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Fans of the Notorious B.I.G.
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said a final goodbye
to the rap star.
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There were tears
at the memorial service,
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but when the funeral procession
made its way
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to the streets of Brooklyn,
there were angry confrontations,
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even an explosion
of pepper spray.
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It was a solemn
homecoming tribute
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for the fallen rap icon,
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but it turned into pockets
of violent scuffling
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as police confronted
rowdy fans.
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Crowds began surging
against police barricades.
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Fans danced on top of cars.
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People were losing their cool.
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Suddenly, things were
out of control.
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BASED ON A TRUE STORY
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Police moved in, asking the fans
to disperse.
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But some of them resisted.
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- 18 MARCH, 1997
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
- Authorities used pepper spray
to break up the gathering.
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Before it was over,
10 people were arrested,
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most for disorderly conduct.
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People in Brooklyn
say cops used excessive force
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in handling the crowds.
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There were accusations of
brutality and insensitivity.
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Again, police officials
say officers...
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♪ It's gonna take
a miracle they say
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♪ For me to walk again
and talk again
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♪ But anyway
I get fronted some keys
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♪ To get back on my feet
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♪ And everything that nigga said
came to reality
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♪ Livin' like a baller, Loc
I'm havin' money
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♪ And blowin' hella
chronic smoke
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♪ I bought my momma
a Benz, my boo-boo a Jag
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♪ And now I'm rollin'
in a nine-trizzay El Do-Rad
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♪ Just remember
who changed your mind
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♪ 'Cause when you start
set-trippin', that ass is mine
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♪ Indeed, agreed
Proceed to smoke weed
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- ♪ Never have a want... ♪
- Can I help you?
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Roll your fuckin' window up,
white boy, before...
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- ..knock your fuckin' ass out.
- Yeah, right.
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- Just one of them.
- I'm one of what?
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I'm one of what? Yo,
pull the fuck over right now!
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Huh? You don't know
who the fuck you fuckin' with!
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Fuck.
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Jesus fuckin' Christ.
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Motherf...
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Fuckin' inbred! You wanna
look, talk shit and run?
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Police! Drop the gun!
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- Drop it now!
- I'm a cop!
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I'm a fuckin' cop!
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I got called in
to a road-rage incident
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eight miles north-east
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from where Christopher Wallace,
The Notorious B.I.G.,
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had been gunned down
nine days prior.
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I didn't connect
the two at first,
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but when I did, I lost
everything that mattered.
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That day, on that street corner,
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the first door
to the labyrinth opened.
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♪ Now you do
what they told ya
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♪ Now you do what they told ya
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- CITY OF LIES
The Hour of Truth
- ♪ Now you do
what they told ya
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♪ Now you do what they told ya
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♪ Now you do
what they told ya... ♪
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In 1991, four white cops
beat Rodney King
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and were found not guilty.
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And the City of Los Angeles
revolted.
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♪ ..justified
for wearing the badge
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♪ They're the chosen whites
Come on... ♪
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But what we need are honest,
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non-biased police officers.
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That's what I think! But we
gonna keep it real like this.
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Tupac Shakur gave
a poetic voice
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to this frustrated,
rebellious generation.
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And then it was cashed in on
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by L.A.-based rap label
Death Row Records,
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helmed by the nefarious
Suge Knight.
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On the East Coast,
a rapper with a smooth flow
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that went by Notorious B.I.G.
rose to prominence,
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building a brand for the New
York label Bad Boy Records.
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♪ It was all a dream
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♪ I used to read
'Word Up!' magazine
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♪ Salt-N-Pepa and Heavy D
up in the limousine... ♪
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Tupac and I,
we're two individual people.
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Even though we was going
through our drama,
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I would never wish death
on nobody.
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And the East Coast/
West Coast thing
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is something the journalists
are making up
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just to get paid off it,
so it can drag out.
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In Vegas, shots were fired.
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Tupac was hit four times.
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Six months later,
police are investigating
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the shooting death
of rapper Biggie Smalls.
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He was gunned down...
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Who killed rapper
Notorious B.I.G.?
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And were LAPD officers involved?
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- LOS ANGELES
18 YEARS LATER
- The mystery of his murder
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has gone unsolved
for 18 years now.
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Neither Notorious B.I.G.'s
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or Tupac's murder
has been solved.
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Russell Poole headed up
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the investigation
into Biggie's murder in 1997.
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I'm Detective Russell Poole.
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Someone has lost
a family member
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and they deserve to, um...
to have the answers.
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I'm his mother. My son was shot.
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I would like to know why.
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Ms Wallace
would like to know why.
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I gotta be
the one to contain my power
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to, like, you know,
"They gotta be dead."
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I kinda realised
how powerful Tupac and I was,
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you know what I'm saying?
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Because... we two
individual people,
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we waged a coastal beef,
you know what I'm saying?
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One man against one man
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made a whole West Coast
hate a whole East Coast
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and vice versa,
you know what I'm saying?
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And that really bugged me out.
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Like, yo, dude don't like me,
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so this whole coast
don't like me.
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You know what I'm saying?
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I knew it wasn't true.
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Or at least what I knew I was
getting blamed for wasn't true.
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I can't speak for nothing else.
You know, I wasn't there.
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But I know what he was
blaming me for wasn't true.
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But what he thought was,
like, whoa.
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You know what I'm saying?
Kinda took me by...
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I mean, even though
we was going through our drama,
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I would never wish death
on nobody...
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Can I help you?
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Whoa.
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Door was open. I knocked.
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I'm Darius Jackson.
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I wanted to talk to you
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about the murder
of Notorious B.I.G.
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- I'm a journalist.
- I know.
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Of course you're a journalist.
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Well, I've already stated
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that I would rather not
speak to any of you.
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So, thank you very much
for your time. Get out.
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18 years ago
I used an interview with you
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in a... in a news special
that I was doing called...
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..'East Versus West'.
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Yeah.
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It was terrible. It was awful.
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Your theory
was completely wrong.
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Yeah, well, the Peabodies would
disagree with you on that.
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- The Peabodies?
- Yes.
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So, you equate life and death
with a fuckin' award show?
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- How about I pay you?
- You'll what?
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- Pay you.
- You'll pay me?
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Get out of my sight.
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What I should do is knock
your fuckin' teeth out.
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Then I have to call the police,
don't I, Detective?
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Oh, and do you trust
that they would come here
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and do their job for you?
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I did my job, didn't I?
I found you.
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White guy shoots and kills
a black guy. Who's at fault?
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- Are you threatening me?
- No.
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No. It's a riddle.
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White guy shoots
and kills a black guy.
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Who's at fault?
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I don't know.
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The answer is,
"Ask more questions."
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What does this
have to do with Biggie?
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That's what I thought.
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Shoo.
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Next time knock, please.
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I did knock.
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What the fuck?
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- AWN HEADQUARTERS,
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES
I have two
journalistic creeds.
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One - emotions are the enemy
of facts.
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Right?
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- Hey, Jack.
- Hey. Good morning.
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Remember,
we are a news organisation.
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Which brings us to
my second journalistic creed.
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There is no bias in facts.
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It is possible you will find
success while you are young,
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which would be unlucky because
you wouldn't learn patience.
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How goes the Biggie
retrospective?
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I met Russell Poole today.
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Still on the Wallace case.
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As a citizen,
he's got a war room
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with... with all kinds
of evidence
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tacked up on the walls.
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Sad.
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Yeah, well, that can
happen when a person
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rests their entire reputation
on a single case.
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You made a hell of a name
for yourself,
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but you fucked up.
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Biggie did not pay
for the hit on Tupac.
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You know, so get it right
this time.
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Just don't waste your time
with Russell Poole, right?
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'Cause his 'X-Files' theories
have been debunked.
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Danny, I'll get this.
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Drink up.
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If you feel
your life's in danger,
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why are you talking to us?
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'Cause, man, I mean, you know,
if Biggie was my son...
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I mean, if I get got and
somebody could help my mom,
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I would hope
they would do the right thing.
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So that's what
I'm trying to do now.
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Don't shoot.
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Hey. There he is.
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- You expecting me?
- Oh, absolutely.
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You know, you're a pretty
predictable kind of guy.
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I can't trust nobody.
I'm running for my life.
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- Who's that on the TV?
- Doesn't matter.
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How do you make sense
of all of this... this...
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..unorganised bullshit?
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That's my son's.
He plays shortstop for the Fins.
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Got any more asinine questions
you'd like to ask?
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Detective Poole,
I know you care about this case.
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But you know the LAPD refuted
both our theories, right?
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Doesn't mean mine wasn't right.
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- So, who shot Biggie Smalls?
- Oh, no, no, no.
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- No, you put that away.
- Who shot Biggie Smalls?
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Put that away.
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- Whoa, whoa. Slow down.
- Put it away.
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You ask permission.
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Wrong with you?
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You're a real pain in the ass,
you know that?
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Perfect goddamn stranger
walks into my house
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like it's nothing.
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I let you walk in today.
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And you try and point
that camera at me.
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You don't even ask?
You have no respect?
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I don't want to be here any more
than you want me to be here.
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You tell me who shot Biggie
and I'll leave.
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Let's get this straight -
when you speak to me about him,
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you refer to him as Christopher
or Mr Wallace.
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You owe him that.
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Detective Poole,
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I'm the only one who's crawling
up the asshole of L.A.
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to talk to you.
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And I promise you,
I'm the last one
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who's ever gonna ask you
the question.
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Who shot Christopher Wallace?
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- I don't know.
- You don't know?
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You spent the last 20 years
in this dank apartment.
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What, on a...
on a "I don't know"?
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I had a theory.
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And my investigation was
ripped out from underneath me.
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See all this stuff
you called, er...
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..I believe it was
"unorganised bullshit"?
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Dots.
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That's 20-plus years of dots.
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I'm very, very good
at connecting dots.
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- 9 MARCH, 1997
♪ I'm giving it up
for the city... ♪
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- AFTER PARTY OF THE SOUL TRAIN AWARDS
PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM
- ♪ City of L.A. ♪
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The clock
of life is wound but once.
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No man has the power
to tell when the hand may stop.
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Yo, Biggie!
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Biggie! Biggie!
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This is the only time you own.
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Live.
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Love.
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Toil with the will.
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Put no trust in tomorrow.
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Or the hand may bend,
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be still.
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- Hey, yo, Biggie! Yo, Biggie!
- No, no, no.
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Gotta back up. Gotta back up.
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Go.
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You can't
hide from the truth.
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That truth needs to expose.
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This damn man
plotting shit, I know.
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He's threatening people.
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This is just basically
an autobiography of myself.
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Hey...
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Excuse me, ladies.
No disrespect.
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Is it cool
if I get his autograph?
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Yo, I'm your hugest fan, Big.
00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:44.906
- You mind signing this for me?
- No problem.
00:15:44.940 --> 00:15:46.842
Hey, I stay up with
'Juicy' and 'Big Poppa'.
00:15:46.873 --> 00:15:48.174
That's my joints
right there, yo.
00:15:48.207 --> 00:15:50.474
I make music for everyone.
Company.
00:15:50.507 --> 00:15:52.475
Thank you, man. For real.
00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:56.440
There is not a day that goes by
00:15:56.473 --> 00:15:58.574
that I don't miss my son.
00:16:14.906 --> 00:16:17.073
911, emergency.
What are you reporting?
00:16:17.106 --> 00:16:18.441
Yeah, we need
an ambulance
00:16:18.474 --> 00:16:20.874
on Fifth after Wilshire,
please, in Los Angeles.
00:16:20.906 --> 00:16:22.973
We got a man shot.
We have a... shot.
00:16:23.007 --> 00:16:24.408
OK, hold on, I'll...
00:16:24.440 --> 00:16:26.507
Right on the corner
of Wilshire and Fifth Ave.
00:16:28.139 --> 00:16:30.107
We need it on Wilshire
and Fifth Avenue.
00:16:30.140 --> 00:16:32.608
24-year-old rap artist
Notorious B.I.G.,
00:16:32.640 --> 00:16:35.240
Christopher Wallace,
was shot early Sunday morning
00:16:35.274 --> 00:16:37.107
and later died
of gunshot wounds...
00:16:37.139 --> 00:16:40.074
How long until you got
to the scene of the shooting?
00:16:40.107 --> 00:16:42.074
A month.
00:16:43.441 --> 00:16:45.708
- One month.
- Hmm.
00:16:45.741 --> 00:16:48.508
Oh, no, no, no.
You don't cheat, no.
00:16:48.541 --> 00:16:50.508
Think.
00:16:50.540 --> 00:16:52.441
Don't write, think.
00:16:54.507 --> 00:16:57.106
Why did it take you a month
to get on the case?
00:16:57.139 --> 00:16:59.074
'Cause I was on
a different case.
00:16:59.107 --> 00:17:01.041
White cop shot a black cop.
00:17:07.906 --> 00:17:09.473
Drop it now!
00:17:09.506 --> 00:17:12.608
- I'm a fuckin' cop.
- Shit. This guy's got a badge.
00:17:12.641 --> 00:17:14.475
He drew down on me!
00:17:16.608 --> 00:17:18.374
Let's go. Get in there now.
00:17:18.406 --> 00:17:20.840
We're here, Frank.
We got you, man.
00:17:20.873 --> 00:17:22.873
Report a man down.
00:17:23.707 --> 00:17:25.207
Gun! We got a gun!
00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:28.141
Get in there and help.
Get in there.
00:17:28.173 --> 00:17:29.474
You see it?
00:17:32.973 --> 00:17:34.374
Fuckin' drew down on me.
00:17:34.406 --> 00:17:36.806
- You heard that on the two-way?
- I did. We're good.
00:17:36.840 --> 00:17:38.241
Hey, boss,
look at this.
00:17:38.274 --> 00:17:40.441
Drew down on me
at the fuckin' light over there.
00:17:40.474 --> 00:17:42.874
I was just sittin' there.
Fuckin' drew down on me.
00:17:42.906 --> 00:17:45.708
Listen, Frank.
We checked his pockets, man.
00:17:45.739 --> 00:17:48.140
This guy's a cop.
00:17:53.307 --> 00:17:55.774
White guy
shoots and kills a black guy.
00:17:55.806 --> 00:17:57.473
- Who's at fault?
- Who was the aggressor?
00:17:57.506 --> 00:18:01.541
Doesn't matter. Ghost of Rodney
King still haunted the city.
00:18:01.573 --> 00:18:05.575
So there was, like... there was
only one way this was gonna end.
00:18:06.474 --> 00:18:09.907
And I was the only idiot
to think otherwise.
00:18:38.474 --> 00:18:42.074
In 1997,
everybody thought the LAPD
00:18:42.106 --> 00:18:45.907
was filled with only one thing -
racist cops.
00:18:45.939 --> 00:18:49.574
But it wasn't.
It also had politicians.
00:18:49.608 --> 00:18:50.773
Thank you.
00:18:50.807 --> 00:18:53.806
Got yourself a genuine cluster
of fuck, Russ.
00:18:53.840 --> 00:18:57.707
Two LAPD went Wild West
in daylight.
00:18:57.740 --> 00:19:00.141
Shots were fired
at the intersection.
00:19:00.174 --> 00:19:03.575
- Witnesses?
- Got too goddamn many of them.
00:19:03.607 --> 00:19:07.540
Our shooter is, uh,
undercover detective Frank Lyga.
00:19:07.573 --> 00:19:09.874
Claims self-defence.
00:19:09.906 --> 00:19:13.440
The deceased
is Officer Kevin Gaines.
00:19:13.474 --> 00:19:15.041
Where's Officer Lyga now?
00:19:15.073 --> 00:19:16.873
They're holding him
across the street for you
00:19:16.907 --> 00:19:19.040
in that burger fuckin' joint.
00:19:20.007 --> 00:19:23.308
Cross the 'T's
and dot the 'I's.
00:19:23.341 --> 00:19:24.541
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:24.573 --> 00:19:26.373
The brass will have our asses
00:19:26.407 --> 00:19:30.007
if any part of this
comes back murky, OK?
00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:32.575
- Yes, sir.
- Alright, 'bye.
00:19:39.672 --> 00:19:41.575
Excuse me.
00:19:41.607 --> 00:19:43.774
Who's detective supervisor?
00:19:43.806 --> 00:19:45.240
I'm the detective supervisor.
00:19:45.273 --> 00:19:48.673
- How do you do? Russell Poole.
- Russell. Nice to meet you.
00:19:48.706 --> 00:19:51.307
Can you bring Detective Lyga
to me, please?
00:19:51.341 --> 00:19:53.008
OK. Yeah, you got it.
00:19:53.806 --> 00:19:56.407
Hey, Gary?
00:19:56.441 --> 00:19:57.774
Gary?
