said instead of treating mr. chamberlain like a critically ill patient, you treated him like a criminal suspect. so with this film and the fact that it s coming out now, i often tell people thing one thing i want this film to do if nothing else is let it be a teaching tool of what not to do. yeah, amen. morgan freeman, i hadn t heard of this either. i don t know if you were familiar with the story before. i m from new york as well, and it does feel like there are just too many stories to tell. you know? what do you hope comes out of this story? well, we re going to have to readdress the whole idea of law enforcement, of police work. that legend on the card that says protect and serve is just there. it doesn t mean anything to the people around in those cars, i
it was just so profound. and such an intuitive force for franky, and the story is so immediate. it s a true story of this man that the movie is based on that truth. and it s just, i don t know, it brings out, again, such an unnecessary situation when we re involving police in a situation that does not call for any police. kenneth s inadvertent triggering of his 911 life alert thing should not have triggered anything that would lead to his death unless he was in some sort of health problem, and he wasn t. this is just why we shouldn t send the police to do a job they re not trained to do. yeah, indeed. and mr. chamberlain jr., my
appropriate thing. he felt the people didn t believe it and the law didn t contemplate. i wouldn t worry about this decision. he cares about the safety and people of california and very much about the law of california. former governor, jerry brown, former california governor, jerry brown, thank you so much. next, executive producer morgan freeman joins me next to talk about his new movie based on the events surrounding the killing of kenneth chamberlain. there he is. we ll be right back. be right ba.
but you re joining us on the phone. your performance was absolute genius. it was so raw, so visceral. it was heartbreaking. talk about how you approached, you know, playing a real man with a story that we can all read. talk about your approach in playing this man. well, first of all, thank you for having me on the show and hello, everyone. first of all, i would just like to say it s the writing of the writer, david. when i got this script, i knew nothing about kenneth chamberlain, nothing about the incident, and i live in new jersey, which shows that it didn t really have very far reaching publicity, it was not publicized. it was kept kind of quiet. i read the script and i was immediately drawn to the character. it s something in this piece that just really connects to me, and i really want to tell that story, having no idea about the impact of this story and this
don t think. we have to get fully behind the idea of retraining, police being this whole thing being rethought. sending police to a situation as it happened with kenneth chamberlain. it was just ridiculous. just stupid, and then when the police got there, they were even stupider. it s so unnecessary. we could certainly do something about it. and the best way to do anything about it, however, is to put people in office who are willing to do something about it. yeah. indeed, mr. fason, what was it like when you finally met the family? a little bit of time left. well, when i finally met the family, it was so amazing for me