0:00:02 > 0:00:04This programme contains very strong language.
0:00:04 > 0:00:08A violent night in Chicago, nine people shot in five hours.
0:00:08 > 0:00:12- One person died.- Gregory Robinson is the 28th Chicago public school student killed this school year.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17A number of Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20It is another sign of the times.
0:00:20 > 0:00:24Members of CeaseFire were also at today's memorial service hoping to stop any thoughts
0:00:24 > 0:00:26of retaliation for Greg's murder.
0:00:26 > 0:00:3012- and 13-year-olds are walking around with bullet-proof vests on
0:00:30 > 0:00:32under their clothes.
0:01:21 > 0:01:26All right, everybody that is in the meeting, this is serious now, OK?
0:01:26 > 0:01:28We are in a crisis mode -
0:01:28 > 0:01:32we need people to step up from this table and go over and beyond.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34Guys are getting killed for just anything.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Have there been any conflicts mediated on the front end
0:01:37 > 0:01:40from last week to this week?
0:01:40 > 0:01:41Two guys was arguing.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44One guy threatened to blow the other guy's wig back.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47I got him to calm down, tell him that he didn't shoot you,
0:01:47 > 0:01:48he was just talking.
0:01:48 > 0:01:53- We stopped that one on the front end.- I had the dirty dozen at the table.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55We've always had outreach workers,
0:01:55 > 0:01:57but the violence was not going down at that point.
0:01:57 > 0:01:58'So in the year 2004,
0:01:58 > 0:02:01'we began a new concept called the Violence Interrupters.
0:02:01 > 0:02:06'Most of the Violence Interrupters come from the hierarchy in some of these gangs.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10'You can't get anyone coming and telling a guy to put his gun down.'
0:02:14 > 0:02:18'The Violence Interrupters have one goal in mind - to stop killings.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20'They're not trying to dismantle gangs.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24'What they're trying to do is save a life.'
0:02:51 > 0:02:54After what happened the week and a half ago,
0:02:54 > 0:02:57nobody's been changed, nobody's come through shooting.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01- What happened?- We actually have an incident right here.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08By the time we got out there, the fight had just ended.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11The cops pulled up and pulled off. Y'all missed that shit.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14The cops pulled up and they left. They're scared.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15They're scared of the community.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19One group of guys said that the young man threatened...
0:03:19 > 0:03:23that he had a gun and that was going to kill him.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25So he started fighting
0:03:25 > 0:03:27and ended up getting his teeth knocked out.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28He needs to go to the doctor.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31You want to go to the emergency room?
0:03:31 > 0:03:33HE MOANS Come on.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36'Cobe got him off medication. I asked him to take him to the hospital.'
0:03:38 > 0:03:40You bitch-ass dicks!
0:03:42 > 0:03:47'The block got quiet, and I'm looking down the street,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50'and here comes the sisters of the guy that got his tooth knocked out.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54'They came to defend their brother's honour.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57'With a butcher's knife.'
0:03:57 > 0:03:58SHOUTING
0:04:01 > 0:04:05'The sister calls one of the guys a bitch-ass, punk-ass.
0:04:05 > 0:04:09'A little four- or five year-old baby was doing the same thing.'
0:04:09 > 0:04:13I'm going to knock your bitch-ass out. Run off then! Run off then!
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Why you talking to my sister like this?
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Your whole family is down here!
0:04:21 > 0:04:24You're respecting yourself. She ain't respecting herself.
0:04:28 > 0:04:31'The story about sticks and stones may break your bones
0:04:31 > 0:04:32'but words can never heard you...'
0:04:32 > 0:04:36words can get you killed.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39'All of a sudden, the sister ran up with a piece of concrete.'
0:04:42 > 0:04:44SHOUTING
0:04:48 > 0:04:51'One of the girls was about to stab one of the guys.'
0:04:51 > 0:04:53SHOUTING
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Get the fuck out of here!
0:04:57 > 0:05:00'Her cousin picked up the butcher's knife.'
0:05:04 > 0:05:06She's got a fucking knife!
0:05:06 > 0:05:08SHOUTING
0:05:11 > 0:05:14'Dee was in the heat of the moment. That adrenaline was still going.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18' "I'm going to get them, I'm going to get them back." '
0:05:18 > 0:05:1983rd and Walcott.
0:05:19 > 0:05:23'I picked up Dee and I said, "You need to get off the block for a minute." '
0:05:23 > 0:05:27He was out of line, he was out of pocket, he was very disrespectful.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31And I know how many people I got out here that's willing to take him to the dentist.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33We're going to do all this and that.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36'His family kept calling him.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38' "What's taking you so long?
0:05:38 > 0:05:40' "So we can come back over and set that block off."
0:05:40 > 0:05:43'If his family would have come to get him,'
0:05:43 > 0:05:45maybe there would have been a death behind it.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49- I know you got some damn fools up there.- Yeah.- About you.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51About you.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54- I know you just come home.- Yeah. - You know what I'm saying?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57You ain't got no problem in going back.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00I saw that you was walking away to defend you and your family,
0:06:00 > 0:06:04and I really, man, I thank you.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08I mean, for real. That is what gangsta is about right there.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11- I definitely don't want to go back. - You were that gangsta.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17He can throw a jab like Joe Frazier.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21'I took him over to his cousin's house.
0:06:21 > 0:06:26'We were talking about how he got hit, and he tumbled over.'
0:06:26 > 0:06:30Like a cartoon character - "Woo."
0:06:30 > 0:06:33'So, if you get them to laugh at themselves,
0:06:33 > 0:06:36'give them a moment to pause, to think about
0:06:36 > 0:06:38'really how crazy and funny it was.'
0:06:40 > 0:06:45Find that soft spot in that person - not weak,
0:06:45 > 0:06:48but soft spot and you just ride on that.
0:06:48 > 0:06:53'Ameena Matthews as an Interrupter, she's a golden girl.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55'She gets in where a lot of guys can't get in.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57'She knows that at all to these high-risk young men.'
0:06:57 > 0:07:00A lot of guys that I know that have a lot of murder
0:07:00 > 0:07:01in their background, they respect her.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05'The life that I live, being in shoot-outs,
0:07:05 > 0:07:09'looking at the Devil face to face,'
0:07:09 > 0:07:12and I look at my sisters and brothers today,
0:07:12 > 0:07:15you know, that was once me.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19Her father was Jeff Fort, one of the biggest gang leaders
0:07:19 > 0:07:22in the history of Chicago, outside of Al Capone.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24Fort is serving a life sentence for allegedly conspiring
0:07:24 > 0:07:27with the Libyans to commit acts of terrorism here in the US.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30We've got police in here.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32There is not going to be any killing without killing.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Jeff Fort stood up against the police.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37He was definitely a feared and very revered man in his community.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40But she never lived off that name.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Ameena made her own name on the streets.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46Growing up, it wasn't his influence
0:07:46 > 0:07:49that influenced me to do anything.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52My dad was not there.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55When I was conceived, he was 16 years old.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59So when I got older, I was in a mob with a bunch of guys
0:07:59 > 0:08:01and I was the only female.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04I was the lieutenant. I took care of the business.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07It was drug selling, hustling,
0:08:07 > 0:08:10you know, one crew was on the pip and tip,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13one crew was on the stick-up tip.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Drugs, guns, party, fun. That was it.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25My dad wasn't around and when he got wind
0:08:25 > 0:08:28that I was a part of that team,
0:08:28 > 0:08:30he was kind of hurt.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32But he couldn't be too hurt,
0:08:32 > 0:08:36because look at what precedent that he started.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40- CeaseFire!- CeaseFire! - CeaseFire!- CeaseFire!
0:08:40 > 0:08:44- Stop the shooting! - Stop the shooting!- Stop the killing!- Stop the killing!
0:08:44 > 0:08:46- I said stop it right now. - Stop it right now.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49Your man got shot 22 times.
0:08:49 > 0:08:5313 years old. That is sad.
0:08:53 > 0:08:58This is a state of emergency. This is what the war zone looks like.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02We are sick and tired of our babies being killed.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05This man here lost a son.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08We can't be quiet no more.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11My son has been killed right here.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13We're standing right here with cameras where my son was slayed.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17Come on now. I don't think that's right. We can do this someway else.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20I have to sit here and try and think of something to say to you guys.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Who does that?
0:09:22 > 0:09:26Is there still a code of silence in the neighbourhood,
0:09:26 > 0:09:27that people aren't coming forward?
0:09:27 > 0:09:30I can't walk around and go to people's houses and say, "Who killed my son?"
0:09:30 > 0:09:35I'm not a police officer and I'm not a doctor.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37I don't know how many times my son...they tell me 22 times -
0:09:37 > 0:09:40I don't know many times my son has been shot.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Somebody in the background is saying 22. Are you a doctor, baby?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- I'm just IT...that's what the doctor told me.- That puts you there.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49That's my son, you didn't make him. You is IT.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54- We're going to move this on now. - What you mean, you don't give what?
0:09:54 > 0:09:56..Words encouragement to the family.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08SIREN WAILS
0:10:11 > 0:10:14We just had another homicide.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17That's not why we're marching.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Another homicide. It's a war zone and an epidemic.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22People, we must come together.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25POLICE RADIO
0:10:25 > 0:10:27He was sticking people up.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30The guy's caught him in a walkway.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34You know we've got some guys up on the next block?
0:10:34 > 0:10:37That ain't going to be no retaliation from you.
0:10:37 > 0:10:41HE MUMBLES It's just so crazy, man.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43It's like every time you come outside, somebody's getting killed.
0:10:43 > 0:10:48I don't know what this world's coming to.
0:10:49 > 0:10:53We've got to be out here, man. Before things happen.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56'All my life, I knew right from wrong.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58'I knew, if I do this, I get in trouble.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01'But, you know, at the time, I just didn't care, though.'
0:11:01 > 0:11:03I always wanted to be like my dad.
0:11:03 > 0:11:08He is my role model, because he used to always dress slick,
0:11:08 > 0:11:12wear big hats and suits and all that.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15And I just, you know, wanted to be like him.
0:11:15 > 0:11:19I was 11 years old when my father got killed.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21He got beaten with some baseball bats.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24And that just messed me up.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29I used to be out there in the streets all through the night.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32I used to be in jails, fight, kicking out riots
0:11:32 > 0:11:33and doing all crazy stuff.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35Just gang banging.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Whatup! Man, come on, let me, man. What's up?
0:11:39 > 0:11:43'We called on Cobe Williams. He's a younger Interrupter, which is good.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47'Once he came on board at CeaseFire, he began to really turn the heat on.'
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Cobe knows how to get in. He talks the language.
0:11:49 > 0:11:53He knows what to say, when to say it.
0:11:53 > 0:11:57- Crazy, man.- You two guys, y'all been running on a lot of bullshit. Both of y'all.
0:11:57 > 0:12:01Robbing people. Breaking in windows. All kinds of stuff.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03When I've gotta do what I've gotta do, I've gotta do what I've gotta do.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Don't get it all twisted.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Once upon a time, this man was out here too doing the same thing.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13'Cobe has big-time credibility with the gang members out there.'
0:12:13 > 0:12:17- Breaking out. Look at him! - What's going on?
0:12:18 > 0:12:21'A friend of mine called me, very concerned about her two kids.'
0:12:21 > 0:12:23The streets is taking their toll.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26'They stayed in the same house and they'd be at each other,
0:12:26 > 0:12:29'because both of them were in two different cliques.'
0:12:29 > 0:12:32Threatening to kill one another, shooting at each other, it's crazy.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36I can't keep coming off the road, cos I work for Amtrak,
0:12:36 > 0:12:43and not knowing if somebody is going to kick the door in because of the violence. I just packed up and left.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46I left the apartment in my name, so they don't be homeless.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49So this is my little honeycomb hide-out.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52- They don't know where I live here, either.- Your kids don't?
0:12:52 > 0:12:54No.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57Your youngest son is still locked up, right?
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Yeah. He don't get out till 2016 for attempt murder.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03He was 17 when they got him.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07- One thing, you stand have your kids. - Yes. I think God for that.
0:13:07 > 0:13:13People say I'm crazy because I say if I lose one of my sons...
0:13:14 > 0:13:17..I wouldn't want no funeral. I wouldn't want nobody to come,
0:13:17 > 0:13:21you know, give me condolences.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Because I want to remember them...
0:13:24 > 0:13:27..the last decent time I've seen them.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34And they said that's mean of me, but that's how I feel.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39So just stay strong and keep your head up.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43I'm going to try to reach out to them myself.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46I wish you luck in finding them.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51- Yeah, just have to see what I could do.- Cos I know if they have a strong person,
0:13:51 > 0:13:53that's lived their life,
0:13:53 > 0:13:59- I think they could be saved. Cos I just can't do it any more.- Right.
0:13:59 > 0:14:05'Violence is like the great infectious diseases of all history,'
0:14:05 > 0:14:10and we used to look at people with plague, leprosy...TB
0:14:10 > 0:14:13as bad and evil people,
0:14:13 > 0:14:14and something needs to be done about them,
0:14:14 > 0:14:16and they were put in dungeons.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20What perpetuates violence can be as invisible today
0:14:20 > 0:14:25as the micro-organisms of the past were.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30I had been overseas for about ten years at World Health
0:14:30 > 0:14:32and working on infectious diseases.
0:14:32 > 0:14:36Coming back to the US, the violence is unavoidable.
0:14:36 > 0:14:37POLICE RADIO
0:14:37 > 0:14:42But I saw it as behaviour, not as bad people.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46You can judge it, but it's not what we do in science.
0:14:49 > 0:14:52I never had nothing against them, nothing.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54I came, and, like I said, they shot at my car.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57'For the young people in these neighbourhoods,
0:14:57 > 0:15:00'they see violence as their disease.'
0:15:00 > 0:15:03What they expect to die of is this.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06Don't tell me you're gonna squash somebody and do something else
0:15:06 > 0:15:08but then you don't make me look like an ass.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10If that's what you wanna do,
0:15:10 > 0:15:13then you put on big boy's shoes and you play big boy games.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15'Violence is a two-step process.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18'The first thought is, "I have a grievance."
0:15:18 > 0:15:22' "He looked at my girl, he called me a name, he disrespected me,
0:15:22 > 0:15:27' "he owes me money, he's a Sunni, he's a Palestinian, he's an Israeli." '
0:15:27 > 0:15:33The second thought is that grievance justifies violence.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35At the end of the day, nobody gonna win, man.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39- 'Our work is about thought, too.' - Your family and shit.
0:15:39 > 0:15:43That's why I'm saying... You was wrong. Fuck all that.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45You know what I'm saying? Just move on, man.
0:15:45 > 0:15:50'The Interrupter's role, like the TB disease control worker's role,'
0:15:50 > 0:15:53is to do this initial interruption of transmission.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58I told her you've got nothing to say, you're going to deal with it yourself.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01'You've have got to drown yourself with the people
0:16:01 > 0:16:03'and immerse yourself in the bullshit.'
0:16:03 > 0:16:06You have to talk as if, "Man I understand. I've been there.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09"I know how it is to hurt motherfucker."
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I'm not no punk or nothing.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14The only thing that came to my mind was retaliate.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17They got to know they did the wrong person.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20'I hear you, Jack, you're 100% right.'
0:16:20 > 0:16:24I'm with you, man. If you're going to take care of business, do it, but that check this out.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28If I know you want to shoot the motherfucker, the police know already.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Your friends know, somebody gonna tell on your ass.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35Make sure you talk to the individual that did this.
0:16:35 > 0:16:40- Let them know that you're going to keep this peace.- Yeah. I will. - You're doing this.
0:16:40 > 0:16:45'Once you make sense out of the madness, the day you start talking about the scientific theory.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49'You talk about the change in behaviour. Then you can give them a history lesson.'
