look. odd. my name is amir 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 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 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 happened just after seven i was called in the crossfire as a way that is able to record it was the target shooting police. 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. to tolerate as an adult children have to see this day after day. and it. and one nine hundred sixty new orleans had his largest population and his smallest 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 sorry to 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 jail in blood gunshots in the back of his head he was announced dead on arrival there are no witnesses.

the first script the prime. dead in all the son's right that culture next one that's a load of crap and over there you know cook 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 tell you i'm 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 just recently to remember the person to show that this was my friend this was my loved one the day he died the next

morning in the shop 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 when 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 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 living than you can survive without the one rest in peace or with your business will never grow because i'm the world's. first face to my whole family dressed in t.

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 wish 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 twelve years trying to. scratch records on my little kmart 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 a 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 begins we hear and what sounds like an explosion that pop pop pop but below the whole house shakes he showed me is like mom get up to shoot an engine my gosh and then i look down and there's lots of. lying on the ground there's a hole in his chest where the bullet bite in this test and behind it ear and he died instantly and the core and then and then you're left with the blood on the sidewalk the neighbors a police tape much i was killed for no reason no reason he's saying is that he done it because because masand just was standing there he was going to be a witness somebody had that much power in their life that they woke up and decided another human being would not walk the planet earth another day or room a

a. room. feel. magri is the high school life 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 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 a road of what it takes right now in this moment his struggles are similar to many teams but matt is extremely frustrating because as you keisha. all i want to do is just do this right but sometimes just want to just do that simple thing simple attached to his right you. 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 excellent question you know no matt took a video camera to school to record a class was not going to run if you raise that or my question was oh i know anybody. over to. somebody you know i can hear it when it was a. you know his dad if i knew where he. was going to be now what you want to know you do not continue to throw k.b.'s meet somebody who is younger. you know take you hit you with. all these courses basically like fighting for to teach you know when you know

nobody ever knows how is this. when you know what we're looking at t.j. got to go if you're looking at you know you're not missing out on years ago even to webster. what is in this will you. you know even dated. a girl did all. that is missing i mean. what. do you. think the ancient near east. could. tell me. for i think part of what you had a real may have made a lot of about. you know that a little. bit. dangerous

entanglements in contradictory alliances as the u.s. has been asleep hostage to its many client states how well do these fine states and alliances serve america's national geo political interests and is washington hopelessly overstretched its foreign policy commitments. from some of the sixteen percent imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is

a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. on the territorial waters because they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for a cure it. illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. you cannot preemptively restrict your freedoms because of the fear of what something or how something might be used everything that has ever been developed has been used for a bad purpose baseball bats which are fun for you know for baseball players to hit balls you know they've also been used to beat people to death i mean we just cannot restrict ourselves because something might be used in the wrong way. wealthy british style.

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choose your language. kelly we can we know if anybody else want to say still some of. us choose the it's the concerns here because i can. change the opinions that invigorated your mind. choose the stories that impact your life choose the access to your office has. been many changes to the public school system in the last few years but kids see classes like matt's still com students with disciplinary issues may be punished but

in many cases the root causes are not address often these problems escalate to violence. i am. am. and sometimes they're resumed after school where there is greater access to weapons i am. they grab a certain neighborhood make you feel like you need something to protect yourself and you know this is not going to take you these days because you came points above all no fighting want to 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 who. are negative but it's something that they get respect from

travel both you have a k forty seven. we can recall in the chapel i was still going his 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 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. no. like the. group you t.p. featuring juvenile produced a hit single no you clapping 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 to me.

church. i made a sound about eight nine months ago when he had like a string of murders in like five murders of six murders in three days and i was right and he was too weak and out you know like somebody has got to care for i was made a sign of hope to stop the violence people started to man was like a parade. and academe estimate there was i know that to be an easy thousand and fifty homes and be easy i have friends that it might have been murdered thirty years and i see the amount of the some papers that he had 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 there but i might be afraid the name laws in the frame i just want to see if they became like jack it was a really nobody fandom nobody really doing done in a like manner in my up to remember the night of like i did what happened and i'm like man no everybody can't 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 normal and then in the wheezy the last station you must be twenty want to buy hand but you can buy a hunting rifle at the age of eighteen assault rifle falls into the hundred of a category so if you have look class s k s n a k hundred eighteen out of no use i didn't say you eighteen about one and a hundred. he just makes a hundred dollars and i hope i was in the hood and a.k.l. so right with thirty round clip if you let the people instead of them going to operate in the office with fifteen twenty year 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 that one time i left i just kept going to

vernon i was tired of going for man i love him i was i will view the body massage in the book but i'm going to firms and waste repairs i'm just tired of. it too much of. these things must have been no way to get thomas to get you know the county the problem before it gets to that from. them

or not before the children growing up as a just to live and survive and just the work the system. the judge the love rather the system in jail day the next five ten years easily you can see you can see a guy like that tall those two four six seven children over there under the age of ten ten more years where would they be if this to continue on being like this you know. 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 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 going to wait to the experts tell us we dotted all the i's and crossed all the t.'s at the center over the fish 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 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 him 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 in 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 of excessive force unconstitutional stops searches and arrests and racial profiling and ethnic profiling the report details day indeed 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 you under the age of seventeen. how many turn of employ 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 but they're abused or 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 a basketball just break the whole basketball game get on the ground shoes hey i don't like nothing but a crown thanks. i think all parties coffee bill i really want to some of them are bad but not all of them because i met some some kind generous police officers stab me and say i fit that description. so i live with their scripture and they show me a. lot of play 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 doing with someone new to me that with so many times they go to call you by me so i yeah yeah gangster that's what i have been a gangster to get pulled over by

a 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 wasn't even wanted in my own. mind that the president mortgaged. to. the money he'd. eat was the real news. he. believed that if.

for those who do get arrested rowley's the courthouse in orleans parish prison known as opie p c c interviews two brothers about being locked up you have been will be. right there your parents about would be. right at the clearly the air mess does that's where you don't. know the no beef with them. all right bill throughout both of them are pretty good in fact as occasion. when you were black in the twenty three hours i do need to get one hour of free for. oh how did i make you feel. i don't want to cajun and hey i like their niggas in a sale in their bill 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 as bad 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 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 a great defense kevin served five years in a two lou you prison and not the wheezy and it was a lot of that lot of thinking going on you know is like y. and me a lot and then by me being a christian is like a lot of tall going to. meet next mason because like i'm ten and i'm sitting here saying. there i'm so. all i can run circles around kevin into the place more brutal than the place he left behind. guards

a lot of. among. as well but a lot of stem from from from the guards if you use that to kevin's release to luke prison was closed for mistreatment of makes 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 putting more money into building more prisons or you know the solution is more police officers on the street. we should blame whatever through or. we see a policy that is really i think an excuse to let washington off the hook by john that some would claim that the u.s.

has the wrong now as we look in the middle east i mean it was before the state of israel the u.s. didn't have any enemies in the middle east and now it has many. countless number of enemies in the middle east now and that's not been that's not to cast aspersions on the state of israel but i mean if you put so all of your eggs in one basket it's bound to be a blow back to you and this is what we've seen over decades well the relationship with israel is problematic in a lot of reasons not just to do with regional issues but also you know we pay them three billion dollars every year and we give them all of our you know highest tech weapons technology and so forth and yet they basically spit in our face when we try to you know broker negotiations between israel and palestine and they do things that are clearly outside the wishes of the united states like continuing to build settlements. wealthy british style.

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