Unyielding Fight: Justice for Our Children

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Yeah, good morning. Well, yeah, well, it took me back to when my son was murdered

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in New York City by the UMPV.

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And first of all, there was no charge for going to police officer.

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But then I fought so hard and then I got one police officer fired.

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You know, because I just put it in and it go. And that's where I throw off and throw it in and it go.

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So, but you know, everything

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went out for these officers that was fine And it

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didn't feel like a victory to me It just

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was bittersweet It was just one step in the wrong direction Because even if

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whatever happens to these police officers We can't get our children back So

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even though we want justice We want accountability But there's no accountability for our children.

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Several things that took a half regarding the

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case first the jury when we

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went through a criminal trial for my son's case about

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killing him the jury was all

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Caucasian as well and as a jury we didn't even have the jury trial in the county

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where he was killed at it was 400 miles away so he had to travel that 400 miles

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But in picking a jury selection, one of the things that we found out,

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even there was a couple African-Americans who could have been on the jury,

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but they dismissed them.

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And so it was an all-white jury as well.

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One of the things that an attorney told me is that as African-Americans,

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we do not go and want to be involved in the jury cases.

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So we make an excuse and we don't go. And he said that we have to learn how

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to make sure we are involved in our criminal cases.

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Otherwise, we get a peers that do not look like us.

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The second thing was when we was faced with a jury giving a verdict,

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the jury came after the verdict guilty of gun enhancement charge and guilty

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of involuntary mass violence.

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But the judge stepped in still and changed and said, I'm going to contact the 13th juror.

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And I gave the jury the wrong instructions.

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So I'm throwing out the gun I've had to be charged.

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And I'm still going to make sure that I am not charging an officer the way that

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the community thinks that he should be charged.

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And so we only ended up doing 11 months in the county shift, never get a felony.

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But I say that to say that we have to get involved in our judicial system,

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and when it's involved, criminal cases where there is a jury trial, you didn't do this.

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So the white man, I'm doing the verdict from Tarry Nichols. It took me back to February of the 5th.

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We found out a court date for the attorney, the district attorney who handled

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a divorce case in the beginning.

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And yet, we waited like four years to get in court. We went to court,

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we picked a jury, and then settled the jury box for like 10 days.

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And the day that the attorneys were preparing to close, they just spoke and said that Ms.

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Johnson was indicted under the wrong oath, and he threw it out.

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Very devastating because she was

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the reason why it took 74 days to make an arrest. Yes, she had a 10 joke.

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I feel like.

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Anyone else want to add in today? Just kind of for if it's a good choice.

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For me, honestly, like what he said, they won't have understood a lot of months.

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They did what they wanted to do. You guilty for association.

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If it's one of us who did what they did, they should have been prosecuting it.

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They didn't do that. And you resemble what you assume. You show them your friends,

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I'll tell you who you are.

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At the end of the day, we give them for our loved ones, and we're done to get them back.

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Y'all got a lot of services, and they don't have that understanding.

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They get slapped on the wrist, and they get to go home.

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You have to fight hard every day, and you got to drive that you get somebody

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out there to be able to get in the fight with you.

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But when you were talking about jury duty and things like that,

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I've been there for jury duty, and they put me out because I didn't want to

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believe in what they're going to be believing in.

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So they're going to always get who they know because a lot of people believe in what they do.

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It's okay to put your hands on somebody that don't have no accountability.

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That's just the life that we live in. But we got to stick together and be with each other.

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We're going to unpack that a little more, getting more to the legal,

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the justice part and finding that. Did you have some assistance? No.

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We got a lot to unpack today. We're going to get to it. So I'm going to go to you, Ms. Wanda.

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I don't know if I should go here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ms. Wanda,

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Cooper John's. Because they have a couple of ones up here. Make sure if you get the right one.

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I was working during the census and you said, I feel every shot that was fired every day.

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Talk to us a little bit about that. What are you feeling?

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What did you mean when you said that I'm feeling a shot that was fired every day?

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Because literally, I feel any shot every day.

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My mom was killed while he was doing something that he enjoyed doing.

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When he left my home, then started running. He didn't have any activity.

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He didn't go to the hospital.

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And just, you know, they chased him for seven minutes.

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He was found in front of him. He had to fight.

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They got picked him up from the shots. There was still a shot that I had in my mind every day.

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But he, he ended the fight. He knew it was one day.

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He said, I guess he was saying it's time to go home. And as he ran off,

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he fell into the ground and died.

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The last gunshot was, I guess, he just smoked. but in the smoke was a flood.

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So I'm not the same. That changed me forever.

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And literally every day I used to school those files. And you bring up something

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because this is a push that happened a little bit later but I want to hop right

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there and open this up to everyone because we are in an age of social media.

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We are in a place where now as our best or sometimes our only line of defense

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is to turn the phone on, is to live stream, is to record.

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We can say all day something happened, but when you see it, it is different.

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Now, for us on this side of it, that's like sometimes our only way of fighting,

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pushing back, or speaking up, or showing this situation and how it really is

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instead of leaving it to them to go on a court and paint it how they maybe want it to be.

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But I think sometimes we forget the family of those on the other side of those videos.

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Like, it's been a long time since I've actually watched one of those videos.

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I have never experienced a loved one who's had that wrong with law enforcement.

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But me or mom, I can't say last time I watched the videos.

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I want any of you all, whoever feels comfortable, I want to jump in on that.

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How do you feel about the videos being posted and shared and all of that?

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How does that make you? Does it help? Does it hurt?

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Does it do nothing? You might want to speak on that, but I don't think that.

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I'm just a sister-in-law, but for me, I think it's a little bit of both.

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And I say that because you want to bring about the murders. We have a lot of

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young audiences that take to some of the media, and it's like they're vibing.

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And so we want them to be aware of what the positive happened.

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They didn't really walk us out of their parents' homes.

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I want them to, you know, take safety first. For us, it has been a roller coaster

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ride because May 25th of 2020, we're coming up on the 50th anniversary of George.

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We have a lifestyle. You can call it one problem.

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And sometimes we catch so many flights, we are so many time zones.

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So we just get caught up on, we don't need no autonomy. It's something that simple.

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And so to open up social media and find out that, okay, today our administration

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is going to accelerate shopping is a slap in my face.

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To find out like that. to find out that they were wanting to exhume George's body to.

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Extract blood of his heart to prove five years later that he passed away from

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an overdose for a lead to the neck. It's an insult.

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You know, and so you just compare the feeling and then our hearts go out to,

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because we have a lot of conversation around it.

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Gianna, you know, she's at that age where she has bullshit media accounts.

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So, you know, here the little chill chair in her classroom, you know,

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when she walks outside her door, those things are the things that we have to try to overcome.

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And it's both a barrier sometimes. And you have to allow nothing else but your faith. Yeah.

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I want to add as well. Video, the sharing of the video is painful, but it helped.

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Because without video, we're still chanting justice for our lives.

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The video, it was because I saw the video, because from day one,

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they kept saying, Mr. Jones, we have video.

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We got it on video. And I begged for months. I wanted to see the video.

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I couldn't see the video.

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But then, when she was doing it, I got to talk to my attorney and say,

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hey, show me the social media, because the video was there.

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And the person I asked was, what was he doing? He said, relax.

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He was doing nothing wrong.

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So we need the video, but at the same time, I still relive that video through

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the long of a lot. It's shot two-tooth, five-tooth.

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Yeah, I started spending time when this murder happened with my son.

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And that night when the media, when the newscaster says, we have a video of

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what actually happened.

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Now, I was curious to know what happened.

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But now when I started looking at the video, it was like them telling my son in front of me.

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And I never could look at the entire video Because the anxiety got the best

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of me And like I was yelling at the police officers Let them go,

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let my son go And I was really falling into a rage When I was looking at the video So,

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and you know at that time It kept showing the video over and over On the TV,

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it was all over the place And my husband at the time Who has since passed the

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raid He would just say Don't look at the D&D Don't, you know.

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If it comes along We turn away from it Because it's a trigger And it takes you back To,

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you know Even though it has already happened But it's like it's happening Going over again But,

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you know As far as Those who see it Who does You're not a part of it It is necessary

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because we want you to see how cool they are to our children.

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And this is the only way that reality can really stick in.

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You have to see it. You can't just hear about it because everybody has different

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perceptions of what actually happened.

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But when you see it, you can make your own decisions. And so that's why I tell

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people, you know, either when I'm adults to be on plans or I think somewhere

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they are doing speeches,

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they'll say, well, we want you to step out of the room because we're going to

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show the audience the video.

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And I would step out of the room because it just is too much for me.

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Even today, it's too much for me.

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But you know it is necessary you know for all of you and others to see so lakey

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you can help us you can help us like had our children live in a safe for them

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so we don't have to be afraid that our black sons won't nap their door.

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I just want to add that it's also necessary because who can't just walk anymore?

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I just want to add that it's necessary because we can't just walk into the police

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station and tell them that the police killed our children. Yeah.

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Because they're running through our side of it. You know, it's always that didn't

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happen. The police didn't do this.

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So without people's family, what's going on, a lot of us wouldn't know what has happened.

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Because for Breonna, there was no video.

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For the most part, if they kept saying there was no video, they kept them down.

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They went there to break into our home and still no one turned on a video until

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they were trying to kill them.

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So, and they intended to leave no one alive by the risk of God.

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Kenneth made it out of there. And because there was no video,

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if he wasn't there, we would have never known what happened to the reality.

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Because I remember seeing brother 13 hours and never even put me shot.

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I didn't learn that until after I left and went home and heard it on the TV.

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So that's why part of these videos are for traumatizing for a lot of us,

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but without just a flag that we didn't film it.

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Well, to me, I didn't watch the video.

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It happened to us. That shouldn't happen to no one. for letting three months live into death.

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And I guess the video didn't help because they threw up and got off then. They were not guilty.

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So that video didn't help, I guess.

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I can say this. When they were beating my son, I didn't know at the time.

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I was speaking to my daughter.

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My stomach started hurting me with that all of a sudden. and I just kept telling

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her, my stomach hurt, my stomach hurt.

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And I didn't realize that was my cellist's life and you took it away from me at the time.

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I didn't realize that. The only thing that video did, if all of we are this,

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that this does happen to our children.

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At least from these officers, they beat our kids and they murder our kids as if they're nothing.

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There was an incident in Memphis right a couple days ago where a young lady got hit by a car.

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No one stopped to help her. The one lady that didn't stop, he said he thought it was a doll industry.

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So you see, they fell there most faster than any of us, and unfortunately, they're not,

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It's a true statement, but that's unfortunate, but I didn't see the video of my son.

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I just couldn't. I actually did see the first meeting up until the point where he said, what did I do?

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And after that, I lost it. I didn't watch it anymore,

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but it just bothers me that anyone that didn't see the video,

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they said my son was very polite, and he obeyed everything.

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And the funny part of all of this, when this happened, they said my son was

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right on the break of the police.

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He didn't even know the police was fucking here. He stopped at a red light,

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made the way he laid the back of her.

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And that's not like somebody that's running for the police.

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No. Then they have so recognized about my son.

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And it pisses me off the bombs they'll murder our children and then they'll

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try to find the way and be able to justify it and that's the saddest thing ever.

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Me ask this and just maybe like

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it a little bit it's it's heavy it is

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and and I'm sure we all feel it but you

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know a hard spot you all because we're in this forum for the down room to them

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you all like this every day and and we're just coming on Mother's Day and I

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think people forget I did that this is just not here I did an interview couple

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years ago with Sheila Clemens and with Shondell Brooks, her son,

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murdered in Wawa House because we forget that we celebrate Mother's Day,

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but there are children who don't have their moms and moms who don't have their kids.

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And that's a difficult day. We forget about this sometimes.

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So to the moms up here, but also to everyone, share with us a fine memory,

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a light memory, something that you remember makes you laugh about your loved

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one, a memory that gives you strength.

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Let's share something because we want to remember them for, like you said,

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for the toxic, for the light, not just what everyone wants to make us,

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maybe one thing, maybe do this, probably not, it doesn't even matter.

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But a lot of fun memory. Well, I'm going to say it's real quick because it was online.

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This past Wednesday, I have 30 other children. A daughter and two other stories.

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And, uh, Irene was the baby, and my daughter was the oldest.

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And they used to rush to try to call me to see them with me first,

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to call me to say Happy Brother's Day.

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So my daughter, this time, she paid a post. I hope that's a little bit just

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basically said, I don't have my brother to wish my mother a happy mother she had.

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Because Ty, we could call, Mom, is my first one to call you today?

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And I said, yes, Ty, I didn't think of my first one.

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So, that was nice if I needed to bring that in.

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And I'd like to say, Ty was my stepson, but I have one thought,

00:19:14.557 --> 00:19:16.137
so that he just might have fun and stuff.

00:19:16.837 --> 00:19:21.037
And once we and Ty looked up, it was an interesting connection.

00:19:21.737 --> 00:19:25.077
And I was my option. I was his bond.

00:19:26.197 --> 00:19:29.517
But Ty was a, from the beginning,

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and a, you know, and the one thing I missed the most about Ty is,

00:19:36.837 --> 00:19:42.897
Whenever I have to probably go to my phone, I'm going to be surprised.

00:19:43.697 --> 00:19:48.557
On my IT support, and he goes, yes, thank you, darling.

00:19:49.237 --> 00:19:56.477
And, but I'd also like to say, I'll never forget the first real father's day we had,

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and I had this family, and he brought me into this family team,

00:20:01.677 --> 00:20:09.217
and he brought me these lights the door coming to the door and he couldn't be in for me he was so happy.

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To give me these things

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and I have this feeling today that I will never

00:20:16.497 --> 00:20:19.737
tell so that's my fondest

00:20:19.737 --> 00:20:22.717
memory of time so for being my

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fondest memory and my birthday is December

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31st and one of Austria's and

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she's stumbled and so I could

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stumble for a birthday celebration and

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Oscar came over and so I gave him

00:20:38.197 --> 00:20:42.797
his bowl of gumbo and I had my bowl and he was sitting at the counter talking

00:20:42.797 --> 00:20:49.297
and so he ate all of his gumbo and so he wanted another bowl so I gave him another

00:20:49.297 --> 00:20:55.637
bowl of gumbo and he ate that one and so he wanted a third bowl So I gave him

00:20:55.637 --> 00:20:58.157
a third bowl, but I had my bowl all the time,

00:20:58.477 --> 00:21:04.197
and so I guess during his time eating the third bowl, he must have got full,

00:21:04.457 --> 00:21:08.197
because I had turned and walked away, and I know how much I had left in my bowl,

00:21:08.397 --> 00:21:12.597
and he started putting the dumbbell that he had in his bowl in my bowl.

00:21:12.597 --> 00:21:17.877
So I said, wait a minute, Oscar, and he starts smiling, and he came away.

00:21:18.037 --> 00:21:21.877
I knew right then that he was getting full, and he had put his tongue in Michael.

00:21:22.417 --> 00:21:25.997
So, you know, that's a memory that I will always cherish.

