Profiled
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Profiled knits the stories of mothers of Black and Latino youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Some of the victims — Eric Garner, Michael Brown — are now familiar the world over. Others, like Shantel Davis and Kimani Gray, are remembered mostly by family and friends in their New York neighborhoods.
Ranging from the routine harassment of minority students in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood to the killings and protests in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri, PROFILED bears witness to the racist violence that remains an everyday reality for Black and Latino people in this country. Moving interviews with victims’ family members are juxtaposed with sharply etched analyses by evolutionary biologist, Joseph L.Graves, Jr, (The Race Myth) and civil rights lawyer, Chauniqua D. Young, (Center for Constitutional Rights, Stop and Frisk lawsuit). PROFILED gives us a window on one of the burning issues of our time.
"… thought-provoking…shows the continued stark disparities in our racial justice system, particularly against African Americans and Latinos… the issue of racial profiling is not a new one; rather it aims to keep our attention trained on it so that we may create solutions."
Helen Yuen Reginald F. Lewis Museum of MD Africa American History & Culture
"Unlike the dozens of films out there documenting the most recent wave of racist state violence, Kathleen Foster’s “Profiled” is neither tragedy nor spectacle. It is inspirational. The mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, teachers, students, artists, neighbors, and organizers who tell their stories share a single message: mourn and organize, unite and fight. This stops today."
Robin D. G. Kelley, PhD Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History, UCLA
"Profiled is a powerful documentary and a crucial contribution to the discussion of race and racism in America – both in terms of its economic and ideological impact.”
Pat Keeton Professor of Communication Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey
"Excellent! A very real film showing statistics and accurate data of how our families were brutalized then, during our ancestors' time and now! This has to stop! We are more than hashtags and body bags."
Tawanda Jones Activist & Sister of Tyrone West
“Foster’s superb documentary is part anthropology, part history and completely on message for here and NOW. The film’s topic is extraordinarily relevant as racial profiling has certainly become the center of explosive controversy in media and society. A must see !"
Ricky Bernstein, Series Coordinator Berkshire Human Rights Speaker Series on BLACK LIVES MATTER
“…vibrant, empathetic, and intelligently realized work… Thank you for your work, your artistry, and your diligence in making it all come together.”
Michael Royce Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts
Citation
Main credits
Foster, Kathleen (film director)
Foster, Kathleen (film producer)
Graves, Joseph L. (interviewee (expression))
Young, Chauniqua D. (interviewee (expression))
Braham, Dave (composer (expression))
Other credits
Editor, William Lehman; camera, Harold Batista [and 8 others]; original music, Dave Braham.
Distributor subjects
African American, American History, Criminal Justice, Diversity, Law, Racism, SociologyKeywords
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(police siren blaring)
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(dramatic piano music)
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- [Voiceover] This
surveillance video shows
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what happened moments
before the shooting death
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of Ramarley Graham.
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He appears to be walking
casually into his home.
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Neighbors tell us,
police entered the house,
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then went upstairs to Graham\'s
apartment and opened fire.
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- Ramarley was not
running and he is dead
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and we have no answers
and as mothers,
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none of us here got any answers
to why our kids is dead.
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I saw the accident when
the two cars collide
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and then the cops pulled
up and they said to get out
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of the effing car, she didn\'t
get a chance to come out
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so they fired two shoots
and then they drag her out.
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- On June 14th, my sister
Shantel was murdered
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on E. 38th St. in Brooklyn.
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She was shot in the chest
and dragged out of the car
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and laid down to bleed out.
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- [Woman with
Megaphone] Anthony Baez.
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(crowd yells in Spanish)
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- [Woman with
Megaphone] Anthony Baez.
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(crowd yells in Spanish)
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- [Woman with
Megaphone] Hilton Vega.
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(crowd yells in Spanish)
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- [Woman with Megaphone]
Anthony Rosario.
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(crowd yells in Spanish)
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- My name is Margarita Rosario
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and I\'m the mother
of Anthony Rosario
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and the aunt of Hilton
Vega, who were murdered,
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execution style,
on January 12, 1995
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by Detective Patrick Brosnan
and Detective James Crowe.
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These were to ex-bodyguards
of former Mayor Giuliani.
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In 1994, my son was
playing football
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with his four brothers
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and a police officer
put a chokehold on him
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and this was a police
officer that was used
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to being abusive in the
community and that killed him.
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- It was a Saturday.
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The night was calm,
everything was okay, you know.
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Some time after 10 o\'clock,
my son\'s phone rang
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and my son said,
\"Ma, Kimani got shot.
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Kimani got shot by the police.\"
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I said, \"The police?\"
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It still didn\'t register
because Kimani has no reason
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to be shot by the police.
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Everyone was calling
from the neighborhood,
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they shot him, they shot him.
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He\'s on the ground and
they will let us see him.
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They keep chasing us with
their guns, waving their guns.
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(sirens blaring)
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When we got to the
hospital, I was frantic.
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I was hysterical.
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I just wanted to ...
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explode.
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As we were going down the hall,
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the doctor was
coming towards me,
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he had tears in his eyes.
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He said, \"Your son had
multiple gunshot wounds.\"
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He said he had multiple gunshot
wounds, \"I tried to save him
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but he took too long to get
here and lost too much blood.\"
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- Officers and detectives
were out here on E. 52nd St.
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Police officer say that
two cops were on patrol
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when they noticed
a group of teens.
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They say 16-year-old Kimani
Gray broke away from the group
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and adjusted his waistband.
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When the two officers
approached the teen,
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they say he pulled out this gun
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and pointed it at the officers.
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Both tops fired
shots hitting the boy
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several times in the body.
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Police say Gray has a
lengthy criminal record,
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including inciting a
riot, grand larceny
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and grand theft auto.
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- Over the past 48 hours several
neighbors have come forward
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to contradict the
police version of events
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One of them is a
26-year-old woman
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who claims she
witnessed the shooting
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from four doors down the street.
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- His hands was up and he
was telling them please stop.
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Please stop.
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- [Voiceover] Her account
is fundamentally different
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than that of the two officers.
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- He didn\'t have a gun.
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He had his hands up.
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The only thing they
probably found suspicious
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was him pulling up his pants.
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- [Voiceover] Another protest
is planned for tonight.
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(crowd yelling)
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- I know Kimani is not the
type of person to hurt anyone
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to cause the police to
brutalize him like that
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and then to turn
around and be demonized
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and be labeled as a gang member.
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You show me a gang member
that attends school
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five days a week, does
afterschool programing
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and travels an hour and a
half journey to go to school.
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You show me a gang member
but doesn\'t have even
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one scar, not one
tattoo, has a curfew.
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Kimani was just trying
to be a 16-year-old,
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wanted to be at parties, want
to get associated with girls.
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That\'s it.
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(slow organ music)
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- This was obviously something
that was never expected
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and to get a phone call
that your sister was killed
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and then to find
out it was by NYPD,
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of course had to be
extremely shocking.
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The community was outraged.
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There was protests
in the street.
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- As soon as it happened, we
had a rally against the murder
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and try to organize
in the neighborhood,
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find people who were witnesses.
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We started to form a committee
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and we would do marches
from the location
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where she was murdered
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to the police precinct where
Officer Phillip Atkins resided.
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- When my sister was killed,
the first thing that happened,
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she was dehumanized.
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The media said that she was
some mastermind criminal,
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she was arrested, all of
these negative things,
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but in fact, she may
have been arrested
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but never convicted of a crime.
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Whatever happened that day
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did not mean she
needed to be killed.
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That\'s what made my
family and I jump
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into the streets trying to, I
guess, change the perception,
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change the name that they
had put out there for her.
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Now today with
remembering my sister
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and I\'m going to try
not to be irate today.
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- You will see every day
kids will be murdered,
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they be beaten up and nothing
has been done about it.
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- What NYPD don\'t realize is
that they are connecting us
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borough by borough, state
by state, coast by coast
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and they don\'t even know how
big this is going to get.
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It pisses me off
everytime I hear
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somebody say she has a record.
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People could just accuse you
of something and get locked up.
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- I know a person that
overheard an officer say,
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\"That was a black man
with a hoodie, 5\'10\"
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and he\'s loose.\"
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In this neighborhood
that is so vague
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and now they\'re running around
and chasing after everyone.
