1 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,400 In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,660 yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime and the district 3 00:00:11,660 --> 00:00:13,320 attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:14,960 These are their stories. 5 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:18,120 Whose house? Whose house? 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,240 Whose house? Whose house? Whose house? You were eaten tonight. 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:29,280 That paint belongs to you. What the hell are you doing out here? You will not 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:30,900 show disrespect like that! No! 9 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:32,500 No! Not here! 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,340 I should yank your head off! 11 00:00:53,340 --> 00:00:54,340 Man, 12 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:56,500 you okay? Man, shut up! 13 00:01:03,980 --> 00:01:05,379 He was in his pocket with some cash. 14 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,620 His name is Miles Booker, 20 years old, went to Piermont. 15 00:01:08,980 --> 00:01:14,320 One GSW to the heart. Call came in at 9.38 p.m. Here, got one case in, nine 16 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:15,320 mil. 17 00:01:15,540 --> 00:01:16,780 Knuckles of bruise, right hand. 18 00:01:17,060 --> 00:01:18,060 You call this in? 19 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,980 That lady over there, she works at the check cashing store. 20 00:01:22,180 --> 00:01:23,800 Only place on the block, open this late. 21 00:01:24,100 --> 00:01:25,100 All right, thank you. 22 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:29,640 I heard two guys arguing. 23 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:33,260 Hooked my head out, see what's going on. I saw this guy, and, um... 24 00:01:33,790 --> 00:01:34,689 A white guy. 25 00:01:34,690 --> 00:01:35,730 Young? Old? 26 00:01:36,690 --> 00:01:37,690 Couldn't see his face. 27 00:01:38,210 --> 00:01:39,210 30, maybe? 28 00:01:39,850 --> 00:01:43,090 They squared up, chest to chest, sort of, jawing at each other. 29 00:01:43,530 --> 00:01:44,530 What were they saying? 30 00:01:44,810 --> 00:01:46,750 One of them called the other a chump. 31 00:01:48,090 --> 00:01:50,130 I haven't heard that word in a while. What is it, 1978? 32 00:01:51,170 --> 00:01:52,710 Other than that, I couldn't make out words. 33 00:01:53,570 --> 00:01:57,550 Then this dude punched the white dude in the face. Bam. 34 00:01:58,350 --> 00:02:01,670 White dude went down, white dude pulls a piece, shoots this guy. 35 00:02:02,170 --> 00:02:03,170 Gets up, runs off. 36 00:02:03,270 --> 00:02:06,170 Did you make out any distinguishing features? Any little thing helps? 37 00:02:07,170 --> 00:02:08,170 No, not in the dark. 38 00:02:09,310 --> 00:02:11,330 Oh, wait, no, no. He was wearing a backpack. 39 00:02:11,770 --> 00:02:17,370 It was like shiny, reflective stuff on it in the shape of a triangle. I saw it 40 00:02:17,370 --> 00:02:18,410 in the streetlight when he ran off. 41 00:02:19,570 --> 00:02:20,910 Once he was gone, I ran out. 42 00:02:21,570 --> 00:02:22,650 This guy was already dead. 43 00:02:23,710 --> 00:02:27,870 Two guys get into a fist fight. One guy's losing, decides fists aren't going 44 00:02:27,870 --> 00:02:30,250 to cut it, takes it to the next level. 45 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,160 If you can't beat them, shoot them. 46 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,360 Yeah, no, I don't think that's the way it goes. 47 00:03:27,250 --> 00:03:29,270 Unfortunately, our canvas for cameras was a bust. 48 00:03:29,530 --> 00:03:32,770 The CCTV at that check cashing store has been down for a month. 49 00:03:33,010 --> 00:03:36,810 Thank you. The camera down the block picked up a two-man argument right 50 00:03:36,810 --> 00:03:39,890 before the shooting, but super grainy and far away. 51 00:03:40,130 --> 00:03:41,650 I'm assuming facial reaction non-starter? 52 00:03:41,870 --> 00:03:43,490 It ends before things got violent. 53 00:03:43,750 --> 00:03:46,110 It's more than nothing, but less than something. 54 00:03:46,890 --> 00:03:48,970 Talk to Miles Booker's parents on the phone. 55 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,200 They're on the way up from Baltimore where he grew up. You said if he had 56 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:53,400 anything weird going on lately? 57 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,560 Problems? No, nothing. They said he wasn't just a student at Piermont. He 58 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:57,560 was on the basketball team. 59 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,520 And they had a game against Fenwick last night. Huge rivalry. 60 00:04:00,820 --> 00:04:01,820 Uh-huh. 61 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,220 Well, Piermont won big last night. 62 00:04:04,460 --> 00:04:06,620 And the game ended at 8.53 p.m. 63 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:10,100 Miles was dead 45 minutes later, a quarter mile from the arena. 64 00:04:10,580 --> 00:04:12,160 I can get access to the arena footage. 65 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,400 It's going to be a ton of it, so it might take a minute. 66 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,300 Meantime, that arena sound like a good place to start? 67 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,960 I liked Miles, but we had a tough relationship, too. 68 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,160 How so? How tough? 69 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:26,780 Well, not that tough, if that's what you're asking. 70 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:33,900 Miles was a star in high school, but this is a big-time program, and all 71 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:35,560 these kids were stars in high school. 72 00:04:36,300 --> 00:04:40,780 Here, Miles is a bench guy, but he did not agree with that assessment. 73 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:42,160 He wanted more playing time. 74 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:43,400 He was frustrated. 75 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:47,040 Sometimes he lashed out. I mean, bonehead stuff. 76 00:04:47,420 --> 00:04:48,420 What kind of stuff? 77 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,600 Well, last night, game's a blowout. 78 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:56,660 Next thing I know, one second left, he throws up a three and makes it. 79 00:04:56,940 --> 00:04:59,500 Can't imagine the Fenwick players thought that was too cool. 80 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:00,720 Yeah, well, I didn't either. 81 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,040 So players get into it in the tunnel. 82 00:05:03,740 --> 00:05:09,140 Miles takes some punches, gets a few back. I broke it up. Right. Think that 83 00:05:09,140 --> 00:05:11,920 other kid went and got a gun, came back to finish what he started? 84 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,680 He did say this ain't over. 85 00:05:19,770 --> 00:05:20,770 Nick Snyder. 86 00:05:23,390 --> 00:05:25,890 NYPD. Detective Walker, Detective Calvino. 87 00:05:26,670 --> 00:05:28,170 Wanted to talk to you about Miles Booker. 