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[ police radio chatter ]
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I'm the one and only
Big Freedia the Queen Diva,
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represented right here,
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from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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* You already know *
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[ siren blares ]
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Newscaster: The death of
Big Freedia's brother Adam Ross
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marks the second
fatal shooting
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in Central City this month.
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Ross was found shot
multiple times
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on Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard
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near Magnolia in Central City.
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I love you so much.
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We know
we have guardian angels.
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My mother and my brother,
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they're looking down upon us.
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[ police radio chatter ]
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When is it gonna stop?
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When they gonna stop
hurting our own people?
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When are they gonna
wake up and realize
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they're not the givers
or the takers of life?
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5, 4, 3, 2...
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[ siren blares ]
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Chorus: * Freedom *
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Man: There's a lot
of dynamics to gun violence.
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Like, ain't nobody
just jumping up
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saying "Oh, I'm gonna
just be a killer."
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* Freedom *
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The young guys
that I see come to jail,
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they--it's getting younger,
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younger and younger.
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* Freedom *
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* Freedom *
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Ashonta Wyatt:
You shall be sick and tired,
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sick and tired
of our babies being buried.
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Young man got gunned down
in a car,
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and y'all tell me
it ain't time to pray?
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* Freedom *
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Ashonta: We have to stand
against a culture of murder,
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a culture of vengeance,
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a culture of destruction,
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so we can stop putting
beautiful Black men
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in the ground.
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* Freedom *
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* Say it with a smile,
say it with a smile *
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Freedia:
New Orleans have to change.
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It has to wake up.
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The violence must stop.
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* Freedom *
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* Oh, well, well *
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* Don't be uneasy *
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* Well *
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* Don't be uneasy *
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* Well, well *
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* Don't be uneasy *
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* Jesus gon' make up
the dying bed *
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* He's a dying bed maker *
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* Well, well *
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* He's a dying bed maker *
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* Jesus gonna make up
the dying bed *
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We want to remember Adam
on tonight.
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Let us bow our heads
on a word of prayer.
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Dear Heavenly Father,
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tonight we ask You to bless us
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and keep Your loving arms
of protection around us.
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Ask You to fill these streets
with happiness and love, God.
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Heavenly Father, ask You
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to watch over
the city of New Orleans
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and stop the violence, God.
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So many family members
lose loved ones,
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and tonight
we're remembering ours.
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We ask you to have mercy
on this family, God.
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Continue to be our strength.
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Continue...
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to give me strength.
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Man: Take your time.
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...to be there for my family
when they need me the most.
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We're a strong little family,
and we will not give up.
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We are motivated,
and we are inspired by this.
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We thank You right now
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in the name of the Father,
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in the name of the Son,
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in the name of the Holy Ghost.
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Let all God's children
say "Amen."
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Amen.
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We love You as well.
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The death of Big Freedia's
brother Adam Ross
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marks the second fatal shooting
in Central City this month.
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Freedia: Knowing the type
of life that Adam lived
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and the people
that he ran with,
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I never not expected it.
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I was actually laying
right there on the sofa,
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and I got a phone call.
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Adam been shot uptown
on Martin Luther King.
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And I couldn't
pull myself together
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to even get in the car
at the time, you know,
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for probably about 5,
10 minutes.
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I pulled up...
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I pulled up, and I knew
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that it was more
than him being shot
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when I saw the yellow tape.
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And my sister Crystal
was already there
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'cause she stay
closer than I do.
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She was like, "He's dead."
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The keys was still
in the ignition.
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The car was still running.
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He was just gonna be there
for a few minutes.
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[ police radio chatter ]
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I don't know if he stopped
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and, like, wanted
to talk to somebody.
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Did he get into it
with somebody?
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My baby brother was gone,
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and it just was so unreal.
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When my mom died,
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she told me to look after
my brother and my sister.
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I just lost my baby brother,
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and I was feeling
all type of emotions.
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I was sad. I was angry.
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I wanted to hurt somebody.
I wanted to know who did it.
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I did have a few people
who reached out to me
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and wanted to retaliate.
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It was just like
"Say the word."
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I was just like "Thank you,
but no, thank you."
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That's not the route
that I'm taking.
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I don't want to have that
on my conscience.
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No one deserves
to get their lives taken,
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no matter what lifestyle
they lived,
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no matter what they do.
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They are not the givers
and the takers of life.
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There's only the Man up above.
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I want justice,
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but I want it done
the legal and the right way.
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Newscaster: The police say
one man is responsible
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for a crime spree
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across New Orleans
yesterday evening,
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shooting at people
and stealing cars.
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25-year-old Charles Williams
was arrested last night.
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Police also believe
he's responsible
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for the death
of 38-year-old Ricky Goins.
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Freedia: There's a story
of gun violence in America
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that people are not
talking about,
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but we're living in it.
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In my 36 years,
I can tell you
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I've done hundreds
and hundreds of these things,
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and every time
I open my mouth,
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I plead with my people
to look at each other
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and love each other
with the same vengeance
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that we choose to pick up guns
and slaughter each other.
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This is cultural genocide.
We're killing everything
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that's beautiful
about our people.
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A lot of people don't talk
about things that they see
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because they fear retaliation,
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but my only reply to them
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is "Fear isn't keeping us
safe anyway," you know,
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so I could be afraid
and not say anything,
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and the people around me
are still dying.
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Death and destruction
belong to all of us.
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This is a manmade problem.
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Or I can stand up
and let my life mean something
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and let my voice
mean something.
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If we take a stand
against gun violence
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as a collective,
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we can put this to rest.
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This has to be a city where
children can go to the park
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and not worry
about gun violence,
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just shots ringing out
and they're ducking and hiding.
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This has to be a city
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where I can lay down
in a bed at night
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and stop worrying about bullets
coming through my window.
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We do not live
in third world countries.
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We do not live in war zones.
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But we're living in war zones.
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And we're killing for sport.
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I'm waiting on y'all
to raise the white flag
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so we can stop putting
beautiful Black men
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in the ground.
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I've seen people murdered.
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I've known people
who were murdered.
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I've known people
who have murdered people.
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I'm also
an assistant principal
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at one of the middle schools
in the city.
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You know, my kids carry guns,
and they're in middle school.
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[ bell rings ]
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As much as I know
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it's not the right thing to do,
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in some circumstances,
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that's all they know.
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That is their protection.
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They think if they have it,
they're safe,
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but they don't know having it
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brings a whole bunch
of circumstances
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that I don't think
they're ready to face.
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How has gun violence,
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how does it affect you?
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Boy: Too many people died
that's young.
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Ashonta: Mm-hmm.
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We got people shooting babies
for nothing.
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I remember
when me and my friend
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were sitting on the porch
and a car just pulled up
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and they just started
shooting at us.
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And, like, once you--
you think you're about to die,
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it all click.
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Why can't we have fun
where we live?
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Why are we, like,
living with shootings
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and violence
and police chases?
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And, like,
y'all are literally...
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stuck in Grand Theft Auto.
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It's N--It's New Orleans.
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- It's New Orleans.
- Yeah.
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Mm-kay.
What about you, Lionel?
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Mm-hmm.
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Has violence personally
affected you
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in any sort of way?
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Like what?
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- Your mama was shot?
- Yeah.
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- Is your mom living now?
- Mm-mm.
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How old were you?
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7.
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- Yes, Mr. Walker?
- Yeah.
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Police radio:
1415 St. Anthony.
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Supposed to be a Black male.
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Gunshot wound to the chest
in a burgundy car.
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- What is our perp information?
- No perp information.
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After that...
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If you...
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born me into a world
where I don't have a daddy,
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you know, because
the same community
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that's raising me killed him.
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So I already have a attitude
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about the environment
in which I live.
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I have a chip on my shoulder
that nobody understands
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because they don't think
that,
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because he died
when I was a child,
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I'm not traumatized.
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That's trauma,
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and it's unaddressed trauma,
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so the fact that his father
was murdered
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in the same community
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that his mother is now
raising him in,
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he can be walking
amongst his father's killer.
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Do you know
what that does to a person?
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- You are so young--
- Yeah.
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...to be carrying a gun,
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- to be having charges.
- Mm-hmm.
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You know, to be even
in those situations.
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You--Y'all are still
in middle school.
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I was thinking
about carrying a gun
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when my daddy died,
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but I didn't,
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but when somebody
try to shoot him,
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they I just felt
that I needed protection
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'cause you can't always
run from a bullet.
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I just think
New Orleans will never change.
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We're in one of the most
dangerous cities,
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other than Charlotte.
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Growing up on Josephine,
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you know,
right in the 3rd Ward,
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I saw it all.
261
00:13:17,997 --> 00:13:20,300
My cousin was killed
over a 10-speed bike.
262
00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:24,037
So I saw all of this
growing up as a kid as well.
263
00:13:24,070 --> 00:13:26,039
If I come from seeing
all the same things
264
00:13:26,072 --> 00:13:27,407
that y'all see now
265
00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,010
and doing something different
and making a change,
266
00:13:30,043 --> 00:13:31,444
You can do it as well.
267
00:13:31,478 --> 00:13:33,146
It's really sad.
268
00:13:33,179 --> 00:13:34,447
Things have not got better.
269
00:13:34,481 --> 00:13:36,883
Things have gotten much worse.
270
00:13:36,916 --> 00:13:39,085
It was like they were
numb to the situation
271
00:13:39,119 --> 00:13:40,653
and they was expecting it.
272
00:13:40,687 --> 00:13:43,223
I probably saw that
a little bit more
273
00:13:43,256 --> 00:13:44,657
in my high school days,
274
00:13:44,691 --> 00:13:46,059
but these kids are seeing it
275
00:13:46,092 --> 00:13:48,361
in elementary
and in middle school.
276
00:13:49,462 --> 00:13:52,198
[ Erica Falls singing
"3rd Ward Bounce" ]
277
00:13:52,232 --> 00:13:54,267
Freedia:
* Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh *
278
00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:56,936
I grew up uptown
on Josephine Street,
279
00:13:56,970 --> 00:13:59,172
where we saw a lot.
We heard a lot.
280
00:13:59,205 --> 00:14:01,207
* Ain't no place
like New Orleans *
281
00:14:01,241 --> 00:14:03,410
* It goes up
when we go down *
282
00:14:03,443 --> 00:14:05,011
It was a struggle growing up
283
00:14:05,045 --> 00:14:06,946
in the neighborhood
that I rolled up in.
284
00:14:06,980 --> 00:14:09,215
We saw poverty.
We saw drugs.
285
00:14:09,249 --> 00:14:11,217
We saw killings.
286
00:14:11,251 --> 00:14:13,420
We also had some fun times.
287
00:14:13,453 --> 00:14:15,655
* Uptown, 3rd Ward,
Josephine *
288
00:14:15,689 --> 00:14:18,091
* Then we head on down
to the Melpomene *
289
00:14:18,124 --> 00:14:20,060
* Then we dip on
through that Calliope *
290
00:14:20,093 --> 00:14:21,261
My old spot.
291
00:14:21,294 --> 00:14:23,096
* For that wild man gnome *
292
00:14:25,999 --> 00:14:27,701
Hello!
293
00:14:27,734 --> 00:14:30,103
- Hey. How's it going?
- Pretty good.
294
00:14:30,136 --> 00:14:33,139
This is my old house.
I grew up in this house.
295
00:14:33,173 --> 00:14:36,242
Want to come,
just take a look in here.
296
00:14:36,276 --> 00:14:37,711
Do a little reminiscing.
297
00:14:37,744 --> 00:14:38,978
Probably looks
a little different.
298
00:14:39,012 --> 00:14:40,146
It looks a lot different.
299
00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:43,183
- [ chuckles ]
- Mm-mm.
300
00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:46,519
We had a shotgun house,
a two-bedroom,
301
00:14:46,553 --> 00:14:49,155
and me, Adam, and Crystal
stayed in the same room,
302
00:14:49,189 --> 00:14:50,924
so we were very close.
303
00:14:53,126 --> 00:14:55,395
I can remember
we had bunkbeds in here
304
00:14:55,428 --> 00:14:57,731
and a twin bed.
305
00:14:57,764 --> 00:14:58,698
It was tight.
306
00:15:01,001 --> 00:15:03,269
We all played together.
307
00:15:03,303 --> 00:15:05,171
You know, we all went
to Sunday school and church
308
00:15:05,205 --> 00:15:07,140
on Sunday together.
309
00:15:07,173 --> 00:15:08,375
Yeah, we were very close
growing up.
310
00:15:11,411 --> 00:15:15,448
I was 5 when Adam was born.
311
00:15:15,482 --> 00:15:18,118
I was very protective,
you know.
312
00:15:18,151 --> 00:15:20,520
I wanted to be
the big brother.
313
00:15:22,756 --> 00:15:24,724
I felt like it was
my responsibility
314
00:15:24,758 --> 00:15:27,027
when I got older, especially,
315
00:15:27,060 --> 00:15:29,496
to look after my little brother
and my little sister.
316
00:15:29,529 --> 00:15:31,297
You know, I looked after them
317
00:15:31,331 --> 00:15:33,333
while we were outside
riding our bikes
318
00:15:33,366 --> 00:15:35,068
or whatever we were doing
319
00:15:35,101 --> 00:15:36,403
'cause my mom was always
at work
320
00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:38,138
and my dad would get off late
321
00:15:38,171 --> 00:15:40,073
'cause he drove for Coca-Cola.
322
00:15:40,106 --> 00:15:42,342
We'll be fighting
while my mama at work,
323
00:15:42,375 --> 00:15:44,210
and she'll have to come home
324
00:15:44,244 --> 00:15:47,280
because one of them
probably locked me out
325
00:15:47,313 --> 00:15:49,015
or I'll break the door.
326
00:15:49,049 --> 00:15:52,452
She'd come home
and whoop all three of our ass
327
00:15:52,485 --> 00:15:54,087
and then go back to work.
328
00:15:58,358 --> 00:16:01,761
I always knew that Freddie
was special from birth.
329
00:16:01,795 --> 00:16:04,464
I used to call him
my special child.
330
00:16:04,497 --> 00:16:06,332
I saw something special,
331
00:16:06,366 --> 00:16:08,068
but I didn't know
what that special was
332
00:16:08,101 --> 00:16:09,102
at that time.
333
00:16:11,404 --> 00:16:16,076
Being a young Black gay kid
growing up in my neighborhood,
334
00:16:16,109 --> 00:16:17,410
I would be picked on.
335
00:16:17,444 --> 00:16:20,313
I would be called
the fat sissy, you know,
336
00:16:20,347 --> 00:16:21,281
and I had to fight.
337
00:16:21,314 --> 00:16:22,782
Mom would go,
338
00:16:22,816 --> 00:16:24,484
"You better be a man
and stand up
339
00:16:24,517 --> 00:16:26,519
and go out there
and show them who you are."
340
00:16:29,322 --> 00:16:30,824
Let go, let's go.
341
00:16:30,857 --> 00:16:33,827
* N.O. bounce, N.O. bounce *
342
00:16:33,860 --> 00:16:35,562
* I'm that queen
gonna make you bounce *
343
00:16:35,595 --> 00:16:38,398
* N.O. bounce, N.O. bounce *
344
00:16:38,431 --> 00:16:40,400
* I'm that queen
gonna make you bounce *
345
00:16:45,538 --> 00:16:48,174
[ rapping ]
346
00:16:57,417 --> 00:17:00,387
Cali, Cali, Cali,
Cali, Cali, Cali-yo.
347
00:17:00,420 --> 00:17:02,522
All the projects
sing my songs.
348
00:17:02,555 --> 00:17:06,626
I would get a lot of attention
'cause I was this fat sissy
349
00:17:06,659 --> 00:17:09,262
going through the projects
and hollering and making noise,
350
00:17:09,295 --> 00:17:11,865
so people knew me
from my sound.
351
00:17:11,898 --> 00:17:13,633
They would say
"Quiet, girl, quiet, girl,"
352
00:17:13,667 --> 00:17:16,102
and I'd go * Whoa-oh-oh *
353
00:17:17,137 --> 00:17:19,305
You know, I would have
the whole projects jumping.
354
00:17:21,541 --> 00:17:23,610
And most projects
were very scary.
355
00:17:23,643 --> 00:17:25,445
If you wasn't born
and raised in them,
356
00:17:25,478 --> 00:17:27,881
you'll be terrified to go in.
357
00:17:27,914 --> 00:17:31,251
it was always
a territory thing where,
358
00:17:31,284 --> 00:17:32,419
if you was from
another project,
359
00:17:32,452 --> 00:17:34,554
you probably couldn't come
in this project.
360
00:17:34,587 --> 00:17:36,856
* Uptown, 3rd Ward,
Josephine *
361
00:17:36,890 --> 00:17:38,858
You know, some of the projects,
when you would go in them,
362
00:17:38,892 --> 00:17:41,194
the boys would pick on you
and be like,
363
00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:43,296
"Bitch, you ain't welcome
back here, you're a sissy,"
364
00:17:43,329 --> 00:17:45,131
or whatever, even though
they had sissies
365
00:17:45,165 --> 00:17:46,332
that stayed in the projects,
366
00:17:46,366 --> 00:17:49,169
but they only wanted
their sissies
367
00:17:49,202 --> 00:17:50,170
that grew up back there
368
00:17:50,203 --> 00:17:51,638
to be in their projects.
369
00:17:51,671 --> 00:17:53,640
I was the sissy
off of Josephine,
370
00:17:53,673 --> 00:17:56,543
so I was protected
by Josephine.
371
00:17:56,576 --> 00:17:58,645
So when I would go
outside of Josephine,
372
00:17:58,678 --> 00:18:01,181
it was like,
"Girl, you got to be careful.
373
00:18:01,214 --> 00:18:02,582
You're messing
with the Calio boys"
374
00:18:02,615 --> 00:18:04,150
or the Magnolia boys
375
00:18:04,184 --> 00:18:05,919
or whatever project
that I went in.
376
00:18:05,952 --> 00:18:07,287
* Make them hos count *
377
00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,155
[ echoing ]
378
00:18:09,189 --> 00:18:11,391
This is where
a lot of magic happened
379
00:18:11,424 --> 00:18:13,159
and a lot of bad things
as well,
380
00:18:13,193 --> 00:18:14,594
but this is what helped us
381
00:18:14,627 --> 00:18:16,696
to create the sounds
of bounce music--
382
00:18:16,730 --> 00:18:20,233
beating in these hallways,
beating on the walls,
383
00:18:20,266 --> 00:18:21,701
hurting our hands.
