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explored my life it's a lot of. that to happen because of violence it was like you know it was a shotgun but we came together. the second one it was odd but we still came to get it and it there when everybody just seemed just they just split up. one thing we do as citizens one thing we tend to do is dehumanised human beings so
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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 to 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 there is a judge and how they were killed without respect 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 a school where they deal in drugs or not you don't know if you look at that board. i am god god. he was hit flightsim wa wa. wa my. shah sometimes i look at our little church or our little walls and say you know how much wall space do i have here after a while this will get to look celie and stuff like that i suppose when we look more
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like maybe milwaukee and a half million people and they killed fifty three people not two hundred fifty the . los. last ball of. the all. the all. odd 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 jail i began to help kids to mentor but this story isn't about me this is
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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 has a 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 crossfire as 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 father but it's also a story about finding solutions. you tolerate as unable. to tolerate as an adult children have to see this day after day. and
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it. and one nine hundred sixty s. 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 is 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 started inform you that earlier this evening police officers responded to gunshots when they arrived on the scene they found a young african-american male face dale in blood gunshots in the back of his head
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he was announced dead on arrival there are no witnesses. the first script that the browns you know. dead in all the son's right that got the 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 one extra room can you i'm a real live people have to be by listening to tom i take children.
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across the street from the shoot there's a screen printing shop or rest in peace t. shirts of 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 get my shirt and you'll get a shirt every day until that person is better dressed. similar. to. when you hold a shirt you write you were sometimes. it hurts so much that people don't have words and now it's me to come up with words on x. me to come up with words our actual what type of person was and from there the designs come from mighty many shops have opened to meet the demands for shirts
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about twenty all together with a three mile square radius there's not a soul as i basically want to do birthdays for every old planes more limited than you can survive without the one rest in peace or with your business will never grow because i'm the world's. best. family rest and stressed and. he was the quiet person he was the hard work but he worked on the riverfront and he loved spending time with his kids wish they were babies when he was killed it was one in three he had a nickname goof troop after that 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 twelve years trying to. scratch records on my little k.-mart stereo hours
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and hours and hours of david spending at his turntables mixing music and making music i think we were watching like american idol or a talent show i can just remember that the people on t.v. saying and it sounded really bad to 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 what sounds like an explosion that pop pop pop but boom boom the whole house shakes he should and he was like my get up shoot ninja mangas shot and then i look down and there is my son lying on the ground there's a hole in his chest where the bullet by in his chest behind his ear a die instantly in the core and then and then you're left with the blood on the
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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 hear that much power in your life that they woke up and decided another human being will not walk the plane or another day. feel. magri is a high school she likes documents life video cam i want to let you guys see. how hard i'm trying to get to my goal. i want to be a courier so you know that's not going to be easy this going to be tough challenges
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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 a road of what it takes right now at this moment the struggles are similar to many teams i'm mad at sixteen be frustrated visitation all i want to do is just do this right but sometimes just want to just do the assembled thing simple attached to this right just kind of know or you know specially when you get kids churning so you're in the teachers trying to make you feel stupid about you breezy an excellent question you know no met took a video camera to school to record a class it was just one man if you're a student or my question was oh i'm anybody. over to. somebody you know i didn't hear it when it was a. you know his dad if you break
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a. story about what you want out of you do not continue to throw k.b.'s meet somebody. else you know make you hit you with. all this course is basically like fighting for the teacher you know when you have nobody you know how is this. when you know when we're looking at teaching you sure you're not missing any years you know even to webster. next. time it is in this will you. you know needed a good. idea but in my neighborhood it will be here that is most of. what. i do you. think the ancient near
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east. will be the best. part of what you had a real may have made a lot of it i don't. know that a little better word. they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations as i have read the reports so unlike the players no i will leave them to state clearly to comment on your latter point someone to say to secure a car is on the docket delgado. thank you no more weasel words. when you fade a direct question are you prepared for a change when you punch be ready for
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a battle freedom of speech little down to freedom to question. do we speak your language any body will or not be. one news programs and documentaries in spanish matters to you breaking news a little turn to tip angles to these stories. are you here to. destroy all te spanish to find out more visit i too am all tito it's comb. with the plentiful supply it was a terrible mistake now i'm very hard to make out to let you get along here is a plot that you never had sex with others make their lives let
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a pleasure to have you with us here on our team today i'm rory sushi eleven. have been many changes to the public school system in the last few years but kids see classes like math are still calm students with disciplinary issues may be punished but in many cases the root causes are not address often these problems escalate to violence. and sometimes they're resumed after school where there's greater access to weapons . it grab a certain neighborhood make you feel like you need something to protect yourself
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and you know if this 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 in the 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 who. are negative but it's something that they get respect from a tab or both you have a k forty seven. week a week caught in the chapel i will say a gun is way easier to get than to take food now here you can find a cellar like. well like beds and pull about the textbooks are way more expensive to get to some people get it from parents. sometimes most of the time maybe a little bit you have to order them online and stuff like this you can just walk into the store and buy and i don't see textbooks like that in wal-mart.
