and i m gonna address theunited states of america. gary: there s no doubt that night. it was a textbook procedure. i had no choice. i was forced to take a life. i was a white cop whoshot a black 16-year-old. (protestors chanting) natacha: i would like toaddress all law enforcement across the country and around the world. honor the oath. (dramatic music) gary: the other officerskept repeating: he did the right thing.he had no choice. it was a good shoot. reporter: the death ofphillip pannell brought rage the streets of normallypeaceful teaneck, new jersey. m2: this was middle-classmodel city, american. alison: we live in teaneck.this doesn t happen in teaneck. w2: it wasn t the utopia ithought it was for many people. (dramatic music) thelma: we enduredthis pain for 30 years, now we re back here again. crowd: yeah, (music) natacha: on my honor,i will never betray my integrity forthe public trust. m3: the fact of the matter isphillip pannell was executed. m4: i don t care how
the conviction that children who play and learn with others of different races and nationalities will grow up intotolerant adults. r 3: teaneck, new jersey, a nice place to visit anda great place to live. thelma: we was lookingat different houses in different towns. but this particular house,we fell in love with. natacha: it was amazing. it was so amazing. we had a fairytalechildhood. thelma: teaneck was my serenity, a place that i wanted tobe, and a place that when i cameout of my door, we, people spoke. we always spoketo each other. we always said good morning. natacha: this, this roomright here, was my parents room.
we heard like all these,like a herd of footsteps, just running up the stepsand then i was all happy. so i m thinking like,okay, that s clint. you know, maybe he brought hisfriends with him or whatever. thelma: and thenthe doorbell ring. these four boys,his friends came to the door. steven: so i getto the house and, natacha loves me.when i get there. biggest smile. i ll get it,biggest smile was on her face. (sobbing) she can see my face. like i said, she can see my face. i never forget that smile.being wiped off her face, right then.and there, she right. she turned around,she said, mama and she ran to goget her mother. (music) thelma: they said, mrs.pannell, mrs. pannell, phil got shot.phil got shot. i said is hedead? he dead? they said they dtaken him to the
the bottom window, all the way to your farleft was my bedroom and if you look up stairs,it was my brother s room. we lived here for about maybeeight to ten years, i think. thelma: when we got this house, i thought that i was in heaven. i just said lord i always wanted something for my children, notto grow up the way i came up. i mean it- we wasa happy family. my son, his name wasphillip clinton pannell. but most of thepeople that knew him, they called himphil, a little phil. now, the family is the only one really that called him clint. natacha: my brother wasfour years older than me. i looked up to myolder brother in ways that i knew that hewas my protector. i always wantedto do what he did, you know and whathis friends did,
(sobbing) natacha: i heardwhat the doctor said, but then i didn t believewhat the doctor said. when we saw him lyingthere, and again, i was 13. so i m thinking likehe was going to get up, like, he was asleep. so, i m like,shaking his body and trying to push himup and get him up. so then that s when the,the first nurse said no, you can t do that. i went to my brother s head. and i saw grass in his hair. so i started picking thegrass out of his hair. the nurse, she was followingme around his body. she slapped my hand. she was like, i toldyou, you can t do that. and i said,what are you talking about? i can t do.i can t touch my brother. she said, no.and i was like, why? and she was likebecause it s evidence. thelma: and all these copsstill standing in front of the the, the room that we werestanding to see the body. they all these police officers, so many of them, so many of them.