Shots Fired (2017) s01e10 Episode Script

1 - Previously on "Shots Fired" - I killed Joey Campbell.
Had Lieutenant Breeland not intimidated me, I would have come forward sooner.
You did this.
JAVIER: This is Ms.
Hadad.
It's gonna be a supervised visit.
I've lost Kai.
Breeland has to be behind this.
(gunshot) (indistinct radio transmission) Sweetheart Every man, every available unit.
Wake every son of a bitch up.
(phone buzzes) - Preston Terry.
- You should know.
Someone killed Breeland.
(sirens blaring) (cops shouting) Come on! I got these two! - Open up! - Open up! (tires screech) Agent Akino, something's going down at the Houses.
We need you to get here.
Ecklund! I got this.
What is all this? Lieutenant Breeland was killed tonight.
You know anything? No.
Okay, just stay inside, all right? (shouting) - JANAE: This is America? - MAN: Yo, that's not right! Navy SEALs showed more restraint raiding Bin Laden! - Back off! - Record him, record everything.
What are you restraining him for? All right, all right, man.
- Take it easy.
- (imitating gunshots) Hey! What the hell is going on? WOMAN: Boy, get back in the house.
A murder was committed on my turf.
You have no place here.
Sheriff, this is excessive force bordering on harassment.
A few hours ago, Lieutenant Breeland told his daughter he was coming over here to apologize to Shameeka Campbell.
Now he's dead.
You call it excessive, I call it thorough.
Wasn't he shot on his own property? After leaving here, we believe he was followed.
So you don't know who did it? Somebody here knows something.
And we're gonna come back here every day if we have to until somebody talks.
(whistles) (officers shouting) (engine starts, revs) I was trying to reach you all night.
Deputy Carroll called.
He was impressed by the way you handled that confession with Arlen.
He wants us back front and center.
Where were you? I went for a drive.
Had to clear my head.
Ooh If our stars don't shine in the darkness Where do we go from here? Could you think of anything your husband said recently that seemed out of character? He said he was considering early retirement.
It just came out of nowhere.
I figured it was just midlife stuff.
Dad said something to me yesterday.
He was that he was there when Joey Campbell was killed, and that he was trying to cover it up to protect the people who were with him.
Did he say who he was trying to protect? No, but he said he was also blackmailing someone.
That he was just trying to make it right.
I-I'm sorry, I can't do this today.
I'm sorry.
It's okay, you just If you want to know anything else, we're gonna have to do it another time.
Thank you, ma'am, for your time.
Breeland should've been locked up, not murdered.
What's done is done.
We just need to focus on presenting to the grand jury.
How am I supposed to move to indict Beck now? Without Breeland's testimony, it'll be next to impossible to prove Jesse wasn't there to buy weed.
I'll just have to get that guy Lyndon to talk.
He already said.
He worked for Joey and he sold to Jesse.
A grown man selling drugs for a kid? He lied his ass off.
I just have to get him to admit it.
ASHE: You believe how hot it is today? Yeah, global-ass warming.
What the hell do you want? I was on the other side of the glass when you told that fairy tale at the Sheriff's office.
The one about Jesse and Joey.
Let me hear it again.
I sold weed for Joey.
Jesse was a customer.
The end.
Except Jesse didn't get high and Joey stopped dealing.
This really how you wanna play this? Your boy Breeland ain't here to protect you.
Go ahead, put hands on me.
Give me an excuse to pay your ass back for that bunk-ass story you sold.
I'm just trying to do right.
Keeping my job so I could stay on parole.
But y'all seem to keep the thumb on us.
Keep talking.
Breeland used my parole as leverage.
Always sweating me when he needed favors.
So you come into the sheriff's department lying on Jesse and Joey? That was a favor? I'm sure you wanna do right after rolling over for a dirty cop.
You were promised amnesty, you'll get it.
I just need you to say all this on the stand.
You lie up there, your ass is going straight back to jail.
