Finding Justice (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Police Brutality - full transcript

Police one, we're 1097.
We've got a 303.

That looks like a bad dude, too.

U.S. police
is nearly three times as likely

to kill a black person
than they are a white person.

Shots fired!

That's just kind of the reality
that we all deal with.

The experiences of black folks
and police are not new.

It's a tale as old as time.

We can get shot with no weapons
on us, with hands up.

Unfortunately, that's just being
a black person in America.

God,
you just killed my boyfriend!



Society is set up to make
black people the villain.

Get in the car!
Get in the car!

The system makes sure
that officers are shielded

and protected when they
are accused of misconduct.

We can do better, but we still
have a lot of work to do.

Police accountability
is a process that

we might be engaged in
for the rest of our lives.

They're hurting us every day,

and there's no consequences
behind it.

That's a problem.

And in order for us
to experience change,

we're gonna have to go out
and take it.

- This was on Mother's Day.
- Yes.

- Came to bring you flowers.
- Yes, he did.



- Yeah.
- Outside the house.

Yes, he did.

We had a really big family.

Jamar was the baby.

Everybody loved Jamar.

Everybody loved Jamar.

He always talked about
living a prosperous life,

So, yeah, he had dreams,
you know,

if they would've not
took his chances away.

Can we stop for a minute,
please?

Around about,
I want to say 1 o'clock,

I got a call.

And I heard my daughter bawling.

And I'm like, "What is the
matter? What is the matter?"

And some guy got on the phone.

He was like,
"Do you have a son named Jamar?"

And I'm like, "Yeah."

He's like, "Ma'am,
I think he just got shot."

Get back!

I dropped the phone
and just started screaming.

And my husband was there,

and he was like,
"Come on, baby. Let's go.

Let's just go over,
and see what's going on."

Papa? Mama?

Don't shoot Jamar!

So, we jumped in the car,
and we go over there,

and all we see
is lights everywhere,

police lights everywhere.

And all I hear
are people saying,

"They killed him. They killed
him. They killed him."

- Now, just stand back!
- ...you.

Now, just stand back!

In Minneapolis,
a controversial police shooting.

Police shot
a man in North Minneapolis

on Sunday morning.

24-year-old
Jamar Clark was shot and killed.

Clark was unarmed,
but police say

he tried to grab an officer's
gun during a struggle.

The outrage sparked
after some witnesses say

the man was in handcuffs
when he was shot.

Which police deny.

The subject was not in handcuffs
at the time of this,

but that is part of
the active investigation.

People are outraged.
People saw it.

We got a little kid, 6,
18 years old who witnessed it.

That man was shot in cold blood

when he had his hands
behind his back.

That's not right.

This community is grieving
right now,

and we're demanding
accountability.

We're demanding answers.

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

- What do we want?
- Justice.

- For who?
- Jamar.

- What do we want?
- Justice.

We're one bullet away
from Ferguson.

That bullet was fired
last night.

Our blood is leaking
on the pavement!

Everybody who got a sister
or a brother or a child

or got black skin
in this community

should be standing here!

We need justice today!

We need this officer prosecuted!

If you think Jamar Clark
is the reason

why all these people are upset,
you have another thing coming.

It's not just that one incident.

It's historical incidents
over and over and over again.

Stand up and say,
"Enough is enough!"

Eighty-nine-nine KMOJ...

What's your name, girl

Yeah

Welcome to another episode of
"Community Value Conversation."

I'm your host, Al Flowers.

And we going to have
a conversation of dealing with

police and equality and justice,

and I'm going to get
right into it.

Dr. Phil,
you've been working.

Tell the community who you are,
and what you've been working on.

So, I am bald.

I have a PhD in psychology, but
I'm not that Dr. Phil, right?

I'm Phillip Atiba Goff.

I'm a professor, which means
I'm a professional nerd,

and I run the Center
for Policing Equity.

