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Aired July 07, 2016 - 09:00 ET
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[09:00:00] D.L. HUGHLEY, COMEDIAN, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: It is an indictment on our society.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: And it's obvious, as it is immoral, because everybody should know that the controlling factor here when it comes to inner city crime, people say, why don't you talk about Chicago more, well, we do talk about it, but that's also about poverty. People want that to be about color as well.
HUGHLEY: All the time.
CUOMO: But -- because they don't want to talk about poverty.
HUGHLEY: The biggest -- they don't, because the biggest determining factor in crime is poverty, and you know, it is amazing. People always tell you to put down guns, but never tell you to pick up applications, pick up opportunity, pick up education.
To me, it is the reason that these things are happening because technology allows us to see ourselves. The only way anybody changes anything, whether you want to lose weight or change your appearance is to actually see yourself. And if America likes what it sees, then we have no choice but to accept it. But like what is the good, a body cameras, we don't have bias proof glasses. If people -- if a picture is worth a thousand words, I see a murder and I see a murder. It is not even accepting responsibility. It is not even that hard. If you committed a murder, you should be treated like a murderer. If I see a murder, some people saw duly sworn officers doing their duty. One of those happens to be --
(CROSSTALK)
CUOMO: Right but you need the body cameras, though, D.L. You need the body cameras because without them, I mean, look even in the situation in Minnesota, this was amazing poise and presence that this woman Diamond had to go live on Facebook in the aftermath of her boyfriend being shot.
HUGHLEY: Right.
CUOMO: But we still don't know what precipitated the shooting. You're going to have rely on testimony. So the body camera --
HUGHLEY: OK, but --
CUOMO: I have a question for you, though, D.L.
HUGHLEY: Every time --
CUOMO: I have a question for you.
HUGHLEY: Well, let me get back to this body camera thing.
CUOMO: Go ahead. Go ahead finish the point.
HUGHLEY: The officers in Baton Rouge, their body cameras miraculously were damaged in the scuffle. Both of them. I don't understand how that happened. And so the body -- every time somebody, an officer's body camera malfunctions, a black or brown person is dead. So it seems to me that if I see a thing, and I'm not going to do anything about it, then what's the point of seeing?
CUOMO: I understand. But at least it's --
HUGHLEY: Grand jury sees the same thing.
CUOMO: But at least it's -- there's something there that people can use and analyze and use as proof. Let me ask you something. One of the things that --
HUGHLEY: Sure.
CUOMO: -- the family said this morning that should really hit everybody's ears the same way was, you know, we grew up teaching this boy, and even as a man, comply, comply, comply. We were worried about this. He was worried about this. He had said maybe I shouldn't be carrying this gun, even though I have it legally, because maybe they'll shoot me first and ask questions later. I hear that from parents, rich, poor, urban, rural, all over this country.
Your own kids, you're blessed with beautiful children. Is that something that even D.L. Hughley has to deal with his kids with about boy and girl, you have to treat the cops a certain way.
HUGHLEY: Every parent that I know, every black or brown parent I know has a conversation with their children when they tell them exactly to act, how to act around the police. That is abhorrent. That is immoral. Every parent I know. My biggest fear, my son, who is a millennial, and you know, they don't have jobs so obviously they have to live with me, but every -- I don't even go to sleep until my children come home. My grown children come home at night.
I keep my clothes on, and my wife will tell you, I keep my clothes on in case my children need me in the middle of the day or in the middle of the night. And I just do not understand, we love our children. We love our parents, our mothers, our fathers, they're brutalized, and nobody says anything. It's too much. It's too much.
CUOMO: I understand that this hits home. I understand it is not just about race for you. It is about the morality because especially in this country, we're all supposed to be brothers and sisters. We're all supposed to care about each other as if whatever happens to one happens to all. And I'm sorry to have to have this conversation with you, D.L. And I'm sorry to see you upset. But you know what, it's an important conversation to have, and hopefully people hear your words and think about --
HUGHLEY: I think we've had this conversation -- I think we've had this conversation far too many times. And after a while, you have to understand, that something needs to be -- faith without words is dead. So people can have these conversations all day long. People are dying. And if we're comfortable with, there is a moral failing and that's who we are.
