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more news today violence is once again fled up the front these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for racial. i was so good taking time i was so what's in my foot size in the very. first time in the back three buzz words of my liver and that's why i have a liver that's why i have a liver drawing. and i had to get surgery to get the birth. i know the only way i would get three imo no the birth of my liver. so i have. was left there.

was no me far right go through metal detectors and. another wayne larry is from dave you know he was lucky he got out all life he's twenty five years old. and visible from the skyscrapers of san francisco's financial district bayview is a deadly gas or 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 most of the residents are african-americans they live off public handouts underground genes and some of crying this deceivingly peaceful atmosphere can change at any moment. with. 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 for many years. these scenes were funded by a local boy you know exchanged is going for a camera. devin melvin a sixteen year old when he was twelve he carried a gun. off a lot. of people going. from me robbing people have been alive and seen a lot i spent so much for my neighborhood for what a point where i'm wide family i want to do right. i lost two friends now in a five names are real and waggle by bored out. today devon is looking for a way out of it yes or he doesn't want to live for down low and senseless fighting

is the law of the land. through way back i can do with a bit i want i want even more when a five even exist. i like i'm in it a million for. just a few miles from here in downtown san francisco and guess who veteran is trying to get support for his project against gang violence showing richard just 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 it's all girls we're going to go police try to figure out but don't want to hear stories like the stepped up with the think it's about it's a little oh it was so i thought this was right it would take me ten seconds to know the fix but the reality is gang related activity islands generally. its baseline is the fact that people are impoverished people don't have opportunities and they gauge in activities that are not constructive that destructive that feed on themselves every rich city in this country is exact same

thing we have income inequality this. country the likes of which we've not seen since the one nine hundred twenty s. and that's the big burden being mayor and a big burden challenge to live in a country the gun understand that there's more violence the streets of this country than there are in the streets of afghanistan or baghdad but we tend to gore filed goes on there but we try to turn a blind eye to what goes on here. that's a really good people ask me said first sector not. shown richard six solutions he's the founder and director of the ngo brothers against guns also known as bag a mission of the thirty six year old in the half dozen people working in the organization is to give the youth in ghettos some hope they're the only ones working to keep the kids out of prison one night of every three young african-americans in the united states ends up in prison before the age of twenty five while. by works with the juvenile court it looks after

young people who've broken the law and helps them make it through perot that will eventually take him to some camp groups so she had no. 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've been killed in ghettos like they view is almost dampers or my. son is in the way way. far less than the. best. these kids are they are paid and they all errors like animals and this herd is here is heard is here in this package you can fax here. to. this site and it's like i got to go. you know. on the sheets will have time to fix the.

thing if some of the kids are just scared you know and i just want to fit in they just want to be a part of it. and actually have kids that they don't think they're past twenty twenty five years old so they're going to get all they can do on a scale like why they can't bring it to the. cabinet. you know be in a lab where we. can't make. leaves here to sign up for the redirection project for humans up to age twenty for this three month course trains 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 they got monsters and you've been to the graduation so you know and

saying the reason why we don't want to be that way is because you in coming in your stretch. to come in the city hall struck. that's my job you know seen it he don't know i'm saying that's why i started this program and started for the other reason whether. verse three of the murder of his brother tracy schoen visits his grave he woke me up as my brother got back to me in a major way. it opened really made me realize what i was doing and what i was becoming and that i was a proud of the reason why his day because he was trying to look up to me pattern after me follow up. richard is some of the cancer violence and drugs wounds his world when i first seen a shooting 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.

a good shout and i don't lie you know i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and brother was a but give me what they want when i want to move and that's how it all began you know you know it's a. story of how slim and then you start off making a few dollars against all of making more dollars and then you sort of get more and more you get greedy woody becomes like. something you need is like is like using a drug which you now use a verb because you would think it's a bit much. why here. from one swell world that i. show my oath and visits the house where he was going now his mother lives here alone.

she was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do right here and behind my back and i didn't know it you know and i was very i was really hurt you know because i never wanted him to be in that kind of environment or that kind of life you know and i don't think he you know he heard me i'm not and i put him out when i found out you know you have to go i mean you know obviously you know. anybody they did put out the the house where they grew up and you know i don't be angry about it but i mean she didn't know me you know so i decided i said ok fine i'll go i mean i slept in my corner for 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 you know 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 when i just heard and not heard in that car you're hurting the brownlee we're the one happy laughter degree even though that i just think about it for you to. come out there are strong candidate. devon melville works in the museum in san francisco on saturdays his girlfriend comes to pick him up devon was imprisoned by juvenile court for belonging to a guy. to where i am today for i want to say. i was. bad but when i got how it was really when it happened when i got out it really got. a lot of. help. i don't really see this part now so much.