Center for Policing Equity
works with police departments

all over the country.

We're the folks who do
the implicit-bias trainings

to help them be less lethal
and less racist.

I am the guy that they bring in
front of Congress

when they want the expert
on race in policing.

But if you ask me
what I'm doing here today,

what I'm doing here
amongst all y'all,

I'm just getting angry.

I'm angry because I got no
business needing to be here

if folks would've listened
to black folks all along.

- Amen.
- Mm-hmm.

Racism and race
are political systems.

They're ways of distributing
power and resources.

In policing,
they exploit a racist system,

and that's always been
how it's been.

The culture climate
in the Twin Cities,

I think it always feels
a little bit fraught.

When people are like,
"Minneapolis is a hot, new place,"

or, "Minneapolis is
a top city for this or that,"

they're actually only
talking about white people.

It's a different experience

for black and brown
communities here.

Minneapolis is one of the cities

with the highest racial
disparities, period.

The relationship between
the police and us is strained.

The black community
has been terribly impacted

by the homicides of black men
in the Twin Cities.

The police here are the most
murderous in the country.

It really causes people
to question the system.

Historically,
we've caused a lot of harm

to communities of color
just because of their race.

We must change as an
organization for the community,

but we still have
a lot of work to do.

When I was a child
on the streets of Minnesota,

they used to take black boys
down to the bridge on the river,

Plymouth and Broadway,
and beat us down there.

That led to a beating downtown
of a 14-year-old black girl

in 1966, which led to
the first rebellion.

We are one of the only cities

that had had five rebellions
that were police-started.

I sit here today as a person
that fought police brutality

for 54 years.

Also, it was said
in the '60s that,

if you really want to
shoot black people legally

and not go to jail,
go join the police department.

So, the Klan begin to join.

The Nazis begin to join.

The skinheads begin to join.

Aryan Race begin to join.

So, when you're looking at
that policeman with a badge,

he might be them
at the same time.

Some officers abuse their power.

Police officers
have always done this

because the system allows
institutionalized racism...

Get on the ground now!
Get on the ground!

...to make sure that officers
are shielded and protected

when they are accused
of misconduct.

The police, sometimes,
the more things change,

the more they stay the same.

When you look at
the beginnings and inceptions

of the police department,
it came out of slavery.

Policing emerged
in the United States

to protect white privilege.

We do often
think of slave patrol

as being among the first
police forces on this continent.

When emancipation came,

we replaced the word "slave"
with "criminal,"

and we criminalized
black people.

Even though slavery
had been abolished,

there were new laws
that could be used

to incarcerate black people.

We had the formation
of these armed militias

organized to exercise control
over emancipated black people.

And the modern police function
was very much integrated

with that historical
control function.

It was the police, batons,
and billy clubs, and dogs.

They were the face of opposition
to racial integration.

Thinking of the role police
played during the Jim Crow era,

the role was to control
a community.

And that history of control
is what we see today.

Don't. Do not.

We really should not even
have this kind of police system,

because this is
a system that was created

out of white supremacy.

When you have a history
that has anti-black racism

embedded in it,
how do you reconcile that?

Today, the purpose of the police
is to make sure we're safe,

to protect us.

And there are some good officers

who want to protect
and want to serve.

But the system does what
the system was meant to do,

and it's always been that way.

Put your hands on the
car, or I'm going to shoot you

in your head.
You understand me?

We see time and time again

that policing disproportionately
murders black folks.

Get on the ground!

You all think it's cool
to kill black people,

and then get on paid leave?

- Answer that.
- Do you think that's cool?

No answer.

And the racism is structural.

And if you want something else,

you need to design
a different system.

African Americans, we go through
this mental checklist, I think,

getting pulled over
by the police like,

"All right. Am I being safe
enough to not get shot?"

I think most police officers
recognize me,

but how I am treated is suspect
first, or criminal first.

