on finally, on the u. s. west coast, much shooting in the city of monterey park. near los angeles has left 10 people dead to other police, 10 more wounded. the deadly incident happened to the ballroom. dance studio were lunar new year celebrations were being held. the body of the suspected gunman as reportedly been fall and slumped over a bomb after he'd apparently shot himself after being surrounded by police. he said to be a male of asian descent age between 30 and 50 lavish recap of the latest news on the week. that was indeed, but don't go too far as our programs are set to get going in moment. see what showing wherever you are today. right. ahead for the

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it treat even foundation, let it be an arms race, his on offenders. very dramatic development only personally and going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk it's amazing to see people share, right? because as men, we talk about being strong unami, everybody wants to be strong, man, but you know, we might be physically strong, but you know, are we emotionally weak? my son got incarcerated here. and i learned my biggest fear was and he goes back into a d had on the board about memory. one of my sales gray friends is charles policy. and he said, your son used to say he was,

she can come to prison just so he can be with you. in that moment i said, this is what you've left your child and this woman and your family to, to do. they say, you said if you're thinking you stay with, you're never too old to find that piece which are children which yourself. mm hm. this prison is me into more like always call a blank canvas and a beautiful landscape. mm. i think that there are a lot of things that we can accomplish here. if give an opportunity. mm.

ah, everybody's watch and everything they do. everywhere they go everywhere they gather . they have to really, really, really be above board to make this happen. they have to worry about being put in the whole they have to worry about being moved to another prison depending on how hard they pushed. they don't wanna be too vocal because they don't want to be signal out as a security risk because they're being vocal about something that they want to learn . they can move them at any time. they could be take, you know, just rolled up and moved to another facility at any time for any reason. it does not, and i can say or do about it. mm. i'm pretty sure they still down us all the way up to this point. but you can't argue with our results. that's the thing that you can't argue. cameras in every classroom, by soon as we got a classroom camera start coming up in because it was like, okay,

well we got to see exactly what happened. but as good. not only put a camera in here, you can come and sit in our classroom. when you learn to with maturity, you think passively tooth, once intelligence, without the guidance of another. a cat is conveying, is that no one, not even a one art or making impede enlightenment of the public eye. okay. okay. um i thought it was, i thought it was difficult read pull. i thought it was the record. i mean that's what i graph from it. you know, i'm not enough. i'm right or wrong. this is my so and it's not about right or wrong . it's about interpretation. no one can say of your interpretation is wrong. we don't have a manual, can't hear to be able to ask them. what did you mean by this? and you have english scholars literary scholars will try to explain to you what

somebody live 20300 years ago. literally meant when they don't know, what am i gathering from this? and at the end of the day, that's all that really matters is what you're gathering, right? because there's a lot of people here who are under. i see that, that when you are kind of expanding our boundaries as prisoners and somebody is lying to you. if somebody is a guy, i've always been so scared about how i've looked on the death of corey, how him being a young college kid and me being just, you know, some hoodlum from tacoma, how anybody would be able to kind of see the person that i've become or my manager has something that's always been a fear of mine. nobody would really ever give me a chance. ah,

washington state does not have pool wiped out a role in the early 19 eighties. what it replaced parole with was determinant sentences. in other words, i'm going to send you to a period of time and it cannot be reduced, doesn't matter what you do in prison. that's your sense. washington has started to figure out that system is not very jobs that doesn't work. and so they've started to bring parole back, actually brought girl back for sex offences. and the other group is juvenile is kemati, had committed the crime. 61 days earlier, 2 months passed his 18th birthday. he would have been in juvenile and he'd be eligible for parole. today, problem with punishment, the problem with setting a life without parole sentence. for somebody who was 18 years old at the time in

the crime is you don't know who he's going to be 20 years. ah, it was never really something that i was intending to have while i got curious i because there was a lot of people who are actually going home to crunch. the 1st thing i did is i've kind of started writing letters to some attorneys about what was possible and then a week, you know, he sent me a letter and told me to call. he said that doing my clinic, it will be something that he will be willing to do. today we filed a clemency petition with the washington state clemency board. its a formal request asking for a commutation of commodities sent, asking the governor to change his life sentence to essentially credit for time sir, to let him go.

