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[person speaking indistinctly
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[gun cocks]

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[distant siren wailing]

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- I was born in 1945.
I'm what they call a war baby.

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My mother was pregnant
in Texas, in the South.

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And she decided that she
did not want her baby,

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no matter what it was,
born in the South.

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And she took the first train
smoking and came to LA.

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- So, when we arrived
here in Los Angeles,

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this particular neighborhood
right here was majority white.

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The schools
were majority white.

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The elementary schools
and junior highs--

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all were already white.

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Because there was
so many of us,

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they started taking flight.

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[upbeat music]

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- To properly discuss guns
it's essential to delve

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into their historical context.

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In 1964, during
the Civil Rights Movement,

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notable figures,
like Martin Luther King Jr.

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and President Kennedy,

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advocated
for the Civil Rights Bill.

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This legislation ignited
a significant migration

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within the Black community

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in search of improved
opportunities

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and a brighter future.

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- When I grew up,
the neighborhood

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was just predominantly Black.

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- Maybe 85%, 90% Black,
10% Hispanics.

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The neighborhood was...

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- A great experience.

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My childhood was filled
with traveling.

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It was good to go
from this park to that park.

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It was always some type
of family picnic

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or something going on.

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Being able to be amongst
each other was a good thing.

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- For once, minorities
felt the air of freedom.

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Things were finally
on the up-and-up.

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But tragically, this would
come to a halting stop.

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[music distorting, fading]

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- The afternoon fires
added to the chaos that is now

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Southeast Los Angeles.

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Riots, which had quieted down
during the dusk,

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sprang again into full-scale
violence this morning--

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- Watts Rebellion, rather
than "riot," because it had

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a political dimension to it.

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It wasn't just the Frye family

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that sparked the Rebellion
of 1965.

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It was the years and years
of police abuse

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that had built up.

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- The Watts Rebellion
lasted for 6 days,

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resulting in 34 deaths,
132 injuries,

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and 4,000 arrests

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and ending in the destruction
of 1,000 buildings,

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totaling $40 million
in damages.

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- You know, you just had the
assassination of Malcolm X,

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and you had a lot
of movements,

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organizations began to rise up
'cause of the Watts Rebellion.

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And that was a political
dimension of it.

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- Watts Riots was just
a spark of a continued action

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of terrorism and militarism
in our neighborhoods.

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- After the Rebellion,

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several community-improvement
suggestions were made

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that would improve schools,
employment,

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and relations
with the police department.

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But in the end,
there was little follow-up.

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A new era of do-it-yourself
local activism

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blossomed in Watts, including
reformed street gang members

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who joined
with the Black Panther Party

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to rebuild
and monitor police access.

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- Sojourner Truth!

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- Mary McLeod Bethune!

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Marcus Garvey!

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Malcolm X!

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Martin King!

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- We had to fight
for our civil rights and fight

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for the Civil Rights Movement
amongst ourselves,

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our leaders,
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X,

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Fred Hampton Sr.,

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Huey Newton, Angela Davis,
all the rest of them

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during this time
of the Civil Rights Movement,

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pushed the line
for our civil rights.

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- The Panthers grew out
of a street justice,

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the pursuit of street justice
for watching police

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and defending themselves.

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The Sons of Watts
used to be the Orientals

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and the Royal Gents--
Willie Sampson and them.

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The El Rukns

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used to be Blackstone Rangers
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They converted during the '60s

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because there was
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street gangs moved to those
type of aspects of protect--

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Even the Crips even
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to protect their community.

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- This was the first time

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that I seen armed Black men
and women

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ready to stand up
to deal with oppression,

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injustice, and the systemic
issues of racial imbalance.

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And I seen a power base
being developed

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that was unapologetic
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for the value and the respect

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of what Black people
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had to stand on, because
we did not have anything else

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to stand on.

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- It was going to be
a point in time and place

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to where the conscious mind
is starting to wake up.

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- The Panthers were a saving
grace for the community.

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Not only did they fight
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they also helped feed
the youth, teach them,

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and celebrate the community.

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So why was this
a bad thing, you ask?

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- Let me be real clear.

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The Black Panther Party
was the first time

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that we said we
unapologetically have the right

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to combat a system that
at that time period

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was designed to totally destroy
more so the individuals

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that were in the movement.

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Remember, there was
a social movement going on,

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a social narrative that was
going on at the time,

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which was finally bringing
in self-determination,

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self-reliance, et cetera.

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So had the party not developed

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and had the nation
not developed,

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had those components
not been put in place,

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we probably would have been,
as a people, decimated,

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because, again,
the concept before,

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the generation before our
mothers and fathers were

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of the mindset of integration,
were of the mindset of,

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we're going to just try
to get in that mix,

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and hopefully they will
accept us at the time.

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And that didn't happen.

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That was not happening,

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especially
for younger brothers,

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like myself at the time.

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I was not buying
into the concept

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of turning the other cheek.

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I dang sure was buying into
the concept of, give me a gun,

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let me fight this madness,

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and let me do what I got to do
to get some value of respect

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for what I stand for.

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- And this is what scared
the government--

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young Blacks having a mindset

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to be able to think
differently

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and stand up for what's right.

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So what did the government do?

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Interfere.

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- The counterintelligence
program was developed

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by J Edgar Hoover during
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specifically after
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that one of
the most significant threats

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to the safety and security
on a national level

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for the United States
of America

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was the existence
of a healthy Black family.

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- Shocking.

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Martin Luther King was able
to touch so many people.

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They soon figured out
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he had a healthy home
and a great education.

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So, to stop this
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they decided to fracture
the Black family home.

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- And so the
counterintelligence program

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specifically was designed

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to infiltrate any environment

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where Black leadership
was being nurtured,

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penetrate that environment,
and disrupt it.

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And so they did that
to the Black Panther Party.

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- The FBI accomplished this
by sending in an informant--

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William O'Neal.

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He was sent
into the Black Panther Party

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to infiltrate the members,
particularly Fred Hampton.

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- And saw where what had
taken place and where he died,

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and it was shocking.

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And then I was--

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I just began to realize
that the information

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that I had supplied
leading up to that moment...

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Had facilitated that raid.

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I knew that indirectly, I had
contributed, and I felt it,

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and I felt bad about it.

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- FBI headquarters
authorized the payment

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of a $300 bonus to
an informant, William O'Neal,

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for uniquely valuable
services,

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which he rendered
over the past several months.

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- And that was how they were
able to attack

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the Black Panther Party

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and make people support
their attack

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on the Black Panther Party
publicly.

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They wanted to destroy that,

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and that's what
they created it for,

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and it was highly successful.

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- The conspiracy
of genocide came in,

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the conspiracy, meaning trick,

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and a genocide,

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meaning just do away--to do
away with the leaders.

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So that left multitude of
the Baby Boom generation lost

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no leadership or nothing.

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Only thing they had
leadership was for violence.

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- History informs us
that over 1,000 years ago,

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Chinese monks
were experimenting

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in their laboratories,

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seeking to develop an elixir
that would grant immortality.

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Ironically, it was
during these experiments

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that they stumbled
upon a mixture consisting

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of saltpeter, sulfur,
and charcoal--

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boom, the main ingredients
for gunpowder.

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What was meant
to preserve life

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has become one of the most
destructive weapons

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ever created.

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I'm not a total gun reformist,

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but I think there has to be
some kind of control put down.

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We are infested with guns.

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There's more guns in
the United States than people.

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The number of civilian-owned
guns around the world

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is estimated at 650 million,

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and 270 million
of those handguns,

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rifles,
shotguns, machine guns,

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and improvised craft guns

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belong to people
in the United States.

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- If you add up all
the Caucasians in the world,

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they make up maybe 15%
of the world population,

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but they dominate
the majority of the planet,

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of the people of color
through their use of weaponry.

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- There are 90 guns
per 100 Americans,

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giving the country the honor

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of the highest gun-ownership
rate in the world.

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- In the UK, you can't
have a gun, period.

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The police
don't even carry guns.

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- Unlike the US, the police in
England don't carry weapons.

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Less than 5% are armed.

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- I like the lights.

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I like to know that the police
are taking care of things.

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For kids to have guns,
in the beginning, yeah,

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I was all for it, because
we had to protect ourselves

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or so we thought, because
the streets was violent.

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- And I had to make these
decisions when I was a kid.

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Did I want to be a robber?
Do I want to be a dope dealer?

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Do I want to be a car thief?

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And I just couldn't see myself

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sticking a gun in somebody's
face, thinking that...

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I could be taking their life,

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or I might do great
bodily harm to him.

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So...

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I'm going to be
honest with you.

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I'm totally for those guns.

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- The US stands alone
for high gun ownership

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and high gun violence,

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despite being one
of the richest countries.

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What's the missing link?

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Is it a lack of gun laws?

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Or is it something else?

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- Every state is not the same.

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Texas can have--
as racist as Texas is,

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they can have open carry.

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- In September of 2021,
it became legal for Texans

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to carry a handgun
without a permit.

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- LA can't.

269
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Tennessee can have open carry.

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Cali can't.
New York can't.

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See, in states where it's
heavy, heavy, blatant racism,

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they let you carry
motherfucking guns

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out in the open--
Florida.

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We don't have it.

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Why aren't those laws changing?

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- The issue of gun ownership

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and gun violence
in the United States--

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it's a complex
and contentious topic.

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It's influenced
by a combination of factors,

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including cultural,
historical,

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social, economic,
and legal aspects.

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- With the Kyle Rittenhouse,

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it was a very tragic,
tragic event.

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And the reality is,
he got off scot-free

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because the Constitution
protected his rights.

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But the reality is,

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his defense put up
a damn good defense.

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- We, the jury, find the
defendant, Kyle H Rittenhouse,

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not guilty.

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- Personally...

291
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I hate that it was going
to come down like that.

292
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But watching it
from a professional eye,

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I knew that
he would be found innocent.

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- Nearly half of guns
in this country

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are not locked away properly,

296
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and guns accidentally kill
kids in the US

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10 times more often

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than any other developed
country in the world.

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- First time I seen a gun?

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I'm going to say
seventh grade.

301
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Took it out to the field,
started playing around with it.

302
00:14:05,645 --> 00:14:08,882
It was one of my dad's guns.

303
00:14:08,948 --> 00:14:10,684
- Many parents
of young children

304
00:14:10,750 --> 00:14:12,552
want to keep them
away from guns,

305
00:14:12,619 --> 00:14:15,021
but a growing number are now
actually putting guns

306
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into their kids' hands.

307
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- I remember one day,
Mom telling us

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to come inside before
the street lights came on

309
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and get ready for bed.

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You got to take
a bath, shower.

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She went out to a club,
and I woke up and went

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to go look for my pop gun.

313
00:14:30,070 --> 00:14:31,237
I looked for the gun
and couldn't find it,

314
00:14:31,271 --> 00:14:33,973
but I found a gun in the back
of the TV, which I thought

315
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was my pop gun.

316
00:14:35,709 --> 00:14:37,944
But it was my mama's real gun.

317
00:14:38,044 --> 00:14:40,246
And I was chasing my little
brother around the house,

318
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and I slipped and fell
and the gun went off.

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Pow!

320
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The story went, as she thought
my brother was bleeding,

321
00:14:50,190 --> 00:14:52,392
because he had a bad nosebleed
when he was a kid.

322
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But then she pulled
the cover back,

323
00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,595
she didn't see no blood on him.

324
00:14:55,662 --> 00:14:58,732
She pulled the cover back
and blood was all over me.

325
00:14:58,865 --> 00:15:03,236
And so I almost bled out,
you know?

326
00:15:03,303 --> 00:15:06,473
I think it was about eight
years old, nine years old.

327
00:15:18,351 --> 00:15:20,553
- In 2 1/2 weeks, getting
ammunition is going to get

328
00:15:20,587 --> 00:15:22,489
a little more complicated.

329
00:15:22,555 --> 00:15:24,457
- Starting July 1st,
the change in the law

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requires any individual
buying ammunition

331
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to go through an instant
background check.

332
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- This bill will go
one step further,

333
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by requiring that persons
wishing to purchase ammunition

334
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first acquire a permit,

335
00:15:40,273 --> 00:15:43,677
then pass an extensive
background check.

336
00:15:43,743 --> 00:15:45,879
It is tough for me to fathom

337
00:15:45,912 --> 00:15:48,281
that we can ask people
to obtain

338
00:15:48,348 --> 00:15:51,217
a license to hunt
in the state of California,

339
00:15:51,251 --> 00:15:54,721
but we cannot ask them
to pass a background check

340
00:15:54,754 --> 00:15:56,389
to purchase ammunition,

341
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much of which is principally
designed to kill people.

342
00:16:00,794 --> 00:16:02,729
- They have
more than enough laws

343
00:16:02,762 --> 00:16:04,330
in the state of California,

344
00:16:04,364 --> 00:16:07,133
and we deal with only
the state of California

345
00:16:07,233 --> 00:16:09,369
that we can make
a difference in.

346
00:16:09,402 --> 00:16:12,272
The gun laws that they
are implementing here

347
00:16:12,339 --> 00:16:16,309
on these young men are laws
that are basically being

348
00:16:16,376 --> 00:16:20,613
set up to help perpetuate this
new industry called prison.

349
00:16:20,647 --> 00:16:22,982
[indistinct chatter]

350
00:16:23,049 --> 00:16:25,085
- My baby brother
was in transition

351
00:16:25,218 --> 00:16:27,220
of leaving the streets
and trying to do better

352
00:16:27,287 --> 00:16:30,890
with himself, and he
got in a situation

353
00:16:30,957 --> 00:16:33,960
where he let his anger
get the best of him.

354
00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:36,629
And now the first offer
that the white man

355
00:16:36,663 --> 00:16:38,098
gave him was 8 years.

356
00:16:38,131 --> 00:16:40,667
A month later, they just
offered him 60 years.

357
00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,435
[cell door clinking, closes]

358
00:16:42,502 --> 00:16:45,605
- Nowadays, if you have any
type of possession

359
00:16:45,705 --> 00:16:47,674
of a firearm, right,

360
00:16:47,741 --> 00:16:50,744
and meaning that you don't
have any type of license

361
00:16:50,777 --> 00:16:52,245
for this firearm,

362
00:16:52,345 --> 00:16:54,614
you don't have a serial code
or a number that's attached

363
00:16:54,714 --> 00:16:58,218
to your name for distribution
of this firearm,

364
00:16:58,251 --> 00:17:00,353
you're already getting 10 to
20 years of your life

365
00:17:00,387 --> 00:17:02,789
taken away just off the jump.

366
00:17:02,822 --> 00:17:04,057
- Lieutenant Holloway,

367
00:17:04,157 --> 00:17:06,292
you were outside
when the group came up.

368
00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:07,660
What did you see out there?

369
00:17:07,761 --> 00:17:10,196
- I was called down from the
upper floors of the Capitol

370
00:17:10,263 --> 00:17:14,167
and went to the west
entrance of the Capitol.

371
00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,835
And I saw a group

372
00:17:15,969 --> 00:17:20,407
of approximately
four male Negroes,

373
00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,842
all carrying weapons
of one sort or another

374
00:17:22,909 --> 00:17:25,578
with a smaller group
behind them.

375
00:17:25,612 --> 00:17:27,480
I stopped them

376
00:17:27,547 --> 00:17:31,918
as they came up the front
steps of the Capitol,

377
00:17:31,985 --> 00:17:34,087
and I was handed a pamphlet

378
00:17:34,154 --> 00:17:37,090
by one of the members
of the group.

379
00:17:37,157 --> 00:17:39,192
- This is a pamphlet that
the man presented me with.

380
00:17:39,259 --> 00:17:41,895
It's called "A Statement
of the Black Panther Party

381
00:17:42,028 --> 00:17:43,463
for Self-Defense"
on the Mulford Act,

382
00:17:43,496 --> 00:17:46,066
now pending before
the California legislature.

383
00:17:46,166 --> 00:17:49,235
- So the Mulford Act
just was overt action

384
00:17:49,302 --> 00:17:52,138
in the state of
California because

385
00:17:52,205 --> 00:17:55,408
of activity of the
Panther Parties at that time

386
00:17:55,475 --> 00:17:59,079
to go to Sacramento
with unloaded rifles

387
00:17:59,145 --> 00:18:02,082
just for demonstration
and for attention.

388
00:18:02,148 --> 00:18:05,085
But at the same time,
it's always been

389
00:18:05,151 --> 00:18:07,887
a part of a white codes
to punish Black people

390
00:18:07,921 --> 00:18:09,889
if they thought
they had a weapon.

391
00:18:09,956 --> 00:18:11,758
Look at how many
Black people were killed

392
00:18:11,825 --> 00:18:14,227
prior to the Panthers
and the Mulford Act

393
00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:17,797
for white folks saying, oh,
I thought they had a gun,

394
00:18:17,897 --> 00:18:19,899
or, I thought
they had a weapon.

395
00:18:19,933 --> 00:18:22,802
[helicopter blades thrumming]

396
00:18:28,174 --> 00:18:30,043
d Growing up in an
urban neighborhood,

397
00:18:30,110 --> 00:18:32,178
you're taught to
hate the police.

398
00:18:32,245 --> 00:18:34,080
* Last thing I sweat's
a sucker punk cop *

399
00:18:34,214 --> 00:18:35,882
* Move like a king
when I roll *

400
00:18:35,949 --> 00:18:37,217
I mean, can you blame them?

401
00:18:37,350 --> 00:18:40,420
From unarmed killings
to unlawful beatings

402
00:18:40,487 --> 00:18:42,088
and just hands down, treating

403
00:18:42,222 --> 00:18:44,257
the urban community
as unhuman.

404
00:18:44,324 --> 00:18:46,826
But as history shows,
this was the definition

405
00:18:46,926 --> 00:18:49,262
of being a police officer.

406
00:18:49,295 --> 00:18:52,332
- The purpose of slave
patrols was to bring terror

407
00:18:52,399 --> 00:18:56,936
in the minds and the hearts of
those Black people traveling,

408
00:18:56,970 --> 00:19:00,240
either with or without a pass.