How much of a role do you think race played in this? A big one.
You want my advice? Stick to the facts.
In this climate, race will make everybody uncomfortable.
You'll lose the grand jury, whom I can assure you is gonna look a whole lot more like me than you or Beck.
You want me to ignore race in a civil rights case? He felt ostracized.
It affected him when he approached Jesse.
Beck's actions are being presented to the grand jury, not his color, not Jesse's.
Race was a contributing factor.
I can't ignore that.
Mr.
Terry, can you comment on the indictment? Mr.
Terry, how do you feel about the government's case - against Deputy Beck? - No comment.
Wait, is this case more about justice or politics? - JESSE: What? I didn't do anything.
- BECK: License and registration now.
- Get out.
- I'm sorry.
- Out of the car! - I'm sorry, all right? Get out! Is this video consistent with Deputy Beck's statement? ASHE: No.
During our initial interview, Deputy Beck said that after refusing to comply, Jesse eventually opened his car door.
But in the video, it's clear that Deputy Beck physically pulls Jesse from his vehicle.
And did you ask him what prompted him to pull Jesse Carr over that day? Yes.
Deputy Beck said he pulled Jesse over because he was a white guy in that neighborhood, and I quote, "A white guy in that neighborhood means drugs.
" And were his suspicions correct? Was Jesse Carr in that neighborhood to buy drugs? Lieutenant Breeland, the first officer on the scene, reportedly located marijuana in the glove compartment.
I believe this is false testimony.
I believe Lieutenant Breeland planted the marijuana in Jesse's glove compartment in order to make an unlawful stop that resulted in murder look legit.
And did you investigate this theory? Yes.
I discovered that Beck had threatened to come forward about abuses within the sheriff's department involving Lieutenant Breeland.
This was shortly before the Jesse Carr shooting.
I believe that Lieutenant Breeland planted the marijuana in order to control Beck and the situation.
And can you please explain to the jury why Lieutenant Breeland isn't here to testify to that himself? He's deceased.
Do you believe Lieutenant Breeland would testify that information if he were here today? Yes.
Thank you.
I swear I don't understand this.
It's like a damn free-for-all for the prosecutor.
Witnesses get to speculate, and I'm not even there or even get a chance to have my attorney It's-it's not a trial, it's a hearing.
And you have something most others in your position do not.
Once a cop says that he feared for his life, it's almost impossible to indict.
Trust me.
(blowing raspberry) Oh! (laughs) - Here.
- Ooh.
(giggles) Jeremiah! Christian! Boys, get back here! This is not Excuse me.
Hi, he dropped this.
It gets a lot easier, I promise.
Thank you.
They're precious.
Should any unrest break out, Menard County's on call in case we need backup.
That's not why I asked you here.
Have a seat.
Sheriff, I trusted you with the Auxiliary Deputy program.
It was your job to keep the volunteer deputies and the citizens of Gate Station safe.
Regardless of the outcome of these grand jury proceedings, you failed miserably.
Unfortunately, Lieutenant Breeland Let's not scapegoat the dead.
I'm demanding your resignation.
Forgive me if I'm not exactly inclined to heed your demands, Governor.
You'll heed, Sheriff.
I'm personally committed to that.
Why don't we just see what Arlen has to say about this? Governor.
PRESTON: Deputy Brooks, from your point of view, what was it like for Deputy Beck being the only black man on the force? I doubt it was fun for him, but he never complained.
And what about the tours? He never expressed his concern over a program where wealthy white men were patrolling poor black neighborhoods with your fellow police officers? Yeah.
He hated it.
Like, wanted to shut it down, and he wasn't alone.
I thought it was messed up, too, but it wasn't about skin color.
It was about right and wrong.
So you are testifying under oath that Deputy Beck never felt isolated, never felt outcast? Well, yeah, he felt isolated, - but not just from the department.
- Then from whom? The black community.
I'm not saying the sheriff's office is some liberal utopia, but I know one thing: white people never called Beck a sellout.
