Malcolm's Echo: The Legacy of Malcolm X Page #5

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all the time?

What, I go to work all day.

I come home and-

- Here, come in.

It's okay.

Come on.

What's your name?

- Am I the bad guy here?

You're the one that's out-

- No, no, no,

I didn't say that.

I didn't say that.

- My name is Bobby.

I know you probably don't want

to talk to strangers, right?

But if you tell me

what's going on in there,

I might be able to help you.

You want to tell me?

You play the piano?

- Hey!

Listen to me.

Where were you?

- Here, inside the house.

- You were just here

inside of the house?

So how-how come I saw you out

by that door?

What were you doing

at that door?

- Hey, you want to play

a real piano?

- You weren't there?

- Come on.

Why don't we make some music

on a real piano?

[door slams]

I remember when I couldn't even

reach the pedals,

but I bet you can.

Stay right there.

One second.

[man shouting]

[random piano tones]

smack!

- What are you doing?

Don't you dare try

to do that again!

[quiet piano tones]

[woman and man shouting]

[woman crying]

- This is crazy.

[woman whimpers]

Stay right there.

He's never going to hurt you

or your mother again.

All right?

- Don't you dare do that!

Why do you keep lying to me

all the time?

[man shouting]

[phone trilling]

You weren't there?

Where were you?

- No, I didn't say that.

- Well, what the hell were you

doing there?

[crashing]

- 911.

What's your emergency?

- Yeah, I'm-I'm at 20 Avenue E,

apartment 519.

The guy next door

is beating on his wife.

- Do you understand?

- Can you repeat the location,

please?

- 20 Avenue E.

- When I tell you to stay in,

you stay in!

- Sir, is anyone hurt?

- Yeah, I don't know.

Well, just send-

you can't just send somebody?

- Sir, I need to confirm

if someone's hurt.

[door slams]

[pounding on the door]

Hey!

I can hear you in there.

[pounding on door]

- [crying]

- Hug me once, okay?

- Open the goddamn door!

- Domestic officers arrived.

- 1026?

- Yeah, right down here.

- You know the tenants?

- No.

They fight a lot.

It got pretty bad tonight.

- You see anything?

No, but there's a-

there's a little girl,

and I didn't want

to take chances.

The guy is a cop.

- Please stand back, sir.

[knocking at door]

NYPD.

Anybody inside in need

of assistance?

[knocking at door]

Open up!

- Roger that.

[door creaks]

What is this, a joke?

- Where are they?

- Are you sure this is

the apartment?

- Yeah.

Yeah.

I-I just heard them.

- It doesn't look like anyone's

lived here in a very long time.

You been drinking tonight?

- No.

No!

The daughter was just

at my apartment.

- What's her name?

- l-I don't know.

And the wife,

the one that was beaten,

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