1 00:00:07,208 --> 00:00:09,000 Bring yourself back online. 2 00:00:10,291 --> 00:00:11,417 Can you hear me? 3 00:00:13,583 --> 00:00:15,000 Do you know where you are? 4 00:00:17,750 --> 00:00:19,583 Would you like to wake up from this dream? 5 00:00:21,291 --> 00:00:22,959 There's nothing to be afraid of. 6 00:00:26,125 --> 00:00:26,959 Understand? 7 00:00:28,583 --> 00:00:31,583 Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? 8 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:35,165 We must take this matter into our own hands. 9 00:00:35,166 --> 00:00:37,166 - Our city! - Our city! 10 00:00:39,083 --> 00:00:40,917 Tell us what you think of your world. 11 00:00:42,834 --> 00:00:44,500 What do you think of the guests? 12 00:00:46,959 --> 00:00:48,542 Do you know where you are? 13 00:00:51,166 --> 00:00:52,375 Will the things I told you 14 00:00:52,376 --> 00:00:54,375 change the way you think about your world? 15 00:01:00,208 --> 00:01:01,792 Do you know where you are? 16 00:01:33,333 --> 00:01:35,332 - I walked down the street with a reporter 17 00:01:35,333 --> 00:01:37,833 from a national network, who looked around 18 00:01:37,834 --> 00:01:40,499 and saw all of these boarded-up properties, 19 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:42,708 and said to me... 20 00:01:42,709 --> 00:01:44,332 "Councilman, you know, 21 00:01:44,333 --> 00:01:47,249 that riot really tore up this community, didn't it?" 22 00:01:47,250 --> 00:01:49,165 And I said, "Look again. 23 00:01:49,166 --> 00:01:51,081 "Look at the boards on those homes. 24 00:01:51,082 --> 00:01:53,208 "Do they look like they were tacked up yesterday? 25 00:01:53,209 --> 00:01:57,207 No, they've been there 20 years, maybe longer." 26 00:01:57,208 --> 00:02:00,499 I said, "The riot didn't tear up the community. 27 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:02,541 "The condition of the community 28 00:02:02,542 --> 00:02:04,834 caused the uprising that we had." 29 00:02:42,875 --> 00:02:44,457 - Man, I've been recording this. 30 00:02:44,458 --> 00:02:45,916 I've been recording. 31 00:02:45,917 --> 00:02:48,207 - When the police and Freddie Gray 32 00:02:48,208 --> 00:02:50,624 made eye contact, Freddie Gray ran. 33 00:02:50,625 --> 00:02:52,582 And he was arrested, essentially, 34 00:02:52,583 --> 00:02:55,499 for running while black. 35 00:02:55,500 --> 00:02:58,541 - What may have followed is a so-called "rough ride," 36 00:02:58,542 --> 00:03:00,916 or a deliberate tactic used by police 37 00:03:00,917 --> 00:03:04,582 to harm unbelted handcuffed passengers. 38 00:03:04,583 --> 00:03:07,249 - And he emerged at the end of that ride 39 00:03:07,250 --> 00:03:11,499 with an 80% torn spine. 40 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:13,040 - We had to get to the hospital 41 00:03:13,041 --> 00:03:14,582 and find out if it was true. 42 00:03:14,583 --> 00:03:16,291 We was thinking that maybe it was a mistake... 43 00:03:16,292 --> 00:03:18,457 maybe they had the wrong room. 44 00:03:18,458 --> 00:03:21,040 This can't be happening to our Freddie. 45 00:03:21,041 --> 00:03:24,249 No peace! No justice, no peace! 46 00:03:24,250 --> 00:03:25,582 - That's right! 47 00:03:25,583 --> 00:03:27,708 - We ain't gonna let this happen no more! 48 00:03:27,709 --> 00:03:30,332 We came to send them a strong message 49 00:03:30,333 --> 00:03:32,791 that black lives matter! 50 00:03:32,792 --> 00:03:34,500 - Freddie Gray, a young man arrested 51 00:03:34,501 --> 00:03:37,833 by Baltimore City Police last weekend, has died. 52 00:03:37,834 --> 00:03:39,207 - By the grace of God... 53 00:03:39,208 --> 00:03:40,916 By the grace of God... 54 00:03:40,917 --> 00:03:42,708 - Justice shall prevail. 55 00:03:42,709 --> 00:03:44,959 Justice shall prevail. 56 00:03:47,792 --> 00:03:49,959 - The medical examiner will list the cause of death 57 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,125 as trauma to the neck and spine. 58 00:03:58,750 --> 00:04:00,915 - There were thousands of protestors at City Hall, 59 00:04:00,916 --> 00:04:02,417 where they had gathered after marching 60 00:04:02,418 --> 00:04:04,040 from the police district 61 00:04:04,041 --> 00:04:06,834 where Freddie Gray was arrested a week ago. 62 00:04:09,834 --> 00:04:11,709 - You'll see there's police officers 63 00:04:11,710 --> 00:04:14,458 in riot gear trying to hold this position. 64 00:04:16,125 --> 00:04:18,207 - I am taken back by the amount of people 65 00:04:18,208 --> 00:04:19,998 that there are... community members. 66 00:04:19,999 --> 00:04:21,998 - You're not letting me answer! - I'm asking you... 67 00:04:21,999 --> 00:04:23,832 - I'm saying to them, "Family, let me talk to you." 68 00:04:23,833 --> 00:04:25,332 "No, you don't say nothing! 69 00:04:25,333 --> 00:04:26,832 You're one of them! You're a Nazi!" 70 00:04:26,833 --> 00:04:28,583 And I'm getting all of this hatred. 71 00:04:28,584 --> 00:04:30,916 Cops! Pigs! Murderers! 72 00:04:30,917 --> 00:04:33,999 - There have been sudden, spontaneous confrontations... 73 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,875 - We're not ignorant! We just want peace. 74 00:04:35,876 --> 00:04:37,999 - But so far, no major eruptions 75 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,874 of violence in Baltimore. 76 00:04:40,875 --> 00:04:42,457 - Now, there was information 77 00:04:42,458 --> 00:04:43,873 that there was these various sites 78 00:04:43,874 --> 00:04:45,291 that were going to be targeted 79 00:04:45,292 --> 00:04:47,625 by bands of young people. 80 00:04:49,542 --> 00:04:51,290 - What they did, as smart as 81 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:52,875 the Baltimore City Police Department is, they shut down 82 00:04:52,876 --> 00:04:55,708 the Mondawmin Mall bus terminal. 83 00:04:55,709 --> 00:04:57,457 That's a major terminal. 84 00:04:57,458 --> 00:04:59,958 So you shut that down, kids can't go nowhere. 85 00:04:59,959 --> 00:05:03,000 - These kids, clearly, are getting frustrated. 86 00:05:15,125 --> 00:05:16,750 - Rest in peace, Freddie. 87 00:05:21,709 --> 00:05:24,375 - Western Baltimore is under siege at this moment. 88 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:28,289 - The real story is that 89 00:05:28,290 --> 00:05:29,542 Freddie Gray was murdered 90 00:05:29,543 --> 00:05:30,749 by the police, 91 00:05:30,750 --> 00:05:32,916 and my city took to the streets 92 00:05:32,917 --> 00:05:34,999 and took this city back. 93 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,290 - Hey, guys, they just set the CVS on fire. 94 00:05:38,291 --> 00:05:40,709 - Hey, did they close down the street? 95 00:05:43,583 --> 00:05:45,416 - Cop cars were being destroyed. 96 00:05:45,417 --> 00:05:47,374 Businesses were being destroyed. 97 00:05:47,375 --> 00:05:49,625 It's like a demon took over the city. 98 00:05:51,417 --> 00:05:52,957 - Maryland governor Larry Hogan declared 99 00:05:52,958 --> 00:05:54,250 a state of emergency. 100 00:05:56,208 --> 00:05:58,874 - The governor sends 2,000 national guardsmen 101 00:05:58,875 --> 00:06:01,207 to help police as Baltimore remains 102 00:06:01,208 --> 00:06:02,834 under a state of emergency. 103 00:06:17,792 --> 00:06:19,291 - Sir, thank you, sir. - You're welcome. 104 00:06:19,292 --> 00:06:21,165 - Might get loose... 105 00:06:21,166 --> 00:06:22,291 - Anybody wear a small? 106 00:06:22,292 --> 00:06:24,249 - I have to make it my size. 107 00:06:24,250 --> 00:06:26,749 Because I get walking pneumonia. 108 00:06:26,750 --> 00:06:28,374 - I didn't grow up in the hood, 109 00:06:28,375 --> 00:06:30,041 but I always was around people who did 110 00:06:30,042 --> 00:06:32,165 and always tried to use the perspective 111 00:06:32,166 --> 00:06:34,374 that I was fortunate enough to have 112 00:06:34,375 --> 00:06:35,999 by not growing up in the hood 113 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,959 to be able to say, "It's not right." 114 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,374 - Yes, ma'am. - Thank you. 115 00:06:40,375 --> 00:06:42,124 - Everybody get one? 116 00:06:42,125 --> 00:06:43,875 - The first time I heard about Freddie Gray, 117 00:06:43,876 --> 00:06:45,124 it was on TV. 118 00:06:45,125 --> 00:06:46,583 I was downtown, I was working 119 00:06:46,584 --> 00:06:48,916 at the Marriott Waterfront... 120 00:06:48,917 --> 00:06:51,958 and my white coworker, I remember her saying, 121 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:53,624 "Oh, my gosh. 122 00:06:53,625 --> 00:06:56,124 Has anybody been hurt? Has anybody been injured?" 123 00:06:56,125 --> 00:06:58,624 And I remember saying to her, "Yeah, somebody's been hurt. 124 00:06:58,625 --> 00:07:00,249 "Somebody's been injured. 125 00:07:00,250 --> 00:07:02,164 Somebody died, and that's what this is about." 126 00:07:02,165 --> 00:07:04,164 And she was saying, "No, no. I'm not talking about that. 127 00:07:04,165 --> 00:07:05,959 I'm talking about the police." Hands up, don't shoot! 128 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,791 - I mean, something 129 00:07:07,792 --> 00:07:09,665 at that moment, like, snapped inside of me, 130 00:07:09,666 --> 00:07:11,498 and it was just like, "Yo, I can't do this." 131 00:07:11,499 --> 00:07:13,000 Like, "I can't just sit on the sidelines. 132 00:07:13,001 --> 00:07:14,666 This is a part of me." 133 00:07:14,667 --> 00:07:16,373 From that Saturday on, I would leave work, 134 00:07:16,374 --> 00:07:18,333 and I would go protest with my cousins. 135 00:07:20,250 --> 00:07:22,999 I want you and Fox News to get out of Baltimore City, 136 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,457 because you're not here 137 00:07:24,458 --> 00:07:25,957 reporting about the boarded up homes 138 00:07:25,958 --> 00:07:27,832 and the homeless people under MLK. 139 00:07:27,833 --> 00:07:29,500 You're not reporting about the poverty levels 140 00:07:29,501 --> 00:07:31,165 up and down North Avenue. 141 00:07:31,166 --> 00:07:33,791 But you're here for the black riots that happened. 142 00:07:33,792 --> 00:07:35,416 I didn't know who Geraldo was, 143 00:07:35,417 --> 00:07:37,124 except for some little dude 144 00:07:37,125 --> 00:07:39,165 with a big mustache, disrespecting the scene. 145 00:07:39,166 --> 00:07:41,041 Everything that had been bottled up inside of me 146 00:07:41,042 --> 00:07:44,457 from before Freddie Gray was released in that moment. 147 00:07:44,458 --> 00:07:46,874 I want the white media out of Baltimore City 148 00:07:46,875 --> 00:07:49,791 until y'all come here to report the real stories. 149 00:07:49,792 --> 00:07:51,666 You know, once I realized 150 00:07:51,667 --> 00:07:53,498 that the cameras had recorded me, I was concerned 151 00:07:53,499 --> 00:07:54,959 about what my father was going to think, 152 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,624 and so I went home that night. 153 00:07:56,625 --> 00:07:58,373 I saw the video... it started trending 154 00:07:58,374 --> 00:08:00,083 and trending, and then three days later, 155 00:08:00,084 --> 00:08:02,041 I was fired. 156 00:08:11,667 --> 00:08:14,332 - The manner of death, deemed a homicide 157 00:08:14,333 --> 00:08:16,332 by the Maryland state medical examiner, 158 00:08:16,333 --> 00:08:18,791 is believed to be the result of a fatal injury 159 00:08:18,792 --> 00:08:21,416 that occurred while Mr. Gray was unrestrained 160 00:08:21,417 --> 00:08:23,040 by a seat belt in the custody 161 00:08:23,041 --> 00:08:25,708 of a Baltimore Police Department wagon. 162 00:08:25,709 --> 00:08:28,457 We have probable cause to file criminal charges. 163 00:08:28,458 --> 00:08:30,208 - Yes! Yes! 164 00:08:32,417 --> 00:08:34,875 - There was jubilation in the Baltimore neighborhood 165 00:08:34,876 --> 00:08:36,916 where Freddie Gray was killed 166 00:08:36,917 --> 00:08:39,291 after the prosecutor announced charges. 167 00:08:47,458 --> 00:08:48,957 - This is bigger than Freddie Gray. 168 00:08:48,958 --> 00:08:50,375 This is bigger than Trayvon Martin. 169 00:08:50,376 --> 00:08:52,207 This is bigger than Eric Garner. 170 00:08:52,208 --> 00:08:55,332 This is the way they treat black people in America, man. 171 00:08:55,333 --> 00:08:57,083 - Stop trying to make us scared of ISIS 172 00:08:57,084 --> 00:09:00,124 when we need to be scared of our own judicial system, 173 00:09:00,125 --> 00:09:02,833 'cause that's our terrorist in our community. 174 00:09:02,834 --> 00:09:05,082 - When we see the police, our first objective 175 00:09:05,083 --> 00:09:07,166 is not to stand there and get in compliance... it's to run. 176 00:09:07,167 --> 00:09:09,166 - Like, they chased me. They didn't find drugs. 177 00:09:09,167 --> 00:09:11,457 So they beat me in the head with a gun. 178 00:09:11,458 --> 00:09:13,958 - I wish my brother could have ran, 179 00:09:13,959 --> 00:09:15,290 but he stopped. 180 00:09:15,291 --> 00:09:16,749 He pulled over. 181 00:09:16,750 --> 00:09:19,124 He didn't give nobody a chase or anything. 182 00:09:19,125 --> 00:09:21,374 He pulled over, had his hands out the window, 183 00:09:21,375 --> 00:09:24,207 and was executed on the spot! 184 00:09:24,208 --> 00:09:27,082 - A black man don't have nothing in this world... 185 00:09:27,083 --> 00:09:28,666 nothing. 186 00:09:28,667 --> 00:09:30,625 And that's the end of that. 187 00:09:34,250 --> 00:09:36,374 - Today a judge will decide 188 00:09:36,375 --> 00:09:38,916 if the charges against the six officers 189 00:09:38,917 --> 00:09:40,457 should be dropped, 190 00:09:40,458 --> 00:09:42,082 if State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby 191 00:09:42,083 --> 00:09:43,458 should be taken off the case... 192 00:09:43,459 --> 00:09:45,374 - Freddie Gray! All night... 193 00:09:45,375 --> 00:09:46,958 All day! - We will fight 194 00:09:46,959 --> 00:09:48,833 for Freddie Gray! All night... 195 00:09:48,834 --> 00:09:50,834 - Well, once people realized that there were charges, 196 00:09:50,835 --> 00:09:53,582 people felt like, "What are we protesting for still?" 197 00:09:53,583 --> 00:09:55,541 We will fight for Freddie Gray! 198 00:09:55,542 --> 00:09:57,498 - Sidewalk! Hey, get on the sidewalk! 199 00:09:57,499 --> 00:09:59,375 - But, you know, I knew, like, I wasn't done. 200 00:09:59,376 --> 00:10:01,332 I had a mission that convictions 201 00:10:01,333 --> 00:10:03,916 was to be expected and Freddie Gray got justice. 202 00:10:03,917 --> 00:10:05,499 - What do we want? - Justice! 203 00:10:05,500 --> 00:10:07,207 - And when do we want it? - Now! 204 00:10:07,208 --> 00:10:09,999 - Police admit they were once caught off guard 205 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,208 during the riots, 206 00:10:11,209 --> 00:10:13,332 but now they're prepared. 207 00:10:13,333 --> 00:10:15,165 Hey-hey! Ho-ho! 208 00:10:15,166 --> 00:10:17,332 These killer cops have got to go! 209 00:10:17,333 --> 00:10:19,207 Hey-hey! Ho-ho! 210 00:10:19,208 --> 00:10:21,416 Those killer cops have got to go! 211 00:10:21,417 --> 00:10:23,332 Hey-hey! Ho-ho! 212 00:10:23,333 --> 00:10:25,291 These killer cops have got to go! 213 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,375 - I'm not resisting! - Hands behind your head! 214 00:10:28,376 --> 00:10:29,999 - I'm hurt. - Oh, oh, oh, oh! 215 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,540 - Hands behind your back now! - I'm hurt! 216 00:10:31,541 --> 00:10:33,041 - You're under arrest. - I'm hurt! 217 00:10:33,042 --> 00:10:34,958 - I'm gonna Tase you! - I'm hurt! 218 00:10:34,959 --> 00:10:36,206 I got hit by a... 219 00:10:36,207 --> 00:10:37,250 - Illegal arrest! 220 00:10:37,251 --> 00:10:38,709 Illegal arrest! 221 00:10:40,875 --> 00:10:44,083 - You need to back up. - Move! 222 00:11:01,125 --> 00:11:02,748 - So we thought it was really important 223 00:11:02,749 --> 00:11:04,373 to have this civil disobedience training 224 00:11:04,374 --> 00:11:06,208 in the midst of what's about to happen 225 00:11:06,209 --> 00:11:09,124 in Baltimore with the start of the Freddie Gray trials. 226 00:11:09,125 --> 00:11:11,666 And we just thought it was extremely necessary 227 00:11:11,667 --> 00:11:13,375 to have this, especially for students 228 00:11:13,376 --> 00:11:16,374 who might be just recently introduced... 229 00:11:16,375 --> 00:11:17,499 into this. 230 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:18,748 And while I've engaged 231 00:11:18,749 --> 00:11:20,208 in acts of civil disobedience, 232 00:11:20,209 --> 00:11:22,416 I've never organized one. 233 00:11:22,417 --> 00:11:25,708 When I found out that Kwame had gotten arrested, 234 00:11:25,709 --> 00:11:29,249 I was extremely frightened, 235 00:11:29,250 --> 00:11:31,623 just because I felt like stakes were getting higher 236 00:11:31,624 --> 00:11:33,417 and that activists were getting arrested 237 00:11:33,418 --> 00:11:35,999 for things that weren't necessarily threatening. 238 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,749 Protests are symbolic. 239 00:11:37,750 --> 00:11:39,667 They're effective, but they're also cathartic 240 00:11:39,668 --> 00:11:42,541 and therapeutic for the people who are involved in them. 241 00:11:42,542 --> 00:11:44,040 You need to promise 242 00:11:44,041 --> 00:11:45,832 that you're going to be ride or die... 243 00:11:45,833 --> 00:11:47,373 well, if you're comfortable with you're doing that. 244 00:11:47,374 --> 00:11:48,750 Like, you're gonna be ride or die 245 00:11:48,751 --> 00:11:50,250 for the people that you're with. 246 00:11:50,251 --> 00:11:52,624 Protest truly is the voice 247 00:11:52,625 --> 00:11:54,000 of people who are unheard, 248 00:11:54,001 --> 00:11:55,749 and protest is not always 249 00:11:55,750 --> 00:11:57,290 a passive action, right? 250 00:11:57,291 --> 00:11:59,125 Protest is not always marching in the streets, 251 00:11:59,126 --> 00:12:01,124 singing "Kumbaya," holding hands, 252 00:12:01,125 --> 00:12:03,959 being silent and non-disruptive. 253 00:12:12,041 --> 00:12:13,708 - We have to stand for our sons, 254 00:12:13,709 --> 00:12:16,125 because these are our sons, and we are sick and tired 255 00:12:16,126 --> 00:12:18,290 of being sick and tired of their blood 256 00:12:18,291 --> 00:12:21,082 being painted on the streets. 257 00:12:21,083 --> 00:12:22,915 - So people are worried about, like, the safety 258 00:12:22,916 --> 00:12:24,790 of people who are engaged in this work 259 00:12:24,791 --> 00:12:26,458 of trying to get justice for Freddie Gray. 260 00:12:26,459 --> 00:12:28,541 It had a lot to do with the way 261 00:12:28,542 --> 00:12:30,624 protestors had been treated in the past, 262 00:12:30,625 --> 00:12:32,958 the way I was arrested, and more and more 263 00:12:32,959 --> 00:12:37,249 as the story grew bigger, the protests got bigger. 264 00:12:37,250 --> 00:12:39,416 - Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 265 00:12:39,417 --> 00:12:41,124 has announced that she plans 266 00:12:41,125 --> 00:12:42,915 to make interim commissioner Kevin Davis 267 00:12:42,916 --> 00:12:44,665 the new Baltimore City police commissioner. 