earlier. and there was another big strategic shift. they would soften the focus on the boogeyman of the first two trials brian tate. our conclusion was after listening to the tapes of mr. tate, that he wasn t the deranged person that they tried to portray him as being. the way he was speaking to law enforcement that afternoon would not seem like the person that would have walked into a trailer home at 5:00 in the morning and murdered his neighbor. the defense attorneys made a tactical decision. since recordings of tate didn t make him look like a dangerous killer, they would not show tapes of him to the jury. and they d roll the dice, hoping the prosecutors wouldn t either. the caldwells and techels had been put through the wringer for more than two years, their once close relationship
you can t just beat people in the face, pick their head up and drive it into the concrete and think that s a justifiable use of force. it isn t. now, there may have been some force that s necessary. i don t know if he resisted, i don t know if they had body cameras on or whatever. but whatever happened before doesn t justify what you saw on the ground. areva, governor asa hutchinson mentions that this will be investigated and the arkansas state police, they ve confirmed it s going to begin. he said it will be investigated pursuant to the video evidence and the request of the prosecuting attorney. explain what that means. this is not that there will be charges, this is just a process that an investigation goes through, correct? it s kind of an odd statement, victor, when i saw that, that it will be investigated pursuant to a request from the prosecuting attorney. i m not sure why the governor and every other elected official in that state didn t come out and express outrage and shoc
decision since recordings of tate didn t make him look like a dangerous killer, they would not show tapes of him to the jury, and they d roll the dice hoping the prosecutors wouldn t either. the caldwells and techels had been put through the wringer for more than two years. their once close relationship had frayed, and now the third trial was pushing everyone to the brink. it was an impossible situation, but somehow todd caldwell and doug techel managed to find a moment of grace. i went over to him and just said, doug, i want you to know that i think you re a great guy. i think you re a good person. reporter: did you really? no matter how this turns out, i want you to know that. he said, i think the same thing with you, todd, and i went to shake his hand and heap just hugged me, and we both just hugged. reporter: the two fathers returned to pot side of a murder opposite sides of a murder trial. for the third time the state of i what versus seth techel.
february 23rd, 2020, at 1:08 p.m. mr. arbery walks up to the open, unsecured construction site. we have our olson video. remember, it s off by an hour and five minutes. per the video from inside 220, he doesn t take anything, does what he always does and leaves. it s not a burglary, okay. how would you know what his intent was? well, did he steal anything? no. did he leave like he always does? yes. i said to him, why didn t you call 911? because this was not an emergency. it wasn t an emergency. mr. albenzi is just another guy over at that house, again, the house that s unsecured, doesn t have a fence, doesn t have no
i know there s a table. there it is. okay. did you see mr. arbery do that? did you see him run his shin into anything? did you see him run into any of this furniture, they claim it s pitch black in there, does he look like it s pitch black? no. i don t know how he s seeing, i don t know if it s a street light. the moonlight, a combination of those things but for him, he can see what s going on inside. how about here. just skirted that lawnmower. didn t back into it. here s what mr. arbery did on december 17th, after he went in there a few minutes, looked around, didn t take anything, didn t damage anything. this is what he did.