384
00:18:21,735 --> 00:18:23,636
Yeah.
I miss those good old days.
385
00:18:25,638 --> 00:18:28,375
Music has been very
important to my life.
386
00:18:28,408 --> 00:18:30,910
Music has kept me
out of trouble.
387
00:18:30,944 --> 00:18:33,713
It's the one and only
Big Freedia the Queen Diva!
388
00:18:33,747 --> 00:18:37,684
I thought he was gonna be
a gospel singer at first.
389
00:18:37,717 --> 00:18:39,319
Where you from?
Where you from?
390
00:18:39,352 --> 00:18:40,453
[ drum roll ]
391
00:18:40,487 --> 00:18:41,721
Where you from?
Where you from?
392
00:18:41,755 --> 00:18:45,191
But when he started
doing the bounce music,
393
00:18:45,225 --> 00:18:47,327
I'm like, "You know
how you're feeling
394
00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,196
with direction the Lord
see fit for you to take."
395
00:18:50,230 --> 00:18:52,499
I'm still gonna back him,
and I'm proud of him.
396
00:18:52,532 --> 00:18:54,300
- I love you, Mama.
- Love you, baby.
397
00:18:54,334 --> 00:18:56,503
I love you more than anything
in the world.
398
00:18:56,536 --> 00:18:57,437
I love you.
399
00:18:59,673 --> 00:19:01,675
My first performance
was at a block party
400
00:19:01,708 --> 00:19:03,309
off of Broad Street.
401
00:19:03,343 --> 00:19:04,978
***
402
00:19:05,011 --> 00:19:06,746
Jumped on a mic.
403
00:19:06,780 --> 00:19:09,349
Started, you know,
throwing out a few lyrics.
404
00:19:09,382 --> 00:19:10,583
Everybody sing.
405
00:19:10,617 --> 00:19:13,253
* I got passion,
and I sing songs *
406
00:19:13,286 --> 00:19:15,522
Crowd: * Somebody hold me,
and I'll sing songs *
407
00:19:15,555 --> 00:19:17,290
People started
losing their mind
408
00:19:17,323 --> 00:19:19,459
and started chanting
the lyrics.
409
00:19:21,528 --> 00:19:23,663
It was very much
a new experience
410
00:19:23,697 --> 00:19:24,764
and a new beginning for me.
411
00:19:24,798 --> 00:19:28,702
[ scat singing ]
412
00:19:30,337 --> 00:19:32,305
Uh-huh!
413
00:19:32,339 --> 00:19:34,274
[ air horn blows ]
414
00:19:34,307 --> 00:19:36,776
I'm the one and only
Big Freedia the Queen Diva,
415
00:19:36,810 --> 00:19:39,779
represented right here
from New Orleans, Louisiana.
416
00:19:39,813 --> 00:19:42,982
* You already know *
417
00:19:48,288 --> 00:19:50,757
You know, Adam was
our little hood guy
418
00:19:50,790 --> 00:19:51,725
in the family.
419
00:19:55,061 --> 00:19:57,530
I've heard different stories
of, you know,
420
00:19:57,564 --> 00:20:00,567
things that he's been
involved in--
421
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,837
you know,
shooting at somebody before,
422
00:20:03,870 --> 00:20:06,706
wanting to sell drugs.
423
00:20:06,740 --> 00:20:09,275
Adam definitely had a gun,
and it was not legal.
424
00:20:10,677 --> 00:20:12,545
He had a gun
to protect himself,
425
00:20:12,579 --> 00:20:15,448
no telling from what or who.
426
00:20:15,482 --> 00:20:18,318
He wanted to be
a big dog in the neighborhood.
427
00:20:18,351 --> 00:20:20,687
He wanted people
to respect him
428
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:24,357
like they respected
the other guys.
429
00:20:24,391 --> 00:20:29,295
Adam got stuck
in that mind frame
430
00:20:29,329 --> 00:20:31,564
of the Boyz in the Hood.
431
00:20:32,665 --> 00:20:34,334
They would get respect
432
00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:35,535
from people being
scared of them.
433
00:20:38,505 --> 00:20:39,606
You know, like,
a lot of times,
434
00:20:39,639 --> 00:20:41,474
they'll say to the police,
435
00:20:41,508 --> 00:20:42,742
"You wouldn't be
so big and bad
436
00:20:42,776 --> 00:20:45,612
if you didn't have that gun
and that badge."
437
00:20:45,645 --> 00:20:47,380
Same thing
with the hood boys--
438
00:20:47,414 --> 00:20:49,082
"You wouldn't be
so big and bad
439
00:20:49,115 --> 00:20:50,450
if you didn't have that gun."
440
00:20:51,518 --> 00:20:52,752
* Danger *
441
00:20:52,786 --> 00:20:55,755
That's what you call
stars and stripes.
442
00:20:55,789 --> 00:20:57,791
They want to get their stars
and their stripes
443
00:20:57,824 --> 00:20:59,626
from killing someone.
444
00:20:59,659 --> 00:21:02,362
And they're gonna say,
"Oh," you know,
445
00:21:02,395 --> 00:21:04,531
"I got two or three
under my belt,"
446
00:21:04,564 --> 00:21:06,366
like they're a big man
447
00:21:06,399 --> 00:21:07,600
or they're sticking
their chest out.
448
00:21:09,869 --> 00:21:12,572
Most of the time,
they're the coward.
449
00:21:12,605 --> 00:21:15,542
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
450
00:21:15,575 --> 00:21:17,544
* I'm so dangerous *
451
00:21:17,577 --> 00:21:19,746
Not knowing what people
are saying in the backdrop,
452
00:21:19,779 --> 00:21:23,650
like "Oh, this pussy
have to kill somebody"
453
00:21:23,683 --> 00:21:24,818
or "They're not a man
without a gun."
454
00:21:27,153 --> 00:21:29,389
We smother these boys
to death
455
00:21:29,422 --> 00:21:31,391
with our expectations
456
00:21:31,424 --> 00:21:33,360
of what a man can be.
457
00:21:33,393 --> 00:21:35,462
We keep telling them
458
00:21:35,495 --> 00:21:38,531
to be the crudest,
manliest madman
459
00:21:38,565 --> 00:21:40,333
ever to exist
in the planet ever.
460
00:21:42,569 --> 00:21:44,471
I've never lost anybody
to violence,
461
00:21:44,504 --> 00:21:47,107
and I keep trying
to wrap my head around
462
00:21:47,140 --> 00:21:50,143
somebody getting to the point
that you would kill someone
463
00:21:50,176 --> 00:21:52,679
and that that's part of life.
464
00:21:52,712 --> 00:21:54,681
I try to talk
to a lot of young people,
465
00:21:54,714 --> 00:21:56,750
try to get them
on the right path
466
00:21:56,783 --> 00:21:58,685
and change their mind
about, you know,
467
00:21:58,718 --> 00:22:00,887
just the nonsense that they'll
be wanting to go off on.
468
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,456
But at the base of it,
is it like--
469
00:22:03,490 --> 00:22:04,891
is this, like, hopelessness?
470
00:22:04,924 --> 00:22:07,160
Like--Because if you believe
that you're gonna--
471
00:22:07,193 --> 00:22:08,595
your life is gonna be great,
472
00:22:08,628 --> 00:22:10,964
you believe
you're gonna be successful,
473
00:22:10,997 --> 00:22:14,734
you believe you're gonna
have your dreams in life,
474
00:22:14,768 --> 00:22:16,536
this is not the path you take.
475
00:22:18,204 --> 00:22:19,639
They want to say
that there's something broken
476
00:22:19,673 --> 00:22:20,674
about Blackness,
477
00:22:20,707 --> 00:22:22,509
and there's a deficiency
478
00:22:22,542 --> 00:22:24,678
in that culture.
479
00:22:24,711 --> 00:22:27,647
It's not. It's how human beings
behave when they're hurting.
480
00:22:27,681 --> 00:22:29,749
There's this whole other story
481
00:22:29,783 --> 00:22:33,853
that keeps ripping at the fabric
of Black families,
482
00:22:33,887 --> 00:22:36,156
ripping at the fabric
of Black communities.
483
00:22:36,189 --> 00:22:37,857
These young men
in New Orleans,
484
00:22:37,891 --> 00:22:40,593
most of them only have
their mom in their lives,
485
00:22:40,627 --> 00:22:42,629
and the mom only can do
so much,
486
00:22:42,662 --> 00:22:43,663
but she's out working,
487
00:22:43,697 --> 00:22:45,432
provide for all the children,
488
00:22:45,465 --> 00:22:46,733
she's trying
to take care of them.
489
00:22:46,766 --> 00:22:48,601
These dudes trying
to help their mama,
490
00:22:48,635 --> 00:22:50,170
so they're trying to hustle,
whatever they need to do
491
00:22:50,203 --> 00:22:52,439
to try to bring some money in.
492
00:22:52,472 --> 00:22:54,507
If that means
having to rob somebody
493
00:22:54,541 --> 00:22:55,542
or kill somebody.
494
00:22:55,575 --> 00:22:56,710
No one is responding
495
00:22:56,743 --> 00:22:58,611
to the gun violence issue
496
00:22:58,645 --> 00:23:00,513
- like it's an epidemic.
- No, they're not.
497
00:23:00,547 --> 00:23:01,715
Nobody.
498
00:23:01,748 --> 00:23:02,982
You know, one time
I had to sit down
499
00:23:03,016 --> 00:23:04,584
and really ask myself,
500
00:23:04,617 --> 00:23:06,586
"How many people do you know
501
00:23:06,619 --> 00:23:08,588
killed by gun violence?"
502
00:23:08,621 --> 00:23:10,457
It was between 60 to 70 people.
503
00:23:10,490 --> 00:23:12,025
Wow. So what does that do
to you?
504
00:23:12,058 --> 00:23:14,694
I mean, just spiritually,
on a personal level,
505
00:23:14,728 --> 00:23:16,196
what does that do to you?
506
00:23:16,229 --> 00:23:19,466
It makes me go
through a lot of emotions.
507
00:23:19,499 --> 00:23:21,835
You know, I've cried
a lot of times.
508
00:23:21,868 --> 00:23:24,204
It's such a repetitive thing
going here in New Orleans.
509
00:23:24,237 --> 00:23:25,805
That people don't
even pay attention to.
510
00:23:25,839 --> 00:23:27,240
- They don't.
- They only get excited
511
00:23:27,273 --> 00:23:29,909
when it is a mass shooting,
512
00:23:29,943 --> 00:23:33,246
which is generally happening
not to us, you know.
513
00:23:33,279 --> 00:23:34,681
Some kid walks
into a high school.
514
00:23:34,714 --> 00:23:36,216
- Of course.
- They--
515
00:23:36,249 --> 00:23:38,818
And that's all over the news
for a week and a half.
516
00:23:38,852 --> 00:23:40,553
Every day, this is happening,
517
00:23:40,587 --> 00:23:43,490
and nobody says
very much about it
518
00:23:43,523 --> 00:23:44,958
other than to beat up
on Black people,
519
00:23:44,991 --> 00:23:47,260
to say, "Well, you guys
can't handle your community"
520
00:23:47,293 --> 00:23:48,895
and Black people saying
"No, just help us."
521
00:23:48,928 --> 00:23:50,864
We have allowed
the Black community
522
00:23:50,897 --> 00:23:53,533
to be abused to such a degree.
523
00:23:53,566 --> 00:23:56,503
They're in constant
state of trauma,
524
00:23:56,536 --> 00:23:57,871
and they're--
they're human beings.
525
00:23:57,904 --> 00:23:59,572
They're responding to trauma.
526
00:23:59,606 --> 00:24:01,675
Society has to take
responsibility.
527
00:24:01,708 --> 00:24:03,677
When we had an AIDS crisis,
528
00:24:03,710 --> 00:24:04,978
when the government
wasn't responding,
529
00:24:05,011 --> 00:24:06,079
- people went in the streets.
- Yes.
530
00:24:06,112 --> 00:24:07,681
People harassed,
531
00:24:07,714 --> 00:24:09,049
people went
into government buildings.
532
00:24:09,082 --> 00:24:10,817
They were like,
"No, you will respond to this
533
00:24:10,850 --> 00:24:12,919
because I'm losing friend
after friend after friend."
534
00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:14,688
- Yes.
- Those were,
535
00:24:14,721 --> 00:24:17,991
at that time, mostly
creative white men.
536
00:24:18,024 --> 00:24:19,059
- Right.
- Who--
537
00:24:19,092 --> 00:24:20,960
And liberals in general
538
00:24:20,994 --> 00:24:22,696
did respond that way.
539
00:24:22,729 --> 00:24:24,297
That community mobilized
and said, "No,
540
00:24:24,330 --> 00:24:25,799
we won't have this.
Something has to be done."
541
00:24:25,832 --> 00:24:27,033
Yes.
542
00:24:27,067 --> 00:24:28,702
People like you
have the same story
543
00:24:28,735 --> 00:24:30,036
as those people
were having with ACT UP--
544
00:24:30,070 --> 00:24:31,738
"I'm losing friend
after friend after friend."
545
00:24:31,771 --> 00:24:33,740
- Yes.
- But the people most affected,
546
00:24:33,773 --> 00:24:35,709
they're not donating
to nobody campaign.
547
00:24:35,742 --> 00:24:36,743
- Right.
- They don't have money
548
00:24:36,776 --> 00:24:37,977
to do that.
549
00:24:38,011 --> 00:24:39,079
You have
these vulnerable people
550
00:24:39,112 --> 00:24:40,880
with no power,
551
00:24:40,914 --> 00:24:44,584
yelling to power,
"Help us,"
552
00:24:44,617 --> 00:24:46,619
And power keeps saying
"But you don't count."
553
00:24:51,725 --> 00:24:53,993
[ Dixieland playing ]
554
00:25:03,336 --> 00:25:05,572
When I first met Devin
at the school,
555
00:25:05,605 --> 00:25:07,841
he reminded me of Adam.
556
00:25:07,874 --> 00:25:11,611
His story was really
touching to me.
557
00:25:11,644 --> 00:25:13,747
I really wanted
to try to save Devin
558
00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:15,982
from losing him to the street
559
00:25:16,016 --> 00:25:17,817
'cause that's the direction
that he's headed in,
560
00:25:17,851 --> 00:25:20,887
wither in jail or dead.
561
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,623
There's just a lot of beef
in New Orleans.
562
00:25:23,656 --> 00:25:25,859
I don't feel safe,
but at the same time,
563
00:25:25,892 --> 00:25:29,696
I don't want--like, I don't want
to move nowhere else
564
00:25:29,729 --> 00:25:30,897
from out of New Orleans.
565
00:25:30,930 --> 00:25:31,898
Like, I want to stay
in New Orleans.
566
00:25:31,931 --> 00:25:32,866
I don't know why.
567
00:25:35,135 --> 00:25:36,603
I'm just reckless right now.
568
00:25:50,684 --> 00:25:52,152
[ knock on door ]
569
00:25:52,185 --> 00:25:53,853
- Hi.
- Hey.
570
00:25:53,887 --> 00:25:54,954
What's up, Devin?
571
00:25:57,991 --> 00:25:59,693
- You've been all right?
- Yeah.
572
00:26:01,661 --> 00:26:02,796
So it's been rough.
573
00:26:02,829 --> 00:26:04,164
I've been hearing
some really rough stuff.
574
00:26:04,197 --> 00:26:06,366
Tell me what's going on.
575
00:26:11,805 --> 00:26:12,839
A lot of trouble.
576
00:26:17,143 --> 00:26:19,679
What's the reasons
that you're doing these things?
577
00:26:23,983 --> 00:26:24,984
Ashonta: How so?
578
00:26:26,086 --> 00:26:28,054
Is the stolen car associated
579
00:26:28,088 --> 00:26:29,723
with the Christmas Day
incident?
580
00:26:41,868 --> 00:26:43,770
So why was there a shooting,
581
00:26:43,803 --> 00:26:44,971
and why were you
the intended target?
582
00:27:03,256 --> 00:27:04,190
Why are y'all beefing?
583
00:27:28,915 --> 00:27:30,083
So it all started with a fight
584
00:27:30,116 --> 00:27:31,451
and kind of just snowballed
into a beef.
585
00:27:49,169 --> 00:27:51,004
You don't have to be cool
with him.
586
00:27:51,037 --> 00:27:53,173
Y'all don't have to speak
ever again.
587
00:27:53,206 --> 00:27:56,076
We just want the beef to stop
and squash it
588
00:27:56,109 --> 00:27:57,811
so neither one of y'all
are hurt.
589
00:28:01,014 --> 00:28:02,182
I really don't know.
590
00:28:05,218 --> 00:28:06,986
You can change your life
around,
591
00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:08,521
and we're here to help you.
592
00:28:08,555 --> 00:28:09,856
We're here to help your mom.
593
00:28:09,889 --> 00:28:11,224
We're here
to help your family.
594
00:28:13,126 --> 00:28:15,795
But Devin has to want it.
595
00:28:15,829 --> 00:28:18,798
In his mind it's
"I have to get you
596
00:28:18,832 --> 00:28:21,201
before you get me"
mentality,
597
00:28:21,234 --> 00:28:23,837
and that's not
just exclusive to Devin.
598
00:28:23,870 --> 00:28:25,805
It's not just exclusive
to New Orleans.
599
00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:29,776
It's exclusive to anybody
that has to survive.
600
00:28:29,809 --> 00:28:32,345
By and large, 14-year-olds
are not ducking gunshots
601
00:28:32,379 --> 00:28:36,349
and stealing cars
and running for their lives.
602
00:28:36,383 --> 00:28:38,952
That is not the kind of life
we want you to have.
603
00:28:38,985 --> 00:28:40,987
We surely want to see you
make it to 18--
604
00:28:41,021 --> 00:28:43,256
- We're not sure about you.
- ...and 28 and 38
605
00:28:43,289 --> 00:28:46,059
and 48. We want you
to see children.
606
00:28:46,092 --> 00:28:48,061
We want you
to see grandchildren.
607
00:28:50,830 --> 00:28:52,298
Is that the way
you want your mama to live,
608
00:28:52,332 --> 00:28:54,100
worrying about your safety
every day?
609
00:28:54,134 --> 00:28:56,169
So you have to open up
your mind.
610
00:29:22,295 --> 00:29:24,931
You're too young
to be in all this.
611
00:29:24,964 --> 00:29:26,933
You have so much potential.
612
00:29:26,966 --> 00:29:29,336
Your mom don't want to see you
lost to these streets.