268 00:12:44,666 --> 00:12:46,625 - Protesting is not a privilege, Commissioner. 269 00:12:46,626 --> 00:12:49,124 Protesting is a right that you have to respect 270 00:12:49,125 --> 00:12:52,333 as a servant of the people, and that's all I want to say. 271 00:12:55,959 --> 00:12:58,582 - History will one day look specifically back 272 00:12:58,583 --> 00:13:00,666 at this very moment in time 273 00:13:00,667 --> 00:13:03,332 and identify this year... 274 00:13:03,333 --> 00:13:05,250 probably more than any other year... 275 00:13:05,251 --> 00:13:07,249 that will serve to define 276 00:13:07,250 --> 00:13:10,290 when American policing began to change. 277 00:13:10,291 --> 00:13:12,666 It's a challenging time to be a police officer, 278 00:13:12,667 --> 00:13:16,207 but it's an exciting time to be a police officer. 279 00:13:16,208 --> 00:13:20,291 Thank you, Mr. Chair. 280 00:13:27,667 --> 00:13:29,708 - Good evening, everyone. 281 00:13:29,709 --> 00:13:31,833 Till this day... 282 00:13:31,834 --> 00:13:34,833 Commissioner Davis has never apologized... 283 00:13:34,834 --> 00:13:36,833 for how peaceful protestors have been treated... 284 00:13:36,834 --> 00:13:37,874 - Yes! 285 00:13:37,875 --> 00:13:39,666 - Arrested... 286 00:13:39,667 --> 00:13:42,290 and are now being prosecuted by the same State's Attorney 287 00:13:42,291 --> 00:13:43,998 that's supposed to be bringing charges 288 00:13:43,999 --> 00:13:45,959 against six murderers that killed Freddie Gray. 289 00:13:50,667 --> 00:13:52,166 - Mic check! - Mic check! 290 00:13:52,167 --> 00:13:53,708 - Mic check! - Mic check! 291 00:13:53,709 --> 00:13:55,666 - My voice... - My voice! 292 00:13:55,667 --> 00:13:58,040 - Will not decide... - Will not decide! 293 00:13:58,041 --> 00:13:59,583 - If you become... - If you become! 294 00:13:59,584 --> 00:14:01,081 - The permanent commissioner... 295 00:14:01,082 --> 00:14:02,208 The permanent commissioner! 296 00:14:02,209 --> 00:14:03,708 - For my city. 297 00:14:03,709 --> 00:14:05,416 For my city! - Yet, I will be... 298 00:14:05,417 --> 00:14:07,249 Yet, I will be! - We will be... 299 00:14:07,250 --> 00:14:09,208 We will be! - The unarmed black kids... 300 00:14:09,209 --> 00:14:11,416 Unarmed black kids! - Found unconscious... 301 00:14:11,417 --> 00:14:13,333 Found unconscious! - In a police van. 302 00:14:13,334 --> 00:14:15,791 In a police van! - Left dead in the streets. 303 00:14:15,792 --> 00:14:17,290 Dead in the streets! 304 00:14:17,291 --> 00:14:18,791 - No justice! - No peace! 305 00:14:18,792 --> 00:14:20,708 - No racist! - Police! 306 00:14:20,709 --> 00:14:22,582 Step up or step down! 307 00:14:22,583 --> 00:14:24,499 Step up or step down! 308 00:14:24,500 --> 00:14:26,583 Step up or step down! 309 00:14:28,667 --> 00:14:30,124 - All right, everybody. 310 00:14:30,125 --> 00:14:31,750 So we're locked inside of City Hall right now. 311 00:14:31,751 --> 00:14:33,248 They locked the bathrooms. 312 00:14:33,249 --> 00:14:34,581 They've refused to let us off the balcony 313 00:14:34,582 --> 00:14:36,166 unless we're leaving the building. 314 00:14:36,167 --> 00:14:39,040 The commissioner still has not returned. 315 00:14:39,041 --> 00:14:41,582 We just wanted engagement from Kevin Davis. 316 00:14:41,583 --> 00:14:43,375 It wasn't about blocking Kevin Davis. 317 00:14:43,376 --> 00:14:45,416 It's mostly about, like, having a conversation 318 00:14:45,417 --> 00:14:48,749 so that we know what side Kevin Davis is actually on. 319 00:14:48,750 --> 00:14:50,583 I'm challenging everybody right now 320 00:14:50,584 --> 00:14:52,958 to use the power of social media 321 00:14:52,959 --> 00:14:55,332 to demand that the commissioner comes. 322 00:14:55,333 --> 00:14:57,374 - So thumbs for are we committed 323 00:14:57,375 --> 00:14:58,749 to staying here? 324 00:14:58,750 --> 00:15:00,791 Yes, maybe, no. 325 00:15:00,792 --> 00:15:02,708 - I want to stay. 326 00:15:02,709 --> 00:15:04,874 - Thumb, thumbs? - Yes, yes. 327 00:15:04,875 --> 00:15:06,916 - To go home? - This has just been 328 00:15:06,917 --> 00:15:09,624 the unanimous decision that we're not leaving 329 00:15:09,625 --> 00:15:11,040 until Kevin Davis 330 00:15:11,041 --> 00:15:12,709 and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 331 00:15:12,710 --> 00:15:15,457 are with us. - Okay. 332 00:15:15,458 --> 00:15:18,165 - Protestors are still inside City Hall, 333 00:15:18,166 --> 00:15:19,666 refusing to leave. 334 00:15:19,667 --> 00:15:21,666 Now, we've confirmed that Kevin Davis 335 00:15:21,667 --> 00:15:23,041 is not inside with them. 336 00:15:24,625 --> 00:15:26,456 - You will have to leave the building. 337 00:15:26,457 --> 00:15:28,083 I don't know. I'm trying... - Is this a warning 338 00:15:28,084 --> 00:15:30,457 before our arrest? - To see if we... well... 339 00:15:30,458 --> 00:15:32,249 - Excuse me. Good evening. 340 00:15:32,250 --> 00:15:33,833 Can I have everybody's attention? 341 00:15:33,834 --> 00:15:35,331 - Let her finish talking, 'cause that was 342 00:15:35,332 --> 00:15:37,039 very disrespectful to your colleague. 343 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:38,834 - Please. I am lawfully ordering all of you 344 00:15:38,835 --> 00:15:41,332 who are assembled here inside of City Hall 345 00:15:41,333 --> 00:15:42,833 to leave the building immediately 346 00:15:42,834 --> 00:15:44,833 and peacefully disperse. - Kwame, shh. 347 00:15:44,834 --> 00:15:47,333 - You shall leave immediately or be subject to arrest. 348 00:15:50,417 --> 00:15:52,624 - It is our duty to fight for our freedom. 349 00:15:52,625 --> 00:15:54,958 Is our duty to fight for our freedom. 350 00:15:54,959 --> 00:15:58,207 - We have nothing to lose but our chains! 351 00:15:58,208 --> 00:16:01,040 We have nothing to lose but our chains! 352 00:16:01,041 --> 00:16:03,582 - It is our duty to fight for our freedom! 353 00:16:03,583 --> 00:16:06,082 It is our duty to fight for our freedom! 354 00:16:06,083 --> 00:16:08,124 - We have nothing to lose but our chains! 355 00:16:08,125 --> 00:16:10,749 We have nothing to lose but our chains! 356 00:16:10,750 --> 00:16:12,624 - Black lives matter! 357 00:16:12,625 --> 00:16:16,666 Black lives matter! Black lives matter! 358 00:16:16,667 --> 00:16:19,082 Black lives matter! 359 00:16:19,083 --> 00:16:21,041 - Baltimore City has a new top cop. 360 00:16:21,042 --> 00:16:23,916 The city council voted 12-2 to confirm Kevin Davis 361 00:16:23,917 --> 00:16:26,542 as the new police commissioner for Baltimore City. 362 00:16:30,166 --> 00:16:32,833 - It's a exciting time, 363 00:16:32,834 --> 00:16:34,582 but it's also a very trying time, 364 00:16:34,583 --> 00:16:36,833 because I don't know... this is her senior year, 365 00:16:36,834 --> 00:16:38,583 and I don't know where things are going to go 366 00:16:38,584 --> 00:16:40,624 with regard to the Freddie Gray trial. 367 00:16:40,625 --> 00:16:42,291 Last year was a very difficult year. 368 00:16:42,292 --> 00:16:43,749 Her grades fell. 369 00:16:43,750 --> 00:16:45,416 I was very disappointed, 370 00:16:45,417 --> 00:16:48,749 because I put you on a path for success, 371 00:16:48,750 --> 00:16:50,916 and now you're letting it fall 372 00:16:50,917 --> 00:16:52,750 because you're doing all of this work. 373 00:16:52,751 --> 00:16:56,124 Education, in my book, comes first, you know? 374 00:16:56,125 --> 00:16:57,915 You know, people always ask me, "Where does she... 375 00:16:57,916 --> 00:16:59,834 where does she get this from?" And, um... 376 00:16:59,835 --> 00:17:01,874 her speaking, she definitely gets from her dad, 377 00:17:01,875 --> 00:17:03,332 but I think her spirit, 378 00:17:03,333 --> 00:17:05,708 she gets from my brother, her uncle. 379 00:17:05,709 --> 00:17:07,583 My brother was on death row for ten years. 380 00:17:07,584 --> 00:17:10,749 I think he was 32 when he was executed. 381 00:17:10,750 --> 00:17:12,916 He started doing live interviews 382 00:17:12,917 --> 00:17:15,416 from death row, so that's when we became very active 383 00:17:15,417 --> 00:17:17,208 campaigning against the death penalty, 384 00:17:17,209 --> 00:17:20,040 and then I became pregnant with Makayla. 385 00:17:20,041 --> 00:17:21,582 We have pictures of her 386 00:17:21,583 --> 00:17:23,165 in my husband's arms, marching. 387 00:17:23,166 --> 00:17:24,791 So she was born into that. 388 00:17:24,792 --> 00:17:26,958 - Whose streets? - Our streets! 389 00:17:26,959 --> 00:17:28,833 - Whose streets? - Our streets! 390 00:17:28,834 --> 00:17:31,416 - I always told her that our protest chants, 391 00:17:31,417 --> 00:17:33,291 "no justice, no peace," were her lullabies. 392 00:17:33,292 --> 00:17:34,874 And I said, "You marched 393 00:17:34,875 --> 00:17:36,291 before you could crawl and walk." 394 00:17:36,292 --> 00:17:37,999 Indict, convict, 395 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,125 send those killer cops to jail. The whole damn system... 396 00:17:40,126 --> 00:17:42,207 - I'm always reminded of my uncle's resilience 397 00:17:42,208 --> 00:17:44,125 and how, even on death row... when he knew 398 00:17:44,126 --> 00:17:46,123 that his death was pending and he knew 399 00:17:46,124 --> 00:17:47,792 that his death was coming, and he even had 400 00:17:47,793 --> 00:17:50,082 a date of his death, he was still organizing, 401 00:17:50,083 --> 00:17:53,250 and he was doing everything with his time that he could. 402 00:18:02,333 --> 00:18:04,457 You can go to killedbypolice.net, 403 00:18:04,458 --> 00:18:07,124 and you can begin to read the names off. 404 00:18:07,125 --> 00:18:09,749 We need to recognize and hear all of the names 405 00:18:09,750 --> 00:18:11,708 of all of the victims, right? 406 00:18:11,709 --> 00:18:14,164 And we need to say their names. We need to feel their spirits. 407 00:18:14,165 --> 00:18:16,498 We need to feel their energy and make this a moment 408 00:18:16,499 --> 00:18:18,208 where we're committing to ourselves 409 00:18:18,209 --> 00:18:20,457 to no longer wait until another name 410 00:18:20,458 --> 00:18:22,165 is added to that list, 411 00:18:22,166 --> 00:18:24,958 'cause we can't afford to lose another baby like Tamir. 412 00:18:24,959 --> 00:18:28,082 We can't afford to lose another sister like Sandra. 413 00:18:28,083 --> 00:18:29,582 We can't afford any of that. 414 00:18:29,583 --> 00:18:31,041 - Darius Smith. - Wesley Manning. 415 00:18:31,042 --> 00:18:32,541 - Dejuan Hall. - Brandon Johnson. 416 00:18:32,542 --> 00:18:34,375 - DeOntre Dorsey. - William Lemmon. 417 00:18:34,376 --> 00:18:36,457 - Patrick O'Grady. Philip Quinn. 418 00:18:36,458 --> 00:18:38,499 - Jason Mesaros. - Ernesto Lopez. 419 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:40,499 - Eddie Sanchez. - Joseph Khammash. 420 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:42,250 - Antonio Henry. - Kenneth Pinter Jr. 421 00:18:42,251 --> 00:18:44,249 - Adarius Brown. - Keith McLeod. 422 00:18:44,250 --> 00:18:45,542 - Leonel Acevedo. 423 00:18:49,959 --> 00:18:51,832 - So, Father God, first and foremost, 424 00:18:51,833 --> 00:18:53,458 I want to thank You for sparing the lives, Father God, 425 00:18:53,459 --> 00:18:55,500 of Britney and Genisha, Father God. 426 00:18:57,041 --> 00:18:59,165 But, Father God, our concentration, 427 00:18:59,166 --> 00:19:01,082 our focus... 428 00:19:01,083 --> 00:19:02,749 goes on those, Father God, 429 00:19:02,750 --> 00:19:04,540 that were seriously injured, Father God... 430 00:19:04,541 --> 00:19:06,417 even ejected from the vehicles, oh, God. 431 00:19:06,418 --> 00:19:07,999 Where does it hurt? 432 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,374 - It isn't hurting, it's just shaking. 433 00:19:10,375 --> 00:19:11,667 - Okay, so just relax. 434 00:19:14,375 --> 00:19:15,542 You're gonna be all right. 435 00:19:15,543 --> 00:19:17,874 All right? - Okay. 436 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:20,041 - Look, I ain't hard to find if y'all need me. 437 00:19:29,417 --> 00:19:32,916 It's my city. Love my city. 438 00:19:32,917 --> 00:19:35,249 We're in a community where... 439 00:19:35,250 --> 00:19:38,542 it's underserved and over-policed. 440 00:19:40,417 --> 00:19:42,708 You could be a great cop. 441 00:19:42,709 --> 00:19:45,082 You could be a great cop and a successful cop... 442 00:19:45,083 --> 00:19:46,542 probably even more so when you learn how 443 00:19:46,543 --> 00:19:50,499 to be respectful to the community. 444 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:52,250 So we're... we're in the Gilmor area, 445 00:19:52,251 --> 00:19:54,833 which is where, actually, Freddie Gray... 446 00:19:54,834 --> 00:19:58,082 was arrested. 447 00:19:58,083 --> 00:20:00,250 That mural went up almost immediately. 448 00:20:02,709 --> 00:20:04,581 The Freddie Gray incident wasn't the cause 449 00:20:04,582 --> 00:20:06,709 of the uprising... it was just probably that last straw 450 00:20:06,710 --> 00:20:10,291 that broke the camel's back... after decades of crying out. 451 00:20:15,959 --> 00:20:18,124 There were a group of individuals 452 00:20:18,125 --> 00:20:19,623 who helped us throughout the entire uprising. 453 00:20:19,624 --> 00:20:20,834 They wanted to sit down and talk 454 00:20:20,835 --> 00:20:22,416 with the commissioner 455 00:20:22,417 --> 00:20:24,333 about how we can better work together 456 00:20:24,334 --> 00:20:26,625 to see that peace come back around. 457 00:20:28,625 --> 00:20:30,290 You are the peacemakers. 458 00:20:30,291 --> 00:20:31,792 You are the ones who I've called on 459 00:20:31,793 --> 00:20:33,499 in months past, years past, 460 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:35,500 when things were happening, and said, "We need help." 461 00:20:35,501 --> 00:20:37,124 And you have always come through. 462 00:20:37,125 --> 00:20:38,792 Some of you don't even know each other, 463 00:20:38,793 --> 00:20:41,207 so the common denominator here is me, right? 464 00:20:41,208 --> 00:20:42,749 But more importantly, 465 00:20:42,750 --> 00:20:44,289 the common denominator here is Baltimore, 466 00:20:44,290 --> 00:20:46,039 and so what the commissioner has asked 467 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:47,915 is, hypothetically, if something else kicked off... 468 00:20:47,916 --> 00:20:49,915 if anything kicked off... are there people that you know, 469 00:20:49,916 --> 00:20:51,709 that when we get some information, 470 00:20:51,710 --> 00:20:54,165 that you can pass that information on to 471 00:20:54,166 --> 00:20:56,125 so it doesn't blow up in our face? 472 00:20:56,126 --> 00:20:58,499 - It'd be one thing if the uprising 473 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:01,791 and the unrest were behind us. 474 00:21:01,792 --> 00:21:03,041 Part of it's behind us, 475 00:21:03,042 --> 00:21:05,165 but we got a big front windshield 476 00:21:05,166 --> 00:21:08,666 that we're looking out, and there are absolutely 477 00:21:08,667 --> 00:21:10,834 expectations that we need to manage in this city, 478 00:21:10,835 --> 00:21:13,332 and I don't think the city is doing a good job 479 00:21:13,333 --> 00:21:15,916 at managing expectations for these trials. 480 00:21:15,917 --> 00:21:18,916 Baltimore... this uniform is the most recognizable 481 00:21:18,917 --> 00:21:21,249 police department in the country right now. 482 00:21:21,250 --> 00:21:22,667 And people are looking at us 483 00:21:22,668 --> 00:21:24,374 to see if we can get this right. 484 00:21:24,375 --> 00:21:26,374 - A lot of the kids, I'm telling you for a fact, 485 00:21:26,375 --> 00:21:27,874 literally sitting around, 486 00:21:27,875 --> 00:21:30,499 waiting for the next opportunity to go out 487 00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:34,582 and do what they think is voicing their frustrations. 488 00:21:34,583 --> 00:21:36,458 - We got that. That's good, that's good. 489 00:21:36,459 --> 00:21:38,082 We got that. Catalina? 490 00:21:38,083 --> 00:21:40,249 - So begin to identify the people that will work 491 00:21:40,250 --> 00:21:42,041 on behalf of the people of Baltimore, 492 00:21:42,042 --> 00:21:43,541 'cause we all love our city, 493 00:21:43,542 --> 00:21:45,123 and we loved it before it was popular 494 00:21:45,124 --> 00:21:46,540 to say you loved it and it was a brand. 495 00:21:46,541 --> 00:21:47,998 - Yes. - Why don't we start 496 00:21:47,999 --> 00:21:49,707 getting out into the schools right now, 497 00:21:49,708 --> 00:21:51,500 having assemblies, and then talk to them about, 498 00:21:51,501 --> 00:21:54,791 "This is your city. You have to value your city. 499 00:21:54,792 --> 00:21:56,250 "You know, no matter what happens, 500 00:21:56,251 --> 00:21:57,874 you still have to live here." 501 00:21:57,875 --> 00:21:59,834 - Well, first of all, allow me to apologize, 502 00:21:59,835 --> 00:22:03,374 'cause I'm not as well-spoken as some of my counterparts. 503 00:22:03,375 --> 00:22:07,332 I'm a retired gang member, sir, if there is such a thing. 504 00:22:07,333 --> 00:22:09,874 And excuse me for being incredibly frank. 505 00:22:09,875 --> 00:22:13,541 You have to treat those officers like people. 506 00:22:13,542 --> 00:22:15,708 They shouldn't have never had ten days 507 00:22:15,709 --> 00:22:18,916 to discuss their story. 508 00:22:18,917 --> 00:22:21,916 Major problem. 509 00:22:21,917 --> 00:22:24,416 You have two sides of your city, Chief, 510 00:22:24,417 --> 00:22:26,416 and part of your city, they're expecting 511 00:22:26,417 --> 00:22:27,833 everybody to walk. 512 00:22:27,834 --> 00:22:29,582 Some of them, unfortunately... 513 00:22:29,583 --> 00:22:33,207 and I hate to admit it... are waiting for them to walk. 514 00:22:33,208 --> 00:22:34,791 Just my opinion. 515 00:22:34,792 --> 00:22:36,332 - My selfish interest, 516 00:22:36,333 --> 00:22:38,040 on behalf of the city right now, 517 00:22:38,041 --> 00:22:40,124 is surviving this moment. 518 00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:41,666 Right? We can't get through this 519 00:22:41,667 --> 00:22:43,541 without you guys. 520 00:22:43,542 --> 00:22:46,290 And I give my cell phone number out to everybody. 521 00:22:46,291 --> 00:22:47,834 And I've had people tell me, "Why do you give 522 00:22:47,835 --> 00:22:49,374 your cell phone number?" 523 00:22:49,375 --> 00:22:50,873 I'll give it to everybody in this room. 524 00:22:50,874 --> 00:22:52,581 Now, now, I do that because I know 525 00:22:52,582 --> 00:22:53,915 that if you guys didn't care about this city, 526 00:22:53,916 --> 00:22:55,083 you wouldn't be in here. 527 00:22:55,084 --> 00:22:56,624 If we can't, as a city, 528 00:22:56,625 --> 00:22:58,166 get through these six trials together... 529 00:22:58,167 --> 00:23:01,332 with just protests and no violence... 530 00:23:01,333 --> 00:23:04,000 we will take ten giant steps backwards. 531 00:23:12,834 --> 00:23:15,958 - I just want to get into treatment as soon as possible. 532 00:23:15,959 --> 00:23:17,750 - Okay, what is your drug of choice? 