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tv   Documentary  RT  January 9, 2014 9:29am-10:01am EST

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oh my god. ok are you going to have to give me a second to think about this i. am not a couple. who. three. for. five well i know about seven people a good team by the guys so yeah it is like i run through my fam but that's the close of 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 impudence yeah they all died before he even time seventeen this is all most matter to you know somebody you know nobody's son row which is.
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every time sunday night banker they changed me on each saturday. to see somebody and i did in the cool way i don't know but i don't go to see the enemy just send out a young gays kind of 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 shocker but we came together. the second one it was all but we still came to get it and it there when everybody just seemed just and just split up.
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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 you mean eyes 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're with
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a bit bored. he was shit flew to la la. la my. shah 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 looked more like maybe milwaukee and a half million people and they killed fifty three people not two hundred fifty the . los. lobos. the old law.
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was odd my name is 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 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 around playing in the middle of the afternoon when the gunfire broke
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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 and. 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 to watch the children have to see this day after day. and it. and one nine hundred sixty new orleans had his largest population and as small as 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
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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 for me 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.
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the first script that the browns. 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 national 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 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 goodness or he'll go to church every day until that person is better dressed. similar.
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to. when you hold a shirt you write your worst and 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 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 rest in peace 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 that plays back in my head all the time is like what's wrong with my when 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 talent show i can just remember that the people on t.v. saying and they sounded 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
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boom boom boom the whole house shakes he shook me he 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 behind his ear a died instantly in the core and then they know that 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.
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it's. 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 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 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 want to just do the simple thing a simple blood test was right you. know or you know especially with the kids turning so you're in the teachers trying to make you feel stupid about you raise
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your hand excellent question you know know matt took a video camera to school to record a class he was not going to run if you're a student or my question was oh i'm anybody. i want. somebody 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 out of you do not continue to grow p.t.s. meet mr by the years younger. you know make you hit you with. all these courses basically like fighting for the teacher or when you know you know what it was all of this. and you know what we're looking at teacher get a girl if you're looking at you you're not missing out on years ago even to webster
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. next time i put it in this will tell you. you know you've indicated. my name wrong it will be here it is no doubt. but the message got to me you know i think. the ancient near east. could. help enough. for us to see part of. the real me and i will not only. know that a little getting the word.
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but i'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports but like you please no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point so to secure you have a car is on the docket else i. think you know no more weasel. when you say you know a direct question are you prepared for a change when you find you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to watch. some of the sixteen per cent 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. but they are territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and
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leave for. the day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. a. leg it was a. very hard to take out. once you get on a plane why has he ever had sex with her right there notice. about haleigh was. sleeping with.
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one of the bodies of the of the. have been many changes to the public school system in the last few years but cutesy classes like math are still common students were dismissed or issues may be punished but in many cases the root causes are not addressed often these problems escalate to. the law. was and sometimes their resume after school where there is greater access to weapons was. growing up in certain neighborhoods make you feel like you need something to
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protect yourself and you know this is not going to take you these days because you can punch a bully although find them on time this is a lifeline isn't school mike we can get sam just standing right in or just because i think kids have guns is for all different type of reasons i think protection is the main reason why people have what do you protect yourself. out of people who. are native. it's something that they get respect from. mostly we have. a k forty seven. there we go we call it a chapel i was going as we easy to get them to take a look now yankee forty seven like. a bad pull about the textbooks are way more expensive to get to some people get it from. some time most of the time would be a good job to order them on line and stuff like this you can't just walk into a store and buy and i don't see the textbooks like that in wal-mart.
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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 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 to care for i was made a sound hundred percent of the violence people started to man was like a parade. and i could be married to me there was i know that to be an easy thousand fifteen hundred homes and be easy like i have friends that it might have been
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murdered thirty years and i see the amount of the some players in the n.b.a. had known like facets of 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 there but i might be afraid the name was 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 and my up to 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 i was sold as my you get can just this was no paradise a lot of hunting going only it is normal and then in 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 assault rifle falls into the hung rival category so if you have look class s k s is in a cave hundred eighty nine it's no use id to say you're eighteen to buy one and one
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hundred. you just make some hundred dollars and i hope i was in the hood. sound 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 of 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 i was patagonia. man i love him i was i will view the body i'm a fan of both but i've got a furnace in the way repairs i'm just kind of. has too much of.
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these things must babineaux a way to get some of the. you know the count is a problem before it gets to that problem. when the more not the for the children more just growing up as well just to live and survive and just the work the system the judge the liberal system 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 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.
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in two thousand and six lisa and danny fitzpatrick 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
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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 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
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of excessive force unconstitutional stops searches and arrests and racial profiling and ethnic profiling the report details dead endy 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 imposed 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 seen the police raids people beat people i've seen into people x. me in from my door playing basketball break the whole basketball game you know. shoes hey oh nothing crown thanks no i think all police crooked though i would want to know some of them are bad but not not all of them because i met
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some police officers and staff it to disrupt. description and so i'm at. let me say i don't want to blame her i don't but to cut this thing i can still retype them by thinking all of them a bit because that'll be done with someone new to me the fact that so many times they go to call here by me like yeah yeah i'm a gangster that's what happened against theirs they get pulled over by the cops you know when really i'm not really a gangster is maybe still like that you know it made me feel like i was i wasn't even wanted in my own society. might be pretty for a change. you know the sort of.
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man may be. i was just a little old. because of the valuation of. 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 known to 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. all right bill throughout both of them are pretty good in fact as occasion. when you were
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black in the cell for twenty three hours i don't need to hear one hour of free for . all how did i make you feel. i don't want to cage them and they are like their native in 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 himself 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 don't have a great defense kevin served five years in it to lure you prison and not the easy
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and it was a lot of that a lot of thinking going on you know it's like why and me a lot and then by me being a christian i was like a lot of tall going to. meet next mason because like i'm ten. i'm sitting here in a sale there i'm still small. documents 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 if you use that to kevin's release to luke prison was closed now for mistreatment up in makes by the department of justice would 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
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