tv Documentary RT November 15, 2017 4:30pm-5:00pm EST
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the united states but. you know that's not for it's always wanted a better place else. putting to caribbean tradition if you must be joining. the funeral march turns into a celebration of. dances jazz and alcohol companies get to see the stunt his last journey. starts today. that little boy takes the sun. like. life. like. a man spin the constant three times in honor of the neighborhood of the deceased
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the third district. listed rate has increased by thirty percent this. new orleans is one of the most dangerous cities in the united states it's also the one considered as the most joyful. its nickname is big easy. to get into trina struck louisiana in august two thousand and five and it literally saw new orleans. winds over one hundred ninety mph floods over several feet. one thousand were killed. one hundred thousand were forced to leave. new orleans files into chaos and poverty.
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kept like. in the neighborhoods hit by the floods criminality exploded. could happen. especially on the eastern part of the city where murders happen on a daily basis not. so simple citizens like brennan gear up to defend themselves. but keep a lot of stuff handy just in case again something crazy happens active shooter. a young millionaire sidney torres fights to increase security in the tourist. is what . those little connected to my. backyard is that was happening and that you know i'm looking on the g.p.s. right now to see that the machine is. built on swamps new orleans is surrounded by
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alligators there are more alex they are everywhere. and. playing by violence not the big easy as falling into chaos. in treme to reno welcomes us inside his brothers were in the house where he grew up but his brother killed by gunfire. was always a. jew outside. to reims cuz it was also affected by violence. i'm sixty years ago i lost a son down in the wall he was seventy it would be about thirty eight now he was shot he was shot emerge it's a. it's the second murder your mum for the money for could come
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lease over the years by the least twelve members of my family close and murdered. the reason behind those murders is drug trafficking. like many others dreams brother was a drug he made a lot of by. saying i am me. and this is all and yet it's a pretty much lived his life up in the. for the most fun and though he's the clown of the usual i have a purse now talk about movies i mean music you know close as one of the things that we. know when mayhem was together. very early on the young man felt deep into criminality most criminals have weapons here.
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that has got out of. the actions that you look around you see and it went over people shooting up and out of me a lot of times from that so that's something but i still check myself for it. in the afternoon to reduce the very fancy esplanade avenue to go to st anna church . and entire war is dedicated to the victims of crimes committed in the city. no. less a lot of man. on this one more than three hundred names for this young. most of these men and women were shocked. and under thirty.
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who had this type of commemoration so the people that lost their lives said. bill terry the priest came up with the idea to write those names on the walls of his church. and we decided that naming the names of murder victims in a public display would be helpful in reminding us all that these are human beings. and this morning he will add five new names to his memorial including tarin brother . there are so many victims that he no longer has time to have the names in graves were shot september. america raised offered by us it's not just by one of the least look at the movies in america that are just. goes on. in this country so that equates to the just as. the last name that the priest and his terrains brothers. pray for
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shoppers. or workers or. military began writing those names eight years ago he will soon run out of space to write the names of the new victims. at the same moment east of the city a young man was just killed another drug related act of revenge. the police has shut down the neighborhood local t.v. stations are already there. but it is very real was hit by gunfire killed five health. a young cousin of the victim was shot in the arm also admitted to having gone well too heavily armed men fired on the young man as he was leaving his home. shell casings are all over the ground bullet holes. the
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neighborhood is in shock. the mother of the victim this devastation that. this is my son. this is about it think it's ok it's real and i. saw it as i go inside. and there was this sound of myself no love in the bullet in my birth the birth of the my in the n.h.l. my life even if you feel you go in his own and you want to move on out of the money even though these kind of a risk run every day this my brother. how. they keep it running. through. the effects. great. growth.
