26:35,102 if the footage was there, 2008 01:26:35,146 --> 01:26:38,236 and if the footage was there, 2009 01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:41,065 I don't recall seeing this footage. 2010 01:26:41,108 --> 01:26:44,024 And I clearly remember 2011 01:26:44,068 --> 01:26:47,854 goin' to the FBI office in Atlanta 2012 01:26:47,898 --> 01:26:51,641 when I first got involved in the case. 2013 01:26:51,684 --> 01:26:53,338 I don't, I don't, 2014 01:26:53,382 --> 01:26:55,340 I've never seen this. 2015 01:27:00,084 --> 01:27:02,913 Ugh, hold, hold, wait. 2016 01:27:05,307 --> 01:27:07,874 I don't ever recall seein' 2017 01:27:07,918 --> 01:27:10,834 KJ standin' near Brian Bell 2018 01:27:10,877 --> 01:27:12,357 with a yellow folder 2019 01:27:12,401 --> 01:27:13,402 in his hand. 2020 01:27:13,445 --> 01:27:16,927 And just based on the footage, 2021 01:27:16,970 --> 01:27:20,104 obviously, that's here, they're near each other. 2022 01:27:20,147 --> 01:27:23,716 It may be ten feet or closer. 2023 01:27:23,760 --> 01:27:26,632 I can see the public not seein' certain things. 2024 01:27:26,676 --> 01:27:29,287 I can see the family not seein' certain things. 2025 01:27:29,331 --> 01:27:33,073 But, as an investigator, 2026 01:27:33,117 --> 01:27:35,206 it bothers me 2027 01:27:35,250 --> 01:27:38,818 because it's somethin' that I should have seen. 2028 01:27:38,862 --> 01:27:43,780 And why wasn't I given the opportunity to see this? 2029 01:27:44,998 --> 01:27:47,740 I recall being told 2030 01:27:47,784 --> 01:27:50,874 that Brian Bell didn't see KJ that day. 2031 01:27:50,917 --> 01:27:55,052 And it's obvious just by lookin' at this footage, 2032 01:27:55,095 --> 01:27:57,707 that came from wherever it came from, 2033 01:27:57,750 --> 01:28:01,798 that they had to have seen each other that day. 2034 01:28:01,841 --> 01:28:03,408 And-- 2035 01:28:04,627 --> 01:28:07,891 Oh, wow, it-- 2036 01:28:07,934 --> 01:28:11,111 Hm. 2037 01:28:11,155 --> 01:28:13,810 Oh, man, I mean-- 2038 01:28:13,853 --> 01:28:15,986 Y'all got to excuse me, I'm a little messed up right now. 2039 01:28:16,029 --> 01:28:18,771 To know that I'm seein' something now 2040 01:28:18,815 --> 01:28:21,557 that I could not have seen back in 2015, 2041 01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:24,124 when I was involved in the investigation, 2042 01:28:24,168 --> 01:28:26,431 sort of kinda makes me think that-- 2043 01:28:26,475 --> 01:28:29,608 I wonder about some other things 2044 01:28:29,652 --> 01:28:31,610 I did not see, 2045 01:28:31,654 --> 01:28:34,352 or some other things that 2046 01:28:34,396 --> 01:28:37,312 maybe I wasn't supposed to see. 2047 01:28:37,355 --> 01:28:38,878 And when you're following the evidence, 2048 01:28:38,922 --> 01:28:41,403 and you're steered off in another direction, 2049 01:28:41,446 --> 01:28:43,796 and you miss evidence, 2050 01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:45,320 then that's most definitely is gonna 2051 01:28:45,363 --> 01:28:47,409 interfere with investigations. 