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
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
william broughton: icontacted the policeheadquarters to to see what s going on. as soon as ispoke to them, they were kindof under siege, you know,people were at the front door, (music) john holl: i got acall from dennis calo, who was the firstassistant prosecutor in my office and he saidboss, you better get up here, we have a situation. reporter: and angeryfriends of phillip pannell, in front of police calling theshooting cold-blooded murder. a brick hurled fromthe crowd crashed through a police car window. officers retreatedbehind the police tape and two units were removed. reporter2: phillip ssister natacha came here to the scene inshock and disbelief it was almost beyondher comprehension. natacha: it wasa bad dream. i was thinking itwas a bad dream. people were milling around the police station because there was really a, a lack
i was with the police chief. and we were insidethe council chambers of teaneck and things started to get raucous outside. (protestors chanting justice now, justice now.) for some reason ididn t feel right. i started to walkaway and as i walked away i heard a lot ofshouting and screaming. (crowd shouting) steven: people were leaving, and all of a sudden policecame out with shields. natacha: and i waslike telling them, we have a permit to march downthe street to where phillip was killed and the policewouldn t let us go. walter fields:police from almost every community in bergen county arrived in riot gear, and when i saw that, i knew that there was goingto be a problem because the kids as expected, we re very emotional, many of phil sfriends were there.
i would come over, like,every saturday morning. it was like,i think we watched college football and play video games, natacha would be there. every saturday morning iwould sit there with them. phil s house wasdefinitely the place to go, playing in his backyard and, you know, just everything.and then natacha there, a little sister,would bother us. shawn: we lookedup to phil. i did because he was older, handsome, you know,the girls kinda liked him, you know, and he wasalways smiling, always, you know,always in the good spirits. thelma: he was mostlyan outside kid. he wanted to get withhis friends or they used to come in front ofhis house all the time. those bicycles was lining up. steven: we just had thefreedom to go anywhere inteaneck. like, we play baseballlike in the schoolyard played football and, and the church, and in the churchgrass. batron: um,there s a trail right across the street righton forest avenue, we used to ride our bikes. used to be dirt,dirt bike trails, so we, sort