Finding Justice (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Criminalization of Kids - full transcript

I went to prison, and I saw that
it was a lot like high school.

Schools, in many ways,

create prison-like conditions
for children.

If you don't comply,
we then push you out.

The mass incarceration of
black and brown bodies

begins as soon
as people enter school.

Investigation continues
into the circumstances

that led to a 5-year-old girl
being handcuffed by police.

School officials say they
weren't left with many options.

From a very young age,
black children,

they're targeted by systems that
are designed to punish them,



to over-discipline them.

A student manhandled...

I have no drugs on me,
no weapons, nothing!

Children are being
searched unjustifiably...

...for suspicion of weapons.

Instead of putting
more guidance counselors

in schools,

they've dumped huge sums
of money on police officers.

We're preparing everybody to go
to prison through the schools.

And it's based on blatant
lies and scare tactics.

There has been a shooting
at high school in Parkland.

A shooting at Santa Fe High.

Subject is going to be
a white male.

Every single time there has
been a mass shooting



at a white school
by a white male shooter,

schools in black communities end
up getting more law enforcement.

The "National Report"
found the Trump administration

over-reported
the number of school shootings

so they're able to fuel
more security in school.

We are going to disrupt those
systems that are oppressing us.

They treat us like criminals
instead of people.

- Students, not suspects!
- Students, not suspects!

People who are in charge
of policy will not change

unless we fight back.

These children
are being dehumanized,

and we have got to do better
when it comes to intervening.

It is our duty
to fight for freedom!

It is our duty to win!

I was in school one day,

and these people
came into the classroom,

and they were like,
"You, you, and you, let's go."

And I'm feeling really
weird and uncomfortable,

and I'm asking questions like,
"Did I do something?"

And they were like, "Oh, well,
this is a random search."

It didn't really feel random,

and the thing that they
picked up was my hand sanitizer,

and I was like,
"I need that."

And they're like, "Oh, no.
I know your type.

You're going to use it
to get high."

And now, at this point,
I'm kind of thinking,

"What's my type?"

Now, I'm labeled as a type,
but what's my type?

It makes me feel targeted.

My skin color,
I can't control that.

You're criminalizing me
based off of stuff

I don't control.

We're already angry about

not getting
the basic things that we need,

and you can't even
keep the bathroom stocked,

or you can't even
give me more electives,

and now you have the audacity

to send eight
school police officers

and have them sit in our face.

It all goes back to people
not treating us

as if we are human
because of our skin color.

Random searches make me not want
to go to school at all,

but I've always told myself,
"I want to make a difference.

My existence is going
to mean something."

But what you're telling me
is I ain't going to be nothing

but a criminal.

Turn to page two.

Coming out of the womb,

you are birthed into
a hostile environment

as a person of color.

Black children
come into the classroom

and are immediately targeted.

I want to hear more
than Demetrius.

Ready, Billy?

This policy of random searches
is harmful to students.

It dehumanizes.

It's not even about
what they're doing.

It's the presumption that
they're going to do something,

and, you know, the idea is,
"Well, you know,

we're stopping crime
before it happens."

You're saying that these
young people are criminals.

You're saying that
they're hopeless.

That's psychological
harm on a child,

and that's the stuff
that makes me,

like, shake in my bones.

LA School Police
shouldn't exist.

They didn't always exist,

and they cost over $70 million
a year to local taxpayers.

Today is graduation day.

Left, right, left, arm.

They are a budget drain

that doesn't make
the students feel safer.

Most campuses don't have
full-time school psychologists.

They don't even have
school nurses full-time.

But we're using resources
to police.

They're handing
over lots of money

to a cynical, destructive,
and racist system.

Why?
That doesn't work.

To look at a young
person's potential

and basically throw it out
is incredibly unjust.

LA Unified School
District degrades young people

who are coming to school
to learn

and being instead treated
like criminal suspects.

They end up carrying that
for the rest of their life.

You know, that's how I felt
when I was in school.

For years, there have
been dramatic inequities

in our schools,

and no society should allow
those inequities to persist.

I've gone to the school board.

I've talked to
the superintendent.

Among the recommendations
of our report

is that the school
district suspend

its random wanding policy

while it audits
the efficacy of that policy.

The LA city attorney wants
to suspend the practice

of using metal detectors
on LAUSD students

in order to search for weapons.

The district officials and other
experts pushed back on that.

In the midst of the battle

to stop the criminalization
of students,

there's been a shift
in the leadership.

