Piece by Piece Page #7
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- 2005
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and so another job for the police
and the courts.
Johnny Marvin is now in the
hands of the law
this is the first time he has been
caught but his delinquent tendencies
began long before in the conflicts
of an unhappy home and
in the hang out of a gang, which
was his refuge.
Now what will become of this
boy?
Johnny and 200 thousand youngsters
who are arrested each year
are Americas number one crime
problem
can't something be done to help these
twisted young lives and set them straight.
if you think graffiti is little more then
fun and games for rebellious teenagers
San Francisco authority beg to differ they
have brought serious charges against 8 adults
who police say are members of a graffiti
gang who has spent years defacing this city.
The group they say call
themselves KUK,
which stands for "Kill Until Killed."
if convicted the maximum penalty is a
20,000 fine and up to 7 years behind bars.
And police say since the indictments
they've noticed a lot less new graffiti.
they come to your house take all
your sh*t, you got to jail, bail out,
then they might throw more charges on you,
you know cause they got other charges stacked
you know cause these people are against you
being on the street theywantyou to be locked up.
You get indicted you knowthen sit back
in jail for a while, get bail money up,
bail out again, then they can throw
more sh*t like another county
Like Oakland or Berkeley someone
else can press charges
on you go back in, get bailed out again,
all you have like in the back of your head
is in a couple months I'm going
to prison.
Prop 21 is some ill sh*t cause when you
get charged with it so it's a gang charge
so all of a sudden your a gang
member and that can add a year to your
sentence automatically and anything
over a year your going to prison.
In SF right now a judge threw it out,
she said that they weren't gang members,
you know and since she threw it
out it lost in the court of appeals
and the D.A. appealed it so now
that charge is back on
and that enhances every other
charge you have like
every felony count of graffiti that
enhancesthat so much.
Proposition 21 is pretty much a
prison dispatch charge
its like as soon as you have that
your going to prison.
does it make me not want to do it?
I guess so if I thought about it
I just don't uh think about that.
oh I don't think it's a just penalty
at all because
at the same time I see that I see
on the same wall a wheat paste
for the lion king from Disney productions
and I see a million other wheat pastes
and those people don't go to jail.
well it comes down to it is
malicious mischief
the idea of destroying other peoples property
and the idea of defacing places in the city
I mean first off its personal property
most of the time that's being affected
second of all we have a situation
where it looks bad
it looks the people don't care about
their property and so it is a problem
and it is something we are a
addressing.
Well we have a graffiti unit and there
are officers assigned to that unit
to go after the people who are
doing the tagging and the graffiti
in the city.
especially in like the bay this year
Oakland is exceeding it's murder rates
seems like every otherweek in the
Fillmore someone else is getting shot
and their still wasting mad money
on a graffiti case.
cause there is always somebody new that's
come along saying lets get rid of graffiti
this is how we are going to do it
and then they try there little way
to do it and it doesn't work and then
they fail and then the next person comes
and then they fail and they fail, and they
fail, cause like graffiti is just a war.
along with battling the law writers
face the chaos ofthe urban landscape.
In the late 90's one writer seemed
to take more risks than anyone.
The all city king known as TlE.
Tie was Jonathan Lim and he was
18 years old when I met him.
he would go bomb by himself ln the
f***ing rain and the cold he wouldn't eat
he wouldn't f***ing give a sh*t about going out
with girls or kicking it or clothes or nothing.
All he cared about was racking his paint,
racking his supplies and getting up.
I think at one point In San Francisco you
couldn't go on any block of the entire city
without seeing at least a couple
marker tags some spray-paint tags
and a hollow throw-up sometimes a
hollow throw up and a filled in throw up
on like every block of the city
that's really not even an exaggeration.
I've never seen anybody up as much
as him and one person he was up like,
it would take 10 writers to be as up
as he was.
he knew like all writers in all different
crews and everybody loved him cause
he was like really generous and
he'd give you paint.
And like give you markers and like
he stole so much stuff like crazy.
I'm standing inthe paint section
picking my colors
and all of a sudden I hear "what's
up Cycle"
I turn and look and there's Tie with
at big duffle bag
and like I'm loading paint in this shopping
cart and he's like "what's going on dude?"
I said "nothing just picking some
colors." He's like "yo, is it all clear?"
and I 'm like " I guess so dude." and
he looks this way and looks that way
and the isles clear and he opens this
big duffle bag, big green duffle bag
and just
just like shoves all this paint in the
duffle bag zips it and just like
Runs out of the paint isle.
it was on uh saint Patrick's day-
night and I remember Saber was
gone he was doing something l
over and tie came over they both came
over together and he's like lets go bomb
Iets go bomb lets go do that spot tonight and
I was like man we've been painting all week
Iets chill lets party one night saint
Patrick's day- night lets just party
one night go get drunk hang out
and just relax have a good time.
He was like " no, no I gota bomb."
And I was like all right whatever
man do yourthing just be careful.
was by himself in the tender loin.
He was plotting on this one
rooftop he was just going to
go do a fill in on or something
probably on it.
there was like a little drainpipe that
you had to shimmy upto go up on the roof.
I guess he was going up the pipe whatever
and I guess it made a little noise
I don't know who knows, but there ended up
being a guy who lived inside this building.
The guy came out you know said
'what the f*** are you doing?"
then you know TlE steps back "
hey you know I'm sorry
I'm not trying to break in, I'm just
doing graffiti."
And he like showed him the paint
in his bag.
And the guy pulled out a gun
pointed the gun at him...
and the little kid put up his hands
and said no wait stop don't shoot...
...and tie obviously scared as f***
this big f***ing grown man
is pointing a big ass gun at his head,
he turned ran downthe steps you know
as he was running down the stairs
away form this guy
this motherf***er blasted him in
the back of the head.
because of the fact his parents
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