2052 01:28:47,452 --> 01:28:48,975 If I'm one of the investigators on the case, 2053 01:28:49,019 --> 01:28:51,674 I should have seen this particular clip, 2054 01:28:51,717 --> 01:28:54,807 and it shouldn't be because what a filmmaker found 2055 01:28:54,851 --> 01:28:56,461 that I saw this. 2056 01:28:56,505 --> 01:29:00,552 How was this filmmaker able to see this particular evidence, 2057 01:29:00,596 --> 01:29:01,988 and I'm part of the investigation 2058 01:29:02,032 --> 01:29:03,425 and I never saw it before? 2059 01:29:03,468 --> 01:29:05,296 And I think that's what's troublesome to me, 2060 01:29:05,340 --> 01:29:07,559 to see something new. 2061 01:29:07,603 --> 01:29:09,213 I'm investigatin' the case, but I don't see it, 2062 01:29:09,256 --> 01:29:11,563 but someone, a filmmaker-- I mean no disrespect-- 2063 01:29:11,607 --> 01:29:13,826 but the filmmaker, he finds a piece of evidence 2064 01:29:13,870 --> 01:29:15,437 that I couldn't find. 2065 01:29:15,480 --> 01:29:17,047 It's troublesome to me, 2066 01:29:17,090 --> 01:29:20,964 and that's, and that's, and that's real. 2067 01:29:21,007 --> 01:29:22,008 Yeah, that's it, there ain't nothin' else 2068 01:29:22,052 --> 01:29:23,401 I can say about that. 2069 01:29:23,445 --> 01:29:29,755 ♪ 2070 01:29:29,799 --> 01:29:32,105 What do you think really happened? 2071 01:29:32,149 --> 01:29:33,890 ♪ 2072 01:29:33,933 --> 01:29:36,588 I think, 2073 01:29:36,632 --> 01:29:38,808 honestly, 2074 01:29:38,851 --> 01:29:42,159 I think it was a fight in the gym. 2075 01:29:42,202 --> 01:29:44,857 I wouldn't say Brian by hisself. 2076 01:29:44,901 --> 01:29:46,903 ♪ 2077 01:29:46,946 --> 01:29:48,774 I don't think he can beat him one on one. 2078 01:29:48,818 --> 01:29:50,123 You know what I'm sayin'? 2079 01:29:50,167 --> 01:29:53,736 I don't think he went right in the mat. 2080 01:29:53,779 --> 01:29:55,738 I think the mat was some shit that was done 2081 01:29:55,781 --> 01:29:58,175 after school hours, honestly. 2082 01:29:58,218 --> 01:30:00,612 I think they jumped him. 2083 01:30:00,656 --> 01:30:04,094 They jumped him, and they took it too far. 2084 01:30:04,137 --> 01:30:05,356 When you look at the investigation, 2085 01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:09,447 and you flip the script, you ask yourself if 2086 01:30:09,491 --> 01:30:12,668 one of the Bell boys 2087 01:30:12,711 --> 01:30:14,278 had died 2088 01:30:14,321 --> 01:30:16,759 and Kendrick was the suspect, 2089 01:30:16,802 --> 01:30:19,239 would the body parts be missing? 2090 01:30:19,283 --> 01:30:21,633 Would the case have been ruled an accident? 2091 01:30:21,677 --> 01:30:23,461 Would evidence have been missing? 2092 01:30:23,505 --> 01:30:25,898 Would the video--would timeline on the video tape 2093 01:30:25,942 --> 01:30:28,074 minutes, or whatever, would that have been missing? 2094 01:30:28,118 --> 01:30:30,120 Would an arrest not have been made? 2095 01:30:30,163 --> 01:30:31,600 They'd have found him that night 2096 01:30:31,643 --> 01:30:33,515 if he'd have been a white boy missin', 2097 01:30:33,558 --> 01:30:36,735 and then they would have done somethin' about it. 2098 01:30:36,779 --> 01:30:41,348 ♪ 2099 01:30:41,392 --> 01:30:43,046 Everybody in the United States 2100 01:30:43,089 --> 01:30:46,441 should have the protection of their rights under the law, 2101 01:30:46,484 --> 01:30:48,834 and this includes police officers. 