I think Pierce was right.
Should've taken race out of it.
When we walk into that courtroom, we're asking a jury to ignore whatever personal biases they carry.
There's the law and then there's reality.
(phones buzz and chime) Something just came on the news.
MAN: Any last words? BECK: Uh, yeah.
I finally got my license to shoot these crackers.
- (laughs) - MAN: That's right.
BECK: Oh, man.
That's my boy.
No, no, you know I'm just playing, man.
Uh, real talk, you know how hard I've worked for this badge, man.
It just feels good to be able to do things the right way, you know, make a difference, treat people with respect.
I'll make y'all proud.
(applause) ASHE: So what was that, the director's cut? A whole lot different than the first video your paper put out.
Beck's cousin reached out.
He said he had a video of Beck calling white people "crackers.
" Our paper needed inroads online, so we paid him a thousand bucks for it.
And you just decided to release the most provocative part.
My editor insisted.
So why release the rest of the video? Your editor looking for more followers? I posted it.
I don't know if Beck is guilty or not, but if the media is gonna publicly lynch the man, I thought people should see it.
The release of the full video proves that my client is not a racist.
As a matter of fact, Deputy Beck has been railroaded by the DOJ, and I suggest they drop this case and instead spend their efforts investigating the underbelly of corruption in Gate Station.
Hey, what's up? It's about Lyndon.
Sheriff deputies caught him selling drugs.
They said he was using the auto shop as a front.
- That's convenient.
- Exactly.
We gotta get him out.
We gotta get him on the stand.
I tried.
He's being processed.
Also got himself a lawyer who says I coerced a testimony out of him.
You didn't, did you? - What? - I'm sorry.
I-I just have to wrap my head around this.
He was my star witness.
Guess you'll have to give a hell of a closing argument.
I thought these proceedings were about race.
Maybe you thought these proceedings were about race.
After all, isn't that what our justice system's always been about? Ever since the Jim Crow era, black men being sent to work camps for spitting on the sidewalk or making the god-awful mistake of looking a white man in the eyes.
That isn't just the history of Gate Station.
That is the history of this country.
We have a race-based justice system rooted in our biases, rooted in our prejudices.
(engine starts) (siren blaring) It's that very same system that taught Deputy Beck to be the officer he was revealed to be the day he encountered Jesse Carr.
Great.
Po-po.
Check this out.
You lost, boy? No, sir.
These proceedings are about the common sense facts of the case.
What are you doing in this neighborhood? Why did you pull me over? 'Cause you don't look right.
I didn't realize it was illegal to be in this part of town.
Depends on what you're doing here.
I came for some fried chicken.
PRESTON: Deputy Beck pulled over an unarmed young man, a young man who posed no threat of any kind.
- License and registration.
- What? I didn't do anything! License and registration now.
PRESTON: Yet Deputy Beck chose to escalate the situation.
- Get out.
Get out of the car.
- Sorry.
See, the facts suggest that marijuana had been planted inside Jesse's vehicle in order to substantiate a stop that should have never been made in the first place.
His civil rights were violated.
Deprivation of rights as defined by law.
And as a result, Jesse Carr lost his life.
An indictment doesn't mean that an accused is guilty or innocent.
It just means that there have been enough unanswered questions that have been presented to warrant a trial.
History tells us that white jurors will empathize with the victim.
I'm sorry, all right? Black jurors will empathize with the shooter.
- Get out of the car! - I'm asking you all to stop yourselves right now from doing that.
- Why? - Get out of the I'm asking you to empathize with a justice system that needs to answer our prayers for fairness, common sense and humanity.
That is what is at stake here, folks: the humanity of our justice system.
(gunshots) Because if Deputy Beck were a white cop who pulled over a black boy named Trayvon or Tamir or Emmett, I'd be asking for the same thing.
I'd be asking for an indictment.
MR.
D: All right, here we go.
In about five minutes, the jury will be in their third hour of deliberations.
It's crazy how it all comes down to this.
