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(suspenseful music) - [Vivica] Observing the signs. - [Darren] That's
when we started to see
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anger micro-expressions. Underneath, this is
quite an angry man. - [Vivica] Detecting
changing stories.
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- Big mistake. - [Vivica] Spotting
when to hold back. - [Vivica] And when to close in.
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- What they're actually
saying is, "You're a liar." - There's your shift
in the interview.
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(suspenseful music) - I'm Vivica A. Fox, and I'm about to
take you on a journey
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to uncover the secrets of
the interrogation room. We'll examine the signs
that someone is lying
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and watch detectives utilize
expert techniques to uncover the shocking truth, and get
an all-important confession.
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(dramatic music) - [Maleary] His whole world
is starting to implode. (dramatic music)
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(gentle music) - [Vivica] Michael Dunn,
a Florida local, has been called in
for interview
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following a shooting at
a gas station in Jacksonville the previous evening. (gentle music)
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- Michael Dunn is
a 45-year-old white male who is a computer
software engineer.
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Lives a fairly
upper-middle class life in Florida. - [Vivica] On
November 23rd, 2012,
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Michael Dunn was on his way
home from his son's wedding, when he stopped at a gas station
with his fiancée, Rhonda Rouer,
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to purchase a bottle of wine. He parked his vehicle
next to a red SUV containing four teenage boys.
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One of the boys
was Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old
high school student. - [Ron] Jordan, growing up,
he had a lot of energy.
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He was a fun, fun kid. I never had a problem with him
drinking or smoking or anything like that.
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He was going to school. He was looking forward
to going to college. - [Vivica] Jordan Davis had
been spending the day
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with his friends,
Tevin Thompson, Leland Brunson, and Tommie Stornes, who were also in the vehicle.
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- Just as I was getting
ready to go out the door, Jordan stopped me
said, "Dad, listen,"
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he said, "Me and my friends
we're gonna go over to the mall "and we're just gonna
go window shopping
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"and then grab
something to eat." He hugged me, I hugged him and, they stopped by
the Gate's gas station.
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And they're banging
their music loud, how kids do it and they're playing rap music.
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- [Vivica] After asking them
to turn the music down, Michael Dunn and Jordan Davis,
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who was sitting
in the back seat, got into a heated altercation. Within three and a half minutes
from pulling in,
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Dunn had fired 10 shots
at the vehicle with four teenagers inside. - Well, a role of
a detective, in general,
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is to seek out the truth
and find out what happened. - If you wanna be successful
when you're doing interviews
and interrogations,
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it requires you not to have
a hammer, but a velvet glove
- because why? You want them to
tell you something
they don't wanna tell you.
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- [Ciolino] I'm here to help.
I'm your friend. I don't want to
see you punished.
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Together, you and I are
gonna get to the truth. - According to Dunn's account, despite requesting politely
that they turned the music down,
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one of the teenagers
started acting in a highly aggressive manner. - The male passenger
in the rear,
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a person who we know
to be Jordan Davis, has allegedly become involved
in a confrontation with Dunn.
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- Dunn states that
Jordan Davis has threatened him, that he's, effectively,
going to kill Dunn.
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- Dunn goes on to say that he saw Jordan
point a shotgun at him through the window.
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- Like many people, Michael Dunn
exercises his right to carry a gun for self-defense.
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As a practicing member
of the local gun range, he is also
something of a gun enthusiast,
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with multiple types of
firearms registered in his name. - [Vivica] Michael Dunn
fired 10 shots
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into the vehicle
with the teenagers inside. Jordan Davis was hit in
the legs, lungs, and heart,
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and collapsed into the arms of
Leland Brunson in the back seat, bleeding
and struggling to breathe.
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- You just never know,
as a parent, when that last day
is gonna come. Through, especially,
gun violence,
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where they were here one moment
and they're gone the next. - [Vivica]
The emergency personnel
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were not able to revive
17-year-old Jordan Davis, who died from multiple
gunshot wounds at the scene.
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(quiet sobbing) - Jordan's best friend
actually was holding Jordan when Jordan died.
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He died in the arms
of his best friend. - [Maleary] It's hard
to come to terms with
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the speed
in which this escalated. It was three and a half minutes, from the time that
he arrived at the car park
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to a young man being,
effectively, executed. - Now, the driver of the SUV
that Jordan was in
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had come out of the store, he's getting in the car
to drive away. And so that haunts me.
