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Baltimore Community Marches into 7-11 Where 74-Year-Old Was Brutally Beaten · The Real News Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Ah, we.
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  Speaker 2: Are we we are, we are we we We.
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  Speaker 3: Need to be able to say that we in our
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  Speaker 3: community are willing to stand up.
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  Speaker 1: We're standing up for our young people. We're standing up
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  Speaker 1: for our seniors, we are standing up for our communities.
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  Speaker 4: On July seventh of this year, twenty twenty six, my
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  Speaker 4: comrade and my brother was brutally beaten by six youths
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  Speaker 4: at this same said seventy eleven. Brutally beaten for over
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  Speaker 4: ten minutes. He was able to get into his vehicle
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  Speaker 4: and only go a few blocks before he had to stop.
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  Speaker 4: He was in so much pain that he had to
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  Speaker 4: call the police and have them to take him to
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  Speaker 4: the emergency room at Sinai Hospital. A few days later,
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  Speaker 4: the video was exposed and it was something that you
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  Speaker 4: couldn't belie you were saying when he.
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  Speaker 5: Got out of the vehicle, those brothers was laying right there.
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  Speaker 5: There's a stack of crates that they got from this
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  Speaker 5: sevent eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Look at it. I want you to see it.
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  Speaker 5: That's why we had it here what they call ground zero.
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  Speaker 1: When he got out of.
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  Speaker 5: His vehicle, they saw him. They weren't laying for him.
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  Speaker 5: They were laying for somebody to come that way. They
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  Speaker 5: were willing and waiting for somebody to come down Toronto
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  Speaker 5: or Tyoga, like my son did in twenty seventeen when
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  Speaker 5: he left the seventy eleven so after walking twenty feet
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  Speaker 5: with my son, he put not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 5: not four, but five bullets into his body over a
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  Speaker 5: cell phone. They tore his foot for his life, and
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  Speaker 5: it was stolen from him.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't taken because he fought back. It was stolen.
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  Speaker 5: On July seventeenth of this year, My comrade, this black
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  Speaker 5: panther vegeman.
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  Speaker 1: Fought back.
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  Speaker 6: Children today lost respect. You know what I'm saying, And
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  Speaker 6: I'm not saying all our children, I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 7: But these little young men that came and jumped Bob.
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  Speaker 6: And when I seen that, I said to myself, Wow,
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  Speaker 6: they are chumps. They are cowards, and they don't have
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  Speaker 6: no dignity.
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  Speaker 8: I don't want it to be a blanket thing where
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  Speaker 8: like all our children are bad.
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  Speaker 6: I once was one of the little brothers out here
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  Speaker 6: running them up.
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  Speaker 8: But I'm telling you we are misunderstood, uneducated, misguided and
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  Speaker 8: easily let us straight right. We need the community to
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  Speaker 8: gather around these young men we don't believe in throwing
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  Speaker 8: our peoples away.
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  Speaker 1: I am commissioning the entire city. There's a fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollar rewards.
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  Speaker 5: Here's a QR cod do not call yourself an organization
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  Speaker 5: or revolutionary anybody else until you click this and donate.
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  Speaker 1: So we can find those babies.
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  Speaker 3: We have to find them.
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  Speaker 1: No one else can find them. We have to find them.
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  Speaker 1: We will find them.
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  Speaker 5: But we're not finding them so that they can be
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  Speaker 5: locked up and we throw away the key.
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  Speaker 1: I heard that.
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  Speaker 5: We're not finding them so we can throw away a key.
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  Speaker 5: We're finding them so that we can follow them, hold them,
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  Speaker 5: love them. We're taking whatever these demons have for them
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  Speaker 5: off the table. They can't have our children anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's over. They're our children.
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  Speaker 5: As hard as that is to say, with what we saw,
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  Speaker 5: there are still ours. They are still we are we
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna walk with them every step of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we're gonna walk them to the belief.
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  Speaker 5: Then they have to be accountable for their behavior, but
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  Speaker 5: we will never let them go.
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  Speaker 3: We need to teach our community the difference between snitching
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  Speaker 3: and protecting our community.
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  Speaker 1: There is a difference. There is a difference. If you
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  Speaker 1: see y'all.
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  Speaker 3: If your grandmother walks down the streets, she can't even
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  Speaker 3: go to the store.