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They can say you are
a criminal at any time
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so it\'s very powerful that
the family is deciding
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to stand up and say no
this is not the story
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that\'s going to be
written about our family.
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We are going to write
our story of how it is.
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- It\'s pretty ironic to know
that you\'ve seen somebody
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come in every day and
they buy that $3 special
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and three other kids
come in and that $3 meal
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was fun to them, you know.
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They loved that stewed chicken.
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You should see them
smile when they get
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chicken, eating it all the time.
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He\'s going to be missed though.
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- There\'s a lot of people
standing around here that
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understand exactly what
I\'m feeling right now
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as we mourned each child,
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the same pain runs on through.
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We are all here today
to make a stand and say
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not just Kimani\'s life mattered
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but all lives matter, no matter
what race or color you are.
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Corruption is corruption and
that\'s how you spell NYPD.
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- As a principal, I fight
to keep our school\'s name
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out of the paper but
when Kimani passed,
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I wanted it in the paper.
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All we will read for a week
was that he was a thug,
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that he was a gangbanger,
a dead teen, not a man,
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not a person.
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Kimani was friends with
everybody in high school,
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that\'s Kimani.
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He should be here with
us now telling us where
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he\'s going to college and
what is going to do next.
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We love you Carol.
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- Thank you.
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(clapping)
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- When Kimani Gray got killed,
it was so painful for me.
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It was almost like I was
reliving the death of my son
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all over again.
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My son was 13 years old
when he was murdered.
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We are talking about
innocent lives here.
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We are not talking about someone
who was committing a crime.
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We are talking innocent lives.
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- My mission is to get
these cops into court.
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I need to seek
justice for my son.
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I need to know what happened.
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I need to know why
you do this to my son.
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I need to know why
you fired 11 bullets.
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I need to know why
you targeted my son.
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- Iris and I have been
to numerous funerals
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for young people who
have been killed.
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For so many years, there was
just one family fighting alone.
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- [Voiceover] We want
justice for children.
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We want rights for all humans.
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- When we joined forces
together, it was powerful.
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- We want to not just
disturb our community,
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but America itself.
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What\'s happening this
community is not a small thing.
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It\'s something that\'s way bigger
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and you need to pay
attention to what\'s going on.
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- [Crowd] No justice, no peace.
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No justice, no peace.
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No racist police.
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- This is Kenneth Chamberlain.
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He was in the military.
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This is Malcolm Ferguson.
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Shantel Davis.
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This is Nicholas Heyward\'s son.
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I\'ve done so many of these.
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Here\'s Kimani Gray.
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I got involved because I was
so outraged by the police
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just murdering young people and
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people in general,
without apparent cause.
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My work at Project Reach is
really, I feel, connected
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with the October 22 Coalition
Against Police Brutality
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and stop and frisk because
we are dealing many times,
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with the same population
of young people
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who are being targeted.
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Personally, I feel
the police department
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is a civilian standing army,
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in terms of
communities of color.
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They want to keep
the things in order
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for the people who run the city,
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who own the city.
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When I go outside,
my mom tells me
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to watch out for
suspicious people
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and to watch out for the cops.
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We\'ve become scared of the cops.
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They\'ve become like a predator,
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whenever you see a cop,
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it\'s like, the cops are here,
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even if you\'re
not doing anything
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because you are like,
they might stop me,
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they might mess with me,
they might do something
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or trigger something
that makes me react
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and that might give them
a reason to take me in.
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Since we were little we
were told out to watch out
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for the cops and why should you
have to watch out for people
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who are supposed to protect us?
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- [Voiceover] To show our
solidarity for justice,
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rest in peace,
Kimani and Shantel.
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No justice, no peace
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against these racist
police out here.
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- It\'s our first annual
Hoops for Justice
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basketball tournament
in honor of my sister,
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Shantel Davis and Kimani Gray,
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both were killed by NYPD
less than a year apart
00:14:31.250 --> 00:14:35.083
in East Flatbush Brooklyn.
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I feel like our
community is broken
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and let these kids
understand that we are here
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and there\'s things to do,
there\'s people they can come to
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to talk to, if you feel
violated by NYPD in any way,
00:14:46.459 --> 00:14:49.751
there\'s ways to deal with it.
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- In this neighborhood there\'s
a lot of gang activity,
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actually so Shantel Davis
and Kimani Gray\'s family
00:14:54.999 --> 00:14:58.876
set this up for the youth
to come out together
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and stand as a united
voice to stand up against
00:15:01.292 --> 00:15:04.667
police brutality, as
well as gang activity.
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In spite of that negativity,
we could be a voice
00:15:08.999 --> 00:15:11.918
of connection in the area.
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- Today we are out here
showing the community
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that there is more to life.
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We are trying to get
resources for them like this,
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every year basketball
thing, somewhere where
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they could be safe.
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They could come out
and enjoy themselves.
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The stop and frisk
thing, the cops see them
00:15:27.999 --> 00:15:29.999
and harass them, they
have numbers and resources
00:15:30.042 --> 00:15:32.459
that they can reach
out to and call.
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- [Voiceover] You all
happy to be out here today?
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In honor of Shantel
Davis and Kimani Gray,
00:15:35.999 --> 00:15:39.709
make some noise for
Shantel and Kimani.
00:15:39.876 --> 00:15:42.292
(crowd cheering)
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- In 2012, there were 685,726
people they stopped to frisk.
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Out of those people they
stopped, we already know
00:15:56.999 --> 00:15:58.667
that 85% of those
people were of color
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and 600,000 of them
was innocent people.
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They were stopped for no reason,
00:16:05.667 --> 00:16:06.999
they were never
given a citation,
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they was never locked up.
00:16:10.209 --> 00:16:12.459
- The stop and frisk
lawsuit was started in 2008
00:16:12.626 --> 00:16:15.083
by the Center for
Constitutional Rights
00:16:15.250 --> 00:16:17.083
on behalf of hundreds of
thousands of New Yorkers
00:16:17.250 --> 00:16:19.334
to end the police
department\'s practice of
00:16:19.501 --> 00:16:21.999
unconstitutionally
stopping and frisking
00:16:22.125 --> 00:16:24.459
and racially profiling
communities of color.
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The New York Police
Department was justifying
00:16:29.083 --> 00:16:31.375
their practices as
necessary, as important,
00:16:31.542 --> 00:16:34.792
in terms of reducing crime, as
getting guns off the street.
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In reality, what the NYPD
was doing was stopping
00:16:41.209 --> 00:16:42.626
largely innocent black
and Hispanic New Yorkers.
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- It\'s not reducing crime,
00:16:46.999 --> 00:16:48.417
it\'s not getting
guns off the street,
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I mean, to stop close to
700,000 people in 2012
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and get only .1%
guns off the street,
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that\'s not working.
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- The stop and frisk
case after several years
00:17:02.918 --> 00:17:04.999
finally went to trial,
ultimately the judge agreed
00:17:05.083 --> 00:17:08.792
with the Center for
Constitutional Rights
00:17:08.959 --> 00:17:10.834
and the plaintiffs
in the case and found
00:17:10.999 --> 00:17:12.918
that the NYPD had a
custom of violating
00:17:12.999 --> 00:17:14.999
the constitutional
rights of New Yorkers.
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It was a tremendous
victory but unfortunately
00:17:18.250 --> 00:17:20.999
racial profiling and racial
disparities continue to rise.
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- Right now, for example,
I\'ve seen more cop cars
00:17:25.876 --> 00:17:28.959
in my neighborhood than before.
00:17:28.999 --> 00:17:30.999
Like they just have police
officers sitting down
00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:33.999
waiting, picking up
people for minor offenses.
00:17:38.167 --> 00:17:41.751
- I didn\'t sell anything.
00:17:43.459 --> 00:17:45.209
I\'m minding my business
please just leave me alone.
00:17:45.375 --> 00:17:47.667
I told you the last time
please just leave me alone.
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- [Voiceover] Eric Garner
was supposedly stopped
00:17:50.125 --> 00:17:51.542
for selling loose cigarettes.
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If, indeed, he was
stopped because
00:17:57.375 --> 00:17:58.999
of a low-level
nonviolent offense,
00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.999
it really indicates
the broader problem,
00:18:02.042 --> 00:18:05.542
Black people having to interact
with the police more often
00:18:08.876 --> 00:18:10.501
and that these interactions have
00:18:10.667 --> 00:18:12.334
become increasingly violent.