I've seen white people
get pulled over by the police,

and hop out of the car, and walk
right up to the police car,

and say,
"Why the are you pulling me over?"

And you always say,
"Oh, if that person was black,

they would've
shot him by now."

Can you imagine me,
as a black man,

behaving that way
with an officer?

And how many times
can black people get murdered

for doing nothing different
than what someone white can do

before you get numb with rage,

and hoping that it doesn't
happen to you

or one of your friends?

After Jamar was killed,

we actually had a rally
at the 4th Precinct,

which is just, like,
2 blocks away

from where Jamar was killed.

Folks took the space,

thinking that we would
be arrested almost immediately,

and we weren't arrested
for 18 days.

So, we stayed out there
for 18 days.

The crowd swelled
into the hundreds.

Quickly set up shop
outside MPD's

nearby 4th Precinct
headquarters.

We reiterate that we have zero
faith in this police department.

We don't trust the police

to investigate
what happened last night!

They are
calling this "an occupation."

Come outside!
Come outside!

It's clear these demonstrators
are not going anywhere.

- Hands up!
- Don't shoot!

Protesters demanding
justice for Jamar,

bringing traffic on 94
to a halt for hours.

Today, the BCA
released the names

of the two officers involved.

We just want people
to remain calm,

let the investigation
be completed,

And we're very confident
that the officer's actions

will prove to be justified.

Will two Minneapolis police
officers be criminally charged

in the shooting death
of Jamar Clark?

The Hennepin County
Attorney's Office has concluded

that criminal charges
are not warranted

against either
Officer Mark Ringgenberg

or Officer Dustin Schwarze.

Police Union says he was
reaching for an officer's gun.

Protesters want to see video
to prove what happened.

You didn't talk about
the fact that

he was violently slammed
from behind by a police officer

after you led everyone
to believe

that Jamar Clark
was the aggressor.

We're still going to
continue to fight for justice.

It's not right.

They murdered my son.

You know,
it's trendy to blame the police

for everything right now.

That's the sad reality.

Bottom line is, our officers
respond to things

that they're sent to,
and have to take action.

They're trained to shoot
until the threat ends.

If people didn't fight,
run, resist,

force would never be used.

Comply with
what you're told to do,

and be alive to complain later.

We're a society that's
been socialized to believe in

and trust the police.

How many TV shows
can you think of

that have police in them
that are flawed but heroic?

Maybe you should be
a little more afraid of me

than you are right now.

One of the things we're taught
to think about with police

is that there's good cops
and bad cops,

and we have to weed out
the bad apples.

It's not about
good cops and bad cops.

That is not the problem,

and when we define that as
the problem, then we are lost.

The unarmed
black behavioral therapist

shot by police
on the streets of Miami.

The state is allowed
to murder citizens,

and therein lies the problem.

We've devolved the power to take
a life down to the individual.

We don't have a system
by which we can check

whether it's the right thing
to do or the wrong thing to do.

There are officers who just see
black people as a threat --

armed, unarmed, young, old.

It doesn't matter, because
there's no accountability.

The only recourse
is after the fact.

And as we've seen
time and time again,

rarely ever do police who kill
people get held accountable.

The things that go wrong
after these shootings

are the cost of the problems
we didn't solve before them.

Phil was a father
to Deana in every way,

from helping Deana
with her homework

to picking out her clothes.

Is it fresh?
Is it hot?

Yeah, it's really good.

He never missed
none of her birthdays.

He was a good,
warm-hearted person.

He was loved and respected
by everybody.

That day, it was just like
any normal day.

It was July 6th.

It was a hot summer day.

It was so hot.

But we had went to the grocery
store to go get ice cream,

all that good stuff.

And we get pulled over.

And I'm like, "We weren't
doing anything illegal."

Hello, sir.

Good.
How are you?

Good.

The reason I pulled you over,
your brake lights are out.

So, you only have
one active brake light,

and that's going to
be your passenger-side one,

your third brake light,
which is up here on the top?

