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00:01:22This is for you go ahead open it
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00:01:39You said you could use some work this place it's a lot of work
00:01:49Take care of it
00:01:51Like if it was your own
00:01:54Just remember
00:01:56Now I'm responsible for you
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00:02:02His house my rules
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00:02:50Hey, I expect to see you in church on Sunday bring your brother don't come back again
00:02:55Do
00:02:57You think that kid's gonna come to the church, I don't think so nothing ever change leave me
00:03:13Sure you want it all off tonight
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00:03:39You know who I am
00:03:41So I'm here to ask you a few questions. My name is Carmen Reyes, and I've been appointed as your public defender
00:03:48this is
00:03:50for the record
00:03:53On a scale of zero to four, how would you rate how you're feeling today? Okay
00:04:00Your mood my mood yes, I don't understand. Are you feeling angry depressed anxious?
00:04:10feeling okay, I
00:04:13Keep asking for water, but they don't bring me water with all my meals and a blanket. It's only a sheet
00:04:20Um, so let's go from zero to four, how would you rate how you are sleeping?
00:04:31If you the lights on all day and all night, too
00:04:35So if you had to rate how you're sleeping, maybe you can talk to them
00:04:39I'll see what I can do
00:04:42Look I
00:04:44Need you to understand that everything from now on depends on you on your good behavior
00:04:49so if the court sees you as
00:04:52Unrepentant in any way or just another thug with a grudge and a chip on his shoulder. They're not gonna budge with your sentencing now
00:04:58I'm gonna work on getting you out of solitary. But if
00:05:03When I do you can't associate with any of your former gang members for any reason I mean no reason
00:05:10Is there anything else you want to say to me? There's nothing else in here with me
00:05:15When that door shuts it's real quiet in here only the sound of that light buzzing, can you hear that?
00:05:23You can hear your own heart in here your own breathing
00:05:28Feels like the walls are closing in and your mind's trying to escape
00:05:35You know how long I've been in here you were removed from general population 30 days ago for your own safety
00:05:41Just white knuckle it
00:05:43White knuckle it it won't be too long
00:05:47They attacked me. I have your statement. They tried to kill me and that's why you're here for your own protection
00:05:56And have any enemies in here
00:05:59This was a hit
00:06:01It was organized from the outside
00:06:03Luca Ramirez
00:06:05He set this up. Do you have proof of that? I don't have that in my report. I know he's taking my spot. I
00:06:12Know he's seeing my wife. I
00:06:16Couldn't protect her from here and he can I get it did he threaten you directly things don't work that way
00:06:26My wife and I we've known each other since we were kids I think about her all the time
00:06:35You know, there's nothing else to look forward to but a tray
00:06:40There's nowhere else to go but inside your own mind
00:06:44Hang in there, I'll be back as soon as there's some movement in your case
00:06:52Not normal
00:06:54No human touch
00:06:56No contact. No visitors. No sunlight. Hey, I didn't put you here you did
00:07:02This is how you pay your debt to society
00:07:04On a scale of zero to four, what do you think of my chances of getting out of here? I
00:07:11Can't answer that
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00:08:22Mr. Kamara, let us take one picture at the beginning of the year. I'm sending you mine
00:08:29Thank you for the Bible you sent me
00:08:32Find it hard to read anything here
00:08:35Something keeps me coming back to it. Even when I don't feel like it's any use. I
00:08:41Hope I hear back from you again
00:09:02You
00:09:10Just read one passage every day
00:09:14Hebrews 4 12 says for the Word of God is living and active
00:09:20Sharper than any double-edged sword
00:09:22It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit joints and marrow
00:09:28It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart god bless pastor Kamara
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00:10:29They're saying you did this to yourself, that's a lie. They saw me trying to talk to another inmate and they beat me
00:10:36You are not allowed to have any contact with any former gang members
00:10:42They're just doing their job. They don't want to hear the words. They don't want others to be free in here
00:10:50Hey, they're saying that you're refusing medical attention
00:10:53That you've given your life to Jesus. I
00:10:57Will be made whole
00:11:00What are you talking about you have come so close to getting out
00:11:06Why are you doing this I
00:11:09needed
00:11:11You think you're the first guy to come up with this kind of scam
00:11:15If the court thinks that you are using your relationship with pastor Kamara to game the system
00:11:21They'll throw the book at you. You will be locked up in here forever
00:11:26Is that what you want?