00:19:57.807 --> 00:19:59.606
- Gary!
- Yeah.
00:20:00.406 --> 00:20:03.407
Look. You've got
a surveillance camera there.
00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:04.873
Got another one over there.
00:20:04.907 --> 00:20:06.706
Get photographs of those for me.
00:20:06.740 --> 00:20:09.275
- Julie!
- Right here.
00:20:10.707 --> 00:20:13.441
Could you see if you can
recover any casings
00:20:13.474 --> 00:20:15.973
from the intersection there?
00:20:44.973 --> 00:20:47.174
1-King-51 to Control.
00:20:48.074 --> 00:20:50.241
King-51, go ahead.
00:20:50.274 --> 00:20:55.441
I need a DMV
on a green Mitsubishi Montero.
00:20:55.473 --> 00:20:59.440
Licence number is 2-Adam-Boy
00:20:59.474 --> 00:21:03.108
Mary-5-4-3.
00:21:03.906 --> 00:21:05.906
- Lyga?
- Yeah.
00:21:05.940 --> 00:21:07.807
Detective Russell Poole.
00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:10.874
Did you identify yourself
as an officer?
00:21:10.907 --> 00:21:14.040
Think I'm dropping
three years undercover
00:21:14.073 --> 00:21:16.407
for some bullshit road rage?
00:21:16.441 --> 00:21:20.507
He identified himself,
throwing up his set.
00:21:20.540 --> 00:21:21.941
Flashing Blood 'B's at me,
00:21:21.974 --> 00:21:23.441
saying he's gonna
fuckin' cap my ass
00:21:23.473 --> 00:21:25.673
in the middle
of the fuckin' intersection.
00:21:25.707 --> 00:21:29.308
Look, I drove away. Ask my crew.
00:21:29.341 --> 00:21:31.207
He chased me, man.
00:21:31.241 --> 00:21:35.341
He caught me, raised up,
and I shot in fuckin' defence.
00:21:36.806 --> 00:21:38.873
That motherfucker is not LAPD.
00:21:38.907 --> 00:21:42.007
He is a straight-up
fuckin' banger, I shit you not.
00:21:42.040 --> 00:21:45.539
King 51, we have your DMV info.
00:21:45.573 --> 00:21:48.408
The vehicle belongs
to a business in Tarzana.
00:21:50.373 --> 00:21:52.073
Advise?
00:21:52.107 --> 00:21:56.774
Officer Gaines's Montero is
registered to Death Row Records.
00:21:56.806 --> 00:21:58.240
Repeat, please?
00:21:58.274 --> 00:22:01.773
Officer Gaines's Montero is
registered to Death Row Records.
00:22:01.807 --> 00:22:03.907
And this is nine days
00:22:03.940 --> 00:22:05.739
after the Christopher Wallace
murder.
00:22:05.773 --> 00:22:07.408
And not one arrest.
00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:09.873
Not one.
00:22:09.907 --> 00:22:13.941
And everyone knew
who the prime suspect was.
00:22:18.706 --> 00:22:21.006
♪ With so much drama
in the L-B-C
00:22:21.040 --> 00:22:23.606
♪ It's kind of hard
bein' Snoop D-O-double-G
00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:25.408
♪ But I somehow, some way
00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:27.207
♪ Keep comin' up
with funky-ass shit... ♪
00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:29.739
Suge Knight was
the head of Death Row Records.
00:22:29.772 --> 00:22:31.773
And Suge Knight
was a gang member.
00:22:31.807 --> 00:22:34.673
The Blood. Mob Piru Blood.
00:22:36.739 --> 00:22:38.207
Death Row was
a legitimate business,
00:22:38.241 --> 00:22:42.041
but its CEO
played by street rules.
00:22:42.074 --> 00:22:44.007
♪ Ain't leavin' till
6 in the morning
00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:46.341
♪ So what you wanna do? ♪
00:23:00.807 --> 00:23:03.341
- MARCH 1997
DEATH ROW RECORDS, TARZANA
♪ Pastor, verse 1
00:23:04.573 --> 00:23:07.174
♪ In the black SS, that '96
00:23:07.206 --> 00:23:09.941
♪ With that Teflon vest
ready to hit
00:23:09.973 --> 00:23:12.273
♪ A nigga up for the work... ♪
00:23:14.173 --> 00:23:16.773
Where he at? Come on, baby.
00:23:16.807 --> 00:23:18.274
I want him to see these kids.
00:23:18.307 --> 00:23:21.374
♪ Put some bullets in my clip,
so my nine tight... ♪
00:23:22.506 --> 00:23:24.006
Where he at? Huh?
00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:26.906
What you lookin' at? Huh?
00:23:26.939 --> 00:23:29.307
Bring your bitch ass
out here, Suge!
00:23:29.340 --> 00:23:31.040
I know you did it!
00:23:31.074 --> 00:23:34.774
Where you at, Suge? Who gonna
help me take care of these kids?
00:23:34.806 --> 00:23:37.207
Coward-ass motherfucker!
00:23:37.241 --> 00:23:39.208
You hiding in there
like a little bitch!
00:23:39.241 --> 00:23:42.007
You gonna take care
of these kids? Pay my bills?
00:23:43.274 --> 00:23:45.440
You wanna act like animal,
00:23:45.473 --> 00:23:46.973
I treat you like animal.
00:23:47.006 --> 00:23:49.073
Wanna act like dog,
I treat you like dog.
00:23:49.106 --> 00:23:51.940
Understand me?
Understand me?
00:23:51.974 --> 00:23:53.540
Sir, sir, please.
00:23:53.572 --> 00:23:55.807
What batty boy bumbaclart
think he gonna roll up here?
00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:57.574
OK, OK. I'm a police officer.
00:23:57.607 --> 00:23:59.807
I don't want any trouble.
There are children present.
00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:02.506
- White boy!
- I don't...
00:24:02.540 --> 00:24:04.774
- I just...
- Roll up.
00:24:04.807 --> 00:24:07.874
- They killed him.
- Thank you. 'Bye.
00:24:07.906 --> 00:24:10.340
The police are here now.
00:24:10.373 --> 00:24:13.639
They killed my husband.
They killed him.
00:24:13.673 --> 00:24:16.308
Officer Kevin Gaines.
Cop killers.
00:24:16.340 --> 00:24:19.307
What makes you say that
they killed your husband?
00:24:19.340 --> 00:24:23.241
Kevin used to do security
for that murdering-ass nigga.
00:24:23.274 --> 00:24:25.840
He probably saw something
he shouldn't have seen.
00:24:25.874 --> 00:24:29.540
And they killed him.
00:24:36.639 --> 00:24:39.006
The car
was riddled with bullets,
00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:41.340
leaving him so badly wounded
that he was pronounced dead
00:24:41.372 --> 00:24:43.940
at the nearby
Cedars-Sinai hospital.
00:24:43.974 --> 00:24:45.773
A very tragic event
00:24:45.807 --> 00:24:47.472
that has similarities
to another shooting,
00:24:47.506 --> 00:24:50.141
but there were a lot of people
that were in the area
00:24:50.173 --> 00:24:52.706
and we're hopeful that
someone will come forward
00:24:52.740 --> 00:24:56.841
and give us information so that
we can, er, solve this case.
00:24:56.874 --> 00:24:58.873
- There you go.
- Thank you very much.
00:24:58.907 --> 00:25:00.874
Appreciate it.
00:25:00.907 --> 00:25:03.141
You know other cops have
come around asking for this?
00:25:03.174 --> 00:25:06.107
Thank you for hanging onto it.
00:25:11.406 --> 00:25:12.840
What, Poole, huh?
00:25:12.874 --> 00:25:14.307
What the fuck's so important
00:25:14.339 --> 00:25:16.339
I gotta come out here
in a fuckin' monsoon?
00:25:16.373 --> 00:25:19.006
I didn't want to discuss this
in the station.
00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:21.840
Why are other officers
trying to acquire this tape?
00:25:21.873 --> 00:25:23.306
This is my investigation.
00:25:23.339 --> 00:25:26.141
Come on, Poole, get ready
for every black cop in L.A.
00:25:26.173 --> 00:25:28.106
to come looking over
your shoulder, huh?
00:25:28.140 --> 00:25:30.440
Bad fuckin' time for optics.
00:25:30.473 --> 00:25:32.840
By the way,
I met Gaines's wife last night
00:25:32.874 --> 00:25:35.373
under rather unpleasant
circumstances.
00:25:35.405 --> 00:25:38.906
She pulled up
in a $200,000 Mercedes,
00:25:38.939 --> 00:25:40.806
said he was working
for Death Row.
00:25:40.840 --> 00:25:42.241
Are you kidding me?
00:25:42.272 --> 00:25:44.740
Four white cops
beat Rodney King.
00:25:44.772 --> 00:25:46.472
Look at the big picture.
00:25:46.506 --> 00:25:49.506
Gaines was a violent hothead.
00:25:49.540 --> 00:25:51.373
A lot of them are.
00:25:51.406 --> 00:25:53.339
A lot of who are?
00:25:58.505 --> 00:26:00.439
The jungle bunnies.
00:26:00.473 --> 00:26:01.607
Huh?
00:26:01.639 --> 00:26:04.272
Gaines buried himself.
00:26:04.306 --> 00:26:07.474
There's no need for us
to dig for more dirt.
00:26:08.372 --> 00:26:11.006
What's the word
on the Wallace case?
00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:14.239
The word is it's not your case.
00:26:14.272 --> 00:26:17.906
You're South Bureau, and that's
Robbery-Homicide's case.
00:26:17.939 --> 00:26:20.175
Focus on your own.
00:27:05.106 --> 00:27:07.073
Figured white detective
00:27:07.107 --> 00:27:09.507
crazy enough to roll up
on Death Row
00:27:09.540 --> 00:27:11.507
might wanna know something.
00:27:12.506 --> 00:27:14.506
I have a weapon.
00:27:18.772 --> 00:27:21.440
I'm Special Agent
Terrence Watts.
00:27:21.472 --> 00:27:23.306
FBI.
00:27:26.040 --> 00:27:29.173
FBI infiltrated Death Row
about a year ago.
00:27:29.205 --> 00:27:31.073
I've barely made it
to the outer rim,
00:27:31.106 --> 00:27:33.640
so I just mainly hear rumours.
00:27:33.672 --> 00:27:36.773
But I can, 100%, confirm this.
00:27:36.807 --> 00:27:41.007
Suge Knight has LAPD
in his inner circle.
00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:43.172
I'm talking
straight-up mobster shit.
00:27:43.206 --> 00:27:46.041
- Officer Gaines was one of them?
- He advised on protocol.
00:27:46.073 --> 00:27:48.874
Monitoring police scanners
when they rode dirty.
00:27:48.906 --> 00:27:51.973
Coordinating how to use
walkie-talkies.
00:27:52.939 --> 00:27:54.372
Listen, this is something
00:27:54.406 --> 00:27:57.074
that I would not risk
my cover for just yet.
00:27:57.107 --> 00:28:01.507
But they're saying,
"We got Biggie."
00:28:02.739 --> 00:28:05.907
And Officer Gaines
was an accessory.
00:28:09.973 --> 00:28:13.908
- APRIL 1997
LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT - 6TH FLOOR
00:28:23.173 --> 00:28:25.540
I got a problem.
00:28:25.572 --> 00:28:27.573
Black guy in a green jeep
on my ass.
00:28:31.139 --> 00:28:34.174
I need you guys.
Think he's got a gun.
00:28:39.973 --> 00:28:42.206
Hey, you wanna
look, talk shit and run?
00:28:42.239 --> 00:28:45.840
Look at this, motherfucker.
00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:51.473
I just shot
somebody. I need help.
00:28:56.506 --> 00:29:01.041
After you shot Officer Gaines,
what went through your mind?
00:29:01.072 --> 00:29:03.307
What went through my mind?
00:29:05.339 --> 00:29:07.239
"Good."
00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:10.841
Obviously, you've never had
the service end of a handgun
00:29:10.873 --> 00:29:12.573
pointed at your face.
00:29:12.607 --> 00:29:14.472
Excuse me?
00:29:14.505 --> 00:29:17.339
I might remind you, you're
speaking to a superior officer.
00:29:17.373 --> 00:29:18.774
Not in this room, I'm not.
00:29:18.806 --> 00:29:20.907
I know my rights.
00:29:20.939 --> 00:29:23.639
In here I face
civilian consequences
00:29:23.673 --> 00:29:25.740
and I'm afforded
civilian rights.
00:29:26.539 --> 00:29:29.739
I got a two-and-a-half
and a one-year-old at home.
00:29:29.773 --> 00:29:33.941
A man raised a gun to kill me
and I was faster.
00:29:33.973 --> 00:29:36.807
For that, I say, "Good"...
00:29:38.073 --> 00:29:39.974
..sir.
00:29:43.173 --> 00:29:47.340
Detective Poole, do you have
any additional evidence
00:29:47.372 --> 00:29:51.407
to refute or strengthen
Detective Lyga's assertion
00:29:51.439 --> 00:29:56.440
that Officer Gaines
acted in a matter unbecoming?
00:29:59.273 --> 00:30:04.007
Nothing as yet
that I can prove, Lieutenant.
00:30:08.206 --> 00:30:10.007
Come here.
00:30:22.006 --> 00:30:25.140
What the fuck was that, hmm?
00:30:25.172 --> 00:30:28.973
I happen to strongly believe
that Gaines was into much more.
00:30:29.005 --> 00:30:33.507
I don't give a fuckin' shit,
Columbo.
00:30:33.539 --> 00:30:35.640
We're not Internal Affairs.
00:30:35.672 --> 00:30:39.206
What were you gonna do?
Arrest him? He's fuckin' dead!
00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:41.240
The facts point
to something more here.
00:30:41.272 --> 00:30:43.440
Oh, drop the boy-scout
bullshit, Russ!
00:30:43.472 --> 00:30:46.873
I asked you not to complicate
a simple fuckin' case.
00:30:46.907 --> 00:30:48.507
Lyga's cleared.
00:30:48.540 --> 00:30:49.941
He's probably on his way home
00:30:49.973 --> 00:30:51.972
to have a fuckin'
Pabst Blue Ribbon.
00:30:52.006 --> 00:30:53.707
You're fucked off
00:30:53.739 --> 00:30:57.439
because you didn't get a soapbox
to wax lyrical about the shield.
00:30:57.473 --> 00:31:01.440
I don't ever want to hear about
this fuckin' case again.
00:31:02.707 --> 00:31:04.908
You hear me, Detective?
00:31:07.607 --> 00:31:09.574
So, what's it gonna take?
00:31:14.406 --> 00:31:16.407
So you scammed your way up?
00:31:16.439 --> 00:31:18.706
No, no. I don't scam.
00:31:19.505 --> 00:31:23.440
I do. And that's how you do it,
exactly what you did.
00:31:23.472 --> 00:31:24.906
Let me tell you something.
00:31:25.936 --> 00:31:28.307
Every detective in America
wants on Robbery-Homicide,
00:31:28.339 --> 00:31:30.106
and I was certainly
no different.
00:31:30.138 --> 00:31:32.206
I mean, that's
the major leagues.
00:31:32.239 --> 00:31:34.306
But, no, you don't scam
your way in.
00:31:34.340 --> 00:31:38.707
You get in by being
the best at one thing.
00:31:38.740 --> 00:31:40.906
Solving murders. That's...
00:31:40.939 --> 00:31:42.674
- APRIL 1997
ROBBERY-HOMICIDE DIVISION
00:31:42.707 --> 00:31:45.139
♪ It's the big come-up
00:31:47.639 --> 00:31:49.439
♪ It's the big come-up... ♪
00:31:49.472 --> 00:31:50.606
Hey.
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:53.740
Welcome to the Parker Center,
home of Robbery-Homicide.
00:31:53.773 --> 00:31:55.706
I'm Miller.
Let's get you up to speed.
00:31:55.740 --> 00:31:57.507
Russell Poole. Pleasure.
00:31:59.339 --> 00:32:01.039
Hey, this is the new guy.
00:32:01.073 --> 00:32:02.906
Just got promoted up
from South Bureau.
00:32:02.938 --> 00:32:04.774
Thanks.
00:32:04.806 --> 00:32:07.573
So, I think if we...
Yeah, hold on.
00:32:11.739 --> 00:32:13.407
Hey, Chief.
00:32:13.439 --> 00:32:15.072
That's right. Chief of Police.
00:32:15.106 --> 00:32:16.940
Welcome to the big time, Poole.
00:32:16.972 --> 00:32:19.574
- What's your handicap?
- In what?
00:32:19.606 --> 00:32:22.172
- In golf?
- No, in life. Yes, in golf.
00:32:22.206 --> 00:32:25.007
- I don't know.
