![]() Like a cartoon character.Īmeena (VO): So, if you get them to laugh at themselves. We were talking about how he got hit.Īmeena (VO): And he tumbled over. For real, that's what gangster is about right there.ĭee: I, I, I, I, I definitely don't want to go back.Īmeena: Didn't them girls square up like Joe Frasier?Īmeena (VO): I took him over to his cousin's house. But, and I really man.Īmeena: Man, I thank you. I saw that you, wasn't, you know, you was walking away, to defend you and your family. You ain't going no problem in going back. About you.Īmeena: You know what I'm saying. Cause if his family would have came to get him.Īmeena: Maybe it would have been a death behind it.Īmeena: I know you got some damn fools for family. You know, what's taking you so long so we can come back over there and set that block off. We fittin to do this and all this and that.Īmeena (VO): His family kept calling him. And I know how many people I got out here that are willing to take care of business. I said, you need to get off the block for a minute.ĭee: He was out of line. Guy (VO): She just hit my man with a rock.Īmeena: Eighty-third and Wolcott. SUBTITLE: Brown Shirt: Her brother goddamn shouldn't be woofing.Īmeena (VO): The story about sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never hurt you.Īmeena (VO): All of the sudden, the sister ran up with a piece of concrete.Īmeena (VO): One of the girls was about to stab one of the guys.Īmeena (VO]: Her cousin picked up the butcher knife.Īmeena (VO): Dee, was in the heat of the moment, that adrenaline was still going, that I'm gonna fuck them up. SUBTITLE: Ameena: Look at her like you look at me.īrown Shirt: You respecting yourself. Run up then.īrown Shirt: You going to never knock me out!Īmeena pushes a guy in a brown shirt away from the sisters, while the guy is shouting. The little four and five year old baby was doing the same thing. They came to defend their brother's honorĪmeena (VO): The sister calls one of the guys a bitch-ass, punk-ass. And I asked Cobe to take him to the hospital.įighting Guy: SUBTITLE: I'm gonna pop them! Watch this!Īmeena (VO): The block got quiet, and I'm looking down the street, and here comes the sisters of the guy that got his tooth knocked out. So he started fighting and ended up getting his teeth knocked out.Īmeena (VO): Cobe got him off location. They're scared of the community.Īmeena (VO): One group of guys said the young man threatened that he had a gun, and that he was gonna kill him. White Shirt: The cops pulled up and they left. Young Man (VO): The cops pulled up and pulled off. SUBTITLE: Man's Voice: We actually got an incident right out front.Īmeena (VO & ON CAM): By the time we got out there, the fight had just ended. They're not trying to dismantle gangs, what they're trying to do is save a life.Īmeena: After what happened a week and a half ago, nobody's been changed. Tio (VO): The violence interrupters have one goal in mind: to stop killings. Swanky: SUBTITLE: They kept calling me, "Man they shooting!" I said, what you want me to do? What you want me to do? Because can't no anybody come in and tell a guy to put his gun down. Most of the violence interrupters come from the hierarchy in some of these gangs. Tio (VO): So in the year 2004, we began a new concept called the violence interrupters. Tio: We've always had outreach workers, but the violence was not necessarily going down at that point. ![]() Tio (VO): I have the dirty dozen at the table. Yellow Backward Hat: I got him to calm down, tell him he didn't shoot you, he was just talking. One guy threatened to blow the other guy's wig back. Yellow Backward Hat (VO): Two guys was arguing. Have there been any conflicts mediated on the front end? From last week to this week? Everybody that's in the meeting, this is serious now, okay? We're in a crisis mode, and we need people to step up this table and go over and beyond, guys are getting killed for just anything.
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