[000:00:00;00] ah ah we all came out to get there. we were all supposed to go home together. it didn't happen a we had all went to the movies. the get to the corner of 15th and ridgewood and there's another car just sitting there when you achieve it and you go on to do your

1st mission. that's with keys in the 1st and then back with pistols. and we all feel in like a drilling, searching through our bodies, but nobody's really talking because we know what you're going to do with here. a car's tires, screech out here, the car ready next to last all the way down. it scare what you rates as a g at you don't know what these feelings are, but you know that with the car stop and we say there they go. we shoot everybody, shoot. we did that every night. you know,

that is good shots in the far is just constantly right next to us in this just shot after shot after shot, after shot, we end up crashing. we all jumped out the car and start running towards the store. they had already called the police, the ambulance and everything. ah dear, it was asking, where is cory? where's court in for like he's, he's right behind us. he's right behind us. and so he ran back down to the crash site. he was trying to get cory out the car ah, on the market some of the hear them say deal at the same. mm.

so we knew he was gone for prosecutor say commodity carter pulled the trigger on his assault rifle. the board defendants belong to what game and fired on the innocent victims and the other car early that saturday morning because they thought they were members of a rival gang, they were not ah, just sensitive have a 24 and i got a rep may 27th 1995 with i was 18 years to watch. so a kind of prison i was young. couldn't speak very well,

wasn't really educated. so some people believe that in the gang lifestyle that they were somebody, he was important to a particular group of people. they would rather be an important tyrant, then an average citizen, a to struggle. all some people are afraid of being who they are. the road is an easy ground in developing an easy prisoners and easing lineage kamani carter. and i'm currently starting to life statements for a gang related job ought to have been 9 years ago. my victim was innocent. he was also

a student who is attending college. his name is corey pittman. at this time i would like to apologize to the family because only now about begun to understand that the enjoyment of life was taken away can never be replaced. and i'm sorry, my history is the life of a lot of kids out there at our community. my reality as a young man, life in prison will be to future if we don't start creating better ways of dealing with our children. who a a

a. yeah. you're supposed to block the block. that our baggage with the cab was filled with no night. so i dont want to point the super crib, i would need this for a long time since i've been through here in almost 30 years in ever. it looks a lot better. it back ladies. really manage with a home owners deluxe logic as

ah, is this federal missouri, ours up year after dark to the streets and just be crawl and we just started out like any other patrol partners or just handle and regular police falls. and then we'd be on a like a burglary call or a vandalism call, and it was that we'd hear shots be fired, you know, block away or a couple blocks away. and then at the return shot, somebody shooting out of the car. now, mackenzie with telegraph bodies in the street, people who did sack lay in there. i moved here in august of 1980 from the detroit area. the football coach that i had. he told me about it. i'd never heard of it before. he made it sound like heaven

coming to the great northwest, the peaceful northwest was a young lawyer starting a practice. so i was doing domestic contract law real estate law by the end of the eighty's early ninety's. it was almost solely felony defense. ah, the news tribune had a headline comparing to coma as being little detroit ah, ah, ah ah,

[000:00:00;00] a very young kids it seems. were getting involved in horrendous violence. 20 to 30 years ago. i think there's no question that the kitchen cripps from les came up here and seated this area. ah, came a, took a la blocked court as i lived on all my life. bo road e, where from orchard all way down to the top. and then yeah, these other guys was kind of scary and they will rate. they had that on the side. loretta booted mixon, california didn't mix them to come washed, hulu.

ah, to comb is about 30 miles from seattle. many of the african american and other folks that have come to this region after the forty's, after world war 2, a large influx. the people came, many people came through fort lewis and settled in close proximity to the commer. mm. because of red line, people were red line, the certain area the hill top in those areas is where black people were concentrated at that time. after world war 2. to com is no different from any place else in this country in terms of how people are relegated to that bottom wrong if they are poor or if they are of color. no, it was so many of our children affected during that late eighty's early ninety's. if you are around the age,