so tried the five. i don't really get around. 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 this ng they can't live a peaceful life there from different neighborhoods turfs by enemy gangs. what is transportation getting around here out of the neighborhood it's me living. but when i'm in a neighborhood there are no fires no. it could be an outside would be infanticide i know i can be a shot or killed or something happens to me any other day when i'm not oh it's not on here from. the first day my something happened. and on a lot of. people i'm the one i'm. like i'm always scared that's on have been in

a car to take in my neighborhood as young as carrying pistols as young teenagers fourteen and under four and i've been from his home in my neighborhood i thought this before that's what i'm seeing every day. named geo where jettison a video he made on guns in his neighborhood here young people from san francisco's gators are given the chance to do something creative are trying to make some. rest will help me and my community basically telling my story. but from these friends david shows us the life and one slant. only time i would care to place was when i asked him i was on my chest when i lived in fear when i go places i feel fulfilled we have to go places but now i'm just more i think i think life now back then i will think twice about i do didn't go out on the safe with me give the rather go i was so very low and then i got so you can still juvenile and i was

floored me. shawn also has to leave the office sometimes to talk to some of his old house and was still associated with the harbor road 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. the trees. in west point new bag opens there are two streets where the local you've got the kids in the harbor roadside meet here in the square outside the gym this is where they chat sometimes smoke are just hanging out. and they. were right problem wrote. me. again we grew up in a war always rooted. out in our my father still our

street where my best friend was marco. he's one of those go eat they go to the movies they already are places just like all the other people. but when they come out the area they just that's more recent time and again banks the drug dealers they just why why do you everybody got to have a tag we're not gay so take the tag off motto is very few people like to talk to the youngsters now it's like they are here with the hey kind of like no town work to do the school they go to juvenile backing for that's why blood is like see your race steady go on good now how many of you out here you know you're in the streets you know. security around you officer standing around you.

i'm all. for those i can make you. down. basketball turning 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 prog. which tries to change the course of the lives of those who sign up selection must be strict account that's coming from a war zone as was all of that in the flood but this is. redirection project will start on the fifteenth. as you seem older boys come down again pull out the application we got advance i'm coming down here we don't know nobody to be popping up and they got people somebody yes. it's.

like a pretty neat to. me and we have we have questions we have course we have like questions now we ask them are you going really do that go team up do you got we've got major beef you 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 direction is not what you say and just like most of that call out and why the movie is silly just because they still smoke a week you know since they're you know not every day they have a take a piss test and we've only had to take a piss test and it was appropriate today and want to go take a piss test it just came back very little under six. minutes to mute a total nation why do this thing we're talking nationally. the redirection project is about to start classes will be held in a room in city hall i'm a last for three months in neutral territory for the war zone these kids are told

a little of everything i will look for a job how to get an id card 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 the harbor road kids can't come here because it would mean risking their lives. a rap singer is very committed to his community and peace promotes his latest cd. everybody. don't text me no doubt that. he was able. to. bring. me to.

work for the. rapper j.t. promotes peace with his music and neighborhood association organizes again 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 is going to help their job so you sure know hope their only choice is for the future prison. devon films everything with this camera this footage reveals work life is really like in baby real life so i got a. really fast nobody. any day any second thought. about the people i. know. call me. kraut or they say. that i'm always talking i'm always thinking about how we need to get money.

a little to let them do right now the way using. people can google ads all i see is our role here. here at any moment fun and games can turn into tragedy. for larry. tonight there's been another murder in the streets of a 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. so you see it here drive by gang shootings are common in san francisco about fifty people are murdered every year mostly in they view. the world wants russell to. also see the snow on what it

looked like klitzman we're going to. settle this is how the kids remember their dead friends inspector tony chaplin and then bro bring from the special brigade against us and tell us about. these guys get caught up in things that they don't know why they're doing it they're just going to ember the last shooting that they need to have been for the last killing that they need to send a message about. right. so to go forbes i mean a lot of go folks that are just literally being held hostage to their you know i mean. they live their lives but everybody knows the time it got going. according to the inspectors the presence of gangs here is evidence they inspect an empty house and 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 yeah to rock big

block and kirkwood. of course either says we're on earlier then again you have the allies you have the home gang here west nile who's turf this this actually is then you have sunnydale. was a group where on the other side of the city who westmount just click dealt with or ally with. the officers comb the neighborhood street by street they disagreed with most people who think that the violence only stands from personal rivalries. 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 one of gang signs you got photos a guy stole one of the w. and they got their rag. they've got tattoos all over miss

a big block for life or 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 games 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 really really nice views spoiled by all the shootings and killings up here. the situation is so extreme that this senseless concrete barrier is being put up to vote in 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 and when i say older we're talking twenty three and up those guys are sam 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 got a done ten for a big celebration the first sam francisco bay area rock festival music's been played to the success with many of the young people in ghettos one of them as a big surprise j.t. has brought kids from his neighborhood with them from both barber road and west point. out in oxford street right now going to get this thing that is. bringing the two factions together is risky as one belief shows.

down. the singer has a tough time but he manages to keep the peace perhaps this festival will serve to give some hope to the district's hopeless youth but the ghetto and crime are always a part of broken music. it's time for the awards the winning groups take over the stage. j. . he is getting ready to appear with his boys his latest cd has also won a prize.

for the play if. you. think. 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 will sean managed to increase the rate this year. they

are where males to keep the streets where. the three squares a day was too much they could get was no war with i mean we could have got more but i know it was too much when it was a basic enough to help us get through what we got to do and teach us about life in the way they are our success. might be successful right now and it's determination in your willpower words full of optimism six months later three of these young men were in jail colleagues lost his job four months later. has twelve votes in his body it's. a criticism he couldn't appear in the last photograph because he was killed before it was taken that. we don't think that. they kill people and that.

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