613
00:29:29,369 --> 00:29:31,838
You understand
what I'm saying?
614
00:29:31,871 --> 00:29:32,939
Yeah, I understand
what you're saying.
615
00:29:32,972 --> 00:29:34,107
So can we come
to that resolution?
616
00:29:34,140 --> 00:29:35,942
Can we come to a point
617
00:29:35,975 --> 00:29:37,077
where we can throw in
the white flag
618
00:29:37,110 --> 00:29:38,278
and there's no death?
619
00:29:38,311 --> 00:29:39,879
You stay on your side,
I stay on mine.
620
00:29:39,913 --> 00:29:41,247
We don't have to be friendly,
621
00:29:41,281 --> 00:29:44,017
but we don't have to be
fatal enemies, either.
622
00:29:44,050 --> 00:29:45,618
I don't know.
623
00:29:45,652 --> 00:29:48,922
I'm not worried
about the dude.
624
00:29:48,955 --> 00:29:51,624
Okay. We know you're not
worried about the dude,
625
00:29:51,658 --> 00:29:52,926
but will you give it
some thought?
626
00:29:55,128 --> 00:29:56,930
Can you agree to that?
627
00:29:56,963 --> 00:29:58,998
That's the very least
we're asking you to do.
628
00:29:59,032 --> 00:30:01,067
- Just think about it?
- Yeah, I agree to that.
629
00:30:02,335 --> 00:30:04,404
- I can think about it.
- Hmm?
630
00:30:04,437 --> 00:30:06,406
Yeah, I can think about it.
631
00:30:06,439 --> 00:30:09,075
- We appreciate it.
- That's your word?
632
00:30:10,310 --> 00:30:12,212
- Hmm?
- Yeah, that's my word.
633
00:30:15,348 --> 00:30:17,117
This is bigger than Devin.
634
00:30:17,150 --> 00:30:20,320
This is about every child
that looks like Devin.
635
00:30:20,353 --> 00:30:22,956
Devin is almost the blueprint
636
00:30:22,989 --> 00:30:28,461
for what happens
when you starve a child
637
00:30:28,495 --> 00:30:32,132
of the necessary things
that help them to grow.
638
00:30:32,165 --> 00:30:34,200
Like, it's like a plant.
If you don't water it,
639
00:30:34,234 --> 00:30:36,403
if you don't give it
the nourishment that it needs,
640
00:30:36,436 --> 00:30:38,338
it will eventually
wither away and die.
641
00:30:38,371 --> 00:30:41,041
Charles Blow:
We failed our boys.
642
00:30:41,074 --> 00:30:44,944
So yes, tell that boy
this is not the answer.
643
00:30:44,978 --> 00:30:46,646
Violence is not the answer.
644
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,082
Taking a life
is not the answer.
645
00:30:49,115 --> 00:30:51,351
But he does not exist
on an island.
646
00:30:51,384 --> 00:30:53,186
He does not exist
in a bubble.
647
00:30:53,219 --> 00:30:55,088
He exists
in a cultural context
648
00:30:55,121 --> 00:30:58,024
that you created, America.
649
00:30:58,058 --> 00:30:59,125
Your responsibility.
650
00:31:06,166 --> 00:31:08,134
[ police radio chatter ]
651
00:31:10,303 --> 00:31:12,939
Bryan: We have built
the country's largest
652
00:31:12,972 --> 00:31:14,974
high definition
network crime camera program
653
00:31:15,008 --> 00:31:16,142
in the United States.
654
00:31:16,176 --> 00:31:18,278
It's all powered 100%
by citizens.
655
00:31:21,414 --> 00:31:23,016
The cameras--
we provide loaners--
656
00:31:23,049 --> 00:31:24,417
are in people's homes
and businesses.
657
00:31:29,155 --> 00:31:30,490
We've been involved
in pretty much
658
00:31:30,523 --> 00:31:32,058
anything you can imagine--
659
00:31:32,092 --> 00:31:32,926
shootings, stabbings,
home invasions,
660
00:31:32,959 --> 00:31:34,728
rapes, robberies,
thefts, burglaries,
661
00:31:34,761 --> 00:31:36,396
hit-and-runs--
and the cameras are so good,
662
00:31:36,429 --> 00:31:38,164
we're able to, a lot of times,
663
00:31:38,198 --> 00:31:39,499
blow up the camera video
664
00:31:39,532 --> 00:31:41,134
and tell the difference
665
00:31:41,167 --> 00:31:43,036
between crack, heroin,
marijuana.
666
00:31:43,069 --> 00:31:44,137
Freedia: Oh, wow.
667
00:31:45,305 --> 00:31:46,706
This is a typical shooting,
668
00:31:46,740 --> 00:31:49,409
so you have a intended
target right here.
669
00:31:49,442 --> 00:31:51,745
You have another
intended target over there.
670
00:31:51,778 --> 00:31:54,481
You have a person
with an AR15 machine pistol,
671
00:31:54,514 --> 00:31:56,182
and then you had two people
672
00:31:56,216 --> 00:31:58,284
on the opposite side
of the vehicle with pistols.
673
00:32:00,754 --> 00:32:02,288
And, as he drove
down the street...
674
00:32:04,224 --> 00:32:05,725
there's children nearby.
675
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,162
Now, we had cameras
around the corner,
676
00:32:09,195 --> 00:32:11,164
and we were actually
watching these children.
677
00:32:11,197 --> 00:32:13,133
They were getting off the bus.
They were happy.
678
00:32:13,166 --> 00:32:14,200
And the next thing you know...
679
00:32:15,268 --> 00:32:16,436
[ children screaming ]
680
00:32:16,469 --> 00:32:18,405
...automatic gunfire.
681
00:32:18,438 --> 00:32:20,040
We can tell
from the muzzle flash,
682
00:32:20,073 --> 00:32:21,241
like a trigger pull,
683
00:32:21,274 --> 00:32:23,209
that was fully automatic.
684
00:32:23,243 --> 00:32:24,744
They basically
opened up that person
685
00:32:24,778 --> 00:32:26,146
at point blank range.
686
00:32:26,179 --> 00:32:28,281
Unbelievable.
687
00:32:28,314 --> 00:32:32,052
Over here we have the murder
of Brayanta Ketchens,
688
00:32:32,085 --> 00:32:34,554
21-year-old early childhood
development student.
689
00:32:34,587 --> 00:32:37,424
One day, while she was taking
a shower in her bathroom,
690
00:32:37,457 --> 00:32:40,460
five people went,
kicked in her window,
691
00:32:40,493 --> 00:32:43,363
and...they shot her dead.
692
00:32:43,396 --> 00:32:46,066
And not only did we
help prove who did it,
693
00:32:46,099 --> 00:32:49,035
the five people
who were involved in that,
694
00:32:49,069 --> 00:32:50,503
well, you can tell,
695
00:32:50,537 --> 00:32:52,372
and this is gonna be
State Exhibit "A,"
696
00:32:52,405 --> 00:32:56,009
this is the smile
on their faces as they left.
697
00:32:57,377 --> 00:32:59,779
That's just after
they killed Brayanta.
698
00:33:01,548 --> 00:33:03,550
Wow. I sure would like to know
699
00:33:03,583 --> 00:33:05,218
if you can pull up
a certain day
700
00:33:05,251 --> 00:33:08,221
when my brother was killed.
701
00:33:08,254 --> 00:33:10,490
So we didn't have any cameras
in the immediate area.
702
00:33:12,659 --> 00:33:15,295
We had some a distance away,
703
00:33:15,328 --> 00:33:17,397
but we went for what we call
a needle in a haystack.
704
00:33:17,430 --> 00:33:18,832
Sometimes it works.
705
00:33:18,865 --> 00:33:21,101
On that day,
we just couldn't find anything
706
00:33:21,134 --> 00:33:24,170
that we could possibly use
to help the detectives,
707
00:33:24,204 --> 00:33:26,239
and that's what frustrates us
to no end
708
00:33:26,272 --> 00:33:29,509
is when the bad things happen
and we cannot assist.
709
00:33:29,542 --> 00:33:30,477
Right.
710
00:33:36,483 --> 00:33:39,219
We are a city,
we are a country
711
00:33:39,252 --> 00:33:42,122
that is drunk on violence.
712
00:33:42,155 --> 00:33:43,323
Newscaster: Police responded
713
00:33:43,356 --> 00:33:45,325
to an initial call
of shots fired
714
00:33:45,358 --> 00:33:47,327
at the intersection
of Felicity and Sophie Wright.
715
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:48,561
15 minutes later,
716
00:33:48,595 --> 00:33:50,830
Will Smith
was pronounced dead.
717
00:33:50,864 --> 00:33:52,565
Newscaster #2:
Police claiming
718
00:33:52,599 --> 00:33:55,335
that 28-year-old Hayes
shot Smith several times.
719
00:33:55,368 --> 00:33:56,569
Newscaster #3: Cardell Hayes
was found guilty
720
00:33:56,603 --> 00:33:58,138
of manslaughter
721
00:33:58,171 --> 00:33:59,539
for the shooting death
of Smith
722
00:33:59,572 --> 00:34:01,508
in a road rage incident
in New Orleans.
723
00:34:01,541 --> 00:34:03,410
Hayes said
it was self-defense,
724
00:34:03,443 --> 00:34:05,345
but the jury rejected that.
725
00:34:05,378 --> 00:34:07,414
In the heart of our city,
726
00:34:07,447 --> 00:34:10,450
Will Smith was shot and killed.
727
00:34:10,483 --> 00:34:12,152
His death leaves a wife alone,
728
00:34:12,185 --> 00:34:14,154
three children
without a father.
729
00:34:14,187 --> 00:34:16,656
On the other side of the gun
is Cardell Hayes.
730
00:34:16,690 --> 00:34:19,559
He's in jail,
but he has a family, too.
731
00:34:22,562 --> 00:34:23,697
My cousin Cardell,
732
00:34:23,730 --> 00:34:25,432
we call him Bear
733
00:34:25,465 --> 00:34:28,902
because he's like a big, soft,
cuddly teddy bear--
734
00:34:28,935 --> 00:34:31,304
he's a real sweet.
735
00:34:31,338 --> 00:34:34,240
He was always there for me.
736
00:34:34,274 --> 00:34:35,575
Growing up as a child,
737
00:34:35,608 --> 00:34:37,477
he was the sweetest young man.
738
00:34:37,510 --> 00:34:40,580
I lost my brother
and my cousin
739
00:34:40,613 --> 00:34:43,249
to senseless violence.
740
00:34:43,283 --> 00:34:44,617
They were like brothers.
741
00:34:44,651 --> 00:34:46,619
Dawn: Adam always
used to call Cardell
742
00:34:46,653 --> 00:34:48,355
his little big brother
743
00:34:48,388 --> 00:34:51,157
because Cardell was
so much bigger than him,
744
00:34:51,191 --> 00:34:54,294
so he would say
his little big brother.
745
00:34:54,327 --> 00:34:55,595
And they were real close.
746
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,411
It was lots of police
that shot him down
747
00:35:11,444 --> 00:35:13,380
right after the trial.
748
00:35:13,413 --> 00:35:14,481
Anthony Hayes,
armed with a knife
749
00:35:14,514 --> 00:35:15,715
on St. Charles Avenue,
750
00:35:15,749 --> 00:35:17,751
was surrounded
by 16 officers
751
00:35:17,784 --> 00:35:20,186
to keep him from hurting
nearby onlookers.
752
00:35:20,220 --> 00:35:21,488
He had a breakdown,
753
00:35:21,521 --> 00:35:24,190
and he was killed
by the policemen.
754
00:35:24,224 --> 00:35:25,525
Once officers arrived,
755
00:35:25,558 --> 00:35:28,328
the situation lasted
just over three minutes.
756
00:35:28,361 --> 00:35:30,196
Officers tried
to talk him down,
757
00:35:30,230 --> 00:35:31,965
used pepper spray,
758
00:35:31,998 --> 00:35:33,667
and at one point
contemplated tackling him.
759
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:35,635
Mr. Hayes raised a knife
760
00:35:35,669 --> 00:35:37,504
in an attempt to stab
one of the officers,
761
00:35:37,537 --> 00:35:39,939
at which time
three other officers fired.
762
00:35:47,414 --> 00:35:49,582
There is a question
on whether officers
763
00:35:49,616 --> 00:35:51,651
could have shot
and wounded Hayes,
764
00:35:51,685 --> 00:35:54,788
but Riley says officers are
no longer trained to do that.
765
00:35:54,821 --> 00:35:56,523
It really hurt Cardell
766
00:35:56,556 --> 00:35:58,958
because he loved his daddy,
you know.
767
00:35:58,992 --> 00:36:00,427
Even though
we wasn't together,
768
00:36:00,460 --> 00:36:02,696
his daddy was active
in his life.
769
00:36:02,729 --> 00:36:05,398
Even with his illness
that he was going through,
770
00:36:05,432 --> 00:36:07,701
he still was very active
in his life.
771
00:36:29,322 --> 00:36:31,558
I believe that the trauma
772
00:36:31,591 --> 00:36:35,428
to the collective Black body
773
00:36:35,462 --> 00:36:38,698
is born in this country
in enslavement
774
00:36:38,732 --> 00:36:40,400
and has never stopped.
775
00:36:45,505 --> 00:36:47,040
As soon as you get
the civil rights,
776
00:36:47,073 --> 00:36:50,276
when you think
we're in a new era,
777
00:36:50,310 --> 00:36:53,513
you start to see
mass incarceration creep up.
778
00:36:53,546 --> 00:36:56,449
And everything Jim Crow did
779
00:36:56,483 --> 00:36:58,852
mass incarceration just does
under a different name.
780
00:36:58,885 --> 00:37:00,720
All the lynching the happened,
781
00:37:00,754 --> 00:37:04,624
the death penalty just brings
the killing inside.
782
00:37:04,657 --> 00:37:09,396
We know that mass incarceration
is vastly disproportionately
783
00:37:09,429 --> 00:37:10,497
affected by people.
784
00:37:10,530 --> 00:37:11,865
For the same crime,
785
00:37:11,898 --> 00:37:14,567
the Black person's getting
a much longer sentence
786
00:37:14,601 --> 00:37:16,302
on average
than the white person.
787
00:37:16,336 --> 00:37:17,637
That's a system problem.
788
00:37:20,373 --> 00:37:22,475
My name is Darren Hayes,
789
00:37:22,509 --> 00:37:25,078
but my friends and associates
call me Combray.
790
00:37:25,111 --> 00:37:28,515
I'm the Lifers Association
President here at Elayn Hunt...
791
00:37:30,517 --> 00:37:34,354
where I've been incarcerated
for the last 25 years.
792
00:37:34,387 --> 00:37:36,489
I'm here on a homicide,
793
00:37:36,523 --> 00:37:38,324
so that's second degree murder,
794
00:37:38,358 --> 00:37:40,493
and that eventually led
to a life sentence.
795
00:37:40,527 --> 00:37:43,363
We have some young offenders.
796
00:37:43,396 --> 00:37:45,398
Look like the younger, they're
coming in off the street.
797
00:37:45,432 --> 00:37:48,068
They're coming off the street
with these problems.
798
00:37:48,101 --> 00:37:50,904
So we came up with the idea,
why not bring some people in
799
00:37:50,937 --> 00:37:54,474
who maybe can tell these guys
some things
800
00:37:54,507 --> 00:37:55,608
and make them look
at their self in the mirror.
801
00:38:05,418 --> 00:38:07,520
Good afternoon.
How's everybody doing?
802
00:38:07,554 --> 00:38:08,755
- [ murmuring ]
- Good.
803
00:38:08,788 --> 00:38:10,423
My name is Charles Pattman.
804
00:38:10,457 --> 00:38:12,826
I'm from the Wilson-Wooddale
Funeral Home.
805
00:38:12,859 --> 00:38:14,661
I just want
to take a few minutes
806
00:38:14,694 --> 00:38:17,664
just to share with you
what actually goes on
807
00:38:17,697 --> 00:38:20,900
after you have gone out there
and you've OD'd on drugs,
808
00:38:20,934 --> 00:38:24,371
when your homeboy decides
to shoot someone.
809
00:38:24,404 --> 00:38:26,139
So I just want to share
a perspective with you
810
00:38:26,172 --> 00:38:27,774
that is real.
811
00:38:27,807 --> 00:38:30,577
I've seen a bullet
straight through the heart.
812
00:38:30,610 --> 00:38:31,911
I've seen a bullet
813
00:38:31,945 --> 00:38:33,646
straight through
one side of your head
814
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,482
and come out the other one.
815
00:38:35,515 --> 00:38:37,784
I've seen them when they put
that gun under your chin
816
00:38:37,817 --> 00:38:39,486
and just blew
half of your face off.
817
00:38:39,519 --> 00:38:40,553
We've seen it.
818
00:38:40,587 --> 00:38:42,489
So now we got to deal with it.
819
00:38:42,522 --> 00:38:43,823
Darren:
And it's another animal,
820
00:38:43,857 --> 00:38:46,459
the young guys that I see
come to jail today.
821
00:38:46,493 --> 00:38:49,129
Back when I came,
we had reasons, we thought.
822
00:38:49,162 --> 00:38:51,798
Even though they was
wrong reasons to do things,
823
00:38:51,831 --> 00:38:53,466
we had reasons.
824
00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:55,468
But young guys that I see
come to jail today,
825
00:38:55,502 --> 00:38:57,404
they don't know.
They're just doing things
826
00:38:57,437 --> 00:38:58,938
because peer pressure,
827
00:38:58,972 --> 00:39:00,707
just wanting to be down.
828
00:39:00,740 --> 00:39:02,776
What you did it for?
"I don't know.
829
00:39:02,809 --> 00:39:04,711
I don't know why I did it."
830
00:39:04,744 --> 00:39:06,579
Just because
he got away with it,
831
00:39:06,613 --> 00:39:07,947
you think you can
get away with it.
832
00:39:07,981 --> 00:39:09,749
It don't work that way.
833
00:39:09,783 --> 00:39:12,786
You got to free yourself,
834
00:39:12,819 --> 00:39:15,422
each and every one of you.
835
00:39:15,455 --> 00:39:17,824
You get out of here
this afternoon,
836
00:39:17,857 --> 00:39:21,594
you find the nearest mirror,
and you look in it.
837
00:39:21,628 --> 00:39:23,963
And you say to yourself,
"I am where I am
838
00:39:23,997 --> 00:39:26,599
because of the decision
that I made."