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  Speaker 1: That's not snitching this thing. I want that community.
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  Speaker 3: I want my store front cleaned as or my grandma
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  Speaker 3: can go to the store. That's protecting your community, that's
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  Speaker 3: protecting your loved ones.
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  Speaker 1: If you see something, say something that's not snitching.
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  Speaker 3: Stitching is when you and I go round to seven
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  Speaker 3: or eleven and not go tell on you like you
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  Speaker 3: need to know what stitching is.
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  Speaker 1: This is not snitching. This is happening ourselves.
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  Speaker 7: You haven't lived enough life to understand anything. So you
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  Speaker 7: hear elder up here talk about snitching and all this
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  Speaker 7: I see your face is twisting up because you're not
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  Speaker 7: intellect understanding that these things that are.
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  Speaker 9: Being said are.
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  Speaker 1: True in fact.
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  Speaker 7: But the arrogance in who you are as a person
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  Speaker 7: right won't allow you to listen to the truth until
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  Speaker 7: you're old.
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  Speaker 2: Enough to have a child if somebody takes it from you.
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  Speaker 2: And now you want justice, Now you want peace, Now
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  Speaker 2: you want understanding. I used to be your age. You've
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  Speaker 2: never been my age. My job of responsibility is to
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  Speaker 2: goud you. You know, y'all just need to be taught y'all,
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  Speaker 2: we've been there, done that.
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  Speaker 5: Let's not be so.
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  Speaker 6: Quick to forget. But one of the things I can't say.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sixty three years old.
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  Speaker 5: That's something I never done.
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  Speaker 2: Jump on to y'all are old the man.
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  Speaker 6: No, we ain't do that.
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  Speaker 2: We ain't do that, regarded them, detective them, even though
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  Speaker 2: we did all long stuff on the side, But we
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  Speaker 2: ain't do that.
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  Speaker 1: I watched that video over and over and over and over.
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  Speaker 5: Even though I kept watching it, when that baby pulled
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  Speaker 5: that sword out like he was a samurai, all I
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  Speaker 5: can think about was, please don't stab him. Even though
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  Speaker 5: I know he was home, I know he was safe.
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  Speaker 5: The pain is so real, the visual is so vile
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  Speaker 5: that even when you know they're safe, you steal fear
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  Speaker 5: for them. When I turned that off, I said to myself,
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  Speaker 5: if he can fight, we can fight. If he's not
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  Speaker 5: afraid to fight, even if he dies, we can fight
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  Speaker 5: until we're.
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  Speaker 1: Not afraid to die. I saw it. He proved it.
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  Speaker 1: You can say what should have could have happened, But
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  Speaker 1: what happened is he fought back.
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  Speaker 5: They beat him, they kicked him, they knocked him, they
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  Speaker 5: tormented him for ten minutes. Do you know what ten
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  Speaker 5: minutes feel like when someone is attacking you. It found
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  Speaker 5: it feels like forever Queen, I wasn't spying when I
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  Speaker 5: looked at the fact that you just kept getting up.
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  Speaker 1: You just kept getting up.
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  Speaker 9: If I don't take anything from that, it's what we
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  Speaker 9: must continue to do as a people.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta keep getting up. They talk about it. Black
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  Speaker 1: people hate each other.
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  Speaker 9: Black people hate black people, and I don't often say
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  Speaker 9: to them, you can't get this if we hate each other.
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  Speaker 5: It's time.
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  Speaker 1: One of the flyers say, if not us, then.
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  Speaker 5: Who If not now, then when we are going into
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  Speaker 5: that seventy eleven and we're telling.
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  Speaker 1: Those people because I called them all week.
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  Speaker 5: I went there and got the phone them. I called
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  Speaker 5: them all week with no response. We tried, we tried
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  Speaker 5: to no avail. Now we're going to full frot. We're
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  Speaker 5: not taking any prisoners. We're not walking back. We're going
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  Speaker 5: in there. We're letting them know what they.
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  Speaker 1: Need to do to protect this community.
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  Speaker 10: We want to walk over to this store. We want
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  Speaker 10: you to walk with us. We're not gonna tell the store,
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  Speaker 10: We're not.
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  Speaker 5: Steal it anything.
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  Speaker 3: We just over there to.
