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but it's also

a very trying time,

because I don't know...

this is her senior year,

and I don't know where

things are going to go

with regard to

the Freddie Gray trial.

Last year was

a very difficult year.

Her grades fell.

I was very disappointed,

because I put you

on a path for success,

and now you're letting it fall

because you're doing

all of this work.

Education, in my book,

comes first, you know?

You know, people always ask me,

"Where does she...

where does she get this from?"

And, um...

her speaking, she definitely

gets from her dad,

but I think her spirit,

she gets from my brother,

her uncle.

My brother was on death row

for ten years.

I think he was 32

when he was executed.

He started doing

live interviews

from death row, so that's when

we became very active

campaigning against

the death penalty,

and then I became

pregnant with Makayla.

We have pictures of her

in my husband's arms, marching.

So she was born into that.

- Whose streets?

- Our streets!

- Whose streets?

- Our streets!

- I always told her

that our protest chants,

"no justice, no peace,"

were her lullabies.

And I said, "You marched

before you could crawl

and walk."

Indict, convict,

send those killer cops to jail.

The whole damn system...

- I'm always reminded

of my uncle's resilience

and how, even on death row...

when he knew

that his death was pending

and he knew

that his death was coming,

and he even had

a date of his death,

he was still organizing,

and he was doing everything

with his time that he could.

You can go to

killedbypolice.net,

and you can begin

to read the names off.

We need to recognize

and hear all of the names

of all of the victims, right?

And we need to say their names.

We need to feel their spirits.

We need to feel their energy

and make this a moment

where we're committing to

ourselves

to no longer wait

until another name

is added to that list,

'cause we can't afford to lose

another baby like Tamir.

We can't afford to lose

another sister like Sandra.

We can't afford any of that.

- Darius Smith.

- Wesley Manning.

- Dejuan Hall.

- Brandon Johnson.

- DeOntre Dorsey.

- William Lemmon.

- Patrick O'Grady.

Philip Quinn.

- Jason Mesaros.

- Ernesto Lopez.

- Eddie Sanchez.

- Joseph Khammash.

- Antonio Henry.

- Kenneth Pinter Jr.

- Adarius Brown.

- Keith McLeod.

- Leonel Acevedo.

- So, Father God,

first and foremost,

I want to thank You for sparing

the lives, Father God,

of Britney and Genisha,

Father God.

But, Father God,

our concentration,

our focus...

goes on those, Father God,

that were seriously injured,

Father God...

even ejected

from the vehicles, oh, God.

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