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more news for you in less than half an hour from now in the meantime tales of the golden gate city as we report on the struggles in the ghettos of san francisco. i was so. i was once a mouth. full. of my liver. liver. a liver drain. and the only. way malaria is from bayview he was lucky he got a life he's twenty five years old. visible from the skyscrapers of san francisco's financial district bayview is

a deadly gezer most of the young people here won't live over twenty five behind the well painted facades of the public housing projects lies dire poverty here and most of the residents are african-americans they live off public handouts underhanded means and some of crime this to seemingly peaceful atmosphere can change at any moment. of. one dead in a baby shooting not a single month goes by without fatalities rival gangs have been caught up in a senseless ongoing war put many years. these scenes were filmed by a local boy in the exchange just going for a camera. devin melvin a sixteen year old when he was twelve he carried a gun. i

think. we were going we were going. from me rob and i don't been through a lot. i swear so my for my neighborhood so what a point where i'm like family i want to do right. i lost some friends names or wail and waggle. today kevin is looking for a way out of the ghetto he doesn't want to live where gun low and senseless fighting is the law of the land then you go through way back i came to the table i was i went to the war when i thought before is this i didn't feel like i'm in it i'm in for. just a few miles from here in downtown san francisco again through veterans trying to get support for his project against juvenile gang violence showing richards is

talking to mayor gavin newsome he wants to set up a civic behavior course for the toughest members of the city's gangs at city hall but he needs a room that's all girls were very open to sort of the route no one would want it's like a set up with the think it's about the exact role oh it was like this but it will take me ten seconds it will be fixed but the reality is gang related activity violence generally. space life is that people are impoverished people don't have opportunities they gauge in activities that are not constructive the destructive that feed on themselves every rich city in this country is exact same thing that we have income. in this country the likes of which we've not seen since the one nine hundred twenty s. and that's the big burden of being mayor and a big burden challenge to live in a country that don't understand that there's more violence in the streets of this country than there are in the streets of afghanistan or baghdad but we tend to pour

firewood goes on there but we frankly turn a blind eye to what goes on here. that's really a tribute last receive quest sector not. showing richard six solutions he's the founder and director of the ngo brothers against guns also known as bag the mission of the thirty six year old and a half dozen people working in his ration is to give the youth in ghettos some hope they're the only ones working to keep the kids out of prison one night every three young african-americans in the united states ends up in prison before the age of twenty five miles. here. by works with the juvenile court it looks now to young people who've broken the law and helps them make it through perot movement will eventually take it from him the rules since you know. the need for brothers against guns can be seen on these walls but this poster is

just one example the list of poor young african-americans who have been killed in ghettos like they view is almost endless. like. one that has been awake. for hours with family in. this case r d r k n a o areas like animals and it's hard to see here it's hard to see this fact is you can fax here. this and it's like i got to go on you know. i'm machines will have how to fight. if somebody is that just fear you know and i just want to fit in they just want to be a part of so in. coming in and actually have kids that they don't think their past twenty one twenty five years old so they're going to get all they can do on

a kid like i think. where counted them. you know be in the lab where we're. making some of the. leaders here to sign up for the redirection project for humans up to age twenty for this three month course strains the neighborhoods toughest kids for joins. the classes will be held in city hall and the reason one class will be able to see your because you got monsters and you know you've been through graduation so you know and saying the reason why we don't want it that way is because your income in your stress. coming in city hall stretched. that's model you don't see and he don't i'm saying that's why i started this program and started for the reason. verse three of the murder of his brother tracy schoen visits is great who woke me up as my brother got me in

a major way when. it opened the mob really made me realize what i was doing and what i was becoming and that i was a part of the reason why is the because he was trying to look up to me patterned after me follow up. richard is the gates of violence and drugs were his world without personal and i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is from school and. you know these kids used to be right smack in the middle of. that i have a good child and i know life you know i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was they but we did what they wanted when i wanted more and that's out of. you know you know it's a. story of how slim and then you start all making

a few dollars in the store of making more dollars and then you start over more and more you get greedy with it becomes like. something you need is like is like using a drug which is now using a verb because you would think it's a bit much. right here. so i'm i'm so wild world that. show i'm often visits the house where he was born now his mother lives here although. he was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do and behind my back and i didn't know where and how and i was very i was really hurt you know because i never want to hear to be in that you know that kind of environment or that kind of life you know and. he you know he heard me or not and i put him out i found out you know

you have to go well i mean you know obviously you know. anybody to get put out there the house where they grew up and you know they'll be angry about it but i mean she didn't want me you know so i decided i said ok fine go i mean i slept in my car for a couple days they might seem to me that when i graduated from high school you know i was hustling and caring to go out on the streets and stuff and so basically you know that wasn't what she wanted in our household you know and i just pray and ask these kids that think twice before they pull a gun on anybody's babies think about it you know i've just heard and have not heard an it guy you're hurting apparently we're the one have to be left to grieve and feel their pain just think about it for you. and god bless our.

