Whose Streets? Page #3

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- Your mouth.

You're gonna come home and

you're gonna get three pages done.

Three pages of homework done.

No.

Uh-uh. I don't wanna hear it because yesterday

you sat down and you watched TV all morning.

You didn't lift a finger.

Yesterday? What?

You didn't lift a finger

to do any page of homework.

I was thinking about it.

I ran out of time, because I

was going to do it after dinner.

- Those are called excuses.

- How are they excuses?

'Cause they are.

Kenna, she was six when

the movement first started.

Day one, she was with me.

There were a lot of questions

about why we were out there

and it was my opportunity to

educate her on how things have never

been right for black folks in

America and this is just another

example of that and this

is what we have to do.

I dropped out of school

for a whole semester

and it set my graduation

date back six months.

So many opportunities were lined up.

My professional network was large.

Soon as something happens and I

feel like my community is at war,

I'm like to hell with all of that.

None of that matters for me anymore.

Fine, I don't want a kiss.

Get out.

Nope.

Get your backpack. Nope, nope.

Get out.

Love you. Have a good day.

- Five works.

- I want you to come in.

I have to go do something.

Go.

I'll come see you today at lunch time.

Lunch.

Enjoy.

Have a good day.

I want her to think for herself.

To resist and participate in

democracy, that is your right,

and that cannot be taken away from you.

Renewed anxiety after Ferguson

police announced the name of

the officer involved in the shooting

death of teenager Michael Brown.

The officer that was involved in the

shooting of Michael Brown was Darren Wilson.

But it was the release of

documents and surveillance video

that shows what investigators

called a strong-arm robbery of

a box of cigars in the day

of the fatal confrontation.

What are you saying, chief?

Did he, did he know that he was a

suspect in a case or did he not know?

No, he didn't. He was walking...

It had nothing to do with the stop...

Because they were walking down the middle of

the street blocking traffic. That was it.

Six days to get that lie together

and it still ain't working.

They full of it.

All of them over there at Ferguson.

All evidence seems to suggest

he was killed in cold blood

and to come down here and to

not release any information,

any incident report on the murder,

but release information about, "Well, Mike

maybe wasn't the perfect guy," is appalling.

Hands up, don't shoot.

Hands up, don't shoot.

You must disperse immediately

or be subject to arrest.

It's our right to protest

and we don't have weapons.

Why you got guns pointed at us?

I went to school in the West Bank.

I saw the checkpoints come up

and I saw that the tanks were out there.

I didn't see no difference

between the West Bank and Ferguson.

Just to know that like 5:00

in the afternoon you see police

with M16s strapped across their

bodies asking you for an ID

to see if you even live in

this area and it's just like

you don't even live in this area.

Like how are you gonna keep me out.

In a peaceful manner, you must disperse.

Just listen to what he said. Step back.

We don't need you in jail, little brother.

We need you out here.

- Leave the area.

- We don't need you in jail.

- Return to your vehicles.

- Your family needs you.

Return to your homes. This

is not open for discussion.

You gon' shoot me too?

We are literally on our knees

with our hands in the air

and we could see red dots,

like flicking through the crowd.

There's this red dot going

across someone's forehead

and there's a red dot going

across someone's chest.

Look at how everybody's out here, hands up.

Peaceful.

Signs.

That's all they got are signs

and look what the f*** they got...

- Don't touch me.

- Let her go.

- Don't touch me.

- Let her go.

Let me go.

People like picked up teargas and

I was like, yeah, I'm one of them.

Like my hand, like, I don't think I have like

fingerprints on my, like, fingers and stuff.

But after a while, you

like, if I'm gonna die,

I'm gonna die for a real reason today.

- Go on, man!

- Go, go, get inside.

Our hands are up and they

are marching toward us.

We in our yard.

Uh-huh. See.

Davion.

Oh, God.

This my sh*t.

- Go on with that bullshit.

- Hey, De. Hey, De.

- Let's go.

- No f*** that sh*t. This my sh*t.

This my sh*t.

We know what it is. This my sh*t.

- Let's go. Let's go.

- No, f*** that sh*t.

- Davion.

- This my sh*t.

Hurry up, go get in the house.

- What is that?

- This right here?

This is some kind of

shotgun shell that they shot.

I got a bunch of different stuff.

These are the big rubber

bullets that they shot.

I don't know how this thing

comes out or something,

but it comes out real fast

and it hurts, it's huge.

This is a CS smoke canister.

You pull the pin and

throw it and it explodes,

blows up and then lets

the stuff out of here.

This is made in Jamestown, Pennsylvania.

Uh...

Oh, this is another form of a CS.

Sometimes you'll get hit

by it and don't feel nothing

and then go get in the shower.

When water touches it,

then it'll activate it.

Burns.

It's just a bad feeling.

This was empty, no name on it.

I think this was a teargas canister.

Something that got shot out of

a gun and then just releases gas

out of holes, like...

- All of this is chemical warfare.

- Chemical munitions.

Yeah. That you are not supposed

to be able to use on US soil.

She got teargassed.

Mm-hmm. In her stomach.

She was in jail.

Um, what else?

That's pretty much it.

She slept in a tent.

Oh yeah.

Slept in a tent.

...last night, where after

hours of peaceful protesting,

small groups took to the streets

with intent of committing crimes

and endangering citizens.

That is unacceptable.

So, to protect the people and

property of Ferguson today,

I am signing an order

declaring a state of emergency

and ordering the implementation of a

curfew in the impacted area of Ferguson.

We cannot have looting and crime at night.

We can't have people fearful...

We can't have police

officers killing people.

Governor, my question is, how do

you plan to enforce the curfew?

Tonight we will enforce that curfew.

We won't enforce it with trucks.

We won't enforce it with teargas.

- Thank you.

- We'll communicate.

We'll talk about, you know

what, it's time to go home.

- Thank you.

- It's time to go home.

If you have not seen a

hand-in-hand approach last night

some things were different and

precipitated that and you saw that.

You saw that. But I can tell you

because someone's standing in the street,

there's not going to be an

armored truck coming out.

You saw people sitting in the street

and they got a chance to get up.

And that's the way it's going to continue.

Thank you.

This ain't f***ing Iraq. This is not Iraq.

This is St. Louis.

So, don't tell us you're going

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