Whose Streets? Page #5

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Yeah.

I grew up in this sh*t.

The cops beat me up before.

Like... police rolled up

on me on the street, man.

Snatched me up in they

car and yeah, beat me up.

They shoot and kill somebody every year.

I was living out there,

what, six, seven years.

That sh*t crazy.

Yeah.

I ain't never have a record

before I moved into Ferguson.

I moved to Ferguson when I was like 20.

Now my record longer than my goddamn leg.

I'm like, this sh*t's stupid.

Good afternoon.

We are here today to

announce the latest steps

from the Justice

Department's ongoing efforts

to address the situation

in Ferguson, Missouri.

We have determined that there is a cause,

there's cause for the Justice

Department to open an investigation

to determine whether Ferguson Police officials

have engaged in a pattern or practice

of violations of the United

States constitution or federal law.

Anybody growing up here you tangibly

know when you crossing the county line

that you gotta drive a little differently.

Your behavior changes because

you know how policing changes.

I'm crawling out here.

I'm barely doing 30.

Florissant alone last year made $3

million off just traffic tickets.

This how they do, you go up

to court and he'll be like,

okay, you ain't got no money,

go back to jail until next week.

And that's called a debtor's

prison and its unconstitutional

and criminal by nature,

but they still do it

and they do it publicly

without no accountability,

without no questions asked.

Nothing. It's just the norm.

And I got like four sets of tickets right

now that are totaling up to about $2,000.

A girl named Kiana, she said she had a job.

She had some tickets when she was like 17,

from when she first started driving.

Her fines was like $2,000.

They locked her up for 14 days.

Lost her job, became homeless.

Homeless for two and a half years.

All them nights you sit in jail when you just

got time to think about and think about it.

Come August 9th there's a whole thousands

of people in the streets, same problem.

Same result.

Same anger.

Yeah, I ain't never gonna

call the police again.

Remove yourself from the street.

Any violations will result in arrest.

We ready.

We ready for y'all.

- Say what?

- We ready.

What?

We ready, we ready for y'all.

...the sidewalk.

We need you to go to the sidewalk.

We are human.

- We are willing to go to jail.

- It's going down on your watch.

- But treat us like humans and not like animals.

- Don't look down.

Don't beat us like dogs

when you do arrest us.

I ain't letting nothing, I

ain't letting none of y'all...

We will continue to fight for our rights.

We will continue to fight for our rights.

Link up.

We are human. We are human.

We are human. We are human.

We will continue to fight

for what we believe in.

Show me what democracy looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

Show me what democracy looks like.

The ultimate justice is that

this police department is gone.

There is no more Ferguson

Police Department.

Past an indictment. Past a conviction.

They need to be gone. We're sick of it.

We're tired.

There's no denying that we are unmoved.

It's no denying it.

You either join it or you stay home.

You either for it or you against it.

It's simple as that.

And if you're against it, don't come.

If you come and you're for it, be with us.

March with us. Chant with us.

- Stand with us.

- We're not going anywhere.

We're not going anywhere.

Everybody else can join this

sh*t. You know what I'm saying?

Like, this is a group of people,

we don't talk every, every day,

you know what I mean?

We came out here and we

stood up for our rights,

and anybody can do that.

What is your message

to a national audience?

My message, my message

personally, my message is,

it's been 52 days and I've

spent more time in jail

than Darren Wilson.

- That's my message.

- That's our message.

- I love black people.

- Yes, I love black people.

We love black people. We love humans.

- We doing this for you.

- We doing this for you.

Excuse me, excuse me. What's your name?

You going to turn me down on camera?

What's your name?

Where were you at?

MoKaBe's.

I'm forever indebted to

Mike Brown because of him,

along with Brittany, they saved my life.

I was in a car accident two years ago.

Worst day of my life.

Um, I lost my dad.

Lost my uncle.

And I was the only one who made

it out of this car accident.

I went through serious

depression for a long time.

For almost, for over a year.

Somebody handed me a bullhorn

one day and that was it.

I just had a different type of passion.

Then I met her, I met Brittany

and that just offset everything.

Like, you know what I'm saying?

The sun it kind of burned a little

bit when I was in it too long.

Water tasted different, like,

you know what I'm saying?

Like, its real like it's

not even an exaggeration.

Like, food tasted different.

You know what I'm saying?

I could actually feel,

like, when people touched me.

I just didn't feel like I

was going through the motions.

I didn't feel like I was

just, like, surviving.

I didn't feel like I was just making it

through the day. You know what I'm saying?

I actually felt like I

had something to live for.

You know what I'm saying? That

I had some type of purpose.

You gotta get on your right or left knee.

You get on the right, you

usually get on the right...

Oh, I got a bad knee.

So, that means you have

to say yes to marrying me.

So, Brittany Lynn

Farrell, will you marry me?

- Yes.

- You gotta put it on, bruh.

Give me your finger, bruh.

Which one is it? This one?

Can I get up?

I'm married.

Loving a black woman has to be

one of the most beautiful things

I've ever done next to

bringing a life in this world.

I think about it every single day.

It is one of the best

decisions I've made.

Love, love, love.

Revolutionary love, love, love.

Revolutionary love, love, love.

Revolutionary love, love, love.

Now, I can't pledge

allegiance To your flag

Cause I can't find no

Reconciliation with your past

When there was nothing equal

For my people in your math

You forced us in the ghetto

And then you took our dads

Swim inside the river Get

delivered from the craft

Of the witches In

this business...

- What's up, boo?

- Hi.

- How was school?

- I had a great day today.

- Oh, you did?

- I had a awesome day.

Mm-hmm.

- How was your behavior?

- It was great.

Okay.

Can you, can you take

me to the talent show?

- When is the talent show, Kenna?

- I don't know.

I got to look at the paper.

March 31st.

Its 6:
30 to 8 PM.

Is that your day, is that our day with you?

I think so.

I just challenge these

ideas of normality.

You have your normal family.

Your normal family is

a heterosexual couple

with some children.

Why is it that you not

questioning this new normal of

single parent households

since you so for the family?

You know, if your normal is limited

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