WEBVTT - To Serve & Protect... 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.400 All right, welcome to episode number three of the Gates 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:08.320 the Chronicles with Reggie Right, James McDonald, and Alex Alonso 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.399 from Street TV. Alright, appreciate you coming in with us 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.920 and hanging out. I guess I hope you're gonna be 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.480 a regular guest over here. But we'll see what we'll 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.919 see what happens. Well, cool, cool, cool, So tonight episode 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:24.000 we're gonna deal with we's something, um that you know 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.880 we're all about and what what you know, you know 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.520 my backgrounds and law enforcement and the police. And then 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.120 James Mob James, you know, you know where he's from. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:37.839 Matter of fact, I want to give James a shout out. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.680 Today is his birthday. I appreciate you coming in for 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.440 and um spending some time with us on his birthday 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.120 and because you could have shook us no no, no business. 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:51.720 First exactly exactly. And then man, a very very special 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:58.760 guest on, Mr Alex Alonzo from Street st TV st TV. 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.320 You see, I'm know that that oh you know what 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:02.800 you used to call it, well, it used to be 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.360 street gangs. But I had to, uh, I wanted to 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.520 introduce my platform to a larger audience, so I kind 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.360 of sanitized the name. I went from street gangs to 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.880 street TV. Can you get any bigger? Man? Because you'd 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.720 be having some good some good episodes. And there's always 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.120 room for growth, man, there's always um, you know, new 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.320 things to do, and technology is constantly changing and the 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.120 Internet is growing and social media is growing. So yeah, 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.200 we're going as big as we can get. Well, cool, cool, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.360 appreciate your working on I guess well. I can see 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.120 you've got a lot of respect out there because of 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.120 the different neighborhoods you'd be going into. Some people say 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.560 I got a hood pass to every hood, but it 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.479 ain't really like that. It's just you. You you can 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.440 walk in, you got to camp. Hey, I could actually 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.120 tell you there's a couple of hoods where I'm actually 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.640 not allowed to go in, like for real, for real. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.160 I don't want to get into those specifically, but you 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.120 know there are some people that they push against what 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:04.000 I'm doing, and you know, I got to navigate through 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:06.760 that from that. Looking at it, you could be a 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.839 police type of ship not knowing you, or you could 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.480 be undercover or not. It ain't even on none of that. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.799 It's about they want to document themselves and they want 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.240 to control how they're depicted. And even though I have 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.480 a huge platform and I want to give people in 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:27.080 these neighborhoods an opportunity, they feel like we'll do it ourselves. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.440 So you know, I respect it, and I go where 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:34.079 I'm welcomed basically, but most places I'm welcomed down. Very 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:39.240 few problems, um, very few issues. And I love what 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.119 I do. Cool. Cool. Uh see you want to New York? Yeah, 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.200 where are you from? Originally? I was actually born in 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.280 New York, but I came to l A at the 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.840 age of eleven and pretty much been here ever since. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.639 I came here in the early eighties, and I grew 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.919 up in the West Adams area. Yeah, and I hit 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.280 I hit l A right when it's just in the 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.000 thick of it, you know, as a as a teenager. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.840 So I saw all the eighties. Yeah, oh yeah, definitely 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.080 where are you from? From? In the last ten years? 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.600 So you you gotta wear l A had now, Well 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.400 I switched up to me when when you see me 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.799 with different hats on, it's really part of my uniform 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:22.600 and it's not representing what the logo is. Yeah, okay, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.239 well we'll get into the show because you got a 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.960 lot of knowledge, and you know, first of all, I 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.640 want to touch you on you got anything or any 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:35.200 Nipsey stories, you know what. I actually met Nipsey back 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.640 in two thousand seven for the first time. I was 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.720 working on a TV show. I was working on a 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.120 pilot for A and E. And I was trying to 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.520 get a bunch of l A street guy young street 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.400 guys to be a part of this new show. And 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.880 I eventually got seventeen people to to shoot for the show, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.760 and I wanted Nipsey to be one of those and 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.440 I wasn't able to get them at the time. For 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.640 you know, that's a whole another story. But then maybe 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.320 a year later they hit me up. His people hit 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.720 me up and said, hey, you still want to do 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.480 that interview, and I said, well, initially I wanted him 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:11.960 to be on this show that I was doing for 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.440 A and E. But I'll I would love to interview 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.560 him for for the platform, and they said, yeah, let's 