Baltimore Rising Page #9
- TV-MA
- Year:
- 2017
- 93 min
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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
Like, I had a bracket
of, like, six months
where it was like every day,
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
so much more meaning for me.
- Happy, happy New Year!
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- 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
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,
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.
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
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
- 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.
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
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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