00:21:26.537 --> 00:21:30.557
It's been my birthday with him the last day that I got to see him.

00:21:30.797 --> 00:21:33.317
I love him. He was really, really. He's a beautiful girl.

00:21:34.197 --> 00:21:37.077
I think he's a beautiful girl. He got a tip in there. I like yours.

00:21:38.257 --> 00:21:42.097
I'm a security officer. My grandson was killed in my backyard.

00:21:43.477 --> 00:21:48.317
But the memory is that they, all of a sudden.

00:21:50.913 --> 00:21:55.333
She was playing with Dr. Cheese. She loved pumpkin chicken. So I had clicked it.

00:21:55.573 --> 00:21:59.293
But my granddaddy, the sister, she was about seven days old,

00:21:59.393 --> 00:22:04.053
she had made the praise dance. She does praise dancing.

00:22:04.513 --> 00:22:07.473
And she may want to take me to the team.

00:22:07.793 --> 00:22:13.033
So I told her, I said, oh, my baby, I just started crying because it was so beautiful.

00:22:13.493 --> 00:22:17.693
I said, go upstairs and get your brother because he was up there with my son

00:22:17.693 --> 00:22:19.493
and his uncle in the studio.

00:22:19.493 --> 00:22:24.573
And so she went and got her brother and he came down and I said little papa

00:22:24.573 --> 00:22:28.833
you're going to cry you're going to cry because she's going to really do a thing

00:22:28.833 --> 00:22:31.813
because we call him little papa and my husband was,

00:22:32.693 --> 00:22:37.193
he was big papa and so little papa he,

00:22:38.413 --> 00:22:44.013
came downstairs and he looked at her and he picked her up and he started crying

00:22:44.013 --> 00:22:48.853
and I knew he was going to start crying because I did too but anyway,

00:22:49.213 --> 00:22:51.693
the memory was that he said, Grandma,

00:22:52.233 --> 00:22:57.153
I might not be your favorite but you're my favorite so I said,

00:22:57.273 --> 00:23:02.013
Grandma I remember that from him and he's on a videotape with me and he says,

00:23:02.113 --> 00:23:06.513
Grandma, I know that you don't like that social media, Instagram and all that,

00:23:07.153 --> 00:23:11.993
but I've made you an Instagram called Queen and I still don't I still don't

00:23:11.993 --> 00:23:17.833
be with the button he always tell me that's it and he said, well and I would

00:23:17.833 --> 00:23:19.053
do something to my phone.

00:23:20.353 --> 00:23:25.493
So I had an Android thing. Now my grandson, Steph, I'm just going to have an iPhone.

00:23:27.253 --> 00:23:32.713
Bring it up to speed. You know, when you think about your child,

00:23:32.873 --> 00:23:34.133
there's so many memories.

00:23:34.773 --> 00:23:39.753
But I think I'm going to go back to one of the childhood memories that really

00:23:39.753 --> 00:23:42.313
just made me back of when a Christmas one,

00:23:43.153 --> 00:23:48.673
I had that Christmas of Highland Ford I bought everything his brother only a

00:23:48.673 --> 00:23:49.913
year and it came for a car.

00:23:50.493 --> 00:23:55.853
I bought them back then was the big wheels, you know, and I bought one of the

00:23:55.853 --> 00:23:58.773
top of the mind big wheels. It was called the slink cycle.

00:23:58.933 --> 00:24:06.173
It was made just like a slink mobile with the rock wheels and things like a slink mobile.

00:24:06.773 --> 00:24:11.933
So anyway, I said, I wanted to make spaces when you get up in the morning.

00:24:13.864 --> 00:24:20.144
And so when he came and the eyes lit up, Eric, you know, he had his little things

00:24:20.144 --> 00:24:24.684
like, oh, baby, oh, wow, support me that for Christmas.

00:24:25.244 --> 00:24:34.004
And so Eric, he looked at his younger brother and said, every now and you know he's rich.

00:24:36.864 --> 00:24:41.124
So Kimberly looked back at him and said, I do it all the time, Stugan.

00:24:43.184 --> 00:24:47.204
I got so much at that. And, you know, they really thought things,

00:24:47.404 --> 00:24:49.004
which we lived in a public housing.

00:24:49.704 --> 00:24:55.984
And it just felt hard for them to think that they had, that's what my kids hoping

00:24:55.984 --> 00:24:57.704
they were on in life, you know.

00:24:58.444 --> 00:25:03.804
Mom, you gave us a good life. You know, we get things that other kids didn't have.

00:25:04.324 --> 00:25:09.104
And, you know, and they was naming their toys when they were seven and eight,

00:25:09.264 --> 00:25:12.544
when they was eight and nine, when they was nine and ten. And I said,

00:25:12.644 --> 00:25:13.864
do you remember all of that?

00:25:14.404 --> 00:25:18.724
They said, yeah. I said, I can't even remember all the things that I wanted to thank.

00:25:19.264 --> 00:25:23.604
But, you know, it just still my heart to see that they appreciate,

00:25:23.824 --> 00:25:28.844
you know, Terry, he appreciated what I did for them as a child, you know.

00:25:29.204 --> 00:25:32.304
And because he said, mom, you gave us a good night and I said,

00:25:32.404 --> 00:25:34.704
I felt too bored I yelled at you too much.

00:25:34.984 --> 00:25:37.684
He said, that's nothing. Almost, yeah.

00:25:39.204 --> 00:25:44.604
I got some good memories about that mean house of God. We're going to keep it whole.

00:25:46.684 --> 00:25:50.804
I guess I'll talk about childhood memory as well of Brianna.

00:25:51.384 --> 00:26:00.264
She always was just smart and had this old soul and she hates to be dirty or

00:26:00.264 --> 00:26:01.704
any get her clothes dirty.

00:26:01.904 --> 00:26:04.724
She had these shoes that she went outside and they got dirty.

00:26:05.004 --> 00:26:11.364
So she comes and she's like, I need help. I didn't open.

00:26:11.544 --> 00:26:14.764
I was like, well, give me all plenty of like, it's not a big deal, Brad.

00:26:15.324 --> 00:26:21.144
And she's like, you know, I love you, but my friend, you get the power. I need my friend.

00:26:24.944 --> 00:26:29.164
But that was so, I don't know what that means, but she was like,

00:26:29.244 --> 00:26:33.544
well, my great singer, you know, she plays that song, my last $2,

00:26:33.904 --> 00:26:35.184
and she could think same thing.

00:26:37.644 --> 00:26:43.504
She's like, share this song, get out of here, and she's like, I'll just lay up over it.

00:26:45.724 --> 00:26:53.364
Everybody else have a memory these are some really good and just as a fine we're

00:26:53.364 --> 00:26:56.764
going to come to the is here in a few minutes so if anyone has a question or

00:26:56.764 --> 00:26:58.324
topic we're going to become tea precept.

00:27:00.042 --> 00:27:03.202
A lot to talk about with in charge. He had the hard going.

00:27:03.982 --> 00:27:07.422
He would see a ball was mad. He had been up with a tired shoot.

00:27:08.062 --> 00:27:10.782
He had a lot of kids. He cut the hair out.

00:27:10.942 --> 00:27:15.282
A lot of people were running like rapid in my neighborhood because a lot of

00:27:15.282 --> 00:27:17.422
people were running with the father that had problems.

00:27:18.082 --> 00:27:22.482
And I don't know if I know what a chili bowl is, but a lot of the kids had chili

00:27:22.482 --> 00:27:24.182
bowls and he had six days out for them.

00:27:24.642 --> 00:27:28.062
Get them right out because they're free. And he wasn't in the bottles.

00:27:29.402 --> 00:27:32.482
But you thought he was so people

00:27:32.482 --> 00:27:35.222
don't worry they didn't do it they didn't have the

00:27:35.222 --> 00:27:38.002
money anyway but he would come to make sure that they went to

00:27:38.002 --> 00:27:41.002
school okay but the thing

00:27:41.002 --> 00:27:48.082
about George me as the child and my youngest brother it's like military for

00:27:48.082 --> 00:27:53.962
us because he was always teaching us to be filled with food and have hard hours

00:27:53.962 --> 00:27:58.502
we wanted to give 110 cents And he took us to play Little League football.

00:27:59.002 --> 00:28:02.122
They made me and my brother go hands up on each other.

00:28:02.542 --> 00:28:06.522
And me and him was like, basically, like, somebody fat you down.

00:28:06.762 --> 00:28:08.342
We didn't try to hurt each other.

00:28:08.762 --> 00:28:12.102
But he made me and those hands up with one of my friends. And I said,

00:28:12.202 --> 00:28:14.922
oh, that's my friend. That's my partner. That was a world thing.

00:28:15.562 --> 00:28:18.402
He hit me so hard. I didn't know where I was.

00:28:19.882 --> 00:28:23.682
But I got it together. Because my brother was right there. I said,

00:28:23.982 --> 00:28:26.942
I got to play. I got to be hard. I got to be a man.

00:28:27.222 --> 00:28:29.282
And I was young. I was only like 12.

00:28:29.722 --> 00:28:32.722
So I ran and hit him as hard as I could.

00:28:33.342 --> 00:28:36.802
And everybody told me, oh, that was good. That was good. I still was praying

00:28:36.802 --> 00:28:38.722
to everybody there, please save me.

00:28:39.782 --> 00:28:44.882
I want to be here. But he showed me how he gave me structure.

00:28:45.322 --> 00:28:49.902
And he was one of the people that told me that there'll be like a lot of people

00:28:49.902 --> 00:28:55.302
because a lot of people are always seeking validation from the world that crucified

00:28:55.302 --> 00:29:00.882
a perfect baby and i understood that i took that for him that was george.

00:29:03.355 --> 00:29:06.975
Brief. My mom was born on Mother's Day in 1994.

00:29:08.115 --> 00:29:11.535
So, our schedule was in a mother's day.

00:29:11.915 --> 00:29:17.155
My mom stayed about three hours away. So, we would always go to Bronwyn's house

00:29:17.155 --> 00:29:18.635
school for Mother's Day.

00:29:18.935 --> 00:29:25.635
So, one year, Chris Hendricks said, Mama, everybody has a birthday except me.

00:29:26.075 --> 00:29:27.555
We are what he said, Mama.

00:29:28.195 --> 00:29:32.095
I'm a good kid in my birthday. And he just didn't understand,

00:29:32.315 --> 00:29:37.215
but eventually we started being in KK Brown's house, but that was always very conflicted.

00:29:41.655 --> 00:29:44.855
Any one of the highest, heavy questions or comments?

00:29:46.535 --> 00:29:51.675
Thank you all for being here.

00:29:52.255 --> 00:30:01.875
Each one of your stories have touched me personally. And she'll just tell me

00:30:01.875 --> 00:30:05.115
maybe a lot, which is important. Thank you.

00:30:10.795 --> 00:30:18.135
My name is Jeff Lichert. I'm the executive director of the community oversight for the Airheads.

00:30:18.615 --> 00:30:22.735
I'm going to deal with foolish accountability work. And I have followed your

00:30:22.735 --> 00:30:24.595
stories for a very long time.

00:30:24.835 --> 00:30:29.875
Eric Garner got killed a million years ago when we worked around that field.

00:30:30.635 --> 00:30:35.695
From that point on, I was working at the public defender's office doing criminal

00:30:35.695 --> 00:30:39.595
investigations into helping defendants.

00:30:39.735 --> 00:30:43.635
And so I've spent my entire career, even as a police officer,

00:30:43.635 --> 00:30:46.415
doing some type of work in this field.

00:30:46.955 --> 00:30:50.435
And so I just appreciate each one of you coming in, telling your stories.

00:30:50.435 --> 00:30:55.755
My question is to Breonna Taylor's mother and Mr. Floyd here.

00:30:56.075 --> 00:31:00.575
I know that there are some consent decrees that are supposed to be established

00:31:00.575 --> 00:31:02.915
in Louisville and in Minnesota.

00:31:03.375 --> 00:31:06.795
And I am also a board member of Nicole, just so that you all know,

00:31:06.915 --> 00:31:09.575
we're going to be in Minneapolis this year.

00:31:10.175 --> 00:31:16.195
And so with the consent decrees, I know that they were either talking about

00:31:16.195 --> 00:31:17.495
them or they had been established.

00:31:17.495 --> 00:31:22.015
Can you tell us a little bit about what's happening with those and if there's

00:31:22.015 --> 00:31:27.515
ever going to be any accountability in those cities regarding the deaths of your loved ones?

00:31:28.015 --> 00:31:31.015
I'm very conflicted about the accountability.

00:31:32.355 --> 00:31:37.655
I'm not sure that there are any just waiting for them.

00:31:38.395 --> 00:31:44.155
So that's hard to deal with. And as far as the impeachment decree, it's gone nowhere.

00:31:44.475 --> 00:31:47.595
You know, that's just what it's been taught. there.

00:31:47.935 --> 00:31:51.635
And then once the Uber and Men's Brace comes name along, we just...

00:31:52.777 --> 00:31:58.497
In the United States, there's one excuse after another. I'm not sure that we'll ever get it.

00:31:59.117 --> 00:32:04.817
The way he explains that he's still working on it. He still wants to work with

00:32:04.817 --> 00:32:06.517
the public and have accountability.

00:32:07.517 --> 00:32:10.697
But he is the last one who knows what he's doing.

00:32:11.757 --> 00:32:16.717
Meeting, firstly, the world was stood by several brothers being murdered abroad.

00:32:17.597 --> 00:32:23.057
The world stopped and it was in a pandemic. at the time. Hold it was everywhere.

00:32:23.797 --> 00:32:27.277
And God shut the world down for everybody to speak what's going on.

00:32:29.017 --> 00:32:32.337
When he was doing with us, I had hope.

00:32:32.797 --> 00:32:36.977
But when we went in that court for me, it was like a glimpse of hope because

00:32:36.977 --> 00:32:41.917
we knew that we were fighting because of the color of our skin and we had a

00:32:41.917 --> 00:32:46.097
nice amount of money to be able to get some type of opportunity need to get

00:32:46.097 --> 00:32:47.357
through with what we're going to do.

00:32:48.177 --> 00:32:53.577
To understand, when you're out there, you got to see a video over and over.

00:32:54.457 --> 00:32:58.357
Nobody's there to sit there and tell you that it's going to get better because

00:32:58.357 --> 00:33:01.377
you know it. You lost them. You're never going to get them back.

00:33:01.797 --> 00:33:05.437
But at the end of the day, you're looking for some type of accountability.

00:33:05.937 --> 00:33:08.877
And that's something that they don't want to give us.

00:33:09.217 --> 00:33:14.237
And for us as people, we may look like to be in fear of our lives.

00:33:14.757 --> 00:33:20.137
We have to wake up and tell our kids in the day, make sure that you let the

00:33:20.137 --> 00:33:24.957
windows down when you're trying to, when you can hold over. They don't have to do that.

00:33:25.437 --> 00:33:28.417
They can do anything that they want, and they can get dressed.

00:33:28.677 --> 00:33:31.917
But for us, we have to watch. We have to protest.

