Police Killed His Son. Prosecutors Charged The Teen’s Friends with His Murder.
This story is published in collaboration with the Phoenix New Times.
本文是与凤凰新时报合作发表的。
Content warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of police violence and footage of police officers killing a 19-year-old.
内容警告:本文包含对警察暴力的生动描述以及警察杀害一名 19 岁青少年的镜头。
Roland Harris has watched his son die a hundred times.
罗兰·哈里斯亲眼目睹儿子死去一百次。
The final moments of his life, documented in thermal video captured by a police aircraft, are burned into Harris’s mind: His teenage son, Jacob, steps out of a car.
警用飞机拍摄的热视频记录了他生命的最后时刻,这些都深深地印在了哈里斯的脑海中:他十几岁的儿子雅各布从车里走出来。
He runs from the police.
他逃离警察。
Two seconds later, officers open fire.
两秒钟后,警察开枪。
Bullets pierce his heart, lungs, and intestines.
子弹刺穿了他的心脏、肺和肠子。
He falls to the ground, bleeding.
他倒在地上,流着血。
Police pepper him with rubber bullets, hitting him in the face and backside.
警察向他发射橡皮子弹,击中他的脸部和背部。
He is dying in the dirt.
他快要死在泥土里了。
Then officers sic a dog on him.
然后警察放了一只狗来咬他。
It has been more than four years since a Phoenix police officer killed Jacob Harris, on January 11, 2019.
距离 2019 年 1 月 11 日凤凰城警察杀害雅各布·哈里斯 (Jacob Harris) 已有四年多了。
The police department has since drawn a federal investigation into its use of deadly force.
此后,警察局对其使用致命武力的行为展开了联邦调查。
But Roland Harris’s fight for accountability has only left him with more questions: Why did police delete text messages from the night of his son’s shooting?
但罗兰·哈里斯追究责任的斗争只给他留下了更多问题:为什么警方删除了他儿子被枪击当晚的短信?
Why are Jacob’s friends the only ones who have been held responsible for his death?
为什么雅各的朋友是唯一对他的死负责的人?
How could anyone say his son’s killing was justified?
谁能说他的儿子被杀是正当的?
Harris’s search for answers has come at a significant cost: The cop who killed his son has demanded he pay the officer’s $40,000 attorney fees after a federal court dismissed Harris’s wrongful death suit.
哈里斯寻找答案的过程付出了巨大的代价:在联邦法院驳回哈里斯的非正常死亡诉讼后,杀害他儿子的警察要求他支付该警官 4 万美元的律师费。
Harris and his wife split, in part, he says, because he became so deeply consumed by getting justice for his son.
哈里斯说,他和妻子分手的部分原因是他一心想为儿子伸张正义。
“I have a void in my life that is never going to be filled,” Harris said.
“我的生活中有一个永远无法填补的空白,”哈里斯说。
“Even when justice is served.
“即使正义得到伸张。
It’s going to hit even harder.
打击将会更加严重。
Because then I’ll have to focus on him not being here.”
因为那样我就得把注意力集中在他不在这里的事情上。”
Police have fought Harris every step of the way, refusing to disclose even basic information about his son’s death.
警方全程与哈里斯作斗争,甚至拒绝透露有关他儿子死亡的基本信息。
It took six months for the department to release its report on the shooting, and even then, it only did so after he threatened to sue, Harris said.
哈里斯说,该部门花了六个月的时间才发布有关枪击事件的报告,即便如此,也是在他威胁要起诉后才发布的。
Police still have not returned his son’s belongings.
警方仍未归还他儿子的财物。
But Roland Harris’s memories of Jacob remain fresh.
但罗兰·哈里斯对雅各布的记忆依然清晰。
“He was all about family,” Harris said.
“他只关心家庭,”哈里斯说。
“He helped me watch over his little sister, Leilani.
“他帮助我照顾他的妹妹莱拉尼。
He helped me coach little league basketball.”
他帮助我执教少年棒球联盟。”
Jacob had wavy black hair and a big, bright smile, accentuated by the peach fuzz that had grown in above his lip and on his chin.
雅各布有一头卷曲的黑发,笑容灿烂,嘴唇上方和下巴上长出的桃色绒毛更加突出了他的笑容。
He was on the shorter side—5 feet 4—and he had his dad’s broad shoulders and stocky build.
他个子比较矮——5英尺4英寸——而且他继承了他父亲宽阔的肩膀和粗壮的体格。
He also had Roland Harris’s brown, almond-shaped eyes.
他还有罗兰·哈里斯那样的棕色杏仁状眼睛。
Harris said that when Jacob found out he was going to be a father at 16 years old, he got a full-time job, finished school, and helped to support his girlfriend and child.
哈里斯说,当雅各布在 16 岁时发现自己要当父亲时,他找到了一份全职工作,完成了学业,并帮助抚养他的女朋友和孩子。
Before long, Jacob and his girlfriend had another child.
不久之后,雅各布和他的女朋友又生了一个孩子。
“Now his daughter will never know him,” Harris said.
“现在他的女儿永远不会认识他了,”哈里斯说。
“His son will never know him.
“他的儿子永远不会认识他。
They will grow older.
他们会变老。
Those memories will fade.
那些记忆将会消失。
And they’re gonna forget him.
他们会忘记他的。
All because of a trigger happy cop.
这一切都是因为一个快乐的警察。
His kids are never gonna get any father-daughter dances.
他的孩子们永远不会参加任何父女舞会。
He’s never gonna get a chance to walk his daughter down the aisle.”
他永远不会有机会陪他的女儿走上红毯。”
Over the last few years, Harris has slowly uncovered more information about his son’s killing and the events that preceded it.
在过去的几年里,哈里斯慢慢地发现了更多关于他儿子被杀以及之前发生的事件的信息。
But every answer brings new questions.
但每一个答案都会带来新的问题。
In an effort to piece together what happened on the night of Jacob Harris’s death, The Appeal reviewed more than 6,000 pages of records from official investigations into the shooting, the county attorney’s prosecution of Harris’s friends, and the civil suit Roland Harris filed against the city of Phoenix.
为了拼凑出雅各布·哈里斯去世当晚发生的事情,上诉机构查阅了 6,000 多页记录,包括对枪击事件的官方调查、县检察官对哈里斯朋友的起诉,以及罗兰·哈里斯对菲尼克斯市提起的民事诉讼。
The Appeal interviewed nine people involved with the case and also obtained police personnel records, transcripts of police radio traffic, and aerial surveillance footage of the shooting.
上诉委员会采访了涉案的九名人员,并获得了警察人员记录、警方无线电通讯记录以及枪击事件的空中监控录像。
Prior to publication, The Appeal sent the Phoenix Police Department a detailed list of statements that would appear in this story.
在发表之前,《上诉》向凤凰城警察局发送了本报道中将出现的声明的详细清单。
A spokesperson for the department did not answer any questions and offered only a brief response stating that the court had dismissed Harris’s suit.
该部门的发言人没有回答任何问题,仅作出简短回应,表示法院驳回了哈里斯的诉讼。
“The case is now on appeal to the 9th Circuit court where you can find the court file,” the spokesperson wrote.
该发言人写道:“此案现已向第九巡回法院上诉,您可以在那里找到法庭文件。”
Law enforcement officials in Phoenix—including Kristopher Bertz, the officer who killed Jacob Harris—have justified the shooting by saying they feared Harris intended to shoot them.
菲尼克斯的执法官员——包括杀害雅各布·哈里斯的警官克里斯托弗·贝尔茨——为枪击事件辩解,称他们担心哈里斯有意开枪射杀他们。
But records obtained by The Appeal show that multiple officials have made inconsistent or false statements about the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
但《上诉报》获得的记录显示,多名官员对枪击事件的情况做出了不一致或虚假的陈述。
Even Bertz’s own accounts of that night have differed slightly.
就连伯茨自己对那晚的描述也略有不同。
Aerial surveillance footage of the incident shows Harris running away.
事件的空中监控录像显示哈里斯逃跑了。
And a judge in the criminal case against Harris’s friends has stated unequivocally that Harris did not turn toward Bertz.
审理哈里斯朋友刑事案件的法官明确表示,哈里斯并没有转向伯茨。
Police records also raise serious questions about the department’s conduct prior to the shooting.
警方记录还对枪击事件前该部门的行为提出了严重质疑。
Officers had been surveilling Harris and his friends for over 12 hours at the time, believing them to be connected to a string of store robberies.
当时,警方对哈里斯和他的朋友进行了超过 12 个小时的监视,相信他们与一系列商店抢劫案有关。
Though police had many opportunities to stop the group throughout the day, they ultimately chose to sit by and watch a robbery occur.
尽管警方全天有很多机会阻止这群人,但他们最终选择袖手旁观,眼睁睁地看着抢劫发生。
Police didn’t seek to apprehend Harris and his friends until after they drove away.
直到哈里斯和他的朋友开车离开后,警方才试图逮捕他们。
But police never alerted the group to their presence or gave them a chance to pull over.
但警方从未提醒这群人他们的存在,也没有给他们停车的机会。
Instead, officers escalated directly to a high-risk maneuver that forced the car to a stop.
相反,警察直接升级为高风险动作,迫使汽车停下来。
That’s when Harris ran out and was shot.
就在那时,哈里斯跑了出去并被枪杀。
Despite these issues, the Phoenix Police Department investigated Bertz and determined that he acted in accordance with department policy in killing Harris.
尽管存在这些问题,菲尼克斯警察局还是对伯茨进行了调查,并确定他杀害哈里斯的行为符合警察局政策。
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute, stating that Bertz did not “commit any act that warrants criminal prosecution.”
马里科帕县检察官办公室拒绝起诉,称伯茨没有“实施任何值得刑事起诉的行为”。
Instead, prosecutors decided to hold Harris’s three friends responsible for his death.