409
00:19:00,306 --> 00:19:02,175
- Slave patrols,

410
00:19:02,242 --> 00:19:06,846
but also known as patrollers
or paddy rollers--

411
00:19:06,946 --> 00:19:08,415
these were white men.

412
00:19:08,448 --> 00:19:11,718
Their function was to police
people of color,

413
00:19:11,785 --> 00:19:16,623
especially those who escaped
or were viewed as defiant.

414
00:19:16,756 --> 00:19:19,259
- Whites could do
anything they wanted to

415
00:19:19,292 --> 00:19:22,429
to those people
that were moving about

416
00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:27,167
or those that were actually
going to be apprehended.

417
00:19:27,233 --> 00:19:30,236
And it is important
that the message be sent

418
00:19:30,303 --> 00:19:33,206
to the other African people,
other Black people

419
00:19:33,273 --> 00:19:35,275
in those situations
of enslavement,

420
00:19:35,408 --> 00:19:38,678
that they found out
what happened to those people,

421
00:19:38,745 --> 00:19:40,313
because that's
what it's about.

422
00:19:40,380 --> 00:19:44,284
It was a psychopathic
racial terrorism act

423
00:19:44,351 --> 00:19:45,618
on Black people.

424
00:19:45,652 --> 00:19:48,254
* *

425
00:19:48,321 --> 00:19:51,825
- Slave patrols were
first formed in 1704

426
00:19:51,858 --> 00:19:54,227
and lasted over 150 years.

427
00:19:54,327 --> 00:19:57,831
This was followed by the
vigilante group,

428
00:19:57,864 --> 00:20:00,200
the Ku Klux Klan.

429
00:20:00,266 --> 00:20:02,635
Though there are similarities
between the two,

430
00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:06,172
you can't put all police
officers in that group.

431
00:20:06,206 --> 00:20:09,476
Many police officers
today try their best

432
00:20:09,542 --> 00:20:11,678
on making their community
a better one.

433
00:20:11,711 --> 00:20:13,246
- I had a dream,

434
00:20:13,313 --> 00:20:15,882
and that was to become
a law enforcement officer.

435
00:20:15,949 --> 00:20:17,450
I have no regrets.
It changed my life.

436
00:20:17,484 --> 00:20:19,552
It helped me to mature
as a young man,

437
00:20:19,652 --> 00:20:22,422
gave me a different optic, not
only the city of Los Angeles,

438
00:20:22,489 --> 00:20:25,058
but for a variety
of different communities,

439
00:20:25,125 --> 00:20:26,760
particularly
marginalized communities--

440
00:20:26,826 --> 00:20:28,528
what they lacked in
terms of resources.

441
00:20:28,595 --> 00:20:31,698
- Living in South Central
California in the '80s

442
00:20:31,798 --> 00:20:35,402
was an experience defined
by contrasting elements.

443
00:20:35,468 --> 00:20:38,338
On one hand, there was the
allure of sun-soaked beaches,

444
00:20:38,405 --> 00:20:42,242
vibrant culture,
and a growing music scene.

445
00:20:42,375 --> 00:20:44,678
On the other hand,
the region was grappling

446
00:20:44,744 --> 00:20:48,281
with the devastating effects
of a drug epidemic.

447
00:20:48,348 --> 00:20:50,917
The presence of drugs
such as cocaine and crack

448
00:20:50,950 --> 00:20:52,686
was pervasive,

449
00:20:52,719 --> 00:20:56,456
and their impact was felt in
both urban and suburban areas,

450
00:20:56,489 --> 00:20:59,192
leading to a surge
of crime rates

451
00:20:59,325 --> 00:21:02,362
and a destabilization
of communities.

452
00:21:02,395 --> 00:21:04,831
- When the pandemic
was real strong

453
00:21:04,931 --> 00:21:06,399
with this crack pandemic,

454
00:21:06,433 --> 00:21:09,536
it was almost like no way
of getting around it.

455
00:21:09,602 --> 00:21:12,339
If you was from the community
or if you from the hood

456
00:21:12,405 --> 00:21:15,041
or the neighborhood, some way,
this pandemic

457
00:21:15,108 --> 00:21:16,576
was going to catch up to you.

458
00:21:16,609 --> 00:21:20,914
If you was selling, smoking,

459
00:21:20,980 --> 00:21:24,551
buying, using at some capacity,

460
00:21:24,617 --> 00:21:26,586
it's going to catch up to you.

461
00:21:26,619 --> 00:21:29,255
- So when I joined the police
department in the 1980s,

462
00:21:29,389 --> 00:21:31,491
Darryl Francis Gates
was the police chief.

463
00:21:31,558 --> 00:21:33,560
So I really didn't know
what to expect.

464
00:21:33,593 --> 00:21:36,296
I knew that I had friends
and family growing up

465
00:21:36,363 --> 00:21:38,431
who had angst
with the police department,

466
00:21:38,465 --> 00:21:41,701
that I was going to treat
people who look like me fairly

467
00:21:41,801 --> 00:21:43,069
and appropriately.

468
00:21:43,203 --> 00:21:45,438
And so that was
my only mindset.

469
00:21:45,472 --> 00:21:48,308
When I became a police officer,
I treated people the way

470
00:21:48,375 --> 00:21:50,310
I would want someone
to treat my son.

471
00:21:50,410 --> 00:21:52,946
And that was what
I did for 20 years.

472
00:21:53,013 --> 00:21:54,447
- In every good thing,

473
00:21:54,514 --> 00:21:56,716
bad seems to linger
right behind it.

474
00:21:56,750 --> 00:22:00,286
But what happened next,
no one could have predicted.

475
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:07,260
* *

476
00:22:07,293 --> 00:22:10,563
[helicopter blades thrumming]

477
00:22:25,845 --> 00:22:28,014
[indistinct chatter]

478
00:22:28,081 --> 00:22:30,684
- Videotape obtained
by Channel 5 News

479
00:22:30,750 --> 00:22:32,318
shows what appears to be

480
00:22:32,385 --> 00:22:35,288
a group of LAPD officers
beating a suspect.

481
00:22:35,388 --> 00:22:37,424
- As soon as it hit
the airwaves,

482
00:22:37,524 --> 00:22:39,025
it created a firestorm--

483
00:22:39,092 --> 00:22:41,628
video recorded by a man
named George Holliday

484
00:22:41,661 --> 00:22:44,731
from the balcony of his
apartment in Lakeview Terrace.

485
00:22:44,798 --> 00:22:45,732
- The verdicts

486
00:22:45,765 --> 00:22:47,367
in the Rodney King
civil rights trial are in.

487
00:22:47,434 --> 00:22:49,469
- Lawrence Powell,
not guilty of assault,

488
00:22:49,502 --> 00:22:51,237
not guilty of filing
a false report.

489
00:22:51,304 --> 00:22:52,572
Timothy Wind, not guilty,
not guilty

490
00:22:52,605 --> 00:22:54,207
on the two charges
against him.

491
00:22:54,274 --> 00:22:56,009
Ted Briseno,
not guilty, not guilty.

492
00:22:56,076 --> 00:22:57,711
14 1/2-year veteran,

493
00:22:57,777 --> 00:23:01,381
not guilty, not guilty,
not guilty, not guilty.

494
00:23:01,448 --> 00:23:03,016
And that's the way
things stand right now.

495
00:23:03,083 --> 00:23:04,651
If we go over some of...

496
00:23:04,718 --> 00:23:07,253
- When the police beat up on
somebody and you can see it,

497
00:23:07,354 --> 00:23:08,788
it's like--
and they say he's not guilty.

498
00:23:08,855 --> 00:23:10,123
- This is what y'all
going to do.

499
00:23:10,223 --> 00:23:11,591
Okay, well, it's more of us
than it is of y'all.

500
00:23:11,658 --> 00:23:13,893
Y'all going to have to call for
backup while we already here.

501
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,496
[sirens wailing]

502
00:23:16,529 --> 00:23:19,799
[person speaking indistinctly
over megaphone]

503
00:23:19,866 --> 00:23:22,268
* *

504
00:23:22,335 --> 00:23:24,404
People were like,
y'all going to cheat.

505
00:23:24,471 --> 00:23:26,239
Y'all supposed to be law,
protect and serve, huh?

506
00:23:26,272 --> 00:23:27,974
Y'all don't got to serve us.
We going to help ourselves.

507
00:23:28,008 --> 00:23:34,514
* *

508
00:23:36,182 --> 00:23:37,751
- Ceasefire
amongst each other--

509
00:23:37,817 --> 00:23:40,653
the Blacks, the gangs, and
everybody went to go loot.

510
00:23:40,754 --> 00:23:47,460
* *

511
00:23:59,339 --> 00:24:00,874
- We didn't understand

512
00:24:00,907 --> 00:24:04,477
destroying our own neighborhood
is gonna be our shortcomings.

513
00:24:04,544 --> 00:24:07,947
- In LA '92, it was families,

514
00:24:08,081 --> 00:24:09,315
whites, Blacks,

515
00:24:09,416 --> 00:24:11,451
because of the injustice
that happened

516
00:24:11,551 --> 00:24:15,755
to Rodney King and
the fact that you had

517
00:24:15,822 --> 00:24:17,691
various forms of street gangs.

518
00:24:17,791 --> 00:24:22,629
Korean gangs were in Koreatown
moving on Korean businesses.

519
00:24:22,696 --> 00:24:27,233
It was just an onslaught
of a multicultural rebellion

520
00:24:27,334 --> 00:24:30,236
of people of color
and poor whites

521
00:24:30,270 --> 00:24:32,639
at that time of LA '92.

522
00:24:32,706 --> 00:24:36,543
- Today's time hasn't changed
from yesterday's time.

523
00:24:36,609 --> 00:24:39,979
It's only getting--it's
actually more freer now

524
00:24:40,113 --> 00:24:41,481
to do as they will.

525
00:24:41,548 --> 00:24:45,618
I have a son that's locked up
for a longer time

526
00:24:45,652 --> 00:24:48,788
than this man who just
recently been found guilty,

527
00:24:48,822 --> 00:24:51,091
gets found guilty for some
part of murder or something.

528
00:24:51,157 --> 00:24:52,459
He gets 23 years.

529
00:24:52,525 --> 00:24:54,561
My son got 24 years
with no victim.

530
00:24:54,661 --> 00:24:56,663
He's been saying,
you got him on camera.

531
00:24:56,763 --> 00:24:58,631
You got people talking to him,
telling you the man's

532
00:24:58,665 --> 00:25:00,967
not breathing and he's sitting
staring at you like this,

533
00:25:01,034 --> 00:25:02,635
and he got his boys
looking at you.

534
00:25:02,702 --> 00:25:04,070
It's the same thing.

535
00:25:04,137 --> 00:25:05,672
It's just more--they feel
more freer to do it now.

536
00:25:05,739 --> 00:25:08,675
They have more liberty
to kill now.

537
00:25:08,742 --> 00:25:11,745
- Making things better in
the community between police,

538
00:25:11,778 --> 00:25:15,115
if you want to change,
particularly the LAPD,

539
00:25:15,215 --> 00:25:16,583
you need to get on the job.

540
00:25:16,649 --> 00:25:18,351
You need to get
on any police department,

541
00:25:18,418 --> 00:25:20,286
because, listen, DOJ has
already told us in a report

542
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,654
that they're recruiting KKK.

543
00:25:21,721 --> 00:25:23,857
They're getting those
people on the department.

544
00:25:23,923 --> 00:25:25,992
So why wouldn't you want
to be on a department

545
00:25:26,026 --> 00:25:27,394
so that you can
make a difference?

546
00:25:27,460 --> 00:25:29,562
Change is going to
come from the inside.

547
00:25:29,629 --> 00:25:30,830
- We figured
it would get better.

548
00:25:30,864 --> 00:25:33,066
It has only gotten worse,

549
00:25:33,133 --> 00:25:35,235
from the killings
of Trayvon Martin,

550
00:25:35,268 --> 00:25:39,139
Breonna Taylor, George Floyd,
with many more on the list.

551
00:25:39,205 --> 00:25:43,209
Reckless cops are set free and
are given a slap on the wrist.

552
00:25:43,276 --> 00:25:46,112
When will things change?

553
00:25:47,647 --> 00:25:49,716
- [sighs] What it was like
growing up in Compton

554
00:25:49,783 --> 00:25:53,453
was fun, hanging with your
brothers, your friends

555
00:25:53,553 --> 00:25:55,355
that become teammates
playing Pop Warner.

556
00:25:55,388 --> 00:25:59,192
And then there was also a side
where you were paranoid

557
00:25:59,259 --> 00:26:00,660
because of your surroundings.

558
00:26:00,694 --> 00:26:02,228
What were
the police going to do?

559
00:26:02,295 --> 00:26:04,431
Constantly looking
over your shoulder,

560
00:26:04,497 --> 00:26:07,067
difficult stress
for a Black man or Latino.

561
00:26:07,133 --> 00:26:09,536
- Los Angeles was
chaotic for me,

562
00:26:09,569 --> 00:26:12,339
just living
in a gang-infested community.

563
00:26:12,405 --> 00:26:14,007
I guess the good part, though,

564
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,844
was that I was born and raised
there, so I knew everyone.

565
00:26:17,911 --> 00:26:21,514
So my kids didn't have
to grow up as strangers,

566
00:26:21,548 --> 00:26:23,149
like, moving into a community.

567
00:26:23,216 --> 00:26:25,585
- At this time,
the minority communities

568
00:26:25,652 --> 00:26:26,986
were spinning out of control.

569
00:26:27,053 --> 00:26:29,756
Without the safety of police,
the communities

570
00:26:29,789 --> 00:26:31,758
had to turn
to something that would.

571
00:26:31,825 --> 00:26:34,227
They just didn't know
that it would turn into this.

572
00:26:34,327 --> 00:26:37,564
- * I'm a soldier at war, and
I dip through these alleys *

573
00:26:37,597 --> 00:26:38,698
* It's that mack,
blue and black *

574
00:26:38,732 --> 00:26:40,233
* Got them sights
fully stacked *

575
00:26:40,333 --> 00:26:43,370
* These codes gots my back,
that's where it's at *

576
00:26:43,470 --> 00:26:45,005
* South Central
to my heart... *

577
00:26:45,105 --> 00:26:46,506
- At that time,

578
00:26:46,606 --> 00:26:49,642
gang banging was at explosive
Hiroshima time.

579
00:26:49,709 --> 00:26:51,111
You know what I mean?

580
00:26:51,177 --> 00:26:53,546
It was the drive-by shooting.
It was the crack epidemic.

581
00:26:53,613 --> 00:26:55,248
It was a lot of people
offer Sherm

582
00:26:55,281 --> 00:26:56,416
and young girls pregnant.

583
00:26:56,483 --> 00:26:58,752
- Back in the days
when I grew up,

584
00:26:58,818 --> 00:27:00,787
you had to really watch
your step.

585
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,257
You really did, because if
you wasn't from the red side,

586
00:27:04,324 --> 00:27:05,492
you couldn't wear red.

587
00:27:05,592 --> 00:27:07,260
If you wasn't
from the blue side,

588
00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:11,064
you couldn't wear blue, because
it was real colorful back then.

589
00:27:11,131 --> 00:27:14,934
[laughs] If you got caught with
either one of those colors,

590
00:27:15,001 --> 00:27:16,736
you had to be from somewhere.

591
00:27:16,803 --> 00:27:18,038
- It was brutal,

592
00:27:18,104 --> 00:27:20,440
especially during
the late '70s, early '80s.

593
00:27:20,473 --> 00:27:24,377
That was a game changer for me
in my community itself.

594
00:27:24,477 --> 00:27:25,845
- But it wasn't always
like this.

595
00:27:25,879 --> 00:27:28,715
Gangs were referred to
as clubs,

596
00:27:28,815 --> 00:27:31,985
similar to the Boy Scouts
or an Elks Lodge.

597
00:27:32,052 --> 00:27:34,654
These different clubs
offered an opportunity

598
00:27:34,721 --> 00:27:38,425
to meet and cultivate
lifelong friendships

599
00:27:38,525 --> 00:27:40,727
and network
with the community.

600
00:27:40,794 --> 00:27:43,363
- Now, Slauson gets
the name Slauson in 1952.

601
00:27:43,396 --> 00:27:47,634
The ones in the 40s east of
Central were called Crown 40s.

602
00:27:47,667 --> 00:27:49,169
The ones that lived
across Central,

603
00:27:49,235 --> 00:27:50,737
on the west side
of Central,

604
00:27:50,837 --> 00:27:53,273
mainly in the 50s,
were called Roman Pearls.

605
00:27:53,340 --> 00:27:58,011
Roman Pearls and Crown 40s got
together, became businessmen.

606
00:27:58,044 --> 00:27:59,579
Then they had Ross Snyders.

607
00:27:59,646 --> 00:28:02,916
You had 20s,
Outlaws, and Pueblos.

608
00:28:02,982 --> 00:28:04,751
They were social clubs.

609
00:28:04,851 --> 00:28:06,319
They had club meetings
and all that kind of stuff.

610
00:28:06,353 --> 00:28:08,054
Where the turf comes in at

611
00:28:08,121 --> 00:28:10,156
all got to do with going
to a party

612
00:28:10,190 --> 00:28:11,925
or you came
to visit your cousin,

613
00:28:12,025 --> 00:28:15,028
and you bebopping down the
street, somebody looking at--

614
00:28:15,095 --> 00:28:15,929
who are you?

615
00:28:16,029 --> 00:28:17,330
Where did you come from?

616
00:28:17,364 --> 00:28:19,366
And blah, blah, blah,
and you get to talking.

617
00:28:19,432 --> 00:28:21,468
Now you could get a pass.

618
00:28:21,568 --> 00:28:23,136
Or if you thought
you was somewhere

619
00:28:23,169 --> 00:28:25,705
you was out of line, you're
going to get an ass whuppin'.

620
00:28:25,772 --> 00:28:27,674
- If you got my back,
I got your back.

621
00:28:27,807 --> 00:28:29,442
And I wasn't going
to let nobody happen

622
00:28:29,509 --> 00:28:31,544
to nobody that we were friends,

623
00:28:31,678 --> 00:28:33,380
because nobody mess
with my friends.