The next superintendent
for the LAUSD

will be Austin Beutner,
a former investment banker

who will be seen as a message
from the school board,

placing business
management skills

above insider
educational experience.

58-year-old Beutner
has no experience

managing a school
or a school district,

something critics say
should disqualify him.

Red flags went up immediately.

We don't see the interest
in our children.

We see special interests,
and we're tired of it.

My history teacher invited me

to a Students Deserve meeting,

and it opened my eyes to what
was going on in our school,

and Students Deserve
is helping me find my voice.

I am a junior at Dorsey
High School in California.

I am also a leader
in the organization

Students Deserve.

I am building this movement
for myself and others

because we deserve a school
that meets our needs.

I am Marshé Doss,
and I will be heard.

Students Deserve has been
pushing and demanding changes

to end random searches in LAUSD.

So we're going to the school
board meeting

because they have the power
to change policy,

and if they don't listen
to us now,

we're stepping out
into the streets.

Black history has always
been never giving up,

and I see the same thing
with our young children today.

They're not giving up.

I'm glad to see that
there are young people

out there organizing
and pushing for change.

It's sad that the elected
officials don't get it,

and that disconnect between
the people making the policy

and the people who are
doing the work is too wide.

If they had spent more time
in the schools

listening to kids,
shadowing kids,

they get a sense
of what their day is like,

they might have a very different
impression of what it takes.

Yeah!

We're in front
of LAUSD headquarters

getting ready for the school
board meeting.

I'm a parent of three LAUSD
students.

My oldest daughter
has experienced

this so-called random search.

It messes them up.

And we don't want our children
to be policed

while they're in school.

We want them to be taught.

None of our children should
be perceived as dangerous,

as fearsome...

...as disposable.

When policies like this first
started to emerge,

that younger McKenna actually
spoke out against them.

You could see op-eds
where he's critical

of these sort of policies.

If he was asserting
that in 1992, what changed?

You no longer connect
with the students

that you're
supposed to represent.

George McKenna is one
of two school board members

that have not budged
on this issue.

He's actually one of the worst
people on this policy.

The school board meeting,
you see young black students

talking to the one
black official

and not getting anything,
which is unfortunate

because he speaks
for the black community.

But the fact of the matter is,
he still holds

onto this
30-year-old view of the world.

We, the children,
are your future.

We are your future, but you
are not treating us as such.

You are not ending
random searches.

You are not stopping
the criminalization of students.

We have black people
who've been arrested

for simply,
you know, standing up.

I've been arrested six times,

including for speaking
15 seconds

over my allotted time
during public comment.

Reducing
the amount of searches you do

with this pilot program
isn't changing anything.

I am still being criminalized.
I am still being targeted.

So it's important to understand

that the reason that
the state targets black protest

is because black protest is what
has transformed this country.

Random searches is
a racist policy.

- Thank you.
- UTLA also supports us.

We'd like to be fair
to your colleagues,

so they'll have the same time.

UTLA also supports us.

UTLA and Students Deserve stand
hand-to-hand on these issues

because they affect both of us.

Even the city attorney
is calling you guys out.

We have conducted the research.

We have the documentation.

We have the support.

The reason that they're trying

to repress our work is they know
they power of black protest.

They're afraid,
and they should be.

Dr. McKenna, you have
the opportunity

to help the way LAUSD public
schools are ran.

We, the students, are telling
you this policy is ineffective.

We, the students, are telling
you this policy is racist.

We, the students, are telling
you this policy is traumatizing.

We, the students, are telling
you this policy needs to end.

Thank you.

We don't want random searches!

We struggled.
We struggled.

We struggled, and it wasn't
that Abraham Lincoln

was some enlightened
white man who freed us.

It was that we made ourselves
ungovernable,

and when we fight, we win.

We win!

We win!
We win!

The US public schools have
more law enforcement officers

than social workers.

Black students are twice
as likely

to be arrested at school
than any other student.

This, I wish I could say,
surprised me.

If you identify
black and brown kids

with the presumption
of dangerousness and guilt,

then, of course,
school officials

call the police into the schools

to arrest
and detain those children.

The thought of a police officer

being able to touch my child

without their consent is
so profoundly unacceptable,

and yet we live in a country

that allows for it
to happen every single day.

These kids are coming into
these schools with relationships

that are already traumatic
when it comes to police.

The answer is just to have
police around more.

School district police officers

have preconceived thoughts
about black children.

They're uber aggressive

when they're doing
police things to children.

Video recorded shows
Ahmad Williams

waiting in
the principal's office.

