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[CAR ENGINE HUMS]
- This area here is one of the most crime ridden areas in the country
and one of the most murderous areas in the country
...but there is a God, amen?
[AUDIENCE] Amen
And God is love - That's right
And the solution to our problems is to love one another
From love we can get all the answers, amen? - Hell yes!
Love is the way you fight... white supremacy, amen?
Love is the way you fight the child of white supremacy
which is black inferiority, black self hatred - That's right, that's right
The way you fight that is to love, amen?
So our mission is a mission of mercy
and it's a labor of love
and what we want to do Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
we want to patrol this whole area and make sure that there's no arson,
no rape, no carjacking, no drug dealing, no none of that
We can do that, amen? - [AUDIENCE] Yeah!
I think after what Time and Newsweek have done, and Dateline?
The hatchet jobs that they did on us?
Everybody's interested in Detroit
- Yeah but not only that the United States just spent a lot of money
bailing out the auto industries - That too, yeah
You know what I'm saying?
He's spending billions of dollars so see where this money's being spent
Well I can take it right now it's not being spent on these streets
- You right about that
[VOICE ON RADIO] - This is the spot, we get out right here
True that, we're pulling over
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Hey my brother, you remember me? - Uh huh
We talked the other day, yeah, you know the Reverend really doesn't want your
customers parking over in the church
We need to do other things to make a living, I know it's hard...
but you can't sell dope there man
You shouldn't to it period, but now brother you- and you didn't read the literature, did you?
Here, read it again. You really can't sell dope here brother!
This is truly an act of brotherly love man
because if we really didn't have that love for our brothers
we wouldn't be here trying to steer you away or talk to you
just push the button... if we didn't care, but we do care me that's our last resort
is to see another brother go to jail or another brother die
all we want to see is us pulling out of what we've been programmed to believe
is the only thing we got left
You got three ministers on your porch, three!
That's some powerful brother! 1:00 in the morning?
That's something powerful brother, take advantage of the opportunity
Don't worry about the little money
Now you go in there...
you think about what we just said to you, in the morning you find yourself next door
serving God - God will bless you!
- Talk to the path - God will bless you
- See you in the morning Johnson - Peace
[TALKING OVER EACH OTHER]
You've got it here and you've got it there, you surrounded!
Over the summer? Over the summer? - Mhm in the middle
- A woman? about a woman - uh-huh I think so yeah.
- It's the same store! - That's the store!
I'll look at my notes tonight when I get home and tomorrow we can-
- But either way tomorrow I think we need to have prayer
- A talk And go, before we roll, we need to walk over there
[COLLECTIVELY] - Mhm, Amen - Tomorrow
There is a drug house next door to the church True Oracles of God
we're gonna be shooting a move to march on this alleged drug house
and we're looking for volunteers to come and join in help us out
If you're sick and tired of the carnage and you want to do something about it, call in right now
The misery, the murder, the month, the mayor, the mayhem, that is permeating
and you want to come together now!
You don't wait on peace when you die!
But you want it now! on this earth call and get in, join in
That's how we do it in the 313, we come together!
We're opening up the doors to God's arms
The doors are open, we can patrol our streets
we can increase the peace, increase the hope, and increase the love
Somebody's in charge... we want to talk to somebody who's in charge!
This is the car, you know whose car that is?
- ... that's the boss's son
The boss's son? Where's the boss's son?
I don't know right now where's he at
Okay well we're told that ya'll are supplying drugs to that drug house
- I just work here man
- Okay we'll see that's why we need to speak to somebody in charge
- I'm minister Malik Shabazz, I have Reverend Germany E Bennett
who runs the church right across the street from you
and there's a drug house next door to that church and one of the people from
your store was visiting that drug house last night
allegedly your son I don't know
I don't know who your son is I don't know who you are
Can you meet us at 11 p.m.?
Sir you've got a problem, you need to- after you finished Church you might wanna come
You've got 50 negros out here... standing- I don't think you can wait till tomorrow sir
This is the problem- I just said your son is being allegedly accused
of supplying dope to a known dope house next door to a church
and you have 50 angry black people standing inside of your store
I'm willing to help you... but I can't help you if you don't meet
Is the 11:30 good? 11:30 tonight at the church
[ CLOCK TICKING]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Come on in!
- How you doin? - My name is Joseph?
- What? You're real name! - Youssef I told you on the phone!
Well say Youssef, don't use that Joe stuff!
First of all we want to thank you... for coming, we wanna thank you for coming
Um...
They're dealing dope right here, this house next door
I don't know if you know this or not, but let me finish while you finish talking,
I have to cause so many times the police, you know, I call the police nine times
9-1-1, 9-1-1,
For all these people this you know, dopes in there
I always called 9-1-1 you know, it takes a long time on the show up when
by the time they show up the people leave
You know some people I see on dope in the store, I call the 9-1-1
What was your son doing there last night?
They told me, he said they call him up they want to play pool, they played pools
My son don't deal drugs - Your son is playing pool at a dope house?
- They friends for a long time, he don't do those
You take my word he don't do those
But your son- - I promise you he will never go there again!
But your son is going inside- - I don't know
...of a drug house for anything.
I mean the only thing you can do inside of a drug house is get high
I'll help! I'll help as much as I can
He will never go again, he don't do drugs!
I know my son don't do drugs
What your son is being accused of is being an alleged supplier of drugs
The Reverend has stated- - He don't do drugs
- Reverend Bennett- no we're not saying he's smoking, we're saying he's a supplier
- No - Well
- I don't know! - The Pastor... you don't know, thank you
[TALKING OVER EACH OTHER]
- The way I know, I haven't seen it on him not even one time in my life
but if he do, I'll settle that for you
The Pastor says he sees you son over here regularly and the Pastor and the Deacons
believe he is supplying dope and I don't know if you've heard of us, have you?
- No
We set up economic sanctions on liquor stores... - Okay
- party stores, gas stations, other businesses of ill-repute we shut them down
Business drops like shoop! You understand? - Yeah, yeah, yeah
We don't want to do that
Your son going to a drug house either makes him
the deliverer or the bagman or a customer!
- See I have cameras, I can watch them in the store, sometimes people they be standing in the store
I call the cops from the house on them! - You've got a security system
They went to the roof right? They threw the whole unit-
- Hi!
Hey! Come on in
- That's my uncle - You're welcome!
Hey uncle
How you doin uncle?
Come on in, you welcome have a seat
You Shabazz? - Hey!
Uh....
I know you!
[EVERYONE LAUGHS]
- You got big and fat and shit!
[EVERYONE LAUGHS]
Well your stock just went up
I still want you to do everything we said! - Oh I do, I do that for you!
But your stock just went up! - I'm gonna do it for you
- Youssef, appreciate, come here give me a hug
Alright we'll be in touch! Don't act like you don't know me when I call
You are that person
nobody's coming on a magic carpet or on a white cloud there's no Shazam
hocus-pocus mystery to this thing.
We are the saviors, we are the redeemers we are the delivers
We are the answers that we've been seeking