0:16:49 > 0:16:52You know, your daddy was violent, your granddaddy was fucked up.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56He was violent. Now your brothers are fucked up, because you misled them.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59It's time to save herself, brother. Save yourself.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01I'm not preaching to you, just save yourself.
0:17:01 > 0:17:06Does this make sense, brother? "Oh, man, you know what, you've got a point."
0:17:06 > 0:17:08- Give me time to work it. - All right.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12'I really understand why it's not easy for people to back down for one reason.'
0:17:12 > 0:17:16Because you've been taught all your life, in the community I grew up in,
0:17:16 > 0:17:21you've got to stand up, no matter what happens. Death before dishonour.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25When I was 14 years old, this guy beat me down in the streets,
0:17:25 > 0:17:27and my stepfather took his life right in front of me,
0:17:27 > 0:17:30and I felt good about it, really.
0:17:35 > 0:17:36And I was always a shaky criminal.
0:17:36 > 0:17:41I used to sell fake hash to the sailors down on Michigan Avenue.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44I used steal smoke detectors.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46The smoke-detector bandits.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48I was playing on women a lot. Women would help me.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53I had a lot of girlfriends who would give me money. I had a big Afro back then.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57First I worked for CeaseFire in 1999. I told Gary I had a bachelor's degree at that time.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00And Gary said, "Where's your bachelor's degree?"
0:18:00 > 0:18:03I said, "Look, man, I was just try to get in!"
0:18:03 > 0:18:06I went back to school. I got my bachelor's degree, my masters degree.
0:18:06 > 0:18:11I began to understand we'd been taught violence. Violence is learned behaviour.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17I don't mention gang names when I do my mediations.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21'At this transitional home for teenage parolees, the residents were in conflict.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26'They pulled in gang members from the area. It was about to blow up in a major way.'
0:18:26 > 0:18:31The problem that we have right now is about some money that led to fight. How much money was it?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34It was about 5.
0:18:34 > 0:18:40You said instead of giving him 5, give him 15. You're not going to get more than what you owe.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43He said, "I'm not paying." Five minutes later, they came here.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47It took me, as a woman, to stand in the middle of street with 15 guys
0:18:47 > 0:18:52that I knew nothing of and take it from my pocket and pay 15 to keep the peace.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55- No respect for where you live at. - Think this could turn into gun play?
0:18:55 > 0:18:58I think so, because it's gonna escalate and keep going.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59We've got to live here,
0:18:59 > 0:19:04I don't want to bring these streets over here. I ain't trying to go back to that life.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09I'm one man. I can't fight all. What do you think I'm gonna do? Heck, yeah, I'm gonna get me a double.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12Like this brother said, any time 15 guys mob up on you,
0:19:12 > 0:19:16the first thing that comes across your mind, "I need to strapped to deal with that."
0:19:16 > 0:19:20If you've got to live with each other, someone has to take the higher role.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23THEY SPEAK OVER EACH OTHER
0:19:23 > 0:19:25The most important thing is to listen to what they saying,
0:19:25 > 0:19:30cos at this side where you live, if you cause any trouble, 5-0 will be called.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33I'm hearing what they're telling me in there, right?
0:19:33 > 0:19:37To me, it's, like, starting off with a 5 bag of weed.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39- It's beyond that. - Wait a minute.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42No! No!
0:19:42 > 0:19:43No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47You've got to play it like a big man. I've got to play like a big girl.
0:19:47 > 0:19:52When I get angry, I can bring some noise, if I want to.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55I go lay it down. I have to.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59Don't make me feel like a punk, it make me feel like, you know what,
0:19:59 > 0:20:01it's fighting my own ego.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05I swear to God, I wish I had someone to holler at me like I'm hollering at you.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Do you understand what I'm saying?
0:20:08 > 0:20:12What we going to do? We going to fight about another 5 bag of weed?
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- It ain't worth it. - They feed off high energy, too.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18What you going to do, son? Tell me. And I'm going to hold you to it.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Make myself better.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23You, too.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Ameena... - LAUGHTER
0:20:26 > 0:20:29- If they want to let it go, we can let it go. - Bye. I wanna see some love.
0:20:53 > 0:20:59I just love Englewood. But it's hard not to, man. Englewood is all good.
0:20:59 > 0:21:04It's where I learned all my life lessons.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08- SHE SCREAMS I locked my keys in the car! - I don't even know how to do that.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09I've got a screwdriver.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14- A screwdriver? Y'all gonna tear my car. - What kind of locks you got?
0:21:14 > 0:21:17Whatever! CeaseFire back in the hood.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Who scratch your face?
0:21:21 > 0:21:23You was out here thumping?
0:21:23 > 0:21:29- I fight every day. - You fight every day? You're too handsome to be doing all of that.
0:21:29 > 0:21:34'Most of our mediations come through the community here. They'll take us there's tension in the air.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36'And they need us to come in and help out.'
0:21:36 > 0:21:40Quit playing, before I bust your nose!
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- Just pass them out to everybody? - Just pass them out to anybody.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47I didn't want her to see your draws in the process of passing them out.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51- Do I have to?- No. - Then why am I still seeing them?!
0:21:51 > 0:21:54I thought you got shot in your shoulder, but it was in your leg.
0:21:54 > 0:21:59These guys were shooting at each other out of cars. So I jumped, cos I was trying to save my cousin.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02I had a big old hole in my leg, like this big.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04What's your grades like?
0:22:04 > 0:22:07- As, Bs and Cs. - As, Bs and Cs?!- And one D.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09What do you want. What's the D in?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11I'm better not be in PE or I'm going hit you in your throat. HE LAUGHS
0:22:15 > 0:22:17I like those, too.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21- WOMAN INDISTINCT - I didn't. I bought these! - LAUGHTER
0:22:21 > 0:22:23You think you're hot, don't you?
0:22:23 > 0:22:27'When I was growing up in Englewood, we still looked out for one another.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31'To me, it's like there's still some hope left.'
0:22:31 > 0:22:32You think you're hot!
0:22:35 > 0:22:38No killing! CeaseFire!
0:22:38 > 0:22:41'I've been trying to get with Toya's two kids, man,
0:22:41 > 0:22:45'because both are in rival cliques. It was easy to get on with Bud.'
0:22:45 > 0:22:51Your mom asked me to try to reach out, to try to sit down and work with you and talk with you.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Blood is thicker than water.
0:22:58 > 0:22:59I get to tour with him a lot.
0:22:59 > 0:23:05- Is there any way we can meet him and talk with you at the same time? - Yeah.
0:23:05 > 0:23:11- Maybe tomorrow.- OK, I'm with you man. Thanks a lot.- Not at all.- OK.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18He do look like a rough rider, don't he?!
0:23:18 > 0:23:20'It took me a minute to get up with the older brother.'
0:23:20 > 0:23:23- What's up? How you doing, man? - Chilling out.
0:23:25 > 0:23:30- I'll be straight. Your momma is concerned about you and Bud. - We fight every day.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33I knocked him out, he knocked me out.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36We often piss on each other over little shit.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38Y'all live under the same roof.
0:23:38 > 0:23:42That means if you're up and going on each other, if he goes to sleep,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44you go to sleep, y'all got to sleep with one eye open.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48Y'all can't even trust each other.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52Last year, my best friend got killed. I could get shot tomorrow.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56I know it's going to hurt my mom more than anybody.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59She says she moves away, because she can't take it no more.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01I can't get along with my mom.
0:24:01 > 0:24:08Cos she..."You act just like your daddy," and shit. I'm gone. You know what I'm saying?
0:24:08 > 0:24:14My father has been locked up since I was three years old. He get out a little bit at 18.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18My life would be totally different if my father was here.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20If he was in my life, just being involved.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Checking up on me every day.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25"How you doing, son, what's going on?" "I love you, son."
0:24:25 > 0:24:29I can count on one hand how many times I told my mom I love her.
0:24:29 > 0:24:34So I'm on top with Bud. We can try to get together, man, sit down and talk.
0:24:34 > 0:24:39I ain't trying to point no finger, who's wrong and all that. Let's just correct this.
0:24:39 > 0:24:40Let's be a family and be happy.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- So you up with that?- I'm with it.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51I want to thank you young brothers for coming. Stand up at the back, if you don't mind.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54What happened last week, there was two different groups.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57We got a chance to work with the young brothers and a sister.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01When I met the sister she said, "I'm the sister, brother." Know what I'm saying?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03I've been trying to call you.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05SHE LAUGHS
0:25:05 > 0:25:11When I call your phone, I expect you to answer. Like, "Yeah, Ameena."
0:25:11 > 0:25:12I'm like, "Hello."
0:25:12 > 0:25:15'We've been keeping in contact.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17'Caprysha's a very loving young lady
0:25:17 > 0:25:20'that had not had a chance to have a childhood.'
0:25:20 > 0:25:26Substance abuse plays a huge part of the toxic-ness that she was raised around.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30I was worried. I know you wanted to go see your mother.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Do you want to go?
0:25:42 > 0:25:46- I get mad.- We'll just have to keep it moving.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49You guys get ready, be a big girl.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50You want go skating this weekend?
0:25:50 > 0:25:53You do? OK.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58I'm going to send a car for you this weekend, because it's my eight-year-old's birthday.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04If I've got the time, I'll come and get you myself. All right, baby?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06SOUL MUSIC PLAYS
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Where's my husband?
0:26:20 > 0:26:23Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!
0:26:23 > 0:26:25Come on, come one, come on. Yeah!
0:26:25 > 0:26:26Yeah! Yeah!
0:26:38 > 0:26:41'Today we're celebrating my daughter's birthday.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46'We're really sad, because Caprysha was supposed to come skating with us.'
0:26:46 > 0:26:51# May Allah bless you... #
0:26:51 > 0:26:54'So then I got the full scoop.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57'She wanted to get back in touch with her mom, and that caused her to feel...'
0:26:57 > 0:27:01and she acted out on some old behaviour.
0:27:01 > 0:27:07'She got high. She violated her parole. So she's in the county jail.'
0:27:07 > 0:27:12I need you guys to say "please" and "thank you". Right, Maddie?
0:27:12 > 0:27:15OK? Right, right, right.
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Where you find these strangers at?
0:27:23 > 0:27:25These are your people, man.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29'Today, I finally reached Toya and her two kids,
0:27:29 > 0:27:33'and we agreed to sit down together and work things out.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36'This morning, Toya was steaming hot. She went back.
0:27:36 > 0:27:41'The apartment she left her kids, she saw Kenneth bagging up drugs.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43'She went back and changed the locks.'
0:27:43 > 0:27:49- Times are hard, you got to have a job.- Yeah, man, or hustle. One or the other.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53- Got to be in one of two places. - It really don't matter right now.
0:27:53 > 0:27:59- If it don't matter, why speak on it?- That's the same with your life. You're not gonna make no progress.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02You got to help yourself. You're thinking like you want a hand-out.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Nobody is going to give you anything.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08- You talking to the camera or me? - I'm talking to the gentleman.
0:28:08 > 0:28:13- If you're listening, I'm talking to you, too.- I'm not listening to the shit you're saying.
0:28:13 > 0:28:17- I don't got time for this shit. - What's so hard?- You ain't gonna make anybody happy.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20What the fuck is you saying? You ain't no boss of me, boy!
0:28:25 > 0:28:27Whatever I say don't go.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31- If I want to fuck up, there ain't nobody gonna be out there.- That's how you look at it.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35And I'm right there.
0:28:36 > 0:28:40Hey, hey! Bud and Kenneth! Kenneth and Bud!
0:28:42 > 0:28:44'Did I make a mistake? You know what I'm saying?
0:28:44 > 0:28:47''I don't want to get them fighting under my watch.'
0:28:47 > 0:28:50I'll say one thing y'all missing, man.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53Y'all is blood brothers, man. Y'all ain't no bad kids.
0:28:53 > 0:28:55Both of y'all finished school.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58Both of you ain't been to no penitentiary. That's good, man.
0:28:58 > 0:29:02I have my own people. The type of crowd he'd be around...
0:29:02 > 0:29:05If I wasn't the parent I was, you wouldn't have made it through school!
0:29:05 > 0:29:08- I made sure you had what you needed! - I'm gonna tell you this.
0:29:08 > 0:29:13- She won't see shit happened to you. - He can't say what he needs. He needs a bond, and I'm not there.
0:29:13 > 0:29:17- I always bond him out of jail for stuff I don't even believe in. - I don't need no...
0:29:17 > 0:29:21no other motherfucker. I never served for another man, none of that shit.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25I always been on my own! Always been my own! THEY SHOUT OVER EACH OTHER
0:29:25 > 0:29:30- If I had got something from another...- What you want to believe...- Plain and simple.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32- Cos I'm on my own! - Go to work!
0:29:32 > 0:29:36HIS SPEECH IS DROWNED OUT BY SHOUTING
0:29:36 > 0:29:37It ain't no favouritism!
0:29:37 > 0:29:43- A parent sees the potential in each child! A parent sees when they're writing a certain way!- All right.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47The clique you are in, I hate to put you on the spot,
0:29:47 > 0:29:51- but if they came at your brother, would you stop them?- Yeah.
0:29:51 > 0:29:56You would? OK. The clique you're in, if they came at your brother, would you stop them?
0:29:56 > 0:30:00- Of course.- And I'm saying to you, when it comes down to the street gang,
0:30:00 > 0:30:03the only choice is jails, deaths and institutions.
0:30:03 > 0:30:07Do you feel you can be in a cell for 23 hours a day, a six by nine cell?
0:30:07 > 0:30:10No man could be in that place for that long.
0:30:10 > 0:30:15What happens on the streets, you run into a situation out there with your brother's associates,
0:30:15 > 0:30:19and you're mad at your momma, you're mad at your brother. You're not thinking right.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21Bam! Shoot some motherfucking body.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24You're not that guy, but it happens.
0:30:24 > 0:30:2960% of the guys in the penitentiary were not them kind of guys.
0:30:29 > 0:30:34They were probably sitting in the same seats like you, never thought it would happen. I bet you.
0:30:34 > 0:30:39I love my brother to death. He don't understand. It's not really a problem with him,
0:30:39 > 0:30:43it's a problem with my mother and my grandmother. I feel like they really do take sides.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45I ain't got no problems with my brother.
0:30:45 > 0:30:49I love my momma to death, but she doesn't listen or just...
0:30:49 > 0:30:52try to relate a little bit. All the shit that she done while I've growing up.
0:30:52 > 0:30:57- You ain't always been peaches and cream in your life.- I ain't never said I was, but at the same time,
0:30:57 > 0:31:00you don't have to go down that road and be the spoiled peach.
0:31:00 > 0:31:01I'm really not.
0:31:01 > 0:31:05You will have issues with your mother. Every kid got issues with their parents.
0:31:05 > 0:31:06This ain't nothing new.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Which one of you brothers can cook?
0:31:08 > 0:31:11- Neither one. - I know how to cook something, anything.
0:31:11 > 0:31:15You cook your mother a meal one day, man. Y'all sit down with your mother.
0:31:15 > 0:31:17I know it's tough because you haven't done it,
0:31:17 > 0:31:21but you need to sit down with your mother, man, have a family day.
0:31:24 > 0:31:30That's kind of odd to me. It's just not coming to me right now.
0:31:30 > 0:31:35You know what I'd love to see, man? Id love to see you two embrace each other, man.
0:31:35 > 0:31:38You and your brother, man. For real.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40I'd love to see you embrace each other, man.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42- Your brother and your mother.- Yeah, man.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45That's what's happening right there, bro.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48Can you handle that, little brother? Huh?
0:31:48 > 0:31:52I ain't going to force you to do it. I won't force your brother.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54HE MUMBLES
0:31:57 > 0:31:59'I was sick behind that shit.
0:31:59 > 0:32:02'It's your momma, man. I wouldn't care what.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05'You should hug your momma, let her know you love her.'
0:32:13 > 0:32:16SIREN WAILS
0:32:26 > 0:32:28Alfreda!
