tv Documentary RT January 9, 2014 3:29am-4:01am EST
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maginot you know somebody like you know nobody's on roads. every time not been like barack or do they change me on in fact. you just see somebody landed in a coal we don't need no bottom for the sea they need to send out a young gays can explore my life it's a lot of. the first that they have been because of violence it was like you know it was a shot there but we came together. the second one it was odd but we still came to get it and it there when everybody
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just seemed just in case split up. one thing we do as citizens one thing we tend to do is to humanize human beings so we talking terms of how many people were murdered in the world's what are the numbers so what do we do about that mindset what do we do to humanize murder the only way that 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 church and how they were killed without respect to where they're from what their color is what they did or did not do for
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a living whether they graduated or didn't from moscow where they deal in drugs not you don't know if you look a bit bored. shit like it was. my. show and sometimes i look at our little church and 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. odd.
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the or. ha ha our last name is a me of iraq 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
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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 police. 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 watch children have to see this day after day. and it. and one nine hundred sixty s. had his largest population and his small these 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
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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 daily and blood gunshots in the back of his head he was announced dead on arrival there are no witnesses.
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the first script the prime. dead in all the son's right the culture next one that's a load of crap and over there you know culture 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. 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
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next morning in the shop you know sir and you go to church every day until that person is better dressed. similar. to. when you hold a shirt you write you were 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 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 pains 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. best to my whole family crest and dressed in jeans.
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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
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the nightmare began we hear and what sounds like an explosion that pop pop pop but boom boom boom the whole house shakes he shouldn't 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 died instantly in the core and then and then you know left with the blood on the sidewalk the neighbor 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.
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yes. 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 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 movie his struggles are similar to many teams i'm mad it's extremely frustrating resent you cation 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 it's right it's no more you know especially when you get
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kids churning so you're in the teachers trying to make you feel stupid about you raise your hand x. and the question you know no met took a video camera to school to record a class was going to wave 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 now what you want i know you do not continue to throw p.b.s. meet us about i know younger well you know my mom you know you keep us. all in this course is basically like fighting for the teacher when you have no way
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was this. an email with we're looking at teacher got an issue you're not missing any years you know even to webster. next time i put it in this will you. you know look even dated. back to my neighbor and it will be here it is most of their new. mexico to me i think. the ancient near east. will be. part of what the real may have made a little bit about. you know a little getting the word.
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well talking about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read reports like it is no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point to say to secure you have a car it's all your job you know. you know no more weasel. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you find you should be ready for a. freedom of speech a little down to freedom to question. he survived war atrocities. to make a final decision. has changed his life and the world
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around him. by giving up. hope. and love to so many children. nikolai the american worker on ati. i don't have a political stance i do have a stance as an individual and as a member of society i do not want someone looking through my bedroom window whether it's an impartial observer of. security or not. have been many changes to the public school system in the last few years but cutesy classes like math are still common students with disciplinary issues may be punished but in many cases the root causes are not address often these problems escalate to violence. i love.
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my and sometimes they're resumed after school where there's greater access to weapons i am. it grab a certain neighborhood make you feel like you need something to protect yourself and you know this is not going to take you to the state because you came points above all no fighting moments i mean this is a lot of fighting in school like we could get out of 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 chapel both you have. a k forty seven. and we go we call it a chapel i would say a gun is way easier to get than to take food now here looking for
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a cellar like. well like beds and boil about the textbooks are way more expensive to get to some people to get it from for. some time most of the time maybe a little good 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. take. the rap group you t.p. featuring juvenile produced a hit single no you clap in two thousand and four the group also included the rap a skill who continues to perform as a solo artist in addition to on the call. 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
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right and it was too weak and out you know like somebody has got to care so i was made a side of the whole percent of the violence people started to man was like a couple ready. to be married to me there was i know that to be a 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 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 my style name in air but i might be afraid to name them lost in the fray i just want to see if they became like jack it was a really nobody fandom nobody really doing and unlike me and my of do remember that night and like i did 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 was just so and so. you get can just this was no paradise a lot of hunting going only it is normal and then in the wheezy the last station
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you must be twenty want to buy a hand 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 eighteen to buy one and how did. eighteen. you can just make some 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 want to why the bird to read because everybody got to start right. it was at one time i live i just i'm going to i was proud of going through my i love him i was i will be the body i'm assigned the book but i've got a friends in the way repairs i'm just kind of. has too much of. these
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things mustapha you know a way to get some of the. you know the count as 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 is that you can see can see
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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 can see 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
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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 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 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. .
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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 that indy the limited arrest data that the department collects points to racial disparity in a rest of whites and african-americans and virtually all categories where particularly dramatic disparity african-american youth on the age of seventeen. how many to live in poor 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 hope people. have seen the police raids people beat people i've seen
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into people x. me and from my door playing basketball a different kind of break the whole basketball game going to go on shoes they are like nothing but a crown thanks. i think all please quote. i would want to know some of them are bad but not not all just because i met some police officers s.f. at the disrupt. description and so i'm at. claims that i don't want to beg her on but the closest thing i can give you type them by saying all of them a bit because that'll be done with someone new to me they start with so many times they go to call here by me like yeah yeah i'm against the that's what happened against theirs they get pulled over by the cops you know when really i'm not really against it is maybe still like that you know it made me feel like i was i wouldn't even wanted in my own society.
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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. or a fill the out both of them are pretty good and if that education. were you it lacked in the twenty three hours i need to get one hour of free power. so how does that make you feel. i don't want to cage them and yell at their niggas in a sale in their bill to sell just to 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
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a kid he was cornered by three bullies he broke a bottle to defend himself and the show it blinded one of the boys kevin was arrested and tried for attempted murder my legal came to court drunk every be he greet the alcohol every time so i don't have a great defense kevin served five years in it to lure you prison and not the easy and it was a lot of that 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 get out and meet next mason because like i'm ten. i'm sitting here say oh. i'm so. all i can run circles around kevin into the place more brutal than the place he left behind. by guards a lot of us. among the four inmates there as well but a lot of the stem from the front from the guards if you use that to kevin's release
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to lou 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. good laboratory mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in. this is why you should care only. approximately sixteen percent of imports came from illegal fishing. the
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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. give false hope they enter our territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths. millions around the globe struggle with hunger. each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge only in the cherry said they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that. the genetically modified products are at risk to
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