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Within 20 seconds,
these kids would be gone. He couldn't wait 20 seconds. - [Maleary] Dunn stated that
he took reasonable grounds
to defend himself
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under the stand-your-ground
legislation, because his life
was in imminent threat.
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- [Robyn] The prerequisites
for stand-your-ground law, are when a person,
in this case Michael Dunn,
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is justified
in using deadly force to prevent imminent
danger or death or bodily harm
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to himself or someone else. You are entitled to
meet force with force. - [Vivica] Under Florida law,
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Dunn knew he was
allowed to protect himself if he felt his life
was in danger,
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but the detectives are sceptical
of Dunn's story. Was this really a case of
self-defense?
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Or an angry man
firing into a vehicle and killing a young boy
over a minor altercation?
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Coming up, Dunn's version of
events comes under scrutiny. - [Ciolino] Witnesses,
none of them see a weapon,
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none of them hear these threats. They're not seeing anything
that rises the occasion
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that will allow him
to pull out a weapon and start shooting at people. - [Vivica] After pulling into
a Jacksonville gas station
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in November, 2012, Michael Dunn
has revealed to police that he had no choice
but to fire his weapon
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at a car containing
four teenage boys because he considered his life
to be under imminent threat.
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But it's Michael Dunn's actions
after the shooting that are raising questions
for detectives.
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(siren blaring) - [Ciolino] Now he's not aware
of fact that he killed someone, but he certainly
should be aware of fact
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he threw enough lead in
that car somebody got hit. - Michael Dunn's girlfriend
comes outta the store
and they drive away.
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They never called 911. They never see
if the kids were hurt. - What does Mike Dunn do?
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Well, he goes back to the hotel
with his girlfriend. They order a pizza. - [Vivica] The detectives
now start to question
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Michael Dunn's decision making. Was this a man
who was defending himself against a would-be attacker?
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- [Robyn] He was hoping that he was going to be able to
drive out of that parking lot
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and nobody
would be able to find him. - [Ciolino] Had he done
what he should have done,
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the SWAT team does not
show up at his house, drag him out of it
and throw him down in the gravel
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and handcuff him and take him
to the police station. - In his mind, Michael Dunn does
not see himself as a criminal.
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He wants them to feel that
he is the victim in this case, but, in fact, he just
committed a murder.
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- [Maleary] But Dunn couldn't
answer any of this. He had no reasonable excuse for the actions
that he'd carried out.
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It's at this point that
the detective starts to question the credibility of
the story that's been given.
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- There's your shift
in the interview. They're letting
Michael Dunn know we've taken your account,
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but now we're going to
start to question you about the specifics. - Not only has Dunn failed
to report the shooting,
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which the police see as
a way of buying more time to construct
his self-defense argument,
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but the detectives now point out another major flaw
in his version of events. - They started to question
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how on earth
could he hear the threats above the loud music whilst his own window
was closed.
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- Any jury member
would understand what they're actually saying
is "You're a liar."
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You're an absolute liar, because
it isn't physically possible. - With Dunn's story crumbling,
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the detectives confront him
with a further fact that defies rational
explanation.
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- Common sense escapes this guy, and he keeps shooting when the threat
is driving away from him.
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The only threat
at this point is him. (suspenseful music) - When they use the line
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"But you shot at the car
four more times "as it was backing away," Dunn becomes flustered.
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- [Ron] This car's leaving, Michael Dunn
gets out of his car, goes into a police stance, as if
he's a policeman or something,
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and he shoots four more bullets
at a fleeing vehicle. (suspenseful music) And so you're not afraid
at that point at all.
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- [Ciolino] Any prayer
of self-defense kind of flies out the window. and we don't know which round
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killed the victim in this case. Could have been
in the first volley, could have been in the second.
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Doesn't matter, he's dead. This thing has racial components
from the minute it starts.
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We have a Black victim, we have a White shooter. - [Kul] I believe that
Dunn saw four Black men.
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And the four Black men
were probably the reason why he carried a gun
for protection.
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He perceived that
young Black men presented a threat
to his safety and the safety
of his loved ones.
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- [Ron] Michael Dunn thought
that he could shoot at and kill every black kid in that car.
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That's why he shot
so many bullets. He wanted to kill all the kids
in the car, all four.
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- Dunn's entire defense revolves
around the fact that he's in fear of his life.
