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south-central one of the most notorious addresses on the planet. like its famous neighbor central has made its place in the imagination and. beyond the fiction the reality of this residence lives seldom touches the t.v. screens in movie theaters of the one you're. ready gonna get to know summer fall 2012 police chase an armed robbery suspect across the city. i am the driver and carjacked by motorists following a car on shooting an honest after a wild pursuit into next in the field with. the sounds of. i am getting from come to the chase continued into the neighboring district the boss. 1 am the suspects destination is the imperial court billed
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as temporary housing of the 2nd world war the project and those around it survived and became synonymous with the origins of dentistry games or civil unrest and home to one of america's most neglected os only o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o cause i'm not an unfamiliar psycho. but as a suspect the band in his car that home they were particularly hunting for less than the hour. poetry sponsored by the palace. by the city's chief of police charlie beck but today we're having a toy giveaway which president's. words. the terrorist in the. past. hour on.
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john initially when he ran across there were people screaming that there was there is parents who are grabbing kids and i am going to scare out of you. knowing the i am. for some american is still the land of opportunity for running out of options and into trouble is a recurring theme in the area the as well expectancy in los angeles county missouri and. her. arms fire. crews are trying. to. call hollywood often looks to south central for inspiration those that live must go from 0.
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you got the old jeans that's order me you know to me. so. i got 3 generation to hang on to me as mater. right now we're in an imperial course housing projects you know i'm so p.j. cripps on the east side a. lot of me is based in watts which is cool going to around unable. to. put out any given said anything can happen. you know it might be all laughing again right now for me again. in the 5 minutes later and i'm going to. some people from. the gang of. people you know really don't have family that i can count on to
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whatever so again give them that support you know stability to make them feel like you know they got from town i am. when you join again it's like. everybody else on the that's where come from so it's like if i hang with somebody hurt. and i know what a front we got a little good you know saying this will make people join again a family that you can relate to you know people that you can trust you know what i mean. but you have to earn everything and again. i get get a couple of dollars in my hip and lot of combat but it's very beginning dollars mean i'm standing watching your back burner and you make sure nobody around me you know nobody come away that we don't know trying to hurt nobody over here you know as i would go every day over here but you know everybody so we don't know you don't
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come over here simple as that. time of the day for me it's a story. you know amount to check a few traps. and a few places and. i'm sure everything is everything. so you. learn and it was a long. time . and. there's a. few. every day you never know what you'll get out so you can wake up and say you going to check in school but end up shooting somebody so every day is a different day and every day as a struggle for
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a lot of people that don't have it so weak on my hand try to get it by any means necessary. this place is so if you go. in alone the way of saying. it was i knew you could. crack cocaine the deal. one of the number one drill. you got. close to 1st place is crystal meth. you know that's. taking away a lot of peace. right about. imperial courts jordan downs nickerson gardens avalon gardens and guns ak.
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the largest ones over going to be jordan downs nickerson and imperial courts basically there's a different gang and each one of them nickerson gardens has bounty hunter bloods that's a that's a really large gang a couple 1000 members i'm sure imperial they've got some some pretty good names they've got i think funny side hill side i'm not sure where all these names come from the great street which is in jordan downs you're going to have things like peta roland and different gangs that are in there and different subsets of the same gang they're all creature eclipse and then there's a lot of conflict within the gangs and. in between the gangs most of the conflict i would say revolves around money and most of that money is made through dope sales they do have other activities but that's that's the main source of most of their income. and that's what drives a lot of the violence that's out here we have we're way down in murders historically for this area but we're still i think we're up to 40 for this year and
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i am not sure but i think this division is only 10 square miles and you had 40 murders and that's that's the lowest amount of murders we've had in decades and it's virtually all gang related there are some that aren't you have some domestic violence but most of it's gang related and a lot of it's dope or we're going to go we. want to poison our job to a dollar and out of the day every day. as an average paranoid on avoiding. thinking you know make a living more than a. bring your own money back. so we did. not chose easy i guess i get paid every day think we still get paid every day every day i wake up come friday very.