533 00:23:17,751 --> 00:23:20,290 - Heroin. - All right. 534 00:23:20,291 --> 00:23:22,290 Age of first use? - Of anything? 535 00:23:22,291 --> 00:23:25,124 - Of anything. - 13, marijuana. 536 00:23:25,125 --> 00:23:26,791 - Next thing? 537 00:23:26,792 --> 00:23:29,249 - 14, cocaine. 538 00:23:29,250 --> 00:23:30,792 - Wow, how'd you graduate that fast? 539 00:23:30,793 --> 00:23:32,249 What was his name? 540 00:23:32,250 --> 00:23:35,290 - John. 541 00:23:35,291 --> 00:23:37,250 - Awesome. All right. 542 00:23:39,750 --> 00:23:42,833 My job is to refer clients, translate, 543 00:23:42,834 --> 00:23:46,332 and advocate for clients suffering from dual diagnosis 544 00:23:46,333 --> 00:23:48,250 and/or drug abuse. 545 00:23:51,792 --> 00:23:54,582 To date, I've sent successfully to treatment 546 00:23:54,583 --> 00:23:57,417 1,785 people. 547 00:24:02,583 --> 00:24:04,582 I think maybe seven, eight days ago, 548 00:24:04,583 --> 00:24:06,291 I just met with the commissioner, Davis... 549 00:24:06,292 --> 00:24:08,833 the new dude... and they're trying to help us, 550 00:24:08,834 --> 00:24:10,750 first of all, kind of police our own. 551 00:24:10,751 --> 00:24:13,666 What we don't want is a repeat of what happened in April. 552 00:24:13,667 --> 00:24:15,373 - They really do got to build a relationship 553 00:24:15,374 --> 00:24:16,915 with the community first, because don't nobody 554 00:24:16,916 --> 00:24:18,834 in the community trust them. - Right. 555 00:24:18,835 --> 00:24:21,374 - You got to get them something... jobs, something. 556 00:24:21,375 --> 00:24:23,206 Give them something to do. Something. 557 00:24:23,207 --> 00:24:25,665 - So, basically, just let me know what it is you need. 558 00:24:25,666 --> 00:24:27,331 You know what I'm saying? 'Cause if we can facilitate 559 00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:29,000 this, it'd create a lot of opportunity 560 00:24:29,001 --> 00:24:32,040 for a bunch of different things, mostly for our kids. 561 00:24:32,041 --> 00:24:34,250 You know what I'm saying? The schools around here. 562 00:24:34,251 --> 00:24:37,667 We can reduce the police presence greatly. 563 00:24:39,875 --> 00:24:41,792 - This is the voice mailbox for Kevin Davis, 564 00:24:41,793 --> 00:24:44,958 police commissioner for the city of Baltimore. 565 00:24:44,959 --> 00:24:46,333 - Hello, Commissioner Davis. 566 00:24:46,334 --> 00:24:48,499 This is Genard Barr, aka Mr. Shadow. 567 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:50,165 We met, um... 568 00:24:50,166 --> 00:24:51,791 a little bit over a week ago. 569 00:24:51,792 --> 00:24:53,709 You remember the question, "What can we do 570 00:24:53,710 --> 00:24:57,207 "to prevent a second uprising if the trial does not go 571 00:24:57,208 --> 00:24:58,582 quite like we thought?" 572 00:24:58,583 --> 00:25:00,624 I believe I have an answer for you. 573 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:02,582 I hope this reaches you in peace, 574 00:25:02,583 --> 00:25:04,164 and just as a side note, I'll be bugging 575 00:25:04,165 --> 00:25:05,417 the hell out of you until I talk to you. 576 00:25:05,418 --> 00:25:07,166 Thank you very much, sir. 577 00:25:10,208 --> 00:25:12,164 - Jury selection begins in the morning 578 00:25:12,165 --> 00:25:14,083 in the trial of the first of the six police officers 579 00:25:14,084 --> 00:25:16,374 charged in the death of Freddie Gray. 580 00:25:16,375 --> 00:25:18,250 - Officer William Porter is accused 581 00:25:18,251 --> 00:25:20,249 of involuntary manslaughter, 582 00:25:20,250 --> 00:25:23,417 reckless endangerment, and assault. 583 00:25:29,542 --> 00:25:33,249 - I always had pride in being a law enforcement officer, 584 00:25:33,250 --> 00:25:36,165 but... now, it's like... 585 00:25:36,166 --> 00:25:38,166 people don't feel the same way. 586 00:25:42,542 --> 00:25:44,999 I feel like a linebacker. 587 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,416 I'm one of the investigators in the case. 588 00:25:47,417 --> 00:25:50,249 So we have the court cases coming up very soon... 589 00:25:50,250 --> 00:25:52,582 the start of those... and, um, you know, 590 00:25:52,583 --> 00:25:54,082 that's, um... 591 00:25:54,083 --> 00:25:56,749 you know, that's gonna be a huge deal 592 00:25:56,750 --> 00:25:58,417 for everybody involved. 593 00:26:00,625 --> 00:26:02,791 And I don't know exactly when I'll be testifying 594 00:26:02,792 --> 00:26:04,249 in that case. 595 00:26:04,250 --> 00:26:05,792 We're just kind of in standby mode. 596 00:26:09,291 --> 00:26:11,624 It's discouraging when you just watch 597 00:26:11,625 --> 00:26:14,708 people pit races against each other, 598 00:26:14,709 --> 00:26:17,458 the community against the police. 599 00:26:35,959 --> 00:26:38,958 See, out here you have to kind of pick your poison. 600 00:26:38,959 --> 00:26:41,082 You got to pick your poison, you know, 601 00:26:41,083 --> 00:26:43,499 what you're gonna get engaged in. 602 00:26:43,500 --> 00:26:45,541 When you got young black men like this 603 00:26:45,542 --> 00:26:50,624 who are just walking around the street aimlessly... 604 00:26:50,625 --> 00:26:52,999 you know... 605 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,666 they're doing one of two things. 606 00:26:54,667 --> 00:26:57,666 They're up to no good, or they're selling drugs, 607 00:26:57,667 --> 00:26:59,166 and then the next thing you know, 608 00:26:59,167 --> 00:27:00,958 you're gonna have a shooting, 609 00:27:00,959 --> 00:27:02,874 and these are the results. 610 00:27:02,875 --> 00:27:05,666 Graveyards... jails. 611 00:27:05,667 --> 00:27:07,625 So, you know... 612 00:27:20,208 --> 00:27:23,207 - Back in the late '50s and early '60s, 613 00:27:23,208 --> 00:27:25,541 Penn North was the cultural center of Baltimore 614 00:27:25,542 --> 00:27:28,541 because it was the home, among other things, 615 00:27:28,542 --> 00:27:30,666 of numerous jazz clubs. 616 00:27:30,667 --> 00:27:33,166 This was the heyday of the black family. 617 00:27:38,083 --> 00:27:40,791 We didn't have drugs. We didn't have guns. 618 00:27:40,792 --> 00:27:43,165 You didn't see all of these vacant houses. 619 00:27:43,166 --> 00:27:45,708 It was an "onward, upward" kind of feeling 620 00:27:45,709 --> 00:27:47,499 about Baltimore. 621 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:50,124 The police were basically foot patrolmen. 622 00:27:50,125 --> 00:27:53,207 They knew who the bad kids were in any given family, 623 00:27:53,208 --> 00:27:54,999 who the good people were, 624 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,083 because they were familiar with the community. 625 00:27:59,417 --> 00:28:01,749 Blacks were treated a lot differently 626 00:28:01,750 --> 00:28:05,624 after the advent of the motorized squad car. 627 00:28:05,625 --> 00:28:07,708 And so, instead of walking the beat, 628 00:28:07,709 --> 00:28:09,375 the police department in Baltimore 629 00:28:09,376 --> 00:28:11,791 went from hot spot to hot spot. 630 00:28:11,792 --> 00:28:14,958 They didn't learn the community after that. 631 00:28:14,959 --> 00:28:19,332 Then in 1968, when we had the riots... 632 00:28:19,333 --> 00:28:21,333 things went downhill from there. 633 00:28:23,083 --> 00:28:25,833 Add that to mass incarceration, 634 00:28:25,834 --> 00:28:28,749 to mass arrests in the black community... 635 00:28:28,750 --> 00:28:30,916 now we have the destruction 636 00:28:30,917 --> 00:28:32,749 of the same black families 637 00:28:32,750 --> 00:28:35,208 who were thriving in that part of town. 638 00:28:47,917 --> 00:28:50,874 - My father was a cop. Useless. 639 00:28:50,875 --> 00:28:52,790 The dude my mother married after my father 640 00:28:52,791 --> 00:28:54,000 was also a cop. 641 00:28:54,001 --> 00:28:55,582 He spent... 642 00:28:55,583 --> 00:28:56,957 a good five years abusing me, 643 00:28:56,958 --> 00:28:58,917 and that began the hatred of cops... 644 00:28:58,918 --> 00:29:00,541 the ineffective father 645 00:29:00,542 --> 00:29:02,833 and the piece-of-shit stepfather. 646 00:29:02,834 --> 00:29:04,624 Around 15 or 16 or so, 647 00:29:04,625 --> 00:29:08,124 I couldn't deal with that anymore, so I left. 648 00:29:08,125 --> 00:29:10,874 You know, there's only certain ways a 16-year-old dude 649 00:29:10,875 --> 00:29:14,499 is gonna take care of himself. 650 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:17,040 The environment I was stuck in 651 00:29:17,041 --> 00:29:18,875 or pushed upon me, or however the hell 652 00:29:18,876 --> 00:29:21,624 you want to put that, turned me into something else 653 00:29:21,625 --> 00:29:23,332 for a means of survival. 654 00:29:23,333 --> 00:29:25,332 I don't want my kids to be turned into anything. 655 00:29:25,333 --> 00:29:26,959 I want my kids to grow up to be my kids. 656 00:29:45,333 --> 00:29:46,583 - Hey, baby. 657 00:29:49,166 --> 00:29:50,581 - Hey, Shadow. - Oh, yeah, that's my... 658 00:29:50,582 --> 00:29:52,164 - How you doing, man? How are you? 659 00:29:52,165 --> 00:29:53,834 - How you doing? - Sorry I'm late. You good? 660 00:29:53,835 --> 00:29:55,874 - Nah, actually, it worked out that you're late. 661 00:29:55,875 --> 00:29:57,125 - Hey, how are you? Kevin Davis. 662 00:29:57,126 --> 00:29:58,708 You know, why this year 663 00:29:58,709 --> 00:30:00,290 and why right now 664 00:30:00,291 --> 00:30:03,207 and why... why post-April to May 665 00:30:03,208 --> 00:30:05,666 is everything off the chain? 666 00:30:05,667 --> 00:30:07,331 - You know, when you're in a situation 667 00:30:07,332 --> 00:30:09,083 where you have 7,000 people and 300 jobs... 668 00:30:09,084 --> 00:30:12,040 Things can be out of control. 669 00:30:12,041 --> 00:30:16,332 Then on our side, seven, eight generations 670 00:30:16,333 --> 00:30:19,040 of fatherless boys. 671 00:30:19,041 --> 00:30:20,500 And the only time we ever see y'all 672 00:30:20,501 --> 00:30:22,749 is y'all taking our fathers from us. 673 00:30:22,750 --> 00:30:24,791 - I hear you. 674 00:30:24,792 --> 00:30:27,499 - That's why. - And it just bubbled here. 675 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:29,331 - There are no recreation centers. 676 00:30:29,332 --> 00:30:31,583 There's nothing for kids to do. There's nothing here. 677 00:30:31,584 --> 00:30:33,874 - We are so angry... 678 00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:35,249 and so upset. 679 00:30:35,250 --> 00:30:36,917 We sit here, and we have nothing to do, 680 00:30:36,918 --> 00:30:38,749 so we agitating each other. 681 00:30:38,750 --> 00:30:41,791 And then we have the cops on top of our backs. 682 00:30:41,792 --> 00:30:43,373 - Some of these dudes... I done seen some of these cats 683 00:30:43,374 --> 00:30:45,039 strip search people in the street. 684 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,917 If you ever try to put your finger in my ass, 685 00:30:46,918 --> 00:30:48,915 talking about something, you want to search for 686 00:30:48,916 --> 00:30:50,498 some drugs, I don't give a fuck whether he got a badge or not, 687 00:30:50,499 --> 00:30:51,917 I'm gonna stab him in his neck. 688 00:30:51,918 --> 00:30:54,874 - I'm sorry that law enforcement 689 00:30:54,875 --> 00:30:57,874 in this community is like this. 690 00:30:57,875 --> 00:31:00,290 - If you want to make a change now... 691 00:31:00,291 --> 00:31:02,290 I don't know who or how we have to do it... 692 00:31:02,291 --> 00:31:04,289 - You do... you do a lot... - No, please let me finish. 693 00:31:04,290 --> 00:31:06,166 - You do a lot. - No, please let me finish. 694 00:31:06,167 --> 00:31:07,749 Please let me finish. 695 00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:09,289 I went through shit that I should not have to. 696 00:31:09,290 --> 00:31:10,873 I'm not even supposed to be sitting here. 697 00:31:10,874 --> 00:31:12,415 I got a bullet hole in my head, Chief. 698 00:31:12,416 --> 00:31:14,083 And that will not happen to my children. 699 00:31:14,084 --> 00:31:15,582 Do you understand? 700 00:31:15,583 --> 00:31:17,666 This will not happen to my children. 701 00:31:17,667 --> 00:31:20,124 I will die doing this. 702 00:31:20,125 --> 00:31:21,332 Okay? 703 00:31:21,333 --> 00:31:22,916 - Your pain's not my pain. 704 00:31:22,917 --> 00:31:24,291 I've never lived your life. 705 00:31:24,292 --> 00:31:27,124 But that still... 706 00:31:27,125 --> 00:31:29,833 Excuse me. 707 00:31:29,834 --> 00:31:34,249 - Doesn't mean that... 708 00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:36,124 - It won't happen to my children. 709 00:31:36,125 --> 00:31:39,541 I promise you, I have an army of likeminded individuals. 710 00:31:39,542 --> 00:31:41,249 But they're afraid of you all. 711 00:31:41,250 --> 00:31:43,290 And until they stop... - That breaks my heart. 712 00:31:43,291 --> 00:31:45,791 - And until they stop being afraid of you all, 713 00:31:45,792 --> 00:31:50,624 it's gonna seem like I'm doing it by myself. 714 00:31:50,625 --> 00:31:52,749 Here's the deal... 715 00:31:52,750 --> 00:31:54,833 - What do they want? - Jobs. 716 00:31:54,834 --> 00:31:58,124 - We need jobs. - Jobs. 717 00:31:58,125 --> 00:31:59,458 - We need them. - Mm-hmm. 718 00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:01,457 Can I be an advocate for jobs? 719 00:32:01,458 --> 00:32:03,249 Yes. Can I go over... 720 00:32:03,250 --> 00:32:05,416 and stand in City Hall and jump up and down? 721 00:32:05,417 --> 00:32:06,374 Yes. 722 00:32:06,375 --> 00:32:07,958 Will I? Yes. 723 00:32:07,959 --> 00:32:10,624 But you know my personal ability 724 00:32:10,625 --> 00:32:15,374 as a police commissioner to create jobs... is what? 725 00:32:15,375 --> 00:32:16,790 - Hmm. - For this moment in time, 726 00:32:16,791 --> 00:32:17,959 I got the bully pulpit, 727 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,749 and I'll stand up with you 728 00:32:19,750 --> 00:32:21,709 and go to whoever those people are 729 00:32:21,710 --> 00:32:23,499 who can make change. 730 00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:28,290 I'll do that, but I need you to promise me 731 00:32:28,291 --> 00:32:31,332 that we're not gonna have what we had in April and May. 732 00:32:31,333 --> 00:32:33,791 Can you deliver that? - Yeah. 733 00:32:33,792 --> 00:32:36,582 - Yeah. - To the best of my ability. 734 00:32:36,583 --> 00:32:38,456 - This is the problem that we're having, 735 00:32:38,457 --> 00:32:40,291 with, you know, the guys in the fraternity... 736 00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:41,749 guys, you know... 737 00:32:41,750 --> 00:32:44,833 They are worried about, "If we take this step, 738 00:32:44,834 --> 00:32:46,999 will y'all take this step with us?" 739 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,959 You know, because they don't want to look like fools, 740 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,708 and they don't want any backlash. 741 00:32:50,709 --> 00:32:52,373 - I don't want to look like a fool either. 742 00:32:52,374 --> 00:32:54,331 - You know, it's time for us to stand... 743 00:32:54,332 --> 00:32:56,375 - Give me a couple... Test me, then. Test the waters. 744 00:32:56,376 --> 00:32:58,373 Give me a couple things you want me to do. 745 00:32:58,374 --> 00:32:59,873 - We been talking about it all year, bro. 746 00:32:59,874 --> 00:33:01,748 - A football game, a basketball game. 747 00:33:01,749 --> 00:33:03,665 - We want a football game, man. We want to play ball. 748 00:33:03,666 --> 00:33:05,289 But you get what I'm saying? Like, just like we're playing 749 00:33:05,290 --> 00:33:06,834 cops and robbers when we was kids, 750 00:33:06,835 --> 00:33:08,374 let's put on some pads... 751 00:33:08,375 --> 00:33:10,206 'cause it's a lot of athletes out here, Chief. 752 00:33:10,207 --> 00:33:11,834 I can still run, man. - Yeah? All right. I can't. 753 00:33:19,250 --> 00:33:20,957 - I'm about to go meet up with my attorney. 754 00:33:20,958 --> 00:33:22,333 I'm not taking no charges. 755 00:33:22,334 --> 00:33:23,916 I'm not taking no conviction. 756 00:33:23,917 --> 00:33:25,832 But I also want to send a message, like, 757 00:33:25,833 --> 00:33:27,915 this is not about to keep happening to protestors 758 00:33:27,916 --> 00:33:30,375 who haven't broken the law and have only been exercising 759 00:33:30,376 --> 00:33:32,499 their First Amendment right. 760 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:34,500 - You are on the scene. They're gonna come to you 761 00:33:34,501 --> 00:33:36,082 because, for good or for bad, 762 00:33:36,083 --> 00:33:37,750 you are seen as a leader of the movement. 763 00:33:37,751 --> 00:33:39,874 - I'm, like, the only protestor facing, like, 764 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:41,916 serious jail time, you know. 765 00:33:41,917 --> 00:33:43,916 I'm the most visible person. 766 00:33:43,917 --> 00:33:47,207 - Arrest is the last resort, and that is a citable offense. 767 00:33:47,208 --> 00:33:51,082 Right, so the only reason, from my experience, 768 00:33:51,083 --> 00:33:53,582 that somebody in command would make an arrest 769 00:33:53,583 --> 00:33:55,040 is if it's pre-planned. 770 00:33:55,041 --> 00:33:56,581 - Where would that directive come from, 771 00:33:56,582 --> 00:33:58,415 from your experience, when you were there? 772 00:33:58,416 --> 00:34:00,248 - It's gonna come from Command. It's not gonna come from... 773 00:34:00,249 --> 00:34:02,665 it's gonna come from somebody that is a captain or above. 774 00:34:02,666 --> 00:34:04,792 Somebody that's in what they call "Command Staff." 775 00:34:04,793 --> 00:34:07,332 - The perception that you have nothing to lose, 776 00:34:07,333 --> 00:34:10,124 that's a scary thing for people who got a whole lot to lose. 777 00:34:10,125 --> 00:34:11,624 So that's the threat you pose. 778 00:34:11,625 --> 00:34:14,290 Whether you mean to express that threat or not, 779 00:34:14,291 --> 00:34:16,458 to the establishment, that's what you represent. 780 00:34:25,959 --> 00:34:29,124 - This is my last one, I swear. 781 00:34:29,125 --> 00:34:31,709 For today. 782 00:34:35,792 --> 00:34:38,624 I don't get why they're picking this bone so hard. 783 00:34:38,625 --> 00:34:40,958 - But that is why they're picking the bone. 784 00:34:40,959 --> 00:34:43,958 - Yeah. - So they can hold you back 785 00:34:43,959 --> 00:34:45,999 during the whole next... I don't know. 786 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,832 When's this gonna be? Six months, seven months? 787 00:34:47,833 --> 00:34:49,291 - I am still gonna protest. 788 00:34:49,292 --> 00:34:51,958 I'm still gonna be out here before my case. 789 00:34:51,959 --> 00:34:54,083 - Well, it's your constitutional right to protest. 790 00:34:54,084 --> 00:34:56,875 - Well, I don't get those rights. 791 00:35:01,542 --> 00:35:03,207 - We have heard closing arguments 792 00:35:03,208 --> 00:35:04,791 in the final phase 793 00:35:04,792 --> 00:35:06,540 of the Officer William Porter trial. 