相反,检察官决定让哈里斯的三个朋友对他的死亡负责。
Arizona’s “felony murder” law allows people to be charged with murder if someone dies during the commission of a felony, even if they did not cause the death.
亚利桑那州的“重罪谋杀”法允许如果有人在实施重罪期间死亡,即使死亡不是由他们造成的,也可以被指控谋杀。
Jeremiah Triplett, Sariah Busani, and Johnny Reed—ages 20, 19, and 14 at the time—were in the car with Harris on the night of his death.
哈里斯去世当晚,杰里米亚·特里普利特 (Jeremiah Triplett)、萨莉亚·布萨尼 (Sariah Busani) 和约翰尼·里德 (Johnny Reed)(当时分别为 20 岁、19 岁和 14 岁)与他一起在车里。
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office charged them with first-degree murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, and burglary.
马里科帕县检察官办公室指控他们犯有一级谋杀、武装抢劫、绑架和入室盗窃罪。
Busani and Triplett were held in jail on a $1 million bond for three years before finally being sentenced in the first few months of 2022.
Busani 和 Triplett 因缴纳 100 万美元保释金而被关押三年,最终于 2022 年前几个月被判刑。
Busani was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
布萨尼被判处10年监禁。
Triplett was sentenced to 30 years.
特里普利特被判处 30 年徒刑。
Reed was held on a $500,000 bond and was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in prison—more years than he had even been alive at the time of his arrest.
里德交纳了 50 万美元的保释金,最终被判处 15 年监禁,比他被捕时的寿命还要长。
“You guys are taking my 14-year-old baby and signing his whole life off,” Reed’s aunt, Shawanna Chambers, said in an interview with The Appeal.
“你们正在带走我 14 岁的孩子,并结束他的一生,”里德的姨妈莎安娜·钱伯斯 (Shawanna Chambers) 在接受《上诉报》采访时说道。
Chambers raised Reed and his younger brother since they were babies.
钱伯斯从小就抚养里德和他的弟弟。
“He’s a young Black boy.
“他是一个年轻的黑人男孩。
And we’re in poverty,” Chambers said.
我们正处于贫困之中,”钱伯斯说。
“They were never going to hold the police accountable for Jacob’s murder.
“他们永远不会让警察对雅各布的谋杀负责。
It was going to be us.”
这将是我们。”
Reed, who was in his first year of high school at the time of his arrest, has been incarcerated with adults for the last four years because of the seriousness of the charges against him, Chambers said.
钱伯斯说,里德被捕时正在上高中一年级,由于对他的指控很严重,过去四年他一直与成年人一起监禁。
According to his aunt, he has spent some of that time in solitary confinement in an attempt to separate him from the rest of the prison population because of his age.
据他的姨妈说,他有一段时间被单独监禁,试图因为他的年龄而将他与其他监狱人员分开。
For the last year, Reed’s family has been unable to talk to him except through email.
去年,里德的家人只能通过电子邮件与他交谈。
Chambers said she applied to visit in person, but the department of corrections told her they never received her application.
钱伯斯说,她申请亲自探视,但惩教部门告诉她,他们从未收到她的申请。
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry did not respond when contacted for this story.
当就此事联系亚利桑那州惩教、康复和重返社会部门时,该部门没有做出回应。
“I honestly want people to know we made a mistake, but that should never define who our characters are,” said Reed in an email.
“老实说,我希望人们知道我们犯了一个错误,但这永远不应该定义我们的角色是谁,”里德在一封电子邮件中说。
“We ain’t kill Jacob, we watched Jacob die before our eyes, that was our friend.”
“我们不会杀雅各布,我们亲眼看着雅各布死在我们眼前,那是我们的朋友。”
Prison has been a painful adjustment, Reed said.
里德说,监狱是一次痛苦的调整。
“I’ve had to overcome depression and all kinds of things.
“我必须克服抑郁症和各种各样的事情。
I’ve been locked up in Solitary Confinement a few times, and that takes a whole different toll on your conscience,” he said.
我已经被单独监禁了几次,这对你的良心造成了完全不同的伤害,”他说。
“I really miss my family.”
“我真的很想念我的家人。”
Johnny Reed didn’t know police were watching him on the afternoon of January 10 as he stood outside his grandmother’s house with a group of friends.
1 月 10 日下午,约翰尼·里德和一群朋友站在祖母家门外,他并不知道警察正在监视他。
It was a warm, dry day in Glendale, a Phoenix suburb where the temperature rarely dips below 40 degrees.
凤凰城郊区格伦代尔的天气温暖干燥,气温很少低于 40 度。
Reed was wearing navy jeans and a blue polo shirt buttoned all the way to the top.
里德穿着海军蓝牛仔裤和蓝色 Polo 衫,扣子一直扣到上衣。
He had just finished the eighth grade the year before, but he’d grown lanky—already 5 feet 7 inches and very slight, just over 100 pounds.
前一年他刚刚读完八年级,但他已经变得瘦长——已经有 5 英尺 7 英寸高,而且非常瘦弱,刚刚超过 100 磅。
Police officers in unmarked vehicles snapped photos of Reed and his friends in front of the graying stucco walls of the Crystal Springs apartment complex.
开着无标志车辆的警察在水晶泉公寓大楼灰色的灰泥墙前给里德和他的朋友们拍了照片。
Ten thousand feet above him, a Phoenix police officer in a small airplane watched as the 14-year-old posed with an airsoft gun.
在他上方一万英尺的地方,凤凰城的一名警察乘坐一架小型飞机,看着这名 14 岁的男孩拿着气枪摆姿势。
Reed had been spending a lot of time at his grandmother’s house after she was diagnosed with kidney failure.
在祖母被诊断出患有肾衰竭后,里德在祖母家度过了很长时间。
Reed was her first grandchild, and when she got sick, Reed would “never let her lift a finger,” said Chambers.
钱伯斯说,里德是她的第一个孙子,当她生病时,里德“永远不会让她动一根手指头”。
His sweet and charming tendencies earned him the nickname “Butter” from his grandmother.
他甜美迷人的气质为他赢得了祖母的绰号“黄油”。
It was a fitting term of endearment for a teenage boy who loved to bake.
对于一个喜欢烘焙的十几岁男孩来说,这是一个恰当的爱称。
Chambers laughed over the phone as she recalled the many nights Reed and his brother spent in the kitchen, baking cookies and cakes.
钱伯斯在电话里笑了起来,她回忆起里德和他哥哥在厨房里烤饼干和蛋糕的许多个夜晚。
“I’d go to Goodwill and buy all this stuff that you could bake with,” Chambers said.
“我会去 Goodwill 购买所有可以用来烘焙的东西,”钱伯斯说。
“He couldn’t wait to get home and use them.”
“他迫不及待地想回家使用它们。”
To Chambers, Reed was a smart, easygoing kid who loved going to school and playing sports and had a positive influence on the people around him.
对钱伯斯来说,里德是一个聪明、随和的孩子,喜欢上学和运动,并对周围的人产生积极的影响。
“I want him home,” Chambers said over the phone, her voice breaking as she discussed what it had been like to see the child she had raised imprisoned for the last four years—with at least eight more to go.
“我想让他回家,”钱伯斯在电话里说道,当她谈到看到她养大的孩子在过去四年被监禁——至少还有八年——的感受时,她的声音都沙哑了。
“We need him.
“我们需要他。
They threw him away, he doesn’t mean anything to them.
他们抛弃了他,他对他们来说毫无意义。
He means so much to us,” she said through tears.
他对我们来说意义重大。”她泪流满面地说。
Police were watching Reed and his friends because they believed that at least one of them—Jeremiah Triplett—was involved in a string of armed robberies that had taken place at fast food restaurants and convenience stores across the county over the previous two months.
警方正在监视里德和他的朋友,因为他们相信,至少其中一个人——杰里米·特里普利特——参与了过去两个月在全县快餐店和便利店发生的一系列武装抢劫案。
As is standard procedure in robbery investigations, Detective Jacob Rasmussen reviewed armed robbery reports, looking for patterns.
按照抢劫调查的标准程序,雅各布·拉斯穆森侦探审查了武装抢劫报告,寻找模式。
Eventually he strung together several reports involving young Black males of similar builds, with hoodies cinched up around their faces.
最终,他整理了几份报告,涉及体形相似的年轻黑人男性,他们的脸都系着连帽衫。
According to Rasmussen, these robberies often occurred at places like Whataburger fast food restaurants and Circle K convenience stores, and they often involved suspects who brandished a gun and took money from the cash register.
据拉斯穆森介绍,这些抢劫案多发生在Whataburger快餐店、Circle K便利店等场所,犯罪嫌疑人经常挥舞着枪,从收银台拿走钱。
Sometimes they took cigarettes.
有时他们会抽烟。
Some reports mentioned a red or maroon vehicle.
一些报道提到了一辆红色或栗色的车辆。
But police didn’t have names or license plates.
但警方没有姓名或车牌。
Rasmussen asked other police departments in Maricopa County to look for similar robbery cases.
拉斯穆森要求马里科帕县的其他警察部门寻找类似的抢劫案件。
On January 9, 2019, the Glendale Police Department passed one along.
2019 年 1 月 9 日,格伦代尔警察局通过了一份通知。
Four months earlier, Triplett had been arrested in connection with two robberies at Circle Ks.
四个月前,Triplet 因涉嫌在 Circle Ks 发生两起抢劫案而被捕。
A Glendale patrol officer spotted Triplett in the parking lot of another Circle K on September 8, 2018, and recognized him from surveillance footage of the robberies that had occurred two days prior.
2018 年 9 月 8 日,格伦代尔的一名巡逻人员在另一家 Circle K 的停车场发现了 Triplett,并通过两天前发生的抢劫案的监控录像认出了他。
Triplett left the parking lot driving a car with expired plates.