839
00:39:26,633 --> 00:39:28,735
And once you can look
in that mirror
840
00:39:28,768 --> 00:39:31,438
and say "I am where I am
because of the decision I made,"
841
00:39:31,471 --> 00:39:33,006
you are free
because at that point
842
00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:36,176
you can start moving
in the right direction.
843
00:39:36,209 --> 00:39:38,578
Darren:
You got some good guys here.
844
00:39:38,611 --> 00:39:41,014
You got some guys
that just slipped one time.
845
00:39:41,047 --> 00:39:42,615
You know, there's a thin line
846
00:39:42,649 --> 00:39:44,484
between where I'm
sitting at today
847
00:39:44,517 --> 00:39:46,619
and where you're at right now.
848
00:39:46,653 --> 00:39:48,888
Personally, me, myself,
849
00:39:48,922 --> 00:39:50,490
I was selfish.
850
00:39:50,523 --> 00:39:51,658
I hurt a lot of people,
851
00:39:51,691 --> 00:39:55,495
and...right now,
852
00:39:55,528 --> 00:39:59,766
I never been as high
as when you help somebody.
853
00:39:59,799 --> 00:40:01,634
And there's nothing
like looking at somebody
854
00:40:01,668 --> 00:40:04,904
you just helped
or you just saved his life
855
00:40:04,938 --> 00:40:06,740
from making a bad decision,
856
00:40:06,773 --> 00:40:08,475
and...
857
00:40:08,508 --> 00:40:09,876
it looks like
the more you do that,
858
00:40:09,909 --> 00:40:11,778
the more you want to do that.
859
00:40:11,811 --> 00:40:13,780
Our next speaker
860
00:40:13,813 --> 00:40:16,049
keep the party jumping.
861
00:40:16,082 --> 00:40:17,784
Bounce music live
862
00:40:17,817 --> 00:40:19,552
from the Party Bus,
863
00:40:19,586 --> 00:40:21,921
from the Splash,
from the Picnic,
864
00:40:21,955 --> 00:40:23,990
even before I got busted.
865
00:40:24,024 --> 00:40:25,725
I'm gonna bring you
Freddie Ross,
866
00:40:25,759 --> 00:40:27,827
known as Big Freedia,
867
00:40:27,861 --> 00:40:29,562
to come enlighten us
868
00:40:29,596 --> 00:40:30,997
about how he living his life.
869
00:40:34,734 --> 00:40:35,935
Make it plain.
870
00:40:41,107 --> 00:40:42,909
Good evening.
871
00:40:42,942 --> 00:40:44,611
How are y'all doing today?
872
00:40:44,644 --> 00:40:46,513
[ murmuring ]
873
00:40:46,546 --> 00:40:48,648
You all know me
as Big Freedia the Queen Diva.
874
00:40:48,682 --> 00:40:50,050
You best believe her.
875
00:40:50,083 --> 00:40:51,551
[ laughter ]
876
00:40:51,584 --> 00:40:52,819
Thank y'all so much.
877
00:40:52,852 --> 00:40:54,821
Thank you, Warden Stagg,
for having me.
878
00:40:54,854 --> 00:40:57,824
Thank you, my cousin Cardell,
for calling me.
879
00:40:57,857 --> 00:41:00,960
So I've been going around
talking to many, many people,
880
00:41:00,994 --> 00:41:03,563
and I say, "You know what?
I have a platform,
881
00:41:03,596 --> 00:41:05,632
and I need to use it
as much as I can."
882
00:41:05,665 --> 00:41:07,734
[ applause ]
883
00:41:07,767 --> 00:41:10,603
God gave me a gift
to be able to touch people
884
00:41:10,637 --> 00:41:12,005
and reach people
through music,
885
00:41:12,038 --> 00:41:13,973
but I also have a voice.
886
00:41:14,007 --> 00:41:15,675
I speak for a lot
of different people
887
00:41:15,709 --> 00:41:16,943
who can't speak up.
888
00:41:16,976 --> 00:41:18,878
The most important thing is
889
00:41:18,912 --> 00:41:21,848
touching this young generation.
890
00:41:21,881 --> 00:41:24,851
These children are really
a lost generation,
891
00:41:24,884 --> 00:41:27,787
and it's gonna take
one person at a time
892
00:41:27,821 --> 00:41:29,656
to help change that.
893
00:41:29,689 --> 00:41:31,858
And you gentlemen out here,
894
00:41:31,891 --> 00:41:33,326
y'all can help
make a difference
895
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,661
'cause they're looking
at y'all.
896
00:41:34,694 --> 00:41:35,729
They're looking
at their brothers.
897
00:41:35,762 --> 00:41:36,963
They're looking at their uncles.
898
00:41:36,996 --> 00:41:39,099
They're looking at their--
their cousins
899
00:41:39,132 --> 00:41:42,836
and saying, "You know,
yeah, my cousin in jail.
900
00:41:42,869 --> 00:41:45,105
He did such-and-such.
My cousin known for this."
901
00:41:45,138 --> 00:41:47,741
They think it's a game.
They think it's--
902
00:41:47,774 --> 00:41:49,776
it's--it's something
to, like, live off
903
00:41:49,809 --> 00:41:51,845
and feel good about.
904
00:41:51,878 --> 00:41:54,080
How many people y'all think
be affected
905
00:41:54,114 --> 00:41:55,949
by the things that y'all do?
906
00:41:55,982 --> 00:41:57,817
Your whole family.
907
00:41:57,851 --> 00:41:59,886
We don't want to see y'all
in here,
908
00:41:59,919 --> 00:42:03,623
especially it's too many
brothers gone off the street.
909
00:42:03,656 --> 00:42:05,625
And so many women out there.
910
00:42:05,658 --> 00:42:07,627
It's like five women
to every man.
911
00:42:07,660 --> 00:42:09,629
Don't y'all want to see
all them beautiful women?
912
00:42:09,662 --> 00:42:11,031
[ murmuring ]
913
00:42:11,064 --> 00:42:12,766
Y'all got to get out of here,
then.
914
00:42:12,799 --> 00:42:13,867
Man: All right.
915
00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:15,135
Y'all got to get out of here.
916
00:42:15,168 --> 00:42:17,871
They're waiting
for a Black, strong brother
917
00:42:17,904 --> 00:42:19,773
to get out of here
918
00:42:19,806 --> 00:42:21,675
and do something different
with themselves.
919
00:42:21,708 --> 00:42:22,942
I want to know
what y'all have learned
920
00:42:22,976 --> 00:42:24,911
while y'all been in this place
921
00:42:24,944 --> 00:42:29,182
and what are you gonna do
to change when you get out.
922
00:42:29,215 --> 00:42:32,752
- Good evening.
- How are you?
923
00:42:32,786 --> 00:42:36,356
I notice that most of us
dance around the problem.
924
00:42:40,694 --> 00:42:42,629
It's the slave mentality.
925
00:42:42,662 --> 00:42:44,197
[ one man claps ]
926
00:42:44,230 --> 00:42:46,666
That's the problem.
That's the heart of the problem.
927
00:42:46,700 --> 00:42:49,969
We are inclined to do
the things that we do.
928
00:42:50,003 --> 00:42:52,939
We don't feel like there's
anything else we can do.
929
00:42:52,972 --> 00:42:55,075
There's a lot of us
that are afraid to change
930
00:42:55,108 --> 00:42:57,944
because they think
it makes them weaker.
931
00:42:57,977 --> 00:42:59,112
Man: Right.
932
00:43:01,448 --> 00:43:04,718
How you doing?
My name is Kenneth West.
933
00:43:04,751 --> 00:43:08,154
I started using heroin
when I was 16 years old.
934
00:43:08,188 --> 00:43:11,991
I watch young men come in now
into the system
935
00:43:12,025 --> 00:43:16,863
who have been sold
into a misconception of life.
936
00:43:16,896 --> 00:43:19,766
Identification is lost.
937
00:43:19,799 --> 00:43:22,435
You've been mistaught.
938
00:43:22,469 --> 00:43:25,772
You're undertrained,
undergirded.
939
00:43:25,805 --> 00:43:28,742
But here's where I'm at,
Ms. Freedia.
940
00:43:28,775 --> 00:43:34,848
What we can do is we can try
to re-facilitate to them
941
00:43:34,881 --> 00:43:38,051
what the role of masculinity
really is
942
00:43:38,084 --> 00:43:41,454
and what is our role
in family,
943
00:43:41,488 --> 00:43:45,025
relationship, community,
and church.
944
00:43:45,058 --> 00:43:48,161
I'm asking you to grow up,
945
00:43:48,194 --> 00:43:52,198
grow up into a mentality
that becomes men.
946
00:43:52,232 --> 00:43:54,134
God bless you.
947
00:43:54,167 --> 00:43:55,135
Yes, sir.
948
00:43:57,771 --> 00:43:59,439
Thank you to all of the people
that made it possible
949
00:43:59,472 --> 00:44:01,041
for me to be here today.
950
00:44:01,074 --> 00:44:03,777
I'm the one and only
Big Freedia the Queen Diva.
951
00:44:03,810 --> 00:44:05,879
* You already know *
952
00:44:05,912 --> 00:44:08,715
Choir: * Ain't nobody *
953
00:44:08,748 --> 00:44:10,283
* Do me like Jesus *
954
00:44:10,316 --> 00:44:12,886
* There ain't nobody *
955
00:44:12,919 --> 00:44:14,988
* Do me like the Lord *
956
00:44:15,021 --> 00:44:17,223
* There ain't nobody *
957
00:44:17,257 --> 00:44:19,259
* Do me like Jesus *
958
00:44:19,292 --> 00:44:22,762
* He's my friend *
959
00:44:22,796 --> 00:44:23,897
There ain't nobody. Let's go!
960
00:44:23,930 --> 00:44:26,966
* There ain't nobody *
961
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,468
* Do me like Jesus *
962
00:44:28,501 --> 00:44:31,237
* There ain't nobody *
963
00:44:31,271 --> 00:44:33,173
* Do me like the Lord *
964
00:44:33,206 --> 00:44:36,176
* There ain't nobody *
965
00:44:36,209 --> 00:44:38,011
* Do me like Jesus *
966
00:44:38,044 --> 00:44:42,048
* He's my friend *
967
00:44:42,082 --> 00:44:44,951
I never thought I would be
carrying a gun.
968
00:44:44,984 --> 00:44:47,053
I was, you know,
I grew up in a church.
969
00:44:47,087 --> 00:44:48,922
I was a choir girl.
970
00:44:48,955 --> 00:44:51,224
* Suddenly you are no more *
971
00:44:51,257 --> 00:44:52,959
* Suddenly... *
972
00:44:52,992 --> 00:44:55,161
I went to Sunday school
every Sunday.
973
00:44:55,195 --> 00:44:56,796
* ...ore *
974
00:44:56,830 --> 00:44:58,198
* Suddenly you are... *
975
00:44:58,231 --> 00:45:01,067
But I also didn't ever think
that I would be shot
976
00:45:01,101 --> 00:45:02,302
and have to protect myself.
977
00:45:02,335 --> 00:45:04,971
* ...you are no more *
978
00:45:05,005 --> 00:45:07,040
Things happen in your life
979
00:45:07,073 --> 00:45:11,311
that make you change
your whole outlook on life.
980
00:45:17,317 --> 00:45:19,552
It was late night.
981
00:45:19,586 --> 00:45:22,222
Bringing one of the girls
that I was cool with
982
00:45:22,255 --> 00:45:25,258
home from the club.
983
00:45:25,291 --> 00:45:29,329
As we were turning right here
onto Orleans Avenue,
984
00:45:29,362 --> 00:45:32,899
the police had a car
pulled over right here.
985
00:45:32,932 --> 00:45:35,835
So I remember that
because the lights was on.
986
00:45:35,869 --> 00:45:39,305
And what I did was
I turned here on this street.
987
00:45:43,009 --> 00:45:47,847
I dropped her off to her house
which was on this side.
988
00:45:47,881 --> 00:45:51,184
And as I'm going
around the curb,
989
00:45:51,217 --> 00:45:54,120
there's a dude standing
in the middle of the driveway
990
00:45:54,154 --> 00:45:56,056
just in front of my car.
991
00:45:56,089 --> 00:45:58,558
I'm like, "What is this?
What is he tripping out?"
992
00:45:58,591 --> 00:46:00,026
His eyes were, like,
super big.
993
00:46:01,594 --> 00:46:03,863
I waited for a moment.
994
00:46:03,897 --> 00:46:05,799
When he moved to the side...
995
00:46:08,201 --> 00:46:09,936
all I heard was gunshots.
996
00:46:13,340 --> 00:46:15,008
When the window shattered,
997
00:46:15,041 --> 00:46:17,110
I got hit with my first bullet.
998
00:46:17,143 --> 00:46:20,380
And when I realized,
I started ducking.
999
00:46:20,413 --> 00:46:25,885
I put my hand up like this
to cover the back of my head,
1000
00:46:25,919 --> 00:46:27,087
and thank God I did.
1001
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,988
Bullet got, you know,
1002
00:46:29,022 --> 00:46:31,257
jammed right here in my wrist.
1003
00:46:31,291 --> 00:46:33,159
So thank God
for putting up my hand
1004
00:46:33,193 --> 00:46:35,628
because if I hadn't
have put up my hand,
1005
00:46:35,662 --> 00:46:38,131
I would have been shot
in the back of my head.
1006
00:46:38,164 --> 00:46:40,433
I can remember
driving off real fast,
1007
00:46:40,467 --> 00:46:41,901
and I slammed into another car,
1008
00:46:41,935 --> 00:46:44,104
and I turned out the driveway.
1009
00:46:44,137 --> 00:46:46,639
I went right back
down the street
1010
00:46:46,673 --> 00:46:49,042
to the same police
that had the vehicle stopped
1011
00:46:49,075 --> 00:46:50,310
two blocks up the street,
1012
00:46:50,343 --> 00:46:52,112
and I pulled up to the police,
1013
00:46:52,145 --> 00:46:54,080
and I said, "I've been shot."
1014
00:46:58,251 --> 00:47:01,121
I remember blacking out
after I told him I got shot.
1015
00:47:03,356 --> 00:47:05,658
I was very terrified.
1016
00:47:05,692 --> 00:47:07,961
This person was still
out on the streets.
1017
00:47:07,994 --> 00:47:10,096
You know,
I remembered his face.
1018
00:47:10,130 --> 00:47:11,431
Why did he do this to me?
1019
00:47:11,464 --> 00:47:13,233
Was he trying to rob me?
1020
00:47:13,266 --> 00:47:16,036
Or was he trying to make
a name for his self?
1021
00:47:16,069 --> 00:47:18,038
Was he trying
to put one under his belt?
1022
00:47:20,373 --> 00:47:22,208
And my mom was like,
1023
00:47:22,242 --> 00:47:24,444
"You're not gonna be
captivated in your own city
1024
00:47:24,477 --> 00:47:25,645
in your own house."
1025
00:47:29,049 --> 00:47:32,052
The only way for me to feel
safe to get out of the house
1026
00:47:32,085 --> 00:47:34,654
was to carry a gun.
1027
00:47:35,488 --> 00:47:39,125
I went, and I had to fill out
all type of paperwork,
1028
00:47:39,159 --> 00:47:42,996
and they did
the background check.
1029
00:47:43,029 --> 00:47:45,031
That's the only way
that I felt safe--
1030
00:47:45,065 --> 00:47:48,234
that I had something
to protect myself now.
1031
00:47:48,268 --> 00:47:50,470
I was never out
to harm anybody.
1032
00:47:50,503 --> 00:47:52,939
I was out
to just protect myself
1033
00:47:52,972 --> 00:47:54,341
if push came to shove.
1034
00:47:54,374 --> 00:47:55,475
And, um--
1035
00:47:57,510 --> 00:47:58,978
Still didn't get it.
All right.
1036
00:48:03,249 --> 00:48:04,684
A lot of New Orleans
bounce artists
1037
00:48:04,718 --> 00:48:06,119
died too early,
1038
00:48:06,152 --> 00:48:08,221
and their legacy become
"They're dead,"
1039
00:48:08,254 --> 00:48:11,024
and I never wanted that
to be me.
1040
00:48:11,057 --> 00:48:13,960
Magnolia Shorty
was my friend.
1041
00:48:15,061 --> 00:48:16,963
We were like the two
hottest bounce artists
1042
00:48:16,996 --> 00:48:18,164
at the time.
1043
00:48:18,198 --> 00:48:21,034
She was like
the female version of me,
1044
00:48:21,067 --> 00:48:23,536
and I was like
the female version of her,
1045
00:48:23,570 --> 00:48:27,173
so it was just like
we were on that same path,
1046
00:48:27,207 --> 00:48:29,009
repping New Orleans
1047
00:48:29,042 --> 00:48:30,410
and putting New Orleans
back on the map
1048
00:48:30,443 --> 00:48:32,278
through bounce music.
1049
00:48:32,312 --> 00:48:33,480
New Orleans police
1050
00:48:33,513 --> 00:48:35,181
are investigating
three deadly shootings
1051
00:48:35,215 --> 00:48:37,017
in a span of just two hours.
1052
00:48:37,050 --> 00:48:39,519
The latest incident happened
around 12:30 this afternoon.
1053
00:48:39,552 --> 00:48:42,288
Freedia:
She was brutally killed and shot
1054
00:48:42,322 --> 00:48:45,358
because of the guy
she was hanging out with.
1055
00:48:45,392 --> 00:48:49,162
There were actually,
you know, hearsay
1056
00:48:49,195 --> 00:48:52,165
they were actually
looking to kill him,
1057
00:48:52,198 --> 00:48:54,300
and she was in the car
with him at the same time.
1058
00:48:54,334 --> 00:48:57,437
Newscaster: So far, there
are no suspects or a motive.
1059
00:48:57,470 --> 00:48:59,406
Can't have any witnesses.
1060
00:48:59,439 --> 00:49:03,109
So she was killed
on a funny style.
1061
00:49:03,143 --> 00:49:05,178
Make that ass
sound like a car.
1062
00:49:05,211 --> 00:49:06,479
5, 4, 3...
1063
00:49:06,513 --> 00:49:09,382
Messy Mya was also
another local artist
1064
00:49:09,416 --> 00:49:10,750
who was on a rise.
1065
00:49:10,784 --> 00:49:13,319
Beyoncé used both of our voices
1066
00:49:13,353 --> 00:49:17,791
as a voiceover
in the "Formation" remix.
1067
00:49:17,824 --> 00:49:20,026
What happened
at the New Orleans?