- Give me his file. Thank you.
00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:28.272
"Russell Poole
is a South End gangs expert
00:32:28.306 --> 00:32:31.172
"with over 500 crime scenes
under his belt."
00:32:31.206 --> 00:32:34.173
Well, fuck me, I didn't know
we promoted on merit anymore.
00:32:34.205 --> 00:32:36.472
I'll just assume
you know what you're doing.
00:32:36.505 --> 00:32:38.872
- I do, sir.
- No, no 'sir'.
00:32:38.905 --> 00:32:40.406
Fred or Miller.
00:32:40.439 --> 00:32:42.607
You're now
a Robbery-Homicide detective.
00:32:42.639 --> 00:32:44.439
We get the city's
highest-profile cases,
00:32:44.473 --> 00:32:46.073
but we don't act like Marines.
00:32:46.106 --> 00:32:47.774
This is Homicide.
This is Lefferts.
00:32:47.807 --> 00:32:49.507
She's a pretty good detective.
00:32:49.539 --> 00:32:50.939
And this is Snow.
00:32:50.973 --> 00:32:52.906
Bit of a dummy,
can't hit a softball either.
00:32:52.938 --> 00:32:54.339
This is Bank Detail over here.
00:32:54.372 --> 00:32:57.906
And through this door...
00:32:59.739 --> 00:33:01.573
..you are now investigating
00:33:01.607 --> 00:33:03.873
the murder of
The Notorious B.I.G.
00:33:07.972 --> 00:33:10.339
Don't feed into it.
00:33:10.372 --> 00:33:13.706
If you feed into it,
it's gonna end up escalating.
00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:15.140
You know what I'm saying?
00:33:15.173 --> 00:33:17.105
OK, according to
initial police reports,
00:33:17.139 --> 00:33:19.906
12:49am six shots are fired.
00:33:21.906 --> 00:33:23.806
Los Angeles police
are investigating
00:33:23.838 --> 00:33:26.272
the shooting death
of rapper Notorious B.I.G.
00:33:26.306 --> 00:33:28.872
Bullet casings
were found on the scene.
00:33:28.906 --> 00:33:32.307
Geco 9mms.
They're German manufacture.
00:33:32.339 --> 00:33:34.173
Gecos.
00:33:34.205 --> 00:33:35.839
Very rare.
00:33:35.873 --> 00:33:38.006
Ballistics is checking
for extractor marks
00:33:38.038 --> 00:33:39.606
and we've got Fingerprints
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:41.541
looking for fingerprints
on these.
00:33:42.639 --> 00:33:43.740
Four shots hit Wallace.
00:33:43.772 --> 00:33:45.873
Two bullets were recovered
from the body.
00:33:45.905 --> 00:33:47.839
The fourth was the kill shot,
00:33:47.872 --> 00:33:50.806
striking the left lung,
liver, heart.
00:33:52.306 --> 00:33:55.207
The shooter's vehicle
was a dark sedan.
00:33:55.239 --> 00:33:57.539
Dark-coloured.
Green, possibly black.
00:33:57.573 --> 00:33:59.674
Some witnesses say
it was a Caprice,
00:33:59.707 --> 00:34:01.339
but most of the witnesses think
00:34:01.372 --> 00:34:04.139
it was a Chevy Impala SS,
a Super Sport.
00:34:04.173 --> 00:34:08.040
This is a surveillance
photo, the night of the murder.
00:34:08.073 --> 00:34:09.872
Same car.
00:34:09.906 --> 00:34:11.139
Two composite sketches,
00:34:11.173 --> 00:34:13.407
one done in Los Angeles,
the other done in New York
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:15.940
when the LAPD went there
to interview the witnesses
00:34:15.972 --> 00:34:18.506
about the Petersen on March 9.
00:34:18.540 --> 00:34:20.440
And lastly, we got CIs.
00:34:20.473 --> 00:34:22.839
We've got a county
full of confidential informants
00:34:22.872 --> 00:34:25.206
crawling out of the woodwork
to give us information.
00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:28.072
These rats are crawling out
of the sewer, for God's sake.
00:34:28.106 --> 00:34:31.940
So, in short,
we've got hundreds of leads.
00:34:32.838 --> 00:34:34.940
We've got hundreds
and hundreds of leads.
00:34:34.972 --> 00:34:37.039
So you don't tell
your partner about Death Row
00:34:37.073 --> 00:34:39.674
having Gaines and other cops
on the payroll?
00:34:39.707 --> 00:34:43.906
At that point, I didn't know
Miller or how he would react.
00:34:43.938 --> 00:34:47.907
So no. No, I didn't...
I didn't tell him.
00:34:49.540 --> 00:34:54.140
I knew if the Gaines tip was
legit, it would come up again.
00:34:54.172 --> 00:34:56.640
♪ Now I got a murder rap
00:34:56.672 --> 00:34:59.005
♪ 'Cause a brother
like me said, well
00:34:59.039 --> 00:35:01.674
♪ Yo, Cold 187, they tryin'
to give you a murder rap
00:35:01.706 --> 00:35:03.239
♪ And you ain't even like that
00:35:03.272 --> 00:35:05.840
♪ Yo, serve these niggas, 'cause
they deserve to get dissed... ♪
00:35:05.872 --> 00:35:07.574
Hurry up, man.
Ain't got all day.
00:35:07.607 --> 00:35:09.273
Maybe I ain't in a hurry
to find out
00:35:09.306 --> 00:35:11.139
what's waitin' for me
on this hill.
00:35:12.506 --> 00:35:14.140
- MAY 1997
BOYLE HEIGHTS
Keep steppin'.
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:17.773
Miller? You fuckin' bitch!
00:35:17.806 --> 00:35:20.106
You know, one day this shit's
not gonna work.
00:35:20.139 --> 00:35:23.507
I couldn't wait to congratulate
you on your early release.
00:35:23.540 --> 00:35:26.573
- And you're welcome, by the way.
- Who the fuck is this?
00:35:26.606 --> 00:35:28.072
Psycho Mike,
this is Detective Poole.
00:35:28.106 --> 00:35:30.905
He's new, so he's nobody,
but he's delighted.
00:35:30.938 --> 00:35:34.039
- How did Suge settle in prison?
- I have no fuckin' idea.
00:35:34.073 --> 00:35:36.574
Mike, we're boys, huh?
00:35:36.607 --> 00:35:37.940
Hmm?
00:35:37.973 --> 00:35:39.607
Boys get each other
early release.
00:35:39.640 --> 00:35:43.773
Mike, our boys get Suge
put in a cell next to yours.
00:35:43.805 --> 00:35:45.805
Come on, man.
00:35:45.838 --> 00:35:48.306
I don't wanna fuck
with this shit no more.
00:35:48.339 --> 00:35:51.407
Look, I don't know shit.
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:53.374
Alright. OK.
00:35:54.540 --> 00:35:57.506
Poole, we'll take him back
to prison. Turn on the sirens.
00:35:57.539 --> 00:35:58.939
I want his cellmates to know
00:35:58.973 --> 00:36:00.806
he's been hanging out
with his LAPD friends.
00:36:00.839 --> 00:36:02.507
Oh, man. What the fuck, dude?
00:36:02.539 --> 00:36:05.172
You Iowa motherfuckers don't
know shit about the streets.
00:36:05.205 --> 00:36:07.272
Dude, it's like I got
a gun to my head
00:36:07.306 --> 00:36:09.173
and you asking me to pull
the motherfucking trigger.
00:36:09.206 --> 00:36:12.805
Look, Mike. Mike, listen to me.
00:36:12.838 --> 00:36:14.805
You talk to me.
00:36:14.838 --> 00:36:17.906
I'll get your sister
out in five.
00:36:23.607 --> 00:36:25.574
Alright, man. Fuck it.
00:36:26.372 --> 00:36:29.172
There ain't nothin' but Bloods
in there, so Suge's fine.
00:36:29.206 --> 00:36:32.340
But Suge don't wanna see
Bad Boy rise up,
00:36:32.373 --> 00:36:34.673
so Biggie gets got.
00:36:34.705 --> 00:36:37.039
Suge says we hit him up,
00:36:37.073 --> 00:36:38.973
Biggie takes it
like a big, fat bitch.
00:36:39.006 --> 00:36:41.872
- How was it coordinated?
- Motherfucker, eat a dick!
00:36:41.905 --> 00:36:44.506
Who's talkin' to you?
Am I talkin' to him?
00:36:44.539 --> 00:36:47.039
You think they fuckin' draw
this shit up on chalkboards?
00:36:47.072 --> 00:36:49.574
Man, this shit
was straight stealth.
00:36:49.605 --> 00:36:51.273
It was real quiet.
00:36:51.305 --> 00:36:53.940
They hired
a fuckin' contract hit.
00:36:53.973 --> 00:36:55.272
Did Suge call it?
00:36:55.305 --> 00:36:57.240
Suge don't pop off
at the mouth like that.
00:36:57.272 --> 00:37:00.672
He's at the top of
the food chain. He's insulated.
00:37:00.705 --> 00:37:02.906
They're saying
this other nigga called it.
00:37:02.938 --> 00:37:07.273
Some Mob Piru Blood
named D-Mack.
00:37:07.306 --> 00:37:11.407
- That's what they say.
- D-Mack.
00:37:13.539 --> 00:37:14.972
Alright.
00:37:15.006 --> 00:37:18.006
What about the shooter?
00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:20.572
Let me show you
a composite sketch of a guy.
00:37:20.605 --> 00:37:22.206
No. I don't need to see that.
00:37:22.240 --> 00:37:26.140
He's clean-cut, faded hairdo.
Medium-complected.
00:37:26.173 --> 00:37:29.072
The motherfucker walks around
in a suit and a bow tie,
00:37:29.106 --> 00:37:30.939
like he's a Nation of Islam.
00:37:30.972 --> 00:37:33.705
His name's Amir Muhammad.
00:37:33.739 --> 00:37:36.940
- I got what I need.
- No, you didn't.
00:37:36.973 --> 00:37:40.873
I got the composite sketch.
I got the name.
00:37:40.906 --> 00:37:42.506
I'm done here.
00:37:42.538 --> 00:37:45.705
Well, go ahead and run with it
and see what happens.
00:37:45.738 --> 00:37:48.406
What, is there something you
ain't telling me or something?
00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:51.173
There's a whole book of things
I ain't telling you.
00:37:51.205 --> 00:37:54.474
I'll say it was
an unnamed source, alright?
00:37:55.305 --> 00:37:57.872
Amir Muhammad's
never even been arrested.
00:37:57.905 --> 00:37:59.572
The guy's clean as a whistle.
00:38:02.272 --> 00:38:04.406
You want a name?
00:38:12.273 --> 00:38:14.573
You want a name?
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:20.940
I dunno. A couple of years.
00:38:20.973 --> 00:38:24.240
It's gonna be the big story
of the week, that's for sure.
00:38:24.272 --> 00:38:26.907
I just scooped the name
of Biggie's shooter.
00:38:28.339 --> 00:38:31.206
Stanley Kirk Burrell.
00:38:31.240 --> 00:38:33.473
- Can you hear me now?
- Yeah.
00:38:33.505 --> 00:38:37.073
Hey, can I call you right back?
00:38:38.106 --> 00:38:41.072
Jack, I don't think
you should touch this one, babe.
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:44.140
In fact, you can't touch this.
00:38:45.504 --> 00:38:46.939
Because...
00:38:48.606 --> 00:38:49.773
Holy fuck.
00:38:49.806 --> 00:38:52.240
Your killer is...
00:38:52.273 --> 00:38:53.806
..MC Hammer.
00:38:53.838 --> 00:38:55.706
♪ U can't touch this... ♪
00:38:55.738 --> 00:38:57.539
Jack...
00:38:57.571 --> 00:38:59.506
♪ U can't touch this, Jack
00:39:00.806 --> 00:39:02.440
♪ U can't touch this, Jack
00:39:02.472 --> 00:39:03.773
♪ Jigga-jigga-jigga jigga-ding
00:39:03.806 --> 00:39:06.040
♪ Jigga-jigga jing-jing-jing
Can't touch this
00:39:06.073 --> 00:39:08.440
- ♪ Mm-mm, U can't touch this. ♪
- I got it.
00:39:08.472 --> 00:39:10.939
- Alright, I'm gonna stop.
- Don't you got work to do?
00:39:10.973 --> 00:39:14.006
Yeah, OK, OK.
I'll stop if you stop.
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:16.973
♪ Hammer time! ♪
God, I love you, Jack.
00:39:17.005 --> 00:39:18.439
I'll start it
from the beginning.
00:39:18.471 --> 00:39:21.105
- I got it, alright? I got it.
- You don't got it yet.
00:39:21.139 --> 00:39:23.471
Alright, Jack.
00:39:23.504 --> 00:39:25.406
Jack, stop.
00:39:25.438 --> 00:39:28.506
Jack, stop!
00:39:31.173 --> 00:39:34.005
And here comes the pitch.
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:37.439
Awesome!
00:39:37.472 --> 00:39:42.239
And batting next,
that's shortstop number 29,
00:39:42.272 --> 00:39:45.306
Russell Poole Jr!
00:39:51.472 --> 00:39:53.906
Players on first and second.
00:39:53.939 --> 00:39:56.073
Here it comes.
00:39:56.106 --> 00:39:59.406
Oh, and that's a brilliant...
00:39:59.439 --> 00:40:01.039
We got one run coming in.
00:40:01.072 --> 00:40:03.039
We got a runner
standing on third!
00:40:03.072 --> 00:40:06.572
And that's Poole
with the stand-up power.
00:40:22.373 --> 00:40:24.307
How did your son play?
00:40:25.240 --> 00:40:29.339
My son's not something I'm
willing to discuss with you.
00:40:30.372 --> 00:40:32.739
Is MC Hammer?
00:40:36.305 --> 00:40:38.772
You got me, man.
That was a good one.
00:40:38.806 --> 00:40:40.140
Oh, that was great.
00:40:40.172 --> 00:40:42.172
- One of my best.
- I deserved it.
00:40:42.205 --> 00:40:45.273
Yeah, you did. Yeah, you did.
00:40:48.504 --> 00:40:51.207
Why is the Wallace case
so important to you?
00:40:53.439 --> 00:40:57.140
I'm obsessed with the truth,
and that's my sickness.
00:40:57.172 --> 00:41:00.471
I remember Bobby Kennedy said,
00:41:00.505 --> 00:41:04.273
"Every society gets the kind
of criminal it deserves."
00:41:04.306 --> 00:41:07.706
"And every community gets
the kind of law enforcement
00:41:07.739 --> 00:41:10.173
"it insists on."
00:41:13.638 --> 00:41:16.538
At one time
I actually believed that.
00:41:16.572 --> 00:41:18.706
When I joined the LAPD
00:41:18.738 --> 00:41:23.039
we called each other
"brother officer".
00:41:23.073 --> 00:41:25.472
I wanted to serve on that force.
00:41:26.738 --> 00:41:30.338
I wanted on this case because
I had to know for myself...
00:41:31.805 --> 00:41:35.338
..if there were, in fact,
dirty cops involved.
00:41:40.038 --> 00:41:43.538
Would you like me to start
at the trial or the arrest?
00:41:43.572 --> 00:41:45.439
Tell it however
you wanna tell it.
00:41:45.472 --> 00:41:47.606
Take me from the next dot.
00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:50.639
Well, you follow every lead,
really,
00:41:50.672 --> 00:41:52.739
even if it's just
to rule it out.
00:41:52.771 --> 00:41:54.306
So I'll start
with your theory -
00:41:54.338 --> 00:41:56.738
the idea that Biggie
had paid for the hit on Tupac.
00:41:56.771 --> 00:41:58.073
We looked into it.
00:41:58.105 --> 00:42:00.072
Went to Vegas to meet Varney.
00:42:00.105 --> 00:42:03.572
He's the lead
detective investigator
00:42:03.605 --> 00:42:05.472
in the murder of Tupac Shakur.
00:42:06.439 --> 00:42:10.140
At 4:03, in Las Vegas time,
00:42:10.173 --> 00:42:13.739
Tupac Shakur passed away, y'all.
00:42:13.772 --> 00:42:16.040
- MAY 1997
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
00:42:16.073 --> 00:42:18.807
Give me a moment of silence.
00:42:19.973 --> 00:42:22.106
Alright, this is where
the whole melee took place.
00:42:22.139 --> 00:42:24.873
This guy getting the shit kicked
out of him is Orlando Anderson.
00:42:24.906 --> 00:42:26.306
Tupac is there somewhere.
00:42:26.339 --> 00:42:28.605
And look at that guy
doing the ground and pound.
00:42:28.638 --> 00:42:30.072
Watch this. Boom! Boom!