特里普利特开着一辆车牌过期的汽车离开停车场。
Police pulled Triplett over and found Newport cigarettes and a bottle of Hennessy liquor in the car, the same items taken in the recent robbery.
警方将特里普利特拦下,并在车内发现了纽波特香烟和一瓶轩尼诗酒,与最近的抢劫案中拿走的物品相同。
Triplett was arrested and pleaded guilty to solicitation of robbery.
特里普利特被捕并承认教唆抢劫罪。
He was ordered to pay restitution and sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years of probation.
他被勒令赔偿并被判处 30 天监禁和 3 年缓刑。
The Glendale police report shows why Phoenix police thought Triplett might be connected to the string of robberies Rasmussen had identified.
格伦代尔警方的报告说明了为什么凤凰城警方认为特里普利特可能与拉斯穆森发现的一系列抢劫案有关。
But the thousands of pages of records The Appeal reviewed for this story do not explicitly state why surveillance began, or who, if anyone, police surveilled besides Triplett.
但上诉机构为这篇报道审查的数千页记录并没有明确说明为什么开始监视,也没有明确说明除了特里普利特之外,警方还监视了谁(如果有的话)。
Neither the Phoenix Police Department nor Rasmussen responded when asked why they started surveilling the group on January 10.
当被问及为什么从 1 月 10 日开始监视该组织时,凤凰城警察局和拉斯穆森都没有做出回应。
Despite having at least nine police reports and surveillance videos of similar robberies, some of which involved a red or maroon SUV, police say they had no choice but to watch a robbery unfold in order to make an arrest.
尽管警方至少有九份类似抢劫案的报告和监控录像,其中一些涉及一辆红色或栗色SUV,但警方表示,他们别无选择,只能观看抢劫案的发生才能实施逮捕。
A decision was made “to allow a robbery to happen,” Bertz said during a 2021 deposition for the civil case Roland Harris filed against the city.
伯茨在 2021 年罗兰·哈里斯针对该市提起的民事案件的证词中表示,做出了“允许抢劫发生”的决定。
“That planning aspect was deemed, to my understanding, based on the fact that we did not have probable cause or sufficient evidence at the moment before the robbery to effect an actual arrest.”
“据我了解,这一计划方面被认为是基于这样一个事实,即我们在抢劫发生前一刻没有可能的理由或足够的证据来实施实际逮捕。”
Two other officers also said in depositions that the police department’s plan that evening was to allow a robbery to occur because “the investigators felt they didn’t have enough probable cause to make an arrest” for any of the more than two dozen prior robberies police believed the group had been involved in.
另外两名警官也在证词中表示,警察局当天晚上的计划是允许抢劫发生,因为“调查人员认为他们没有足够的理由逮捕”警方认为该团伙此前参与的两打以上抢劫案中的任何一起。
But during the 12 hours police spent surveilling Triplett and others, officers witnessed multiple crimes take place long before the group robbed a Whataburger.
但在警方监视 Triplett 和其他人的 12 小时内,警方亲眼目睹了多起犯罪事件,早在该团伙抢劫 Whataburger 之前。
Police saw Triplett, who they knew already had a felony conviction, in possession of a gun—an offense he was later charged with.
警方发现特里普利特持有一把枪,他们知道特里普利特已经被判重罪,后来他被指控犯有这一罪行。
They saw Reed, a child, in possession of what they believed at the time was a deadly weapon.
他们看到里德,一个孩子,拥有他们当时认为是致命的武器。
(It was an airsoft gun.) And they saw Triplett, who police knew was just 20 years old, drinking alcohol.
(那是一把气枪。)他们看到 Triplett 正在喝酒,警方知道他只有 20 岁。
Police surveillance photos of Triplett show a tall young man with dark hair and the beginnings of a beard.
警方对特里普雷特的监控照片显示,他是一名身材高大、黑发、开始留胡子的年轻人。
He was wearing a black, long-sleeve Champion shirt and a gold chain when officers secretly photographed him outside his mother’s house.
当警察在他母亲家外偷拍他时,他穿着一件黑色长袖冠军衬衫,戴着一条金链。
There were plenty of other opportunities to make an arrest, said Triplett’s mother, Theresa Greene, who lived in the same apartment complex as Reed’s grandmother.
特里普雷特的母亲特里萨·格林(Theresa Greene)与里德的祖母住在同一栋公寓楼里,她说,还有很多其他逮捕的机会。
“I don’t know what was going through their heads, but now it’s cost a person their life.”
“我不知道他们脑子里在想什么,但现在这让一个人失去了生命。”
Instead, just after midnight on January 11, police watched and waited as a 14-year-old boy crawled through the drive-thru window of a burger restaurant and brandished an airsoft gun at the employees inside.
相反,1 月 11 日午夜刚过,警察就看到一名 14 岁男孩爬进一家汉堡餐厅的得来速窗口,向里面的员工挥舞着气枪。
Two minutes after entering the Whataburger, Triplett, Reed, and Harris ran out of the restaurant and jumped into a red 2001 Honda Passport SUV driven by Sariah Busani.
进入 Whataburger 餐厅两分钟后,Triplet、Reed 和 Harris 跑出餐厅,跳上一辆由 Sariah Busani 驾驶的红色 2001 本田 Passport SUV。
Busani had just turned 19.
布萨尼刚刚满 19 岁。
She had moved back to Phoenix a few months earlier after spending the summer with her mother, Christina Gonzales, in Parker, a town of about 3,000 people a few hours northwest of Phoenix, along the Colorado River.
几个月前,她与母亲克里斯蒂娜·冈萨雷斯 (Christina Gonzales) 在帕克镇度过了夏天,几个月前,她搬回了凤凰城。帕克是一个人口约 3,000 人的小镇,位于凤凰城西北几小时车程处,位于科罗拉多河沿岸。
Busani had always been striking, her mother said, with a mane of long, dark hair, bright hazel eyes, and a petite frame.
她母亲说,布萨尼一直都很引人注目,她有一头乌黑的长发,明亮的淡褐色眼睛,身材娇小。
“She’s a beautiful person,” Gonzales said.
“她是一个美丽的人,”冈萨雷斯说。
“She’s the center of attention.
“她是关注的焦点。
Everybody loves Sariah.
每个人都喜欢莎莉亚。
People are just drawn to her.”
人们只是被她吸引。”
Gonzales missed much of her youngest daughter’s childhood because she was struggling with substance use at the time and gave her parents custody of her children.
冈萨雷斯错过了她小女儿的大部分童年时光,因为她当时正在与药物滥用作斗争,并将孩子的监护权交给了她的父母。
Busani’s father had been in prison when she was a baby and was deported back to Mexico when he was released.
布萨尼的父亲在她还是婴儿的时候就曾入狱,出狱后被驱逐回墨西哥。
To Gonzales, it was a dream to spend that much time with her daughter after all they had been through.
对于冈萨雷斯来说,在经历了这一切之后,能够与女儿共度这么多时光是一个梦想。
“We’d wake up in the morning and go down to the river,” Gonzales recalled.
“我们早上醒来,就到河边去,”冈萨雷斯回忆道。
“We’d walk to this little market in the mornings.
“我们早上会步行到这个小市场。
We’d always get the same thing—hot Cheetos and a soda.
我们总是得到同样的东西——热奇多和苏打水。
She’d talk to me about boys.
她会和我谈论男孩。
One time in the living room we were just being goofy, rolling around tickling each other.
有一次,我们在客厅里傻傻地打滚,互相挠痒痒。
We were laughing so hard, we couldn’t stop laughing.
我们笑得很厉害,笑得停不下来。
She was getting me, I was getting her.
她抓住了我,我也抓住了她。
That’s my best memory,” Gonzales said as she began to cry.
这是我最美好的回忆,”冈萨雷斯边说边开始哭泣。
“I didn’t want her to leave.”
“我不想让她离开。”
Gonzales wonders if she could have stopped what happened to her daughter if she hadn’t let her return to Phoenix.
冈萨雷斯想知道,如果她不让女儿返回凤凰城,她是否能够阻止发生在她身上的事情。
“Maybe if I would have done it differently,” Gonzales paused, choking back tears.
“也许如果我能采取不同的做法,”冈萨雷斯停顿了一下,强忍住泪水。
“She would be here, you know?”
“她会在这里,你知道吗?”
On January 11, Busani pulled out of the Whataburger parking lot with Triplett, Reed, and Harris in tow, unaware of the police surveillance plane tracking them from above.
1 月 11 日,布萨尼带着特里普莱特、里德和哈里斯驶出了 Whataburger 停车场,没有意识到警方侦察机从上方跟踪他们。
Footage taken from the aircraft shows unmarked police cars following Busani’s vehicle for nine minutes as the group drove down 10 miles of desert highway.
从飞机上拍摄的视频显示,当这群人沿着 10 英里的沙漠高速公路行驶时,没有标记的警车跟踪了布萨尼的车辆九分钟。
There are no lights or sirens.
没有灯光或警报器。
At no point do police officers identify themselves or give Busani an opportunity to pull over.
警察在任何时候都不会表明自己的身份,也不会给布萨尼靠边停车的机会。
Busani stops at a red light.
布萨尼在红灯前停了下来。
The light turns green, and she accelerates.
绿灯亮了,她加速了。
That’s when Officer David Norman pulls up to the rear of the Passport and deploys a device known as The Grappler to seize the back left tire of the vehicle.
就在这时,大卫·诺曼警官将车停在护照车后部,并部署了一个名为“抓斗器”的装置来抓住车辆的左后轮胎。
The department had recently acquired the tool, a heavy-duty nylon tether that latches onto a car’s axle.