CUOMO: D.L, you're right. And thank you for making the point on CNN this morning. We'll keep the conversation going and we'll push for change.
HUGHLEY: Thank you, man.
CUOMO: Thank you.
We're going to keep covering these shootings as new information coming out. There's new video as well.
"NEWSROOM" with Brianna Keilar, in for Carol Costello, starts right after this.
ANNOUNCER: This is CNN Breaking News.
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, I'm Brianna Keilar, in for Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me.
[09:05:02] We are following some major stories all unfolding right now. Donald Trump has arrived near Capitol Hill as he begins one of the biggest days of his campaign. He is holding separate meetings with Republicans in both the House and Senate.
Just two weeks from the convention, can he win them over?
And just one hour from now, House Republicans are set to grill FBI director James Comey. He will testify on Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server and his decision to recommend that she not face criminal charges.
This, as the nation reels from back-to-back police shootings. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, federal investigators take control of the investigation, and a new vide video has emerged. It more clearly shows an officer firing several rounds into a suspect lying on the ground. We'll show that to you shortly.
And then overnight, outrage building over a traffic stop that turned deadly. A Minnesota woman live streams her horror in the moments after an officer opens fire on her boyfriend sitting next to her.
We begin with this latest police shooting in Minnesota, just 11 hours ago in suburban St. Paul. We're going to play several minutes of this traffic stop as it unfolded. This is heart-wrenching. It is raw. A woman trying to make sense of a police shooting, as her boyfriend lay dying of his wounds. And we warn you, this is very difficult to watch. It's also very important, though, to understand what happened as it happened.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
DIAMOND REYNOLDS, GIRLFRIEND OF PHIL CASTILE: Stay with me. We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back. And the police (EXPLETIVE DELETED), he is covered. He killed my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) boyfriend. He is licensed. He is carrying. He is licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his I.D. and his wallet out of his pocket, and he let the officer know that he was -- he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet. And the officer just shot him in his arm. We're waiting for -- I will, sir, no worries. I will. He just shot his arm off. We got pulled over on Larpenter.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand up.
REYNOLDS: He -- you told him to get his I.D., sir, his driver's license. Oh, my god, please don't tell me he is dead. (EXPLETIVE DELETED) please don't tell me my boyfriend just went like that.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Keep your hands where they are.
REYNOLDS: Yes, sir, I will keep my hands where they are. Please don't tell me this, Lord. Please, Jesus, don't tell me that he is gone. Please don't tell me that he is gone. Please, officer, don't tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get the female passenger out.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get out of the car right now with your hands up. Let's see your hands. Exit now. Keep them up. Keep them up.
REYNOLDS: Where is my daughter? You got my daughter?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Face away from me and walk backwards.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Walk back toward to me. Keep walking.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Keep walking. Keep walking. Get on your knees. Get on your knees.
(CROSSTALK)
REYNOLDS: Why am I being arrested?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ma'am, you're being detained until we get this all sorted out, OK.
REYNOLDS: They threw my phone, Facebook. Please don't tell me, Lord Jesus. Please don't tell my boyfriend is gone. OK. No. Please don't tell me my boyfriend is gone. Take it out of my hand. Please don't tell me he's gone. Please, Jesus, no. Please, no.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stand up. Walk over to me.
REYNOLDS: Please, no, don't let him be gone, no, Lord.
(CROSSTALK)
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KEILAR: We know that is graphic. We know that it is heart-wrenching, but it is important to watch.
This is Philando Castile. This is the man that was killed in that traffic stop. He worked as a kitchen supervisor for the St. Paul School District. In his final moments that you just saw there were viewed more than a million times before Facebook first pulled the video. It's now back up. This morning, his mother and uncle appeared on CNN.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
VALERIE CASTILE, PHILANDO CASTILE'S MOTHER: I appreciate Diamond streaming that video live because --
CLARENCE CASTILE, PHILANDO CASTILE'S UNCLE: No doubt.
V. CASTILE: We never would know exactly what happened had she not put that out there like that.
CLARENCE CASTILE: Exactly.