the different family members that have been to prison and seen him even some went and spoke with him. different people would tell me he's changing. he's trying to be a better person, but their plan wasn't ready to accept then ah, i had thought about reaching out to him. i'm start to write them and then i throw it away. i did that probably, maybe 6 or 7 times. and then i just said, okay, forget it. ah, probably 6 months after that, kimani sent me a message. i read it. i waited a couple times over and over. i let my family members read it. my grandmother, she raised me from the time i was 6 months old and she always instilled in

as a spirit of forgiveness. and he had asked me for my forgiveness in his message that he said to me. and so i told him i said, ah, i forgave you a long time ago, i didn't, i'm not going to forget what happened at the, but i forgave you. as i understand the challenges you may have had growing up and i'm not excusing her behavior. but i forgive, you said not only am i for giving you for what you did at the forgive you to allow myself to lavon and to heal. ooh, while he was in prison, his daughter was murdered. she was 3 and a half his oh,

when she was murdered, the lady that beat my granddaughter to death. i forgiven her. she didn't have the tools to be a mother. she grew out in such a violent atmosphere and was in a gang when she was in lavin. and so when she had my grand daughter, she wasn't capable of showing love or she didn't have. she didn't know how. and so in an angry drug, addicted rage, she beat my granddaughter to death and i'll always miss and i, i and i would be 23 years old now. but i want her to have a 2nd chance, you know? because i feel like she never had a chance. i remember when i was in olympia fighting for this bill. i mean, i was a mother trying to fight for her son in time for people to get out of corral. but all these victims came in. the 2nd year and i thought we know well after the victims who you know, and i thought, you know what, maybe next time we go to fight for this bill. a be

a victim supporting the bill where they go up and say, i'm a victim and i am against this bill. i'm going to be, i'm a victim and i'm for this bill. now, we are in this dichotomous, either victim or you're a perpetrator. it's not true. victims are perpetrators, perpetrators of victims. and we have to get to a place where we understand we're all victims of this system. i've had a son who was murdered and i have a family that had different ideas about what justice meant and what they wanted to come out of that process. and i think that had, i not had the experience that i've had it with the black prisons caucus over 20 years. ringback i may or may not have had the same feeling about that, but i was able to immediately forgive. it requires that we look historically we, we contextualize what is happening so that it's not just, i did something to you or you did something to me. there's other environmental

things that are pushing our behavior, impacting our behavior to each of us has the capacity, the unfortunate capacity to do terrible things. if the wrong set of circumstances are presented, we need to get to a place in this country where people can atone for their actions and where the hand of forgiveness can be extend. the prisons are not institutions that detail. the good things that happen in prison. that every once in a while, prison official recognizes that an individual has accomplish something that deserves being talked about in commodities case. a prison official told me that commodity had done more in terms of race relations in prison. and

anybody who had ever worked at that prison, that included professional staff. ah, we submitted our petition with a great deal of hope because we felt that commodity had satisfied, somewhat vague standard of showing extraordinary circumstances, merited in a change in his sentence. i think that is more about them being able to go to the command that i've become and not the money that i was. so you know, i think that they deny me as because they haven't got past that point me a call. you will not be charged for this call. this call is from an inmate at bay correction center. its called will be recorded and monitored. if you was to block anything to the cause of this nature, dial 7. now to accept this call, press 5. now to decline this call. hey,

thank you. i got a negative colleague starting with the perversity there's actually the inherited from colonialist. if you don't see done off with us to get, it will not be forced to work on. it will not be on any kind of privilege or power . i'm not seeing here for that not you have to take that by force by august me, was it for by you so that you can in your state of the international system. and i'm only happy hunting for case of ego ah, children at st in residential school, suffered nightmarish levels of abuse, torture, and child rate. and yet the office of the attorney general suppressed thousands of pages of police and evidence that identified those perpetrators in the school. i was electrocuted twice. i was, it was 7 years or just too high for me. so somebody to put me in the chair by

the law. i used to run over here be somebody and run here and she kept solution and wip himself. some of them are my relative, didn't make it jerking themselves to death over those to but yeah, what it made me, it made me the person i am today because i'm afraid i don't give up with anything. investigations were too often handled differently because the deceased was indigenous. so many of the worst criminals got away. the bishop's got away. the ones we've done most of the damage never got charged.