2102 01:30:48,878 --> 01:30:50,183 There are situations where, 2103 01:30:50,227 --> 01:30:52,490 because of certain circumstances, 2104 01:30:52,534 --> 01:30:54,623 police officers who are doing their duty, 2105 01:30:54,666 --> 01:30:57,277 become the victims of wrongful lawsuits 2106 01:30:57,321 --> 01:30:58,975 or wrongful prosecutions. 2107 01:30:59,018 --> 01:31:01,760 Ed Meese, the US attorney general 2108 01:31:01,804 --> 01:31:03,893 during Regan's presidency, 2109 01:31:03,936 --> 01:31:07,723 is one of the leaders of a group who works behind the scenes, 2110 01:31:07,766 --> 01:31:09,289 paying legal costs, 2111 01:31:09,333 --> 01:31:11,901 and providing other forms of assistance 2112 01:31:11,944 --> 01:31:14,033 to law enforcement officials 2113 01:31:14,077 --> 01:31:16,601 accused of heinous crimes. 2114 01:31:16,645 --> 01:31:19,212 Even after Rick Bell lost his job, 2115 01:31:19,256 --> 01:31:21,040 they were helping him and his family 2116 01:31:21,084 --> 01:31:24,043 in their legal battles concerning KJ. 2117 01:31:24,087 --> 01:31:27,656 What this means is that while KJ's body 2118 01:31:27,699 --> 01:31:30,223 is busy being exhumed again, 2119 01:31:30,267 --> 01:31:33,531 Brian Bell is able to play division I football. 2120 01:31:33,575 --> 01:31:37,187 But this inequality suffered by KJ and his family 2121 01:31:37,230 --> 01:31:39,842 is nothing new to Black Americans. 2122 01:31:39,885 --> 01:31:42,714 It's only now with cell phone cameras 2123 01:31:42,758 --> 01:31:44,629 and police body cams 2124 01:31:44,673 --> 01:31:49,460 that we are actually able to see how this inequity plays out. 2125 01:31:49,504 --> 01:31:51,418 Hands on the car, I'm gonna shoot you in your ... head. 2126 01:31:51,462 --> 01:31:53,029 You understand me? 2127 01:31:53,072 --> 01:31:54,944 Don't you ... move, I'm a shoot you in your ... head, 2128 01:31:54,987 --> 01:31:55,945 you hear me? 2129 01:31:55,988 --> 01:31:57,424 Don't you ... move! 2130 01:31:57,468 --> 01:32:00,558 When Black men are choked for selling cigarettes, 2131 01:32:00,602 --> 01:32:02,560 or walking in the street, 2132 01:32:02,604 --> 01:32:04,257 white mass murderers 2133 01:32:04,301 --> 01:32:06,172 are gingerly arrested 2134 01:32:06,216 --> 01:32:09,175 and fed hamburgers by the police. 2135 01:32:09,219 --> 01:32:11,569 If KJ had been white, 2136 01:32:11,613 --> 01:32:13,876 we wouldn't have had to make this film. 2137 01:32:13,919 --> 01:32:16,879 Imagine it had been Brian Bell 2138 01:32:16,922 --> 01:32:19,229 wrapped up in a gym mat. 2139 01:32:19,272 --> 01:32:21,100 Would his organs have been replaced 2140 01:32:21,144 --> 01:32:23,712 by newspaper in his body? 2141 01:32:23,755 --> 01:32:26,671 Would security footage have gone missing? 2142 01:32:26,715 --> 01:32:29,152 Everyone in Valdosta knows 2143 01:32:29,195 --> 01:32:31,589 there's much more to this story 2144 01:32:31,633 --> 01:32:34,200 than what is in that official report, 2145 01:32:34,244 --> 01:32:37,552 but no one seems to care because to them, 2146 01:32:37,595 --> 01:32:39,423 kids like Kendrick 2147 01:32:39,466 --> 01:32:40,555 don't matter. 2148 01:32:40,598 --> 01:32:43,383 Their lives and stories don't matter. 