The Interrupters Page #6

this young man's obituary.

Schools, churches,

your mama's house, your cars,

those are safe zones.

When I was about your age,

I was making some

real stupid decisions

and some stupid calls

that was costing me my life.

Blood on my hands and my head.

Stop.

Who does this baby belong to?

Who does this little

shorty belong to?

He just hanging

around y'all?

He just hanging, this little mo,

this little mo,

he just hanging around y'all,

right?

So he see everything

that you all do, right?

So if this brother right here

catch a case and do 100 years,

whose fault is it?

It's his fault?

Uh-uh.

It's our fault.

Teach him righteous.

Y'all got it?

Yeah.

Y'all got it?

Yeah.

You got it?

All right.

I'm looking to you.

Here's my number, give me

a call, all right?

All right.

This is my, my

little brother, on the left side

and my little cousin

on the right side.

Tyrone Williams

and Percy Day, Jr.

Luis was killed trying

to sign Michael's altar.

I held him to his last breath.

I didn't want to let him go.

I've lost at least 20 guys.

It's no answer to it, you know.

You one of your guys

got killed, f*** it.

I'm gonna kill that n*gger

and make his family suffer.

I don't want no shrines,

beer bottles, drinks.

N*ggers crying, smoking weed.

Pictures and sh*t, t-shirts.

I don't want none of that sh*t.

I don't want to die looking

stupid as hell.

No, f*** that.

Tony Sko and the morning riot

and that's right,

it is the first day of school

for all Chicago public school

students.

That's right

and we want you to hit us up,

be safe out there.

Youth violence in Chicago

has gotten world attention.

student Derrion Albert was attacked

as he walked home from school.

A senseless killing, this time

was caught on videotape,

has put Chicago's deadly

epidemic in the spotlight.

Now there's

debate on a national level

which all basically started with

that viral video that came out,

from the cell phone,

of the clash between the two

gangs outside Fenger High School

that killed Derrion Albert

right in the middle.

See this young man here?

You see him taking this board

from this young man.

And this is the young man that

you're actually going to see

hit the boy

in the back of the head.

Look for the guy

in the red coat.

Watch him.

He took it, and watch him.

Damn.

That was a two-by-four,

wasn't it?

They still doin'... oh wow.

Man.

Ameena is gonna

assist us with the family,

because we got to get them

to the site

where they're gonna do

the memorial.

'Cause this is what

the family wants, okay?

Which way does that go?

It goes that way,

the arrow?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, go that way.

I seen the video.

And I said, "Aw man, I hope

his mother does not see this. "

It's a lot of people here

for your brother.

You know that, right?

It's a lot of people, okay?

Stay in that circle.

We got security

on both sides of you.

Anjanette needed

help getting him a funeral.

She needed help trying

to make sense

of what just happened

to her son.

I got resources for Anjanette

to put Derrion in a mausoleum

next to her mother.

Only the family.

Nobody else.

Ameena's very,

very important to us.

Everything I went through,

she was right there with me.

We're praying for this family.

We're praying that God

will heal their hurts.

And I'm praying for all of you,

my brothers and my sisters.

This is a problem

in our community.

It's a problem in our city.

It's a problem in our nation.

Once the media has gone

back to wherever they came from,

we have to step up to the plate

and make something happen

over there.

...year after year,

who are not doing anything

about this problem.

I'm talking about

the police department.

I'm talking about all those

who are doing nothing...

The person that was videotaping

the goddamn beating

was saying,

"Zoom in, zoom in,

put that n*gger to sleep. "

That's what you heard the people

saying in the background.

So that goes to show you

the mindset.

'Cause I know Ameena,

she's spending a lot of time

with the family still,

they trying to fix his face

so they can have a open casket.

I heard some interviews

from the young brothers.

They say they don't know why

the hell they fighting.

They just hate each other.

So somebody tell me what

they fighting for, then.

We grew up gangbanging.

It don't make a difference

what we fighting for.

You ain't with me,

you against me,

and that's just how

it's always been, Tio.

The guys from Altgeld Gardens,

they were attending

Carver School.

Which was turned into

a military school.

A lot of guys didn't want

to go to a military school,

so they transferred

the guys to Fenger.

So now you got these guys coming

from a whole other neighborhood.

When they laid there and closed

down Carver High School,

and started letting these guys

get to school

any kind of way they can,

riding on the bus, walking,

or what have you,

you left it to them that

they had to defend themselves.

And the Ville is fighting

Altgeld Gardens.

They've been doing that

since the '60s, man.

We up against history.

Yeah, and we gotta

respect history,

but it shouldn't play

a big factor in this table.

Man, we got over 500 years

of prison time at this table.

That's a lot

of f***ing wisdom.

How the hell are we gonna

let these kids school us,

that we were schooling them?

We're gonna try

and work this conflict out.

Because right now

they just had another big fight

up at Fenger while we talking.

The beat goes on.

That's that brother

right there, man?

They put him in the,

that's the body?

Damn, that's f***ed up, man.

This young brother

that we just finished

doing some mediating with,

his close friend

just got killed.

The possibility of retaliation

at that moment

was very, very likely.

That cop was just looking

at me all crazy, too,

like she got a

f***ing problem.

They just right now shot

on 30th and Kedville, again.

Right now.

Get the f*** out of here;

again, right now?

Right now, a couple

of minutes ago.

Police are going to be

harassing a lot of guys over here

whether they're affiliated

or not.

I think the police

should enforce the laws

but I think it's the way

they go about it.

There's a reason why people

in the community

don't really like talking

to the police.

They see other guys:

They see their nephews,

they see their brothers

and their sisters, you know,

being harassed.

Just because there's a high

presence of police right now,

that doesn't mean nothing

for these guys, man.

Within 30 hours there was

about seven shootings.

Eddie always presents himself

as a preppy, school-going,

collegiate type of guy.

I said, look man, there

ain't nothing shaking, man,

When you talk to

him about his street past,

"Oh no, we don't want

to go there man.

We don't want to go there. "

But at the same time,

he came from the lifestyle

with the Latino gangs.

And he wasn't no

low-level member.

He was right there

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