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Now, he's in a vehicle,
it's a working vehicle, it drives just fine. Hey, why didn't you put
the thing in reverse and move?
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- [Kul] And he said, well,
I didn't have time for flight. But the option that he chose
would've been the slower option.
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It had to be the slower option. There was also a level of anger. There was a point where
one of the witnesses
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heard Dunn say to the young men, "You will not
speak to me in that way." I'm a middle-class
successful white man,
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how dare you swear at me? How dare you talk to me
like that? And I will show you.
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- [Ron] Just like a father's
talking to a son, "You're not gonna
talk to me that way."
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These are not your children. You didn't raise these kids. They don't have to listen
and do what you say.
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"I have White privilege. "I can tell you,
a person of color, what to do." They didn't do what
you told them to do.
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So I got to do
something to them. And he's in Florida which is
a stand-your-ground state.
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And he knows all I have to say
is that I feared for my life. - [Ciolino] If you're using
stand-your-ground,
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that weapon's gotta be
readily available. You've used it immediately, in defense of your life,
et cetera.
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And there could be
an argument made against Dunn that that was not the case, because this gun was stored
in his glove compartment
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in a holster,
with a round not chambered. This is three separate actions
that you have to take.
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Presumably, it gives you
some time to think about
what you're gonna do. - [Ron] You could have
10 seconds of premeditation.
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That's the law. That is premeditation. (suspenseful music) - They're telling him, hey,
these are not thugs, okay?
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These are not criminals that
you just shot up, alright, bro? These are all good kids.
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- It's like Dorothy
clicking her heels three times and she'll be back home
in Kansas.
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If Dunn says three times, "I was in fear of my life," it's all good, I'm gonna go home
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to my nice middle-class
White life without a problem. That's not the way it works.
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- [Ciolino] Witnesses,
none of them see a weapon, none of them hear these threats.
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They're not seeing anything
that rises the occasion that will allow him
to pull out a weapon
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and start shooting at people. - Effectively,
they're not believing the account he's given.
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That's when he begins to sort of take on a different persona, and we start to
see sort of anger
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and this agitation coming
into his facial expressions. - [Maleary] And when
he was told that
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they didn't have a gun there, he would be
absolutely devastated. His whole world
is starting to implode.
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- I think he's obviously
stereotyped the victim as someone that's obviously
a drug dealer or a criminal,
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which he clearly wasn't. And he's invented this firearm to justify him basically
shooting at the vehicle.
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- The officer cleverly says the law doesn't allow you
to shoot someone for thinking that
they had a weapon.
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That single line by the officer
wipes out the opportunity to use the stand-your-ground
legislation in the Florida Law.
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- He wasn't shocked
when the police said, "Well, we didn't
find any weapons."
He knew there was no weapons.
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He's hoping somebody had
an illegal gun on him, but the fact is the only
weapon displayed was Dunn's.
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- [Maleary] The assumption that
they would have a gun would tend to suggest that
he's nothing more than a racist.
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- [Ron] Michael Dunn
is a product of his environment, and what I mean by that is that
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he lived in
an all-White neighborhood. He had no contact
with Black people. And his neighbors,
more than one had told us
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that he said the N word
so much in their community that some of them said, "We don't even want you
over our house anymore."
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- [Vivica] Detectives have systematically undermined
the credibility of Dunn's claim
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that he saw
17-year-old Jordan Davis brandishing a weapon. They have all but destroyed
Dunn's defense
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under the stand-your-ground law. Coming up,
Dunn changes his story. - Dunn pretty much figures,
well, there's no gun.
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So he's gotta come up with
another threat. - [Vivica] And a surprise
interview with Dunn's fiancée
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sees the case take a turn. - 45 Year old
Michael Dunn's claim that he shot and killed
teenager Jordan Davis
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because he saw him
brandishing a shotgun, has been destroyed
by detectives. He's claiming immunity
for the crime
00:22:00
under the stand-your-ground law. - [Maleary] The detectives
make it very obvious
00:22:19
that this was not
a self-defense shooting. - [Ciolino] Dunn pretty much
figures, well, there's no gun.
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So he's gotta come up
with another threat that makes him
in fear of his life. - With this hope shattered
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that the teenagers would've had a weapon in the vehicle, Dunn decides to
change his story.
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- And the threat is the guy's climbing out
of the car to come get him. - [Darren] That's when
we started to see
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sort of
anger micro-expressions. He was being taken back there
in his mind. And as far as his
unconscious was concerned,
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he was reliving that moment. So that told me that underneath, this is quite an angry man.
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- [Maleary] The account
given by Dunn was that Jordan Davis was
getting out of his vehicle.
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It was at this point that Dunn started to
discharge his weapon. - [Vivica] However, this
new element to Dunn's story,
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that Jordan began to get out of
the car and advance towards him is immediately picked apart
by the detectives.
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- But the fact is that the child
was found slumped in the chair. The door was not open.
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He sees that
he would have more credibility whilst trying to use the
stand-your-ground legislation
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if it could be shown that
Davis was out of the vehicle and was trying to attack him.
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- The forensics would've shown
if that door was being opened... ...by the angle the bullets
hit it, et cetera, right?
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Everyone knows, in that room, that nobody opened the door
to get out of the car.
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- They said, actually, your cars were so close
in the parking lot, he couldn't
even get out the car
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without scratching your car. Your car has no dents on
the side of your car whatsoever.
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So he couldn't have
gotten out of the car. - [Maleary] They could prove
beyond reasonable doubt
00:25:02
that Jordan Davis
had no intention of getting out of the vehicle. The door was not opened.
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And he'd shot this boy
through a closed door. - And it was these powerful
additions into the interview
00:25:16
that I think actually
flummoxed Dunn. You saw him
literally inside his own brain,
00:25:22
trying to find an answer, but I think his back was pretty
much up against the wall.
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- [Ciolino] At any time, you
could stop the interrogation
by saying, "I don't wanna answer any more
questions. I want a lawyer."
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- [ Robyn] The detective did not
want there to be a motion later, during the trial,
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when Michael Dunn said
that he asked for a lawyer. So he was just making sure that
Michael Dunn was clear
00:26:02
that he was not
asking for a lawyer. - Under expert interrogation, what first appeared to be
a credible case of self defense,
00:26:19
now seems like
a well-rehearsed story. Dunn's last hope is that his fiancée will corroborate
his version of events.
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- [Maleary] One of the witnesses
in this case is the girlfriend, Rhonda Rouer. - [Ciolino] Fiancés do not
get a spousal privilege.
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Spousal privilege is simply we can't compel your
wife or husband to testify against you.
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Being shacked up for a number
of years, or engaged, okay, does not give you
spousal privilege.
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- [Maleary] There are
a number of differences between dealing with a suspect
and dealing with a witness.
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A witness is brought in
to give a version of events. -[Ciolino] Witnesses,
you're seeking information.
00:27:10
You want them
to cooperate with you. So this requires you to be nice. - Dunn's girlfriend will say
or do just about anything
00:27:46
to not get jammed up in this. - Now, she's a little bit
smarter than him, 'cause she realizes
somebody should have stopped
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and made a phone call
to the police. She understands that
this was all bad and she does wanna
please the police.
00:28:38
- It quickly becomes clear
that Dunn's fiancée knows that their bizarre actions
after the shooting
00:28:44
do not place them
in a good light. - [Maleary] The officers make
the most of the fact
00:29:03
that Rhonda Rouer
is concerned that she has left
the scene of a crime. It could be the case that
she's assisted an offender.
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Then she could be charged
with a particular offense. - [Ciolino]
Self-preservation jumped in,
00:29:24
and she was trying to please
the police and make them happy. She did not wanna get locked up.
00:29:29
- [Ron] She was distraught,
she was shaken, felt like fainting. She was throwing up.
00:29:33
and she said that Michael Dunn just stayed up, the whole evening, seems like. Michael Dunn saw the report
on the television,
00:29:43
like, early in the morning that Jordan was dead. And he said,
"We gotta get outta here."
00:29:49
And then they started driving. - [Maleary] There are two
key areas in the evidence
00:30:05
that have been provided
by Rhonda Rouer that undermine his assertions. - The first one,
he is heard to say,
00:30:29
"I hate that thug music." - Rap music is very often
associated with gun crime.
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And I think he assumed that
his life was under threat just because there were
four Black males
00:30:45
in a vehicle playing rap music. And makes the assumption that
young, Black men are dangerous.
00:30:51
- If this was four White
kids in a car playing rap, would he have thrown
9 or 10 shots at them?
