Informant

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Newswoman:
We turn now to a

story out of Austin, Texas,

that's shocked social justice

activists nation wide.

Brandon Darby has admitted

to wearing recording devices

and wearing a transmitter

embedded in his belt.

He's expected to testify in the

trial of two Texas activists

who were arrested on charges of making

and possessing Molotov cocktails.

Newsman:
Two Texas men are charged with plotting

to attack police with Molotov cocktails.

Newswoman:
David McKay and Bradley Crowder

could face up to ten years in prison.

Man:
To say that Brandon Darby

didn't give those guys a fair chance

It's a travesty what he did.

It's a travesty what he did.

Where am I looking?

Interviewer:

Look straight into the camera.

It's not looking

straight at me.

You're looking

straight at it right now.

- Am I?

- Yep, yeah.

- Tell me when.

- We're ready. We're rolling.

I'm gonna start over.

I'm sorry, man.

I've received a lot

of direct death threats.

I've had to go to trial

and testify

against someone

sending me death threats.

People put images of me

with "kill him" on the Internet.

The U.S. Attorney's office

offered me

the witness protection program,

but this is my home.

This group, they use Molotov cocktails,

they threaten violence.

No it doesn't work, man.

Because it's not about them,

it's about the whole f***ing Left

and their support

of these f***ers.

Okay, let's just get you,

just talk, speak your mind.

- Okay...

- And just try to focus on this...

- and just tell it to us.

- Okay, go ahead, man.

This is my home.

I'm not going to leave.

(helicopter blades whirring)

as the founder of the New Orleans-based

group Common Ground Relief,

which he helped start after

Hurricane Katrina.

How's this?

- What is that?

- Interviewer:
Interview...

Where do I look?

- Always in the camera.

- Into that thing?

Strange.

One second for the focus.

All right,

I'm ready.

My name is Brandon Darby and I work

with the Common Ground Collective

in New Orleans, Louisiana.

We're in the Lower Ninth Ward.

We've been here between

four and five months,

working with... with people from

around the country, and with locals.

To get water and food

and medicine, medical care...

The people here

were left to die.

What I saw was awful.

You know?

If I'd had

an appropriate weapon

I would have,

I would have attacked my government

for what they were doing to people.

I honestly would have.

Newsman:
Much of New Orleans is flooded,

and now we're having to deal with it.

Newsman 2:

It's just this incredible misery.

We were at the New Orleans

Convention Center today...

You turn the TV

on and you see these images,

and you're like,

what's going on?

Newsman:
...with their babies,

literally living in raw sewage.

Brandon:
It was like wow,

this is f***ed up.

You know, this is wrong.

How could this happen?

Newsman:

Just a horrible scene down there.

And my friend's there, and I couldn't

get him to leave before the storm.

I had no idea

if he was alive or dead.

And it bothered me...

profoundly.

'Cause you can't really know the

guy and not, not care about...

you know not like the guy, you know,

like he's one of those people.

I began to call people,

and I said hey,

"You know, we should go get King,

you know?"

We're talking and he says,

man, let's go get him.

So we arrive.

We had gone through

what used to be a neighborhood.

And we saw

dead bodies everywhere.

I wasn't even

ready to deal with it.

Brandon:
Some people had returned,

to look for loved ones.

There was a guy whose dad

stayed in a yellow house.

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