88 00:05:28,950 --> 00:05:30,510 Yeah, I heard about it on the socials. 89 00:05:30,890 --> 00:05:32,750 Sucks. Yeah, we heard about the fight. 90 00:05:33,730 --> 00:05:34,730 Did what I had to do. 91 00:05:35,350 --> 00:05:36,390 You got a gun, Nick? 92 00:05:37,570 --> 00:05:40,890 Whoa, whoa, whoa. You don't think I had anything to do with that? Yeah, we just 93 00:05:40,890 --> 00:05:41,729 connect dots. 94 00:05:41,730 --> 00:05:42,730 That's all. 95 00:05:47,390 --> 00:05:48,390 Look. 96 00:05:49,190 --> 00:05:51,070 Yeah, maybe I was pissed after the game. 97 00:05:51,710 --> 00:05:54,750 But if you thought I was pissed about that stupid shot, just check out what 98 00:05:54,750 --> 00:05:55,750 they're saying on WeWager. 99 00:05:56,130 --> 00:05:57,130 What's WeWager? 100 00:05:57,630 --> 00:05:58,630 The prediction market. 101 00:06:02,990 --> 00:06:05,950 Nick Snyder's alibi checks out. He was right about WeWager. 102 00:06:06,190 --> 00:06:08,510 So the betting line had Paramount winning by 19. 103 00:06:08,750 --> 00:06:10,990 Paramount was winning by 18 as the clock wound down. 104 00:06:11,290 --> 00:06:15,630 As Miles Booker throws up that prayer, Paramount wins by 21, he blows the line. 105 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:19,160 First place your mind goes if he was caught up in some gambling thing. I hear 106 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,520 you, but I don't know, man. 107 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,180 Box score said he played nine minutes. Five points, two boards. It's tough to 108 00:06:26,180 --> 00:06:27,840 throw a game with those numbers. Wait, guys. 109 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:29,880 Look at this WeWager pin board. 110 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,960 You won't believe the flood of hate that Booker got. 111 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:36,840 Oh, that garbage shot cost me my mortgage payment. That scrub ruined my 112 00:06:36,840 --> 00:06:39,160 weekend. All this for a 20-year-old kid? Damn. 113 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,580 Oh, even in this sewer of humanity, one guy stands out. 114 00:06:43,180 --> 00:06:45,120 This guy claims to have lost 40K. 115 00:06:45,380 --> 00:06:47,740 Going to find Miles Booker on the street. I'm going to teach that punk 116 00:06:47,740 --> 00:06:48,940 about a different kind of shot. 117 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,000 That guy posted that from the game. 118 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,420 He was there. Saw the shot go in. We know his handle on WeWager, but who the 119 00:06:55,420 --> 00:06:56,420 hell is he in real life? 120 00:06:59,220 --> 00:07:02,900 Going to find Miles Booker on the street. Going to teach that punk about a 121 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:04,060 different kind of shot. 122 00:07:05,260 --> 00:07:06,260 Outrageous. Truly. 123 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:08,000 Yeah. We need a name. 124 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:09,860 We need to know who made that threat. 125 00:07:10,540 --> 00:07:11,540 Can't help you there. Sorry. 126 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:13,100 So it doesn't bother you? 127 00:07:13,660 --> 00:07:15,280 Athletes getting death threats on your platform? 128 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,760 Moral decay is baked into my business model only because the demand exists. 129 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:21,500 That we didn't create. 130 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:27,140 If someone predicts the next 9-11 on WeWager makes a fortune, more power to 131 00:07:27,140 --> 00:07:28,160 them, and the bigger my cut. 132 00:07:28,580 --> 00:07:30,660 That math is contingent upon one thing. 133 00:07:32,060 --> 00:07:33,060 Anonymity. 134 00:07:34,300 --> 00:07:35,940 Thank you for stopping by, friends. 135 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,940 Well, just one problem. We're talking about a person of interest in a murder 136 00:07:39,940 --> 00:07:40,940 investigation. 137 00:07:41,370 --> 00:07:44,210 So refusing to cooperate violates know your customer laws. 138 00:07:44,830 --> 00:07:48,890 We have no choice but to report it to the CFTC Yeah, see all that math you 139 00:07:48,890 --> 00:07:51,410 were talking about. I think that's contingent on you still being in 140 00:07:51,410 --> 00:07:58,310 business friend Understand you own a 141 00:07:58,310 --> 00:08:01,150 Smith and Wesson handgun. Mr. Barrett CSX. 142 00:08:02,090 --> 00:08:03,090 Yeah 143 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:04,579 Registered, legal. 144 00:08:04,580 --> 00:08:07,180 People use legal guns to do illegal things, sir. 145 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,400 So we got a shell casing, and the bullet was fired from a gun that was made by 146 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,340 one of two manufacturers. Now, the first one's a Glock, and I'm gonna let you 147 00:08:14,340 --> 00:08:15,420 guess what the second one is. 148 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,920 Miles Booker's basket at the end of the game cost you 40 grand. 149 00:08:20,540 --> 00:08:22,140 People have killed for a lot less. 150 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:26,240 Look, I was not happy about that stupid shot, okay? That is true. 151 00:08:26,660 --> 00:08:29,620 I went looking for Booker after the game. That's true, too. Okay. 152 00:08:30,740 --> 00:08:31,740 Okay, you have a plan? 153 00:08:32,140 --> 00:08:33,140 I don't know. 154 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,359 Raise hell. 155 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:35,360 Then what? 156 00:08:35,860 --> 00:08:36,860 Change of heart? 157 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,360 I saw him outside the arena. He was with some kid. 158 00:08:39,659 --> 00:08:40,619 What kid? 159 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:43,880 Some kid. Like, doesn't even shave kind of dude. 160 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,680 They seemed tight, but the kid looked scared or bummed out. 161 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,200 Miles was, like, talking to him, taking him really serious. 162 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:53,639 Then what'd you do? 163 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,800 Nothing, bro. I was like, what, I'm just gonna go sucker punch this guy while 164 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,220 he's straightening out this kid? 165 00:09:00,460 --> 00:09:01,920 Went to Bub O'Malley's instead. 166 00:09:02,860 --> 00:09:05,340 Had a heart-to-heart with my friend Jack Daniels. 167 00:09:07,060 --> 00:09:08,060 I swear. 168 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:13,040 Barrett's telling the truth. He was at Bub's, drinking his feelings. 169 00:09:13,700 --> 00:09:15,140 Well, we found the mystery, kids. 170 00:09:15,420 --> 00:09:16,420 Yeah, over here. 171 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:20,820 If Booker exits the arena at 925, this kid's waiting outside. 172 00:09:21,940 --> 00:09:24,320 Can you zoom in a little bit? Right there in the jacket. 173 00:09:26,300 --> 00:09:27,300 Go on, it's high. 174 00:09:27,460 --> 00:09:28,460 Brooklyn. 