- What? - The fate of justice in the hands of 16 randomly selected people.
What about you? Still believe in the system? I've seen many a guilty man walk.
Makes you understand why people take matters into their own hands.
But failure's not an option.
Beck, then Arlen, then Platt.
(phone ringing) Preston Terry.
Thanks.
Jury reached a decision.
Hey.
(vehicle approaches) (people chatting outside) Josh? It's okay, it's okay.
(car door opens) (car door closes, Beck exhales) (knocking) What's up? Josh, I'm sorry.
I'm here to arrest you.
(gasps) No.
They decided to indict.
(sobbing) Do you mind if I get a minute just to say good-bye? Yeah.
Thanks.
Damn it, it's not right.
You're a good person.
You're a good man.
(crying) Hey, come here.
(crying) (crowd shouting) Where do we go? Oh, darkness I'm glad it's you, man.
MAN: Pack him up and take him away.
- Don't bring him back.
- WOMAN: Drive him away.
Ooh, yeah If our stars don't shine in the darkness Where do we go from here? Is this the land of the free Or the heartless? Where do we go from here? REPORTER: Ms.
Carr.
Excuse me, Ms.
Carr, can you tell us what this means to you? You're supposed to be drinking champagne.
I don't feel much like celebrating.
Yeah.
Today, when you said you understand why people take matters into their own hands, what'd you mean by that? You have something you need to ask me? You have something you need to tell me? Yeah.
This is a mistake.
What is? This.
Us.
You know, I'd be hurt if you asked what it is you're questioning, but at least I'd respect you for having the guts to say it.
Ashe Ashe, hold up.
(door opens, closes) REPORTER: It's been about three weeks since Deputy Beck's indictment.
REPORTER 2: Deliberations have resumed in the case of the U.
S.
government versus Arlen Cox.
- (crowd shouting) - You must indict.
Make it right, you must indict.
Mr.
Terry, care to comment? Make it right.
(protesters shouting) Mr.
Cox is the founding officer and CEO Joey had a crush on a girl from his class.
Her mother insisted he come over for dinner, you know, so the family could get to know him better.
Afterwards, he called to tell me that he could tell the girl's mother liked him, especially when he told her he wanted to enroll at NC St State.
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
He wasn't sure the dad liked him, though, but he promised he would tell me everything when he got home.
The girl lived about ten minutes away.
An hour went by and I couldn't reach him.
Soon after that, two cops, Breeland and Derkin, came over.
And they told me my boy had been shot.
They said they thought it was drug-related and they searched his bedroom.
Then they said they recovered weed from my son's bedroom.
I didn't believe them, but they said since the drugs were found in my home, that I could lose custody of my youngest son, Shawn.
Thank you, Ms.
Campbell.
No further questions.
Between Cory and Shameeka, we've had excellent witness testimony.
Mr.
Terry, we should rest.
Not yet.
Not until I get Arlen on the stand.
(car alarm chirps) Mr.
Terry.
Mr.
Wyatt? - What are you doing here? - We need to talk.
What about? Breeland mentioned he was holding on to some sensitive info.
Info your people should see.
I don't know what it was, but I think he may have had a storage unit.
- Where is it? - I wish I could tell you.
He wrote something about storage two different times in a calendar.
I'll keep digging.
With everything Breeland shared about the sheriff's department, I don't know who I can trust out here.
Let's keep this between us.
(crowd shouting) MAN: Can't hide behind your money now.
ARLEN: Lieutenant Breeland waved me out of the car and he ordered me to, to handcuff the young man.
And I-I attempted to follow his orders.
And did you hear the young man screaming, "Somebody call my moms, somebody call my moms"? Yes, I did.
And yet we are to believe that you were the one scared? Well, he was a bit unstable.
So you think a person scared for his life should have a demeanor of stability? No, I didn't say that.
Was he scared for his life, yes or no? Answer the question.
Yes or no, Mr.