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.800 do it. So I ended up interviewing him in February 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.200 of two thousand nine. And it's one of the oldest 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.520 Nipsey Hustle interviews. There's about maybe two that are older 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.120 than the one I did, so I met him early, 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.120 gave me his mixtape, Bullets Ain't Got No Name, and 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.840 people remember he did three. That's why I ended up 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.360 becoming a fan of him. He did these three amazing 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.280 mixtapes Bullets Ain't Got No Name, one, two, and three, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.240 and that pretty much put him on the map in 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.120 l A. Everyone's like, man, this guy could rap. I 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.159 remember telling someone in two thousand eight or nine, this 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.520 guy's gonna blow up. I said, this guy is really 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.520 gonna blow up, and everyone's like, Nah, he ain't gonna 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.680 blow up. I'm like not. This dude has he has 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.080 the look, he has the swag. He comes from one 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.560 of the biggest neighborhoods in l A. So he's got 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:05.480 that huge backing, and he's got talent. And he choked 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.240 like he got an old soul. He does like he 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.200 got old soul, like he actually been there, like he's 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.200 been there when slow some boys first came out the 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.400 way they used to talk back in the days. That's 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.600 how I was watching this looking at his interviews, and 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.400 he talked like he'd been here before. You wouldn't. You 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:25.760 wouldn't say he was thirty three years old. You know 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.680 what I'm saying like like how Tupac talk. I don't know. 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.400 I think he was smarter than Tupac. Actually, well he's 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.080 eight years older, that's true. Yeah, that's a good You 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:43.400 can't compare year old and expence is totally different from Tupax. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.360 But you could look at Nipsey when he was twenty three, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.200 twenty five and a lot of old videos and maybe 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.200 try to make that comparison. And you gotta remember Tupac 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:57.680 came from UH, from Baltimore, the Yard, Oakland and all 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.160 of the neighborhoods. Well, Nancy just had that on own 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.719 training right there in south central l A. And he 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.280 and so he's just gonna keep it about that. And 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.919 he had, you know, older brother, Tupac Din you know, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.080 have an older brother and all of that. The guide 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.760 even all of that, Tupac was pretty much the leader 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.040 of his cruise or his sets what everybody was at 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.719 when them seeing you know, I kind of had people 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.080 that you know, to be up under, from Big Hi 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.680 to UH to his brother Sammy and all of those. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.040 And that's a big difference. Yeah. But also Tupac come 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.160 from a black panther back, come from that, I mean 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.760 some revolutionaries. He had a lot of uncles and stuff, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.880 but he still was raised by his mama. Yeah, which 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.200 Nimpsey apparently was too, even though his dad, he said 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.200 he was in his life a little bit, but I 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.440 mean a lot. Apparently, I'm gonna give the edge to 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:49.279 year old Nipsey over old because because Nipsey was talking 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.359 about investments, he still haven't. He was talking about business, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.000 he was Park was just a part Park was a 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.800 talented dude and all he talked about was partying, and 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.599 han't talking about that at nip Yeah. Yeah, you go 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.600 go look at some of his very first interview that 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.640 he did with um the guy from the Bay Area, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.120 his name of coming in a second. He was like 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.840 twenty three years old talking about I'm not gonna be 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.920 buying this jewelry when I can't afford it yet I 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.040 need to I need to look at investments. I gotta 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.120 look at my future. He was twenty three talking like 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.360 that and either oh seven or oh eight. So I 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.040 know a lot of people, might you know, dislike the 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.160 comment that I gave Nipsey the edge over Pock when 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.760 it comes to knowledge and intellect. But I'm confident in 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.640 that twenty five year old nip was just slightly sharper 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.000 than the year old pop. Did you see the interview 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.000 that Park did at the age four at the Brotherhood 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.840 Crusade with Danny Bakewell and that about the three strike laws. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.640 And you know what my favorite part interview was the 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.000 one he did from prison when he let his hair 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.640 grow in. I mean, he was actually sharpened at an interview. Man, 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.520 It's tough. It's really tough. That was a sharp interview 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.320 that pot game from prison, you know, but yeah, okay, 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:06.520 really one, how do you feel about Nipsey working with 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.520 the police to get the gangs together and you deal 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.040 with a lot of gang bangers are attempting to Yeah 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:17.000 it never happened, it out, but I mean, well it 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.080 never happened because he was killed, so we never know 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:25.000 what would have happened that Monday. But he was one 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.240 of the only ones was working on that get him 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.160 close to you know, the gangs, trying to you know, 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.800 cease firing the whole nine. How you feel about it? 