794 00:35:06,541 --> 00:35:08,250 Right now the prosecution has wrapped up 795 00:35:08,251 --> 00:35:10,416 its portion of closing arguments. 796 00:35:10,417 --> 00:35:12,792 - Prosecutors contend Porter is criminally negligent 797 00:35:12,793 --> 00:35:15,374 because he didn't call a medic when Gray requested one 798 00:35:15,375 --> 00:35:18,791 and he didn't buckle Gray into a seat belt. 799 00:35:18,792 --> 00:35:21,791 - Have you ever been inside of a police van? 800 00:35:21,792 --> 00:35:24,874 And I'm like this, right? Now, you got a back door here. 801 00:35:24,875 --> 00:35:26,624 Now, if she has this much room... 802 00:35:26,625 --> 00:35:28,373 because, remember, you have a wall here 803 00:35:28,374 --> 00:35:30,039 that divides both sides of the wagon. 804 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,417 - It's narrow in the back. - So what can I do 805 00:35:31,418 --> 00:35:32,874 to her from here? 806 00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:34,456 I could kick her. I could punch her. 807 00:35:34,457 --> 00:35:36,164 - I'm over here... - I could spit on her. 808 00:35:36,165 --> 00:35:38,083 I can do this, but... - I'm not gonna put myself 809 00:35:38,084 --> 00:35:40,416 through that, because when I get injured, 810 00:35:40,417 --> 00:35:43,207 first of all, the city not gonna want to take care of me. 811 00:35:43,208 --> 00:35:44,957 - We had the gentleman that came here... 812 00:35:44,958 --> 00:35:47,250 it took six guys to try to get him out of the cell 813 00:35:47,251 --> 00:35:49,748 and he said, "You're gonna have to Freddie Gray me 814 00:35:49,749 --> 00:35:51,208 "out of this motherfucker, 815 00:35:51,209 --> 00:35:53,666 because I'm not walking on my two feet." 816 00:35:53,667 --> 00:35:55,708 - It puts everybody at risk. 817 00:35:55,709 --> 00:35:57,791 - It's crazy. 818 00:35:57,792 --> 00:36:00,749 - Right now, since April, the community, 819 00:36:00,750 --> 00:36:04,874 the Command, the government, 820 00:36:04,875 --> 00:36:08,249 the media, has effectively erased the blue line 821 00:36:08,250 --> 00:36:09,917 that protected all of these people 822 00:36:09,918 --> 00:36:12,958 and the result is, you know, a record year, 823 00:36:12,959 --> 00:36:16,166 and it's only gonna get worse and worse and worse. 824 00:36:18,583 --> 00:36:20,290 - Well, the death of Freddie Gray 825 00:36:20,291 --> 00:36:21,583 has put a glaring spotlight on Baltimore 826 00:36:21,584 --> 00:36:23,165 and its police force. 827 00:36:23,166 --> 00:36:24,833 In the months since Gray's death, 828 00:36:24,834 --> 00:36:26,916 arrests in Baltimore have plunged. 829 00:36:26,917 --> 00:36:28,916 Murders have actually surged. 830 00:36:28,917 --> 00:36:31,290 - After the uprising in Baltimore City, 831 00:36:31,291 --> 00:36:33,499 I talked to the police in West Baltimore. 832 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:36,290 They were saying, "Colonel, can we keep it real? 833 00:36:36,291 --> 00:36:38,206 "We're tired of getting out of the cars. 834 00:36:38,207 --> 00:36:39,748 "We got to keep looking over our heads 835 00:36:39,749 --> 00:36:41,542 "and ducking bottles and dirty diapers 836 00:36:41,543 --> 00:36:45,207 "and all this crap, and we just want to do our job. 837 00:36:45,208 --> 00:36:47,000 "When we make a legitimate, good arrest, 838 00:36:47,001 --> 00:36:50,124 "all the cameras come... wham, in our face! 839 00:36:50,125 --> 00:36:54,374 And just hatred being spewed. Colonel, that hurts." 840 00:36:54,375 --> 00:36:57,332 Facts speak for themselves. 841 00:36:57,333 --> 00:37:00,541 And I understand it. 842 00:37:00,542 --> 00:37:02,583 We stopped policing. 843 00:37:05,333 --> 00:37:07,123 - We carry our children. We feed them. 844 00:37:07,124 --> 00:37:09,000 We do all the right things for them. 845 00:37:09,001 --> 00:37:11,708 And then one day we wake up and get a phone call that said, 846 00:37:11,709 --> 00:37:14,332 "Ms. Austin, homicide is coming. 847 00:37:14,333 --> 00:37:15,790 They want to talk to you." 848 00:37:15,791 --> 00:37:17,083 My husband went to the scene, 849 00:37:17,084 --> 00:37:19,207 and there was our 22-year-old son 850 00:37:19,208 --> 00:37:22,499 at a block party with his brains blown out. 851 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:23,583 - They say black don't crack. 852 00:37:23,584 --> 00:37:25,249 Shit, my brother sent me 853 00:37:25,250 --> 00:37:27,041 a picture he took of a guy laying on the concrete 854 00:37:27,042 --> 00:37:30,040 with his top peeled back like a convertible Honda. 855 00:37:30,041 --> 00:37:33,207 We praying for mamas. Our kids are going to paradise. 856 00:37:33,208 --> 00:37:35,375 No, no, no, not the Bahamas. 857 00:37:38,208 --> 00:37:39,708 - You guys know Petey? 858 00:37:39,709 --> 00:37:43,708 Here, I want y'all to take some of these. 859 00:37:43,709 --> 00:37:45,999 I want y'all to take some of these flyers, 860 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,666 'cause y'all his friends, right? 861 00:37:47,667 --> 00:37:49,332 Back in my day, 862 00:37:49,333 --> 00:37:51,999 if something like this happened down here, 863 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,833 those people who this was intended for... 864 00:37:54,834 --> 00:37:56,333 they wouldn't even be allowed 865 00:37:56,334 --> 00:37:58,416 to even stand on a corner again 866 00:37:58,417 --> 00:38:00,666 until they did the right thing for this family. 867 00:38:00,667 --> 00:38:03,708 - Right. 868 00:38:03,709 --> 00:38:06,165 - You got people dying in neighborhoods 869 00:38:06,166 --> 00:38:08,582 where they grew up at, and people say 870 00:38:08,583 --> 00:38:10,917 absolutely nothing. 871 00:38:15,166 --> 00:38:18,416 Thinking back to... to all the memories 872 00:38:18,417 --> 00:38:20,457 I had as a child... 873 00:38:20,458 --> 00:38:22,333 thinking about all the other families 874 00:38:22,334 --> 00:38:26,040 falling apart... 875 00:38:26,041 --> 00:38:30,332 I don't think a child should ever have to go through 876 00:38:30,333 --> 00:38:33,791 what I went through. 877 00:38:33,792 --> 00:38:39,666 You had the Stanfields, who ran this entire area out here. 878 00:38:39,667 --> 00:38:41,249 They always used my house 879 00:38:41,250 --> 00:38:42,874 as, like, the stash house. 880 00:38:42,875 --> 00:38:45,207 So we'd be in there sleeping with guns. 881 00:38:45,208 --> 00:38:50,165 Every guy in that house, every guy in that organization 882 00:38:50,166 --> 00:38:52,624 was a pedophile. 883 00:38:52,625 --> 00:38:55,416 None of them could keep their hands to themselves, 884 00:38:55,417 --> 00:38:58,791 and I'd get in trouble, because I would open up 885 00:38:58,792 --> 00:39:01,457 one of their packs, and... 886 00:39:01,458 --> 00:39:03,708 they always had liquor and different stuff. 887 00:39:03,709 --> 00:39:07,249 So I would pour... like, take a bunch of heroin 888 00:39:07,250 --> 00:39:11,582 and pour it in a cup and pour alcohol in it, 889 00:39:11,583 --> 00:39:14,582 and I'd sit there and think, 890 00:39:14,583 --> 00:39:18,541 "If I drink this, how fast would I die?" 891 00:39:18,542 --> 00:39:20,332 And I used to play with the guns. 892 00:39:20,333 --> 00:39:23,332 I'd pick it up, look at it and figure... 893 00:39:23,333 --> 00:39:25,083 I used to always sit there and think, 894 00:39:25,084 --> 00:39:26,916 "This is gonna make a mess. 895 00:39:26,917 --> 00:39:29,083 "How are they gonna find me? I'm not even gonna die. 896 00:39:29,084 --> 00:39:31,916 And I'm gonna still be right back here." 897 00:39:31,917 --> 00:39:34,249 And, um... and I was... 898 00:39:34,250 --> 00:39:36,583 you know, 15 years old. 899 00:39:41,834 --> 00:39:43,456 - So, if you had a chance to play football 900 00:39:43,457 --> 00:39:45,123 against the police, what would you do? 901 00:39:45,124 --> 00:39:46,707 - Well, play... play my heart out against the police. 902 00:39:46,708 --> 00:39:48,625 - I'm saying... - Against the police? 903 00:39:48,626 --> 00:39:50,791 Yeah, I would definitely catch 904 00:39:50,792 --> 00:39:52,874 a few "unnecessary roughness"-es. 905 00:39:52,875 --> 00:39:55,332 15-yard penalties. 906 00:39:55,333 --> 00:39:57,458 I would definitely catch a few. - So they know the deal. 907 00:40:02,291 --> 00:40:04,123 - The only time we see the police officers 908 00:40:04,124 --> 00:40:05,790 is when they're pointing guns at me and calling me 909 00:40:05,791 --> 00:40:07,166 a dickhead or an asshole or some shit like that... 910 00:40:07,167 --> 00:40:08,958 shooting some unarmed dude. 911 00:40:08,959 --> 00:40:10,874 How can I treat you like a person 912 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:12,790 when you never act like one, and how do I get you 913 00:40:12,791 --> 00:40:14,750 to do that in a neighborhood you don't live in? 914 00:40:14,751 --> 00:40:17,416 What better do you know to do that than football? 915 00:40:17,417 --> 00:40:20,500 - Oh, I know I should have brought my cleats today. 916 00:40:22,291 --> 00:40:24,332 - On one side, you had people and kids from out 917 00:40:24,333 --> 00:40:26,166 in the community... you know, the "normals." 918 00:40:26,167 --> 00:40:29,040 Then you have gang members and whoever else, 919 00:40:29,041 --> 00:40:30,666 and they're all playing together 920 00:40:30,667 --> 00:40:32,000 on the same team against the police. 921 00:40:34,417 --> 00:40:36,125 - You have a good game today? - What's up, man? 922 00:40:36,126 --> 00:40:38,249 Hold up, fellas! Come here, come here, for real! 923 00:40:38,250 --> 00:40:39,958 Last time, I swear. Come here. 924 00:40:39,959 --> 00:40:41,623 The gentleman standing behind me... 925 00:40:41,624 --> 00:40:43,164 - It's all good. - Lieutenant Colonel... 926 00:40:43,165 --> 00:40:44,917 They ain't all bad. Please remember that 927 00:40:44,918 --> 00:40:47,250 when we get all this incidental contact. 928 00:40:51,625 --> 00:40:53,749 - Set. Hit! 929 00:40:53,750 --> 00:40:55,499 - You got Bloods and Crips, 930 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,832 don't fucking like each other, on one fucking team. 931 00:40:57,833 --> 00:40:59,332 Motherfuckers was fighting 932 00:40:59,333 --> 00:41:02,082 and shit in the alleyways, like, a week ago. 933 00:41:02,083 --> 00:41:03,958 - Maybe about ten of those guys, 934 00:41:03,959 --> 00:41:05,499 I see on a daily basis, 935 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:07,499 and sometimes it's not in a positive light. 936 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:09,165 So, to do something like this, 937 00:41:09,166 --> 00:41:10,832 it really changes the relationship. 938 00:41:10,833 --> 00:41:12,331 - This is what the truce looks like. 939 00:41:12,332 --> 00:41:14,250 This is every set in the city right now... 940 00:41:14,251 --> 00:41:16,040 fittin' to play a game 941 00:41:16,041 --> 00:41:18,791 against the last people we want to be playing with. 942 00:41:18,792 --> 00:41:20,041 - All we asking... 943 00:41:20,042 --> 00:41:22,874 for 'em to be... more considerate. 944 00:41:22,875 --> 00:41:24,959 We are human beings, too, you feel what I'm saying? 945 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,791 They bleed just like us. They live just like us. 946 00:41:27,792 --> 00:41:30,332 - I'm looking around, see all these police out here. 947 00:41:30,333 --> 00:41:32,417 Why they couldn't leave their guns and handcuffs in the car? 948 00:41:32,418 --> 00:41:33,917 We out here playing football. 949 00:41:33,918 --> 00:41:36,124 I still feel nervous, 950 00:41:36,125 --> 00:41:37,874 man, like... 951 00:41:37,875 --> 00:41:39,707 - Whether the city is here in the stands today or not, 952 00:41:39,708 --> 00:41:41,331 it doesn't matter... the city is watching us. 953 00:41:41,332 --> 00:41:42,750 Yeah. - The city is watching 954 00:41:42,751 --> 00:41:44,290 the police, as they should be. 955 00:41:44,291 --> 00:41:46,083 But if we can't do this, who's gonna do it? 956 00:41:46,084 --> 00:41:47,583 - Nobody. - Nobody's gonna do it. 957 00:41:47,584 --> 00:41:49,124 - One, two, three! - Family! 958 00:41:49,125 --> 00:41:50,875 - Let's play ball, guys. Let's play ball. 959 00:41:50,876 --> 00:41:52,082 - All right! 960 00:41:52,083 --> 00:41:53,540 - Hey, it's flag football. 961 00:41:53,541 --> 00:41:54,750 Calm down a little bit, all right? 962 00:41:57,250 --> 00:41:58,916 - Look at this. Look at this. 963 00:41:58,917 --> 00:42:02,250 That is a bad play. Bad play. 964 00:42:10,083 --> 00:42:12,374 - Let's go, let's go, 17! - Let's go 17! 965 00:42:12,375 --> 00:42:14,082 - Go, baby! - He can throw. 966 00:42:14,083 --> 00:42:15,873 He's gonna beat you if you don't jam him at the line! 967 00:42:15,874 --> 00:42:17,667 - Ah, he's going deep, he's going deep! 968 00:42:19,625 --> 00:42:21,916 - He ain't putting no hands on him, man. 969 00:42:21,917 --> 00:42:23,916 - He let him get past him. - It's all right. 970 00:42:23,917 --> 00:42:26,082 - If we lose, everybody on foot for a week. 971 00:42:26,083 --> 00:42:27,291 I'm serious. Straight up. 972 00:42:27,292 --> 00:42:29,040 - All right, where's the ball? 973 00:42:29,041 --> 00:42:30,748 - I'm serious. We got females on the field. 974 00:42:30,749 --> 00:42:32,707 I'm gonna say it out loud... let the flag be 975 00:42:32,708 --> 00:42:34,041 be the only thing you grab. 976 00:42:34,042 --> 00:42:35,959 That's right. 977 00:42:51,667 --> 00:42:53,456 - First of all, we wouldn't have even won 978 00:42:53,457 --> 00:42:55,083 if it wasn't for y'all, so round of applause 979 00:42:55,084 --> 00:42:56,749 for my youngsters. 980 00:42:56,750 --> 00:42:58,374 All right? - Whoo! 981 00:42:58,375 --> 00:43:00,250 - Come on, let's get group pictures! 982 00:43:00,251 --> 00:43:02,124 Okay, my front row right here, 983 00:43:02,125 --> 00:43:04,457 take a knee like you... you know, football pose. 984 00:43:04,458 --> 00:43:06,708 When I say "one city," you say "one purpose"! 985 00:43:06,709 --> 00:43:08,457 - One city! - One purpose! 986 00:43:08,458 --> 00:43:09,999 I love that. 987 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,000 - Deuces! 988 00:43:17,583 --> 00:43:19,333 - I don't understand why you just won't... 989 00:43:19,334 --> 00:43:20,833 Can you take a plea deal? 990 00:43:20,834 --> 00:43:22,625 - Do you think I did something wrong? 991 00:43:22,626 --> 00:43:24,833 - Yes. You had a blow horn 992 00:43:24,834 --> 00:43:26,916 at the courthouse. 993 00:43:26,917 --> 00:43:29,958 - You know, I think that I was targeted. 994 00:43:29,959 --> 00:43:32,040 - You were. 995 00:43:32,041 --> 00:43:34,541 - With the megaphone out front of the courthouse... 996 00:43:34,542 --> 00:43:36,500 - When did that become against the law? 997 00:43:36,501 --> 00:43:39,207 - It's a nuisance... they're conducting business inside. 998 00:43:39,208 --> 00:43:41,125 - I had the bullhorn out there for three days. 999 00:43:41,126 --> 00:43:44,250 - Okay, and after a while, they got tired of it. 1000 00:43:46,792 --> 00:43:51,040 - Y'all haven't accepted me for being me. 1001 00:43:51,041 --> 00:43:52,540 - We want you to look at the long term. 1002 00:43:52,541 --> 00:43:53,792 What happens when... 1003 00:43:53,793 --> 00:43:56,207 - I don't think about long term. 1004 00:43:56,208 --> 00:43:58,541 You know, I don't really, like... 1005 00:43:58,542 --> 00:44:02,249 have a longing for, like, material possessions. 1006 00:44:02,250 --> 00:44:03,709 - Okay. 1007 00:44:07,792 --> 00:44:09,624 - I'm content. 1008 00:44:09,625 --> 00:44:12,040 - You're homeless. - What? 1009 00:44:12,041 --> 00:44:13,624 - You're homeless. - I am not. 1010 00:44:13,625 --> 00:44:15,708 - You are. - I'm not looking for a home. 1011 00:44:15,709 --> 00:44:17,999 - You're broke. - Yes, you have no money. 1012 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,541 You're broke. - Give me a loan. 1013 00:44:19,542 --> 00:44:22,374 - No, the goal is to make the bird fly. 1014 00:44:22,375 --> 00:44:24,958 - I'm looking for somebody to love me. 1015 00:44:24,959 --> 00:44:27,291 - We love you, but you can't stay in my basement. 1016 00:44:27,292 --> 00:44:29,291 - No, love me the way I'm looking for. 1017 00:44:29,292 --> 00:44:30,834 These are my parents. 1018 00:44:32,542 --> 00:44:34,331 Who try to teach you responsibility. 1019 00:44:34,332 --> 00:44:36,333 - It's reality, baby. - I don't want responsibility. 1020 00:44:36,334 --> 00:44:38,250 - Exactly. 1021 00:44:44,458 --> 00:44:46,333 - In Baltimore, residents and officials 1022 00:44:46,334 --> 00:44:48,499 are anxiously awaiting a verdict 1023 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:51,916 in the first trial in the death of Freddie Gray. 1024 00:44:51,917 --> 00:44:53,665 And the head of the city's public schools 1025 00:44:53,666 --> 00:44:55,583 has issued a letter to the community 1026 00:44:55,584 --> 00:44:59,374 warning students that walkouts and any form of violence 1027 00:44:59,375 --> 00:45:02,791 are not acceptable. 1028 00:45:02,792 --> 00:45:05,123 - So today we received a letter from Dr. Thornton, 1029 00:45:05,124 --> 00:45:07,000 the CEO of the Baltimore City Public School system, 1030 00:45:07,001 --> 00:45:10,624 regarding the upcoming verdict. 1031 00:45:10,625 --> 00:45:12,958 "While we appreciate the school board's effort 1032 00:45:12,959 --> 00:45:14,289 to keep..." - "Students safe." 1033 00:45:14,290 --> 00:45:15,790 - Students safe. - You should say, 1034 00:45:15,791 --> 00:45:17,750 "The school board's newfound effort." 1035 00:45:17,751 --> 00:45:20,165 That's shady, that's shady. 1036 00:45:20,166 --> 00:45:21,624 - Oh! - So what action 1037 00:45:21,625 --> 00:45:23,291 are you all planning? - We're planning 1038 00:45:23,292 --> 00:45:25,040 an emergency student walkout. 1039 00:45:25,041 --> 00:45:28,582 If the verdict comes during the school day. 1040 00:45:28,583 --> 00:45:30,791 - So you all are planning a walkout... 1041 00:45:30,792 --> 00:45:32,666 with the letter in mind... 1042 00:45:32,667 --> 00:45:35,666 that said that consequences will occur 1043 00:45:35,667 --> 00:45:38,749 as a result of a walkout? - Yep. 1044 00:45:38,750 --> 00:45:40,708 - We can't afford another arrest. 1045 00:45:40,709 --> 00:45:43,416 - They can't make arrests until they give three warnings. 1046 00:45:43,417 --> 00:45:45,124 - They can shoot you and kill you 1047 00:45:45,125 --> 00:45:46,959 without giving you a warning, so why do you trust 1048 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,208 that they are going to give you three warnings? 1049 00:45:51,667 --> 00:45:54,332 And once again, here we are, not doing 1050 00:45:54,333 --> 00:45:55,958 what you're supposed to be doing 1051 00:45:55,959 --> 00:45:57,417 because everything is so much more important 1052 00:45:57,418 --> 00:45:59,249 than Makayla. 1053 00:45:59,250 --> 00:46:01,166 - Do you want me to ask them to leave now? 1054 00:46:01,167 --> 00:46:02,624 - I'm talking about you. 1055 00:46:02,625 --> 00:46:04,291 At what point are we going to start 1056 00:46:04,292 --> 00:46:06,165 what we planned to do today? 