111213 during that time you are affected by this m . o. so me the kids didn't survive ever killed. mm. if they didn't die, they're in prison for a long time. ah, the hotel barry was already a poverty stricken neighbourhood and then when you fail prostitution on that, so gangs on that, throw crack cocaine on top of all that these kids, they are a product of the vironment that they were pushed into now. ah, and so much, don't so much talk that was just saturated in coma law, which is ridiculous. like an 88. it was flooded. a lived in a world that wasn't but believe, wow,

we did things that i never knew that i would live to see this day. oh man, the drugs, guns, the fuel edge killing these kids grew up in something that a lot of people don't want to face reality about ah, oh, is your media a reflection of reality? with in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way? where are you being led to direct? what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend. ah,

so join us in the depths. will remain in the shallows. ah. what is this with the crafts and her sorcery? noah community like oh, i did. i don't then for me you move in for my that you know to find the result. superscripted them out. yeah. kids get you physically more visorio fields. if it's too long for with who. yep. angela. is it best boot in the perfect, there was a day in forth worth success. dick and i'm just a bit glad to see. so see it. minutes is so new, bandanna gushing. that coupon that this one is an equal my go to in this one and

get you all and i'm with the high miss. it's already funny. kill it with a newness 20 some years on the street up here trying to make a rep. my good man for myself and my friends a really hard talking about this school, our emotional involvement as a long, long good friend, man, summarily a. ah, but i am a blue my bounty hunter. he saw the car wash in my family, salam know,

and i came up here in a while show the law. oh wait to hear news about arrival gang at the mall or at the ball now and we'll go there just a game back toward his door with her. like we have some freedom smart. we called the girls drive cars up and down street for a way from napoleon how a slave slave who aly ran to were wishing to pollute, ran to the words,

ah, coke money. i sort of turned on different others so that you know you can't turn back time, but i'll see just what alyssa manny went and been a situation as a good do this a lot. i know that we all were lot of the blindly enough blown out here with no, no better with kimani is to be audio. would us you know, baby quickie young gangster, young brother. just eager to prove his wife. i was 18 when i met him, but he was doing the same things i was doing, you know, and he was only 11 to 12 with. he felt like we were his family. and maybe gangster,

we can tell him what to do. i want to it his way. he looked at she strang, your eyes for that is now fear, attitude you need is that my guy never seen his mom around like united us use the unami he we the south. i would have so as i come on, i don't know too much about my dad. never seen. i seen his mom and i grew up into like really bad situation. a little rundown poor look really no food for. it's basically raising itself. that's where we came in, where we was picking him up. keep him out with us. swung the routes somehow to run

the st. alova. a presto holes drizzle. i know he got hurt his pistol and you got your pistol. keep it on you. i don't know as a saying no love among bees. are we a love among the we all out each other will adopt for each other? no one. all i lot of people make it up to be oh, there was just a group of our guys will let you hang around. and i almost kind of treated you like a peer of theirs. if they was smoking cigarettes, they would hand you a cigarette. i was drinking alcohol. busy they will let you sit on some alcohol, they paid attention. i they, they really kind of genuinely care and it may have been in subtle ways, like penny you, a few dollars giving you a nickname, so to speak. but you know,

i think the for young kids build a meaningful balance. we want it to be like the all, jeez, who did the appraisal? came home. they got to respect because they went to prison. dessie and went to prison. we want to be like them all my friends is either in prison, nan forever or day. and so i dug this all relic out. i wasn't certain, i could find it. and it was actually on the off side dug it out there. missing it got to be back to 8889. we were educated ourselves, nor of so many kids out here run in his gang members. we started keeping a notebook on him and mr. and getting pictures, and they found out we had it and they all want to see someone come up and say my,