00:11:29Don't blow it
00:11:31They already tried to kill you in here once you survived
00:11:35You just got lucky. I
00:11:37Don't call it luck
00:11:48Just make sure to keep changing the bandages on this and you'll be fine
00:11:56I'm following your instructions. Pastor Kamara. I
00:12:01Feel the strength of his words
00:12:04Like he knows my struggle
00:12:08Even in here I am lighter easier. I
00:12:14Don't know what you heard, please don't stop writing me
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00:13:12Hey kids settle down settle down take a seat right there
00:13:20I'll take this from here. Thank you
00:13:24So
00:13:29How many of you are still in school hmm and who's found staying in school
00:13:38What do you think you're gonna end up if you're not in school be gangster be a rapper go to jail
00:13:44How you gonna be rapping in jail?
00:13:46All right
00:13:48I'm gonna do a little exercise. I need a volunteer
00:13:50You're gonna be my partner
00:13:54It's called look and listen
00:13:57First you're gonna talk to your partner where you're from
00:14:01Your favorite music your favorite food anything you want to share when I call time up gonna switch
00:14:09So now I'm gonna show you how it's done set up in front of each other and you go here partner
00:14:15Okay
00:14:22Perfect now I go my name is pastor. I'm from Brooklyn. My favorite food is tamales and my favorite music is hip-hop
00:14:31I'm a
00:14:33Big fan of the hip-hop
00:14:35I'm a big fan of the hip-hop
00:14:37I'm a big fan of the hip-hop
00:14:39I'm a big fan of the hip-hop
00:14:41I'm a big fan of the hip-hop
00:14:43My favorite music is hip-hop go
00:14:50And switch
00:15:08You guys did great take a seat
00:15:13So, what do you think what did all this
00:15:16So we can listen to each other
00:15:18Exactly, right so you could listen because if you can't really listen you can't hear anyone else
00:15:24And if you go around feeling like nobody listens to you
00:15:28Then you get mad and you do dumb stuff
00:15:30I wanted each one of you to know what it feels like to have someone listen to you
00:15:35Who knows what a parable is?
00:15:37It's a story with a lesson repeat after him it's a story with a lesson
00:15:45Hmm, okay
00:15:48Say you you was the smallest kid
00:15:53And you had no friends
00:15:55No brothers, no backup
00:15:58Let's say you had to fight the toughest meanest kid around
00:16:02There were no one around you
00:16:04The toughest meanest kid around the one no one messes with the one everyone's scared of there was no way around it
00:16:14So, what would you do get a gun shoot him I'll hide so I could follow him home those are some crazy answers
00:16:23Do you want to get caught with a gun
00:16:26Do you know you can get jail time if you're caught with it?
00:16:30That's not we want to celebrate your birthdays in prison
00:16:35You
00:16:37Know who had to face the same type of situation I'm talking about
00:16:43David who's David?
00:16:50David he was about your age
00:16:53Had to find his own way
00:16:56Herding sheep and goats all day
00:16:59rain beaten down or Sun hot as hell
00:17:02sleeping outside most nights
00:17:04So he could take care of his flock. So nobody would steal it from him
00:17:08He learned to keep it together. No matter what?
00:17:13So one day David's minding his own business
00:17:17When he learns that the Philistine army is coming and they're gonna try to cross the mountain right where his flock is
00:17:23And he knows how these guys do they're gonna kill his sheep
00:17:27Roast his goats and feed them to their army
00:17:31unless
00:17:33Unless he can find a way to stop them
00:17:36But what's he gonna do it's just a kid, right?
00:17:41So he goes down the mountainside and he finds the Australian Kings army there too ready to fight
00:17:48Except there's a problem. They got tanks, right?
00:17:53This is 3,000 years ago, but there's only foot soldiers and spears and arrows and swords
00:18:00So there were two big armies, but neither of them wanted to fight the other it was a standoff
00:18:06until
00:18:08The Philistines and I was gonna send one guy their biggest toughest guy to go up against one of the Israelites in single combat
00:18:16And they had to choose someone
00:18:19so
00:18:21Who's it gonna be?
