tv Documentary RT October 12, 2019 4:30pm-5:01pm EDT
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in the hollywood dream they south-central one of the most notorious addresses on the planet. like his famous neighbor central has made his 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. 'd on the afternoon of december 12th 2012 police chase an armed robbery suspect across the city. am the driver carjacked by a mob boss following the mob and shooting at him. after a wild pursuit next in the field. i am heading from cop to the chase continued into the neighboring district i was awesome i. am here
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i am the suspects destination is the imperial court billed as temporary housing up to the 2nd world war the project and those around it survived and became synonymous with the origins of dentistry games civil unrest and home to one of america's most neglected come out os point 000000000000000000000000000000000000000 cars are not an infamous cycle. but as the suspect abandon his car that they were particularly plentiful as the color sponsored by the l a i am the city's chief of police charlie day to day where our oil giveaway where president. ford's. centricity i am i am am i happy. to.
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monisha we ran across there were people screaming a wrister is parents were grabbing kids and i am going to scare you. knowing. the story. for some american be still the land of opportunity for running out of options going to trauma is a recurring theme in the area of the west well expectancy in los angeles county missouri and find her. while. i try. to. call hollywood often looks to south central for inspiration from those that live must go from so.
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a homey at being you got the old geezers order to me you know to me. so. it's like a 3 generation tango to me was made. right now we're in an imperial course housing projects you know and so p.j. cripps on the east side. you know i mean it was based in watts just cool going to enable. us to. do that any given said anything can happen. you know it might be our laughing again right now for a game. and 5 minutes later and i'm going to. some people feel. that the gang of. some people you know really don't have family
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that they can count on and whatever so again give them that support you know stability to make you feel like you know they got their own i am. when you join me again it's like. everybody else all know that's where i come from so it's like if i hang with somebody her 2 months and i know what a from we got into a good thing 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 in a couple of donna's room i hit them all out of combat but it's nice to get in dollars mean i'm saying i'm watching your back burner and you make sure nobody around me you know nobody come over that we don't know trying to hurt nobody over here you know as i would go every day and say your buddy you know everybody's. we
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don't know you don't come on we're simple as that. term for days and it's a story. you know amount to take a few traps. take a few places. i'm sure everything is everything. you. learned a long. time . and. there's a. blue. moon. every day you never know what you'll get up to 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 we try to get it by any means necessary. this place is so if you go. in alone the way you know i'm saying. there you go. crack cocaine the deal. one of the number one drug. you got. close to 1st place is crystal meth. you know that's. taking away a lot of people right about. courts jordan downs nickerson gardens along gardens and guns out. the largest ones
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over are 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 it's a it's a really large gang a couple 1000 members i'm sure in 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. roll in and different games are in there different subsets of the same game they're all 3 street crips and there 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've 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 and you have some domestic violence but most of it's gang related and a lot of it's doper than we're going to eat. a lot of boys an average up to a dollar not of the day every day. is an average corner or one of the oil really got it together you can you know make a living more than a. regular on my back. so did. told me if i get a good thing every day take resume i get paid every day every day i do a good count for you barry. please
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in a large amount to. 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. they don't have a. right . to move up to you know. the massive power i have making those dollars you know i'm saying. you know you get
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him and you got to get it or you know i'm saying it's a lot of people we don't know mom and dad so you know he has had a screeching look for told 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 probably going to. be like here. you are here and. i'm up to no right. now. you just feel me it's one. we game and we represent this project live we always do it at but at the same thomasville something else out there bigger than this town and i never stop playing now this model that i lead as pays to dev as us want to see some beer for all of us to grow to succeed off got people that cared enough to wait for the bot.