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  Speaker 10: Let them know we ain't playing. We write to you,
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  Speaker 10: not as adversaries, but as neighbors who share this corner
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  Speaker 10: with you every day. This location has witness a brutal
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  Speaker 10: assault of a seventy four year old man elder, an
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  Speaker 10: overnight break in, and years of prior tragedy at the
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  Speaker 10: same address, including the loss of a young man's life
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  Speaker 10: in March twenty seventeen. We believe you want this corner
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  Speaker 10: to be safe as much as we do. It is
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  Speaker 10: in that spirit cordial beffirm that we present the following
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  Speaker 10: list of divisions. Number one, we are giving you a
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  Speaker 10: seventy two hour note, suppose your hours of operation in
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  Speaker 10: lettering large enough to be read clearly from the street.
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  Speaker 10: Number two cut down the overgrown bushes that create a
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  Speaker 10: hidden nook where perpetrators can wait and hide to attack
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  Speaker 10: unsuspecting customers, and install brighter lighting.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the parking lot.
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  Speaker 10: Number three we urge you to donate toward the community
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  Speaker 10: reward fund established to help apprehend the assailants and toward
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  Speaker 10: the medical course of the seventy four year old elder
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  Speaker 10: who was attacked. Number four invests in stronger security measures,
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  Speaker 10: including roll down security grades when the store is closed
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  Speaker 10: to deserve further break ins and number five acquire off
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  Speaker 10: duty police presence to enforce a no bordering policy and
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  Speaker 10: help assure the safety of your customers and this community.
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  Speaker 10: This is not a request made lightning, and it is
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  Speaker 10: not one we intend to let go unanswered. We ask
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  Speaker 10: for a response and a plan of action within a
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  Speaker 10: reasonable time, and we will report back to the WE.
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  Speaker 10: Until then, we will continue to stand on this corner
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  Speaker 10: in agreement until this community is safe. Respectfully the WE community.
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  Speaker 6: Just gathering here is important because the community around us
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  Speaker 6: can see it, and they need to know that this
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  Speaker 6: is what needs to be done. These killams and these
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  Speaker 6: robberies and these a lot of thifts. We I believe.
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  Speaker 8: Can decrease it by teaching our people that rats are
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  Speaker 8: not appreciated.
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  Speaker 6: And should not be tolerated. Oh, a veteran of the
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  Speaker 6: Black Panther Party, my paternal grand lad, what's a number
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  Speaker 6: over the U N I A. We are more than
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  Speaker 6: just a group of organizations. What I feel because you
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  Speaker 6: have concern for me and care for me. This is
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  Speaker 6: my family.
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  Speaker 4: When I realized who it was and where it was,
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  Speaker 4: it brought back the night that my son Victorious walked
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  Speaker 4: out of this same sevent eleven down those steps down
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  Speaker 4: to Tayoga Parkway and was approached by a young man
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  Speaker 4: who demanded his phone. A fight pursued. The young man
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  Speaker 4: took out his gun and he brutally murdered my son Victorious.
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  Speaker 4: He shot him five times, one in the stomach, then
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  Speaker 4: the kneecap, then when he fell, he shot him in
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  Speaker 4: the head, shot him into his idrum, which hid his
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  Speaker 4: juggler vein, and as he was falling over he shot
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  Speaker 4: him again and that bullet grazed his back. He left
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  Speaker 4: him for dead. Someone who witnessed the entire event ran
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  Speaker 4: over to my son, held him and told him to
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  Speaker 4: hold on. He called the ambulance. They took him to
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  Speaker 4: the hospital and he was pronounced dead at three point
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  Speaker 4: three am on March twenty six, twenty seventeen, four days
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  Speaker 4: after my pa. That was enough for me to say
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  Speaker 4: I've had enough. The next morning, sister Reugima called me
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  Speaker 4: and asked me how that Boba was doing when she
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  Speaker 4: had heard about it. We talked about what had happened.
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  Speaker 4: I shared with her what had happened to Victorious and
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  Speaker 4: that was and telling her that that was the same
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  Speaker 4: location where Victorious came out of before he was murdered,
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  Speaker 4: almost the same time of night about three victorious I
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  Speaker 4: think it was like three point fifteen three twenty somewhere
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  Speaker 4: around that same time, almost and we said we have
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  Speaker 4: to do something. She'd called Mama Gwen, and once we
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  Speaker 4: came into what the Sister Queen always says, we have
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  Speaker 4: an agreement, that was it for us. We had decided
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  Speaker 4: that we were going to take no more, that we
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  Speaker 4: were going to do the same thing that Baba did,
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  Speaker 4: fight back, and that's.