00:42:30.106 --> 00:42:33.306
And here's Tupac and Suge Knight
making a hasty escape.
00:42:33.339 --> 00:42:35.773
And Suge Knight just violated
the terms of his parole,
00:42:35.806 --> 00:42:39.073
which is why he's sitting in a
federal penitentiary right now.
00:42:39.106 --> 00:42:41.371
Two hours after this,
Tupac Shakur is killed
00:42:41.404 --> 00:42:42.705
in a drive-by off the Strip.
00:42:42.738 --> 00:42:45.305
Are you guys hearing
00:42:45.338 --> 00:42:50.239
that the shooters were hired
by Christopher Wallace?
00:42:50.271 --> 00:42:54.305
Look, the Biggie
killed Tupac theory's bullshit.
00:42:54.338 --> 00:42:56.840
This is the most famous rapper
in the world.
00:42:56.872 --> 00:42:59.505
He's 6'2", he's 400 pounds,
he's got an entourage.
00:42:59.538 --> 00:43:00.972
He's not gonna slip into
00:43:01.006 --> 00:43:03.840
the most CCTVed city on earth
unseen.
00:43:03.873 --> 00:43:05.472
No, Wallace, he checked out.
00:43:05.505 --> 00:43:09.072
Biggie didn't have Tupac killed?
00:43:09.105 --> 00:43:10.438
No.
00:43:10.471 --> 00:43:12.405
No, he didn't.
00:43:12.438 --> 00:43:16.073
You know, sometimes the bad guys
00:43:16.105 --> 00:43:18.673
will put the word out
on the street
00:43:18.705 --> 00:43:20.673
that somebody else
committed their crime.
00:43:20.705 --> 00:43:22.538
It's like a smokescreen.
00:43:22.571 --> 00:43:25.405
That smoke spreads wide enough,
00:43:25.439 --> 00:43:27.272
media grabs hold of it...
00:43:27.305 --> 00:43:29.439
..wildfire.
00:43:30.873 --> 00:43:33.106
So, what did you do
when the lead went dead?
00:43:33.139 --> 00:43:35.073
We asked more questions.
00:43:35.106 --> 00:43:38.306
What was Suge Knight's demeanour
00:43:38.339 --> 00:43:41.140
when you interviewed him
after the shooting?
00:43:43.038 --> 00:43:45.840
Um, elusive. He didn't help us.
00:43:45.872 --> 00:43:47.271
Nobody did.
00:43:47.305 --> 00:43:51.272
Truth be told, Vegas doesn't
want us to close the Tupac case.
00:43:51.305 --> 00:43:55.140
Move the cars, open the bars,
keep the Strip open.
00:43:55.172 --> 00:43:59.206
Leave those circus trials
in L.A., you know what I mean?
00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:00.605
How's that?
00:44:00.638 --> 00:44:02.905
- You saw our murder book, right?
- Yeah.
00:44:02.939 --> 00:44:05.573
Every page is a sworn statement
by an eyewitness
00:44:05.606 --> 00:44:09.139
that contradicts another sworn
statement by an eyewitness.
00:44:09.171 --> 00:44:11.005
You take a suspect to trial,
00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:12.706
his attorney
will have a field day
00:44:12.738 --> 00:44:14.673
and we'll be left
holding our dicks.
00:44:14.706 --> 00:44:17.338
Like those LAPD dicks
after the OJ trial.
00:44:17.371 --> 00:44:18.772
You know what?
00:44:18.805 --> 00:44:22.205
- Go fuck yourself.
- Come again?
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:25.072
You Crisco oil piece of shit,
you fuckin' heard me.
00:44:25.105 --> 00:44:27.805
Are you serious?
00:44:27.839 --> 00:44:31.006
Those LAPD dicks
got royally fucked
00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:32.639
because they had the audacity
00:44:32.671 --> 00:44:34.171
to pin the murder
on a guilty man,
00:44:34.204 --> 00:44:37.039
a man lucky enough to be charged
after Rodney King,
00:44:37.073 --> 00:44:39.506
so Cochran could just hint
that they were racist.
00:44:39.539 --> 00:44:41.906
Everybody heard
the Furhman tape.
00:44:41.938 --> 00:44:43.905
I'm talking about solid guys,
lifetime fuckin' guys,
00:44:43.939 --> 00:44:45.406
who had their retirement
fuckin' ruined.
00:44:45.439 --> 00:44:47.973
Why? Because they had the balls
to do their fuckin' job!
00:44:48.006 --> 00:44:50.472
And here you are,
you gutless fuckin' wonder!
00:44:50.505 --> 00:44:52.006
We'll talk about cops.
00:44:52.038 --> 00:44:53.973
You will never in your career
00:44:54.005 --> 00:44:58.272
do the cop work they did
on a fuckin' lunch break.
00:44:59.371 --> 00:45:00.939
One more thing.
00:45:00.973 --> 00:45:04.639
Fuck Fuhrman.
You remind me of him.
00:45:04.672 --> 00:45:07.039
And fuck this fuckin' city.
00:45:12.805 --> 00:45:15.072
Miserable piece of fuckin' shit.
00:45:15.105 --> 00:45:18.072
You idolise guys
ahead of you in the force.
00:45:19.572 --> 00:45:20.973
Then you watch them get fucked
00:45:21.005 --> 00:45:23.738
by the very system
they propped up.
00:45:23.771 --> 00:45:26.039
It's a game of inches.
The point is to win.
00:45:26.072 --> 00:45:28.840
So us, we stick together.
00:45:28.872 --> 00:45:32.071
And we do everything we have to
to win.
00:45:32.104 --> 00:45:34.006
Hmm?
00:45:39.805 --> 00:45:42.272
The FBI have infiltrated
Death Row.
00:45:42.304 --> 00:45:45.171
There are LAPD officers
in its inner circle
00:45:45.205 --> 00:45:48.973
and these officers
are loyal to Suge Knight.
00:45:51.505 --> 00:45:55.406
I believe that Officer Gaines
may have been an accessory
00:45:55.438 --> 00:45:57.806
to Biggie Smalls's murder.
00:46:01.738 --> 00:46:04.138
OK, Poole,
walk me through it.
00:46:04.172 --> 00:46:08.271
12:30am,
Wallace exits the Petersen
00:46:08.305 --> 00:46:12.673
and gets in the last vehicle
of a three-car convoy.
00:46:12.705 --> 00:46:17.305
It's a Suburban. It's driven
by Greg Young, aka G-Money.
00:46:17.338 --> 00:46:18.638
Right.
00:46:18.672 --> 00:46:20.773
In the first vehicle
00:46:20.806 --> 00:46:22.940
is an off-duty
Inglewood police officer,
00:46:22.972 --> 00:46:24.773
Reginald Blaylock.
00:46:24.806 --> 00:46:30.972
He pulls out, blocks
the traffic on Fairfax, OK?
00:46:31.006 --> 00:46:34.372
Now, Biggie's security,
Eugene Deal,
00:46:34.404 --> 00:46:37.005
walks to the garage exit,
00:46:37.037 --> 00:46:38.805
where he comes face to face
00:46:38.839 --> 00:46:41.506
with a man in a blue suit
and a bow tie,
00:46:41.539 --> 00:46:44.306
who Deal identifies as a member
of the Fruit of Islam.
00:46:44.338 --> 00:46:46.805
- The Nation of Islam's...
- Security guards.
00:46:46.838 --> 00:46:48.605
Yeah, exactly.
00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:50.506
Deal shows the man
that he's armed.
00:46:50.539 --> 00:46:52.538
The man leaves.
00:46:52.571 --> 00:46:55.805
Deal then notices,
as do many other eyewitnesses,
00:46:55.838 --> 00:47:01.271
a black sedan parked
facing southbound on Fairfax.
00:47:01.305 --> 00:47:02.773
- Correct?
- Yeah.
00:47:02.806 --> 00:47:05.239
And it's in front
of a white vehicle,
00:47:05.272 --> 00:47:10.472
the occupants of which shoot
video of the incident, OK?
00:47:10.504 --> 00:47:13.538
Deal then gets in the second car
of the convoy.
00:47:13.572 --> 00:47:16.505
Excuse me.
Kenneth Story is driving.
00:47:18.404 --> 00:47:19.939
Puffy is sitting
00:47:19.971 --> 00:47:23.772
in the passenger seat.
00:47:23.806 --> 00:47:26.573
Then they pull
just past the kerb.
00:47:26.606 --> 00:47:30.739
Biggie's SUV
then pulls in behind.
00:47:30.772 --> 00:47:32.172
OK?
00:47:32.205 --> 00:47:34.906
On the sidewalk
are approximately 15 people
00:47:34.939 --> 00:47:37.171
who had attended the party
at the Petersen.
00:47:37.204 --> 00:47:40.338
DJ Quik, Kurupt
and, er, what's that...
00:47:40.371 --> 00:47:42.405
- Wait, Foxy Brown.
- Foxy Brown, here.
00:47:42.438 --> 00:47:46.773
Now, while Biggie's car idles
at the exit of the garage,
00:47:46.805 --> 00:47:49.138
he signs an autograph for a fan
00:47:49.172 --> 00:47:52.172
and then he speaks to a woman
who approaches the vehicle.
00:47:52.205 --> 00:47:55.573
Now, 12:49am.
00:47:55.606 --> 00:47:58.606
Puffy's car pulls out,
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:00.439
heads north on Fairfax.
00:48:00.472 --> 00:48:04.039
Eugene Deal,
Wallace's head of security...
00:48:04.072 --> 00:48:04.905
Security.
00:48:04.938 --> 00:48:06.406
..he advises Kenneth Story,
00:48:06.439 --> 00:48:09.072
blow the light,
for security reasons, OK?
00:48:09.105 --> 00:48:11.806
Puffy's car goes through
that yellow light
00:48:11.838 --> 00:48:13.104
and turns left onto Wilshire.
00:48:13.137 --> 00:48:17.638
But Biggie's car
stops at the red light.
00:48:17.671 --> 00:48:19.138
That lane, exactly.
00:48:19.171 --> 00:48:24.338
The second he stops at
this red light, a white SUV...
00:48:26.238 --> 00:48:29.971
..pulls in parallel
to Biggie's vehicle
00:48:30.004 --> 00:48:31.672
and stops, blocking it.
00:48:31.706 --> 00:48:35.171
Now, at this exact same second,
00:48:35.204 --> 00:48:38.904
our shooter,
in the black sedan...
00:48:38.937 --> 00:48:40.639
- The Chevy Impala SS.
- Yes.
00:48:40.671 --> 00:48:43.605
He speeds north on Fairfax,
00:48:43.638 --> 00:48:47.271
pulling parallel to the right
side of Biggie's car...
00:48:47.304 --> 00:48:49.705
..boxing him in...
00:48:51.671 --> 00:48:55.104
..while the shooter
fires six shots.
00:48:55.138 --> 00:48:56.872
We checked the cellphone data.
00:48:56.904 --> 00:48:58.773
It's garbage.
We can't use any of it.
00:48:58.806 --> 00:49:02.005
So, look, either the shooter
got lucky
00:49:02.037 --> 00:49:07.139
or, I don't know, he coordinated
it in some other way.
00:49:07.937 --> 00:49:12.138
If Officer Gaines
or other cops advised,
00:49:12.172 --> 00:49:14.639
they would know
to avoid cells, obviously.
00:49:14.672 --> 00:49:16.139
Yeah.
00:49:16.172 --> 00:49:18.239
You know what
they'd use, Miller?
00:49:19.372 --> 00:49:21.038
Walkie-talkies.
00:49:22.171 --> 00:49:24.138
Miller, he bought
into your theory
00:49:24.171 --> 00:49:26.438
that LAPD cops were involved?
00:49:27.472 --> 00:49:29.406
Yeah. Yeah, he did.
00:49:29.438 --> 00:49:30.705
For a night.
00:49:30.739 --> 00:49:33.004
Today the family
of slain police officer
00:49:33.037 --> 00:49:35.305
Kevin Gaines have retained
attorney Johnnie Cochran
00:49:35.339 --> 00:49:37.272
and filed
a wrongful death lawsuit
00:49:37.305 --> 00:49:40.439
against the City of Los Angeles
for $25 million.
00:49:40.472 --> 00:49:42.372
Kevin Gaines, shot and killed
on March 18...
00:49:42.405 --> 00:49:45.338
They hired that miserable fuck
Johnnie Cochran.
00:49:45.371 --> 00:49:46.971
..a former assistant
district attorney,
00:49:47.005 --> 00:49:49.639
has successfully brought
multiple class action suits
00:49:49.671 --> 00:49:51.305
against the LAPD.
00:49:51.338 --> 00:49:54.705
I'd never seen
anything as charged as this,
00:49:54.739 --> 00:49:56.373
but Miller had.
00:49:57.305 --> 00:50:01.272
I saw clues that said
our bad guys might be cops.
00:50:01.304 --> 00:50:07.104
Miller only saw that we were
white cops accusing black cops.
00:50:07.137 --> 00:50:10.738
He saw us heading straight for
a nationally televised trial
00:50:10.772 --> 00:50:13.039
where Johnnie Cochran
would ruin our careers
00:50:13.071 --> 00:50:16.706
just like he did
the OJ detectives.
00:50:16.738 --> 00:50:18.839
You like that?
00:50:18.871 --> 00:50:21.272
You had the choice between
all these different cars
00:50:21.304 --> 00:50:23.071
and this is the car
you're gonna choose?
00:50:23.105 --> 00:50:25.005
I just wish I could get
under the hood,
00:50:25.037 --> 00:50:26.771
you know, work on the engine.
00:50:28.672 --> 00:50:31.905
It works! That's great.
00:50:34.137 --> 00:50:35.506
Thank you.
00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:41.172
Can I get the, er...
00:50:41.204 --> 00:50:44.038
Am I allowed to get
the carne asada?
00:50:44.071 --> 00:50:45.338
I mean, it's, like, $4 more,
00:50:45.371 --> 00:50:47.605
but I'm not gonna get
a side order.
00:50:49.104 --> 00:50:52.838
You know what, I would like
to have the carne asada too.
00:50:52.872 --> 00:50:55.072
Both of us. Thank you.
00:50:57.371 --> 00:51:00.771
What do you think
was going through Miller's mind?
00:51:00.804 --> 00:51:04.405
Oh, er... protecting his pension.
00:51:05.606 --> 00:51:09.071
Everybody in the LAPD
knew that Gaines was dirty.
00:51:09.104 --> 00:51:12.205
But as soon as Cochran
was in his family's corner...
00:51:13.538 --> 00:51:18.039
..all I know is that Miller
flew to New York without me.
00:51:18.938 --> 00:51:21.005
And he came back
and he's saying
00:51:21.038 --> 00:51:23.505
Biggie's entourage
doesn't want to talk,
00:51:23.539 --> 00:51:26.072
that my cop theory's a dead end.
00:51:26.105 --> 00:51:29.272
They wanted to, sort of,
stall the case a bit
00:51:29.305 --> 00:51:33.473
until they found
a more suitable, er, suspect.
00:51:35.038 --> 00:51:37.105
Hoping for a gangbanger.
00:51:37.138 --> 00:51:38.539
Yeah.
00:51:38.571 --> 00:51:40.372
And that's what we got.
00:51:41.371 --> 00:51:42.573
D-Mack.
00:51:42.605 --> 00:51:45.572
- NOVEMBER 1997
SOUTH CENTRAL
00:52:26.204 --> 00:52:29.138
I need access
to my safety deposit box.
00:52:29.171 --> 00:52:32.071
OK. You're just gonna
have to fill out this.
00:52:33.105 --> 00:52:36.872
Open the door or you'll be
the first to fuckin' die, OK?
00:52:36.904 --> 00:52:40.405
Slowly, slowly, slowly.
00:52:48.539 --> 00:52:52.972
Everybody get the fuck
on the ground now!
00:52:53.005 --> 00:52:54.772
Don't fuckin' look at me,
you hear me?!
00:52:54.804 --> 00:52:56.439
Nobody fuckin' look at me!
00:52:56.472 --> 00:52:57.805
Get the fuck away from there.
00:52:57.837 --> 00:52:59.772
Gimme the fuckin' money
right now! Let's go.
00:52:59.805 --> 00:53:02.704
- Gimme the money now!
- Don't make a move!
00:53:02.738 --> 00:53:05.039
- Come on. Hurry up.
- Go!
00:53:05.071 --> 00:53:07.171
Everybody stay the fuck down
00:53:07.205 --> 00:53:09.573
and everything's
gonna be alright, alright?
00:53:09.605 --> 00:53:11.573
Let's go. Fuckin' move.
00:53:19.137 --> 00:53:20.804
Get in!
00:53:20.838 --> 00:53:23.539
Go, go, go, go!