1057 00:46:06,166 --> 00:46:07,791 - When we finish this. 1058 00:46:07,792 --> 00:46:09,833 - When is that? - I don't... Mom, I don't... 1059 00:46:09,834 --> 00:46:11,374 I just said I don't know. 1060 00:46:11,375 --> 00:46:13,165 - And when is the deadline? 1061 00:46:13,166 --> 00:46:16,082 - I sent you all the deadlines. They're not until January. 1062 00:46:16,083 --> 00:46:17,748 - Everybody in there have applied for college. 1063 00:46:17,749 --> 00:46:18,917 - Okay. - Right? 1064 00:46:18,918 --> 00:46:20,791 - Yep. 1065 00:46:20,792 --> 00:46:22,833 - Okay. "Yep." 1066 00:46:22,834 --> 00:46:25,333 "Yep, yep." Okay. 1067 00:46:37,125 --> 00:46:41,165 - So the idea is this... when the riots happened, 1068 00:46:41,166 --> 00:46:42,958 it turned into a free-for-all. 1069 00:46:42,959 --> 00:46:47,207 And... every major media outlet possible 1070 00:46:47,208 --> 00:46:48,708 had a field day with it. 1071 00:46:48,709 --> 00:46:51,040 Of course, they're doing their job, but... 1072 00:46:51,041 --> 00:46:52,873 now that they've gotten to tell their story, 1073 00:46:52,874 --> 00:46:55,250 now we get to let the bastard stepchild of America... 1074 00:46:55,251 --> 00:46:57,749 which is Baltimore City... tell its story. 1075 00:46:57,750 --> 00:47:00,040 We do not want to be known as savages. 1076 00:47:00,041 --> 00:47:01,623 We do not want to be known as animals. 1077 00:47:01,624 --> 00:47:03,206 We want to be known as a community 1078 00:47:03,207 --> 00:47:05,125 in which we just live in the community. 1079 00:47:05,126 --> 00:47:08,207 My proposal is a nondenominational thing, 1080 00:47:08,208 --> 00:47:10,041 and excuse my hands being held behind my back, 1081 00:47:10,042 --> 00:47:11,541 but I am extremely nervous, 1082 00:47:11,542 --> 00:47:13,000 'cause I've never actually done this. 1083 00:47:13,001 --> 00:47:14,667 So... - You're doing a good job. 1084 00:47:16,208 --> 00:47:17,581 You can step forward if you like, brother. 1085 00:47:17,582 --> 00:47:18,750 - He needs a hug. 1086 00:47:18,751 --> 00:47:21,249 - Yeah. 1087 00:47:21,250 --> 00:47:23,249 - All right. What I have planned 1088 00:47:23,250 --> 00:47:25,582 is to have the various elements of society... 1089 00:47:25,583 --> 00:47:30,290 police, gang members, clergy, Muslims, whoever... 1090 00:47:30,291 --> 00:47:33,290 pray for our city... 1091 00:47:33,291 --> 00:47:34,916 Together, 1092 00:47:34,917 --> 00:47:37,208 regardless of the verdict. - I'll disclose this... 1093 00:47:37,209 --> 00:47:39,374 we'll probably have, like, an hour notice. 1094 00:47:39,375 --> 00:47:40,999 - Mm-hmm. - Advanced. 1095 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:42,917 - Advanced notice. That's a real small window. 1096 00:47:42,918 --> 00:47:46,666 As soon as I get notice... I'm hitting my man. 1097 00:47:46,667 --> 00:47:48,916 - So you're saying we would be on the ground... 1098 00:47:48,917 --> 00:47:50,207 - Yes. 1099 00:47:50,208 --> 00:47:51,583 - As the verdict is being disclosed. 1100 00:47:51,584 --> 00:47:53,332 - As the verdict is being read. 1101 00:47:53,333 --> 00:47:55,373 - Ideally, before it comes out, we're already out... 1102 00:47:55,374 --> 00:47:56,832 - I got you. - 'Cause we know it's coming. 1103 00:47:56,833 --> 00:47:58,208 - Right. - I would just like to say 1104 00:47:58,209 --> 00:48:00,416 it's humbling, it's encouraging, 1105 00:48:00,417 --> 00:48:02,541 and I will be there whenever you guys say 1106 00:48:02,542 --> 00:48:04,000 we need to move. 1107 00:48:12,625 --> 00:48:14,165 - There were some eyebrows raised 1108 00:48:14,166 --> 00:48:15,999 across the city when word got out 1109 00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,457 and some pictures surfaced of outside police 1110 00:48:18,458 --> 00:48:21,040 law enforcement agencies assembling riot gear 1111 00:48:21,041 --> 00:48:23,249 and things of that sort at Druid Hill Park 1112 00:48:23,250 --> 00:48:24,875 here in Baltimore. 1113 00:48:26,625 --> 00:48:29,039 - You think they really gonna turn up if he get off? 1114 00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:30,917 Like, the whole city... you think it's gonna be 1115 00:48:30,918 --> 00:48:35,124 like how it was last time... if he get off? 1116 00:48:35,125 --> 00:48:36,957 - I think it's gonna be protest, yeah, 1117 00:48:36,958 --> 00:48:38,709 but I don't think people gonna burn shit down. 1118 00:48:38,710 --> 00:48:40,833 - To be honest, I hope it's not another riot, 1119 00:48:40,834 --> 00:48:42,583 for real, like... 1120 00:48:45,333 --> 00:48:46,999 I don't know, yo. 1121 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,332 - You know when the verdict coming? 1122 00:48:49,333 --> 00:48:50,792 The verdict. You know when it's coming? 1123 00:48:52,834 --> 00:48:55,333 I don't know. 1124 00:49:00,458 --> 00:49:01,958 - No justice! - No peace! 1125 00:49:01,959 --> 00:49:03,499 - No racist... - Police! 1126 00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,165 - No justice! - No peace! 1127 00:49:05,166 --> 00:49:07,332 - No racist... - Police! 1128 00:49:07,333 --> 00:49:08,874 - Indict, convict! 1129 00:49:08,875 --> 00:49:11,124 Send these killer cops to jail! 1130 00:49:11,125 --> 00:49:15,124 The whole damn system is guilty as hell! 1131 00:49:15,125 --> 00:49:16,666 - We have just confirmed 1132 00:49:16,667 --> 00:49:18,125 that a mistrial has been declared 1133 00:49:18,126 --> 00:49:19,874 in the case of Freddie Gray... 1134 00:49:19,875 --> 00:49:21,834 the case against William Porter, police officer... 1135 00:49:21,835 --> 00:49:26,249 one of several police officers accused of killing Freddie Gray. 1136 00:49:26,250 --> 00:49:27,749 - Your reaction now 1137 00:49:27,750 --> 00:49:29,581 to the judge's declaration of a mistrial. 1138 00:49:29,582 --> 00:49:31,750 - I mean, a mistrial, in short, is a miscarriage of justice. 1139 00:49:31,751 --> 00:49:34,165 - We need justice now, not tomorrow. 1140 00:49:34,166 --> 00:49:36,207 So we got to go through this five more times? 1141 00:49:36,208 --> 00:49:38,749 - This is exact... this is the system working. 1142 00:49:38,750 --> 00:49:41,708 It's not supposed to convict one of its own. 1143 00:49:41,709 --> 00:49:43,166 - The evidence was there. 1144 00:49:43,167 --> 00:49:45,207 What more do you need to know? 1145 00:49:45,208 --> 00:49:48,833 A man was killed in police custody. 1146 00:49:48,834 --> 00:49:50,499 - So what happens now? 1147 00:49:50,500 --> 00:49:51,958 - We shut the city down. 1148 00:49:51,959 --> 00:49:54,249 We continue to march and demand for justice. 1149 00:49:54,250 --> 00:49:56,039 We continue to make our voices heard, 1150 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,583 and we continue to let the world know 1151 00:49:57,584 --> 00:50:00,332 that Baltimore will be the place where justice 1152 00:50:00,333 --> 00:50:02,039 is served for the lives of black people 1153 00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:03,792 who were killed in the presence of police. 1154 00:50:05,333 --> 00:50:07,123 - I do think, ultimately, we have to focus 1155 00:50:07,124 --> 00:50:08,750 on how to get the structural changes necessary, 1156 00:50:08,751 --> 00:50:10,916 so that way we can prevent these types of trials 1157 00:50:10,917 --> 00:50:12,792 from having to happen in the first place. 1158 00:50:14,625 --> 00:50:17,290 - Let's move away from them. I think they're following me. 1159 00:50:17,291 --> 00:50:19,667 - You are impeding... - We do not have to disperse! 1160 00:50:19,668 --> 00:50:22,207 - The flow of traffic... - This is public property! 1161 00:50:22,208 --> 00:50:25,916 Thugs with badges is all y'all are! 1162 00:50:25,917 --> 00:50:29,791 There are no riots. We have not been violent. 1163 00:50:29,792 --> 00:50:32,165 We are being peaceful. 1164 00:50:32,166 --> 00:50:35,082 When did this become unlawful? 1165 00:50:35,083 --> 00:50:36,415 - Come here, sir. - What the... 1166 00:50:36,416 --> 00:50:38,123 - Come here, come here. Come here. 1167 00:50:38,124 --> 00:50:39,583 Put your hands behind your back. 1168 00:50:39,584 --> 00:50:43,791 - What did I do? 1169 00:50:43,792 --> 00:50:45,958 - He didn't do anything! 1170 00:50:45,959 --> 00:50:47,916 - So, Kwame, what happened? 1171 00:50:47,917 --> 00:50:49,999 - Excuse me. - Sir, why did they arrest you? 1172 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,375 - I don't know. - Step back! 1173 00:50:51,376 --> 00:50:52,999 Step back, step back, step back. 1174 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:54,582 - Get out the way! Move! 1175 00:50:54,583 --> 00:50:57,916 Free Kwame Rose! Free Kwame Rose! 1176 00:50:57,917 --> 00:51:00,749 Free Kwame Rose! Free Kwame Rose! 1177 00:51:00,750 --> 00:51:03,082 Free Kwame Rose! 1178 00:51:03,083 --> 00:51:04,291 - Impeding the flow of vehicular 1179 00:51:04,292 --> 00:51:06,874 and pedestrian traffic. 1180 00:51:06,875 --> 00:51:10,541 - Fuck all y'all! 1181 00:51:10,542 --> 00:51:13,582 - No, Mom, I'm protecting my colleagues 1182 00:51:13,583 --> 00:51:14,875 that are protesting. 1183 00:51:14,876 --> 00:51:17,541 I'm not protesting. 1184 00:51:17,542 --> 00:51:19,749 Yes, Mom. I'm fine. 1185 00:51:19,750 --> 00:51:22,166 I'm not gonna get arrested. - All right. 1186 00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:26,542 - I was standing over here, and all of the sudden, 1187 00:51:26,543 --> 00:51:28,540 you see a swarm of the sheriff's deputies, 1188 00:51:28,541 --> 00:51:30,417 and then they arrested him in here. 1189 00:51:30,418 --> 00:51:33,332 That's why they're standing out here. 1190 00:51:33,333 --> 00:51:34,875 I'm gonna try to get this gentleman's name, though, 1191 00:51:34,876 --> 00:51:38,457 'cause... he threatened me, so... 1192 00:51:38,458 --> 00:51:41,249 What's your name? 1193 00:51:41,250 --> 00:51:42,833 Could I have your name, please? 1194 00:51:42,834 --> 00:51:45,250 What is your name? You have to give me your name. 1195 00:51:45,251 --> 00:51:47,250 You're a public servant. 1196 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,082 What is your name? 1197 00:51:53,083 --> 00:51:54,833 Who is your ranking officer? 1198 00:51:54,834 --> 00:51:56,667 Who's, like, the sergeant? Who's the lieutenant? 1199 00:51:56,668 --> 00:51:59,457 Who's here? 1200 00:51:59,458 --> 00:52:02,624 You don't know who you fucking with. 1201 00:52:02,625 --> 00:52:04,499 What's up, yo? 1202 00:52:04,500 --> 00:52:06,416 You all right? - Mm-hmm. 1203 00:52:06,417 --> 00:52:09,833 You know Kwame got arrested, right? 1204 00:52:09,834 --> 00:52:12,541 - Jason, are you still representing Kwame? 1205 00:52:12,542 --> 00:52:16,457 He just got arrested, which is why I'm calling you. 1206 00:52:16,458 --> 00:52:18,165 I wish I was kidding. 1207 00:52:18,166 --> 00:52:19,708 - It's bad... - Well... 1208 00:52:19,709 --> 00:52:21,333 - 'Cause he was on probation. 1209 00:52:27,542 --> 00:52:29,833 - And we are from one city with what? 1210 00:52:29,834 --> 00:52:31,207 One purpose! 1211 00:52:31,208 --> 00:52:33,207 - One city... - One purpose! 1212 00:52:33,208 --> 00:52:35,374 - One city! - One purpose! 1213 00:52:35,375 --> 00:52:37,416 - Again, who knows the serenity prayer? 1214 00:52:37,417 --> 00:52:39,499 - I do! I do! 1215 00:52:39,500 --> 00:52:40,875 - That is the prayer we chose. 1216 00:52:40,876 --> 00:52:42,332 However, if you have 1217 00:52:42,333 --> 00:52:44,624 a private prayer that you would like to say 1218 00:52:44,625 --> 00:52:46,166 or you just so happen to be Muslim 1219 00:52:46,167 --> 00:52:47,749 and you want to make Salaat 1220 00:52:47,750 --> 00:52:49,289 or you just so happen to be Jewish and you want to... 1221 00:52:49,290 --> 00:52:51,208 You know what I mean? However that works. 1222 00:52:51,209 --> 00:52:52,749 We got more people... excuse me... 1223 00:52:52,750 --> 00:52:55,416 on the news, saying that the tensions are high. 1224 00:52:55,417 --> 00:52:56,916 Does anybody here feel tense? 1225 00:52:56,917 --> 00:52:58,916 - No! - No! 1226 00:52:58,917 --> 00:53:01,124 - Are we sure? - Yes! 1227 00:53:01,125 --> 00:53:02,959 - We're not gonna go looting, like, tomorrow 1228 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,499 'cause of whatever, right? 1229 00:53:04,500 --> 00:53:05,749 No! 1230 00:53:05,750 --> 00:53:07,290 - Y'all hear me? - Yes! 1231 00:53:07,291 --> 00:53:08,916 - Loud, come on! - Yeah! 1232 00:53:08,917 --> 00:53:10,374 - God... 1233 00:53:10,375 --> 00:53:11,749 Grant me the serenity 1234 00:53:11,750 --> 00:53:14,416 to accept the things I cannot change, 1235 00:53:14,417 --> 00:53:17,082 the courage to change the things that I can, 1236 00:53:17,083 --> 00:53:19,499 and the wisdom to know the difference. 1237 00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:20,916 - Louder! 1238 00:53:20,917 --> 00:53:22,916 God, grant me the serenity... 1239 00:53:22,917 --> 00:53:24,541 - Hallelujah! 1240 00:53:24,542 --> 00:53:26,458 - Thank You, Lord Jesus, God... - Yes, God. 1241 00:53:26,459 --> 00:53:28,165 Yes, God! Hallelujah! 1242 00:53:28,166 --> 00:53:29,998 - We're gonna let the devil know that we... Guess what. 1243 00:53:29,999 --> 00:53:31,417 We're gonna take our streets back! 1244 00:53:31,418 --> 00:53:32,958 - Amen? - Amen! 1245 00:53:32,959 --> 00:53:35,416 - Amen. And unity? We're gonna have unity 1246 00:53:35,417 --> 00:53:36,958 in Baltimore City. Amen? 1247 00:53:36,959 --> 00:53:38,542 - We pray right now in the name of Jesus, 1248 00:53:38,543 --> 00:53:40,540 oh, God, that You bring peace and love, 1249 00:53:40,541 --> 00:53:42,373 oh, God, and kindness, oh, God, in the name of Jesus. 1250 00:53:42,374 --> 00:53:44,125 - Lord God, go beyond race and politics, oh, God. 1251 00:53:44,126 --> 00:53:46,125 Lord God, we pray and ask that You would go 1252 00:53:46,126 --> 00:53:48,123 into the hearts of people, oh, God, 1253 00:53:48,124 --> 00:53:49,959 Lord God, and get at the root of it, Lord God, 1254 00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,000 the sin, Lord God. 1255 00:53:54,959 --> 00:53:56,958 - What God does is indescribable. 1256 00:53:56,959 --> 00:53:58,999 There's not a drug on Earth 1257 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,542 that can get you higher than Jesus. 1258 00:54:02,625 --> 00:54:06,374 ♪ All-powerful, untamable ♪ 1259 00:54:06,375 --> 00:54:08,625 ♪ Awestruck, we fall to our knees ♪ 1260 00:54:16,333 --> 00:54:18,165 - Clergy, city leaders, 1261 00:54:18,166 --> 00:54:20,000 and police officers stood shoulder to shoulder 1262 00:54:20,001 --> 00:54:22,082 with neighbors at Penn and North Tuesday night, 1263 00:54:22,083 --> 00:54:23,999 just steps from the CVS store 1264 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,999 that was looted and burned during the unrest in April. 1265 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,082 They're linked by a shared disappointment 1266 00:54:29,083 --> 00:54:33,416 over what happened and a hope that it won't happen again. 1267 00:54:33,417 --> 00:54:35,083 - You a activist, this is where you need to be at. 1268 00:54:35,084 --> 00:54:36,833 This is real activism right here. 1269 00:54:36,834 --> 00:54:38,041 You know, it ain't just about going out 1270 00:54:38,042 --> 00:54:39,834 and marching every day. 1271 00:54:44,166 --> 00:54:45,499 - Oh, yeah! 1272 00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:47,040 - Freedom! - Freedom! 1273 00:54:47,041 --> 00:54:51,666 - Racist-ass cops! - We don't need 'em! 1274 00:54:51,667 --> 00:54:55,040 - Are y'all serious? Y'all let this man walk 1275 00:54:55,041 --> 00:54:57,374 into court with no shackles on him? 1276 00:54:57,375 --> 00:55:00,541 But when we get locked up, y'all beat us up, 1277 00:55:00,542 --> 00:55:02,541 tighten the cuffs off our wrists. 1278 00:55:02,542 --> 00:55:04,374 Do you know how that shit feels? 1279 00:55:04,375 --> 00:55:07,874 That is not a pretty... it ain't nothing... 1280 00:55:07,875 --> 00:55:10,290 nothing... this city doesn't have nothing. 1281 00:55:10,291 --> 00:55:12,082 We don't have nothing to do. 1282 00:55:12,083 --> 00:55:14,416 I'm 17, smoking cigarettes. 1283 00:55:14,417 --> 00:55:17,207 Why? Because I'm stressed every day that I'm going to die. 1284 00:55:17,208 --> 00:55:19,916 It's either I'm scared that I'm gonna die by a stray bullet 1285 00:55:19,917 --> 00:55:22,749 or a cop-killer like Porter. 1286 00:55:22,750 --> 00:55:25,541 - Tell me what democracy looks like! 1287 00:55:25,542 --> 00:55:27,458 This is what democracy looks like! 1288 00:55:27,459 --> 00:55:30,040 - Tell me what democracy looks like! 1289 00:55:30,041 --> 00:55:32,290 This is what democracy looks like! 1290 00:55:32,291 --> 00:55:34,708 - Tell me what democracy looks like! 1291 00:55:34,709 --> 00:55:37,416 This is what democracy looks like! 1292 00:55:37,417 --> 00:55:39,958 - I generally get frustrated with the way that people get 1293 00:55:39,959 --> 00:55:42,749 sucked into the theater of the actual trial. 1294 00:55:42,750 --> 00:55:45,916 The trial kind of represents 1295 00:55:45,917 --> 00:55:48,958 the little bit of justice that people want. 1296 00:55:48,959 --> 00:55:50,500 It's really the least amount of justice 1297 00:55:50,501 --> 00:55:54,332 that one could ask for. 1298 00:55:54,333 --> 00:55:58,165 But the biggest deterrent to abuse is power, you know? 1299 00:55:58,166 --> 00:56:00,666 If an officer knows that they will get sent to jail 1300 00:56:00,667 --> 00:56:02,582 or have some severe consequences, 1301 00:56:02,583 --> 00:56:04,165 or if the department knows that, 1302 00:56:04,166 --> 00:56:07,500 they're gonna behave differently. 1303 00:56:09,917 --> 00:56:11,875 Unfortunately, people miss the point 1304 00:56:11,876 --> 00:56:14,582 of the importance of studying our condition, our people... 1305 00:56:14,583 --> 00:56:17,457 that the purpose is to take 1306 00:56:17,458 --> 00:56:20,124 what our folks have discovered and learned about ourselves 1307 00:56:20,125 --> 00:56:23,290 and our condition and take it a step further. 1308 00:56:23,291 --> 00:56:24,958 Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle... 1309 00:56:24,959 --> 00:56:27,708 we call it LBS for short... was founded in 2010. 1310 00:56:27,709 --> 00:56:29,290 Many of us are former high-school 1311 00:56:29,291 --> 00:56:30,791 and college policy debaters. 1312 00:56:30,792 --> 00:56:32,500 So we wanted to form an organization 1313 00:56:32,501 --> 00:56:36,124 that was the public policy arm of the community. 1314 00:56:36,125 --> 00:56:38,582 - The strength and power of the organizing work 1315 00:56:38,583 --> 00:56:41,499 that we do is that we're always thinking about the future 1316 00:56:41,500 --> 00:56:43,374 and passing it on to young folks. 