i mean, an example for millions of the press on the planet, the, the, we all came out together. we were all supposed to go home together. it didn't happen the we had all went to the movies. we get to the corner and 15th and ridgewood. and there's another car just sitting when you are cheating, we going to do your 1st miss some keys for and in the back with this. and we all feeling like

a really searching through our bodies. but nobody's really talking because we know what we're going to hear. a car's tires down here, the car, ready next to us all the way down the ski or what you rates as a g. it's you don't know what these feelings are. you know that with the power stop and we say there they go. we shoot every body, shoot. we did that every night. you know this out in the far as just constantly right next to us and this is shot after shot after shot shot. we end up crashing

the we all jumped out the car and start running toward the store. they had already called the police in the ambulance and everything the deer was asking. where is corey? where's course in for my keith. 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, the on the hear them say d, o a. so we knew he was gone. the prosecutor se kemati carter pulled the trigger on his assault rifle. the 4 defendants belong to

the game and fired on the innocent victims and the other car early that saturday morning because they thought they were members of our rival gang. they were not the why didn't have that by 24 and i got arrested the may 27th. 1997. the i was 18 years, 2 months old. the prison i was young and speak very well, wasn't really educated. some people believe that in the gang lifestyle to do some money, he was important to a particular people. they would rather be an important tyrant

than an average citizen struggle. some people are afraid to beat the, the road is easy. growing and developing isn't easy. the prison isn't easy. the me, my name's kamani carter, and i'm finally starting the live savings for gang related job. i'd 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 parent family because only now how about the going to understand that the enjoyment of life most taken away can never be replaced. and i'm sorry, my history is the life of

a lot of kids out there in our community. and my reality as a young man, when life in prison will be their future. if we don't start creating better ways of dealing with our children, the, the, who, the, all right, the blog baggage cameras failed the

yeah. yeah. yeah. i done super, chris, i think was pretty much the answer submitted through here talking almost 30 years. looks a lot better. it back ladies early, 90 motors looks a lot the

this the most ever hours up here after dark to the streets and just the crawl and we just started out like any other patrol partners or just handling regular police halls and then we'd be on a like a burger recall or vandalism call, and it was a lead here, shots being fired, you know, block away or a couple blocks away and then it'd be returned shots, somebody shooting out of the car and how many times we come across the bodies industry. people are big size land there. the i moved here in august of 1980 from the detroit area. the football coach that i had told me about it. i never heard of it before. he made it sound like having coming to the great northwest, a peaceful northwest, the that 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. the, the news tribune had a headlines comparing tacoma as being little detroit, the very young kids, it seems, were getting involved in horrendous violence. 20 to 30 years ago. the i think there's no question that the kitchen

cripps from la came up here and see did this area the just came and took over blocked corners. i lived on all my life. well, well, anywhere from orchard all way down to the top. and then yeah, these other guys was kind of scary and they will read. they had that only side so ready to move and mix in california. didn't mix them to come and watch. the comb is about 30 miles from seattle. many of the african american and other folks that have come to this region. after the 40s after world war 2, a large influx of people came. many people came through fort lewis and settled in

close proximity to the call, the because of red line, and people are van lines to certain areas. the hill top in those areas is where black people were concentrated at that time after world war 2. to comb 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 the there was so many of our children effected during the late eighty's early ninety's. if you're around the age 111213, during that time you were affected by this the so many of the kids didn't survive ever killed. if they didn't die, they're in prison for a long time.

the, you'll tell there was already a poverty stricken neighborhood. and then when you feel prostitution on that, and so, gangs on that through the crack cocaine on top of all that these kids, they are a product of the environment that they were pushed into the a painting so much don't so much dope that was just saturated in tacoma alone, which is ridiculous. i'd like to 98. it was like a lived in a world that was believe what we did, things that i never knew that i would live to see this day. oh man, the drugs, the guns, the fuel, it's kelly basically have to go up and something that a lot of people don't want to 1st reality about the

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years on the streets of you're trying to make around like a man for myself and my friends, the really hard talking about this got a lot of emotion involved in the last, a lot of good friends madison. really good friends in the blood. the sound of my family saw on zillow and i came up here while some of them on the wait to hear news about arrival game

at the mall or the mall. and there we go. there just to the game back to the fire. like we have some freedom someone we right. told the girls drawn, carnes up and down the street fast. the rooms were from the police. color slave slave has awaited random lancer words. the morning of the weather turned out different. i'll just let somebody know you can turn back time,

but i'll see just what a list a man i wouldn't even be in a situation as a good to just the last i a with all were last or the blind leading the blind out here with a no better. kimani is to be out here with us baby quickly. young gangster, young bradley, just eager to approve his wife. i was 18 when i met him. but uh he was doing the same things i was doing now and he was only 11 to 12. the, the felt like we were his family, the baby gangster. we can tell him what to do. i want to do it as way he looked at you straighten your eyes. had this and i'll figure out if you need is um, like i never seen his mom around like normally she was there but you know,

i mean he was the south side. what else it was like come on. i don't know too much about to my dad. never seen him. his mom soon. i grew up into like really bad situation. the rundown poor look here. let me know for probably that he was basically raising himself. that's where we came in, where we was picking him up, keep him out with us, showing the routes. show him how to run the stories over the phone is crystal,

who's just find out who got hers is or a pistol. and you got, you just keep it on you don't know the saying no, no among these are we. i love them. all right, the we all love each other low down for each other. so and all a lot of people make it up there was just a folder guys will let you hang around and they almost kind of treated you like a peer of theirs. if they was small to say that. busy they would hand you a cigarette and i was drinking alcohol. they will let you sit by some alcohol paid attention by they, they really kind of genuinely care and they may have been in subtle ways. like i had a you a few dollars giving you a nickname, so to speak. but you know, i think definitely young kids, the meetings we want it to be like, oh jeez, who'd been to prison?