2149 01:32:43,427 --> 01:32:47,605 And certainly, their deaths don't matter 2150 01:32:47,649 --> 01:32:52,044 except they do matter. 2151 01:32:52,088 --> 01:32:53,393 -Ugh. -What do you want? 2152 01:32:53,437 --> 01:32:55,178 I can't breathe! 2153 01:32:55,221 --> 01:32:56,962 Please, the knee in my neck. 2154 01:32:57,006 --> 01:32:59,095 I can't breathe, shit. 2155 01:32:59,138 --> 01:33:00,879 Well, get up, get in the car, man. 2156 01:33:00,923 --> 01:33:02,489 -I will! -Get up, get in the car! 2157 01:33:02,533 --> 01:33:03,708 -I can't move! -I've been watching 2158 01:33:03,752 --> 01:33:05,928 -the whole thing, man. -Ah! 2159 01:33:05,971 --> 01:33:08,539 -Get up and get in the car! -Mama! 2160 01:33:08,583 --> 01:33:10,976 In the summer of 2020, 2161 01:33:11,020 --> 01:33:12,761 a man named George Floyd 2162 01:33:12,804 --> 01:33:15,285 died on camera screaming, 2163 01:33:15,328 --> 01:33:17,330 "I can't breathe" 2164 01:33:17,374 --> 01:33:20,638 while a police officer kept his knee on his neck 2165 01:33:20,682 --> 01:33:23,162 for nine straight minutes, 2166 01:33:23,206 --> 01:33:24,990 an eerie throwback 2167 01:33:25,034 --> 01:33:27,689 to Eric Garner's last moments. 2168 01:33:27,732 --> 01:33:30,430 This video of George went super viral. 2169 01:33:30,474 --> 01:33:33,695 Around the same time, a woman named Breonna Taylor 2170 01:33:33,738 --> 01:33:35,348 was killed in her home 2171 01:33:35,392 --> 01:33:39,918 by police during a botched raid in the middle of the night. 2172 01:33:39,962 --> 01:33:43,400 A public already angry about the coronavirus 2173 01:33:43,443 --> 01:33:47,317 responded en masse to support these victims. 2174 01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:51,234 A wave of protests filled the streets worldwide 2175 01:33:51,277 --> 01:33:54,933 to support George and Breonna's justice. 2176 01:33:54,977 --> 01:33:57,283 Waves of peaceful protestors marched on 2177 01:33:57,327 --> 01:33:59,068 bigger than ever before. 2178 01:33:59,111 --> 01:34:00,112 No more silence! 2179 01:34:00,156 --> 01:34:01,810 -No justice! -No peace! 2180 01:34:01,853 --> 01:34:05,291 From Washington's newly named Black Lives Matter Plaza... 2181 01:34:05,335 --> 01:34:07,293 Justice for George Floyd! 2182 01:34:07,337 --> 01:34:09,644 ...to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, 2183 01:34:09,687 --> 01:34:10,601 to Philadelphia... 2184 01:34:10,645 --> 01:34:12,472 This renewed interest 2185 01:34:12,516 --> 01:34:14,170 into heinous cover-ups 2186 01:34:14,213 --> 01:34:16,520 of Black death in this country, 2187 01:34:16,563 --> 01:34:18,565 led to the public once again 2188 01:34:18,609 --> 01:34:22,004 pushing KJ's name out into the conversation. 2189 01:34:22,047 --> 01:34:24,571 Jacquelyn Johnson says justice was never served 2190 01:34:24,615 --> 01:34:26,617 in the death of her son, Kendrick. 2191 01:34:26,661 --> 01:34:28,140 Now, with the help of a petitions 2192 01:34:28,184 --> 01:34:30,665 and big-name celebrities, she has hope. 2193 01:34:30,708 --> 01:34:34,799 People just don't understand how hard it is to 2194 01:34:34,843 --> 01:34:38,063 lose a child, but to lose one to murder, 2195 01:34:38,107 --> 01:34:39,412 senseless murder. 