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for. five well i know about seven people a good team by the guys so yeah it is like i run through my family does the close in my brothers i know about ten people who have that i. told them i brought us thank you every day i walk out my house i would feel right you know bust six impudent they all died before he even turned seventeen this is almost imagine it's you know somebody like you know nobody's son row which is. every time something like bankers they changed me on insanity. you to see somebody and i did in the cool way i don't know but i don't go to see
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one thing we do is citizens one thing we tend to do is dehumanised human beings so we talk in terms of how many people were murdered norms what are the numbers so what do we do about that mindset what do we do t. humanize murder the only way that we could think to do it was to name them each day is listed on a board with the name of the person they're a judge and how they were killed without respect to where they're from what their color is what they did or did not do for a living whether they graduated or didn't from on a school where they deal in drugs or not you don't know if you look a bit bored. he was hit forty one. was my. shah sometimes i look at our little church our little walls and say you know how much wall space do i have here after
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a while this will get to look celie and stuff like that i suppose when we looked more like maybe milwaukee and a half million people and they killed fifty three people not two hundred fifty the . load. the old la. la la my name is a mia baracoa as a kid growing up in the projects of new orleans i saw shootings like this all the time and eventually committed acts of violence myself at the serving five years in
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jail i began to help kids to mentor but this story isn't about me this is a story about the environment in which i grew up. a wild night across metro new orleans someone sprays a crowd with bullets as they were leaving a high school basketball game five people good evening and all nine people were shot tonight including an eleven year old to be in five separate shootings in new orleans and jefferson parish and nine year old boys are covering tonight after another drive by shooting in new orleans east it's much like the one where the two year old girl was shot and killed several kids playing in the middle of the afternoon when the gunfire broke out a shooting happened just after seven i was called in the call is five has a way that is able to record it was the target shooting. this is a story about what it's like being young and surrounded by family but it's also a story about finding solutions. you tolerate as unable.
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to watch children have to see this day after day. and it. and one nine hundred sixty new orleans had his largest population and his small is murder rate but in the course of fifty years over ten thousand people have been murdered and since two thousand and five more people have been killed than those who lost their lives when the levees broke. at this moment there was a battle being waged each and every day on the streets of new orleans it is a battle for the heart and soul of this great city by the time you wake up tomorrow morning i will have likely received another message. the worst part of my day that says exactly the same thing mr mayor was sorry to inform you that earlier this evening police officers responded to gunshots when they arrived on the scene they
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found a young african-american male face jail in blood gunshots in the back of his head he was announced dead on arrival there are no witnesses. the first script. dead in all the son's right to culture next one that's a load of crap and over there you know got your next one that's ok i would go to the next national room can you i'm
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a real live people have to be by listening to tom i take children. across the street from the shoot there's a screen printing shop or rest in peace t. shirts are the most popular item they give us or when a person passed away it's like giving follows this basically to remember that person to show that this was my friend this was my loved one the day he died the next morning in the shop getting a shirt and you go to church every day until that person is better dressed. similar . to. when you hold a shirt you write your worst sometimes. hurt so much that people don't have words and now it's me to come up with words the next me to come up with words our actual what type of person was and from there the designs come from mighty many shops have
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opened to meet the demands for shirts about twenty all together with a three mile square radius there's not a soul as i basically wanted to do birthdays for every old planes more liberal than you can survive without the one rest in peace or with your business will never grow because i'm the world's. best for my family restaurant dressed in jeans. he was the quiet person he was the hard work but he worked on the riverfront and he loved the spin and time with his kids which they were babies when he was killed with one and three he had a nickname goof troop after the the disney character goofy because he always said funny things you know to make people laugh the boys that plays back in my head all the time is like what's wrong with my what i can remember about david is when he's
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twelve years trying to. scratch records on my little k.-mart stereo hours and hours and hours of david spending at his turntables mixing music and making music i think we were watching like american idol or talent show i can just remember that the people on t.v. saying in this sound a really bad for van want to go out on his birthday to celebrate with when i was nephew and this car pulled up into a parking lot that was there was nearby and told them to come here. and that's when the nightmare began we hear and it would sounds like an explosion that pop pop pop but boom boom the whole house shakes he shook me was like my get up shoot ninja mangas shot and then i looked down and there is my son lying on the ground there's a hole in his chest where the bullet bike in his chest me behind his ear
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a die instantly in the core and then and then you know left with the blood on the sidewalk the neighbors the police tape much i was killed for no reason no reason he's saying is that he done it because because my son just was standing there he was going to be a witness somebody here that much power in your life that they woke up and decided another human being would not walk the plane or another day. feel. magri is the high school she likes document life video cam i want to let you guys see. how hard i'm trying to get to my goal. i want to be
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a courier so you know that's not going to be easy this going to be tough challenges in life but i really want to be a congressman i know what it takes to get and i'm striving for you know stand on the road of what it takes right now in this moment the struggles are similar to many teams i'm mad it's extremely frustrating because as you keisha all i want to do is just do this right but sometimes just want to just do the simple thing a simple blood test to his right just know or you know specially when you get kids churning so you're in the teachers trying to make you feel stupid about you raise your hand it's a question you know matt took a video camera to school to record a class he was going to run if you're a student or my question was oh i know anybody. over to.
