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Baltimore Rising Page #5
- TV-MA
- Year:
- 2017
- 93 min
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- Give me a couple...
Test me, then. Test the waters.
Give me a couple things
you want me to do.
all year, bro.
- A football game,
a basketball game.
- We want a football game, man.
We want to play ball.
But you get what I'm saying?
Like, just like we're playing
cops and robbers
when we was kids,
let's put on some pads...
'cause it's a lot
of athletes out here, Chief.
I can still run, man.
- Yeah? All right. I can't.
- I'm about to go meet up
with my attorney.
I'm not taking no charges.
I'm not taking no conviction.
But I also want
to send a message, like,
this is not about to
keep happening to protestors
who haven't broken the law
and have only been exercising
- You are on the scene.
They're gonna come to you
because, for good or for bad,
you are seen as a leader
of the movement.
- I'm, like, the only protestor
facing, like,
serious jail time, you know.
I'm the most visible person.
- Arrest is the last resort,
and that is a citable offense.
Right, so the only reason,
from my experience,
that somebody in command
would make an arrest
is if it's pre-planned.
come from,
from your experience,
when you were there?
- It's gonna come from Command.
It's not gonna come from...
it's gonna come from somebody
that is a captain or above.
Somebody that's in what they
call "Command Staff."
- The perception that you have
nothing to lose,
that's a scary thing for people
who got a whole lot to lose.
So that's the threat you pose.
Whether you mean to express
that threat or not,
to the establishment,
that's what you represent.
- This is my last one, I swear.
For today.
I don't get why they're picking
this bone so hard.
- But that is why
they're picking the bone.
- Yeah.
- So they can hold you back
during the whole next...
I don't know.
When's this gonna be?
Six months, seven months?
before my case.
- Well, it's your constitutional
right to protest.
- Well, I don't get
those rights.
- We have heard
closing arguments
in the final phase
trial.
Right now the prosecution
has wrapped up
its portion
of closing arguments.
- Prosecutors contend
Porter is criminally negligent
because he didn't call a medic
when Gray requested one
and he didn't buckle Gray
into a seat belt.
- Have you ever been inside
of a police van?
And I'm like this, right?
Now, you got a back door here.
Now, if she has
this much room...
because, remember,
you have a wall here
that divides both sides
of the wagon.
- It's narrow in the back.
- So what can I do
to her from here?
I could kick her.
- I'm over here...
- I could spit on her.
I can do this, but...
- I'm not gonna put myself
through that,
because when I get injured,
first of all, the city not
gonna want to take care of me.
- We had the gentleman
that came here...
it took six guys to try to
get him out of the cell
and he said, "You're gonna
have to Freddie Gray me
"out of this motherf***er,
because I'm not walking
on my two feet."
- It puts everybody at risk.
- It's crazy.
the community,
the Command, the government,
the media, has effectively
erased the blue line
that protected all
of these people
and the result is, you know,
a record year,
and it's only gonna get worse
and worse and worse.
- Well, the death
of Freddie Gray
has put a glaring spotlight on
Baltimore
and its police force.
In the months
since Gray's death,
arrests in Baltimore
have plunged.
Murders have actually surged.
- After the uprising
in Baltimore City,
I talked to the police
in West Baltimore.
They were saying,
"Colonel, can we keep it real?
"We're tired of getting
out of the cars.
"We got to keep
looking over our heads
"and ducking bottles
and dirty diapers
"and all this crap, and we just
want to do our job.
"When we make a legitimate,
good arrest,
"all the cameras come... wham,
in our face!
Colonel, that hurts."
Facts speak for themselves.
And I understand it.
We stopped policing.
- We carry our children.
We feed them.
We do all the right things
for them.
And then one day we wake up
and get a phone call that said,
"Ms. Austin,
homicide is coming.
They want to talk to you."
My husband went to the scene,
and there was
our 22-year-old son
at a block party
- They say black don't crack.
Sh*t, my brother sent me
a picture he took of a guy
laying on the concrete
with his top peeled back
like a convertible Honda.
We praying for mamas.
Our kids are going to paradise.
No, no, no, not the Bahamas.
- You guys know Petey?
Here, I want y'all to take
some of these.
I want y'all to take
some of these flyers,
'cause y'all his friends, right?
Back in my day,
if something like this
happened down here,
those people who
this was intended for...
they wouldn't even be allowed
to even stand on a corner again
until they did the right thing
for this family.
- Right.
- You got people dying
in neighborhoods
where they grew up at,
and people say
absolutely nothing.
Thinking back to...
to all the memories
I had as a child...
thinking about all
the other families
falling apart...
I don't think a child
should ever have to go through
what I went through.
You had the Stanfields, who
ran this entire area out here.
They always used my house
as, like, the stash house.
So we'd be in there
sleeping with guns.
Every guy in that house,
every guy in that organization
was a pedophile.
None of them could keep
their hands to themselves,
and I'd get in trouble,
because I would open up
one of their packs, and...
they always had liquor
and different stuff.
So I would pour... like,
take a bunch of heroin
and pour it in a cup
and pour alcohol in it,
and I'd sit there and think,
"If I drink this,
how fast would I die?"
And I used to play
with the guns.
I'd pick it up,
look at it and figure...
I used to always sit there
and think,
"This is gonna make a mess.
"How are they gonna find me?
I'm not even gonna die.
And I'm gonna still
be right back here."
And, um... and I was...
you know, 15 years old.
- So, if you had a chance
to play football
against the police,
what would you do?
- Well, play... play my heart out
against the police.
- I'm saying...
- Against the police?
Yeah, I would definitely catch
a few "unnecessary
roughness"-es.
15-yard penalties.
I would definitely catch a few.
- So they know the deal.
- The only time we see
the police officers
is when they're pointing guns
at me and calling me
a d*ckhead or an a**hole
or some sh*t like that...
shooting some unarmed dude.
How can I treat you
like a person
when you never act like one,
and how do I get you
to do that in a neighborhood
you don't live in?
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