2196 01:34:39,456 --> 01:34:42,067 Everyone started posting about KJ, 2197 01:34:42,111 --> 01:34:45,375 and his story became headline news again 2198 01:34:45,418 --> 01:34:48,378 in the wake of this new movement happening. 2199 01:34:48,421 --> 01:34:50,685 A petition starting the year before 2200 01:34:50,728 --> 01:34:53,165 in support of KJ's justice 2201 01:34:53,209 --> 01:34:54,819 began to go viral. 2202 01:34:54,863 --> 01:34:57,648 During the summer of 2020, 2203 01:34:57,692 --> 01:35:02,566 over 1.7 million people signed KJ's petition. 2204 01:35:02,609 --> 01:35:04,481 But because we were a Black people, 2205 01:35:04,524 --> 01:35:06,439 a Black family, 2206 01:35:06,483 --> 01:35:09,268 and they thought we was this Black poor family 2207 01:35:09,312 --> 01:35:11,227 that wasn't gonna do nothin', they done already said, 2208 01:35:11,270 --> 01:35:12,968 "Yeah, we gonna get 'em a couple of dollars 2209 01:35:13,011 --> 01:35:14,491 and they just gonna go away." 2210 01:35:14,534 --> 01:35:17,973 Your dollars don't mean nothin' compared to that body. 2211 01:35:18,016 --> 01:35:21,541 That was mine, that's mine. 2212 01:35:21,585 --> 01:35:31,551 ♪ 2213 01:35:31,595 --> 01:35:33,249 [sighing] 2214 01:35:33,292 --> 01:35:37,035 ♪ 2215 01:35:37,079 --> 01:35:39,821 Baby boy, we're doin' it for ya. 2216 01:35:39,864 --> 01:35:42,214 We ain't lettin' nothin' stop us! 2217 01:35:42,258 --> 01:35:46,566 ♪ 2218 01:35:46,610 --> 01:35:47,829 I had to come check on ya. 2219 01:35:47,872 --> 01:35:49,352 I ain't been out here in a while, 2220 01:35:49,395 --> 01:35:51,180 since your birthday. 2221 01:35:54,052 --> 01:35:55,575 We gonna keep raisin' Hell 2222 01:35:55,619 --> 01:35:58,317 'till we get justice for ya, baby. 2223 01:35:58,361 --> 01:36:00,755 [rain pattering] 2224 01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:07,805 He used to be the happiest child 2225 01:36:07,849 --> 01:36:09,851 about goin' to Lowndes High School. 2226 01:36:09,894 --> 01:36:11,983 That child loved goin' to school. 2227 01:36:12,027 --> 01:36:14,203 I could call his name one time, he would get up, 2228 01:36:14,246 --> 01:36:16,553 even though he wasn't a morning person. 2229 01:36:16,596 --> 01:36:19,034 We was always close, everybody really. 2230 01:36:19,077 --> 01:36:21,297 But me and him was the closest 'cause we was the youngest, 2231 01:36:21,340 --> 01:36:23,865 and we always had to be home. 2232 01:36:23,908 --> 01:36:26,345 Kendrick would just go in there and dive on her back 2233 01:36:26,389 --> 01:36:27,869 and just make her so mad, 2234 01:36:27,912 --> 01:36:29,740 and she'd get up and chase him through the house, 2235 01:36:29,784 --> 01:36:32,134 and just--He was just the joy of our life. 2236 01:36:32,177 --> 01:36:34,310 You know, when I tell you we was a crazy family, 2237 01:36:34,353 --> 01:36:35,615 we used to wrestle through the house, 2238 01:36:35,659 --> 01:36:37,574 we used to have water fights. 2239 01:36:37,617 --> 01:36:40,446 Laughing, cuttin' jokes, 2240 01:36:40,490 --> 01:36:41,839 that's all we really did. 2241 01:36:41,883 --> 01:36:46,017 It was never a dull moment at all with Kendrick. 2242 01:36:46,061 --> 01:36:48,933 Respectful, loved his family, loved his daddy. 