00:53:36.670 --> 00:53:39.004
I'm Special Agent Dunton
with the FBI.
00:53:39.037 --> 00:53:41.206
Can I get a moment?
00:53:41.238 --> 00:53:42.505
Thanks.
00:53:47.737 --> 00:53:51.771
A man that hits a woman
isn't even a man.
00:53:51.805 --> 00:53:54.138
He's an animal.
00:53:54.171 --> 00:53:55.938
Smart, though.
00:53:55.971 --> 00:53:59.571
Small bank like yours
usually has 50,000 on hand,
00:53:59.605 --> 00:54:04.939
but today you had 15 times
that much.
00:54:04.971 --> 00:54:08.206
I need to speak
to whoever made that order.
00:54:13.872 --> 00:54:15.271
It was you.
00:54:15.304 --> 00:54:17.971
The holidays are coming up.
You know, that's what we do.
00:54:18.004 --> 00:54:21.471
- We... we do that.
- Sure. No, no, no, no, yeah.
00:54:21.504 --> 00:54:23.704
But I'll tell you the truth.
00:54:23.737 --> 00:54:25.938
Who I really need to speak to
00:54:25.972 --> 00:54:29.139
is the person who had the keys
to the vaults.
00:54:35.438 --> 00:54:37.438
I got nothing to say.
00:54:38.604 --> 00:54:41.704
You're gonna be very, very old
00:54:41.737 --> 00:54:43.571
when you get out of prison,
young lady.
00:54:46.770 --> 00:54:48.671
What if I can talk
to him?
00:54:48.705 --> 00:54:51.671
What if... w-what if
I can con... convince him
00:54:51.705 --> 00:54:53.206
to give the money back, huh?
00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:55.039
Then... then will I still
be in trouble?
00:54:55.072 --> 00:54:58.239
- Who? Who are we talking about?
- My boyfriend.
00:54:58.272 --> 00:55:00.005
Give me his name.
00:55:06.438 --> 00:55:09.038
♪ Sellin' crack in the system
00:55:09.072 --> 00:55:11.206
This is
Los Angeles... Los Angeles.
00:55:11.239 --> 00:55:12.838
♪ When I was young
00:55:12.871 --> 00:55:16.238
♪ Let me tell you how it was
where I come from
00:55:16.272 --> 00:55:17.472
♪ When I was young
00:55:17.504 --> 00:55:20.105
♪ Let me tell you how it was
where I come from
00:55:20.137 --> 00:55:21.904
This is Los Angeles.
00:55:21.938 --> 00:55:23.339
♪ When I was young,
00:55:23.372 --> 00:55:25.939
♪ Let me tell you how it was
where I come from
00:55:25.972 --> 00:55:28.039
♪ Run up, you get popped
with the popgun
00:55:28.071 --> 00:55:31.571
♪ I was sellin' rocks on 6-1
Next one... ♪
00:55:32.704 --> 00:55:35.405
Please be
advised there are some children
00:55:35.439 --> 00:55:37.272
playing in the...
00:55:41.605 --> 00:55:44.904
Go, go, go, go, go!
00:55:44.937 --> 00:55:49.504
Put your hands up.
00:55:49.537 --> 00:55:51.504
David Mack! Freeze!
00:55:51.538 --> 00:55:53.572
Don't do it.
00:55:53.605 --> 00:55:55.505
Put your gun on the ground.
00:55:56.838 --> 00:55:58.438
I'm not gonna ask you again.
00:55:58.470 --> 00:56:01.538
Put the gun on the ground.
00:56:04.571 --> 00:56:07.939
Nice and slow. Nice and slow.
00:56:12.138 --> 00:56:13.672
Very good.
00:56:33.404 --> 00:56:35.205
Turn around.
00:56:39.570 --> 00:56:41.205
Bedroom's clear!
00:57:12.370 --> 00:57:14.637
Get the fuck off me,
bitch-man, motherfucker.
00:57:14.671 --> 00:57:17.872
You know the fuck I know, Blood?
Hmm?
00:58:09.638 --> 00:58:11.305
How's your coffee?
00:58:11.337 --> 00:58:14.071
Black and strong.
00:58:15.004 --> 00:58:18.172
- Like your nigga.
- Mm-hm. Yes.
00:58:19.038 --> 00:58:22.039
Yes, my nigga, Officer Mack.
00:58:22.071 --> 00:58:24.572
Or should I call you D-Mack?
00:58:24.605 --> 00:58:27.772
Look, we know that bank robbery
00:58:27.804 --> 00:58:30.338
is not your only
extracurricular activity.
00:58:30.370 --> 00:58:33.371
We found some interesting items
in your house.
00:58:35.272 --> 00:58:37.471
Geco 9mm bullets.
00:58:37.503 --> 00:58:38.904
That's rare.
00:58:38.938 --> 00:58:41.672
A Death Row medallion.
00:58:41.705 --> 00:58:43.438
Sweet Impala.
00:58:45.904 --> 00:58:49.004
- What else you up to?
- Come on.
00:58:49.037 --> 00:58:52.172
What kind of "no havin'
backbone" nigga is you, huh?
00:58:52.204 --> 00:58:55.038
Well, I'm not wearing cuffs,
for a start.
00:58:55.071 --> 00:58:58.804
You went to
the University of Oregon.
00:58:58.837 --> 00:59:00.304
I know you're educated, Mack.
00:59:00.337 --> 00:59:03.938
But if you want to keep talking
this thug thing
00:59:03.971 --> 00:59:06.071
'cause you think you're gonna
reach into my inner nigga
00:59:06.105 --> 00:59:09.672
and rattle my sense of manhood,
you go right ahead.
00:59:09.704 --> 00:59:14.106
OK, Special Agent.
00:59:15.972 --> 00:59:18.071
So, where we start?
00:59:18.104 --> 00:59:20.938
With Death Row.
00:59:31.403 --> 00:59:32.971
I don't know.
00:59:33.004 --> 00:59:35.304
If you don't talk to me,
00:59:35.338 --> 00:59:38.538
if you don't tell me
where the money is,
00:59:38.570 --> 00:59:40.572
15 years.
00:59:41.705 --> 00:59:44.238
15?
00:59:45.705 --> 00:59:48.437
- Years?
- Mm-hm.
00:59:49.538 --> 00:59:51.938
Oh, fuck.
00:59:59.203 --> 01:00:01.671
Come on, nigga.
01:00:01.705 --> 01:00:03.905
Nigga, that ain't shit, Blood.
01:00:03.937 --> 01:00:06.437
15 years?
01:00:06.470 --> 01:00:09.337
Get the fuck outta here
with that bullshit, nigga.
01:00:09.371 --> 01:00:11.704
Fuck you think this is?
I'm from the gutter, Blood.
01:00:11.737 --> 01:00:14.971
See, that's Compton.
You feel me?
01:00:15.004 --> 01:00:18.171
- I'm Piru, nigga.
- Mm-hm.
01:00:18.204 --> 01:00:23.905
What the fuck you think 15 years
gonna do to a nigga like me?
01:00:23.937 --> 01:00:26.571
I know niggas doin' life.
01:00:28.537 --> 01:00:30.838
And I put 'em there.
01:00:32.471 --> 01:00:34.472
Give me 20.
01:00:35.638 --> 01:00:39.371
D-Mack and Kevin Gaines.
01:00:39.404 --> 01:00:41.170
Both connected to Death Row.
01:00:41.203 --> 01:00:44.437
Both surely involved
in Biggie's shooting.
01:00:46.038 --> 01:00:48.305
And both untouchable.
01:00:48.337 --> 01:00:49.838
Why?
01:00:50.638 --> 01:00:53.905
- Because they're both LAPD.
- Mm-hm.
01:00:53.937 --> 01:00:56.938
We can't let you test
Mack's Impala for forensics.
01:00:56.971 --> 01:00:58.605
It'll take me an hour. One hour.
01:00:58.637 --> 01:01:00.572
It's bad timing, alright?
01:01:00.604 --> 01:01:03.237
I mean, my fuckin' hands
are tied.
01:01:04.303 --> 01:01:07.337
The future earning
potential in Christopher Wallace
01:01:07.371 --> 01:01:09.204
would be over a billion.
01:01:10.804 --> 01:01:12.138
So, if we could prove
a connection
01:01:12.170 --> 01:01:14.672
between a cop
and Biggie's murder,
01:01:14.704 --> 01:01:18.737
then a lawsuit
by the Wallace family
01:01:18.771 --> 01:01:21.737
would not only break the LAPD,
it would...
01:01:21.770 --> 01:01:23.205
It would bankrupt the city.
01:01:23.237 --> 01:01:26.704
♪ I put hoes in NY onto DKNY
01:01:28.872 --> 01:01:31.072
- JANUARY 1998
COMPTON
- ♪ All Philly hoes,
dough and Moschino
01:01:31.105 --> 01:01:33.005
♪ Every cutie wit' a booty
bought a Coogi
01:01:33.038 --> 01:01:35.972
♪ Now who's the real dookie?
Meanin' who's really the shit?
01:01:36.004 --> 01:01:39.138
♪ Them niggas ride dicks
Frank White push the sticks
01:01:39.170 --> 01:01:41.404
♪ On the Lexus, LX,
four and a half
01:01:41.438 --> 01:01:43.805
♪ Bulletproof glass tints
if I want some ass
01:01:43.837 --> 01:01:45.504
♪ Gon' blast squeeze first... ♪
01:01:45.538 --> 01:01:48.305
- There you go.
- Oh, delish.
01:01:50.103 --> 01:01:52.705
How many times you guys
want to hear the same story?
01:01:52.737 --> 01:01:54.103
We've had some developments.
01:01:54.137 --> 01:01:55.839
This was, like,
last year and shit.
01:01:55.872 --> 01:01:57.772
You know, a couple
of brothers get shot
01:01:57.805 --> 01:01:59.737
and nobody gives a fuck,
do they?
01:01:59.770 --> 01:02:02.871
But if Garth Brooks gets shot,
y'all would declare martial law.
01:02:02.905 --> 01:02:05.304
I just want to ask...
01:02:06.136 --> 01:02:09.671
..do you recognise this man?
01:02:09.704 --> 01:02:12.571
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:02:12.605 --> 01:02:14.704
Hold up. Hold the fuck up.
01:02:14.737 --> 01:02:17.504
Yo, Biggie! Hey, Biggie!
01:02:17.538 --> 01:02:21.006
♪ Starin' at me
01:02:22.204 --> 01:02:25.371
♪ Breath is heavy
01:02:25.403 --> 01:02:28.138
♪ Headlight... ♪
01:02:30.971 --> 01:02:34.039
This motherfucker was at
Petersen that night. I saw him.
01:02:34.070 --> 01:02:35.537
He was, er, security, you know?
01:02:35.571 --> 01:02:37.939
Biggie's on the move.
Biggie's on the move.
01:02:37.971 --> 01:02:40.237
Yeah, he was the one
on the walkie-talkie.
01:02:42.370 --> 01:02:45.304
♪ Creeps inside... ♪
01:02:45.338 --> 01:02:47.972
Belsher. It's Jackson.
01:02:48.005 --> 01:02:51.171
I need you to find
Sergeant Mike Reese of the LAPD.
01:02:51.203 --> 01:02:55.238
Ask him to slip you the
Christopher Wallace murder book.
01:02:55.270 --> 01:02:58.838
You said murder book,
as in uno,
01:02:58.872 --> 01:03:02.638
not 40 boxes of 90 murder books.
01:03:02.671 --> 01:03:04.504
Here.
01:03:04.538 --> 01:03:06.538
I'm done. All yours.
01:03:06.571 --> 01:03:08.804
Kennedy said that every society
01:03:08.837 --> 01:03:10.604
gets the kind of criminal
that it deserves.
01:03:10.637 --> 01:03:12.070
Right.
01:03:12.103 --> 01:03:15.470
But news, that's something that
somebody wants to suppress.
01:03:15.504 --> 01:03:18.271
Do you remember Kelly Jamerson?
01:03:18.303 --> 01:03:20.037
Yeah. What about him?
01:03:20.071 --> 01:03:22.337
You're gonna love this.
01:03:22.370 --> 01:03:26.171
- 15 MARCH, 1995
MIRACLE MILE
- ♪ Safe to drive... ♪
01:03:26.971 --> 01:03:29.338
He was one of
the Rollin 60's Crips
01:03:29.370 --> 01:03:31.538
who attended
a Death Row afterparty.
01:03:32.905 --> 01:03:35.804
Well, he starts throwing up
gang signs, right?
01:03:35.837 --> 01:03:39.170
So Suge's guys decided
to beat him down a little.
01:03:44.270 --> 01:03:46.471
But they beat him
to death.
01:03:46.504 --> 01:03:50.672
This is the section
on the Kelly Jamerson murder.
01:03:50.704 --> 01:03:52.438
However...
01:03:53.571 --> 01:03:55.538
..he's not in here.
01:03:58.238 --> 01:04:02.105
They redacted the entire
incident. He's not in here.
01:04:09.037 --> 01:04:11.638
The security guards
who stood by
01:04:11.671 --> 01:04:13.839
and watched a man
being murdered
01:04:13.871 --> 01:04:16.905
were off-duty LAPD officers.
01:04:18.437 --> 01:04:20.638
You redact
the Jamerson incident,
01:04:20.671 --> 01:04:24.270
then you redact the proof
that the LAPD
01:04:24.304 --> 01:04:28.105
has a history of its officers
working for Death Row.
01:04:30.438 --> 01:04:33.371
- Where you goin'?
- Got to follow through.
01:04:33.404 --> 01:04:35.871
You can't just leave.
I just brought up 90 boxes.
01:04:35.904 --> 01:04:37.937
Hey, give me some grace
on this, alright?
01:04:37.970 --> 01:04:41.371
Grace? Fuck does that mean?
01:04:52.104 --> 01:04:55.305
He says, very indignantly,
"I'm the Pope."
01:04:56.805 --> 01:04:58.404
You're so full
of shit, Edwards.
01:04:58.437 --> 01:05:00.938
- Excuse me, gentlemen.
- I'm not here to talk to you.
01:05:01.738 --> 01:05:03.504
Commander...
01:05:05.004 --> 01:05:09.271
..I wonder if you could answer
some questions on the record.
01:05:09.303 --> 01:05:11.170
Fasulo, this is Jackson.
01:05:11.203 --> 01:05:13.138
Jackson, Fasulo.
01:05:14.671 --> 01:05:16.571
I've seen
the Wallace murder book.
01:05:16.604 --> 01:05:17.970
Oh, Christ.
01:05:18.004 --> 01:05:19.971
Why did you redact
the past instances
01:05:20.004 --> 01:05:23.604
of the LAPD's connection
with Death Row Records?
01:05:23.637 --> 01:05:27.103
Look, I can't comment
on an open investigation, OK?
01:05:27.136 --> 01:05:29.337
- It's an open investigation?
- Yeah.
01:05:29.370 --> 01:05:31.270
Wow.
01:05:31.304 --> 01:05:32.938
You have any suspects?
01:05:32.971 --> 01:05:35.038
Jackson, I'm not
gonna repeat myself.
01:05:35.070 --> 01:05:37.337
I cannot comment
on an open investigation.
01:05:37.371 --> 01:05:38.572
What's going on here?
01:05:38.605 --> 01:05:41.505
Jackson's been spending
a little bit of time with Poole.
01:05:41.537 --> 01:05:42.937
- Russell. Russell.
- Oh, Poole.
01:05:42.970 --> 01:05:44.970
This is the... OK, alright.
01:05:45.004 --> 01:05:48.671
You know, you are as much
an embarrassment to Edwards
01:05:48.704 --> 01:05:50.338
as Poole was to the LAPD.
01:05:50.371 --> 01:05:56.270
Let me guess, Kevin Gaines
drove David Mack's Impala
01:05:56.303 --> 01:05:57.704
up the grassy knoll,
01:05:57.737 --> 01:05:59.204
where they proceeded
to both whack Kennedy.
01:05:59.238 --> 01:06:01.071
Is that what
you're going for here?
01:06:01.104 --> 01:06:04.204
You find the unsolved murder
of two young men funny?
01:06:04.237 --> 01:06:05.771
No, not at all.
01:06:05.805 --> 01:06:08.371
I find you thinking
that you're spending time
01:06:08.403 --> 01:06:10.537
with the man
who's going to solve this,
01:06:10.570 --> 01:06:12.070
that's what I find funny.
01:06:12.104 --> 01:06:14.838
You want something off
the record, put that thing away.
01:06:14.871 --> 01:06:17.371
- Go on, put it away.
- OK.
01:06:17.403 --> 01:06:19.837
Turn it off, put it away
and I'll tell you something.