Do you have your license
and insurance?

Okay.
Don't reach for it, then.

Don't pull it out.

God, you just
killed my boyfriend!

He wasn't reach --
He wasn't reaching.

Don't pull it out!

- He wasn't.
- Don't move!

Oh, man,
I can't believe you did that.

- Don't move!
- Don't move, baby.

Code three!
Get the baby!

Get out of here!

I still, to this day,
have no idea how Diamond

was able to film the love
of her life die on camera...

He's licensed. He's carried.
So, he has a license to carry.

...but also knowing that her
daughter was witnessing it.

and his wallet out his pocket,
and he let the officer know.

Told him not to reach for it!
I told him to get his hand out!

He had -- You told him to get his
I.D., sir, his driver's license.

Oh, my God, please don't tell me
my boyfriend just went like that.

Keep your hands where they are,
please.

Yes, I will, sir.

I'll keep my hands
where they are.

I literally do not understand
how she pulled that off, and...

Exit now!

...if we have to pick up a phone
to share an atrocity,

I pray that
we are able to use it

in a way that actually gives us
and brings us justice.

Get on your knees.
Get on your knees.

Please, don't tell me he's gone.

Please, Jesus, no!

Please, no!

Don't tell me he's gone, no!

It's okay.
I'm right here with you.

I was in fear
for my daughter's safety,

because she was so little.

I didn't know
if she was gonna make it,

or if I was gonna make it.

I love coming to
your school recitals.

We're going to be dancing
to "Crunchy Leaves."

But I just knew that,
if either one of us

was to die in that car, someone
would have known what happened.

And that's why I went live.

The guy challenged,
though, as to say,

"But the jury made
the wrong decision."

Now, that's an absolute
moronic statement.

My son would never
jeopardize anyone else's life

by trying to pull a gun
on a officer,

And the gun was not fire-ready,

and I am so very, very, very,
very, very, very disappointed

in the system here
in the state of Minnesota.

Because nowhere in the world
do you die

from being honest
and telling the truth.

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

The shooting last summer
sparked weeks of protest,

and flared racial tensions.

Tonight, a heightened
police presence

as Officer Yanez
has been found "not guilty."

The rally turned to a march,

hundreds first headed down
University Avenue.

Police say
the protest became a riot.

What do we got to do
to make it stop?

Will it get worse
before it gets better?

I mean, we need some help.

Philando Castile, to me,

represents one of several dozen
breaking points.

We're at a crisis point
in America.

Cameras were supposed to be
our saving grace.

Remember that? It was like,
"Well, we got to get cameras.

We need this evidence to show
what's going on," right?

Then, Eric Garner gets killed,
gets choked out on camera.

I can't breathe.

Then, we see Alton Serling,

we see Philando Castile,
all killed on camera.

It's getting to the point where
you forget the names.

If you tried to make a T-shirt
with all the names,

you wouldn't have enough cloth.

The world has been told,
subconsciously and consciously,

to fear and hate the black man.

Policemen are no different.

Everyone is influenced by the
bias created in this country,

by this presumption
of dangerousness and guilt

that gets assigned
to black and brown people.

We can define implicit bias
as those beliefs and feelings

that we have
about social groups,

and a lot of it
has to do with fear,

even when we're not
conscious of it.

What happens in the media,
and in American consciousness,

it has everything to do with
the representation

of so many black people
as criminal, as deviant,

as inherently inferior.

We make monsters out of people.

It's been reinforced
all over again.

They are on the lookout
for a black male...

- Black male...
- Black male,

armed robbery suspect.

They are not looking for
any additional suspects

at this time.

People don't see
our inherent humanity.

They see black people,
and are fearful of us,

and they move towards
exterminating us

instead of taking that extra
second to be like,

"Oh, you're also
a human being."

Black men are
stereotyped as criminal,

So, if my job is to always be on
the lookout for criminals,

and then I get a description
that includes race,

that makes it really easy
for the stereotypes

to guide my behavior.

