Video summary
The video centers on the controversial conclusion of the grand jury investigation into the death of Nolan Wells, a young Black man who disappeared during a boat trip in Mississippi and was later found deceased. Although the all-white grand jury returned a "no true bill," effectively clearing the three friends accused of foul play and ruling the incident an accidental drowning, the transcript highlights deep skepticism regarding this outcome. The family's attorney, Ben Crump, has criticized the decision as premature, arguing that the state failed to provide a definitive explanation for significant injuries found on Wells' body, including bruises on his head, buttocks, and shoulder, which contradict the narrative of a simple slip and fall.
A major point of contention discussed is the perceived racial bias within the justice system and the handling of the investigation by federal authorities. The speakers argue that despite evidence suggesting foul play, such as inconsistencies in witness testimony about how Wells fell off the boat and the lack of an autopsy conducted locally before sending remains to Washington D.C., the process was manipulated to ensure a closed case. They express frustration that while Black individuals have historically provided crucial evidence pointing toward murder in similar cases, this investigation resulted in silence from other prominent civil rights figures like Al Sharpton, leaving Ben Crump as the sole advocate pushing for further action against what they describe as a cover-up by white authorities.
The dialogue also addresses the specific actions taken by the defense and the family's legal team following the grand jury's decision. While some voices in the transcript question whether Crump is doing enough or are critical of his approach, others note that he has filed motions and expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of answers regarding the cause of death. The speakers emphasize that without a clear explanation for the injuries sustained by Wells, declaring the case closed feels unjust, especially given the historical context where similar circumstances involving white victims often led to indictments. The overarching theme is a demand for transparency and accountability, with many participants feeling that the system has failed the Wells family and that further legal steps, potentially including federal court interventions, are necessary to uncover the truth.
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u she just got here from Washington DC.
Christian Clark is renowned.
Um she was the head of the civil rights
division
at the department of justice.
Uh
she is now
the general counsel of the NAACP
nationally.
She is probably the the person who
understands these types of
investigations
more than anybody else because she's led
so many of them on the federal level. in
her position as civil rights chair at
DOJ. So, we are fortunate that her plane
made it. So, you'll hear from her
briefly and then we'll have the parents.
Y'all, let's give a big round of
applause for our hero, Attorney Kristen
Clark.
The NAACP is bringing the full breath of
our resources to the next phase of this
fight. We are not going anywhere.
>> Wow, man. Nolan Wales, they've been
cleared of all charges, but uh Ben Crump
steps up to the plate as usual. He's not
going down without a fight. The grand
jury, they they done just cleared these
boys and said the charges is dropped.
OG, you there,
>> right? Yeah. Okay. The the white grand
jury, all white grand jury, a closed
grand jury, found that it was no foul
play and that it was an accidental
death. But you haven't even found that
in the corner's office. They haven't
haven't determined how he died. So, Ben
Chump talking about we got a renown
>> Ben Chump or Ben Crump.
>> Ben Chump. Uh yeah, we got a renowned uh
attorney from uh Washington DC and she
been on so many of these cases. So what
Negro, you sitting there, you didn't let
it go silent. All this is evidence.
Everybody that got these tapes and
stuff, you've been just like Steven on
Jango sitting back calculating with
white folks and let this happen. The
grand jury has closed. It will be no
further uh charges, no further
investigating in the state of
Mississippi. Uh Mississippi burning
secondhand. So all of this getting and
staging. What? He always gets on the
media grandstanding, but he does no
work. He ain't in the court appealing
IT. HE'S NOT DOING ANY PAPERWORK. HE'S
JUST LIKE SOME CIGAR store engine just
there in the way. I hate I can't even
stand his uh stepping fetching ass
voice.
>> Well, let me just let me let me let me
get in there a little bit. Um what
really happened uh today down there.
>> Uh people stepping up, unifying because
they feel hurt be behind what happened.
You know, I got to be the voice of
reason in this to really bring some
clarity to what happened uh down there,
man. uh after the fact of this whole
thing, you know, falling through for
him, it didn't it didn't happen. And and
they was they was banking on that. I
seen a hurt mother. I seen a hurt
father. I seen a a hurt attorney who's
been trying who's been down there month
after month. All of the NAACP has
stepped up. I don't see Al Sharpton yet,
but I'm pretty sure he's been called and
told what was going on. And it says
Nolan Whales friend cleared by grand
jury as their lawyers vowed to hold
online accusers accountable. So
therefore online accusers who came at
him, get ready. You know, I thank God
that I wasn't one of those guys who was
pretty much just going directly at him.