oh no, no, no changes. i do not. don't a prison or worse myself in prison in ah, let a worse, marcia. ah, i don't want to lose faith. i want to tear more along. what you dorn, because you're helping the next person get out of jail and continue to stay out of jo to be about a father. saw brother, personal society ah, valuable shadow only you locked up hardware, which of my interest is in people like commodity who worked on rehabilitation and who've been told by the system, you will never get out. it does not matter what you do in prison. it will make no

difference in terms of where you die. i want to be able to say yes, it will. because i believe that somebody like community makes our community a better community. ah, this is that they're all on the same just in different stages of right so. so this one that was yes for that one's really really right. and there are several that term proposal just different varieties i was released in june. i was at work release until november 5th. during that time i worked with the school and now i am still on monetary community. gusty and i live with my family. i'm just trying to,

ah, figured out ah, tree wills and so free or is not equitable. so if you have all the resources to have 5 options open to you, and i have the resources to have to open to me, how free am i to really choose? and as long as society davies up opportunity and resources where a certain kind of person has 5 and another kind as to for nothing except for superficial characteristics that are outside of an individual's control. it will be society's fault that prisons are full of society. the state, the government institutions, all these words that we're, that are big and morphis that,

that we're trying to trying to make in this concrete thing that has power over us is us. and we are complicit in our own captivity as long as we don't know that they are us with our tuesday about is we're right. we get to the about justice. right. what is justice? i'm with what come to mind when we hear the word justice person with anything more on call room

with her. okay. was oh corruption go roma, prison for preston operation. oh mm hm. mm hm. i don't wanna fail, but you guys are being a little bit negative, right? because justice is related to all the bad either has has happened to was right. so yeah, of course we can't. we go with the negative, right? because of all of these there. i mean, go room, well being in a corner, most of us have negative experiences when it comes to just do a justice system. yeah. okay. so, so let me, let me make gonna rephrase that. when i, when i think up just is, i think i these classroom by year and, and in teach i in general would all the class is doing if, if, if door nature,

justice i some point in life there was something that was missing from ourselves. opportunity that we never had. right. so by i was going to teaching the chair is something new, something that can empower us. i think he's doing the church just. mm hm. jesse says the penalty or reward for one's actions. i penalty or reward because justice can be serving a good way or so. i just want to make sure that everything that i do understand is wrong, eventually come back on me some shape or form. and that to me is justice. the good things that i do, we've actually come back to me in a go and a bad things. i do wish to come back to me in a bad way. it's about integrity for me or so i just think that justice is always watching justice isn't. is in a thing dislike, you know, if you,

if you break the laws of the land, you'll be locked up. that's a small part of justice. but justice is even bigger than that. justice should control the things that you're doing when nobody else is watching. awesome justice has to be individualized justice has to ask, how is the community harms and how can we make it better? and what role should this individual have in making that community better? yes, that's a tough one. i'm not certain knowledge. we know what justices justice . i'm not sure if i thought ever thought about that much just to our part in the system and in the next part, how to do their part the the lawyers on both sides in the judges. but i would still feel good about the bar. i did

a this is not about a prison education program and to be very clear, it is not about the department of corrections at all. they just geographically happened to be oppressed there. they could be oppressed anywhere else in the community. ah, it's a trip because we got some class issues going on. there are many of us who do not believe that people are in prison, could have the answers to our problems. ah, we do not believe that the people sleeping under the bridge can have the answers to their reality. ah, because we have people with ph. d. 's and master's degrees, who then have been certified to do that work. and they have been doing it over and over and over and over and over again. i'm in a, in a system where we've had

a 10 year plan that is now turned into a 20 year plan. they just change a name and his gang, those brothers, no gang, of all the classes that we offer to some, we can't wait just for people in prison. aaron's children have the solutions to our problems. and what we will do it 10 years. if we don't attend to this, we'll be visiting some mom. i will put that on your babies. but it's really the truth. don't think it's natural. ah, because they got the deal. see the feel t load federal detention center, the juvenile system, everybody's in the business. ah, and then wait for the education system to fail. our babies so that they go in there . mm. that i don't want to blame deal. see, because it took a whole lot of institutions to get them there. we bail,

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