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I just couldn t understand. like, if a man or a person getting shot in the back and you don t see no wrong with that, you know. i don t understand that. natacha: as we were leaving, it was such a crazy feeling and so bizarre. we had to get out of there. our chests were tight. like, you know, we couldn t breathe. reporter: to the family and friends of phillip pannell, this verdict, according to them, shows that a black person cannot get justice in america. they criticized the fact that in a racially sensitive case like this one, there never should have been an all white jury hearing the evidence. reporter2: spath said he thought his life was being threatened. the jury sided with the police officer. male: to have a jury return a verdict in 9 hours. it s almost as though the jury said, let s hurry up and do this thing and so we can get home for dinner. ....
It s going to be at teaneck high school, the high school that he loved, the high school that he should have been able to graduate from. today is a positive day. thelma: yes, it is. natacha: today is a good day. because today teaneck, new jersey, has acknowledged that phillip pannell s life mattered. thelma: life mattered. (clapping) natacha: i was thinking like, i m just happy that this is finally happening and that i can go on with my life and move on to the next step. i don t want to live with that hate. i want to live with the memories and the good times that clint and i shared (music) the mural at teaneck high school, it did give my mother and i a great deal of peace and relief. but there was one more way that we wanted to honor my brother. and that was the tree of healing. ....
Jim: at this point, i m going to put a little moratorium on discussing this mural. natacha: that angered me, you know, and i was like, my brother s been dead for 30 years and he can t harm anyone. he was a 16 year old kid that was killed in teaneck s backyard. and you still don t want to acknowledge that this happened to him. (music) (vo) you can be well-dressed. (man) wahoooo! (vo) you can be well-groomed. or even well-spoken. (man) ooooooo. (vo) but there s just something about being well-adventured. (man) wahoooooo! (vo) adventure on a deeper level. discover more in the subaru forester wilderness. love. it s what makes subaru, subaru. subaru is the national park foundation s largest corporate donor. girls trip. it s the most wonderful time of the year get fast relief of your worst allergy symptoms. including nasal congestion. ....
Every street, everything in teaneck. he loved teaneck, new jersey. he loved it. he died in a town that he loved. (music) natacha: after the trial, my whole childhood was gone. i felt stigmatized. when people saw me, it s like they would get sad because i would automatically put them in mind. my brother. my years of high school was, like, really, really traumatic. i was being bullied. i was being misunderstood. and i became enraged. i started to hate police officers. i started even hate white people. it was, it was a really ugly time in my life. my mother was so distraught. and my father, he took it really, really rough. it wasn t actually until like, years later, my family was able to start healing. my mom and i, we ve grown much, much closer. ....