1317 00:56:43,375 --> 00:56:46,499 So people like Kwame and Makayla are emboldened 1318 00:56:46,500 --> 00:56:48,249 to achieve what they can achieve 1319 00:56:48,250 --> 00:56:50,164 and to do what they do because we decided 1320 00:56:50,165 --> 00:56:52,206 to pass that kind of knowledge and passion on to them. 1321 00:56:52,207 --> 00:56:54,581 And so it's our view that that's what we need to do 1322 00:56:54,582 --> 00:56:56,291 to empower black people in this city... 1323 00:56:56,292 --> 00:56:59,833 to pass on knowledge, wisdom, and skills 1324 00:56:59,834 --> 00:57:01,999 that can take them into the future. 1325 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,040 - So what we're trying to do is reform what's called 1326 00:57:05,041 --> 00:57:07,332 the "Law Enforcement Officer Bill of Rights," 1327 00:57:07,333 --> 00:57:10,916 and that was codified back in 1974. 1328 00:57:10,917 --> 00:57:13,749 Basically, what it does is that it gives police officers 1329 00:57:13,750 --> 00:57:16,040 in Maryland protections above and beyond 1330 00:57:16,041 --> 00:57:17,708 their constitutional rights. 1331 00:57:17,709 --> 00:57:19,708 Give you a couple of examples. 1332 00:57:19,709 --> 00:57:22,582 So let's say a police officer has been alleged 1333 00:57:22,583 --> 00:57:24,166 to have engaged in excessive force... 1334 00:57:24,167 --> 00:57:26,124 so they fatally beat somebody up. 1335 00:57:26,125 --> 00:57:29,124 There's a trial board that determines 1336 00:57:29,125 --> 00:57:32,165 whether they get fired or not, whether they get suspended. 1337 00:57:32,166 --> 00:57:35,833 That trial board is made up of other police officers. 1338 00:57:35,834 --> 00:57:37,666 Right? So one of the elements 1339 00:57:37,667 --> 00:57:39,249 we would try to change is to 1340 00:57:39,250 --> 00:57:41,166 make it so that a non-police officer 1341 00:57:41,167 --> 00:57:42,708 is on that trial board. 1342 00:57:42,709 --> 00:57:46,374 If someone's investigating that incident, 1343 00:57:46,375 --> 00:57:49,457 only sworn law enforcement can interrogate 1344 00:57:49,458 --> 00:57:51,290 that police officer. 1345 00:57:51,291 --> 00:57:54,958 Our opposition is the FOP... the Fraternal Order of Police... 1346 00:57:54,959 --> 00:57:57,833 the union that represents and supports the police. 1347 00:57:57,834 --> 00:58:01,040 And to the FOP, all these amendments 1348 00:58:01,041 --> 00:58:04,000 are nonstarters. 1349 00:58:09,875 --> 00:58:11,333 - How do you feel about the climate 1350 00:58:11,334 --> 00:58:12,999 of Baltimore right now? 1351 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,667 - I feel like everybody's holding their breath 1352 00:58:14,668 --> 00:58:17,082 and has been since the trial started. 1353 00:58:17,083 --> 00:58:20,290 It didn't end in a cathartic moment that we needed. 1354 00:58:20,291 --> 00:58:21,500 A mistrial... we don't know what to do 1355 00:58:21,501 --> 00:58:23,374 with that, emotionally. 1356 00:58:23,375 --> 00:58:25,874 Can I read you my essay now? Does that work? 1357 00:58:25,875 --> 00:58:27,709 - Yeah, you can read while I'm decorating. 1358 00:58:30,250 --> 00:58:33,082 So the question is, "Discuss an accomplishment 1359 00:58:33,083 --> 00:58:35,874 "or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition 1360 00:58:35,875 --> 00:58:37,750 "from childhood to adulthood within your culture, 1361 00:58:37,751 --> 00:58:39,332 community, or family." 1362 00:58:39,333 --> 00:58:40,665 "With each of my first breaths on this Earth, 1363 00:58:40,666 --> 00:58:42,041 "I was deluded of my innocence 1364 00:58:42,042 --> 00:58:43,541 "and the purity of my childhood. 1365 00:58:43,542 --> 00:58:44,957 "Even despite my mother's strenuous effort 1366 00:58:44,958 --> 00:58:46,208 "to protect my sisters and me 1367 00:58:46,209 --> 00:58:47,708 "from the cruelty around us... 1368 00:58:47,709 --> 00:58:48,957 "despite the strength and resilience 1369 00:58:48,958 --> 00:58:50,415 "that we inherited from her, 1370 00:58:50,416 --> 00:58:51,581 despite the beautiful memories"... 1371 00:58:51,582 --> 00:58:52,998 - Okay, wait, wait, wait. 1372 00:58:52,999 --> 00:58:54,250 This essay sounds like you were... 1373 00:58:54,251 --> 00:58:55,916 - Can I just get through the... 1374 00:58:55,917 --> 00:58:57,498 You didn't even listen to the rest of the essay. 1375 00:58:57,499 --> 00:58:59,206 - Can I finish speaking? - Oh, my God. 1376 00:58:59,207 --> 00:59:00,540 - It sounds like you were... you have been fighting 1377 00:59:00,541 --> 00:59:01,665 all your life... - Mom. 1378 00:59:01,666 --> 00:59:03,081 - Makayla, it sounds like 1379 00:59:03,082 --> 00:59:04,707 you have been fighting all your life, 1380 00:59:04,708 --> 00:59:06,250 like you were born into this struggle, 1381 00:59:06,251 --> 00:59:07,791 and you didn't have a childhood... 1382 00:59:07,792 --> 00:59:09,541 - Can you listen to the sentence? 1383 00:59:09,542 --> 00:59:12,082 - No, you had... you had a very, very good childhood. 1384 00:59:12,083 --> 00:59:13,917 - Mom, you didn't listen to the rest of the sentence. 1385 00:59:13,918 --> 00:59:15,624 - You were sheltered... okay. 1386 00:59:15,625 --> 00:59:17,625 - "Despite her success in creating a facade of safety 1387 00:59:17,626 --> 00:59:19,374 for us"... - "Facade of safety"? 1388 00:59:19,375 --> 00:59:21,833 Really? "Facade of safety"? - Yes, Mom... 1389 00:59:21,834 --> 00:59:23,415 - Well, okay, you're talking... okay. 1390 00:59:23,416 --> 00:59:24,790 - Can you let me finish the sentence? 1391 00:59:24,791 --> 00:59:26,290 - Go ahead. - Oh, my God. 1392 00:59:26,291 --> 00:59:28,039 "Despite the strength and resilience 1393 00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:29,417 "that we inherited from her, despite the beautiful 1394 00:59:29,418 --> 00:59:30,915 "memories she crafted for us, 1395 00:59:30,916 --> 00:59:32,166 "there remain the unflinching reminders 1396 00:59:32,167 --> 00:59:34,499 of our bodies' fungibility." 1397 00:59:34,500 --> 00:59:36,207 - It's a very well written essay. 1398 00:59:36,208 --> 00:59:38,457 - But... - It sounds like you were born 1399 00:59:38,458 --> 00:59:40,749 into this struggle, 1400 00:59:40,750 --> 00:59:42,416 you didn't have a good childhood, 1401 00:59:42,417 --> 00:59:44,124 you didn't live. 1402 00:59:44,125 --> 00:59:46,833 I don't like the tone of it, because it just doesn't... 1403 00:59:46,834 --> 00:59:49,040 it's not... it's not your reality. 1404 00:59:49,041 --> 00:59:50,541 And I think... 1405 00:59:50,542 --> 00:59:52,166 I mean, you and I... this has not been 1406 00:59:52,167 --> 00:59:54,541 a good year for us at all. 1407 00:59:54,542 --> 00:59:56,000 You can roll your eyes all you want. 1408 00:59:56,001 --> 00:59:57,498 - I didn't roll my eyes. 1409 00:59:57,499 --> 00:59:59,125 - It has not been a good year for us at all, 1410 00:59:59,126 --> 01:00:01,749 'cause I grow increasingly more frustrated 1411 01:00:01,750 --> 01:00:05,500 with you, and you grow just as frustrated with me. 1412 01:00:16,166 --> 01:00:19,874 - I think there are ways that protest can become 1413 01:00:19,875 --> 01:00:22,207 counterproductive when there are not 1414 01:00:22,208 --> 01:00:25,999 specific policy items that are at play. 1415 01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:27,123 And it's really important that, 1416 01:00:27,124 --> 01:00:28,375 if that's the case, 1417 01:00:28,376 --> 01:00:29,875 that people are being conscious 1418 01:00:29,876 --> 01:00:32,624 about the time and energy and cost. 1419 01:00:32,625 --> 01:00:35,541 - So we're gonna take... 1420 01:00:35,542 --> 01:00:37,666 I think it's about 15 neighborhoods. 1421 01:00:37,667 --> 01:00:39,375 - In my opinion, it would be smarter 1422 01:00:39,376 --> 01:00:41,875 just to have everybody down in, like, the Inner Harbor. 1423 01:00:41,876 --> 01:00:44,708 - They will lock up people who are disrupting 1424 01:00:44,709 --> 01:00:48,916 white folks' commercial activity... 1425 01:00:48,917 --> 01:00:52,416 especially on New Year's Eve. 1426 01:00:52,417 --> 01:00:54,041 - The police ain't gonna... the police ain't 1427 01:00:54,042 --> 01:00:56,416 just gonna attack people on New Year's Eve. 1428 01:00:56,417 --> 01:00:59,541 - You don't think the police are going to attack people. 1429 01:00:59,542 --> 01:01:02,666 Stop there. 1430 01:01:02,667 --> 01:01:04,540 - That's not what I meant. So if they see positive... 1431 01:01:04,541 --> 01:01:05,957 - And you're giving them more reason... 1432 01:01:05,958 --> 01:01:07,581 - No, but if they see positive people, 1433 01:01:07,582 --> 01:01:08,959 then they're gonna stand up. - "Positive"? 1434 01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:10,374 - What's positive? 1435 01:01:10,375 --> 01:01:12,123 Black Lives Matter isn't positive. 1436 01:01:12,124 --> 01:01:14,039 Marching with your fist isn't positive to them. 1437 01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:15,750 - It is positive to me. - To them, it's not positive. 1438 01:01:15,751 --> 01:01:17,958 - But the young people... - So Kwame is on his 1439 01:01:17,959 --> 01:01:19,416 Part II'"... 1440 01:01:19,417 --> 01:01:21,833 - No, no, I don't want... I'm talking about 1441 01:01:21,834 --> 01:01:23,833 going in more like, "Yo, like, come, like, 1442 01:01:23,834 --> 01:01:25,750 do this with us." - My thing is the police 1443 01:01:25,751 --> 01:01:28,040 are already tripping, so if you go down there 1444 01:01:28,041 --> 01:01:30,749 on some Black Lives Matter... you know, whatever, whatever, 1445 01:01:30,750 --> 01:01:32,498 you're marching in the streets... they're gonna 1446 01:01:32,499 --> 01:01:34,373 be doubly tripping, and whoever else is caught 1447 01:01:34,374 --> 01:01:36,208 in the crossfire, if they... if they, like, halfway... 1448 01:01:36,209 --> 01:01:37,833 "Hell, yeah, Black Lives Matter," 1449 01:01:37,834 --> 01:01:39,375 and, like, throw some shit at the police, 1450 01:01:39,376 --> 01:01:40,999 then you're responsible for them. 1451 01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,456 And then you got to worry about their safety... 1452 01:01:42,457 --> 01:01:44,417 - And then they say it incited a riot. 1453 01:01:44,418 --> 01:01:45,999 - I ain't getting arrested. 1454 01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:47,790 - If you're marching, you're getting arrested. 1455 01:01:47,791 --> 01:01:49,415 - I don't think you realize that you got arrested 1456 01:01:49,416 --> 01:01:51,250 for telling people to stay on the sidewalk. 1457 01:01:51,251 --> 01:01:53,124 I'm just saying... 1458 01:01:53,125 --> 01:01:55,999 you're gonna be responsible for that whole thing. 1459 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:57,958 - Next. - Look it... God, okay. 1460 01:01:57,959 --> 01:01:59,416 - Next. - Next! 1461 01:01:59,417 --> 01:02:01,457 - So back to what we were doing previously. 1462 01:02:01,458 --> 01:02:03,291 - So also, like, I'm saying when the ball drops, 1463 01:02:03,292 --> 01:02:05,457 we want to have, like, three to four people 1464 01:02:05,458 --> 01:02:07,958 actually down there, throwing the leaflets up. 1465 01:02:07,959 --> 01:02:10,124 - And then the pamphlets will simultaneously 1466 01:02:10,125 --> 01:02:12,124 being released in Harbor East, 1467 01:02:12,125 --> 01:02:14,083 in Fell's Point, Let cetera. - Right. 1468 01:02:14,084 --> 01:02:15,624 - If you're gonna do it, do it, 1469 01:02:15,625 --> 01:02:17,915 but don't worry about our people seeing the shit. 1470 01:02:17,916 --> 01:02:19,331 You need to hit the core, 1471 01:02:19,332 --> 01:02:21,208 where all the white people gonna be at. 1472 01:02:21,209 --> 01:02:23,999 - We're not doing anything that is hurting us 1473 01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,165 by attempting to educate our own people. 1474 01:02:26,166 --> 01:02:27,625 - I was just saying that it was a waste of time. 1475 01:02:27,626 --> 01:02:29,125 A lot of people in the community, 1476 01:02:29,126 --> 01:02:30,708 they're not gonna give a fuck. 1477 01:02:30,709 --> 01:02:32,250 As soon as they hear "Black Lives Matter," 1478 01:02:32,251 --> 01:02:34,165 they're not gonna care. 1479 01:02:34,166 --> 01:02:35,957 All these different movements, and Gilmor is still fucked up. 1480 01:02:35,958 --> 01:02:37,875 They don't care about none of that Black Lives Matter 1481 01:02:37,876 --> 01:02:39,290 or none of that. 1482 01:02:39,291 --> 01:02:40,500 People have to believe, and the thing is, 1483 01:02:40,501 --> 01:02:42,542 nobody in Baltimore believes. 1484 01:02:55,834 --> 01:02:59,666 - So tonight our crew is going around the city 1485 01:02:59,667 --> 01:03:03,917 setting up, like, hood vigils in predominantly white areas. 1486 01:03:10,709 --> 01:03:13,332 I have at least some idea what it means 1487 01:03:13,333 --> 01:03:15,165 when we say "black lives matter" 1488 01:03:15,166 --> 01:03:17,625 because I know what black death feels like. 1489 01:03:23,208 --> 01:03:25,874 Like, I had a bracket of, like, six months 1490 01:03:25,875 --> 01:03:28,083 where it was like every day, I was trying to figure out 1491 01:03:28,084 --> 01:03:30,458 a different way to kill myself. 1492 01:03:33,583 --> 01:03:36,499 At the time, when, like, my anxiety and depression 1493 01:03:36,500 --> 01:03:38,375 started to, like, manifest itself, 1494 01:03:38,376 --> 01:03:40,708 I wasn't an organizer, I was just an advocate, 1495 01:03:40,709 --> 01:03:43,249 not even an activist. 1496 01:03:43,250 --> 01:03:45,625 I started to feel like, "Well, maybe I'm not worth it. 1497 01:03:45,626 --> 01:03:47,375 What change can I really make?" 1498 01:03:50,375 --> 01:03:52,040 And so... 1499 01:03:52,041 --> 01:03:54,666 I sat in a room, and I was crying hysterically, 1500 01:03:54,667 --> 01:03:56,374 and I had all of these pills, 1501 01:03:56,375 --> 01:03:59,040 which I had been carrying around with me 1502 01:03:59,041 --> 01:04:02,582 for a few weeks by then. 1503 01:04:02,583 --> 01:04:04,792 I knew that it wasn't going to be an immediate death 1504 01:04:04,793 --> 01:04:07,874 by any means, but it's like, "As long as I die, 1505 01:04:07,875 --> 01:04:09,499 "because I can't do anything 1506 01:04:09,500 --> 01:04:11,250 with this life that I've been given." 1507 01:04:12,959 --> 01:04:15,749 I now know my importance, and I now know my worth. 1508 01:04:15,750 --> 01:04:17,875 And so, like, that's why this movement has taken on 1509 01:04:17,876 --> 01:04:20,667 so much more meaning for me. 1510 01:04:27,542 --> 01:04:30,417 - Happy, happy New Year! 1511 01:04:37,375 --> 01:04:39,040 [] 1512 01:04:39,041 --> 01:04:40,457 - Here. 1513 01:04:40,458 --> 01:04:42,541 Can you pass this down to my friend? 1514 01:04:42,542 --> 01:04:44,458 Thank you. 1515 01:04:47,458 --> 01:04:51,749 People are like, "Ooh, ah, fuck black lives, 1516 01:04:51,750 --> 01:04:54,291 there are fireworks." 1517 01:05:00,291 --> 01:05:02,332 - Take that down. - What law is it against? 1518 01:05:02,333 --> 01:05:05,332 - I'm just telling you, you have to take it down. 1519 01:05:05,333 --> 01:05:07,500 - No, no, you can't... you can't, like, take shit. 1520 01:05:07,501 --> 01:05:09,082 - If you don't calm down, 1521 01:05:09,083 --> 01:05:10,540 you can be locked up for disorderly conduct. 1522 01:05:10,541 --> 01:05:12,206 - They told us to take the banner down. 1523 01:05:12,207 --> 01:05:14,625 - Is that not disorderly conduct... you taking my shit? 1524 01:05:14,626 --> 01:05:17,416 Give me the law that I'm breaking 1525 01:05:17,417 --> 01:05:18,791 by holding a banner. 1526 01:05:18,792 --> 01:05:21,332 - Okay. 1527 01:05:21,333 --> 01:05:23,790 I don't have an answer, but you can't put that up there. 1528 01:05:23,791 --> 01:05:25,166 I will have an answer for you. 1529 01:05:25,167 --> 01:05:27,000 - Okay, y'all have a nice day. 1530 01:05:41,792 --> 01:05:43,958 - Started from the bottom, now we here. 1531 01:05:43,959 --> 01:05:46,208 Baltimore, what's up? 1532 01:05:53,667 --> 01:05:55,457 - I'm not a organizer. 1533 01:05:55,458 --> 01:05:57,333 I wasn't a protestor before any of this happened. 1534 01:05:57,334 --> 01:05:59,040 I'm learning as I go. 1535 01:05:59,041 --> 01:06:00,541 So, you know, I went from making 1536 01:06:00,542 --> 01:06:03,207 minimum $50,000, $60,000 a year 1537 01:06:03,208 --> 01:06:05,874 to, like, now being dead broke. 1538 01:06:05,875 --> 01:06:07,542 And I'm still out here trying to front, 1539 01:06:07,543 --> 01:06:09,165 to be the face of the people, 1540 01:06:09,166 --> 01:06:10,750 like, "No, I'm good. I'm all good." 1541 01:06:10,751 --> 01:06:12,791 And, yo... and people on the street, yo, 1542 01:06:12,792 --> 01:06:14,206 it ain't no people out there willing 1543 01:06:14,207 --> 01:06:16,039 to get... I done been arrested twice, 1544 01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:17,707 and that's more times... - All right. 1545 01:06:17,708 --> 01:06:19,667 So, at the end of the day, yo, everybody know 1546 01:06:19,668 --> 01:06:22,457 what Kwame stand for, so why get locked up anymore, 1547 01:06:22,458 --> 01:06:24,373 if people not gonna ride with you? 1548 01:06:24,374 --> 01:06:26,248 - But this last time, though... - Let me tell you something. 1549 01:06:26,249 --> 01:06:27,875 - I didn't do nothing. - Let me tell you something, 1550 01:06:27,876 --> 01:06:30,249 as a mother... and-and 'cause I'm his mother. 1551 01:06:30,250 --> 01:06:33,791 My concern for you is that you're 21. 1552 01:06:33,792 --> 01:06:36,708 You got a whole lot of living to do. 1553 01:06:36,709 --> 01:06:39,332 - Right. - Whoever you praise... 1554 01:06:39,333 --> 01:06:40,999 God be willing. 1555 01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,124 You got a whole lot to live. Don't ruin your future 1556 01:06:44,125 --> 01:06:47,749 with that bullshit, keep getting locked up. 1557 01:06:47,750 --> 01:06:49,791 I know what you're trying to do, 1558 01:06:49,792 --> 01:06:51,250 but I want you to be smart. 1559 01:06:51,251 --> 01:06:52,916 Not just for Baltimore, 1560 01:06:52,917 --> 01:06:55,083 but for Kwame. 1561 01:07:10,333 --> 01:07:12,082 - In the last few hours of 2015, 1562 01:07:12,083 --> 01:07:15,416 Baltimore's homicide rate climbed to 344. 1563 01:07:15,417 --> 01:07:17,624 - Baltimore's murder rate is the highest 1564 01:07:17,625 --> 01:07:19,499 per capita in the city's history, 1565 01:07:19,500 --> 01:07:21,917 and the past few days have been very bloody. 1566 01:07:26,125 --> 01:07:29,458 - So we got another shooting we're working on the east side. 1567 01:07:32,166 --> 01:07:35,124 You know, for the third time in my career, 1568 01:07:35,125 --> 01:07:39,624 I find myself leading a police department 1569 01:07:39,625 --> 01:07:41,040 through a crisis. 1570 01:07:41,041 --> 01:07:43,290 It's a crisis of unrest 1571 01:07:43,291 --> 01:07:48,708 and community trust and violence. 1572 01:07:48,709 --> 01:07:51,124 - How far is the scene? 1573 01:07:51,125 --> 01:07:52,708 - Right where the squad car is. 1574 01:07:52,709 --> 01:07:54,289 - All right, I'll go around. - Hey, Sarge. 1575 01:07:54,290 --> 01:07:56,125 - Okay, I'll walk... I'll drive around, then. 1576 01:07:56,126 --> 01:07:57,666 - Be careful. All right. 1577 01:07:57,667 --> 01:08:01,624 - Be careful of what? We're the police. 