Whose Streets? Page #2

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shut yourself in an office.

Put your hands up. Put your

hands up. Put your hands up!

Don't shoot.

Don't shoot.

The chants kept people

energized. It kept them going.

It actually kept them feeling like

there was actually a direction.

Here we go.

- No justice, no peace.

- Say what?

- No justice, no peace.

- Say what?

No justice, no peace.

We are marching on West Florrisant

towards the police barricade in Ferguson.

Police fired a warning shot.

A flare up.

Needlessly provoking the crowd.

It got those young brothers

and sisters riled up.

They weren't riled up before

then. They was out there,

they was mad, they was upset

but they weren't doing anything.

It just set them off.

Don't shoot. Don't shoot.

Don't shoot. Don't shoot.

There was no fear in the

heart of people anymore.

This is the military police.

This is not the police from our hood.

We're trying to mourn and you

came here with 300 cop cars,

in riot gear and K-9 units.

This is the same thing that

pretty much got us here.

We here.

We here. They ready to

drop the teargas, man.

We our keepers.

We got to be our own keepers.

We got to love one another.

Murderers!

Murderers!

Murderers!

They down there...

Goddamn, sh*t.

And that's how you know it's time to go.

People are doing 90. Sh*t.

L.A. 1992, this is so sad, man.

This is so f***ing sad.

We're walking up on the barricade now.

I don't even think I can count the

number of police vehicles out here.

This f***ing breaks my heart.

Ahhh. Okay.

I'm trying to walk around...

trying to walk around

this way because my car is over there.

I'm genuinely trying to get back to my car.

You have to walk all the way down

that way until all the police end,

cross the street...

So, you gonna send me where it's dangerous

and people are rioting and looting,

when I'm trying to walk in police

presence to get back to safety?

- You shouldn't have come here.

- I shouldn't have come here?

- I have a right to be wherever I am.

- You're correct.

So to tell me I shouldn't have

come here, that's the attitude

that got them doing what they doing.

That's not helpful, officer Neff.

How ridiculous. Now I'm mad, ha.

We about to get out of

here. They got on gas masks.

You know what that means.

You know what that means.

- They coming now.

- Here they come. There they go.

Woohoo! St. Louis West side, what it do.

We had a peaceful protest

over there the whole day.

Candlelight vigil

over there, you know,

but that ain't the story that

you hear about August 10th.

We begin in the St.

Louis suburb of Ferguson.

Police are calling for calm this morning

after a night of looting and fires.

This all started when what was

supposed to be a very peaceful

vigil tonight for Michael

Brown turned into this.

Teams of thieves using

the protest as an excuse

to steal jeans, shoes,

and expensive tire rims.

The Quik Trip was broken into.

The glass was busted out.

Details surrounding the shooting that

sparked this fire, in great debate.

At ground zero, police painted

over threatening graffiti.

And as sundown approaches, officials are fearful

of another night of looting and violence.

They say that a building burning is

worse than a black person getting shot,

right, because this building serviced

white people and this black body did not.

A building's a building.

You can rebuild a building.

You can't resuscitate a life

after it lies on the ground

for four and a half hours

with eight bullets in it.

Um, and so, I don't consider

that violence, right, like...

I consider that a righteous

nonviolent direct action.

The question that solidifies

violence to me are...

were there any people harmed?

Did any people die?

Like that qualifies violence.

A building is a building.

That's a revolutionary act.

That's strategic.

They don't tell you the fact

that the police showed up

to a peaceful candlelight

vigil of just a bunch of people

holding up candles 'cause

they hurting and boxed them in

and forced them onto a Quik Trip lot.

They put property over people

and say we got a problem

in St. Louis because a

Quik Trip burned down.

But ain't no alchemist, no doctor,

no wizard on this planet can

bring back Mike Brown, Jr.

I'm a mother of five.

I'm a grandmother of five.

That mother lost her child.

If we don't come together now, when?

And for the ones who have

they feet on people's necks,

when do you feel like enough is enough?

'Cause you gotta know that when

you keep pushing somebody up

in the corner they gonna come out swinging.

Well, we swinging.

No more of our sons.

No more of our sons. No more.

Tell them don't shoot, hands up.

And that's when the protesters

was just in the streets like,

"Hell no, we ain't going nowhere."

You know, we was occupying

the streets that we paid for.

I was just blown away by

the sense of community.

Black, white, everyone coming

together for this common cause.

People from the black middle class,

people from the hood driving

by honking their horns.

Supportive. I get chills

just thinking of it now.

A lot of people didn't do it justice

when they put it on their timeline.

'Cause when you in the heart of it,

you get to see faces and you

get to feel that black love.

There they go.

Here they come.

Don't shoot.

You are unlawfully assembled.

You need to disperse immediately

or you will be subject to arrest.

Do it now.

Hands up.

Shoot, man, we put our

hands up. What's good, man?

We got our hands up, we ain't did nothing.

We retreating and you still shooting.

- Get the f*** out of here!

- We retreating, you still shooting.

Move it along. Keep it going.

You ain't gon' out shoot them.

It sound good, it feel good,

it look good, but you

ain't gon' out shoot them.

They got more jails, they got more guns,

they got more bullets.

So, you not gon' win that battle, man.

You know somebody that got a sound

system, get on the phone and call them.

You know somebody that got a car they can carpool

somebody to a meeting or to a rally, do that.

You know, that's

progressive. That's progress.

That's positive, but

burning down Quick Trip

ain't gon' get us nowhere but

them with more guns in our face,

shooting more of our kids.

Understand what I'm saying?

Right now is the time for

us to influence the people

who don't think like we think.

Have the right conversations.

Use your social media.

I'm telling you, I got on Twitter

yesterday and got to work, man.

Use these things the right way.

What we gon' do? Where we gon' meet at?

- What's good?

- Okay?

Feel me?

Let's do it the right way, man.

Let's influence the world right now.

We got the stage, so

let's do it. This is it.

You want to know what it look like,

what it sound like, what it feel like?

This is it.

Okay. Here's a t-shirt,

uniform skirt, long socks.

Get dressed.

Put some deodorant on.

- Cover your mouth.

- Your mouth.

- Cover your mouth.

- Your mouth.

- It's your mouth. Turn around.

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