624
00:28:33,513 --> 00:28:34,714
And that's just the way it was.

625
00:28:34,848 --> 00:28:37,217
- Now, back in the day,
we had reputations

626
00:28:37,283 --> 00:28:38,718
for the best fighters.

627
00:28:38,785 --> 00:28:41,721
If you want to gain respect
and become known

628
00:28:41,788 --> 00:28:43,957
and have people give you
your props,

629
00:28:43,990 --> 00:28:45,959
you had to fight,
and fight you must.

630
00:28:46,059 --> 00:28:47,894
It was no way around it.

631
00:28:47,961 --> 00:28:52,632
- That whole aspect
of violence and gang culture

632
00:28:52,665 --> 00:28:55,101
is America's culture.

633
00:28:55,201 --> 00:28:59,506
Gates said he had the biggest
gang in LA--8,000 members.

634
00:28:59,606 --> 00:29:01,541
Most minorities
who are oppressed,

635
00:29:01,675 --> 00:29:03,777
they imitate their oppressor.

636
00:29:03,843 --> 00:29:07,347
Envy, greed...

637
00:29:07,380 --> 00:29:10,550
drives violence.

638
00:29:12,652 --> 00:29:15,321
- Well, the '70s
in South Central LA,

639
00:29:15,388 --> 00:29:18,391
we saw the birth
of the Crips and the Bloods.

640
00:29:18,458 --> 00:29:19,959
- Crips stands

641
00:29:20,060 --> 00:29:22,028
for Community Revolution
in Progress Service.

642
00:29:22,062 --> 00:29:24,664
We stick together
with morals and principles.

643
00:29:24,764 --> 00:29:26,833
- It was only supposed
to be protect

644
00:29:26,866 --> 00:29:28,902
what's in your neighborhood,

645
00:29:29,035 --> 00:29:31,404
not going out to kill anybody
or nothing like that.

646
00:29:31,438 --> 00:29:32,672
- Raymond Washington--

647
00:29:32,739 --> 00:29:34,607
he constituted
the Crips protocol,

648
00:29:34,674 --> 00:29:37,010
which one
of the main things were,

649
00:29:37,077 --> 00:29:38,478
Crips don't kill Crips.

650
00:29:38,511 --> 00:29:41,114
As we've grown big, as we
expanded from the West Side

651
00:29:41,214 --> 00:29:44,551
to the North Side
and all the way to Long Beach,

652
00:29:44,617 --> 00:29:47,220
we had everything with that
but the Crip Constitution

653
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,189
of morals and principles
and structure.

654
00:29:49,255 --> 00:29:52,692
- What changed
from then to now

655
00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:55,295
and how they do it,

656
00:29:55,362 --> 00:29:59,265
one, the guys who were actual
leaders in the beginning,

657
00:29:59,299 --> 00:30:01,234
in the time that Munson
and Raymond

658
00:30:01,267 --> 00:30:05,372
and all them other guys from
other neighborhoods came in,

659
00:30:05,438 --> 00:30:08,608
they started off fairly
well, but they never really had

660
00:30:08,641 --> 00:30:12,445
full control
over their neighborhood.

661
00:30:12,545 --> 00:30:15,448
- And this is where things
started to turn for the worse.

662
00:30:15,482 --> 00:30:17,517
Certain Crip members began
to branch off

663
00:30:17,617 --> 00:30:19,986
and start their own gangs.

664
00:30:20,053 --> 00:30:22,789
This led to rivals and
conflicts among one another.

665
00:30:22,856 --> 00:30:25,925
- Unfortunately,
things got so bad,

666
00:30:25,992 --> 00:30:28,828
in the late 1970s,

667
00:30:28,962 --> 00:30:30,830
it was that dangerous
just walking to school.

668
00:30:30,897 --> 00:30:33,099
And where I lived at
in South Central LA,

669
00:30:33,233 --> 00:30:37,404
we had the Crips in one part
of my neighborhood.

670
00:30:37,504 --> 00:30:39,806
But as I walked
to school down Avalon,

671
00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:43,476
we started making our way into
the Blood part

672
00:30:43,543 --> 00:30:44,844
of South Central LA.

673
00:30:44,911 --> 00:30:47,280
- When somebody asks you
those deadly words,

674
00:30:47,313 --> 00:30:50,884
where you from, and you say you
from a certain neighborhood,

675
00:30:50,984 --> 00:30:53,086
that just automatically
would affiliate.

676
00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:55,989
- It was an incident
that occurred in '79--

677
00:30:56,022 --> 00:30:59,626
some 16-year-olds out
doing mischievous things.

678
00:30:59,693 --> 00:31:01,895
One of them end up dead.

679
00:31:01,961 --> 00:31:04,164
And he was so loved
throughout the community

680
00:31:04,230 --> 00:31:09,069
that it just created a war
that haven't ended yet.

681
00:31:09,102 --> 00:31:10,837
- The fights
amongst each other

682
00:31:10,970 --> 00:31:12,605
aren't the worst part
about it.

683
00:31:12,672 --> 00:31:15,675
It's when the infamous boxcar
conspiracy comes into play.

684
00:31:15,742 --> 00:31:18,044
This changes everything
forever.

685
00:31:24,551 --> 00:31:25,819
- I've heard about it.

686
00:31:25,885 --> 00:31:28,688
Now, is it true?
I don't know.

687
00:31:28,722 --> 00:31:32,425
- Well, Dr. Ernie Smith
talked about how they had

688
00:31:32,459 --> 00:31:37,197
a train or something in
the Watts area of Los Angeles,

689
00:31:37,263 --> 00:31:41,368
and they let the people know
there were guns on that train.

690
00:31:41,468 --> 00:31:44,037
And people from the projects
and through the Watts area

691
00:31:44,104 --> 00:31:46,072
went and got
a bunch of weapons.

692
00:31:46,139 --> 00:31:49,476
- Well, it's been documented
that the cocaine and the guns

693
00:31:49,509 --> 00:31:53,480
and all of the vices that
were put into our community

694
00:31:53,580 --> 00:31:55,882
and thrust on our youth

695
00:31:55,949 --> 00:32:00,053
caused much of the uproar
in our communities.

696
00:32:00,086 --> 00:32:03,323
- Everybody's world was
changing because crack was in,

697
00:32:03,356 --> 00:32:07,060
and the community
as a whole was changing.

698
00:32:07,093 --> 00:32:09,662
The love of life, I'm saying,
the love of family

699
00:32:09,729 --> 00:32:12,265
was decreasing tremendously.

700
00:32:12,365 --> 00:32:16,736
- And I would agree,
because prior to the dope

701
00:32:16,770 --> 00:32:18,138
that came into our community

702
00:32:18,204 --> 00:32:21,574
and the money that could be
made from selling that dope,

703
00:32:21,708 --> 00:32:25,578
it was just football teams

704
00:32:25,612 --> 00:32:28,615
fighting against each other.

705
00:32:28,682 --> 00:32:30,183
- * The life of a G hustling *

706
00:32:30,216 --> 00:32:31,985
* Trying to get my play
in this game *

707
00:32:32,052 --> 00:32:33,887
* Trying to survive
every day on the grind *

708
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:35,422
* See my pockets to show... *

709
00:32:35,455 --> 00:32:37,290
- There was more
street-gang violence

710
00:32:37,357 --> 00:32:39,025
in Los Angeles overnight.

711
00:32:39,125 --> 00:32:41,895
At least five people were
killed and six others wounded.

712
00:32:41,961 --> 00:32:44,230
- The '80s was violence.

713
00:32:44,297 --> 00:32:47,534
It's not like they dropped
crack cocaine

714
00:32:47,634 --> 00:32:49,669
in the jungles only.

715
00:32:49,736 --> 00:32:51,371
No, crack cocaine,

716
00:32:51,404 --> 00:32:54,074
as you see on these
other shows, was all over.

717
00:32:54,107 --> 00:32:58,044
Every hood was being
empowered with guns,

718
00:32:58,078 --> 00:33:01,081
and violence
was on the uproar.

719
00:33:01,214 --> 00:33:03,016
- This dude pulled out a gun
and put it to my head.

720
00:33:03,116 --> 00:33:04,984
- How many times you get shot?
- Five.

721
00:33:05,051 --> 00:33:07,153
- It was about territory now.

722
00:33:07,253 --> 00:33:10,156
- It's about getting some
money and getting out.

723
00:33:10,290 --> 00:33:13,360
It just happens to be, when
you start making the money,

724
00:33:13,426 --> 00:33:14,828
you want more.

725
00:33:14,961 --> 00:33:15,995
And that's when
the greed come in.

726
00:33:16,062 --> 00:33:18,865
Your being of wanting
to turn whatever

727
00:33:18,932 --> 00:33:20,900
went bad into something good,

728
00:33:20,967 --> 00:33:22,535
and it just didn't end up
that way.

729
00:33:22,602 --> 00:33:24,304
The dope game killed
everything we loved.

730
00:33:24,404 --> 00:33:26,306
- * I know it's all
like a prayer *

731
00:33:26,339 --> 00:33:27,974
* You barely surviving *

732
00:33:28,008 --> 00:33:30,010
* But your players
conquer the game *

733
00:33:30,076 --> 00:33:32,045
* And never stop rising *

734
00:33:34,814 --> 00:33:36,683
- Good morning again.

735
00:33:36,750 --> 00:33:38,284
Thank you for coming out.

736
00:33:38,318 --> 00:33:40,487
Our purpose for being
here today is very simple.

737
00:33:40,553 --> 00:33:42,789
We are here to,
first of all, allow

738
00:33:42,822 --> 00:33:44,290
some young men and women

739
00:33:44,391 --> 00:33:47,794
from this community,
who we sincerely feel

740
00:33:47,894 --> 00:33:51,031
has made a concerted
effort for peace,

741
00:33:51,164 --> 00:33:53,867
that they are coming
together, bonding together

742
00:33:53,933 --> 00:33:56,936
so that we can live peacefully
in this community together.

743
00:33:57,003 --> 00:33:58,838
- Now, when the peace
treaty came about,

744
00:33:58,872 --> 00:34:00,907
it was about us
really realizing

745
00:34:00,974 --> 00:34:02,008
that we have a common enemy.

746
00:34:02,075 --> 00:34:04,411
Our common enemy
is not each other.

747
00:34:04,477 --> 00:34:06,446
Our common enemy
was the police.

748
00:34:06,479 --> 00:34:09,282
- But blue means Crips,
and red means Bloods,

749
00:34:09,315 --> 00:34:11,317
two vintage gangs
that have grown

750
00:34:11,351 --> 00:34:13,787
into enormous and loose
criminal federations.

751
00:34:13,887 --> 00:34:16,690
- To me, the same formula is,

752
00:34:16,723 --> 00:34:18,158
we're dealing with gangs

753
00:34:18,191 --> 00:34:21,194
and just dealing with
our culture, our people.

754
00:34:21,261 --> 00:34:24,664
You don't have to join a gang.
You could be your own man.

755
00:34:24,764 --> 00:34:28,134
It's up to you where you stand

756
00:34:28,168 --> 00:34:30,503
and how you choose
to move around

757
00:34:30,603 --> 00:34:32,038
- Be your own man.

758
00:34:32,072 --> 00:34:34,207
Don't let some gang
or a group of people

759
00:34:34,274 --> 00:34:36,543
kind of mold you and shape you
to who they want you to be

760
00:34:36,609 --> 00:34:38,378
because you're
going to wake up one day

761
00:34:38,445 --> 00:34:40,480
and say, man, this is
not who I really am.

762
00:34:40,547 --> 00:34:43,283
I've become what they
wanted me to become.

763
00:34:43,383 --> 00:34:46,586
- But the thing is that
there's so many blessings

764
00:34:46,619 --> 00:34:48,855
that, you know what,
that we can have,

765
00:34:48,888 --> 00:34:50,490
but it's all about choices.

766
00:34:50,523 --> 00:34:52,359
- You want young men
that's going to come out

767
00:34:52,492 --> 00:34:54,728
of this community that's going
to come back and better it,

768
00:34:54,861 --> 00:34:56,463
not to keep destroying it.

769
00:34:56,563 --> 00:34:59,766
And I think we done let this
self-hatred towards ourselves

770
00:34:59,866 --> 00:35:01,101
go too far,

771
00:35:01,167 --> 00:35:03,003
instead of holding
each other accountable

772
00:35:03,103 --> 00:35:05,305
for the hatred we
hold to one another.

773
00:35:05,372 --> 00:35:07,340
Because there's no reason why
we should walk down the street

774
00:35:07,474 --> 00:35:11,177
and have to fear another man
that look like me.

775
00:35:11,277 --> 00:35:14,314
- ...survive attacks,
though, shot five times

776
00:35:14,381 --> 00:35:15,915
and paralyzed for life.

777
00:35:15,982 --> 00:35:18,118
- I joined a gang
at a very young age,

778
00:35:18,184 --> 00:35:22,155
and I feel a sense
of obligation

779
00:35:22,222 --> 00:35:24,357
and atonement,

780
00:35:24,424 --> 00:35:28,228
that it's my responsibility
to teach others different

781
00:35:28,294 --> 00:35:30,330
in my community,
that there's a better way.

782
00:35:30,397 --> 00:35:35,168
The violence, the prisoners--
it wasn't worth it.

783
00:35:35,235 --> 00:35:39,439
- Look at every nationality
that has gangs in it.

784
00:35:39,572 --> 00:35:42,308
The Hell's Angels, and they're
into the drug trade--

785
00:35:42,442 --> 00:35:45,145
the heroin and the glass
and the speed and all that.

786
00:35:45,211 --> 00:35:47,213
The Japanese have the Triads.

787
00:35:47,247 --> 00:35:48,682
They're into the real estate.

788
00:35:48,715 --> 00:35:51,718
The Hispanics--their gangs
are into the drug trade.

789
00:35:51,818 --> 00:35:54,187
They're evolving.

790
00:35:54,254 --> 00:35:57,123
What have Black gangs
evolved into?

791
00:35:57,157 --> 00:35:59,192
Nothing.

792
00:35:59,259 --> 00:36:02,062
Well, because we're
not putting Black first.

793
00:36:02,162 --> 00:36:04,431
We're putting
our bandannas first.

794
00:36:04,464 --> 00:36:07,467
- You see Republicans
calling themselves red coats

795
00:36:07,534 --> 00:36:10,103
and the Democrats calling
themselves blue coats.

796
00:36:10,203 --> 00:36:12,272
You see the Crips
calling themselves blue

797
00:36:12,305 --> 00:36:15,108
and the Bloods calling
themselves red.

798
00:36:15,141 --> 00:36:17,143
They get all that from America.

799
00:36:17,177 --> 00:36:20,613
America have a flag.
The Crips have a flag.

800
00:36:20,647 --> 00:36:24,517
America have a Constitution.
The Crips have a Constitution.

801
00:36:24,551 --> 00:36:27,220
They're just mimicking society.

802
00:36:27,287 --> 00:36:30,957
You cannot take the land
from the Native American,

803
00:36:30,990 --> 00:36:35,128
impose slavery on Africans,

804
00:36:35,195 --> 00:36:38,264
exploit Asians and Latinos

805
00:36:38,298 --> 00:36:40,800
without violence,
without guns,

806
00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:42,002
and without a culture.

807
00:36:42,135 --> 00:36:43,703
This is America's culture.

808
00:36:43,770 --> 00:36:45,438
- The treaty is
still being pushed.

809
00:36:45,505 --> 00:36:47,340
They're trying to push it.

810
00:36:47,474 --> 00:36:50,944
They're trying--all the OGs
are trying to push peace

811
00:36:50,977 --> 00:36:52,545
because we've seen

812
00:36:52,645 --> 00:36:56,349
what has happened
as a result of the gang wars.

813
00:36:56,416 --> 00:36:58,718
- The streets could either
make you or break you

814
00:36:58,785 --> 00:37:00,186
or swallow you alive.

815
00:37:00,286 --> 00:37:02,455
And you could either learn
from it or get caught up

816
00:37:02,555 --> 00:37:03,857
and be corrupted by it.

817
00:37:03,957 --> 00:37:07,861
- All gang banging has to stop,
even religious gang banging,

818
00:37:07,894 --> 00:37:10,363
even political gang banging.

819
00:37:10,430 --> 00:37:14,234
And when we realize
that what we need is unity,

820
00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:17,037
not uniformity,
meaning, Nation of Islam,

821
00:37:17,103 --> 00:37:18,605
bring what you do best.

822
00:37:18,672 --> 00:37:21,207
Christian Church,
bring what you do best.

823
00:37:21,241 --> 00:37:24,110
Black Panthers,
bring what you do best.

824
00:37:24,177 --> 00:37:27,881
NAACP, SCLC--but let's unite

825
00:37:27,914 --> 00:37:30,283
and fight together

826
00:37:30,350 --> 00:37:32,018
to uplift our community.

827
00:37:32,085 --> 00:37:36,222
And we need to stop begging
white people to do for us

828
00:37:36,356 --> 00:37:40,226
what our unity can do
for ourselves.

829
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,829
And this is what the youth
is waiting for.

830
00:37:45,231 --> 00:37:48,034
- Don't try to scare me,
Count Dracula.

831
00:37:48,068 --> 00:37:50,970
[suspenseful music]

832
00:37:51,004 --> 00:37:55,709
* *

833
00:37:55,742 --> 00:37:59,979
Here, the secrets of life and
death by Dr. Frankenstein.

834
00:38:02,449 --> 00:38:06,953
Memorize them, operate yourself
if you're in such a hurry.

835
00:38:06,986 --> 00:38:11,458
- I have other ways of securing
your cooperation.

836
00:38:11,524 --> 00:38:14,794
- You're wasting your time.
My will is as strong as yours.

837
00:38:14,861 --> 00:38:15,995
- Are you sure?

838
00:38:16,029 --> 00:38:19,399
* *

839
00:38:19,466 --> 00:38:21,534
Look into my eyes.

840
00:38:23,636 --> 00:38:24,871
Look.

841
00:38:24,904 --> 00:38:27,941
- Extensive research shows
the power of manipulation

842
00:38:28,008 --> 00:38:29,442
in influencing people.

