One Mile Away Page #9

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They're rioting, cos a black boy

was killed by the police

earlier on this week.

That's the reason for the protests.

It's not like thieving stuff.

- That's the cause behind anything.

- What channel's this on?

It's not on TV yet,

but you lot go home.

All right, then.

Take care now. Bye-bye.

People end up

coming together in riots.

You have a common enemy.

That's what kicks

people's minds to think,

"Hold on. Forget fighting each other.

"People are holding us down,

witnessing bad situations.

"So let's forget the bullshit

Let's stick together and fight. "

Do you know what's causing all this,

what's fuelled all of this?

It was that kid, innit?

He got shot. I heard he got shot.

I don't know what the real story is,

but he got shot.

You know what,

before I act off anything,

I make sure

I've got the proper intel.

You know what I'm sayin'?

I make sure that, you know what,

I'm fighting for that real cause.

There's no point

fighting off hearsay.

So, how do you officers feel

about what's going on out here?

They're acting like I'm not here.

This is the problem

we have in our community.

When we speak to these people,

they act like we're not here.

Once again, have you got anything

to say about this situation?

Sir, we're not obliged to make any

comment about what's happening here.

If you want a comment from the

police, speak to the Press Office.

This is why the whole of the UK

is erupting right now,

cos they're pissed, fed up of it,

not having it no more.

So, as long as things

remain the same,

I can see things

remaining the same out here,

and me, personally, I can see

into all of these people's eyes

and they look scared.

There's thousands of youths

where I come from

and these youths are ready

to come out here

and cause, like, a revolution,

cos they'll understand,

that we do have the power.

So why didn't you join in, then?

I went to town

and you couldn't get in to town.

It was blocked off,

It was just mayhem

in the middle of the road.

Loads of youths running around.

I was in two minds,

should I park up and walk round or..?

I just parked up there for a bit.

After a bit I just got off.

Just said, "I'm not coming out

to thief nothing, you know. "

The damage is done.

Sh*t mashed up, as well, yeah.

People there,

standing protecting their shops,

just making it known

that they don't take sides

with black people, you know.

No matter what happens,

day to day in daily life,

they just made it known

that they're not supporting it,

they don't business about it.

It's their business,

so why wouldn't they?

Yeah, not the shop.

I'm on about... the whole

criminal system, you know.

We're fighting for justice, you know.

Police brutality.

Police take the piss with us

and we're fighting back,

because they don't go through that,

they can say, "Everything's cool. "

If Asians were getting in trouble

by police, they'd be pissed off.

That's why I say it's a trap, man.

It's designed

to keep us down and that.

I'm hearing that shots

have gone off in Aston.

Three Asians are dead yesterday.

So I don't know what happened.

All I know is

that three people are passed

and there's some Asians

that are not too happy.

Regardless of whether

that's gonna escalate or not,

I don't know, you know.

But once you've got Asians

and f***ing Illuminati together,

we've got no chance.

So it's a race war now.

It's no longer the shops

they need to worry about.

If it brings us together and we die

together, I'm down for that.

Last night, when I was driving past,

I'd seen people outside,

groups of Asian people

outside their shops,

trying to defend their shops,

cos people have been smashing

and looting their shops.

Somebody pulled up on the pavement

and run down three people

and I've heard they died.

If it's turning into a racial war,

it's gonna be serious out here.

Very, very, very, very serious

out here.

It's stirred up a whole lot of stuff.

So all this Burger Bar

and Johnsons thing right now,

it looks as trivial

as it is right now.

With this particular incident,

yes, there is potential,

but the tensions will be heightened

because of that,

but there have been

a succession of meetings

amongst community leaders

and the police.

This is messed up. It's gone too far.

Greed and what is there

to really thief on this road?

If you wanna work,

you've gotta work hard for it.

There's nothing to thief, like.

Even if you are a career criminal,

what are you gonna thief on a shop

that's full of food shops?

Burgers and chips?

- Ridiculous.

- It's pointless.

These families need discipline.

And yourself, please.

We need to do

an investigation here now.

So what have I got to do

with the investigation?

Can we have a quick word?

Conducting a murder enquiry here

at the moment, OK?

Who do you represent?

- Channel 4.

- Thank you.

You need to move away.

- Is it confidential?

- Yes, please.

You'll have to talk to the director.

What's the point of speaking to me?

I'm at work at the moment.

OK, OK. All right.

Like, I'm saying.

So this is my point.

Cos I'm black and I stood here,

they wanna question me.

I had to explain to them I'm at work.

Now they haven't got no questions.

That's how f***ed up

it is round here. F***ed up.

They're asking me...

Cos I've got a baseball cap on

and a jacket and cos I'm not white...

They didn't ask you to speak.

We all came together.

Do you understand it?

I don't trust nothing out here,

me personally.

- United we stand.

- Divided we fall. You understand it?

It's in my hand and his hand.

That's how we need to roll.

Do you feel me?

The hood is a very, very funny place.

It changes like the weather.

You understand it?

Anything could happen.

It goes that way, goes this way.

It's hard. That's why a lot of people

go crazy down here.

It's not very stable.

There's no stability around here.

What, right now?

A truce is highly possible.

Highly likely. That's the truth.

There was no gang activity

during the riots.

No Burger Bar. No Johnsons.

No gang activity at all.

Everyone came together.

So, yeah, you could call it

a four-day truce.

Yeah, everybody's on the same team.

Yeah, but what can you expect?

When you see advertisements

for iPhone 4

every 15 minutes on your TV,

then what do you expect?

When we glorify the apps

and the this and the that

and the FaceTime,

what do you expect?

A kid must have seen the thing

and thought,

"Let me thief some sweets.

They smashed the window

and they came and thought...

These are not criminals.

These people are little kids.

Like, it's all madness

that's going on right now.

I didn't even know what to say.

It's kind of funny, innit, really?

When the law makers

are the law breakers, as well,

you can't expect the everyday citizen

to be, you know,

conducting themselves correctly

when you see stories of corruption

and you don't see

any consequences to that.

And the reason why these places

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