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garden of three birds one for my liver and that's why i have a liver. liver draining. glad to get surgery to get the birth. and there would only be able to get three or mono the birth of my liver. was only four where i go to medical. the way malaria is from bayview he was lucky he got out alive he's twenty five years old. and visible from the skyscrapers of san francisco's financial district a view 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 the dire poverty here most of the residents are african-americans they live off public handouts underground beatings and some of crime this to seemingly peaceful atmosphere can change at any

moment. but. 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 filmed by a local boy in a strange disco mr mcnamara. devon melvin a sixteen year old when he was twelve he carried a gun. i think a lot of life that. we were going we were going to run from me robbing people have been saying a lot i swear so much for my neighborhood so what

a point where i am why family i want to do right. now the five names are real and waggle you know about. today devon is looking for a way out of the ghetto he doesn't want to live where caring low and senseless fighting is the law of the land when you go through way back when i played in the table i went to the ball when i thought i'd be finished some i didn't but i'm in it i'm in about fourth. just a few miles from here in downtown san francisco and guess who veterans trying to get support for his project against juvenile gang violence showing richards is talking to the mayor gavin newsom he wants to set up a civic behavior course for the toughest members of the city's cans at city hall for the needs a room so girls were going to go please try to figure out the moment with a story like a set up with i think it's about the exact role oh it was so i thought he's

right it would take me ten seconds to know the fix but the reality is gang related activity islands generally. space like this people are impoverished people don't have opportunities in a cage and activities that are not constructive or destructive that feed on themselves every rich city in this country is exact same thing we have a company quality 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 core file goes on there but we try to turn a blind eye to what goes on here. that's really a tribute last respect quests not. showing richard six solutions he's the founder and director of the ngo brothers against

guns also known as. the mission of a thirty six year old and a 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 and one night of every three young african-americans in the united states ends up in prison before the age of twenty five. by works with the juvenile court it looks nothing young people who've broken the law and helps them make it through perot movement told me she can take it from him the rules she had no. 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 baby is almost endless. like this one because in a way very hard for them to.

these kids are they are paid and they own errors like animals and this artist here is her to see this fact to see if the facts here. is more like this and it's like i got a good. you know. i'm a she's you'll have time to find. some of the kids are just here you know and i just wanna finish and they just want to be a part of it. and actually happy that they don't think they're going to live past twenty twenty five years or so they're going to get all they can do on a kayak while they can get a piece of. where. you now. be in class where we are.

leaves here to sign up for the redirection project for humans up to age twenty four 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've got mantras and you know you've been through a graduation so you know and saying the reason why we don't want it that way is because you in coming in your stress. coming to city hall stress. that's milo you know i'm saying he don't know i'm saying that's why i started this program in story for another reason but rather. verse three of the murder of his brother tracy visits his great who woke me up as my brother got back to me in a major way and. it opened up really mean you realise what i was doing and what i was becoming and that i was a part of the reason why is this because he was trying to look up to me pattern of

me following. sean richard is some of the violence and drugs were once these were when i first seen a shooting and i was about nine years old coming home from school one day this is a free school and. you know say this kid has to be right smack in the middle of. bad or good shout and i don't live in la i had everything i wanted as a kid you know my mother and father was a buddy give me what they wanted i wanted more and that's. you know you start off you know it's a. story of hustlin and then you start off making a few dollars in the store of making more dollars and then you start over or more you get greedy woody it becomes like something you need is like is like using a drug which you now use

a verb because you would think that the money. well here. swell girl kept. show me open visits the house where he was going now his mother lives here alone. and. she was doing things that she wasn't supposed to do right her behind my back and i didn't know him her and i was very i was really hurt you know. because i never want to hear or be in that you know that kind of environment or that kind of life you know and i don't think he really heard me or not and i put him out and i found out you know you have to go well i mean you know obviously you know. anybody they get put out their house where they grew up and you know don't be angry about it but i mean she didn't want me you know i'm so i decided as it ok finally got it i mean i slept in my call for

a couple days and them i think had me when i graduated from high school you know i was hustling and carrying a gun on the streets and stuff and so basically you know that 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 when i've just heard and not heard in that car you're hurting apparently we're the one have been left to grieve in feel that i just thank about it for you. and god bless our kids. there have been melville works in the museum in san francisco on saturdays his girlfriend to sheena comes to pick him up devon was imprisoned by juvenile court for belonging to a county. where i am today for i was saved. was

. bad but what i got out was really when it happened when i got out. and. i feel helpless. and. i don't really see this part of town so much as. the five used to be i don't really get around too much. there are just a few miles between whites and francisco the city visited by tourists and bayview but there are two completely different worlds here devon and the she can't live a peaceful life there from a different neighborhood turfs run by anime gangs. no transportation to get in there around the neighborhood i mean living. where when i'm in a neighborhood there's no foreigners no. outside but deep down inside i know i can

get shot or killed or some guy having to me any day when i'm not going to he'll oh it's like i don't hear from. the first being myself. i'm on the line and the people i want to. thank them always cannot from here going to partake in my neighborhood is young that's carrying pistols as young teenagers fourteen and under four from twelve on up is home in my neighborhood i thought this before but that's what i'm seeing every day. where he said this new video he made in his neighborhood here young people from san francisco's characters are given the chance to do something creative i'm trying to make a movie like i'm trying to do some rest will help me m.r. community basically telling my story. by film as friends david shows us the life and one slept. all the time i will hear the case of laughing and all