843
00:38:29,509 --> 00:38:32,379
Over the years,
manipulation and propaganda

844
00:38:32,479 --> 00:38:36,149
have been used through media
to control individuals.

845
00:38:36,282 --> 00:38:38,485
Media remains
the favorite tool,

846
00:38:38,585 --> 00:38:40,553
shaping beliefs
through reading

847
00:38:40,653 --> 00:38:41,921
and visual perception.

848
00:38:41,955 --> 00:38:45,291
[hip-hop music]

849
00:38:45,325 --> 00:38:50,363
* *

850
00:38:50,463 --> 00:38:54,134
- These games are so realistic
in these days.

851
00:38:54,167 --> 00:38:56,036
It's more like a simulator.

852
00:38:56,102 --> 00:39:01,074
They training them to be
killers with a simulator,

853
00:39:01,141 --> 00:39:02,642
I mean, through video game.

854
00:39:02,709 --> 00:39:06,046
I mean, dang, that's how real

855
00:39:06,112 --> 00:39:09,215
these video games can get.

856
00:39:09,282 --> 00:39:11,351
- Right now the video games

857
00:39:11,418 --> 00:39:13,586
have a real tough impact
on our kids.

858
00:39:13,620 --> 00:39:16,656
One is because,
in their memory bank,

859
00:39:16,723 --> 00:39:19,993
that's all they think about--
is that video game.

860
00:39:20,060 --> 00:39:22,028
Like I said, I have a grandson.

861
00:39:22,062 --> 00:39:24,497
That's all he do--
is play that video game.

862
00:39:24,564 --> 00:39:27,600
And, I mean,
now, I perpetrated, too,

863
00:39:27,667 --> 00:39:31,504
because I bought him
the video game.

864
00:39:31,638 --> 00:39:33,807
- There's a growing concern
that violent movies

865
00:39:33,873 --> 00:39:37,243
and video games have
contributed to the emergence

866
00:39:37,310 --> 00:39:39,446
of young male perpetrators
of murder,

867
00:39:39,546 --> 00:39:42,349
both in the United States
and other countries.

868
00:39:42,382 --> 00:39:44,784
- When children are watching
video games

869
00:39:44,818 --> 00:39:48,021
or watching movies that
contain a lot of violence

870
00:39:48,054 --> 00:39:51,324
or are listening to music

871
00:39:51,358 --> 00:39:54,127
that pertains a theme
of violence,

872
00:39:54,227 --> 00:39:57,230
then they're more than likely

873
00:39:57,297 --> 00:39:59,866
to display
some behavior related to it.

874
00:39:59,933 --> 00:40:02,902
It may not be
the exact act, right?

875
00:40:02,969 --> 00:40:04,938
But it's the power
of suggestion

876
00:40:05,038 --> 00:40:07,040
that comes into the mind.

877
00:40:07,107 --> 00:40:08,708
- The focus of debate

878
00:40:08,808 --> 00:40:10,377
surrounding
violent entertainment

879
00:40:10,410 --> 00:40:12,746
with our politicians
and other stakeholders

880
00:40:12,779 --> 00:40:15,815
primarily revolves
around its production,

881
00:40:15,882 --> 00:40:18,218
disregarding its reception
by the public.

882
00:40:18,251 --> 00:40:22,622
- I believe that
the gaming industry

883
00:40:22,689 --> 00:40:27,193
has played a part in hardwiring
our young people

884
00:40:27,227 --> 00:40:30,263
to want to be excited

885
00:40:30,397 --> 00:40:33,533
about engaging
in using deadly force.

886
00:40:33,566 --> 00:40:37,437
A gamer believes that,
I can press a button

887
00:40:37,470 --> 00:40:39,439
and start over.

888
00:40:39,472 --> 00:40:42,409
[dramatic music]

889
00:40:42,442 --> 00:40:44,377
* *

890
00:40:44,444 --> 00:40:47,213
[gunshots]

891
00:40:47,247 --> 00:40:50,150
[goofy cartoon music]

892
00:40:50,183 --> 00:40:52,619
* *

893
00:40:52,686 --> 00:40:55,221
- Consequently, the level
of violence to which children

894
00:40:55,321 --> 00:40:57,290
are exposed to
in their daily lives

895
00:40:57,357 --> 00:40:59,259
and the responsibility
of toy makers

896
00:40:59,392 --> 00:41:02,462
in perpetuating this exposure

897
00:41:02,529 --> 00:41:05,932
have become a pressing issue
in the industry.

898
00:41:05,999 --> 00:41:08,368
- You've just seen
a demonstration

899
00:41:08,468 --> 00:41:10,603
of the most authentic Western
toy cap guns in the world.

900
00:41:10,737 --> 00:41:14,174
You can tell they're Mattel.
They're swell.

901
00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:16,176
[dramatic music]

902
00:41:16,276 --> 00:41:17,877
- When we were coming up,

903
00:41:17,944 --> 00:41:21,514
the only way
that we were exposed

904
00:41:21,581 --> 00:41:23,016
to violent acts

905
00:41:23,049 --> 00:41:26,786
was basically going
to movie theaters and TV.

906
00:41:26,820 --> 00:41:33,727
* *

907
00:41:36,129 --> 00:41:39,032
[indistinct chatter]

908
00:41:39,132 --> 00:41:42,068
[people screaming]

909
00:41:43,937 --> 00:41:47,974
But now violence
is almost promoted

910
00:41:48,008 --> 00:41:50,543
on a daily basis.

911
00:41:50,643 --> 00:41:53,179
- I watched "Colors"
when I was younger.

912
00:41:53,313 --> 00:41:54,514
I'm fascinated by that movie.

913
00:41:54,581 --> 00:41:56,850
I think I saw that
when I was in Texas.

914
00:41:56,983 --> 00:42:02,655
* *

915
00:42:02,689 --> 00:42:05,091
I was like, I'll never be
in California, you know?

916
00:42:05,125 --> 00:42:09,529
But it was fascinating to me
to see these guys run around

917
00:42:09,662 --> 00:42:12,399
the streets and just do
all this craziness

918
00:42:12,499 --> 00:42:14,668
and feel like they're
on top of the world.

919
00:42:14,701 --> 00:42:18,538
And then, boom, you know,
we went to California.

920
00:42:18,605 --> 00:42:20,206
[chuckles] And I started
studying, you know?

921
00:42:20,273 --> 00:42:22,275
Not books, I started studying
the streets.

922
00:42:22,342 --> 00:42:23,843
I knew where everything was.

923
00:42:23,910 --> 00:42:26,513
I knew who everything was
and what street was what.

924
00:42:26,579 --> 00:42:29,015
And it just was like--
it consumed me.

925
00:42:29,149 --> 00:42:33,787
It was my profession
to know about that.

926
00:42:33,887 --> 00:42:36,723
- It's a very thin line when
you talk about entertainment.

927
00:42:36,790 --> 00:42:40,060
You have to ask yourself,
what is exploitation?

928
00:42:40,126 --> 00:42:42,862
What is pushing
the negative agenda?

929
00:42:42,896 --> 00:42:45,065
When you watch "Goodfellas"
or something like that,

930
00:42:45,131 --> 00:42:48,468
it's a gangster movie,
but is it just entertainment?

931
00:42:48,501 --> 00:42:51,471
Now, does that make people

932
00:42:51,538 --> 00:42:53,340
want to become
those characters?

933
00:42:53,373 --> 00:42:55,275
That's up for debate.

934
00:42:55,308 --> 00:43:02,282
* *

935
00:43:18,031 --> 00:43:21,901
Psychologists have
predominantly concentrated

936
00:43:22,035 --> 00:43:24,871
on studying the effects
of violent entertainment,

937
00:43:24,938 --> 00:43:27,774
while neglecting to explore
its root,

938
00:43:27,841 --> 00:43:30,844
that is, the landscape
of the suppressed environments

939
00:43:30,877 --> 00:43:34,948
we call ghettos,
projects, and the hood.

940
00:43:34,981 --> 00:43:36,616
- The media don't give a damn.

941
00:43:36,683 --> 00:43:38,385
They don't care
because there's brothers

942
00:43:38,418 --> 00:43:39,819
going to school or something

943
00:43:39,919 --> 00:43:41,721
or there's brothers finna be
a doctor later on in life.

944
00:43:41,788 --> 00:43:43,790
- Yeah.
- They don't give a fuck.

945
00:43:43,857 --> 00:43:47,460
- If you look at something
as simple as Spider-Man...

946
00:43:47,594 --> 00:43:49,329
Peter Parker,
you know what I mean?

947
00:43:49,396 --> 00:43:52,098
He had to get the top story.
You know what I mean?

948
00:43:52,132 --> 00:43:55,268
He had to be
this exciting writer.

949
00:43:55,301 --> 00:43:56,736
You know what I mean?

950
00:43:56,803 --> 00:43:58,905
Their news station
has to be better

951
00:43:58,972 --> 00:44:00,674
than the other news station.

952
00:44:00,774 --> 00:44:04,244
- And these inner-city things
that's going down--

953
00:44:04,344 --> 00:44:05,745
is the media supposed to care?

954
00:44:05,779 --> 00:44:07,514
The media ain't the ones going
through it.

955
00:44:07,580 --> 00:44:09,749
Are they supposed to care
what's going on

956
00:44:09,816 --> 00:44:11,284
when we not caring?

957
00:44:11,317 --> 00:44:13,286
- Really, nobody cares

958
00:44:13,353 --> 00:44:16,289
because it happens so...often.

959
00:44:16,322 --> 00:44:18,992
- I'm going to put it
to you like this...

960
00:44:19,125 --> 00:44:21,461
* *

961
00:44:21,528 --> 00:44:25,231
What other genre of music does
the government manipulate?

962
00:44:27,367 --> 00:44:29,235
I'm going to wait.

963
00:44:30,870 --> 00:44:33,039
Time up.
[chuckles] None.

964
00:44:33,106 --> 00:44:35,041
So if no other--

965
00:44:35,108 --> 00:44:38,044
if there's no other genre that
the government manipulate,

966
00:44:38,144 --> 00:44:41,648
who's getting paid off this
gun violence and these crimes?

967
00:44:41,781 --> 00:44:44,451
- It was reported
by some top artists

968
00:44:44,517 --> 00:44:46,586
that they was pulled together

969
00:44:46,653 --> 00:44:48,822
at a special home
in California.

970
00:44:48,855 --> 00:44:52,258
And they were surprised
when they got to this home

971
00:44:52,359 --> 00:44:54,961
when they saw that the CIA,

972
00:44:55,061 --> 00:44:58,298
national security was involved

973
00:44:58,398 --> 00:44:59,933
in the music industry.

974
00:45:00,066 --> 00:45:03,169
- In today's world,
the police have discovered

975
00:45:03,236 --> 00:45:07,640
a powerful weapon in the fight
against crime--social media.

976
00:45:07,774 --> 00:45:09,976
It's become
the information highway

977
00:45:10,076 --> 00:45:12,879
that leads straight to jail.

978
00:45:12,946 --> 00:45:15,382
- Why are you here,

979
00:45:15,448 --> 00:45:18,485
if not to solve a problem

980
00:45:18,518 --> 00:45:22,155
as existential as this?

981
00:45:22,255 --> 00:45:24,024
- Oh, my goodness.

982
00:45:24,090 --> 00:45:26,126
We have just gotten
devastating news.

983
00:45:26,192 --> 00:45:28,862
- Investigators are now saying
the accused gunman

984
00:45:28,928 --> 00:45:32,232
barricaded himself inside a
classroom,

985
00:45:32,298 --> 00:45:33,967
killing 19 children

986
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,670
and 2 teachers
inside that classroom.

987
00:45:36,703 --> 00:45:37,971
- No school shootings
in England.

988
00:45:38,071 --> 00:45:41,041
This year there have been
no school shootings in Japan.

989
00:45:41,074 --> 00:45:44,878
This year there have been
27 school shootings in America.

990
00:45:44,944 --> 00:45:47,013
- Nowhere else do little kids
go to school

991
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:48,848
thinking that they
might be shot that day.

992
00:45:48,882 --> 00:45:51,918
- 17 people killed
in a mass shooting

993
00:45:52,018 --> 00:45:53,687
at a Florida high school.

994
00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:55,088
We're learning more tonight

995
00:45:55,121 --> 00:45:57,724
about the 19-year-old
suspect's weapons

996
00:45:57,791 --> 00:45:59,726
and about clues
from his social media.

997
00:45:59,793 --> 00:46:02,262
- Gun violence
is still evident

998
00:46:02,328 --> 00:46:04,264
mainly because
of social media.

999
00:46:04,297 --> 00:46:09,035
I think that keeps it cool.
That keeps it sexy.

1000
00:46:09,069 --> 00:46:12,405
There's no consequences
when I'm on camera

1001
00:46:12,439 --> 00:46:15,442
or on my phone with a gun,

1002
00:46:15,508 --> 00:46:17,577
no consequences at all.

1003
00:46:17,644 --> 00:46:20,213
As soon as I hit stop
on your phone

1004
00:46:20,246 --> 00:46:24,351
or the camera stops rolling,
the consequences become real,

1005
00:46:24,451 --> 00:46:27,587
because now I have
a gun on me, right?

1006
00:46:27,654 --> 00:46:30,890
And I'm thinking I can...

1007
00:46:30,957 --> 00:46:33,693
at any time,
anywhere, any place,

1008
00:46:33,727 --> 00:46:35,428
and have anybody around me.

1009
00:46:35,462 --> 00:46:38,365
But as we know,
that's not the reality of it.

1010
00:46:38,431 --> 00:46:40,700
The reality of it is, you pull
that trigger one time,

1011
00:46:40,734 --> 00:46:42,235
your life is changing.

1012
00:46:42,302 --> 00:46:45,472
- Sometimes a potential
threat is right there,

1013
00:46:45,605 --> 00:46:46,973
posted on someone's page.

1014
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:48,875
It begs the question--

1015
00:46:48,942 --> 00:46:51,678
where are the whistleblowers
when you need them?

1016
00:46:51,745 --> 00:46:53,913
Where is the power
of cancel culture

1017
00:46:54,014 --> 00:46:57,384
to swiftly remove a dangerous
individual from society?

1018
00:46:57,484 --> 00:47:01,788
[upbeat jazzy music]

1019
00:47:01,821 --> 00:47:04,057
- When Alonzo was a kid,
Alonzo grew up

1020
00:47:04,124 --> 00:47:07,327
on Curtis Mayfield and all
that Black revolutionary music.

1021
00:47:07,394 --> 00:47:09,095
I wanted to be
a Black Panther.

1022
00:47:09,129 --> 00:47:11,164
I saw Black Panthers
walking down the street.

1023
00:47:11,264 --> 00:47:16,836
*

1024
00:47:16,903 --> 00:47:21,808
Music is the most powerful
art form known to man.

1025
00:47:21,841 --> 00:47:23,777
- Howard should not be put
to death

1026
00:47:23,910 --> 00:47:26,079
because of a mitigating
circumstance.

1027
00:47:26,146 --> 00:47:29,082
But he had been incited
to kill Trooper Bill Davidson

1028
00:47:29,182 --> 00:47:32,552
by listening to a particularly
violent form of rap music.

1029
00:47:32,619 --> 00:47:35,021
- Because when you keep hearing
something repetitively

1030
00:47:35,121 --> 00:47:37,791
in your head, you going
to start catching on to that.

1031
00:47:37,824 --> 00:47:39,292
And I talk to my
boys about this.

1032
00:47:39,325 --> 00:47:41,494
The music that you listen to,
that's the type of lifestyle

1033
00:47:41,561 --> 00:47:43,229
that you either want to live,

1034
00:47:43,296 --> 00:47:44,931
or that's the lifestyle
you have.

1035
00:47:45,031 --> 00:47:47,834
- Hip-hop has done more damage
to Black and Brown people

1036
00:47:47,967 --> 00:47:52,806
than racism
in the last ten years.

1037
00:47:52,839 --> 00:47:54,140
- Most rappers are artists.

1038
00:47:54,174 --> 00:47:57,277
So, therefore, they rap
about what they see,

1039
00:47:57,344 --> 00:48:00,146
what they experience
through their homeys.

1040
00:48:00,213 --> 00:48:01,848
So you put that out on wax,

1041
00:48:01,981 --> 00:48:04,184
that was your expression
to do that.

1042
00:48:04,250 --> 00:48:07,053
So, basically, you were
the voice for your community,

1043
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,356
for your neighborhood,
for your era.

1044
00:48:09,389 --> 00:48:12,325
[hip-hop music]

1045
00:48:12,359 --> 00:48:13,693
* *

1046
00:48:13,727 --> 00:48:17,163
- Back when we were growing up
in the '70s and '80s,

1047
00:48:17,197 --> 00:48:20,667
we had a balance of music,
you know what I mean?

1048
00:48:20,767 --> 00:48:23,003
You can listen
to a "Sexual Healing,"

1049
00:48:23,036 --> 00:48:25,005
and then you can listen
to a Marvin Gaye.

1050
00:48:25,071 --> 00:48:26,339
"What's Going On."

1051
00:48:26,406 --> 00:48:27,574
You can listen to
a Gil Scott-Heron.

1052
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,911
* *

1053
00:48:31,978 --> 00:48:34,581
- We had Michael Jackson.
[laughing] You know?

1054
00:48:34,647 --> 00:48:36,549
We had some old school--

1055
00:48:36,583 --> 00:48:41,321
The Whispers and those type
of folks that...

1056
00:48:41,354 --> 00:48:44,657
they played theirs
in the way that they saw it.

1057
00:48:44,724 --> 00:48:48,661
But it wasn't to bring us down
or to put a curse on us.

1058
00:48:48,728 --> 00:48:53,266
I think it was uplifting
versus what it is today.

1059
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:57,804
* *

1060
00:48:57,904 --> 00:49:00,740
- It's the music executives
who are pushing

1061
00:49:00,774 --> 00:49:04,110
this poison
throughout our community

1062
00:49:04,177 --> 00:49:06,513
and causing disruption
and murder and violence

1063
00:49:06,613 --> 00:49:07,947
in our neighborhood.

