15 he was caught inside the gang territory of the village voice a couple of the village boys. one outside jumped on managed to beat him down and stuck to mr ashby. and. they took the trash there and brought him back behind another house and tortured him they sodomized him they sliced him up with a machete and when they sliced him up they put at the end his chest the village voice. and then they continued to torture and then they wrapped him up in a rug burned down and dumped him in long beach there's one thing about beating a guy down or killing them but the torture of the sodomy all that stuff that's that's just what gang members do so they follow menace right around here beat them down put them in the trash can and then they will am. to this location here. where they murder and assault them sodomized them and torture i'm. not concerned

with people watching them commit crimes or being prosecuted because of that. they'll go after witnesses still intimidate them and if they have to the old will even try to kill them you can see how they are marking up their neighborhood as village voice. my personal opinion is a lot of gangs get a sympathetic ear to the general public and when the public's posed to exactly what these guys do. then everyone agrees that we don't want to in our neighborhood.

a doozy. obviously it's been challenging for you is. it hard you know to lose a family member. is very hard. he was a little bit drunk. and then the next morning me hear from him and i'll say all that's weird i'm going to be really mad at me and i hear from him i don't know what

was going on and then they come up to me that the take the and and then ok what's going on why i mean what i do and then i think you know i get my head like i haven't done anything by you and i haven't done anything that i can think of anything and then they ask me all where were you last night and the 1st thing that pops into my head what's going on what's wrong with what you know and then with you ok as he. heard what's wrong with it like the last thing i thought oh and was what was wrong with him you know in the last thing and then. towards the end they tell me ok we're going to take it and. who does it we found his body. and after i heard what was it i didn't hear anything else i thought they were lying they just like it would really make no use going on it's not true. and i know and i just don't remember after that after that i remember i was crying and crying and they've not been. i mean i still don't really believe it's going to

. be truly. true but it's like when they say it gets better. when i was if we just everyone would say all he was young he wasn't even 21 you know we're going to move out on our own we have plans but really hope and she's awesome she looks like i was just like. i thought and i think when i look at him a little bit of him but it's hard at this time because i don't know why and. i'm not trying to get. a for her leg. because i know what you think he was raised for him was it for him this was basically a leg that said they never got out of here and i want to get out and i heard one who is going to get out i told her he's in a little on through her so that's what's.

now for the basketball game a large crowd hanging around the parking lots and we were just there to disperse the crowd because when you get large crowds like that drinking nothing good ever happens from that so we were sent down there. but it gets home safely. so. i was trying to make. light.

of it some more noble some with the. good. stuff in. the street. and. there was one arrest for one individual who didn't want to go along with the program so we had to. join my little holy site. the cia doing. the cia doing. this for me not. all of us to look at this but i got a. good look at it look at it they think they. they came. because he was talking. you can say what you want to say. and all right to put the

i'm going you know as will go down around you some time sometime the good news i'm thomas mann. as black police officer it's definitely different. than again i've been in the office rather than you know a black police offer but it's definitely different it works both ways some people some citizens are more comfortable talking to me because i'm black and some people think that i should give people a lot of breaks because i'm black you know i get double time things going out at me so it is my pain a little more stressful being a black police officer down here but. i don't know i don't think i actually like it i don't want to work in the other business like you know. working in this area. or you care about the andre was on the run. he had got into

a domestic dispute with this child's mother she knew he was on the run she still called the police are. not taking anything the same thing negative about her so he fled to a house that was down the street so he gets into a standoff what i would say about. 1520 sheriff officers these are the you know the . 7 battle you. know of a good many of these you don't. know do i declare you the i want to do. that is the reason. that i. do. it that. the police are to my right i'm behind a small gang but i can see the camera lens and focus on the andre on the porch it's dark. i don't know if he hasn't gone you can't keep yet it may be.

that i don't know what's going to come out that this is the situation i know i have a lot of aggressive people that's on a saying so we're all just trying to feel fill it out a lot of that oh and talk about it you go get it we're not going to talk. about it. is this big long dialogue talking back and forth with the sheriff there saying give yourself up and say look i want to run i'm free to go do so ever in a penitentiary just grant me the chance to see my girl i'm not going to hurt her i just want to see my girl and we can all be fair peacefully they were like no give yourself a listen in the dog so he's a gang member in a league we've got a tough mentality so it's like not having met you know i'm going to die right here now how serious it is a mystery to you that. you. being