Cox? Yes! Yes, he was, as was I! I was frightened for mine.
And whatever authority Lieutenant Breeland was attempting to impose, all he managed to do was to was to get the poor boy more frightened, more violent, and he kicked me in my knee.
And I, I-I wanted to discharge my Taser, and I reached for my gun by mistake.
Yes, I was unstable.
So was he.
(sighs) My God.
Hey! (tires screech) Come here! The hell you running for, Joey? Y'all like to crack heads.
Got any drugs on you? I'm not hustling anymore.
So are you a choir boy now? Are you? You turn around and put your hands up there.
- For what? - 'Cause I asked you to.
- Why? Man, get off me! - You know the drill! Somebody call my moms! You gotta tell me why! Somebody call my moms! (all shouting) Stop resisting! Don't you resist me! - Don't cuff me, man! - Stop resisting! - Somebody call my moms! - Sir! - Get off me! - Handcuff him for me.
(crying): Please You can help cuff him now.
- Roll him over.
- Call my moms! - Somebody! - Ow! Ow! Get off me, man! Let me go, man, come on! Somebody call my moms! Somebody call (gunshot) DERKIN: You shot him.
Why the hell'd you shoot him? Get in the car now.
CROWD: Somebody call my justice! Somebody call my justice! Somebody call my justice! Somebody call my justice! Somebody call my justice! Somebody call my justice! Somebody call my justice! Somebody call my justice! Somebody call my justice! (chanting subsides) We, uh We presented the best case we could.
Unfortunately, the grand jury has decided not to indict Arlen Cox.
(crowd murmuring) To Ms.
Campbell, to all of you I'm sorry.
They're letting a murderer get off, same as they always do! Always! We need to burn this place down! (cheering) No! No! No, damn it, no! Look, now, some of y'all knew Joey.
Some of y'all never even heard of him till he got killed, but you're here, so I guess we're all in this together.
We're with you, sister.
We need to step up, y'all.
We need to step up! They got these cops right here to make sure we don't act the fool.
But we need to step up before these cops act the fool on one of our kids again.
We got to organize.
Y'all want to honor my son.
Y'all want to honor Joey.
We cannot be a reactionary community.
Not no more, y'all.
Not no more.
- WOMAN: America doesn't see us.
- MAN: We're Americans, too.
MAN 2: The system needs to be accountable to the people! (protesters shouting) - It can't end like this.
- I know.
I know.
How do you propose to bring the city and state together when so many people feel that the system is unjust? By working with community leaders, law enforcement, business owners, and educators.
For example, after deep reflection on my part and some number crunching by my team, we are reinstituting the education initiative.
That would be the initiative funded by Cox Group Financial, correct? The Cox Group will no longer be affiliated with the initiative.
I've reached out to some members of the community for support.
It will still be privately funded, but I believe with an issue as precious as educating our children, the character of those who contribute is as important as the funds you receive.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You may have just lost your most valuable campaign donor just one week before a very tough election, Governor.
If I'm going to lose, I'll do so with clean hands.
We put a lot of work into this case.
Let's lick our wounds and get the next one.
The next one is Sheriff Platt.
You don't have approval to pursue this.
I have evidence given to me by Deputy Beck that proves the training records have been falsified.
The falsified training records will be blamed on Breeland.
It's time to move on, Mr.
Terry.
This is coming from the Deputy Supervisor.
For whatever it's worth, I don't get inspired much anymore.
You inspired me.
I believe your husband may have a storage unit that could help the police locate his killer.
- Yeah, we found the key.
- You did? Yeah, but we don't know the address.
My husband's lawyer asked us about it, but we felt more comfortable giving the key to the sheriff and asking him to look into it.
He just left.
We can call him if you like.
No, no, that won't be necessary.
Thank you.
Mr.
Wyatt, any progress on locating Breeland's storage unit? You mean the address I left with Akino? - What? - At your hotel.
She didn't tell you? Actually, I I just missed her call.
If you have the address handy, can you text it to me? No problem.