01:06:19.871 --> 01:06:21.171
Alright, this is off the record.
01:06:21.204 --> 01:06:25.838
I bet you Poole
hasn't mentioned Wardell Fouse.
01:06:25.871 --> 01:06:28.305
He was a Mob Piru Blood
01:06:28.338 --> 01:06:30.705
that Suge Knight paid
to shoot Biggie.
01:06:30.738 --> 01:06:32.205
Poole tell you that?
01:06:32.238 --> 01:06:35.537
- I'll track him down.
- And bring along a shovel.
01:06:35.570 --> 01:06:38.071
Because he was killed in 2003.
01:06:38.103 --> 01:06:41.571
And listen, Jackson, let me
do you a solid here, OK?
01:06:42.937 --> 01:06:45.738
Poole is certifiable.
01:06:45.770 --> 01:06:47.870
He's a lunatic, alright?
01:06:47.903 --> 01:06:50.937
And if he's giving you
his Captain America routine,
01:06:50.971 --> 01:06:52.538
and the Stars and the Stripes,
01:06:52.571 --> 01:06:55.171
and his... his badge
on his sleeve,
01:06:55.204 --> 01:06:58.105
ask him about his suspension.
01:06:58.903 --> 01:07:00.838
The guy's a disgrace.
01:07:00.870 --> 01:07:03.004
He's a pathological liar.
01:07:03.037 --> 01:07:05.171
I mean, the Wallace's
family civil case
01:07:05.203 --> 01:07:08.070
was based upon his theory
and it was all tossed.
01:07:08.104 --> 01:07:11.438
The man is a lonely shut-in.
01:07:11.471 --> 01:07:14.970
And he needs a warm body
like yourself to talk to.
01:07:15.003 --> 01:07:17.103
So he'll say
whatever you want to hear.
01:07:17.137 --> 01:07:18.737
But reporting things
that aren't true
01:07:18.769 --> 01:07:20.370
is your specialty,
right, Jackson?
01:07:20.404 --> 01:07:21.804
And that's the end of story.
01:07:21.836 --> 01:07:23.404
I don't want to talk
about it anymore,
01:07:23.437 --> 01:07:26.304
and we're about to have dinner,
so maybe you could...
01:07:27.136 --> 01:07:30.237
- Thanks for your time.
- Alright.
01:07:32.970 --> 01:07:35.304
Jesus, Mary
and fuckin' Joseph!
01:07:35.338 --> 01:07:36.771
This is your employee?
01:07:36.803 --> 01:07:38.838
Is he medicated? Is he a drunk?
01:07:38.870 --> 01:07:40.870
Why did you even
let him sit down?
01:07:50.437 --> 01:07:54.270
- Yeah, come in.
- Tell me about Wardell Fouse.
01:07:54.303 --> 01:07:55.371
Fouse?
01:07:55.403 --> 01:07:58.304
Oh, you're buying
into that bullshit now?
01:07:59.104 --> 01:08:01.337
Street name was 'Poochie'.
01:08:02.137 --> 01:08:04.671
He was the primary
in the LAPD's current theory.
01:08:04.704 --> 01:08:06.237
- Fuckin' knew this shit?
- I'm a detective.
01:08:06.271 --> 01:08:09.438
A detective says, "I don't know
until I can prove it."
01:08:09.471 --> 01:08:11.971
You've been talkin' about this
dirty cop and that dirty cop.
01:08:12.004 --> 01:08:13.938
Well, what about you, Russ?
01:08:13.971 --> 01:08:17.038
Never a mention about the cop
who got suspended.
01:08:17.071 --> 01:08:18.737
No, let me tell you something.
01:08:18.769 --> 01:08:21.604
You have no idea
what the LAPD is capable of.
01:08:21.638 --> 01:08:23.304
Stop! How can I trust
a single word
01:08:23.337 --> 01:08:25.270
that comes out
of your fuckin' mouth?
01:08:25.304 --> 01:08:26.737
You look at these walls.
01:08:26.770 --> 01:08:28.971
I earned everything here.
Letters of commendation.
01:08:29.004 --> 01:08:31.438
And that's why your son
doesn't talk to you.
01:08:31.471 --> 01:08:33.704
Because you care more
about that than him.
01:08:33.736 --> 01:08:35.804
How fuckin' dare you?
01:08:39.904 --> 01:08:41.205
♪ Oh
01:08:41.237 --> 01:08:44.103
♪ To all the ladies in the place
with style and grace
01:08:44.136 --> 01:08:47.837
♪ Allow me to lace these lyrical
douches in your bushes... ♪
01:08:50.337 --> 01:08:53.572
♪ The back of the club, sippin'
Moët is where you'll find me
01:08:53.605 --> 01:08:56.305
♪ Back of the club,
sippin' Moët... Moët... ♪
01:09:01.837 --> 01:09:04.438
♪ Straight up, honey,
really I'm askin'
01:09:04.470 --> 01:09:05.837
♪ Most of these niggaz think
01:09:05.870 --> 01:09:07.572
♪ They be mackin'
but they be actin'
01:09:07.604 --> 01:09:09.137
♪ Who they attractin'
with that line
01:09:09.170 --> 01:09:10.871
♪ "What's your name,
what's your sign"? ♪
01:09:10.904 --> 01:09:12.838
Roll down the window.
01:09:13.638 --> 01:09:16.338
Licence and registration.
01:09:19.070 --> 01:09:22.070
- What did I do?
- Licence and registration.
01:09:23.303 --> 01:09:25.304
This is bullshit.
01:09:27.303 --> 01:09:30.837
Sir, are you recording me
right now on that phone?
01:09:30.870 --> 01:09:32.370
- Sir...
- How does that feel to you?
01:09:32.404 --> 01:09:34.671
- Turn off the phone.
- I'm a journalist.
01:09:34.703 --> 01:09:37.338
I got First Amendment rights
and I ain't turnin' off shit.
01:09:37.370 --> 01:09:39.071
Turn off the fuckin' phone,
I said.
01:09:39.104 --> 01:09:41.637
- Let's go. Out of the vehicle.
- What the fuck, man?
01:09:41.669 --> 01:09:43.470
I ain't gettin' out
nowhere, man.
01:09:43.503 --> 01:09:45.437
Get out of the vehicle now.
01:09:45.471 --> 01:09:47.605
Nice and slow.
01:09:47.636 --> 01:09:50.137
Out of the vehicle, now!
01:09:50.170 --> 01:09:53.138
- Everybody! Everybody!
- Turn around!
01:09:53.170 --> 01:09:55.804
They fuckin' with me.
I ain't done shit!
01:09:55.837 --> 01:09:57.438
Turn around.
01:10:26.636 --> 01:10:28.304
It's me.
01:10:29.637 --> 01:10:32.105
I'm in the, er...
01:10:33.470 --> 01:10:35.404
..L.A. Central.
01:10:44.338 --> 01:10:46.871
Jack?
01:10:51.036 --> 01:10:52.003
Jack?
01:10:52.036 --> 01:10:53.538
I hate to tell you this,
01:10:53.569 --> 01:10:56.171
but Edwards took you
off the Biggie retrospective.
01:11:08.871 --> 01:11:11.737
- ..of facts.
- I need a word.
01:11:11.769 --> 01:11:15.570
You commissioned
a 20-year retrospective
01:11:15.604 --> 01:11:16.770
and I'm not on it?
01:11:16.804 --> 01:11:18.637
The central claim
has been discredited.
01:11:18.669 --> 01:11:22.137
- According to who?
- The LAPD.
01:11:22.970 --> 01:11:25.305
Of course it was discredited
by them.
01:11:25.337 --> 01:11:27.904
They couldn't solve the case
in the first goddamn place.
01:11:27.937 --> 01:11:31.438
We are distancing ourselves
from the story.
01:11:54.637 --> 01:11:58.038
- Detective Miller?
- Who wants to know?
01:12:00.037 --> 01:12:03.338
March 1997, you were the, er...
01:12:03.370 --> 01:12:06.803
..the lead detective on the
Christopher Wallace case, right?
01:12:06.836 --> 01:12:09.172
What are you?
A lawyer? Or a cop?
01:12:09.970 --> 01:12:12.503
- Journalist.
- Even worse.
01:12:13.370 --> 01:12:17.204
I had one foot in retirement.
I don't remember much.
01:12:19.703 --> 01:12:21.937
Too many damn suspects.
01:12:21.971 --> 01:12:23.571
Too many damn leads.
01:12:23.604 --> 01:12:26.471
Was Amir Muhammad one of them?
01:12:28.636 --> 01:12:30.105
What the...
01:12:31.404 --> 01:12:34.870
Amir Muhammad
was a possible shooter, yeah.
01:12:34.904 --> 01:12:37.137
But we never interviewed him.
01:12:38.904 --> 01:12:40.871
Can I buy you a beer?
01:12:41.903 --> 01:12:45.171
Everybody had a shooter.
Everybody had a theory.
01:12:45.203 --> 01:12:47.271
My partner asked
onto the case at the time
01:12:47.304 --> 01:12:49.504
because he had a theory.
01:12:49.537 --> 01:12:51.737
Was he... was he
a good detective?
01:12:51.769 --> 01:12:54.671
Was he a good partner?
01:12:54.703 --> 01:12:57.170
Russell Poole.
01:12:57.204 --> 01:12:59.305
One of the best.
01:13:03.970 --> 01:13:07.436
Younger guy, but from an older
school than even I was from.
01:13:12.804 --> 01:13:14.670
Worked an honest shift.
01:13:14.704 --> 01:13:16.171
Er, lacked nuance.
01:13:16.204 --> 01:13:19.504
Followed orders to the point
of insubordination.
01:13:19.536 --> 01:13:22.371
Yeah, well, if the cops
can be bending the rules,
01:13:22.402 --> 01:13:24.570
then where does that leave
the rest of us?
01:13:24.604 --> 01:13:27.004
Oh, Christ. That sounds
like something he would say.
01:13:27.036 --> 01:13:29.436
- You sure you haven't met him?
- No.
01:13:30.337 --> 01:13:32.271
You gotta be able
to separate yourself
01:13:32.304 --> 01:13:34.038
from the community
that you serve,
01:13:34.070 --> 01:13:36.937
and Poole wasn't cut
from that cloth.
01:13:36.971 --> 01:13:38.770
You know what became of him?
01:13:38.804 --> 01:13:40.838
No idea. They split us up.
01:13:40.870 --> 01:13:44.304
There was a cop. Dirty cop.
01:13:44.337 --> 01:13:47.470
Er, fuck, I can't
remember his name.
01:13:47.502 --> 01:13:49.270
- Bank robber.
- Hmm.
01:13:49.304 --> 01:13:53.171
One theory was that
his loyalty lied with Death Row
01:13:53.203 --> 01:13:55.404
and he was involved
in Biggie's murder,
01:13:55.436 --> 01:13:58.570
so the brass put Poole in charge
of an STF looking into that.
01:13:58.603 --> 01:14:00.170
Huh?
01:14:00.204 --> 01:14:04.370
They gave Poole a special task
force to look into David Mack?
01:14:04.403 --> 01:14:05.871
That's the fuck's name!
01:14:05.904 --> 01:14:08.271
David fuckin' Mack. Yes.
01:14:08.303 --> 01:14:10.803
Thanks for your time.
Appreciate it.
01:14:10.836 --> 01:14:12.570
Sure.
01:14:12.603 --> 01:14:14.837
Hey, one more thing.
01:14:16.270 --> 01:14:18.737
You know,
something always struck me
01:14:18.770 --> 01:14:20.571
about that fuck David Mack.
01:14:21.370 --> 01:14:25.737
The whole time he was in prison,
he only got one visitor.
01:14:25.769 --> 01:14:28.204
Amir Muhammad.
01:14:47.704 --> 01:14:49.370
No run.
01:14:53.403 --> 01:14:56.970
Aha. Got a question for you.
01:14:57.004 --> 01:15:01.670
Why does the LAPD give
a substandard officer
01:15:01.704 --> 01:15:03.938
his own special task force?
01:15:03.971 --> 01:15:05.771
You don't get to come here.
01:15:05.803 --> 01:15:07.436
It's a free country.
01:15:09.437 --> 01:15:12.436
Then do me a favour -
root for the other team.
01:15:17.636 --> 01:15:21.369
Substandard? No, sir.
01:15:21.403 --> 01:15:23.537
Are you?
01:15:24.536 --> 01:15:26.604
Unfortunately.
01:15:26.636 --> 01:15:28.670
Alright, everybody, listen up.
01:15:28.704 --> 01:15:31.070
This task force
is changing direction.
01:15:31.104 --> 01:15:33.838
Russ, we got a live one.
We need you to shift focus.
01:15:33.870 --> 01:15:36.004
We're on a live one
right now, sir.
01:15:36.037 --> 01:15:38.871
Let me see you for a second.
01:15:40.737 --> 01:15:42.370
Drop the Death Row pursuit.
01:15:42.403 --> 01:15:45.571
We got cocaine in evidence,
turns out to be Bisquick.
01:15:45.603 --> 01:15:47.970
Same cop signed out
every package.
01:15:48.003 --> 01:15:50.071
Probably selling it
in the street.
01:15:50.103 --> 01:15:53.103
Looks like it's Frank Lyga.
01:15:53.136 --> 01:15:55.270
Fuckin' shittin' me, man?
01:15:55.302 --> 01:15:57.403
I'm on unpaid leave
01:15:57.436 --> 01:15:59.303
and you think
I'm going to Evidence Control
01:15:59.337 --> 01:16:02.804
to sign my name to six pounds
of coke I intend to steal?
01:16:02.836 --> 01:16:05.403
Come on, bro!
01:16:06.502 --> 01:16:08.171
Did you believe him?
01:16:09.170 --> 01:16:10.237
Yeah.
01:16:11.403 --> 01:16:12.938
Yeah, I did.
01:16:12.970 --> 01:16:14.938
His incident with Gaines
01:16:14.971 --> 01:16:19.004
drove a very strong racial wedge
through the force.
01:16:19.037 --> 01:16:20.304
There's your duffel.
01:16:20.336 --> 01:16:22.603
Did you not want
to see my ID or...?
01:16:22.637 --> 01:16:24.604
I'm sure you ain't
gonna rob the place.
01:16:24.636 --> 01:16:26.803
Evidence Control
was so lax,
01:16:26.837 --> 01:16:30.205
Detective Lyga was
the easiest target in the world
01:16:30.236 --> 01:16:32.336
for anybody who wanted
to frame him.
01:16:34.104 --> 01:16:35.604
Detective!
01:16:35.637 --> 01:16:38.804
You left your evidence bag.
01:16:38.836 --> 01:16:41.038
I have to get back
to Disneyland.
01:16:42.136 --> 01:16:43.736
What, you...
01:16:51.470 --> 01:16:55.704
I didn't know who
to trust, so I went to the top.
01:16:55.737 --> 01:16:57.237
Chief?
01:16:57.270 --> 01:17:01.138
- Go away, Poole.
- You'd like that, wouldn't you?
01:17:01.170 --> 01:17:03.469
Sir, this department
has bad elements.
01:17:03.502 --> 01:17:06.137
Now, I can't tell you
who killed Christopher Wallace
01:17:06.170 --> 01:17:08.269
because I've not been allowed
to do my job properly.
01:17:08.302 --> 01:17:11.469
Every time I turn a corner,
I'm not allowed to look.
01:17:11.503 --> 01:17:14.470
Why? Because my suspects
are cops.
01:17:14.503 --> 01:17:16.870
We've all sworn the same oath
01:17:16.904 --> 01:17:19.903
to uphold the law
regardless of the circumstances.
01:17:19.937 --> 01:17:22.871
I believe we owe that
to Christopher Wallace,
01:17:22.903 --> 01:17:26.436
to his mother
and to his family.
01:17:34.770 --> 01:17:38.071
Poole, you insubordinate shit.
01:17:38.103 --> 01:17:41.071
I told you
a hundred fuckin' times,
01:17:41.104 --> 01:17:43.804
you're off the Wallace case.
01:17:43.837 --> 01:17:47.437
Off the Wallace case.
01:17:52.569 --> 01:17:54.469
I went to the District Attorney.
01:17:54.502 --> 01:17:56.436
And, er...
01:17:58.104 --> 01:18:02.371
..I filed a complaint
against the LAPD.
01:18:25.769 --> 01:18:28.737
You ever love something so much,
01:18:28.770 --> 01:18:33.436
you know, you try too hard,
01:18:33.470 --> 01:18:34.971
hold onto it to make it work,
01:18:35.004 --> 01:18:36.604
to make it yours, to make it...
01:18:36.637 --> 01:18:38.805
You know, it's just...
01:18:41.569 --> 01:18:43.937
No.