175 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,560 They're Diamondback Terrapins. They live in the Gowanus Canal. I mean, they got 176 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:34,560 like three eyes because of that water, but you know, they're cool. 177 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,180 And these are things that you know? 178 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:39,800 Want to go find a kid? 179 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:45,280 How do you know Miles Booker? 180 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:47,920 I met Miles two years ago at summer basketball camp. 181 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:49,400 Marymount College? 182 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,500 He was like a mentor, I guess. 183 00:09:53,580 --> 00:09:54,720 He looked out for me. 184 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,380 What were you guys talking about last night? 185 00:09:58,420 --> 00:09:59,420 We heard you upset. 186 00:10:03,690 --> 00:10:09,670 That night, I was walking to the game, and then this white guy came out of 187 00:10:09,670 --> 00:10:11,890 nowhere yelling at me crazy stuff. 188 00:10:12,370 --> 00:10:13,370 Crazy how? 189 00:10:13,410 --> 00:10:14,410 Racist. 190 00:10:15,030 --> 00:10:17,050 I mean, he had his phone out filming the whole thing. 191 00:10:17,270 --> 00:10:18,330 He wouldn't leave me alone. 192 00:10:19,110 --> 00:10:22,190 So I panicked, and I ran all the way to the arena. 193 00:10:23,270 --> 00:10:24,930 That's what you told Miles after the game? 194 00:10:25,350 --> 00:10:26,350 Yeah. 195 00:10:26,590 --> 00:10:29,750 And he told me he was pardoning me for walking away, and he called me an Uber 196 00:10:29,750 --> 00:10:30,750 to go home. 197 00:10:32,070 --> 00:10:33,070 Is that it? 198 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:42,460 Except he asked where it happened, and he pulled up a picture of the guy on the 199 00:10:42,460 --> 00:10:44,460 cell, and I said, yeah, that's him. 200 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:47,500 What did he say? 201 00:10:48,340 --> 00:10:49,640 That he was going to take care of it. 202 00:10:59,860 --> 00:11:03,520 According to Booker's cell phone data, after he sent Elijah home, he pulled up 203 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:04,520 Riot Wire. 204 00:11:04,730 --> 00:11:07,410 A crypto-based streaming platform that hosts influencers. 205 00:11:08,030 --> 00:11:10,290 Mostly the ones that get kicked off other platforms. 206 00:11:10,530 --> 00:11:11,530 Whose page did you visit? 207 00:11:11,750 --> 00:11:12,750 Stone Freedom. 208 00:11:12,950 --> 00:11:14,890 Who? He's an internet celebrity. 209 00:11:15,190 --> 00:11:16,650 His real name's Tyler Duncan. 210 00:11:17,570 --> 00:11:18,950 He's a professional racist. 211 00:11:19,770 --> 00:11:20,870 I'm sorry, he's a what? 212 00:11:22,170 --> 00:11:24,650 Hey, what? Right here. Where you going? Where you going? 213 00:11:24,870 --> 00:11:28,170 Look what I found, huh? Look, I found one, guys. Look what I found. 214 00:11:28,550 --> 00:11:30,250 Hey, get that camera out of my face, man. 215 00:11:30,990 --> 00:11:33,430 Come on, say something. 216 00:11:33,790 --> 00:11:35,730 Move on. Move on. Or what? What are you going to do? 217 00:11:35,950 --> 00:11:38,930 Hey, cornbread, I'm talking to you. Come on, smile for the camera. 218 00:11:39,130 --> 00:11:40,130 Hey. 219 00:11:41,610 --> 00:11:42,950 This mutt gets off on this? 220 00:11:43,230 --> 00:11:46,010 Oh, this mutt makes money on this. There's a few of these out there. 221 00:11:46,310 --> 00:11:51,050 A guy named Chud the Builder's another one. Says the most outrageous stuff for 222 00:11:51,050 --> 00:11:55,730 views. But our guy here, Stone Freedom, his videos get like two, what, 300,000 223 00:11:55,730 --> 00:12:00,730 views? His fans think he's a hero, some sort of anti-woke First Amendment 224 00:12:00,730 --> 00:12:02,210 warrior. You got a sheet? 225 00:12:02,750 --> 00:12:03,950 No, he's never been arrested. 226 00:12:04,370 --> 00:12:07,330 But guess where he was doing his thing the night of the murder? 227 00:12:08,270 --> 00:12:09,830 Four blocks from the crime scene. 228 00:12:14,730 --> 00:12:16,090 Open up, NYPD. 229 00:12:19,730 --> 00:12:20,730 Tyler Duncan? 230 00:12:20,770 --> 00:12:21,589 That's me. 231 00:12:21,590 --> 00:12:24,050 Can I help you fellas? We have a warrant to search the premises. 232 00:12:24,930 --> 00:12:25,930 Do you? 233 00:12:28,530 --> 00:12:29,530 Huh? 234 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:33,940 Come on in. 235 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:41,140 Hey, Tyler, you bump into this guy in Sugar Hill last night? 236 00:12:42,580 --> 00:12:48,560 Uh, yeah, I don't know, man. You know, uh, faces, you know. Right. 237 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:50,100 We all look the same. 238 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,680 No, no, those are your words, man, not mine. 239 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:55,640 Jeez. 240 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,100 You always this sensitive, bro? No. 241 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:00,200 I'm not your bro. 242 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:02,480 Got it. 243 00:13:04,940 --> 00:13:08,640 Turn around push your hands behind your back first first first say hello to the 244 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:13,820 freedom fighters boys Yeah, it's finally happening the woke stoppo's trying to 245 00:13:13,820 --> 00:13:17,580 silence me turn it off Nah, man, white guys can't be too careful these days 246 00:13:17,580 --> 00:13:20,320 now. Hey, I got rights. I got rights, right? 247 00:13:27,460 --> 00:13:30,540 Tyler Duncan, you're under arrest for the murder of Miles Lee Booker. You have 248 00:13:30,540 --> 00:13:32,960 the right to remain silent. Do you understand? You have the right to 249 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:34,320 consult an attorney. Do you understand? 250 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:39,680 That's you, Tyler. 251 00:13:40,620 --> 00:13:41,620 Climbing into your car. 252 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:44,020 Two minutes after the murder. 253 00:13:44,860 --> 00:13:46,240 Three blocks from where it happened. 254 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,520 Our witness says the killer was wearing this backpack. 255 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:51,980 Which we found in your apartment. 256 00:13:53,340 --> 00:13:55,180 Come on, man. We know you did this. 257 00:13:55,950 --> 00:13:57,370 I don't know what you're talking about. 258 00:13:59,570 --> 00:14:00,570 All right. 259 00:14:05,030 --> 00:14:08,330 I want to hear your side. 260 00:14:10,910 --> 00:14:13,710 Oh, you think silence is your friend. 261 00:14:14,770 --> 00:14:15,770 It's not. 262 00:14:16,730 --> 00:14:22,330 If something happened that might help explain this, now's the time to talk. 263 00:14:26,830 --> 00:14:31,590 Get the ballistics report back from the gun we found in your apartment Dead 264 00:14:31,590 --> 00:14:36,510 match from the slug we recovered from the body. It's the murder weapon It's 265 00:14:36,510 --> 00:14:42,390 over Tyler I want a lawyer 266 00:14:42,390 --> 00:14:48,130 Good luck to you 267 00:14:54,220 --> 00:14:58,300 Your Honor, the defendant is charged with murder in the second degree. On the 268 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:03,300 night of September the 2nd, Mr. Duncan shot and killed Miles Booker, an unarmed 269 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:08,420 man, a good young man, an athlete, a beloved son, and a mentor. 