00:33:32.377 --> 00:33:37.897
We have to get out of there, get beat, get beat about dogs. We got to go through a lot.

00:33:38.317 --> 00:33:43.897
And I can talk about so much when it goes around from the White House to so

00:33:43.897 --> 00:33:49.317
many different things, because the place that I was at, I don't see how they

00:33:49.317 --> 00:33:52.897
could have had all those people running there on January 26th and stuff like that.

00:33:52.997 --> 00:33:57.077
I just don't see it, because they would have so many police officers the whole

00:33:57.077 --> 00:33:58.837
time, but the deal was it every day.

00:34:00.737 --> 00:34:04.177
And if they wouldn't have had all that, then we would have had it there.

00:34:04.577 --> 00:34:06.957
It would have been one of them if they filmed it with us.

00:34:08.469 --> 00:34:14.269
I just tell people, keep your family close, you know, because you're hitting

00:34:14.269 --> 00:34:16.989
these for hours, you're right there. You never know who you're dealing with.

00:34:18.209 --> 00:34:23.789
Just prepare yourself. Yeah, I do that because policy and legislative change

00:34:23.789 --> 00:34:26.629
is what we focus on in California a lot.

00:34:27.149 --> 00:34:30.429
And after that death of my brother and my grandmother's backyard,

00:34:30.689 --> 00:34:35.609
we got 8392 passed by Governor Gavin Nislam. in a way it's called,

00:34:35.749 --> 00:34:38.209
depending on what it does is it's.

00:34:42.509 --> 00:34:46.069
But anytime you do something so bad, word alone must be created,

00:34:46.169 --> 00:34:47.109
you should be held accountable.

00:34:48.229 --> 00:34:52.829
And Stephan's work, although I used to force from reaching border nets there,

00:34:53.549 --> 00:34:57.429
still, you know, officers are going to say, you know, I fear this in my life.

00:34:57.569 --> 00:35:00.749
That's how you think, I fear this in my life. On my birthday, I was a cell phone.

00:35:01.369 --> 00:35:06.609
You know, but the same cops who killed my brother to still patrol the streets of Sacramento.

00:35:07.029 --> 00:35:09.989
They haven't been tired. They haven't been charged. They haven't even convicted.

00:35:10.629 --> 00:35:13.729
And one of the cops is a black guy. You know, so how's he the fucker in Canada?

00:35:14.049 --> 00:35:15.589
You may be my color, but you're not my color.

00:35:16.209 --> 00:35:19.749
You know, I believe bomb force, come on, man. I believe bomb force,

00:35:20.089 --> 00:35:23.429
these police are the largest and most authentic gang in America in history.

00:35:23.909 --> 00:35:27.829
There's one J. Wade on the American top top. Tell them I sent you.

00:35:28.309 --> 00:35:31.389
You want me the job. You want me the job. You used me to ask a referral.

00:35:31.389 --> 00:35:35.409
But anyways, you know, if they say blue lives matter, blue lives don't matter.

00:35:35.609 --> 00:35:40.309
Let's be talking about the Cookie Monster, the Avatar, the Lilo Stichy Lose Guns.

00:35:40.669 --> 00:35:43.689
But, you know, that's the kind of code they try to put in our head.

00:35:43.909 --> 00:35:48.949
They try to, you know, normalize this. And they think that we become desensitized

00:35:48.949 --> 00:35:50.369
because we see it so much.

00:35:50.869 --> 00:35:53.789
And we can't even desensitize that we need to have actionable items.

00:35:54.409 --> 00:35:58.549
You know, policy and legislation is good, but the community needs to be informed

00:35:58.549 --> 00:36:00.409
and educated on the policy and legislation.

00:36:01.169 --> 00:36:03.829
And when we stay informed, we've got to break that down for our people.

00:36:04.049 --> 00:36:06.529
We've got to give them facts on the policy.

00:36:06.789 --> 00:36:12.969
And we have to give them more social and intellectual instruction on this policy and let us.

00:36:20.303 --> 00:36:25.663
We lost a mob in February 2020.

00:36:26.023 --> 00:36:31.003
In June of 2020, Don Raekamp in Georgia gave us a head climb-off,

00:36:31.183 --> 00:36:35.263
and that was introduced because of the way that a mob was killed.

00:36:35.263 --> 00:36:46.823
Also, when he was killed, they were using something called a citizen's arrest.

00:36:47.103 --> 00:36:49.403
And that's no longer looks in Georgia.

00:36:54.003 --> 00:36:59.863
When the city of Memphis, when the song happened to Tyree, the beautiful citizens

00:36:59.863 --> 00:37:05.843
of Memphis, They saw a thing that asked for an insistent things of that nature of Tyree's name.

00:37:06.643 --> 00:37:13.623
Unfortunately, the trainer of this day alternative things don't come.

00:37:14.203 --> 00:37:19.643
Nothing is in place as a plane now. He had a nice conversation with him basically

00:37:19.643 --> 00:37:25.683
telling me I'm sorry about your son but we're gonna focus on this so,

00:37:26.503 --> 00:37:32.083
For most of us, we can get a lot long before accountability,

00:37:32.263 --> 00:37:36.523
because as well, we have the Mariana's Law, which is a ban of no-knock loans.

00:37:36.843 --> 00:37:45.863
But anyway, because it's happening everywhere, it's just happening in the middle of the WGI.

00:37:46.583 --> 00:37:51.763
So again, for California, we do fight a lot for disemplementation.

00:37:52.383 --> 00:37:58.623
But I always start, if we look at the beginning of history in the 1900s,

00:37:58.623 --> 00:38:04.883
when we was coming over to America via Brockhofer, we understand that the policing

00:38:04.883 --> 00:38:07.123
system has really not changed.

00:38:07.343 --> 00:38:13.063
It's really just a different outfit that's being worn right now on today.

00:38:13.443 --> 00:38:16.723
And so because the policing system has not changed.

00:38:17.462 --> 00:38:24.082
So important for us to get in there and make sure that we continue to sound

00:38:24.082 --> 00:38:26.862
our voices with the trumpet and make the noise.

00:38:27.282 --> 00:38:34.722
What happens in our society is we operate for a movement for a certain period of time.

00:38:34.962 --> 00:38:39.202
And then after that time expires, we go back to doing everything normal.

00:38:39.502 --> 00:38:42.642
And so our society said, just give them a few months,

00:38:42.982 --> 00:38:46.162
they'll go back to normal and everything will be back type

00:38:46.162 --> 00:38:49.382
was we have to make sure that we

00:38:49.382 --> 00:38:53.082
don't stop putting pressure on

00:38:53.082 --> 00:38:56.442
our society to make changes so

00:38:56.442 --> 00:39:00.682
when stephan was talking about 83 392 there

00:39:00.682 --> 00:39:05.322
was other bills implemented during that time period one of the things that we

00:39:05.322 --> 00:39:09.162
talked about is making sure that there are citizen review boards all the way

00:39:09.162 --> 00:39:14.202
these police stations and around because it's important because now that we

00:39:14.202 --> 00:39:17.862
have camera people are seeing and can believe differently,

00:39:17.862 --> 00:39:23.362
but it's important to have these review boards to try to hold the officers accountable.

00:39:24.042 --> 00:39:29.522
But in the accountability, when you think of that blue line,

00:39:29.722 --> 00:39:35.642
it doesn't matter what color the officer is, you will learn that they are going

00:39:35.642 --> 00:39:38.502
to be right there protecting one another,

00:39:38.922 --> 00:39:43.402
lying for one another, even in the midst of losing our children.

00:39:43.402 --> 00:39:46.982
I don't know about anything, but I know what happened to me when I lost my son.

00:39:47.362 --> 00:39:51.362
I know how the officer, there was an officer right there when the officer stood

00:39:51.362 --> 00:39:53.382
up and shot and killed my son.

00:39:53.582 --> 00:39:56.102
The other officer says, I didn't even hear a gunshot.

00:39:56.922 --> 00:40:01.382
I didn't hear anything. So they will get on the stand and lie.

00:40:01.602 --> 00:40:04.662
And until our society begins to say,

00:40:04.982 --> 00:40:07.382
we're not going to accept them getting on the stand and lying,

00:40:07.602 --> 00:40:12.042
but we're going to hold them accountable because they're not held accountable right now,

00:40:12.042 --> 00:40:17.122
We will continue to see this throw of people being killed at the hands of law

00:40:17.122 --> 00:40:20.902
officers until our communities wake up.

00:40:21.783 --> 00:40:24.883
Them together and say we're

00:40:24.883 --> 00:40:28.023
not going to accept what we have been accepting all

00:40:28.023 --> 00:40:31.063
these years because for right now we accept too

00:40:31.063 --> 00:40:34.463
many different things when it comes to policing and

00:40:34.463 --> 00:40:39.143
because we've watched the media so long the media played a big role oftentimes

00:40:39.143 --> 00:40:44.403
we believe what the media said when they put it on television right the only

00:40:44.403 --> 00:40:49.403
reason why that is changing is because our young radical kids are up and they're

00:40:49.403 --> 00:40:51.323
filming it and they're posting it.

00:40:51.603 --> 00:40:54.783
But now that's not necessarily true, what you were saying.

00:40:55.083 --> 00:40:59.903
See, because if there's no media, we've heard all the killers that took place

00:40:59.903 --> 00:41:04.523
without media and they, oh, they was running, they was fighting, they had a gun.

00:41:04.743 --> 00:41:09.803
We've heard all these things, right? And so we have seen them until recently

00:41:09.803 --> 00:41:14.083
where the videos have done, which can change the perception of our police.

00:41:14.403 --> 00:41:19.303
And that's what we tell people. don't believe what you see go find out and research

00:41:19.303 --> 00:41:24.843
it yourself get involved and then make a informed decision because we make too

00:41:24.843 --> 00:41:28.743
many decisions based on what we're seeing and that will be known.

00:41:33.583 --> 00:41:39.303
I also want to comment on that too because like when my grandson was still in

00:41:39.303 --> 00:41:44.983
my backyard there was people everywhere all the media all kinds of stuff was

00:41:44.983 --> 00:41:47.583
all on the media and I said,

00:41:48.243 --> 00:41:50.683
the tape that they gave me, that wasn't true.

00:41:51.163 --> 00:41:55.743
I mean, they made him look like, first they'd lie in the city it was a pipe

00:41:55.743 --> 00:42:01.003
and then they turned around and he had picked up something but then they turned

00:42:01.003 --> 00:42:06.643
around and said it was glass broken up the windows of people's cars.

00:42:06.983 --> 00:42:13.363
I mean, you could kill somebody, they shot hungry 20 times in my backyard and

00:42:13.363 --> 00:42:15.843
I'm thinking if somebody over there had to Thank you.

00:42:17.060 --> 00:42:20.860
The back of us, it was apartments. It was called Hall Gables.

00:42:21.020 --> 00:42:23.060
So they almost had like shootings or something.

00:42:23.300 --> 00:42:26.740
So I'm assuming it was that, but it wasn't.

00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:29.520
And so that's what I'm saying for the media.

00:42:30.020 --> 00:42:35.520
I really did. I got really sick when I was with the media. It was terrible for

00:42:35.520 --> 00:42:37.420
me. I couldn't look at no tape.

00:42:38.020 --> 00:42:45.560
I couldn't do nothing with that media. So yes, the media, now the young people are accepting it.

00:42:45.560 --> 00:42:50.360
And for them to come to make it, you know, that it's well known that this is

00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:54.860
really what happened because they had an outrage. They had everything.

00:42:55.040 --> 00:42:58.660
The whole family, all the family, went into mental stage.

00:42:59.160 --> 00:43:03.040
My grandson, he jumped along the mayor's desk and everything.

00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:06.020
But they got his attention.

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:10.040
He shut down the King's Day.

00:43:10.240 --> 00:43:14.700
He shut that down. He shut the city down. It was obviously them,

00:43:14.780 --> 00:43:20.100
but they were bringing troops out for him because it was, I guess,

00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:24.160
but the media, like I said, that media, and that's what changed.

00:43:24.460 --> 00:43:28.060
I want to, if we can go very quick into that, we have a couple of other questions,

00:43:28.200 --> 00:43:31.220
then we're going to circle back this way. If you have a question.

00:43:31.820 --> 00:43:33.440
Yeah, Dr. DeMar, I'm back here.

00:43:34.120 --> 00:43:38.720
Thank you to the audience to introduce myself. My name is Favrean Radiga Mills.

00:43:39.160 --> 00:43:42.500
I'm applauding you as civil rights activist. Mark McRae.

00:43:45.160 --> 00:43:51.340
Robert McRae, Scott, Nick Greggie, Ash Dalton, John Lewis, Vernon Jordan,

00:43:52.200 --> 00:43:55.420
and many others at mid-margin across this country.

00:43:55.640 --> 00:44:03.880
We put on the 62-day protest of a national news here for George Floyd, for a lot of problems.

00:44:05.300 --> 00:44:11.160
We walked with Trayvon to set people down, and he had to get out of jail.

00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:13.200
So we've been in this fight.

00:44:13.580 --> 00:44:20.320
What I like to say is that over the years of protests in the grossest country,

00:44:21.694 --> 00:44:27.054
have great conversation and still great parents and y'all can dance and put it in together.

00:44:27.674 --> 00:44:33.994
But from watching across the country, from fighting where people like to come

00:44:33.994 --> 00:44:41.794
into spaces like this but don't want to do the work is the key issue to me for all the people.

00:44:42.934 --> 00:44:49.114
Because to fight in silence, to fight by yourself, you fight with a small group

00:44:49.114 --> 00:44:53.734
and we get together and want to have meetings like this.

00:44:54.734 --> 00:44:59.694
I want to say to this audience, this is a great honor. Thank you to Cheryl and

00:44:59.694 --> 00:45:00.914
Nan for putting this together.

00:45:01.414 --> 00:45:07.874
Please give this audience what you need from us. Because as a simple right now.

00:45:10.094 --> 00:45:15.354
You march in these places across the country. You march by yourself.

00:45:16.134 --> 00:45:20.874
And later on, there's a great panel trying to analyze What else?

00:45:21.234 --> 00:45:29.114
For Tommy Nichols, the NAACP, across this state, man, across this state,

00:45:29.454 --> 00:45:32.054
we should be in Memphis. Let them know.

00:45:33.134 --> 00:45:34.674
The hell is it?

00:45:35.834 --> 00:45:43.334
Until you get to the point where you understand that it's time for us to stand together and fight.

00:45:44.634 --> 00:45:46.414
Well, they're going to get to campus.

00:45:47.729 --> 00:45:50.429
They don't want to see us come together for time. They left us.

00:45:50.869 --> 00:45:53.569
These people calling me saying, what's going on?

00:45:53.649 --> 00:45:55.649
This movie don't do it. They were calling you from out of state.

00:45:55.809 --> 00:45:57.509
I said, these people are flying.

00:45:57.789 --> 00:46:04.089
I'd like to ask you all, can you give this audience what you need from the people?

00:46:04.289 --> 00:46:05.749
Because this is what happened again.