I was I'm a I'm a journalist. I I I
basically balance out the equilibrium
for things like this for for the culture
because I know we have to work with
these people even though we know a lot
of stuff is is not right. But we have to
we we we have to see the justice system
through. Says after a Mississippi grand
jury found that Nolan Wells death was
consistent with drowning and turning up
no evidence of crime or racial motive.
Uh, an attorney for one of the men
wrongly targeted online said his client
intends to hold accusers accountable.
Wales 19 disappeared July the 4th after
taking a boat trip to Horn Island. A a
barrier island along Mississippi GF
coast with a group of friends searched
crews combin uh come with the area for
two days. They was all over through
there trying to find out uh until a
National Park Service ranger discovered
his remains at the island northwest uh
uh tip on July the 6th. Months later, a
Jackson County, Mississippi grand jury
returned
no true bill in Wales death
investigation, meaning no indictment or
charges will be filed. And so this is
very hardening when you see that the
phone had issues. And they saying now
that every that wasn't just his phone
that came back without without the
person. That was others. Now, was this
playing that way? I don't know. Um I do
feel like u we should have dug deeper
into this. The justice system has failed
us in this one. I I I Nolan man, Nolan
Well would truly be missed and and I
hate this for his family. OG and I know
you got a lot to say. No, it's nothing
that's nothing else to say because I
mean uh y'all jigaboos just
>> Well, first of all, first of all, who
are you you're talking about? Jigaboos.
Okay.
>> Uh who in the hell are you calling the
jig Ben Chomp and everybody that's
backing him? This was Bungle from the
very beginning.
>> How can you blame Ben Trump Ben Trump?
Don't make me call him that. How can you
blame this guy when he's just stepping
in trying to make sense of him to step
in? NOBODY SENT FOR
>> WHERE IS ANYBODY ELSE was going to step
in? OG, you do this every time. Nobody's
coming to these people's defense. Do you
not understand that?
>> Where is everybody at? Where's the
Where's the people at? Where's all our
people at? They don't come up. Only one
I see is Ben Crump. You The only one
that came up with solid evidence has
been black people. You out of your mind.
When they came up with when they came up
with what really HAPPENED BEHIND THE
PHONE CALL, IT WAS A BLACK LADY. They
discard that. Everything
>> Everything that's come up positive
showing that it was foul play, black
people has done it. Ben Trump ain't done
nothing. He
>> he he did then he started off the
investigation. Now you just like he
didn't sent for this other uh imitation
from Washington DC. He had a forensic
expert coroner supposed to be from
Wouldn't it been easier to fly somebody
a man from Washington DC to Mississippi
one day and let him sit at the autopsy
while they did it right there then
letting them carve up the body TAKE
PIECES THAT THEY WANT AND THEN SEND THE
BODY TO WASHINGTON DC. WHAT KIND OF DANG
FOOL are you to do something like that?
OG, you got to understand there's a
process. Those people wasn't gonna just
pack up and come down there. There was a
reason why he done it. I don't think he
would have done it if he didn't have to.
>> More than likely, they needed they had
their equipment up there and they didn't
want to come down without their
equipment. I don't know. But I think
you're just saying that because you
trying to make Ben Crump out to be this.
He's not It's not all in his hands. He
He's guiding and trying to understand
what the people want. How do the parents
want him to react to this thing? If you
sit in front of the front line, you have
to accept the responsibility.
>> OG, there has been a lot of people,
including Al Sharpen, that came down
there that tried to make sense of this
matter. Now, we Well, here's the deal. I
don't like it because
>> nobody else has showed up for these
people. OG.
>> Okay. Okay. Well, them two that came
didn't show up for him either. the woman
that came and did the the the thing with
the with the recording and moving the
voices when when she had found them on
the boat when they had made the phone
call when she started dealing with the
sound. That was about it.
>> They tried they tried to indict her AND
TOLD HER WAS FALSIFIED. White America
did everything they did just what
Mississippi do. Just what Mississippi
do. And they brought two of the jigaboos
from America to clone this out and make
sure it was where they wanted it. And
for any any attorney worth his while
would never have let that happen.
They've been silent all until this. You
still you have a grand jury that say was
no foul play and you don't even know the
cause of death. It like from your famous
word WHAT STEVIE WONDER CAN POINT AT Ray
Charles can see.
>> I just hate I hate this for the whole
thing.
>> It's It's not legal that you will come a
conclusion. THAT'S JUST LIKE SAYING I'M
MURDERED AND I don't know whether I GOT
A GUNSHOT WOUND, a knife wound. You
don't know. You don't know whether I was
poisoned. But it was no foul play. But
I've got a big gash in my head.
OG, I I I I I think they couldn't win
for losing. You wasn't about to let them
uh uh uh grand jury witness says he
slipped off the boat hours before the
death. That's what they saying.