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  Speaker 3: What we started doing.
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  Speaker 4: So we created the WE organization mindset that we were
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  Speaker 4: going to communicate with every organization that we could in
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  Speaker 4: the city to let them know to meet us here
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  Speaker 4: where the assault happened and begin the process of changing
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  Speaker 4: how we think and how we look at the city
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  Speaker 4: and how to move forward as a collective as a
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  Speaker 4: we in agreeance, in agreement, and that's what we did.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. I think one of the most significant things
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  Speaker 3: about this gathering that we had today is that was
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  Speaker 3: not retaliatory or negative. It was not we against found
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  Speaker 3: or fingers pointing fingers. It was to say we are here.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't point fingers at our young people because we
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  Speaker 3: know we got some good young people in the city.
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  Speaker 3: Many of them were out here with us today. But
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  Speaker 3: we all go out some troubled young people. Sister said
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  Speaker 3: it best when she said it earlier. Some are broken,
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  Speaker 3: some are just bent. Hopefully we can get to the
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  Speaker 3: bent ones before they get broken. That's what this cry
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  Speaker 3: is about. That's what the quarrying cry was for all
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  Speaker 3: organizations to say, Hey, we are here for our young people.
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  Speaker 3: We are here for our elderis, we are here for
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  Speaker 3: our neighbors in the community. We are here. All you
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  Speaker 3: got to do is just look around your community. If
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  Speaker 3: you don't see us in your community, called one of
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  Speaker 3: our older we'll come. We got brothers who can walk
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  Speaker 3: the streets with us. We got brothers who who go
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  Speaker 3: up in the alleys with us. We got sisters who
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  Speaker 3: know that our young sisters who are running up in
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  Speaker 3: stores and just grabbing stuff. No, no, no, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to do that. We know how to go get
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  Speaker 3: your nails done. We can get your hair done. Come
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  Speaker 3: see us, Come see us. That's what we're saying to
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  Speaker 3: our young people. We are here for them, and yes,
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  Speaker 3: you must be held accountable for your actions. I did.
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  Speaker 3: I served sixteen years of a sentence guess how many
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  Speaker 3: years I was supposed to serve? How many four hundred months?
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you all added up. And the ones
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  Speaker 3: who can't add it up, that's why we need to
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  Speaker 3: change our boarder education. That's a whole nother store. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna tell you how many that the four
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  Speaker 3: hundred months is figured out. But at this sixteen years
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  Speaker 3: or a four hundred month sentence, I was transformed, and
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  Speaker 3: if old as I was can transform. I know we
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  Speaker 3: can help these young people who have a whole life
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  Speaker 3: ahead of themselves. And that's what we're trying to do,
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  Speaker 3: save our youngsters, mainly before they get into the system,
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  Speaker 3: but even the ones that get into the system, we're
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  Speaker 3: here to help you so that when you come out
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  Speaker 3: of this system, you will come out and do what
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  Speaker 3: we're doing. Do with the ten Day of Family, do
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  Speaker 3: with some of these other young orders, the CRY organization,
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  Speaker 3: do what they're doing. Help each other. Tell your story.
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  Speaker 3: Your story is impactful. Your story can help somebody. You
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  Speaker 3: have a story, young man. You have a story, young lady.
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  Speaker 3: And I know some of you might be mad, not
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  Speaker 3: mad at me, Look in the mirror, tell yourself who
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  Speaker 3: you're mad at. And address that situation before you come
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  Speaker 3: out here and get into some trouble that you really
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  Speaker 3: don't want to get into. We are here. We are
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  Speaker 3: here for the six men who assaulted my brother. We
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  Speaker 3: are here call one of us. Yes, you have to
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  Speaker 3: be held accountable, but in that accountability you will have support.
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  Speaker 3: You will have support so that you won't become broken.
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  Speaker 3: We don't need more broken care into our community. This
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  Speaker 3: is a healing city. This is a city that can
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  Speaker 3: be healed, and we are here to say that the
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  Speaker 3: healing has begun by the week. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks So in our effort to address this, I guess
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  Speaker 10: I would cross that hangs over our city with youth
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  Speaker 10: being not accountable in what it is that needs to happen.