V. CASTILE: And then for him to blatantly shoot into that vehicle with that child in there.
CLARENCE CASTILE: Exactly.
V. CASTILE: And the female. And I know for a fact my son would never jeopardize his fiancee and the child by doing anything to provoke this officer to think that his life was in danger.
[09:10:11] CLARENCE CASTILE: No, he's a man. He's the man. He wasn't -- he's not an officer. He's just a man. An officer is supposed protect and serve. He is not an officer. It was a man who did that. That man is a destroyer. And he came into our lives and done something and took something from us.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KEILAR: We will hear much more from his family in just a moment. First, I want to get to CNN's Ryan Young.
Ryan, this video, it is so important because it does show you what happened just as Philando's family said. But this is something that obviously has a lot of people very upset.
RYAN YOUNG, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Extremely tough to watch. And in fact, I probably watched it myself at least 10 times at this point. Ten-minute video, each time, you pick up something different. But one of the things that you're also seeing is people are calling their cell phones a game changer because you've got to think this shooting just happened a few hours ago and already it's been seen by millions of people.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REYNOLDS: Stay with me.
YOUNG (voice-over): Diamond Reynolds capturing the moments after her boyfriend was shot by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop.
REYNOLDS: We got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back. And the police (EXPLETIVE DELETED). He's covered. They killed my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) boyfriend.
YOUNG: Philando Castile's white shirt soaked in blood and in distress. They were pulled over, allegedly for a broken taillight around 9:00 p.m. outside of St. Paul.
REYNOLDS: He's licensed to carry. He was trying to get out his I.D. in his wallet.
YOUNG: Reynolds live-streaming video from inside the car, with her 4- year-old daughter in the back seat.
REYNOLDS: He let the officer know that he was -- he had a firearm, and he was reaching for his wallet. And the officer just shot him in his arm.
YOUNG: The officer, still pointing the gun inside the car, explains why he opened fire.
REYNOLDS: We're waiting for -- I will, sir. No worries. I will (EXPLETIVE DELETED). He just shot his arm off. We got pulled over on Larpenter.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand up.
REYNOLDS: Please don't tell me this, Lord. Please don't tell me that he's gone. Please don't tell me that he's gone. Please, Officer, don't tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir.
YOUNG: Multiple officers at the scene ordered Reynolds out of the car, handcuffing her. Her cell phone falls to the ground, and she continues pleading with police.
REYNOLDS: Please don't tell me he's gone. Please, Jesus, no. Please, no. Please, no. Don't let him be gone, Lord.
YOUNG: Eyewitnesses capturing this video of officers trying to revive Castile before he's taken to the hospital, where he died. Reynolds, then put in the backseat of a police car, continues talking to the camera. REYNOLDS: I can't believe they just did this. I'm (EXPLETIVE
DELETED). (EXPLETIVE DELETED).
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's OK. I'm right here with you.
REYNOLDS: You all please pray for us. Jesus, please, you all. I ask everybody on Facebook, everybody that's watching, everybody that's tuned in, please pray for us.
YOUNG: Reynolds says her boyfriend worked as a cafeteria supervisor at a St. Paul school and had no criminal record. Crowds gathering at the scene of the shooting and at the governor's mansion demanding answers.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
YOUNG: Brianna, actually the first few times I watched it, I didn't even notice something that's really become apparent to me. And I can hear it every single time. You can hear Diamond's 4-year-old little girl in the back, saying, I'm here for you, mommy. And that's just one of those moments that kind of breaks through the audio, you can hear her trying to offer support to her mother as she is screaming and losing it. Realizing that her fiance has not passed.
I'll tell you, the officer has been on the force for five years and we're told he has been put on administrative leave. Also there is no body camera in this case. The officer was not wearing one. So those moments that happened right before that shooting will be in dispute. But as you watched this video over and over, it's just unbelievable her composure and those first few moments when she realizes what's going on with her fiance as he slips away. And in fact, you can hear him moaning in the background during those first few seconds as well.
KEILAR: Yes. And this is the case for body cameras for police and why they're so important.
Ryan Young, thank you so much.
