is white was killed during a traffic stop on june 23rd. brittain s family says he was unarmed and holding a jug of anti-freeze he was intending to put behind his truck tire to stop it from rolling into the police car. that s when he was shot by a deputy. and that deputy who was also white has been fired for violating policy by not turning on his body-worn camera before the incident. i want to bring in jessie brittain, hunter brittain s uncle, and civil rights attorney ben crump who s representing hunter brittain s family. i m happy to have both of you here but not under these circumstances. but i do want this story to be shared. jessie, i m so sorry this happened to your nephew. and you have been calling for justice. but the police haven t given out many details. what answers are you looking for still from these authorities? we re looking for any answers. we have not they have not released one single thing to us. we re still completely in the dark.
we speak that you re the nicest of men, but nobody wants to meet you. nobody wants to be the person to have to call you and talk about what has happened. and i just want to ask you, how important is it that this fight for reform is extending across racial lines? it s critical, laura. i still pray every day that i can close the police brutality division of my law firm because that means i wouldn t meet jessie, who s brokenhearted, or tamika palmer, breonna s mother, or christian hall s parents because these are so unnecessary and preventable deaths if we had accountability, we had the george floyd justice in policing act passed. and i believe, laura coates, that hunter brittain is going to help in a profound way to
that s when he was shot by a deputy. and that deputy who was also white has been fired for violating policy by not turning on his body worn camera before the incident. i want to bring in jessie brittain and ben crump. i m happy to have you both here but not under these circumstances. jessie, i m so sorry this happened to your nephew. you ve been calling for justice, but the police haven t given out many details. what answers are you looking for still from these authorities? we re looking for any answers. we have not they have not released one single thing to us. we re still completely in the dark. what we have is the testimony from the boys and this is murder from what the boys are telling us and we haven t got anything from them.
police. qualified immunity must end in this country. jessie, that officer has been fired, but are you confident the officer who killed your nephew, hunter, that he will be held accountable? yes, ma am, i will not rest until he is held accountable. this is this can t go on like this. this qualified immunity, it must end for law enforcement. it just gives them the right to go out and do whatever they want and kill whoever they want with no with impunity. yes, ma am. ben, i always say to you when we speak that you re the nicest of men, but nobody wants to meet you. nobody wants to be the person to have to call you and talk about what has happened and i just
latino, to all say, america, we are better than this. jessie, can you tell me one thing that you want people to know about hunter. this was someone you loved. what do people know about him? he was an awesome boy. he was full of love. he was out busting his butt this summer working, get him some money saved up. he was becoming a young man. he was going to graduate this next year. he wanted to be a nascar driver. and i was going to help him get there. but he was working. i was putting him through school and he was working hard to achieve his goals. and i really believe he would have been a nascar driver if this had not happened to him. i m sorry for your loss. something tells me that he will drive us towards change, though. thank you, both. we ll be right back.