1064
00:49:08,014 --> 00:49:09,949
- This year's record-tying
homicide count

1065
00:49:10,016 --> 00:49:12,585
has left police
with three explanations--

1066
00:49:12,652 --> 00:49:13,953
gangs, guns, and drugs.

1067
00:49:14,020 --> 00:49:16,189
But a local woman
thinks the root cause

1068
00:49:16,289 --> 00:49:19,192
could be something less often
mentioned--hip-hop music.

1069
00:49:19,259 --> 00:49:21,261
- When you look
at the entertainment

1070
00:49:21,361 --> 00:49:25,598
and you are rewarding
bad behavior--

1071
00:49:25,665 --> 00:49:28,101
My son is an artist.

1072
00:49:28,134 --> 00:49:31,304
And he said, "Pops, when
I talk to the people at Sony,

1073
00:49:31,371 --> 00:49:34,607
they asking me, is there
anybody I got a beef with?"

1074
00:49:34,641 --> 00:49:37,010
- I was getting
a major-deal situation,

1075
00:49:37,077 --> 00:49:41,014
and I was watching
the Bloods and Crips unite.

1076
00:49:41,081 --> 00:49:42,982
Mac wore the red rag.

1077
00:49:43,049 --> 00:49:45,285
Dub wore the blue rag
onstage, right?

1078
00:49:45,352 --> 00:49:48,021
So this is showing that
there is unity within this

1079
00:49:48,088 --> 00:49:50,123
because there is
money being made, right?

1080
00:49:50,190 --> 00:49:54,828
But outside of that, it was
still conflicts and things,

1081
00:49:54,894 --> 00:49:56,463
you know, spilling out
in the streets.

1082
00:49:56,596 --> 00:50:03,703
* *

1083
00:50:04,971 --> 00:50:09,009
- "Nobody can stop this war
but us."

1084
00:50:09,075 --> 00:50:11,478
- This music they have now
is garbage.

1085
00:50:11,578 --> 00:50:16,116
And it's music that has,
I think, created more bloodshed

1086
00:50:16,149 --> 00:50:19,185
and violence
throughout Black America,

1087
00:50:19,285 --> 00:50:21,654
where we have
these gangster rappers

1088
00:50:21,688 --> 00:50:23,790
glorifying gang violence.

1089
00:50:23,857 --> 00:50:26,192
- Kids that are in that life

1090
00:50:26,226 --> 00:50:28,728
are really, like, living
their life.

1091
00:50:28,795 --> 00:50:30,096
It's their reality.

1092
00:50:30,196 --> 00:50:32,065
So, for them to rap about
how they're really doing it

1093
00:50:32,132 --> 00:50:34,734
and whatever, you can't
look at it as negative

1094
00:50:34,801 --> 00:50:36,970
because it's just reality.

1095
00:50:37,003 --> 00:50:38,838
- * So welcome to the ghetto

1096
00:50:38,872 --> 00:50:42,042
* Where you can straight get
played out like a cello *

1097
00:50:42,108 --> 00:50:44,177
* The man got
the projects boarded up *

1098
00:50:44,244 --> 00:50:46,946
* And the whites
and the Blacks all sorted up *

1099
00:50:47,013 --> 00:50:49,916
Some gangster rap
is influential

1100
00:50:49,983 --> 00:50:51,184
to listeners in certain ways.

1101
00:50:51,251 --> 00:50:53,820
It never influenced me
to go out and do some shit

1102
00:50:53,887 --> 00:50:56,356
that I wouldn't naturally do.

1103
00:50:56,389 --> 00:50:58,958
It had nothing to do with
rap music, none of that shit.

1104
00:50:59,059 --> 00:51:01,227
I was just on some other shit,
you know what I'm saying?

1105
00:51:01,294 --> 00:51:04,464
By the time
the rap music came out,

1106
00:51:04,531 --> 00:51:06,833
and then it was gangster rap,
it was like, damn,

1107
00:51:06,933 --> 00:51:08,234
I heard Ice T
with "6 'N the Mornin'."

1108
00:51:08,301 --> 00:51:11,071
It was like, "6 in the mornin',
police at my door."

1109
00:51:11,204 --> 00:51:13,239
- * 6 in the mornin',
police at my door *

1110
00:51:13,306 --> 00:51:15,442
* Fresh Adidas squeak
across the bathroom floor *

1111
00:51:15,508 --> 00:51:17,811
* Out my back window
I make my escape *

1112
00:51:17,877 --> 00:51:20,847
* Didn't even get a chance
to grab my old-school tape *

1113
00:51:20,947 --> 00:51:22,716
- This is like
the first time I started

1114
00:51:22,782 --> 00:51:24,517
thinking about being
a rap artist, like, okay,

1115
00:51:24,551 --> 00:51:29,289
he just fucking rapped about
what the fuck did last night.

1116
00:51:29,356 --> 00:51:32,792
Fuck that. Fuck that.
Give me a pen and pad.

1117
00:51:32,859 --> 00:51:35,095
- When I started
making records,

1118
00:51:35,161 --> 00:51:37,097
there was so many hood cats
calling me,

1119
00:51:37,163 --> 00:51:39,032
like, yo, what's up
with that music, Ice?

1120
00:51:39,099 --> 00:51:40,834
What's going on with that?

1121
00:51:40,867 --> 00:51:42,335
You getting paper?

1122
00:51:42,402 --> 00:51:44,070
- You mean I ain't
got to sell no dope?

1123
00:51:44,137 --> 00:51:45,405
I ain't got to go shoot
no niggas

1124
00:51:45,472 --> 00:51:47,741
and jack no motherfuckers
and shit to get the money?

1125
00:51:47,807 --> 00:51:49,642
All I got to do is rap?

1126
00:51:49,743 --> 00:51:51,111
That's kind of cool deal.

1127
00:51:51,177 --> 00:51:53,513
- Players are always
looking for new lanes.

1128
00:51:53,613 --> 00:51:55,248
So when they see
one of their own

1129
00:51:55,281 --> 00:51:57,283
with a new lane, they're like,
what's up with that?

1130
00:51:57,350 --> 00:51:59,786
I mean, why do you think
there's so many drug dealers

1131
00:51:59,853 --> 00:52:01,221
in the rap game right now?

1132
00:52:01,287 --> 00:52:02,288
Because it's a lane.

1133
00:52:02,355 --> 00:52:03,890
They're like,
yo, I could take this money

1134
00:52:03,923 --> 00:52:05,291
and do something legit.

1135
00:52:05,358 --> 00:52:09,562
Only a fool wants to keep
taking penitentiary chances.

1136
00:52:09,629 --> 00:52:11,331
All you got to do
is slip up once.

1137
00:52:11,398 --> 00:52:13,400
- I just did a song,
and I said, hip-hop saved

1138
00:52:13,433 --> 00:52:15,602
more motherfuckers than
the Super Friends and shit.

1139
00:52:15,669 --> 00:52:17,270
[laughs] And it did.

1140
00:52:17,303 --> 00:52:20,807
- * 6 in the mornin',
we didn't wake up to ask *

1141
00:52:20,874 --> 00:52:27,747
* *

1142
00:52:27,781 --> 00:52:29,582
- What?

1143
00:52:29,616 --> 00:52:31,785
* *

1144
00:52:32,952 --> 00:52:35,855
[epic music]

1145
00:52:35,889 --> 00:52:38,892
* *

1146
00:52:38,992 --> 00:52:41,795
- Violence has been
a form of entertainment,

1147
00:52:41,828 --> 00:52:43,196
even in ancient times.

1148
00:52:43,296 --> 00:52:46,466
The Romans, for instance,
used to subject people

1149
00:52:46,533 --> 00:52:50,270
to the brutality of lions
for public amusement.

1150
00:52:50,303 --> 00:52:53,540
Furthermore, the first
recorded act of murder

1151
00:52:53,573 --> 00:52:56,710
occurred when one brother
killed another

1152
00:52:56,810 --> 00:52:58,845
out of jealousy.

1153
00:52:58,945 --> 00:53:01,181
This begs the question--

1154
00:53:01,247 --> 00:53:03,817
is violence inherent
to human nature?

1155
00:53:03,883 --> 00:53:05,485
- [screaming]

1156
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:11,458
- Now at 11, a Fourth of July
celebration turns to tragedy.

1157
00:53:11,524 --> 00:53:15,295
[fireworks exploding,
indistinct shouting]

1158
00:53:18,865 --> 00:53:22,102
- When I was 13, I seen
my cousin get smoked

1159
00:53:22,168 --> 00:53:23,970
right in front of me.

1160
00:53:24,004 --> 00:53:25,438
It was Fourth of July.

1161
00:53:25,505 --> 00:53:27,941
Everybody out there playing
football, popping fireworks,

1162
00:53:28,041 --> 00:53:29,509
and then we started
hearing stuff.

1163
00:53:29,576 --> 00:53:31,244
And, basically, everybody
thought it was fireworks.

1164
00:53:31,311 --> 00:53:33,079
We looked down the street,
flames this long coming

1165
00:53:33,146 --> 00:53:35,315
out of barrels and
everybody duck and hide.

1166
00:53:35,382 --> 00:53:37,350
And, sadly, my cousin
ain't make it.

1167
00:53:37,384 --> 00:53:39,319
My cousin was out
in the middle of the street.

1168
00:53:39,352 --> 00:53:42,222
All his kids seen him
like that, everybody.

1169
00:53:42,322 --> 00:53:44,391
- Oh, I don't even
know where to start.

1170
00:53:44,424 --> 00:53:46,926
Do I start at my ex-husband

1171
00:53:46,993 --> 00:53:48,361
murdering
his current girlfriend

1172
00:53:48,428 --> 00:53:50,497
after trying to kill me
and the kids?

1173
00:53:50,530 --> 00:53:53,967
Do I start at when I got shot
when I was a child?

1174
00:53:54,067 --> 00:53:57,370
Do I start at the young man
that died in my arms

1175
00:53:57,404 --> 00:53:59,973
and I prayed over him
as he took his last breath?

1176
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:02,308
Gun violence is prevalent.

1177
00:54:02,409 --> 00:54:06,746
It seeps into every aspect
of our community.

1178
00:54:06,813 --> 00:54:08,348
Bullets have no color.

1179
00:54:08,448 --> 00:54:11,851
It doesn't matter if you're
young or old, straight, gay,

1180
00:54:11,885 --> 00:54:14,254
short, or tall.

1181
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:16,656
That bullet will find you.

1182
00:54:16,690 --> 00:54:19,759
- I saw my first dead body
at nine years old.

1183
00:54:19,826 --> 00:54:22,829
On Saturday, when
Moms got to go to work

1184
00:54:22,896 --> 00:54:24,397
and you got your brother.

1185
00:54:24,464 --> 00:54:26,666
I'm probably about 9,
my brother about 12.

1186
00:54:26,733 --> 00:54:28,601
And you got to
stay in the house.

1187
00:54:28,668 --> 00:54:31,204
So I decided to sneak out the
house, go to the corner store.

1188
00:54:31,237 --> 00:54:33,573
And it was a man
on the ground,

1189
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,608
looked like he was trying to
get something out the gutter.

1190
00:54:35,675 --> 00:54:37,644
So I just kept pushing, and
he came back, he didn't move.

1191
00:54:37,777 --> 00:54:40,580
So a nine-years-old child
kicked this man foot,

1192
00:54:40,613 --> 00:54:42,782
and it felt kind of weird.

1193
00:54:42,849 --> 00:54:44,284
And it was a dead body.

1194
00:54:44,351 --> 00:54:47,320
And I saw blood leaking.
I saw bullet holes.

1195
00:54:47,420 --> 00:54:49,055
And I was the one
that called the police

1196
00:54:49,089 --> 00:54:51,257
to report the incident.

1197
00:54:51,291 --> 00:54:53,426
And at the time,
911 wasn't even there.

1198
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,096
I had to dial the entire
number on the rotary phone.

1199
00:54:56,129 --> 00:54:59,265
- I lost my son's father
in '76.

1200
00:54:59,399 --> 00:55:02,035
I was 5 1/2 months pregnant
with my son.

1201
00:55:02,135 --> 00:55:04,404
I lost my son
September of '99.

1202
00:55:04,437 --> 00:55:07,440
And then there's
multiple other people

1203
00:55:07,507 --> 00:55:10,276
that we know that were
close to the family

1204
00:55:10,310 --> 00:55:12,545
that have been killed
by gun violence,

1205
00:55:12,612 --> 00:55:14,814
senseless gun violence.

1206
00:55:14,948 --> 00:55:17,617
[dramatic music]

1207
00:55:17,650 --> 00:55:20,820
* *

1208
00:55:20,887 --> 00:55:23,957
2009, my son...

1209
00:55:23,990 --> 00:55:27,327
had just turned 21 June 4th.

1210
00:55:27,394 --> 00:55:30,630
July 17th, he went to a party.

1211
00:55:30,697 --> 00:55:32,899
While they were letting
the party out,

1212
00:55:32,932 --> 00:55:37,671
these two young men come down
Don Felipe, identify my son.

1213
00:55:37,737 --> 00:55:39,305
They were wearing hoodies.

1214
00:55:39,339 --> 00:55:40,807
There was two girls
sitting in the car.

1215
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,376
They saw these guys
hand off weapon,

1216
00:55:43,476 --> 00:55:46,346
one to the other,
and fatally shot my son,

1217
00:55:46,413 --> 00:55:48,882
who succumbed to his injuries.

1218
00:55:48,948 --> 00:55:53,053
So my life was changed
indelibly forever.

1219
00:55:53,119 --> 00:55:56,289
My birthday is May 4th.
His birthday was June 4th.

1220
00:55:56,322 --> 00:55:59,325
When he was born,
I held him first

1221
00:55:59,459 --> 00:56:01,528
as he came out
his mother's womb.

1222
00:56:01,594 --> 00:56:06,066
So there was a covenant
relationship between us.

1223
00:56:06,099 --> 00:56:13,473
* *

1224
00:56:21,548 --> 00:56:25,985
July 5th, there was a shootout,
and there was a drive-by.

1225
00:56:26,052 --> 00:56:29,356
Tragically, my grandson was the
one that got hit in the head.

1226
00:56:29,456 --> 00:56:33,293
His passing affected us
really, really hard

1227
00:56:33,393 --> 00:56:36,830
because he was
my first grandbaby.

1228
00:56:36,863 --> 00:56:38,998
* *

1229
00:56:39,065 --> 00:56:42,702
[voice breaking] If I was ever
able to see my grandson again,

1230
00:56:42,736 --> 00:56:45,138
I think the first thing
I would do is just hug him,

1231
00:56:45,205 --> 00:56:47,207
kiss him,

1232
00:56:47,307 --> 00:56:49,743
tell him that I miss him
so much...

1233
00:56:49,843 --> 00:56:51,811
*

1234
00:56:51,845 --> 00:56:54,881
That I regret not being there
the day he left.

1235
00:56:54,914 --> 00:56:56,716
[sighs shakily]

1236
00:56:56,750 --> 00:57:01,955
* *

1237
00:57:02,022 --> 00:57:04,457
- The first time I heard
a woman howl--

1238
00:57:04,524 --> 00:57:08,862
1972 murder.

1239
00:57:08,995 --> 00:57:10,330
Last name Green.

1240
00:57:10,430 --> 00:57:12,866
If you was there,
you know the first name.

1241
00:57:12,932 --> 00:57:16,169
And I was there before
the crime scenes were famous

1242
00:57:16,202 --> 00:57:17,937
as they are today.

1243
00:57:18,004 --> 00:57:20,340
I was 14 at that time.

1244
00:57:20,407 --> 00:57:23,410
And I've heard
a howl nightly, weekly,

1245
00:57:23,476 --> 00:57:27,614
monthly for 40-some years
since then.

1246
00:57:27,714 --> 00:57:29,716
And what happens is this.

1247
00:57:29,783 --> 00:57:32,218
You're always going to hear
that mother,

1248
00:57:32,252 --> 00:57:34,054
hear that family howl,

1249
00:57:34,154 --> 00:57:36,089
and you'll never forget that.

1250
00:57:36,122 --> 00:57:38,525
That's the first thing
you're going to hear.

1251
00:57:38,625 --> 00:57:42,629
- [howling]

1252
00:57:42,696 --> 00:57:46,433
- Please, all you young kids
out here, young mens,

1253
00:57:46,566 --> 00:57:49,469
would y'all please
put the guns down.

1254
00:57:49,569 --> 00:57:51,905
- Yes, put them down.
- Put the guns down.

1255
00:57:52,005 --> 00:57:54,240
[indistinct chatter]

1256
00:57:54,274 --> 00:57:57,277
- Guns are an evolved tool

1257
00:57:57,410 --> 00:58:01,614
that allow people
to do more proficiently

1258
00:58:01,648 --> 00:58:04,084
what we've been doing
since the beginning of time.

1259
00:58:04,117 --> 00:58:06,119
I mean, since...

1260
00:58:06,152 --> 00:58:09,222
we're on biblical grounds...

1261
00:58:09,255 --> 00:58:10,757
Cain and Abel--

1262
00:58:10,824 --> 00:58:15,128
the first murder
we see biblically...

1263
00:58:15,161 --> 00:58:17,731
between brothers.

1264
00:58:17,831 --> 00:58:19,766
However you slice it,

1265
00:58:19,866 --> 00:58:24,671
this is not just an issue of...

1266
00:58:24,704 --> 00:58:27,173
the weapon of choice,

1267
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,243
which is a firearm today.

1268
00:58:30,343 --> 00:58:32,479
It begins in the human heart.

1269
00:58:32,512 --> 00:58:37,784
* *

1270
00:58:37,851 --> 00:58:39,419
- I was on my way to work,

1271
00:58:39,486 --> 00:58:41,621
and I was driving
up Wilmington.

1272
00:58:41,721 --> 00:58:46,326
And I had just crossed 124th,
and I saw two fire trucks.

1273
00:58:46,393 --> 00:58:48,728
You know how the fire trucks
being like at a catty corner

1274
00:58:48,862 --> 00:58:50,830
so you can't see what's
on the other side?

1275
00:58:50,897 --> 00:58:54,834
And so I kept on driving,
and I went on to practice.