270 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,860 He then fled the scene and concealed the weapon. 271 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,500 We have an eyewitness, we have physical and forensic evidence, and we ask for 272 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:19,820 remand. The defendant has a public platform with large following, 273 00:15:19,980 --> 00:15:22,780 fundraisers on his behalf. He presents a flight risk. 274 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,900 Mr. Dressler. Your Honor, the reason my client has such passionate support is 275 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:28,819 that he is innocent. 276 00:15:28,820 --> 00:15:34,060 We will show that the aggressor in this incident was Miles Booker. He hunted 277 00:15:34,060 --> 00:15:39,360 down my client, struck him, advanced on him. In that moment, Mr. Duncan 278 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,100 reasonably believed his life was in imminent danger and acted in self 279 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:47,700 -defense. Your Honor, bail is appropriate here. 280 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,400 Mr. Duncan is an entrepreneur with no criminal record, long-standing ties... 281 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,940 Mr. Duncan is an entrepreneur to the degree that he runs a social media 282 00:15:55,940 --> 00:15:59,620 platform built around confronting strangers with hateful language. 283 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,780 Save your breath. The defendant's remanded. 284 00:16:02,980 --> 00:16:06,100 Next case. This is a travesty of justice! 285 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:07,740 USA! USA! 286 00:16:08,140 --> 00:16:09,140 USA! 287 00:16:10,500 --> 00:16:12,240 USA! USA! 288 00:16:13,020 --> 00:16:14,820 USA! USA! USA! 289 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:21,560 Mr. and Mrs. Booker, don't let this turn into a circus. 290 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,700 Just get justice for our son. 291 00:16:26,300 --> 00:16:30,580 If the races were reversed, the DA would not have brought charges. 292 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:35,020 Anyone with eyes and a brain can see that. Do you have any other questions? 293 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:39,160 Tom Phillips is making a cause out of Tyler Duncan. 294 00:16:39,540 --> 00:16:40,940 A match made in hell. 295 00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:45,340 Is this all hot air or is there substance to the self-defense claim? 296 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,620 We don't know exactly what was said, but we know from our eyewitness, the two men 297 00:16:49,620 --> 00:16:53,760 argue. After a few minutes, Miles strikes Tyler Duncan in the face. 298 00:16:53,980 --> 00:16:57,280 Duncan falls, pulls out a gun, shoots Miles Booker dead. 299 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,460 It will hammer the proportionality gap. 300 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,200 A punch and a fatal gunshot occupy very different tiers of violence. 301 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:06,079 Did Duncan have an opportunity to retreat? 302 00:17:06,380 --> 00:17:08,180 Yes, and a duty to retreat. 303 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:13,260 And he showed consciousness of guilt. He didn't call 911, fled the scene, went 304 00:17:13,260 --> 00:17:16,420 home, hid the murder weapon by duct-taping it to the underside of his 305 00:17:16,420 --> 00:17:17,420 toilet lid. 306 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:18,760 This is murder. 307 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,020 You don't get to incite violence and then use it as a pretext to get away 308 00:17:23,020 --> 00:17:24,020 with killing someone. 309 00:17:24,220 --> 00:17:28,600 Duncan has a long history of goading black men into verbal and physical 310 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,260 confrontations, all on video, which speaks to motive. We will show that to 311 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:34,360 the jury, too. Well, maybe. 312 00:17:34,980 --> 00:17:36,420 Defense is challenging the videos. 313 00:17:49,660 --> 00:17:50,660 I get it. 314 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:52,800 How many of those are there? 315 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,660 We've counted 152 on various streaming platforms so far. 316 00:17:58,940 --> 00:18:03,960 Just so I'm clear, this Stone Freedom, that's the alter ego of your client 317 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:04,959 Tyler Duncan? 318 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:05,960 Yes, Judge. 319 00:18:06,340 --> 00:18:07,820 And you're okay with all this? 320 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:09,500 God, no. 321 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:15,720 But if we truly believe in the law, then my discomfort is not a sign I'm doing 322 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,860 something wrong. It's a sign I'm doing something right. 323 00:18:18,860 --> 00:18:21,360 That's the whole reason we're here, in fact. 324 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,860 Because our system of law doesn't ask whether a defendant is a good person. 325 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:28,560 But Mullineaux is clear. 326 00:18:28,940 --> 00:18:34,360 Evidence of prior bad acts is presumptively inadmissible. Even if this 327 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:36,620 case was about race, and it's not. 328 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:38,960 Yes. 329 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:42,560 My client says hurtful, terrible things. 330 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:44,780 But in this case, he was attacked. 331 00:18:45,310 --> 00:18:47,490 and believed he had to resort to deadly force. 332 00:18:47,730 --> 00:18:50,950 Your Honor, we're not offering the videos as prior bad acts. They are 333 00:18:50,950 --> 00:18:55,090 direct evidence of motive and the falsity of the self-defense claim 334 00:18:55,090 --> 00:18:57,470 itself. These confrontations are not spontaneous. 335 00:18:58,070 --> 00:18:59,570 They are a business plan. 336 00:18:59,810 --> 00:19:03,910 They're relevant to whether this encounter was an ambush that left Tyler 337 00:19:03,910 --> 00:19:09,050 Duncan genuinely afraid for his life or part of a deliberate pattern. 338 00:19:09,790 --> 00:19:10,790 I hear that. 339 00:19:11,530 --> 00:19:15,910 But suggesting a defendant's general disposition as evidence is inherently 340 00:19:15,910 --> 00:19:20,330 prejudicial. It runs the risk that we convict someone for who they are. 341 00:19:20,990 --> 00:19:27,770 It seems to me, and I think this is what you were getting at too, the vile nature 342 00:19:27,770 --> 00:19:33,810 of Tyler Duncan's conduct only makes the legal protection more critical, not 343 00:19:33,810 --> 00:19:37,150 less. Your Honor, we're not... That's the decision, Mr. Price. 