democracy following the law. pursued nixon in the field. getting come to the chase continued into the neighboring district of the most. part. one. of. 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 that the street games of civil unrest and home to one of america's most neglected. no no no no no no no no no no no no nothing come home home home home home home to school because i'm not an unfamiliar sight. but as a suspect abandoned his car that they were particularly plentiful less developed

poetry sponsored by the. city's chief of police charlie beck but today we're having a boy give away what. courts. are interested. initially we ran across there were people screaming parents who were grabbing kids. going to jail. going home. for so america only still in the land of opportunity running out of options to get into trouble is a recurring theme in the area of the most well expectancy in los angeles county.

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sets are made. like 3 generations. you got the old gee you got the homie you got the little home you know it's a. forest just like this is a little homey right here me. and i'm homey and then you got the old z. that's order me you know to me. so. it's like a 3 generation gang or to me as mater. right now we're in an imperial course housing projects. p.j. crips on a nice out in l.a. you know i mean is based in watts just cool going to out a name. has

that any given said anything can happen. you know it might be our laughing again right now fighting again. in the 5 minutes later and i'm going to. some people feel. that the gang of. some people you know really don't have family with a town and whatever they're over so again give them their support you know stability to make you feel like you know they got from town a and. when you join again it's like. everybody's all know that's where i come from so it's like if i hang with 2 somebody her 2 months and i know where they from we got a little bit then you know saying this will make people join again a family that you can relate to you know people as you can trust you know what i

mean but you have to earn everything and again. i get in a couple of dallas you made them all of a come back but it's very beginning dollars mail saying i'm watching your back burner until 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 and i see your buddy you know everybody so i will know you don't come away simple as that. typical day for me it's a story. you know amount to take a few traps. and go from place and. i'm sure everything is very. few. close friends of own. home. and it.

is up to. you. 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 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. away. crack cocaine is. one of the number one. you've got. close to 1st place is crystal meth. you know that's. taking

away a lot of people right. courts jordan downs nickerson gardens long gardens. the largest ones over are going to be jordan downs nickerson and imperial courts basically there's a different gang in 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 peeta role in different games that are in there different subsets of the same game they're all creature eclipse and that 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 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 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 of 2000 out of the day every day. is an average corner war on avoiding really got it together you can you know make

a living more than that. bring your own money back. joe did. not told me anything i get a good thing every day i think riza i get paid every day every day i do a good count for you barry. please 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. i don't have

a. right . to move now to. supply him making those dollars you know i'm saying. no you get him and you got to get it hormones and start 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 do your 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. so. you just feel me it's one.

we game a we represent a project live we always do it at but at the same time a still something else out there bigger than this i'm not 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 to be good at counting up to wait for the. last. waiting. what. every day man i gotta get me one and i get the good. time to stop taking my stuff. and if anybody. was payable on day one.

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moved up to the big time they mailed me more wrong. and it's. only through the surveillance photos that we got it was. 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 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 growth 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 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 any given street in watts is either a liquor store or a funeral home or in a church. you need to live my life.

that i was going to. have one of the campaigner like. you so we're going to hear you medalling you want to lie in state. stay hustlin really before felon bros i was really home 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 not say i'll be here with nobody to you i mean even by being you you'd be in 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 or a legitimate job homie and not have to worry about all that man but the good the people got to help me get a job they got ready to. throw. at me. i'm tired i'm ready to give up their so you've been accustomed to. access to good grounds for out here on the streets to get hang in

rifles you know assault rifle that bad for less than a $1000.00. here you know the audience here and it is a. little late to keep this on us now and i do not talk about the women and i had to go here work you know selfishly. to 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 get found that's all that is come to try to play some day will wear you out i see 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 a just look i guess i got to let it. clear no doubt not talk about sound outside i've loved 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 passing my brother but i deal with him every day using that other every day when i lost in a friend before you were 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 so 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. with. any . new. 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 were more shooting incident 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 and look forward 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. 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 themselves they'll search and search and then they'll 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 that with the lord on your side that you can have a different sense of self-worth and you don't have to depend. in any war and besides that you can get involved in something this on a pile in teh gritty 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 but 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 a very powerful weapon and once you have that camera on the camera doesn't lie on actions you know you don't have to walk out there because you know when to any of that stuff your camera is your power 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 when this is say police retrieve 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 with me. yeah. that's right we are letting you know. that they are just they're treating. 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. in 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 and we can in sales just in this develop could be biased. their rival gang raping creeps in the same problem they do make money in sales a narcotic in the motivation to stay within the gang is nice alive in haiti is an ongoing feud between the great 3 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 high powered rifles. and usually when you see a group like that hanging out they were going to spot. this place is what you call the mothership. of 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 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 bonnie hunt and it was a murder that took place on the bonnie hunt 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 a murder between 2 powerful gangs a few results from the one incident if he kills a bounty hunter 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 a 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.

oh why a paradise with some all around turned into a round the experimentation field for 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 who have 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 racism going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. and. the war in syria seems to be winding down with some syrians returning to their

homeland but going back to a normal life now seems like a pipe dream after almost a decade of proxy war this syrian nel dooms 2 years of proxy peace. thinking of getting a cue from the ones we got in our shells from our own why is he didn't know that he was trapped in this tiny well wired we don't need to create with him the wall. reaching out into the wall when it's pretty much anywhere near and thousands of breeding dogs are caged in inhumane conditions on the phone i mean 67 years you know they've been locked up in a cage outside you see no protection from the weather the heat you know the cold air the rain the snow the thunder nothing. they have no protection. because you. know it's true kids. across the us cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and

pet stores most of the puppies are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in stores even joined a good businesses are involved like cargill among santa there has been a shocking amount of the organizing opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding for so many most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't buy dog. the idea. that a lot. of. people don't know that if you talk about the buffet.

goal of the. book he says it's taken control of a key border town as its army pushes to put it into syria that is pro kurdish rallies against an increased military incursion across europe also took up on the week. more than a week of violent protests in ecuador with the president refusing to cancel cutbacks in fuel subsidies and environmental action extinction rebellion has been rallying in cities around the world in the u.k. alone though more than a 1000 people were arrested. while this generation seems to be saying is you've messed things up for long enough you're not really listening to.