Suddenly, Shaulis
confronts Williams,

putting him in a headlock.

Principal Kevin Murray helps
officer Shaulis

hold Williams down while the
teen is handcuffed and Tasered.

Across the US, school
police have assaulted students.

Video shows
a Helix High School student

being tossed to the ground.

The officer pushed her
against a wall.

The officer held her
face to hold her down.

These children are not
only being exposed

to race-related stress,

wondering if they're
going to survive.

They're also losing the capacity
to be resilient.

The situation escalates.

Her classmates witnessing
the entire encounter

as he slams her onto the ground.

That's how these young
people start getting the idea

that police officers
are not there to help them.

- Help!
- You're under arrest.

- For what?
- Trespassing.

I was coming to talk to a --
Aah!

Get your hands behind your back!

There is research that shows us

that this much power
and authority

without any kind of checks
and balances

is unhealthy psychologically.

Officer Anthony Dupre
picks the teen up

and pounds him to the ground
before jumping on him.

And if we choose to not
respond to it and address it,

then we are doing ourselves
a disservice as a society.

We have to realize that,
unless we do something,

unless we scream and shout,
it will never change.

Crowds from all walks of life

protesting the so-called
school-to-prison pipeline.

Educate us!
Don't incarcerate us!

This is a moment
of civic engagement,

where students
are learning to use

their First Amendment rights.

Instead of making black
and brown students feel safe,

they continue to profile
and criminalize us.

They say the first step
to keeping schools safe

is keeping the fear
of police brutality out.

The first time that I saw a gun

was on a police officer
in my school,

and I immediately was shook.

The people that are there
to protect me

are also the people
that could take my life.

So seeing them on my campus,

at a time where I was supposed
to still be a child,

I had to think like an adult.

When we have this type
of backdrop,

and we just throw
police officers into schools,

it sounds insane because it is.

I got this meeting this morning.

It's going to be
real interesting.

It seems like we're facing
the same old issues

that I used to face
when I was coming up, you know?

My dad was abused by police,

you know, my uncles, me,

and now I have
a 12-year-old son,

and I'll be damned.

This whole notion that you need
to randomly search children

at an elementary age,
I find that difficult,

as many others
in the community do, to believe.

My daughter has experienced it,

and I'm sure my son
may experience it.

So this is why I fight.

Breakfast will be
in just a little bit.

Parents have been kicking
at the door of LAUSD

for a very long time.

We really relate to how
brilliant our children are.

We also see that
their school boards

and other institutions
like the police

that are trying to suppress it,

and in actuality,
they're murdering it.

At my school, you have to
search the whole class,

and they have to split
into one room with all boys

and one room with all girls,

and they all have
to get searched.

That's 30 minutes of class
you done missed, right?

All right.

We have to come at this
as a collective,

parents, teachers and students,
until we change the Board.

No child should suffer
being terrorized

by being treated like a suspect
instead of a student.

If LAUSD is not willing to move
forward in changing policies,

then they going to have
a problem with me.

First of all, let me
thank you for your time.

We wanted to get some insight
from you

and help
the community understand

where are we coming from
when we're talking about

some of the issues in LAUSD.

Yeah, I think that our children
have been really

kind of presenting ideas
about what school safety means,

for black children especially.

We have to make sure
it doesn't mean

the criminalization
of black children.

We really need resources
in the schools

that do keep the children safe

but are not housed
in policing units,

and then, you know,
finally, is something

that we've been in discussions
for a couple of years around

is ending the random
searches in schools.

There is an issue
of discrimination.

Well, you can make that point,
and I can't validate it,

and I don't think
you can either.

The random searches
are not random.

It's black children
who are being

pulled out of the classroom.

My daughter's school, every
single time, the "random search"

pulls every black child
out of the classroom.

I reject the notion
that it's racist.

I've had students stand here
and make big noise

about they're only wanding
the black and brown students,

but that's only who's attending
there are black and brown.

My daughter is at a school

that has a very low
black population...

- What school?
- ...below 10 percent.

She has no class with more than
five black kids in the class,

and she was saying that,
in her classes,

the random searches have pulled

almost all of the black children
out of the classes.

The policy is you select
a class, and you select --

And then they go,
"You, you, and you."

- Right.
- And they're not blind.

- Well, how do you know that?
- Because --

That's what you're being told.

Well, I have children
who tell me.

These are direct conversations
with my own children.

You think that the black
students

are the first ones
targeted in a mixed class.

I know that that's been
their experience.