1276
00:58:54,901 --> 00:58:57,570
And when I got to practice,
my cell rung.

1277
00:58:57,637 --> 00:58:59,539
And I looked down at it,

1278
00:58:59,606 --> 00:59:03,176
and it was an emergency text...

1279
00:59:03,209 --> 00:59:06,312
saying that something
had happened to Gabriel.

1280
00:59:06,346 --> 00:59:09,582
- That day, May 23, 2005,

1281
00:59:09,649 --> 00:59:12,552
I was going
to a friend's house

1282
00:59:12,619 --> 00:59:14,788
for him to drop me off
at the practice,

1283
00:59:14,821 --> 00:59:17,457
waiting for him
to change his clothes.

1284
00:59:17,557 --> 00:59:22,028
And I was expecting a son
that year as well.

1285
00:59:22,095 --> 00:59:26,199
On the phone,
3:30, broad daylight--

1286
00:59:26,266 --> 00:59:28,301
last thing I was looking at
was on the phone,

1287
00:59:28,368 --> 00:59:31,371
looking at my shoes and
fiddling around in the dirt,

1288
00:59:31,404 --> 00:59:34,974
not knowing that I was shot
in the temple of the head,

1289
00:59:35,008 --> 00:59:38,845
not knowing that I was down
there for 45 minutes

1290
00:59:38,878 --> 00:59:42,849
while the paramedics were
there and the police...

1291
00:59:42,882 --> 00:59:45,618
bleeding out from the head,
not even knowing

1292
00:59:45,685 --> 00:59:47,220
and conscious.

1293
00:59:47,253 --> 00:59:51,024
So I went through
four major brain operations.

1294
00:59:51,057 --> 00:59:55,428
They reconstructed my face from
my forehead to my cheekbone.

1295
00:59:55,495 --> 00:59:57,464
My nose was broken.

1296
00:59:57,530 --> 00:59:59,733
I'm more comfortable about it.

1297
00:59:59,799 --> 01:00:02,635
This is the reflect
of 2005 looked like.

1298
01:00:02,702 --> 01:00:06,272
A bullet went through here,
came out my right side.

1299
01:00:06,406 --> 01:00:08,174
My eyes are sitting on my face.

1300
01:00:08,241 --> 01:00:09,576
I'm looking a mess.

1301
01:00:09,709 --> 01:00:11,611
So this is what
it was looking like,

1302
01:00:11,678 --> 01:00:15,382
the aftermath of May 23, 2005,

1303
01:00:15,448 --> 01:00:19,419
and the doctor telling me
that I've been in an accident.

1304
01:00:19,486 --> 01:00:21,521
I don't know
what type of accident,

1305
01:00:21,621 --> 01:00:23,590
but told me that my vision
wasn't there.

1306
01:00:23,656 --> 01:00:25,592
And I was all
of 22 years of age.

1307
01:00:25,625 --> 01:00:30,397
* *

1308
01:00:30,497 --> 01:00:31,898
- When I was
just five years old

1309
01:00:31,931 --> 01:00:33,933
and my brother Saeed
was only two years old,

1310
01:00:33,967 --> 01:00:36,903
we lost our father due to a
senseless act of gun violence

1311
01:00:36,970 --> 01:00:40,407
during a robbery at our
family-owned cell phone store

1312
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:43,710
in Van Nuys in 2013.

1313
01:00:43,810 --> 01:00:46,046
The day started out
very normal for my father.

1314
01:00:46,079 --> 01:00:49,816
He was an ambitious and
dedicated small-business owner

1315
01:00:49,849 --> 01:00:51,284
who was very successful.

1316
01:00:51,384 --> 01:00:54,854
And the day that my father was
killed was anything but normal.

1317
01:00:54,921 --> 01:00:56,656
Although I was
just five years old,

1318
01:00:56,723 --> 01:00:57,991
I knew from that day forward

1319
01:00:58,024 --> 01:00:59,726
that things would be
completely different.

1320
01:00:59,826 --> 01:01:02,462
I just realized that me--
I need to take a stand,

1321
01:01:02,595 --> 01:01:04,531
because many people dismiss me.

1322
01:01:04,631 --> 01:01:06,766
And that's when I started
social media,

1323
01:01:06,866 --> 01:01:10,737
and I realized, this is
a very big issue worldwide.

1324
01:01:10,837 --> 01:01:14,507
- My daughter, her name
was Ky Alicia Thomas.

1325
01:01:14,641 --> 01:01:17,911
She was killed
December 1, 2020.

1326
01:01:18,011 --> 01:01:19,846
She was 28 years old.

1327
01:01:19,946 --> 01:01:23,450
She had just had a son.
He was 3 1/2 weeks old.

1328
01:01:23,516 --> 01:01:26,519
Her daughter was 8 years old.

1329
01:01:26,619 --> 01:01:30,190
You know, as a mother...

1330
01:01:30,256 --> 01:01:32,058
you know, I was upset.

1331
01:01:32,125 --> 01:01:33,193
I was shocked.

1332
01:01:33,259 --> 01:01:35,328
But as we're
getting ready to go,

1333
01:01:35,362 --> 01:01:37,464
that instinct told me

1334
01:01:37,564 --> 01:01:40,266
that my daughter
wasn't going to make it.

1335
01:01:40,300 --> 01:01:47,507
* *

1336
01:01:47,540 --> 01:01:50,276
We made it to the hospital.

1337
01:01:50,343 --> 01:01:53,246
I never got to say goodbye
to my daughter,

1338
01:01:53,346 --> 01:01:55,515
because when I got there,

1339
01:01:55,648 --> 01:01:58,518
they told me
that I had to wait.

1340
01:01:58,651 --> 01:02:01,554
So I never got
to say bye to her.

1341
01:02:01,688 --> 01:02:03,623
It's taken a toll
on my family.

1342
01:02:03,723 --> 01:02:07,160
However,
I'm pushing through it.

1343
01:02:07,227 --> 01:02:11,765
I found that my faith
got me through, however.

1344
01:02:11,831 --> 01:02:14,534
Sometimes you don't want
to hear that.

1345
01:02:14,668 --> 01:02:17,237
And so I know
what worked for me

1346
01:02:17,303 --> 01:02:19,773
may not work
for the next mother.

1347
01:02:19,839 --> 01:02:24,411
But if she has
a good support system,

1348
01:02:24,544 --> 01:02:26,646
let your family love you.

1349
01:02:26,713 --> 01:02:30,250
And just don't allow
the bitterness

1350
01:02:30,383 --> 01:02:31,885
to consume you.

1351
01:02:31,951 --> 01:02:36,423
You have to live
for the rest of your family.

1352
01:02:36,489 --> 01:02:40,860
I had another child
that I have to live for.

1353
01:02:40,894 --> 01:02:44,030
I have a granddaughter
that I'm raising.

1354
01:02:44,064 --> 01:02:47,400
And I could be a blessing
to other mothers

1355
01:02:47,434 --> 01:02:49,769
by them seeing my strength

1356
01:02:49,836 --> 01:02:53,773
and seeing the light in me.

1357
01:02:53,873 --> 01:02:57,777
Just because, you know,
our children are gone,

1358
01:02:57,844 --> 01:03:00,814
we always have their memories.

1359
01:03:00,880 --> 01:03:05,118
You took my child, but you
didn't take that from me.

1360
01:03:05,185 --> 01:03:06,786
And I know where she's at.

1361
01:03:06,853 --> 01:03:08,888
And that's why I have peace--

1362
01:03:08,988 --> 01:03:11,758
is because she's at peace
and I know where she's at.

1363
01:03:11,791 --> 01:03:13,827
- Facing the possibility
of the death penalty,

1364
01:03:13,893 --> 01:03:17,097
Roy Harvison stands
before a Franklin County judge,

1365
01:03:17,163 --> 01:03:20,667
pleading not guilty
to murdering his estranged wife

1366
01:03:20,734 --> 01:03:22,302
and his former brother-in-law.

1367
01:03:22,435 --> 01:03:24,371
- I'm often asked,

1368
01:03:24,471 --> 01:03:27,574
what has been so difficult
about this.

1369
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:30,810
Death has not been difficult...

1370
01:03:30,877 --> 01:03:34,848
because I understand
that we all live to die.

1371
01:03:36,716 --> 01:03:39,619
And that is just
a part of life.

1372
01:03:41,321 --> 01:03:43,890
But for me...

1373
01:03:43,957 --> 01:03:47,093
what has been challenging is
every day after...

1374
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:50,663
my children were murdered...

1375
01:03:50,730 --> 01:03:55,468
the things that people
have no idea...

1376
01:03:55,502 --> 01:03:59,105
that I've had to endure.

1377
01:03:59,205 --> 01:04:01,508
[sniffles]

1378
01:04:01,541 --> 01:04:05,679
And that I had to go home
and have a conversation

1379
01:04:05,745 --> 01:04:07,881
with a five-year-old

1380
01:04:07,981 --> 01:04:11,051
to explain to him
that his mother

1381
01:04:11,117 --> 01:04:14,454
was not coming home
that night.

1382
01:04:14,487 --> 01:04:16,890
[sniffles]

1383
01:04:16,956 --> 01:04:20,493
And I believe
the most damaging...

1384
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:23,897
out of everything was when...

1385
01:04:23,997 --> 01:04:28,501
my granddaughter Royce
started talking

1386
01:04:28,568 --> 01:04:30,337
and I became Mommy.

1387
01:04:30,370 --> 01:04:32,405
And every time
she would say, "Mommy,"

1388
01:04:32,439 --> 01:04:34,708
I would say, "yeah, yeah,"
and she would say, "Mommy."

1389
01:04:34,808 --> 01:04:36,876
And I would just cry.

1390
01:04:36,943 --> 01:04:39,579
That's when I realized
I needed counseling.

1391
01:04:39,612 --> 01:04:46,419
* *

1392
01:04:46,486 --> 01:04:49,956
- A mother that has lost
a child through gun violence--

1393
01:04:50,023 --> 01:04:52,992
the pain is never going
to fully go away.

1394
01:04:53,126 --> 01:04:57,997
But in being there,
listening to their stories...

1395
01:04:59,566 --> 01:05:02,369
Presenting with an open heart
and an open mind

1396
01:05:02,402 --> 01:05:04,004
for that parent,

1397
01:05:04,104 --> 01:05:08,174
not having the answers
is okay...

1398
01:05:08,274 --> 01:05:11,077
but letting them know
that their feelings

1399
01:05:11,111 --> 01:05:13,480
and their pain is valid.

1400
01:05:13,546 --> 01:05:15,982
- November 2000,

1401
01:05:16,049 --> 01:05:18,718
a few weeks
before he was gonna turn 22,

1402
01:05:18,785 --> 01:05:20,920
he was gonna come over,

1403
01:05:20,987 --> 01:05:24,024
but my husband had
a toothache, and he said,

1404
01:05:24,057 --> 01:05:25,959
"Let's have him
come over tomorrow."

1405
01:05:26,026 --> 01:05:27,861
That was Friday morning.

1406
01:05:27,994 --> 01:05:31,231
And Friday morning
we got a call that...

1407
01:05:31,331 --> 01:05:33,733
I just heard my husband
say, "No, no, no."

1408
01:05:33,767 --> 01:05:35,568
And I was like, "What? What?"

1409
01:05:35,602 --> 01:05:36,970
He said, "That was Jenny.

1410
01:05:37,070 --> 01:05:39,773
She went to pick him up
to go to work,"

1411
01:05:39,839 --> 01:05:41,641
because his car
was in the shop.

1412
01:05:41,708 --> 01:05:45,812
And the police were there,
yellow tape everywhere.

1413
01:05:45,912 --> 01:05:49,549
And they said
somebody there's been shot,

1414
01:05:49,649 --> 01:05:51,117
in the apartment's been shot.

1415
01:05:51,184 --> 01:05:54,254
And so she called us,
freaked out.

1416
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:57,290
And we're like...
[groans]

1417
01:05:57,357 --> 01:05:58,992
We didn't know what to do.

1418
01:05:59,092 --> 01:06:01,728
So we just started
driving over there.

1419
01:06:01,828 --> 01:06:03,863
And then we got
another call from her

1420
01:06:03,963 --> 01:06:06,666
that said,
"Go to the police station,

1421
01:06:06,733 --> 01:06:08,835
"go to Northeast
police station.

1422
01:06:08,935 --> 01:06:11,938
Whoever was shot
did not survive."

1423
01:06:11,971 --> 01:06:16,142
* *

1424
01:06:16,209 --> 01:06:19,145
I remember my body felt
like it was out my mind.

1425
01:06:19,212 --> 01:06:21,881
My soul was outside
of my body looking down,

1426
01:06:21,915 --> 01:06:23,683
because I realized...

1427
01:06:23,750 --> 01:06:26,152
[voice breaking] The pain
that I was about to suffer

1428
01:06:26,186 --> 01:06:27,787
was unbearable pain.

1429
01:06:27,821 --> 01:06:31,624
It's really the worst pain
a parent could ever suffer--

1430
01:06:31,658 --> 01:06:32,959
is to lose a child.

1431
01:06:33,093 --> 01:06:34,661
I'm talking
about a loving parent,

1432
01:06:34,728 --> 01:06:36,029
somebody that's your life.

1433
01:06:36,129 --> 01:06:37,597
That's your life.
Your child is your life.

1434
01:06:37,664 --> 01:06:40,834
[sniffles] You nurture them.
You want the best for them.

1435
01:06:40,900 --> 01:06:42,802
And they're gone,
just like that.

1436
01:06:42,836 --> 01:06:45,205
And then you realize
that somebody

1437
01:06:45,271 --> 01:06:49,509
did that and for nothing,
for nothing, you know?

1438
01:06:49,576 --> 01:06:52,312
It's just--
it's too unbearable.

1439
01:06:52,345 --> 01:06:55,582
So that's why my body was--
my mind was outside of my body,

1440
01:06:55,615 --> 01:06:59,786
because that first shock,
it was initial shock, you know?

1441
01:06:59,819 --> 01:07:03,023
And that shock, that shock,

1442
01:07:03,089 --> 01:07:06,326
it lasts a long time,
and that's what trauma is.

1443
01:07:06,359 --> 01:07:10,230
* *

1444
01:07:10,296 --> 01:07:12,432
- Tonight we look
at the first layer of victims,

1445
01:07:12,465 --> 01:07:15,435
the bystanders, the people
caught in the crossfire.

1446
01:07:15,468 --> 01:07:17,904
A woman shot and killed
near the LA Coliseum,

1447
01:07:17,971 --> 01:07:19,739
a case of misidentification.

1448
01:07:19,806 --> 01:07:22,142
A 13-year-old shot, his
father and sister killed

1449
01:07:22,175 --> 01:07:24,277
because the boy wore
the wrong color hat.

1450
01:07:24,344 --> 01:07:26,012
- Mental health
means everything.

1451
01:07:26,046 --> 01:07:30,350
Anytime you witness so much
loss of life,

1452
01:07:30,417 --> 01:07:33,086
a lot of people suffer trauma

1453
01:07:33,153 --> 01:07:36,122
based on what we've seen
growing up,

1454
01:07:36,222 --> 01:07:39,092
based on what we're still,
unfortunately, experiencing

1455
01:07:39,192 --> 01:07:42,328
throughout our nation
with the rise in gun violence

1456
01:07:42,395 --> 01:07:45,098
and the amount of innocent
people losing their lives.

1457
01:07:45,198 --> 01:07:47,701
- Gun violence has always been
a tragic thing

1458
01:07:47,734 --> 01:07:49,369
in Black America.

1459
01:07:49,402 --> 01:07:53,440
Recently, mass shootings hit
the US like a damn storm.

1460
01:07:53,506 --> 01:07:54,641
You know what?

1461
01:07:54,708 --> 01:07:56,843
That ain't just
about the physical harm.

1462
01:07:56,910 --> 01:07:59,012
It's about the mental scars.

1463
01:07:59,112 --> 01:08:01,748
We're talking
about a rise in trauma

1464
01:08:01,815 --> 01:08:03,283
and mental-health cases.

1465
01:08:03,350 --> 01:08:06,720
- When we look at it from
a mental-health perspective,

1466
01:08:06,753 --> 01:08:11,424
we look at it as something
that we anticipate

1467
01:08:11,458 --> 01:08:15,261
in terms
of experiencing violence,

1468
01:08:15,328 --> 01:08:18,398
because there's really
no just cause

1469
01:08:18,465 --> 01:08:21,935
for us to experience it
at the level that we have.

1470
01:08:22,002 --> 01:08:25,238
- Mental health is, like, taboo
in African American culture.

1471
01:08:25,271 --> 01:08:27,374
Like, it's just something
you don't talk about.

1472
01:08:27,407 --> 01:08:29,743
It's something that your
parents will deny,

1473
01:08:29,809 --> 01:08:31,444
but it's real.

1474
01:08:31,511 --> 01:08:33,980
- The truth of the matter is,
is that Black folks are scared

1475
01:08:34,047 --> 01:08:35,415
of hospitals
and mental-health systems

1476
01:08:35,482 --> 01:08:37,751
because they experimented
on us, and they still do.

1477
01:08:37,784 --> 01:08:39,119
Nobody wants to be 51-50'd.

1478
01:08:39,185 --> 01:08:40,787
Nobody wants to say, you know,

1479
01:08:40,854 --> 01:08:43,590
I'm having an emotional,
psychological break,

1480
01:08:43,690 --> 01:08:45,091
because you go there.

1481
01:08:45,125 --> 01:08:46,493
They don't offer
counseling and therapy.

1482
01:08:46,526 --> 01:08:48,294
They don't try to lay you
on the couch

1483
01:08:48,395 --> 01:08:49,696
and listen to your story.

1484
01:08:49,763 --> 01:08:51,398
What they going to do is pull
out that bag with the pills

1485
01:08:51,431 --> 01:08:53,266
and like, which one you one
of these are going to try?

1486
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:55,568
- In the small town
of Tuskegee, Alabama,

1487
01:08:55,669 --> 01:08:58,405
from 1932 to 1972,

1488
01:08:58,438 --> 01:09:01,708
the US Public Service
conducted a medical experiment

1489
01:09:01,775 --> 01:09:04,944
that would become one
of the most shameful episodes

1490
01:09:05,011 --> 01:09:06,479
in our nation's history.