01:18:45.604 --> 01:18:47.571
It was a long time ago.
01:18:54.904 --> 01:18:56.805
Long time ago.
01:19:07.169 --> 01:19:08.937
Yeah, we need an ambulance
01:19:08.971 --> 01:19:12.070
on Fifth after Wilshire, please,
in Los Angeles.
01:19:12.102 --> 01:19:14.069
We have a man shot.
We have a... shot.
01:19:14.103 --> 01:19:15.504
OK, hold on, I'll get...
01:19:15.536 --> 01:19:18.103
Right on the corner
of Wilshire and Fifth Avenue.
01:19:18.903 --> 01:19:22.470
Death Row had three cops
in its inner circle.
01:19:24.004 --> 01:19:29.236
Right here is a list of every
cop who partnered with Mack.
01:19:29.270 --> 01:19:31.270
- You investigate all of them?
- I didn't have to.
01:19:31.302 --> 01:19:33.070
Because there was
only one stupid enough
01:19:33.102 --> 01:19:36.469
to blow $25,000 in Vegas
with Mack
01:19:36.502 --> 01:19:38.503
two days after the bank robbery.
01:19:40.135 --> 01:19:41.804
Rafa Perez.
01:19:44.670 --> 01:19:47.270
The department forced me
to follow Lyga
01:19:47.303 --> 01:19:49.037
for stealing cocaine.
01:19:49.069 --> 01:19:51.271
Guess who was actually
stealing it.
01:20:26.469 --> 01:20:28.636
Rafael Perez?
01:20:28.669 --> 01:20:30.336
Why do I know that name?
01:20:31.336 --> 01:20:33.837
'Cause I made him famous.
01:20:56.502 --> 01:20:59.169
2-Adam-34,
respond to a domestic dispute
01:20:59.203 --> 01:21:01.170
at 4365 Whittier Boulevard.
01:21:01.202 --> 01:21:04.370
- A husband and wife fighting.
- 10-4, Central.
01:21:11.103 --> 01:21:14.537
This is Officer Perez. I've got
some suspicious activity.
01:21:14.569 --> 01:21:19.336
I'm at 1010 East Cesar
E. Chavez Avenue. Stand by.
01:21:23.103 --> 01:21:25.704
What the fuck?
How about turning that shit off?
01:21:25.736 --> 01:21:28.903
Relax, tiger, relax.
01:21:28.936 --> 01:21:30.803
Wassup? You got
my candy or what?
01:21:30.837 --> 01:21:32.770
Yeah, I found
another distributor.
01:21:32.804 --> 01:21:34.204
Hey, that's good for you,
01:21:34.236 --> 01:21:35.969
but you're not stiffing me
on this, fool.
01:21:36.002 --> 01:21:38.803
I'm not.
I'm gonna get rid of you.
01:22:05.402 --> 01:22:07.937
Shots fired! Shots fired!
Officer fired upon!
01:22:07.970 --> 01:22:10.637
All units be advised,
Officer Perez fired with intent.
01:22:10.669 --> 01:22:13.137
I repeat, Officer Perez
is the assailant.
01:22:13.170 --> 01:22:16.070
Send an ambulance
to this location right away.
01:22:16.103 --> 01:22:18.704
Stand by.
We got 16-38 needs backup.
01:22:18.736 --> 01:22:20.403
Officer Perez!
01:22:20.436 --> 01:22:21.837
Hands in the air!
01:22:21.870 --> 01:22:24.204
The suspect in the shooting
is a police officer.
01:22:24.236 --> 01:22:28.170
Turn around slowly to your left
until I tell you to stop.
01:22:31.070 --> 01:22:32.936
What are you gonna do?
01:22:32.970 --> 01:22:34.837
You gonna shoot me?
01:22:34.870 --> 01:22:36.937
Are you wearing your vest?
01:22:36.969 --> 01:22:39.370
Nah, you're too pink,
motherfucker!
01:22:39.403 --> 01:22:40.804
Arggh!
01:22:40.835 --> 01:22:42.436
- Get down!
- Shit!
01:22:42.470 --> 01:22:44.737
Chest on the ground.
01:22:44.769 --> 01:22:46.303
- Just shot me, motherfucker!
- Now!
01:22:46.337 --> 01:22:48.836
Kick back your legs.
Cross your legs.
01:22:48.870 --> 01:22:51.771
Point your toes. Cross
those legs, point your toes.
01:22:51.803 --> 01:22:53.571
I want those hands out.
01:22:53.603 --> 01:22:55.002
Hands out!
01:22:55.035 --> 01:22:57.203
- Oh, shit.
- Sir, I've called an ambulance.
01:22:57.237 --> 01:22:59.637
It's on its way.
You're gonna be fine.
01:23:06.103 --> 01:23:08.670
- Arggh!
- Mother... Motherfuck...
01:23:08.704 --> 01:23:10.538
Mother... Arggh!
01:23:11.936 --> 01:23:13.802
- Shit.
- Don't move!
01:23:13.836 --> 01:23:16.403
Or I'll blow
your fuckin' head off!
01:23:18.403 --> 01:23:20.771
You gonna kill a cop? Huh?
01:23:20.803 --> 01:23:22.737
You're not an officer.
01:23:22.770 --> 01:23:25.504
You are not a police officer.
01:23:45.102 --> 01:23:48.837
What? You're my escort?
01:23:52.835 --> 01:23:54.703
How's the knee?
01:23:54.737 --> 01:23:57.536
What kind of cop
leaves law enforcement
01:23:57.570 --> 01:23:59.304
to work for a gangster?
01:24:01.202 --> 01:24:02.970
Law enforcement?
01:24:04.370 --> 01:24:07.604
Ain't you got eyes, man?
There's no such thing as law.
01:24:07.636 --> 01:24:10.369
There's never been one
that can overcome man's nature.
01:24:10.402 --> 01:24:11.703
There's incentive.
01:24:11.736 --> 01:24:14.902
Men love two things -
pussy and power.
01:24:14.936 --> 01:24:19.003
And Suge, he has both
and he gives them to men.
01:24:19.035 --> 01:24:21.703
So he got the strongest thing
there is, right?
01:24:21.736 --> 01:24:23.137
Man's weakness.
01:24:23.169 --> 01:24:25.570
And he knows something
you don't.
01:24:25.604 --> 01:24:28.603
Law enforcement
is made up of cops.
01:24:28.637 --> 01:24:32.736
And a cop ain't nothin'...
01:24:32.768 --> 01:24:34.236
..but a man.
01:24:34.270 --> 01:24:37.337
I'll take it
from here, Detective.
01:24:46.070 --> 01:24:47.504
Sir.
01:24:58.202 --> 01:25:00.869
You wanna be a gangster, son?
01:25:02.604 --> 01:25:07.037
We are a matchstick away from
bloodstained streets every day.
01:25:07.936 --> 01:25:10.003
But what stops it?
01:25:10.036 --> 01:25:12.304
Uniform.
01:25:12.336 --> 01:25:14.002
People believe in it.
01:25:14.035 --> 01:25:19.604
But LAPD have put so many
goddamn cracks in that belief
01:25:19.636 --> 01:25:22.069
that people are starting to see
01:25:22.102 --> 01:25:26.270
that the police can't even
police their goddamn selves.
01:25:30.169 --> 01:25:35.170
You will not be another crack
in my force.
01:25:37.002 --> 01:25:39.169
I believed
in the uniform.
01:25:39.202 --> 01:25:41.203
I believed in the oath we took
01:25:41.236 --> 01:25:44.637
to protect and serve
the people of Los Angeles.
01:25:44.668 --> 01:25:48.570
I joined the LAPD
Rampart Division in 1994.
01:25:48.603 --> 01:25:51.937
As an officer, did you
perpetrate illegal activities,
01:25:51.969 --> 01:25:55.870
including robbery,
drug dealings and murder?
01:25:56.768 --> 01:25:58.002
Yes.
01:25:58.035 --> 01:26:01.370
Were other
LAPD officers involved?
01:26:01.402 --> 01:26:03.136
Yes.
01:26:03.169 --> 01:26:07.037
And I believe that
every member of the department
01:26:07.070 --> 01:26:09.171
shared those same convictions.
01:26:11.203 --> 01:26:12.970
We did it all.
01:26:13.002 --> 01:26:16.169
We were a criminal organisation
within the LAPD.
01:26:16.203 --> 01:26:18.103
We were a gang.
01:26:18.135 --> 01:26:20.169
And what was the name
of this gang?
01:26:20.203 --> 01:26:22.404
I believed Perez
was gonna confess his part
01:26:22.436 --> 01:26:27.170
in the LAPD's corruption
by saying just two words -
01:26:27.202 --> 01:26:28.936
'Death Row'.
01:26:28.969 --> 01:26:31.369
Rampart.
01:26:31.403 --> 01:26:32.937
I was wrong.
01:26:32.969 --> 01:26:34.769
Let's reconvene in one hour.
01:26:34.802 --> 01:26:37.137
So you're saying Rampart,
01:26:37.169 --> 01:26:39.269
the greatest scandal
in LAPD history,
01:26:39.302 --> 01:26:43.670
which implicated 70 cops
of corruption,
01:26:43.703 --> 01:26:46.171
was a diversion?
01:26:47.402 --> 01:26:50.669
Mr Ovando,
I... I want to apologise
01:26:50.703 --> 01:26:52.303
for what I've done.
01:26:52.337 --> 01:26:54.404
I'm sorry.
01:26:55.202 --> 01:26:58.069
Yeah, it was bullshit,
and it eclipsed everything,
01:26:58.103 --> 01:27:02.570
especially the Christopher
Wallace investigation.
01:27:06.203 --> 01:27:09.304
Officer Gaines was linked
to the Wallace murder
01:27:09.337 --> 01:27:10.735
and to Death Row.
01:27:10.769 --> 01:27:12.337
But I was told not to look.
01:27:12.370 --> 01:27:16.237
Officer Perez and Officer Mack
were linked to Death Row.
01:27:16.269 --> 01:27:19.503
Once again,
I was told not to look.
01:27:21.437 --> 01:27:23.370
But I had an ace up my sleeve.
01:27:24.369 --> 01:27:27.703
The Gaines family was suing Lyga
and the department.
01:27:27.735 --> 01:27:30.102
And I was the chief witness
01:27:30.135 --> 01:27:32.069
for the defence
of Detective Lyga.
01:27:32.102 --> 01:27:35.036
Gaines was a member
of the Rampart Division.
01:27:35.070 --> 01:27:38.337
He was also an associate
01:27:38.369 --> 01:27:41.703
of incarcerated officers
David Mack and Rafa Perez.
01:27:41.735 --> 01:27:44.204
It's my belief
that these officers
01:27:44.236 --> 01:27:46.836
are responsible for
the planning, cover-up
01:27:46.870 --> 01:27:50.337
and the execution
of Christopher Wallace.
01:27:51.768 --> 01:27:54.203
That's some very
explosive stuff, Detective.
01:27:54.236 --> 01:27:56.702
A murder like that
only goes unsolved
01:27:56.736 --> 01:28:00.003
if the police
don't want to solve it.
01:28:00.036 --> 01:28:02.770
I can't bring that out.
01:28:02.802 --> 01:28:06.137
But remember,
if Cochran gives you an opening,
01:28:06.170 --> 01:28:09.537
when you're on the stand,
you can go there.
01:28:15.936 --> 01:28:18.242
We were ready
for our day in court.
01:28:18.323 --> 01:28:21.247
MAY 1999
COURT - EAST LOS ANGELES
01:28:22.136 --> 01:28:25.204
The theory that LAPD cops
helped orchestrate
01:28:25.236 --> 01:28:27.702
the murder
of Christopher Wallace
01:28:27.736 --> 01:28:30.570
would become part
of the public record.
01:28:48.735 --> 01:28:50.937
But they never let it
go to trial.
01:28:50.969 --> 01:28:55.204
You cut a deal?!
My own team cuts a deal?!
01:28:55.237 --> 01:28:56.770
You're poppin'!
01:28:56.802 --> 01:28:59.403
I wanted to go in there.
01:29:00.602 --> 01:29:03.203
Because this is my life!
01:29:30.099 --> 01:29:32.333
MUNICIPAL OFFICE - DETACHED SECTION 262
01:29:32.380 --> 01:29:35.735
Jack, it's 5am.
Clerk wants us out by 6:00.
01:29:35.768 --> 01:29:38.403
What the fuck are we doin', man?
01:29:40.035 --> 01:29:42.435
Now you've found something?
01:29:46.070 --> 01:29:48.469
Eyewitnesses notice
a black sedan...
01:29:50.136 --> 01:29:53.304
Most of the witnesses
think it was a Chevy Impala SS.
01:29:54.102 --> 01:29:56.669
What are we looking at?
I don't get it.
01:29:56.702 --> 01:29:58.336
I do.
01:29:58.370 --> 01:30:00.371
OK, great. Are we done?
01:30:02.036 --> 01:30:03.237
Yeah.
01:30:03.270 --> 01:30:05.937
We're talking about truth.
01:30:05.969 --> 01:30:10.069
And I've seen so many untruths
01:30:10.103 --> 01:30:14.270
among these so-called officials.
01:30:14.302 --> 01:30:17.270
My mother taught me
something about truth.
01:30:17.302 --> 01:30:19.036
It's a poem.
01:30:19.069 --> 01:30:24.869
She said, "Speak the truth
and speak it ever.
01:30:24.902 --> 01:30:29.402
"Because he who hides
the wrong he did
01:30:29.436 --> 01:30:33.503
"does the wrong thing still."
01:30:35.402 --> 01:30:37.069
Hey, Jack.
01:30:39.502 --> 01:30:42.603
Ms Wallace, this is, er, Jack.
01:30:42.636 --> 01:30:45.403
- This is Ms Wallace.
- Hello.
01:30:45.435 --> 01:30:47.204
I know who you are, ma'am.
01:30:49.002 --> 01:30:54.569
20 years ago, I... I made
a false claim against your son.
01:30:57.337 --> 01:30:59.304
And?
01:31:01.802 --> 01:31:03.635
I was mistaken.
01:31:03.669 --> 01:31:08.536
Well, it takes a big man to
admit that he makes a mistake.
01:31:11.702 --> 01:31:13.702
You're a very kind woman.
01:31:13.736 --> 01:31:15.503
- Would you mind?
- Please.
01:31:15.536 --> 01:31:17.503
Jack, have a seat.
01:31:20.336 --> 01:31:21.770
He's been very helpful.
01:31:21.803 --> 01:31:24.004
- With the case?
- Yes.
01:31:25.103 --> 01:31:28.403
I... I didn't think that you guys
would be on good terms.
01:31:28.435 --> 01:31:30.836
- I mean...
- And why is that?
01:31:30.870 --> 01:31:34.836
Well, I mean, you know,
your family's case
01:31:34.870 --> 01:31:38.636
and... and using his theory
to support it,
01:31:38.668 --> 01:31:40.736
and then it being dismissed.
01:31:40.768 --> 01:31:43.569
Oh, no, the case
was not dismissed.
01:31:43.603 --> 01:31:47.802
- It was a mistrial.
- Huge difference.
01:31:47.836 --> 01:31:51.037
A federal judge caught the LAPD
hiding evidence
01:31:51.070 --> 01:31:54.469
that linked Mack and Perez
to Christopher's murder
01:31:54.502 --> 01:31:56.336
and declared a mistrial.
01:31:56.368 --> 01:31:58.936
Now, here's the kicker -
the City of L.A.,
01:31:58.969 --> 01:32:01.069
they reopened the investigation
01:32:01.103 --> 01:32:04.470
because as long as it's
an ongoing investigation...
01:32:05.270 --> 01:32:08.703
..that evidence stays
locked away in the dark.
01:32:08.735 --> 01:32:11.203
So, we cannot sue LAPD
01:32:11.237 --> 01:32:16.237
because they are investigating
the case.
01:32:17.336 --> 01:32:19.804
I might... I might have
something here.
01:32:20.736 --> 01:32:22.703
It's, um...
it's a search warrant
01:32:22.735 --> 01:32:25.003
for Mack's Impala.
01:32:25.036 --> 01:32:28.636
They found it
after you resigned.
01:32:28.669 --> 01:32:31.903
You know, they pushed you
out of the force,
01:32:31.935 --> 01:32:34.969
saying that your theory
has no merit,
01:32:35.003 --> 01:32:39.036
and then they use your theory -
his theory - to go forward.
01:32:45.035 --> 01:32:46.969
Ms Wallace, this has...
01:32:48.269 --> 01:32:51.570
..been an unbearably long
and painful road for you.
01:32:51.602 --> 01:32:53.902
I'm so sorry
01:32:53.935 --> 01:32:56.535
that you've had to endure
all this.