00:46:06.309 --> 00:46:10.209
And again, great question. And again. Yes. We need a great question.

00:46:10.829 --> 00:46:15.289
Yeah, that was a great question. What we need from the audience is to ask for

00:46:15.289 --> 00:46:18.809
what I was. You know, I always think that was key recommendations for you all

00:46:18.809 --> 00:46:20.309
on how to prevent these atrocities.

00:46:20.809 --> 00:46:24.649
Also, you know, passion without direction is chaos.

00:46:25.309 --> 00:46:29.329
And passion with direction is murderous. And we're just being a solidarity all

00:46:29.329 --> 00:46:32.169
along, but solidarity without organization is useless.

00:46:32.629 --> 00:46:35.609
How are we coming together? What are the solutions to prevent this stuff?

00:46:35.749 --> 00:46:39.049
You know, the policy and legislative changes there, but let's talk about the

00:46:39.049 --> 00:46:42.289
resources of their healing spaces. You know, social justice is a big thing,

00:46:42.409 --> 00:46:49.389
but food justice, economic justice, housing justice, all of that got to be on social justice.

00:46:49.689 --> 00:46:54.249
So there's a lot of actual, I mean, I might as well have to call the stack six.

00:46:54.449 --> 00:46:55.829
We'll go over it after or whatever.

00:46:56.329 --> 00:46:59.589
But that was a good question. That was my favorite question.

00:46:59.829 --> 00:47:04.729
I just want to say something because what you two brought up was a really good question.

00:47:04.729 --> 00:47:09.969
So with the Tyreen Nichols the situation that happened there I'm going to tell

00:47:09.969 --> 00:47:17.829
you how the media confused the public and they came out and they said that they

00:47:17.829 --> 00:47:23.329
will have a jury trial and the case will be.

00:47:24.458 --> 00:47:27.278
Prior to chattanooga so i have

00:47:27.278 --> 00:47:30.858
the chattanooga president here today too and they

00:47:30.858 --> 00:47:34.878
everybody she got everybody together in

00:47:34.878 --> 00:47:37.698
chattanooga so they can be at that

00:47:37.698 --> 00:47:40.978
here but the trial was

00:47:40.978 --> 00:47:44.838
in memphis but the the the

00:47:44.838 --> 00:47:48.198
juror was coming from chattanooga to

00:47:48.198 --> 00:47:51.358
memphis so they confused it and you

00:47:51.358 --> 00:47:54.318
all had the nine-day trial and we

00:47:54.318 --> 00:47:57.198
thinking when the media came on and said

00:47:57.198 --> 00:48:00.138
what was about to happen we thought that the trial

00:48:00.138 --> 00:48:03.118
was about to happen again so when you listen to

00:48:03.118 --> 00:48:09.918
the media and like you said mother when you hear what the media says you hear

00:48:09.918 --> 00:48:15.458
what they say you see it with your eye and don't hear you don't believe what

00:48:15.458 --> 00:48:20.978
you hear because what we heard was not the truth and i i I mean, I just,

00:48:21.238 --> 00:48:26.198
everything that you all have said is just a special heart. Because I have a son.

00:48:26.378 --> 00:48:29.818
I have one son. And I have one grandson.

00:48:30.278 --> 00:48:34.318
And I take that back. God also gave me a bonus son.

00:48:34.978 --> 00:48:37.858
I go to sleep every night, I pray.

00:48:38.298 --> 00:48:42.718
When my phone rings at a certain time, my heart beats real fast.

00:48:42.838 --> 00:48:47.098
When someone knocks on my door and rings my bell, my heart beats real fast.

00:48:47.238 --> 00:48:49.178
And that's not a way for us to leave.

00:48:49.598 --> 00:48:53.618
But now in this world, in this society, now this is the only lady.

00:48:54.058 --> 00:48:57.318
There's always one of them. There's something that's going to happen to your love.

00:48:57.978 --> 00:49:00.998
We have one question back here and one up there.

00:49:01.178 --> 00:49:03.918
Well, Paul, let's get the response first to that next question,

00:49:03.918 --> 00:49:05.578
and then we'll go to Dalvin. Yes, thank you, Dalvin.

00:49:05.658 --> 00:49:09.918
So one of the things that moves our society is Dalvin. Okay.

00:49:10.458 --> 00:49:19.678
You have to come up with a strategy that will cause the amount of economy to go in.

00:49:20.338 --> 00:49:26.478
When my son also was killed, one of the things that the protesters and the unions

00:49:26.478 --> 00:49:32.238
did was for the port of Oakland, California, they stopped anything from leaving

00:49:32.238 --> 00:49:34.238
the port and coming into the port.

00:49:34.238 --> 00:49:39.938
And so during that time, I forgot how many billions of dollars was lost during

00:49:39.938 --> 00:49:41.738
that period for them doing that.

00:49:41.898 --> 00:49:44.218
And that's when they began to move.

00:49:44.418 --> 00:49:49.138
So if you don't move them with what they want, which is dollars,

00:49:49.518 --> 00:49:51.078
then they're not going to move.

00:49:51.278 --> 00:49:55.938
And so one of the things that I would always say to families who are going through

00:49:55.938 --> 00:50:00.238
is you have to keep the pressure on them.

00:50:00.238 --> 00:50:05.638
If you don't keep the pressure on, they'll know, oh, it's just a fad,

00:50:05.718 --> 00:50:07.118
it's going to pass, right?

00:50:07.478 --> 00:50:13.738
And so even though my sister didn't get into justice that they wanted in the lower court system.

00:50:14.511 --> 00:50:20.351
Mean you stop bothering the Lord court system. You still got a real disruption.

00:50:20.811 --> 00:50:24.971
You still got to get some good trouble standing there, being there,

00:50:25.091 --> 00:50:28.771
and saying, no, no, no, I don't accept what was given to us.

00:50:28.971 --> 00:50:32.951
And so we're still going to fight. We're still going to have people come,

00:50:33.131 --> 00:50:36.211
protest, whatever they need to do to make sure that

00:50:36.211 --> 00:50:39.131
our society stays woke and know that we're not

00:50:39.131 --> 00:50:42.111
forgetting about what happened to Tyree Nichols because too

00:50:42.111 --> 00:50:45.131
many times many of our people don't even say

00:50:45.131 --> 00:50:48.171
anything about their loved one being killed and we don't

00:50:48.171 --> 00:50:51.211
again to speak up about and make sure that we

00:50:51.211 --> 00:50:54.611
are on one accord and finally to ensure

00:50:54.611 --> 00:50:57.511
that justice is served and we know that

00:50:57.511 --> 00:51:00.631
our what would be justice is our children being here

00:51:00.631 --> 00:51:03.551
but we still want a measure of justice to

00:51:03.551 --> 00:51:06.391
make the society that we're not going to accept what

00:51:06.391 --> 00:51:09.311
you're doing and because we're not going to accept it if

00:51:09.311 --> 00:51:11.991
i have to be at the courthouse every day guess what i'm going

00:51:11.991 --> 00:51:15.711
to be there if i have to be in front of city council i'm going to be there if

00:51:15.711 --> 00:51:19.391
i have to be in front of the board of super bottom i'm going to be there it

00:51:19.391 --> 00:51:24.171
has to be a commitment and there's so many people in this fight they want to

00:51:24.171 --> 00:51:27.951
watch the cameras but then when the fight is when the cameras are out there

00:51:27.951 --> 00:51:30.511
they are disappeared too and then you got to be.

00:51:37.791 --> 00:51:42.871
We'll do one back there, answer, and they come to this.

00:51:43.891 --> 00:51:49.231
Oh, yeah, my name is Jason. A lot of the family members know me because I'm

00:51:49.231 --> 00:51:53.231
sure I'm willing to bank them in New York and stuff with ass shop.

00:51:54.231 --> 00:51:58.331
I just wanted to say, really not a question. Let's just say,

00:51:58.611 --> 00:51:59.691
what I guess is the question.

00:52:00.511 --> 00:52:08.211
Y'all travel around the country and tell y'all story, but do anybody ever ask y'all how y'all feel?

00:52:08.671 --> 00:52:13.351
I mean, really, how are you doing? Because y'all come to give us so much,

00:52:13.471 --> 00:52:16.711
but we need to know, like she said, what do y'all need for months?

00:52:16.991 --> 00:52:20.431
But also, y'all know, I call me all the time.

00:52:20.811 --> 00:52:23.591
You feel what I'm saying? Don't just meet these other ones and then just stop

00:52:23.591 --> 00:52:27.591
and go back and tell your friend, oh, hey, I met Breonna Taylor's mother.

00:52:27.591 --> 00:52:31.471
I mean, why don't you call Realitative Mother and see how she's doing sometimes?

00:52:31.871 --> 00:52:36.091
Call George Floyd's brother for longness and ask him, how you doing, brother?

00:52:36.431 --> 00:52:40.511
Because I show up a call, step on and say, how you doing, brother?

00:52:40.791 --> 00:52:41.411
You feel what I'm saying?

00:52:41.751 --> 00:52:45.831
That is what we need. We need to be able to love on each other.

00:52:46.251 --> 00:52:48.851
This is, we know what we up against.

00:52:49.331 --> 00:52:53.531
I mean, it's so many of y'all like y'all across the nation. We know what we up against.

00:52:53.951 --> 00:52:58.631
So now we need to know how to love And to poem each other That's all I'm going to say.

00:53:04.751 --> 00:53:11.671
On that note I have a lot of friends That say Man I just want to give you some space,

00:53:13.458 --> 00:53:21.938
I'd be saying, we need our friends to call us and give us comparisons to pray for us.

00:53:22.518 --> 00:53:28.798
You know, space could be a week or space could be two or three months.

00:53:29.538 --> 00:53:34.718
But at that same token, don't tell me that I was thinking about calling you,

00:53:34.898 --> 00:53:36.638
but I needed to give you some space.

00:53:37.178 --> 00:53:40.638
We need to hear from you know uh as

00:53:40.638 --> 00:53:44.398
a family as a community as a this this

00:53:44.398 --> 00:53:47.778
fellowship we have to figure you know we're part

00:53:47.778 --> 00:53:52.198
of fraternity and we don't want to be a part of you know what i'm saying but

00:53:52.198 --> 00:53:56.258
now that we are a part of that we want to continue to fight together but if

00:53:56.258 --> 00:54:01.738
we do need that encouragement and that uh those phone calls thank you i'm trying

00:54:01.738 --> 00:54:05.958
to people say oh i want to I wanted to come around and I didn't know what to say.

00:54:06.538 --> 00:54:09.798
I tell people all the time, you don't have to say anything. It's simply okay

00:54:09.798 --> 00:54:14.038
to take up space with us. It's simply okay to come in, hug it up.

00:54:14.318 --> 00:54:17.578
We don't have to talk about what happened. We don't have to tell that story

00:54:17.578 --> 00:54:20.018
over and over. Everybody knows the story.

00:54:20.558 --> 00:54:26.198
Simply take up space with us. Simply be in the room. It's all you need is sometimes.

00:54:31.058 --> 00:54:35.158
Thank you. Thank you all so much. My question is very similar.

00:54:35.738 --> 00:54:38.718
I'm Raymond Taliette, I'm the Director of Racial Justice Ministries,

00:54:39.018 --> 00:54:44.218
and I'm also a pastor of the military here in Nashville.

00:54:44.758 --> 00:54:50.738
And one of the things that is very clear that, as you said, you're part of a

00:54:50.738 --> 00:54:54.658
fraternity, a sorority that no one wants to be a part of.

00:54:55.098 --> 00:55:01.898
And it's heavy to know not only that you've lost a child, but also that no one really cares.

00:55:01.898 --> 00:55:07.638
There's no true accountability in what all are created that definitely might

00:55:07.638 --> 00:55:12.818
knock it down and all types of things that have happened throughout or not fully enforced.

00:55:13.038 --> 00:55:17.038
And so you might have a no-not-of-a-stop-stay-walking and all types of things are happening.

00:55:17.238 --> 00:55:21.798
And so it builds the anger, the frustration that is righteous that makes us

00:55:21.798 --> 00:55:23.558
work to do the thing that we're faulting.

00:55:23.738 --> 00:55:29.178
But also, in the midst of that, that anger only causes us to burnout.

00:55:29.178 --> 00:55:34.198
And that's when movement stops. We're so angry, we're so messed up,

00:55:34.538 --> 00:55:38.538
that we feel frustrated with this new administration.

00:55:40.132 --> 00:55:45.832
Like a something every day. And my question for you is that what I also heard

00:55:45.832 --> 00:55:50.672
today were stories of great love, great joy, of remembering,

00:55:51.192 --> 00:55:54.812
of finding the tale of how much I love you on Mother's Day, and all of them

00:55:54.812 --> 00:56:00.312
saying, and those stories of love and joy, that is what keeps us hassled.

00:56:00.432 --> 00:56:04.332
It's just why when building civilized women, when they would be down,

00:56:04.492 --> 00:56:07.312
that they would sing songs in the midst of all of that.

00:56:07.312 --> 00:56:11.032
And I'm wondering, how do you all keep joy, how do you keep hoping,

00:56:11.392 --> 00:56:16.812
how do we share, keep this movement with the anger and the joy?

00:56:17.252 --> 00:56:20.492
Like, because we still need the anger, but how are you keeping the anger and

00:56:20.492 --> 00:56:26.172
the joy together to keep and push the work that he's going to be done so that our children,

00:56:26.792 --> 00:56:32.552
the children, the children might possibly live in a land free? I'm glad. I understand.

00:56:33.752 --> 00:56:37.072
You know, I want you to say everything you said is true.

00:56:37.312 --> 00:56:40.252
And a lot of times we fight

00:56:40.252 --> 00:56:43.952
so hard to do to get burned down but what

00:56:43.952 --> 00:56:47.292
happens is when you get burned down sometimes you

00:56:47.292 --> 00:56:50.312
got to take a step back sometimes you just

00:56:50.312 --> 00:56:53.232
got a little cup over your head that morning and

00:56:53.232 --> 00:56:56.132
said i'm not getting out there i'm not fighting today

00:56:56.132 --> 00:56:59.572
you know i just want to take a rest but now

00:56:59.572 --> 00:57:02.472
after you get yourself together you get back up the next

00:57:02.472 --> 00:57:05.232
day and you start find no order you know

00:57:05.232 --> 00:57:09.132
but sometimes you gotta take that step back and we

00:57:09.132 --> 00:57:14.472
have to fight behind the cameras as well as in front of the cameras you know

00:57:14.472 --> 00:57:20.032
there are a lot of things that i have done behind the canvas as far as getting

00:57:20.032 --> 00:57:27.432
executive orders cast well me and other mothers from new We went to Albany,

00:57:27.572 --> 00:57:29.092
which is our state capitals.

00:57:29.772 --> 00:57:35.352
We lobbied. We asked people to co-sign bills with us.

00:57:35.492 --> 00:57:39.232
And that's how I got the Eric Garner anti-tropo bills.

00:57:40.012 --> 00:57:46.572
This was all done behind the camera. I really got the legislators to fight with me.