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.559 I mean, you work with a lot of gang members 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.000 and and some game members might say they're not with it. 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.440 Somebody say they with it like the ones they are. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.040 I mean, how you you think it will work. Well. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:48.439 I commend it for for planning to just have those 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.880 discussions with law enforcement. Everyone that works for GRID, g 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.440 R y D, Gang Reduction, Youth Development, the gang members 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.800 that are ingrid, they have to work with the police. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:05.319 So we already got over two dozen former slasherformance. They 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.800 call them informants. We got raping money. They the real 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.200 game members doesn't active in it and stuff like that. 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.520 Have a problem with them, Yeah, they might, they call 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.520 them snitches, but there's some ogs that are that that 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.240 have solid names out there that are part of the GRID, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.800 that that work with law enforcement, and there's no way 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.000 around it. Yeah, if you're working with the city, I'm 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.600 all for. I'm just telling you know. You know, because 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.160 when I was doing little guys and out there, and 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:37.000 people know my background on both sides, I always know 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.680 that those guys had got jackets and they didn't respect 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.439 them or they didn't talk about them about this situation 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.520 until they got in trouble. Then they wanted to reach 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.240 out to them and see who they can help. Well, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.200 I know about six or seven GRID workers and they're 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:52.480 all solid. They got them in the Jungles, they got 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.880 them over there and Hyde Park they got him in 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:00.480 in West Adams. Even unfortunately twin from rolling these got 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.439 killed in July of two thousand and eighteen. He was 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.439 a grid worker and he was a solid guy from 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.920 forties crib. So there are some really good, uh you know, 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.480 respectable guys that work with grid, work with the city, 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.320 and they're forced to work with law enforces. I mean, 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.800 there's there's a lot of there's a lot of gang 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.720 bangers junctions out there that don't know nothing about grid 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:22.760 you know what I'm saying that they've never heard of. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.720 But it's not about telling the police information about the gang. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.240 And I think that might be a misconception that grid 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.680 workers are not there to inform on other gang members. 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.000 There there as like a liaison between the streets and 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.400 law enforcement to say, hey, you know, I'm gonna go 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.319 talk to the youngsters, and I said, you know, I'm 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.439 gonna give them some information. Then you you tell the police, Hey, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.800 I spoke to those guys and they're gonna be quiet. 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:51.600 You know. It's not about like giving names and providing information. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.800 I don't believe that grid workers do that. I haven't 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.000 heard of grid workers like I haven't heard of any 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.480 cases either. Let me just clarify that and clarify that. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.280 But I know that's what people that's from the outside, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.880 I'd be like, oh, well, he worked for you know, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.880 he getting the chet, he get paid by the police. 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:07.480 Police look out for him and take care of him, 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.600 and so stay away from him, or we don't talk 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.360 about that in front of him. And I think that's 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.040 part of the danger of doing this gang intervention professional work. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.000 Like people just think it's it's a simple job, but 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.680 you're you're there to help curb violence, help curb gang conflict, 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:23.319 and it's still a dangerous job for all those good 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.280 workers because you never know when these young knuckleheads I 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.360 think you're an informant or think you're working with the 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.920 police in a different kind of way. You know, I 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.320 even talked to the police sometimes when I'm out there shooting, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.319 and I try to stay away from them because I 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.880 don't know who's looking, I don't know who's watching um. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.080 But you know, it's it's almost impossible not to interface 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.000 with law enforcement when you're out in any streets and 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.319 you have constant out there that are good that is 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.640 for you know, like uh, you know, Darren dupri And 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.640 and Compts like that. And you know from when the 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.160 l a like my father was Reggie Wright Senior from 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.000 Compton when he was working in Compton Police Department, that 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.160 that people couldn't have tru have good relationships with. And 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.080 so you have those type of officers that you just 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.440 have to know which ones there there are. The police 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.800 of the day is really willing to work with the 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:17.440 game members. There's so yeah, you're not gonna ever get majority. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.440 You never had the majority. You're never going to have 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.800 a majority of them that believe because some believe in 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.640 this kicking as taking names and moving on where you 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.599 have something that's working in those those types of divisions 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.280 and the smarter ones and all of that since the 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.520 quite frankly since the riots. It started trying to happen 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.600 since the riots, when law enforcement was like okay, hold on, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:41.920 you know well the riots was a result of the 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.120 right and the keen beating when they saw that Okay, 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:46.760 we can go to jail for putting our hands on 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:52.120 these people like this. The public is not really tolerating this. Yeah, 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:59.800 it really has if that happens. But this this is 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.840 own thing. What these guys is trying to do for 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:06.480 Nipsey and and my whole thing is I'm sitting there 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.520 listening to it was the kids. It was meaning for 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:10.880 the kids that he was trying to help it for, 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.160 which is the most important thing. But it jumps from 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.679 the kids to these I've seen a lot of interviews, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.360 and these guys just threatened their own home boys for 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.840 all the big homership, you're fools and wo woo. Don't 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.959 come and and support this and this and that. You're 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:31.040 going by the wrong way because I'm telling you, everybody 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.280 ain't wienies like this. I'm not gonna get that cat, 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.120 no shout out. But like that boy there, like that 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.960 boy they killed Tupac. Come on, man, you you're dealing 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.720 with some serious knuckle heads out there, you know what 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.640 I'm saying. So how can you get the game bangers, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.839 in the in the in the police together. How do 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.720 you do that? It's just the first step, James, I mean, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.280 I think I think this is the first step towards 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.480 something that's gonna take five years, eight years in years, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.320 Reggie just mentioned the riots. How many years ago was 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:08.200 that that was almost that's twenty almost thirty years ago, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.319 And how much progress have we made? I think we 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:15.120 made some progress in terms of law enforcement. Not not 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.040 that we would want, but I think we made something 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.160 Like you're seeing more officers being indicted on a regular basis. 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.840 I look up the indictments. Every day. There's a cop 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:30.480 getting indicted somewhere in America every day. Um, thirty years ago, 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:33.200 you probably didn't see that many law enforcement arrests, right 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.480 and you're seeing more. Look, we have the top l 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.800 a county sheriff and his sidekick both serving five years 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.240 in prison right now, Lee Baka Paul Tanaka. When does 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.040 that ever happened before? When when your chief and assistant 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.520 chief are in prison? You know? And and you know 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.160 Lee Baka he trying to play damning, you know, but 0:14:55.200 --> 0:15:00.600 he pretty much gott You know, I won't to work 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.120 because if it worked out, would be a good thing. 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.160 But my whole thing is first, you gotta you can't 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.800 just keep talking about it like they did in ninety 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.200 two and ninety two. I said it wouldn't gonna work 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.720 because all they want to do is talk and drink. 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.240 That's not gonna work. Now you're talking about the truth 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.000 right now. Yeah, So what what what What they to 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.400 me is what they need to do is deal with 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:28.000 the the neighborhoods. First, I think it's a huge step 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.680 because the sixties and the A trays, those are the 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:32.560 that's the top of the food chain when it comes 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.960 to the neighborhood and gangster call. So if you got 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.760 about what twenty other neighborhood crypt gangs, you got about 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.320 what the gangster crypt gangs, they're all gonna fall under 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.000 with a tray and sixty do. But didn't a tree 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.160 have a problem with because it seemed like Big Hu 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.400 was making a shot call and calling that uh that 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.920 that march and all of that. Didn't they have a 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.280 problem with that? You know, I don't know, maybe I 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.120 haven't heard anything specifically, but hey, I mean somebody's got 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:03.120 to step up and take that position, anybody, And that's cool. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.440 A lot of cats respect him, so he should take 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:08.960 the lead. But then you put your bring other other 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.360 major hinders to the to the table. You know what 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.200 I'm saying. And I'm saying in each hood we called 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.120 the cease fire. We don't go out and do nothing. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.280 When Big You was walking, he was walking side by 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.320 side with Mad bone O g a track, I know, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.200 with arms around each other. So I mean everyone should 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.640 have but you know what outside's probably don't know. Oh 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.040 that's an O g A track. You know, everyone knows 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:32.760 Big You because he's you know, he's become a well 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.200 known guy. I think I truly believe it a work. 