I want to talk more about this now with CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Laura Coates. And we also have Cedric Alexander, the chief of police for the DeKalb County Police Department in Georgia. And he's also the author of the "New Guardian: Policing in America's Community for the 21st Century."
First of all, Cedric, I want to get your reaction just to this video.
[09:15:02] You've seen it. What did you think?
CEDRIC ALEXANDER, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: It is painful to watch. I'm going to tell you, a lot of people in this country, as in that community there in Minnesota asking a lot of questions and they truly do deserve some answers.
It's very hard to find words for, even though we do not know what occurred up until the point of that shooting. That is going to be determined through an investigation. But here we are again, in this same place, that we have been talking about, particularly over the last three years.
And how do we advance the relationship between police and community as seem to becoming even more strained as opposed to becoming lessened. So I am, like many Americans across this country, white, black, brown, gray -- we all have grave concern about policing community relations. There in Minnesota, in Baton Rouge, and it could happen in any community across the country.
But I am really bothered by that piece of video footage. I speak not just for myself, but I'm telling you, I'm getting a lot of tweets and a lot of e-mails from people across this country who are just outraged by that piece of video that we saw.
But here again, in all fairness, we don't know what led up to that shooting. But that will be determined over time.
KEILAR: Laura, what did you think when you saw this?
LAURA COATES, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Well, you know, as a hometown kid from St. Paul, Minnesota, I was outrage today see this come to my back doorstep essentially.
But I'm also disturbed by the fundamental misconception that people across the country seem to have about police officers, and their role. It is true that we defer to their judgment. They often have to make split second decisions. But police officers are not given carte blanche to take action that reasonable people could not take.
There is an expectation that there is a continuum over the use of force that escalates over time. It does not begin with four shots to somebody's arm, if there is an alternate method that can be used.
What I saw, what is most striking about this video is the composure that the passenger, Ms. Reynolds, just demonstrated, is what you have expected from an officer who is trained to handle situations that are tense like this. Instead, you saw the opposite. You saw a calm and frankly dignified passenger, in the midst of this very tragic event. And you saw an officer who is unhinged, still having his gun pointed towards a dying man.
This reflects a poor level of training and an expectation that officers somehow have carte blanche to do what everybody else cannot do.
KEILAR: Cedric, to the point that the gun is still drawn, when clearly Mr. Castile is very incapacitated, what would be the standard operating procedure in a situation like that?
ALEXANDER: Well, in a situation such as that, you have wounded subject there. Clearly, he is helpless. He is wounded. It may have been appropriate, and I'm quite sure, that they had emergency personnel on the way.
That officer, I can only assume, must have been in a great deal of shock himself if you listen to his voice in the background.
KEILAR: He is hysterical.
ALEXANDER: He is basically hysterical.
But your guest brought up a good point, is the passenger of the vehicle, Diamond, was as cool and calm as she could be, in however, the officer was in a different place.
But we also have to admit, he was the one who fired the deadly shots. These are complex difficult situations.
Here is my biggest concern, is that right now, in this very moment, in this country, police and community relations are being -- are at a standstill. And we cannot say that all relationships are bad across the entire country, but when we have incidents such as this incident, we just witnessed it in Baton Rouge, that creates some certainly some pause. We have a lot of work to do.
I'm going to tell you. This is hard for the American people to watch this in such close frequency that we've seen it over the last couple of days. And to see these images for anyone who has any kind of humanness about them, it should be painful for all of us and we should be seeking answers together.
KEILAR: There is something, though, specifically about this video that just connects with people. And I do want obviously to talk about what the family is going through. The family of Philando Castile gave an emotional interview to Alisyn Camerota on "NEW DAY" this morning. Let's play some of this.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
VALERIE CASTILE, PHILANDO CASTILE'S MOTHER: I basically think that these things are happening because there is no checks and balances in the justice system. And that a lot of our African-American men, women and children are being executed by the police. And there are no consequences. So in essence, I feel like it is becoming more and more repetitive.
[09:20:00] Every day, you hear another black person being shot down, gunned down by the people that is supposed to protect us. My son was a law-abiding citizen. He did nothing wrong. He had a permit to carry.