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uneasy in the large amount of. yeah i'll be a large amount of anything is money to be made you can make money off of marijuana crack christo anyone but you if you got a large amount that's when you making the money. i said. i don't have a. right . to move up the. supply i have making those dollars you know i'm saying. no you get it and you've
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got to get it or you know i'm sad so are people we don't know mom i know daddy so you know he has industries who look for top the streets and they say you got it you know be a thing and then get on from there you know looking back. you know it was fun to be home to. be i know. i'm right. off the field it's one. we game a we represent this project i would always do it at but at the same time is still some nose out there bigger than this. never stop playing no this model that i love. to do. want to see some beer for all of us to grow a succeed off of people that care and love to wait for the. what.
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we. want. every man i try to get everybody not to play good. try to stop. complaining that it. was put on day one. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit
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down and talk. you know. i'm one of them and i think you might. get one news reel buddy. paid bobo. i don't want or i can just let me as i knew she needed out with me about it yeah i am kind of the room you could be in bed and had a chicken god. you may have to move out of one of the one that young enough to pull
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in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to do so marijuana to put food on the table it's ok to sell practical food on my table and it's i got a tail it's really hard when you get into the community and you see how some people live and you see that there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids that have to eat and as a parent. i can't come up with a logical argument to say that if i were in that situation and that's the only option i had that i wouldn't do the same thing and so it's been really important to me to try and build some understanding in the police officers in the realities of the community and that doesn't mean by any. any sense that i condone it or i will let it go on especially since the other reality is that almost all the homicides that we do have are directly wrapped around narcotics and narcotics sales and so
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you might have people that will claim it's a victimless crime it's not there are people dying over it several years ago in the early sixty's this community was predominantly white and you had the steel mills and you had a lot of economic well and then the riots came out a lot of those folks and a lot of those businesses left the community one big. because of fear too because of the folks within the community destroyed it themselves and it was hard to get economic growth and development back into this community because of the fear and i feel like south los angeles has just been left and pushed to the side since the 1965 riots and that i don't believe there's been enough time in dedication and passion income compassion and fight for equality to build this community we need to get past the riots kind of a weird thing to say because that happened a long time ago it's been 20 years since the last one but the riots the 65 riots of
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92 riots left a huge scar in this community they left a scar in this community that has caused the business not to be able to come back. until we can bring business back to this community it can thrive there isn't a sit down restaurant in watts there isn't a movie theater in watts we do not have a y.m.c.a. or a boys and girls club or a large community center where a child can go after school to receive tutoring in sports and an afterschool program on a larger scale and every other store on any given street in watts is either a liquor store or a funeral home or in a church. you
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need to live my life. you know. that i was going to. have one good look at me and you're like oh you don't let. i. really believe that here you medalling see you want to lie in state hustling you know saying stay hustlin real before felon brawl with her is really all i know rather than this day and one day and i'm not going to you just like i'm not going to change it i'll believe you and now say i'll be here with nobody to tell you i'm even by being you you'll be in a failing army you know santa feel like you can't make it you know saying there's a way you can make it all me they got programs for you to get into how many you can get you a job or a legitimate job homie and at the worry about all that man but the clothes that the people got to help me get a job they got right now i've been looking for 5 months bro. i mean months 5 months
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i'm tired i'm ready to give up so you've been. saying. access to good. out here on the streets you get hangin in life or you know assault rifle that day for less than a $1000.00. here. it is to. keep this honest announcement not hard but the way men and i had to go here work you know so because you. know gave it down to you know got to be college right my route you know no hammer no right. to going to move that's all that you can't do try to play the game go where you can see the street oh just a spade right here we call this out of not really gone south. and is really going to. look at it go go they just got to. the cliff.