344 00:19:38,210 --> 00:19:39,390 The videos are out. 345 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:42,400 A 152. 346 00:19:50,180 --> 00:19:53,480 If the judge won't allow the videos, I'll do her one better. 347 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:54,880 How's that? 348 00:19:55,260 --> 00:19:58,760 Let's supersede the indictment by charging Tyler Duncan with a hate crime. 349 00:19:59,140 --> 00:20:02,360 That way, the defendant's bigotry speaks to his state of mind. 350 00:20:02,740 --> 00:20:06,080 It's no longer propensity evidence, so Molyneux can't touch it. 351 00:20:06,340 --> 00:20:07,340 It's creative. 352 00:20:08,070 --> 00:20:12,130 Obviously, Tyler Duncan is a bigot. The jury should know that one way or 353 00:20:12,130 --> 00:20:14,070 another. I'm sensing a butt coming. 354 00:20:15,230 --> 00:20:16,230 Butt? 355 00:20:17,370 --> 00:20:24,070 Based only on the direct evidence we have in hand right now, do we know that 356 00:20:24,070 --> 00:20:25,830 race was a motivating factor in this murder? 357 00:20:26,390 --> 00:20:27,390 Not really. 358 00:20:27,730 --> 00:20:30,870 My gut says Miles Booker died because he was black. 359 00:20:31,370 --> 00:20:33,410 I'll sleep just fine with a hate crime. 360 00:20:35,490 --> 00:20:36,490 Do it. 361 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,600 Go back to the grand jury, add the hate crime, find Duncan's other victims, put 362 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:42,600 them all on the stand. 363 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:46,820 Show this jury exactly who this son of a bitch really is. 364 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,940 I was walking home from the hospital in bedside, just minding my own business. 365 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,560 And what did you see? 366 00:20:56,980 --> 00:20:58,140 There was more of what I hear. 367 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,140 I kept hearing these weird, like, monkey sounds or something. 368 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:06,500 Next thing I know, dude shoving his phone in my face, recording me. 369 00:21:06,860 --> 00:21:08,860 So I told him, man, man, get out of here. 370 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,620 And he wouldn't listen. He kept chasing me around. 371 00:21:12,420 --> 00:21:14,440 What are you going to do, boy? You're chimping out. 372 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:16,240 He flashes his gun. 373 00:21:17,860 --> 00:21:19,800 He says, what are you going to do, boy? 374 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:23,580 I got 15 rounds for you, boy. 375 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:30,660 The words he says, they're not words. 376 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,780 They're like a hand around your throat, you know? 377 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:39,160 No, Elijah, I don't know. 378 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,080 I would do anything to make it stop. 379 00:21:43,780 --> 00:21:47,820 You can't help but wonder if fighting is the only way. 380 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,840 But, Elijah, you didn't fight. 381 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:58,260 You didn't punch my client in the face, knock him to the ground, advance on him. 382 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:00,040 You walked away. 383 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:05,500 Yeah, but... It didn't turn to violence. 384 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:10,580 Until you told Miles Booker about it. 385 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:16,260 And Miles told you he was going to take care of it. 386 00:22:17,460 --> 00:22:19,220 Now we know what he meant. 387 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:20,700 No. Sure we do. 388 00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:24,380 He was going to kill my client. Not true. 389 00:22:25,620 --> 00:22:29,000 He was only going to do what I was too scared to do. 390 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,120 Tell that man. 391 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:32,800 Go to hell. 392 00:22:34,620 --> 00:22:35,920 Nothing further, Your Honor. 393 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,420 It was dead that night, and I poked my head out of the shop, and I saw that man 394 00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:43,420 right there. 395 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:44,480 Mr. Duncan? 396 00:22:44,940 --> 00:22:47,000 And a tall black guy. 397 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:50,920 That's him. 398 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,420 Your Honor, let the record reflect that the witnesses identified Miles Booker 399 00:22:54,420 --> 00:22:56,200 and the defendant, Tyler Duncan. 400 00:22:56,460 --> 00:22:59,960 Done. Go ahead. I heard Duncan call Miles a chimp. 401 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,280 And then? It was on. 402 00:23:06,780 --> 00:23:08,440 Miles punched Duncan in the face. 403 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,420 Duncan went down. Miles took a step forward. 404 00:23:12,420 --> 00:23:13,660 Duncan pulled a gun. 405 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:19,820 Shot him. Did you witness Mr. Duncan make an attempt to retreat or call for 406 00:23:19,820 --> 00:23:20,820 help? No. 407 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:22,320 He just pulled a gun. 408 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,680 Shot. Did you witness Mr. 409 00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:29,680 Duncan rendering aid to Mr. Booker after shooting him? Hell no. He just ran. 410 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:32,420 Thank you. Nothing further. 411 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:39,340 You told the police you heard the word chump. 412 00:23:40,020 --> 00:23:41,020 Not chimp. 413 00:23:41,140 --> 00:23:42,140 Yeah. 414 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:46,580 But now I know it was chimp. Who the hell says chump these days? You not only 415 00:23:46,580 --> 00:23:49,720 told the police the word was chump, you told them you didn't know which man said 416 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:53,660 it. I realized I was wrong. 417 00:23:54,260 --> 00:23:58,080 And how'd you come to this miraculous realization you must have viewed my 418 00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,180 client's content? 419 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,140 Sure. It's been all over the place since the trial started. 420 00:24:02,420 --> 00:24:04,200 And you're sure chimp? 421 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:10,420 You remember it more clearly today than you did 19 minutes after the murder when 422 00:24:10,420 --> 00:24:11,500 the police interviewed you. 423 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,300 Sometimes things come back to you. 424 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:21,580 Or sometimes, when the world is determined to make things about race, 425 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:26,640 maybe a word starts to sound like the word everyone wants you to hear. 426 00:24:26,780 --> 00:24:27,920 Objection. Withdrawn. 427 00:24:29,660 --> 00:24:31,060 I've got nothing more, Judge. 