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- [Eric Garner] I can\'t breathe.
00:18:14.918 --> 00:18:16.542
- The Eric Garner
killing brought this home
00:18:16.709 --> 00:18:18.083
for us, that this is one of
the most obvious outgrowths
00:18:18.250 --> 00:18:20.542
of America\'s racist
history and this is
00:18:20.709 --> 00:18:23.584
part of a national problem
of racial profiling
00:18:23.751 --> 00:18:25.999
and a national
problem of the killing
00:18:25.999 --> 00:18:28.417
of unarmed black
and Hispanic people.
00:18:31.417 --> 00:18:36.417
- As of today, there
were 2,104 people killed
00:18:41.417 --> 00:18:42.584
by police nationally
since 2013, May.
00:18:42.751 --> 00:18:45.999
This year so far
239 people already.
00:18:45.999 --> 00:18:49.584
748 people since Eric
Garner was killed
00:18:49.751 --> 00:18:52.584
and 685 people since
Mike Brown was killed.
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Those are very recent cases
that are still very fresh
00:18:56.709 --> 00:18:58.667
in our minds and how
many of these cases
00:18:58.834 --> 00:19:01.417
have we heard since?
00:19:01.584 --> 00:19:03.501
How much coverage, how
much attention is brought
00:19:03.667 --> 00:19:05.876
to the fact that
this is an epidemic?
00:19:08.209 --> 00:19:09.459
- Racial profiling
is a funny thing.
00:19:09.626 --> 00:19:11.584
We don\'t have biological races.
00:19:11.751 --> 00:19:13.709
We do have socially
defined races
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and much of the difficulty
00:19:16.167 --> 00:19:19.334
that our societies struggle from
00:19:22.042 --> 00:19:23.250
are from this social
cultural history.
00:19:25.876 --> 00:19:27.209
For example, skin color, if
you look at the number of genes
00:19:27.375 --> 00:19:30.834
that actually contribute to
this variation in skin color,
00:19:30.999 --> 00:19:33.626
it\'s about six so if
we consider the number
00:19:33.792 --> 00:19:37.501
of protein coded genes
in the human genome
00:19:37.667 --> 00:19:39.792
at around 250,000,
only six of those
00:19:39.959 --> 00:19:44.250
are accounted for
differences in skin color.
00:19:46.918 --> 00:19:47.999
While social norms
are deeply inlined
00:19:52.918 --> 00:19:54.167
around what color a person\'s
skin is throughout our history,
00:19:57.959 --> 00:19:58.792
particularly the modern history,
00:19:58.959 --> 00:19:59.999
in terms of the
genetics of that,
00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.209
do the division,
six out of 250,000
00:20:03.375 --> 00:20:07.999
is absolutely insignificant.
00:20:10.999 --> 00:20:15.999
- I was stopped by
the cops just because
00:20:15.999 --> 00:20:17.334
I was walking down the street
00:20:17.501 --> 00:20:19.751
because apparently there
was a cell phone robbery
00:20:19.918 --> 00:20:22.918
and I just happen
to be dark skinned
00:20:22.999 --> 00:20:24.584
walking down the street, right.
00:20:24.751 --> 00:20:25.834
How do you think
that makes me feel?
00:20:25.999 --> 00:20:27.501
- My mom fears for my
brother to go outside
00:20:27.667 --> 00:20:29.918
and he\'s about to be 21 tomorrow
00:20:29.999 --> 00:20:31.667
and she\'s still scared for
him to go outside because
00:20:31.834 --> 00:20:33.999
of the things that has
happened to him in the past
00:20:33.999 --> 00:20:36.626
just because he has
color on his skin.
00:20:39.250 --> 00:20:40.999
- No justice
- [Crowd] No peace.
00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:43.000
- No racist
- [Crowd] police.
00:20:43.167 --> 00:20:45.125
- No justice
- [Crowd] No peace.
00:20:45.292 --> 00:20:47.626
- No racist
- [Crowd] police.
00:20:47.792 --> 00:20:50.042
- The school is mainly black
and Latin lower income students
00:20:50.209 --> 00:20:54.999
but in the middle of one of
the most wealthy neighborhoods
00:20:54.999 --> 00:20:58.999
in Brooklyn and
it\'s mainly white.
00:21:01.417 --> 00:21:02.626
Our students don\'t get
treated the same way
00:21:02.792 --> 00:21:04.709
that other students in the
neighborhood get treated.
00:21:04.876 --> 00:21:07.626
They have to go through
metal detectors and
00:21:07.792 --> 00:21:09.751
they have to take off their belt
00:21:09.918 --> 00:21:11.542
and take out their book bags
00:21:11.709 --> 00:21:12.999
and put them through scanners.
00:21:13.083 --> 00:21:14.626
When our students get out of
school they are approached
00:21:14.792 --> 00:21:17.292
by security guards
and/or police officers
00:21:17.459 --> 00:21:19.959
and told that they have
to leave the neighborhood.
00:21:19.999 --> 00:21:22.792
They can\'t be out on the street.
00:21:24.584 --> 00:21:25.834
Our students experience
racism on a daily basis
00:21:25.999 --> 00:21:28.334
just in trying to
come to school.
00:21:28.501 --> 00:21:31.125
- Racism is institutionalized.
00:21:35.417 --> 00:21:36.626
It appears in every
facet of our society,
00:21:36.792 --> 00:21:40.000
who gets the services,
who gets the education,
00:21:40.167 --> 00:21:44.334
who gets the jobs,
who gets exposure
00:21:44.501 --> 00:21:47.792
to a life beyond what they know
00:21:47.959 --> 00:21:51.999
and for the young people
of color that I work with,
00:21:56.167 --> 00:21:57.459
they don\'t get that
opportunity a lot.
00:22:00.751 --> 00:22:02.999
- [Voiceover] Portraits.
00:22:04.959 --> 00:22:09.918
Fresh laden with black paint
00:22:09.999 --> 00:22:12.459
strikes the primed
white cardboard surface.
00:22:15.375 --> 00:22:17.626
I trace the outline of a face,
00:22:17.792 --> 00:22:19.417
the eyes speak.
00:22:22.083 --> 00:22:23.417
I discover their age
00:22:23.584 --> 00:22:24.959
by the way skin falls
across muscle, bone, nerves.
00:22:29.209 --> 00:22:30.459
These are portraits
of young and old.
00:22:30.626 --> 00:22:32.999
The majority, people of color.
00:22:33.042 --> 00:22:35.292
Poor, killed by the police.
00:22:35.459 --> 00:22:39.167
The anger and sadness I feel
00:22:39.334 --> 00:22:41.167
as I paint these faces
cannot be measured
00:22:41.334 --> 00:22:44.083
against the grief and
strength of the families
00:22:44.250 --> 00:22:46.999
who speak out
against the violence.
00:22:49.918 --> 00:22:51.083
People whose lives are cut short
00:22:51.250 --> 00:22:53.292
because of the color of
their skin, class, schools
00:22:53.459 --> 00:22:56.584
an educational systems
that failed them,
00:22:56.751 --> 00:22:59.709
living with the hunger
of stomach and spirit,
00:22:59.876 --> 00:23:02.501
people killed by being at the
wrong place at the wrong time.
00:23:07.501 --> 00:23:08.000
Why, why, why?
00:23:11.292 --> 00:23:15.375
(people clapping)
00:23:19.459 --> 00:23:24.459
- In The Emperor\'s New
Clothes, I give a long story
00:23:29.459 --> 00:23:30.626
of how we began to
classify human beings
00:23:30.792 --> 00:23:34.542
into biological groups.
00:23:37.999 --> 00:23:39.999
We begin with Columbus in 1492,
00:23:40.042 --> 00:23:44.417
for the first time
three segments from
the genetic spectrum
00:23:44.584 --> 00:23:49.042
of human beings, Western
Europeans, Western Africans
00:23:54.042 --> 00:23:55.584
and Amerindians brought
together in circumstances
00:23:55.751 --> 00:23:58.626
of manifest social inequality.
