Whose Streets? Page #8

---

It's who closest to you.

We gotta figure out if this

person is breaking into my house,

do they need some help?

What kind of help do that person need?

Do they need drug rehabilitation?

Not jail, rehabilitation. Are they hungry?

St. Louis city spent a million dollars

in 12 days going out to Ferguson.

You know, our military

budget is damn near, what?

Almost a trillion dollars.

Got enough money to feed

everybody in the country.

The problem is they want

to spend the money on tanks,

teargas, guns, bullet proof

vests, and somebody who wanna,

you know, pull up on you

over, you know, over a joint.

But I think the problem is

we having this conversation

and the people who can be

held accountable ain't here.

...Missouri.

Here in the proverbial

calm before the storm

as the grand jury here

is trying to decide

whether or not to indict

officer Darren Wilson.

He is the Ferguson police

officer who shot and killed

an unarmed black teen by the name

of Mike Brown back on August 9th.

As you likely know the

story after that...

Next question.

Hi, governor, thank you.

Given that you've declared

the state of emergency

and you've put the highway

patrol under unified command,

does the buck ultimately stop with you when

it comes to how any protest are policed?

I mean, uh, we're um,

you know, it uh...

It uh...

You know I don't spend a tremendous amount

of time personalizing this vis--vis me.

I, I prefer not to be

a commentator on it.

I guess another way of putting

that would be, you know,

is there any one official or agency ultimately

in charge here in terms of response?

Well, I mean, it... you

know we've worked hard,

uh, to establish unified command,

to outline our responsibilities

and now with the additional

assets provided by my order of

the Missouri National Guard

our goal here is to, is to...

you know, keep the peace and allow

some folks' voices to be heard.

While the same time the

property and persons, person of,

persons of people in the St.

Louis region are protected.

Remember peace.

Peace. Peace!

Four and a half minutes of silence.

Y'all when the verdict come out, hands up.

Mike Brown means?

We got to fight back.

Mike Brown means?

- We got to fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

- Fight back.

Shh.

Please turn your music down.

Love you, Ms. Lezley.

The jury approaching the

stage to give the announcement.

- This is it, y'all, hold it down.

- Hold it down!

Good evening.

And thanks for your patience.

Sorry I'm a little late

getting up here, so.

But first and foremost,

I'd like to again extend my deepest

sympathies to the family of Michael Brown.

As I've said in the past I know that

regardless of the circumstances here,

they lost a loved one to violence

and I know that the pain that

accompanies such a loss, knows no bounds.

On August 9th, Michael Brown was shot and

killed by police officer Darren Wilson.

The grand jury worked tirelessly to

examine and reexamine all of the testimony

and all the physical evidence.

Their burden was to determine

probable cause exists to believe

that a crime was committed and that Darren

Wilson was the person who committed that crime.

Our investigation and

presentation of the evidence

to the grand jury of St. Louis

County has been completed.

We've determined that

no probable cause exists

to file any charge against Officer

Wilson on each of the five indictments...

- It's going to be okay.

- Love you, cuz.

We going to get justice.

We going to get justice!

I love you, Lezley.

We going to get justice.

Nah. No, no, no.

They killed somebody's son.

That was somebody's child.

- Give her a minute.

- Y'all murdered her f***ing son!

F*** that sh*t. I'll

run through this b*tch.

You're the only black man, with

your f***ing hand on your gun.

Everybody is possible to

go through the same thing.

Everybody family has went

through the same thing

once upon a time or another, of color.

You know what I'm saying?

Everybody done have a person in

they family, like, enslaved by this.

You know what I'm saying?

Oh, sh*t. There it go.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

No justice, no peace.

Good evening, everybody.

As all of you know, a few

minutes ago the grand jury

deliberating the death of Michael Brown

issued its decision.

There are Americans

who agree with it

and there are Americans who are

deeply disappointed, even angry.

First and foremost, we are a

nation built on the rule of law

and so we need to accept that this

decision was the grand jury's to make.

Put your hands up.

They're shooting!

Understand that there's

never an excuse for violence,

particularly when they're a lot

of people in good will out there

who are willing to

work on these issues.

Police beating sticks on the

ground, antagonizing people,

calling people niggas

and animals and sh*t.

Then said what you going

to do. And left for an hour.

And let people loot and riot.

Darren Wilson's the man who everyone

has an opinion about but no one knows.

Mm-hmm.

What's the most important thing you want the

American people to know about you right now?

I'm really just a simple

guy. That's all I am.

I mean, I do family things.

Um... spend a lot of time

at home with the family.

You know, casual events.

We're just simple every

day normal people.

A lot of people believe that

you're not a simple guy.

You're not someone who

was in danger that day.

You shot an unarmed

teenager. You're a killer.

You're a racist. How

does that hit you?

It hurts. You know, it's...

that's not who I am at all.

And all these people making me

out to be something I'm not.

All I wanted to do was live.

That moment before the second shot,

you guys are staring at each other and

you said there was a look in his eye

like something you'd

never seen before.

- Um-hm.

- You described it as a demon.

Um-hm.

It was a very, very intense,

intense image he was presenting.

- Demon?

- Very intense.

And you're convinced that,

anyone who believes that part of you

is motivated by some

kind of racial animus,

some kind of racism, they're wrong?

They are wrong.

You can't perform the duties of a

police officer and have racism in you.

- We fed up.

- We can't take it no more.

- We fed up.

- We can't take it no more.

- We fed up.

- We can't take it no more.

- They tricky.

- This Darren Wilson.

Tell him to show his Darren Wilson band.

He has on a Darren Wilson bracelet.

It's very evident that

we need accountability.

All of these officers come up

here and they said their line

that they are commissioned by

the St. Louis Police Association

and their manager has on two

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes