into that wrestling mat and that helps our case. and men, the unrefacted case file was released today. is there anything significant so far in what you ve seen? well, we re still going through it. we literally just get 400 pages of unredacted information. we want the right to solve this murder mystery for mr. and mrs. son as to what happened to their child. so the fact we have the names and identity that can help us in our investigation. you hope to get an official change in the cause of death from accidental, correct? yes, and anderson, the video today won t be a home run hit. we won t see him climbing into a wrestling mat or anything like that but what it will show is people who are in and out of that gymnasium, people who came that night into that gymnasium to help us get questions
benjamin crump, we know you worked closely with the parents of trayvon martin to pursue justice for their son. do you intend to pursue a civil rights case in kendrick johnson s case regardless of the outcome of the federal investigation? we certainly plan to explore all possible legal remedies to hold those individuals accountable who killed kendrick johnson and those who covered up for those individuals, because make no mistake about it, his parents never accepted this explanation that he climbed into a wrestling mat, got stuck and died. it flew in the face of all common sense, logic and the laws of physics. what s more likely to have happened, he was murdered and there s been some conspiracy to cover up the truth here. this is a murder mystery and we will get to the bottom of it. kenneth, tell us what the past ten months have been like for you and your family as you ve dealt with the grieving process and also tried to pursue justice.
either prove that what the sheriff had suggested is something that people could believe or whether it was something that if people dismissed it, that they are confident in why they should have dismissed it. ben, i know you haven t gone through what is nearly 2,000 hours of video. you indicated authorities said you won t see kendrick johnson actually entering the mat. does that hurt your case? no, actually to the contrary, anderson, i think that helps our case. remember the biggest thing here is the matter and cause of death and somehow the sheriff concluded that 17-year-old exceptional athlete climbed into a wrestling mat, got stuck and stopped breathing. well, where does he get this theory from and if it s not seen on that videotape, i think the more logical conclusion is somebody rolled him that that wrestling mat after he was murdered and i think that is more significant. you will not see him climbing
and men, the unredacted case file was released today. is there anything significant so far in what you ve seen? well, we re still going through it. we literally just get 400 pages of unredacted information. as attorney king and i have said we want the right to solve this murder mystery for mr. and mrs. son as to what happened to their child. so the fact we have the names and identity that can help us in our investigation. you hope to get an official change in the cause of death from accidental, correct? yes, and anderson, the video today won t be a home run hit. we won t see him climbing into a wrestling mat or anything like that but what it will show is people who are in and out of that gymnasium, people who came that night into that gymnasium to help us get questions answered. have you gotten any more explanation for why police didn t test i mean, they
and stuffed his body with newspaper. john roberts works for the seethe bureau and is live in atlanta. the u.s. attorney now on the case. is that right? the u.s. attorney is on the case, and there s been a lot of developments moving quickly in this case, after nine months of not much going on. surveillance tape that was ordered released by a judge yesterday, we re seeing some of that come in now. more to come in the next few days. an attorney for the sheriffs department says don t expect a smoking gun. then this idea that the u.s. department of justice is now looking into the case. that s a big step forward for this family. the sheriff insisted this was a tragic accident, when he slipped into the mat family never bough, particularly after the second autopsy that showed he had pooling of blood under this jaw. they believe he was murdered, then rolled up in the wrestling mat, and that local authorities