00:18:23It turns out no one
00:18:26Nobody wants to face the Philistines best guy Goliath. He's huge massive a giant
00:18:33He'll annihilate anybody they send it's a done deal
00:18:37but then
00:18:38David comes up and he says I'm gonna go fight that dude
00:18:44Everybody's like you're crazy. You're gonna get killed. You're too skinny. You're too little. All you have is a slingshot
00:18:50Know what it says here in chapter 33 verse 16
00:19:00It says the king will not be saved by a great army
00:19:08Nor shall the giant be saved by his own great army
00:19:15Shall the giant be saved by his own great strength
00:19:46You
00:19:59I'm sorry. I
00:20:01Was just hoping she was here. Why can you work this out? She won't talk to me. She won't see me
00:20:08You were leading that crew in prison now, you're scared of your ex-wife
00:20:13No, you got me she's the one who made this complicated ma, I'm not your ma not to you not now
00:20:22You messed up bad, I know you're right. I'm trying to fix that now
00:20:31Building that church back up was yeah me and poppy. It's a good thing
00:20:38It's a good man
00:20:42The
00:20:45Kid what's his name?
00:20:51Hector
00:20:55I'll take care of him when she works. So now you go and find her
00:21:03Baker see you talk to you
00:21:07Here it's her address
00:21:12I
00:21:24Dream that you and me we have a nice house
00:21:29An apartment
00:21:32And eventually we have a child
00:21:36We share a lot of things together I
00:21:39Want to be together
00:21:43Especially when I'm listening to music
00:21:47And I don't go out anymore I don't go dancing I
00:21:52See
00:21:54Other couples dancing and it brings me down so I stay home
00:22:02And then they play a song that we loved
00:22:06And I
00:22:12I
00:22:24Can't help myself something inside me still can't let you go
00:22:42I
00:23:12Can't help myself something inside me still can't let you go
00:23:21Hey take whatever you need it's what it's there for
00:23:29Can you sign in
00:23:32Mmm
00:23:38Gail your mother comes here, right? You have a sister
00:23:45You're not leaving at home anymore, are you
00:23:49Can I ask why
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00:23:55Gail there's help for you here if you want it no more questions asked
00:24:17You're gonna send all those little video for a little net
00:24:22Asked me no, no, please
00:24:27Joking with you. I killed kids like you just for fun. What's going on here. What does it look like pastor? Huh?
00:24:35I'm gonna smoke this little piece where it is. Why don't you put the gun down and probably talk better that way. Don't you think?
00:24:42Neto it's net. Oh, right. You're the only one talking you speak for your crew here
00:24:50So, why don't you let everybody go and you and me figure this out sound good
00:24:55Just walk away faster. You don't belong here. You don't want you here
00:25:01Making a big mistake net. Oh, leave me
00:25:04Things can only have badly for you friend
00:25:07Mistake net. Oh, leave me things can only have badly for you friend. I don't want that. Shut up
00:25:16Listen put the gun down. Let me Gail and the others go they were never here. You understand
00:25:36You
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00:26:59This is my family who I live and die for
00:27:07I
00:27:09Have always been only three roles for us to travel
00:27:14Prison death
00:27:18Y'all
00:27:22We're gangsters and we're crazy
00:27:32Of also people with feelings
00:27:37And
00:27:40I like to express my feelings for little sister over there who lost her brother tonight
00:27:52Without loyalty in the gang, there's nothing
00:27:59Blood in
00:28:02Blood out
00:28:07I am here
00:28:10with you
00:28:12Cops and narcos have been coming down hard on us
00:28:16Pushing us back
00:28:18So no banger can make a living anymore
00:28:21but hear me now I
00:28:24Grew up on these streets. I
00:28:27Go inside and I come back out. Yeah, and I come back here
00:28:33Because this is home
00:28:37And no one's gonna keep us off our streets
00:28:45No kind of narco cop
00:28:49No kind of holy joke pastor neither
00:28:56We won't familia for Vida
00:29:07You use the gun I gave you yeah
00:29:13You didn't close the deal
00:29:18You want to be a close the Sun
00:29:23I don't know
00:29:27Look at me look at me
00:29:31Now what you're gonna do exactly what I tell you
00:29:37Indiana
00:29:41There's not alone
00:29:53Rape show gang unit as
00:29:56Of about Wow literally three hours ago. I just got assigned to this area
00:30:00You know your church is right in the middle of a highly active neighborhood, right? You're aware of that. Yeah
00:30:06Call it the green zone
00:30:08It's a place. I hope these kids can look to a better future than what these gangs have to offer
00:30:13Okay. Well, just be careful. I
00:30:16Know I'm sure you do
00:30:19You get a look at the shooter pastor. No seen him around before
00:30:24They called them neto neto, is that right?