00:24:01.209 --> 00:24:02.709
The Europeans were forcing
the Amerindians off their land
00:24:02.876 --> 00:24:06.167
and carrying out warfare
against them to take their lands
00:24:06.334 --> 00:24:09.709
and they enslaved Western
Africans to generate
00:24:09.876 --> 00:24:13.959
the agricultural wealth
which they were using
00:24:13.999 --> 00:24:16.959
to build their colonies.
00:24:16.999 --> 00:24:19.167
To do this required an
intellectual enterprise
00:24:19.334 --> 00:24:23.000
justifying how this
could be allowed.
00:24:27.999 --> 00:24:31.999
The first portion of
this was entirely based
00:24:32.125 --> 00:24:35.209
upon Christian belief
or what they thought
00:24:35.375 --> 00:24:38.584
was Christian belief.
00:24:38.751 --> 00:24:41.999
Europeans were the
descendents of Adam and Eve,
00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:45.125
whereas Africans and
Amerindians were descendents
00:24:45.292 --> 00:24:48.125
of other Adams and
other Eves and thus
00:24:48.292 --> 00:24:51.918
were not truly members
of the human species.
00:24:55.167 --> 00:24:59.999
When we begin this scientific
racism of the 17th,
00:25:04.999 --> 00:25:05.999
18th and 19th centuries,
so-called scholars
00:25:06.042 --> 00:25:09.000
were doing measurements
of human characteristics
00:25:09.167 --> 00:25:12.918
designed to support the notion
of the superiority of persons
00:25:12.999 --> 00:25:16.501
of European descent and
the inferiority of persons
00:25:16.667 --> 00:25:19.918
of non-European descent
of which Africans
00:25:19.999 --> 00:25:22.626
were considered
the most inferior.
00:25:25.292 --> 00:25:27.292
It really was appropriating
the language of science
00:25:27.459 --> 00:25:30.501
but there is no objective
scientific rationale for it.
00:25:35.209 --> 00:25:37.375
It was used to justify the
brutal enslavement and murder
00:25:37.542 --> 00:25:40.876
that was carried out
against these people
00:25:40.999 --> 00:25:43.125
in building what would become
the United States of America.
00:25:49.250 --> 00:25:54.250
- A lot was happening
in my community, I mean,
00:25:54.417 --> 00:25:57.042
a lot, a lot was happening.
00:25:58.999 --> 00:26:01.542
- She was begging for
help, they did nothing.
00:26:01.709 --> 00:26:04.083
She\'s dead.
00:26:04.250 --> 00:26:06.334
I had to fight for nine months
in order to get the names
00:26:06.501 --> 00:26:10.000
of the police officers
that was involved
00:26:10.167 --> 00:26:12.584
with my daughter\'s death.
00:26:12.751 --> 00:26:14.709
Nine months but I
finally got something.
00:26:14.876 --> 00:26:17.999
We got the names
of the officers.
00:26:18.042 --> 00:26:20.334
My girl is not going
to die in vain.
00:26:20.501 --> 00:26:23.999
- It was killings rampant
by police officers,
00:26:23.999 --> 00:26:26.792
a lot of racial tension
but you can\'t just find out
00:26:31.792 --> 00:26:32.999
about things without
understanding the foundation.
00:26:33.083 --> 00:26:34.751
Why does racism exist?
00:26:34.918 --> 00:26:36.292
Why is it okay for police
brutality to exist?
00:26:39.876 --> 00:26:41.083
That\'s one of the reasons
why I wanted to read
00:26:41.250 --> 00:26:42.751
Lerone Bennett\'s, The
Shaping of Black America.
00:26:45.999 --> 00:26:47.999
\"The race problem in America
was a deliberate invention
00:26:47.999 --> 00:26:50.959
of men who systemically
separated blacks and whites
00:26:50.999 --> 00:26:53.999
in order to make money.\"
00:26:54.125 --> 00:26:56.459
When you think of that from
the baseline, the core line
00:26:56.626 --> 00:26:58.834
of why are certain
choices being made,
00:26:58.999 --> 00:27:01.709
why are certain people treated
more favorably than others,
00:27:01.876 --> 00:27:05.375
and then you find
out it\'s about money.
00:27:05.542 --> 00:27:07.918
It\'s not about necessarily
black and white power,
00:27:07.999 --> 00:27:09.999
it all ends up being monetary.
00:27:13.292 --> 00:27:17.334
- American chattel
slavery was an institution
00:27:17.501 --> 00:27:19.667
that allowed persons
of European descent
00:27:19.834 --> 00:27:21.999
to extract labor from
persons of African descent
00:27:22.042 --> 00:27:25.417
to support the
wealth and luxuries
00:27:25.584 --> 00:27:29.542
of the southern planter class.
00:27:36.751 --> 00:27:41.751
In terms of agricultural
labor, 60% of the exchange
00:27:41.918 --> 00:27:46.709
profit between the beginning
of the United States
00:27:46.876 --> 00:27:50.459
and 1860 was generated
by slave labor.
00:27:55.999 --> 00:28:00.999
This was a hugely
profitable institution
00:28:01.083 --> 00:28:04.209
and its profits were what
drove the support for it.
00:28:09.083 --> 00:28:11.292
Complicit with that, of
course, were the bankers,
00:28:11.459 --> 00:28:14.667
who had bankrolled
the slave ships
00:28:14.834 --> 00:28:17.501
and the loans to acquire
slaves and so forth.
00:28:26.626 --> 00:28:31.626
In the founding of
the American colonies,
00:28:31.792 --> 00:28:34.125
initially African
indentured servants
00:28:34.292 --> 00:28:37.959
and European indentured servants
00:28:37.999 --> 00:28:39.999
were treated equivalently.
00:28:40.083 --> 00:28:43.542
They not only worked
together and lived together,
00:28:43.709 --> 00:28:46.375
they intermarried.
00:28:47.999 --> 00:28:49.999
- Imagine before when it
was the European workers
00:28:50.042 --> 00:28:52.999
and the African workers
and the Indian workers
00:28:52.999 --> 00:28:56.000
that were working together
and they had one common enemy,
00:28:56.167 --> 00:28:59.417
the bosses or the
plantation owner.
00:29:02.876 --> 00:29:04.042
Of course, rebellions did happen
00:29:04.209 --> 00:29:06.209
so that\'s when the laws were
made separate these groups
00:29:06.375 --> 00:29:09.999
because it was too much
to have the workers
00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:13.125
be united together.
00:29:15.125 --> 00:29:16.999
In the chapter, The Road
Not Taken, Bennett wrote,
00:29:20.999 --> 00:29:22.042
The decade of the 1660s
was the first great fork
00:29:22.209 --> 00:29:26.209
in the making of Black America
because it was at this fork
00:29:31.209 --> 00:29:32.417
that certain men decided
to ground the American
00:29:32.584 --> 00:29:34.667
economic system on
human slavery but first,
00:29:34.834 --> 00:29:39.459
one must understand the
roads leading to this fork.
00:29:39.626 --> 00:29:42.999
Roads that were not taken.
00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:47.083
The first road was the road
of fraternal cooperation
00:29:47.250 --> 00:29:50.292
with the Native Americans.
00:29:50.459 --> 00:29:53.375
This road was
rejected out of hand
00:29:53.542 --> 00:29:55.999
by the white
founding fathers who
00:29:56.042 --> 00:29:58.125
adopted a policy of genocide.
00:30:00.792 --> 00:30:02.042
The second road was a free
and cooperative system
00:30:02.209 --> 00:30:05.292
of labor for all immigrants.
00:30:05.459 --> 00:30:08.999
This road was also not taken.
00:30:09.042 --> 00:30:12.292
Only two alternatives were left.
00:30:12.459 --> 00:30:14.959
Temporary servitude
and eventually freedom
00:30:14.999 --> 00:30:17.792
for all workers,
red, black and white
00:30:21.209 --> 00:30:24.167
or the road of
permanent servitude
00:30:24.334 --> 00:30:26.834
based on the work of one
or possibly all three.
00:30:29.918 --> 00:30:32.459
This last road was
taken and one group
00:30:32.626 --> 00:30:35.292
was singled out for
permanent servitude.
00:30:42.584 --> 00:30:47.584
- A decision was made
particularly in the
southern colonies
00:30:47.751 --> 00:30:50.834
in the late 17th century to
turn African indentured servants
00:30:50.999 --> 00:30:55.542
into chattel, such that they
would never have the capacity
00:30:55.709 --> 00:30:59.918
to free themselves in the
way that European indentured
00:30:59.999 --> 00:31:03.209
servants were allowed to.