I've been listening to things
that I think are exaggerated

and fabricated in many ways.

I can tell you for certain,
my children

are not fabricating stories.
All right?

I believe that,
but now you're making it

personal about your children.
- Right, but --

When they come -- Excuse me.

- Let me just finish real quick.
- No, let me finish.

If you found weapons
with random searches,

would you then think the random
searches were effective?

Have random searches
recovered guns?

- What did you just say?
- Is that what you're saying?

May I finish my point?

I'm asking you, though,
'cause that's what you're --

- I haven't finished my point.
- Okay.

I don't know if you know
what my point is.

If random searches were
finding lots of guns,

would you think random
searches were effective?

But they haven't.
That's like...

- Wait a minute.
- ...if there was a Santa Claus.

If they were finding
multiple guns,

would you then believe that
random searches were effective?

But we've never
been told that...

Not but.
What's the answer to that?

...or provided
with information around it.

What do you think the purpose
of a random search is?

I'm not going to engage
in hypotheticals.

- Well, then, we can't talk.
- Why would we have to talk...

- We can't talk.
- ...only about hypotheticals?

I don't think we can talk.
I don't think we can talk.

I'm off.
I'm off.

You understand what we need
to do in the community

to change the climate,

to default --
to default to a punitive...

Therein lies the problem.

What do you have this policy
in place for anyway

if you're not finding what
you're supposed to be finding?

There's going to be a change,
Dr. McKenna.

There's going to be a change

because we don't tolerate
the program,

and we don't tolerate
disrespect.

The system has figured
out mechanisms

that steep minorities into
socioeconomic disadvantages.

Throughout America,
we have blatantly

and grossly unequal schools.

We're one of the few
countries in the world

that intentionally spends
more money on wealthy children

than on poor children.

We don't have
the same opportunities.

We don't have the same luxury
of equality afforded to us.

When we talk about
the school-to-prison pipeline,

it's not evil security guards,

and it's not
terrible-acting kids.

When you have communities that
don't have enough resources,

everything goes to hell.

What happens when
you're black and you're poor?

You're labeled a gang member,
pushed out of your school.

Your community has no resources,

and we definitely still have
an institution

that denigrates blackness.

It's, like, one out of
five or six young black men

go to prison between 18 and 25.

Well, why is this?

We do know that when you
don't provide access

to opportunity, you create
the conditions for crime,

you create the conditions
for just great suffering

and distress.

Instead of improving
the educational system,

they use money in order to build
that school-to-prison pipeline.

Then you see in the numbers
who gets locked up

and who doesn't.

Everyone, put your hands on
your laps where I can see them.

Nobody move.

If I select you, I need you
to grab your items

and go down to the wall.

I need you down there.

Everyone else, don't move.

Take a step back.

All right.
Step aside.

Turn around.

What is this?

It doesn't look like lotion.

Why do you have so many keys?

You going to steal
somebody's car?

Man, go sit down.

Oh, wow.

Hello.

My name is Marshé Doss.

I'm a senior at
Dorsey High School.

This thing that you
just went through

is called random searches.

It is mandatory in LAUSD.

It's supposed to happen
at all schools.

It only happens in 4 percent of
the schools around the country.

I just wanted to know
how that felt for you guys.

It almost felt like it was,
like, dehumanizing in a way.

Everything you just named...

Don't mind me if I cry.

Everything you just named
is how I feel every day.

This organization
that I'm a part of is called

Students Deserve, and we
fight against random searches.

We've spoken
to the school board.

We've poured our heart out.

We've cried.
We've yelled.

They refuse to listen.

The way that you can help
is by tweeting at LAUSD

to tell them
to end random searches.

Another thing you guys can do

is maybe start a chapter
at your school about

Students Deserve, and you can
also wear this button,

which I have for all of you.

Before I even joined
Students Deserve

and learned more
about political things,

random searches was all
I was exposed to,

and now I've been
to other schools,

and their school is completely
different from my school.

Thank you, guys, for having me
and listening to me.

Thank you.

A lot of these kids
get these opportunities

that I will never have
the opportunity to get.

We're all the same age.

We're all in high school,
just a different area code,

and so that means
that they get to be treated

differently
from how I'm treated.

It's not okay,
and it's really hurting me.

It shouldn't even be happening.

Experiences that you have
as a child

teach you that the way
that I see them

in my community, in my school,
in my classroom

is the way things
are supposed to be.

When I was coming up,
you didn't pass a certain grade

or you had a behavior problem,

they just kind of
pass you along.