00:30:28Okay. Well, we're canvas in the area. So we'll call you down in the precinct as soon as we find anything
00:30:31Oh
00:30:33Looks like they're trying to send you a message of some sort any idea what that might be
00:30:40They're trying to send me a message. It's obviously because they started hearing my message
00:30:45And I'm only gonna continue
00:30:52Rookie sir. I got the slug out. Should I get it's ballistic? Yeah
00:31:01We'll be here for us
00:31:32I
00:31:38Shut up
00:31:52You talk to him didn't you pastor I
00:31:56I
00:31:59Did
00:32:04He was real smart
00:32:17Until
00:32:20Your bro, your brother's I know ma
00:32:25I
00:32:41See that I can go
00:32:56Oh my son was
00:33:04He wasn't part of any gang he used to go along as well
00:33:12Angelica
00:33:17Angelica
00:33:25You
00:33:32Used to be these kids
00:33:38How about this it's gotta change
00:33:45I'm not going anywhere
00:33:55I
00:34:11That smoking will kill you you're right and shooting won't
00:34:21Did you know what your brother got mixed up in
00:34:26Where it is, you did some serious time and then you found Jesus before you got out
00:34:37You could say that
00:34:41Everybody knows you can never get out
00:34:44What about you
00:34:47Are you like everyone?
00:34:49Ain't like some other sisters. I know how to mind my own business
00:34:55I
00:35:01Should have done better looking out for him
00:35:26You
00:35:28You better think this through Nero cops are out looking for you
00:35:59I don't see no cop bastard
00:36:06No, I can't stop it bastard
00:36:28You
00:36:58You
00:37:03So they recruit the kids young usually elementary school sometimes junior high if cops are tired with their communities
00:37:09How many more kids could be saved? Okay, you want to talk community outreach?
00:37:13You should leave a car for my rep, but right now I'm trying to ID a shooter
00:37:16So do me a favor and look at this video you recognize anybody
00:37:22Sure, but that doesn't mean they did it
00:37:25I want you to have a seat here. Okay, we're we're on the same side pastor. You should remember that
00:37:35Anyway, we bottlenecked Ramirez and his outfit down to here this line right there
00:37:40Which means he's not able to make his regular illegal income weapons and drug trafficking gambling extortion. You name it
00:37:45So instead he's got kids out there snatching phones robbing stores doing stick-ups
00:37:49they pull it off and
00:37:51Load in that's right. Now. They're a bona fide gangbanger. It's nice
00:37:57Anyway, officer Glenn here trolls through these sites during the day trying to ID known offenders before they hit again cyber banging
00:38:04They make these videos where they threaten kids even their parents or teachers
00:38:08So it is a brave stupid new world out there since you were out on those streets
00:38:15It's like this someone shot a kid last night and it's my job to put that person away
00:38:20We're come to the memorial tonight at 6
00:38:23Maybe you'll find somebody who's willing to talk to you
00:38:28I'll stop by
00:38:50I
00:39:07See ya see ya
00:39:20You
00:39:50You
00:40:20You
00:40:50You
00:41:20You
00:41:50You
00:42:17Are you doing
00:42:20Where's Luca I want to talk to him. He's busy. He asked me to check up on
00:42:28I'm worried about my kid
00:42:32Lucas not gonna hurt you. He's not like that. I
00:42:38Need to get back to my son
00:42:43You understand
00:42:50I
00:42:53Maybe I
00:42:56Could get a message out to him
00:42:59You got a number I could reach him by
00:43:02I could call him and let him know that you're okay
00:43:06And you'll be back home soon
00:43:11Yeah, okay
00:43:13I'll give you the number but make sure you let him know sooner, right?
