Whose Streets? Page #6

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opportunities for people of color,

why aren't you

questioning that normal?

If that normal is 18-year-old teenager

laying in the street for four hours...

but that's your normal, right?

Everybody wants things to be normal.

I feel like, if you are

not questioning normal

you are not paying attention.

Vonderrit was killed

October 8, 2014.

It reenergized us in a way.

- Whose block?

- Droop block.

- Whose block?

- Droop block.

- Whose block?

- Droop block.

- Whose block?

- Droop block.

Whose block?

It brought people together and

out in the street to disrupt.

We did not choose this life.

We have to make change.

We have to I'm telling

you because if we don't,

it's going to happen again.

It's going to continue to happen.

If you can hear me, clap three times.

If you can hear me, clap two times.

If you can hear me, clap once.

All right.

If you doing Copwatch trainings,

if you doing people's

assembly, if you doing a rally,

if you doing a disruption, fill the map up.

Disruption is about not stopping.

Meaning, we got to fight

back, but you got to resist.

You got to cut the strings that

government's actually putting on us.

You gotta cut the strings that

those police officers are afraid of.

If we don't do it, if we let it die,

it's our fault if this

transformation don't happen.

We realized if this is really gonna

be and get at the issue for real,

we gotta create a space

for people to come in.

And that was the birth of

what became Ferguson October.

We turn to Ferguson, Missouri

where activists are

calling on people

to join them this weekend

for a national protest

against police bias and violence.

What we're going to see this

weekend is a massive show of force

by peaceful demonstrators coming

from all over the country,

all over the world possibly.

All across the US, people

was watching St. Louis,

watching Ferguson.

Come and sacrifice

your body, you know.

It's the moment.

- Hands up.

- Don't shoot.

- Hands up.

- Don't shoot.

- Hands up.

- Don't shoot.

- Hands up.

- Don't shoot.

- Hands up.

- Don't shoot.

- Hands up.

- Don't shoot.

My life matters. My life matters.

My life matters. My life matters.

My life matters. My life matters.

Thank you, thank you. I am so

inspired. This is beautiful, y'all.

We just want to thank you for coming out.

Let me just get like a hand clap,

how many of you guys got

the real deal from Twitter?

When everything is going down, how

many of you guys got the real deal?

We're gonna show Twitter how

beautiful this is right now.

We're gonna take a selfie with the crowd.

We're gonna hashtag it Ferguson October and

we want to make this trend around the world

and show the world how we came

out for our community today.

Good... and real.

Thou shall not kill.

Oh, say can you see a generation

of young people that are saying

to this community,

we will transform this racial background

into a pristine playground where all of

God's children can laugh, play, and sing.

Red, yellow, black, brown,

or white we are all, all, all,

all precious in God's sight.

If you took a selfie of social

justice when you might find

and when you realize that

here in Ferguson, Missouri

is that we have a society,

we have a nation that is over

incarcerated and under educated.

If you took a selfie of social justice.

If you took a selfie of social

justice what we would conclude is...

- It's some bullshit.

- Let them speak.

Let them speak. Let them speak.

Let them speak. Let them speak.

Let them speak. Let them speak.

Let them speak. Let them speak.

Let them speak. Let them speak.

Let them speak. Let them speak.

Let them speak.

This is what democracy looks like.

Show me what democracy looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

Show me what democracy looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

Show me what democracy looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

We been at this for 65 days and counting.

We ain't got no answers for nothing.

All the stuff that y'all saw on

CNN... we ain't need CNN for that

cause we got off our ass and went

there and talk to Pookie and Ray-Ray

that live in Canfield and

found out what happened.

I didn't need MSNBC.

Darnell told me he died with his hands up.

So, I believe Darnell.

I don't need Don Lemon

to confirm what happened

cause I'm there.

Cause I'm there.

The people who want to take

the time to break down racism

y'all did not show up.

When the tanks and the

armored trucks was there

and the teargas was there

and we was getting hit

with the rubber bullets

and we said, you know what,

I can't stay home for this.

I can't stay home for this.

They killing us.

Missouri is the new Mississippi.

Its people I thought that

I just knew we could rely on

in these situations and

we couldn't rely on them

and it broke my heart, man.

It broke my heart.

Get up off your ass and join us.

When there was an armored

vehicle on West Florissant

wasn't none of y'all there, man.

Wasn't none of y'all there.

Not one.

Not one.

And at this point, I don't care about

nobody opinion about what we doing.

I don't care about how it

look. It ain't made for TV.

This ain't your daddy's

civil rights movement.

This ain't your daddy's

civil rights movement.

And they wanna know, they wanna know

when we going to go in the house,

we ain't never going

back in the damn house.

So, you take that.

You take that.

And Imma tell the police this.

Imma tell the police this, you

can take all the pictures you want,

you can record all the

conversations you want,

you can document all the tweets you want,

you can, you can Photoshop whatever...

Do what you gotta do cause we

going to do what we gotta do.

Hell you talking 'bout?

Hell you talmbout

Michael Brown, Won't

you say his name

Say his name Won't

you say his name

Hell you talkin' bout?

Hell you talmbout?

It is our duty to

fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to

fight for our freedom.

It is our duty to win.

It is our duty to win.

We must love and support each other.

We must love and support each other.

We have nothing to

lose but our chains.

We have nothing to

lose but our chains.

- Whose streets?

- Our streets.

- Whose Streets?

- Our streets.

- Whose streets?

- Our streets.

- Whose streets?

- Our streets.

They going to take it

down on his birthday, man.

That's f***ed up, man.

And they got all these

motherfuckers out here

with these cameras, man, to film this, man.

They removing the stuff and they

loading it in a trailer right now.

God, man.

The real community is really,

like, not feeling what they doing.

You know what I mean? I mean...

They having some little

speech or some talk over there.

Hey, look, man, don't

set that camera up, dog.

Please don't, man. Look, I live here.

Don't set that camera up, man.

Y'all not filming none of this, man.

Man, I ain't trying to talk to nobody.

Look, y'all not filming...

y'all cameras down here

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