Why We Kneel & Sit: Stripping Away The Life Of Anthony Ray Hinton — Transcript

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1. 0:05[Music]
2. 0:10when from the tree to the electric chair
3. 0:14on the electric chair to the girl
4. 0:28I was cutting grass I just happened to
5. 0:37look up and there's two white gentlemen
6. 0:39standing there now I said can I help you
7. 0:41and they say yes we're looking for
8. 0:43anthing they're a handful in the
9. 0:45identify himself is detective and they
10. 0:48said we have a warrant for your arrest
11. 0:49and I said for what he said we charging
12. 0:52you with first-degree attempted murder
13. 0:54first we robbed the first we kidnapped
14. 0:57I said well you got the wrong person
15. 1:01ain't done none of that and he continued
16. 1:04to look at me and he said you know I
17. 1:06don't care whether you did it I didn't
18. 1:08do it but I'm gonna make sure you'd be
19. 1:11found guilty and there's five thing
20. 1:14they're going to convict you
21. 1:16you should number one your black number
22. 1:19two a white man he's gonna say you shot
23. 1:21him
24. 1:22whether you shot him and I I don't care
25. 1:24he said number three you're gonna have a
26. 1:27white prosecutor number four you're
27. 1:30gonna have a white church and then a
28. 1:35fire more than acting he's gonna have an
29. 1:38all-white sure any continue look at me
30. 1:42and he said you know what that's despair
31. 1:46conviction conviction conviction come
32. 1:49[ __ ] come [ __ ]
33. 1:52ensure enough they found me get and so I
34. 1:57went to different for 30 years
35. 2:00and never did pray God please free me I
36. 2:04thought that was selfish but I didn't
37. 2:07want the world to believe that my mother
38. 2:10had raised the song that was capable of
39. 2:14taking another human being life and so I
40. 2:18asked God to let the truth come out
41. 2:21I knew if the truth would come out then
42. 2:26I would come out that's what happened
43. 2:30so when mr. Steven came aboard I said I
44. 2:35need you to hide ballistic expert
45. 2:37because they convicted me off ballistas
46. 2:40saying that the bullets that they
47. 2:41retrieved from the victim body match the
48. 2:45gun that they got from my mother house
49. 2:47and all three of them came to the same
50. 2:49conclusion that the bullets didn't match
51. 2:55and so with this we go before the
52. 3:00Attorney General and we asked him to
53. 3:03reexamine the bullets he refused to just
54. 3:06take one hour and reexamine the bullets
55. 3:10I said on there for extra 16 years all
56. 3:16because my life was not worth rien
57. 3:21selling the bullets for one out
58. 3:26years later the United States Supreme
59. 3:29Court he is something that they never
60. 3:30done in the history of the course they
61. 3:32ruled in my favor
62. 3:33all nine justice and I've been out a
63. 3:38year and a half in no one have had the
64. 3:47decency to say I'm sorry but just like
65. 3:55they would back in the election days
66. 3:57two white men came and got me
67. 4:01folks accused me it was a white mob that
68. 4:08prosecuted me the white judge that
69. 4:11seamless me a white juror that convicted
70. 4:15me and so what changed they brought it
71. 4:21inside and created another way of
72. 4:24execution when from the tree to the
73. 4:27electric chair from the electric chair
74. 4:29to the gurney
75. 4:30when they come get you they at least try
76. 4:33to cater jail and then in some cases
77. 4:35they kill you right there on the spot
78. 4:37say you haven't gone so you went
79. 4:39reaching for long they took off the
80. 4:42white room they put on the black room at
81. 4:47the end of the journey they still
82. 4:49putting to death I lost
83. 4:55not just 30 years I lost the years with
84. 4:58my mom who passed September 22nd 2002
85. 5:06when I came home this house here was
86. 5:10festive with moe some people thought
87. 5:14they should just bulldoze it but this is
88. 5:19where I was when I was arrested it's
89. 5:22just the home that my mom loved it so
90. 5:25much and out of respect for my mom and
91. 5:29our love for my mom I said it could be
92. 5:32fixed and I'm proud when I old met
93. 5:36though from the college so who was on
94. 5:38our side then I can say welcome to my
95. 5:41home it's not much but it's mine you're
96. 5:47welcome here
97. 5:52you
98. 5:59you