the city of into. a short drive down the hill from the hollywood dream place south central one of the most notorious addresses on the planet. like its famous neighbor south 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. 'd on their june of december called 2012 police chase an armed robbery suspect across the city. i am the driver and carjack the mob is following the law and shooting arrows to draw wild pursuit be an expert in the field with. the sounds and. i are awesome come out of the chase continued into the neighboring district the boss. i am the suspects destination is the imperial court builders temporary housing of the 2nd world war the project and those around it survived and became synonymous with the origins of that history games of civil

unrest and home to one of america's most neglecting hospital no-o. o. o o 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 abandoned his car that home they were particularly hunting for less than the hour. poetry sponsored by the talent. the city's chief of police charlie beck but today we're having a toy giveaway where presidential words. the terrorists. past. the hour on. john initially we ran across there were people screaming that there was there is spirits were grabbing kids and family is going to scare out of you.

to see him knowing the only story. for some american is still being the land of opportunity for running out of options going into trauma is a recurring theme in the area the as 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.

sets are made. like 3 generations. you got the old gee you got the homie you got the little home you know say. for instance like this is a little homey right to me. and i'm a homie. you got the old geezers order me you know to me. so. i got 3 generation to hang on to me as mater. right now we're in the

imperial course housing projects you know i'm so p.j. cripps on the east side. you know what i mean is based in watts just cool going to oun unable. to. put out any good i 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 for. the gang of. people you know really don't have family that i could count on and want to ever so again give them that support you know stability to make you feel like you know they got their own i and i.

mean you've joined again it's like. everybody else all know 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 opinion on a comeback but it's hard to get in dollars i mean i'm saying i'm watching your back . to you. i mean you know nobody come away that we don't know trying to hurt nobody over here you know as i would go every day. but you know everybody so we don't know you don't come away simple as that. typical day for me it's a story. you know amount to check a few traps. into food places and. i'm sure everything is everything.

you. learn in school and 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 a lot of people that don't have it so we try to get it by any means necessary. this place is so for you to go. in his own way of saying. i knew you could.

crack cocaine the deal. one of the number one. being 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. 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 and 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 great street which is in jordan downs you're going to have things like peta roland and different gangs that are in there different subsets of the same game they're all great street crips and they're 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 you have some domestic

violence but most of it's gang related and a lot of it's doper than we're going to go we. want to voice an average of 2000 out of the day every day. as an average corner or want to avoid a. you got to. thinking you know make a living more than a. bring your own money back. shoulder to. shoulder easy i guess i get paid every day. i get paid every day every day i wake up come friday very.

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 1st of anyone but you if you got a large amount that's when you make enough money. so. i don't have. to move up to the. supply i have making those dollars you know i'm saying. you know you get it mean you got to get it home or you know i'm sad so are people we don't know mama no daddy so no 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 fun to

be home to. me i hear. enough to know right. off if you mean it's one. we gain by we represent a project like we always do it at but at the same time as still something else out there begin to live on my own never stop playing now this model that i lead as pays today i. want to see some beer for all of us to grow as succeed off got people that care about their weight but the body. we're doing. what. every man i try to give everyone not just the good.

guys. are pretty good. day was period was day one.

the world is driven by a dream shaped by those. who dares thinks. we dear to ask. i don't trust medical authority at all ever and the reason for that is i had this horrible autoimmune disorder growing up and it turns out it was completely alleviated with very drastic dietary measures and i went to a number of doctors to discuss what happened to me and i was basically laughed at like diet has nothing to do with autoimmune disorders so my suggestion to people

who have health issues they can't figure out if they're going to see a medical professional and they've been going for 10 years and they're still in the same place they should probably take it upon themselves to start testing things out testing out diet testing out exercise and try and figure out things on their own. to. moved 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 to sell marijuana to put food on the table it's ok to sell practical food on my table and it's when i get 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 and dedication and passion income compassion and the 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 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 boys and girls club or a large community center where a child can go after school to receive tutoring in sports and afterschool program on a larger scale and every other store on a given street in watts is either a liquor store or a funeral home or in a church. might

. you know. that was very. very intense and well you know look at me they're like oh he's down below. i think . he's telling them really though that here you medalling can see if you want to lie in state hustling. stay hustlin real before felon bro was i was really horny no rather than this day and one day where i know i'm not going to you just like i'm not going to change when i did 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 programs you would 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 good the people

got to help me get a job they got right now i've been looking for 5 months bro. 5 months i'm tired i'm ready to give up so you've been. access to good groans. out here on the streets you get hanged in life or you know assault rifle that day for less than a $1000.00. to. keep this honest announcement not hard but to a man and i've had to go where you work you know so because you know. you know gave it down to you know you got to be college right my route you know no hammer no right. to going to meet you that's all that you can't do try to play the game go where you don't see the street oh i'm going to stay right here we call this out of

not really going south. it is really going to be a good look at it go they just got to let it. go to the sound of love me for any of them my lifetime but the passing of my brother. would be the most. as they never took a big toll on the passing of my brother and i deal with him every day he. read. you know the last plaintiff before you heard of a so it had heard me but. not to the extent that i lost my brother. i mean and then a few years later 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. i and. 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 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 and eat so we have to look beyond ourself in the boards 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 males . very. good you know. back. my older brother was a gang member and my young brother was a gang member so i understand what happens where gangs and often times when people are trying to find and. 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 a sense of self-worth. with the lord. 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 this on. gritty you can be more. good news mason we started like this we will look up in the sky and 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 more is something going now my guess what it's no yellow tape but. we will find out what happened. to cameras and 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 and do any of that stuff your camera

is your house is not going to lie the l.a.p.d. murdered an unarmed teenager in the imperial courts housing projects thursday 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 when they're going. to get. ready to cry with me. to get me to try to just write a letter i tried to write her just trying to try my c.p.r. certified and they still refuse all this time. i could have been down here to see

her and try to see 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. 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. 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. their rival gang raping you crips in the same problem they do make money and steals narcotics and the motivation to stay within the gang is these alive in haiti is 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 a room or 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. bloods. originated here if you're going to western movies they had to bounty hunters. and during that time they used to. you know washed the western movies in may so we talk about the bonnie hunt and that's how we was created we took that same piece. start calling ourselves the 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 his 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 bonding honor then the bonding on his get together and they need to retaliate and

the more violent a game is the more respect it has the more violent a gang is the more successful they are the more 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 run the streets. the outbreak and spread of the coronavirus has become a black swan event for the global economy is no longer whether the u.s. and other economies will slip into recession but question now is how long the recession will last it's going to get worse before it gets better. she manatee is on the edge of the precipice thanks to a continuing destruction of the natural world.

and only. the people who. left the member. of the new. dealing in the mushroom as a. name. them see that. human activity has brought us to the brink of the world's 6th major extinction of the people in this film we just can't take it anymore. to.

act. so right now we're driving through both neighborhoods and you can see time and distance from each gang. so this is jordan. this is the territory claimed by the street crips during war time bonnie hunt is now less likely to come in here because there's one way in and often one way out so once you come in and do a shooting you're trapped in their neighborhood and they can return fire so it's not the safest way to to avenge a shooting so often they'll go on the outskirts of the neighborhood hoping to get a great street kripke that's a lot of times when innocent people get shot. so in the next couple of days someone from this development.