00:43:16You got it
00:43:18Nine one seven
00:43:21five five five
00:43:24Seven two
00:43:48Oh
00:44:10Don't stab the messenger I have a message from Luca you want to hear it
00:44:19Hi Hector, I have a message from your mommy from mommy
00:44:23Are you alone? Hector? You answer the phone all by yourself. Yeah
00:44:32Bye-bye mommy. Bye pastor
00:44:49I
00:44:51I
00:45:13Maybe you're wrong about me puppy
00:45:16Leopard can't change his spots
00:45:19So you go back to that cop and you tell him everything, you know, you're not a bad guy anymore
00:45:28No matter what I do look I won't hesitate to kill them
00:45:36Unless
00:45:39Many Sundays ago I
00:45:43Was out with my wife
00:45:46Arguing what?
00:45:48What to have for dinner?
00:45:51When they started shooting up the car
00:45:53With us inside
00:45:58Somehow I survived
00:46:01Call it faith a tragedy, but I survived
00:46:07My wife
00:46:10Took only one of those bullets to take her life away
00:46:13She died in my arms
00:46:17Looking at me
00:46:20Mother was open like
00:46:25She was trying to say something to me
00:46:30At that moment I had to make a choice
00:46:36But since that day I feel
00:46:42He's him the shoulder he's lonely my heart
00:46:52I think God brought us together to fulfill a very powerful mission
00:47:00So whatever you do remember you cannot serve two masters
00:47:07You cannot be both a man of God
00:47:13And a killer of men
00:47:17I appreciate everything you've done for me
00:47:21Here and in prison
00:47:25You saved my life
00:47:30But if I'm not here in time, I know you'll give the service
00:47:43I
00:48:04Have them we're gonna bring them to you
00:48:12I
00:48:17Got one all right, okay
00:48:42Oh
00:49:07Stop just like
00:49:12I
00:49:22Got me hello, hey
00:49:33Keep it coming
00:49:43You
00:49:51What brings you here pastor
00:49:59Favor
00:50:01People need favors all the time
00:50:04They usually don't ask out of consideration
00:50:07out of respect
00:50:09You never even came by to say hello until now for all it's got rules until you need something
00:50:17So you want what what can I do for you, huh? I need protection
00:50:26Okay, not for me for my church
00:50:30All I want is for my church to be left alone and for my family to be safe is that all
00:50:35You sure I did eight years on the inside
00:50:39Solid I never gave up anyone
00:50:42Never took anything. They offered me
00:50:46I paid my debt
00:50:49Well, that was way before my time man
00:50:52But I like a good story
00:51:06Inside
00:51:09My division was the most productive
00:51:13One that carried the most junk most guns
00:51:19No one ever out of pocket any of my deals, so what do you want a parade?
00:51:25benediction what eight years
00:51:28Inside a six by eight feet cell
00:51:30My time was up and they got to me inside my own cell
00:51:45And they stabbed me here
00:51:49Here
00:51:51Here
00:51:56Just missed my chance
00:51:59I just missed my heart
00:52:04I was asked if I wanted retaliation. I
00:52:09Said no, I said I wanted a better path
00:52:15Today I have a new life new purpose
00:52:22And my church is my territory your boss
00:52:28You
00:52:32Got your thing
00:52:37And it's a good thing
00:52:41You know, I still take my willie to the church sometimes and I feel bad for the kid
00:52:51Get the others take them up top
00:52:58Come on over here pastor
00:53:06Come on closer a
00:53:14Lot of different people crawling around down there all different kinds every kind
00:53:22You want to help them I
00:53:25Want to help all those I can why
00:53:28Why is that pastor I mean, there's no money involved in it. That's a damn sure
00:53:38You've got your faith in a bunch of people you've never even met
00:53:45You're right I shouldn't have come here it was a mistake
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00:54:54You don't get to ask no favors get them out of here
00:55:24Oh
00:55:54Oh
00:56:25I'm sorry
00:56:35You keep apologizing
00:56:38But we're past that I
00:56:41Have forgiven but not forgotten Luca, please
00:56:54You have two options we're left with only one and they're bringing them back here
00:57:04You can just tell me now I'm gonna see you about Hector
00:57:14Hey
00:57:17Cry
00:57:22It doesn't matter
00:57:25The truth will come out
00:57:28Sooner maybe later so we can all feel some
00:57:37Peace of mind
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00:58:15Identify the shooter no Sanchez 17 to priors figured you want to know
00:58:21Being that you're violating your parole
00:58:24What I want to know is why?