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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 or six murders in three days and i was right and it was to weaken down now like somebody has got to care for i was made a sign of hope or stop the violence people started to man was like a parade. and academe estimate there was i know got to be as a thousand fifteen hundred homes and be easy like i have friends that it might have
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been murdered thirty years and i see the amount of the some papers there be it on like classics like i didn't really feel may not be like i really figured to i might be afraid to name the best known name in error but i might be afraid the name was in the frame i just want to see it became like jack it was a really nobody fandom nobody really doing in a like manner in my up to remember the night and be like what happened and i'm like man no everybody can feel like. they had a gun shop it was on the borderline of like new orleans and jefferson parish called elliot's and it would just sell and sold as many you get could just this was no paradise a lot of hunting going only it is not all of them and the wheezy on the last station you must be twenty want to buy hank but you can buy a hunting rifle at the age of eighteen. rifle falls under the hung rival category so if you have look class s.k.f. to make a one hundred eighteen out of no use i didn't say you eighteen to buy one and a hundred. he just makes a hundred dollars and i hope i was in the hood and have
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a king or some right with thirty round clip if you let the people instead of them going to operate in the office with fifteen twenty years it's the cumulation and go . to the streets it's got to be astronomical and you wonder why the bird to read because everybody got to start right. it was at one time i live i just i'm going to scream i was tired of going for man i love him i was i will view the body i'm a fan of both but i've got a friend on the way repay and i'm just kind of. it's too much of.
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the thing 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 librettist this is going to be in jail there the next five ten years he's there you can see can think i like that almost two four six seven children over there under the age of ten ten more years where would they be if this can see 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 the day care 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 a 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 fence patches quickly learn about the kinds of obstacles they would face lisa recalls a story about giving one of the kids a bike i gave him a bicycle because he'd been walking to work to the french quarter the donor had
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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 included violations committed by officers through their actions including the use
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of excessive force unconstitutional stops searches and arrests and racial profiling and ethnic profiling the report details dead and the limited arrest data that the department collects points to racial disparity in arrest of whites and african-americans and virtually all categories were particularly dramatic disparity african-american youth under 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. who have seen the police horrendous people and the people i've seen into people makes me and from my door playing basketball just break the whole basketball game you know on the ground shoes heo nothing but a crown thanks. i think all parties quotable i really want to some of them are bad but not all of them because i met some some police officers will stab me and
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say i fit that 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 about a cop's you know when really i'm not really against it is made me feel like that you know it made me feel like i was i wouldn't even want it in my own. mind that the president mortgaged. to. leave
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me. 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 up to be. right there your head at the mouth be. cruelly the error message does doesn't when you don't. know the no beef with them. all right bill throughout both of my feet to get it up as occasion. when you were black in
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the cell for twenty three hours i do need to hear one of three there. oh how did i make you feel. i don't want to cage them and hey i like their niggas in a sale in their tool 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 for 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 exploring and kevin was a key he was cornered by three bullies he broke a bottle to defend themself and the short blinded one of the boys kevin was arrested and tried for attempted murder my legal came to court drunk every day he greet the alcohol every time so i don't have a great defense kevin served five years in a two lou you prison and not the easy and it was a lot of that
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a lot of thinking going on you know is like wind me a lot and then by me being a christian is like a lot it's all going to. meet next mason because like i'm ten and i'm sitting here say oh. i'm so small. one circles around kevin into the place more brutal than the place he left behind so a lot of abuse by guards a lot of chaos among among the four inmates there as well but a lot of the stem from the abuse from from the guards if you use that to kevin's release to lulu prison was closed now 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 more money into building more prisons or you know the solution is more police
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