428 00:24:31,980 --> 00:24:32,980 Mr. Price? 429 00:24:33,860 --> 00:24:35,020 People rest, Your Honor. 430 00:24:38,429 --> 00:24:39,429 Hey, Alexis. 431 00:24:41,210 --> 00:24:42,210 What was that? 432 00:24:42,390 --> 00:24:43,390 What was what? 433 00:24:43,770 --> 00:24:47,190 We told you in prep, stick to what you told the detective. 434 00:24:47,390 --> 00:24:50,370 Maybe I ran with the assignment a little bit, but every word I said was the God's 435 00:24:50,370 --> 00:24:51,370 honest truth. 436 00:24:51,830 --> 00:24:52,830 Isn't that what you wanted? 437 00:24:53,310 --> 00:24:57,550 Yes, but it... Once I saw that prick's videos, once I heard him singing chimp, 438 00:24:57,690 --> 00:24:59,190 I knew that's what I heard too. 439 00:25:00,030 --> 00:25:02,550 That man, Stone Freedom. 440 00:25:03,210 --> 00:25:06,710 The only saving grace of this whole thing is that Miles Booker beat his ass 441 00:25:06,710 --> 00:25:07,710 before he died. 442 00:25:12,910 --> 00:25:15,530 Miles Booker just wouldn't take no for an answer. 443 00:25:15,990 --> 00:25:16,990 What do you mean? 444 00:25:17,930 --> 00:25:20,070 Well, he found me in the streets. 445 00:25:20,350 --> 00:25:24,250 I was walking to my car, and he started yelling at me. 446 00:25:24,490 --> 00:25:26,830 You know, say that to me. Say that stuff to me. 447 00:25:27,290 --> 00:25:29,490 And I told him. I was like, no, dude. 448 00:25:30,010 --> 00:25:32,070 I am off the clock, man. 449 00:25:33,060 --> 00:25:36,360 And? He goes, you can't do what you do and clock out. 450 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,780 Followed by some words that I'm probably not supposed to say here. 451 00:25:41,740 --> 00:25:43,180 And he started following me. 452 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,580 We trash talked each other for a little while. 453 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:52,280 And then out of nowhere, he hit me real, real hard. 454 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,380 And what were you thinking in that moment? 455 00:25:57,020 --> 00:25:59,000 Yeah, not really much of a game plan. 456 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,840 On my back. 457 00:26:02,250 --> 00:26:03,390 I can't really see well. 458 00:26:03,810 --> 00:26:05,790 My ears are ringing. I'm tasting blood. 459 00:26:06,610 --> 00:26:09,950 And he goes, get up. Get up right now. Get up right now. Let's finish this. 460 00:26:10,850 --> 00:26:11,870 So what was I thinking? 461 00:26:12,610 --> 00:26:19,530 I was thinking that a man double my size just hit me harder than I've ever been 462 00:26:19,530 --> 00:26:23,690 hit. And I was sure he was going to kill me. 463 00:26:24,150 --> 00:26:25,870 Did you consider retreating? 464 00:26:26,290 --> 00:26:27,290 Where? 465 00:26:28,969 --> 00:26:31,730 What? It was dark. My knees a mess. Where am I going? 466 00:26:33,750 --> 00:26:39,870 Look, I had a fraction of a second to think. 467 00:26:41,070 --> 00:26:42,110 And I just acted. 468 00:26:43,150 --> 00:26:46,990 Did you call Miles Booker a chimp that night? No. 469 00:26:48,010 --> 00:26:52,250 Did you want Miles Booker to die? No, I just wanted to go home. 470 00:26:54,470 --> 00:26:55,490 Why'd you have the gun? 471 00:26:57,230 --> 00:26:59,090 I get death threats every day. 472 00:26:59,390 --> 00:27:01,110 People saying they're going to hunt me down. 473 00:27:03,030 --> 00:27:04,330 Nothing further, Judge. 474 00:27:05,650 --> 00:27:06,650 Mr. Price. 475 00:27:07,470 --> 00:27:09,330 Had Miles Booker ever threatened your life? 476 00:27:09,610 --> 00:27:10,990 No. And you'd never met him? 477 00:27:11,190 --> 00:27:12,190 Correct. 478 00:27:12,610 --> 00:27:14,030 Why do people threaten your life? 479 00:27:14,390 --> 00:27:17,970 Because of what I do and the language that I use. The N-word. 480 00:27:18,210 --> 00:27:19,210 Yeah. Boy. 481 00:27:19,340 --> 00:27:23,620 Yes. So you use the most hateful words in the English language routinely for 482 00:27:23,620 --> 00:27:27,200 profit, but the one time somebody finally punches you in the face for it, 483 00:27:27,220 --> 00:27:29,140 you want us to believe you are all peaches and cream? 484 00:27:29,860 --> 00:27:33,080 I get how that sounds, and I wouldn't believe me either. 485 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:34,219 You heard the man. 486 00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:39,720 But you have to understand that Stone Freedom is just a character that I made 487 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,560 up. Character? Yeah. 488 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,420 I didn't have a lot of opportunity growing up. 489 00:27:46,350 --> 00:27:50,070 Okay, my mother died when I was a kid. I was in and out of foster care. I didn't 490 00:27:50,070 --> 00:27:51,070 do too good at school. 491 00:27:51,130 --> 00:27:53,950 So I always had a hustle to make ends meet. 492 00:27:55,830 --> 00:28:01,010 And I stumbled upon this weird little lane in the internet. 493 00:28:02,130 --> 00:28:03,390 But I'm an entertainer. 494 00:28:04,310 --> 00:28:06,070 A provocateur, whatever. 495 00:28:06,290 --> 00:28:11,550 And there is a long tradition of guys like me. I'm sorry, you believe that 496 00:28:11,550 --> 00:28:12,870 what you do is entertaining? 497 00:28:13,210 --> 00:28:14,570 Call it whatever you would like. 498 00:28:14,970 --> 00:28:19,830 But comedy, entertainment, take a guy like Andy Kaufman. Or Andrew Dice Clay. 499 00:28:20,110 --> 00:28:23,830 Even Howard Stern. The character that he plays on the radio, that's just part of 500 00:28:23,830 --> 00:28:24,409 his gag. 501 00:28:24,410 --> 00:28:27,670 Are you trying to tell this jury you're not a racist? 502 00:28:27,910 --> 00:28:30,690 Yes. That is exactly what I'm trying to say. 503 00:28:31,230 --> 00:28:38,030 Tyler Duncan is... I'm not a racist, okay? But Stone 504 00:28:38,030 --> 00:28:40,070 Freedom is a racist. 505 00:28:40,710 --> 00:28:42,790 But when Miles approached me, I wasn't filming. 506 00:28:43,810 --> 00:28:47,820 So... He was talking to me. 507 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:49,500 Tyler Duncan. 508 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,740 I see. So you switched your racism on and off. 509 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,320 Yeah, sort of. 510 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,880 Luckily for us, it doesn't matter what character you were playing that night. 511 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,380 What does matter is that you, the person sitting directly in front of me, shot 512 00:29:05,380 --> 00:29:10,120 and killed an unarmed young man named Miles Booker. Yes, in self-defense 513 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,260 because I was afraid he was going to kill me. 514 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:16,960 All Miles did was punch you. He didn't even jump on you when you were down on 515 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,460 the ground. He told you to get up so you could finish your fist fight. 516 00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:25,140 You weren't afraid. You just wanted to kill a black man. 517 00:29:25,780 --> 00:29:26,840 Objection. Sustained. 518 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:39,560 Ms. Cook, how long have you been married to Tyler Duncan? 519 00:29:40,170 --> 00:29:42,170 We went to Martin High together in New Jersey. 520 00:29:42,550 --> 00:29:44,530 Got together after we graduated. 