>> The grand jury witness, a white man,
>> says Nolan Well slipped off and fell off
the boat hours before he died off of the
Mississippi. According to the witness
who testified before the grand jury that
decided against filing criminal charges
to relate the death, all of them was
white OG. According to the documents
file late last week,
>> continue everybody on that grand jury
was a pale face.
>> A witness said under oath that they saw
Nolan slip awkwardly off the side of the
boat around 3:30 p.m. and 4th of July
when he was at Horn Island. He slipped
off the boat.
>> Wait a minute. Wait a minute. First of
all, stop right there. Did none of the
witnesses, none of the kids on the boat
say he slipped? How did the grand jury
come up when he slipped off the boat and
hit his head? That's not what was said
on the 911 call. That's not what was
said when they called about his phone.
So, how amazingly we come up that he
SLIPPED AND NOBODY SAW HIM SLIP AND FELL
OFF THE BOOK.
>> I agree with you 100%, OG. I I don't
like this at all. I'm just reporting on
it, man. So no, don't so don't try to
protect Ben Chump. Ben Crime, I'm
telling you now, he he he didn't know
they were going to say that. He didn't
probably know that witness the doc says
that the witness could not say whether
Nolan hit his head when he slipped.
Though the witness did say Nolan got
right back up and continued to socialize
with people on the boat.
>> I thought he slipped and fell off the
boat. The docs also slate while the
grand jury found no other evidence to
explain the bruise on the back of Mr.
Whales head of the suspect's bruising on
the buttox of his on yeah the buttox and
the shoulder. The grand jury uh cannot
say with absolute certainty that this
fall caused you know everything.
Uh it says, "As you know, the grand jury
has returned the decision of a no true
bill, so no one has been indicted in
connection with this case." Ben Crump,
the attorney for Wells Family has
slammed authorities for the decision,
claiming the state of Mississippi, is
attempting to close the chapter on Nolan
Well death without getting to the truth.
And I want to say this before I go any
further. He slammed. Listen what it
said. He slammed the authorities. He's
trying to figure out how to, you know,
make them stop doing what they doing in
that city. He slammed the authorities.
It says,
>> has Has he has he did a a really
mandamus to the federal court? Has he
done a a
uh um
couple of rits? It's a couple of rips
that he could he he's on the on the NEWS
TALKING, BUT WHAT has he filed in the
courts?
>> I'll tell you what he done. Let me tell
you what he done. Trump added in the
same statement that he's unsatisfied
with the lack of definitive explanation
of for bruises. They don't have no no
explanation for it. While Trump's
unhappy with the grand jury's decision,
Edward Andrew Paddock, an attorney from
Nolan's friends, celebrating it, telling
us, "We said it all along." Warren
Hudson, Jax Patillo, and Morgan Seymour
were always completely innocent. There
was never any doubt. They are terrific
people. That's what he said to do with
being chump. What that got to do with
Trump? Why are you quoting something
putting his name on it that a white man
is saying about three killers?
>> Man, this [ __ ] is horrible, man. I don't
like it. OG.
>> All right, on to the next one. That man
is dead. He's young.
>> I don't like it. And and I I don't know.
>> Is there anything before we go? Is there
anything he could do being Crump or
anybody could do to try to get justice
for this young man?
>> Yes, sir.
>> What can they do?
>> Ben Trump can choke yourself.
>> I'm out. I can't do this with you, OG.
You can't say that. What can we do
logically?
>> That's the most logical thing I can see.
>> Why are you so It's not about crumbs.
It's about those people if you believe
they done something wrong and
unjustifiable.
>> They have done something wrong. YOU
KNOW, WHY DO you keep trying to falsify?
>> I'm asking what do we do?
What action can you take?
>> Have a merry Christmas.
>> See what I'm saying? There's nothing to
be done. Nothing to be said. Guys,
>> something guys want to do it. I can't
>> just like with Bougie want to GET HIS
600,000. CALL ME. We want to get justice
FOR NOLA. WELL, CALL ME.
>> WOW. This is crazy, guys. Make sure you
like, subscribe to the channel. state of
Mississippi. That's crazy. That's the
60s, bro.
>> Nolan Wales. Uh, pretty much um they're
calling I don't know what they're
calling it, but they're but what they're
not doing is indicting anybody on it,
guys.
>> But I can I can tell you this. If Nolan
Wells had have been white, somebody
would have been in partial prison today.
Some black man would have been in
partial prison today.
>> Wow. Guys, make sure you like, subscribe
to the channel. You heard what OG said,
guys. Let me know what y'all think about
this case and what happened and how you
feel like it turned out. Get in the
comments, share uh with us what you
think. And also guys, it's just it's
unfortunate guys. And if you're still
watching um man uh go watch this uh Booy
man, Booy uh and Little Turk uh they
they going back and forth right here.
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