When you put a police officer
in a foreign land,

like the hood,

he doesn't know this culture.

He's already on guard.

And that leads to
overenforcement on folks

who are not appropriate targets.

So, whether you're
a good cop or not,

the country that raised you has
trained you to be suspicious,

to fear people who look like me.

So, the question for me is,

what are we going to do
to change the system?

Here in Minneapolis, news that
the city has a new police chief.

This morning, the City Council
approved Medaria Arradondo.

He makes history as the first
African American police chief

for the city.

The new chief said he recognizes
that the city is in pain,

but that he's up for the
challenge to begin healing.

I find it difficult,
at times, for me,

being the first African American
chief of this organization,

But I don't want people to think
that just because you have

a diverse police department
that the conditions

that your community has been
experiencing for decades

on decades is going to magically
change for the better.

I don't believe that's the case.

So...

This is the third
anniversary week

in terms of the Jamar Clark
shooting, so...

If police officers act in a way

that violates the public trust
in Minneapolis...

...justice for Jamar...

...our communities will also
look at it through that lens.

We just want a real change.

We want these violent cops
prosecuted by...

The shooting death
of Jamar Clark

has had trauma in our community.

For some reason, cops get to
get another job

when they kill someone.

That impacts us.

Black people being murdered
by the MPD!

We have to hold our agencies,
this institution,

this profession accountable.

We are still here,
3 years later,

fighting for justice for Jamar.

These officer-involved
shootings,

because we are continuing to
operate at a deficit of trust,

it's important for me
to provide leadership

in the transformational change
and culture change

that this department needs.

This week marks 3 years
since Minneapolis Police

shot and killed Jamar Clark.

Fresh balloons and flowers

blanket a tree
on Plymouth Avenue North,

featuring the face of a man
who has sparked a movement.

Today, several groups
kicked off action,

including Twin Cities Coalition
for Justice 4 Jamar.

We want to see justice
for victims of police violence.

Only the people
can hold cops accountable.

Prosecute killer cops.

Regardless of how cold it is
out here, we out here.

We have our boots on the ground,

and we're fighting for the
police to be held accountable.

We demand justice.

Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!

Activism is the portal
for actually creating change.

Every day we wake up,

black folks should be fighting
for the freedom of black people.

We become remarkable
when we fight for freedom,

when we fight for justice.

Police department...

When Black Lives Matter started,

it was very important
for us to disrupt.

Ain't no power
like the power of the people,

because the power
of the people don't stop!

We are going to sit
on your freeways,

and not allow you to go to work.

No justice, no peace!

That is a part of a long legacy
of black people disrupting

so that our needs get met.

When black lives matter,
all lives will matter,

because black lives
matter least in our society.

St. Paul Police is now the 11th
deadliest police department

in the nation.

They are the deadliest
in the state.

We want accountability.

That's why we have folks
fighting in Minneapolis.

So, here,
in the home of Philando Castile,

in the home of Jamar Clark,

if we don't stand up,
it will continue.

The point of having actions
is to create awareness.

People need to know
that people are being killed

by police unjustly.

As long as
you're killing black people,

we are going to make
this country ungovernable.

If the police are going
to shut down lives,

then we will shut down
the streets.

We will shut down the highways.

We will shut down the trains.

We will shut down the city.

Stop.

Stop the train!

Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!

Black lives matter!
Black lives matter!

Black lives matter!

It's time for a change.

It's time for you guys
to stop hurting our families.

We deserve justice!

Our lives matter, too!

We got a intimate group
today, so that's good.

All right, folks.

Let's go ahead and get started.

Minneapolis is not extraordinary

for wanting
implicit-bias training.

Lots of places
want the training.

Minneapolis is extraordinary for
taking the training seriously.

We have to think
about data differently.

You've been preaching that,
and it so...

The men and women
who are in this department,

I want our character
to be on point.