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what about every day when i try to get everybody and i did the good. guys. who put it through. the day was playable on day one. with no let me just manufacture consent to stick it to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sit. around the real news
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surveillance photos that we got it was. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to to sell 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
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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 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
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passion income compassion and a 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 of 65 riots the 92 riots left a huge scar in this community they left a scar in this community that has caused a 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 i mean given street unwinds is either a liquor store or a funeral home or in a church. when
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you might not. know. it was going to. get me into one of the campaign or like oh. it's so good to hear you look down like you want to lie in state. you know saying stay hustlin really before felon bros i was really hold on no redemption all day and one day and i'm not going to you just like i'm not going to end it i'll believe you and now say i'll be here with nobody to you i mean even by being you you'd be in
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a failing on me you know saying i feel like you can't make it you know i'm saying there's a way you can make it all me they got programs for you to get it to how many you can get you a job on your legitimate job homie and i have to worry about all that man but the good the people got to help me get a job they got ready to. throw. me. i'm tired i'm ready to give up their so you've been accustomed to. access to good grounds in the us they're out here on the streets to get hanged and rifles you know assault rifle that bag for less than a $1000.00. here you know the heart is here and it is that. you keep this honest now not hard but the way man and i have to go here work you know selfishly. you know gave it back to you know got to play the crowd is right it might route it you know no hammer no way see it if everything's going to mean that's all that come
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to try to play some day will wear you out bessie the street to put on my door just a spade right here we call this out of not really can satisfy. it is really going to be a good look at it go to just look at us i got to put it down town by the clear field out now talk about side by side i love me for any of them my life time but the passing of my brother that's what hit me the most. was that i was a big toll on the passing of my brother but i deal with him every day listening to other every day when i last seen a friend before you and me so it had heard me but. not to the extent that i lost my brother. i mean and in a few years 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
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to where i haven't found a way to cope yet. any . there's been a 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 are a lot 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 who are constantly hurting and costly in need so we have to look beyond ourself in the
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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 man. you know. back. to. you know the beautiful. 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 themself they'll search and search and then they'll
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find again and some of the gangs they give them a sense of worth they feel them for they feel like they are someone. however well we try to is really to let them know you don't need again you have a sense of self-worth dad with the lord on your side that you can have a different sense of self-worth and you don't have to depend. anyone and besides that you can get involved in something this on a pile integrity you can be more. good news mason we started life is we will look up in a sky and starving 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 my guess what it's no yell and say well yeah this is how we do it though who knows we put it down flop people as we go do we will find out what happens if i go boy do it you feel me. the cameras are fairly
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powerful weapon and once you have that camera on the camera doesn't lie on actions you know you have to walk out there because you know when to any of that stuff your camera is your house is not going to live the l.a.p.d. murdered an unarmed teenager in the imperial courts housing projects thursday afternoon to teenager identified as james davis dislodged his weapon began to run witnesses say police retrieved his weapon and to far the fatal shot to 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 a nurse was on the same who actually lives in imperial forces she was visiting there will be able to start the pharmacy. to see what they're going. to get that they need it right. yeah. that's right. let me know what. they were just doing their training.
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c.p.r. certified may still be all the time they're going to be down here dorothy you are in charge of the police i shot somebody in broad daylight in front of everybody stood over him why he died i covered that story and then just another sad story. this block 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. than the bombing on the bloods and i mean the money is a huge it's probably $30.00 to $50000.00 a week in sales just in this development would be biased. their rival gang raping creeps in the same problem they do make money in sales
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a narcotic in the motivation to stay within the gang is a nice alive in haiti it's an ongoing feud between the great tree crips and the bonnie hunt of 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 or a murder they bring a 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. and originated here if you're going to western movies they had to bounty hunters. and during that time they used to you know watch the western movies and always talk about the bounty hunters and that's how we was created we took that same piece. start calling ourselves to bounty hunters 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 a vigil they love to honor their dead. when there's
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a murder between 2 powerful gangs a few results from the one incident if he kills a bonding honor then the bombing i'm going to get together and they need to retaliate and the more violent gang is the more respect it has the more violent gang it is the more successful they are the most violent the gang is the more the community feels that they are intimidated and they can't do anything about it and that's how they. on the streets. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race in. 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 down and talk.
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why a paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments but often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power.
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what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and should. want to. have to go right to be press for survival before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. west sydney. and you. let it run. you don't. talk i think it was.
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