00:57:46.912 --> 00:57:53.492
And the ones who said that they voted against it, I went to community meetings

00:57:53.492 --> 00:57:58.432
where they would be, and I did roll for a lot. Why are you not fighting with me?

00:57:58.852 --> 00:58:01.612
What is the reason why you're not doing this for me?

00:58:01.792 --> 00:58:06.632
So this is what we have to do. We have to keep fighting with the community behind

00:58:06.632 --> 00:58:09.772
us, and that's another way that you can help us.

00:58:10.132 --> 00:58:17.392
Any time that you hear that the legislators are in town and there is some war

00:58:17.392 --> 00:58:21.752
that has been done, you can go there and you can speak up. You can even go for

00:58:21.752 --> 00:58:24.332
the reasons they have meetings once in,

00:58:25.431 --> 00:58:30.411
just had to keep it going like we can't just sit on our couch and look at a

00:58:30.411 --> 00:58:38.311
new story another child like you oh that's so bad another child like me no we

00:58:38.311 --> 00:58:41.131
can't just sympathize we got to sympathize.

00:58:47.551 --> 00:58:53.371
Well it's easy for me you don't need money or fame to fight all you need is

00:58:53.371 --> 00:58:58.451
the truth and the wheel to keep going that keeps you motivated and you get up every morning.

00:58:59.091 --> 00:59:03.411
I do everything just like working out. You got to push through because every

00:59:03.411 --> 00:59:04.691
day there's going to be a struggle.

00:59:04.911 --> 00:59:09.211
But if you keep moving, you're going to get everybody in the right situation.

00:59:09.571 --> 00:59:14.651
I'm always fighting for, especially poor people, so they can have to understand

00:59:14.651 --> 00:59:18.711
it to get a job because they need to have the trails.

00:59:19.071 --> 00:59:22.911
They need to be able to do that because if we don't put them in that situation,

00:59:23.371 --> 00:59:27.191
they don't want to step up and want to move with you for a reason.

00:59:27.491 --> 00:59:31.411
And that's what happened when the Democrats was fighting in the office.

00:59:31.911 --> 00:59:35.091
Nobody was pushing for people to get the trades and get the jobs.

00:59:35.291 --> 00:59:36.611
They held our people back.

00:59:36.831 --> 00:59:42.251
Because on a lot of things that I was a truck driver so I know where money comes from.

00:59:42.431 --> 00:59:47.551
And they had that opportunity to be farmers, welders, angivac,

00:59:47.791 --> 00:59:50.051
whatever anymore, they couldn't get it.

00:59:50.151 --> 00:59:56.351
And they had the opportunity and no disrespect to any other nationality,

00:59:57.111 --> 01:00:03.511
we have the opportunity to be a good life in life because we take the streets in this world.

01:00:03.771 --> 01:00:07.791
We did a lot, but we're selecting right now. We're holding ourselves for that.

01:00:08.011 --> 01:00:10.311
If I die, get the door. We're supposed to do anything.

01:00:11.211 --> 01:00:16.091
That's a fear. I'm going to say something after you when I want to.

01:00:16.671 --> 01:00:18.951
He talked about an actionable item.

01:00:19.891 --> 01:00:26.431
One of the actionable items that you people could do here is to help Tyrese and Uncle Sam.

01:00:26.711 --> 01:00:32.591
One of the ways, too, that you can also go and help them is find out when their

01:00:32.591 --> 01:00:38.011
city council meeting or their board of supervisors meeting and go to that meeting.

01:00:38.271 --> 01:00:42.971
Because how many of us in this place have actually went to where he was still

01:00:42.971 --> 01:00:44.891
at to any of those meetings?

01:00:46.038 --> 01:00:50.818
Want to get that i want to encourage you if you have not even though they gave

01:00:50.818 --> 01:00:56.158
a verdict you can still go into the board of supervisors meeting or your city

01:00:56.158 --> 01:00:58.178
council meeting and tell your.

01:00:59.038 --> 01:01:03.558
Dissatisfaction and let them know you know what what you guys did how the officer

01:01:03.558 --> 01:01:08.418
was found they were found not guilty we don't agree with that we don't like

01:01:08.418 --> 01:01:15.798
it and you need to voice that in those offices because that police place, that city know,

01:01:16.358 --> 01:01:21.178
the commission know, that police station know that you are aware of what's going

01:01:21.178 --> 01:01:27.038
on and that you are not in agreement with what's going on and that's where your

01:01:27.038 --> 01:01:28.658
voice can really start at.

01:01:29.158 --> 01:01:33.758
And they try to do that as well as to sit with them and be there in whatever

01:01:33.758 --> 01:01:39.418
direction they give you to follow, to help and follow that direction out to

01:01:39.418 --> 01:01:43.118
help give them take the form of justice that they're looking for.

01:01:43.578 --> 01:01:48.858
Yeah, I just wanted to add that, you know, I think the question was around how

01:01:48.858 --> 01:01:51.278
you navigate the joy and trauma.

01:01:51.738 --> 01:01:56.158
So when my grandma gets on therapy, when I take therapy as well,

01:01:56.358 --> 01:02:03.378
but I would believe for families like mine, self-care is the most important form of health care.

01:02:03.998 --> 01:02:09.578
So I believe that we've got to take care of ourselves. Whatever self-care is, you need a self-care.

01:02:10.058 --> 01:02:12.718
Number one is my mother. That's Jenner, so yeah.

01:02:13.298 --> 01:02:20.278
And for your team, Jenner. Hi, my name is Dr. Gloria Woods. I am from Chattanooga.

01:02:20.938 --> 01:02:28.178
I'm a practicing of Dr. Dent's surgery for birth type use. And I've owned my business for 35 hours.

01:02:32.898 --> 01:02:37.658
And God has blessed me to be in a position to be your owner,

01:02:38.098 --> 01:02:44.578
one of only two, but I'm bringing those stage piece, WQB 1001FDM, in Chatham New.

01:02:45.058 --> 01:02:50.118
I was born and raised in Chatham New, and I promise that Chatham New falls with me.

01:02:51.368 --> 01:02:57.908
I'm friend of the first Chattanooga Man organization in Chattanooga.

01:03:01.928 --> 01:03:06.708
I went to jail school in Memphis, met my first cousin in Memphis.

01:03:08.028 --> 01:03:13.888
So my roots are deep, and from this time in Memphis, I can promise you,

01:03:14.208 --> 01:03:20.288
and anybody that knows me, knows that when I do things, I do it right.

01:03:20.288 --> 01:03:25.008
Okay, so I'm a very analytical person. I've heard a whole lot today.

01:03:25.448 --> 01:03:30.388
There are some questions that's got to answer because we were confused.

01:03:30.928 --> 01:03:35.148
I will tell you all that I'm the president of Austin Park Development Corporation,

01:03:35.728 --> 01:03:40.688
which is the only black community development corporation in Charnooga that

01:03:40.688 --> 01:03:43.048
own millions of dollars from the backstakes.

01:03:43.048 --> 01:03:48.728
So we have a power to do some things, but it has to be strategic.

01:03:49.788 --> 01:03:53.508
If I learn anything in life, I've learned that if we go out there five times

01:03:53.508 --> 01:03:57.448
a while, and when it all comes away, we won't get done. Right?

01:03:58.448 --> 01:04:03.348
So I would like to see a GMK star who was saying, writing letters,

01:04:03.968 --> 01:04:05.508
going to the city council meeting.

01:04:05.908 --> 01:04:10.108
They hear you that one time, they give you three days to talk, and then you're done.

01:04:10.708 --> 01:04:14.208
Right? This is my side of the week and chat with Hamptonshell.

01:04:15.431 --> 01:04:18.851
To see us form the campaign with these

01:04:18.851 --> 01:04:22.571
wonderful mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters

01:04:22.571 --> 01:04:25.671
here on the stage that the letters

01:04:25.671 --> 01:04:32.471
the letters will go unanimously together to each one of these and the nationalities

01:04:32.471 --> 01:04:36.451
and cities and states where these mothers have been done wrong I have three

01:04:36.451 --> 01:04:42.231
children they're all grown men and I have two girls and one son and my son is

01:04:42.231 --> 01:04:43.931
a good old American hot dog kid,

01:04:44.571 --> 01:04:48.551
And if I got the news that something happened to my only son,

01:04:48.851 --> 01:04:52.731
and I tell him every day, son, if you're pulled over by the police,

01:04:52.891 --> 01:04:55.131
as soon as you see the blue light, you call your line.

01:04:55.731 --> 01:05:00.391
So I can tell you where you are. So it's to the point to where we've ordered

01:05:00.391 --> 01:05:02.931
some data scams. This guy's been dangerous.

01:05:03.551 --> 01:05:05.931
But I want to know where they are immediately.

01:05:06.771 --> 01:05:13.851
Put your hand on a steering wheel. Ask the officer. The question is, sorry, thank you.

01:05:14.851 --> 01:05:21.791
The question is, what can we do in Chattanooga for young organizing the efforts

01:05:21.791 --> 01:05:27.131
with you and all the other folks on the panel to get the letter writing campaign started?

01:05:27.851 --> 01:05:32.531
And if you would tell us that, I would help you and get you on radio show so

01:05:32.531 --> 01:05:33.691
that your voice can't hear.

01:05:35.911 --> 01:05:40.891
I think pretty much everyone here said just keep it going because you are in

01:05:40.891 --> 01:05:42.691
it every day and you're tired.

01:05:42.931 --> 01:05:47.391
You need to add somebody in but collectively showing up consistently and all

01:05:47.391 --> 01:05:52.091
the time but specifically for Tyree's family as it relates to Chattahoga.

01:05:52.711 --> 01:06:00.091
What can she do to support? Well, like she said we all have to have a voice

01:06:00.091 --> 01:06:05.191
because at the end of the day was atrocious.

01:06:05.711 --> 01:06:14.571
When we saw George Floyd in 2020, the whole world saw George Floyd die on that

01:06:14.571 --> 01:06:17.431
ground with that man's on his neck.

01:06:18.031 --> 01:06:21.751
And when the world saw it for the first time.

01:06:22.771 --> 01:06:30.251
I never thought that this would happen in a million years that that type of

01:06:30.251 --> 01:06:33.051
incident then what happened in Kingway.

01:06:33.531 --> 01:06:37.491
I know we do need a lot of help.

01:06:37.891 --> 01:06:43.251
All the mothers are here. We go to these city council meetings and fight.

01:06:43.851 --> 01:06:52.231
Have I been to New York, Washington, all these places and grieving at the same time.

01:06:52.911 --> 01:07:00.511
But it's funny, people really don't care about us. They I don't care about our students.

01:07:01.131 --> 01:07:10.531
Like Wanda said, the only time they care is when their money is being removed or disrupted.

01:07:12.631 --> 01:07:19.671
Police officers did to my son should have never happened. That should have never happened.

01:07:20.751 --> 01:07:26.891
And what I would like though, and I'm probably off subject a little bit, but what I would like,

01:07:27.831 --> 01:07:32.191
I know they say they need reform in the police departments and things of that

01:07:32.191 --> 01:07:37.331
nature, but those police officers need to take mental evaluations.

01:07:37.331 --> 01:07:39.411
Every six months.

01:07:41.471 --> 01:07:47.391
They say every year or every two years, but this world is crazy these days.

01:07:47.971 --> 01:07:54.191
I get it. Everybody has problems, but they chose the job to be a police officer

01:07:54.191 --> 01:07:56.151
and to protect and serve.

01:07:57.071 --> 01:08:01.231
And a lot of them, and I'm not going to say all, because we do have some great

01:08:01.231 --> 01:08:07.091
police officers. I know a few of them, but we have some bad police officers out there.

01:08:07.331 --> 01:08:11.911
And those are the ones that we need to figure out and get rid of.

01:08:12.551 --> 01:08:18.651
And if we can do that, I think we'll have a bad chance. I really can't.

01:08:19.511 --> 01:08:25.671
Don't be here. Yeah. My name is Pastor Phil Gale Walker. I'm a social pastor here at Fairfield.

01:08:26.051 --> 01:08:30.451
I'm in a very capable industry. I'm about to have these young guys, senior pastor.

01:08:30.971 --> 01:08:33.871
I had permission to come here and just listen to me and say anything.

01:08:33.871 --> 01:08:37.311
And then she said something, stir something up in it.

01:08:37.451 --> 01:08:42.171
And we talked about the guilty verdict and how they were found not guilty.

01:08:42.331 --> 01:08:46.011
Not guilty, not guilty, not guilty, but found not guilty on 29 charges.

01:08:47.506 --> 01:08:51.966
There were much more that they were found not guilty on, on all those lesser charges.

01:08:52.306 --> 01:08:57.266
The reason why it hit me was because on March 24th, 2015, my 24-year-old daughter

01:08:57.266 --> 01:09:01.906
was murdered by her boyfriend and went to the court two years later sitting

01:09:01.906 --> 01:09:04.786
in that process and they found him not guilty.

01:09:05.046 --> 01:09:09.746
And they could at the very least have found him guilty of wrecking his homicide

01:09:09.746 --> 01:09:14.486
in the same way it could have done in this town of Terry Nichols' case.

01:09:14.626 --> 01:09:19.226
But they chose not to do it. And what that indicates to me is that there's a

01:09:19.226 --> 01:09:21.866
problem within our justice system.

01:09:22.066 --> 01:09:24.946
There's a problem within our political system.

01:09:25.206 --> 01:09:31.106
Here in Tennessee right now, we have a supermajority in our system here that's

01:09:31.106 --> 01:09:33.046
legislating all types of evil.

01:09:33.786 --> 01:09:39.806
But people are able to get in these political positionings because of us not

01:09:39.806 --> 01:09:42.826
participating and the things we should be participating in.

01:09:42.826 --> 01:09:46.946
You know, I'm an excellent friend that happened to come out with my voting advice

01:09:46.946 --> 01:09:49.306
because of the years that I was convicted of my crime.

01:09:49.946 --> 01:09:54.246
And I had the ability to vote. But there are many others who wish that they

01:09:54.246 --> 01:09:57.466
could vote and would participate in the process that they can't.

01:09:57.726 --> 01:10:02.226
But then we got those who can vote that will sit home and don't vote.

01:10:02.486 --> 01:10:07.686
And then we'll come together and we'll complain about what they're doing when we put vote people in.

01:10:07.746 --> 01:10:10.906
And also they would challenge the stuff that we're displeased with.

01:10:10.906 --> 01:10:16.506
So as long as we sit home on our behinds and do nothing, we have no reason to

01:10:16.506 --> 01:10:18.066
complain about what's going on.

01:10:18.386 --> 01:10:22.166
But if we get out here and stop marching just to be in front of people,

01:10:22.486 --> 01:10:27.346
but march for your purpose to accomplish something in this government that we

01:10:27.346 --> 01:10:30.046
have to live in, and stand for change again, every day,

01:10:30.386 --> 01:10:33.846
or if you're not going to let them put your things to shut up and get fucked.

01:10:33.846 --> 01:10:36.426
To all the facilities. Thank you.