0:32:28 > 0:32:34I've been out there. This is my baby. This is my heart.
0:32:34 > 0:32:35'I know my momma love me.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38'I love my momma. I know she'd do anything for me.'
0:32:38 > 0:32:40Hello.
0:32:40 > 0:32:44But when my daddy got killed, things really just went downhill.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47My mother would come up, start using drugs.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50After my father died, she couldn't deal with it.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53'She took her toll on me.'
0:32:53 > 0:32:55I gonna drink me a cocktail today.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58I ain't drinking no cocktail.
0:32:58 > 0:33:00I want you to keep drinking.
0:33:01 > 0:33:06That's why, God is my witness, I'm 38 years old and I see it.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09I wasn't going never use drugs. I wasn't going never drink.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13I really started following my daddy's footsteps, though.
0:33:13 > 0:33:16Selling drugs, hustling, going back and forth to jail.
0:33:16 > 0:33:18INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:33:20 > 0:33:23'Coming up, I was more close to my grandparents.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27'And my grandmother, from day one, stayed on me.'
0:33:27 > 0:33:28Granny!
0:33:28 > 0:33:31# Happy birthday to me! #
0:33:32 > 0:33:35I call him Cardy, but his name is Ricardo.
0:33:35 > 0:33:39I love all my grandkids.
0:33:39 > 0:33:44But Cardy was one I guess I did do more for and took under my wing.
0:33:44 > 0:33:48'When I went to jail, my grandmother'd buy me out.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51'I was like, "Grandma, I knew you was gonna get me out - I'm your baby." '
0:33:51 > 0:33:54She said, "Go back and see."
0:33:54 > 0:33:56I went back. Grandma do none of that.
0:34:00 > 0:34:05'I probably have broke her heart a lot of times doing things I shouldn't have been doing.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08'But she always reminds me of the good in me.'
0:34:10 > 0:34:12HE SINGS ALONG TO "SARA SMILE"
0:34:12 > 0:34:13# It's you
0:34:13 > 0:34:15# And me
0:34:15 > 0:34:17# For ever. #
0:34:20 > 0:34:24We saved his life. Cos Cardy had been shot at,
0:34:24 > 0:34:29probably was shooting at people, there was something turned him around.
0:34:29 > 0:34:33I ain't going to say through me and his granddaddy, but...
0:34:35 > 0:34:36..we love him.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38Hey, my granny!
0:34:38 > 0:34:40- Love you. - Love you, too, Granny.
0:34:43 > 0:34:44Yeah.
0:34:51 > 0:34:56# I've seen sunny days that I thought would ever end
0:34:56 > 0:35:00# I've seen lonely times when I couldn't find a friend #
0:35:00 > 0:35:02Don't sing!
0:35:02 > 0:35:08- # But I always thought that I'd... # - Don't sing or you'll make me want to leave, get up and walk away!
0:35:08 > 0:35:10Madea has always shot from both hips.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13I was with Madea from birth to nine.
0:35:13 > 0:35:22And from nine to about 15, I went and I did stay with my biological mother.
0:35:22 > 0:35:28We're talking about my family, because I'm the mother of her biological mother.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31We need to honour and respect our children.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34We can't just throw them out there and throw them away.
0:35:38 > 0:35:41Because of the lifestyle that my mother lived,
0:35:41 > 0:35:45I went through a real rough journey.
0:35:45 > 0:35:50Being abused, physically, emotionally,
0:35:50 > 0:35:54sexually, from the age of nine to the age of 15.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57So I just went back to Madea.
0:35:58 > 0:36:04'My grandmother lived in an apartment with four of us, and it was roach-infested.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06'You know, once I started learning the game,
0:36:06 > 0:36:09'my goal was to get Madea out of there.'
0:36:09 > 0:36:12Madea was the type of woman that...
0:36:12 > 0:36:15"That type of money, don't bring that shit in the house."
0:36:15 > 0:36:18But I got caught up.
0:36:18 > 0:36:22I got caught up in that one more thousand, one more run.
0:36:24 > 0:36:27One more big hit.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30HE SINGS PRAYER
0:36:37 > 0:36:39'I was introduced to Islam through my father.'
0:36:39 > 0:36:41THEY PRAY
0:36:45 > 0:36:48'It was always something inside of me
0:36:48 > 0:36:52'that was constantly saying that I have to do better.'
0:36:56 > 0:37:00I wasn't afraid, I just knew that I had to come on with it.
0:37:00 > 0:37:05'The Lord sent me confirmation through someone else.'
0:37:05 > 0:37:11'She knew what she wanted - that's what led her here.'
0:37:11 > 0:37:14And so we believe that it was a heavenly marriage.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17..Let your blessings and your peace be upon your servants...
0:37:19 > 0:37:22'My family keeps me very, very grounded.'
0:37:25 > 0:37:27He took your phone?
0:37:27 > 0:37:29Noah took your phone?
0:37:29 > 0:37:31'At the end of the day,'
0:37:31 > 0:37:34I have to come in, cook dinner,
0:37:34 > 0:37:38help with homework, tear some ass out the frame if I have to.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40Show him some love.
0:37:40 > 0:37:42Don't do it no more.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48'A family is really my real job.'
0:37:48 > 0:37:51Out there in the community is a piece of cake for me.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57'My husband worries about me more than anyone else.'
0:37:57 > 0:38:00There are times I can't be there physically with her,
0:38:00 > 0:38:02but I know that she is fearless
0:38:02 > 0:38:06and she will lay it on the line and she'll go up against a lion.
0:38:07 > 0:38:12'She will just stand up for anyone because of the experiences she's had growing up
0:38:12 > 0:38:15'where someone didn't stand up for her.'
0:38:15 > 0:38:18'Our mosque is holding a prayer vigil
0:38:18 > 0:38:23'for a kid shot in front of his home, just listening to the radio.
0:38:23 > 0:38:27'He definitely wasn't in a gang and he was loved by his block.'
0:38:28 > 0:38:31'When rage sets, when ego sets in, when the Hennessy sets in...'
0:38:31 > 0:38:33I'm going to walk down here.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35You stay right here.
0:38:35 > 0:38:39'..these young guys say, "Let's go get who we think did it." '
0:38:39 > 0:38:43I'm hearing 20 different things why that brother got changed.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45And all of it is stupid.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49All of it is stupid. Two o'clock in the afternoon
0:38:49 > 0:38:52when they're coming home from school, y'all shoot. For real?!
0:38:52 > 0:38:57This is unacceptable, for me to be holding this young man's obituary.
0:38:57 > 0:39:03Schools, churches, your momma's house, your cars. Those are safe zones.
0:39:04 > 0:39:09When I was about your age, I was making some stupid decisions
0:39:09 > 0:39:14and some stupid calls that was causing me, my life,
0:39:14 > 0:39:17blood on my hands, on my head.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20Stop.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23Who does this baby belong to?
0:39:24 > 0:39:28Who does this little shorty belong to? He just hanging around?
0:39:28 > 0:39:32He just hanging. This little... He just hanging around? Right?
0:39:32 > 0:39:36So he see everything that you all do, right? So if this brother right here
0:39:36 > 0:39:41catch a case and do 100 years, whose fault is it?
0:39:42 > 0:39:44- It's his fault?- Uh-huh. - SHE LAUGHS
0:39:48 > 0:39:51Teach him righteous. Y'all got it?
0:39:51 > 0:39:53ALL: Yes.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55- Y'all got it? - ALL: Yes.
0:39:55 > 0:39:58- You got it?- Yes.
0:39:58 > 0:39:59All right.
0:39:59 > 0:40:00I'm looking to you.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02Here's my number.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05Give me a call, all right?
0:40:06 > 0:40:09I'm running it! All right.
0:40:31 > 0:40:36That's my little brother on the left side and my cus on the right side.
0:40:36 > 0:40:40Tyrone Williams and Percy Day Jr.
0:41:28 > 0:41:33Luis was killed trying to sign my...
0:41:35 > 0:41:40I held him to his last breath. I didn't want to let him go.
0:42:07 > 0:42:11I have lost at least 20 guys. There's no answer to it.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14One of your guys is killed, fuck you,
0:42:14 > 0:42:18I'm gonna kill that nigga and make his family suffer.
0:42:19 > 0:42:23I want no shrine, beer bottles, drinks, nigga's crass,
0:42:23 > 0:42:27smoking weed, pictures and shit, T-shirts.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29I don't want none of that shit.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32I don't wanna die looking stupid as hell. Fuck that.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49'1075 WGCI Tony Sco and The Morning Riot.
0:42:49 > 0:42:53'That's right, it is the first day of school
0:42:53 > 0:42:55'for all Chicago public school students.'
0:42:55 > 0:42:58'That's right. We want you to hit us up. Be safe out there.'
0:43:00 > 0:43:03Youth violence in Chicago has gotten world attention.
0:43:03 > 0:43:0516-year-old Derrion Albert
0:43:05 > 0:43:07was attacked as he walked home from school.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09A senseless killing, caught on video tape,
0:43:09 > 0:43:13has put Chicago's deadly epidemic in the spotlight.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15There is debate on a national level which started
0:43:15 > 0:43:17with that viral video that came off of the cell phone
0:43:17 > 0:43:21of the clash between the two gangs outside Fenger High School
0:43:21 > 0:43:25that killed Derrion Albert right in the middle.
0:43:28 > 0:43:29See this young man here?
0:43:29 > 0:43:33You see him taking this board from this young man.
0:43:33 > 0:43:36And this is the young man you actually going to
0:43:36 > 0:43:38see hit the board on the back of the head.
0:43:38 > 0:43:42Look for the guy in the red coat. Watch him.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44Now see, he took it. Now watch him.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53- They still hitting.- Oh, man.
0:43:55 > 0:43:59- Man.- Amina is going to assist us with the family, to get them
0:43:59 > 0:44:02to the site where they are going to do the memorial.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04This is what the family wants, OK?
0:44:04 > 0:44:06Which way does that go?
0:44:06 > 0:44:08- It goes that way?- Yeah. - OK, go that way.
0:44:10 > 0:44:12I seen the video.
0:44:12 > 0:44:16And I said, "Oh, man, I hope his mother does not see this."
0:44:26 > 0:44:29There's a lot of people blessing your brother. You know that, right?
0:44:29 > 0:44:31There's a lot of people. OK?
0:44:31 > 0:44:35Stay in that circle. We've got security on both sides.
0:44:35 > 0:44:39Anjanette needed help getting him a funeral.
0:44:40 > 0:44:46She needed help trying to make sense of what just happened to her son.
0:44:46 > 0:44:53I got resources for Anjanette to put Derrion in a mausoleum next to her mother.
0:44:53 > 0:44:56Only the family, nobody else!
0:44:56 > 0:44:59Amina is very, very important to us.
0:45:00 > 0:45:03Everything I went through, she was right there with me.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07We are praying for this family.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09We are praying that God will heal their hurt
0:45:09 > 0:45:13and I'm praying for all of you, my brothers and my sisters.
0:45:13 > 0:45:17This is a problem in our community, this is a problem in our city, it's a problem in our nation!
0:45:17 > 0:45:21Once the media has gone back to wherever they came from,
0:45:21 > 0:45:25we have to step up to the plate and make something happen over there.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27..not doing anything about this problem.
0:45:27 > 0:45:30I'm talking about the police department.
0:45:30 > 0:45:33I'm talking about all of those who are doing nothing.
0:45:33 > 0:45:38The person videotaping the goddamn beating was saying, "Zoom in - put that nigga to sleep"!
0:45:38 > 0:45:41That is what people were saying in the background.
0:45:41 > 0:45:44That gonna show you the mindset. Amina has spent a lot of time with the family,
0:45:44 > 0:45:48still they are trying to fix his face so they can have an open casket.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50I heard some interviews from the young brothers.
0:45:50 > 0:45:53They said they don't know why they fight, they just hate each other.
0:45:53 > 0:45:56- Somebody tell me why they're fighting?- We grow up gangbanging.
0:45:56 > 0:46:00It don't make a difference what we fighting for. You ain't with me, you against me.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02And that's just how it's always been.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05The guys from Altgeld Gardens, they were sent to Carver School
0:46:05 > 0:46:08which was turned into a military school.
0:46:08 > 0:46:12A lot of guys didn't want to go to a military school so they transferred them to Fenger.
0:46:12 > 0:46:15So now you got these guys coming from a whole other neighbourhood.
0:46:15 > 0:46:19When they closed down Carver High School
0:46:19 > 0:46:22and start letting these guys get to school any way they can,
0:46:22 > 0:46:24riding on the bus, walking or what have you,
0:46:24 > 0:46:27you left it to them that they had to fend for themselves.
0:46:27 > 0:46:32And they are fighting Altgeld Gardens and doing that since the '60s, man.
0:46:32 > 0:46:33We are up against history.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36Yeah, we got to respect history,
0:46:36 > 0:46:40but it shouldn't play a big factor in this table.
0:46:40 > 0:46:43We've got over 500 years of prison time at this table.
0:46:43 > 0:46:45That's a lot of fucking wisdom!
0:46:45 > 0:46:49How the hell we gonna let these kids school us that we were schooling them?
0:46:49 > 0:46:53We wanna try to work this conflict out because right now
0:46:53 > 0:46:57they had another big fight up at Fenger while we talking. The beat goes on.
0:47:04 > 0:47:08That's the brother up there? They're putting him in the...
0:47:08 > 0:47:11- That's the body?- That's fucked up.
0:47:11 > 0:47:16This young brother that we just finished doing some mediating with,
0:47:16 > 0:47:17his close friend has got killed.
0:47:17 > 0:47:21The possibility of retaliation at that moment was very, very likely.
0:47:21 > 0:47:25That cop, she's looking at me all crazy too, like she's got a fucking problem.
0:47:27 > 0:47:31- They just sat right on 30th and Kedvale again. - 30th and Kedvale?
0:47:31 > 0:47:33Right now, a couple of minutes ago.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36The police are going to be harassing a lot of guys over here,
0:47:36 > 0:47:38whether they are affiliated or not.
0:47:38 > 0:47:41I think the police should enforce all of the laws
0:47:41 > 0:47:43but it's the way they go about it.
0:47:43 > 0:47:45There's a reason why people in the community don't
0:47:45 > 0:47:47really like talking to the police.
0:47:47 > 0:47:52They see other guys, they see their nephews, their brothers and sisters being harassed.
0:47:52 > 0:47:55Just because there's a high presence of police right now,
0:47:55 > 0:47:57that doesn't mean nothing for these guys, man!
0:47:57 > 0:48:02Within 30 hours there was about seven shootings.
0:48:02 > 0:48:06Eddie always presents himself as a preppy, school-going collegiate type of guy.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09I said, "Look, man, they ain't trying..."
0:48:09 > 0:48:13When you talk to him about his street past, "We don't wanna go there, man!"
0:48:13 > 0:48:15But at the same time,
0:48:15 > 0:48:19he came from the lifestyle with the Latino gangs and he wasn't no low-level member,
0:48:19 > 0:48:22he was right there with the leader and they called him Bandit.
0:48:22 > 0:48:24He would take something from you.
0:48:24 > 0:48:26My nickname? Well!
0:48:26 > 0:48:28I was pretty interested in cars.
0:48:28 > 0:48:32Give me a screwdriver and just in a minute and I'm going with your car!
0:48:33 > 0:48:36This is a block in Little Village that I actually grew up in.
0:48:36 > 0:48:40I have a lot of memories here. My hand on God.
0:48:40 > 0:48:44I had almost half of this parking lot full of stolen cars at one time.
0:48:44 > 0:48:48One day, the city found all the stolen cars said there was
0:48:48 > 0:48:52maybe about seven to eight tow trucks just lined up taking these cars out.
