Baltimore Rising Page #9

Synopsis: Baltimore Rising follows activists, police officers, community leaders and gang affiliates, who struggle to hold Baltimore together in the wake of Freddie Gray's death in police custody.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Sonja Sohn
Production: Blowback Productions
 
IMDB:
5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
TV-MA
Year:
2017
93 min
141 Views


when the ball drops,

we want to have, like,

three to four people

actually down there,

throwing the leaflets up.

- And then the pamphlets

will simultaneously

being released in Harbor East,

in Fell's Point, Let cetera.

- Right.

- If you're gonna do it, do it,

but don't worry about our people

seeing the sh*t.

You need to hit the core,

where all the white people

gonna be at.

- We're not doing anything

that is hurting us

by attempting

to educate our own people.

- I was just saying that it was

a waste of time.

A lot of people

in the community,

they're not gonna give a f***.

As soon as they hear

"Black Lives Matter,"

they're not gonna care.

All these different movements,

and Gilmor is still f***ed up.

They don't care about

none of that Black Lives Matter

or none of that.

People have to believe,

and the thing is,

nobody in Baltimore believes.

- So tonight our crew

is going around the city

setting up, like, hood vigils

in predominantly white areas.

I have at least some idea

what it means

when we say

"black lives matter"

because I know

what black death feels like.

Like, I had a bracket

of, like, six months

where it was like every day,

I was trying to figure out

a different way to kill myself.

At the time, when, like,

my anxiety and depression

started to, like,

manifest itself,

I wasn't an organizer,

I was just an advocate,

not even an activist.

I started to feel like,

"Well, maybe I'm not worth it.

What change

can I really make?"

And so...

I sat in a room,

and I was crying hysterically,

and I had all of these pills,

which I had been

carrying around with me

for a few weeks by then.

I knew that it wasn't

going to be an immediate death

by any means, but it's like,

"As long as I die,

"because I can't do anything

with this life

that I've been given."

I now know my importance,

and I now know my worth.

And so, like, that's why

this movement has taken on

so much more meaning for me.

- Happy, happy New Year!

[]

- Here.

Can you pass this down

to my friend?

Thank you.

People are like, "Ooh,

ah, f*** black lives,

there are fireworks."

- Take that down.

- What law is it against?

- I'm just telling you,

you have to take it down.

- No, no, you can't...

you can't, like, take sh*t.

- If you don't calm down,

you can be locked up

for disorderly conduct.

- They told us to take

the banner down.

- Is that not disorderly

conduct... you taking my sh*t?

Give me the law

that I'm breaking

by holding a banner.

- Okay.

I don't have an answer,

but you can't put that up there.

I will have an answer for you.

- Okay, y'all have a nice day.

- Started from the bottom,

now we here.

Baltimore, what's up?

- I'm not a organizer.

I wasn't a protestor

before any of this happened.

I'm learning as I go.

So, you know,

I went from making

minimum $50,000, $60,000 a year

to, like, now being dead broke.

And I'm still out here

trying to front,

to be the face of the people,

like, "No, I'm good.

I'm all good."

And, yo... and people

on the street, yo,

it ain't no people

out there willing

to get... I done

been arrested twice,

and that's more times...

- All right.

So, at the end of the day, yo,

everybody know

what Kwame stand for,

so why get locked up anymore,

if people

not gonna ride with you?

- But this last time, though...

- Let me tell you something.

- I didn't do nothing.

- Let me tell you something,

as a mother... and-and

'cause I'm his mother.

My concern for you is

that you're 21.

You got a whole lot

of living to do.

- Right.

- Whoever you praise...

God be willing.

You got a whole lot to live.

Don't ruin your future

with that bullshit,

keep getting locked up.

I know what

you're trying to do,

but I want you to be smart.

Not just for Baltimore,

but for Kwame.

- In the last few

hours of 2015,

Baltimore's homicide rate

climbed to 344.

- Baltimore's murder rate

is the highest

per capita

in the city's history,

and the past few days have

been very bloody.

- So we got another shooting

we're working on the east side.

You know, for the third time

in my career,

I find myself leading

a police department

through a crisis.

It's a crisis of unrest

and community trust

and violence.

- How far is the scene?

- Right where the squad car is.

- All right, I'll go around.

- Hey, Sarge.

- Okay, I'll walk...

I'll drive around, then.

- Be careful.

All right.

- Be careful of what?

We're the police.

- The unfettered access

to guns in America

is one of the curses

of this country.

This country was

a much different place

when the Second Amendment

was introduced.

- Blood trail goes down

the street.

The victim was found facedown.

Looks like he was shot

in the back and the head.

No cameras... that work.

At the end of the day,

it's someone's son,

someone's daughter,

someone's mother,

brother, sister

who's been killed,

so this ripple goes out,

and then if we make an arrest,

that suspect...

his family's affected by it.

People who live

in the neighborhood

are affected by it,

obviously, so...

it's just

that never-ending cycle that...

I don't know what you do,

but something's got to be done.

- Here, let me do this.

We're numbered.

- This must be that graze wound

they were talking about,

- On the arm?

- On the arm.

- Well, we have so many

murders from last year.

It's just been a nightmare

dealing with it all.

So you're basically

sitting here,

waiting for the body to drop.

- Well, a second trial

in the death of Freddie Gray

is set to begin this week.

Edward Nero,

unlike Officer William Porter,

is charged with misdemeanors.

- There's also a new push

for more police accountability

in Maryland.

- Yeah, the police

accountability bill is making

its way through both chambers

in the Capitol.

- There are some elements

in that police

accountability bill

that both sides have agreed on,

but there's been no agreement

on that civilian

to trial board proposal.

- When we first started

our work

around the Law Enforcement

Officers' Bill of Rights,

one of the central parts of it

that we felt was most

important to change

is civilian participation

on the trial boards.

These are the boards

that determine discipline

for police officers accused

of wrongdoing,

because before that,

it was exclusively

law enforcement that served

on those boards.

I think our success is that

we've been able

to drive the conversation

so that this issue

of civilians on the trial board

became such a central issue.

- We would not be here today

if it were not

for the brothers and sisters

in Baltimore

who rose up in

an insurrectionary mode

to challenge

the police department there.

That uprising is what finally

got them to consider

that maybe we should do

some legislative initiatives.

- I got to disagree

with the transparency point.

I mean, I don't think

that giving

a law enforcement officer

ten days

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