my face is an inner, it goes for a photograph. those are all the original kids that were recruited and ta to be gang members by the ela gangs. they were smart, they were natural leaders. the other kids looked up to him and listen to him. they could all do math in their head. you know, they all thought they were stupid or whatever because they didn't finish school, but they knew how many houses or an a pound, how many 8 balls he could get our men out, how much money they should get back, how much they were owed. they were sharp little guys, they had to be 10 or 12 now. when the 1st time that i've ever encountered law enforcement, i was young. i was

a kid. i'm running away from home. i was basically living in this abandoned house with all of these other teenagers and kids . one more than i was ride, my bike could i was cut into the house because the house you're kind of like a, a shortcut. you know, to the next block. i've seen some police in the backyard this one, the police officer who drew down on them, telling me don't move. she was going shoot. that's a for some other that a rest santa taken me home and sent me to juvenile homes 11. i guess they kind of charge us when burglary for those kids at home when i kind of

claim them as my family when not and, and a home. that's what was there for me. every single huh. what did you, what i'll always met somebody who did something different. oh, my never met a you kid before my life. but all of a sudden i me would say it say if i, while he's in here for possession of crack cocaine, you know, it's, and he was making 2 or 300. all that paper boy no longer. i'm on jet or selling arms. now would you rather when you, you just fuel the mom as a nation? because you all my a had a, we was shut out economically, who is still shut out economically. the institutional racism that we have around economic steel persists,

the underlying issues m j disparities with education, with employment, with health care, with transportation, with housing. oh, let's look at drugs. let's look a gang busters, look about the outcome those a night input. the inputs are the disparities that lead to that then america, money, speech, money makes policy. money decides who makes money off of drugs and who's communities are devastated. it is systemic. are we really saying to ourselves in this? got that money is more bon, any other thing on earth and how to get it and who you get it from? an injustice and all that other stuff is just the

system is a firm. henry? yes. if that's all you leave for me to l, i will make it work. when i was cooking a hose for white bulls, you know, while obviously 8 what she had left it damn sure didn't leave no pork roast for me and no, no, no, no baby back ribs. i got a snout at a dead ears, a good good kids. and mama neal made it to the best they could because that was worth it. if you leave room to drugs, alcohol criminal activity to make a live legal make a letter from the church. the church, a lawyer.

i was a single mother raising 2 children and the hilton didn't have much money. the california gaines came up, made it so appealing to be a gang member. i could maybe put $10.00 in his pocket for allowance where they would give him a $1000.00 in his pocket. i always think and if willing had been younger older he wouldn't have been swept into that lifestyle. but he was just a prime age for what they were looking for. he was 11 and they were already starting to recruiting process to get willie and many other young ones to south rock cocaine in powder cocaine. one time he told me that he wasn't going to go to school and i told him, oh you're going to school today. and he made a phone call and 10 minutes later there was 3 cars in the alley. gang members sitting on the hood of the car as they were a vanishing gun. and they told me he says, i'm going to school today. can he's coming with us. i took him,

i felt so helpless like what, how do i fight this? calling the police. they didn't care, i said it was his choice, not when it took off in mass when it got so violent. lot of kids run around. wow. i lost about like 30 brands at this time. what we will it in a know how many lice is affecting how bad it would end up being it just got worse. and then finally, one day i was at work in my husband at the time, told me you need to get home kaiser place or go into your house for search warrants . and on when i got home, they said, your son crossel honest, i'm and we got him for murder. and as well, he was 17, at 18, a sent him to 100 years in prison.

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ah aah. in elementary school, the teachers called me that problem g and saw i was labeled early. i ended up getting kicked out of school. i was 1617 and 18 though. she'll been my graduation high school years, but instead i'm on the streets selling crap gang,

bang and bacon that i was going to make to see 21. i would get dressed and all ready ride the bus to the heel just to walk around and wait for a group of blues to approach me 1st. i'll try to fight it tagged eisen. i walk in the middle and then i'd pull out that day and, and watch up scatter when i oh, you know, watch and when like roaches. then i got addicted to be in fear. my mom was here trying to be the disciplinarian and the bread winner. but she didn't have no help, i rebelled against her,