Who is kendrick johnson

The film paints a picture with the evident lack of care on behalf of Georgia law enforcement, in addition to discovering a possible FBI coverup happening behind the scenes. The rabbit hole goes deep, and Pollock aims to get to the bottom of the mystery by doing some of his own investigating.

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All Rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Close the menu. Follow Us. So, when you look at that example, and you have police who work in that environment, their mindsets absorb that culture as well.

POLLOCK: I think that it is very important in our journalism and art culture that we have the op-ed and I did not feel that it was necessary to interview white people in Valdosta about this story, because there were already eight years of records of what they thought about it. I think what the film does is unspin this story. This white rehashing, of listening to what the other side has to say. Well, in this case, the other side is lying, so, why are you giving them air time?

But what-about-ism is propaganda and Kendrick was a victim of that for eight years down there. The only things that are in my movie are data points in their own paperwork.

I just show data and line it up in such a way so you can see what happened because they would never do that. The regular media is constantly spinning. TCR: So much of the suspicion in this case surrounds the involvement of a local FBI agent named Rick Bell, who is the father of the two key suspects in the case and engaged in rampant obstruction and intimidation of local witnesses. How was he able to act with such abandon and blatant disregard for the law?

And for a judge to sign roughly 21 search warrants meant that we had some pretty good information and I really thought that he was going to be arrested.

But then, unexpectedly, my partner and I were taken off the case and I found out later that instead of getting arrested he was allowed to resign. That was unbelievable to me, but I guess down there things work a little differently because, if he had been in D.

And, for me, it really took the air out of my balloon when it came to law enforcement in general. I felt embarrassed. I felt that we had let the Johnson family down. Law enforcement at any level is not supposed to interfere with an investigation and, as an FBI agent, he should have known better. TCR: Do you consider yourself a whistleblower in exposing the failures of law enforcement in this investigation?

CREDLE: During the investigation, we were deputized with federal powers and jurisdiction to do anything and everything we had to do from a law enforcement perspective. Aside from that, people know me. They know my morals and values when it comes to doing the job. A voice was telling her they just found a body in the gym. I'm breaking into pieces because I know it's my child. It was soon tragically confirmed that Kendrick was dead — students found his sock-covered feet sticking out of the top of a rolled-up wrestling mat, which was standing upright in a corner of the gym.

But that fact turned out to be one of the few certainties in the case. After an investigation and autopsy, authorities ruled Kendrick's death accidental, theorizing he'd fallen into the opening at the center of the rolled up mat — possibly to retrieve a shoe — and became trapped and suffocated. His parents didn't understand how that could be possible and hired their own investigators; an independent autopsy concluded Kendrick's body showed signs of blunt force trauma, suggesting he'd been a victim of foul play.

For years, Kendrick's case has been at the center of multiple journalism investigations and documentaries, including the recently released Finding Kendrick Johnson available on Amazon Prime.