521 00:29:44,830 --> 00:29:45,830 Got married. 522 00:29:46,150 --> 00:29:47,550 It'll be two years in spring. 523 00:29:48,150 --> 00:29:51,830 Like Mr. Duncan, you are a social media influencer by trade. 524 00:29:52,330 --> 00:29:54,410 Yeah. We both came from the dirt. 525 00:29:54,730 --> 00:29:57,550 But we're online savvy. We created our characters. 526 00:29:58,330 --> 00:29:59,450 What's your character? 527 00:29:59,950 --> 00:30:01,250 My name is Ava Star. 528 00:30:01,830 --> 00:30:03,550 So beautiful that life is hard. 529 00:30:04,110 --> 00:30:09,010 If the conceit of your character is that being beautiful is hard... 530 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,720 People must be upset. 531 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:13,920 That's the whole point. Get people mad. 532 00:30:14,260 --> 00:30:17,400 Mr. Duncan uses the same model. Of course. 533 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,520 He's not racist, if that's what you mean. 534 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,620 I wouldn't tolerate that. 535 00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:24,820 And neither would my family. 536 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,620 I have two little brothers, and they're with us a lot. 537 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:30,920 And he's awesome with them. 538 00:30:32,180 --> 00:30:33,180 Thank you. 539 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:34,480 Nothing further. 540 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:48,120 As a black woman, you're comfortable being with someone who says hurtful, 541 00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:51,140 hateful things about black people for profit? 542 00:30:53,260 --> 00:30:55,660 Are you telling me how to live my life, Mr. Price? 543 00:30:59,020 --> 00:31:00,400 Let me put it another way. 544 00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:08,380 The mere fact that Mr. Duncan is nice to your family does not mean he's not a 545 00:31:08,380 --> 00:31:09,380 racist. 546 00:31:09,979 --> 00:31:13,380 It's like saying, I'm not a racist. I have lots of black friends. 547 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:20,940 When my grandmother got sick last year, Tyler figured out a way how to ship 548 00:31:20,940 --> 00:31:22,460 turnip greens on dry ice. 549 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:24,680 Back from when she grew up in Houston. 550 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,440 When she ate them, she cried. 551 00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:29,700 Cried. 552 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,560 You do those sort of things for your black friends, Mr. Price? 553 00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:46,460 I didn't think it was possible, but the defense made a pretty compelling case 554 00:31:46,460 --> 00:31:50,520 that Tyler Duncan is not actually a bigot. He just plays one on social 555 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:51,740 media. That's better. 556 00:31:52,020 --> 00:31:55,100 The average age of our jury is 28. 557 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,320 Young people understand nothing you see online is true. It's all an act. 558 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,600 This distinction the defense is making is less surprising to those jurors than 559 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:04,600 it is to you. 560 00:32:04,650 --> 00:32:08,670 We can't ignore the fact that we haven't documented a single instance in which 561 00:32:08,670 --> 00:32:12,490 Tyler Duncan has said or done anything racist when the cameras aren't rolling. 562 00:32:12,710 --> 00:32:16,670 When the camera's on, that's when he becomes Stone Freedom. Right. So we 563 00:32:16,670 --> 00:32:20,190 might not be doing ourselves any favors by insisting that Stone Freedom shot 564 00:32:20,190 --> 00:32:25,070 Miles Booker. It was Tyler Duncan. And to the jury, there might be a 565 00:32:25,070 --> 00:32:27,010 difference. I feel like I'm going crazy. 566 00:32:27,810 --> 00:32:30,070 Pretending to be a racist because it's profitable. 567 00:32:30,830 --> 00:32:34,270 is one of the few things more offensive than being a racist in the first place. 568 00:32:34,490 --> 00:32:35,469 That's odd. 569 00:32:35,470 --> 00:32:39,430 The fence wants to call a new witness, somebody we never heard about before. 570 00:32:39,770 --> 00:32:42,470 Now? Some guy named Barry Vaughn. 571 00:32:43,230 --> 00:32:46,710 Supposedly, he heard Miles threaten Tyler Duncan's life. 572 00:32:54,910 --> 00:32:59,130 My name's Barry Vaughn. I work at a bar in Sugar Hill, Coogan's. 573 00:32:59,959 --> 00:33:03,240 Two blocks from the location of the incident that night. 574 00:33:03,580 --> 00:33:04,640 I was bussing tables. 575 00:33:04,860 --> 00:33:06,420 This was 9.30. 576 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:07,760 This black guy walks up. 577 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,320 Yeah, that's him. 578 00:33:11,820 --> 00:33:15,260 He had Stone Freedom Stream pulled up on his phone. He was looking for him. 579 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,700 Asked a couple customers. They said, yeah, you're just missing. He went down 580 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:19,700 the block that way. 581 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,040 And before Mr. Booker left to hunt down Mr. 582 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:24,520 Duncan, what did he say? 583 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,360 He said, I'm going to put that son of a bitch in the ground. 584 00:33:29,210 --> 00:33:30,210 Nothing more. 585 00:33:32,050 --> 00:33:33,630 Your witness, Mr. Price. 586 00:33:34,610 --> 00:33:39,430 You tell anyone about any of this before today? 587 00:33:40,010 --> 00:33:42,150 Like a friend, a roommate? 588 00:33:43,070 --> 00:33:48,850 No. A lot of people. I mean, dare I say, most people, if they hear someone make a 589 00:33:48,850 --> 00:33:51,310 death threat, they call the police. 590 00:33:51,930 --> 00:33:53,250 I didn't think it was my business. 591 00:33:54,390 --> 00:33:57,910 Then what made it your business, Mr. Vaughn? 592 00:33:58,140 --> 00:33:59,440 After all this time. 593 00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,560 Tom Phillips has been talking about this case for a while. 594 00:34:05,140 --> 00:34:06,140 I'm a fan. 595 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,620 But he believes there's a real injustice being committed here. Holding a man 596 00:34:10,620 --> 00:34:13,260 accountable for taking another man's life? Heaven forbid. 597 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:15,320 Objection. Sustained. 598 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:18,639 Phillips said the other night this case is going to come down to the wire. 599 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:23,639 Anyone with information that could help Stone Freedom, sorry, Tyler Duncan, 600 00:34:23,860 --> 00:34:25,300 should stand up. 601 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,100 So you found the courage. 602 00:34:28,330 --> 00:34:34,790 And there's no record of this memory. So until Tom Phillips, a carnival barker 603 00:34:34,790 --> 00:34:38,909 with a well-documented aversion to the truth, begged you to come to Stone 604 00:34:38,909 --> 00:34:40,750 Freedom's rescue... Objection, Judge. 