Rondo has said,
"We need this across the board.

I want this in every new policy.
I want this in every division."

And he cares more about
doing right by the communities

that are most vulnerable than
doing right by anybody else.

You are going to be
teaching people how to see

and anticipate things,
how to manage their minds

in a tactical way.

Building trust,
it never happens fast enough,

but Chief Arradondo
is trying to make change

for the better.

The training isn't just about,

"Hey, take these 8 hours.
Now, go not be racist."

That would be an absurd
theory of change.

The training is about
a set of tools

that you have to
put into practice.

If we imagine that cops
are sometimes racist,

this is use of force
across 12 cities.

You guys notice
any patterns here?

Black bar is the highest bar.

And what most people
will say is,

"Therefore,
cops are racist."

What else could be going on,
other than cops are racist?

When you look at a crime,
90% of our victims

are people of color,
people in poverty.

And traditionally,
how you do policing,

you go overpolice
those neighborhoods,

so you have a disproportionate
number of those people arrested.

So, we're talking about
years and years

of minority communities
being mistreated by the police.

We have to be able to trust
with the community,

because if you doing
the right thing,

communities will trust you.

There are a few police chiefs

who are willing to do something
to deter bad behavior.

But here's the deal --
unless we're gonna actually

start valuing the lives
of these young black men

that are being killed, then none
of that matters, right?

I get really concerned
when I hear people

offering implicit bias as
the solution to police violence,

because it doesn't
take into account

the full scope of the problem.

How many more people need to die

before we realize
that this goes deeper

than a single police officer?

How many more campaigns,

how many more hashtags,
how many more broken hearts?

You can't fix a culture
with a training.

A training is a really weak tool
for that.

What you can do is be part
of a broader shift,

But if you're not committed
to the broader shift,

a training is
gonna be a Band-Aid.

I think the work
to do implicit bias

inside of police departments
and trainings

is all critically important.

But until more people are fired,

until more people are held
accountable by the system,

we won't get the type of
progress that we fully need.

We have lots of flaws,

and we will never be the country
we envision ourselves to be

unless we recognize it.

Institutionalized racism,
biases start at the top.

They have transformed
peaceful parks and beautiful,

quiet neighborhoods...

into blood-stained
killing fields.

They're animals.

And when you see these thugs

being thrown into
the back of a paddy wagon,

you just see them
thrown in rough.

I said, "Please...

don't...

be...

too..

nice."

I1'm going to shoot you
in your head.

Would you call that
"implicit bias"?

Well, the people
on the receiving end of it

would call it
"explicit bias."

You cannot talk about
implicit bias

with that in the White House.

- So, good morning, everyone.
- Morning, sir.

Those of you who don't me,
I'm Deputy Chief Art Knight,

Chief of Staff
with Chief Arradondo.

We have to do better, because,

historically,
we have to be honest.

We've caused a lot of harm.

We've caused a lot of mistrust.

Sometimes, we have to pay
for the sins of our father,

and we have not always
done that in policing.

so, we have to do something
about building trust

with communities
with this training, here.

We all have biases. Everyone
in this room have biases,

But we have to control
our biases better.

We have to be professional.

I don't know if we'll ever
solve this matter of race

in this country,
but I know not talking about it

and avoiding it, we are not
gonna make any progress.

And you have to be aware
of the demographics

for the city you live in,
and who we arrest.

It's very important to make sure
that the men and women

who are in this department now,

make sure that they're proving
themselves with the community.

Are you stopping somebody
because of their behavior,

or are you just stopping them

because of your own
implicit biases?

We haven't earned that trust
yet, and we have to earn that.

When I speak
to minority communities,

I often say that,
if you have issue or angst

with the police department, and
the service you're receiving,

join the police department.

Because when young black people
say, "F the police.

I don't want to be
the police officer,"

that's exactly what
the white ones want you to say.

There is hope, because Rondo
understands this is our problem.