00:58:26Does it matter go on charge me with something? What were you doing with Alfonso's guys? Huh person? It's personal
00:58:31It's first you don't trust us
00:58:33Don't believe cops care. Don't believe you want to stop scraping kids brains off the street. Is that what you think?
00:58:37I don't know what you want. Look some of these kids out there saying they're gangsters have no remorse. I got no brains period
00:58:42Okay, all they want to do is blame someone else. I got nothing. So I need to sell drugs
00:58:45Nobody cares about me boo. So I'm gonna go I'm gonna go shoot someone. That's what these kids think
00:58:50You know what? I see. What do you see those kids in the video?
00:58:52I see 14 15 16 even 18 years of lonely and beaten down
00:58:58And suddenly boom they snap and everybody's trying to figure out why okay, so you're saying boo-hoo to that
00:59:03Is that what you're saying? No, no
00:59:05What I'm saying is if you really want to find out who is responsible you gotta start by looking at yourself in the mirror detective
00:59:11We're all our brother's keeper
00:59:14So go
00:59:16Go keep on walking. What are you waiting for?
00:59:18Go
00:59:48Oh
01:00:19Let me start by saying that God our Creator has the right to rule over life and death
01:00:25We're stumped in the image and likeness of God
01:00:31This one makes us human
01:00:35And God demands us to
01:00:38preserve life
01:00:39because life
01:00:41Human life as we know it is the only form of life that he created in his own image
01:00:46The Bible says in the book of Genesis 1
01:00:4926 and 27 and let me read
01:00:52Let us make man in our image in our likeness
01:00:57As humans, we're the only ones that can talk walk and fellowship with God
01:01:03This is the source of our great value and dignity as human beings
01:01:08So what's the value of human life? How do we measure it?
01:01:11How do we measure it
01:01:14By how successful someone is
01:01:17By what type of cars he can drive how much money he has
01:01:21How much power?
01:01:24We like to think that we know
01:01:27We like to think that we know
01:01:36I would like our new pastor to take you from here
01:01:41I
01:01:43I
01:01:45I
01:02:10Am forever grateful to pastor Kamada
01:02:16The puppy
01:02:19For everything he's done for this community
01:02:24And I wish that was enough
01:02:31But one pastor and one church cannot be the only thing standing between our kids
01:02:40And the violence that's out there every day and every night
01:02:45I
01:02:50It's a prohibition of God you shall not murder
01:02:57You shall not murder and yet we do
01:03:04Again and again
01:03:09Violence
01:03:11Retaliation
01:03:14Vengeance
01:03:17The Hebrew root word for vengeance is to deliver
01:03:22to liberate
01:03:24to restore
01:03:26To punish or defeat
01:03:33So, what does it mean I
01:03:37I
01:03:39Believe it means it's up to us to take back our streets our schools our community
01:03:46To take back this word vengeance go back to its roots
01:03:50Its true meaning you tell us what we need to do. You know, why is it gotta be us to do more?
01:03:55I want all of us to make my son's life worth something
01:03:59I
01:04:01Am not here to upset you or disrespect you ma'am or your family
01:04:08But if you're going to take care of each other now and in the future
01:04:12We have to stop accepting that we are powerless because that's exactly what's expected of us
01:04:23I'm banging all my life
01:04:25I
01:04:28Never wanted no child of mine to ever run in no game never
01:04:35What you saying here tonight pastor
01:04:39It's true
01:04:44It's taking me my whole life learning I
01:04:48Don't want these boys to have the same road
01:04:51You do what you can
01:04:55We got your back
01:04:58We got your back, that's right
01:05:04This brother's courage and heart is what we're fighting for here tonight tomorrow and every day after
01:05:14On Sunday I
01:05:18Started telling the story of the battle of David and Goliath
01:05:26The moral of this story
01:05:28It's not that the weak beat the strong
01:05:32But that expectations were beaten
01:05:37The expectations of everyone
01:05:41Everyone who thought that David would fail and that Goliath would win
01:05:50If I see you all here tonight under the eyes of society
01:05:56I may be fooled into expecting you to fail to fall down to be beaten down by life
01:06:03To end up just another statistic
01:06:07Dead or in jail
01:06:13But if we come together here tonight in this house of God in this community to beat those expectations
01:06:21And something amazing will have happened and our biggest enemy will be defeated
01:06:35Couldn't be more proud of you tonight
01:06:43What I'm about to say hurts me so much
01:06:46You got to go
01:06:50You have to leave here
01:06:53This church
01:06:56This neighborhood
01:07:02You can stay
01:07:06As long as you do there'll be trouble nobody's safe
01:07:15I
01:07:46I
01:07:54Stay with the kid like I told you
01:08:08See how we ended up pastor leave in a mess
01:08:15I
01:08:36You know what they call this position, huh
01:08:39In Guantanamo, they call it and that's interrogation
01:08:48The rules in our neighborhood already been written
01:08:52There's nowhere to run to
01:08:57Know what I
01:08:59Know what I
01:09:03Huh
01:09:08When you're in the position of leadership people watch for your mistakes
01:09:16They watch you every move
01:09:19Wants to see you fall down
01:09:30That's not gonna happen pastor I
01:09:35Thought they kill soft guys like you in prison. Mm-hmm. Why don't you just give up? Huh?