0:48:54 > 0:48:59Also, my parents emigrated from Mexico, worked jobs,
0:48:59 > 0:49:03we were right here in the street roaming around.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05My dad was a hard-working person.
0:49:05 > 0:49:09He fixed cars and I would see my dad's hands
0:49:09 > 0:49:12and they would be full of calluses, you know and you know, cuts
0:49:12 > 0:49:16all over his arm and burn marks from the blowtorches.
0:49:16 > 0:49:20From day one, I told myself I am never going to be fixing cars.
0:49:20 > 0:49:21That wasn't me.
0:49:21 > 0:49:23I didn't feel it.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27It lit up in me when I saw some things in the neighbourhood.
0:49:27 > 0:49:31And I would see these guys hanging out, a lot older than I was.
0:49:31 > 0:49:35They had the nice cars, they had the girls, flashing their colours.
0:49:35 > 0:49:39What there was is they had a pride, in who they really were.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43They had an identity and they were proud of that identity.
0:49:46 > 0:49:51Half of my life I was in prison. That's why I do what I do now.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53For me, it's a personal thing.
0:49:54 > 0:49:58- How are you feeling? Have you been moving around more?- Yeah. Before, I couldn't even walk.
0:49:58 > 0:50:02My dressing, this is what I've got to clean. You know, because I got done.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05'How much impact are we making?
0:50:05 > 0:50:08'If we stop one shooting tonight, we did good.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12'But how do we stop maybe the same person from shooting somebody the next day?'
0:50:12 > 0:50:16- Has anybody been here to visit? - A couple of my friends.
0:50:16 > 0:50:19They have been cool or have they have been like, "Fuck that?"
0:50:21 > 0:50:22Am I really helping?
0:50:22 > 0:50:26Some people I can't, even as much as I want to, they don't want the help.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40The needless violence that continues to
0:50:40 > 0:50:43take our children from us is an outrage.
0:50:43 > 0:50:46Youth violence is not a Chicago problem.
0:50:46 > 0:50:49It is something that affects communities big and small
0:50:49 > 0:50:54and people of all races and all colours. It is an American problem.
0:50:54 > 0:50:57I promise to work as long as necessary
0:50:57 > 0:50:58to rid our country of this plague.
0:50:58 > 0:51:04I have heard you say those things many times. What's different now?
0:51:04 > 0:51:09What is different is it takes capturing Darien Albert's death on video to wake the country.
0:51:09 > 0:51:14We were dealing with children being shot every day, never saw a crowd like this, ever.
0:51:14 > 0:51:16Now the professionals working in this field,
0:51:16 > 0:51:20they knew about the hostilities coming out of the Altgeld Gardens projects
0:51:20 > 0:51:25and the young men around Fenger, so there was no way in the world it occurred, to be real with you.
0:51:25 > 0:51:27I talked to the mayor's office today.
0:51:27 > 0:51:30We're gonna bring together the guys that are in conflict.
0:51:30 > 0:51:34They have agreed to meet and we are going to process with them. We have
0:51:34 > 0:51:37a five-hour agenda. I think we can get all the brothers we need to.
0:51:37 > 0:51:39Are they willing to talk with us
0:51:39 > 0:51:42and you know, people need to talk to them,
0:51:42 > 0:51:45- see what is on their minds, the kids' minds.- Right.
0:51:52 > 0:51:55You just got kicked out of Finger, man. You want to go back to Finger?
0:51:55 > 0:51:57You know I do.
0:51:57 > 0:52:01How do you feel about them people coming from Altgeld Gardens out there?
0:52:01 > 0:52:03I usually get into it...
0:52:03 > 0:52:06That's what it is, though, man. You're just fighting and shooting.
0:52:06 > 0:52:09That's how you got to solve these problems,
0:52:09 > 0:52:11cos if you don't do it, they gon' try to do it to you.
0:52:11 > 0:52:13If you don't go hard, it's your life.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24MUSIC: "Piece of Me" by Britney Spears
0:52:27 > 0:52:29'Me and my wife is looking for a house.
0:52:29 > 0:52:35'I don't want the kids to grow up to really experience the things I've experienced all my life.
0:52:35 > 0:52:39'We way out here, man. Way out yonder, man.'
0:52:41 > 0:52:43THEY CHANT
0:52:43 > 0:52:44Instead of gun violence,
0:52:44 > 0:52:48we probably have to worry about rabbits and deer.
0:52:48 > 0:52:49And I'm OK with that.
0:52:49 > 0:52:51Me and my wife came from the street.
0:52:51 > 0:52:54She used to be out round rough people who lived the same lifestyle I lived.
0:52:54 > 0:52:58I end up getting pregnant at about 16,
0:52:58 > 0:53:01and did a 360, so...
0:53:01 > 0:53:06'I met my wife in 2002 and she already had three kids.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08'It wasn't love at first sight.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10'Probably not even love at second sight.'
0:53:10 > 0:53:12He's very nerdy.
0:53:12 > 0:53:14Very, very nerdy person.
0:53:15 > 0:53:20Man, my wife a mess. But like most wife... No.
0:53:20 > 0:53:21'No, but I love my wife.'
0:53:21 > 0:53:23Ah, that's short.
0:53:23 > 0:53:26He at the 30. Oh!
0:53:26 > 0:53:27- Oh, yeah!- I see Quinn!
0:53:27 > 0:53:33'Cobe as a dad, he's really good. He's there for every football game.
0:53:33 > 0:53:37'My kids really enjoy him, especially my daughter. That's...'
0:53:37 > 0:53:40That's her everything, her Cobe.
0:53:42 > 0:53:44- Cobe, man!- Dre!
0:53:45 > 0:53:47THEY LAUGH
0:53:49 > 0:53:54'What really made me start thinking more about doing the right thing, I started thinking about my son.'
0:53:54 > 0:53:58I remember, I was in jail and they brought me out with handcuffs up to the judge.
0:53:58 > 0:54:01My son...
0:54:01 > 0:54:04He ran up to me and hugged me and kissed me and grabbed me
0:54:04 > 0:54:06and started crying. So instantly,
0:54:06 > 0:54:11I got so emotional... Like, I think tears was coming.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13You know what I'm saying?
0:54:13 > 0:54:16Like, "Dad, I love you, I love you."
0:54:16 > 0:54:18As I'm going back to the back, my son just, like...
0:54:20 > 0:54:22..broke down in front of everybody, just crying,
0:54:22 > 0:54:24"I want my daddy, I want my daddy."
0:54:24 > 0:54:27I started thinking more about him,
0:54:27 > 0:54:30and I changed my life cos I wanted to be there for him.
0:54:34 > 0:54:37- There was so much that they had to do.- To get you released?
0:54:37 > 0:54:39Yeah, to get me released.
0:54:39 > 0:54:43'Caprysha had to stay in the jail for almost a month.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45'I was the first call on her way home,
0:54:45 > 0:54:49'and that experience was just such an eye-opener for her.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51'She said she didn't want to do it again.'
0:54:51 > 0:54:55And my mom had just went to court and they were taking her last four kids.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58'She's been in over 15 different homes.
0:54:58 > 0:55:02'She's raised herself and her sisters and brothers,'
0:55:02 > 0:55:04while her mom was out doing whatever her mom was doing.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07The money that I get, I go buy my drugs.
0:55:07 > 0:55:09I started selling drugs out on the block,
0:55:09 > 0:55:13just to make money for my sisters and brothers to have what they wanted.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16'I blame myself for my sister being in DCFS.
0:55:16 > 0:55:19'I blame myself for a lot of stuff that I know that...
0:55:19 > 0:55:21'it wasn't my fault.'
0:55:21 > 0:55:26- What's your goal? - To get my high school diploma, go to college and be a paediatrician
0:55:26 > 0:55:27and, like, take care...
0:55:27 > 0:55:30And then with, like, my free time, take care of my sisters.
0:55:30 > 0:55:36'And her saying what her goals and dreams are, who am I to say,
0:55:36 > 0:55:38'"You can't do that - look at your record"?
0:55:38 > 0:55:40'Look at Ameena's record!'
0:55:41 > 0:55:45Being a violence interrupter, nothing surprises me.
0:55:45 > 0:55:50'But being a mother and seeing this 18-year-old never riding on a carousel
0:55:50 > 0:55:53'kind of blew my mind.
0:55:56 > 0:56:00'It's true that it's only so much that I can do,
0:56:00 > 0:56:03and that's just one, Caprysha, but it's...'
0:56:03 > 0:56:07Its hundreds of thousands of Capryshas out there.
0:56:10 > 0:56:13- Pick out another colour. - I like green.- I know, but...
0:56:13 > 0:56:18- If you like green, we have green. - She got to like that lizard green.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21Now, this is a very expensive manicure.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23If I see you out there biting your nails,
0:56:23 > 0:56:27we gon' be on the ground boxing. You'd better be worried!
0:56:27 > 0:56:30How does it feel? Nice, right?
0:56:30 > 0:56:35Yeah. Don't slap 'em, don't hit 'em. Enjoy it.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37- So, where are you from?- Rockford.
0:56:37 > 0:56:41- What made you come all the way out here?- Cos I was getting in trouble.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44I used to fight every day at school.
0:56:46 > 0:56:48- Where does that get you?- Huh?
0:56:48 > 0:56:51- Where does that get you?- Nowhere.
0:56:51 > 0:56:54- Finally figured that out, huh?- Yeah.
0:56:54 > 0:56:58- Only for one brief second, you become the winner.- Mm-hm.
0:56:58 > 0:57:01But then, the only thing you win is your own pride,
0:57:01 > 0:57:04but where's that going to take you anywhere in life?
0:57:04 > 0:57:07- I would go out and start trouble with everybody.- Right.
0:57:07 > 0:57:09And when she bring it, she bring it hard.
0:57:11 > 0:57:17- We were doing a conflict mediation and...- Just happened to be the only girl standing outside.
0:57:17 > 0:57:20And when we came to the house, what you thought?
0:57:20 > 0:57:23It was...different, cos, like,
0:57:23 > 0:57:26you actually was talking TO me.
0:57:26 > 0:57:28You know, you deserve to be happy.
0:57:28 > 0:57:33You're 19. You deserve, like you said, to be having girly stuff done.
0:57:35 > 0:57:37That's a whole different hand, man.
0:57:42 > 0:57:46- Why you feel like you want to cry, but you don't want to?- I don't know.
0:57:46 > 0:57:47It's OK.
0:57:50 > 0:57:52I cry. Big girls cry.
0:57:54 > 0:57:58Angels make prayer in your tears, when you're crying...
0:57:58 > 0:58:00When you're crying and you're grateful.
0:58:00 > 0:58:04When you're crying and you're asking God to help you.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10I'm really so glad I met you, man.
0:58:12 > 0:58:14You know?
0:58:21 > 0:58:25You guys remember where we left off last week? We're working on our what?
0:58:25 > 0:58:28- Backgrounds.- Backgrounds, right. It's about using your brush.
0:58:28 > 0:58:31Criss-crosses, Cs.
0:58:31 > 0:58:33'Last year, I had a hard time going to schools. You know,
0:58:33 > 0:58:36'I was like, "Look, I work for violence prevention,"
0:58:36 > 0:58:40'and a lot of them didn't want to acknowledge there was issues in their schools.'
0:58:40 > 0:58:43I used a pencil to sketch it out and shaded the background.
0:58:43 > 0:58:45'They contacted CeaseFire.
0:58:45 > 0:58:48'They were actually focusing, at the school, about violence
0:58:48 > 0:58:50'and how they could help the community and so forth.
0:58:50 > 0:58:54'And I was like, "What do you think about the idea of maybe art,
0:58:54 > 0:58:56'"for them to express themselves about violence?"'
0:58:56 > 0:58:59This one right here, I kind of really like this one.
0:58:59 > 0:59:04'When I was in prison, painting was my form of dealing with my issues, my problems, and discovering myself.'
0:59:04 > 0:59:07You got this angel. He's in hell.
0:59:07 > 0:59:10And yet behind, there's, like, some demons, taunting him.
0:59:10 > 0:59:14'It's kind of a way to help the kids with what they're thinking about.'
0:59:14 > 0:59:18What's the one thing in the neighbourhood that you wish people could
0:59:18 > 0:59:21- focus on more, to help out? - Spray-painting.- Spray-painting.
0:59:21 > 0:59:25- What about you?- The shootings in my neighbourhood.- The shootings?
0:59:25 > 0:59:32Because my mom's scared that there's going to be a shooting going on me while I'm outside.
0:59:32 > 0:59:35I would want them to help with the shooting,
0:59:35 > 0:59:38because that really bothers me.
0:59:38 > 0:59:40Why does it bother you?
0:59:40 > 0:59:45Because there was this one time when our neighbours got into a fight,
0:59:45 > 0:59:46and...
0:59:48 > 0:59:51..I don't know what else happened, but somebody started shooting.
0:59:53 > 0:59:55And...
1:00:00 > 1:00:02- It really... - SHE CRIES
1:00:05 > 1:00:08And what you're doing right here, being part of this programme,
1:00:08 > 1:00:10that's a great thing.
1:00:10 > 1:00:13Cos it shows you care and you want to do something about it.
1:00:17 > 1:00:20'I just wish that these kids, if they ever go through that,
1:00:20 > 1:00:23'it doesn't affect them the same way it affected me.
1:00:23 > 1:00:27'My coping mechanism is, "Keep going, keep going, keep going. Keep working."'
1:00:32 > 1:00:35It is to stay out of bullshit and...
1:00:39 > 1:00:42..try to forget about some of the things that I've done.
1:00:44 > 1:00:47When I was 18, a very close friend of mine was paralysed.
1:00:47 > 1:00:51I'm feeling this anger, I'm feeling this rage, I'm feeling like,
1:00:51 > 1:00:53"They shot one of our guys? We're going back."
1:01:02 > 1:01:06When I pass through that block... it seems real different.
1:01:08 > 1:01:12I try to rewind and...no matter how much I try to remember it,
1:01:12 > 1:01:13it just don't come out.
1:01:15 > 1:01:20It's hard for me to say the victim's name, and... And even the crime.
1:01:22 > 1:01:26I guess I detach myself from that. Like, not putting a face.
1:01:27 > 1:01:30In reality, the face is there. Face is still there.
1:01:30 > 1:01:34ICE CREAM VAN JINGLE PLAYS
1:01:37 > 1:01:42And I had to be careful, as well, out here, cos I knew these guys were packing.
1:01:44 > 1:01:47And I stayed by the fire hydrant over there.
1:01:47 > 1:01:51This dude just kind of came out the cars...
1:01:51 > 1:01:54Shot him pretty much point-blank.
1:01:57 > 1:01:59There was a whole bunch of his friends, too,
1:01:59 > 1:02:03that were behind the cars and I was trying to shoot them, as well.
1:02:03 > 1:02:07But... It was more like in a defensive side, by that time.
1:02:07 > 1:02:09It was to make sure that they didn't shoot at me.
1:02:12 > 1:02:17It's funny, cos this block itself has claimed a lot of lives. This one particular block right here.
1:02:18 > 1:02:20CeaseFire.
1:02:31 > 1:02:34RAP: This foolish shooting It must stop, it's getting cruel
1:02:34 > 1:02:37Children going to school and gotta duck shots
1:02:37 > 1:02:39No more bliss Ignore this, we must not
1:02:39 > 1:02:42Like Natasha Howliet She was murdered on the bus stop
1:02:42 > 1:02:46Two gunshots and she just dropped This daily living
1:02:46 > 1:02:48I speak the grief of the streets
1:02:48 > 1:02:50They may be listening and pay attention
1:02:50 > 1:02:53Help lead us through this mess We infested with death
1:02:53 > 1:02:54And it leaves us too depressed
1:02:54 > 1:02:57Like when Derrion Albert was beaten to his death
1:02:57 > 1:03:01Had his mamma too upset Crying, speaking to the press
1:03:01 > 1:03:04It's too much We began to lose touch
1:03:04 > 1:03:07Jesse Jackson took a reaction and rode the school bus.