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the murderers could be from the same neighborhood that. is unbelievable so you can identify you know you know you're going to show you yes oh my nieces and my son them not because from aleppo. lives just across the road. he's also a drug dealer. what happened today doesn't surprise him. it was the most people of my age looked up to the interstate like he handy so you carry a gun when she was in the boat you know but what you do almost. like they said you . know. in the black neighborhoods like this for. forty percent of children that below the poverty line. unemployment is twice as high as in the rest of the city. these inequalities have created
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racial tensions. on the other side of the town in this upmarket area tarina stopped by i want to. be doing the piece of code was. just giving him grief talking to white journalists. he would. ask them. you have them out but let me know what in time to bring more of my mouth. historically oh my ok so in the way that. you have been very much i think in this. case so this is a mix like neighborhood is not just good we've got a whole censor and we don't have like you know yeah why don't neighborhoods like this are now they making this a video saying this don't bring more of their writing saying these are stories of this i have no say this person who took the black may write this of this face
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they've been asked this question they think ok ok i hate that you know people can do acid house this is you anybody's i if i was at one have not let down like a gun and apply it to bases the separation is our salvation. the best alibi we can get them to stop killing devil. by god. this woman is part of the nation of islam yes. a radical muslim organization that promotes the superiority of the black race.
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every single minute there's a new drug for some fabulous days like shaky like scent of them they make up then they get a grant from some you know corrupt congressmen in america billions of dollars and the side effect is always make may do stu's i mean do suicide me and do suicide what would you know but the american flag is inducing suicide because you look at that you say oh it's a form a caucus a. tough . kid the. mother. is not. limited.
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to those she don't consume don't tell you then doesn't do it on joyful feeling the thing i'm done mostly in that are equal in it's own citizens or what equals a stance make that connection don't consume don't be dense or don't mingle. with that devotional moodiness is only as a suit outside of the us at all to the sitting on.
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in new orleans two centuries of slavery have left painful scars within the african-american community. that accounts for two thirds of the town's population moreover that african-americans feel that they were abandoned during hurricane katrina. in two thousand and five under the pressure of the water dozens of poorly maintained levees broke. mud flooded eighty percent of the town that was under sea level. today the town still bears the scars of the disaster especially in the poor neighborhoods. aka the dancing that is here one of the most devastated areas. he believes that nothing has been done to rehabilitate this neighborhood. i'd.
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just ask tough. tough tough team after it's mean. this is only one of about twenty thousand. that twenty thousand that's like op. ed money money but. for aaron there's a bend in areas where the reason for the increased crime rate. this is a. black neighborhood a high crime neighborhood become a crime anywhere from drugs wherever you got drugs are. african-american people the flow speed with the situation of the country no job no food if you not. if you're not eating. i
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land when a situation yeah yeah you know you will go to the extreme the hungry people will to beat scream. since the hurricane criminality has increased by forty percent. on the other side of the city we encounter a different atmosphere. louisiana is a former french colony and the most touristy area really is the french. arena tourists from all around the world gathered a. lot of. access . and of course here jazz is everywhere. bars
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with dance floors and every. day for the last three this neighborhood is also plagued by violence last year one person was killed and nine were injured in a shoot out in the middle of the french quarter. and another night a man attempts to kidnap a drunk girl. the man tries to stop him. but the aggressor points into seattle. the man begs for mercy. presser shoots him in the stomach then tries to kill him. luckily his weapon jams. the shooter takes flight. the men will survive this
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incident. the aggressor you're a cain twenty one has already been charged with rape and robbery. you'll be arrested two days later. by night these types of aggressions are multiplying especially in restaurants which have become new targets for the criminals. the pathway is a fancy restaurant from six months ago the only choosing and his team were the victims of an armed robbery. as lorenzo general manager. below for the back right up front you know. how you do it it's a riot. yeah on that day the restaurant was packed like it is tonight. the security cameras have recorded the whole scene. there were three robbers. one guy came in and maybe
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a second had two seconds later two guys came in behind him the first and then the second guy came in sit very well let me go rounds the first day when i sit here to the register. right here go in the drawer then for a second put a gun to his head made it go to the ground they got this is not a job now or what else. claim carries a gun but he chose not to use it on that night avoiding a bloodbath it's the threat of being shot or killed that's the it's not a wallet it's not a cellphone it's not money it's not stealing my car it's someone gets shot and there's no what option do you carry a gun to know it's a difficult issue though because i'm not for it but in a mill you like this worse there are so many dangerous people with guns it makes sense for people those guns to protect themselves. in the united. it stinks the gun
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issue is a sensitive subject. for the responsible. in new orleans more and more people chose to arm themselves. like brennan forty years old a former police officer. he doesn't leave the house without his arsenal and i have a main gun that just goes right here my waistband. and all the medical it has in it is really very simple it just has what we call a combat dos this particular gauze has a static agent. and he in the not only saw they both have this wave opening feature which imagine my of my pocket here but this little book as i go to pull this out the pocket this little hook and just the inside of the
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pants it opens it automatically has a pull it out so i can i could defend myself from either side maybe a push against a wall and this side i'm not a big it is so i can get to this one or vice versa. like most people in new orleans brennan was traumatized by katrina. at the time he was still a police officer get to face chaos. it's as if you know right there's the mississippi river this is all part of the levee system there was a breach in a levee where one of the oil tanker barges hit it in with that there was some oil so it was really nasty out here. disaster. when you have adversity at the level that katrina was that's when those true call the start coming out. of family members to dallas to vacuum and when i was coming back into the city in dallas texas i had in a p.d.