2243 01:36:48,977 --> 01:36:52,719 Loved his daddy, oh, my God, them two. 2244 01:36:52,763 --> 01:36:56,593 I said, "Boy, wake me up at such and such time." 2245 01:36:56,636 --> 01:36:58,769 And he'll wake me up. 2246 01:36:58,813 --> 01:37:00,771 That time come, he wake me up. 2247 01:37:00,815 --> 01:37:03,861 I miss it, I miss that little boy. 2248 01:37:03,905 --> 01:37:05,994 ♪ 2249 01:37:06,037 --> 01:37:07,386 For people that don't understand 2250 01:37:07,430 --> 01:37:09,519 what it's like to lose a sibling, 2251 01:37:09,562 --> 01:37:12,087 what do you say to them? 2252 01:37:12,130 --> 01:37:16,613 Oh, tell your sibling that you love 'em every day, 2253 01:37:16,656 --> 01:37:18,093 every single day. 2254 01:37:18,136 --> 01:37:20,269 It don't matter if y'all mad, 2255 01:37:20,312 --> 01:37:21,966 y'all disagreein'. 2256 01:37:22,010 --> 01:37:23,663 ♪ 2257 01:37:23,707 --> 01:37:27,145 Make sure you tell your whole family 2258 01:37:27,189 --> 01:37:28,581 that you love 'em 2259 01:37:28,625 --> 01:37:31,933 'cause anything can happen. 2260 01:37:31,976 --> 01:37:34,413 You can wake up the next day 2261 01:37:34,457 --> 01:37:36,154 and they gone. 2262 01:37:36,198 --> 01:37:38,113 You can be livin' with 'em your whole life, 2263 01:37:38,156 --> 01:37:39,462 and the next day, 2264 01:37:39,505 --> 01:37:42,857 you can't even tell 'em that you love 'em. 2265 01:37:42,900 --> 01:37:46,208 You can't even tell 'em that you miss 'em. 2266 01:37:46,251 --> 01:37:48,253 To be without Kendrick on Christmas Day 2267 01:37:48,297 --> 01:37:49,951 and his birthdays. 2268 01:37:49,994 --> 01:37:52,475 I see people every day 2269 01:37:52,518 --> 01:37:53,955 take their family 2270 01:37:53,998 --> 01:37:56,740 for granted, 2271 01:37:56,783 --> 01:37:58,698 and I be tryin' to tell 'em 2272 01:37:58,742 --> 01:38:00,265 you can't do that. 2273 01:38:00,309 --> 01:38:02,528 ♪ 2274 01:38:02,572 --> 01:38:05,183 'Cause you end up in my situation, 2275 01:38:05,227 --> 01:38:08,186 you ain't gonna know how to walk in my shoes. 2276 01:38:08,230 --> 01:38:12,234 You ain't gonna be able to be as strong as me and my people is. 2277 01:38:12,277 --> 01:38:16,368 Everybody ain't built to handle what we goin' through. 2278 01:38:16,412 --> 01:38:19,284 My husband said that one day he was in the bed 2279 01:38:19,328 --> 01:38:20,938 after Kendrick died, 2280 01:38:20,982 --> 01:38:22,592 and he could literally feel 2281 01:38:22,635 --> 01:38:25,290 Kendrick gettin' in the bed behind him and layin' down 2282 01:38:25,334 --> 01:38:27,031 with him because that's the stuff they use to 2283 01:38:27,075 --> 01:38:29,947 sit in the bed and watch football together. 2284 01:38:29,991 --> 01:38:33,603 I never thought that I'd have to live without my, 2285 01:38:33,646 --> 01:38:36,475 neither one of my brothers, so 2286 01:38:36,519 --> 01:38:38,521 it bein' my brother, 2287 01:38:38,564 --> 01:38:40,349 the one that I'm 2288 01:38:40,392 --> 01:38:42,307 the closest to, 2289 01:38:42,351 --> 01:38:45,093 that's very devastating. 2290 01:38:45,136 --> 01:38:47,878 Always gotta 2291 01:38:47,922 --> 01:38:49,749 love your people. 2292 01:38:49,793 --> 01:38:54,711 Can't never let nothing simple tear y'all apart. 