01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:52.620
Okay, I don't so much as I have a question, but I do have a comment.

01:10:52.900 --> 01:10:56.840
My name is Patricia Lurie, and I'm from the Nantra, Memphis.

01:10:57.320 --> 01:11:05.000
We haven't been established that long, but we are good on Tyrese Nichols and the verdict.

01:11:05.400 --> 01:11:10.720
It is not the end. But what we do need is to give them what they need.

01:11:10.920 --> 01:11:15.260
They need support. they need people we

01:11:15.260 --> 01:11:18.660
have to have people behind them to

01:11:18.660 --> 01:11:22.260
push through to where we try to go and

01:11:22.260 --> 01:11:29.720
so many of you all made the perfect company we need each other not just in Memphis

01:11:29.720 --> 01:11:40.360
we can galvanize but whatever we need I say we every time that it has to happen we are the people,

01:11:41.140 --> 01:11:47.440
understand what that means and take it in our own hands and do what we need

01:11:47.440 --> 01:11:52.700
to do for our people and they have to answer to us.

01:11:53.835 --> 01:11:58.675
We have past, but we must understand that we have that.

01:11:59.095 --> 01:12:02.015
We galvanize ourselves from all over.

01:12:02.675 --> 01:12:10.675
No matter what the situation is, each one of them can have all of us there pushing for him.

01:12:11.215 --> 01:12:16.555
Not for one day. He pushes till he breaks. Amen.

01:12:17.235 --> 01:12:24.595
And then we're hearing, I think what it's still, we're hearing a lot of the saying.

01:12:24.995 --> 01:12:28.635
It is what you all need, support. You all said it, you all said it,

01:12:28.775 --> 01:12:32.635
galvanize, show up, not just some days, every day, all of that.

01:12:32.915 --> 01:12:38.655
Let me ask you all, what does justice look like? Because we said we fight for justice.

01:12:39.195 --> 01:12:42.615
You know, we can talk about a verdict, but if you do get the verdict,

01:12:43.015 --> 01:12:44.575
does that feel like justice for you?

01:12:44.695 --> 01:12:49.135
We can get legislation passed. So as we talk about and ask you,

01:12:49.295 --> 01:12:50.835
how can we support? What do you need?

01:12:50.935 --> 01:12:55.075
And I think for everyone else setting up, we got it. They need us. They said it.

01:12:55.355 --> 01:13:00.095
But let me ask you all, what does justice look like for you in your situations?

01:13:00.535 --> 01:13:05.395
Is there such thing as justice for you? So what does it look like?

01:13:06.055 --> 01:13:08.795
Well, justice for me is my son, Tommy, that's home.

01:13:10.215 --> 01:13:17.615
And that's justice for me. But I believe there's really never any justice as far as I'm concerned.

01:13:18.355 --> 01:13:24.975
But if your story or if you could help someone else or prevent this from happening

01:13:24.975 --> 01:13:28.375
to someone else, that's justice for me.

01:13:28.615 --> 01:13:34.435
Because at the end of the day, my son is unalive and he will never come home.

01:13:34.435 --> 01:13:40.675
So there's never, there never could be any justice, even though they might go

01:13:40.675 --> 01:13:43.155
to jail on the federal side.

01:13:43.675 --> 01:13:48.295
My son is in a urn right now.

01:13:49.255 --> 01:13:55.915
Their families can visit there in jail, but I could never look or kiss my son.

01:13:55.915 --> 01:13:59.555
So there's never really any justice on it.

01:14:00.135 --> 01:14:05.095
But as I said, if we can help to prevent this from happening to someone else,

01:14:05.675 --> 01:14:07.135
that's the justice for me.

01:14:12.235 --> 01:14:16.255
Justice for me is my brother, he received a life sentence.

01:14:16.935 --> 01:14:19.955
So on the other end, they need a life sentence.

01:14:20.335 --> 01:14:25.675
That's what justice is. because I'm from the province and if you talk to anybody

01:14:25.675 --> 01:14:28.955
in the province, they'll tell you they killed 10 of mine, I'm going to kill

01:14:28.955 --> 01:14:35.215
20 of theirs so the bottom line is give up some type of autonomy because we need that,

01:14:36.695 --> 01:14:40.515
I'm going to take off my number one, when she said, you know,

01:14:40.595 --> 01:14:42.055
justice is not my loved ones here.

01:14:42.375 --> 01:14:45.295
We don't have our loved ones, so there ain't no justice.

01:14:45.655 --> 01:14:48.875
You know, Dr. King said justice delayed, justice denied.

01:14:49.455 --> 01:14:53.655
And, you know, we can delay justice for too long. So what we like to do is more

01:14:53.655 --> 01:14:56.935
accountability for what these officers did to our loved ones.

01:14:57.055 --> 01:15:00.675
But justice, I think, when my wife took me, most of y'all fell down when we

01:15:00.675 --> 01:15:02.335
came down because we're not our loved ones.

01:15:04.115 --> 01:15:07.495
I was talking about that earlier and this is organized chaos

01:15:07.495 --> 01:15:10.455
and it's chaotic when it's organized

01:15:10.455 --> 01:15:13.215
and we got to move and we got to

01:15:13.215 --> 01:15:16.035
galvanize and we got to stand together as one but we

01:15:16.035 --> 01:15:21.235
got to get under people to be able to have that understanding and want to do

01:15:21.235 --> 01:15:25.195
it too we got to be able to get these people structured because the people that

01:15:25.195 --> 01:15:30.875
we need we need them to be able to clam up but we got to help them nobody's

01:15:30.875 --> 01:15:33.815
helping these people, so they don't want to say anything.

01:15:34.095 --> 01:15:37.915
The struggles we've been fighting for, we've been fighting for 400 years.

01:15:38.115 --> 01:15:42.415
And all the stuff that they've been passing on us, and all the people that got

01:15:42.415 --> 01:15:46.655
voted in, people have reason why they voted the other side.

01:15:47.035 --> 01:15:51.935
But right now, you don't see us out there watching. Who do you see out there?

01:15:52.315 --> 01:15:54.675
You see Caucasian people.

01:15:55.555 --> 01:15:57.955
They're fighting for something we've been fighting for.

01:15:59.015 --> 01:16:00.395
And right now.

01:16:06.335 --> 01:16:10.175
We still trying to get these people to get life sentences.

01:16:10.675 --> 01:16:14.475
They give these people a slap for a minute. And we got to wake up every day

01:16:14.475 --> 01:16:16.055
and see the same stuff on the news.

01:16:16.415 --> 01:16:19.375
Somebody else being murdered. Over and over and over again.

01:16:20.969 --> 01:16:27.229
I guess this day justice would be when all those police officers who were advised

01:16:27.229 --> 01:16:33.709
and stood for counsel and all the transparency would come out about what they actually did.

01:16:33.709 --> 01:16:38.229
And even though none of those officers got charged,

01:16:38.889 --> 01:16:46.049
I still made them come to court, got a foil, I made them testify,

01:16:46.049 --> 01:16:51.509
and they may never be charged, but I will correct them to death.

01:16:53.249 --> 01:16:57.189
So justice for me there's

01:16:57.189 --> 01:17:01.589
no justice for our children our children can't come back so there's no justice

01:17:01.589 --> 01:17:07.309
but we just need to feel some kind of peace in our heart that something was

01:17:07.309 --> 01:17:12.669
done because of their murder and even when there is something done even those

01:17:12.669 --> 01:17:14.909
of us who've got a little justice,

01:17:15.029 --> 01:17:17.889
I call it a little justice because we still don't have our children.

01:17:19.389 --> 01:17:21.909
It doesn't feel as good as we thought it would feel.

01:17:22.869 --> 01:17:27.269
We don't, because when that officer got fighting, I thought I would feel joyous.

01:17:27.609 --> 01:17:33.029
It wasn't that kind of feeling for me. It was the sadness plus it didn't do

01:17:33.029 --> 01:17:33.869
nothing to do with my staff.

01:17:34.589 --> 01:17:38.529
So, you know, justice is, you know, what you want justice to do.

01:17:39.029 --> 01:17:42.949
It sounds like, as we're past the mic, it sounds like accountability is more

01:17:42.949 --> 01:17:46.749
the goal than, I mean, of course, we want a verdict, right?

01:17:46.829 --> 01:17:50.429
We want, you know, the conviction. but accountability is

01:17:50.429 --> 01:17:53.149
more that and and prevention of the

01:17:53.149 --> 01:17:55.869
future okay well that's exactly what

01:17:55.869 --> 01:17:58.989
i was going to say it's really more about accountability and the

01:17:58.989 --> 01:18:02.369
prevention because the thing is this we can get all accountability in

01:18:02.369 --> 01:18:05.689
the world but if we tomorrow there's another variety and

01:18:05.689 --> 01:18:11.509
then one and then the fact that we it shouldn't take this long it's five years

01:18:11.509 --> 01:18:16.109
for me 10 for others three for some you know it should never take that long

01:18:16.109 --> 01:18:21.309
to get any type of justice and then what's gonna happen is when we don't there's

01:18:21.309 --> 01:18:23.509
gonna be more of a surgeon these different worlds.

01:18:27.243 --> 01:18:31.463
This, for me, what we used to say is, it's just us right here.

01:18:32.203 --> 01:18:37.423
Justice is just being able to seek accountability in this face of,

01:18:37.683 --> 01:18:42.663
I always said that it is a conflict of interest, in my opinion,

01:18:43.123 --> 01:18:49.163
when the district attorney is working to charge the police.

01:18:49.283 --> 01:18:53.763
And I say that because they often come together.

01:18:54.063 --> 01:18:57.963
They often play golf together. their kids go to school together,

01:18:58.183 --> 01:19:04.843
and so they're definitely not going to work to get their friend convicted who

01:19:04.843 --> 01:19:07.283
they work with all their lives.

01:19:07.903 --> 01:19:11.163
So accountability is one,

01:19:11.423 --> 01:19:17.943
being able to see that separation and understand when our children are killed by the police,

01:19:17.943 --> 01:19:24.743
to be able to get an attorney that is not representing the polices in the court

01:19:24.743 --> 01:19:27.743
system causing our children to go to jail.

01:19:28.143 --> 01:19:34.923
The second thing that I like is oftentimes the coroner's office and the sheriff's

01:19:34.923 --> 01:19:37.003
departments usually work together.

01:19:37.243 --> 01:19:44.143
And so because they work together, the coroner's office can render the death certificate the.

01:19:45.032 --> 01:19:48.012
The sheriff's department wants the deficit get rid

01:19:48.012 --> 01:19:51.512
of it that's another department that i would like to see separated

01:19:51.512 --> 01:19:54.492
and so we have to look at the way

01:19:54.492 --> 01:19:57.192
that our system is built at the

01:19:57.192 --> 01:20:00.512
different layers and understand that until he

01:20:00.512 --> 01:20:03.212
began to dismount and to tear down some of

01:20:03.212 --> 01:20:06.432
these layers and rebuild them differently that

01:20:06.432 --> 01:20:09.772
we're going to continue to get the same results that

01:20:09.772 --> 01:20:12.892
we have been getting for years and the

01:20:12.892 --> 01:20:17.452
last thing that i would like to see because we go none of us up here have gotten

01:20:17.452 --> 01:20:23.032
the justice that we want again that accountability it's dealing with food from

01:20:23.032 --> 01:20:25.312
police officers we talked about

01:20:25.312 --> 01:20:30.092
previously uh i'm a sister that i was on that you can become a barbara.

01:20:30.732 --> 01:20:34.132
Almost faster than you can a police officer and

01:20:34.132 --> 01:20:37.132
so the majority level of those that

01:20:37.132 --> 01:20:39.912
are becoming police officers have really in

01:20:39.912 --> 01:20:42.672
a sense if you look at the age level where when we

01:20:42.672 --> 01:20:45.632
look at how our society is ran and how it's

01:20:45.632 --> 01:20:48.572
said that men mature at a slower

01:20:48.572 --> 01:20:51.692
rate than women so when you have someone going

01:20:51.692 --> 01:20:57.452
into the police force that's 18 and 19 and 20 years old or 21 years old rather

01:20:57.452 --> 01:21:04.572
starting at 21 they may not even be mature enough to carry a gun and so i think

01:21:04.572 --> 01:21:08.732
that that has to be looked at the way we're doing our hiring practices,

01:21:09.272 --> 01:21:14.252
the way we are reprimanding our police in the system, in the police stations,

01:21:14.472 --> 01:21:19.952
because oftentimes they are allowed to kill in one city and move to the next

01:21:19.952 --> 01:21:22.492
city and get a same policing job.

01:21:22.632 --> 01:21:27.452
And it has to be a database that we was talking about trying to come up where

01:21:27.452 --> 01:21:31.632
when they kill in one city, it's made known,

01:21:32.072 --> 01:21:36.652
hey, you got this police officer coming into your state and he's already killed

01:21:36.652 --> 01:21:42.112
in this city so things like that have to be brought and implemented to ensure

01:21:42.112 --> 01:21:45.272
that that accountability portion was there.

01:21:52.272 --> 01:22:00.372
And what she was saying about that they follow the cases of some of these police

01:22:00.372 --> 01:22:08.872
officers The unit that was involved in my son's murder was called the Scorpion unit.

01:22:11.462 --> 01:22:16.402
Is supposed to go around these high crime areas and look for people going through

01:22:16.402 --> 01:22:18.742
us and doing all this different type of stuff.

01:22:19.282 --> 01:22:23.142
I don't know why they just in my neighborhood and put this down the crime crime

01:22:23.142 --> 01:22:25.902
here, here, but they went there.

01:22:26.242 --> 01:22:32.742
But my point is to say this, those young men, I think the oldest was 31.

01:22:34.022 --> 01:22:37.742
One of them had birthed at a Burger King three years prior.

01:22:37.742 --> 01:22:40.662
So what I'm saying is when

01:22:40.662 --> 01:22:43.902
we have these type of humans I understand

01:22:43.902 --> 01:22:49.082
there's problems in the cities but I feel like these type of humans should have

01:22:49.082 --> 01:22:55.382
more qualified officers because you've got these young guys coming in they have

01:22:55.382 --> 01:23:03.422
these badges and they're broke you know so that's one of the things that I'm fighting for.

01:23:04.922 --> 01:23:11.402
Is to be able to when we have these units to have officers that are seizing,

01:23:11.682 --> 01:23:17.662
that can understand the streets a little bit better because a lot of the things

01:23:17.662 --> 01:23:21.742
you guys didn't hear about my son's case in the federal trial.

01:23:22.822 --> 01:23:28.142
And the officer basically said, the only reason why he pulled my son over is

01:23:28.142 --> 01:23:33.642
because he was pissed off because he had made an arrest and a girl here stopped.

01:23:34.302 --> 01:23:41.002
So just imagine sitting in a courtroom, your son is dead, and you heard the

01:23:41.002 --> 01:23:44.202
police officer say, Well, you know, he really didn't do anything.

01:23:44.822 --> 01:23:48.302
He grabbed that blood. He went through a yellow light, but he made it.

