Whose Streets? Page #4

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to f***ing shoot us, okay.

Don't f***ing tell us

you're going to shoot us.

We are not in f***ing Iraq.

This is f***ing North County.

You guys are the aggressors.

You guys are the ones that pushed us.

There was a 12 o'clock curfew.

There was a f***ing 12 o'clock curfew.

It is 10:
33.

What the f*** happened?

The last days of the

Ferguson Police Department

we are witnessing it.

Your silence is consent.

You are just as wicked

as the police officer

that shot Michael Brown

because you didn't say nothing, and you

know he shot him for absolutely nothing.

So, call your tanks, call

your armored vehicles.

Do what you gotta do but

we ain't going nowhere.

Nowhere, every night.

Missouri governor, Jay Nixon,

activated the National Guard

after declaring a state of emergency

in Ferguson and in a statement,

he said the guards

mission will be "limited".

When Jay Nixon brought

the National Guard in,

I like... incre...

I just... I don't like...

As a Marine, it hurt my

feelings for real, man,

to see the National Guard,

these guys like little brothers, man...

With respect to the National Guard I

think it's important just to remember

this was a state

activated National Guard

so it's under the

charge of the governor.

This is not something that, uh,

we initiated at the federal level.

These are issues of local

jurisdiction and I've gotta make sure

that I don't look like I'm putting my

thumb on the scales one way or the other.

Let me ask you, this is a...

I'm waiting on me to

have a black president,

I still ain't had me one.

And didn't he teach

constitutional law, at Harvard?

Wasn't he a constitutional professor?

Ain't no constitution in Ferguson,

so tell that nigga he

need to teach a new class,

or bring is ass to Ferguson Burger Bar and

figure out why we ain't got no constitution.

Holy...

See they're media too.

We gonna go up the street.

They're pushing us in.

They're pushing us in.

They just shot... started shooting teargas

down at the other end by McDonald's,

right by the media and

now they're pushing us in.

You can see people running.

- F***.

- F***.

Erica. Eri...

Good evening, the images from this weekend of

violence in the streets, stores being looted.

Crowds of people breaking into stores

along West Florissant overnight.

The police chief of St. Louis

County told the reporters

the violence is

destroying this city.

You see bottles of booze come out.

A lot of open containers.

You see people

smoking a little dope.

And I hate to keep bringing

that up every night,

but it really does

become part of the mix.

My mother used to tell me nothing

good ever happens after midnight.

It was obvious military tactics.

Come in, cut off they communications.

Round them up, you know what I'm saying.

You ready?

No, come on man don't do

that. Come on, don't do that.

- Don't do it.

- F***. F***.

Then, once we got them under

control, have the news people,

have a combat photographer come in and

say like, hey, look they going crazy.

Yeah, they going crazy because we

just cut off they communications

and shot a couple of them.

Don't shoot!

And then, later on,

everything calm and all that

and then everybody home like, oh,

hey, they rounded up the insurgents.

We in they country,

how are they insurgents?

You know what I'm saying?

That's what was going on in Ferguson, man.

This way. This way. They

f***ing throwing teargas at us.

Here they go.

F***ing throwing teargas at us.

Get back. Where the f***ing

cameras at now besides ours?

Y'all got all them f***ers

stealing rims and sh*t.

KSDK, KMOV, CNN, MSNBC.

I'm calling all you motherfuckers

out. Where y'all at now?

It's six o'clock in the morning.

Please get this.

His mama finna...

Damn, they gon' tear

our neighborhood up now.

Where the fire department at?

- There's no fire extinguisher?

- No.

Who made the call?

Who made the call? Did somebody

call and say there was a fire?

Don't worry about it,

it's going right back up.

It'll be right back up tonight.

Don't even worry about it

y'all let them know that.

I'll be out here next

time. Don't worry about it.

Motherfuckers gon' have to set me on fire.

And y'all tell them.

Because y'all know 'em. I know y'all do.

Stop being f***ing cowards, man.

Y'all did that. That's wrong.

Y'all did that sh*t to him!

That's wrong!

- This is bull man. You know I'm...

- Listen, listen.

Y'all burnt that man sh*t up.

No, I don't care.

No, that's wrong, y'all shouldn't

touch his sh*t, that's wrong.

Man, the police did that sh*t!

They burnt that man sh*t up.

The f*** wrong with y'all?

Ain't gon' be no peace now.

It was clear that it was,

it was set with gasoline

because a lot of that stuff was pretty wet.

There was water on a lot of that stuff

from the morning dew and what have you.

When Ferguson Fire Department

showed up on scene...

they came, they put the fire out and

then after the fire was put out, uh,

they got back in the fire truck and

they left and the police followed them.

There was no investigation to

see how this fire was started.

And like I said, I just thank

everybody for everything they're doing

and just say keep fighting.

You know, because we only

lose when we stop fighting.

You know, so, that's all I got to say.

This was actually the first camera that

I got when I first started cop watching.

I just put my stickers on it, you know.

Put a picture on my camera

so when the police look

and they can see that

Copwatch sticker on there.

Got some walkie talkies,

this two of them for me.

So, when I leave I give one to my wife.

So, the cops don't come in Canfield,

like, no more doing none of that crap.

They do stranger stuff and

that's because we done changed,

we made them change what they doing.

That's all I want.

You know, don't give them an opportunity

to gun somebody down in the street.

Be out there to watch them.

I don't go out with no

weapons or nothing like that.

I go out with my camera.

That's my weapon, you know,

and the fact is that since the

police are not being held accountable,

we have to hold them accountable.

- I wanna go.

- You wanna go?

- Go. Daddy...

- Sorry.

- ...I wanna go.

- You can't go.

Daddy.

- Huh?

- I wanna go.

I'm sorry, you can't go.

Daddy gotta go do work, man.

Okay? Come here.

Daddy gotta go do work, man.

I'm sorry.

Daddy sorry.

All right? We can hang out later, okay?

Uh-oh.

- All right?

- Okay.

- Okay?

- Okay.

Uh-oh.

Watch out, son, let me get out this door.

Excuse me.

I'll be back.

- Okay.

- Okay.

No matter what, I still

kind of love my father

even though he wasn't there

for me when I was coming up.

My dad called me, man,

when all this was going on.

He said he seen me on

TV and he was like, man,

and he said he was proud of me, man.

And I can't remember my

dad ever telling me...

- Tell you he was...

- ...he was proud of me.

- So that was a big deal.

- That's what's up.

And I was, I was happy, you know.

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