该部门最近购买了一种工具,一种锁在汽车车轴上的重型尼龙绳。
It was Norman’s first time using it outside of training.
这是诺曼第一次在训练之外使用它。
The SUV jerks to a stop, turning slightly left from the force.
SUV猛地停了下来,在力道的作用下稍微向左转。
A wall of unmarked police cars close in on the incapacitated vehicle.
一堵没有标记的警车围住了这辆瘫痪的车辆。
Officer Bertz puts his cruiser into park, opens the door, and throws a flashbang toward the passenger side of the Passport.
伯茨警官将他的巡洋舰停入停车位,打开车门,并向护照乘客一侧扔了一枚闪光弹。
It explodes and covers the area with a blinding light.
它爆炸并用耀眼的光芒覆盖整个区域。
In the chaos, Jacob Harris opens the rear passenger door of the Passport and takes off running away from police.
在混乱中,雅各布·哈里斯打开护照后乘客门并逃离警察。
Within two seconds, officers gun him down.
两秒钟之内,警察开枪射杀了他。
In total, Bertz, armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and Norman, armed with a handgun, fire 11 shots at Harris.
贝尔茨手持 AR-15 型突击步枪和诺曼手持手枪,总共向哈里斯开了 11 枪。
He is struck twice in the back.
他的背部被击中两次。
The first bullet penetrates his heart and his right lung and fractures his ribs, according to the medical examiner’s report, which would rule Harris’s death a homicide.
根据法医报告,第一颗子弹穿透了他的心脏和右肺,导致肋骨骨折,这将裁定哈里斯的死亡为他杀。
The second tears through his gallbladder and intestines.
第二个撕裂了他的胆囊和肠道。
Bertz fired both of the fatal shots.
伯茨开了两枪致命。
The aerial surveillance footage shows Harris fall to the ground as he is shot, his arms extended above his head.
空中监控录像显示,哈里斯中弹时倒地,双臂举过头顶。
A small object flies from his hands as he falls.
当他跌倒时,一个小物体从他手中飞出。
Police would later report finding a gun on the side of the road where Harris was shot.
警方后来报告称,在哈里斯被枪杀的路边发现了一把枪。
Triplett and the two teenagers remain in the vehicle while other officers shoot out the windows of the Passport with rubber bullets.
特里普利特和两名青少年仍留在车内,而其他警察则用橡皮子弹射击护照的窗户。
Terrified, Busani curls into a ball on the car’s floor with her hands held above her head.
布萨尼吓坏了,在汽车地板上蜷缩成一团,双手举过头顶。
“It all happened so quick,” Busani said.
“这一切发生得太快了,”布萨尼说。
“Honestly it could have been any of us that night.
“老实说,那天晚上可能是我们中的任何一个人。
I thank God every day because anything bad could have happened.
我每天都感谢上帝,因为任何不好的事情都可能发生。
We could have crashed, we could have all died.”
我们可能会坠毁,我们可能都会死。”
Content warning: The following paragraphs contain a graphic description of police violence and the death of a teenage boy.
内容警告:以下段落包含对警察暴力和一名十几岁男孩死亡的生动描述。
We are publishing video footage of Jacob Harris’s death at his father’s request.
应雅各布·哈里斯父亲的要求,我们发布了雅各布·哈里斯去世的视频片段。
Click here if you would like to skip the section that contains graphic details.
如果您想跳过包含图形详细信息的部分,请单击此处。
As Harris lies bleeding face down on the ground, police shout commands at him.
当哈里斯面朝下流着血倒在地上时,警察向他大声命令。
Harris puts his hands to his head.
哈里斯把手放在头上。
Police tell him not to move.
警察告诉他不要动。
Harris, who at this point is mortally wounded, can be seen in the aerial footage wiggling his legs.
哈里斯此时受了致命伤,从航拍镜头中可以看到他扭动着双腿。
Moments later, a Phoenix police officer shoots Harris in the backside with a rubber bullet.
不久之后,凤凰城的一名警察用橡皮子弹射中哈里斯的背部。
Harris recoils from the blow but remains on the ground.
哈里斯因这一击而后退,但仍然躺在地上。
Some officers stay trained on Harris, while others order Triplett and the teenagers out of the vehicle one at a time and forcefully detain them.
一些警察继续对哈里斯进行训练,而另一些警察则命令特里普利特和青少年一次下车并强行拘留他们。
Officers shoot Harris with another rubber bullet, this time in the face.
警察用另一颗橡皮子弹射中哈里斯的脸。
The force of it flips Harris onto his side.
它的力量使哈里斯翻到了一边。
He clutches at his chest and curls into the fetal position.
他捂住胸口,蜷缩成胎儿的姿势。
Then police sic a dog on him.
然后警察派了一只狗来咬他。
The dog bites Harris’s leg, thrashing its head from side to side as it drags Harris back toward the officers.
这只狗咬住了哈里斯的腿,一边用头左右摇晃,一边把哈里斯拖回警察身边。
They handcuff the dying teenager.
他们给垂死的少年戴上手铐。
At least 10 minutes pass from the time police shoot Harris to when officers render aid.
从警察射杀哈里斯到警察提供援助至少过去了 10 分钟。
The Phoenix police report on the shooting states that two officers cut off Harris’s clothing and put pressure on his wounds.
凤凰城警方关于枪击事件的报告称,两名警察剪掉哈里斯的衣服并对他的伤口施压。
Harris kicked his feet and tossed his head in pain.
哈里斯踢了踢脚,痛苦地摇摇头。
The fire department came and transported Harris to a hospital nine miles away.
消防队赶到,将哈里斯送往九英里外的一家医院。
At 1:05 a.m.—43 minutes after Bertz and Norman opened fire—Harris was pronounced dead.
凌晨 1 点 05 分,即伯茨和诺曼开枪 43 分钟后,哈里斯被宣布死亡。
Phoenix police charged Harris with aggravated assault on a police officer.
凤凰城警方指控哈里斯严重袭击一名警察。
In the report on Harris’s death, Bertz and Norman are listed as “aggravated assault victim[s].” The charges were later dropped in light of Harris’s death.
在哈里斯死亡报告中,伯茨和诺曼被列为“严重攻击受害者”。鉴于哈里斯的死亡,这些指控后来被撤销。
“A Black 19-year-old child’s life is worth nothing to the city of Phoenix,” said Roland Harris, Jacob’s father.
“一个 19 岁黑人孩子的生命对于凤凰城来说一文不值,”雅各布的父亲罗兰·哈里斯 (Roland Harris) 说。
“Let people see what police really did to him.
“让人们看看警察到底对他做了什么。
It was murder.
这是谋杀。
It was a shooting and then they tortured Jacob afterwards.”
这是一场枪击事件,之后他们又折磨了雅各布。”
The city of Phoenix has long maintained that Harris’s death was justified, but multiple law enforcement officials have made inconsistent or false statements about the circumstances surrounding his death.
菲尼克斯市长期以来一直坚称哈里斯的死亡是正当的,但多名执法官员对他的死亡情况做出了不一致或虚假的陈述。
In a press release sent to reporters shortly after the shooting, a spokesperson for the Phoenix Police Department said Harris “pointed his gun in the direction of officers.” But in an interview with the department’s professional standards bureau following the incident, Bertz himself said this did not happen.
在枪击事件发生后不久发给记者的新闻稿中,菲尼克斯警察局发言人表示,哈里斯“用枪指着警察的方向”。但在事件发生后接受该部门专业标准局的采访时,伯茨本人表示这并没有发生。
When introducing the case against Harris’s friends to a grand jury, Heather Kirka, a prosecutor with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, said Harris “exchanged gunfire” with police.
马里科帕县检察官办公室检察官希瑟·科尔卡(Heather Kirka)在向大陪审团介绍哈里斯朋友的案件时表示,哈里斯与警方“交火”。
But Phoenix police officers who investigated the crime scene after the shooting found no rounds in the chamber of the handgun that was said to belong to Harris and no casings matching that firearm.
但枪击事件发生后调查犯罪现场的凤凰城警察在据称属于哈里斯的手枪枪膛中没有发现子弹,也没有与该枪相匹配的弹壳。
Bertz and Norman have said Harris turned toward Bertz while holding a gun, though Bertz’s statements about that night have not been consistent.
伯茨和诺曼表示,哈里斯拿着枪转向伯茨,但伯茨关于那天晚上的说法并不一致。
In an interview immediately after the shooting, Bertz told police investigators that he saw Harris get out of the car with a gun in his right hand.
在枪击事件发生后立即接受采访时,伯茨告诉警方调查人员,他看到哈里斯右手拿着枪下了车。
According to Bertz, Harris looks at him, starts running, then “turns back towards me just slightly, kinda makes a deliberate movement with that gun.” Then he shoots Harris.
根据伯茨的说法,哈里斯看着他,开始奔跑,然后“稍微转向我,有点故意用那把枪做出动作。”然后他射杀了哈里斯。
Almost a month later, during an interview with the department’s professional standards bureau, Bertz described it differently.
大约一个月后,在接受该部门专业标准局的采访时,伯茨对此进行了不同的描述。
He said Harris exited the vehicle with a gun in his hand, then stopped.
他说哈里斯手里拿着枪下了车,然后停了下来。
“He had a gun, stopped his motion of fleeing, made a deliberate movement with his arm looking back in my direction,” Bertz said.
伯茨说:“他拿着枪,停止了逃跑的动作,故意用手臂向后看向我的方向。”
Later in that same interview, Bertz said it was just Harris’s arm that stopped moving, and that what he actually meant was that Harris was running with his arm held still against his chest.