1:03:07 > 1:03:11Do you all think we can establish some type of coexistence or peace
1:03:11 > 1:03:13in Finger High School if we all work together?
1:03:13 > 1:03:15Finger can be a better place if...
1:03:17 > 1:03:19< SHOUTING
1:03:19 > 1:03:23Just hear her out. Give everybody respect.
1:03:23 > 1:03:25I live in Altgeld Gardens.
1:03:25 > 1:03:28I have a whole list. It's the Gardens and they're animals. It's both ways.
1:03:28 > 1:03:32You young men and women have to place a value
1:03:32 > 1:03:34and a vision on your life.
1:03:34 > 1:03:39Look at yourself 15 years down the road. You will be a full adult.
1:03:39 > 1:03:43I cannot believe that I'm looking at what has happened to the young people here.
1:03:43 > 1:03:45You don't have to fight anybody.
1:03:47 > 1:03:51Everybody don't think the same way. Everybody don't think the same way.
1:03:51 > 1:03:56It's not about me being an old lady and telling somebody what they should and should not do.
1:03:56 > 1:03:58It's about you all's life. And you all need to be heard,
1:03:58 > 1:04:01all the way through the ends of sentences.
1:04:01 > 1:04:05So I'ma throw some scenarios at you and I want you all to just answer honest.
1:04:05 > 1:04:09One of your friends was just beat up at a party over the weekend.
1:04:09 > 1:04:14You see a couple of kids that your friend identifies as the dude that stole on her.
1:04:14 > 1:04:17What do you think would happen next?
1:04:17 > 1:04:20I feel that we gon' fight.
1:04:20 > 1:04:24Cos there wasn't no problem when they jumped on my friend
1:04:24 > 1:04:27over the weekend, so if we see them walking, we gon' fight.
1:04:27 > 1:04:29It ain't like y'all put it. It's not that easy.
1:04:29 > 1:04:34You might walk away and somebody might pitch in your head with a bat or something.
1:04:34 > 1:04:37Who'd like to fight?
1:04:37 > 1:04:40I don't LIKE to fight, but I'll fight if I have to do.
1:04:40 > 1:04:43Yeah, that's how it is, but... I'll fight anybody.
1:04:43 > 1:04:45Everybody fights.
1:04:45 > 1:04:48Why you so angry? Why you want to fight?
1:04:48 > 1:04:51Cos it's just the way I was brought up. I always had to fight.
1:04:51 > 1:04:54- You always had to fight?- Basically.
1:04:56 > 1:04:58It's hard out there.
1:04:58 > 1:05:01When I grew up, I used to wake up wanting to fight somebody.
1:05:01 > 1:05:03Just fight somebody.
1:05:03 > 1:05:07And I understand a hellraiser liking a fight,
1:05:07 > 1:05:10but walking away from a fight ain't always meaning that you punk.
1:05:13 > 1:05:17..not to them. When they look at it, they gon' think you're a punk
1:05:17 > 1:05:20and a bitch and all that, but...
1:05:20 > 1:05:22So I got all that weighed out.
1:05:22 > 1:05:26My consequences - everybody that I was raised with that loved to fight
1:05:26 > 1:05:28was in a penitentiary at the end.
1:05:28 > 1:05:30Does that mean you're the punks, too?
1:05:30 > 1:05:33'It's a myth that most of the violence is gang-related'
1:05:33 > 1:05:36because a lot of the violence is interpersonal conflict.
1:05:36 > 1:05:41Guys get into it for the most pettiest reasons out here. So it's all about respect and disrespect
1:05:41 > 1:05:44not being accepted in the overall society.
1:05:44 > 1:05:49A lot of people feel ostracised, so what they do, they try to dominate their surroundings.
1:05:49 > 1:05:52I didn't eat this morning.
1:05:52 > 1:05:55I'm wearing my niece's clothes.
1:05:55 > 1:06:01I just was violated by my mom's boyfriend.
1:06:03 > 1:06:08I go to school and here comes someone that bumps into me
1:06:08 > 1:06:11and don't say, "Excuse me."
1:06:13 > 1:06:20You hit zero to rage within 30 seconds and you act out.
1:06:22 > 1:06:26Some of these kids, man, they don't care about tomorrow. "Fuck tomorrow."
1:06:26 > 1:06:28That's what they'll to tell you.
1:06:28 > 1:06:33"I'm trying to survive today, right now. I'm trying to live right now.
1:06:33 > 1:06:35"I'm trying to make sure I don't get shot.
1:06:35 > 1:06:38"I'm trying to make sure my boy next to me doesn't get shot.
1:06:38 > 1:06:43"And if he does, guess what? I'm going to go over there and shoot them, too."
1:07:02 > 1:07:05So, this is what violence interrupters do.
1:07:05 > 1:07:09Focus, like a laser, on reducing shootings and killings.
1:07:09 > 1:07:13And then the deeper part of the whole programme is changing norms.
1:07:13 > 1:07:18In Chicago, the interrupters have interrupted about 1,400 such events.
1:07:18 > 1:07:22We average about 40 to 45% drops in shootings and killings
1:07:22 > 1:07:25in the areas where we put it.
1:07:25 > 1:07:30Have you had incidents where the police feel that
1:07:30 > 1:07:33you should have given them information and you didn't?
1:07:33 > 1:07:38And that you were on the side of the offenders?
1:07:38 > 1:07:41If we were to do that, we would not be effective.
1:07:41 > 1:07:45We are trying to keep CeaseFire neutral, politically,
1:07:45 > 1:07:48as far as the relationship with law enforcement and the community.
1:07:48 > 1:07:53I mean, I'm confused, when you say "neutral". How are you seen as being a neutral force
1:07:53 > 1:07:56in that area, because there's right and there's wrong?
1:07:56 > 1:07:59It's not about right and wrong on one side.
1:07:59 > 1:08:03We don't want law-enforcement thinking that we are covering these criminals
1:08:03 > 1:08:08and we're hiding information so that they can continue doing negative behaviour,
1:08:08 > 1:08:11and we don't want the community thinking we're stool pigeons
1:08:11 > 1:08:14of important information that they give us, to law enforcement.
1:08:14 > 1:08:17You know, the right and wrong of these conflicts
1:08:17 > 1:08:18is all points of view.
1:08:18 > 1:08:24Are you going to take it back one day, or five years, or 200 years?
1:08:24 > 1:08:29Everyone has got a grievance and so, we just have to say that,
1:08:29 > 1:08:32no matter what, the additional violence won't be helpful.
1:08:32 > 1:08:36So, we're not in the good and bad game.
1:08:36 > 1:08:39We're not in that drama.
1:08:39 > 1:08:41It's just hard,
1:08:41 > 1:08:45because these guys are still cut from the code of the streets.
1:08:45 > 1:08:47'I've seen the faces of the Interrupters
1:08:47 > 1:08:50'when we hear that a seven-year-old girl got shot.
1:08:50 > 1:08:53'Something needs to be done.
1:08:53 > 1:08:55'But it's hard for these brothers
1:08:55 > 1:08:58'to make that quantum leap into turning somebody in.'
1:08:58 > 1:09:02The police supports this, but when they first started down here,
1:09:02 > 1:09:06I got criticised, from everybody, police,
1:09:06 > 1:09:10people down here on CeaseFire stab, you're hearing these tough guys,
1:09:10 > 1:09:13but how the hell are you going to go in and stop the violence?
1:09:13 > 1:09:18We were in that situation where a guy, recently, was released from prison.
1:09:18 > 1:09:20He thought that man be talking about him,
1:09:20 > 1:09:22got out, the con punched the man, and his brother.
1:09:22 > 1:09:24'China Joe was known as the Gladiator.
1:09:24 > 1:09:27'All Vice Lords had to fight China Joe to become a Vice Lord.
1:09:27 > 1:09:29'How you think that makes a young guy feel?
1:09:29 > 1:09:32'"Man, China Joe just told me to stand down."'
1:09:32 > 1:09:35We sitting here, hugging and looking like that.
1:09:35 > 1:09:37How you doing, son?
1:09:37 > 1:09:40Interrupters, though our intentions are noble and good,
1:09:40 > 1:09:43sometimes won't always go about it the right way.
1:09:43 > 1:09:49They're not in the streets any more. You can't take law in your own hand. You can't.
1:09:49 > 1:09:52As an Interrupter, that has been one of our greatest challenges.
1:09:52 > 1:09:54With violence and weapons
1:09:54 > 1:09:57we have to use the threat of violence to mediate a conflict.
1:09:57 > 1:10:01This is where the rubber meets the road, because, in reality,
1:10:01 > 1:10:04you cannot mediate conflicts without confrontation.
1:10:07 > 1:10:09He left me a voicemail.
1:10:12 > 1:10:14I got a call from a guy I met in jail.
1:10:14 > 1:10:18He said he's got the police in the house, he's doing the legal things.
1:10:20 > 1:10:23Said the police kicked his door in, knocked through his brother,
1:10:23 > 1:10:25put handcuffs on his mother.
1:10:25 > 1:10:29And he was somebody who knew who sent the police to his house.
1:10:29 > 1:10:31He is looking for 'em.
1:10:31 > 1:10:36- Ain't done no good to have us around here. Look...- What's up?
1:10:36 > 1:10:38My man Flamo make you laugh, but if you fuck with him,
1:10:38 > 1:10:40you got to bring it on.
1:10:40 > 1:10:44These motherfuckers came here, man, had my motherfuckin' momma handcuffed,
1:10:44 > 1:10:48my li'l brother handcuffed, took my little brother went and got shot.
1:10:48 > 1:10:50Fuckin' weird shit, man. Take him to jail.
1:10:50 > 1:10:53It's weird, you got to move that shit along.
1:10:53 > 1:10:56Ain't movin' shit along till I get these motherfuckers.
1:10:56 > 1:10:58You already know how I get in.
1:10:58 > 1:11:01You boys gonna make it better for me.
1:11:01 > 1:11:03I'm sorry hear about your brother, but still...
1:11:03 > 1:11:06- Ain't gonna make shit no better though.- Fuck makin' it better.
1:11:10 > 1:11:11I can't do nothin'.
1:11:13 > 1:11:15You know, you crazy, be out here like that.
1:11:15 > 1:11:19This love, man, thang, I ain't feelin' that, none of this shit.
1:11:19 > 1:11:23I respect y'all, what you're doin', that's cool, but fuck that.
1:11:23 > 1:11:25I'm not with Steve's fight.
1:11:25 > 1:11:29Why was I letting these motherfuckers kick my door in?
1:11:29 > 1:11:33We can't erase what already happened, but the whole thing, you gotta look at it like that.
1:11:33 > 1:11:35You can't erase what happened - you right.
1:11:35 > 1:11:37And you can't predict what I'm thinkin' to do.
1:11:37 > 1:11:40We just gotta work shit out.
1:11:40 > 1:11:42Offer you solutions to the problem.
1:11:42 > 1:11:45Fuck this shit. Fuck the problem. Fuck the solution!
1:11:47 > 1:11:49These motherfuckers tryin' to take my shit!
1:11:49 > 1:11:52You ain't just crossed me, you crossed my fuckin' momma.
1:11:52 > 1:11:55Wit' my momma, I come to your crib and kill every motherfucker.
1:11:55 > 1:11:57Your brother's gone. And you be gone,
1:11:57 > 1:12:00that ain't gonna do nothin' but hurt your momma.
1:12:00 > 1:12:02She'll be a'ight.
1:12:02 > 1:12:05- How many kids you got? - I'm claiming four.
1:12:05 > 1:12:07If you go to jail, you can't take in no kids.
1:12:07 > 1:12:09That's the thing. God takin' care of us in there.
1:12:09 > 1:12:11He gonna take care.
1:12:11 > 1:12:15Feels like when I do what I'ma do, he gonna take care me, too.
1:12:15 > 1:12:17But you was locked up before for the same shit.
1:12:17 > 1:12:22Man, I'm 32, been locked up 15 years of my life. What that mean?
1:12:22 > 1:12:26What the fuck that mean? That's where I grew up, here, God dammit.
1:12:26 > 1:12:29Ain't no shame, ain't no secret. Shit!
1:12:29 > 1:12:31I'm tired of being down on any motherfucker,
1:12:31 > 1:12:34soft-ass niggas, out here doin', should be trinkin'!
1:12:34 > 1:12:38All right, going to leave this here. Let's get a little corner.
1:12:38 > 1:12:41I know these punk-assed police, they all want me.
1:12:41 > 1:12:44- Motherfuckers out to kill me. - That shit crazy, man.
1:12:44 > 1:12:47How can you help me? Right now, how can you help me?
1:12:47 > 1:12:50I mean, the only thing, like I say, only thing I could do is try
1:12:50 > 1:12:54to get to know you more, spend more time with you, try to work with you.
1:12:54 > 1:12:56You gon' take me out to dinner, then?
1:12:56 > 1:12:59We can go to lunch right now, and we can sit down, and we can
1:12:59 > 1:13:02- talk about this motherfuckin' problem, that's what you telling me?- Yeah.
1:13:02 > 1:13:05I'm used to that goddamn shit.
1:13:05 > 1:13:08- We can go out, if that's what you want to do.- Right now?- Yeah.
1:13:08 > 1:13:10Let me go put my pistol up.
1:13:12 > 1:13:15We'll just see.
1:13:15 > 1:13:17Make sure, though, man, you ain't got shit on you.
1:13:17 > 1:13:20I'm clean, I ain't got nothing.
1:13:21 > 1:13:25'That's a rough one. That's one of the worst ones I hear.
1:13:26 > 1:13:28'He kept coming and going with us.
1:13:28 > 1:13:33'One minute I'm thinking he calmed down, then he blow right back up.
1:13:33 > 1:13:35'Any chance you got the person who will stay there
1:13:35 > 1:13:39'and talk with you, you got a chance at working it out with them.'
1:13:39 > 1:13:42This is the time of month we go to the conference.
1:13:42 > 1:13:45'We don't talk to them for less than a minute.
1:13:45 > 1:13:48'We always tell them, "Come and listen. Check it out.
1:13:48 > 1:13:50'"If you don't like it, you can walk out right away."'
1:13:50 > 1:13:52I'm going to shift the agenda,
1:13:52 > 1:13:54because we got a hypothetical problem,
1:13:54 > 1:13:56that's taking place somewhere in our town.
1:13:56 > 1:13:58Let's say that somebody tricked on your brother.
1:13:58 > 1:14:01And somebody called the police
1:14:01 > 1:14:04and said that he had some guns in the house, and the police came
1:14:04 > 1:14:08and knocked your brother up, found two guns, and they put your mother
1:14:08 > 1:14:12in handcuffs, and you know who the guy is that told on your brothers.
1:14:12 > 1:14:14How would we resolve a conflict like that?
1:14:14 > 1:14:16We gonna keep it 100, that's real hard.
1:14:16 > 1:14:20When you put momma into somebody else's business, that's super-duper hard.
1:14:20 > 1:14:23We not gonna be effective in them ventures.
1:14:23 > 1:14:27There gonna be some where it slip through cracks.
1:14:27 > 1:14:30You been messed up, you add to their burden
1:14:30 > 1:14:34so you gotta put your little personal pride aside
1:14:34 > 1:14:37and start dealing with this thing on a realistic, responsible way
1:14:37 > 1:14:39and start trying to figure out a way to get your brother
1:14:39 > 1:14:42from out of that drama and ease your mother.
1:14:42 > 1:14:45And you don't have to be tough to be a hero.
1:14:45 > 1:14:47You want to be like the rest of our guys out there.
1:14:47 > 1:14:51That should do it for now. We got some solid feedback.
1:14:51 > 1:14:54..We got a situation over on Michelle Clyde Heights...
