:51:00
because West Dallas
is a high-crime neighborhood.
:51:03
One of the biggest.
:51:04
He was more scared of it than I was.
:51:07
But when you have black people like that...
:51:10
they don't like getting involved in nothing.
:51:13
That's just common.
:51:15
Like here, nobody wants
to see nothing or hear nothing.
:51:19
And they'll stay completely
in the background.
:51:21
That's why they were having
such a hard time there...
:51:24
finding anybody that would come forward.
:51:26
Because it was in
a totally black neighborhood.
:51:33
She believe in, see somebody done
something wrong she should tell it.
:51:38
'Cause she told on me...
:51:45
a couple of times...
:51:48
that I was hauling drugs out of El Paso.
:51:51
Called the sheriff down there,
going to make me open my trunk.
:51:56
So I ended up opening it,
but there was nothing in it.
:52:04
Good grief.
:52:07
She's a ho, but she find out
you done something, she turn you in.
:52:17
Mrs. Miller had testified at the trial...
:52:20
that she had gotten off early from her
gas station job...
:52:23
and gone down to pick up her husband
to help him with the bookwork.
:52:27
We found out that she was not doing
any bookkeeping for that station...
:52:31
because she had been fired
from her job two weeks earlier...
:52:34
for till-tapping, for stealing.
:52:37
The reason that they were
talking to the police at all...
:52:41
was that there'd been a three-day
running knife fight in their apartment.
:52:44
And they were all booked...
:52:46
for disorderly and drunk behavior in there...
:52:49
including assault with knives,
and all kinds of stuff.
:52:53
When they were at the police station,
they suddenly decided to volunteer...
:52:57
all this information
about what they had seen...
:52:59
about the police officer's killing.