It's kind of setting you up
for the system.

They kind of already decide,

"These guys aren't
going to make it.

Let's get them out of here."

We have schools that
encourage teachers

not to think as much
of their children of color

as they do
of their white children.

I've watched it happen.

They look at the kids' grades

in third grade and fourth grade,
and based on those grades,

they will know
how many end up in prison.

It's all marketing,
the branding of black people

as troublemakers.

It's subtle programming people
to think of themselves

as prisoners in school.

And that culture
has reinforced this idea

that some kids
don't belong in schools.

They belong in jails
and prisons.

It all goes into
how to sabotage a generation.

I told my son one time, I said,
"Jump up and touch the door,

like, the top of the door,"
and he did.

He was proud.

He jumped up, pow, you know,
like, "Yeah."

I said, "Well, that was
good enough for a white boy.

You have to touch the ceiling."

How we treat students
in school really determines

how they view themselves

and their future life
trajectory.

They want to dumb you down.

They want to control you.

They want you to think
a certain way.

Imagine what could happen

if we unleashed
the potential of children

and didn't treat them
as if they are criminals.

We're talking about
an entire generation

and future of black leadership,
and black leadership on its own

is something that is
greatly feared in this country.

It is our duty to fight
for freedom!

It is our duty to live!

In this society of
white supremacy and of fear,

if black students have support
for their development,

it would be a threat
to the status quo.

As a black man, a black kid,
I come from kings and queens,

and why do you think
someone would not tell me

the truth about things?

There has to be some sort
of end game in their mind,

which is...

preservation
of whiteness in this country.

So there are going to be
all kinds of obstacles,

all kinds of ploys to sabotage
any kind of progression.

You're going to see oppression.
You're going to see suppression.

You're going to see pushback.
You're going to see narratives

that are meant
to truly disenfranchise people.

If we see the best
in black minds, we all win.

When we see the best in black
minds, everyone benefits.

When we see the best
in black minds,

we all are better as a society.

Come, come.
Take a seat.

Black young people are changing
the world every single day.

They are on the cutting edge
of creating new worlds for us.

Young black youth deserve
to be invested in.

Right here.

We need more spaces
for young people

to know how to fight back,

to challenge
their local government,

to challenge
their local school board.

Young people are hungry
for change right now.

This is Kendrick.
This is the team.

Nice to meet you.
Kendrick.

It's important to see
the process of building up

the next leaders in the world.

Let's just do a quick...

I really do my best
to support everything

that I can with Patrisse
and the organizers that I love.

They're, a lot of the time,
the unsung heroes.

They're the ones that are doing
the hero's work.

So we're going to focus
on what's categorized

as nonviolent direct action.

When you're doing nonviolent
direct action,

think about the risk.

So are you walking into
an environment

where you're going to be treated
badly by the people there,

where the cops are going
to be called on you,

where you're going to be
possibly arrested, right?

Whenever you're doing
direct action,

you always want to think
about the impact

of your nonviolent
direct action.

What's more impactful?

Is it more impactful to have,
like, 100 people,

or is it more impactful
to have two people?

I'm not going to tell you
more is better.

One of my first nonviolent
direct actions in Ferguson,

literally, it was seven of us.

We didn't need
hundreds of people.

As long as it's organized
and structured well,

you can do something
with five people,

and it can go really,
really well.

As young people are growing up
in the age of

a white backlash against
Black Lives Matter,

my heart feels
protective of them.

I want to give them
every single tool

I have in my organizer toolbox
so they can fight back.

It's important
not to talk to anyone

outside of who
you've organized with

because cops don't always
look like cops.

Really.

You stick to the people
that you know.

Very, very good point.
Love that point.

Any questions you have,
any thoughts?

Yes, baby?

This question is about the 27th.

There's a benefit dinner that
Superintendent Austin Beutner

has been invited to.

We'll be going to disrupt
this event

and convince him
to end random searches.

We might have a way
on the inside.

Okay.

How would you suggest
going about that?

Okay. Disrupting fancy events
is tricky as hell.

You definitely want to try
to dress the part

because you want to blend in.
- Mm-hmm.

Identify who is going to be
the people who are disrupting,

and you want to have
a very clear script.

I highly recommend you have
one person or two people

designated
to do a live stream of it

so more people than who's
in the room can see it.

What do you think is
the perfect timing inside?

- So...
- There's no perfect timing.

Literally, there's
no perfect timing.

I'm going to give you a bit
of direct action advice.

You always plan for the worst.