1491
01:09:06,513 --> 01:09:09,449
This experiment was
called the Tuskegee Study

1492
01:09:09,516 --> 01:09:13,420
of Untreated Syphilis
in the Negro Male.

1493
01:09:13,453 --> 01:09:16,156
It began with the promise
of free health care

1494
01:09:16,222 --> 01:09:18,658
and medical examinations.

1495
01:09:18,725 --> 01:09:20,193
Fast forward to today,

1496
01:09:20,260 --> 01:09:22,328
and the effects
of this atrocity

1497
01:09:22,395 --> 01:09:25,765
still reverberate
within the Black community,

1498
01:09:25,865 --> 01:09:27,133
which leads to the reluctance

1499
01:09:27,267 --> 01:09:29,369
to seek medical help
when needed.

1500
01:09:29,436 --> 01:09:31,137
- When you think
about generational trauma

1501
01:09:31,271 --> 01:09:33,673
and how it relates
to gun violence

1502
01:09:33,740 --> 01:09:35,208
and police brutality,

1503
01:09:35,308 --> 01:09:38,178
you have to look at it
from a historical perspective,

1504
01:09:38,278 --> 01:09:41,181
from even us coming
over here from Africa

1505
01:09:41,314 --> 01:09:45,352
and the level of brutality
that we experienced.

1506
01:09:45,485 --> 01:09:48,288
- One of the most enduring
legacies of this injustice

1507
01:09:48,321 --> 01:09:51,091
is the toll it's taken
on the mental health

1508
01:09:51,157 --> 01:09:52,592
of Black individuals.

1509
01:09:52,625 --> 01:09:54,627
- Why I understand what most
of these young people

1510
01:09:54,694 --> 01:09:56,596
go through when they don't
have a value of life,

1511
01:09:56,629 --> 01:09:59,199
because I went through
a whole numbing period of,

1512
01:09:59,265 --> 01:10:02,836
I don't have a mother,
and she was taken.

1513
01:10:02,902 --> 01:10:05,038
I don't have a value for life.

1514
01:10:05,171 --> 01:10:07,474
If I take
another person's life,

1515
01:10:07,540 --> 01:10:09,709
you know, it is what it is
at this point,

1516
01:10:09,743 --> 01:10:12,645
because I'm numb to everything,
because I'm really numb

1517
01:10:12,712 --> 01:10:15,382
and don't know how to express
that my mother is dead

1518
01:10:15,448 --> 01:10:17,217
and my whole world
has changed.

1519
01:10:17,283 --> 01:10:20,086
- If I were to say
all of it in one word,

1520
01:10:20,153 --> 01:10:22,856
it traumatizes the individual

1521
01:10:22,889 --> 01:10:25,859
and most definitely traumatizes
the community

1522
01:10:25,925 --> 01:10:28,495
because the young person
or the individuals

1523
01:10:28,528 --> 01:10:32,365
that happen to see
or be a part of that scenario

1524
01:10:32,465 --> 01:10:34,267
is traumatized for life.

1525
01:10:34,334 --> 01:10:36,503
- When you say
the mental health, you then--

1526
01:10:36,569 --> 01:10:38,571
you know, once we know
that we're traumatized,

1527
01:10:38,605 --> 01:10:40,807
there's a form of depression
that comes with that.

1528
01:10:40,874 --> 01:10:44,210
There's a form of isolation
that comes with that.

1529
01:10:44,244 --> 01:10:46,579
When you're hurt
and you are in pain

1530
01:10:46,646 --> 01:10:50,517
and, you know, you believe
that nobody really,

1531
01:10:50,583 --> 01:10:53,486
really understands
the pain you go through,

1532
01:10:53,553 --> 01:10:56,256
which sometimes we don't,
because it's all different.

1533
01:10:56,322 --> 01:10:58,425
- Because you're not
mentally able to go make

1534
01:10:58,525 --> 01:11:01,294
those necessary steps--
you think you might be,

1535
01:11:01,361 --> 01:11:03,530
but it's not like somebody
snatched your purse,

1536
01:11:03,563 --> 01:11:05,532
especially when somebody
killed your child.

1537
01:11:05,565 --> 01:11:09,102
That's the whole--
your mind is not set for that.

1538
01:11:09,169 --> 01:11:10,437
Your mind is like
a total circle.

1539
01:11:10,503 --> 01:11:12,906
But when someone kills
your child, there's an open,

1540
01:11:12,939 --> 01:11:14,140
and it never closes.

1541
01:11:14,207 --> 01:11:16,976
It never--
No other child can replace it.

1542
01:11:17,077 --> 01:11:18,578
It don't go like that.

1543
01:11:18,611 --> 01:11:20,880
There's no medication they can
give you to straighten it out.

1544
01:11:20,914 --> 01:11:23,983
That don't work.

1545
01:11:24,084 --> 01:11:26,820
- Oh, mental health...

1546
01:11:26,886 --> 01:11:30,223
Wow. Mm.

1547
01:11:30,290 --> 01:11:33,793
Mental health, you know...

1548
01:11:33,827 --> 01:11:38,631
took away my oldest child
about a year ago.

1549
01:11:38,698 --> 01:11:41,634
She was a great person.

1550
01:11:41,701 --> 01:11:43,737
She was a great student.

1551
01:11:43,803 --> 01:11:47,874
She did all the things
we call the American way.

1552
01:11:47,941 --> 01:11:50,577
She went to college.
She graduated from college.

1553
01:11:50,610 --> 01:11:54,080
She got married.
She had my first grandson.

1554
01:11:54,147 --> 01:11:57,784
And then all it took was...

1555
01:11:57,884 --> 01:11:59,953
one thing to go wrong,

1556
01:12:00,020 --> 01:12:02,489
and now she was 51-50'd.

1557
01:12:02,555 --> 01:12:05,425
I know that it was because
of a lot of the trauma

1558
01:12:05,492 --> 01:12:09,562
that her dad, me,
put her through

1559
01:12:09,596 --> 01:12:11,765
when she was
just a little girl,

1560
01:12:11,831 --> 01:12:14,734
you know, because we all
think that...

1561
01:12:14,768 --> 01:12:19,372
Sometime what we do to hold
your family together

1562
01:12:19,472 --> 01:12:22,942
can still create trauma
in that process.

1563
01:12:23,009 --> 01:12:27,681
And it might not affect them
then, but as they get older,

1564
01:12:27,714 --> 01:12:29,449
it can affect them even worse.

1565
01:12:29,516 --> 01:12:33,553
I can remember the last time
that we talked,

1566
01:12:33,653 --> 01:12:37,657
and she called me, and she
said, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy."

1567
01:12:37,757 --> 01:12:41,294
She said, "I love you,
I love you, I love you."

1568
01:12:41,394 --> 01:12:44,764
And I said, "Baby,
I love you, too," you know?

1569
01:12:44,798 --> 01:12:49,202
And it was because I took
her son by to see her,

1570
01:12:49,336 --> 01:12:52,339
and he was really
her medicine.

1571
01:12:52,372 --> 01:12:54,974
But, you know, in this world
we live in,

1572
01:12:55,041 --> 01:12:57,477
they said you can't take
a child around somebody

1573
01:12:57,544 --> 01:12:59,379
who is mentally ill.

1574
01:12:59,446 --> 01:13:02,182
Three days later, my baby was--

1575
01:13:02,215 --> 01:13:06,319
she fell asleep
and never woke up.

1576
01:13:06,386 --> 01:13:07,954
And so...

1577
01:13:07,987 --> 01:13:10,590
* *

1578
01:13:10,690 --> 01:13:12,192
That...

1579
01:13:12,225 --> 01:13:16,262
[stammering]
Yeah, that was tough.

1580
01:13:16,296 --> 01:13:18,832
And so...

1581
01:13:18,865 --> 01:13:20,600
Mm.

1582
01:13:20,700 --> 01:13:27,440
*

1583
01:13:33,413 --> 01:13:35,248
- Studies show that children
who are exposed

1584
01:13:35,382 --> 01:13:36,750
to gun violence
at a young age,

1585
01:13:36,816 --> 01:13:37,984
there's many side effects,

1586
01:13:38,051 --> 01:13:39,853
short- and long-term
negative side effects,

1587
01:13:39,953 --> 01:13:42,422
including anger,
post-traumatic stress,

1588
01:13:42,489 --> 01:13:45,425
withdrawal,
"desensitation" to violence.

1589
01:13:45,492 --> 01:13:47,560
And if you aren't familiar
with "desensitation,"

1590
01:13:47,627 --> 01:13:49,729
it basically means
you're exposed

1591
01:13:49,796 --> 01:13:51,498
to higher levels of violence,

1592
01:13:51,564 --> 01:13:53,700
which leads
to less internalized stress.

1593
01:13:53,733 --> 01:13:56,736
And usually people who
have experienced that

1594
01:13:56,770 --> 01:13:59,973
prove to have higher levels
of violence as they grow up.

1595
01:14:00,073 --> 01:14:01,408
And that just continues

1596
01:14:01,474 --> 01:14:03,710
the cycle of violence
as we know it.

1597
01:14:03,743 --> 01:14:05,845
- When there's a shooting
in the Black community,

1598
01:14:05,912 --> 01:14:09,649
especially with young people
or with schools,

1599
01:14:09,816 --> 01:14:12,485
we don't see
the mental-health professionals

1600
01:14:12,585 --> 01:14:14,554
coming and talking
to the young people,

1601
01:14:14,587 --> 01:14:16,690
to the families,
and to the community.

1602
01:14:16,790 --> 01:14:19,426
But if the shooting happens
in the White community,

1603
01:14:19,459 --> 01:14:20,860
we'll see the mental-health
professionals

1604
01:14:20,927 --> 01:14:23,797
going to the school,
talking to the students,

1605
01:14:23,830 --> 01:14:26,633
making sure they have
everything they need

1606
01:14:26,700 --> 01:14:29,669
to make sure
that, psychologically,

1607
01:14:29,736 --> 01:14:33,807
it's not a permanent impact
in the mental-health capacity.

1608
01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:37,010
- My help came from learning
to believe in God,

1609
01:14:37,043 --> 01:14:39,679
just trying to change
my whole psyche, my mindset.

1610
01:14:39,746 --> 01:14:42,182
I never got the tools--

1611
01:14:42,248 --> 01:14:43,550
or helped me with the fact

1612
01:14:43,650 --> 01:14:45,785
of dealing with the friends
and family members

1613
01:14:45,819 --> 01:14:47,554
that I lost in the streets.

1614
01:14:47,620 --> 01:14:50,623
Not one person have ever,
ever came and told me,

1615
01:14:50,690 --> 01:14:52,625
how could we help you
with that situation?

1616
01:14:52,726 --> 01:14:56,129
- I realized the effect that
was having on the kids who

1617
01:14:56,196 --> 01:14:57,630
who lived in Watts,

1618
01:14:57,664 --> 01:15:00,734
because what I noticed
when I would drive around is,

1619
01:15:00,767 --> 01:15:02,902
I would see
all these memorials

1620
01:15:02,969 --> 01:15:05,472
where somebody
had been killed,

1621
01:15:05,605 --> 01:15:08,675
with candles and flowers,
maybe a picture.

1622
01:15:08,708 --> 01:15:11,745
And I thought to myself,

1623
01:15:11,778 --> 01:15:14,948
how can a child be walking
to school,

1624
01:15:15,015 --> 01:15:17,584
walk past one
of these memorials,

1625
01:15:17,617 --> 01:15:20,620
knowing that somebody
died there

1626
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:24,024
either last night or within
the last couple of days,

1627
01:15:24,090 --> 01:15:27,827
and then go sit
in their chair in school

1628
01:15:27,894 --> 01:15:30,230
and learn their times tables?

1629
01:15:30,296 --> 01:15:32,432
That's just not realistic.

1630
01:15:32,532 --> 01:15:36,436
- One thing
that I am very serious

1631
01:15:36,503 --> 01:15:38,405
and intentional about

1632
01:15:38,471 --> 01:15:40,640
is making sure that parents

1633
01:15:40,774 --> 01:15:43,443
are treated
for their mental-health issues,

1634
01:15:43,510 --> 01:15:44,844
and effectively,

1635
01:15:44,911 --> 01:15:48,114
because when they're treated,

1636
01:15:48,214 --> 01:15:50,517
then you're not just
helping them.

1637
01:15:50,550 --> 01:15:52,886
You're helping
generations to come.

1638
01:15:52,952 --> 01:15:57,691
People still don't accept
that a life experience

1639
01:15:57,757 --> 01:16:01,294
can cause us to go off rails
for a while,

1640
01:16:01,361 --> 01:16:05,365
or the death of a loved one
causes someone to not function

1641
01:16:05,498 --> 01:16:07,767
the way they were before.

1642
01:16:07,867 --> 01:16:10,704
We've got to get to the point
where the dialogue

1643
01:16:10,770 --> 01:16:13,673
is consistently open
about mental illness.

1644
01:16:13,807 --> 01:16:18,978
- Mentally, there is
this mental diagnosis

1645
01:16:19,079 --> 01:16:20,447
that they called--

1646
01:16:20,547 --> 01:16:23,950
I think
it's post-traumatic stress.

1647
01:16:23,983 --> 01:16:27,921
And when you see that,
that kind of stress,

1648
01:16:27,954 --> 01:16:32,525
that kind of pain
go into our community

1649
01:16:32,559 --> 01:16:35,128
and you see it for so long,

1650
01:16:35,195 --> 01:16:39,232
scientists say
that once you suffer trauma

1651
01:16:39,299 --> 01:16:41,101
for more than 20 years,

1652
01:16:41,167 --> 01:16:43,837
it develops cells
in your bodies.

1653
01:16:43,903 --> 01:16:46,373
So not only is that trauma

1654
01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:49,409
being experienced by us today,

1655
01:16:49,476 --> 01:16:51,811
but that trauma,
through our DNA,

1656
01:16:51,845 --> 01:16:55,281
is passed down
into our children.

1657
01:16:55,315 --> 01:16:59,052
So our children are born
with this resolve,

1658
01:16:59,119 --> 01:17:02,555
are born with this pain
already ingrained in them.

1659
01:17:02,589 --> 01:17:05,558
And this is what
we have to stop

1660
01:17:05,592 --> 01:17:07,861
and why we have to stop it now.

1661
01:17:07,961 --> 01:17:09,496
- But they don't care.

1662
01:17:09,562 --> 01:17:12,232
All they see is
a Black nigga that's dead

1663
01:17:12,332 --> 01:17:14,467
at the hands of another nigga.

1664
01:17:14,534 --> 01:17:16,936
But who's getting
paid off of it?

1665
01:17:16,970 --> 01:17:20,607
The system, the 911 caller,

1666
01:17:20,674 --> 01:17:24,511
the police that responds,
the coroner,

1667
01:17:24,577 --> 01:17:27,113
the jailer,

1668
01:17:27,147 --> 01:17:29,683
the judge.

1669
01:17:29,783 --> 01:17:32,185
So what does that make us
in today's terms?

1670
01:17:32,285 --> 01:17:33,987
We are the bag.

1671
01:17:34,054 --> 01:17:36,923
Another nigga in a body bag is
the bag that they're chasing,

1672
01:17:36,990 --> 01:17:39,125
because no matter
what crime we commit,

1673
01:17:39,225 --> 01:17:40,427
they get paid off of it.

1674
01:17:40,460 --> 01:17:42,395
Gun violence, gang banging,

1675
01:17:42,429 --> 01:17:45,432
robbery, homicide,

1676
01:17:45,532 --> 01:17:48,368
we're the bag
that they're chasing.

1677
01:17:50,303 --> 01:17:51,638
Next question.

1678
01:17:51,671 --> 01:17:58,845
* *

1679
01:18:01,614 --> 01:18:03,950
- Well, we need to have
more resources

1680
01:18:04,050 --> 01:18:06,619
to help educate our babies.

1681
01:18:06,753 --> 01:18:08,788
I've always said,
how do you educate

1682
01:18:08,855 --> 01:18:11,624
a child that lives
in a war zone

1683
01:18:11,758 --> 01:18:13,893
and don't know
that he's in a war zone?

1684
01:18:13,993 --> 01:18:16,663
And then you expect
for him to get straight A's,

1685
01:18:16,730 --> 01:18:20,367
you expect for him
to be an honor-roll student,

1686
01:18:20,433 --> 01:18:23,336
but he has to go home
to an unsafe environment.

1687
01:18:23,370 --> 01:18:25,672
He has to be in a condition

1688
01:18:25,705 --> 01:18:29,676
where he may witness abuse,
drugs, violence,

1689
01:18:29,809 --> 01:18:33,847
and still we want him
to succeed.

1690
01:18:35,515 --> 01:18:38,385
What I've come to learn
is that trauma

1691
01:18:38,451 --> 01:18:40,587
turns into mental illness.

1692
01:18:40,653 --> 01:18:43,256
And mental illness
is what we see

1693
01:18:43,356 --> 01:18:45,025
all around the world now.

1694
01:18:45,058 --> 01:18:52,032
* *

1695
01:18:56,236 --> 01:19:00,674
- There's direct services
that people need to receive

1696
01:19:00,774 --> 01:19:03,309
in terms of trauma support,
you know,

1697
01:19:03,343 --> 01:19:07,614
and those services have to be,
like, pointed and directed

1698
01:19:07,681 --> 01:19:09,282
towards certain populations,

1699
01:19:09,315 --> 01:19:11,418
you know, folks who are
participating in the violence.

1700
01:19:11,518 --> 01:19:13,753
Then there's the business

1701
01:19:13,820 --> 01:19:16,389
of trauma services
and support services.

1702
01:19:16,489 --> 01:19:19,526
So these two things have to be
cultivated in communities

1703
01:19:19,592 --> 01:19:21,661
because I see this as a part

1704
01:19:21,728 --> 01:19:23,630
of the public-safety
ecosystem.

1705
01:19:23,730 --> 01:19:25,432
And in this country,
you say public safety

1706
01:19:25,565 --> 01:19:26,866
and people say, police, right?