00:31:03.375 --> 00:31:06.792
They were bought and sold.
00:31:06.959 --> 00:31:07.999
Their bodies did
not belong to them.
00:31:08.042 --> 00:31:09.292
Corporal punishment
was instituted
00:31:09.459 --> 00:31:12.250
of the most horrific variety
that was not present before
00:31:12.417 --> 00:31:14.999
when people had been
indentured servants.
00:31:18.209 --> 00:31:19.584
- [Voiceover] The development
of the slave system
00:31:19.751 --> 00:31:21.042
and the systemic separation
of blacks and whites
00:31:21.209 --> 00:31:23.292
created a race
problem in America,
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:28.751
it divide of the working force,
00:31:28.918 --> 00:31:30.667
made it impossible to create
a single American community,
00:31:30.834 --> 00:31:33.667
and laid the foundation
for an anti-democratic,
00:31:33.834 --> 00:31:37.334
hierarchy police date taut
with tensions and fears.
00:31:41.042 --> 00:31:42.999
- Racism certainly has
been a tool used to divide
00:31:42.999 --> 00:31:45.709
white and black people and
white and black workers.
00:31:48.292 --> 00:31:50.417
- [Voiceover] The bosses
maximize their profit
00:31:50.584 --> 00:31:52.667
by paying black and
immigrant workers
00:31:52.834 --> 00:31:54.626
less than white workers,
which causes low wages
00:31:54.792 --> 00:31:57.709
and conditions for the
whole working class.
00:31:59.999 --> 00:32:02.709
- There\'s no mistake that
there is an economic benefit
00:32:02.876 --> 00:32:04.918
to perpetrating these
myths about black people
00:32:04.999 --> 00:32:07.626
because it prevents
people with a huge stake
00:32:07.792 --> 00:32:10.042
and working together
through organizing.
00:32:10.209 --> 00:32:12.876
I think that\'s been a
tool throughout history,
00:32:12.999 --> 00:32:15.501
divide and conquer.
00:32:17.959 --> 00:32:22.959
After slavery was ended,
there was a brief period
00:32:22.999 --> 00:32:26.167
of reconstruction followed
by a very, very bad period
00:32:26.334 --> 00:32:30.792
in American history of
Jim Crow segregation,
00:32:30.959 --> 00:32:33.999
where discrimination
was permitted by law.
00:32:37.125 --> 00:32:39.501
The Civil Rights Movement
help to change that,
00:32:39.667 --> 00:32:41.626
to eliminate legal
discrimination
00:32:41.792 --> 00:32:43.999
but I think the attitudes
of the inferiority
00:32:43.999 --> 00:32:47.417
and the inherent
nature of black people
00:32:47.584 --> 00:32:50.042
have not yet been
addressed and uprooted.
00:32:53.125 --> 00:32:54.417
- The United States
is as segregated now
00:32:54.584 --> 00:32:56.334
as it was in the 1950s.
00:32:56.501 --> 00:32:58.709
There have been
some cosmetic gains
00:32:58.876 --> 00:33:00.999
with regard to
public accommodations
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.334
and changes in popular culture
00:33:03.501 --> 00:33:06.000
but when we look at
the fundamental aspects
00:33:06.167 --> 00:33:09.501
of life in this society, one\'s
chances are still determined
00:33:14.501 --> 00:33:15.626
by one\'s socially
defined racial category.
00:33:17.876 --> 00:33:19.918
- I\'m scared for
my little brother.
00:33:19.999 --> 00:33:21.417
I\'m scared for
everybody\'s little brother
00:33:21.584 --> 00:33:23.125
because when they go
out they might get shot.
00:33:23.292 --> 00:33:24.751
I\'m scared for my
kids in the future,
00:33:24.918 --> 00:33:26.167
when they go out they
are going to get shot.
00:33:26.334 --> 00:33:27.999
It\'s not fair
00:33:28.125 --> 00:33:29.709
As a 16-year-old,
thinking about this,
00:33:29.876 --> 00:33:32.042
that\'s a scary thing.
00:33:32.209 --> 00:33:33.292
I\'m scared for my mother.
00:33:33.459 --> 00:33:34.584
My mother scared for
my little brother.
00:33:34.751 --> 00:33:35.999
I\'m scared and that\'s not fair.
00:33:38.125 --> 00:33:40.209
- [Crowd] Fight back.
00:33:40.375 --> 00:33:42.334
- Why is it important
for me to come here
00:33:42.501 --> 00:33:43.999
is because I was also a
student here at John Jay.
00:33:44.125 --> 00:33:46.709
I came here in 1988
when I was a freshman.
00:33:49.876 --> 00:33:51.209
Back then, they called
the school Jungle Jay.
00:33:51.375 --> 00:33:54.999
Why did they call it Jungle Jay,
00:33:55.125 --> 00:33:56.542
because they
considered us animals
00:33:56.709 --> 00:33:58.626
and sadly enough
that hasn\'t changed.
00:33:58.792 --> 00:34:01.626
26 years later the
same thing is going on.
00:34:04.751 --> 00:34:06.459
- Kids are still being
frisked every day.
00:34:06.626 --> 00:34:09.834
They are still being asked what
they have in their pockets,
00:34:09.999 --> 00:34:12.626
going in their pockets.
00:34:12.792 --> 00:34:14.334
They may not have what they
call stop and frisk anymore
00:34:14.501 --> 00:34:17.999
but it still being done.
00:34:18.083 --> 00:34:19.834
They have to bring
in the numbers.
00:34:19.999 --> 00:34:21.000
They have to bring in
the money to the city.
00:34:21.167 --> 00:34:22.959
When people get summons and
tickets and stuff like that,
00:34:22.999 --> 00:34:25.542
they go to pay a fine
and different things,
00:34:25.709 --> 00:34:28.292
all money being generated
back into the system.
00:34:28.459 --> 00:34:31.167
It\'s coming from
the communities that
00:34:31.334 --> 00:34:32.834
don\'t even have the
resources to pay.
00:34:35.125 --> 00:34:37.292
- [Crowd] Hands up, don\'t shoot.
00:34:37.459 --> 00:34:39.209
Hands up, don\'t shoot.
00:34:39.375 --> 00:34:40.751
Hands up, don\'t shoot.
00:34:40.918 --> 00:34:41.999
- [Voiceover] In
Ferguson Missouri today,
00:34:42.083 --> 00:34:43.999
more angry confrontations
between protesters
00:34:43.999 --> 00:34:46.667
and police in riot gear.
00:34:46.834 --> 00:34:48.334
Protesters march
with their hands up,
00:34:48.501 --> 00:34:50.542
the stance witnesses say
Brown took and chanted.
00:34:53.501 --> 00:34:54.584
- He\'s running this way.
00:34:54.751 --> 00:34:55.918
He turns his body
towards this way,
00:34:55.999 --> 00:34:57.667
hands in the air,
being compliant.
00:34:57.834 --> 00:35:00.167
He gets shot in the face and
chest and goes down and dies.
00:35:00.334 --> 00:35:03.459
- The circumstances of
the Michael Brown killing
00:35:03.626 --> 00:35:05.999
were outrageous
to say the least.
00:35:06.042 --> 00:35:07.667
The fact that neighbors
witness this young black man,
00:35:07.834 --> 00:35:10.334
who was headed off to college,
essentially surrendering
00:35:10.501 --> 00:35:12.999
to the police.
00:35:13.042 --> 00:35:14.250
He was unarmed and he
was shot, six times,
00:35:14.417 --> 00:35:16.959
twice in the head and his
body was left in the street
00:35:16.999 --> 00:35:19.918
for four hours.
00:35:19.999 --> 00:35:21.000
Those circumstances
are infuriating.
00:35:21.167 --> 00:35:22.999
The fact that the killing
came just weeks after
00:35:23.042 --> 00:35:26.167
the country witnessed the
killing of Eric Garner,
00:35:26.334 --> 00:35:28.999
the confluence of those
factors contributed
00:35:28.999 --> 00:35:32.000
to this great and
justified anger.
00:35:34.834 --> 00:35:39.709
- Michael Brown Junior,
00:35:39.876 --> 00:35:41.959
- [Crowd] Michael Brown Junior
00:35:41.999 --> 00:35:43.709
- was 18.