00:30:58
- He thought that
they were rappers 'cause he heard the rap music, and every rapper
he's ever seen on television
00:31:03
had guns or knives. And so that's what he thought
about these kids. His racism was told
00:31:12
before he ever met Jordan. He had said,
on more than one occasion, "I wish one of those..." N-word
00:31:19
"...would come up to me
sometime. "I got this thing and I'll
take care of them with my gun."
00:31:25
- [Ciolino] Immediately,
the Black community is up in arms over this thing. They want action,
00:31:29
and they want somebody arrested
for this thing, because these kids aren't armed.
00:31:33
They didn't hurt anybody,
they didn't do anything illegal. - [Maleary] The other
devastating factor...
00:31:39
...Dunn mentioned to Rouer that he'd seen a weapon
in the vehicle of the victims.
00:32:01
- [Kul] He said that he'd seen
a weapon, to police officers, but he hadn't mentioned this
to Rhonda.
00:32:05
Now surely, he would've said "I've just fired shots
at these guys. "The reason why I did that
was because they had a gun."
00:32:11
The fact that he doesn't then talk about that
to his girlfriend, or mention that
to his girlfriend,
00:32:16
I find to be
an incredible omission. - She just buries him. She buries Dunn
with that statement.
00:32:33
- [Robyn] She had
given the detectives pivotal information
against Michael Dunn,
00:32:38
and they did not want her
to retract that information when it was time for courts.
00:32:44
- [Maleary] The evidence that
was gleaned from her
as an individual was so good that
00:32:48
they used this in the case
for the prosecution. - With Rhonda Rouer's statement
locked in,
00:32:59
Dunn's fiancée is now a key
witness for the prosecution. - [Darren] And you'd think,
really, that
00:33:06
someone that you engaged to would support the person
they're gonna marry, but no, she remains true
and open to the officers.
00:33:13
- [Ron] She didn't
sit in the car while he did it. She didn't point a gun,
and she didn't lie for him.
00:33:18
And as long as
she didn't do those things, then I'm not gonna
have her locked up
00:33:22
just because
she was stupid enough to almost marry a monster. - [Vivica] Crucially,
Rhonda Rouer's interview
00:33:30
had contradicted her fiancé
Michael Dunn's statement. So why did the 46-year-old
computer programmer
00:33:36
get out of his vehicle and fire 10 bullets into
a car full of teenagers, some while it was reversing away
from the scene?
00:33:45
Rather than Dunn's claim that
he was scared for his life, was there
a more calculated reason?
00:33:51
This was looking like
a hate crime based on prejudice and fear. (suspenseful music)
00:33:59
Coming up... - [Vivica] A shocking charge that Michael Dunn
never saw coming. - [Ciolino]
Well, he can't believe,
00:34:10
"I'm sitting in here
getting charged with murder "because
I'm a knucklehead idiot."
00:34:14
- "They'll never convict me of
this." that's what he thought. - [Vivica] Michael Dunn's claim
00:34:25
that he shot and killed
Jordan Davis because he was in fear
for his life has been called into question
00:34:31
by detectives
in Jacksonville, Florida. Statements made by his fiancée depict a very different version
of events,
00:34:40
but Michael seems convinced
that he's done nothing wrong, that his actions were justified,
00:34:45
in accordance with the Florida
stand-your-ground law. What happens next
in the interview
00:34:50
comes as something of a shock. - Dunn appears to be in shock
when he hears the charges.
00:35:16
- This is maybe where the
white-privilege thing kicks in. "I'm a White guy, I have a job,
I have a house.
00:35:21
"I did a public service
shooting here. "These guys deserved
to be shot at." - [Darren] There were
a lot of assumptions
00:35:26
that because he
was middle-class, White and a professional, that his word would probably
be more believable
00:35:33
over three or four
young Black boys. - [Ron] The Michael Dunns
of the world, they see other times where
people that look like them,
00:35:42
shoot Black kids
that look like Jordan and they get away with it. That same year,
in Sanford, Florida,
00:35:49
which is not far from his home, Trayvon Martin
was shot and killed by a guy that thinks that
00:35:56
the kid is doing
something nefarious, because he has a hoodie on. So he ends up shooting
this kid, killing this kid,
00:36:02
and getting away with it. So his frame of mind is that
"I didn't do anything wrong
00:36:08
"because THEY are not
valuable in society, "and they'll never
convict me of this."
00:36:15
That's what he thought.