It's going to be super, super
scary because its intimidating,

and you're going to be
around people

who you're told to listen to
and, you know, not challenge.

I look up to Patrisse.

She talked about a lot of things

that we didn't even think about.

I've learned from Patrisse

that you're never too young
to be an activist.

You're never too big
or too small.

We're going to show
Austin Beutner

that activists sometimes
follows the rules,

but activists also break them.

We're coming to tell you
one last time that we're done.

We have nothing to lose
but our chains!

Dinner party in
a privileged neighborhood

sounds like the perfect place
for me to disrupt.

I don't know what to expect,
and I'm excited.

I can't wait to do this.

Wow.
Look at that.

That's so pretty.

Hey, let me get a picture
of y'all.

Aw.

I think it takes
a lot of confidence

to do what we're about to do.

Okay, cool.

Tonight, Austin Beutner,
we are going to show you

that you cannot put a buzzer
on our voices.

Smile.

We are students of Los Angeles
Unified School District.

- And we paid to be here.
- We did pay to be here.

Okay, so we are students
of Los Angeles School District,

and Mr. Austin Beutner...

Yes, ma'am.

...we have a problem
with this policy

that you have in our schools
called random searches,

which has you take us
out of class

every single day
to be searched for weapons.

This policy targets black,
brown, and Muslim youth.

This policy also contributes

to the school-to-prison
pipeline.

You have the power to end
this policy in LAUSD

right now
and stop criminalizing us.

It's definitely commendable
you come here,

and you're courageous enough
to talk about it.

Okay?

So I would like you all
to sit down and have dinner,

and then we're going to
discuss this

at the time of the night...
- The program.

...where it's open
for conversation.

Beutner ran away in
the middle of our conversation

and hid in a corner.

- Yeah, when is the discussion?
- He was afraid to confront us.

He treated us like
we were just kids.

What?

Superintendent Beutner, wherever
you are, support and fund us.

Don't criminalize us.

We were promised that we
would be heard after dinner.

But instead, Beutner snuck out.

The fact that he doesn't
take us seriously

is what started this
in the first place.

This is the reason
why we went to this event.

It is our duty
to fight for freedom!

It is our duty to fight
for freedom!

It is our duty to win!

It is our duty to win!

I get everything that we
do this for, and I understand,

like, why we do it,
but it still hurts.

If I don't continue to stand up
for what I believe in,

I will lose myself.

I'm going to show Austin Beutner
that he cannot run from us.

Being a activist, to me,

means standing up for yourself
as well as others.

We must develop within ourselves

a deep sense of somebodiness.

It's going to be hard.
There's going to be times

where you're going to feel
like you need to give up.

There's going to be times
where you want to quit.

There's going to be times
where you just feel like you

don't have it in you anymore,
but you get up,

and you come back,
and you're stronger than before.

Don't let anybody make
you feel that you are nobody.

My life means something,

and my existence
means something.

A huge crowd here in
Downtown Los Angeles,

an estimated 50,000 teachers
and supporters here

for a rally and a march.

Let me start by saying
how angry I am

with Superintendent Beutner.

He hasn't done anything
to reduce

our overcrowded class sizes.

He hasn't done anything
to increase

the number of counselors,
of nurses, of librarians.

- Boo!
- He's a coward.

No one can make you be quiet.

No one can make you
stop fighting

for what you want to fight for.

That's not who I am
as an activist.

If you need to go on strike
to make it clear to him

what is needed around

random searches,
around community schools,

around class size,
I will support you.

If you're going to stand up
for anything,

this should be the thing
that you stand up for.

Let's do what needs to be
done in January!

If we're united,
we can change the world.

The future depends on us.

I'm going to keep fighting until
the priorities of the board

and the district
as a whole change on the inside.

UTLA, UTLA, UTLA, UTLA!

- UT!
- LA!

- UT!
- LA!

- UT!
- LA!

We can't let our schools
be given away

to billionaire interests.

We can't let our schools
be given away

to white supremacist education.

We can't let our schools
be given away to people

who don't care
about our children

and especially black children.

We have to fight for our kids.

There's nothing
more important than that.

Show me what democracy
looks like!

This is what
democracy looks like!

Show me what democracy
looks like!

This is what
democracy looks like.

Show me what...

The world has been
told subconsciously

and consciously to fear
and hate the black man.

My son loved this city,
and this city killed my son!

I'm tired of begging
for my humanity.

This is a system that was
created out of white supremacy.

This is about police
killing people of color.

Our lives matter, too!