- [Crowd] was 18.
00:35:43.876 --> 00:35:46.459
- The police left his body in
the street for 4 1/2 hours.
00:35:51.292 --> 00:35:52.751
- I went with a group
of about 50 people
00:35:52.918 --> 00:35:54.709
to Ferguson on November 28
after the decision came out
00:35:54.876 --> 00:35:57.999
that they were not going to
indict the police officer
00:35:58.125 --> 00:35:59.959
who killed Michael Brown.
00:35:59.999 --> 00:36:01.918
We had a march
outside the precinct
00:36:01.999 --> 00:36:03.292
and as we were trying
to march into the street
00:36:03.459 --> 00:36:05.918
they came in full riot gear.
00:36:05.999 --> 00:36:07.292
The police surrounded us and
started arresting people.
00:36:10.751 --> 00:36:14.459
People were physically abused.
00:36:14.626 --> 00:36:16.292
One person was beaten to the
point where a metal plate
00:36:16.459 --> 00:36:18.751
has to be put into his face,
someone else was Maced,
00:36:18.918 --> 00:36:22.167
where they couldn\'t open
their eyes for four hours
00:36:22.334 --> 00:36:25.125
and other people sustained
injuries as well.
00:36:25.292 --> 00:36:27.876
It does seem that the police
have responded differently
00:36:27.999 --> 00:36:30.999
in Ferguson than other
places around the country,
00:36:31.083 --> 00:36:34.542
I think because of how militant
the fight back has been
00:36:34.709 --> 00:36:37.125
in Ferguson and how
poignant the people are
00:36:37.292 --> 00:36:41.459
who live there at
blaming the system
00:36:41.626 --> 00:36:43.999
as opposed to an individual cop.
00:36:46.959 --> 00:36:51.959
- [Police on Megaphone] You
need to disperse immediately
00:36:51.999 --> 00:36:53.792
or you will be subject to Mace.
00:36:55.999 --> 00:36:58.918
- I was actually in Ferguson
during a peaceful protest
00:36:58.999 --> 00:37:01.999
that was fired upon with
tear gas by police officers.
00:37:04.709 --> 00:37:08.292
What I witnessed was
a very, very heavy
00:37:08.459 --> 00:37:10.292
militarized police presence.
00:37:11.999 --> 00:37:13.417
I was participating
in a peaceful march.
00:37:13.584 --> 00:37:15.999
People were not
expecting violence.
00:37:18.959 --> 00:37:20.209
The police did begin to fire
tear gas into the crowd.
00:37:20.375 --> 00:37:22.626
We saw the sparks of
the teargas canisters
00:37:22.792 --> 00:37:24.709
and the mist of smoke and gas.
00:37:24.876 --> 00:37:26.999
We ran back to what we
believed was a safe place
00:37:26.999 --> 00:37:30.626
on W. Florissant Ave. where
the press had gathered.
00:37:30.792 --> 00:37:35.125
The cops again fired
tear gas at us.
00:37:35.292 --> 00:37:37.751
Canisters fell several feet
away from where I was standing.
00:37:40.501 --> 00:37:43.584
- You couldn\'t go half a
block without seeing a tank
00:37:43.751 --> 00:37:46.501
or an armored truck,
snipers on the roof,
00:37:46.667 --> 00:37:49.999
helicopters flying, shining
their lights following people.
00:37:53.417 --> 00:37:55.209
I had never seen
anything like that
00:37:55.375 --> 00:37:56.918
even having been in the
military for four years.
00:37:58.999 --> 00:38:01.167
- The folks in Ferguson
decided to stay out and protest
00:38:03.834 --> 00:38:07.250
and in doing so, I think
they protected the rights
00:38:07.417 --> 00:38:09.334
of all Americans to act
up against the imposition
00:38:09.501 --> 00:38:12.626
of barriers to community\'s
rights to assemble,
00:38:12.792 --> 00:38:15.999
to speak freely about
matters of public importance.
00:38:18.751 --> 00:38:20.709
I think all of America owes
them a huge, tremendous debt.
00:38:37.292 --> 00:38:42.292
- We are gathered here
this evening as a result
00:38:42.459 --> 00:38:44.000
of a series of events that
occurred across coasts,
00:38:44.167 --> 00:38:47.999
from the murders of Michael
Brown and Eric Garner
00:38:47.999 --> 00:38:50.876
to the abuse young people
receive behind bars,
00:38:50.999 --> 00:38:53.999
the message is clear,
00:38:54.125 --> 00:38:56.584
policing both directly and
indirectly have amassed
00:38:56.751 --> 00:39:00.250
into a collective discontent.
00:39:00.417 --> 00:39:02.999
- The issue for me
primarily is that the police
00:39:02.999 --> 00:39:07.000
is only part of a larger
system that is the problem.
00:39:11.292 --> 00:39:13.999
When I say that, I mean
the capitalist system,
00:39:14.083 --> 00:39:16.792
I mean the white
supremacist system.
00:39:16.959 --> 00:39:19.167
I was actually there in
Ferguson the first week
00:39:19.334 --> 00:39:21.999
and I saw something
that I connected back
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.083
to my Latin American
roots, militarization.
00:39:27.999 --> 00:39:29.042
That comes from a
history of imperialism
00:39:29.209 --> 00:39:31.999
from the United States
to those countries.
00:39:32.125 --> 00:39:34.834
We are talking about a
whole lot of Fergusons
00:39:34.999 --> 00:39:38.167
throughout the Americas.
00:39:38.334 --> 00:39:40.709
- We can\'t kid ourselves
about the nature
00:39:40.876 --> 00:39:44.959
of the political process
that constantly evaluates
00:39:49.959 --> 00:39:50.999
our political rights
and our true human value
00:39:54.959 --> 00:39:55.999
in sheer terms of
costs and benefits.
00:39:56.083 --> 00:39:59.751
They can get away with
it because they choose
00:39:59.918 --> 00:40:02.709
to get away with it.
00:40:02.876 --> 00:40:04.209
Something feels
different about this
00:40:04.375 --> 00:40:06.375
then some other sort of
moments that I\'ve experienced.
00:40:06.542 --> 00:40:08.999
It was something about
being on the streets
00:40:09.083 --> 00:40:10.999
with young people, literally
putting their lives on the line
00:40:11.083 --> 00:40:13.959
for what they are imagining as
justice, is just remarkable.
00:40:16.999 --> 00:40:17.999
- What was most important to me,
00:40:18.042 --> 00:40:19.417
what I found most inspirational
00:40:19.584 --> 00:40:21.042
is that in a very
short period of time,
00:40:21.209 --> 00:40:23.999
you could see people
teaching themselves
00:40:23.999 --> 00:40:26.417
the fundamentals of
grassroots organizing.
00:40:26.584 --> 00:40:29.918
The people who were
in this community,
00:40:29.999 --> 00:40:31.250
these were young
people, began saying
00:40:31.417 --> 00:40:33.167
we have to have a vigil
and then that vigil
00:40:33.334 --> 00:40:36.167
became a protest and
then that protest
00:40:36.334 --> 00:40:39.292
became an uprising
and then that uprising
00:40:39.459 --> 00:40:42.918
lay the seeds for what is
now becoming a movement.
00:40:48.667 --> 00:40:53.667
- My name is Dante,
I\'m from Ferguson.
00:40:53.834 --> 00:40:56.125
Out there in Ferguson, Lost
Voices is an organization
00:40:56.292 --> 00:40:58.876
I\'ve been dealing with.
00:40:58.999 --> 00:41:00.000
I don\'t know if you\'ve
heard about it or not.
00:41:00.167 --> 00:41:01.042
We shut down three malls,
00:41:01.209 --> 00:41:02.584
successfully shut down,
they close three malls,
00:41:02.751 --> 00:41:04.999
completely closed them
around Black Friday time.
00:41:05.083 --> 00:41:08.375
(audience clapping)
00:41:10.083 --> 00:41:12.375
- [Crowd] Arrest Darren
Wilson, arrest Darren Wilson.
00:41:15.999 --> 00:41:19.375
- It wasn\'t on TV.
00:41:19.542 --> 00:41:21.042
Women, men, children,
women and babies,
00:41:21.209 --> 00:41:24.667
they didn\'t even know they
would be part of the movement
00:41:24.834 --> 00:41:26.542
came out there marching.