But with all of that, trying to do the right thing, and live accordingly by the law. We rode up on the incident, and we couldn't get to her to talk to her. We were stopped by the police. And I asked them where was my son at. I didn't want to talk to anyone. I wanted to know where my son was, because I didn't want my son to die alone.
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR, NEW DAY: What was the answer to where your son was?
V. CASTILE: First it was I don't know. And then the sergeant that was there at the site, he came back and told me that he was at Hennepin County Medical. I said why didn't you just take him down to region hospital, because I thought that was a little bit closer than Minneapolis, but by the time we got to Hennepin County, he was already deceased, and they didn't let me see my son's body.
CLARENCE CASTILE, PHILANDO CASTILE'S UNCLE: At all.
V. CASTILE: At all.
C. CASTILE: She hasn't seen him yet.
V. CASTILE: I have not identified my son's body, because they didn't let me.
CAMEROTA: Do you think that help came in a timely enough fashion for your son?
V. CASTILE: I have no -- I have no idea, because everything was unfolding while I was driving to the incident.
C. CASTILE: From what I seen on the live stream, the officer was standing there with his gun still pointed at my nephew. I mean, the man. The man was still standing there with the gunpoint pointed at my nephew, screaming at him, and he was laying in the car, you know, swelling up -- and his arm swollen and hanging off his body and blood everywhere.
You know, I mean, it's hard for me to understand, you know, what was going through their minds and things like that. But what happened --
V. CASTILE: I just want to say that I appreciate Diamond streaming that video live because --
C. CASTILE: No doubt.
V. CASTILE: -- we would never know what happened, had she not put that out there like that.
C. CASTILE: Exactly.
V. CASTILE: And then for him to blatantly shoot into that vehicle, with that child in there.
C. CASTILE: Exactly.
V. CASTILE: And the female. I know for a fact, my son would never jeopardize his fiancee and the child by doing anything to provoke this officer to think that his life was in danger.
C. CASTILE: He is a man. He is not an officer. He is just a man. An officer is supposed to protect and serve.
He is not an officer. It was a man who did that. Men, that man is a destroyer. He came into our lives and done something and took something from us. From what I understand, Philando told them that he did have a firearm.
V. CASTILE: I'm sure he did, because that was something that we always discussed. Comply. That's the key thing -- the key thing in order to try to survive being stopped by the police is to comply. Whatever they ask you to do, do it. Don't say nothing. Just do whatever they want you to do. So, what's the difference in complying and you get killed any way.
C. CASTILE: And we know, if you take a concealed carry class, you know that's protocol. When you get pulled over, you let them know that you do have a permit, and you have weapon in your car.
V. CASTILE: That's what he did.
CAMEROTA: After we see shootings like this, you often see people take to the streets, you see protests. We've seen some of that already happening in Baton Rouge. What do you want to see happen?
C. CASTILE: Justice.
V. CASTILE: I would like to see justice.
C. CASTILE: That's all we want is justice.
V. CASTILE: That's all we want is justice.
C. CASTILE: Justice for Philando.
V. CASTILE: Because like I said, he didn't deserve to be shot down like this.
C. CASTILE: No, not like that.
V. CASTILE: I couldn't believe it. I could never phantom in my life. I did everything right as a parent. I made sure my kids understood the difference in being law-abiding. And that the police were there to help. I never once in my life would have thought that my son would actually be killed by the persons that are supposed to protect and serve him.
You sit up and say that there is no more, what do you call that --
C. CASTILE: No more justice?
V. CASTILE: No, no, no, when they profiling.
C. CASTILE: Yes.
V. CASTILE: They're saying there is no profiling, but it is. It is. We're being hunted. Everyday. It is a silent war against African- American people as a whole.
CAMEROTA: And so --
C. CASTILE: It is sad to say. We think we're in a land of plenty, you know, freedom and things like that.
V. CASTILE: We're never free.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KEILAR: Laura Coates, I want to bring you in on this, along with can we talk about body cameras. In this case, there was no body camera, and that would have been essential.
