The Interrupters Page #13

I know I made a mistake.

And I'm asking for y'all

forgiveness.

You kinda nervous

going here?

I think I'm gonna start feeling

it when I get in the shop.

How you all doing?

I understand that...

on August 21, 2007,

that me and two other fellas

came in here

and stuck the place up.

I know I'm deeply,

I'm deeply sorry.

I know I made a mistake.

I was 15.

And I was following the crowd,

but now I'm older.

I'm more mature than I was.

And I wanted to let y'all know

that I was sorry

for what I did on my behalf.

I don't know how these two other

brothers feel about themselves.

But I know I made a complete 360

doing my, uh, almost three years

of being incarcerated.

Well, with me, my daughter

was in here and my baby.

And you just don't know the

impact that you put on my life.

Holding us with guns.

I'm nervous right now

even meeting you.

And I thank God that you have

changed your life,

but you just don't know what

that have did to me and my kids.

I deal with this every day.

Every day of my life.

Every day.

You came in here,

you asked for a haircut.

You left back out,

you came back in.

And you did this to my kids.

And Jeremy held my baby

with a gun up to his head.

And then felt on my daughter

with a gun.

And you told my co-worker Rhonda

that you were going to kill her,

because she was calling

the police.

My life was in your hands.

I didn't know if you

was gonna kill me.

My daughter kept saying,

"Mama, we gonna die. "

And I hold my babies and when

you want to tell your kids,

when you want to protect

your kids

and you can't at that moment.

Y'all put up seven people

in the little bathroom.

We didn't even know what was

gonna happen to us.

And right now to this day he

never talk about that robbery.

That was three years ago,

and he just made 13.

He ain't never said nothing.

I don't know

what's on his mind,

but I just praying to ask God

don't let him hold that in.

But I'm just glad that

you are a changed man.

You look better.

But you know what?

I'm... I'm okay,

I'm a better person now.

And I hope that you know,

you be a better man.

That's all I'm saying.

And I hope

that you are sincere.

And that this man right here,

I mean he helping you

and he making you a better man.

You could've been dead and gone,

but God spared your life.

This the father right here?

I would like to see him hug him.

Because you don't owe him

nothin', but you teaching him.

And imagine

what he thinking about.

So it take a lot of gut to walk

back on the surfaces

that you did dirt on.

So many cats

we shake hands with

and they're the same guys

that broke in our house,

we just don't know it.

Same ones raped our sisters,

our mothers, our daughters.

And we know these young guys

today at his age,

they don't come back.

The fact that today you released

something in somebody

and in yourself, you got

to run with that.

All right?

Yes, sir.

It was hard.

Real hard.

Like to just relive

what she went through

just in her, I mean,

in my eyes.

But she went through it.

When you first step in,

did you remember them?

Uh-uh.

You didn't remember them?

Not at all.

That'll be $8.25.

All right.

Today, 16 years ago...

These are nice.

I took someone's life

pretty much.

And so...

Hello. Hi.

You know, on this date

in honor of the victim in my case,

I try to do as many good deeds

as I can.

I try to reach out,

to especially strangers.

I've thought

of, hopefully, one day,

going to my victim's family

and really just expressing

to them how deeply sorry I am.

And whether or not

they accept my apology,

which I don't think they will,

I really just want to do this.

It's just that right now,

I don't think it's still right.

The last stop of today,

we're going to the cemetery

to visit the family of Miguel,

a kid who was shot and killed

a few weeks ago.

Hello.

How are you doing?

Doing all right?

I spoke to Vanessa, his sister,

about some of the issues that

are going in her home right now.

Now, I never got to

meet him, you know, to be honest.

I know he was a good kid.

I actually brought,

um, a flower, too,

that I wanted

to drop off, so...

You mind putting this

on there for me?

Miguel, he got shot in the head.

Vanessa was actually there

when this happened.

He pretty much died in her arms.

I think that Vanessa

does feel that

what happened to her brother

was her fault.

But she can't blame herself

because somebody else

was ignorant, had a gun,

and shot her brother.

Man, that lady

goes there every single day.

That's f***ed up, man.

So to me on this day, same day

that the victim in my case died.

This is it, man.

This is the end result.

You took a life, now you're

paying with your life.

It's, like, "You dumb-ass. "

When he finally did go

and get locked away, I was like,

in my mind I was like,

"No, this isn't happening. "

My parents were devastated.

I mean, my mom, she needed

to sell the house here

that we had in Chicago to pay

for the lawyer fees and...

It was like a 180, you know.

My dad was already

an alcoholic.

He would get drunk,

you know,

and he'd express, you know,

his sorrow.

PAULA BOCANEGRA:

No!

Lil' Mikey,

he showed some initiative

on getting his own job,

his first real job.

Because if you don't get

that grass up first,

what's it gonna do is come

right through this paper.

So there's a... there's only

one way to do this is

to do it the right way

so we don't have to redo it.

Okay? Okay?

We got

an understanding. Okay.

Thank you.

It don't come up.

She the boss.

Being on the block, you ain't

gotta do this to make money.

Being with my guys all day.

Doing what I wanna do

when I wanna do it

and how I wanna do it.

But as long as I'm keeping busy,

I'm gonna be good.

And as you can tell,

this is keeping me busy.

This is tiring.

But I can't complain.

Life good right now, for me.

I got a job.

All I used to hear,

"You're a class x felon.

You can't do nothing. "

I'm doing something.

You gonna sleep good?

Cuvelle, you don't got this kind

of cover, do you?

That's yours right there.

I got these.

Here you go, Ja'on.

"Oh, we just wanna know

what's the truth.

Like what really happened

to your brother. "

They're just trying to seem like

they care, but they don't.

The way we kind of spoke

about it is like,

Vanessa will, like,

catch them off guard.

You would say something like,

"I know you're asking because

you really care about me"...

which they don't...

"I'm doing great.

Thanks for asking. "

And then...

Walk away.

That's good.

That's a good one.

And that way if any of 'em get

in your face about anything,

then you just tell Eddie.

She's even doing

things, like, in his honor

like the art group, right?

Mm-hmm.

What did he always

want to paint?

He wanted to paint

the Virgin Mary,

but he never got

the chance to do it.

You know.

Well, you can do it

for him.

I don't know.

I dreamt that...

My mom went to pick me up at

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