came home. they got the respect because they went to prison. dessie, they went to prison. we want to be like all my friends is either in prison now. forever or day the uncertain douglas? oh really can't. i wasn't certain i can find it was accidental. ca of say dug it out of there. this thing is going to be back to 8880. now we were educating ourselves. there's so many kids out here running his gang members and we started keeping the notebook on them and we started getting pictures and they found out we had it and they all wanted to see. some of them come up and say might may face, isn't it? or it was, we were photographed those are all the original kids that were recruited and taught how to be gang members by daily games. they were smart, they were natural leaders,

the other kids looked up to him and listen to them. they could all do math in their head, you know, they all thought they were stupid or later because they didn't finish school, but they knew how many houses were in a pound. how many tape, all as you can get um an out how much money they should get back? how much they were owed. they were sharp, a little guys. they had to be 10 or 12. now. the 1st time that i've ever encountered law enforcement, i was young, i was a kid kind of running away from home. the house was basically living in this abandoned house with all of these other teenagers and kids . one more than i was ride my little bike cause i was cutting through the house

because the house just kind of like a shortcut. you know? so the next lot seen some police in the backyard is when the police officer who to drill down on is telling me she specified some of the rest the day and taken me home. it took me to juvenile the, i guess they kind of charge us with burglary. the. those kids kind of claimed them as my family when i didn't have no home and that's what was there for me. the every single. now what did you always met somebody? decent? i never met. none of you kids before. my goal was that, i mean, was

a possession of a crack. ok, you know, said he was making 2 or 300 all the jet or selling guns you just that's all my we will shut out economic the, we're still shut out economically. the institutional racism that we have around economic steel process. the underlying issues haven't changed. disparities with education, with employment, with health care, with transportation, with housing. oh, let's look at drugs. let's look again, let's look at best the outcome. those are not the input. the inputs are the

disparities that lead to that. in america, money speaks, money makes power. money decides who makes money off of drugs and who's communities and never say that. it is a statement we really saying to ourselves in this that money is $187.00 and how to get it and we get it from an injustice. all that other stuff is just the system is it really is. if that's all you leave for me to have, i will make it work. when they was killed in the house for white books.

you no problem. you slate a what you had left. a damn sure didn't leave no pork roast for me. no, no, no, no, be back. really. you know, i got, this is not years a day of the good to and the mom and them made the best they could because that was what if you leave them to drugs, alcohol criminal activity to make a living. they go make on the take from the church. oh yes. i was a single mother raising 2 children in the hell time. didn't have much money in the california games came up, made it so appealing to be

a game member. i could maybe put $10.00 in his pocket for an allowance where they would give him a $1000.00 in his pocket. i always think kind of when they had been younger, older he wouldn't have been swept into that lifestyle. that she was just the prime age for what they were looking for. he was 11 and even already starting to recruiting process to get really and many other young ones to so rock cocaine and powder cocaine. one time the 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 and the alley game members sitting on the hood of the car as they were a diminishing gun. and they told me it says i'm going to school today because 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. that's

when it took off and that's when it got so violent. a lot of kids running around. wow. i lost about like 30 brands at this time, but we really didn't know how many license back and how bad it would end up being just gotten worse. and then finally, one day i was at work in my husband at the time, told me you need to get home cuz there place i go into your house search warrants. and when i got home, they said your son across the line this time. and we got him from our that's when he was 17. at 18, they sensed him to a 100 years in prison. the take a fresh look around his life kaleidoscopic isn't just

a shifted reality distortion by power to division with no real opinions. fixtures designed to simplify will confuse really once a better wills, and is it just as a chosen few fractured images presented as 1st? can you see through their illusion going underground? can scott bennett, i'm a former united states army psychological warfare officer, really served in the state department counterterrorism office under investor del daily the . so i wanted to come here to russia in the dawn bass area and to gather the facts, to take back to the american people.

the hold on bass of the front lines, the square, the bombs and the bullets are raging. this is where people are dying. this is where the buildings are exploding the go. i wanted to see 1st hand the scars of war, the elementary school, the teachers call me back problem g. so i was labeled burly. i ended

up getting kicked out of school. i was 1617, and 18. those should have been my graduation high school with years, but instead i'm on the streets selling crack, gang bang. and thinking that i was going to make to see $21.00, the i would get you a to all red ride the bus to the hill, just walk around and wait for a group of blues to approach me 1st, i would try to fight it to agonize them, i'd walk in the middle and then i'd pull out that day and watch him scatter. when i go, you know,

watch was like roaches. then i got addicted to bmc or my mom was here trying to be the disciplinarian and the bread winner. but she didn't have no help. i rebelled against her, but it wasn't her fault. we were in this together, and that's why i should have known the, the my mom was my 1st love. up until the mid eighty's, when crack became the reason to be for her, it was okay, but she had an addiction and it grew monstrous. her addiction to crap. so proceeded everything, her dignity, her ability to reason her desire to be

a mother. that was one of the things i broke from me i didn't