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units passing me leaving the city. many police officers never return. now where you know we're very low on manpower dangerously low not only for citizens but for the department themselves i mean these guys are you know we look we get more and more people shoot up police is just it's never seen more that than i've ever seen before. obsessed with safety. he transformed his car into a real armory. i keep a lot of this stuff handy just in case again something crazy happens active shooter as a you know so carry permit i also keep a rifle it's actually technically a pistol but i keep something that's a little bit bigger and i keep additional ammunition as well as a body armor medical equipment the stuff that i would simply need to see an active shooter at a school or something like that and then also just keep kind of general preparedness
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stuff vehicle maintenance stuff tools things for spare flat tires a water fluids for the vehicle general maintenance stuff that you know probably everybody should have in their vehicle. after quitting the police brennan chose to open a gun shop. you can find everything from an automatic gun to an a k forty seven. but the rest is there going oh oh how far is the range of zero zero zero zero zero zero for letting us. know a little bit with the growing insecurity about brennan says this is flourishing because like especially considering that in louisiana arm sales are deregulating who knows you know if you anything all right you would say you have a gun. and you carry it with you you have it on you today and you're sure you're ok so you're feeling danger.
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in this town the number of firearms is booming. their sales doubled the last ten years. but a new orleans. man has found another solution than weapons to fight criminality. it's in the heart of the french quarter that live city tours a forty year old millionaire. he made a fortune in the garbage disposal service. i'm driving you know rap today. a good quote about eight hundred ninety thousand herb by. a million. his house had been burglarized several times so sidney decided to invest part of
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his fortune into the security of the french quarter. he created a unique and. it allows people to send real time information to the policeman of the neighborhood. you see something that says look suspicious prostitution drug dealing you see somebody getting rob you take the side and you can take a picture and send it and it goes directly here it's like having a police officer in your pocket. yeah although once again this is a crime just came in over the radio and they say they sent a picture here you see suspicious person dolphin and governor nichols and they took a picture of him see him on the corner you see him on the ground they act like they're sleeping but they're they actually rob people when you walk. his idea was born after his conflict with the mayor of new orleans. publicly accused of being in
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active in front of the rise of criminality i tried to get a meeting with the mayor and he wouldn't meet with me so i made a thirty second commercial and i started putting it all over the t.v. calling the mayor out on the crime in the cities the french quarter is under siege by criminal the problem to me it is only six blocks by thirteen. you may as well advised me to come in this room in the front the millionaire office driving the violence in the city and every sane way to do it with garbage. we should hope for the misery but it was a real provocation. and so he didn't like it and he took offense to it he made millions and millions and millions of dollars off a garbage contract in the french quarter and maybe he should just to get some of that money and do it himself if he thinks it's so easy it's just not like i decided to follow his advice and invested several hundred thousand dollars to create the french quarter task force a unit that works directly with the task force you download it and you're able to
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connect i think police do exactly this was something that was launched just days ago in tonight's businessman city tour today the young millionaire has become a star in the american media. you know who as you can see had way less gray white black and blue. this afternoon he has yet another t.v. interview. has become a reference in the fight against criminality. you know it's not just what people in jail for arresting her it's that it has to we have to have programs the mayor the city the citizens work together. if we receive so my. tension it's because it is a real success in his neighborhood criminality is down by forty five percent.
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scene years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better luck with that better and i think it's fair and hurting when i buy my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoffa million americans have been killed by files in the us and we had a thought to me as i did this this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit. the pavement and i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know that but we are not.
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