01:23:48.802 --> 01:23:55.322
But I was so pissed off that I had to stop him because the earlier stop failed.

01:23:55.962 --> 01:24:00.622
Could you just imagine that? Somebody telling me that, that that's the reason

01:24:00.622 --> 01:24:03.762
why your child is not here? because they were mad.

01:24:04.102 --> 01:24:08.582
And this is what I say, that these police officers.

01:24:10.544 --> 01:24:17.804
Through mental evaluations at least every six months because this just doesn't make any sense.

01:24:17.964 --> 01:24:26.264
Not that every time you turn on the TV, you see one of our children murdered by the police officer.

01:24:26.504 --> 01:24:29.704
I guess we know there's a black on black line. We all love that.

01:24:30.124 --> 01:24:36.704
But at the end of the day, these people were hired by us. our tax dollars pay

01:24:36.704 --> 01:24:43.744
their salaries and they're here to pretend to serve, not to murder our children.

01:24:44.844 --> 01:24:49.444
Yeah. Really quick, I just wanted to provide an example or express the importance

01:24:49.444 --> 01:24:50.904
of voting through an example.

01:24:51.604 --> 01:24:58.464
If 47 decides to examine a pardon, but at a federal level, he will still see

01:24:58.464 --> 01:25:02.284
22 years on a statement because of that conviction on both levels.

01:25:03.244 --> 01:25:07.244
If the governor, who is Tim Walsh, would have to pardon him on a stable rental.

01:25:07.564 --> 01:25:10.724
And so that's why it's so important to vote. A lot of candidates are like,

01:25:10.804 --> 01:25:12.864
I'm not voting. I don't know anything about this person.

01:25:13.064 --> 01:25:16.164
You know, they had all sorts of reasons that said why didn't they vote.

01:25:16.224 --> 01:25:18.124
They didn't believe in the administration and so on.

01:25:18.384 --> 01:25:22.744
But it's important to vote for someone, you know, so that collectively,

01:25:22.804 --> 01:25:24.944
they are good ones, is ultimately making a final decision.

01:25:25.104 --> 01:25:27.644
You want that, you know, person to not get off.

01:25:28.084 --> 01:25:31.964
It's important to express the importance of that. We've got time for one last

01:25:31.964 --> 01:25:34.584
very brief question before we read. Oh, thank you for me.

01:25:35.024 --> 01:25:37.824
My name is Nancy. For our second, make sure the mic is on speaker.

01:25:38.984 --> 01:25:43.504
Hello? Are you? My name is Nancy Dawson. I'm a former professor of black status.

01:25:44.124 --> 01:25:49.464
So, uh, you know, I've been sitting here thinking, what you're describing a

01:25:49.464 --> 01:25:52.624
lynch is a legal lynch. We make a ton of money like that.

01:25:53.304 --> 01:25:59.704
And, uh, you know, you know, I'm kind of emotional because I had been through, I was just in Kentucky.

01:26:00.524 --> 01:26:05.524
And you know, you know anything about Hopkins Field, you know anything about, uh, East Kentucky.

01:26:06.024 --> 01:26:10.444
You know, I had police bullets on me, and I woke up. So, you know,

01:26:11.184 --> 01:26:12.464
we're still terrorists.

01:26:13.084 --> 01:26:17.144
All of these terrorists. And you can be a man or a woman, but you think that

01:26:17.144 --> 01:26:20.764
I'm here to say that I'm terrorized. You know, cause they steal the pain.

01:26:21.264 --> 01:26:26.604
Every time I say please, I think I may be a constant. we shouldn't have to live

01:26:26.604 --> 01:26:32.644
like this we shouldn't have to feel this pain and misery so we feel it to people.

01:26:34.275 --> 01:26:38.395
And I just want to say thank you. Thank you for all the things you've done.

01:26:38.695 --> 01:26:40.695
Thank you for your crisis.

01:26:41.755 --> 01:26:43.795
Thank you. Thank you.

01:26:45.955 --> 01:26:51.195
We appreciate what you do. And we suffer too. And all of us suffer this long.

01:26:52.195 --> 01:26:57.215
And we don't fight. And we don't fight. Thank you so much.

01:26:59.975 --> 01:27:05.275
I want to, as we close now, just, you know, I'll give y'all just one less time

01:27:05.275 --> 01:27:06.795
to really circulate the microphone.

01:27:07.435 --> 01:27:10.395
You know, anything, because I know some of you have some projects that you're

01:27:10.395 --> 01:27:14.495
working on, books, documentaries, if you want to share information about that,

01:27:14.635 --> 01:27:16.975
how folks in the audience can access that.

01:27:17.655 --> 01:27:21.015
And then any memory that you want your loved one to have.

01:27:21.135 --> 01:27:25.095
Because we don't, one of the things I always say, because it's a difficult question,

01:27:25.235 --> 01:27:29.615
approach that I had to make to people when I'm not on whatever news story and

01:27:29.615 --> 01:27:32.955
I've got to talk to them and something just happened or the day after.

01:27:32.955 --> 01:27:35.135
And I was very sincere in it.

01:27:35.475 --> 01:27:41.375
I want to talk to you about the memory, the life of your loved one, not how they died.

01:27:41.755 --> 01:27:46.715
How do you want us to remember how your loved one lived, not how they died?

01:27:47.535 --> 01:27:49.435
When you're just walking through my body.

01:27:51.255 --> 01:27:54.955
I love to memory life-and-life to switch that on in a positive life.

01:27:55.515 --> 01:27:59.555
One of the main things we have in the movement, when we say something like sing

01:27:59.555 --> 01:28:03.535
their names and then the crowd say the other thing And, you know,

01:28:03.635 --> 01:28:09.235
we had recently, about a year or two ago, we did the Stephon Clark College Preparatory Middle School.

01:28:10.055 --> 01:28:12.835
And thank you. Thank you.

01:28:14.175 --> 01:28:19.535
All three of y'all. Thank you. But the way we're doing was with that middle

01:28:19.535 --> 01:28:22.215
school, they spent my brother's name every day, you know.

01:28:22.655 --> 01:28:27.035
And that is how, you know, I always say that can be like a legacy when I was

01:28:27.035 --> 01:28:31.375
like, because my brother just has some kid who was an arm killed in my brother's back daughter.

01:28:31.375 --> 01:28:35.135
He was the father you know he was the brother now

01:28:35.135 --> 01:28:37.855
uh kids record cards and all that have his name on

01:28:37.855 --> 01:28:42.275
the kids graduated this school so uh

01:28:42.275 --> 01:28:51.775
yeah so uh say his name is y'all family out i said say his name say his name

01:28:51.775 --> 01:29:00.995
so we got the generous and when you all when you all are speaking as we're closing.

01:29:01.195 --> 01:29:03.315
There's that camera back there. He just flipped on it now.

01:29:03.615 --> 01:29:07.095
Okay, so we have the George Floyd Justice Police knife that will push on heel

01:29:07.095 --> 01:29:10.875
thoroughly, and it has the blood of every last student over here.

01:29:11.215 --> 01:29:14.195
A lot of these ladies fighting for far longer than what we've been fighting.

01:29:15.416 --> 01:29:19.656
Against that bill last year in 2025. Unfortunately, we lost our Congresswoman,

01:29:19.676 --> 01:29:22.096
so the bill dies with the Congressmen, with the Congresswoman.

01:29:22.416 --> 01:29:27.116
We've lost two Congresswoman people. So we are hoping and pushing to reintroduce

01:29:27.116 --> 01:29:31.196
that bill under this administration and continue to fight for justice.

01:29:31.436 --> 01:29:35.636
We also want to underserve not-star communities. We provide children,

01:29:36.076 --> 01:29:40.516
families, kids, twins of care to try and heal their homes.

01:29:40.656 --> 01:29:44.396
A lot of things that they find, they pay all their bills, they do work,

01:29:44.396 --> 01:29:46.756
where they, you know, get their checks or whatever, and they pay all the bills,

01:29:46.896 --> 01:29:48.616
and they still just simply can't sustain.

01:29:48.896 --> 01:29:52.216
And so we go in and we educate, and we bring about real resources.

01:29:52.656 --> 01:29:56.076
People always say, you don't qualify for this reason, or you don't qualify for that reason.

01:29:56.376 --> 01:30:01.056
And so we raise funds to make sure that we are able to help them do bills,

01:30:01.236 --> 01:30:03.936
you know, and they do qualify on groundwork.

01:30:04.336 --> 01:30:09.296
And so that's very important for us. We also have culinary school where we teach

01:30:09.296 --> 01:30:13.096
you to use finance, so we're seeing intentional how to cook and different things

01:30:13.096 --> 01:30:16.036
like that, I'd say in the kitchen, we have several programs.

01:30:16.116 --> 01:30:18.396
Breathe Again, which is a re-entry program.

01:30:18.716 --> 01:30:22.836
A lot of inmates become a part of that homeless population or peanut dinner

01:30:22.836 --> 01:30:25.976
system because they give them a one-way ticket when they're released.

01:30:26.536 --> 01:30:29.156
And we don't know what, some of them don't even know their families,

01:30:29.216 --> 01:30:31.336
you know, so they become a part of that population.

01:30:31.496 --> 01:30:34.676
And so our program, when we get to touch on them, they say, you know,

01:30:34.776 --> 01:30:37.456
at least try to set them up in the resource that they did not have.

01:30:37.556 --> 01:30:41.016
First, the technical social security bar and try to help them find the appointment.

01:30:41.016 --> 01:30:44.076
So we have several programs, those are just a few.

01:30:45.336 --> 01:30:52.136
I started the Mount Arbor Foundation back in the spring of 2021,

01:30:52.596 --> 01:30:56.816
where our vision is we advocate for Black boys.

01:30:58.410 --> 01:31:01.970
Asks, you know, what do you want your foundation to do?

01:31:02.170 --> 01:31:09.610
And my answer was, I want the first dollar raised to go to individuals that

01:31:09.610 --> 01:31:12.790
look like Amar in the areas of mental health,

01:31:13.490 --> 01:31:18.090
dollars in the community, and also in the schools.

01:31:19.030 --> 01:31:23.890
We're in our fourth year giving out the Amar Arbery academic scholarship in

01:31:23.890 --> 01:31:25.270
his high school, the Bronx, Georgia.

01:31:30.290 --> 01:31:35.390
We have the criteria when they have the right essay about the life of Ahmad

01:31:35.390 --> 01:31:40.790
and how receiving this scholarship will benefit their families and also they

01:31:40.790 --> 01:31:43.450
have to be registered to vote. Very, very important.

01:31:44.410 --> 01:31:46.390
And if they're not registered to vote, they're not eligible.

01:31:47.050 --> 01:31:52.110
Also, we started a program last year. We get about 45 boys.

01:31:52.350 --> 01:31:56.130
We take them for a weekend and we could love them. And again,

01:31:56.530 --> 01:32:03.370
all the boys look like a lot, and that's what really gives me hope to continue to fight.

01:32:04.470 --> 01:32:09.390
Also, we have a campaign going in the month of May, on the month of May,

01:32:09.770 --> 01:32:13.870
on the month he turned 31 on May 8th, that was last Thursday,

01:32:14.630 --> 01:32:18.130
and also May is the new up month.

01:32:18.550 --> 01:32:22.190
So we're asking 34 people to give $31.

01:32:23.150 --> 01:32:26.250
And I'm hoping that that's the choice in this campaign as well.

01:32:28.870 --> 01:32:31.730
I know a lot of the ladies have talked about the media, you know,

01:32:31.790 --> 01:32:33.630
taking, basically taking out what it was here at all.

01:32:33.790 --> 01:32:36.850
And so one of the things that Pelosi did this summer, and I'm extremely proud

01:32:36.850 --> 01:32:40.970
of, is she went to the University of Southern California and did some media

01:32:40.970 --> 01:32:45.270
training for those new college graduates that would be entering into society.

01:32:45.270 --> 01:32:48.850
To the end zone, your journalists and your reporters and different things like that.

01:32:48.990 --> 01:32:53.090
And so, you know, helping them to learn how to deal with them and say,

01:32:53.150 --> 01:32:54.790
I think it's absolutely phenomenal.

01:32:55.730 --> 01:32:59.630
And as a result, it's going to be a good school and a good school training as

01:32:59.630 --> 01:33:01.190
well. So I think that's helpful.

01:33:02.795 --> 01:33:08.655
Family, as you guys know, we're thoroughly into this. So we did start the Tywin Davis Foundation.

01:33:09.475 --> 01:33:14.315
And I'm proud to say that our lawyer is the president of the foundation.

01:33:15.035 --> 01:33:19.195
And this helped her to imagine we could get all this grief. But again,

01:33:19.635 --> 01:33:22.195
we're very, very new to this eternity.

01:33:23.915 --> 01:33:27.855
So in the future, we have a lot of things that we're planning to do.

01:33:28.195 --> 01:33:30.895
And hopefully all of them come to fruition.

01:33:31.495 --> 01:33:34.715
I think it's fair to say, as you all are still in the mix of everything,

01:33:34.915 --> 01:33:38.455
like you all are occupied with that right now, right to be settled in.

01:33:38.695 --> 01:33:41.775
I imagine some more things will come to my day and have a support.

01:33:41.935 --> 01:33:43.795
And I just want to share, take your time.

01:33:44.515 --> 01:33:49.555
I mean, it's not much, just take your time. I do have the Breonna Taylor Foundation,

01:33:50.015 --> 01:33:53.655
and we're also pushing for the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act,

01:33:53.835 --> 01:34:00.555
which is, again, banned, and no-lock warrants and requiring officers to have their body cam,

01:34:00.895 --> 01:34:08.035
footage around prior to interacting with anyone in the public and to not turn it off for so long after.

01:34:08.535 --> 01:34:13.115
And with the foundation, we've just been helping families generally just having

01:34:13.115 --> 01:34:15.195
a hard time after the pandemic.

01:34:15.515 --> 01:34:21.195
And we're helping people go to different training schools because we know that

01:34:21.195 --> 01:34:22.495
college isn't for everyone.

01:34:22.835 --> 01:34:26.595
And we do also work with the University of Bilalovu,

01:34:26.615 --> 01:34:32.515
who does different scholarships for in brown space we have the oscar brand foundation

01:34:32.515 --> 01:34:38.635
where we offer scholarships to those friends already from high school going

01:34:38.635 --> 01:34:42.695
into college and in between that they offer.

01:34:43.455 --> 01:34:46.535
Know your rights presentation because we

01:34:46.535 --> 01:34:49.275
always tell our youth you know if you

01:34:49.275 --> 01:34:52.115
are in counterpoint police officer we want

01:34:52.115 --> 01:34:57.095
you home safe with your mother and father and so we try to provide them the

01:34:57.095 --> 01:35:03.815
tools to be able to make it home safe and to share with their parents what transpired

01:35:03.815 --> 01:35:08.355
so that their parents can fight for them versus them trying to be out there

01:35:08.355 --> 01:35:09.675
fighting for themselves.

01:35:10.035 --> 01:35:13.875
Also, as the Ozzy Grant Foundation, we do a couple of things.

