One Mile Away Page #8

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No one ain't been a big man

and said, "I'm gonna see for myself. "

Only them geezers on the other side.

So do you want me to come link you?

Do you want me to come link you now?

What park?

Where they do the running?

Where they used to do the relays?

I'll come there now.

Go see 'em and if... yeah.

He's with couple of people, innit?

Yeah, but, I mean, I'm really fed up

with going to people

and they're going,

"Turn the cameras off. "

It's just a waste of time.

I'm not saying go with no camera.

See what they're saying.

- So, who is it?

- He's with a couple of people.

- What, Zimbo?

- Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you think it's worth it, though?

It's whether you think

it's worth it, innit?

I'd go and see what he's saying.

Yeah? OK.

So we'll give it a go, then.

Well, f*** knows.

- There's a carnival tomorrow.

- Yeah.

And everyone's expecting for

the carnival to be the same thing.

We're gonna go there,

a lot of black kids are gonna end up

breaking up the carnival

and rare tear, tear.

We don't wanna see that, man.

What do people think is gonna happen?

People think there are gonna be

gang fights, stuff like that.

It's just another day in Handsworth

or another day in Newtown.

You know what I'm tryin' to say?

Just another day.

What becomes terrible to you lot

becomes everyday to us.

Carnival tomorrow and thing,

you get me?

- You get me?

- Oh, gosh.

Yo, bare, bare babies right there.

They're all barefaced with y'all.

Tomorrow's gonna be mad!

Hopefully, it should run smoothly,

but I guarantee tomorrow,

there's gonna be at least one fight.

Not even fight.. Shots gonna be

busting and all kinds of...

- Gunshots, bullets.

- You know what I'm sayin'?

Fingers crossed, it's a nice day.

Everybody has fun.

Cos Handsworth is B21,

Burger Bar side of town,

there's rumours saying the guys

from the other side of town

are gonna come in

and try and shoot up the place

or try and get into it.

It's gonna go off at the carnival.

So that's a big worry for people.

Madness.

"Come to carnival with your trainers

and a bulletproof vest. "

That's what's on BlackBerry.

Hopefully, everything goes well,

nice and peaceful.

Have a lovely day.

Everywhere I go, I have these kids

asking me questions,

"Flash, do you do this?"

"Flash, give out the guns. "

I couldn't get involved

in no gun fights.

They listen.

I have a voice that they listen to.

So make them hear

the right things, innit?

Guns, make sure

you don't touch them, innit?

Real talk. Big and serious, like.

That's why Flash survived,

cos he didn't have the gun.

Never got involved in the gunfight.

You did.

You gave the little boy the gun.

Yeah, I know and he left it,

didn't he?

That's why Flash survived,

cos he didn't get involved

in no gunfight.

You understand it?

I say don't touch them, yeah?

- Hello.

- Hi!

Hello, there. Where can you see me?

Hello.

Hi!

- It's happenin' right now, bruv.

- Yeah.

One side of the park's been breached

by a gang of people, so...

It's all right!

Stop it! Stop, stop, stop!

Where the f*** is your boy?

Don't panic!

After the carnival I was thinking,

"This is not gonna work.

"This is definitely, definitely

not gonna work. "

I was kind of sceptical.

We needed something big to happen,

but when it happened,

I didn't expect it to be this.

Violence broke out

after a crowd of about 200

gathered outside

the local police station,

to protest about the death

of Mark Duggan,

who was shot by police on Thursday.

These are sickening scenes,

scenes of people looting,

vandalising, thieving, robbing,

scenes of people

attacking police officers.

This is criminality, pure and simple,

and it has to be confronted

and defeated.

It's crazy, man.

If a black person

was to shoot a police officer,

look how quick

that's getting dealt with.

Now, seriously.

Once one of theirs is down,

look how quick

that is gonna get dealt with.

They know who licked the man.

The police, they are their own gang,

the biggest gang in the world,

and I can't see

one of them behind bars

for killing this youth, yeah.

All of this sh*t we're keeping up

is keeping us

from the bigger picture.

It's keeping us where we are.

That's why they don't f*** with us,

that's why they leave us,

cos it's like our minds

are occupied, innit?

So we're not thinking

about the bigger agenda.

We're thinking about

the "bwoy dem", they're this man,

and we're not thinking

about what's really going on.

We're getting conned, lads.

Do you understand it?

When black men weren't allowed

in pubs and allowed to sit on a bus

and weren't entitled

to certain things.

It's riots that made

them things work, you know, blood.

People saying, "F*** this.

I'm mashing up the place. "

There is bigger things going on

out there, like the bigger agenda.

We should have been going

to the right people

and making these people afraid.

We ain't rioting properly.

We got us on TV as looters.

That's to do

with this geezer that died,

just to show them

that he ain't no play thing.

You can't do things behind closed

doors. People are not having it.

So I say riot, mash up the economy,

mash up the businesses

that are funding the police

to do these things,

cos without all the money

we're paying,

they wouldn't be able

to have these big guns and that.

To me, that's not going to work.

You can't just go everywhere,

just kick off doors,

try to get your voice heard.

We need to come at it

more strategically.

We've been rioting for years, man,

and we're still f***ed.

If we had a link to a political

person that came from Tottenham,

and they could say,

"This is what it is... "

And him and this political person

is on TV and they're having a debate,

then it would have been

a different look.

We ain't got no structure,

or we're just whining now

for impulses.

Like, we do and then think about it

when we're f***ed later.

The policeman killed the geezer.

You don't need a spokesman

to explain what happened.

Someone needs to say,

we need to hear someone say,

"We want justice, bruv. "

The man from the hood

knows what it is.

Anybody else thinks,

"What's going on?"

They're probably thinking a blackie

was thieving in the first place,

that's why he got licked down.

We need to put ourselves

in positions of power.

Like I says, we're too low

in the food chain everywhere.

Power, blood,

is through violence, blood.

Nah.

You have to use a bit of violence.

Make them know you're not playing

about and then keep mad.

I had no idea the effects the riots

would have on our peace movement.

I thought it would make things worse.

The police have got balaclavas on,

so it might go down today.

- The police have balaclavas on?

- Yeah. Fully ballied up.

There must be something out here.

Hello.

Hello, hello, hello.

- Do you remember me?

- Hi, Flash!

How comes you didn't wanna make

your way home, lads?

I'm just looking for stuff

on the floor.

Looking for stuff on the floor?

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