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Baltimore Rising Page #6
- TV-MA
- Year:
- 2017
- 93 min
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What better do you know
to do that than football?
- Oh, I know I should have
brought my cleats today.
- On one side, you had people
and kids from out
in the community...
you know, the "normals."
Then you have gang members
and whoever else,
and they're all
playing together
on the same team
against the police.
- You have a good game today?
- What's up, man?
Hold up, fellas!
Come here, come here, for real!
Last time, I swear.
Come here.
The gentleman standing
behind me...
- It's all good.
- Lieutenant Colonel...
They ain't all bad.
Please remember that
when we get all this
incidental contact.
- Set. Hit!
- You got Bloods and Crips,
don't f***ing like each other,
on one f***ing team.
Motherfuckers was fighting
and sh*t in the alleyways,
like, a week ago.
of those guys,
I see on a daily basis,
and sometimes it's not
in a positive light.
So, to do something like this,
it really changes
the relationship.
- This is what the truce
looks like.
This is every set
in the city right now...
fittin' to play a game
against the last people
we want to be playing with.
- All we asking...
for 'em to be...
more considerate.
We are human beings, too,
you feel what I'm saying?
They bleed just like us.
They live just like us.
- I'm looking around,
see all these police out here.
Why they couldn't leave their
guns and handcuffs in the car?
We out here playing football.
I still feel nervous,
man, like...
- Whether the city is here
it doesn't matter...
the city is watching us.
Yeah.
- The city is watching
the police, as they should be.
But if we can't do this,
who's gonna do it?
- Nobody.
- Nobody's gonna do it.
- One, two, three!
- Family!
- Let's play ball, guys.
Let's play ball.
- All right!
- Hey, it's flag football.
Calm down a little bit,
all right?
- Look at this.
Look at this.
That is a bad play.
Bad play.
- Let's go, let's go, 17!
- Let's go 17!
- Go, baby!
- He can throw.
He's gonna beat you if you don't
jam him at the line!
- Ah, he's going deep,
he's going deep!
- He ain't putting
no hands on him, man.
- He let him get past him.
- It's all right.
- If we lose, everybody
on foot for a week.
I'm serious.
Straight up.
- All right, where's the ball?
- I'm serious.
We got females on the field.
I'm gonna say it out loud...
let the flag be
be the only thing you grab.
That's right.
- First of all,
we wouldn't have even won
if it wasn't for y'all,
so round of applause
for my youngsters.
All right?
- Whoo!
- Come on,
let's get group pictures!
Okay, my front row right here,
take a knee like you...
you know, football pose.
When I say "one city,"
you say "one purpose"!
- One city!
- One purpose!
I love that.
- Deuces!
- I don't understand
why you just won't...
Can you take a plea deal?
- Do you think
I did something wrong?
- Yes.
You had a blow horn
at the courthouse.
- You know, I think
that I was targeted.
- You were.
- With the megaphone
out front of the courthouse...
- When did that become
against the law?
- It's a nuisance... they're
conducting business inside.
- I had the bullhorn out there
for three days.
- Okay, and after a while,
they got tired of it.
- Y'all haven't accepted me
for being me.
- We want you to look
at the long term.
What happens when...
- I don't think
about long term.
You know, I don't really,
like...
have a longing
for, like, material possessions.
- Okay.
- I'm content.
- You're homeless.
- What?
- You're homeless.
- I am not.
- You are.
- I'm not looking for a home.
- You're broke.
- Yes, you have no money.
You're broke.
- Give me a loan.
- No, the goal is
to make the bird fly.
- I'm looking
for somebody to love me.
- We love you, but you can't
stay in my basement.
- No, love me the way
I'm looking for.
These are my parents.
Who try to teach you
responsibility.
- It's reality, baby.
- I don't want responsibility.
- Exactly.
- In Baltimore,
residents and officials
are anxiously awaiting
a verdict
in the first trial
And the head of the city's
public schools
has issued a letter
to the community
warning students that walkouts
and any form of violence
are not acceptable.
- So today we received
a letter from Dr. Thornton,
Public School system,
regarding the upcoming verdict.
"While we appreciate
the school board's effort
to keep..."
- "Students safe."
- Students safe.
- You should say,
"The school board's
newfound effort."
That's shady, that's shady.
- Oh!
- So what action
are you all planning?
- We're planning
If the verdict comes
during the school day.
- So you all are planning
a walkout...
with the letter in mind...
that said that consequences
will occur
as a result of a walkout?
- Yep.
- We can't afford
another arrest.
- They can't make arrests
until they give three warnings.
- They can shoot you
and kill you
without giving you a warning,
so why do you trust
that they are going
to give you three warnings?
And once again,
here we are, not doing
what you're supposed
to be doing
because everything
is so much more important
than Makayla.
- Do you want me to ask them
to leave now?
At what point
are we going to start
what we planned to do today?
- When we finish this.
- When is that?
- I don't... Mom, I don't...
I just said I don't know.
- And when is the deadline?
- I sent you all the deadlines.
They're not until January.
- Everybody in there
have applied for college.
- Okay.
- Right?
- Yep.
- Okay.
"Yep."
"Yep, yep."
Okay.
- So the idea is this...
when the riots happened,
it turned into a free-for-all.
And... every
had a field day with it.
Of course, they're doing
their job, but...
now that they've gotten
to tell their story,
now we get to let the bastard
stepchild of America...
which is Baltimore City...
tell its story.
We do not want to be known
as savages.
We do not want to be known
as animals.
We want to be known
as a community
in which we just live
in the community.
My proposal is
a nondenominational thing,
and excuse my hands
being held behind my back,
but I am extremely nervous,
'cause I've never
actually done this.
So...
- You're doing a good job.
You can step forward
if you like, brother.
- He needs a hug.
- Yeah.
- All right.
What I have planned
is to have the various
elements of society...
police, gang members, clergy,
Muslims, whoever...
pray for our city...
Together,
regardless of the verdict.
- I'll disclose this...
we'll probably have,
like, an hour notice.
- Mm-hmm.
- Advanced.
- Advanced notice.
That's a real small window.
As soon as I get notice...
I'm hitting my man.
- So you're saying
we would be on the ground...
- Yes.
- As the verdict is being
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