Copwatch Page #5

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Be mentally prepared.

Play the game

because right now they hold the cards.

The man who inspired

the movement, faces the prospect

of no longer being able to cop watch.

Ramsey knows this.

We've had this conversation with him

very seriously many, many times.

This case has to be

resolved at some point.

Do I expect that all the police officers

will be saying nothing,

but all the truth? No.

I assume the police officers

are going to be lying on the stand

to get done what they want,

to get done what they think

is in their interest.

If everything went wrong,

118 years maximum.

He's theoretically facing 118 years.

For some, Ramsey is a

career-criminal hiding behind allegations

of NYPD brutality.

To others, he's a hero.

I exposed, literally,

the modern-day lynching.

That's what happened.

They choked him to death.

I don't regret it, but I don't want

to be dealing with this sh*t.

I'm about to go give up some time

of my life for taking a video.

It's going to be a rough ride,

but hopefully I've

got my head on my shoulders

by the time I get in there.

What's the worst it can be now?

What's the worst?

Death.

Pretty much.

You'll probably be doing me a favor

because I ain't gotta go

through this bullshit

that I'm going through now.

I had a great career.

I did, I had a great career.

For Detective Miranda, the

criminal justice system is out of control.

He's seen the prison population of America

increase by two million people

and maintains each

arrest, trial and conviction

helps hit a financial target.

People make money from this whole process.

This is a money-making system.

The summons generate income,

the arrests generate an entire system.

When you arrest somebody,

everybody is making money.

The courts make money,

the jails make money,

the court officers make money,

the correction officers make money.

It's a money-generating system

that nobody wants

to correct the imbalance,

because if you make it fair,

then there won't be as much

income in the system.

That's just the reality of it.

There's not enough...

The city won't make

the same amount of money.

I think Copwatch should be everybody.

I think everybody who owns a camera now,

everyone who owns a cellphone

should be a part of Copwatch.

Every time you see something going on,

you should take the picture.

Despite the cop watcher's video,

Christen Conyers is back in court today.

If convicted, he faces

a one-year sentence.

Go in there and do

what you got to do today, man.

Behave and do a good job today.

All right? No complaints, all right?

- All right?

- Okay.

Give me some.

See you later.

Who's going to pick me up

from school today?

Huh?

Who's going to pick me up

from school today?

Either me or mommy should be able

to pick you up. All right?

If anything, at the most, Grandpa.

But it'll probably be me and mommy,

all right?

All right.

I love you. See you later.

Go ahead, man.

This seems a community

more divided than united by the police.

This is the view

from my son's bedroom.

Police sitting right here.

They're here every day,

day and night, 24/7.

Think about it. They're right here.

It's almost like an invasion

of your privacy.

It's supposed to be New York City

public housing, you know?

But when you come home,

they sit right outside your window.

You're not free.

Who's anyone to say that you're free

walking around in New York City

or anywhere in America right now?

I mean, especially being a black man.

Do you think...

Do you see that it's round?

Because you have no glasses.

I can't see from here.

How do you see all of this from down here?

Because he got them good ol' glasses.

And I can see without it.

Just imagine if those videos wasn't there,

you would have been still in jail.

People need to wake up.

We gonna be all right.

I just don't want to keep loosing you.

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