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somebody you know i can hear it when it was. you know his dad if i knew where he. was going to be was you know what you want to know you do not continue to throw p.b.'s meet somebody. else you know you know if you keep us. all in this course is basically like waiting for the teacher to. know what it was all exist. and you know what we're looking at teacher got a good issue you're not missing any years you know even to webster. what is in this will tell you. you know you needed. to find a girl get well here it is not that. the message i mean
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the diplomacy that seems to be coming from washington it appears to be just falling short of expectations of the united states as a superior negotiator as a superior diplomatic player but we see what happened in egypt after the arab spring and the election of morsi if there was a space terror where the united states could have played a critical role just assuring more and more seats on a path that would have maybe brought song and dance man jobs economic development in that period of time the united states faltered and it's the policy like us coming in and telling them how they should conduct understand that in any case when the morsi thing there's not much more the u.s.
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could have done you know in iran the u.s. is trying to start talks with the iranian government and yet it's getting clobbered in the middle east by the saudis who don't want to do it by the israelis or don't want to do very good good friends i mean. many changed the public school system in the last few years but cutesy classes like math are still calm students with disciplinary issues may be punished but in many cases the root causes are not address these problems. and sometimes there are. screwed.
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in grabbing certain neighborhoods make you feel like you need something to protect yourself and your state is not going to take it easy because you came points above all no fighting wants i mean this is my fight is in school mike we can get out just any minor just because what i think kids have guns is for all different types of reasons i think perception is the main reason why people have what do you protect yourself. out of a lot of people in. the negative but it's something that they get respect from chapel most people have a k forty seven. we caught in the chapel i will say a gun is way easier to get than to take food now here looking for a cellar like. well like beds and full about the textbooks are way more expensive to get to some people get it from for. some time most of the time it be legal but you have to order them online and stuff like this can just walk into the store and
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buy and i don't see textbooks like that in walmart. take. the rap group you t.p. featuring juvenile produced a hit single know you clap in two thousand and four the group also included the rapper skill who continues to perform as a solo artist in addition to on the call but to me it was a. change. i made a sound about eight nine months ago when i had like a string of murders in like five murders of six murders in three days and i was right and it was too weak and out you know like somebody has got to care for i was made a side of the whole percent of the brown people starting to man was like a parade but. i actively managed to mean there was no got to be any thousand
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fifteen hundred homes in the east like i had for that it might have been murdered thirty years and i see the amount of the some papers you have to get on like passing travel like i do really feel may not be like i really figured to i might be afraid to name my style name in there but i might be afraid the name of the laws in the frame i just want to see it became like a rock it was a really nobody fandom nobody really doing that and they're like man in my up to dream or the night of like i did what happened and i'm like man no everybody came feel money there. they had a gun shop it was on the borderline of like new orleans and jefferson parish called elliot's and it would sell and sold you get can just dispose of paradise a lot of hunting going only it is normal and then in the wheezy the last you must be twenty want to buy hand but you can buy a hunting rifle at the age of eighteen assault rifle for the hundred will category so if you have look class s k s s in a case one hundred eighty nine it's no use i didn't say you eighteen to buy one and
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one hundred eighty not even just makes a hundred dollars and i hope i was in the hood and a k r sound right with thirty round clip if you let the people i thought of them got operate in the art of fifteen twenty years the cumulation of guns they give to the streets it's got to be astronomical you wonder why the murder rate era because everybody got a start right. it was i want i'm alive i just i'm going to i was tired of going for a man i love him i was i will be the body i'm a fan of both but i've got a friend on the way repay and i'm just kind of. has too much in.