1068
00:49:20,060 --> 00:49:23,029
Messy Mya was killed,
unfortunately,
1069
00:49:23,063 --> 00:49:25,298
at a block party
that I had just left at
1070
00:49:25,331 --> 00:49:27,767
and finished performing at.
1071
00:49:27,801 --> 00:49:31,071
And that particular day,
I felt something strange
1072
00:49:31,104 --> 00:49:32,405
was gonna happen
at the block party
1073
00:49:32,439 --> 00:49:34,140
'cause a lot of times
1074
00:49:34,174 --> 00:49:36,109
it's usually shooting
at the block party.
1075
00:49:36,142 --> 00:49:38,345
I've had to, like,
duck under cars
1076
00:49:38,378 --> 00:49:40,246
and behind trucks
and hide behind trash cans.
1077
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,549
And that particular day,
1078
00:49:42,582 --> 00:49:45,085
I was, like, "I'm gonna rap
and I'm gonna leave.
1079
00:49:45,118 --> 00:49:47,087
I'm not gonna hang around."
1080
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,322
And 10, 15 minutes later,
they called me
1081
00:49:49,356 --> 00:49:51,424
and said
that Messy Mya was dead.
1082
00:49:51,458 --> 00:49:54,060
We're out here.
We're making a stand
1083
00:49:54,094 --> 00:49:55,829
because we feel like
enough is enough.
1084
00:49:55,862 --> 00:49:58,498
One of the bounce legends--
1085
00:49:58,531 --> 00:50:01,101
Big Freedia's gonna say
a few works for us.
1086
00:50:01,134 --> 00:50:04,304
I am very saddened about our
loss to the bounce community
1087
00:50:04,337 --> 00:50:06,473
and to the bounce family.
1088
00:50:06,506 --> 00:50:09,109
Messy Mya--We all knew Mya
for telling jokes
1089
00:50:09,142 --> 00:50:10,577
and making us all laugh.
1090
00:50:10,610 --> 00:50:12,512
Instead of this being
something sad,
1091
00:50:12,545 --> 00:50:14,280
we can celebrate his life.
1092
00:50:14,314 --> 00:50:17,117
Now it's time for us
to stick together
1093
00:50:17,150 --> 00:50:18,551
more than anything.
1094
00:50:18,585 --> 00:50:21,821
And let this be an experience
that we all can learn from
1095
00:50:21,855 --> 00:50:23,656
to love each other more.
1096
00:50:23,690 --> 00:50:25,291
Thank you all so much.
1097
00:50:25,325 --> 00:50:26,826
Woman: One love.
1098
00:50:36,569 --> 00:50:39,239
- What's going on?
- Hey, what's going on, Freedia?
1099
00:50:39,272 --> 00:50:41,508
- I'm chillin'. How you doing?
- Wonderful. Wonderful.
1100
00:50:41,541 --> 00:50:44,878
So this my neighborhood.
I grew up here.
1101
00:50:44,911 --> 00:50:47,447
Come around here,
trying to educate people
1102
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,249
of gun violence
1103
00:50:49,282 --> 00:50:52,652
that we can, um, be able to live
in this community together
1104
00:50:52,686 --> 00:50:56,289
without killing one another.
- Hell, yeah.
1105
00:50:56,322 --> 00:50:57,891
Lost a lot of people
in this neighborhood
1106
00:50:57,924 --> 00:50:59,893
to gun violence.
- I can imagine.
1107
00:50:59,926 --> 00:51:03,296
A lot of cousins
and good friends of mine
1108
00:51:03,329 --> 00:51:06,199
and, unfortunately,
by the hands of one another.
1109
00:51:06,232 --> 00:51:09,169
I would never admit
to killing no one.
1110
00:51:09,202 --> 00:51:12,172
Right? Even if I have.
1111
00:51:12,205 --> 00:51:15,675
But I went to jail for it,
and I went to trial for it.
1112
00:51:15,709 --> 00:51:16,643
Right?
1113
00:51:18,411 --> 00:51:21,548
I was in the wrong place
at the wrong time.
1114
00:51:21,581 --> 00:51:26,486
There's a lot of dynamics
to gun violence.
1115
00:51:26,519 --> 00:51:28,455
Like, ain't nobody
just jumping up saying
1116
00:51:28,488 --> 00:51:30,190
"Oh, I'm gonna
just be a killer."
1117
00:51:30,223 --> 00:51:31,491
That is not how that started.
1118
00:51:36,229 --> 00:51:39,165
I grew up. We were very poor.
1119
00:51:39,199 --> 00:51:41,201
Lot of things
I was dealing with.
1120
00:51:41,234 --> 00:51:44,270
My stepfather
was really abusive.
1121
00:51:44,304 --> 00:51:45,739
And because of that,
1122
00:51:45,772 --> 00:51:49,275
I had a lot of, um,
psychological problems.
1123
00:51:49,309 --> 00:51:53,613
The way I acted out landed me
in different institutions.
1124
00:51:53,646 --> 00:51:55,949
I probably was
the youngest person in there.
1125
00:51:55,982 --> 00:51:59,252
I was definitely the smallest.
1126
00:51:59,285 --> 00:52:01,755
We used to go
to the 7-Eleven down the street
1127
00:52:01,788 --> 00:52:04,624
and steal alcohol, and,
you know, we would drink it.
1128
00:52:04,657 --> 00:52:06,359
And before you know it,
1129
00:52:06,393 --> 00:52:08,228
you know,
I was snorting cocaine.
1130
00:52:08,261 --> 00:52:10,930
I think I was 10, 11 years old.
1131
00:52:10,964 --> 00:52:13,233
What's up, soldier?
1132
00:52:13,266 --> 00:52:14,668
Oh, yeah, it's a good day.
1133
00:52:14,701 --> 00:52:16,770
- How you feeling?
- What's up?
1134
00:52:16,803 --> 00:52:18,538
You good?
1135
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,943
I was known in my part of town
as a jack artist
1136
00:52:23,977 --> 00:52:26,646
'cause, you know, I would
rob people to support my habit.
1137
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,948
You know, breaking in cars
and breaking in houses.
1138
00:52:28,982 --> 00:52:30,784
that had guns in there.
1139
00:52:30,817 --> 00:52:33,586
So I've always had a gun.
1140
00:52:33,620 --> 00:52:36,690
I almost lost my life about
three times on this corner.
1141
00:52:36,723 --> 00:52:39,292
Yeah, so you got a lot of pain
in this neighborhood.
1142
00:52:39,325 --> 00:52:41,661
Right. So this is
the spot right here
1143
00:52:41,695 --> 00:52:43,730
where I actually got shot.
1144
00:52:43,763 --> 00:52:46,533
They had so many bullets
coming at me.
1145
00:52:46,566 --> 00:52:48,668
You know,
I had ran out of bullets.
1146
00:52:48,702 --> 00:52:51,538
I only had a handgun,
and I was shot in my arm,
1147
00:52:51,571 --> 00:52:52,739
and I was shot in my leg.
1148
00:52:52,772 --> 00:52:56,576
The guy ran over.
He stood up over me,
1149
00:52:56,609 --> 00:52:59,512
and he was shooting.
1150
00:52:59,546 --> 00:53:01,548
He was shooting.
I just thought I was dead.
1151
00:53:01,581 --> 00:53:03,683
You know, for some reason,
1152
00:53:03,717 --> 00:53:07,387
he just turned around
and jumped in the car and ran.
1153
00:53:07,420 --> 00:53:11,491
I was 19 years old,
and I should've been dead.
1154
00:53:13,059 --> 00:53:15,261
What's up, brother?
How you been?
1155
00:53:15,295 --> 00:53:16,363
- Your world.
- You been all right?
1156
00:53:16,396 --> 00:53:18,531
- Yes, indeed, man.
- That's what I'm talking about.
1157
00:53:18,565 --> 00:53:19,566
It's Freedia right here, bruh.
- What's happening?
1158
00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:21,501
- How you doing?
- I'm good.
1159
00:53:21,534 --> 00:53:24,571
This Lamont. Me and Lamont used
to run the street together.
1160
00:53:24,604 --> 00:53:26,539
How long you been
in that chair, bruh?
1161
00:53:26,573 --> 00:53:29,709
Since '90.
I got shot at a young age,
1162
00:53:29,743 --> 00:53:31,678
you know, in the projects.
1163
00:53:31,711 --> 00:53:34,781
Somebody tried to...rob me.
1164
00:53:34,814 --> 00:53:37,350
I wouldn't give up the money.
Young at the time.
1165
00:53:38,485 --> 00:53:40,020
Living that life.
1166
00:53:41,755 --> 00:53:43,590
Rebellious.
1167
00:53:43,623 --> 00:53:45,525
- You know I was.
- Right, right.
1168
00:53:45,558 --> 00:53:47,527
You know, stubborn.
1169
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,563
The first desire of man
is to survive.
1170
00:53:50,597 --> 00:53:52,532
And when our survival is
threatened,
1171
00:53:52,565 --> 00:53:53,633
then we will do anything.
1172
00:53:54,868 --> 00:53:57,504
There's my other cousin
out here in this wheelchair.
1173
00:53:57,537 --> 00:53:59,873
He been in that chair
for about 30 years.
1174
00:53:59,906 --> 00:54:02,342
- How you doing, brother?
- Good.
1175
00:54:02,375 --> 00:54:03,777
What's up? How you doing?
1176
00:54:03,810 --> 00:54:08,348
If you wanted to survive
on the street,
1177
00:54:08,381 --> 00:54:10,350
you have to hold yourself down.
1178
00:54:10,383 --> 00:54:11,718
You know, you got to be a man.
1179
00:54:11,751 --> 00:54:13,453
If not, then everybody
gonna mess with you.
1180
00:54:13,486 --> 00:54:15,755
I did a lot of destructive
things around here,
1181
00:54:15,789 --> 00:54:17,857
but right now I'm just trying
to keep young Black men alive.
1182
00:54:21,428 --> 00:54:22,862
Can you tell him
that you love him
1183
00:54:22,896 --> 00:54:24,764
just one last time?
1184
00:54:24,798 --> 00:54:26,666
Say "I love you, Daddy."
1185
00:54:26,700 --> 00:54:29,502
I--I love you, Daddy.
1186
00:54:29,536 --> 00:54:31,771
Words from a young boy
to his father
1187
00:54:31,805 --> 00:54:33,873
who was shot and killed
last night in Algiers.
1188
00:54:33,907 --> 00:54:36,376
Woman: An emotional day
for family members
1189
00:54:36,409 --> 00:54:37,677
of Ryan Massey.
1190
00:54:37,711 --> 00:54:39,713
The 25-year-old was shot
multiple times
1191
00:54:39,746 --> 00:54:42,549
at the Garden Oaks
Apartment Complex in Algiers.
1192
00:54:42,582 --> 00:54:45,685
NOPD say a verbal argument
turned physical.
1193
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,821
Earlier today, his family
started a memorial
1194
00:54:47,854 --> 00:54:49,589
in his honor,
1195
00:54:49,622 --> 00:54:51,358
where they say
the hardest part about this
1196
00:54:51,391 --> 00:54:54,527
is having to explain his death
to his 4-year-old son.
1197
00:54:54,561 --> 00:54:57,697
Celebrating the life
of Ryan Massey--
1198
00:54:57,731 --> 00:55:01,801
sunrise October 10, 1992,
1199
00:55:01,835 --> 00:55:06,406
sunset April 5, 2018.
1200
00:55:06,439 --> 00:55:10,777
This is the third nephew
I've lost to the street.
1201
00:55:10,810 --> 00:55:15,448
If my family don't see
what I see,
1202
00:55:15,482 --> 00:55:16,950
something wrong.
1203
00:55:16,983 --> 00:55:19,619
Father God, we thank You today
1204
00:55:19,652 --> 00:55:22,722
for all the ministers,
1205
00:55:22,756 --> 00:55:25,759
for the Massey families,
1206
00:55:25,792 --> 00:55:29,662
all the friends, God,
that came from near and far.
1207
00:55:29,696 --> 00:55:31,598
I remember when I was
becoming a man,
1208
00:55:31,631 --> 00:55:32,599
we used to fist fight.
1209
00:55:32,632 --> 00:55:34,634
That was our guns.
1210
00:55:34,668 --> 00:55:37,437
Now when you fight,
you ain't shaking it off,
1211
00:55:37,470 --> 00:55:40,440
scared of whooping,
1212
00:55:40,473 --> 00:55:43,643
scared of--
scared of beat-down.
1213
00:55:43,677 --> 00:55:45,845
You go and get a gun.
1214
00:55:45,879 --> 00:55:47,814
What that gonna solve?
1215
00:55:47,847 --> 00:55:50,150
You kill me.
1216
00:55:50,183 --> 00:55:51,851
Either you're gonna get caught,
1217
00:55:51,885 --> 00:55:53,753
or somebody gonna kill you.
1218
00:55:53,787 --> 00:55:55,822
I had the intent today
1219
00:55:55,855 --> 00:55:58,591
to preach on the sermon
"I Fought a Good Fight,"
1220
00:55:58,625 --> 00:56:01,528
but when I got ready
to come across the bridge,
1221
00:56:01,561 --> 00:56:04,464
God changed the message.
1222
00:56:04,497 --> 00:56:05,699
See, where I come from--
1223
00:56:05,732 --> 00:56:06,966
I come from oppression,
1224
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:08,735
I come from the brickyard,
1225
00:56:08,768 --> 00:56:10,737
and when you fight
the good fight,
1226
00:56:10,770 --> 00:56:13,606
you get up and you shake hands.
1227
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,642
But somebody don't know
how to fight a good fight.
1228
00:56:15,675 --> 00:56:17,577
[ cheering ]
1229
00:56:17,610 --> 00:56:19,512
A good fight is a clean fight.
1230
00:56:19,546 --> 00:56:20,780
A good fight mean
I can walk away
1231
00:56:20,814 --> 00:56:23,483
and say
"We can still be friends.
1232
00:56:23,516 --> 00:56:26,586
We can still be homies.
We can still be buddies."
1233
00:56:26,619 --> 00:56:28,021
I'm talking about a good fight.
1234
00:56:28,054 --> 00:56:29,956
[ cheering ]
1235
00:56:29,989 --> 00:56:32,625
The right words came
out of his mouth to me
1236
00:56:32,659 --> 00:56:34,828
that "Unc, I love you."
1237
00:56:34,861 --> 00:56:37,731
That's some powerful words.
1238
00:56:37,764 --> 00:56:40,967
It hurt me
once I got by myself
1239
00:56:41,001 --> 00:56:43,636
'cause I can't let nobody
see me crying,
1240
00:56:43,670 --> 00:56:45,438
let nobody see me break.
1241
00:56:47,507 --> 00:56:50,810
Can't let my emotion
take the best of me.
1242
00:56:50,844 --> 00:56:54,948
Why couldn't you let anyone
see you break down or...
1243
00:56:54,981 --> 00:56:57,917
You feel normal emotions
from losing a...
1244
00:57:00,053 --> 00:57:02,689
My mother asked
that same question
1245
00:57:02,722 --> 00:57:05,258
that you asked me.
1246
00:57:05,291 --> 00:57:07,927
And she said, "Let it out.
1247
00:57:07,961 --> 00:57:11,631
"Maybe it's good for somebody
to be there with you
1248
00:57:11,664 --> 00:57:12,932
when you let it out."
1249
00:57:17,037 --> 00:57:19,806
I just went off on my own
and just...
1250
00:57:19,839 --> 00:57:22,542
went...on the levy.
1251
00:57:25,779 --> 00:57:27,714
I just went on the levy
and just let it out.
1252
00:57:30,917 --> 00:57:32,652
There is something
that I need to say,
1253
00:57:32,686 --> 00:57:34,087
and I need you to hear it.
1254
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,890
Once upon a time,
you would hear the sentiment
1255
00:57:36,923 --> 00:57:40,260
"It takes a village
to raise a child."
1256
00:57:40,293 --> 00:57:42,062
Now we live
in fear of the village
1257
00:57:42,095 --> 00:57:44,297
because our babies
are being slaughtered
1258
00:57:44,330 --> 00:57:46,566
at the hands of our babies.
1259
00:57:46,599 --> 00:57:48,835
We've lost sight
of the village.
1260
00:57:48,868 --> 00:57:51,271
I grew up in the Fisher
Housing Development.
1261
00:57:51,304 --> 00:57:53,707
It is a part
of the Algiers community
1262
00:57:53,740 --> 00:57:56,843
on the west bank
of the Mississippi River.
1263
00:57:56,876 --> 00:57:59,546
It was...
a housing development--
1264
00:57:59,579 --> 00:58:00,847
extreme poverty.
1265
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,616
I grew up in the household
without my father.
1266
00:58:03,650 --> 00:58:05,752
My grandmother raised me
part time
1267
00:58:05,785 --> 00:58:08,088
'cause my mother battled
a drug addiction.
1268
00:58:08,121 --> 00:58:09,856
Even though I grew up
1269
00:58:09,889 --> 00:58:12,092
in what people would consider
the projects--
1270
00:58:12,125 --> 00:58:14,694
we came up
in a very violent area,
1271
00:58:14,728 --> 00:58:16,863
but we also came up
with a lot of loving people.
1272
00:58:16,896 --> 00:58:19,899
We had what I consider
to be a village.
1273
00:58:19,933 --> 00:58:21,768
There was always people around
1274
00:58:21,801 --> 00:58:23,136
that could kind of push you
in the right direction.
1275
00:58:23,169 --> 00:58:24,671
Even if your parent
1276
00:58:24,704 --> 00:58:27,607
or your guardian by blood
wasn't there,
1277
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:29,876
then your neighborhood
grandmother or aunt
1278
00:58:29,909 --> 00:58:31,578
could always chastise you
1279
00:58:31,611 --> 00:58:33,813
and kind of get you
back on the right track.
1280
00:58:33,847 --> 00:58:37,083
All of the neighbors
knew you, knew your parents,
1281
00:58:37,117 --> 00:58:39,886
and not just
"Hey, how you doing?"
1282
00:58:39,919 --> 00:58:43,590
They knew you by name.
They knew where you lived.
1283
00:58:43,623 --> 00:58:44,891
They knew
your mama's phone number,
1284
00:58:44,924 --> 00:58:47,327
your mama, your grandmother,
your grandfather,
1285
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,829
and of course they got you
in a lot of trouble, too,
1286
00:58:49,863 --> 00:58:51,898
because if they saw you
doing something
1287
00:58:51,931 --> 00:58:53,133
or thought
you were doing something,
1288
00:58:53,166 --> 00:58:55,068
you got in trouble.