kevin melville who works in the museum in san francisco on saturdays his good friend comes to pick him up devon was imprisoned by juvenile court for belonging to a gang. where i am today for. stress and i just was so like that but when i got out was really when it happened when i got out. and. i don't really see this part of town so much. used to be i don't really get around too much. out of my neighborhood. there are just a few miles between whites and francisco the city visited by tourists and they view but there are two completely different worlds here devon in the scene there can't live a peaceful life there from

a different neighborhood turfs by enemy gangs. no one is transportation when they're around in the neighborhood it's. living. well when i'm in a neighborhood or know for. outside would be vilified i know i can get shot or killed or something happens to me any day when i'm up all night oh yes i don't hear from him i. think the first thing myself happens from and on the line. of people by one i'm so i come all these candidates on have got a car to take in my neighborhood is running with us carrying pistols is young teenagers fourteen and under for alcohol i think from his home in my neighborhood i thought this before but that's what i'm seeing every day. we're generation of video here in this neighborhood here young people from san franciscans get was given the

chance to do something creative i'm probably made some. do some rest will help me and my community and basically telling my story. by filming his friends david chooses the life anyone slept. all the time i will hear the case when i ask him and all my chest and i will be here when i go places i still feel we have to go places but now i'm just more i think i think twice now back then i will think twice about i just didn't get out on the safe with me going to where i had to go i was so over though and then i got sick was ill are with the juvenile. shawn also has to leave the office sometimes to talk to some of his old pals who are still associated with the harbor about three hundred yards from west point his reputation as a former gangster in his new role as mediator and friend had given him protection from the violence in this area.

tres. in west point new but i go first there are two streets where the local you find out the kids in the harbor roadside meatier and the square outside the gym this is where they chat sometimes smoke are just going out. like this. right problem row no marker. to get on we grew up in a war always rooted. out in our mom obviously i grew up the street where my best friend was my. new me these brothers go eat they go to the movies they don't have a place just like all the other people do all for susan ole when they come out the

area they just oh yes that's more recent time me they came thanks the drug they just why why do we everybody got to have a tag on we not gay so they can tell about not so. very few people like us to talk to the youngsters now it's like they are here with the hey could of like no telling what to do to school they go to juvenile back in for that's why i brought us my curse see your race study going down i mean if you were out here you know you were playing in the streets. you. spinning around you this was all a turn. from all. for those that can make it. as they are now. bass won't try me. brothers against guns is committed to

a long list of projects like the basketball tournament organized by the housing institute but perhaps the most ambitious of its projects is the redirection project which tries to change the course of the minds of those who sign up selection must restrict the kind of that's come from a war zone that's was on the back of the flood well this is the redirection project will start on the painting. as you see notable is come down again for the application we are once i'm coming down here we don't want nobody to be popping up and you got people somebody yes this is. america we're just me. me and we are we are questions we have course we have like it's a question are we asking are you going really go teaching him up to the major beef still smoking marijuana in the last question really going to be are you really are you ready to make a change because if you're not then we ration is not boy and i was there and just

like most of you got caught up in like the movie city jobs because they still smoke a week you know since no you know any day that you take a class test and we totally had to take a piss test and i wasn't prepared for that and would go take a piss test existing beggary really want to see. a total nation will live in this thing its own nation. the redirection project is about to start classes will be held in a room in city hall and the last for three months in neutral territory far from the war zone these kids are told a little of everything i'm going to for a job i think it might be court or simply how to fill out forms. and they learn civic behavior in the end what they really want is to find a job. an

almost typical sunday morning in the american neighborhood but here nothing is typical of the harbor road kids can come here because it would mean risking their lives. a rap singer is very committed to his community and the police promote his latest cd. for everybody. we don't. know that. you. are. working for the fact. rapper j.t. promotes peace with his music the neighborhood association organizes the gang but this is nothing but a brief time out public festivals with police surveillance are

