good to see somebody and i did in a cool way i don't know bottom for the seed a need to send out a young gays can expose my life it's a lot of. the first that they have been 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 to just split up.

one thing we do as citizens one thing we tend to do is to humanize 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 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 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 law school with a deal of drugs or not you don't know if you look at that board. am i was there it was. he was hit flightsim wa

wa. wa wa there. sha sometimes i look at our little church on 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 like maybe milwaukee and a half million people and they killed fifty three people not two hundred fifty. little over. the last ball of. the all. 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 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 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 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 violence but it's also a story about finding solutions. you tolerate as unable. to read as an adult children have to see this day after day. and it. and one nine hundred sixty s. 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 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 he was announced dead on arrival there are no witnesses. the first script that the browns. dad in all the son's right that 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 one extra room can you i'm a real live people if the people listening can 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 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 shower 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 on x. me to come up with worse 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 from a real pain is more of 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 rest in peace 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 there 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 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 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 shooting and jermaine got 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 behind his ear a died 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 will not walk the plane or another day. feel.

magri is a high school she likes documented 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 there's 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 their road of what it takes right now in this moment the struggles are similar to many teams i'm mad it's extremely frustrating visitation all i want to do is just do this right but sometimes just one just do the simple thing a simple blood test was right just kind of no more you know especially 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 know matt took a video camera to school to record a class was not always right if you're a student or my question was oh i'm anybody. else.

i'm. so much you know i can hear it when it was. you know his dad if i knew where he. was going to be you know what you want out of you do not continue to throw p.b.'s meet mr but i know you're young you know when you know that if you hit you with. all these courses basically like fighting for the teacher you know when you know you know what it was all exist. then you know what we're looking at teacher got an issue you're not missing any years you know even to webster. and actually the sentiment behind it what is metal paddle you. yelling indicated to go.

back to my hood a moment it will be here what is most. welcome letter or message item you know what i believe we did it. with the ancient near east of the world. ok i wish i could tell him. i'm not sure i've seen a part of life yet a little a real may have made a lot about me. you know a little getting the word. everybody and it's good there we do want. to. thank. you.

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a final decision. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving up. hope. and loves to so many children. nikolai the american worker on the tape. the fish leaves the friggin economic up and downs in the final month a few learn to deal sang i and the rest of life until you meet if you will be everything nothing. there's been many changes to the public school system in the last few years but

cutesy classes like matt's are still com students with disciplinary issues may be punished but in many cases the root causes are not addressed often these problems escalate to god's. eyes. i and sometimes their resume after school where there's greater access to weapons. they grab a certain neighborhood make you feel like you need something to protect yourself 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 travel both you have. a k forty seven. we caught in the chapel i was in a gun is way easier to get than a take food now here you can find a cellar like. well like beds and boil 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 buy and i don't see textbooks like that in wal-mart. take. the rap group u 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 for me. to. 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 a cancer i just made this out of the hundred percent of the violence people started to man was like a parade. going to mass to me there was i know it got to be an easy thousand fifteen hundred homes and be easy like i have friends that it might have been murdered thirty years and i see the amount of the some papers they had he had known like classics out the like i didn't really feel may not be like i really figured to i might be afraid to name my style name in air but i might be afraid to name the laws in the frame i just want to see if they became like jack it was a really nobody fandom nobody really doing and unlike me my of do remember the

night and be like what happened and i'm like man no everybody can feel like there. had a gun shop it was on the borderline of like new orleans in 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 and the last station you must be twenty want to buy hank but you can buy a hunting rifle at the age of eighteen assault rifle falls into the hung rival category so if you have look class s k s n a k. one hundred eighty nine it's no use i didn't say you eight hundred by 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 at one time i live by just i'm going to venice i was proud of going for man i love him i was i will view the body i'm a fan of both but i need to go to friends and wait repass i'm just kind of. has too much of. the famous about me 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 forty 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 easily you can see it can see a guy like that almost two four six seven children over there under the age of ten ten more years where would they be if this is going to be on being like this you know. in two thousand and six lisa and danni fees patrick 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 today 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 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 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 a rest of whites and african-americans and virtually all categories were

particularly dramatic disparity african-american you on the age of seventeen. how many turn of employed by 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 the people i've seen into people makes me and from my dog playing basketball just a break the whole basketball game you don't want to go around shoes heo nothing but a crown thanks. i think all please quote until i really want to some of them are bad but not all good because i met some some kind generous police officers say i fit the description. so i live with their scripture and so. when play i don't want to play it on but to close a fake i can't steer or type them 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 your bunny so i yeah yeah gangster that's what have been against theirs they get pulled over about 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 would need or want it in my own. mind that the president mortgaged. to. leave me. he. was the real news. because if he didn't.

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 will be. right there your man or the boat would be. right or the clearly the air mess does doesn't when you don't. know the no beef with them. are a fill throughout the list of might be to get it up 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 yell actor in a given a set up a little 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 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 aid came to court drunk every day he greet the alcohol every time so i didn't have a great defense kevin served five years in a two lou you prison and not the wheezing and it was a lot of that a lot of banking going on you know it's like wind me a lot and then by me being a christian it was like a lot it's all going to get out and leave next but mason is like i'm ten. i'm sitting here in a sale there i'm still. all arguments circles around kevin into the place more

brutal than the place he left behind 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 a few years after kevin's release to lulu 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 is putting more money into building more prisons or you know the solution is more police officers on the street. 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 be people today i mean we just cannot restrict ourselves because something might be years and over in the wrong way. millions around the globe struggle with hunger. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge they carry sub take in the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that. the genetically modified products are priest. there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese. always in

a mouse trap i don't believe that the. poor and the free. enterprise mattered more is profit now that's. for sure this is golden rice on our cheap. drugs and at least sixteen per cent of 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. they enter our territorial waters they fish they load this fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths.

he survived war atrocities. to make a final decision. has changed his life and the world around him. by giving up. hope. and love to so many children. by the american worker on the chain. dangerous entanglements in contradictory alliances as the u.s. has generously hostage to its many client states how well do the spying states and alliances serve america's national geo political interests and is washington hopelessly overstretched in its foreign policy commitments.

i'm. coming up on r t's stopping the n.s.a. california lawmakers propose a bill to curb n.s.a. snooping the bill blocked state agencies from working with the n.s.a. will other states join in this effort to stop government spying the latest on this push for privacy head. and although the u.s. war in iraq ended two years ago al qaeda has taken over the city of fallujah the u.s. is sending drones to the iraqi government but not troops at least for now what this means for the region coming up. and did you hear about the polar vortex if you've turned on the t.v. this week you've seen the mainstream media obsessing over the cold we'll take a look at how the media.