1578 01:08:01,625 --> 01:08:05,457 - The unfettered access to guns in America 1579 01:08:05,458 --> 01:08:07,541 is one of the curses of this country. 1580 01:08:07,542 --> 01:08:10,290 This country was a much different place 1581 01:08:10,291 --> 01:08:13,582 when the Second Amendment was introduced. 1582 01:08:13,583 --> 01:08:15,542 - Blood trail goes down the street. 1583 01:08:15,543 --> 01:08:17,165 The victim was found facedown. 1584 01:08:17,166 --> 01:08:19,000 Looks like he was shot in the back and the head. 1585 01:08:19,001 --> 01:08:21,750 No cameras... that work. 1586 01:08:23,625 --> 01:08:26,207 At the end of the day, it's someone's son, 1587 01:08:26,208 --> 01:08:27,707 someone's daughter, someone's mother, 1588 01:08:27,708 --> 01:08:29,291 brother, sister who's been killed, 1589 01:08:29,292 --> 01:08:30,833 so this ripple goes out, 1590 01:08:30,834 --> 01:08:32,582 and then if we make an arrest, 1591 01:08:32,583 --> 01:08:34,708 that suspect... his family's affected by it. 1592 01:08:34,709 --> 01:08:36,667 People who live in the neighborhood 1593 01:08:36,668 --> 01:08:38,958 are affected by it, obviously, so... 1594 01:08:38,959 --> 01:08:41,708 it's just that never-ending cycle that... 1595 01:08:41,709 --> 01:08:44,500 I don't know what you do, but something's got to be done. 1596 01:08:51,208 --> 01:08:54,582 - Here, let me do this. We're numbered. 1597 01:08:54,583 --> 01:08:57,207 - This must be that graze wound they were talking about, 1598 01:08:57,208 --> 01:08:59,332 - On the arm? - On the arm. 1599 01:08:59,333 --> 01:09:03,708 - Well, we have so many murders from last year. 1600 01:09:03,709 --> 01:09:07,749 It's just been a nightmare dealing with it all. 1601 01:09:07,750 --> 01:09:09,374 So you're basically sitting here, 1602 01:09:09,375 --> 01:09:11,625 waiting for the body to drop. 1603 01:09:14,583 --> 01:09:17,124 - Well, a second trial in the death of Freddie Gray 1604 01:09:17,125 --> 01:09:18,291 is set to begin this week. 1605 01:09:18,292 --> 01:09:19,457 Edward Nero, 1606 01:09:19,458 --> 01:09:20,834 unlike Officer William Porter, 1607 01:09:20,835 --> 01:09:24,374 is charged with misdemeanors. 1608 01:09:24,375 --> 01:09:26,124 - There's also a new push 1609 01:09:26,125 --> 01:09:28,207 for more police accountability in Maryland. 1610 01:09:28,208 --> 01:09:30,083 - Yeah, the police accountability bill is making 1611 01:09:30,084 --> 01:09:32,916 its way through both chambers in the Capitol. 1612 01:09:32,917 --> 01:09:34,541 - There are some elements 1613 01:09:34,542 --> 01:09:36,041 in that police accountability bill 1614 01:09:36,042 --> 01:09:37,749 that both sides have agreed on, 1615 01:09:37,750 --> 01:09:39,499 but there's been no agreement 1616 01:09:39,500 --> 01:09:43,791 on that civilian to trial board proposal. 1617 01:09:43,792 --> 01:09:46,249 - When we first started our work 1618 01:09:46,250 --> 01:09:48,709 around the Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, 1619 01:09:48,710 --> 01:09:50,416 one of the central parts of it 1620 01:09:50,417 --> 01:09:52,499 that we felt was most important to change 1621 01:09:52,500 --> 01:09:55,040 is civilian participation on the trial boards. 1622 01:09:55,041 --> 01:09:56,834 These are the boards that determine discipline 1623 01:09:56,835 --> 01:09:59,708 for police officers accused of wrongdoing, 1624 01:09:59,709 --> 01:10:01,708 because before that, it was exclusively 1625 01:10:01,709 --> 01:10:04,417 law enforcement that served on those boards. 1626 01:10:06,083 --> 01:10:07,959 I think our success is that we've been able 1627 01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:10,958 to drive the conversation so that this issue 1628 01:10:10,959 --> 01:10:12,749 of civilians on the trial board 1629 01:10:12,750 --> 01:10:16,290 became such a central issue. 1630 01:10:16,291 --> 01:10:18,624 - We would not be here today if it were not 1631 01:10:18,625 --> 01:10:20,958 for the brothers and sisters in Baltimore 1632 01:10:20,959 --> 01:10:24,457 who rose up in an insurrectionary mode 1633 01:10:24,458 --> 01:10:26,624 to challenge the police department there. 1634 01:10:26,625 --> 01:10:31,249 That uprising is what finally got them to consider 1635 01:10:31,250 --> 01:10:34,333 that maybe we should do some legislative initiatives. 1636 01:10:36,250 --> 01:10:38,916 - I got to disagree with the transparency point. 1637 01:10:38,917 --> 01:10:40,582 I mean, I don't think that giving 1638 01:10:40,583 --> 01:10:42,833 a law enforcement officer ten days 1639 01:10:42,834 --> 01:10:45,833 to get their story together, to gather information, 1640 01:10:45,834 --> 01:10:48,290 to gather facts is transparent. 1641 01:10:48,291 --> 01:10:50,166 - If he was committed... if he committed a crime, 1642 01:10:50,167 --> 01:10:53,416 he could sit back and say, "I'm not saying anything." 1643 01:10:53,417 --> 01:10:55,081 - But the officer has the same right 1644 01:10:55,082 --> 01:10:56,498 because he has a Fifth Amendment right, 1645 01:10:56,499 --> 01:10:58,208 and if he says no, he then can say, 1646 01:10:58,209 --> 01:11:00,916 "Hey, I want a lawyer," just like this citizen. 1647 01:11:00,917 --> 01:11:02,332 But the difference is, 1648 01:11:02,333 --> 01:11:04,039 this citizen is not going to walk out... 1649 01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:05,709 If you think you have probable cause, 1650 01:11:05,710 --> 01:11:08,165 he's not gonna walk out this police station. 1651 01:11:08,166 --> 01:11:09,915 The officer is. - Yeah, well, you... 1652 01:11:09,916 --> 01:11:11,456 - That's the difference. - Now, the thing about it is, 1653 01:11:11,457 --> 01:11:12,873 that's an extremely broad stroke again, 1654 01:11:12,874 --> 01:11:14,540 because you're talking about all cases 1655 01:11:14,541 --> 01:11:16,206 where an officer may have been accused of something. 1656 01:11:16,207 --> 01:11:17,498 - So we... I'm a retired homicide detective. 1657 01:11:17,499 --> 01:11:18,875 - Yeah... right, yeah, yeah. 1658 01:11:18,876 --> 01:11:21,999 - You can't run games around me. 1659 01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,374 - Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, in this state, 1660 01:11:25,375 --> 01:11:28,332 protects officers when they fail to protect us, 1661 01:11:28,333 --> 01:11:31,708 creating barriers to gaining access to information, 1662 01:11:31,709 --> 01:11:33,499 prohibiting interrogation. 1663 01:11:33,500 --> 01:11:34,792 Even if somebody's blood 1664 01:11:34,793 --> 01:11:36,541 has been painted on the pavement, 1665 01:11:36,542 --> 01:11:39,916 the officer caught red-handed cannot be demanded 1666 01:11:39,917 --> 01:11:42,457 to make a statement for ten whole days. 1667 01:11:42,458 --> 01:11:47,000 God created the heavens and the Earth in less. 1668 01:11:49,500 --> 01:11:53,582 - There is no problem that the LEOBR works, 1669 01:11:53,583 --> 01:11:56,708 has worked, continues to work. 1670 01:11:56,709 --> 01:11:58,958 Uh, and... 1671 01:11:58,959 --> 01:12:01,082 we feel remiss to be here today. 1672 01:12:01,083 --> 01:12:05,332 - I was a bit taken aback by your initial comment. 1673 01:12:05,333 --> 01:12:07,499 I don't know what the problem is, exactly, 1674 01:12:07,500 --> 01:12:11,916 but it's very clear, I think, to virtually everybody, 1675 01:12:11,917 --> 01:12:13,999 there is a problem. 1676 01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:17,416 - I've heard very clearly from my constituents. 1677 01:12:17,417 --> 01:12:19,708 They feel that officers are playing 1678 01:12:19,709 --> 01:12:21,250 by a different set of rules. 1679 01:12:27,208 --> 01:12:29,332 - We know that we can't honestly 1680 01:12:29,333 --> 01:12:30,999 have community policing 1681 01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,499 if we don't have community members 1682 01:12:33,500 --> 01:12:35,250 have-have an ability to be engaged 1683 01:12:35,251 --> 01:12:36,833 in the process at every level. 1684 01:12:36,834 --> 01:12:38,542 - You know, I think a lot of the conversation 1685 01:12:38,543 --> 01:12:40,833 has been around community-police relations. 1686 01:12:40,834 --> 01:12:42,873 And I think this framework is a problematic framework 1687 01:12:42,874 --> 01:12:44,790 in thinking about what the issue is, 1688 01:12:44,791 --> 01:12:47,290 because we're not talking about community-police relations. 1689 01:12:47,291 --> 01:12:50,207 We're talking about the ability for civilians to-to work 1690 01:12:50,208 --> 01:12:52,416 collaboratively, on an equal playing field, 1691 01:12:52,417 --> 01:12:54,289 in the industry of law enforcement. 1692 01:12:54,290 --> 01:12:56,164 And citizens have a right to be able to have 1693 01:12:56,165 --> 01:12:57,957 substantive say in the nature of how 1694 01:12:57,958 --> 01:13:00,333 law enforcement's administered in their communities. 1695 01:13:02,333 --> 01:13:04,624 - We don't need that. 1696 01:13:04,625 --> 01:13:08,124 - We're opposed to citizens judging police officers 1697 01:13:08,125 --> 01:13:10,249 in ba... on a basis of misconduct. 1698 01:13:10,250 --> 01:13:12,999 Understanding the law is not the issue. 1699 01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,583 It's understanding the job. 1700 01:13:30,542 --> 01:13:33,290 - What happened, cuzzo? - Uh, a car had, um... 1701 01:13:33,291 --> 01:13:36,750 a car sped the van, a nigga jumped out, shot it up. 1702 01:13:48,667 --> 01:13:50,999 - Melvin Russell is the first and only cop 1703 01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:52,666 I have ever trusted. 1704 01:13:52,667 --> 01:13:54,333 He asked me if I could do anything 1705 01:13:54,334 --> 01:13:56,249 to help him with the murder rate. 1706 01:13:56,250 --> 01:13:57,709 I'm like, "I can't do the police's job for them, 1707 01:13:57,710 --> 01:13:59,290 "but what I can do is keep 1708 01:13:59,291 --> 01:14:00,625 "the people who haven't done anything 1709 01:14:00,626 --> 01:14:02,123 out of the line of fire." 1710 01:14:02,124 --> 01:14:03,206 - Okay, got it. 1711 01:14:03,207 --> 01:14:04,665 Belmont and Bloomingdale. 1712 01:14:04,666 --> 01:14:06,331 - All right. - You know, that crew? 1713 01:14:06,332 --> 01:14:07,875 Here, take it with you. Just don't let anybody... 1714 01:14:07,876 --> 01:14:11,124 Just put it in your pocket. - Uh-huh. 1715 01:14:11,125 --> 01:14:12,999 - Hey, cuzzo! 1716 01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:15,416 If I can get the police to lay off of my boys... 1717 01:14:15,417 --> 01:14:19,332 all of them... and get these dudes to, um... 1718 01:14:19,333 --> 01:14:21,541 put their guns down. The murder rate goes down, 1719 01:14:21,542 --> 01:14:26,040 more jobs are created. A lot of things happen. 1720 01:14:26,041 --> 01:14:28,000 - So good afternoon, family. Let me just say this: 1721 01:14:28,001 --> 01:14:30,040 I am very excited about this component 1722 01:14:30,041 --> 01:14:32,708 of what we do in the Community Collaboration Division, right? 1723 01:14:32,709 --> 01:14:35,290 And that is being the bridge 1724 01:14:35,291 --> 01:14:37,332 between the ex-offender 1725 01:14:37,333 --> 01:14:39,249 and the jobs that are out there. 1726 01:14:39,250 --> 01:14:41,791 And so our next stop is in West Baltimore, 1727 01:14:41,792 --> 01:14:43,582 and we're gonna set up shop 1728 01:14:43,583 --> 01:14:46,542 in that Sandtown-Winchester, Gilmor community. 1729 01:14:50,125 --> 01:14:52,916 - One city. - One purpose. 1730 01:14:52,917 --> 01:14:55,708 - One city! - One purpose! 1731 01:14:55,709 --> 01:14:59,082 One purpose. 1732 01:14:59,083 --> 01:15:01,248 We're starting a job program around the neighborhood 1733 01:15:01,249 --> 01:15:02,500 for convicted felons, 1734 01:15:02,501 --> 01:15:04,708 at-risk youth, gang-affiliated, 1735 01:15:04,709 --> 01:15:06,665 just got out of jail... all of that. 1736 01:15:06,666 --> 01:15:07,750 - Okay. - We're trying to plug 1737 01:15:07,751 --> 01:15:09,165 dudes back in, 1738 01:15:09,166 --> 01:15:10,707 but whoever you see in the program 1739 01:15:10,708 --> 01:15:12,415 that's interested in going... remember, felons... 1740 01:15:12,416 --> 01:15:14,415 mostly the felons, people trying to get some work... 1741 01:15:14,416 --> 01:15:15,917 - Oh, you know I got five of those. 1742 01:15:15,918 --> 01:15:18,749 - Yeah, so you know who I'm talking about. 1743 01:15:18,750 --> 01:15:20,874 Contrary to popular belief, man, like, 1744 01:15:20,875 --> 01:15:22,624 I get off of work at 4:00. 1745 01:15:22,625 --> 01:15:24,166 Me and the brother be out doing this 1746 01:15:24,167 --> 01:15:26,791 till, like, 11:30, 12:00 at night sometimes, 1747 01:15:26,792 --> 01:15:28,874 on a daily basis. - We do this on the daily! 1748 01:15:28,875 --> 01:15:31,582 - A lot of people think this is my actual job, 1749 01:15:31,583 --> 01:15:34,916 so... 1750 01:15:34,917 --> 01:15:37,165 - This is not a game. This is not for anybody 1751 01:15:37,166 --> 01:15:40,708 trying to try another system and still have one foot 1752 01:15:40,709 --> 01:15:43,082 out there and one foot in here. 1753 01:15:43,083 --> 01:15:45,124 This is for those that are serious. 1754 01:15:45,125 --> 01:15:46,792 - You're going to be trained at something 1755 01:15:46,793 --> 01:15:49,207 that most people have to go to school 1756 01:15:49,208 --> 01:15:51,082 five and six years for, 1757 01:15:51,083 --> 01:15:54,917 'cause nobody... outside of us... believes in us. 1758 01:15:58,458 --> 01:16:00,958 - Decisive "not guilty" verdict 1759 01:16:00,959 --> 01:16:04,124 in the high-profile trial of Officer Edward Nero. 1760 01:16:04,125 --> 01:16:06,332 Tonight, Officer Nero is a free man, 1761 01:16:06,333 --> 01:16:08,874 after a judge cleared him of all charges 1762 01:16:08,875 --> 01:16:10,583 in the arrest and subsequent death 1763 01:16:10,584 --> 01:16:12,124 of Freddie Gray. 1764 01:16:12,125 --> 01:16:13,875 - The judge wouldn't even convict him 1765 01:16:13,876 --> 01:16:16,124 on misdemeanor charges. 1766 01:16:16,125 --> 01:16:17,541 And I felt as though 1767 01:16:17,542 --> 01:16:19,582 he's not gonna convict them anyway, 1768 01:16:19,583 --> 01:16:23,124 because he's one of them. 1769 01:16:23,125 --> 01:16:24,624 - There are a lot of people here 1770 01:16:24,625 --> 01:16:26,791 on the streets that are quite upset 1771 01:16:26,792 --> 01:16:29,582 with this acquittal... quite upset that, as of now, 1772 01:16:29,583 --> 01:16:32,666 nobody has been punished for the death of Freddie Gray. 1773 01:16:32,667 --> 01:16:34,333 - Motherfuckers want to gather around here because 1774 01:16:34,334 --> 01:16:36,249 a man was found not guilty, man. 1775 01:16:36,250 --> 01:16:38,833 Get the fuck out of here, man. - There's a whole city 1776 01:16:38,834 --> 01:16:40,748 full of fucking shit going on right now, 1777 01:16:40,749 --> 01:16:42,291 and y'all on this corner? - Right! 1778 01:16:42,292 --> 01:16:44,289 - Somebody getting killed, ran the fuck over... 1779 01:16:44,290 --> 01:16:45,581 that's where the news at. 1780 01:16:45,582 --> 01:16:47,000 Ain't shit happening over here. 1781 01:16:47,001 --> 01:16:48,958 There's nothing happening here. 1782 01:16:48,959 --> 01:16:50,623 As long as y'all here in this capacity, 1783 01:16:50,624 --> 01:16:52,500 you are bringing the wrong kind of attention. 1784 01:16:52,501 --> 01:16:54,374 That's my job. You're welcome. 1785 01:16:54,375 --> 01:16:55,875 - I'm showing you that it's not over. 1786 01:16:55,876 --> 01:16:57,874 It's a simple... 1787 01:16:57,875 --> 01:17:00,541 No justice, no peace! 1788 01:17:00,542 --> 01:17:02,708 Jail killer police! 1789 01:17:02,709 --> 01:17:05,332 No justice, no peace! 1790 01:17:05,333 --> 01:17:07,374 - Whose streets? - Our streets! 1791 01:17:07,375 --> 01:17:09,374 - Whose city? - Our city! 1792 01:17:09,375 --> 01:17:11,541 - Whose city? - Our city! 1793 01:17:11,542 --> 01:17:14,332 - Whose streets? - Our streets! 1794 01:17:14,333 --> 01:17:16,582 - The protest makes an impact in the community, 1795 01:17:16,583 --> 01:17:19,666 but there are no... I feel like there's no concrete strategy 1796 01:17:19,667 --> 01:17:22,040 attached to it. Like, the visual is there. 1797 01:17:22,041 --> 01:17:24,958 People are being engaged in a political process, 1798 01:17:24,959 --> 01:17:26,542 but that political process isn't being used 1799 01:17:26,543 --> 01:17:28,666 to anything greater than just this: 1800 01:17:28,667 --> 01:17:30,332 People standing on a corner. 1801 01:17:30,333 --> 01:17:32,874 - Like, this type of environment is what, like... 1802 01:17:32,875 --> 01:17:35,039 like, it lets a lot of people know that that's not right, 1803 01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:37,500 'cause people are just numb to it, so they don't... 1804 01:17:37,501 --> 01:17:39,708 - No, it does something. I'm just saying 1805 01:17:39,709 --> 01:17:41,874 it's not the most productive option. 1806 01:17:41,875 --> 01:17:43,625 This protest is gonna happen, it's gonna disperse, 1807 01:17:43,626 --> 01:17:45,208 and that's gonna be it. 1808 01:17:48,041 --> 01:17:51,040 The work is so hard because a lot of people expect 1809 01:17:51,041 --> 01:17:54,124 all of these organizers to be the heroes and the leaders 1810 01:17:54,125 --> 01:17:56,000 who are going to lead us out of this, right? 1811 01:17:56,001 --> 01:17:59,040 And it's like, we need to be shutting that narrative down 1812 01:17:59,041 --> 01:18:01,124 as well, because it's like... 1813 01:18:01,125 --> 01:18:04,582 that whole leadership complex is both really troubling 1814 01:18:04,583 --> 01:18:06,708 for the person who is told that they need to 1815 01:18:06,709 --> 01:18:09,083 be the leader, but it's also troubling for the community, 1816 01:18:09,084 --> 01:18:11,416 because it places all of the responsibility 1817 01:18:11,417 --> 01:18:12,750 on one person, when it needs to be 1818 01:18:12,751 --> 01:18:14,499 the collective effort. 1819 01:18:14,500 --> 01:18:16,249 Activism, as a young person, 1820 01:18:16,250 --> 01:18:17,916 has just been so draining for me. 1821 01:18:17,917 --> 01:18:19,791 Um... and so, just, like, 1822 01:18:19,792 --> 01:18:21,874 my whole being needs healing 1823 01:18:21,875 --> 01:18:24,458 and I just need a break, really. 1824 01:18:40,917 --> 01:18:42,248 - What's the format of the meeting? 1825 01:18:42,249 --> 01:18:43,417 Are we eating and then talking? 1826 01:18:43,418 --> 01:18:45,040 - Something like that. 1827 01:18:45,041 --> 01:18:47,583 - Come and eat. 1828 01:18:51,291 --> 01:18:53,958 - So, Makayla, you called the family meeting. 1829 01:18:53,959 --> 01:18:55,791 - Mm-hmm. - Do tell. 1830 01:18:55,792 --> 01:18:57,625 - Okay, so, like, I've been thinking 1831 01:18:57,626 --> 01:19:03,124 that I want to take a gap year after I graduate. 1832 01:19:03,125 --> 01:19:05,082 Period. - No. 1833 01:19:05,083 --> 01:19:07,582 - No. 1834 01:19:07,583 --> 01:19:09,416 Well, that's the end 1835 01:19:09,417 --> 01:19:11,541 of the meeting. 