much as when i will be here when i go places i got the feel to go places but now i think about them twice now back then i will think twice about i didn't go out on the safe with me again the way i have a go i was full of it all and then i got so busy i went a juvenile. shawn also has to leave the office sometimes to talk to some of his old pals who are still associated with the harbor road going about three hundred yards from west point his reputation as a former gangster in his new role as mediator and friend i've given him protection from the violence in this area. to trace. in west point you but i go from there are two streets with the local you've got the kids in the harbor roadside here in the square outside the gym this

is where they chant sometimes smoke are just going out. like this. yeah right that already right problem row on amarcord. me victim. to get him we grew up in a war always rooted. out in our my father's i grew up. with my best friend was my god. these brothers go eat they go to the movies they don't have the places just like all the other people do all for susan ole when they come out they area they just pass that's more recent time either banks the drug dealers they just why why do we have you got to have a tag we not pay so take the tag. is very few people like us to talk to the youngsters now it's like they are here with the head cut off like

no some want to do the school they go to juba now back in fla that's my brothers my curse see our race steady going down i mean if you out here you know your industry. here your own officers standing around you. turn. to maul. for those that can make you. stand down. basketball tournament. 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 strictly a kind of come from a war zone as was on the back of the flood brothers as. the redirection project

will start on the fifteenth. as you see no voice come down today and fill out applications we've got a bunch of them coming down here we don't want nobody to be popping up and you got people somebody yes. if. you don't buy america practice media. and we have we have questions we have question we have like tina peterson questions that we ask are you game related if you got gold keeping him up do you got the major beef still smoking marijuana in the last question really going to be are you willing are you ready to make a change because if you're not then redirection is not for it and you say and just like most of them that call out and ride a city just because they still smoke you eat you know since the you know they have a take a piss test and we talked them into thick and i wasn't prepared today and we'll go

take a test as they just came back during the one to six. minutes in new york i told nation were lied to this is. the redirection project is about to start classes will be held in a room incident and the last for three months in neutral territory for the war zone these kids are told a little of everything i would look for a job maybe 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 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 peace promotes his latest cd it is a very for everybody to know we don't. know that. it was. working for the. 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 is going to help them a job so future no hope their only choice is for the future of prison. devon films everything with this camera this footage reveals work life is really like in

baby lives i got to do it with. nobody i'd be a real threat of somebody gets hurt any day any second so i still know the people i . know. like they call me they all call me depends on the crowd but they are the better i'm always talking i'm always thinking about how we need to give money it's not before all the rules but with all the negativity a little too much i don't think the right. fellow we are using. we're capable after all a serious. here at any moment fun and games can turn into tragedy. for. 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 in bayview that's. what he wants to. see the snow look like klitzman we're going to see circle this is how the kids remember their dead friends and specter tony chaplin and then bro bree from the special gate against youth gangs tell us about. 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 have been for the last killing that they need to send a message about. all right. so go forwards go folks they're just literally being held hostage or you know i mean. they never lies but everybody knows the time to come when 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 rain again newspaper yeah who their enemies are they have. to rock big block and kirkwood. of course knew that assess were on earlier then the have the allies you have the home gang your west knob whose turf this this actually is they have sunnydale. was a group way on the other side of the city who west mob is clicked out with or ally with. the officers comb the neighborhood street by street they disagree 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 think you're a slut in south central los angeles and there were rags and it's one of the gang signs you got photos of guys going up a w. and they got their rag. they've got tattoos all over them it's a big a live for we all we get 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 a cancer present because that brings up negative connotations and why the kids end up getting into it because a lot of resistance 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 of here. the

situation is so extreme that a senseless concrete barrier has been put up dividing the neighborhood and two for the kids who are crossing it can be fatal. they're at the point now where their backs are against the wall and they're like you know 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 got a done ten club big celebration the first san francisco bay area route festival music's been key to the success with many of the young people in 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 it out of a street right now it is just. bringing the two factions together is risky as one belief shows. little. 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 drop music. like.

it's time for the awards the winning groups take over the stage. on. tape. he is getting ready to appear with his boys his latest cd has also won a prize. to play if. it's time for the redirection project graduation ceremony at san francisco's city hall your teachers and brothers against guns give speeches bill 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 hundred of the twenty one people in last year's course still have jobs with sean managed to increase the rate this year. but they are aware of this to keep the streets where. the three way they gave was too much i think it was no more with me we could have more but i know it was too much when it was a basically nothing to help us get through what we got to do and teach us about life in the lord of the word day on sixth sense. but the sixth sense when i. read it determination in your will power words full of optimism six months later three of these young men were in jail lost his job four months later. doing

his twelve votes and his body it's the quickest he couldn't have here in the last photograph because he was killed before it was taken. we can't think. that it's that the. son of the three that's. right i'm in the thick of it but. like up. and. down the official anti allocation choice and the ipod touch for me i choose ops to . life on the. video on demand exceeds mine field costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the

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