00:41:26.709 --> 00:41:27.876
It motivated people
across the world to say,
00:41:27.999 --> 00:41:29.417
\"Police, we are standing up,
we are not taking anymore.\"
00:41:31.999 --> 00:41:33.999
- Ferguson is everywhere.
00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:35.584
Ferguson for me was
Shantel Davis in Brooklyn.
00:41:35.751 --> 00:41:38.083
It was Kiki Gray in Brooklyn
00:41:38.250 --> 00:41:39.999
but we have Ferguson
in Baltimore,
00:41:40.083 --> 00:41:42.626
Tyrone West was killed,
his family is here
00:41:42.792 --> 00:41:45.918
and we would like
you to come up.
00:41:48.751 --> 00:41:53.250
- On July 18, 2013, my brother,
00:41:53.417 --> 00:41:56.999
Tyrone West was
brutally murdered.
00:41:56.999 --> 00:41:59.209
He wasn\'t shot, he was beaten up
00:41:59.375 --> 00:42:01.542
by 11-15 police officers,
drug out of my vehicle
00:42:01.709 --> 00:42:06.334
30 minutes after
he dropped me off.
00:42:06.501 --> 00:42:09.042
We were eating dinner,
interrupted by a call
00:42:09.209 --> 00:42:11.584
to go and give an
acquaintance a ride.
00:42:11.751 --> 00:42:13.959
From him trying to
do somebody a favor,
00:42:13.999 --> 00:42:16.250
he was brutally murdered.
00:42:16.417 --> 00:42:18.375
Ever since this
happened, we\'ve been
00:42:18.542 --> 00:42:20.834
on the battlefield
from day one, 520 days.
00:42:24.083 --> 00:42:26.250
We need to change
the system because
00:42:26.417 --> 00:42:27.959
until the system changes,
nothing is going to change.
00:42:27.999 --> 00:42:31.125
Nothing will change,
nothing will change.
00:42:31.292 --> 00:42:33.999
In the end, justice anywhere
is an end justice everywhere.
00:42:38.999 --> 00:42:41.167
- The system has failed
us, we all know this.
00:42:41.334 --> 00:42:42.959
We know this already
and it\'s important
00:42:42.999 --> 00:42:44.918
that we continue
to spread the word.
00:42:44.999 --> 00:42:46.501
I\'m so proud of the
youth, she teaches
00:42:46.667 --> 00:42:48.667
at Park Slope Collegiate.
00:42:48.834 --> 00:42:50.042
It was John Jay and that\'s
my school, John Jay.
00:42:50.209 --> 00:42:53.209
That\'s why I\'m so happy,
I\'m so proud when I see
00:42:53.375 --> 00:42:55.584
the kids out there
protesting, taking a stand.
00:42:55.751 --> 00:42:58.834
That\'s what we need.
00:42:58.999 --> 00:43:00.250
We need to keep going out there
00:43:00.417 --> 00:43:01.959
spreading the
word, keep talking.
00:43:01.999 --> 00:43:03.999
Like I said, even
though I feel defeated
00:43:03.999 --> 00:43:05.751
and I know I\'m not
going to gain justice
00:43:05.918 --> 00:43:07.250
for my sister\'s case,
I\'m not going to stop.
00:43:07.417 --> 00:43:09.417
I\'m going to keep going.
00:43:09.584 --> 00:43:11.918
(audience clapping)
00:43:14.250 --> 00:43:19.250
♪ I\'ve got a feeling
00:43:22.125 --> 00:43:23.000
♪ I\'ve got a feeling
00:43:25.959 --> 00:43:27.292
♪ I\'ve got a feeling
00:43:30.250 --> 00:43:34.292
- [Man with Microphone]
We want justice.
00:43:36.209 --> 00:43:38.834
♪ I got a feeling ♪
00:43:43.042 --> 00:43:48.042
- As many of you know,
00:43:48.209 --> 00:43:49.751
there are lots of people
protesting in the streets.
00:43:49.918 --> 00:43:53.167
We are seeing something
happening in our lifetimes
00:43:53.334 --> 00:43:57.584
that we\'ve never seen before.
00:43:57.751 --> 00:44:00.959
The fact that we need
to remind ourselves
00:44:00.999 --> 00:44:05.459
and other people, that
black lives matter,
00:44:05.626 --> 00:44:09.459
is not the world that we want.
00:44:09.626 --> 00:44:13.542
It is, however, a world
that is ours to change.
00:44:18.292 --> 00:44:20.250
- There\'s a lot of people
who know that this is wrong
00:44:20.417 --> 00:44:22.999
what the police are
doing but they are not
00:44:23.042 --> 00:44:25.083
doing anything about it so
the people who are coming out
00:44:25.250 --> 00:44:28.375
to our protests every
day and fighting hard
00:44:28.542 --> 00:44:31.209
in making statuses on
Facebook, I really commend you
00:44:31.375 --> 00:44:35.292
and I really thank you
because not a lot of people
00:44:35.459 --> 00:44:38.167
have enough courage to do this.
00:44:38.334 --> 00:44:41.125
(audience clapping)
00:44:41.292 --> 00:44:43.417
- [Woman with
Microphone] For Eric,
00:44:43.584 --> 00:44:44.709
- [Crowd] we\'ve
got to fight back.
00:44:44.876 --> 00:44:45.959
- [Woman with
Microphone] For Kimani,
00:44:45.999 --> 00:44:47.000
- [Crowd] we\'ve
got to fight back.
00:44:47.167 --> 00:44:48.125
- [Woman with
Microphone] For Trayvon,
00:44:48.292 --> 00:44:49.417
- [Crowd] we\'ve
got to fight back.
00:44:49.584 --> 00:44:50.167
- For Shantel,
00:44:50.334 --> 00:44:51.459
- [Crowd] we\'ve
got to fight back.
00:44:51.626 --> 00:44:52.999
- Young people have always led
the fight against oppression.
00:44:55.209 --> 00:44:57.459
Racist oppression, oppression
against capitalism,
00:45:00.459 --> 00:45:02.751
the rebellions in
the streets during
00:45:02.918 --> 00:45:04.959
the Civil Rights Movement.
00:45:04.999 --> 00:45:06.584
The youth also took to
the streets in Ferguson
00:45:06.751 --> 00:45:08.999
just this past summer
and led the way
00:45:08.999 --> 00:45:10.999
against these racist attacks.
00:45:11.042 --> 00:45:12.999
You guys tonight,
are another step
00:45:12.999 --> 00:45:16.334
in that historical process.
00:45:17.999 --> 00:45:19.459
- [Crowd] We say fight back.
00:45:19.626 --> 00:45:21.250
- Young people are
wonderful examples
00:45:21.417 --> 00:45:23.876
of what it means to
fight for their rights.
00:45:27.042 --> 00:45:30.501
When you\'re angry, you
are no longer complacent
00:45:30.667 --> 00:45:33.417
and when you are no
longer complacent,
00:45:33.584 --> 00:45:35.626
there\'s an opportunity
for change.
00:45:52.584 --> 00:45:57.584
♪ So many of our youth
00:45:57.751 --> 00:46:01.167
♪ Have been gunned
down senselessly
00:46:01.334 --> 00:46:05.709
♪ Modern-day lynching
00:46:05.876 --> 00:46:09.209
♪ in the city streets
00:46:09.375 --> 00:46:13.667
♪ Victims of violence
00:46:13.834 --> 00:46:16.999
♪ so often the poor
00:46:20.417 --> 00:46:21.709
♪ There either killed in
their own neighborhoods
00:46:21.876 --> 00:46:25.459
♪ Or die in rich men\'s wars ♪
00:46:28.999 --> 00:46:30.584
- In this picture, this
is my daughter Soraya.
00:46:30.751 --> 00:46:34.667
She was a little bit over one
when this picture was taken.
00:46:34.834 --> 00:46:39.167
She\'s six now, Shantel died
when she was three years old.
00:46:39.334 --> 00:46:42.918
Forget about what you\'ve read,
00:46:42.999 --> 00:46:45.999
know that she was a
loving, caring person
00:46:45.999 --> 00:46:48.792
and I\'m never
going to forget her
00:46:48.959 --> 00:46:50.042
and I am going to
continue to fight for her
00:46:50.209 --> 00:46:51.959
and for all the other victims.