2293 01:38:54,754 --> 01:38:56,408 Son, I love you, 2294 01:38:56,452 --> 01:38:58,106 and I know you know that. 2295 01:38:58,149 --> 01:39:01,239 And you left us because you knew 2296 01:39:01,283 --> 01:39:03,720 that you had two parents that was gonna 2297 01:39:03,763 --> 01:39:05,635 always fight for you, 2298 01:39:05,678 --> 01:39:07,985 and you knew we wasn't goin' nowhere 2299 01:39:08,029 --> 01:39:09,552 until we get it right, 2300 01:39:09,595 --> 01:39:12,685 'till you make sure somebody's held accountable. 2301 01:39:12,729 --> 01:39:14,165 Well, brother, 2302 01:39:14,209 --> 01:39:16,124 I just wanna let you know 2303 01:39:16,167 --> 01:39:20,215 that I love you whole lot. 2304 01:39:20,258 --> 01:39:23,435 That'll never change. 2305 01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:24,871 I miss you. 2306 01:39:24,915 --> 01:39:28,005 Kendrick, we miss you, 2307 01:39:28,049 --> 01:39:31,226 and we know that justice is gonna be done, 2308 01:39:31,269 --> 01:39:32,836 and we know that your spirit 2309 01:39:32,879 --> 01:39:35,317 is stirred up and you're not restin'. 2310 01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:39,103 I give my life before I let this case go. 2311 01:39:39,147 --> 01:39:43,760 You know, me and you was like two peas in a pod. 2312 01:39:43,803 --> 01:39:46,676 Nothin' can break us apart. 2313 01:39:46,719 --> 01:39:49,896 I hear your voice, 2314 01:39:49,940 --> 01:39:52,247 and I thank you for the many nights 2315 01:39:52,290 --> 01:39:55,424 that I would of had overslept in my truck. 2316 01:39:55,467 --> 01:39:57,034 Even today, 2317 01:39:57,078 --> 01:40:01,517 when I used to have you sittin' in the front seat, 2318 01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:04,868 while I was takin' a nap and you used to wake me up, 2319 01:40:04,911 --> 01:40:07,392 you used to always be pokin' on me, "Dad, Dad, 2320 01:40:07,436 --> 01:40:08,567 it's time to go, it's time to go." 2321 01:40:08,611 --> 01:40:11,092 I can still hear that same voice. 2322 01:40:11,135 --> 01:40:12,919 Thank you. 2323 01:40:12,963 --> 01:40:14,530 Even through goin' through all of this, 2324 01:40:14,573 --> 01:40:16,140 God is just still so good. 2325 01:40:16,184 --> 01:40:19,187 He gives us strength, He gives power to endure, 2326 01:40:19,230 --> 01:40:21,319 knowin' the truth gonna come for you, Kendrick. 2327 01:40:21,363 --> 01:40:22,712 It's comin'. 2328 01:40:22,755 --> 01:40:25,193 It is comin'! 2329 01:40:25,236 --> 01:40:27,760 Until we meet again, 2330 01:40:27,804 --> 01:40:30,067 I always love you, son. 2331 01:40:30,111 --> 01:40:32,026 And we okay down here. 2332 01:40:32,069 --> 01:40:34,289 You ain't gotta worry about us. 2333 01:40:34,332 --> 01:40:35,899 We strong 2334 01:40:35,942 --> 01:40:37,509 'cause we got the most 2335 01:40:37,553 --> 01:40:41,122 beautiful angel watchin' over us. 2336 01:40:41,165 --> 01:40:42,645 I love ya. 2337 01:40:42,688 --> 01:40:44,734 That'll never change. 2338 01:40:44,777 --> 01:40:47,693 ♪ 2339 01:40:47,737 --> 01:40:50,957 Your name's gonna be known all over this world. 2340 01:40:51,001 --> 01:40:53,612 We love you, and you rest. 2341 01:40:53,656 --> 01:40:55,788 We'll see you one day. 2342 01:40:55,832 --> 01:41:05,755 ♪