后来在同一次采访中,伯茨说只是哈里斯的手臂停止了移动,他实际上的意思是哈里斯在跑步时手臂仍然靠在胸前。
When asked about this apparent discrepancy during his deposition in the civil case brought by Harris’s father, Bertz said, “I was not trying to describe that he, Jacob Harris, the entirety of his person stopped, but that my focus being that the gun, the arm, and the hand holding the gun was not simply trying to—to run at that moment.”
当被问及在哈里斯父亲提起的民事案件中他的证词中出现的这种明显的差异时,伯茨说,“我并不是想描述他,雅各布·哈里斯,他整个人都停了下来,但我的重点是,枪、手臂和拿枪的手在那一刻不仅仅是试图逃跑。”
During the professional standards bureau interview, Bertz was asked directly if the gun was ever pointed at him.
在专业标准局的采访中,伯茨被直接问到是否有人用枪指着他。
“No it never got fully up on me,” he responded.
“不,它从来没有完全让我着迷,”他回答道。
But during his deposition, Bertz said: “When that back rear passenger door opens, the first thing that presents itself from that door is a semiautomatic firearm being held in the right hand of the occupant seated or now exiting the backseat of that vehicle.
但在他的证词中,贝尔茨说:“当后排乘客车门打开时,从车门出现的第一件事是坐在或现在从汽车后座出来的乘员右手握着一把半自动枪支。
That firearm comes out of the vehicle and swings back towards my direction where I’m at, which is again off to the south and west of where their final stop location was …
那把枪从车里出来,然后朝着我所在的方向摆动回来,这又是在他们最终停止位置的南边和西边……
As that subject gets out and I identify that weapon being pointed back towards me, I raised my rifle.”
当那个对象离开时,我发现那把武器正指向我,我举起了步枪。”
Of the eight officers who were present at the time of the shooting and provided official statements, only two—Norman and Bertz—said they saw Harris holding a gun.
在枪击事件发生时在场并提供正式声明的八名警察中,只有诺曼和贝尔茨两人说他们看到哈里斯拿着枪。
They are also the only ones who reported seeing Harris turn toward Bertz.
他们也是唯一报告看到哈里斯转向贝尔茨的人。
In Norman’s deposition and his interview with police investigators immediately after the shooting, he said Harris was running away from them, but turned back toward Bertz twice—all in the matter of two seconds.
在诺曼的证词和枪击事件发生后立即接受警方调查人员的采访中,他说哈里斯当时正在逃离他们,但两次转身面向伯茨——都在两秒钟之内。
Another officer, Charles Holton, said he only saw Harris run and couldn’t see his hands.
另一位警官查尔斯·霍尔顿说,他只看到哈里斯在奔跑,看不到他的手。
Video of the killing taken from the police aircraft shows Harris running away.
从警用飞机上拍摄的杀戮视频显示哈里斯逃跑了。
He does not stop.
他没有停止。
He does not turn.
他没有转身。
He does not extend his arm toward police.
他没有向警察伸出手臂。
And he never exchanges gunfire with the police, as prosecutors first told the public.
正如检察官首先告诉公众的那样,他从未与警方交火。
Police and prosecutors have said the footage shows Harris as a “white blob,” and that the thermal camera inside the airplane does not capture “individualized movements.”
警方和检察官表示,录像显示哈里斯是一个“白色斑点”,飞机内的热像仪无法捕捉到“个人动作”。
But the footage itself clearly shows the delineation of Harris’s arms and hands.
但录像本身清楚地显示了哈里斯手臂和手的轮廓。
The video appears to show Harris fleeing for two seconds, before he is felled by a hail of gunfire.
视频显示哈里斯逃跑了两秒钟,然后被一阵枪声击倒。
His arms and hands extend in front of him when he is shot.
当他被枪杀时,他的手臂和双手伸到身前。
“You can’t justify shooting my son twice in the back while he was running away,” Roland Harris said.
罗兰·哈里斯说:“当我儿子逃跑时,你不能为他从背后开两枪辩护。”
“Justify why you shot my son in his ass with a beanbag gun after he had already been shot through the lung and the heart.
“请解释为什么你在我儿子的肺部和心脏已经被射穿后,用豆袋枪射中他的屁股。
Justify that to me.
向我证明这一点。
Justify you telling my son to obey a lawful command and get up and then you shoot him in his fucking face with a beanbag gun, and then sic a dog on him.
证明你告诉我儿子遵守合法命令并站起来,然后你用豆袋枪朝他他妈的脸开枪,然后用狗咬他。
Justify why your other officers on the scene allowed that to happen.”
请解释为什么现场的其他警官允许这种情况发生。”
Roland Harris has been given plenty of reason to be suspicious about the official narrative that night.
罗兰·哈里斯有充分的理由对当晚的官方叙述表示怀疑。
Police and prosecutors have repeatedly made inconsistent or misleading statements about his son’s death.
警方和检察官多次就他儿子的死亡做出不一致或误导性的陈述。
His attorneys were never able to depose the crime scene analyst from that night, Jennifer DiPonzio, though they had plenty of questions only she could answer.
他的律师始终无法罢免那天晚上的犯罪现场分析师詹妮弗·迪庞齐奥,尽管他们有很多问题只有她能回答。
And transcripts of police radio traffic show that officers were communicating on an encrypted messaging platform on the night Jacob Harris was killed—but those messages have since been deleted.
警方无线电通讯记录显示,雅各布·哈里斯被杀当晚,警察正在加密消息平台上进行通信,但这些消息后来已被删除。
In his deposition, Bertz confirmed that he and other members of his squad had used the messaging platform WhatsApp to share updates and information that night.
伯茨在证词中证实,他和他的团队其他成员当晚使用消息平台 WhatsApp 分享更新和信息。
Communications between government employees are public records, and they are required by law to be preserved and disclosed in lawsuits or public records requests.
政府雇员之间的通信属于公共记录,法律要求在诉讼或公共记录请求中保存和披露这些记录。
But Bertz said he deleted his WhatsApp communications from that night.
但伯茨表示,他删除了当晚的 WhatsApp 通讯内容。
“Do I possess them or did I possess them at this time, no,” Bertz said of the messages during his deposition.
伯茨在作证时谈到这些信息时说:“我是否拥有它们,或者我现在拥有它们吗?”
He said that after lead investigators took their notes on the case, he did not believe he was required to save the messages.
他说,在主要调查人员对该案进行记录后,他不认为自己需要保存这些信息。
Bertz said he deleted the records before being notified of Roland Harris’s intention to sue, as a matter of standard practice to clear clutter from his phone.
伯茨表示,在接到罗兰·哈里斯打算提起诉讼的通知之前,他删除了这些记录,这是清理手机中的混乱信息的标准做法。
“My basis for understanding was that we weren’t responsible for maintaining those [messages] in the immediate aftermath,” he added.
“我的理解基础是,我们不负责在事后立即维护这些[消息],”他补充道。
Bertz said the messages would have contained surveillance photos that police were sharing or dropped pins to share vehicle locations.
伯茨表示,这些信息将包含警方分享的监控照片或留下的图钉以分享车辆位置。
He said the messages were not an ongoing dialogue about the plan of action for that evening, as those conversations would have happened over the radio, on the phone, or in person.
他说,这些信息并不是关于当晚行动计划的持续对话,因为这些对话将通过广播、电话或面对面进行。
Harris’s attorneys filed a motion in court asking Bertz to produce all documents in his possession related to the shooting of his son, including any text messages.
哈里斯的律师在法庭上提出动议,要求伯茨出示他拥有的与儿子被枪杀有关的所有文件,包括任何短信。
But in his deposition, Bertz said he deleted the messages months before.
但伯茨在证词中表示,他几个月前就删除了这些消息。
“If they had nothing to hide, why did they delete the WhatsApp messages?” Harris said.
“如果他们没有什么可隐瞒的,为什么要删除 WhatsApp 消息?”哈里斯说。
Harris says the messages could have contained crucial evidence pertaining to his son’s death.
哈里斯说,这些信息可能包含与他儿子死亡有关的重要证据。
“They could have been coordinating their stories,” Harris said.
“他们本可以协调他们的故事,”哈里斯说。
Or maybe they were “talking about what they’re gonna do, what the game plan is.
或者也许他们正在“谈论他们要做什么,游戏计划是什么。
If somebody gets out, shoot ’em.
如果有人逃出来,就开枪射击他们。
We’ll never know.”
我们永远不会知道。”
Norman, Bertz, and the attorney representing Bertz and the city of Phoenix in Harris’s lawsuit were all provided with a detailed list of statements that would appear in this story and requests for comment prior to publication.
诺曼、伯茨以及在哈里斯诉讼中代表伯茨和菲尼克斯市的律师都获得了本文中将出现的详细声明清单,并在出版前请求发表评论。
None responded.
没有人回应。
In his deposition, Norman, who was not a member of the squad that was using WhatsApp that night, said he did not talk to Bertz in the aftermath of the shooting.
诺曼不是当晚使用 WhatsApp 的小队成员,他在证词中表示,枪击事件发生后,他没有与伯茨交谈。
After a police shooting, the officers involved “are now sort of sequestered,” Norman said.
诺曼说,警方枪击事件发生后,涉案警官“现在已被隔离”。
“We know not to start talking about the incident.
“我们知道不要开始谈论这一事件。
We have to wait for investigators and wait for union reps and all that stuff.”
我们必须等待调查人员,等待工会代表等等。”
On the night of the shooting, command staff on the scene immediately asked to see the footage captured by aircraft surveillance—something that Brent Bundy, one of the officers in the aircraft, said was unusual.
枪击事件发生当晚,现场指挥人员立即要求查看飞机监控捕捉到的镜头——飞机上的一名军官布伦特·邦迪表示,这很不寻常。
During his deposition in Roland Harris’s civil suit against the city, Bundy is asked how many times in his 20-year career supervisors have asked to see aerial video at the scene.