01:32:56.569 --> 01:33:00.937
You have nothing
to feel sorry about.
01:33:00.969 --> 01:33:05.569
Because of you, I came this far.
01:33:15.003 --> 01:33:17.502
- Hands behind your head!
- You wonder why we push back.
01:33:17.536 --> 01:33:18.937
That's what you call a guy
01:33:18.969 --> 01:33:20.869
who's in the wrong place
at the wrong time.
01:33:20.903 --> 01:33:22.603
Our life
is meaningless to you
01:33:22.635 --> 01:33:24.636
because you have the right
to kill us
01:33:24.668 --> 01:33:26.669
based on your theory,
your perception!
01:33:26.702 --> 01:33:28.936
And why? Because I'm
a young black male.
01:33:28.970 --> 01:33:30.736
Present your wrists.
01:33:32.302 --> 01:33:35.303
Don't resist.
You hear that, motherfucker?
01:33:35.335 --> 01:33:37.003
You hear that?
01:33:38.636 --> 01:33:41.103
The sound of sirens
used to mean
01:33:41.135 --> 01:33:44.536
my brother officers were
on their way to assist me.
01:33:44.568 --> 01:33:48.969
Might have been the sweetest
sound I ever heard in my life.
01:33:52.869 --> 01:33:57.136
I was two weeks from my pension
when I resigned.
01:33:59.401 --> 01:34:01.335
I lost my family
01:34:01.368 --> 01:34:07.436
for a case
that I was unable to close.
01:34:09.535 --> 01:34:14.435
And it's just not supposed
to happen like that.
01:34:32.301 --> 01:34:34.168
We're at the top of the ninth.
01:34:34.201 --> 01:34:36.502
Come on, Russ!
01:34:36.536 --> 01:34:38.469
A crafty lefty on the mound.
01:34:38.501 --> 01:34:42.135
Let's see what we got.
Here's the first pitch.
01:34:42.169 --> 01:34:44.236
And they're playing third base.
01:34:45.135 --> 01:34:47.436
He guns him out at first.
01:34:47.469 --> 01:34:49.603
And we got two down.
01:34:49.636 --> 01:34:51.570
Bases still loaded.
01:34:58.368 --> 01:35:01.902
And there's a shot
in deep left field.
01:35:01.936 --> 01:35:04.203
It's going back, back, back.
01:36:02.702 --> 01:36:04.302
Russell...
01:36:04.335 --> 01:36:07.202
Pick up the phone,
pick up the phone.
01:36:12.702 --> 01:36:15.970
I was a beat cop
when you were here.
01:36:16.002 --> 01:36:18.235
Always looked up to you,
Detective Poole.
01:36:18.269 --> 01:36:20.135
Thank you.
01:36:20.169 --> 01:36:23.837
Russ, if you're really going in,
I'm gonna go in with you.
01:36:23.869 --> 01:36:25.402
We'll go in together, alright?
01:36:25.436 --> 01:36:27.602
Just call me back or text me.
01:36:27.636 --> 01:36:29.937
We still all talk
about you, sir.
01:36:29.969 --> 01:36:32.402
And all the time here.
01:36:36.269 --> 01:36:39.135
But I'm afraid
I can't help you, sir.
01:36:40.769 --> 01:36:43.068
But please don't misunderstand.
01:36:43.102 --> 01:36:46.369
Sir, these warrants, they're...
they're 20 years old.
01:36:48.902 --> 01:36:51.269
Detective Poole?
01:36:52.803 --> 01:36:56.336
Detective Poole?
Are you alright, sir?
01:36:56.368 --> 01:36:58.270
Can I get you something?
01:36:59.269 --> 01:37:00.670
Detective Poole!
01:37:00.702 --> 01:37:02.136
Christ! Call an ambulance!
01:37:02.168 --> 01:37:05.202
Detective Poole?
Detective Poole?
01:37:05.236 --> 01:37:07.236
Can you hear me?
01:37:07.269 --> 01:37:08.670
Stay with me, sir.
01:37:14.835 --> 01:37:17.369
- Stay with me, Russ.
- Mr Poole, can you hear me?
01:37:18.268 --> 01:37:20.035
- No.
- We got no pulse.
01:37:20.069 --> 01:37:21.735
- He's gonna crash.
- Russ?
01:37:21.769 --> 01:37:23.469
- Did anybody see him go down?
- Russ?
01:37:23.501 --> 01:37:25.903
- What happened to him?
- All of a sudden.
01:37:25.936 --> 01:37:28.002
He's crashing, guys.
Come on.
01:37:28.035 --> 01:37:29.904
Heart attack, I think.
01:37:45.934 --> 01:37:47.802
Russell Poole?
01:37:59.535 --> 01:38:03.836
I'm Jack, a friend of Russ's.
01:38:47.501 --> 01:38:50.502
You listen to me.
You don't have the right.
01:38:50.535 --> 01:38:52.635
You don't have
the right.
01:38:52.669 --> 01:38:54.470
You know what I'm saying.
01:38:55.269 --> 01:39:01.170
You close the case, get
a promotion, the shiny object.
01:39:02.002 --> 01:39:05.236
But then you start thinking
that you are the shiny object.
01:39:07.069 --> 01:39:10.336
Come on down from the cheap
seats, look him in the eye.
01:39:10.369 --> 01:39:12.003
Tell him...
01:39:12.802 --> 01:39:14.469
.."I'm sorry."
01:39:22.368 --> 01:39:25.203
Take some pretty good shots
at each other, don't we?
01:39:27.469 --> 01:39:30.336
I'm done.
01:39:34.868 --> 01:39:37.835
I'm a hack, alright?
01:39:38.636 --> 01:39:40.136
I'm a hack
01:39:40.168 --> 01:39:44.168
who forgot how to even do
the right thing.
01:39:44.202 --> 01:39:47.169
So I know what
the wrong thing is.
01:39:48.735 --> 01:39:50.901
Stay on this case.
01:39:50.934 --> 01:39:54.502
Make your boy think that
that's all that you care about.
01:40:28.868 --> 01:40:31.402
Then what was it all for?
01:40:33.735 --> 01:40:36.003
What was it all for?
01:40:54.636 --> 01:40:57.403
Front page, 'L.A. Times'.
01:40:57.435 --> 01:41:01.869
That was one of the best pieces
I've ever read.
01:41:01.902 --> 01:41:04.336
I know. It was good, wasn't it?
01:41:04.368 --> 01:41:07.235
I got to say, Jack,
I'm proud of you.
01:41:08.703 --> 01:41:11.303
We're working on
a new nightly segment.
01:41:11.335 --> 01:41:15.202
We're gonna need
a recognisable face.
01:41:16.602 --> 01:41:20.101
I can't work for a man
01:41:20.134 --> 01:41:23.402
who's in bed
with the very institutions
01:41:23.435 --> 01:41:25.503
that we should hold accountable.
01:41:26.734 --> 01:41:28.469
We have to do better.
01:41:31.235 --> 01:41:34.035
Will you accept my resignation?
01:43:29.146 --> 01:43:32.520
KEVIN GAINES' FAMILY OBTAINED $250,000
01:43:32.593 --> 01:43:35.755
FROM THE AGREEMENT
WITH LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT.
01:43:37.067 --> 01:43:39.451
DAVIC MACK'S SENTENCE
WAS REDUCED TO 11 YEARS IN PRISON.
01:43:39.498 --> 01:43:42.178
THE STOLEN $722,000 WAS NEVER RECOVERED.
01:43:44.129 --> 01:43:48.238
RAFAEL PEREZ RECEIVED IMMUNITY
FOR THE CRIMES HE COMMITTED.
01:43:50.261 --> 01:43:55.995
THE MURDER CASES OF CHRISTOPHER WALLACE
AND TUPAC SHAKUR REMAIN UNSOLVED.
01:43:58.655 --> 01:44:02.332
MORE THAN 50% OF THE MURDER CASES
PERTAINING TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS
01:44:02.402 --> 01:44:04.148
REMAIN UNSOLVED.
01:44:04.633 --> 01:44:10.001
IN 2015, RUSSELL POOLE FAINTED AND DIED
IN THE LOS ANGELES SHERIFF DEPARTMENT.
01:44:10.067 --> 01:44:12.062
HE WAS STILL WORKING
ON THE MURDER CASE OF CHRISTOPHER WALLACE.
01:44:12.109 --> 01:44:15.101
♪ Oh, I dream filthy
01:44:15.134 --> 01:44:17.936
♪ My moms and pops mixed me
with Jamaican rum and whiskey
01:44:17.969 --> 01:44:20.203
♪ What a set-up,
shoulda pushed 'em dead off
01:44:20.235 --> 01:44:23.001
♪ Wipe the sweat off, 'cause
in this world I'm dead off
01:44:23.035 --> 01:44:24.936
♪ Squeeze lead off,
Benz sped off
01:44:24.968 --> 01:44:27.602
♪ That's not all,
MCs have the gall
01:44:27.634 --> 01:44:30.568
♪ To pray and pray
for my downfall
01:44:30.602 --> 01:44:33.169
♪ Pray and pray for my downfall
01:44:33.201 --> 01:44:36.001
♪ Pray and pray
for my downfall
01:44:36.035 --> 01:44:39.136
♪ I was high when they hit me,
took a few cats with me
01:44:39.168 --> 01:44:40.936
♪ Shit, I need the company
01:44:40.968 --> 01:44:44.035
♪ Apologies in order
to T'yanna my daughter
01:44:44.068 --> 01:44:46.502
♪ If it was up to me
you would be with me
01:44:46.534 --> 01:44:49.668
♪ Sorta like Daddy dearest,
my vision be the clearest
01:44:49.701 --> 01:44:51.635
♪ Silencers so you can't hear it
01:44:51.667 --> 01:44:53.468
♪ Competition still fear it
01:44:53.501 --> 01:44:55.035
♪ Shit, don't ask me
01:44:55.069 --> 01:44:57.602
♪ I went from ashy to nasty
to classy
01:44:57.634 --> 01:44:59.001
♪ And still... still... ♪
01:45:13.868 --> 01:45:15.668
Pac is a strong dude, yo.
01:45:15.701 --> 01:45:18.101
I know dudes. You know what
I'm saying? He real strong.
01:45:18.135 --> 01:45:20.969
So when, like, he got shot,
I was just more like, "Again?"
01:45:21.001 --> 01:45:22.734
You know what I'm saying?
01:45:22.767 --> 01:45:24.302
He always getting shot
or shot at.
01:45:24.336 --> 01:45:25.936
He gonna pull through
this one again,
01:45:25.968 --> 01:45:27.368
make a few records about it,
01:45:27.401 --> 01:45:29.669
and it's gonna be over,
you know what I'm saying?
01:45:29.701 --> 01:45:32.403
But when he died,
I was just like, "Whoa."
01:45:32.435 --> 01:45:34.734
I mean, even though we was
going through our drama,
01:45:34.767 --> 01:45:36.168
I would never wish death
on nobody,
01:45:36.202 --> 01:45:37.969
'cause there ain't
no coming back from that.
01:45:37.993 --> 01:45:57.993
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01:46:08.235 --> 01:46:10.768
♪ This goes out to you
01:46:10.802 --> 01:46:13.801
♪ This goes out to you
01:46:13.835 --> 01:46:17.569
♪ This goes out to you,
and you, and you, uh
01:46:17.602 --> 01:46:20.402
♪ Your reign on the top
was short like leprechauns
01:46:20.435 --> 01:46:23.702
♪ As I crush so-called willies,
thugs and rapper-dons
01:46:23.735 --> 01:46:25.869
♪ Get in that ass quick,
fast like Ramadan
01:46:25.902 --> 01:46:28.036
♪ It's that rap phenomenon
Don Dada
01:46:28.068 --> 01:46:31.869
♪ Fuck Poppa, you got to call me
Francis M.H. White
01:46:31.902 --> 01:46:33.902
♪ Intake light tokes, tote iron
01:46:33.935 --> 01:46:36.969
♪ Was told in shootouts,
stay low and keep firin'
01:46:39.168 --> 01:46:41.268
♪ Keep extra clips
for extra shit
01:46:41.302 --> 01:46:44.101
♪ Who's next to flip on that cat
with that grip on rap?
01:46:44.135 --> 01:46:46.236
♪ The most shady, Frankie baby
01:46:46.268 --> 01:46:47.968
♪ Ain't no telling
where I may be
01:46:48.002 --> 01:46:49.702
♪ May see me in DC
01:46:49.735 --> 01:46:51.936
♪ At Howard Homecoming
with my man Capone
01:46:51.968 --> 01:46:53.568
♪ Dumbing, fucking something
01:46:53.602 --> 01:46:55.068
♪ You should know my steelo
01:46:55.102 --> 01:46:57.836
♪ Went from ten Gs for blow
to 30 Gs a show
01:46:57.868 --> 01:47:00.168
♪ To orgies with hoes
I never seen before
01:47:00.201 --> 01:47:04.369
♪ So, Jesus, get off
the Notorious's penis
01:47:04.400 --> 01:47:05.801
♪ Before I squeeze and bust
01:47:05.835 --> 01:47:07.869
♪ If the beef between us
we can settle it
01:47:07.902 --> 01:47:09.236
♪ With the chrome and metal shit
01:47:09.268 --> 01:47:11.168
♪ I make it hot
like a kettle get
01:47:11.202 --> 01:47:12.802
♪ You're delicate,
you better get
01:47:12.834 --> 01:47:14.801
♪ Who sent ya?
You still pedal shit
01:47:14.835 --> 01:47:16.936
♪ I got more rides
than Great Adventure
01:47:19.235 --> 01:47:21.901
♪ Kick in the door,
waving the four-four
01:47:21.934 --> 01:47:24.402
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more"
01:47:24.434 --> 01:47:27.069
♪ Kick in the door,
waving the four-four
01:47:27.101 --> 01:47:29.936
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more"
01:47:29.969 --> 01:47:32.502
♪ Kick in the door,
waving the four-four
01:47:32.534 --> 01:47:35.236
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more"
01:47:35.268 --> 01:47:37.868
♪ Kick in the door,
waving the four-four
01:47:37.902 --> 01:47:41.236
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more"
01:47:53.302 --> 01:47:56.434
♪ On ya mark, get set,
when I spark, ya wet
01:47:56.468 --> 01:47:58.901
♪ Look how dark it get
when you're marked for death
01:47:58.935 --> 01:48:01.702
♪ Should I start your breath
or should I let you die
01:48:01.735 --> 01:48:03.902
♪ In fear you start to cry,
ask why
01:48:03.935 --> 01:48:07.036
♪ Lyrically I'm worshipped,
don't front the word sick
01:48:07.069 --> 01:48:09.002
♪ You cursed it,
but rehearsed it
01:48:09.034 --> 01:48:11.368
♪ I drop unexpectedly
like bird shit
01:48:11.400 --> 01:48:15.035
♪ You herbs get stuck quickly
for royalties and show money
01:48:15.068 --> 01:48:18.101
♪ Don't forget the publishing,
I punish 'em, I'm done with them
01:48:18.135 --> 01:48:20.001
♪ Son, I'm surprised
you run with them
01:48:20.035 --> 01:48:21.769
♪ I think they got cum in them
01:48:21.801 --> 01:48:23.202
♪ 'Cause they nothing but dicks
01:48:23.236 --> 01:48:25.836
♪ Trying to blow up
like nitro and dynamite sticks
01:48:25.868 --> 01:48:28.334
♪ Mad, I smoke hydro,
rock diamonds, that's sick
01:48:28.367 --> 01:48:31.069
♪ Got paid off my flow,
rhyme with my own clique
01:48:31.101 --> 01:48:33.835
♪ Take trips to Cairo,
laying with your bitch
01:48:33.869 --> 01:48:35.902
♪ I know you praying
you was rich, fucking prick,
01:48:35.934 --> 01:48:38.035
♪ When I see ya
I'm-a kick in the door
01:48:38.069 --> 01:48:39.467
♪ Waving the four-four
01:48:39.501 --> 01:48:41.936
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more"
01:48:41.968 --> 01:48:44.467
♪ Kick in the door,
waving the four-four
01:48:44.501 --> 01:48:47.203
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more"
01:48:47.236 --> 01:48:49.902
♪ Kick in the door,
waving the four-four
01:48:49.934 --> 01:48:52.668
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more"
01:48:52.702 --> 01:48:55.202
♪ Kick in the door,
waving the four-four
01:48:55.236 --> 01:48:58.702
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more"
01:49:13.401 --> 01:49:16.435
♪ Kick in the door,
waving the four-four
01:49:16.468 --> 01:49:19.502
♪ All you heard was
"Poppa, don't hit me no more." ♪
01:49:19.526 --> 01:49:39.526
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