1:14:54 > 1:14:56'When you first started meeting with him,'
1:14:56 > 1:15:00he was on ten, and now I think he was at a level five.
1:15:00 > 1:15:03The only problem now, Cobe, if he is to see this guy tonight,
1:15:03 > 1:15:05there's gonna be a problem.
1:15:05 > 1:15:07What's gonna happen now, you gotta baby-sit him.
1:15:07 > 1:15:09- You and Hiram at the same time.- OK.
1:15:09 > 1:15:14- You tired of waiting? Let's get out of here, man.- Yeah, about time.
1:15:14 > 1:15:17Cobe is one of the best Interrupters, but he knows how to walk away.
1:15:17 > 1:15:21That's very important, because if you don't know how to walk away,
1:15:21 > 1:15:22you can end up getting hurt.
1:15:25 > 1:15:3234, 24. We've had some close calls, several representative shot at.
1:15:32 > 1:15:34Brother Joel, still in a lot of pain.
1:15:34 > 1:15:38This is the first time one of our Interrupters ever got shot.
1:15:38 > 1:15:40I came to tell you we appreciate you,
1:15:40 > 1:15:46everything you did trying to mediate that conflict. Just glad you survived.
1:15:46 > 1:15:49You stumbled across this coming out your father's house.
1:15:49 > 1:15:54It was a couple of guys down the block, arguing over someone.
1:15:54 > 1:15:59As I was approaching them, I had something telling me
1:15:59 > 1:16:03it wasn't even the right moment to even interrupt them.
1:16:03 > 1:16:05I'm just trying to do my job.
1:16:05 > 1:16:07One of them said, "Who are you, you from around here?"
1:16:07 > 1:16:10So he go to talk to his other friend,
1:16:10 > 1:16:11and that's when he shot me up.
1:16:11 > 1:16:15- When you turned your back? - When I turned my back.
1:16:15 > 1:16:17You got shot in the ankle and in the back?
1:16:17 > 1:16:19It opened my whole stomach right up.
1:16:21 > 1:16:23That's tough at the bottom,
1:16:23 > 1:16:26because when you got shot there were, like, 16 shootings in six hours.
1:16:26 > 1:16:29All the guys came up here, Friday.
1:16:29 > 1:16:31All the brothers were here.
1:16:31 > 1:16:33We were here, you know? And, uh...
1:16:40 > 1:16:41(It's cool.)
1:16:44 > 1:16:48I'll just say it's tough, that's all I know. Yeah.
1:16:51 > 1:16:55When I thought about you getting shot, and your father was there,
1:16:55 > 1:16:57because I have sons, I've got a son of like, 24.
1:16:57 > 1:17:00Got another son who is like, 28 years old, believe it or not,
1:17:00 > 1:17:03so, when I thought about it... HE CLEARS HIS THROAT
1:17:08 > 1:17:09I collect my sons.
1:17:11 > 1:17:13I'm here with you.
1:17:13 > 1:17:17It would make it good, I know, but we just got to keep on pushing. Thanks.
1:17:17 > 1:17:22Thanks, bud. All right. OK, we're going to get on up out of here.
1:17:23 > 1:17:27And I'll be back Wednesday. All right. Yeah, all right.
1:17:27 > 1:17:29Yeah.
1:17:35 > 1:17:39SOMBRE ORGAN MUSIC
1:17:44 > 1:17:48I'm begging you, my brothers, I'm begging you, my sisters,
1:17:48 > 1:17:51let God do what God needs to do.
1:17:54 > 1:17:58Once we lay this brother down in the ground, we got work to do.
1:17:58 > 1:18:01'Jesse Smith got shot in a retaliation.
1:18:01 > 1:18:04'Another student that got shot.
1:18:04 > 1:18:07'But it wasn't just he had did the shooting.'
1:18:07 > 1:18:11- SERMON CONTINUES:- ..Family has to kill, and we have work to do.
1:18:11 > 1:18:14'I'm just seeing, in the last 10-15 years,
1:18:14 > 1:18:18'random violence like I've never seen it before.'
1:18:18 > 1:18:21Last year, of the 125 homicides,
1:18:21 > 1:18:23where we service those families,
1:18:23 > 1:18:25about 90% were young people.
1:18:25 > 1:18:30These children don't expect to live past 30.
1:18:30 > 1:18:34They come to these funerals and I watch them and they represent
1:18:34 > 1:18:38and they put themselves in place of the person in the casket.
1:18:38 > 1:18:40These young people are, in reality,
1:18:40 > 1:18:45saying, "This is what I want to happen when I'm killed."
1:18:45 > 1:18:47..affectionately known as Dupe...
1:18:47 > 1:18:49'I've heard little buzzes in the air
1:18:49 > 1:18:52'that they were coming to shoot the funeral up
1:18:52 > 1:18:55'to get the person that they were intending to get.'
1:18:55 > 1:18:58'I call for all hands on deck.'
1:18:58 > 1:19:01..left behind his loving mother.
1:19:01 > 1:19:04'The mother got in touch with CeaseFire.
1:19:04 > 1:19:07'I've never met this mother before.
1:19:07 > 1:19:10'She said, "I need you to be there, Ameena."
1:19:10 > 1:19:14'I just would want somebody to do that for my son.'
1:19:14 > 1:19:16QUIET SOBBING
1:19:51 > 1:19:57I need everybody from the ages of 13 to 24, to stand up.
1:20:02 > 1:20:04I'm the second oldest daughter to Jeff Fort,
1:20:04 > 1:20:07to ones that call Malik chief,
1:20:07 > 1:20:09and I'm fed up,
1:20:09 > 1:20:13because each and everyone of you could be Dupe, right here.
1:20:13 > 1:20:16I'ma be real honest with you all, because, see,
1:20:16 > 1:20:19we real talking up here, because Dupe is real, there, in front of us.
1:20:19 > 1:20:22And there's a reason why this party is here.
1:20:22 > 1:20:27I see these rare cats, my brothers,
1:20:27 > 1:20:30I know we hurtin', because we loved Dupe.
1:20:30 > 1:20:36But we got a responsibility to bring up our community to be vibrant.
1:20:37 > 1:20:41Whatever it is that's goin' on, cease the fire, call a truce.
1:20:48 > 1:20:51'I was a chauffeur for Dr Martin Luther King
1:20:51 > 1:20:56'when SCLC made their first venture into the north, by way of Chicago.
1:20:58 > 1:21:00'The black community, we were the nobodies,
1:21:00 > 1:21:04'and the civil rights era gave us hope that we could be somebody.
1:21:06 > 1:21:10'How can the president of the United States be a black man?'
1:21:10 > 1:21:12I never thought I'd see that in my lifetime.
1:21:12 > 1:21:15But while I'm seeing the President on television,
1:21:15 > 1:21:18the images of him leading the free world,
1:21:18 > 1:21:22I'm still burying black kids, which just doesn't make sense to me.
1:21:31 > 1:21:34All of this stuff in this snow.
1:21:34 > 1:21:38Where my man at? Where you at, where Flamo?
1:21:39 > 1:21:42How you doing, son? OK?
1:21:43 > 1:21:46What's up, what's up, Flamo?
1:21:46 > 1:21:50How are you feeling today, man? You all right?
1:21:50 > 1:21:54Well, I can't see our village right now, so I got to gamble.
1:21:54 > 1:21:57Are we talking Super Bowl?
1:21:57 > 1:22:01Yeah, man, I'm a sore loser.
1:22:01 > 1:22:06I'm ready to get my money back, blood. It come with the game, man.
1:22:06 > 1:22:10I'm just so happy you calmed down, you went thinking in another way,
1:22:10 > 1:22:13- and that's very good, man.- A'ight.
1:22:13 > 1:22:18It's hard. I stop doing what I'm doing, but, shit, don't push me.
1:22:18 > 1:22:20You know the good thing?
1:22:20 > 1:22:23I stop the locomotion on the block a little while ago.
1:22:23 > 1:22:25You stopped something today?
1:22:25 > 1:22:28Yeah. Like I'm talking wit' y'all
1:22:28 > 1:22:30I see they want somebody to end the thing,
1:22:30 > 1:22:33and stop 'em, see a homie go his way, and he go his way.
1:22:33 > 1:22:37- And you intervened and stopped that from happening?- Yeah.
1:22:37 > 1:22:41- So, how do you feel about what you did?- Personal?
1:22:41 > 1:22:45At the time, these motherfuckers were making noise
1:22:45 > 1:22:49and I'm just there watching TV, trying to get high.
1:22:49 > 1:22:51And they made a big-ass thing in front of me crib.
1:22:51 > 1:22:55So, shit, "I tell them, move on or I'ma get on and fuck both of you."
1:22:55 > 1:22:58Flamo, there's non-violence and non-violence.
1:22:59 > 1:23:03I'm going to be waiting right here on the side, Riley. OK?
1:23:04 > 1:23:07Ho, what's up, man, what's that in your hand?
1:23:07 > 1:23:10- A blunt, man.- Flamo, man, you don't ride like that,
1:23:10 > 1:23:12you don't ride with no blunts or shit in here, man!
1:23:12 > 1:23:14I know, that's why I tear you, see?
1:23:14 > 1:23:17I'm saying you should have respect for me, don't do that, though.
1:23:17 > 1:23:20Police pull up, everybody in here go to jail.
1:23:20 > 1:23:22Let me get rid of the evidence.
1:23:22 > 1:23:25- Hell, man, that ain't cool at all. - I weren't thinking.
1:23:25 > 1:23:27You weren't thinking?
1:23:27 > 1:23:31I'm trying to get into the mode of doing what's right, man.
1:23:31 > 1:23:35I know I got some screws missing on the attitude, what's up.
1:23:35 > 1:23:40I used to want to get with gangbangs. I want none of that, bruv.
1:23:42 > 1:23:47But all the stuff I have to do, and done, by doing it,
1:23:47 > 1:23:49I ain't got nothing to show for it.
1:23:49 > 1:23:51Nothing that I done, negative.
1:23:52 > 1:23:57My friends in jail, my friends drug addicts, so... Whatever.
1:23:57 > 1:24:00You're seeing, like, life repeat itself as a cycle.
1:24:02 > 1:24:05You just move on to places that are telling the story.
1:24:05 > 1:24:08I'm trying to be one of you all, telling the story.
1:24:08 > 1:24:11I want to be the one that's living the lifestyle,
1:24:11 > 1:24:14riding the streets, who knows how to keep out of harm
1:24:14 > 1:24:18and doing wrong, and all other, man, I say.
1:24:25 > 1:24:29A'ight, I'll let you go, I'll see you, brother.
1:24:35 > 1:24:39Today, I brought this young man home from prison.
1:24:39 > 1:24:42He's been gone for like two or three years, for armed robbery.
1:24:42 > 1:24:44I've known him and his family for a long time.
1:24:44 > 1:24:48The only thing he kept saying, he wants to see his little brother
1:24:48 > 1:24:51and his two sisters. THEY SHRIEK WITH EXCITEMENT
1:25:00 > 1:25:01Whassup?
1:25:04 > 1:25:05It's going to be all right.
1:25:07 > 1:25:09- It's been a long time.- Yes.
1:25:09 > 1:25:12- A lot of changes.- Mm-hm.
1:25:12 > 1:25:15You know, two years and some months.
1:25:15 > 1:25:17Before you went to jail,
1:25:17 > 1:25:21I really noticed you as Lil' Mikey.
1:25:21 > 1:25:24But now you're not Lil' Mikey no more.
1:25:24 > 1:25:27I hated it, but I ain't gotta do that no more.
1:25:28 > 1:25:31I missed your graduation.
1:25:31 > 1:25:32I ain't gonna miss yours.
1:25:32 > 1:25:35And I definitely ain't gonna miss yours.
1:25:35 > 1:25:38What about that role model paper Momma told me about?
1:25:38 > 1:25:40It's about you and me.
1:25:40 > 1:25:42About how I miss you.
1:25:42 > 1:25:46- I hope you get to see one sometimes.- Right.
1:25:46 > 1:25:50- Is this the old Mikey that you said was a role model, right?- Mm-hm.
1:25:50 > 1:25:52I don't want him to be a role model because
1:25:52 > 1:25:56he was a different person than he was at home
1:25:56 > 1:25:57than he was on the block.
1:25:57 > 1:26:00- Hopefully, this Mikey will be your role model.- Mm-hm.
1:26:00 > 1:26:05- Your daddy be coming home soon, won't he?- 2013.
1:26:05 > 1:26:072013.
1:26:07 > 1:26:09- How long your daddy been gone? - 17 years.
1:26:09 > 1:26:11Your daddy tried to call me.
1:26:11 > 1:26:13I got this voicemail.
1:26:13 > 1:26:18He was telling me he wants to talk to me before you get out.
1:26:18 > 1:26:20So, you know, I'm there for you.
1:26:22 > 1:26:25Yo, I'm here for y'all now.
1:26:32 > 1:26:33Too long.
1:26:35 > 1:26:37It's real tough when people get out of prison.
1:26:37 > 1:26:42A lot of times when you get out of prison, when you can't find no job, you get discouraged.
1:26:42 > 1:26:45You're, like, "Man, it's hard out here, man.
1:26:45 > 1:26:48"Should I go back to doing the shit I used to do?"
1:26:48 > 1:26:50He sent me a text message. He got a new phone?
1:26:50 > 1:26:55When he got out, he tried really hard until he found his job.
1:26:55 > 1:26:59Uh-huh. Where's your boy at?
1:26:59 > 1:27:02Even when they laid him off, he was very active.
1:27:02 > 1:27:06I'd be like, "Why are you going out there and not getting paid?"
1:27:06 > 1:27:08He's, like, "Because.
1:27:08 > 1:27:12"Eventually they'll get some fund and I have to go, though.
1:27:12 > 1:27:15"This is what I'm supposed to be doing."
1:27:15 > 1:27:18And he stuck with it and he's back.
1:27:18 > 1:27:19INSTRUMENTAL
1:27:43 > 1:27:45LOW CHATTER
1:27:51 > 1:27:53Get your birthday gifts!
1:27:53 > 1:27:55Birthday gifts!
1:27:56 > 1:27:59I think you printed it up. It ain't even dry yet!
1:28:08 > 1:28:11'Today's a big day for the students.
1:28:11 > 1:28:15'We're putting up their artwork that we've worked on this past couple of months.'
1:28:15 > 1:28:18- Yay! He's here! - I came. I showed up, right?
1:28:18 > 1:28:19LAUGHTER
1:28:19 > 1:28:22- How you been? - Good.- Good.
1:28:22 > 1:28:24How about the neighbourhood?
1:28:24 > 1:28:25A kid got shot. Paralysed.
1:28:25 > 1:28:28- From the waist down. - Did you know him?
1:28:28 > 1:28:31Yeah. He lived downstairs from us.
1:28:31 > 1:28:33Really? Oh, my gosh!
1:28:33 > 1:28:39If anything like that happens, you know you can get in touch with Eddie.
1:28:39 > 1:28:41Especially if you just want to talk.
1:28:41 > 1:28:43- You guys can tell me these things, too.- Yeah.
1:28:43 > 1:28:45THEY LAUGH
1:28:45 > 1:28:47No? No?
1:28:47 > 1:28:51- Eddie's more equipped to deal with it.- I've got a cousin I'm afraid of.
1:28:51 > 1:28:54His mom is in the hospital and he's started drinking and smoking.
1:28:54 > 1:28:57And he's got bad colours.
1:28:57 > 1:28:59So I wanna talk to you about that.
1:28:59 > 1:29:01I think he's gonna get shot or killed
1:29:01 > 1:29:05because of all the bad stuff that happens.
1:29:05 > 1:29:08My cousin, I know he has a gun, like, in his bedroom.
1:29:08 > 1:29:11Like, um...I don't know.
1:29:11 > 1:29:13It's, like, I'm really afraid for him because...