01:35:14.075 --> 01:35:20.555
So with the families, we do what we call a five-step alien herded hearts program,

01:35:20.555 --> 01:35:25.575
which brings families who have lost their loved ones together to talk about

01:35:25.575 --> 01:35:30.735
the five stages and grief to learn how we can heal through those stages because

01:35:30.735 --> 01:35:33.435
we understand that grief is like a roller coaster.

01:35:33.795 --> 01:35:37.015
Some days you feel one way and the next day you feel another way.

01:35:37.275 --> 01:35:41.875
And so we try to provide that foundation of healing for the families.

01:35:42.155 --> 01:35:46.395
Because previously we didn't talk about PTSD a lot.

01:35:47.563 --> 01:35:52.583
Our young men, a lot of our young men have seen many things that we haven't

01:35:52.583 --> 01:35:54.983
had an opportunity to see in our lifetime.

01:35:55.323 --> 01:36:01.183
So we try to work with them to encourage them to really share their feelings

01:36:01.183 --> 01:36:06.023
of how they're feeling to help to get them whole and healed.

01:36:06.423 --> 01:36:09.823
Lastly, one of the things that's introduced to our foundation that connects

01:36:09.823 --> 01:36:14.623
with our scholarship is the offering our tutoring process for our scholarships.

01:36:15.043 --> 01:36:20.023
And we also, we have a bridge in our family where my brother has a foundation

01:36:20.023 --> 01:36:23.983
as well, where he really tries to work with the families.

01:36:24.143 --> 01:36:29.443
If you don't have media training, if you don't have the long need support,

01:36:29.703 --> 01:36:34.423
we really try to provide that support to the families to help them navigate

01:36:34.423 --> 01:36:36.143
through talking with the media,

01:36:36.523 --> 01:36:41.783
help them navigate through dealing with the court system, helped them navigate

01:36:41.783 --> 01:36:44.383
through dealing with the communities as well.

01:36:44.863 --> 01:36:49.743
And from that, the act of my son was killed, the Osprey Friend Foundation.

01:36:50.063 --> 01:36:54.483
Food Bell Station was made, which brought awareness to the community.

01:36:54.723 --> 01:36:58.683
And then we have another documentary out that's on Netflix right now.

01:36:59.083 --> 01:37:06.483
It's called For Our Children. So we are trying to work with families who may not be in the media,

01:37:06.483 --> 01:37:09.403
but want to allow there's story to get

01:37:09.403 --> 01:37:12.903
told um so we're working to collaborate with

01:37:12.903 --> 01:37:16.203
other families to be able to have books so that

01:37:16.203 --> 01:37:19.483
they could have a a chapter of work and

01:37:19.483 --> 01:37:22.383
so we hope to have that complete by next year

01:37:22.383 --> 01:37:25.643
and i do have a book on hand that is called from uh

01:37:25.643 --> 01:37:28.963
tracks due to triumph as well basically thank

01:37:28.963 --> 01:37:31.863
you okay and my daughter's a quick

01:37:31.863 --> 01:37:34.803
caller the mother of stephan clark she has

01:37:34.803 --> 01:37:38.123
a healing classes is for all the mothers and

01:37:38.123 --> 01:37:41.163
she has a book out it's on amazon also for

01:37:41.163 --> 01:37:44.483
healing with mama clark it's on amazon and

01:37:44.483 --> 01:37:50.063
also i have a blessed child association and i've worked with mother wives was

01:37:50.063 --> 01:37:54.403
working with you to live for young kids and my grandkids of all of them was

01:37:54.403 --> 01:37:59.603
learning how to make your food grow your own great i know it's greens and grow

01:37:59.603 --> 01:38:03.943
the food because we don't ever know that the stores might not have food anymore,

01:38:04.143 --> 01:38:07.423
but they'll know how to grow their own food.

01:38:07.923 --> 01:38:14.143
And also, I have, I started because Mike West, he was, I have to say.

01:38:14.803 --> 01:38:19.323
How would I say that? He was the worst.

01:38:19.747 --> 01:38:29.467
Use is that he was brutally murdered. And yes, so also I have started in the

01:38:29.467 --> 01:38:34.387
community marching with the king during COVID and everybody couldn't march and stuff.

01:38:34.527 --> 01:38:40.227
So I started a care band and it's called Blessed Child Association MLK.

01:38:40.627 --> 01:38:45.447
And so we're doing cars and then the guys don't leave the recycles and stuff.

01:38:45.767 --> 01:38:49.327
But we have that area. This was our fifth year. Wasn't it our fifth year?

01:38:49.747 --> 01:38:55.487
And so, but it's just now, now we're working with the kids and my grandson has

01:38:55.487 --> 01:39:01.207
a foundation, the Stephon Kroc has, and he has all, I mean, everybody,

01:39:01.847 --> 01:39:05.787
all the mothers, your sons, your daughters,

01:39:06.667 --> 01:39:12.667
aunts, grandmothers, cousins, everybody involved up there on the wall and stuff.

01:39:17.767 --> 01:39:20.907
Videos and all these things for the children

01:39:20.907 --> 01:39:23.967
when the children come out there and it was

01:39:23.967 --> 01:39:30.927
i mean it's really nice for mental for mental health as well and also if you

01:39:30.927 --> 01:39:36.387
don't have the word to go for the youth he has a deep picture that they're taking

01:39:36.387 --> 01:39:41.267
care of so my and my daughter I am so proud of her, because she,

01:39:41.827 --> 01:39:46.387
there's a lot of mothers I see for what they go through, but she helped me to

01:39:46.387 --> 01:39:48.407
get through by the grace of God.

01:39:49.247 --> 01:39:53.967
And that was the class that she had, that he just gave awards for the mothers and all of us.

01:39:54.487 --> 01:40:00.167
And it's a good venture class that helped, you know, to get stronger through the hearts.

01:40:00.747 --> 01:40:05.927
Yes, everyone who's consistent with us, they are the future.

01:40:07.486 --> 01:40:14.066
I have an organization called the E-R-I-C, which is my son's name,

01:40:14.566 --> 01:40:21.006
which stands for Eliminating Racism and Inequality Collective.

01:40:23.606 --> 01:40:30.626
And what we do, we have like a lot of children that's in the neighborhood who

01:40:30.626 --> 01:40:33.166
we're trying to keep from Fordham to the ground.

01:40:33.846 --> 01:40:39.986
We want them to know that there's more than just guns and games.

01:40:40.606 --> 01:40:48.646
So we organize, take them out maybe once a month and take them to the city.

01:40:48.646 --> 01:40:51.506
Let them see plays let them

01:40:51.506 --> 01:40:55.006
see how there is so many other affluent

01:40:55.006 --> 01:40:58.066
black people who works down in

01:40:58.066 --> 01:41:01.106
Manhattan go on to the office and say

01:41:01.106 --> 01:41:07.586
well look these people they are executives and you could be the same we try

01:41:07.586 --> 01:41:12.926
to bring out a lot of them have a lot of time and they don't even know it and

01:41:12.926 --> 01:41:20.146
try to bring it out of them something same something soul Some are good comedians.

01:41:20.346 --> 01:41:26.846
There's so much talent that's out there that's just being lost if we don't try to develop it.

01:41:27.146 --> 01:41:29.466
Also, we give scholarships.

01:41:29.826 --> 01:41:34.586
I have a fundraiser every September, which is Eric's birthday.

01:41:34.926 --> 01:41:40.966
And we give scholarships to children that's going to college.

01:41:41.166 --> 01:41:45.106
But what we do, we don't get the most brightest children.

01:41:46.853 --> 01:41:51.433
Children that, you know, they raised the soul and they pulled themselves up.

01:41:51.873 --> 01:41:55.473
And so now we want to recognize them.

01:41:55.613 --> 01:42:00.453
We want to praise them. Hey, you were failing, but now you pull through and,

01:42:00.453 --> 01:42:04.653
you know, give them hope and, you know, encourage them, empower them.

01:42:04.873 --> 01:42:08.493
So this is what we want to do with the children.

01:42:08.993 --> 01:42:12.253
Also, how the people in the neighborhood, some people don't,

01:42:12.673 --> 01:42:16.013
you know, it has proven. A lot of people think, we're in America,

01:42:16.073 --> 01:42:17.933
and there's still 100 people.

01:42:18.233 --> 01:42:22.493
And sometimes our boss will say, well, you know, I don't get my food stamps

01:42:22.493 --> 01:42:24.533
until next week, you know.

01:42:24.753 --> 01:42:30.053
So we have a freezer where we have chicken, we have canned goods.

01:42:30.413 --> 01:42:35.333
We give this out to them, you know, to pull them through for the next couple

01:42:35.333 --> 01:42:39.973
of days until they get their food stamps or whatever. or sometimes we take them

01:42:39.973 --> 01:42:43.873
to the store and we buy them vegetables and things.

01:42:44.293 --> 01:42:48.393
In the get. Yes, salmon in the get. That's exactly what we do.

01:42:48.593 --> 01:42:50.373
And that's what it sounds like.

01:42:50.613 --> 01:42:55.973
Everyone in their own way is doing, and the community vice versa in their way.

01:42:56.233 --> 01:42:59.133
If you all can, give everyone up here a round of applause.

01:43:13.513 --> 01:43:17.533
Oh my goodness. Was this amazing?

01:43:20.653 --> 01:43:27.273
We never know if we don't know. And what we don't know, they just brought it to Wilson.

01:43:27.793 --> 01:43:33.033
And I appreciate you once again. Ms. Jones, can you please tell us about what

01:43:33.033 --> 01:43:35.573
Trevon Martin's mom has born on?

01:43:35.913 --> 01:43:41.853
My sister, Sabrina Fulton, the mother of Trevon Martin, she started a foundation

01:43:41.853 --> 01:43:43.693
on a trigline seven years ago.

01:43:44.013 --> 01:43:50.073
And every May, she does an event, a weekend event, that's called the Circle of Others.

01:43:50.773 --> 01:43:55.513
When I lost the mom back a couple of years ago, I was told immediately,

01:43:56.373 --> 01:44:00.053
Sabrina has the Circle of Mothers, and you need to get there.

01:44:00.053 --> 01:44:02.433
It's truly a weekend, a feeling.

01:44:02.873 --> 01:44:10.253
And most importantly, she brings the mothers who feels the pain that I felt.

01:44:10.613 --> 01:44:12.673
And that means everything.

01:44:13.173 --> 01:44:18.753
So it's a very good event. I'm actually getting out on Friday to be a part of that.

01:44:20.720 --> 01:44:25.640
Thank you so much. And I asked her to do that because Sabrina was going to be

01:44:25.640 --> 01:44:28.480
here, but because of her retreat, she couldn't come.

01:44:28.840 --> 01:44:33.100
And I just want you all to know, so if you thought that this was good,

01:44:33.400 --> 01:44:37.660
we had this event tonight, the Black Diamond Ball.

01:44:37.960 --> 01:44:43.620
And we will honor our families, we will honor our community,

01:44:44.040 --> 01:44:47.340
our people, just bringing the love that Mr.

01:44:47.680 --> 01:44:55.300
Reggie talked about, just showing the love. So you all come on out and enjoy that evening.

01:44:55.520 --> 01:45:00.440
I just want to say thank you to Pastor Harold Jones for opening up your doors

01:45:00.440 --> 01:45:02.260
and allowing us to have this here.

01:45:02.540 --> 01:45:08.040
I appreciate that. I just want to say we have other families that's in this

01:45:08.040 --> 01:45:10.180
audience that have been through something.

01:45:10.460 --> 01:45:13.340
We have families that have lost their children.

01:45:13.700 --> 01:45:17.020
Our president of the Memphis chapter lost her son.

01:45:17.260 --> 01:45:20.320
We have Miss Jay right here. She lost her son. through

01:45:20.320 --> 01:45:24.100
gun violence we have plenty parents people

01:45:24.100 --> 01:45:30.360
everybody in here can tell a story so i just say to god for the being the glory

01:45:30.360 --> 01:45:40.880
because without him we will be in control keep praying keep your head up and.

01:45:42.240 --> 01:45:50.760
Just say thank you Thank you all so much, Tonya, and that concludes our evening,

01:45:51.100 --> 01:45:53.140
we have Hester to come up.

01:45:53.920 --> 01:46:00.440
Oh, and tonight we have our keynote speaker will be the Reverend Al Sharpton,

01:46:00.440 --> 01:46:05.440
and he could be here to talk and let everybody know what's going on.

01:46:05.580 --> 01:46:11.600
I want to also say thank you to our president for the Las Vegas chapter. He's here.

01:46:12.040 --> 01:46:15.100
He's been here just the second time in the world coming out.

01:46:15.520 --> 01:46:19.920
So thank you so much, Mr. Bush. And I just want to say good for a while.

01:46:20.160 --> 01:46:23.320
You know you always have to have a bad ball to do something.

01:46:23.540 --> 01:46:26.400
And I just want my husband, can you just stand up there?

01:46:27.320 --> 01:46:32.860
And I just want to say thank you. Because, you know, I couldn't get you by you.

01:46:33.220 --> 01:46:35.700
I'd say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you all of us,

01:46:35.700 --> 01:46:39.260
all of us. But he's always saying, okay, just do what you have to do.

01:46:39.260 --> 01:46:40.840
Just do what you're about to do.

01:46:43.298 --> 01:46:48.278
Say. All right. Okay. Yeah. But we're going to bring the to a close and we have

01:46:48.278 --> 01:46:51.598
faster right there so we can go. Vinny's doing what we have to do.

01:46:51.818 --> 01:46:54.338
Thank you. All right. Let's give Dr. Praise of the place.

01:46:56.478 --> 01:47:01.198
We want to go very quickly. We're going to take pictures to get out.

01:47:01.658 --> 01:47:07.558
But very quickly, I'm going to think about Dandane's mom and the pressure of

01:47:07.558 --> 01:47:11.438
just having to go through this and she's getting incapacitated at this point.

01:47:12.218 --> 01:47:17.018
I believe that that trauma. If we're not careful, we'll take you over the edge.

01:47:17.818 --> 01:47:20.698
I don't know what I would do if I was in the shoes.

01:47:21.398 --> 01:47:27.318
And we have to pray for the gentleman who lost his son and decided to run over a deputy.

01:47:28.218 --> 01:47:31.818
That's the question. To most wise and holy God, we thank you Lord God for these

01:47:31.818 --> 01:47:34.958
families. We know that you have to keep the health in your hands.

01:47:35.298 --> 01:47:38.858
We pray right now that you continue to give them the strength and wisdom to

01:47:38.858 --> 01:47:42.798
fight this good fight and get into good trouble. I thank you for those who come

01:47:42.798 --> 01:47:44.938
up to that today, and I pray right

01:47:44.938 --> 01:47:49.778
now, Father, that we'll be energized to prevent this type of injustice.

01:47:50.098 --> 01:47:54.098
It is in my mansions, and for Christ, we bring you all your everything. Amen.

01:47:54.798 --> 01:47:58.878
God bless you. Oh, let's give Ms. Wallace awesome introductions, all of his panelists.