Crown Heights

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One up to three, four, five,

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Partly cloudy

and 64 degrees today.

In other news,

mayor koch vowed to put

more police on the street

as the city's

murder rate soars.

- Last year the city

set a new record. -

a felony every four minutes.

Boy.

Don't come sneaking in here

in the middle of the night.

Hey, what's going on?

- Just go back to sleep.

Who's that?

None of your business.

Oh, and the TV is in the shop.

Go and pick it up

this afternoon.

I got to go to class.

I got to go.

Don't let my mother

see you leave.

Let's work together,

let's work together. All right.

I'm telling you,

it was a real thing.

I call it bullshit, dread.

It was called

the black star line.

What I going to Africa for?

Me come from the west indies

just like you.

No, man.

That's where we ended up.

But we all came over

on slave ships.

Imagine if all the policemen,

all the politicians

and all the businessmen

were your people.

What are you talking about?

I can't get the man

to go to Harlem,

and he want to go back

to Africa.

Hey! None of you

are gonna be graduating

if you keep f***ing up!

Hey.

Your man still paying for cars?

- Just bring anything off the

street to the back. -All right.

Yo!

That's my car!

Where you going!

I'm gonna kill this fool.

Yo! I'm gonna break your face!

Hey, antoinette.

Let me help you.

Hey, Colin. Thank you.

- Yeah.

- I haven't seen you in a while.

How's your mom doing?

She's good. I had to get

this TV fixed for her.

Oh. Well, say hi for me.

Um, right there is fine.

Can I help you with something?

Will you go out with me

sometime?

Antoinette, is that you?

Colin.

Thanks.

Tomorrow?

I'll think about it.

- Colin Warner?

- Nothing funny!

- Watch him. There we go.

- Whoa, what are you doing?

- Get him to the car!

- Come on! -Hey!

- Get off me, man.

- Cuff this guy.

What are you doing?

They always think

they're gonna get away.

Okay. There we go.

Nice and easy.

There.

All the way in.

Look, the best thing

you could possibly do

for yourself right now

is tell me what happened.

This is not gonna go away.

It was in the middle

of the f***ing afternoon,

for Christ's sake.

So go ahead.

Why did you shoot Marvin?

- Excuse me?

- Did he owe you money?

Is that why you shot him?

I didn't shoot anybody.

We have an eyewitness who

picked you out of a photo I.D.

I'm sorry, sir,

you guys have made a mistake.

Do you know

what's gonna happen to you

if you don't start cooperating?

This is a statement

acknowledging your involvement

in the shooting

of Marvin Grant.

Everything in here

has been corroborated

by an eyewitness.

You understand what that means?

I'm not signing that.

I ain't no killer.

All right, let's go!

- You real cute!

- Put your hands...

St-stand back!

Let's go. Come on.

Kc, phone for you.

I'll call them back, please.

It's something about Colin.

They said it's urgent.

- What's the prisoner's name?

- Colin Warner.

All right.

Uh, nope.

He's been denied bail.

For how long?

Till he goes to trial, unless

the judge rules otherwise.

- All right, thank you.

- Mm-hmm.

I'm sorry, dread.

So, where's my mother?

She had to go to work.

Something with her boss.

You all right, man?

It's f***ed up in here.

And no matter what I say,

nobody want to listen to me.

Not even my own mother.

Brethren, the truth

is going to come out.

All right?

Just hang in there

until the trial start.

Them whitey have

killed enough people out there.

Y- you're worried about

those shooters in flatbush?

I heard they grabbed some dread

that had nothing to do with it.

Yeah, man,

them cats are harassing them.

Yo! It's me

you're talking about!

Hey! Shut the f*** up in there!

Hey, uh...

Did you hear that guy

that was talking about

those shootings in flatbush?

- Nah.

- What about you?

I heard your wife, she

came in to see you yesterday.

Hey, uh...

Do you know a guy

named Marvin Grant?

He used to live in my building.

The police are saying

i killed him.

They're saying I shot him.

He shot a guy named Spangler

couple days

before he was murdered.

So Spangler cousin

was out for revenge.

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Hello.

This is a collect call

from the department

of corrections.

- Do you accept the charges?

- Yeah, I accept.

- Hello? -Colin:

Kc, listen, there's a guy

named Anthony Gibson

killed Marvin.

There's a guy in here

who knows what happened.

I need you to go down

to the 67th precinct.

Tell them this guy

is willing to talk.

- I got to go.

- -All right. -

- who was that?

- It was Colin.

He found out

about the shooting.

I got to go to the precinct.

Excuse me.

I- i need to speak

to a detective

about the Marvin Grant

homicide.

You got to come back tomorrow.

- No one's here right now.

- No, I have information

about a homicide.

It can't wait till tomorrow.

I'm telling you

no one's here now.

...a first place tie.

That's your badge number there?

You want to make the call,

or you want me

to file a complaint?

I have all night

to fill out paperwork.

- Ain't that right, baby?

- Damn straight.

- How you doing?

- What's up, Jimmy?

So, let me get this straight.

You're saying this guy Anthony

was the shooter and not Colin?

That's right.

- So, Colin was the driver?

- No.

Colin had nothing

to do with it.

Who told you this?

Some people.

Some people?

They're not going to talk

to the police.

They know the people involved.

The whole neighborhood

know what happened.

The whole neighborhood know

you grabbed the wrong guy.

Well, unless the whole

neighborhood wants to testify,

you're wasting my time.

Let's go.

Where you going?

To get a piece of cake

from the store.

Get me one, too.

Please don't let it be a cell.

Let's go! On your gate!

On your count!

This is docket 7442.

Your honor, the people

are going to try Colin Warner

and Anthony Gibson together

for the murder of Marvin Grant.

I'm requesting that these cases

be consolidated

under the original indictment.

Request is granted.

Are you the guy

that killed Marvin?

Don't be asking me that.

Ain't no concern of yours.

But they're saying

i did it, man.

You got to tell them

I'm innocent.

I ain't saying

nothing like that.

If they want to say

that I did it,

they're gonna have to prove it.

But they got me in here

for it, man.

I don't know why you're here,

but it ain't got nothing

to do with me.

Come on, let's go!

Five, four, three...

Happy new year!

Crime today is

an American epidemic.

The American people

are reasserting

the belief that

right and wrong do matter

and that retribution must be

swift and sure for those

who decide to make a career

of preying on the innocent.

We move to adjourn for a month.

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