
Whose Streets?
1
The whole scenery's finna change.
Wait, so where we at right now?
- We're going to the Northside.
- Northside...
So, you finna go into, um...
We finna pass into the three poorest,
three out of the five poorest zip codes
in the state of Missouri.
And they all touch each other.
Ain't that magic.
Two of the worst high
school, middle school,
and elementary schools all
come out of these zip codes.
We are straight up raising
children that cannot read.
You know, like that's really fucked up.
Then you be like damn, who gonna help
the kids at home with the homework?
Parents can't read the
shit, you can't read it.
That shit is directly
rooted back to slavery.
Like you can't read, you a slave.
You know, and the cycle continues.
I don't think people... I love
to tell people from out of town,
St. Louis is, I don't
know what year it is...
It's not 2014.
...but it's not 2014.
Twenty-one, put me on at Canfield
with two and send me another car.
Are there any available Ferguson
units who can respond to
Canfield and Copper Creek, advise?
Twenty-five out...
going down Canfield.
Get us several more units over
here there's going to be a problem.
man in front of my apartment.
He was unarmed.
He had his arms in the
air, and they shot him
ten times, at least.
Right before Mike got shot, I
uh, me, my lady, and my kids.
I was on the bus just coming from church.
me. I was actually at home.
August 9th, I was working.
They got machine guns out.
I see that big boy right there.
I was running errands.
And I think I was kayaking.
I used to work at a furniture store.
On August 9th, I was
probably wearing this shirt.
They aren't telling me anything.
They haven't told me anything.
They wouldn't even let me identify my son.
The only way I knew it was my
son was from people out here
showing my his picture on they phones.
That's how I learned about him.
I was able to look on their phone
and say, yeah, that's my son.
I'm so sorry.
Laying in the street for hours.
Hours.
Settle down? That motherfucker
shot my baby eight times.
Settle down?
They left him out there
for four and a half hours.
I automatically started
thinking of a lynching.
In all honesty, I was scared
and I didn't want to go outside.
This shit crazy.
This shit crazy.
This shit crazy.
The body was covered up
right there in the street.
That camera that's
that wasn't right there,
they just put that one up
the side of this building
and they took that camera down.
That's what I'm saying like,
there was a camera out here
that saw that whole thing
and they took that shit down.
When they actually came out
here to start touching the body,
man, they had these folks with big
white sheets blocking the whole...
nobody couldn't see nothing.
Nobody couldn't see nothing.
They blocked everybody
view from being seen,
from seeing anything.
No answers, we got no answers,
we all was treated like
criminals so we all upset.
Ain't nobody was going nowhere.
So that night, you know, you
could see the fear, you know,
Put your hands up.
Put your hands up. Put your hands up.
Put your hands up. Put your hands up.
Put your hands up. Put your hands up.
Put your hands up. Put your hands up.
That fear, man, it went
right into the police.
It was like everybody was
yelling at the same time.
That wasn't no chant, man. That was just like,
that was like, that was beautiful, man.
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