在罗兰·哈里斯针对该市的民事诉讼中,邦迪在作证时被问到,在他 20 年的职业生涯中,上司有多少次要求观看现场的航拍视频。
“Off the top of my head, two to three, three or four times, maybe, at most,” Bundy responds, “It’s a very, very small number.
“我的脑海里浮现出两到三、三到四次,也许,最多,”邦迪回答道,“这是一个非常非常小的数字。
It’s a very rare circumstance where they would request the video actually immediately at that time.” Bundy later said the air surveillance unit “may have sent them a copy” of the footage that evening.
他们当时立即要求提供视频的情况非常罕见。”邦迪后来说,空中监视部队“可能向他们发送了”当天晚上的录像副本。
In a different deposition, Anthony Winter, the Phoenix police officer responsible for investigating the Jacob Harris shooting, confirmed that a copy of the footage was brought to the scene.
在另一份证词中,负责调查雅各布·哈里斯枪击案的凤凰城警官安东尼·温特证实,现场已带了一份录像副本。
The lack of transparency has made Harris question whether his son was actually armed at the time of his shooting, or whether “the object that flew out of Jacob’s hand was a cell phone,” he said.
缺乏透明度让哈里斯质疑他的儿子在枪击时是否真的携带武器,或者“从雅各布手中飞出的物体是否是一部手机”,他说。
In the police report on Jacob Harris’s death, several officers stated that they saw a gun on the ground a short distance away from the area where he was shot.
在警方关于雅各布·哈里斯死亡的报告中,几名警官表示,他们在距离他被枪击的区域不远的地方看到一把枪。
Ultimately, the Phoenix Police Department’s investigation into its own officers determined that Bertz and Norman had acted in accordance with department policy when they shot at and killed Harris.
最终,菲尼克斯警察局对其警员的调查确定,伯茨和诺曼开枪打死哈里斯时符合警察局政策。
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office declined to bring charges against either officer, stating that “the officers did not commit any act that warrants criminal prosecution.”
马里科帕县检察官办公室拒绝对任何一名警官提出指控,称“这些警官没有做出任何值得刑事起诉的行为”。
Instead, the county attorney’s office determined that it was Harris’s friends who should be punished for his murder.
相反,县检察官办公室认为哈里斯的朋友应该因谋杀而受到惩罚。
Reed, Busani, and Triplett have been behind bars since the night of Harris’s killing.
自从哈里斯被杀当晚以来,里德、布萨尼和特里普利特就一直被关在监狱里。
Unable to afford the high bails set for them, they spent three years in jail before pleading guilty and being sentenced to prison last year.
由于无法支付高额保释金,他们在监狱里度过了三年,然后于去年认罪并被判入狱。
On January 17, 2019, six days after police killed Harris, prosecutor Heather Kirka presented the case to a grand jury, seeking to indict the teens and Triplett for first-degree murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, and burglary.
2019 年 1 月 17 日,也就是警察杀害哈里斯六天后,检察官希瑟·基尔卡 (Heather Kirka) 将案件提交给大陪审团,寻求以一级谋杀、武装抢劫、绑架和入室盗窃罪起诉这些青少年和特里普莱特。
Prosecutors brought in Rasmussen, the lead investigator on the robbery case, as their only witness.
检察官聘请了抢劫案的首席调查员拉斯穆森作为唯一的证人。
Neither Kirka nor Rasmussen responded when contacted for this story.
当就此事联系基尔卡和拉斯穆森时,他们都没有做出回应。
Rasmussen is not mentioned in official reports as being present at the time of Harris’s shooting.
官方报告中没有提到拉斯穆森在哈里斯枪击事件时在场。
But he nonetheless told jurors that as Harris ran, he “turns, points the gun at [Bertz and Norman], at which time both of these officers discharge their weapons.” Later, when Rasmussen was asked how many shots were fired from the officers’ weapon, Rasmussen responded, “there were two shots fired from a handgun and a rifle by officers.” The Phoenix Police Department’s own investigation shows that Norman and Bertz fired 11 shots at Harris.
但他仍然告诉陪审员,哈里斯奔跑时“转身,用枪指着[伯茨和诺曼],此时这两名警官都开枪了。”后来,当拉斯穆森被问及警察的武器开了多少枪时,拉斯穆森回答说,“警察用手枪和步枪开了两枪。”菲尼克斯警察局自己的调查显示,诺曼和伯茨向哈里斯开了 11 枪。
Based on Rasmussen’s statements, the grand jury indicted Reed, Triplett, and Busani on all charges.
根据拉斯穆森的陈述,大陪审团对里德、特里普利特和布萨尼提出了所有指控。
But Judge Suzanne Cohen sent the case back to a grand jury six months later because of a “factual discrepancy” in Rasmussen’s testimony, according to transcripts obtained by The Appeal.
但根据《上诉报》获得的笔录,六个月后,由于拉斯穆森的证词存在“事实差异”,苏珊娜·科恩法官将案件发回大陪审团。
“[T]he detective does testify [Harris] has a gun in his hand as he gets out and as he is running he turns and points the gun at them,” Cohen says in the transcripts.
科恩在笔录中说:“侦探确实作证,哈里斯下车时手里拿着枪,在奔跑时转身用枪指着他们。”
“That did not happen,” Cohen concludes.
“这并没有发生,”科恩总结道。
“He did not turn as he was running and point the gun.
“他在奔跑时没有转身并用枪指着。
His body is going in one direction and one direction only.”
他的身体正在朝一个方向前进,而且只有一个方向。”
In July 2019, prosecutor Joshua Maxwell presented the case to a grand jury for the second time.
2019 年 7 月,检察官约书亚·麦克斯韦 (Joshua Maxwell) 第二次向大陪审团提交此案。
Busani’s defense attorney, Adrian Little, argued that the second grand jury proceedings were also misleading because Maxwell and Rasmussen repeatedly told jurors that Harris turned back toward Bertz as he ran away, despite the fact that the court had already rejected this characterization.
布萨尼的辩护律师阿德里安·利特尔辩称,第二次大陪审团程序也具有误导性,因为麦克斯韦和拉斯穆森反复告诉陪审员,哈里斯在逃跑时转身面向伯茨,尽管法院已经拒绝了这一描述。
Ultimately, Cohen decided that Maxwell and Rasmussen “did not intentionally present false or misleading testimony to the Grand Jury.” She concluded that Rasmussen had simply told jurors what officers Bertz and Norman said they saw.
最终,科恩认定麦克斯韦和拉斯穆森“并没有故意向大陪审团提供虚假或误导性的证词”。她的结论是,拉斯穆森只是告诉陪审员伯茨和诺曼警官所说的他们看到的情况。
Furthermore, prosecutors allowed jurors to view the aerial surveillance footage during the second presentation.
此外,检察官允许陪审员在第二次陈述期间观看空中监控录像。
Maxwell did not respond when contacted for this story.
当就此事联系麦克斯韦时,他没有做出回应。
On July 16, a grand jury again indicted Busani, Reed, and Triplett on all charges, including first-degree murder.
7 月 16 日,大陪审团再次对布萨尼、里德和特里普利特提出所有指控,包括一级谋杀罪。
The vote was 9-5.
投票结果为 9 比 5。
As the cases against the trio moved forward, prosecutors took steps to ensure that they faced the most severe consequences possible.
随着针对三人的案件的进展,检察官采取了措施,确保他们面临最严重的后果。
The charges against Busani, Reed, and Triplett were treated as dangerous felonies because, prosecutors said, they “involved the discharge, use, or threatening exhibition of a handgun, a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.” Arizona law requires harsher penalties and more prison time for felonies classified as dangerous.
检察官表示,对布萨尼、里德和特里普利特的指控被视为危险重罪,因为它们“涉及开枪、使用或威胁展示手枪、致命武器或危险工具”。亚利桑那州法律要求对危险重罪实施更严厉的处罚和更多的监禁。
Prosecutors also alleged nine aggravating circumstances against Busani, 16 against Triplett, and 10 against Reed, including calling the 14-year-old a “danger to society.” Aggravating circumstances, such as involving an accomplice, damaging property, or having prior convictions, also lead to harsher criminal penalties and longer prison sentences under Arizona law.
检察官还指控布萨尼有 9 项加重情节,特里普利特有 16 项加重情节,里德有 10 项加重情节,包括称这名 14 岁的少年为“社会危险”。根据亚利桑那州法律,情节严重的,例如涉及同谋、损坏财产或有前科,也会导致更严厉的刑事处罚和更长的监禁。
At one point, another prosecutor on the case, Mitch Rand, stated that Busani was facing 75 years in prison if convicted.
负责此案的另一名检察官米奇·兰德(Mitch Rand)一度表示,如果罪名成立,布萨尼将面临 75 年监禁。
But Rand also argued that should the case go to trial, the jury should not be allowed to know the possible sentences Busani, Reed, and Triplett faced, because that could make jurors less willing to convict them.
但兰德还辩称,如果案件进入审判阶段,陪审团不应被告知布萨尼、里德和特里普利特可能面临的判决,因为这可能会让陪审员不太愿意对他们定罪。
Rand did not respond when contacted for this story.
当我们就此事联系兰德时,兰德没有做出回应。
In October 2019, while Triplett was in jail awaiting trial, his 2-year-old son wandered into a pond near his mother’s apartment complex and drowned.
2019 年 10 月,特里普雷特在监狱等待审判时,他 2 岁的儿子误入母亲公寓附近的池塘溺亡。
After learning that his child had died, the jail placed Triplett on suicide watch.
在得知他的孩子死亡后,监狱对特里普雷特进行了自杀监视。
While incarcerated, Triplett also missed the birth of his second child.
在监禁期间,特里普雷特也错过了第二个孩子的出生。
“I cry at night just thinking about it all,” Triplett said.