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on time by the sound of love me for any of them my life time but the passing of my brother that's what hit me the most. is that i was a big toll on the passing of my brothers but i deal with them every day listening to read. you know the last plaintiff before you out of a so it had heard me but. not to the extent that i lost my brother. i mean and then a few years ready later my son i lose my sister my sister geeky oh. so i still haven't recovered from all that like the saddest feel taken oh you know toll on me to where i haven't found a way to cope yet. i am. i am.
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i and. here's the end of the great number of shooting incidents which have occurred right outside. right outside between the church and a liquor store as a matter of fact a few years ago i was told by the sheriff's department there there were more shooting incidents that have occurred right outside our church than anywhere else in south l.a. . and try to be open to all different types of people because we're in an area where people are constantly hurting and costly and eat so we have to look beyond ourself in the towards helping people we have so many people that don't have a father so i can serve as our role model and that image and to give a positive light on many people who haven't seen productive african-american male
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lineal. we. will be doing all over this. matter we. only. my older brother was a gang member and my young brother was a gang member so i understand what happens where gangs and oftentimes when people are trying to find them. they'll search and search and then they'll find again. some of the gangs they give them a sense of worth they feel important they feel like they are someone. however we try to do is really to let them know you don't need a game you have
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a sense of self-worth. with the lord. that you can have a different sense of self-worth and you don't have to depend on anyone and besides that you can get involved in something that's on us. you can be more. good news mason we started like this we will look up in the sky and surveying l.a. we saw a lot of helicopters in the sky we knew something was going on so we want to track that down and. it's something going now but guess what it's no yellow tape but. we'll find out what happens if you fail me. the cameras are very powerful weapon and once you have that camera on the camera doesn't lie on action you know you don't have to walk out the test you know or do any of that stuff your camera is your hour is not going to lie the l.a.p.d. murdered an unarmed teenager in the imperial courts housing projects thursday
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afternoon the teenager identified as james davis dislodged his weapon began to run witnesses say police retrieved his weapon and fired a fatal shot into the teenager's back after james davis was shot he was handcuffed and then denied medical attention from a nurse who happen to be on site as he lay dying when i shot to the back and. this was on the same who actually lives in imperial forces she was visiting there will be able to start before the security. issues that we are going. to get to meet it. would upset me. to get me to try to describe to you our little know what i. think we're just trying to try my c.p.r. certified it may still be all the time i spend big i could be down here to be very trying to the police i shot somebody in broad daylight in front of everybody stand over him while he died i covered that story and then just another sad story.
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this body here is 115th street one of the busiest rock cocaine spots by far and ones but i would say even in the country. my experience nobody does more on cocaine than the bombing on the bloods and i mean the money is huge it's probably $30.00 to $50000.00 a beacon in sales just in this developed would be biased. to rival gang raping crips and the same problem they do make money in sales narcotics in the motivation to stay within the gang is a means alive in haiti is an ongoing feud between the great tree crips and the montana bloods we've had 4 murders in the last week and i think into the murders were 847 so when they go out on what they call a mission they were murdered
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a very high powered rifles. and usually when you see a group like that hanging out they were going to spot. just places what you call the mothership. the bloods. originated here if you're going to western movies they had to bounty hunters. and during that time they used to. you know wash the western movies and always talk about the bunny hollows and that's how we create we took that same piece. start calling. it was a murder that took place in the bond of blood he was stabbed to death outside the area you could see right here is his vigil they love to honor their dead. when there's a murder between 2 powerful gangs a few good results from the one incident if he kills a bonding honor then the bombing honors get together and they need to retaliate and the more violent gang is the more respect it has the more violent a gang it is the more successful they are the more violent the gang is the more the
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community feels that they are intimidated and they can't do anything about it and that's how they run the streets. seemed wrong. just. to me to be yet to shape out the state becomes to educate and in detroit it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. officer. told him to get up off the ground the officer began to pet him down. and then place on the sounds of kind of fighting into the grown man like wrestling
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essentially officer hurley. through his window. which threw away from the officer holding the toys out of his crib. the obvious or did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then what happened on tree swung at the officers hands didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the 2 any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again 15 feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and aimed it on tree.
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