605 00:34:41,190 --> 00:34:42,190 Sustained. 606 00:34:43,710 --> 00:34:46,130 You'd never met Miles Booker before that night. 607 00:34:46,830 --> 00:34:50,870 Correct. So you have no sense of his temperament, his way. You can't tell us 608 00:34:50,870 --> 00:34:53,030 if he was being hyperbolic or venting, joking. 609 00:34:53,889 --> 00:34:54,989 Didn't sound like a joke. 610 00:34:57,390 --> 00:34:58,470 Not that you would know. 611 00:35:01,150 --> 00:35:02,150 Nothing further. 612 00:35:14,850 --> 00:35:17,610 We knew from the get-go not all the facts were convenient here. 613 00:35:18,110 --> 00:35:19,110 We're past that. 614 00:35:20,390 --> 00:35:23,110 Please tell me you're not asking me to feel empathy for Tyler Duncan. 615 00:35:23,510 --> 00:35:24,630 Hell no. No. 616 00:35:25,610 --> 00:35:26,610 It's not about empathy. 617 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,080 Um, it's about the law, Nick. 618 00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:37,400 It is possible that no matter how much we might despise Duncan, that strictly 619 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,780 by the letter of the law, this was self-defense. 620 00:35:43,060 --> 00:35:44,320 So what's the play? 621 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,200 We push to include manslaughter as a lesser included offense. 622 00:35:52,860 --> 00:35:56,540 That way the jury doesn't have to conclude that Duncan wasn't afraid, just 623 00:35:56,540 --> 00:35:59,040 that his fear didn't justify deadly force. 624 00:36:01,140 --> 00:36:02,220 It's not perfect. 625 00:36:02,620 --> 00:36:05,100 Hey, you need to see this. 626 00:36:05,820 --> 00:36:10,240 So, after Barry Vaughn's surprise testimony, I tracked down the recording 627 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:12,840 of Tom Phillips asking his listeners for help. 628 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,740 Phillips mentioned that he first bonded with Duncan during a podcast appearance, 629 00:36:17,860 --> 00:36:19,720 so I subpoenaed... 630 00:36:19,980 --> 00:36:22,380 The raw recordings from the podcast unaired stuff. 631 00:36:22,820 --> 00:36:23,820 And? 632 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,100 Thank you so much for having me. Appreciate that. 633 00:36:27,340 --> 00:36:30,000 No, I didn't think we were going to get you. I mean, you do some outrageous 634 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,100 stuff. The Big Apple is ripe. 635 00:36:32,380 --> 00:36:36,260 You got to admit, though, killing one would be badass. 636 00:36:36,740 --> 00:36:40,100 Making the world safer, one brother at a time. Of course. 637 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:42,620 Are you kidding me? That's the dream, right? 638 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,520 Make money and get a free kill? 639 00:36:46,820 --> 00:36:49,080 Seven weeks before the murder. That's intent. 640 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,840 He just said killing a black man is a bonus. 641 00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:01,260 Tyler Duncan thought he'd found a loophole. Thought he'd figured out a way 642 00:37:01,260 --> 00:37:02,260 to get away with murder. 643 00:37:04,100 --> 00:37:07,620 In a self-defense case, this is the holy grail. 644 00:37:09,740 --> 00:37:10,740 You're right. 645 00:37:11,530 --> 00:37:15,730 Who knows if he really meant it or not. We know Tyler exaggerates when he's 646 00:37:15,730 --> 00:37:16,990 pretending to be Stone Freedom. 647 00:37:18,190 --> 00:37:19,190 Does it matter? 648 00:37:24,710 --> 00:37:28,950 Making the world safer, one brother at a time. Of course. Are you kidding me? 649 00:37:28,950 --> 00:37:30,530 That's the dream, right? 650 00:37:30,850 --> 00:37:32,430 Make money and get a free kill? 651 00:37:34,450 --> 00:37:39,470 Your Honor, these words discovered by the people might sound shocking on their 652 00:37:39,470 --> 00:37:45,160 face. But this was a moment of dark humor, bravado. It does not reflect 653 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:48,500 Tyler Duncan's state of mind at the moment of the shooting, which is the 654 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:51,300 only legally relevant moment in a justification defense. 655 00:37:51,780 --> 00:37:55,900 Wrong. Your Honor, this obliterates both the subjective and objective planks of 656 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:56,519 the defense. 657 00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:01,020 A man who planned and hoped for circumstances that would allow him to 658 00:38:01,020 --> 00:38:05,620 kill can't then claim that he was an unwilling victim of necessity when those 659 00:38:05,620 --> 00:38:08,900 circumstances occur. This was the plan, the mission. 660 00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:14,790 He was letting off steam, trying to fit in. Your Honor, we now know that Tyler 661 00:38:14,790 --> 00:38:18,710 Duncan was not a reasonable person responding to a threat. He was an armed 662 00:38:18,710 --> 00:38:23,550 man executing a premeditated plan, wearing the language of self-defense as 663 00:38:23,550 --> 00:38:24,550 a disguise. 664 00:38:25,210 --> 00:38:26,370 We know that. 665 00:38:30,630 --> 00:38:32,490 And the jury must know that, too. 666 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,100 Members of the jury, I understand you've reached a verdict. 667 00:38:45,860 --> 00:38:46,900 We have, Your Honor. 668 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,320 How do you find the defendant, Tyler Duncan, on the charge of murder in the 669 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,320 second degree? 670 00:38:53,860 --> 00:38:55,080 Guilty or not guilty? 671 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,360 We find the defendant guilty. 672 00:38:59,660 --> 00:39:02,920 As to whether the defendant committed this offense in whole or substantial 673 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:07,680 part because of a belief or perception regarding the race of the victim, how do 674 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:08,479 you find? 675 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,780 People have also proven this beyond a reasonable doubt. 676 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,880 The defendant is also guilty of a hate crime. This is an outrage! 677 00:39:15,420 --> 00:39:16,640 Righteous! Order! 678 00:39:17,540 --> 00:39:19,120 Order! Order! 679 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,760 Order! We will not tolerate outbursts in this courtroom! 680 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,280 I love you. 681 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:28,500 I'm sorry. 682 00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:33,700 Are you okay? 683 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:35,080 Thank you. 684 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,460 Thank you for giving us some sense of peace. Of course. 685 00:39:39,300 --> 00:39:40,440 Let me walk you out. 686 00:39:40,780 --> 00:39:41,780 Okay. 687 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:45,880 Nice work. 688 00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:53,380 Tyler Duncan got what he deserved in the eyes of God and the law. 689 00:39:55,820 --> 00:39:56,960 Damn right he did. 690 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:00,380 Let's go get a drink.