1289
00:58:55,101 --> 00:58:56,703
The neighbor
would whoop your ass
1290
00:58:56,736 --> 00:58:58,872
before you got home,
1291
00:58:58,905 --> 00:59:00,774
and then your mom
and your daddy
1292
00:59:00,807 --> 00:59:01,975
would whoop your ass.
1293
00:59:02,008 --> 00:59:03,910
I wasn't just raised
by my mom and dad.
1294
00:59:03,943 --> 00:59:07,647
I was raised by my aunts,
my uncles, my cousins.
1295
00:59:07,681 --> 00:59:09,616
Everybody helped to raise us.
1296
00:59:09,649 --> 00:59:11,618
So I think that's
the largest change,
1297
00:59:11,651 --> 00:59:13,186
that the village
is disappearing
1298
00:59:13,219 --> 00:59:14,354
right before our eyes.
1299
00:59:19,426 --> 00:59:20,827
Ray Nagin:
Ladies and gentlemen,
1300
00:59:20,860 --> 00:59:22,662
this is not a test.
1301
00:59:22,696 --> 00:59:24,864
This is the real deal.
1302
00:59:24,898 --> 00:59:27,033
There's a major hurricane
1303
00:59:27,067 --> 00:59:29,135
that is in the Gulf of Mexico.
1304
00:59:29,169 --> 00:59:31,871
This is the storm
of the century.
1305
00:59:31,905 --> 00:59:34,674
Freedia: New Orleans
has always had its problems,
1306
00:59:34,708 --> 00:59:36,943
but it's just never been
the same since Katrina.
1307
00:59:36,976 --> 00:59:39,412
I was about 27
when Katrina hit.
1308
00:59:39,446 --> 00:59:41,214
Adam was about 22.
1309
00:59:41,247 --> 00:59:43,717
Crystal had just had her baby.
1310
00:59:43,750 --> 00:59:46,686
There have been
evacuation orders,
1311
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:48,888
but for the most part,
it seems
1312
00:59:48,922 --> 00:59:50,790
like many people are gonna
just take their chance.
1313
00:59:50,824 --> 00:59:52,859
We were just like
the typical New Orleans people.
1314
00:59:52,892 --> 00:59:54,160
We didn't want to evacuate.
1315
00:59:54,194 --> 00:59:56,996
We thought, Oh,
it's just gonna blow over.
1316
01:00:00,700 --> 01:00:02,836
Woman:
Quite incredible scene here.
1317
01:00:02,869 --> 01:00:05,705
The flooding on the street
has gotten considerably worse.
1318
01:00:05,739 --> 01:00:07,974
I've got some skyscrapers
off to my right here,
1319
01:00:08,008 --> 01:00:11,411
and we are just watching
them fall apart.
1320
01:00:11,444 --> 01:00:15,015
Man: The worst of the storm
has now reached New Orleans.
1321
01:00:15,048 --> 01:00:18,118
This is the moment
we've been talking about.
1322
01:00:18,151 --> 01:00:19,853
Man #2: If the predictions
come true,
1323
01:00:19,886 --> 01:00:21,454
if the predictions are right,
1324
01:00:21,488 --> 01:00:23,023
there will be
a lot of dead people
1325
01:00:23,056 --> 01:00:24,190
in New Orleans tomorrow,
1326
01:00:24,224 --> 01:00:25,859
there's no question about it.
1327
01:00:36,736 --> 01:00:39,072
[ helicopter ]
1328
01:00:39,105 --> 01:00:41,241
Freedia:
It was the worst storm ever.
1329
01:00:41,274 --> 01:00:45,912
It hit, and we were
trapped in my house.
1330
01:00:48,114 --> 01:00:49,482
Man: Give me line 5.
1331
01:00:49,516 --> 01:00:51,051
Freddie in Lakefront,
Freddie on WWL.
1332
01:01:04,931 --> 01:01:06,733
All right,
they're monitoring this.
1333
01:01:06,766 --> 01:01:09,836
All I can tell you is do
everything you can to signal
1334
01:01:09,869 --> 01:01:11,471
if the helicopters
are passing over you.
1335
01:01:11,504 --> 01:01:13,239
Yeah. You're the exc--
1336
01:01:13,273 --> 01:01:15,041
And is the water rising
any more?
1337
01:01:23,216 --> 01:01:25,185
All right, I got you.
1338
01:01:25,218 --> 01:01:27,921
I'll cross my fingers
and say a prayer, Fred.
1339
01:01:27,954 --> 01:01:29,823
Good luck to you. Godspeed.
1340
01:01:29,856 --> 01:01:31,024
Thank you.
1341
01:01:35,195 --> 01:01:38,131
We were stuck there
for two days
1342
01:01:38,164 --> 01:01:41,201
before we was rescued
by a boat.
1343
01:01:42,936 --> 01:01:46,773
* I shall not *
1344
01:01:46,806 --> 01:01:50,810
* I shall not be moved *
1345
01:01:50,844 --> 01:01:54,247
* I shall not *
1346
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:56,950
* I shall not be moved *
1347
01:01:56,983 --> 01:01:59,886
* Just like a tree *
1348
01:01:59,919 --> 01:02:04,958
* That's planted by the Lord *
1349
01:02:04,991 --> 01:02:13,299
* Oh, I shall not be moved *
1350
01:02:15,835 --> 01:02:18,138
We wound up sleeping
on the bridge for a night,
1351
01:02:18,171 --> 01:02:21,307
and then some buses came
and got us the next morning
1352
01:02:21,341 --> 01:02:23,176
and brought us
by the Superdome...
1353
01:02:27,414 --> 01:02:31,151
where we were turned around
with guns at the Superdome.
1354
01:02:33,019 --> 01:02:35,288
And we were told
to go to the Convention Center.
1355
01:02:35,321 --> 01:02:38,291
Help! Help! Help! Help!
1356
01:02:38,324 --> 01:02:40,560
Help! Help! Help! Help!
1357
01:02:40,593 --> 01:02:42,829
Help! Help! Help! Help!
1358
01:02:42,862 --> 01:02:45,198
Help! Help! Help! Help!
1359
01:02:45,231 --> 01:02:47,267
Help! Help! Help! Help!
1360
01:02:47,300 --> 01:02:50,003
I think one of the things
that people want us to do here
1361
01:02:50,036 --> 01:02:51,304
is to play a blame game.
1362
01:02:51,338 --> 01:02:53,039
I...
1363
01:02:53,073 --> 01:02:55,575
We got to solve problems.
We're problem solvers.
1364
01:02:57,277 --> 01:02:59,946
What I'm interested
is helping save lives.
1365
01:02:59,979 --> 01:03:01,181
That's what I want to do.
1366
01:03:03,883 --> 01:03:05,151
That five nights
1367
01:03:05,185 --> 01:03:07,420
staying on that ground
by the Convention Center
1368
01:03:07,454 --> 01:03:09,923
probably was the worst
five nights of my life.
1369
01:03:19,933 --> 01:03:20,934
Aw, baby.
1370
01:03:23,103 --> 01:03:25,238
When I left after Katrina--
1371
01:03:25,271 --> 01:03:28,041
I was gone
about 10 to 12 months
1372
01:03:28,074 --> 01:03:29,943
before I went
back to New Orleans.
1373
01:03:33,346 --> 01:03:35,115
It still had a smell
1374
01:03:35,148 --> 01:03:38,618
like something was dead
in the whole city.
1375
01:03:38,651 --> 01:03:40,453
Oh, my God,
is this really New Orleans?
1376
01:03:40,487 --> 01:03:42,322
You could not believe
1377
01:03:42,355 --> 01:03:45,892
that a city
that was full of so much life
1378
01:03:45,925 --> 01:03:47,260
was just like a dead city.
1379
01:04:05,979 --> 01:04:08,314
Now you had neighborhoods
1380
01:04:08,348 --> 01:04:10,250
that previously didn't
really jell.
1381
01:04:10,283 --> 01:04:12,152
Now they're in the same area.
1382
01:04:12,185 --> 01:04:14,988
People feel like they
have to be territorial, right?
1383
01:04:15,021 --> 01:04:17,323
So you have young people now
1384
01:04:17,357 --> 01:04:19,693
that they grew up
hearing stories
1385
01:04:19,726 --> 01:04:23,229
about how their relatives lived
in this housing development
1386
01:04:23,263 --> 01:04:24,931
and another one lived
in this neighborhood
1387
01:04:24,964 --> 01:04:26,032
or housing development
1388
01:04:26,066 --> 01:04:27,701
and these areas
didn't get along.
1389
01:04:27,734 --> 01:04:29,436
So now they grow up
hearing this,
1390
01:04:29,469 --> 01:04:31,071
and they feel like
"We have to continue
1391
01:04:31,104 --> 01:04:33,039
this crazy legacy."
1392
01:04:33,073 --> 01:04:34,240
In this city,
1393
01:04:34,274 --> 01:04:37,243
people are particular
about areas
1394
01:04:37,277 --> 01:04:39,379
and turfs and wards
1395
01:04:39,412 --> 01:04:40,980
and neighborhoods,
1396
01:04:41,014 --> 01:04:42,682
and when you mix that
all together,
1397
01:04:42,716 --> 01:04:47,253
that's not always a recipe
for rose petals and lilies.
1398
01:04:47,287 --> 01:04:51,057
The social system for kids
is nonexistent, you know.
1399
01:04:51,091 --> 01:04:53,226
My kids can't come out here
and go around the corner
1400
01:04:53,259 --> 01:04:55,128
and play with the kids
around the corner
1401
01:04:55,161 --> 01:04:56,996
'cause there aren't any kids
around the corner.
1402
01:04:57,030 --> 01:04:58,531
Who's worrying about
what type of child
1403
01:04:58,565 --> 01:05:01,067
we're gonna have
5 or 10 years up the road?
1404
01:05:01,101 --> 01:05:02,535
I am
1405
01:05:02,569 --> 01:05:04,537
'cause I don't want
my grandchildren to be the one
1406
01:05:04,571 --> 01:05:06,106
that's gonna stick a gun
in somebody's face.
1407
01:05:06,139 --> 01:05:08,708
All that has a psychic cost.
1408
01:05:10,543 --> 01:05:14,280
Charles: I look at these boys,
and I see pain,
1409
01:05:14,314 --> 01:05:17,083
and we don't let them
be vulnerable.
1410
01:05:17,117 --> 01:05:18,518
That's not healthy.
1411
01:05:18,551 --> 01:05:20,420
If you're never allowed
to express that,
1412
01:05:20,453 --> 01:05:22,455
it's going to come out
1413
01:05:22,489 --> 01:05:25,125
and likely
in a destructive way.
1414
01:05:28,161 --> 01:05:31,064
There's a epidemiologist
1415
01:05:31,097 --> 01:05:34,434
that says violence
is a contagion.
1416
01:05:34,467 --> 01:05:37,771
It acts like a disease,
1417
01:05:37,804 --> 01:05:42,242
that it transfers
to the next person
1418
01:05:42,275 --> 01:05:44,377
to the next person.
1419
01:05:44,411 --> 01:05:47,147
When I look at the age range
1420
01:05:47,180 --> 01:05:51,151
of young people who have
committed gun violence
1421
01:05:51,184 --> 01:05:55,455
and who are victims
of gun violence, right?
1422
01:05:55,488 --> 01:06:00,527
I think about the age they were
when Hurricane Katrina hit...
1423
01:06:03,596 --> 01:06:07,500
and the trauma
that they had to suffer
1424
01:06:07,534 --> 01:06:09,469
through that whole ordeal.
1425
01:06:09,502 --> 01:06:11,471
One of the things
1426
01:06:11,504 --> 01:06:15,208
that people in the community
suffer from
1427
01:06:15,241 --> 01:06:20,780
is post-traumatic
stress disorder--PTSD.
1428
01:06:20,814 --> 01:06:24,484
People are traumatized.
1429
01:06:24,517 --> 01:06:29,222
Some of those kids were 8,
9, 10 years old, right?
1430
01:06:29,255 --> 01:06:32,158
And you look
at the age range now,
1431
01:06:32,192 --> 01:06:35,228
10, 13 years later,
1432
01:06:35,261 --> 01:06:37,497
these are the young people
1433
01:06:37,530 --> 01:06:40,433
that's out here now
1434
01:06:40,467 --> 01:06:41,534
that's cutting up.
1435
01:06:44,371 --> 01:06:46,106
A lot of these young men
out here
1436
01:06:46,139 --> 01:06:47,607
is overcompensating
for their manhood.
1437
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:49,476
Something has happened
to them
1438
01:06:49,509 --> 01:06:51,845
that threatened their manhood.
1439
01:06:51,878 --> 01:06:53,546
- Mm-hmm.
- It doesn't necessarily
1440
01:06:53,580 --> 01:06:55,448
have to be sexual abuse,
1441
01:06:55,482 --> 01:06:57,217
although that is something
that happens.
1442
01:06:57,250 --> 01:06:59,519
- Right.
- We have emotional abuse.
1443
01:06:59,552 --> 01:07:01,254
We have physical abuse.
1444
01:07:01,287 --> 01:07:03,189
And we have young people
out here
1445
01:07:03,223 --> 01:07:05,358
trying to prove to themselves
that they are men.
1446
01:07:05,392 --> 01:07:06,459
Mm-hmm.
1447
01:07:07,594 --> 01:07:09,496
Talking about mental health
1448
01:07:09,529 --> 01:07:12,866
in the Black community
is taboo.
1449
01:07:12,899 --> 01:07:14,434
We don't want to talk
about that.
1450
01:07:14,467 --> 01:07:18,338
If we are not dealing
with our psychological issues,
1451
01:07:18,371 --> 01:07:21,541
then we're gonna always
have our problems.
1452
01:07:21,574 --> 01:07:24,611
But I'm saying this
from my own personal experience.
1453
01:07:24,644 --> 01:07:27,614
I was a problem child
growing up in this neighborhood.
1454
01:07:27,647 --> 01:07:32,152
I've been to institutions
all my young life.
1455
01:07:32,185 --> 01:07:34,688
Psychologically,
something was wrong.
1456
01:07:34,721 --> 01:07:36,122
- Right.
- Something was happening
1457
01:07:36,156 --> 01:07:37,357
with me, right?
1458
01:07:37,390 --> 01:07:39,426
So if we don't deal
with the sickness,
1459
01:07:39,459 --> 01:07:41,361
then the guns
will always be there
1460
01:07:41,394 --> 01:07:42,629
and the dope will
always be there
1461
01:07:42,662 --> 01:07:44,330
and we're gonna always
have the problems.
1462
01:07:46,332 --> 01:07:51,438
My son was born
March of 1996.
1463
01:07:51,471 --> 01:07:56,409
I really knew that I had
to do something, right?
1464
01:07:56,443 --> 01:07:59,546
Joined a 12 Step program.
1465
01:07:59,579 --> 01:08:01,715
You know, I got a sponsor,
1466
01:08:01,748 --> 01:08:04,718
and I've been clean 22 years.
1467
01:08:04,751 --> 01:08:07,620
So that's like my son's
whole lifetime
1468
01:08:07,654 --> 01:08:09,556
that, you know,
that I've been clean.
1469
01:08:09,589 --> 01:08:13,593
And thank God that my children
never seen me like that.
1470
01:08:13,626 --> 01:08:17,397
I'm the person that
even my family members thought
1471
01:08:17,430 --> 01:08:18,732
was not gonna be here.
1472
01:08:18,765 --> 01:08:22,736
I was supposed to be dead
at 16, 17, 18, 19,
1473
01:08:22,769 --> 01:08:25,171
and I'll be 47 in June.
1474
01:08:25,205 --> 01:08:28,174
I know people
who have done less than me
1475
01:08:28,208 --> 01:08:30,577
that's in penitentiary
for the rest of their life
1476
01:08:30,610 --> 01:08:32,278
- or that's dead.
- Right.
1477
01:08:32,312 --> 01:08:33,613
So I have to believe
1478
01:08:33,646 --> 01:08:35,915
that there is something
for me to do.
1479
01:08:35,949 --> 01:08:37,283
- There is a purpose.
- Right.
1480
01:08:37,317 --> 01:08:38,618
- You have your purpose.
- That's right.
1481
01:08:38,651 --> 01:08:40,487
- God wasn't done with you yet.
- Right.
1482
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:44,624
I like to live my life
as an example.
1483
01:08:44,657 --> 01:08:46,626
If I was considered
1484
01:08:46,659 --> 01:08:49,629
the worst person
in my neighborhood, right?
1485
01:08:49,662 --> 01:08:52,632
Then the Creator says,
"Okay, this is the worst one?
1486
01:08:52,665 --> 01:08:54,501
I'll fix him."
1487
01:08:54,534 --> 01:08:56,403
So it takes
everybody's excuses away.
1488
01:09:00,473 --> 01:09:04,611
[ jazzy marching band
music playing ]
1489
01:09:21,361 --> 01:09:22,762
[ gunshot ]
1490
01:09:22,796 --> 01:09:24,397
[ siren blares ]
1491
01:09:24,431 --> 01:09:25,765
We begin tonight
with breaking news.
1492
01:09:25,799 --> 01:09:27,467
New Orleans police
are investigating
1493
01:09:27,500 --> 01:09:29,269
a double shooting in the CBD
1494
01:09:29,302 --> 01:09:30,437
one block off
1495
01:09:30,470 --> 01:09:31,971
the St. Charles Avenue
parade route.
1496
01:09:32,005 --> 01:09:34,541
Witnesses tell me that they saw
a group of teenagers
1497
01:09:34,574 --> 01:09:36,609
take off down Union,
1498
01:09:36,643 --> 01:09:38,411
and then they heard five
to six shots fired.
1499
01:09:38,445 --> 01:09:40,647
One unknown male
was struck in the head.
1500
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:42,282
That male is
in critical condition.
1501
01:09:42,315 --> 01:09:44,684
When I first heard
of the shooting,
1502
01:09:44,718 --> 01:09:46,419
I saw it on the news,
1503
01:09:46,453 --> 01:09:48,822
and I didn't know
whose shot it was,
1504
01:09:48,855 --> 01:09:51,291
but, you know, I remember
saying a little prayer,
1505
01:09:51,324 --> 01:09:52,425
and then, you know,
1506
01:09:52,459 --> 01:09:55,495
when we found out
it was actually Sam,
1507
01:09:55,528 --> 01:09:58,732
you know, it was like
the world just crashed.