(beeping) BREELAND (on recorder): He didn't know what the hell he was doing out there.
I told him to cuff the kid and he shot him.
PLATT: Easy.
Take it easy.
As far as you know, it's a drug-related homicide.
Stick with that story.
Don't deviate under any circumstances.
PLATT: You got a warrant? Looks like breaking and entering to me.
Put that weapon on the ground.
He recorded your conversation because he didn't trust you.
I'm guessing it was for good reason.
(gunshots) Maybe you stood for something once, but you covered up Joey's murder, you falsified training records, and you you killed one of your men.
You're going to jail, Sheriff Platt.
Justice isn't won in the courtroom.
It's won in the street.
I'm on the front lines every day.
And my guys are on the front lines every day, and I treat them as my family.
And they're the only family I got.
That's something to stand on.
I'll take that recorder off your hands.
It's evidence.
Inadmissible in court.
ASHE: Fortunately, we have a search warrant for this facility.
Your good friend Governor Eamons helped us sift through the red tape.
Put your weapon on the ground.
You're under arrest.
(cocks gun) - Thank you.
- Welcome.
Any word from the powers that be about Platt? Well, he admitted to falsifying training records and to covering up Joey's murder.
But he wants a deal before discussing Breeland's death.
(short chuckle) These guys and their deals.
You know something? Breeland's gone, Beck and Platt are locked up, and I still don't know if we made Gate Station any better.
You might never know.
We just have to keep trying to save the world one case at a time.
(over phone): This is a woman's world We had our first dance here.
We did.
It was this close from becoming a barroom brawl.
(both chuckle) I don't see any threat of that here now.
Oh I know you heard This is a man's world Yeah But this is a woman's world Money Just don't compare Did you really think I was capable of killing Breeland? (sighs) It crossed my mind.
That's what you think of me? I just know how much your daughter means to you and how you'd do anything for her.
But now I know what makes you different than the people we put away.
And what's that? You want to do good.
You are good.
Thank you for being there when there was no one else.
Yeah, well, somebody once told me partners gotta have each other's back.
But this is a woman's world Gonna miss you.
Let's talk about the power Hey The power of a woman Tell me who can give Life to a baby boy And turn him into a man? Hey So the same grand jury that did the impossible indicted a cop let another man guilty of the very same crime roam free.
(crowd murmuring) Rather than watching from the sidelines, we need to be active participants in the pursuit of justice.
There needs to be more of us in the jury pool.
(applause) In order for that to happen, we need to register to vote.
(applause) We have our new friend Sarah Ellis who is here to help us organize that effort.
(applause) Pastor, I'd register to vote if you go run for something.
(cheering) We can all vote! We can all vote! (applause) I don't like to be put on the spot like that.
And lastly, I extended an invitation to one of the deputies in the sheriff's department to come talk to us, and it appears that he's accepted.
(murmuring) (scattered applause) Welcome, Deputy Brooks.
Thank you.
As Pastor Janae said, I'm Deputy Brooks.
I know this won't happen overnight, but I think we should get to know the people of this community we're serving.
And I think you should get a chance to know us.
I love this town.
I've lived here my whole life.
What is this? A list of civil rights violations from inmates at your various correctional facilities.
I'm never gonna rest, not until you get what you deserve.
(car door closes, engine starts) Been traveling these wide roads For so long My heart's been far From you 10,000 Miles gone Oh, I wanna come near And give you Every part of me But there's blood on my hands And my lips are unclean In my darkness, I remember Mama's words reoccur to me "Surrender to the good Lord And he'll wipe your slate clean" Take me to your river I wanna go Oh, go on Take me to your river I wanna go Oh, go on Take me to your river I wanna know - is so much better.
- But Deadpool has got more My bad, dude.
No problem, man.
TOUR GUIDE: Anyway, does anyone have any questions so far? No.
All right, great, let's head to the student store.
Take me to your river I wanna know Wanna know, wanna know, wanna know