1:29:13 > 1:29:16because, like, I dunno, he might, like...
1:29:16 > 1:29:19like, um...I dunno.
1:29:19 > 1:29:23Your cousin probably feels kinda hopeless. He feels like he's alone.
1:29:23 > 1:29:25Why not do these things, you know?
1:29:25 > 1:29:27Nobody cares if I get locked up.
1:29:27 > 1:29:29Nobody cares if I get shot.
1:29:29 > 1:29:32I think he still can change.
1:29:32 > 1:29:34Like, how, like how you told us
1:29:34 > 1:29:38about how you were in a gang and stuff and how you've changed.
1:29:38 > 1:29:41You know, also, it takes time. It took time for me.
1:29:41 > 1:29:44It took a long time for me.
1:29:44 > 1:29:45Tell me where he's at,
1:29:45 > 1:29:49I'll go to his house and I'll talk to him.
1:29:49 > 1:29:52I wish your cousin was here just to listen to what you're saying.
1:29:52 > 1:29:55I'm sure he'd be touched and moved by how you feel
1:29:55 > 1:29:57and how concerned you are about him.
1:29:57 > 1:30:01And them guys would love to have you when they're struggling.
1:30:02 > 1:30:04When they see you doing right and good,
1:30:04 > 1:30:07they look at that and they envy that
1:30:07 > 1:30:10because they wish they were in your shoes.
1:30:10 > 1:30:14If these guys keep messing with you, man, just call me. Call me.
1:30:15 > 1:30:19- All right?- Yeah.- Right. Cool, bro.
1:30:19 > 1:30:21All right, man.
1:30:21 > 1:30:23Right here? Put it up.
1:30:23 > 1:30:27We had the choice to pick a topic that concerned us the most.
1:30:27 > 1:30:28We picked gang violence.
1:30:28 > 1:30:32That is when Eddie came from Ceasefire to tell us
1:30:32 > 1:30:37about his experience in gangs and how he works to prevent it now.
1:30:37 > 1:30:40'The words, they themselves came up with.'
1:30:40 > 1:30:42Wounded. Dragged down. Painful.
1:30:42 > 1:30:44Lonely. Shattered. Destroyed.
1:30:44 > 1:30:48'That expressed what they felt about violence.'
1:30:48 > 1:30:50Revived. Repaired.
1:30:50 > 1:30:53- Recovering.- Fixing. Curing.
1:30:53 > 1:30:54'And about moving forward.'
1:30:54 > 1:30:57Rejoice. Hope. Healed.
1:30:57 > 1:30:59That's really good.
1:30:59 > 1:31:01That's really good.
1:31:03 > 1:31:05'What I see from these paintings,
1:31:05 > 1:31:08'that they actually have a lot of hope for the future.'
1:31:12 > 1:31:15The same thing that we've done in Iraq,
1:31:15 > 1:31:17we can do this right here in our own backyard.
1:31:17 > 1:31:19Politicians say Chicago's a war zone
1:31:19 > 1:31:22and they want the military to fight back.
1:31:22 > 1:31:25Some law makers want Governor Quinn to deploy the National Guard
1:31:25 > 1:31:27to Chicago's neighbourhoods.
1:31:27 > 1:31:30And my conversation with the National Guard was,
1:31:30 > 1:31:33"Is it possible for you to come here
1:31:33 > 1:31:37"and assist the Chicago Police Department?"
1:31:39 > 1:31:41shoot to kill back in '68.
1:31:41 > 1:31:44You endanger the lives of all us.
1:31:44 > 1:31:48They talk about gangs, guns and drugs.
1:31:48 > 1:31:52But there is no talk of jobs, contracts and opportunities.
1:31:52 > 1:31:54APPLAUSE
1:31:54 > 1:31:56We have to defend out own people!
1:31:56 > 1:31:59We will solve our own problems!
1:31:59 > 1:32:03If we have a ceasefire to stop the violence,
1:32:03 > 1:32:05in an essence, that's just a Band-Aid
1:32:05 > 1:32:08to this big issue that's going around us.
1:32:08 > 1:32:11Every single day, man, they ask me for jobs.
1:32:11 > 1:32:15They're like, "I'm stuck right now, man. I don't even know what to do.
1:32:15 > 1:32:19"I'm feeling pressures from everywhere. I'm pretty much going to be homeless."
1:32:19 > 1:32:22All these things lead to violence.
1:32:22 > 1:32:25Reducing the violence is not a Band-Aid.
1:32:25 > 1:32:28It's actually the essential pathway
1:32:28 > 1:32:31to a neighbourhood being able to develop.
1:32:31 > 1:32:33For the schools to be able to get better.
1:32:33 > 1:32:36For kids to get rid of their stress disorders.
1:32:36 > 1:32:38For businesses to feel safe enough and well enough
1:32:38 > 1:32:41to be able to come into these neighbourhoods.
1:32:41 > 1:32:43We don't have enough resources to go around.
1:32:43 > 1:32:46They want to change the conversation around violence.
1:32:46 > 1:32:47Let me finish.
1:32:47 > 1:32:51If you can't feed these young guys, they're not gonna listen to you.
1:32:51 > 1:32:55'The African-American and Latino communities have been beaten down so long
1:32:55 > 1:32:59'with poor schools, lack of jobs, hopelessness, despair.
1:32:59 > 1:33:02'A lot of people can't stick with peace
1:33:02 > 1:33:04'if they don't have a stick that they can hold onto.'
1:33:06 > 1:33:09If you break the window, that's on you.
1:33:09 > 1:33:12- I ain't gonna break it.- Break it.
1:33:12 > 1:33:13Break it and you gonna go to jail.
1:33:15 > 1:33:17I'm not wearing. I'm not wearing.
1:33:17 > 1:33:19Ain't nobody put no fear in my heart!
1:33:19 > 1:33:22- Step out of the building! - Get the fuck away from my window.
1:33:24 > 1:33:26You ain't got no life.
1:33:29 > 1:33:30I'm gonna tell you it like it is.
1:33:30 > 1:33:32She's going for real.
1:33:32 > 1:33:36- This is an everyday...- I'm gonna fuck you up!- This is what they do.
1:33:36 > 1:33:38This is what they do to us!
1:33:38 > 1:33:40This is what they do every day, all day.
1:33:40 > 1:33:43And me being at this site and being the only female,
1:33:43 > 1:33:46it's not working. It's not working.
1:33:46 > 1:33:48OK, this is what happened at the site.
1:33:48 > 1:33:50He called me a bitch and I spit on him
1:33:50 > 1:33:54- and he came to my window and spit on me. - 'Did they put their hands on you?'
1:33:54 > 1:33:56They, they, they, they want to fight me.
1:33:56 > 1:33:58They're trying to fight me when I come back to the site.
1:33:58 > 1:34:02- But I think I'm gonna just go... - 'I'm going to call the house.'
1:34:03 > 1:34:04'Yes?'
1:34:05 > 1:34:07'Do you promise me?'
1:34:13 > 1:34:15Well, let me go ahead and call my people from the Greens
1:34:15 > 1:34:19- and we can go ahead and do this cos I'm not wary.- 'Caprysha, shut up!'
1:34:19 > 1:34:20He not gonna scare me.
1:34:20 > 1:34:23- 'Caprysha, wait a minute.' - I'm going to hang up this phone.
1:34:23 > 1:34:29- I'm gonna hang up.- 'If you're not gonna be good until I see you. I'm gonna come out there.'
1:34:29 > 1:34:33- I'm gonna, I'm gonna...I'm gonna actually fight them. No problem. - But why?
1:34:33 > 1:34:38Why? You gonna risk getting scratched and all that? Why?
1:34:39 > 1:34:41You're too pretty for that.
1:34:43 > 1:34:44My baby.
1:34:46 > 1:34:50We gotta be tight here. You gotta be tight about fighting.
1:34:50 > 1:34:53- Dude, they're 18 and 19. I ain't... - But you can't spit on nobody.
1:34:54 > 1:34:56That could start a war.
1:34:56 > 1:34:59You don't know that? Do you know that?
1:34:59 > 1:35:01Yes. I been telling people I know you.
1:35:01 > 1:35:03You can't be spitting on nobody. So what?
1:35:03 > 1:35:07Knowing me or not, them knowing that you know me, that don't...it's your actions!
1:35:07 > 1:35:11You understand what I'm saying?
1:35:11 > 1:35:13For real. Do you for real?
1:35:13 > 1:35:19'Caprysha's been through hell and back.
1:35:19 > 1:35:20'It's tough.
1:35:22 > 1:35:27'Trying to process emotions about not having a mom and dad around.
1:35:30 > 1:35:35'I have a vision in my head of my dad on this white horse,
1:35:35 > 1:35:39'riding through 709 Street, coming back for me.
1:35:40 > 1:35:44'Me getting shot in the gang was God telling me,
1:35:44 > 1:35:47"You've got to make your own choices."
1:35:48 > 1:35:52My family knew exactly who did it.
1:35:52 > 1:35:56And I got a phone call from my dad while I was in the hospital.
1:35:56 > 1:35:59Telling me how sorry he was, he apologised.
1:35:59 > 1:36:02There's gonna be answers for it and why?
1:36:02 > 1:36:04Why, Dad?
1:36:04 > 1:36:07Leave that boy alone.
1:36:09 > 1:36:12That was the last encounter that I had with the gang.
1:36:13 > 1:36:18And as I look back, that was my first mediation.
1:36:23 > 1:36:27How's everything been going with your job search and everything?
1:36:27 > 1:36:31It's, it's going hard, man. I ain't found no job yet.
1:36:31 > 1:36:35- But I ain't gonna give up. - I've been working with Lil' Mikey for a while.
1:36:35 > 1:36:37Even while he was in prison, he kept stressing
1:36:37 > 1:36:40he wanted to apologise to them people he robbed.
1:36:40 > 1:36:44It was a war thing. We did it to get more guns.
1:36:44 > 1:36:47We don't know how this might turn out. We're going to talk to them.
1:36:47 > 1:36:51If they accept it or not, it's still, like,
1:36:51 > 1:36:53I know I made a mistake.
1:36:53 > 1:36:56And I'm asking for y'all forgiveness.
1:36:57 > 1:36:58You kinda nervous going here?
1:36:58 > 1:37:01I think I'm gonna start feeling it when I get in the shop.
1:37:05 > 1:37:07How y'all doing?
1:37:07 > 1:37:10I understand that on August 24th 2007,
1:37:10 > 1:37:13that me and two other fellas came here and stuck the place up.
1:37:15 > 1:37:18I know I'm deeply, I'm deeply sorry.
1:37:18 > 1:37:20I know I made a mistake. I was 15.
1:37:20 > 1:37:24And I was following a crowd, but I'm older, I'm more mature than I was.
1:37:24 > 1:37:27I wanted to let y'all know that I was sorry for what I did. On my behalf.
1:37:27 > 1:37:29I don't know how these two other brothers feel,
1:37:29 > 1:37:31but I know I made a complete 360
1:37:31 > 1:37:35doing my, er...almost three years being incarcerated.
1:37:37 > 1:37:41Well, with me, my daughter was here.
1:37:41 > 1:37:43And my baby.
1:37:43 > 1:37:47And you just don't know the impact that you put on my life.
1:37:47 > 1:37:49Holding us with guns.
1:37:49 > 1:37:53I'm nervous right now even meeting you.
1:37:53 > 1:37:55And I thank God that you have changed your life,
1:37:55 > 1:38:00but you just don't know what that did to me and my kids.
1:38:00 > 1:38:03I deal with this every day. Every day of my life.
1:38:03 > 1:38:06Every day!
1:38:06 > 1:38:08You came in here, you asked for a haircut.
1:38:08 > 1:38:10You left, went out.
1:38:10 > 1:38:15You came back in...and you did this to my kids.
1:38:15 > 1:38:19And he held my baby with a gun up to his head.
1:38:19 > 1:38:21And then flicked on my daughter with a gun.
1:38:21 > 1:38:24And you told my co-worker, Rhonda,
1:38:24 > 1:38:28that you were going to kill her because she was calling the police.
1:38:28 > 1:38:31My life was in your hands.
1:38:31 > 1:38:33I didn't know if you was gonna kill me.
1:38:33 > 1:38:36My daughter kept saying, "Momma, we gonna die".
1:38:36 > 1:38:38And I hold my babies
1:38:38 > 1:38:42and what you wanna tell your kids,
1:38:42 > 1:38:46when you wanna protect your kids, and you can't at that moment.
1:38:46 > 1:38:50Y'all put us, seven people, in the little bathroom.
1:38:50 > 1:38:54We didn't even know what was gonna happen to us.
1:38:54 > 1:38:57And this day, he never talk about that robbery.
1:38:57 > 1:38:59That was three years ago, he just made 13.
1:38:59 > 1:39:02He ain't never saying nothing. I don't know what's on his mind.
1:39:02 > 1:39:05But I just praying to God, don't let him hold that in.
1:39:05 > 1:39:08But I'm just glad that you a changed man.
1:39:08 > 1:39:10You look better. But you know what?
1:39:10 > 1:39:13I-I-I'm OK. I'm a better person now.
1:39:13 > 1:39:16And I hope that, you know, you'll be a better man.
1:39:16 > 1:39:17That's all I'm saying.
1:39:17 > 1:39:19And I hope that you are sincere.
1:39:19 > 1:39:23And this man right here, I mean, he helping you, he making you a better man.
1:39:23 > 1:39:27You could've been dead and gone, but God spared your life.
1:39:27 > 1:39:31This the father right here? I would like to see him hug him.
1:39:31 > 1:39:35Cos you don't owe him nothing, but you teaching him.
1:39:35 > 1:39:38And imagine what he thinking about.
1:39:39 > 1:39:43So it take a lot of gut to walk back on the services that you did the dirt on.
1:39:43 > 1:39:45So many cats we shake hands with,
1:39:45 > 1:39:48they're the guys that broke in our house, we just don't know it.
1:39:48 > 1:39:52Same ones that raped our sisters, our mothers, our daughters.
1:39:52 > 1:39:56And we know these young guys today, at his age, they don't come back.
1:39:56 > 1:39:58The fact that today,
1:39:58 > 1:40:02you release something in somebody and in yourself,
1:40:02 > 1:40:04you got to run with that.
1:40:05 > 1:40:07- All right?- Yes, sir.
1:40:10 > 1:40:14It was like I relived what she went through,
1:40:14 > 1:40:17in my eyes, but she went through it.
1:40:21 > 1:40:27When you first step in, did you remember them? Did you remember them?
1:40:27 > 1:40:29Not at all.
1:40:43 > 1:40:45- That will be 8.25.- All right.
1:40:47 > 1:40:5115 years ago I took someone's life, pretty much.
1:40:53 > 1:40:58And so, on this day, in honour the victim of my case,
1:40:58 > 1:41:01I try and do as many good deeds as I can,
1:41:01 > 1:41:05and I try and reach out, especially to strangers.
1:41:13 > 1:41:18I've thought that hopefully one day to get in touch with the victim's family
1:41:18 > 1:41:22and really express to them how deeply sorry I am.
1:41:26 > 1:41:28And whether or not they accept my apology,
1:41:28 > 1:41:32I don't think they will, I really just want to do this.
1:41:32 > 1:41:36It's just that right now, I don't think it's still right.
1:41:38 > 1:41:42The last stop of today, we're going to the cemetery
1:41:42 > 1:41:44to visit the family of Miguel,
1:41:44 > 1:41:46a kid who was shot and killed a few weeks ago.
1:41:48 > 1:41:50Hello, how are you doing?
1:41:52 > 1:41:54I spoke to Vanessa, his sister,
1:41:54 > 1:41:58about some of the issues that were going on in their home right now.
1:42:00 > 1:42:05Now, I never got to meet him, to be honest, I know he was a good kid.
1:42:07 > 1:42:10I actually brought a flower too, that I wanted to drop off, so...
