but then one day i couldn't explain to a friend's little girl why i couldn't come home for christmas that broke my heart. and i decided i had to change. oh max and i would be walking arm. because i would just join him in his walk. so we would just make our presence known you know with the kid with the people playing basketball inside or you know. teenagers to like to hang out in the back that wouldn't be going on and he was here let me tell you that. yeah that's what i meant they think because the mike had me talk to him on the phone regarding the crying that was that i was service team but he got shot in their area the maximum i could be on the phone the whole phraselator. and i started

doing this job i was sent to a lot of crime scenes i saw a lot of stuff that was very difficult to deal with. it's not easy to see a kid that you've been working with you see him at school and then the you get a call and you seen with the sheet over him over a couple of years daisy and max bonded through their passion for community work. he says i told my coworkers i'm going to marry her. and they said yeah i believe you doug i believe. they said no. no no go dog said what i and then went out of their. c.a.g.r. you spend your life. with

a minimal to. my pregnancy was the happiest time of my life i never felt so full of life literally you know. there was this look in his eyes just seen him experience something new and it just brought me joy. i got to see that little kid in. really.

oh yes. oh i. said but if i thought. your kid what they say. then the though not for me to more love is there then. you'll get out the map. but they will that's going to say i meant there. let's start over on the fact that up. there yes i could and there. he savard.

it's been six months since baby sarah was born. max is working on the streets daisy is studying for her doctorate and sarah has two parents who adore. me behind the gates of the family property life seems to be going pretty well. until in the middle of the night in late spring daisy wakes up to loud voices and the sound of her door being smashed in. i couldn't move i couldn't move. i just stood over my baby because i don't want them to mess with her. it's an f.b.i. raid and it's part of a city wide sweep the feds cause operation breaking bad. it

was very fusing and they were just like oh where is it where is where do you put i'm like what are you talking about. max's hold outside where he is cuffed arrested and taken away. daisy is left by herself with her baby and several armed f.b.i. agents have some of these agents sad are trying to talk to you like they're your friends. like you you know my wife she's had a baby she's sixteen months old. i'm like ok so you understand how scared i am. i really don't know. i just. you know why you nicely. but they don't leave and what starts as a bad dream turns into a nightmare. the social worker is coming and then i look i already know

when you want to call the social worker she's not leaving empty handed i wrote no. she came and said i'm going to have to take the baby. and i'm thinking. you'd have to kill me to take my check. and they were just like if you cooperate everything will be easier. so she was like either make her bad i could tick. i don't even remember. thinking. like it just. went from having her to not having her i don't even remember. that i was on.

here today and it's been four days since the f.b.i. was here it's just hard at the. nothing makes sense everything is kind of odd so i feel as though this has been a big mistake. max is held in the federal detention center in downtown l.a. . the charges against him are for a minor drug deal three years ago before he and daisy became

a couple. the f.b.i. agents told social workers they found drugs in the house based on that baby sara has been taken away to a foster home i have to find a place for her outside of this property and do some made a drug test and pending that and my people be given back to me. they're arresting people that are charged with these you know what in the government's mind of these horrific crimes and there's kids are so the easiest thing to do is scoop the kids up put them into what the government considers a safe environment and then let the family court determine what to do with them

and there's one charge against max for a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine with him on a codefendant thirty six hundred dollars was involved in the transaction and the customer turned out to be a confidential informant for the f.b.i. . the rest happens three years later because they don't want to burn the confidential informant there's all this is real typical. max is denied bail daisy will not be allowed to see him in person for three months she will only be able to communicate with him by phone and e-mail both monitored. the raid does not produce any new charges against max but the existing charges from three years ago could put him away for life.

if the case like a bad dream if you nightmare. like some of the kids started calling would happen and. there was hardly last the matter that my big brother had a problem. this is happening to her i handle this. just feel like there's big boy. somehow when i got an intervention worker gets arrested there's soto in it i told you soul mentality from the public. but i know what these men and women do. they're amazing human beings. but they do not walk on water.

max is not allowed to discuss his case but daisy strongly denies there were drugs in the house on the night of the raid. the f.b.i. insists there was meth in the house but is not releasing any documentation to prove . i took a drug test hours after they took sarah the social worker calls me and says your urine was too clean why did you drink so much water and i said you know why you came into my home you took my child and mice false hope .

it may be be. a family in this one even know me daisy who has no criminal history takes another drug test and passes it she moved her things to her aunt and uncle's house and asked the social workers to inspect it as a new home for sarah outside her old neighborhood. but as the weeks turn into a month the baby is still not released to her or to family members like her mother and father who have applied for custody as she's not getting any answers from the county. when max decided to change his life

a decade ago he could have walked away entirely from gangs but instead he chose to stay in that world to become a gang intervention worker and try to undo some of the damage he had done in his past. having one foot in one foot out his first getting them in trouble. trying to make peace agreements between gangs you have to speak to criminals as speaking to these people will make you guilty of a crime. him i had had many conversations about this work while we were colleagues and he said that he would give his life on the street. if it's safe. any of these kids. max writes if you grew up in

a community where there's no violence you don't see the struggle that kids go to when they see gangs as positive like. any risk of being max's position and have everything taken away. you know i feel like he just being targeted it's like. being in intervention you have to live in both worlds you don't have a choice if you want to be effective you have to look inward everbearing we've done in the past. we're trying like atone for it. and it's not recognized and it's always the bad whatever's bad can it's first our past always hunts us.

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the latest news as it breaks because people are already some of the country's most vulnerable and now they say they need help with details coverage here in gaza more than most places the contrast between scenes like this and the realities of daily life for so many from around the world forty years ago it was all but impossible for a foreign man or woman to live in china let alone marry a chinese but today it is like this are no longer exceptional. hello again adrian from going to here in doha the top stories in the latest attempt to search for an end to the yemen was failed to take off the official government delegation is leaving the swiss city of geneva.