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the bank must that mean the only way to get some is to. you know the count is a problem before it gets to that problem. when the more not the for these children more just growing up as well just to live and survive and just the work the system the judge the liberal justice is going to be in jail there the next five ten years is that you can see can see a guy like that almost two four six seven children all over there under the age of ten ten more years where would they be if this continue on being like this you know .
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in two thousand and six lisa and danny fiz patrie moved to new orleans to continues lisa's work with youth and the summer they started a daycare for kids who had nothing to do two weeks after summer camp a young man was shot a block and a half from here when that occurred and i'm driving home seeing that body on the other side of police tape and what's more than that seeing the kids and the neighbors it was a normal occurrence in their lives and i just said we're going to open the center now we're not going to open it two years from now and i'm going to five years from now we're not going away to the experts tell us we dotted all the i's and crossed all the t.'s at the center over the fuse patches quickly learn about the kinds of obstacles they would face lisa recalls a story about giving one of the kids
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a bike i gave him a bicycle because he'd been walking to work to the french quarter the donor had been generous with us so we decided to give him the bicycle to go to work he had had that bicycle only a few hours got a block from my house and officer pulled him over yanked off of his bike threw him down face down on the ground and accused him of stealing about so now that young man he takes my six year old to the store with him for protection because a six year old white child is protection from the p.d. . and two thousand and eleven report from the department of justice confirms the claims of many new orleans you are findings reveal the pattern of practice of unconstitutional conduct or violations of federal law in several areas these
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included violations committed by officers through their actions including the use of excessive force unconstitutional stops searches and arrests and racial profiling and ethnic profiling to report details dead indeed the limited arrest data that the department collects points to racial disparity in a rest of whites and african-americans and virtually all categories were particularly dramatic disparity of african-american you on the age of seventeen. how many turned of employed by the police they don't know me so i might seem like i'm a bad person but you like you don't know me sometimes you know they do good deeds and they help people have a. better they have seen the police horrendous people i've seen them beat people i've seen into people x. me in from i don't play basketball just break the whole basketball game get on the ground shoes hey i don't like nothing but a crown thank gone no i think all police coughing bill i really want to know some
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of them are bad but not all of them because i met some some kind generous police officers will stab me and say i fit the description. so i'm like what the scripture . what i'm playing i don't want to play it on but to close to faith i can't steer by saying all of them a bit because they will be dealing with someone new to me that with so many times they go to call you by me so i yeah yeah gangster that's why i have been a gangster is to get pulled over by the cops you know when really i'm not really against it just made me feel like that you know it made me feel like i was i was nina wanted in my own. mind that the president mortgaged.
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to. madiba. he. was the real news. because if you. for those who do get arrested the rollies the courthouse in orleans parish prison known as opie p c c interviews two brothers about being locked up you have been all be. right there your parents about would be. right the clearly the error message does doesn't when you don't. know the no beef with them. are
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a fill throughout the list of might be to get in fact as occasion. when you were black in the cell for twenty three hours i do need to get one hour of free therapy . so how do they make you feel. i don't want to cage them and hey i like their native in a sale and that'll to sell just get it how you live don't you think that is one of the most extreme examples of the city's arrest mentality is a story of kevin griffin their first run in with the first offense ten years old never done anything remotely has been i got a lot of fights as a kid you know without the children but never so this experience and kevin was a kid he was cornered by three bullies he broke a bottle to defend themself and the show it blinded one of the boys kevin was arrested and tried for attempted murder my legal came to court drunk every b. he greet the alcohol every time so i don't have
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a great defense kevin served five years in a two lou you prison and not the wheezy and it was a lot of that a lot of thinking going on you know as like me a lot and then by me being a christian it was like a lot of tall going to get out and leave next but mason is like i'm ten. i'm sitting here say oh. i'm so small i. someone circles around kevin into the place more brutal than the place he left behind a lot by guards a lot of chaos. among the four inmates there as well but a lot of the stem from the abuse from from the guards a few years out to kevin's release to lulu prison was closed for mistreatment of inmates by the department of justice what assistance from the juvenile justice project of louisiana you know there's a lot of misconceptions about what are the most effective ways to reduce juvenile crime or to improve public safety across the board well we too often see is putting
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