But he was wrong. - [Darren] When people realize
that the game's up,
00:36:24
the gesture that he makes,
put his head in his hands, it's almost like a brace
position you go into on a plane.
00:36:29
It's almost like
a fetal position. He's trying to make himself
as small as possible.
00:36:33
It's a self reassurance gesture that he suddenly realizes that
"No one's buying my story.
00:36:40
"I'm going to jail
for the rest of my life." - [Vivica] With Dunn
now finally realizing
00:36:47
the likely consequences
of his actions, it's also dawning on him that
he has compounded his mistakes
00:36:54
by his bizarre actions
after the shooting. - Michael Dunn for the most
part, convicted himself.
00:37:05
If he had sat in the car, put his gun on his lap,
called 911, asked for a lawyer
and kept his mouth shut,
00:37:12
he'd be a free man today. If a White person
shoots a Black person and claims stand-your-ground,
00:37:20
that he was afraid
of the Black person, for the most part,
people are gonna take that
00:37:23
and say maybe they were. - [Ciolino] Most people
who look at this case, most professionals
who look at it,
00:37:28
certainly most African Americans
who look at it are gonna go,
here's the typical White guy,
00:37:33
who couldn't wait to get himself
a legal handgun to carry around, loaded, ready to go.
00:37:39
- [Maleary] This arrogant,
narcissistic individual, what he's actually carried out
00:37:44
is a murder in cold blood. - Big mistake. Mr. Dunn's life is destroyed. - [Vivica] Dunn's
self-defense argument
00:37:57
has been
systematically destroyed by expert interrogation. (inaudible) With the case now headed
to a murder trial,
00:38:07
Dunn's seeming lack of remorse could play a decisive factor
in the outcome. - At no point has Dunn
displayed any contrition.
00:38:22
He's not sorry
for what he's done. He's got total contempt
for the victims. - This should have tore him up.
00:38:28
And he showed
absolutely no sympathy for the victim in this case,
none. This is the saddest thing
going in this case,
00:38:36
is that Dunn shows little
remorse for taking a human life. - [Ron] I have to tell you
what's in my heart,
00:38:45
I have to tell you
what's in my soul. I do not forgive Michael Dunn, because he's shown no remorse.
00:38:50
He's shown me that if he had it
10 times to do all over again, he would shoot and kill Jordan
10 times over again.
00:38:57
How can I forgive somebody? - [Vivica] In February, 2014, Michael Dunn was convicted
00:39:04
on three counts of attempted
second-degree murder for firing into
an occupied vehicle.
00:39:09
However, the jury
cannot reach a verdict about whether to convict Dunn
for the murder of Jordan Davis
00:39:15
at a first trial. So the case returned to court
for a second time. - [Ron] We were so sure
00:39:25
that he was gonna be convicted
of first-degree murder for the killing of our child.
00:39:28
When it wasn't a conviction, when they couldn't decide, nine out of 12 jurors
were voting to convict,
00:39:36
and there were three
that wasn't sure. We're not happy with that. We want the state of Florida
00:39:44
to say that he was not justified to shoot and kill
my 17-year-old son. That's what we want.
00:39:53
So they retried the case. - On October 1st, 2014,
in the second trial, Dunn was found guilty
00:40:00
of first-degree murder
of Jordan Davis and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility
of parole,
00:40:07
plus three consecutive
30-year sentences for attempted murder, with an extra 15 years
00:40:14
for shooting into
a moving vehicle. Michael Dunn will spend the rest
of his life behind bars.
00:40:23
- From then on, my whole being has been lighter. - [Darren] What we've actually
got coming from all of this
00:40:34
is that a 17-year-old,
Black, young man, with all of his life
in front of him,
00:40:39
has been shot dead
for listening to music loudly. - [Robyn]
There were other options
00:40:44
that he had at his disposal. He could have retreated,
he could have ignored, but he chose
to respond with violence.
00:40:56
- When you see documentaries
or a film about Jordan, for the most part, it's because
of the last time of his life,
00:41:03
which is his death. When I see my son, I see him being born. And I got to be the first one
when he opened his eyes.
00:41:19
I miss Jordan, I miss my son
every single night. I talk to him every day, but instead of being bitter
about the death of my son,
00:41:27
I say to God
every single night... ...I say, thank God for 17 years... ...with Jordan.
00:41:58
(dramatic music)