[09:25:04] Laura, as a lawyer, what would that mean? It seems to me without that, there can be, you know, a good lawyer will just create doubt as to Philando's girlfriend account that he said look, I have this conceal carry permit. I have a weapon. And a lawyer can just try to poke holes on that or just create a little doubt.
COATES: Well, we prosecute cases across the country that involve non- officer shootings and homicides between civilians that don't require or have the benefit of body cameras or any cell phone footage and somehow we're capable of being able to ascertain the facts that precipitated the death.
In this case, one important part of the video, that is, when Diamond speaks to the officer, essentially recounts what happened and said no, sir, you did not tell him that. You told him to get his license and registration.
You notice the officer did not deny that particular statement.
KEILAR: True.
COATES: He did not try to change his subject or say anything else, or come to his own defense.
And, frankly, prosecutors across the country will be able to routinely use his failure to deny that statement against him in a court of law. This is no different, because it is a police officer and because there is no body cam footage. There's still -- if there is in fact some basis that this young man was killed without any provocation on his part, which does not appear in the video, there can be a case against the officer, even without body cam footage.
KEILAR: Cedric, that's a really interesting point. What do you think about that?
ALEXANDER: Well, you know, here again, we see a very dynamic piece of this incident that occurred just prior to the shooting. Body cameras, that technology is going to play a huge part in helping us come to some conclusion during the course of the investigation.
KEILAR: Yes.
ALEXANDER: It is unfortunate that the officer did not have a body cam, but however, Diamond did. That will be introduced, I'm quite sure in some parts of this investigation in putting together entirely what led up to this.
But let me go back here again, and talk about this relationship between police and community across this country. These last two incidents certainly are continuing to create a great deal of pause during a time in American history when we're trying to choose a new president. And these issues really, and the questions to each one of those candidates also need to be brought to bear in terms was what are their thoughts about advancing police and community relationships.
People in this country right now at this very moment, Brianna, are hurting by the video that they're seeing on every channel in this country.
KEILAR: It is a -- Cedric, unfortunately, I have to leave it there. That's a very good point. We're certainly covering the politics and the response to that.
ALEXANDER: Got it.
KEILAR: Cedric Alexander, thank you so much. Laura Coates as well.
And in Louisiana, the Department of Justice will take the lead in investigating the deadly shooting of Alton Sterling. The 37-year-old Baton Rouge man was shot and killed during an encounter with police outside of a convenience store on Tuesday night. Now, we have new, clearer video that has emerged of the moments before and after the shooting. We are going to show it to you. I want to warn some people you may find this disturbing.
It's CNN Nick Valencia is in Baton Rouge, but we wanted to give you that fair warning. He has a look at the new video, and what has become a nationwide response to it, Nick.
NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This has captured the attention not just here in Louisiana, but across the nation, Brianna. I want to tell you, we just spoke it a source with knowledge of the investigation, and we've learned more about who made that 911 call.
According to this source, it was a homeless man who called 911 on Alton Sterling, as the source describes the encounter. This homeless man approached Alton Sterling, knowing that he had money on him. Remember, he's called the "CD man", knowingly had cash on him and repeatedly asked him for money.
When he would not leave Sterling alone, that's when Sterling, according to this source, lifted up his shirt and showed his gun, brandishing the weapon to the homeless man. That man going on subsequently to call 911 on Sterling. And we all know what transpired next.
Those demonstrations continued last night, in Baton Rouge, because of the video that we're about to show you. And As Brianna mentioned, we want to give you fair warning, some might find it graphic.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PROTESTERS: Let my people go.
VALENCIA (voice-over): The outcry over Alton Sterling's death growing, as this news cellphone video captures a different angle of the 37-year-old's killing at the hands of police.
In the video, you hear the initial shots fired.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gun!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, bro, you (EXPLETIVE DELETED) move, I swear to God.
(GUNSHOTS)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're dead!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get on the ground.
VALENCIA: Then the camera jerks away, turning back to show Sterling on the ground, bleeding from the chest.
SANDRA STERLING, ALTON STERLING'S AUNT: I was hoping that he died peacefully and instantly. No, he didn't. He suffered. He was reaching out and talking. That killed me inside.
