Baltimore Rising Page #3

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And, um...

her speaking, she definitely

gets from her dad,

but I think her spirit,

she gets from my brother,

her uncle.

My brother was on death row

for ten years.

I think he was 32

when he was executed.

He started doing

live interviews

from death row, so that's when

we became very active

campaigning against

the death penalty,

and then I became

pregnant with Makayla.

We have pictures of her

in my husband's arms, marching.

So she was born into that.

- Whose streets?

- Our streets!

- Whose streets?

- Our streets!

- I always told her

that our protest chants,

"no justice, no peace,"

were her lullabies.

And I said, "You marched

before you could crawl

and walk."

Indict, convict,

send those killer cops to jail.

The whole damn system...

- I'm always reminded

of my uncle's resilience

and how, even on death row...

when he knew

that his death was pending

and he knew

that his death was coming,

and he even had

a date of his death,

he was still organizing,

and he was doing everything

with his time that he could.

You can go to

killedbypolice.net,

and you can begin

to read the names off.

We need to recognize

and hear all of the names

of all of the victims, right?

And we need to say their names.

We need to feel their spirits.

We need to feel their energy

and make this a moment

where we're committing to

ourselves

to no longer wait

until another name

is added to that list,

'cause we can't afford to lose

another baby like Tamir.

We can't afford to lose

another sister like Sandra.

We can't afford any of that.

- Darius Smith.

- Wesley Manning.

- Dejuan Hall.

- Brandon Johnson.

- DeOntre Dorsey.

- William Lemmon.

- Patrick O'Grady.

Philip Quinn.

- Jason Mesaros.

- Ernesto Lopez.

- Eddie Sanchez.

- Joseph Khammash.

- Antonio Henry.

- Kenneth Pinter Jr.

- Adarius Brown.

- Keith McLeod.

- Leonel Acevedo.

- So, Father God,

first and foremost,

I want to thank You for sparing

the lives, Father God,

of Britney and Genisha,

Father God.

But, Father God,

our concentration,

our focus...

goes on those, Father God,

that were seriously injured,

Father God...

even ejected

from the vehicles, oh, God.

Where does it hurt?

- It isn't hurting,

it's just shaking.

- Okay, so just relax.

You're gonna be all right.

All right?

- Okay.

- Look, I ain't hard to find

if y'all need me.

It's my city.

Love my city.

We're in a community where...

it's underserved

and over-policed.

You could be a great cop.

You could be a great cop

and a successful cop...

probably even more so

when you learn how

to be respectful

to the community.

So we're... we're in

the Gilmor area,

which is where, actually,

Freddie Gray...

was arrested.

That mural went up

almost immediately.

The Freddie Gray incident

wasn't the cause

of the uprising... it was just

probably that last straw

that broke the camel's back...

after decades of crying out.

There were a group

of individuals

who helped us throughout

the entire uprising.

They wanted to sit down

and talk

with the commissioner

about how we can better

work together

to see that peace

come back around.

You are the peacemakers.

You are the ones

who I've called on

in months past, years past,

when things were happening,

and said, "We need help."

And you have always

come through.

Some of you don't even know

each other,

so the common denominator here

is me, right?

But more importantly,

the common denominator here

is Baltimore,

and so what the commissioner

has asked

is, hypothetically,

if something else kicked off...

if anything kicked off...

are there people that you know,

that when we get

some information,

that you can pass

that information on to

so it doesn't blow up

in our face?

- It'd be one thing

if the uprising

and the unrest were behind us.

Part of it's behind us,

but we got a big

front windshield

that we're looking out,

and there are absolutely

expectations that we need

to manage in this city,

and I don't think the city

is doing a good job

at managing expectations

for these trials.

Baltimore... this uniform

is the most recognizable

police department

in the country right now.

And people are looking at us

to see if we can

get this right.

- A lot of the kids,

I'm telling you for a fact,

literally sitting around,

waiting for the next

opportunity to go out

and do what they think

is voicing their frustrations.

- We got that.

That's good, that's good.

We got that.

Catalina?

- So begin to identify

the people that will work

on behalf of the people

of Baltimore,

'cause we all love our city,

and we loved it before

it was popular

to say you loved it

and it was a brand.

- Yes.

- Why don't we start

getting out into

the schools right now,

having assemblies,

and then talk to them about,

"This is your city.

You have to value your city.

"You know,

no matter what happens,

you still have to live here."

- Well, first of all,

allow me to apologize,

'cause I'm not as well-spoken

as some of my counterparts.

I'm a retired gang member, sir,

if there is such a thing.

And excuse me

for being incredibly frank.

You have to treat

those officers like people.

They shouldn't have never had

ten days

to discuss their story.

Major problem.

You have two sides

of your city, Chief,

and part of your city,

they're expecting

everybody to walk.

Some of them,

unfortunately...

and I hate to admit it...

are waiting for them to walk.

Just my opinion.

- My selfish interest,

on behalf of the city

right now,

is surviving this moment.

Right?

We can't get through this

without you guys.

And I give my cell phone number

out to everybody.

And I've had people tell me,

"Why do you give

your cell phone number?"

I'll give it to everybody

in this room.

Now, now, I do that because

I know

that if you guys didn't

care about this city,

you wouldn't be in here.

If we can't, as a city,

get through

these six trials together...

with just protests

and no violence...

we will take ten giant

steps backwards.

- I just want to get into

treatment as soon as possible.

- Okay, what is

your drug of choice?

- Heroin.

- All right.

Age of first use?

- Of anything?

- Of anything.

- 13, marijuana.

- Next thing?

- 14, cocaine.

- Wow, how'd you graduate

that fast?

What was his name?

- John.

- Awesome.

All right.

My job is to refer clients,

translate,

and advocate for clients

suffering from dual diagnosis

and/or drug abuse.

To date, I've sent

successfully to treatment

1,785 people.

I think maybe seven,

eight days ago,

I just met with

the commissioner, Davis...

the new dude...

and they're trying to help us,

first of all, kind of

police our own.

What we don't want is a repeat

of what happened in April.

- They really do got to build

a relationship

with the community first,

because don't nobody

in the community trust them.

- Right.

- You got to get them

something... jobs, something.

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