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:40.160 But you know, you gotta bring in respect, you gotta 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.320 you gotta start respecting each other. Not just today. Uh, 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.280 we gotta switch phone numbers, and we gotta talk. We 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.040 gotta sit down and break bread on how we're gonna 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.840 do this. And once you do that and cease fire, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.880 Let's try this for one month, and then the next 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.120 month we tried again, and then another month we come 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.480 in and see how we can incorporate that may give money, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.480 make money to buy this building, to get so many 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.879 kids in there. Because and what happened on the getting 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.640 back to the riots or the truths that we had 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:17.800 and um, you know the late nineties three, well you 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:19.960 know what happened was and I was in law enforcement 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.760 deep into it. There. Yes, you hear about a guy 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:28.080 by the name of James from from mab Paru And 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:33.439 now I'm Timmy from Nutty Block or or wherever. And 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:38.439 now I've always been wondering who was Marv James from 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.919 from the mab Parules area that shot and killed my 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.119 cousin or my brother Timmy, that everybody from the neighborhood 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:50.080 always talked about. And now I'm finding myself frattenizing with him, setting, 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.720 drinking and all of that, and eventually it got to 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:58.800 be too much. Well allegedly, well I just threw out 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.840 names and even bitch. Everybody gotta look gay, man, And 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.760 that's what called to break up. That's what they started. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.920 Everybody who persons are listen. Everybody lost in the game war. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:16.440 My neighborhood lost, man, I'm team brothers. Every neighborhood lost 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.119 a lot of men. We at the point I lost 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:28.120 my brother by gangship, but unfortunately was the homies. That's 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:31.560 over and and these guys gotta look at it. That's over. 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.280 You living now for the future, for your kids, your grandkids. 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.359 Most people weren't able to put it, sweep it up 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.120 under the ruck from from the experience, that's where that's 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.920 where the big homlies come from. And that's where you 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.680 you you put your foot down. Like like with the police. 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.359 If the police come in this situation trying to work 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.080 with with the gangs and they get out of line, man, 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:57.880 it's the police got to maintain their own Arrest them, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:00.439 put him in jail, let them know we're seriously about this. 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.600 That's the only way we believe that they're serious about it. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.480 If if the police come beating you up and and 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.440 saying this and that, we don't want it to work. 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.000 So how do you check them by their own people? 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.560 You know what? You have to see it with police, 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.639 they don't really have anything to gain by seeing a truce, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.239 by seeing peace because because part of their business is 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.600 gang violence. They have Gang Enforcement Detail which used to 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.000 be crashed and they all lose jobs. And they have 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:38.080 Gang Hardcore Division, which is the legal arm of the 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.479 l A District Attorney's office that prosecutes it. So they 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:48.119 have an agenda to see this continue. That's that's what 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.760 I'm saying. Let go back to the quotas on tickets 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:52.720 and stuff like that. I don't buy into it because 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.480 I know as a cop, I was never told to 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.080 write this many tickets or you got to write this 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.159 many tickets. I think it's just an unwritten rule. You 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.600 have gang Worsemen Detail, we'll just call the crash. You 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.440 have crash. These officers make money, they have kids, they're 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:08.520 putting their kids through college to be gang cops. So 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.320 how do you employ these people. You gotta have gang conflict, 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.959 you gotta have gang problems without gang problems without gang conflict, 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.240 and you don't have a gang enforcement detail. So what 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.320 what role are they supposed to play when these gangs 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:25.480 are trying to bring peace and come together? Like what 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.119 what's what? Would there be a sincere role that law 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:32.840 enforcement can play the gangs get along, There would be 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:34.879 something you go to major crimes, or you go to 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.120 unsolved or something. I just I just don't buy into 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.080 that because I know about the quotas and all of that, 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.280 so I know they don't like it. Uh for the 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:46.560 most part, Um, the good ones. Now you got some cops, 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:48.280 like I said, I saw something on Facebook. I told 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.720 the story before. Or you have two white cops in 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.960 the car and they were applotting each other because, um, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.600 they were giving each other high fives because some some 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.199 black guys just shot each other and say, oh, you 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:00.480 don't have to do anything. You don't have to do 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:03.360 anything because they take care of it for you. And 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.440 and so you have those type of officers. You have 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:07.880 some of them, but as a majority, I don't think 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:12.600 most people want to see that ain't right. I mean, 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.560 just on that note, you don't think the police out 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.720