Lt. Bert Samuels: [to Petrie] I read the report. You're alleging improper conduct, specifically the use of unnecessary force, and you're alleging against Officers Brundage and Balough.
Mark Petrie: That is correct.
Lt. Bert Samuels: I still don't know why. Petrie, suppose it was you out on patrol. Hm? And you see a guy trying to break into an automobile, a guy in civilian clothes is trying to break in with a... coat hanger. You go over to investigate. You don't see a shield. What you do see is a gun in a shoulder holster underneath the guy's jacket. What do you do?
Mark Petrie: Well, I don't slam the suspect up against the car.
Lt. Bert Samuels: No. What do you do?
Mark Petrie: No, I don't slam him against the car! I don't do that!
Lt. Bert Samuels: Well, I'll tell you what I would do! A soon as I see that piece, I don't leave any margin for error. That's what I do. You know, I'll tell you something, Marcus Petrie, these guys had no way of knowing that you were a police officer.
Mark Petrie: I don't think that that's the point!
Lt. Bert Samuels: What is the point?
Mark Petrie: The point... what they saw, Lieutenant, was a black man, shabbily dressed, in a middle-class, predominately white neighborhood. Now if I were white, they would have asked if I needed a locksmith.
Lt. Bert Samuels: You believe that?
Mark Petrie: Yes.