“我晚上一想到这一切就会哭,”特里普利特说。
“I am away from my family, my daughter like I never got to hold her.
“我远离了我的家人和我的女儿,就像我从来没有机会拥抱她一样。
I didn’t get the chance to see her be born.”
我没有机会看到她出生。”
Then, in December 2019, prosecutors brought a separate 128-count indictment against the trio for their alleged involvement in a string of robberies that took place from November 2018 through January 2019.
随后,检察官于 2019 年 12 月对这三人提出了单独的 128 项起诉,指控他们参与了 2018 年 11 月至 2019 年 1 月发生的一系列抢劫案。
Prosecutors charged Busani with conspiracy to commit robbery, illegal control of an enterprise, and theft.
检察官指控布萨尼串谋抢劫、非法控制企业和盗窃。
They hit Reed with the same charges, plus eight counts of armed robbery, 22 counts of kidnapping, and 16 counts of aggravated assault.
他们对里德提出了同样的指控,外加 8 项武装抢劫罪、22 项绑架罪和 16 项严重袭击罪。
Prosecutors alleged that each person who was inside the establishments when the robberies occurred was kidnapped.
检察官声称,抢劫发生时在场所内的每个人都被绑架了。
The “aggravated assault” charges stem from Reed or Triplett “using a simulated handgun, a simulated deadly weapon” to place store employees “in reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury.” Busani, Reed, and Triplett were not accused of actually physically harming people, though victims did tell the court they feared for their lives and suffered from anxiety and panic attacks after being held at gunpoint.
“严重袭击”指控源于里德或特里普利特“使用模拟手枪、模拟致命武器”,使商店员工“对即将发生的人身伤害产生合理的担忧”。布萨尼、里德和特里普利特并未被指控实际伤害他人,但受害者确实告诉法庭,他们担心自己的生命安全,并在被枪指着后感到焦虑和恐慌。
Triplett was charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery, theft, and eight counts of illegal control of an enterprise, 37 counts of armed robbery, 37 counts of kidnapping, and 40 counts of aggravated assault.
Triplett 被指控共谋武装抢劫、盗窃、8 项非法控制企业罪、37 项武装抢劫罪、37 项绑架罪和 40 项严重袭击罪。
In a statement shared with The Appeal, a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said prosecutors had “carefully considered the mitigating and aggravating factors for each defendant’s plea agreement” and “acted with integrity to seek justice for the more than 50 individuals and 25 business victims in these matters.”
马里科帕县检察官办公室发言人在与《上诉报》分享的一份声明中表示,检察官“仔细考虑了每位被告认罪协议的减刑和加重因素”,并“秉持诚信行事,为这些案件中的 50 多名个人和 25 名商业受害者伸张正义。”
In his testimony to a grand jury regarding the robbery case, Detective Rasmussen explained that he had reviewed reports of armed robberies at fast food restaurants and convenience stores for similarities.
拉斯穆森侦探在向大陪审团就抢劫案作证时解释说,他审查了有关快餐店和便利店武装抢劫的报告,以寻找相似之处。
Eventually he found several cases that involved people of color with similar builds wearing hoodies cinched up around their faces using a gun to take money from Circle Ks and Whataburgers.
最终,他发现了几起案件,其中涉及体形相似的有色人种,他们穿着连帽衫,将脸束紧,用枪从 Circle Ks 和 Whataburgers 那里拿钱。
On January 11, hours after police killed Jacob Harris, officers served search warrants on the homes of Harris, Reed, and Triplett, where they said they found clothing, shoes, and accessories that matched what suspects in the other robberies were seen wearing on surveillance footage.
1 月 11 日,警方杀死雅各布·哈里斯 (Jacob Harris) 数小时后,警方对哈里斯、里德和特里普利特的家发出搜查令,他们表示,他们在那里发现了衣服、鞋子和配饰,这些衣服、鞋子和配饰与监控录像中看到的其他抢劫案嫌疑人的穿着相符。
Theresa Greene, Triplett’s mother; Shawanna Chambers, Reed’s aunt; and Roland Harris all say that the searches were conducted while the families were not home, and before police had informed them of the shooting and the arrests of their children.
特蕾莎·格林,特里普雷特的母亲;莎安娜·钱伯斯(Shawanna Chambers),里德的姨妈;罗兰·哈里斯和罗兰·哈里斯都表示,搜查是在家人不在家的情况下进行的,而且是在警方通知他们枪击事件和他们的孩子被捕之前进行的。
When Roland Harris walked out of his apartment that morning to drop his daughter off at school, he said he saw police cars blocking in his son’s Mazda.
那天早上,罗兰·哈里斯 (Roland Harris) 走出公寓送女儿去学校时,他看到警车挡住了儿子的马自达车。
Though his son had already been dead for several hours, police did not say anything to Harris at that time.
尽管他的儿子已经死亡几个小时,但警方当时没有对哈里斯说任何话。
Instead, while Harris went to work, police raided his home, where he lived with Jacob.
相反,当哈里斯去上班时,警察突击搜查了他与雅各布住在一起的家。
They took his son’s shoes, his clothes, his IDs, and his jewelry.
他们拿走了他儿子的鞋子、衣服、身份证和珠宝。
They also took Roland Harris’s laptop, two watches, and $800 in cash.
他们还拿走了罗兰·哈里斯的笔记本电脑、两块手表和 800 美元现金。
And they took Roland’s daughter’s iPads and a shoebox with her name on it that she stored money in.
他们拿走了罗兰女儿的 iPad 和一个写着她名字的鞋盒,她把钱放在里面。
Only after that did police go to Roland Harris’s workplace to tell him his son was dead.
之后警方才前往罗兰·哈里斯的工作场所,告诉他儿子已经死亡。
Harris said Rasmussen first made it sound like Jacob’s friends had killed him.
哈里斯说,拉斯穆森首先让雅各布的朋友杀了他。
“I lost it,” Harris said.
“我失去了它,”哈里斯说。
“He was like, ‘Rest assured and find solace that they’re gonna pay for his murder.’”
“他说,‘放心吧,他们会为他的谋杀付出代价,让你得到安慰。’”
A short time later, a different detective told Harris that his son had been involved in armed robberies, and said he was shot after pointing a gun at police officers.
不久之后,另一名侦探告诉哈里斯,他的儿子参与了武装抢劫,并说他在用枪指着警察后被枪杀。
“I told him he was a liar, you guys murdered my son,” Harris said.
“我告诉他他是个骗子,你们谋杀了我的儿子,”哈里斯说。
Greene was in physical therapy that morning when she got a call from a friend telling her that someone had broken into her home and that her door was wide open.
那天早上,格林正在接受物理治疗,这时她接到朋友的电话,告诉她有人闯入了她的家,并且她的门敞开着。
“I called the police,” she recounted.
“我报了警,”她回忆道。
“The Glendale police came out, said Phoenix police had raided my house.
“格伦代尔警察出来了,说凤凰城警察搜查了我的房子。
I said why didn’t they just knock on the door?
我说他们为什么不敲门呢?
They really had to break the door in?
他们真的必须破门而入吗?
All they had to do was ask for the keys from management, they had a warrant.
他们所要做的就是向管理层索要钥匙,他们有搜查令。
They completely ransacked my whole house.
他们彻底洗劫了我的整个房子。
They turned off all of my surveillance cameras.
他们关掉了我所有的监控摄像头。
I felt so violated and angry.”
我感到非常被侵犯和愤怒。”
When police showed up to search Reed’s grandmother’s home, Reed had already been in custody for hours.
当警察搜查里德祖母的家时,里德已经被拘留了几个小时。
Officers made no attempt to obtain consent before conducting a raid, according to Chambers.
钱伯斯表示,警方在进行突袭之前没有试图获得同意。
With her terminally ill mother still inside and in a wheelchair, officers threw a smoke bomb into the home, tore the door off, and pillaged the house, Chambers said.
钱伯斯说,当她身患绝症的母亲仍在屋内并坐在轮椅上时,警察向屋内投掷了一枚烟雾弹,撕开了门,并对房子进行了抢劫。
“My mom died a few months later,” Chambers said.
“几个月后我妈妈去世了,”钱伯斯说。
“Johnny was her favorite.
“约翰尼是她的最爱。
She couldn’t last any longer.”
她不能再坚持下去了。”
With Reed, Triplett, and Busani already facing the possibility of decades in prison for Harris’s murder, prosecutors leveraged the robbery indictment to extract a plea.
由于里德、特里普利特和布萨尼已经因谋杀哈里斯而面临数十年监禁的可能性,检察官利用抢劫起诉书来提出抗辩。
“We were all backed into a corner,” said Chambers.
“我们都被逼到了墙角,”钱伯斯说。
“Do we take 15 years or do we take life?
“我们要花15年还是要夺取生命?
The prosecutors said this is the only plea deal we’re going to give you.
检察官说这是我们要给你的唯一认罪协议。
If you go to trial with this you’re going to get life.”
如果你带着这个去受审,你就会得到生命。”
In the end, all three pleaded guilty, rather than risk life in prison.
最终,三人都认罪,而不是冒着终身监禁的危险。
Busani was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison, Reed to 15 years, and Triplett to 30 years.
布萨尼总共被判处 10 年监禁,里德被判处 15 年监禁,特里普雷特被判处 30 年监禁。
Triplett’s long incarceration is especially risky because he has a serious brain condition that will most likely require future surgeries—and prison healthcare in Arizona is notoriously bad .
特里普雷特的长期监禁尤其危险,因为他患有严重的脑部疾病,很可能需要未来进行手术,而亚利桑那州的监狱医疗保健状况是出了名的糟糕。
Triplett has had at least six brain surgeries to treat hydrocephalus—a buildup of cerebrospinal fluids that exerts pressure on the brain, which can cause brain damage, vomiting, changes in personality, and severe headaches.