00:46:54.167 --> 00:46:56.999
- I don\'t want to wait for
the next person to be killed.
00:46:59.959 --> 00:47:02.999
There\'s so many that\'s fighting
00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:04.250
for justice that wants rights.
00:47:04.417 --> 00:47:06.959
There\'s blacks, whites,
Asians, everybody.
00:47:06.999 --> 00:47:11.709
We need to show
we have one motive
00:47:11.876 --> 00:47:13.999
and that\'s to make this
country a better place.
00:47:17.918 --> 00:47:21.626
- What are we out here for?
00:47:21.792 --> 00:47:23.459
Word up, let\'s say it,
let\'s be proud about it.
00:47:23.626 --> 00:47:25.334
That\'s who we are.
00:47:25.501 --> 00:47:28.083
- I think the entire
structure economically,
00:47:28.250 --> 00:47:30.876
politically, socially has been
hostile toward black people
00:47:30.999 --> 00:47:34.999
in the United States since
the inception of our time here
00:47:35.042 --> 00:47:37.792
and it\'s a testament to
the will of this community
00:47:37.959 --> 00:47:41.167
that we\'ve been able
to carve out the niche
00:47:41.334 --> 00:47:43.417
of recognition for our humanity
that we currently have,
00:47:43.584 --> 00:47:47.083
that we have to fight
tenaciously to hold on to.
00:47:50.042 --> 00:47:54.709
- There isn\'t any change
that has been done
00:47:54.876 --> 00:47:56.667
to stop this police brutality
as far as through the system.
00:47:56.834 --> 00:48:00.542
This system continues
to criminalize our youth
00:48:00.709 --> 00:48:03.999
over and over again.
00:48:04.042 --> 00:48:06.584
False hopes, false dreams
and false promises,
00:48:06.751 --> 00:48:09.959
that\'s what our elected
officials give us
00:48:09.999 --> 00:48:12.125
so it\'s going to take all
of us to stop this madness
00:48:12.292 --> 00:48:16.334
in all of this murder that\'s
happening in New York City
00:48:16.501 --> 00:48:19.459
and across the country.
00:48:21.375 --> 00:48:22.918
- I do think things are
not going to be the same.
00:48:22.999 --> 00:48:24.999
I think the people are much
more aware of what\'s going on.
00:48:24.999 --> 00:48:28.709
There are much less susceptible
00:48:28.876 --> 00:48:31.542
to these kind of fake solutions,
00:48:31.709 --> 00:48:33.999
like body cameras
on the police or
00:48:34.042 --> 00:48:36.000
having a black mayor.
00:48:36.167 --> 00:48:38.667
I think the people are going
00:48:38.834 --> 00:48:39.959
to be searching for
a real solution.
00:48:42.792 --> 00:48:44.459
- As Michelle Alexander
so eloquently stated,
00:48:44.626 --> 00:48:46.375
\"America was not made for us,
00:48:46.542 --> 00:48:49.250
but we together with
our people of conscience
00:48:49.417 --> 00:48:52.334
must make America
what it must become.\"
00:48:52.501 --> 00:48:55.250
I will not pretend
to have the answers,
00:48:55.417 --> 00:48:58.125
but I think we ought to ask
some different questions,
00:48:58.292 --> 00:49:01.417
including, if the reform
fails again and again,
00:49:01.584 --> 00:49:05.042
isn\'t it time we consider
a more radical approach?
00:49:10.999 --> 00:49:15.999
- What does that say
about the system?
00:49:15.999 --> 00:49:17.834
All of these unarmed
people killed,
00:49:17.999 --> 00:49:20.542
we want to make sure
that this doesn\'t happen
00:49:20.709 --> 00:49:24.417
to another family.
00:49:26.751 --> 00:49:27.999
We don\'t want another
mother\'s heart broken.
00:49:28.125 --> 00:49:30.876
Let\'s unite, let\'s
stand together
00:49:30.999 --> 00:49:34.626
because we want justice for all.
00:49:37.876 --> 00:49:39.792
- Kimani died and
we march and we riot
00:49:39.959 --> 00:49:42.292
and we rave and still
here comes Eric Garner,
00:49:42.459 --> 00:49:45.999
Mike Brown, I can\'t
even say the names.
00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:49.876
All we are saying is
that we are fed up,
00:49:49.999 --> 00:49:52.042
we do not want to
take this no more.
00:49:52.209 --> 00:49:53.999
This is going to be another
Baltimore if this don\'t stop.
00:49:57.999 --> 00:50:01.999
- I\'m terrified almost to
even think of the future
00:50:01.999 --> 00:50:05.292
unless something changes because
00:50:05.459 --> 00:50:08.083
if something doesn\'t change,
it\'s going to be the same thing
00:50:08.250 --> 00:50:10.042
over and over again.
00:50:11.999 --> 00:50:15.417
- We are going to do
what we have to do.
00:50:15.584 --> 00:50:16.999
We are going to stand up
we have to stand up for.
00:50:17.083 --> 00:50:18.918
We are going to fight.
00:50:20.501 --> 00:50:25.000
- [Voiceover] A revolution
has to happen, it has to.
00:50:44.999 --> 00:50:49.999
♪ Why must we go
through all this pain
00:50:50.125 --> 00:50:52.375
♪ Why must we go
through this strain
00:50:52.542 --> 00:50:54.584
♪ You know we gotta find a way
00:50:54.751 --> 00:50:56.999
♪ We gotta find a way out
00:50:57.125 --> 00:51:00.999
♪ We gotta find a way out
00:51:01.125 --> 00:51:03.876
♪ We gotta find a way out
00:51:03.999 --> 00:51:06.375
♪ We gotta find a way out
00:51:08.083 --> 00:51:09.334
♪ We gotta find a way
00:51:09.501 --> 00:51:10.959
♪ The streets are a jungle
waiting to act poorly
00:51:10.999 --> 00:51:13.125
♪ Like a beast caged
anxious to attack
00:51:13.292 --> 00:51:15.918
♪ The earth has many moves
like the season of food
00:51:15.999 --> 00:51:17.999
♪ It gets hot but like the ice
cube when the weather changes
00:51:18.042 --> 00:51:20.999
♪ Never stays the same
degrees rise the gas prices
00:51:20.999 --> 00:51:23.459
♪ Winter stayed
cold on this earth
00:51:23.626 --> 00:51:25.501
♪ Snow forms of
force like nature
00:51:25.667 --> 00:51:27.709
♪ Morse code when gunshots
00:51:27.876 --> 00:51:28.999
♪ The cough the dark night
00:51:28.999 --> 00:51:30.125
♪ Somebody got canceled
00:51:30.292 --> 00:51:31.417
♪ Like a bad sitcom
twisted vision
00:51:31.584 --> 00:51:33.999
♪ Reality seen through
the eyes of a fiend
00:51:34.083 --> 00:51:36.417
♪ What I mean is like a human
00:51:36.584 --> 00:51:37.999
♪ Are survivors communicate
00:51:38.083 --> 00:51:39.876
♪ We are the new sounds
00:51:39.999 --> 00:51:41.083
♪ We don\'t see and can\'t read
00:51:41.250 --> 00:51:42.709
♪ I think sometimes God
is trying to say something
00:51:42.876 --> 00:51:44.334
♪ About putting these
recurrences in front of our eyes
00:51:44.501 --> 00:51:46.999
♪ Like our pupils
consider us pupils of life
00:51:47.083 --> 00:51:49.667
♪ If we don\'t pay
attention and learn
00:51:49.834 --> 00:51:51.042
♪ We losing the fight
00:51:51.209 --> 00:51:52.250
♪ And that\'s real
00:51:52.417 --> 00:51:53.542
♪ Why must we go
through all this pain
00:51:53.709 --> 00:51:55.292
♪ Why must we go
through this strain
00:51:55.459 --> 00:51:58.042
♪ You know we gotta find a way
00:52:00.334 --> 00:52:01.334
♪ We got to find a way out
00:52:01.501 --> 00:52:03.999
♪ We gotta find a way out
00:52:04.125 --> 00:52:06.999
♪ We gotta find a way out
00:52:07.083 --> 00:52:09.709
♪ We gotta find a way out
00:52:09.876 --> 00:52:12.250
♪ We gotta find a way ♪