1707
01:19:26,966 --> 01:19:30,370
You know, when police are
only one aspect of the process.

1708
01:19:30,437 --> 01:19:33,340
The hospital, you got
the police department,

1709
01:19:33,406 --> 01:19:35,975
you got the jail system,
you got the courts,

1710
01:19:36,042 --> 01:19:40,980
all of these folks are making
a gazillion dollars off of us.

1711
01:19:41,081 --> 01:19:43,516
We have yet to, like,
really organize ourselves

1712
01:19:43,583 --> 01:19:47,354
in a way to build, like,
institutions in the community,

1713
01:19:47,420 --> 01:19:50,123
to where we can accept and
receive these type of dollars

1714
01:19:50,156 --> 01:19:52,492
and provide services
to our own folks.

1715
01:19:52,525 --> 01:19:56,763
- My stepfather used to make
us do chores every weekend,

1716
01:19:56,830 --> 01:19:58,898
and one of those tours
was pulling up weeds.

1717
01:19:58,932 --> 01:20:00,533
He didn't give us tools
or anything.

1718
01:20:00,633 --> 01:20:02,635
He gave us some gloves.
That was our tools.

1719
01:20:02,702 --> 01:20:05,739
Two weeks later, we would have
to do the same chore,

1720
01:20:05,772 --> 01:20:07,607
which is go back
in the backyard

1721
01:20:07,674 --> 01:20:10,110
and pull these weeds up
all over again.

1722
01:20:10,176 --> 01:20:11,511
After a while, I told the man,

1723
01:20:11,578 --> 01:20:13,580
listen, we're going to have
to dig this thing up,

1724
01:20:13,646 --> 01:20:15,949
because if we're just picking
the weeds at the surface

1725
01:20:16,049 --> 01:20:18,084
and don't deal
with the root issue,

1726
01:20:18,151 --> 01:20:21,721
this problem is going
to continue to persist.

1727
01:20:21,821 --> 01:20:26,292
Where there are issues
of jealousy...

1728
01:20:26,359 --> 01:20:27,660
envy,

1729
01:20:27,794 --> 01:20:30,463
where there are issues
of discord,

1730
01:20:30,530 --> 01:20:32,832
where there is pronounced lack,

1731
01:20:32,899 --> 01:20:36,102
where people are unsure
of their standing

1732
01:20:36,136 --> 01:20:40,073
with God and with others,
there's human conflict.

1733
01:20:40,106 --> 01:20:43,610
If we don't deal
with these internal issues,

1734
01:20:43,677 --> 01:20:46,646
these spiritual issues,

1735
01:20:46,780 --> 01:20:51,484
this weed we call
gun violence...

1736
01:20:51,551 --> 01:20:53,319
will never be fully dealt with.

1737
01:20:53,353 --> 01:20:56,156
[hip-hop music]

1738
01:20:56,189 --> 01:21:01,995
* *

1739
01:21:02,062 --> 01:21:05,098
- As a result,
Black Men March on LA--

1740
01:21:05,198 --> 01:21:06,933
we pulled together.

1741
01:21:06,966 --> 01:21:09,703
Within two months,
we had a march

1742
01:21:09,769 --> 01:21:11,638
from Staples Center
to City Hall.

1743
01:21:11,671 --> 01:21:13,239
And we had a rally.

1744
01:21:13,273 --> 01:21:16,776
At this rally,
we had prominent leaders,

1745
01:21:16,843 --> 01:21:18,878
prominent politicians,

1746
01:21:18,945 --> 01:21:21,448
prominent religious leaders
as well

1747
01:21:21,514 --> 01:21:24,451
to address police reform.

1748
01:21:24,484 --> 01:21:27,887
During this time, we were able
to draft four initiatives,

1749
01:21:28,021 --> 01:21:30,423
and we placed them out
in forms of a petition

1750
01:21:30,523 --> 01:21:32,258
to address police reform.

1751
01:21:32,292 --> 01:21:34,994
With these four initiatives,
I'm not asking

1752
01:21:35,028 --> 01:21:37,330
anything punitive
against the officers.

1753
01:21:37,364 --> 01:21:41,835
I'm asking something that's
actually basic common sense.

1754
01:21:41,868 --> 01:21:43,703
I'm asking that they be treated

1755
01:21:43,770 --> 01:21:47,040
like the regular
average citizen.

1756
01:21:47,073 --> 01:21:51,778
So, again, the first
would be liability insurance.

1757
01:21:51,845 --> 01:21:56,716
Secondly, would be
self-defense funding.

1758
01:21:56,750 --> 01:21:59,719
Third, restrictions
on employment.

1759
01:21:59,753 --> 01:22:01,654
And fourth, firearm revocation.

1760
01:22:01,721 --> 01:22:04,190
So, with Black Men March on LA,

1761
01:22:04,224 --> 01:22:07,327
as the executive director
of the organization,

1762
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:10,163
these are the four initiatives
that we have in place

1763
01:22:10,196 --> 01:22:13,333
at this time
that we're pushing for.

1764
01:22:13,400 --> 01:22:19,539
* *

1765
01:22:19,606 --> 01:22:22,742
- Because now people act like
it's normal to be murdered.

1766
01:22:22,876 --> 01:22:24,244
They act like it's normal

1767
01:22:24,344 --> 01:22:26,379
for you to be a victim
of gun violence.

1768
01:22:26,446 --> 01:22:28,815
They act like it's part
of the norm for everyone

1769
01:22:28,882 --> 01:22:30,183
to have someone in the family

1770
01:22:30,216 --> 01:22:32,585
being a victim
of gun violence, and it's not.

1771
01:22:32,652 --> 01:22:34,187
We're bringing up a generation

1772
01:22:34,220 --> 01:22:36,222
that's looking at that
and sees it.

1773
01:22:36,289 --> 01:22:38,725
And they're thinking that,
hey, why should we do anything?

1774
01:22:38,792 --> 01:22:41,227
Why should we say anything?
You all said it was okay.

1775
01:22:41,294 --> 01:22:43,396
You all are glorifying it.

1776
01:22:43,430 --> 01:22:47,267
You all are saying it's part
of the norm in every fashion.

1777
01:22:47,334 --> 01:22:49,469
And I think we all got
to think about that

1778
01:22:49,536 --> 01:22:50,770
when we talk about guns.

1779
01:22:50,804 --> 01:22:52,505
We got to look at it like
we look at other things.

1780
01:22:52,539 --> 01:22:55,041
Just like we don't put
alcohol in our kids' hands,

1781
01:22:55,108 --> 01:22:57,243
we don't put drinks
in our kids' hands,

1782
01:22:57,310 --> 01:22:59,913
and we will be furious
if someone else did it,

1783
01:22:59,979 --> 01:23:01,848
furious.

1784
01:23:01,915 --> 01:23:04,284
We need to think
about that with guns, too.

1785
01:23:04,317 --> 01:23:10,924
* *

1786
01:23:11,024 --> 01:23:12,959
- Me and my crew,
The Fathers in Hip-Hop,

1787
01:23:13,093 --> 01:23:15,261
we go out
to these foster homes,

1788
01:23:15,328 --> 01:23:16,696
and we talk to these young men

1789
01:23:16,730 --> 01:23:19,833
and teach them the importance
of getting themselves together

1790
01:23:19,966 --> 01:23:21,634
and putting themselves
in a position

1791
01:23:21,701 --> 01:23:23,470
to be able to be good fathers,

1792
01:23:23,503 --> 01:23:25,405
because a lot
of them themselves,

1793
01:23:25,472 --> 01:23:28,475
being in those type of homes
don't have fathers,

1794
01:23:28,608 --> 01:23:30,977
and it caused them
a great deal of pain.

1795
01:23:31,011 --> 01:23:33,747
And they take that pain,
and they translate it

1796
01:23:33,813 --> 01:23:35,348
in these streets to violence.

1797
01:23:35,415 --> 01:23:39,052
So we want to catch these boys,
we want to catch them as boys

1798
01:23:39,119 --> 01:23:41,287
and show them
what manhood looks like.

1799
01:23:41,321 --> 01:23:43,490
I think if we want to solve
some of these problems

1800
01:23:43,556 --> 01:23:45,258
that's going on
in our neighborhood,

1801
01:23:45,291 --> 01:23:46,826
we got to reach out
to the fathers.

1802
01:23:46,860 --> 01:23:49,295
We got to get the men in
the community to come together.

1803
01:23:49,329 --> 01:23:51,264
And just as hard as we banged
our neighborhoods,

1804
01:23:51,364 --> 01:23:54,300
if we could put that same
passion, loyalty, and intensity

1805
01:23:54,401 --> 01:23:56,503
into fatherhood, I promise you,

1806
01:23:56,569 --> 01:23:58,605
we can see a better day
in our hoods.

1807
01:23:58,638 --> 01:24:01,041
* *

1808
01:24:01,107 --> 01:24:04,411
- We need to support
these intervention programs,

1809
01:24:04,477 --> 01:24:06,046
you know,
stopping the violence.

1810
01:24:06,179 --> 01:24:08,048
If you start in your community,
in your home,

1811
01:24:08,114 --> 01:24:10,717
encourage your mom--hey, Mom--

1812
01:24:10,784 --> 01:24:12,085
There's many city council,

1813
01:24:12,152 --> 01:24:14,120
your own congresswomen
or congressmen

1814
01:24:14,154 --> 01:24:16,289
have meetings
on topics like this.

1815
01:24:16,389 --> 01:24:19,659
Either weekly, monthly, or
throughout every other month,

1816
01:24:19,759 --> 01:24:20,860
they hold meetings like that.

1817
01:24:20,894 --> 01:24:22,796
And it is welcome
to the public

1818
01:24:22,862 --> 01:24:24,831
for anyone who's interested,
and you can get involved.

1819
01:24:24,931 --> 01:24:26,900
And you can learn
all the backgrounds

1820
01:24:27,033 --> 01:24:28,702
about the amendments
or these rules

1821
01:24:28,768 --> 01:24:29,936
or when it's time for voting.

1822
01:24:30,036 --> 01:24:32,138
You can learn more deep
about them,

1823
01:24:32,205 --> 01:24:34,407
and that's how you can help
in your community.

1824
01:24:34,507 --> 01:24:38,011
*

1825
01:24:38,111 --> 01:24:42,549
- So I actually started
a softball league

1826
01:24:42,649 --> 01:24:46,086
amongst Crip sets
because everybody thinking

1827
01:24:46,152 --> 01:24:48,822
that it's always
a Blood and Crip war

1828
01:24:48,855 --> 01:24:50,190
that's going on.

1829
01:24:50,256 --> 01:24:52,459
Actually, there's internal
wars that's going on

1830
01:24:52,525 --> 01:24:54,728
in our community
between the Crips,

1831
01:24:54,861 --> 01:24:57,063
and same thing
with the Bloods--

1832
01:24:57,130 --> 01:24:59,132
they have internal wars
going on.

1833
01:24:59,232 --> 01:25:02,369
But we feel that we can
all get together

1834
01:25:02,435 --> 01:25:04,371
and try and unite
with this ourselves

1835
01:25:04,471 --> 01:25:07,440
and be able to unite with
the Bloods that's going on,

1836
01:25:07,540 --> 01:25:10,276
doing the same thing
with our softball league.

1837
01:25:10,343 --> 01:25:13,046
We can be very successful
knocking down the violence

1838
01:25:13,079 --> 01:25:15,415
and gun violence
in our community.

1839
01:25:15,448 --> 01:25:22,288
* *

1840
01:25:27,260 --> 01:25:30,330
[dramatic music]

1841
01:25:30,430 --> 01:25:37,170
*

1842
01:25:40,306 --> 01:25:42,108
- What we need is,

1843
01:25:42,208 --> 01:25:45,945
we need not people like me,
not politicians.

1844
01:25:45,979 --> 01:25:50,316
We need people
with lived experience

1845
01:25:50,350 --> 01:25:53,953
who are older and wiser,

1846
01:25:54,020 --> 01:25:58,792
but also the young people
who get it

1847
01:25:58,892 --> 01:26:03,463
to speak out and say, we have
to stop killing each other

1848
01:26:03,563 --> 01:26:06,900
because that's
what needs to happen.

1849
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:08,968
It can't be the politicians.

1850
01:26:09,002 --> 01:26:11,438
It shouldn't be
the politicians.

1851
01:26:11,538 --> 01:26:14,307
It can't only be sports people.

1852
01:26:14,407 --> 01:26:18,778
It has to be people
in the community

1853
01:26:18,812 --> 01:26:20,447
who are respected,

1854
01:26:20,480 --> 01:26:24,451
who can say, we have
to stop killing each other.

1855
01:26:24,517 --> 01:26:27,854
And it's okay to get help,

1856
01:26:27,954 --> 01:26:31,191
It's okay to be supported.

1857
01:26:31,257 --> 01:26:35,495
And that's, in my opinion,
where we need to get.

1858
01:26:35,562 --> 01:26:39,399
And I feel if we can get there,

1859
01:26:39,466 --> 01:26:42,635
if we can get the right people
to be talking to these kids,

1860
01:26:42,702 --> 01:26:45,505
if we can get these kids
the support they need

1861
01:26:45,538 --> 01:26:47,173
while they're growing up,

1862
01:26:47,207 --> 01:26:49,509
then that's the only way
we'll really see

1863
01:26:49,542 --> 01:26:51,544
a decrease in the violence.

1864
01:26:51,678 --> 01:26:54,514
* *

1865
01:26:54,547 --> 01:26:57,884
- In order to help solve
the problems and the issues

1866
01:26:57,951 --> 01:27:00,320
that we have going
on in our communities,

1867
01:27:00,353 --> 01:27:02,122
it's going to take all of us
coming together

1868
01:27:02,155 --> 01:27:04,090
and working together as one.

1869
01:27:04,190 --> 01:27:06,559
We need
the community activists.

1870
01:27:06,626 --> 01:27:10,330
We need the police department.
We need government officials.

1871
01:27:10,363 --> 01:27:13,266
We need the whole entire
village to come together

1872
01:27:13,366 --> 01:27:15,669
and start sharing
the different knowledges

1873
01:27:15,702 --> 01:27:19,539
that we have in our community
to bring this thing to a halt.

1874
01:27:19,572 --> 01:27:26,479
* *

1875
01:27:28,415 --> 01:27:30,283
- Well, I'm definitely not
trying to improve

1876
01:27:30,383 --> 01:27:31,785
the way of life
in the community.

1877
01:27:31,818 --> 01:27:34,020
I'm improving the way
of life in the community.

1878
01:27:34,054 --> 01:27:35,722
I am saving lives every day.

1879
01:27:35,755 --> 01:27:38,058
Yesterday I saved
hundreds of lives.

1880
01:27:38,124 --> 01:27:39,759
People robbing each other

1881
01:27:39,793 --> 01:27:41,428
and hollering out
different neighborhoods--

1882
01:27:41,494 --> 01:27:43,530
come to find out,
it's not that neighborhood

1883
01:27:43,596 --> 01:27:45,532
and find out the person
who robbed the person.

1884
01:27:45,598 --> 01:27:47,500
And, man, can we get
this stuff back?

1885
01:27:47,534 --> 01:27:50,403
Also, I have
a group of ambassadors

1886
01:27:50,437 --> 01:27:52,739
at Leimert Park, where
we asked the community,

1887
01:27:52,806 --> 01:27:56,309
can you not call the police
for the homeless situation?

1888
01:27:56,376 --> 01:27:58,745
Can you not call the police
for mental health?

1889
01:27:58,845 --> 01:28:00,246
I have five ambassadors

1890
01:28:00,380 --> 01:28:02,215
that walk the Leimert area
every day.

1891
01:28:02,349 --> 01:28:04,351
They're out there
now passing out food.

1892
01:28:04,451 --> 01:28:07,287
Can you call 2nd Call, as
opposed to calling the police.

1893
01:28:07,354 --> 01:28:09,456
Let us deal
with the situations first.

1894
01:28:09,589 --> 01:28:12,158
What are some of the things
that we can handle ourselves

1895
01:28:12,258 --> 01:28:14,194
without getting law
enforcement involved?

1896
01:28:14,260 --> 01:28:16,062
And that's what
we do as 2nd Call.

1897
01:28:16,096 --> 01:28:17,864
We do those things.

1898
01:28:19,499 --> 01:28:22,569
- I would say
that the number-one thing

1899
01:28:22,602 --> 01:28:25,538
that I think that we can do
in terms of helping people

1900
01:28:25,572 --> 01:28:29,275
put the guns down is to address
the emotional

1901
01:28:29,409 --> 01:28:32,345
and physical
and psychological abuse,

1902
01:28:32,412 --> 01:28:34,614
especially for Black men,
you know?

1903
01:28:34,647 --> 01:28:36,583
And I ain't trying to create
the trauma Olympics and stuff,

1904
01:28:36,616 --> 01:28:39,152
with Black women and other
people who have been harmed.

1905
01:28:39,285 --> 01:28:42,689
But this is a study
that says that...

1906
01:28:42,756 --> 01:28:44,891
that Black men are the least
helped, the most harmed.

1907
01:28:44,958 --> 01:28:48,995
And it's time for us to engage
our healing journey.

1908
01:28:49,062 --> 01:28:50,397
I know that it's possible,

1909
01:28:50,463 --> 01:28:52,632
you know, because I see
it happen all the time.

1910
01:28:52,732 --> 01:28:55,502
And I'm like, there's
a level of vulnerability

1911
01:28:55,568 --> 01:28:59,572
that we as Black men
have to bring to this work

1912
01:28:59,673 --> 01:29:01,608
if we're going to be

1913
01:29:01,641 --> 01:29:06,479
the real, like, champions
for this whole nother--

1914
01:29:06,513 --> 01:29:09,549
you know, this next phase
of healing and transformation.

1915
01:29:09,649 --> 01:29:16,589
*

1916
01:29:21,761 --> 01:29:28,601
*

1917
01:29:33,173 --> 01:29:40,080
*

1918
01:29:44,651 --> 01:29:51,558
*

1919
01:29:57,330 --> 01:30:04,104
*

1920
01:30:09,943 --> 01:30:16,816
*

1921
01:30:20,820 --> 01:30:27,460
*