1508
01:10:11,644 --> 01:10:14,414
Sam Butler is a kid
1509
01:10:14,447 --> 01:10:16,649
who went to the same
high school as me,
1510
01:10:16,683 --> 01:10:18,318
was a aspiring athlete
1511
01:10:18,351 --> 01:10:20,820
in football and baseball,
1512
01:10:20,854 --> 01:10:25,325
and was shot on Mardi Gras day
by a stray bullet
1513
01:10:25,358 --> 01:10:27,694
right after Adam was killed.
1514
01:10:27,727 --> 01:10:30,497
He didn't look, you know,
anything like his self--
1515
01:10:30,530 --> 01:10:34,768
swollen, staples in his head,
drains, and hooked up,
1516
01:10:34,801 --> 01:10:36,770
not breathing on his own.
1517
01:10:36,803 --> 01:10:39,439
Such a lively young man
1518
01:10:39,472 --> 01:10:41,341
just laying there
not responsive,
1519
01:10:41,374 --> 01:10:44,344
and you don't know
if he's gonna make it.
1520
01:10:44,377 --> 01:10:46,346
It was heartbreaking.
1521
01:10:46,379 --> 01:10:48,448
The bullet went in the right,
1522
01:10:48,481 --> 01:10:50,750
and it's in the left side,
1523
01:10:50,784 --> 01:10:54,554
so he actually have damage
on both sides of his brain.
1524
01:10:54,587 --> 01:10:58,324
He had two craniotomies
two days apart.
1525
01:10:58,358 --> 01:11:01,094
They told us that,
if he survived that surgery,
1526
01:11:01,127 --> 01:11:03,663
that he would have
left side paralysis.
1527
01:11:03,697 --> 01:11:06,566
So we didn't know
if he was gonna ever speak
1528
01:11:06,599 --> 01:11:09,536
or eat on his own,
breathe on his own.
1529
01:11:18,645 --> 01:11:19,679
- Hey.
- Hey.
1530
01:11:19,713 --> 01:11:20,847
- How are you?
- Good.
1531
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,350
- How are you doing?
- I'm good.
1532
01:11:23,383 --> 01:11:24,818
Hey.
1533
01:11:24,851 --> 01:11:26,353
- Hey.
- How you doing?
1534
01:11:26,386 --> 01:11:28,888
- I'm doing good.
- You're doing good?
1535
01:11:28,922 --> 01:11:30,790
He's been doing
really, really good.
1536
01:11:30,824 --> 01:11:32,826
He's starting to move his leg.
1537
01:11:32,859 --> 01:11:35,362
Just started talking
in November.
1538
01:11:35,395 --> 01:11:36,930
I felt ex--
1539
01:11:36,963 --> 01:11:39,799
excited, excited.
1540
01:11:39,833 --> 01:11:42,402
- Mm-hmm.
- To be able to speak
1541
01:11:42,435 --> 01:11:43,937
to whoever you want.
- Mm-hmm.
1542
01:11:43,970 --> 01:11:46,139
Like--Like I used to.
1543
01:11:46,172 --> 01:11:47,941
He wanted a phone,
1544
01:11:47,974 --> 01:11:51,945
and he was writing
on the, um, erase board.
1545
01:11:51,978 --> 01:11:54,414
- Uh-huh.
- "I want a iPhone."
1546
01:11:54,447 --> 01:11:56,750
And I was like,
"When you start talking,
1547
01:11:56,783 --> 01:11:59,486
you can get a iPhone."
1548
01:11:59,519 --> 01:12:00,920
Sam started talking.
1549
01:12:00,954 --> 01:12:02,522
You got your iPhone,
though, huh?
1550
01:12:02,555 --> 01:12:04,524
- Yeah.
- [ laughter ]
1551
01:12:04,557 --> 01:12:07,660
- It's a new one.
- Okay.
1552
01:12:07,694 --> 01:12:09,896
And he's eating some now.
1553
01:12:09,929 --> 01:12:10,964
He wasn't eating.
1554
01:12:10,997 --> 01:12:12,432
You see all the feeding tube,
1555
01:12:12,465 --> 01:12:13,767
but he's--we don't access it
1556
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:15,535
'cause he's starting
to eat by mouth.
1557
01:12:15,568 --> 01:12:18,438
Her had a goal to eat gumbo
for his birthday.
1558
01:12:18,471 --> 01:12:21,408
I swear. I swear.
1559
01:12:21,441 --> 01:12:25,412
It was like "Mind, come on,
mind, come on,"
1560
01:12:25,445 --> 01:12:27,847
- 'cause I got to eat gumbo.
- [ laughs ]
1561
01:12:27,881 --> 01:12:29,582
- And all that.
1562
01:12:29,616 --> 01:12:31,885
My mind was on that gumbo.
1563
01:12:33,787 --> 01:12:35,889
He loved gumbo.
1564
01:12:35,922 --> 01:12:37,991
- Come on, man.
- You hold him like that,
1565
01:12:38,024 --> 01:12:39,592
and he's doing his leg.
1566
01:12:39,626 --> 01:12:40,860
Nice job, sweetheart.
1567
01:12:40,894 --> 01:12:42,829
Okay, lock up that left leg.
1568
01:12:42,862 --> 01:12:44,731
You're gonna run out of room,
huh, homes?
1569
01:12:44,764 --> 01:12:46,800
They look at him
like a miracle now.
1570
01:12:46,833 --> 01:12:49,436
They're just amazed
at his progress,
1571
01:12:49,469 --> 01:12:50,503
and one of the surgeons
1572
01:12:50,537 --> 01:12:51,871
that actually did
his first surgery
1573
01:12:51,905 --> 01:12:53,673
when it happened
1574
01:12:53,707 --> 01:12:55,842
told me that usually they die
1575
01:12:55,875 --> 01:12:57,177
either before he get to them
1576
01:12:57,210 --> 01:12:59,446
or right after
he start surgery.
1577
01:12:59,479 --> 01:13:02,649
And to see Sam, you know,
has just been amazing,
1578
01:13:02,682 --> 01:13:03,750
- Oh, yeah.
- His progress and stuff.
1579
01:13:03,783 --> 01:13:06,619
'Cause he worked very hard,
very hard
1580
01:13:06,653 --> 01:13:07,921
'cause I told them
"Don't be light"
1581
01:13:07,954 --> 01:13:09,889
- 'cause he's a athlete.
- Come on.
1582
01:13:09,923 --> 01:13:11,524
- So he got that determination.
- Oh, yeah.
1583
01:13:11,558 --> 01:13:13,460
I told them
"Don't go light on him.
1584
01:13:13,493 --> 01:13:15,662
Go hard. Push that..."
1585
01:13:15,695 --> 01:13:16,663
- Wood.
- Yeah.
1586
01:13:16,696 --> 01:13:18,565
Push that wood.
1587
01:13:18,598 --> 01:13:19,833
That's the thing in football,
right?
1588
01:13:19,866 --> 01:13:20,967
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah.
1589
01:13:21,001 --> 01:13:22,669
So I tell them
Push the wood."
1590
01:13:22,702 --> 01:13:25,605
Nothing but the grace of God
got us to this point
1591
01:13:25,638 --> 01:13:28,608
in, uh, Sam's fate,
1592
01:13:28,641 --> 01:13:30,010
for him knowing the Healer,
1593
01:13:30,043 --> 01:13:32,479
you know, and even
when he was having
1594
01:13:32,512 --> 01:13:33,480
these little tremors,
1595
01:13:33,513 --> 01:13:34,681
I said, "Oh, boy,
1596
01:13:34,714 --> 01:13:36,516
look like you're
catching the Holy Ghost."
1597
01:13:36,549 --> 01:13:37,717
I said,
"You should say hallelujah."
1598
01:13:37,751 --> 01:13:40,053
He would be in the hospital,
1599
01:13:40,086 --> 01:13:42,022
and if he caught one,
he'd go up the hallway.
1600
01:13:42,055 --> 01:13:43,656
Hallelujah.
1601
01:13:43,690 --> 01:13:45,992
[ laughs ]
1602
01:13:46,026 --> 01:13:48,962
Thank God for you
because, you know,
1603
01:13:48,995 --> 01:13:51,531
just stepping in
and looking after Sam,
1604
01:13:51,564 --> 01:13:52,532
you and your husband,
1605
01:13:52,565 --> 01:13:54,801
and just being there for him
1606
01:13:54,834 --> 01:13:58,538
in this whole time of need,
you know,
1607
01:13:58,571 --> 01:14:00,807
is much appreciated.
1608
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:04,077
He know I'm mushy,
so he'll be laughing at me
1609
01:14:04,110 --> 01:14:05,979
- when I get teary.
- Yeah.
1610
01:14:06,012 --> 01:14:08,014
[ laughs ]
But I appreciate that.
1611
01:14:08,048 --> 01:14:09,549
I appreciate that.
1612
01:14:09,582 --> 01:14:11,518
Just a touching story
all around,
1613
01:14:11,551 --> 01:14:12,786
you know?
1614
01:14:12,819 --> 01:14:13,820
Yeah.
1615
01:14:13,853 --> 01:14:19,859
***
1616
01:14:26,299 --> 01:14:29,269
* Jealousy, baby *
1617
01:14:29,302 --> 01:14:32,005
* Won't get you nowhere... *
1618
01:14:38,011 --> 01:14:39,846
The city, they come together
1619
01:14:39,879 --> 01:14:41,815
for what they want
to come together for.
1620
01:14:41,848 --> 01:14:43,650
They talk for when
they want to talk.
1621
01:14:43,683 --> 01:14:45,819
They look out for
who they want to look out for.
1622
01:14:50,323 --> 01:14:51,758
* Jealousy, baby *
1623
01:14:51,791 --> 01:14:53,059
Hi, Mike.
1624
01:14:53,093 --> 01:14:54,794
* Won't get you no... *
1625
01:14:54,828 --> 01:14:57,697
There's a lack of love
for each other,
1626
01:14:57,731 --> 01:15:00,633
and that's what's missing.
1627
01:15:00,667 --> 01:15:02,602
As a community,
1628
01:15:02,635 --> 01:15:04,037
we have to shoulder up
to everybody...
1629
01:15:06,172 --> 01:15:08,708
because when something
happens in New Orleans,
1630
01:15:08,742 --> 01:15:10,043
we're all affected by it.
1631
01:15:15,915 --> 01:15:18,318
* Jealousy, baby... *
1632
01:15:18,351 --> 01:15:20,020
- Welcome, welcome.
- How you doing?
1633
01:15:20,053 --> 01:15:22,122
- You get to meet the man.
- [ laughing ] Yes.
1634
01:15:22,155 --> 01:15:23,623
- Yes.
- This is Devin.
1635
01:15:23,656 --> 01:15:24,791
- Hi, Devin.
- This is Calvin.
1636
01:15:24,824 --> 01:15:26,159
How you doing, brother?
What's up, bruh?
1637
01:15:26,192 --> 01:15:27,360
- How you feeling?
- Good.
1638
01:15:27,394 --> 01:15:28,728
- Good.
- I definitely think
1639
01:15:28,762 --> 01:15:30,030
Devin can change his direction,
1640
01:15:30,063 --> 01:15:32,032
but Devin has to want
to change it.
1641
01:15:32,065 --> 01:15:33,800
We're gonna let y'all talk.
1642
01:15:33,833 --> 01:15:36,369
I think Calvin can try
to put him on the right track
1643
01:15:36,403 --> 01:15:37,771
because he's been
in the streets.
1644
01:15:37,804 --> 01:15:39,139
He know
what the streets is about.
1645
01:15:39,172 --> 01:15:41,908
He did some of the things
that Devin's doing now.
1646
01:15:41,941 --> 01:15:44,077
So, man, just tell me
some things about you, bruh.
1647
01:15:45,679 --> 01:15:47,914
Well, as for me right now,
1648
01:15:47,947 --> 01:15:52,185
it ain't looking well
because, um,
1649
01:15:52,218 --> 01:15:55,121
it's just a lot of felony
charges right now for me.
1650
01:15:55,155 --> 01:15:57,190
So how many charges
you have right now?
1651
01:15:57,223 --> 01:16:02,829
Uh, right now I'd say about 14.
1652
01:16:02,862 --> 01:16:04,964
What's the worst one?
1653
01:16:04,998 --> 01:16:07,901
Uh...grand theft auto,
I think.
1654
01:16:07,934 --> 01:16:10,103
Grand theft auto? Okay.
1655
01:16:10,136 --> 01:16:11,771
No violent charges.
1656
01:16:11,805 --> 01:16:13,807
No carjacking,
no armed robbery.
1657
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:15,075
Nothing like that.
1658
01:16:15,108 --> 01:16:17,744
Now I just want you to know
that I understand
1659
01:16:17,777 --> 01:16:20,747
because I used to be your age.
I used to go to jail.
1660
01:16:20,780 --> 01:16:23,016
I done been shot.
I done been stabbed.
1661
01:16:23,049 --> 01:16:25,919
I've been to jail for murder.
1662
01:16:27,687 --> 01:16:28,955
First degree murder,
1663
01:16:28,988 --> 01:16:31,191
four counts of first degree
attempted murder.
1664
01:16:31,224 --> 01:16:32,992
So I want you to know
that we are no different.
1665
01:16:34,961 --> 01:16:36,930
The only difference
between you and I
1666
01:16:36,963 --> 01:16:38,998
is that I'm doing something
different with my life,
1667
01:16:39,032 --> 01:16:41,735
and I would like to show you
how to do the same thing.
1668
01:16:45,005 --> 01:16:47,007
When I was 14 years old,
1669
01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:49,843
I was sentenced
to juvenile life,
1670
01:16:49,876 --> 01:16:52,112
and I spent four years
in that place.
1671
01:16:52,145 --> 01:16:53,780
All right?
1672
01:16:53,813 --> 01:16:55,715
Four years.
1673
01:16:55,749 --> 01:16:58,718
And after I got out of there,
1674
01:16:58,752 --> 01:17:01,154
because I didn't
change my mindset,
1675
01:17:01,187 --> 01:17:05,458
it wasn't but a year later
that someone shot me.
1676
01:17:05,492 --> 01:17:08,995
All this is because
I made a decision
1677
01:17:09,029 --> 01:17:10,930
to do some things...
1678
01:17:13,299 --> 01:17:14,968
that destroyed my life.
1679
01:17:15,001 --> 01:17:16,703
So, man, how do you feel
1680
01:17:16,736 --> 01:17:18,938
about some of those things
that I'm telling you?
1681
01:17:18,972 --> 01:17:21,207
To me, I think you're saying
that, um...
1682
01:17:23,309 --> 01:17:25,145
what goes around comes around.
1683
01:17:25,178 --> 01:17:26,813
Absolutely.
1684
01:17:26,846 --> 01:17:28,882
That--That--That's definitely
what happens.
1685
01:17:28,915 --> 01:17:31,051
What goes around comes around.
1686
01:17:31,084 --> 01:17:33,153
So they told me
someone shot at you, right?
1687
01:17:33,186 --> 01:17:35,255
Someone tried to kill you.
1688
01:17:35,288 --> 01:17:36,856
If you seen him right now,
what would you do?
1689
01:17:40,093 --> 01:17:42,195
Fight.
1690
01:17:42,228 --> 01:17:44,964
But he shot at you last time.
1691
01:17:44,998 --> 01:17:46,466
So now there's some--
1692
01:17:46,499 --> 01:17:48,501
this done grew
beyond the fight.
1693
01:17:48,535 --> 01:17:50,236
So you're saying
if you see him again
1694
01:17:50,270 --> 01:17:51,871
you're gonna want to fight.
He might have a gun.
1695
01:17:51,905 --> 01:17:52,939
He don't want to fight.
1696
01:17:56,509 --> 01:17:57,911
Do you understand
what I'm saying?
1697
01:17:57,944 --> 01:17:59,512
You see where I'm going
with that?
1698
01:17:59,546 --> 01:18:04,184
One of the myths
I always try to, uh, dispel
1699
01:18:04,217 --> 01:18:07,020
is beef don't die.
1700
01:18:07,053 --> 01:18:07,954
Right?
1701
01:18:07,987 --> 01:18:09,756
So let me tell you.
1702
01:18:09,789 --> 01:18:11,057
The brothers who shot me,
1703
01:18:11,091 --> 01:18:13,493
we grew up together, right?
1704
01:18:13,526 --> 01:18:16,062
I shot one of them.
He shot me.
1705
01:18:16,096 --> 01:18:17,931
And guess what.
We're cool, bruh.
1706
01:18:17,964 --> 01:18:20,133
We see each other, we--
we get along
1707
01:18:20,166 --> 01:18:23,870
because someone intervened
1708
01:18:23,903 --> 01:18:25,939
and said no,
this is not gonna happen.
1709
01:18:25,972 --> 01:18:27,507
Like, y'all need
to talk about this.
1710
01:18:27,540 --> 01:18:29,509
All of us still alive
1711
01:18:29,542 --> 01:18:32,245
because we was able
to talk out a situation.
1712
01:18:35,815 --> 01:18:37,217
Do you have any young
brothers and sisters?
1713
01:18:37,250 --> 01:18:38,818
Yeah.
1714
01:18:38,852 --> 01:18:40,086
Do you have a brother
younger than you?
1715
01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:41,521
- Yeah.
- How old is he?
1716
01:18:41,554 --> 01:18:43,556
7. He just turned 7 today.
1717
01:18:43,590 --> 01:18:45,959
He like you, huh?
He look up to you?
1718
01:18:45,992 --> 01:18:47,927
He like you,
like the way you dress,
1719
01:18:47,961 --> 01:18:50,797
like to be around you
and all that, right?
1720
01:18:50,830 --> 01:18:53,967
'Cause you know
that he is more likely to do
1721
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:57,137
what he sees y'all doing,
what he see you doing,
1722
01:18:57,170 --> 01:18:59,572
'cause he want to be you.
He want to be like you.
1723
01:18:59,606 --> 01:19:01,541
"I'm gonna be
like my big brother."
1724
01:19:01,574 --> 01:19:03,843
You got any older brothers?
1725
01:19:03,877 --> 01:19:06,179
- Uh, yeah.
- Mm-hmm.
1726
01:19:06,212 --> 01:19:08,915
- He in jail.
- In jail?
1727
01:19:08,948 --> 01:19:11,251
But let me ask you this.
When you were younger,
1728
01:19:11,284 --> 01:19:13,186
did you want to be
like your big brother?
1729
01:19:13,219 --> 01:19:14,821
Yeah.