1:42:19 > 1:42:22Do you mind putting it there for me?
1:42:22 > 1:42:25'Miguel got shot in the head.
1:42:25 > 1:42:29'Vanessa was actually there when it was happening.
1:42:29 > 1:42:31'He pretty much died in her arms.
1:42:33 > 1:42:34'I think that Vanessa does feel
1:42:34 > 1:42:37'that what happened to her brother was her fault.
1:42:37 > 1:42:41'But she can't blame herself because someone else was ignorant,
1:42:41 > 1:42:43'and had a gun, and shot her brother.'
1:43:14 > 1:43:18'That lady goes there every single day.'
1:43:19 > 1:43:21That's fucked up, man.
1:43:22 > 1:43:25So to me, on this day,
1:43:25 > 1:43:29the same day that the victim of my case died, this is it, man.
1:43:29 > 1:43:34This is the end result. You took a life, now you pay with your life.
1:43:35 > 1:43:38You dumbass.
1:43:45 > 1:43:50No!
1:43:54 > 1:43:55Lil' Mikey,
1:43:55 > 1:44:00he showed some initiative on getting his own job, his first real job.
1:44:02 > 1:44:04If you don't get that grass up first,
1:44:04 > 1:44:07what it's going to do is come right through this table.
1:44:07 > 1:44:10So there is only one way to do this, to do it the right way,
1:44:10 > 1:44:13so we don't have to redo it.
1:44:13 > 1:44:15OK? We've got an understanding, OK.
1:44:18 > 1:44:21Don't come up.
1:44:21 > 1:44:22She the boss.
1:44:27 > 1:44:32Being on the block, you don't have to do this to make money.
1:44:34 > 1:44:39Being with my guys all day, doing what I want to do,
1:44:39 > 1:44:42when I want to do it, and how I want to do it.
1:44:44 > 1:44:49But, as long as I'm keeping busy, I am going to be good.
1:44:54 > 1:44:59And as you can tell, this here is keeping me busy!
1:45:02 > 1:45:04This is tiring.
1:45:05 > 1:45:09Well, I can't complain. Life is good right now, for me.
1:45:15 > 1:45:16I got a job!
1:45:17 > 1:45:18I got a job.
1:45:19 > 1:45:24All I used to hear "you're a class X fella. Ain't do nothing."
1:45:28 > 1:45:29I'm doing something.
1:45:36 > 1:45:42CHILDREN CHATTER
1:45:42 > 1:45:44You going to sleep good?
1:45:46 > 1:45:50You ain't got this kind of cover, do you?
1:45:50 > 1:45:53That's yours, right there.
1:45:53 > 1:45:54I got these ones.
1:45:55 > 1:45:57Here you go, Jayen.
1:46:30 > 1:46:32"Oh, we just want to know what's the truth.
1:46:32 > 1:46:35"Like, what really happened to your brother?"
1:46:35 > 1:46:38They just seem like they care, but they don't.
1:46:38 > 1:46:41The way we kind of spoke about it, Vanessa would catch them
1:46:41 > 1:46:44off guard, and say something like "I know you're asking
1:46:44 > 1:46:47"because you really care about me," which they don't.
1:46:47 > 1:46:49"I'm doing great, thanks for asking."
1:46:49 > 1:46:50That's good. How is he doing?
1:46:50 > 1:46:52And that way if any of them
1:46:52 > 1:46:57get in your face about anything, then you're just a lady!
1:46:59 > 1:47:02She's even doing things in his honour, like the art group. Right?
1:47:02 > 1:47:06- Mm-hm.- He always wanted to paint. - He wanted to paint the Virgin Mary.
1:47:06 > 1:47:09But he never got the chance to do it.
1:47:11 > 1:47:13Well, you could do it for him?
1:47:18 > 1:47:22I dreamt that my mum went to pick me up from school,
1:47:22 > 1:47:25with my little sister, and then my brother came from the door.
1:47:25 > 1:47:29He ran to me, he gave me a big hug, he told me "I'm not dead,
1:47:29 > 1:47:30"I'm still here with you."
1:47:30 > 1:47:33- Do you think he's with you right now?- Yeah.
1:47:33 > 1:47:35I think so too.
1:47:36 > 1:47:41It gets better, believe me. For some reason, time kind of feels things.
1:47:50 > 1:47:51DOOR CHIMES
1:47:51 > 1:47:55So what else we doing to make you look beautiful today?
1:47:55 > 1:47:58I don't know, I'm just going with the flow. Start school tomorrow.
1:48:00 > 1:48:03- And this year's goal is what? - To graduate.
1:48:03 > 1:48:05To get my high school diploma.
1:48:05 > 1:48:10She was saying that tomorrow is the first day of school, and "I'm so excited."
1:48:10 > 1:48:15And I was excited for her. She's going with a fresh hairdo.
1:48:15 > 1:48:20I went today, and found out that school started three weeks ago!
1:48:20 > 1:48:22I did go to school!
1:48:22 > 1:48:25You went to school when you got the fuck ready to!
1:48:25 > 1:48:28You didn't go up there when it was time for them to go in!
1:48:28 > 1:48:31You ain't listening to me! You don't know that!
1:48:31 > 1:48:34- Caprysha, your counsellor said you got there when you got there.- No.
1:48:34 > 1:48:37I got there at 8:55, before everybody!
1:48:37 > 1:48:39Caprysha, you didn't fight hard enough
1:48:39 > 1:48:42for you to get up in that school and do what you need to do.
1:48:42 > 1:48:43I ain't got to say nothing.
1:48:43 > 1:48:46Caprysha, don't nobody have to kiss your ass,
1:48:46 > 1:48:49for you to do what you need to do for you!
1:48:49 > 1:48:53- I am still going to be the same person at the end of the day. - At the end of the day doing what?
1:48:53 > 1:48:56- Getting my life together takes time. - Time for what?
1:48:56 > 1:48:59You did two years out of your life.
1:48:59 > 1:49:02Wasn't that enough time for you to get your life together?
1:49:02 > 1:49:06What you do is, you manipulate, you do this, you do that,
1:49:06 > 1:49:08and then you're so ashamed,
1:49:08 > 1:49:11and afraid, that when I ask you to be honest with me, you can't.
1:49:13 > 1:49:16Do you want to be loved absolutely?
1:49:16 > 1:49:19- Do you deserve to be loved absolutely?- No.
1:49:19 > 1:49:22- No.- First thing, you got to love you.
1:49:22 > 1:49:27- Oh, I love myself. - Caprysha... Caprysha...
1:49:29 > 1:49:36When I stopped allowing the circumstances to dictate my life,
1:49:36 > 1:49:40when I let that "fuck everybody" go, when I got real honest
1:49:40 > 1:49:46with my feelings, that I'm scared, I'm hurting, it's OK.
1:49:50 > 1:49:55- Well, I'm not like you to open up so easy.- I don't open up so easy.
1:49:55 > 1:49:56I don't open up so easy.
1:49:56 > 1:49:59I opened up as needed from me, because I wanted to get better,
1:49:59 > 1:50:00and continue to stay healthy.
1:50:00 > 1:50:05- Why do you choose not to?- Because I like my life how it is now.
1:50:05 > 1:50:09- You like your life doing what? - Shit.- All right.
1:50:09 > 1:50:13Well I can't aid and abet shit. I flush shit.
1:50:13 > 1:50:15You think everything is bullshit.
1:50:15 > 1:50:18You know what, you can keep thinking that everything
1:50:18 > 1:50:20is bullshit for a real-time.
1:50:30 > 1:50:34You know, I remember being 19, and being a scared girl like that.
1:50:34 > 1:50:36You know, me being out there,
1:50:36 > 1:50:38and doing a lot of things that I did,
1:50:38 > 1:50:41I thought I was getting back at the person
1:50:41 > 1:50:43that I thought should come and get me.
1:50:46 > 1:50:49And tell me - "you ain't got to live like that."
1:50:52 > 1:50:57Man, if I could go back, and then make that pain go away from me today,
1:50:57 > 1:51:01if I could do that, I would do it in a heartbeat.
1:51:02 > 1:51:07And that is so painful for me, for her.
1:51:09 > 1:51:11Because she's going to be my age someday.
1:51:11 > 1:51:14There's going to be a whole bunch of regrets.
1:51:18 > 1:51:21I don't even know why I'm doing this.
1:51:22 > 1:51:27I must be a glutton for punishment, a sucker. Is there a sucker up there?
1:51:29 > 1:51:34Now, sitting here and talking to you, there was 15 times where
1:51:34 > 1:51:38I wanted to get up and walk away from you, but I didn't, and I couldn't.
1:51:38 > 1:51:43'I am going to be added onto the people who fucked her around.
1:51:43 > 1:51:45'I'm not going to call her again.
1:51:45 > 1:51:50'You know, I'm going to be available for her at my availability.'
1:51:59 > 1:52:01PHONE RINGS
1:52:09 > 1:52:11I talk to your mama last week, she was happy too.
1:52:11 > 1:52:14She said, Ken called me and told me he loved me.
1:52:14 > 1:52:16Yeah, I was happy, but I was worried too.
1:52:16 > 1:52:19When you call me, and tell me you love me, I get worried,
1:52:19 > 1:52:21but I feel good at the same time to hear it.
1:52:23 > 1:52:26- So I shouldn't call?- No, you should.
1:52:26 > 1:52:28Cos it makes me know that y'all thinking about me,
1:52:28 > 1:52:31just as much as I'm thinking about y'all.
1:52:31 > 1:52:33Kobe made a difference in their life.
1:52:33 > 1:52:37Being with him one-on-one, because they never had a male role model.
1:52:37 > 1:52:39It's all good, you just need to stay focused.
1:52:39 > 1:52:42And I'm here when you need me.
1:52:43 > 1:52:47I'll call her. I'll call her. I'll call my mother every day.
1:52:47 > 1:52:51- Not every day!- Almost every day. - At least three times every week.
1:52:51 > 1:52:53That's every day to me.
1:52:54 > 1:52:55You need a haircut.
1:52:57 > 1:52:58Oh Lord.
1:53:02 > 1:53:04What kind of influence has Kobe been in your life?
1:53:04 > 1:53:06Kobe has been bad and good influences on my life.
1:53:06 > 1:53:10You know he wants to become a professor of young brothers?
1:53:10 > 1:53:12I am not close-minded to the fact that
1:53:12 > 1:53:15we can get a younger brother here. I'm open-minded.
1:53:15 > 1:53:19I know we had never had any young people like that. I mean 18.
1:53:19 > 1:53:23It would be a crusader for peace now. For those who want to listen.
1:53:29 > 1:53:32So, who is all of that down there?
1:53:32 > 1:53:35My sister, and me, my mom, and my dad.
1:53:35 > 1:53:39- That's your brother at the top? - Mm-hm.
1:53:39 > 1:53:43Are you going to put it up in your room?
1:53:43 > 1:53:45- No, this room. - 'Her grief is declining.
1:53:45 > 1:53:48'I just wonder if it has to do with her brother.
1:53:49 > 1:53:52'She got into a fight, and she was suspended.
1:53:53 > 1:53:57'This person made a comment, and she was already in rage,
1:53:57 > 1:54:01'that was probably her boiling point, that was it.
1:54:04 > 1:54:07'One day you might have all the strength that you think you have,
1:54:07 > 1:54:11'and you think "you know what, I can continue on with my life." '
1:54:11 > 1:54:14- Are you guys going to the cemetery still?- Uh-huh.
1:54:14 > 1:54:15How often are you guys going?
1:54:15 > 1:54:18I don't know, we try to go three days a week.
1:54:18 > 1:54:22But then the next day, your emotions are triggered by something,
1:54:22 > 1:54:25and it kinda puts them back to square one.
1:54:26 > 1:54:29So, I don't think people ever get over it.
1:54:48 > 1:54:49BUZZER SOUNDS
1:54:49 > 1:54:52- Hey!- Hi!
1:54:53 > 1:54:58- Hey.- 24 hours after she walked off, she was locked up.
1:54:58 > 1:55:01She violated her parole, not going to school,
1:55:01 > 1:55:04staying away from the homes, as well as dropping dirty.
1:55:04 > 1:55:07This is my mother, Miss Ameena.
1:55:07 > 1:55:11- These are all the girls that have... - Hey, divas, how are you?
1:55:11 > 1:55:13Where's the guards?
1:55:13 > 1:55:15- It is not guarded. It is secure.- Oh, OK.
1:55:16 > 1:55:19- This is our principal.- How are you? I'm Ameena.- Hi Sandy Arbath.
1:55:19 > 1:55:23- She has pushed me to do school, so I can graduate.- Congratulations.
1:55:23 > 1:55:25I'm, you know, that was our goal.
1:55:25 > 1:55:27So, you may get your party after all.
1:55:27 > 1:55:28Yeah, I get a party!
1:55:28 > 1:55:30I thought that she wasn't going to come,
1:55:30 > 1:55:35but when I saw her at the door, I was happy to see her.
1:55:38 > 1:55:40And I felt that...
1:55:46 > 1:55:47..I don't know.
1:55:51 > 1:55:52CHOIR SINGING
1:55:52 > 1:55:58She wasn't in the play today. She got kicked out, because of her behaviour.
1:55:58 > 1:56:01# A chance to make amends
1:56:01 > 1:56:04# A chance to be someone
1:56:04 > 1:56:06# Give me what I need the most
1:56:06 > 1:56:10When she gets out, what awaits Caprysha is her.
1:56:10 > 1:56:12It's going to be a rough road.
1:56:13 > 1:56:19The hand that life dealt her, me too, there were all twos in it.
1:56:19 > 1:56:24She just has to learn how to play those twos as if it was a Boston.
1:56:35 > 1:56:38Oh, look at my man!
1:56:38 > 1:56:40Hallelujah, look at my main man!
1:56:40 > 1:56:43Flamo, last time I saw you, you didn't have no uniform,
1:56:43 > 1:56:45you had other things on your mind.
1:56:45 > 1:56:48Look at you, man. How you feel, man?
1:56:48 > 1:56:51Well, shit, you look like you doing great.
1:56:51 > 1:56:53I'm trying to be positive, and see how that works.
1:56:53 > 1:56:57I haven't been to jail, I haven't been arguing or fighting, I haven't had to sweep nobody.
1:56:57 > 1:57:02Man, I am just so happy for you, I probably should walk so happy for you.
1:57:02 > 1:57:04I hope that you do feel good about yourself. To keep it real,
1:57:04 > 1:57:06I had like three or four people lined up,
1:57:06 > 1:57:08and I was plotting on how to get them.
1:57:08 > 1:57:11But you were just in my ear. You know what I'm saying?
1:57:11 > 1:57:16You're constantly in my ear, bugging me for a minute. You know how that be?
1:57:16 > 1:57:19When you are sleeping, the fly keeps landing on you,
1:57:19 > 1:57:20you know what I'm saying?
1:57:20 > 1:57:24You was bugging me, until I had to get up and attend to that fly.
1:57:29 > 1:57:31Flamo, I'm going to get on with you.
1:57:33 > 1:57:35# If I fall short
1:57:36 > 1:57:38# If I don't make the grade
1:57:41 > 1:57:44# If your expectations aren't met in me
1:57:44 > 1:57:47# Today
1:57:50 > 1:57:52# There's always tomorrow
1:57:53 > 1:57:56# Or tomorrow night
1:57:59 > 1:58:01# Hang in there baby
1:58:01 > 1:58:02# Sooner or later
1:58:04 > 1:58:06# I know I'll get it right
1:58:07 > 1:58:09# Please don't give up on me
1:58:11 > 1:58:14# Oh, please don't give up on me
1:58:17 > 1:58:20# I know it's late
1:58:21 > 1:58:24# Late in the game
1:58:26 > 1:58:30# But my feelings, my true feelings
1:58:31 > 1:58:33# Haven't changed... #
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