a far cry from daily life in the neighborhood for the young people who live here daily life in this very morning they have a job each other no hope their only choice is for the future prison. films everything with this camera footage reveals what life is really like in beijing. about it. nobody would be a real threat i love. you any day any second thought. about the people i. know. they call me don't call me to reach out a crowd but they are better i'm always talking i'm always speaking about how we need to get money it's not before we're rules our. little to let the right now selling the we use and you'll be able people who will after all this. year. here at any moment fun and

games can turn into tragedy. for. coming tonight there's been another murder in the streets of they view a car drives by shots ring out once again a family races into the street to cry over a young man's dead body. to get here drive by gang shootings are common and san francisco about fifty people are murdered every year mostly invade people it's. not what he wants the world can. see the snow on quietly looking like slits to see what's going to. settle this is how the kids remember their dead friends and specter it's only chaplin and then bribery from the special brigade against youth gangs tell us about it. these guys get caught up in things that they don't know why they're doing it they just remember the last shooting that they need to avenge or the last killing that they

need to send a message about. right. so they go for walks i mean to go folks that are just literally being held hostage or you know i mean. they know they're lies but everybody knows the time to count the women. according to the inspectors the presence of gangs here is evidence they inspect an empty house in west point which according to what they've heard has become a new meeting place. is almost like reading a game newspaper yeah who their enemies are they have to rock big block and kirkwood. course either just as we're in earlier then do you have the allies you have the home gang here wesnoth who's turf this this actually is then you have sonny deal. was a group where on the other side of the city who where some obvious clicked out with

or ally with. the officers comb the neighborhood street by street they disagreed with most people who think that the violence only stems from personal rights movements. we have a lot of photos of these guys they're wearing rags and it looks you know if you don't know any better you take yourself in south central los angeles and there were rags to one of the gang signs you got photos of guys i want to put w. and they got their rag. they've got tattoos all over miss a big block to live for we all we got i mean at some point they take a leap from just being a neighborhood or turf people are saying hey these are neighborhoods or these are sets because they don't really want to recognize that their kids belong to a gang at the gangs are present because that brings up negative connotations and why the kids end up getting into it there's a lot of reasons

a lot of these families are broken so kids are joining gangs because they want to feel like they belong to something they're looking for that sense of family that they're not getting at home. it's sad to see these. a really nice view spoiled all the shootings and killings up here. the situation is so extreme that a senseless concrete barrier is being put up dividing the neighborhood and two for the kids here crossing it can be fatal. they're at the point now where their backs are against the wall and they're like you know what i want out and it's mainly the older guys the younger guys they're still kind of caught up in it but the older guys when i say older we're talking twenty three and up those guys are stand we want out we want jobs we want to do something better with our lives because this is taking us nowhere except to the cemetery.

the city's black community has gathered done time for the big celebration the first san francisco bay area rock festival music's been played to the success with many of the young compelling ghettos one of them is a big surprise j.t. has brought kids from his neighborhood with them from both barber road and west point. i think you'll get enough of a street legal fees right now. because. bringing the two factions together is risky as one belief shows. i. was. down. the singer has a tough time but he manages to keep the pits perhaps this festival will serve to give some hope to the district's open snoot but the ghetto and crime are always

a part of drop music. he. added. it's time for the awards the winning groups take over the stage. kate. he is getting ready to appear with his boy his latest cd has also won a prize. to. play.

it's time for the redirection project graduation ceremony at san francisco's city hall heard the teachers and brothers against guns give speeches full of hope they've given these youngsters an opportunity and there's nothing more that they can do. one by one the graduates are given their diploma special richard this is the second try seven i think the twenty one people in last year's course still have jobs we'll show managed to increase the rate this year. they are where males keep the streets where. the streets were big it was too much they could get was no war with i mean we could got more but like we know it was too much for what it was a know basically enough to help us get through what we got to do because i'm not like the way they are our success you might be successful right

now and it's determination your willpower words full of optimism six months later three of these young men were in jail lost his job four months later. blame his twelve bullets and his dog. he couldn't appear in the last photograph because it was killed before it was taken that i think that. we don't think that. they kill people and if you got to the. front of the. right. part of the. culture is that so much of it which of course is life on. the brink of bankruptcy

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