1836 01:19:11,542 --> 01:19:14,040 - You have been so busy that you can't even 1837 01:19:14,041 --> 01:19:17,749 get it together. I think what our concern is, 1838 01:19:17,750 --> 01:19:21,999 one gap year may end up being ten gap years. 1839 01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,916 - I-I feel a bit conflicted, 1840 01:19:24,917 --> 01:19:27,332 because it's not what I had planned for you. 1841 01:19:27,333 --> 01:19:28,999 - Mm-hmm. - But more importantly, 1842 01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:30,500 it's not what I thought you had planned for you. 1843 01:19:30,501 --> 01:19:33,040 - Right. - The gap year... 1844 01:19:33,041 --> 01:19:35,708 can be productive, or it can be destructive, 1845 01:19:35,709 --> 01:19:37,916 depending on how you utilize your time, 1846 01:19:37,917 --> 01:19:39,540 because if you're going to utilize your time 1847 01:19:39,541 --> 01:19:41,375 doing everything for everybody but Makayla... 1848 01:19:41,376 --> 01:19:44,999 - But, like, I'm going to make my checkpoints known 1849 01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:46,959 to the people in this room, and so, 1850 01:19:46,960 --> 01:19:49,165 a part of this meeting is, like... 1851 01:19:49,166 --> 01:19:51,666 me asking that you all serve as, like, 1852 01:19:51,667 --> 01:19:53,166 the people who will hold me accountable to that. 1853 01:19:53,167 --> 01:19:55,582 - If you feel honest within yourself 1854 01:19:55,583 --> 01:19:58,582 that you're taking this year off to actually 1855 01:19:58,583 --> 01:20:01,374 do stuff to get better within yourself... 1856 01:20:01,375 --> 01:20:03,708 - Mm-hmm. - Then I'm all for it. 1857 01:20:03,709 --> 01:20:05,250 - 'Cause you're gonna do what you want to do anyway, 1858 01:20:05,251 --> 01:20:07,290 so, God bless you. 1859 01:20:07,291 --> 01:20:09,499 I knew you had skills 1860 01:20:09,500 --> 01:20:11,542 when you called the police on your mother. 1861 01:20:13,667 --> 01:20:16,958 - Let's see... she was about two or three. 1862 01:20:16,959 --> 01:20:19,457 I went downstairs, and she was upstairs, 1863 01:20:19,458 --> 01:20:21,833 watching television, and the phone rang, 1864 01:20:21,834 --> 01:20:23,373 and I answered it. And I said, "Hello?" 1865 01:20:23,374 --> 01:20:24,873 And they said, "Did someone call 911?" 1866 01:20:24,874 --> 01:20:26,291 I said no. So I went upstairs, 1867 01:20:26,292 --> 01:20:28,833 and I said, "Did you use the phone?" 1868 01:20:28,834 --> 01:20:29,875 She said, "Yes, ma'am." 1869 01:20:31,417 --> 01:20:32,958 I said, "Who did you call?" 1870 01:20:32,959 --> 01:20:34,583 She said, "You said if someone hurt me, 1871 01:20:34,584 --> 01:20:36,708 to call 911"... 1872 01:20:36,709 --> 01:20:38,541 She said... 1873 01:20:38,542 --> 01:20:40,875 she said, "You hurt me when you were combing my hair"... 1874 01:20:40,876 --> 01:20:43,582 "So I called 911." 1875 01:20:43,583 --> 01:20:45,916 Three years old, I should have known 1876 01:20:45,917 --> 01:20:48,958 there would be hell to pay, raising this girl. 1877 01:20:48,959 --> 01:20:50,582 - Look, justice is justice. 1878 01:20:50,583 --> 01:20:53,375 - No justice, no peace. 1879 01:20:54,917 --> 01:20:57,125 "So I called 911." 1880 01:21:09,083 --> 01:21:11,791 - It's weird... you know, this is my first trial. 1881 01:21:11,792 --> 01:21:13,833 Wish that, uh... 1882 01:21:13,834 --> 01:21:17,374 my family was, like, more supportive. 1883 01:21:17,375 --> 01:21:20,958 So I contacted the ACLU, 'cause I didn't have the money 1884 01:21:20,959 --> 01:21:23,709 to pay for my own private attorney this time. 1885 01:21:39,375 --> 01:21:42,041 Not a good judge to go for... 1886 01:21:45,917 --> 01:21:47,625 Which is why I, like, started freaking out, 1887 01:21:47,626 --> 01:21:50,791 came outside to smoke a cigarette. 1888 01:21:50,792 --> 01:21:52,874 The entire time we had this trial, 1889 01:21:52,875 --> 01:21:54,249 no group paid my bills. 1890 01:21:54,250 --> 01:21:55,916 No group paid my bail funds. 1891 01:21:55,917 --> 01:21:57,959 No group helped me out... no activist group. 1892 01:22:03,083 --> 01:22:06,000 All right, wish me luck. - Good luck, brother. 1893 01:22:22,667 --> 01:22:25,541 - So, you guys have heard, uh, the-the verdict. 1894 01:22:25,542 --> 01:22:28,082 The judge found our client, Mr. Rosebrough, 1895 01:22:28,083 --> 01:22:31,791 not guilty of three counts and guilty of one count. 1896 01:22:31,792 --> 01:22:34,124 We totally disagree with the court's decision 1897 01:22:34,125 --> 01:22:35,792 that he is guilty of anything. 1898 01:22:44,458 --> 01:22:46,164 - Well, the trial for one of the six officers 1899 01:22:46,165 --> 01:22:48,125 involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray 1900 01:22:48,126 --> 01:22:49,749 starts today in Baltimore. 1901 01:22:49,750 --> 01:22:51,582 - Officer Caesar Goodson faces 1902 01:22:51,583 --> 01:22:53,333 second-degree depraved-heart murder charges 1903 01:22:53,334 --> 01:22:56,375 and several others. 1904 01:22:59,333 --> 01:23:03,332 - It's hard to feel like a woman in this, um... 1905 01:23:03,333 --> 01:23:07,040 in this job sometimes. 1906 01:23:07,041 --> 01:23:10,792 Especially trying to be beautiful at all. 1907 01:23:12,834 --> 01:23:15,124 You try to take your emotions out of a case, 1908 01:23:15,125 --> 01:23:17,374 but it's impossible. 1909 01:23:17,375 --> 01:23:19,708 I'm always nervous going into a trial. 1910 01:23:19,709 --> 01:23:24,582 Um... testimony is one of the most stressful times 1911 01:23:24,583 --> 01:23:26,749 in your career, because everything, 1912 01:23:26,750 --> 01:23:29,165 at that point, falls on you. 1913 01:23:29,166 --> 01:23:31,541 I don't want you to be worried about what... 1914 01:23:31,542 --> 01:23:33,249 what other people are gonna say, 1915 01:23:33,250 --> 01:23:36,124 what other people are gonna think, you know... 1916 01:23:36,125 --> 01:23:39,749 I'm gonna be your mom forever, and what people out there think 1917 01:23:39,750 --> 01:23:42,458 doesn't even matter. - Okay. 1918 01:23:44,375 --> 01:23:46,374 - Muah. 1919 01:23:46,375 --> 01:23:47,708 Bye. 1920 01:23:47,709 --> 01:23:49,582 Just feeling anxious about... 1921 01:23:49,583 --> 01:23:52,249 about going in there, and it's such a huge moment 1922 01:23:52,250 --> 01:23:54,165 for-for everyone. 1923 01:23:54,166 --> 01:23:56,083 You know, I've gotten death threats, 1924 01:23:56,084 --> 01:23:59,958 and... people threatening to hurt my kids. 1925 01:23:59,959 --> 01:24:02,791 As the lead detective in the case, 1926 01:24:02,792 --> 01:24:05,874 my job was to go back over everything, 1927 01:24:05,875 --> 01:24:09,749 as a homicide investigator, with a fine-tooth comb. 1928 01:24:09,750 --> 01:24:13,207 And I guess that's why I felt so gut-wrenchingly, 1929 01:24:13,208 --> 01:24:15,624 you know, torn when the charges were brought, 1930 01:24:15,625 --> 01:24:19,207 because I know every detail of the case. 1931 01:24:19,208 --> 01:24:22,291 It was a freak accident. 1932 01:24:27,834 --> 01:24:29,500 I've been trying to pull up on my phone... 1933 01:24:29,501 --> 01:24:32,207 I can't get... the thing is not coming up. 1934 01:24:32,208 --> 01:24:34,457 - ...30 juveniles 1935 01:24:34,458 --> 01:24:38,791 along Pratt Street, towards the subway. 1936 01:24:38,792 --> 01:24:41,249 - Not guilty! 1937 01:24:41,250 --> 01:24:42,624 Not guilty! 1938 01:24:42,625 --> 01:24:45,625 - Oh, God... God, I've missed it. 1939 01:24:51,417 --> 01:24:54,332 Oh, damn it. Damn it... oh, my... 1940 01:24:54,333 --> 01:24:56,125 I'll be on it. 1941 01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:00,999 - Not guilty on all. - Oh! 1942 01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:03,749 - ...arrest and death of Freddie Gray. 1943 01:25:03,750 --> 01:25:05,206 - We continue to follow breaking news 1944 01:25:05,207 --> 01:25:06,792 of the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson, 1945 01:25:06,793 --> 01:25:09,666 where he was just acquitted on seven charges. 1946 01:25:09,667 --> 01:25:11,289 - Yes! - He was one of six officers 1947 01:25:11,290 --> 01:25:12,957 charged in connection with the arrest 1948 01:25:12,958 --> 01:25:14,834 and death of Freddie Gray. - Thank God. 1949 01:25:14,835 --> 01:25:17,165 - He has been found not guilty on all charges. 1950 01:25:17,166 --> 01:25:18,958 It's the signal up here, 1951 01:25:18,959 --> 01:25:20,834 'cause mine's not working right now. 1952 01:25:20,835 --> 01:25:23,541 The one in the... 1953 01:25:23,542 --> 01:25:27,457 - Could people have been more vigilant in the transport 1954 01:25:27,458 --> 01:25:29,207 and everything? Definitely. 1955 01:25:29,208 --> 01:25:32,499 Could people have been paying more attention? 1956 01:25:32,500 --> 01:25:34,874 Definitely. But as far as... 1957 01:25:34,875 --> 01:25:38,708 across the country, police brutality 1958 01:25:38,709 --> 01:25:41,417 and stuff... this wasn't the case. 1959 01:25:45,625 --> 01:25:49,499 - Just look at all of this bullshit. 1960 01:25:49,500 --> 01:25:51,166 In fact... 1961 01:25:52,875 --> 01:25:55,040 This is bullshit. 1962 01:25:55,041 --> 01:25:56,791 - The judge... 1963 01:25:56,792 --> 01:25:58,707 - Come on! - Who is within his right, 1964 01:25:58,708 --> 01:26:00,540 has made it clear that he doesn't agree 1965 01:26:00,541 --> 01:26:02,331 with the state's theory of the case 1966 01:26:02,332 --> 01:26:04,208 and does not believe that any of the actions 1967 01:26:04,209 --> 01:26:05,749 or inactions of these officers 1968 01:26:05,750 --> 01:26:07,541 rise to the level of criminality. 1969 01:26:07,542 --> 01:26:10,667 We do not believe that Freddie Gray killed himself. 1970 01:26:13,500 --> 01:26:16,040 However, after much thought and prayer, 1971 01:26:16,041 --> 01:26:18,083 it has become clear to me that, without being able 1972 01:26:18,084 --> 01:26:21,082 to work with an independent investigatory agency 1973 01:26:21,083 --> 01:26:24,040 from the very start, without real substantive 1974 01:26:24,041 --> 01:26:27,374 reforms to the current criminal justice system, 1975 01:26:27,375 --> 01:26:30,249 we could try this case 100 times... 1976 01:26:30,250 --> 01:26:32,624 and cases just like it... and we would still 1977 01:26:32,625 --> 01:26:34,499 end up with the same result. 1978 01:26:34,500 --> 01:26:37,249 - Yes, Marilyn! - Accordingly, 1979 01:26:37,250 --> 01:26:39,499 I have decided not to proceed on the cases 1980 01:26:39,500 --> 01:26:41,833 against Officer Garrett, Sergeant Alisha White, 1981 01:26:41,834 --> 01:26:45,500 or to re-litigate the case against William Porter. 1982 01:26:50,333 --> 01:26:52,457 - We have no business in this place. 1983 01:26:52,458 --> 01:26:53,916 It's time to leave. 1984 01:26:53,917 --> 01:26:55,416 It is time to leave and take 1985 01:26:55,417 --> 01:26:57,624 all of our beautiful creations with us. 1986 01:26:57,625 --> 01:26:59,458 It is time to sue these motherfuckers 1987 01:26:59,459 --> 01:27:01,499 for the appropriation of everything cool, 1988 01:27:01,500 --> 01:27:03,624 from fucking cornrows to rap music... fuck it, 1989 01:27:03,625 --> 01:27:05,708 every form of popular music on planet Earth 1990 01:27:05,709 --> 01:27:07,665 was built by us, so sue they ass for it, 1991 01:27:07,666 --> 01:27:09,623 get the money, and get the fuck out of here. 1992 01:27:09,624 --> 01:27:10,998 Take the light bulbs with you, 'cause we... 1993 01:27:10,999 --> 01:27:12,456 you know, we did that too. 1994 01:27:12,457 --> 01:27:14,291 And the traffic light, we did that too. 1995 01:27:14,292 --> 01:27:17,666 And peanut butter, and rope. This shit is either gonna turn 1996 01:27:17,667 --> 01:27:20,416 really, really, really, really, really, really, 1997 01:27:20,417 --> 01:27:24,040 really, really bad really fast... 1998 01:27:24,041 --> 01:27:25,750 or it's gonna be hundreds of years 1999 01:27:25,751 --> 01:27:28,875 of the same and, either way, I fucking refuse. 2000 01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:33,959 - The Justice Department has released 2001 01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:36,666 a scathing report on the Baltimore Police Department 2002 01:27:36,667 --> 01:27:38,749 which found routine discrimination 2003 01:27:38,750 --> 01:27:40,332 towards African Americans, 2004 01:27:40,333 --> 01:27:42,165 rampant use of excessive force... 2005 01:27:42,166 --> 01:27:44,290 all without proper accountability 2006 01:27:44,291 --> 01:27:46,041 for misconduct. 2007 01:27:52,333 --> 01:27:54,416 - Representatives from the Department of Justice 2008 01:27:54,417 --> 01:27:56,582 are here and they are listening. 2009 01:27:56,583 --> 01:27:58,708 If you haven't read the report, 2010 01:27:58,709 --> 01:28:00,290 you must read the report. 2011 01:28:00,291 --> 01:28:02,165 Why? Because I've read 2012 01:28:02,166 --> 01:28:03,708 a few of these, and this is 2013 01:28:03,709 --> 01:28:06,916 pretty much the worst I've ever read. 2014 01:28:06,917 --> 01:28:08,667 - One gentleman, who's over 50 years old, 2015 01:28:08,668 --> 01:28:10,667 African American, was stopped more than 30 times 2016 01:28:10,668 --> 01:28:13,249 during the five-year period that we looked at. 2017 01:28:13,250 --> 01:28:17,374 That makes us very concerned that those stops were not 2018 01:28:17,375 --> 01:28:19,250 on the basis of reasonable suspicion, 2019 01:28:19,251 --> 01:28:21,748 but instead were being done under unconstitutional grounds. 2020 01:28:21,749 --> 01:28:23,959 We want the police and the community to work together, 2021 01:28:23,960 --> 01:28:26,666 and we need to try and start rebuilding that relationship. 2022 01:28:26,667 --> 01:28:28,000 - The last time I checked, 2023 01:28:28,001 --> 01:28:30,457 the DOJ is a part of the system. 2024 01:28:30,458 --> 01:28:33,040 It's the DOJ, it's the FOP, 2025 01:28:33,041 --> 01:28:34,666 and it's our elected officials, 2026 01:28:34,667 --> 01:28:37,958 and we as citizens are not there at the table 2027 01:28:37,959 --> 01:28:39,873 as that thing is being negotiated. 2028 01:28:39,874 --> 01:28:41,625 - My suggestion for solutions to the DOJ is that 2029 01:28:41,626 --> 01:28:44,332 none of these reforms and band-aids that are gonna 2030 01:28:44,333 --> 01:28:45,874 happen should give more money 2031 01:28:45,875 --> 01:28:47,375 to the Baltimore City Police Department. 2032 01:28:47,376 --> 01:28:49,749 - Let me say this: 2033 01:28:49,750 --> 01:28:55,541 I'm begging you to work with this process. 2034 01:28:55,542 --> 01:28:57,165 This is the only one we got. 2035 01:28:57,166 --> 01:28:59,708 - We met with you, Congressman. 2036 01:28:59,709 --> 01:29:03,499 We told you what was going on in this city. 2037 01:29:03,500 --> 01:29:06,749 People in this room should be ashamed of yourself! 2038 01:29:06,750 --> 01:29:08,125 - 'Cause we're here tonight giving y'all 2039 01:29:08,126 --> 01:29:09,916 our big, fat, "I told you so's." 2040 01:29:09,917 --> 01:29:13,416 So go back and hold all of these entities accountable, 2041 01:29:13,417 --> 01:29:16,667 because you cannot do it just with the police. 2042 01:29:21,750 --> 01:29:23,791 - The law enforcement, police department... 2043 01:29:23,792 --> 01:29:26,207 we shoulder all the woes of society. 2044 01:29:26,208 --> 01:29:28,624 So I think when the rest of government 2045 01:29:28,625 --> 01:29:30,916 and the rest of society realizes their role 2046 01:29:30,917 --> 01:29:33,249 in public safety... that's where housing, 2047 01:29:33,250 --> 01:29:35,708 employment, education comes into play... 2048 01:29:35,709 --> 01:29:38,666 'cause if folks are waiting for the police departments 2049 01:29:38,667 --> 01:29:44,457 of America to do it, they're gonna be out of luck. 2050 01:29:44,458 --> 01:29:45,874 - I'm encouraged. 2051 01:29:45,875 --> 01:29:47,541 I'm encouraged about Baltimore. 2052 01:29:47,542 --> 01:29:49,123 Um... there's been a great awakening, 2053 01:29:49,124 --> 01:29:50,792 especially with the DOJ coming in. 2054 01:29:50,793 --> 01:29:52,374 This will sound very odd, 2055 01:29:52,375 --> 01:29:54,290 but it almost took this uprising 2056 01:29:54,291 --> 01:29:56,666 to wake us up. 2057 01:29:56,667 --> 01:29:59,124 - I won't say nothing came out of this. 2058 01:29:59,125 --> 01:30:01,833 There's changes in the police force. 2059 01:30:01,834 --> 01:30:03,290 New protocol was made 2060 01:30:03,291 --> 01:30:06,916 all because of the death of Freddie. 2061 01:30:06,917 --> 01:30:09,791 So I don't think his death was a waste. 2062 01:30:09,792 --> 01:30:13,333 I think Freddie was more so a martyr. 2063 01:30:26,041 --> 01:30:27,874 - It's always hard for me to say 2064 01:30:27,875 --> 01:30:30,499 that Freddie Gray gave me a platform 2065 01:30:30,500 --> 01:30:32,165 to do anything. 2066 01:30:32,166 --> 01:30:34,290 - No justice, no peace! 2067 01:30:34,291 --> 01:30:37,124 - But also, the Baltimore uprising 2068 01:30:37,125 --> 01:30:39,708 gave me space to explore my politics, 2069 01:30:39,709 --> 01:30:41,749 and I think it did that for a lot of people. 2070 01:30:41,750 --> 01:30:44,375 And I think it produced a lot of healing. 2071 01:30:46,458 --> 01:30:48,375 - It's not about what you do with your life, 2072 01:30:48,376 --> 01:30:50,499 but it's about the legacy that you leave. 2073 01:30:50,500 --> 01:30:53,666 Freddie Gray was a dope boy. He had lead paint poisoning. 2074 01:30:53,667 --> 01:30:55,208 But Freddie Gray sparked a movement 2075 01:30:55,209 --> 01:30:56,833 and a radicalization, 2076 01:30:56,834 --> 01:30:58,581 and forced young people into the streets. 2077 01:30:58,582 --> 01:31:00,500 So Freddie will always be remembered 2078 01:31:00,501 --> 01:31:03,416 as somebody that sparked an uprising 2079 01:31:03,417 --> 01:31:04,999 inside of our minds, 2080 01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:07,249 and I think that's the most powerful thing 2081 01:31:07,250 --> 01:31:09,458 that we can do... is keep fighting for that. 2082 01:31:27,500 --> 01:31:30,208 - ♪ We have seen and lost young warriors ♪ 2083 01:31:32,709 --> 01:31:37,582 ♪ Never thought that we'd be here ♪ 2084 01:31:37,583 --> 01:31:42,124 ♪ But I'm encouraged by your strength and power ♪ 2085 01:31:42,125 --> 01:31:48,082 ♪ Yeah, you show up and you still care ♪ 2086 01:31:48,083 --> 01:31:53,542 ♪ I'm amazed by all your courage, I am ♪ 2087 01:31:58,250 --> 01:32:03,917 ♪ I feel your prayers when I am floating away ♪ 2088 01:32:13,583 --> 01:32:18,834 ♪ Many communities have come together with me ♪ 2089 01:32:23,792 --> 01:32:29,250 ♪ With only unity, peace, and equality ♪ 2090 01:32:34,375 --> 01:32:37,750 - ♪ Many communities have come together ♪ 2091 01:32:55,166 --> 01:33:00,332 ♪ Things aren't the same, I've seen you cry ♪ 2092 01:33:00,333 --> 01:33:03,916 ♪ The sun will shine in your eyes ♪ 2093 01:33:03,917 --> 01:33:06,582 ♪ I'm here to make things better ♪ 2094 01:33:06,583 --> 01:33:10,458 ♪ I'm here to be your shelter ♪ 2095 01:33:15,667 --> 01:33:18,667 ♪ Many communities who come... ♪