1730
01:19:14,854 --> 01:19:18,158
And he in jail?
And where you headed now?
1731
01:19:18,191 --> 01:19:19,859
Same place.
1732
01:19:19,893 --> 01:19:22,262
You understand what I'm
talking about right now?
1733
01:19:22,295 --> 01:19:24,397
So what you think your
little brother's gonna be like
1734
01:19:24,431 --> 01:19:26,566
if you don't stop that?
1735
01:19:26,599 --> 01:19:28,335
Either dead or in jail.
1736
01:19:28,368 --> 01:19:32,572
You were not put here
to do what you're doing.
1737
01:19:32,605 --> 01:19:35,375
Find your greatness.
Find your purpose.
1738
01:19:35,408 --> 01:19:36,843
And do that.
1739
01:19:39,312 --> 01:19:40,914
Because the real deal is,
1740
01:19:40,947 --> 01:19:43,016
if you don't have a plan
for your life,
1741
01:19:43,049 --> 01:19:46,286
the system got a plan
for your life already.
1742
01:19:46,319 --> 01:19:49,022
The jail is built already
1743
01:19:49,055 --> 01:19:51,291
for people like you
to come into
1744
01:19:51,324 --> 01:19:53,259
who don't have a plan
for their life.
1745
01:19:53,293 --> 01:19:55,962
They got a room for you
all the time.
1746
01:19:55,995 --> 01:19:57,297
They're never gonna
turn you around
1747
01:19:57,330 --> 01:19:58,998
and say "We ain't got
no bed for you."
1748
01:19:59,032 --> 01:20:00,333
I just want you to know,
brother,
1749
01:20:00,367 --> 01:20:02,902
that, whatever it is
you went through in your life,
1750
01:20:02,936 --> 01:20:05,372
whatever's going on with you,
1751
01:20:05,405 --> 01:20:07,640
you're not by yourself,
you know.
1752
01:20:07,674 --> 01:20:09,409
That's where I'm at,
brother Devin,
1753
01:20:09,442 --> 01:20:12,045
so, brother, I just hope
1754
01:20:12,078 --> 01:20:17,017
that you'll allow me
to be your big brother
1755
01:20:17,050 --> 01:20:20,320
and let me help you,
you know,
1756
01:20:20,353 --> 01:20:22,355
the way someone helped me.
1757
01:20:22,389 --> 01:20:23,990
You know, let me help you
1758
01:20:24,024 --> 01:20:27,227
to get through this dark time
in your life
1759
01:20:27,260 --> 01:20:31,264
and get you on track
and get you on the right road,
1760
01:20:31,297 --> 01:20:34,167
and I'm willing to do that
if you're willing to have me
1761
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:38,004
to do that with you, so...
1762
01:20:38,038 --> 01:20:40,674
do I have your permission,
brother?
1763
01:20:40,707 --> 01:20:43,043
Yes, you do.
1764
01:20:43,076 --> 01:20:44,978
I'm looking forward
to working with you, brother.
1765
01:20:45,011 --> 01:20:47,380
[ chorus humming ]
1766
01:20:53,253 --> 01:20:54,688
How you doing, my brother?
1767
01:20:54,721 --> 01:20:56,389
- Can I give you one of these?
- Yeah.
1768
01:20:58,324 --> 01:21:00,427
Man, we're trying to do
our part to stop the violence.
1769
01:21:00,460 --> 01:21:02,228
This is the Stop the Beef
Hotline.
1770
01:21:02,262 --> 01:21:03,663
- Right.
- Free of charge.
1771
01:21:03,697 --> 01:21:05,365
No police involvement,
all right?
1772
01:21:05,398 --> 01:21:06,466
- Okay.
- All right, my brother.
1773
01:21:06,499 --> 01:21:08,134
The New Orleans Peace Keepers
mission,
1774
01:21:08,168 --> 01:21:11,104
it's a violence reduction
initiative.
1775
01:21:11,137 --> 01:21:13,707
We started off just walking in,
like, the violent neighborhoods.
1776
01:21:13,740 --> 01:21:15,975
We say, like, a hour of power--
1777
01:21:16,009 --> 01:21:17,477
one hour of doing something
1778
01:21:17,510 --> 01:21:21,214
is better than 24 hours
of doing nothing, right?
1779
01:21:21,247 --> 01:21:23,049
You know,
'cause these simple fights
1780
01:21:23,083 --> 01:21:24,984
evolve into somebody
getting killed.
1781
01:21:25,018 --> 01:21:26,986
Gunplay, so get involved.
Stop it, you know?
1782
01:21:27,020 --> 01:21:28,288
- Yeah.
- Say something.
1783
01:21:28,321 --> 01:21:30,357
In the Black culture,
1784
01:21:30,390 --> 01:21:32,459
if you get involved,
you're a rat.
1785
01:21:32,492 --> 01:21:34,260
Hey, baby.
1786
01:21:34,294 --> 01:21:36,396
- And we got to stop that.
- Yeah.
1787
01:21:36,429 --> 01:21:38,131
You can probably save
somebody's life,
1788
01:21:38,164 --> 01:21:39,265
and you're not ratting,
1789
01:21:39,299 --> 01:21:41,201
you're just helping
the situation.
1790
01:21:41,234 --> 01:21:43,269
We started the Conflict
Resolution Hotline,
1791
01:21:43,303 --> 01:21:45,472
which is known
as Squash the Beef Hotline
1792
01:21:45,505 --> 01:21:46,706
here in the city
of New Orleans.
1793
01:21:46,740 --> 01:21:48,108
How's it going?
1794
01:21:48,141 --> 01:21:49,376
Someone will call the hotline,
1795
01:21:49,409 --> 01:21:51,711
and we get them to begin
to start doing
1796
01:21:51,745 --> 01:21:54,547
what they haven't done
up to that moment,
1797
01:21:54,581 --> 01:21:55,715
which is to communicate.
1798
01:21:55,749 --> 01:21:57,183
We get them to the table,
1799
01:21:57,217 --> 01:21:58,485
and they're going
back and forth,
1800
01:21:58,518 --> 01:22:00,353
then we intervene
and say "Yo,
1801
01:22:00,387 --> 01:22:01,454
what are y'all beefing about?"
1802
01:22:01,488 --> 01:22:04,090
And they stop,
and they're like,
1803
01:22:04,124 --> 01:22:05,458
"I don't even know."
1804
01:22:05,492 --> 01:22:07,093
Hey, how y'all doing?
1805
01:22:07,127 --> 01:22:10,296
Of course we meet people
that say it doesn't work,
1806
01:22:10,330 --> 01:22:12,399
but we have been able
to resolve 46.
1807
01:22:12,432 --> 01:22:14,367
And two of those mothers
who we've been able to help,
1808
01:22:14,401 --> 01:22:16,136
it's like we've saved
the whole world,
1809
01:22:16,169 --> 01:22:19,005
so we're just really trying
to change the culture.
1810
01:22:19,039 --> 01:22:20,206
- Yeah. We need to.
- Yeah.
1811
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:21,207
It's very important.
1812
01:22:21,241 --> 01:22:23,009
People feel
1813
01:22:23,043 --> 01:22:24,778
that resolving conflict
1814
01:22:24,811 --> 01:22:27,213
without smacking somebody
or punching somebody
1815
01:22:27,247 --> 01:22:29,282
is weak.
1816
01:22:29,315 --> 01:22:31,284
We're trying to bring attention
to this hotline that we have
1817
01:22:31,317 --> 01:22:33,319
trying to stop the violence,
man--Squash the Beef.
1818
01:22:33,353 --> 01:22:34,421
I don't know
where they get that from,
1819
01:22:34,454 --> 01:22:36,222
and I think it sometimes
stems from
1820
01:22:36,256 --> 01:22:38,558
this misunderstanding
of what manhood is,
1821
01:22:38,591 --> 01:22:41,194
and some people think
that being a man
1822
01:22:41,227 --> 01:22:45,465
is based upon your ability
to invoke fear in another.
1823
01:22:45,498 --> 01:22:47,067
Hey, how y'all doing?
Look at--
1824
01:22:47,100 --> 01:22:49,202
- Hey.
- Mama, Big Freedia here!
1825
01:22:49,235 --> 01:22:50,537
Hey, let me give y'all this
1826
01:22:50,570 --> 01:22:52,405
to try to stop the violence
in the--
1827
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:54,140
in the city, all right?
1828
01:22:54,174 --> 01:22:56,076
They're so cute.
1829
01:22:56,109 --> 01:22:57,444
So adorable.
1830
01:22:59,446 --> 01:23:01,548
I haven't been on this block
1831
01:23:01,581 --> 01:23:03,350
since my brother was killed
right there.
1832
01:23:03,383 --> 01:23:04,317
Wow.
1833
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:08,521
Definitely rough.
1834
01:23:08,555 --> 01:23:09,522
Yeah.
1835
01:23:12,192 --> 01:23:14,627
Unfortunately, this is where
my brother was killed,
1836
01:23:14,661 --> 01:23:17,397
and the little kids
in front of the house,
1837
01:23:17,430 --> 01:23:20,200
they planted this tree
in remembrance of my brother.
1838
01:23:20,233 --> 01:23:21,501
Damn, man.
1839
01:23:21,534 --> 01:23:23,336
- You know.
- How did that make you feel?
1840
01:23:23,370 --> 01:23:25,605
It made me feel
really good, you know?
1841
01:23:25,638 --> 01:23:29,409
I hadn't been to this spot
since it happened.
1842
01:23:29,442 --> 01:23:30,477
- Yeah.
- You know.
1843
01:23:30,510 --> 01:23:31,811
I'm getting the strength now
1844
01:23:31,845 --> 01:23:34,481
to just spread the word
in courage
1845
01:23:34,514 --> 01:23:37,183
so that another family
won't have to go
1846
01:23:37,217 --> 01:23:38,318
what we went through,
you know?
1847
01:23:40,286 --> 01:23:42,188
I wish I was there
1848
01:23:42,222 --> 01:23:44,424
to be able to resolve
whatever was about to happen
1849
01:23:44,457 --> 01:23:46,159
or whatever happened.
1850
01:23:46,192 --> 01:23:50,196
I know that I could have
found the resolution to fix it
1851
01:23:50,230 --> 01:23:53,166
if I was there or knew
what was gonna happen.
1852
01:23:56,636 --> 01:23:59,272
- Hey, how's it going?
- Michelle, this is Devin.
1853
01:23:59,305 --> 01:24:01,341
Michelle Charles.
Very nice meeting you.
1854
01:24:01,374 --> 01:24:03,443
How you doing, brother Devin?
1855
01:24:09,649 --> 01:24:11,384
Devin is 14.
1856
01:24:11,418 --> 01:24:13,119
He hasn't even begun
1857
01:24:13,153 --> 01:24:15,288
to start his journey
1858
01:24:15,321 --> 01:24:18,224
of where he can go in life.
1859
01:24:18,258 --> 01:24:22,495
I hope we're not losing him
to the jail system.
1860
01:24:22,529 --> 01:24:24,364
Not too much talking today,
okay?
1861
01:24:24,397 --> 01:24:26,332
All right. So you ready?
1862
01:24:26,366 --> 01:24:28,201
Following your lead.
1863
01:24:28,234 --> 01:24:31,571
Once you introduce the child
to the system,
1864
01:24:31,604 --> 01:24:36,142
one arrest
alters that kid's trajectory.
1865
01:24:36,176 --> 01:24:38,211
One arrest.
1866
01:24:38,244 --> 01:24:40,213
And now the dominos
start to fall.
1867
01:24:48,621 --> 01:24:50,190
- Hey, hey.
- Hey.
1868
01:24:50,223 --> 01:24:52,325
- How are you doing?
- Doing all right.
1869
01:24:52,359 --> 01:24:54,461
- Good to see you.
- All right.
1870
01:24:54,494 --> 01:24:58,598
So we have--The cameras
are going up right now.
1871
01:24:58,631 --> 01:25:00,467
One of the cameras will be
facing over here.
1872
01:25:00,500 --> 01:25:02,936
Yeah. This is where
my brother got killed,
1873
01:25:02,969 --> 01:25:05,305
right in front
of that blue house.
1874
01:25:05,338 --> 01:25:07,474
Why I wanted to put
a camera on that block--
1875
01:25:07,507 --> 01:25:11,211
to feel the presence
of my brother's spirit
1876
01:25:11,244 --> 01:25:14,280
and let him know that he's
gonna look over this block.
1877
01:25:14,314 --> 01:25:16,416
This camera that's going up
that you're helping us with
1878
01:25:16,449 --> 01:25:18,284
is gonna be the first camera
in the city of New Orleans
1879
01:25:18,318 --> 01:25:20,253
that offered
gunshot protection.
1880
01:25:20,286 --> 01:25:21,454
- Oh, wow.
- Camera's gonna start to spin.
1881
01:25:21,488 --> 01:25:23,556
It's gonna take
a quick assessment
1882
01:25:23,590 --> 01:25:25,358
- of the entire area.
- Oh, wow.
1883
01:25:25,392 --> 01:25:27,694
We're gonna know in real time
if something bad's happening,
1884
01:25:27,727 --> 01:25:29,229
and we're going to be
able to help
1885
01:25:29,262 --> 01:25:30,296
with the police response.
1886
01:25:30,330 --> 01:25:31,498
Yeah, this is amazing.
1887
01:25:31,531 --> 01:25:34,367
Hoping that putting up
these cameras
1888
01:25:34,401 --> 01:25:37,437
can, you know,
help the next person
1889
01:25:37,470 --> 01:25:39,372
if something like this happens
1890
01:25:39,406 --> 01:25:41,174
'cause we still don't have
any closure.
1891
01:25:46,279 --> 01:25:48,648
* Oh, well, well *
1892
01:25:48,682 --> 01:25:52,619
* Don't be uneasy *
1893
01:25:52,652 --> 01:25:56,489
* Don't be uneasy *
1894
01:25:56,523 --> 01:25:58,491
* Well, well *
1895
01:25:58,525 --> 01:26:02,262
* Don't be uneasy *
1896
01:26:02,295 --> 01:26:06,666
* Jesus gon' make up
the dying bed *
1897
01:26:06,700 --> 01:26:08,568
- Freedia: Where the lighter?
- No light in your eyes?
1898
01:26:08,601 --> 01:26:10,270
We ain't got no lighters
over here?
1899
01:26:10,303 --> 01:26:12,005
Where the smokers at?
Where the smokers at?
1900
01:26:12,038 --> 01:26:13,606
Here, let me put you--
give me a paper.
1901
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:15,442
- Shawn got a light.
- Thank you.
1902
01:26:15,475 --> 01:26:16,576
You got it?
1903
01:26:19,579 --> 01:26:23,416
This last year has been
a really rough year for me.
1904
01:26:23,450 --> 01:26:26,019
I had to learn
how to control my emotions
1905
01:26:26,052 --> 01:26:27,687
and find peace,
1906
01:26:27,721 --> 01:26:30,623
and still it's a--
a daily process.
1907
01:26:30,657 --> 01:26:32,492
Tonight we want
to remember Adam,
1908
01:26:32,525 --> 01:26:34,461
and we're gonna celebrate
1909
01:26:34,494 --> 01:26:36,429
'cause you know
he wouldn't want us to be sad.
1910
01:26:36,463 --> 01:26:39,733
He'd want us to jam
'cause he was a lively person.
1911
01:26:39,766 --> 01:26:42,769
He was full of life
and full of joy.
1912
01:26:47,540 --> 01:26:51,311
We remembered our loved ones
by celebrating their lives.
1913
01:26:51,344 --> 01:26:54,581
[ Dixieland jazz plays ]
1914
01:26:54,614 --> 01:26:57,350
We have a centerline band,
and we come out,
1915
01:26:57,384 --> 01:27:00,053
and we act a fool for him.
1916
01:27:00,086 --> 01:27:02,322
* Jesus on the mainline *
1917
01:27:02,355 --> 01:27:04,391
* Tell Him what you want *
1918
01:27:04,424 --> 01:27:06,559
* Jesus on the mainline *
1919
01:27:06,593 --> 01:27:08,428
* Tell Him what you want *
1920
01:27:17,671 --> 01:27:20,607
It will take us as a community
to end the gun violence,
1921
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:24,744
each and every family,
each and every individual.
1922
01:27:24,778 --> 01:27:26,379
That's the only way
that it's gonna happen.
1923
01:27:31,384 --> 01:27:34,654
I think it's important to focus
on saving one person at a time
1924
01:27:34,688 --> 01:27:36,056
'cause if you can't save one,
1925
01:27:36,089 --> 01:27:37,657
you sure can't save
more than one.
1926
01:28:10,490 --> 01:28:12,692
Well!
1927
01:28:12,726 --> 01:28:15,795
[ laughter ]
1928
01:28:16,863 --> 01:28:18,431
* Danger *
1929
01:28:18,465 --> 01:28:19,566
* Oh, yes *
1930
01:28:19,599 --> 01:28:21,368
- * Danger *
- * Wow *
1931
01:28:21,401 --> 01:28:22,669
* Danger *
1932
01:28:22,702 --> 01:28:25,372
- * Let's do this *
- * Danger *
1933
01:28:25,405 --> 01:28:27,407
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
1934
01:28:27,440 --> 01:28:29,676
* I'm so dangerous *
1935
01:28:29,709 --> 01:28:31,544
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
1936
01:28:31,578 --> 01:28:34,414
* I just want
to be dangerous *
1937
01:28:34,447 --> 01:28:35,648
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
1938
01:28:35,682 --> 01:28:36,883
* Dangerous *
1939
01:28:36,916 --> 01:28:37,917
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
1940
01:28:37,951 --> 01:28:39,552
* Dangerous *
1941
01:28:39,586 --> 01:28:40,787
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
1942
01:28:40,820 --> 01:28:43,123
- * Dangerous *
- * Dangerous *
1943
01:28:43,156 --> 01:28:45,492
* D-A-N-G-E-R *
1944
01:28:45,525 --> 01:28:47,694
* Danger, danger *
1945
01:28:47,727 --> 01:28:49,829
* D-A-N-G-E-R *
1946
01:28:49,863 --> 01:28:52,432
* Danger, danger *
1947
01:28:52,465 --> 01:28:54,601
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
1948
01:28:54,634 --> 01:28:56,803
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
1949
01:28:56,836 --> 01:28:58,938
* Everywhere we go
is dangerous *
1950
01:28:58,972 --> 01:29:00,907
- * Dangerous *
- * Dangerous *