01:09:44What I don't even know
01:09:48Bring over here where they can see each other better
01:09:56Come on drink drink
01:10:00What a reunion
01:10:06Tell us the truth Marcia, which one of us is your boy's father? Hmm
01:10:15Take away
01:10:17No, no
01:10:25Well, then
01:10:27Things just got more interesting
01:10:31What
01:10:38Go on give it to him
01:10:41Give it to him. All right help him drink. Maybe he just wants to say something
01:10:58I
01:11:08Do buddy
01:11:12Wow, I didn't have this kind of stuff at all
01:11:22How old are you now
01:11:27In three quarters Wow eight and three quarters you're getting big
01:11:35You love me mommy don't you huh?
01:11:39Good she loves you too
01:11:42And I'd like to see the two of you to be able to go back home. Would you like that?
01:11:49Yeah, excellent you just have to answer truthfully whatever I asked you deal
01:11:58I do. Do we have a deal? I don't want to have to hurt you. Mommy
01:12:06Are you ready to tell me the truth, huh?
01:12:10Good good. Now look at me
01:12:13Look at it. Look into mine
01:12:17Have you ever met your daddy before
01:12:23Have you ever met me before today
01:12:28Look carefully now
01:12:33Do you remember ever seen me with your mommy before today just say the truth
01:12:41You
01:12:50No
01:12:54Did your mommy ever mention Luka or uncle Luka or mr. Ramirez
01:13:11No
01:13:42You
01:13:49Go home you're no use to me here
01:13:53But you said I could stay
01:13:55Are you deaf? I?
01:13:59Said to go home you should be mourning your brother show some respect
01:14:11I
01:14:32Told you nobody ever gets out
01:14:35It's because of you that my brother is dead. And now you're gonna die too. Then I tell you to go home
01:14:41Don't you listen?
01:14:42Huh? I want to watch him die
01:14:47The one messed up chickadee fine, I'll keep out of the way
01:15:03Take her to see her boy
01:15:12If you kill them, you're only gonna make him stronger
01:15:17See he believes in sacrifice like Jesus in the Bible
01:15:23well
01:15:24It's not like I could let them go
01:15:27well
01:15:30First her
01:15:33And him
01:15:35What do you think? Huh? Let the wife and kid go. Oh, no, no, no, no
01:15:42Are you crazy?
01:15:44He loves her look at him
01:15:47She lied to him
01:15:49But he still loves her
01:15:53Look how he's shaking in his boots. I
01:15:59Found this
01:16:02Long before I cried with my voice God heard the anguish in my heart
01:16:07You wrote that pastor
01:16:11You see
01:16:13This pastor thing ain't no joke
01:16:15This thing is full of notes
01:16:17He actually thinks he's been saved
01:16:21Make him fight you one-on-one and then we'll see
01:16:36Untie fellas
01:16:45Let's make them a little more comfortable, huh?
01:17:06Oh
01:17:22That's it
01:17:36I
01:18:03Like a man not a priest
01:18:07I
01:18:12Am NOT a priest
01:18:36I
01:19:07Back off is mine
01:19:10So you're a pastor a man of God you have the guts to kill me
01:19:19You have nothing
01:19:36Put your hands on your head
01:20:06You
01:20:36You
01:21:06I
01:21:36I
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01:23:36I
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01:24:36I
01:25:06You
01:25:36You
01:26:06You
01:26:36You
01:27:06You
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01:28:06You
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