We're gonna solve it.

This is about us
giving validation to communities

that were too long
ignored or invalidated.

And that could change
the way that policing is done.

That's nothing but a win
for everybody.

When we screw up,
we have to say we screwed up,

and learn from that, so we don't
have another Philando Castile

incident that happens.

It's been
a nightmare ever since.

It's been hard to sleep.

It's been hard trying to regain
myself, my sanity, my peace.

People try to make me feel bad
about livestreaming.

Even now, to this day, I don't
know if I could've did more,

if I would've did more,

because I feel like I did
everything I could've did.

But sometimes, you know how
you get the feeling in

in the back of your head, like,
"What if? What if? What if?"

If you could say one thing
to somebody that you love

that you can't see every day,
what would you say?

"I miss you."

"I miss you."

Aww. Who you miss?

Phil. You miss Phil?

I miss him, too.

I miss him all the time.

I would not have
made it this far

had it would've been for Deana
making sure that I stay strong.

Race you.

Okay!

- Who do we want justice for?
- Jamar!

- Who?
- Jamar!

Police brutality
that's happening in Minneapolis

is happening everywhere
across the country.

- Who do we want justice for?
- Jamar!

In order to have some
sort of accountability,

we have to get up and fight.

First of all, I just want to
thank everybody for coming.

It's been 3 years, and the crowd
gets bigger and bigger.

And this is
sending out a message

that we're not just gonna
sit down on this,

that we want justice,
and we're gonna get justice.

Yes, ma'am!
Amen!

What's gonna give me some peace

is to get some things changed.

Let's continue
to stand together.

- Wake up!
- Let's come all together, you guys.

Amen!

One thing that we can say
that we have in common

is that we have that
undescribable urge

to continue in this work.

You're going to see us
100 years from now.

We're here to stay,

But we cannot do this alone,
and we should not do this alone.

We need community.

Like we have done so many
generations leading up to now,

we have to be loud and strong

and never give up
until the change comes.

The whole damn system
is guilty as hell!

It's not just about
what you stand for.

It's about who you sit with
and why.

And it needs to be committed
to a greater purpose.

If good people
fight together and mobilize

to hold those
in power accountable,

we have the power to change
the course of this country.

Sometimes, I get tired!

I don't want to be out here!

Sometimes, I get frustrated!

I'm tired of begging
for my humanity!

But God said,
"I called you!"

And when you see those people
who are continuously

out in places
over and over and over again,

even though they
don't want to be,

even though they can't see
why they there,

it's because God chose them,
and they accepted that calling.

You can't stop!

We won't stop and think,
"I quit.

I ain't doing this
no more!"

And you find yourself
at the next protest!

You find yourself at
the next city-council meeting,

at the next
state-capital meeting,

even though everything in you
don't want to do it no more!

By God,
and because God chose you,

you have got to
continue to stand.

You got to continue to fight.

You got to continue to do
what God has called you to do.

We can't just fight
when we go to a march

or when we share a tweet.

The fight has to happen

when we're at home with our
friends, watching television,

and we're seeing negative
depictions of people of color.

We have to fight when we are
driving down the street,

and we see someone else
pulled over,

and we know that
there's something about it

that makes you feel
uncomfortable in your chest.

We have to be brave enough
to pull over, too.

It's creating a landscape
that says,

"We will not stand for this.
We will not tolerate this,

and we will not shut up
or sit down until it stops."

The whole dang system
is guilty as hell!

What lead poison is doing here
in Baltimore, it's devastating.

It's a whole generation
of people being poisoned.

She had a lead level of 22.

It can stunt IQ.
It can stunt brain development.

We want to educate ourselves
about the lead in our community.

I'm in action mode, right now.

The federal government is literally using
people's tax dollars to poison them.

And I think that's...

I don't --
I'll move on Mr. Carson.

I accept your lack of knowledge.

If this was white children,
it would be solved immediately.