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  Speaker 10: We're looking for our first step, which is to be
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  Speaker 10: a place where you deposit information. This is an information bank.
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  Speaker 10: We are repository for every organization that's out here helping families,
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  Speaker 10: youth and elders. So if you have resources, if you
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  Speaker 10: have services or programs, this is the one stop chop
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  Speaker 10: you come to. We are not saying at this moment
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  Speaker 10: that we are doing anything other than that. What we
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  Speaker 10: want to do is when we connect with families, elders,
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  Speaker 10: and youth, we could point them in the direction of
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  Speaker 10: where they may can go. We won't select your program
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  Speaker 10: for them, but we'll tell them where where they can
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  Speaker 10: go to get that service. And we're going to aggregate
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  Speaker 10: all the information and make it user friendly and you'll
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  Speaker 10: be able to obtain it through our social media. We're
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  Speaker 10: going to be able to obtain it through our website,
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  Speaker 10: and most of all, we're going to be boots Underground.
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  Speaker 10: The next event that we hope to kind of commander
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  Speaker 10: everyone together is that we're going to be at the
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  Speaker 10: March on Washington on August twenty eighth. There's a free
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  Speaker 10: bus available by the National Action Network, provided by the
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  Speaker 10: local Chapters, community and City of Nan through the Reverend
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  Speaker 10: Al Sharpton, and we are going to take our voice
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  Speaker 10: across this country because I believe that other communities need
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  Speaker 10: the same kind of help. So we want to show
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  Speaker 10: that what it looks like, we're not just the wire,
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  Speaker 10: We're not just the corner. We're not just the dancing
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  Speaker 10: and snowballs and the bikes. We are more than that,
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  Speaker 10: and people need to see us as a whole, and
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  Speaker 10: we have to take this as an organic approach to
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  Speaker 10: what we need to be getting done, and that's what
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  Speaker 10: we're here to do. I'm a graduate from the Morgan
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  Speaker 10: State University School of Social Work, and I'm calling on
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  Speaker 10: all my social workers, all my counselors, everybody who's doing
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  Speaker 10: that work in this city. This is not about the
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  Speaker 10: dime of the dog. This is about remembering how to
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  Speaker 10: bring community together and with that we are a week
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  Speaker 10: and when we are, we we are in agreement with that.
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  Speaker 3: I said, shak shame, shame.
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  Speaker 4: I think the most important aspect of what we are
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  Speaker 4: doing is to specifically reach out to families. We want
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  Speaker 4: the mothers and fathers of the city to know that
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  Speaker 4: their children are locked, that there is help available, their
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: resources available. Like Mama said earlier, we're not blaming anybody.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: There are no finger pointing. This is not anyone it's fault.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: If it is, it's all of our faults. There's no
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: one person we can blame for this situation. I heard
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: someone say we need to lock them up and throw
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: away the key. I think, I hope and I believe
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: that we've had enough of that. There's a system set
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: up that eats, that sets retirement funds, that sets of
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: vacation time for our children being incarcerated, being in a
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: system where they're abused, whether they're raped, where they're tormented,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: where they're lives. Literally stop, that has to stop. That
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: has to stop. We can no longer accept our children
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: being put into these systems and saying lock them up
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: and throw away the key.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: I want to say one important thing. People say that
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: things start in the home. Some people don't have a home.
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: We have so many people who are homeless, families that
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: are living out here in these woods, people who have
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: no resources whatsoever, no family. In foster care. We have
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: the largest number of foster care people in the system
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: using the system, but we're only thirteen percent of this
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: whole national population. So if you keep saying that it
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: begins at the home, did you check out whose home
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: life you're talking about? Because everybody don't have a home.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: We need these young men right. We don't know where
• 23:02
  Speaker 10: they come from, and we don't know that if their
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: home is safe and protected and wholesome, how do we
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: know if they're not being abused or abandoned or neglected
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: or molested. We don't know what that is. It's in
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: the body. It's in the body, and so what we're
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: going to teach them is something called clean talk. We're
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: gonna teach them about facts, feelings, judgments, and outcomes. We're
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: going to change the dynamic of how we communicate with
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: DCOP with our babies, and that is where we're going
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: with this clarion call
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Baltimore, changing our journey to change their journey.