tv Documentary RT January 12, 2014 12:29am-1:01am EST
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number nine which brave is japan from having any kind of army other than for defense purposes in the increasingly intertwined world we can ensure the bees of our nation brought actively taking a role in the peace and security of the world why don't we take steps forward on the shoe of constitutional amendment but not everyone is buying it and more far reaching goal could be reshaping the regional balance of power. there has been a talk among profile politicians including former prime ministers who should be public debate whether japan should have nuclear weapons its new materialized but it's something the ruling elite has been pondering for years now. and non-pacifist japan let alone a nuclear power would send shock waves across the region say experts but for now even with nationalist voices getting louder polls suggest that such ideas are still some way from becoming reality let's see russia reporting from japan. up ahead next hour banking on the wrong guy. i will meet teens which is
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a businessman who say a major international lenders swindled them out of a hotel they weren't hot to get up and run it will have that next hour here on our team to us. but nice an in-depth look at the crime crisis in new orleans and the ideas for solution that no one can agree on. i think that the fact that these weapons can fly semi autonomous lee for seven thousand miles to you know the locations where unfortunately my military and the cia are attacking people in countries with which we are not at war to me is simply horrifying and as many.
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you every day i walk out my house i will feel right you know bust six imputing a share they all died before he even turned seventeen this is all most matter to you know somebody you know nobody's son row which is. every time sunday night banker they changed me on in fact. you 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
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a shocker but we came together. the second one it was odd but we still came to get it in a day when everybody just seemed just to just split up. 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 to him and i's murder the only way
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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 a school where they deal in drugs or not you don't know if you look a bit bored. he was hit forty one. was my. shah 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 the . los.
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lobos. the old la. la la my name is 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
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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 tolerate us an adult children have to see this day after day. and it. and one nine hundred sixty s. had his largest population and his small is murder rate but in the course of fifty
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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.
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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 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 words down 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
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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 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 spending 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 say 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
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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 boom the whole house shakes he shook me he was like. 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 me behind his ear a die instantly in the core and then they 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
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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. 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 some i go. i want to be a courier so you know that's not going to be easy this will 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 staying on their road of what it takes right now at this moment the struggles are similar to
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many teens but matt is extremely frustrated with his education all i want to do is just do this right but sometimes just want to do the simple thing a simple test 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 you excellent question you know know matt took a video camera to school to record a class he was not going to run if you raise your my question oh i'm to anybody. right over to. somebody you know i didn't hear it when it was a. you know his dad if you break. a story about you know what you want out of you do not continue to throw p.t.s.
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meet somebody. else you know when you know that if you hit you with. this course is basically like fighting for the teacher no one you know nobody ever knows all of this. and you know what we're looking at teacher got an issue you're not missing any years you know even to webster. you. needed. to find a moral needle here that is not. the message item you. think the engineer eat. healthy not. part of.
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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our have been many changes to the public school system in the last few years but cutesy class. it's like matt's still com students with disciplinary issues may be punished but in many cases the root causes are not addressed often these problems escalate to five. was and sometimes they're resumed after school where there is greater access to weapons i was.
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growing up a certain neighborhoods make you feel like you need something to protect yourself and you know this is not going to take you to days because you can't punch a bully although find them on time this is a lifeline isn't school mike we can get sam just then you minor 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 the people who. are native. it's something that they get respect from a town hall mostly we have. a k forty seven. and we go we call it a chapel i was going as we easy to get them to take a look now here yeah ok forty seven right. well a bed and pull about the textbooks are way more expensive to get to some people get it from. sometimes most of the time would be good just to order them online and
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stuff like this you can just walk into the store and buy and i don't see the text books like that in wal-mart. 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. to. change. i made a sound about eight nine months ago when he had like a string of murders in like five murders and six murders in three days and i was right and he 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. and actively matters to me there was no got to be any thousand
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fifteen hundred homes in the east 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 like i do 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 it became like a rock it was a really no bystander nobody really doing that in a like manner in my up to remember the night of the like and you know what happens 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 normal and then in the wheezy 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 hundred will category so if you have look class s k s is an eighty one hundred eighty nine it's
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no use i didn't say you eighteen to buy one and one hundred. he just makes a hundred dollars and i hope i was in the hood and have a sound bite 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 by just i'm going to venice 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 friend on the way repass i'm just kind of. has too much of.
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the fight mustapha you know a way to get thomas to it 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 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 continue 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 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
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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
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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 dead 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 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. who have seen the police horrendous people and the people i've seen into people makes me and from my dog playing basketball just a break the whole basketball game going to go to shoes hey i don't like this is a crown it's. gone on i think all counties coffee bill i really want to know some
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of the more bad but not all do because i've met some some dinners police officers will stab me and say i fit the description. so i'm like what the scripture. what i'm playing i don't want to break her down but of course to faith i can't steer you typed them by saying all of them a bit because they would be doing with someone new to me that with so many times they go to call your bunny so i yeah yeah gangster that's why i have been a gangster is 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 crazy morning. to you
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can only. leave me. the. most of the real news. vigilantism 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 man or the boat would be. crazy their mess does doesn't when you don't. know the newbie if with them. all right
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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 hear one of three there. oh how did that 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 very 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 kid 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 day he greet the alcohol every time so i don't have
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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 banking going on you know it's like y. and me a lot and then by me being a christian is like a lot it's all going to get out and leave next pronation because like i'm ten. i'm sitting here saying. there i'm still 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 care. 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 look 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
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flexing its muscle all kind of choice as bad as labor swathes of iraq while washington funnels on such a state forces for what's predicted to be a bloody contact. and syrian rebels turn on each other and. merciless turf war with over five hundred white is killed in the slums clashes over just one week sparking a change of heart on long song will they have foreign backed codes. for the month before the winter olympics stultz of the main city is putting a priority on security to make sure the games remain safe and i'm just i'm. still coming i'm confident say the use of leaders has never been that he learned while coding to a new poll at least in the hard hit areas of you would think governments are scrambling local solutions to women trench on the front.
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