. here. with you that you. will give me any money you have it would help you get some point in your life where. you don't care anymore nobody cares about you so you don't care about anything are they given him his aggression cantars of aggression and i'd given him any sympathy like you know what just cause maybe mother knowing that his baby mother is in a cop car there was an argument and hospital so he's thinking like i'm going to lose my baby life so he's want to watch half of anxiety is right now you. know. i told you you'd never get a fraction of the people but yes it was really. that i'm just wondering. you know how do you even. if you are right here it is. too easy this year either.

happy to. be i met you both are thoughtful got to tell. me that you got it going away already so we're planning now we're just we're just listen in iraq i can feel the tension oh i feel like something's going to happen you know something's going to happen you don't know to what extent it's going to happen but you can fill in. as i'm getting calls bombs in this dialogue is going on and in the middle of a dialogue is like a day it's like. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those.

things. we dare to ask. if you. just look. at this commercial model and should ask for the astrovan he has seen and done to this day for the dutch. commission. richard.

just shoot time does from the. command not. least you. know you care so sit on the open much to mama it's just that. good. when to back up you know if you're going to let go of. so. let. it go no.

not really not immediately by me on my own you mention it maybe i'm your man for my view where it all come from. so as we wait out the tension increases it goes from stylist to the cop's time back on give up your self come on right now you're not seeing your baby mother now period you not seeing her you give up yourself right now we're standing in a dog's. we've a man with no options so is very very very tense dog. he's round up bringing the dog we're going to dog if you bring in a dog i'm a blast on it was so you. know. what. kind of a joke. but. you know did. they release the dog when they released the dog. he jumps up to protect herself

from getting bit like anybody would to shield themselves from getting bit so he gets up with a short essay and he throws if you. go. out . when this motion happens. pop pop pop pop. it was a sure. you. wanna shoot you got the commander in a bag i didn't tell anybody shoot i never gave that order. loon cohen you know. they go pick up the dog they send a metal back for the dog and all sentimental back for that the kid has shaken on the ground they still come up with their guns pointed at him like as if he's going

to get up he's not going to get up after that nobody's going to go out to get shot 88 times they reported 23 shots he was shot 88 times in his body.

right now there's a small little war. in between the bounty hunters and great history. we could be a thing as minor as a girl because somebody took somebody else's girl so. somebody gets shot in a war breaks out. you know in the past gang members would do was you know they committed drive by they would ask you where you're from and if you gave out the wrong answer . they kill you now. when a gang member commits a drive by or walk up and while someone where you're from doesn't matter what your answer is you can get killed anyway there is no correct answer and i don't know why that started or where that came from but. nowadays if. a gang member asked where you're from listening to his run because going to shot. the gangs are in the

schools and there's not a lot of police presence in the school so they basically have free reign there. and it starts off when they're young you know you get the little youngsters out there fighting in the schools. and it spills onto the streets and you know the teachers are out there trying to do the best job they can but it's just a it's a tough environment and you have the good kids that are actually trying to get an education they've got to deal with all the gang feuds that are going on. in the schools.

a lot of our students come from single family homes and a large majority of our students around 70 percent of my kids are actually coming from foster homes every kid wants to learn and i don't think that any one of our kids comes with the intention to gangbang every single day that's not part of their agenda. this is the make or door that my kids exit to get home avalon boulevard is the street that they have to cross over anything cross over walk down to get to a train station or get down to their homes across avalon boulevard and sometimes kids feel unsafe. like high schools run about $720.00 as gangs so the dangers that we face that kids come into from school so we have a safe passage program which consist of law enforcement charity public safety which in our pipes create a form that actually do security on campus and off campus and our community gang in

a bid to record former gang members that change their lives and they kind of help us with a safe passage safe passage is a 1000 feet from the school so our jurisdiction far has been the security on campus we could at least 1000 feet from the school. we work in concert with l.a.p.d. and a loss as county sheriff on a side track campus. we are security officers are allowed to carry and cuss pepper spray and firearms if we was a see somebody attacking a kid we will definitely jump out and stop that person from attacking a kid and yes we can detain him in holding the l.a.p.d. gets. we have had kids get shot you know come to school the 1st that was the 2nd year that we was here with green that the kids walk in the school and. 2 guys walked up to him and and shot him he was a former gay member that was trying to get his life together trying to you know.