Triplett 已经接受了至少六次脑部手术来治疗脑积水——脑脊液积聚对大脑施加压力,可能导致脑损伤、呕吐、性格改变和严重头痛。
Triplett had a shunt implanted in his brain to drain the excess fluid when he was a baby, Greene said.
格林说,特里普雷特在婴儿时期就在他的大脑中植入了分流器,以排出多余的液体。
The shunt runs down his body and drains into his stomach, where the cerebrospinal fluid is absorbed.
分流管顺着他的身体流到胃里,脑脊液在那里被吸收。
“He has really bad migraines,” Greene said, adding that she has tried to get her son medical help in prison but has been unable to.
“他的偏头痛非常严重,”格林说,并补充说她曾试图在监狱里为儿子寻求医疗帮助,但未能成功。
“It was to the point where he’d be vomiting, he can’t eat, can’t be around light or sound.”
“他会呕吐,无法进食,无法接触光或声音。”
While Triplett, Reed, and Busani were being prosecuted for Harris’s death, his father advocated on their behalf.
当特里普利特、里德和布萨尼因哈里斯之死而受到起诉时,他的父亲为他们辩护。
“We all lost our children,” Chambers said.
“我们都失去了孩子,”钱伯斯说。
“But Roland will never see his son again.
“但罗兰再也见不到他的儿子了。
He pleaded for each and every one of them for the judge to give them leniency.”
他为他们每一个人恳求法官宽大处理。”
Harris attended “every single one of Sariah’s court dates,” said Christina Gonzales, Busani’s mother, calling him “a godsend.”
布萨尼的母亲克里斯蒂娜·冈萨雷斯 (Christina Gonzales) 说,哈里斯参加了“萨莉亚的每一场法庭约会”,并称哈里斯是“天赐之物”。
Harris believes the officer who killed his son should have been prosecuted—not Reed, Triplett, and Busani.
哈里斯认为杀害他儿子的警官应该受到起诉,而不是里德、特里普利特和布萨尼。
Bertz, 37, is still working for the Phoenix Police Department collecting about $90,000 a year from taxpayers.
37 岁的伯茨仍在菲尼克斯警察局工作,每年从纳税人那里收取约 9 万美元。
Norman, 50, has retired, but he still draws more than $5,000 each month from his pension from the city and now runs a law enforcement training company called TruKinetics .
50 岁的诺曼已经退休,但他每月仍从市政府领取超过 5,000 美元的养老金,现在经营着一家名为 TruKinetics 的执法培训公司。
He is also a contractor with the Department of Defense, according to his deposition.
根据他的证词,他也是国防部的承包商。
“They’re sitting there, going on with their lives, opening up businesses,” Harris said.
哈里斯说:“他们坐在那里,继续自己的生活,开创事业。”
“They don’t think about the wreckage that they left behind.
“他们不会考虑他们留下的残骸。
Father’s Days are never the same.
父亲节从来都不一样。
I don’t even celebrate it.
我什至不庆祝。
It hurts so much.”
太疼了。”
Jacob Harris is not the only person Bertz has killed.
雅各布·哈里斯并不是伯茨唯一杀死的人。
According to a database of statewide police shootings created by The Arizona Republic , Bertz shot and killed 38-year-old Erik Pamias in 2017.
根据《亚利桑那共和报》创建的全州警察枪击事件数据库,伯茨于 2017 年枪杀了 38 岁的埃里克·帕米亚斯。
In 2021, two years after killing Harris, Bertz shot another person , 34-year-old Dustin Weaver.
2021年,也就是杀死哈里斯两年后,伯茨又开枪射杀了另一个人,即34岁的达斯汀·韦弗。
Bertz said Weaver pointed a gun at him, though his body-worn camera wasn’t activated until after he shot Weaver .
伯茨说,韦弗用枪指着他,尽管他的随身相机直到他射杀韦弗后才被激活。
Weaver survived and was sentenced to seven years in prison for aggravated assault.
韦弗幸存下来,并因严重袭击罪被判处七年监禁。
Bertz did not respond to emails from The Appeal regarding his involvement in the Jacob Harris killing or his other on-duty shootings.
伯茨没有回复《上诉报》关于他参与雅各布·哈里斯谋杀案或其他执勤枪击事件的电子邮件。
Norman also has a history of violence.
诺曼也有暴力史。
In 2014, he killed 26-year-old Craig Uran .
2014年,他杀害了26岁的克雷格·乌兰。
According to police, Uran had stolen a truck and pointed a gun at officers.
据警方称,乌兰偷了一辆卡车,并用枪指着警察。
Uran’s girlfriend, 23-year-old Jessica Hicks, was in the passenger seat.
乌兰的女友、23 岁的杰西卡·希克斯 (Jessica Hicks) 坐在副驾驶座上。
Norman shot Uran in the head with an assault rifle as he attempted to flee.
当乌兰试图逃跑时,诺曼用突击步枪射击了他的头部。
Uran’s girlfriend was charged with his murder .
乌兰的女友被指控谋杀。
She spent two years in jail awaiting trial before ultimately pleading guilty to auto theft and armed robbery.
她在监狱等待审判两年,最终承认汽车盗窃和武装抢劫罪。
She was sentenced to five years in prison.
她被判处五年徒刑。
Before retiring, Norman shot at so many people in a single year that it prompted an automatic alert to his supervisor.
退休前,诺曼在一年内向多人开枪,以至于他的主管自动收到警报。
In March 2018, Norman shot and killed 44-year-old Stephen Hudak after Hudak shot another officer.
2018 年 3 月,44 岁的斯蒂芬·胡达克 (Stephen Hudak) 枪杀了另一名警官后,诺曼开枪打死了他。
Three months later, he shot at 30-year-old Stephen Harris , who survived.
三个月后,他向 30 岁的斯蒂芬·哈里斯开枪,哈里斯幸存。
“I was a fucking savage.
“我真是个该死的野蛮人。
I really sought these events.
我真的很寻找这些活动。
I wanted these experiences.
我想要这些经历。
I was super aggressive,” Norman said on a July 2021 episode of “ Blue Line Millennial ,” a law enforcement podcast.
我非常有攻击性,”诺曼在 2021 年 7 月的执法播客“蓝线千禧年”节目中说道。
“The majority of my career, you get an officer-involved shooting and get three days off …
“在我职业生涯的大部分时间里,你都会遇到与军官有关的枪击事件,然后休息三天......
So you kind of hope it’s on your Friday.”
所以你希望是在周五。”
Norman did not respond to emails from The Appeal regarding his involvement in the Harris shooting or his statements on the podcast.
诺曼没有回复《上诉报》关于他参与哈里斯枪击事件或他在播客上的声明的电子邮件。
Roland Harris is still fighting to get justice for his son.
罗兰·哈里斯仍在为儿子讨回公道而奋斗。
A federal judge ultimately dismissed his civil lawsuit against Bertz, because Arizona law allows police officers to use deadly force when they believe it is necessary to prevent the escape of a person who the officer believes had committed a felony with a deadly weapon.
一名联邦法官最终驳回了他对伯茨的民事诉讼,因为亚利桑那州法律允许警察在认为有必要防止使用致命武器犯有重罪的人逃跑时使用致命武力。
After the judge dismissed the case, Bertz filed a motion in court attempting to force Harris to pay for his attorney’s fees.
法官驳回此案后,伯茨向法庭提出动议,试图迫使哈里斯支付律师费。
Harris is appealing the judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit.
哈里斯正在对法官驳回诉讼的决定提出上诉。
He has also met with Department of Justice officials investigating the Phoenix Police Department and shared with them the video of his son being killed.
他还会见了调查凤凰城警察局的司法部官员,并向他们分享了他儿子被杀的视频。
Harris said the investigators were emotional when they watched the footage and told him they would pass the information along to the DOJ’s criminal division.
哈里斯说,调查人员在观看这段视频时非常激动,并告诉他他们会将信息传递给司法部刑事部门。
Phoenix police officers have killed at least 142 people since 2013, according to Mapping Police Violence’s database.
根据 Mapping Police Violence 的数据库,自 2013 年以来,凤凰城警察已杀害至少 142 人。
None of those officers were charged .
这些警官均未受到指控。
As Harris enters his fifth year of fighting, he is still exasperated by the refusal of police, prosecutors, or any official, to acknowledge what he sees as the basic truth: “They didn’t have to shoot my son down like a dog in the street.”
当哈里斯进入战斗的第五个年头时,他仍然对警察、检察官或任何官员拒绝承认他所认为的基本事实感到愤怒:“他们不必像街上的狗一样射杀我的儿子。”
“I am definitely not the same person anymore.
“我绝对不再是同一个人了。
A lot of my friends notice that.
很多朋友都注意到了这一点。
I’ve got a lot of anger in me,” he said.
我心里有很多愤怒,”他说。
“You’re a father, you’re supposed to be your child’s protector, and I wasn’t able to protect him.”
“你是一个父亲,你应该是你孩子的保护者,而我却没能保护他。”
But Harris is determined to keep going.
但哈里斯决心继续前进。
He couldn’t sleep at night, he says, if he knew he wasn’t doing everything he could for Jacob.
他说,如果他知道自己没有为雅各布尽其所能,他晚上就睡不着觉。
“I don’t want another parent to feel what I feel,” Harris said.
“我不想让另一位家长感受到我的感受,”哈里斯说。
“I will not stop.
“我不会停下来。
For the rest of my life, as long as I’m breathing air, I will stay on them.
在我的余生中,只要我还在呼吸空气,我就会继续使用它们。
There is no statute of limitations on murder.
谋杀罪没有时效限制。
Until the day I die.
直到我死的那一天。
I will not stop until my son gets justice.”
在我的儿子得到正义之前,我不会停下来。”