get a good education but you know. you've been tagged as a gang member you know even though you try to turn your life around and try to do right ok and look at it like that. the. l.a.p.d. did a perimeter and they was actually because we. was actually able to make an arrest. right here in l.a. you never know who's going to have. a moment so some days days be. happening some days you know it's just. here. going into high school i went to morningstar high school and california. i can remember being around the age of 15 or 16 or we started becoming active gang members after high school i've experienced dayton. enemy and 97 was

about 18 and experiencing that situation and having it revealed in front of my homeboys. almost cost me my life and saying that i remember was 97 and maybe 2 weeks before my graduation one of my homeboys close to me. wanted to kill me and it was like a dark night i just remember it was kind of dark and it was one light twitching and within that light that was tick you know twitching like. i remember looking across the street and it was one of my homeboys from my neighborhood had a trench coat on and he walked up towards me and i remember him telling me i was up and i said well we're here to see me and he put out the 45 and he put it to my face and. with that within that quick 2nd i snooped the gun very smooth i seen all the bullets and the barrel. and he start talking crazy he

was on the start talking crazy talking about you know i should be smoked because i'm dana enemy and i understand i know the protocol for females you know like you don't date enemies you don't date other fools from other neighborhoods i think the guys can probably get away with it but for females no and so because i did date somebody from another neighborhood it almost cost my life. he pulled the trigger but it was like a spiritual thing that happened that i can't explain till this day i mean for me i think it was god that was my transition of changing because when he pulled the trigger the barrel moved but no bullets didn't come out and i blacked out and when i blacked out i remember fallen in his black tunnel i thought i was shot in the hit i thought i was going to hell because i was i was in this black tunnel falling and then finally i was just looking back and i'm like where am i like i did already or was going on i'm going to hell and i remember start i started to pray off father to hell mary because this is things that i kind of remember from catechism and i said

you know what i've sinned a lot but it's better to go on and pray and just hope that the lord you know forgive me for my sins and i move forward and i remember looking back as i fall in this tunnel it was the virgin mary's hands and i accepted my death and when i accepted my dad i was back and i'm still standing up the person still pull in the trigger and the bullets are not even coming out and it's clicking. and then my mom comes finally he runs and my mom just pulls up and i'm just shocked like oh my god i could have my brains landed on the floor 2 weeks before graduation. you know it's difficult to get in and out of south central los angeles and it's

it's just a violent area that the level of violence that people live with is unacceptable entirely unacceptable when i was a little girl my parents took me to vietnam when i was in saigon during the tet offensive i was not as afraid in saigon with bombs dropping every day from dusk till dawn as i was when i came back to los angeles because i was the victim in los angeles i didn't feel like i was a victim in vietnam and the level of violence i feel is just the same really even though they don't declare it to be a war zone it is a war zone. when we put the cameras in the public housing developments there was great distain in the community didn't want the cameras there there's already bars on the windows and some of the developments in the community perspective was already living in a prison when you drive by our community it looks like a prison and now you're adding video cameras and now you're watching us and think brothers are always watching this we just want to feel like we're a normal community but on the other hand the cameras have been extremely successful as it relates to long for some and

a witness intimidation we've had some murders occur inside jordan downs and caught them on video where we didn't have to ask a community member to put their life in danger and testify because we got it all on video so i think now that it's grown on the community and they realize that we're utilizing it not to suppress them but to help them it's been extremely successful. 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 vain 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 research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. thinking of getting a new phone the ones we've got in our shells no problem why is he didn't know what to do he's trapped in this tiny little wired we don't need a crate with him he will just. freaking out and she won't let us bring him in any where near and thousands of breeding dogs are caged in in human conditions on puppy for 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. to get what you . know it's ok. across the u.s.

cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and it still has most of the poppies that are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in stores even joined a group businesses are involved like ogling mom santa there has been a shocking amount of organized opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding for so many most of that out. it's coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't buy dog. and. a lot. of. them don't.

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