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Foreign
Correspondent
2020
No
Justice, No Peace
27
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We are in a state of emergency. Black people are dying in a
state of emergency," says activist Tamika
Mallory. Pictures of a white Minneapolis police officer killing unarmed
black man George Floyd provoked an immediate and furious response. Angry protests demanding an end to entrenched racism erupted in
scores of cities across America. Floyd’s last words ‘I can’t breathe’ have become a rallying cry. White and black, young and old, across 50 states, have protested
peacefully against police violence and racism. There’s been looting and destruction, too. On display for the world to watch has been the often violent
police response the protestors are fighting against. Galvanising this mass outpouring of rage and grief is the Black
Lives Matter movement, formed seven years ago after the killer of an unarmed,
black teenager was acquitted. Foreign Correspondent’s Sally
Sara looks at how what began as a hashtag has transformed into a global force
pushing for justice and equality for black people. We revisit the people she met in her Black Lives Matter documentary
five years ago and takes the temperature of the nation after an extraordinary
fortnight of protests and finally, some change. We speak with Tamika Mallory, the activist who delivered what’s
being called ‘the speech of a generation’ days after Floyd’s death. “We cannot look at this as an isolated incident. The reason
buildings are burning are not just for our brother George Floyd,” she told the Minneapolis crowd. “They’re burning down because people here in Minnesota are
saying to people in New York, to people in California, to people in Memphis,
to people across this nation, enough is enough.” We interview Art Acevedo, the Houston Police Chief who told
President Trump to ‘shut his mouth…because you're putting men and women in
their early 20s at risk.’ Acevedo tells Foreign Correspondent he
understands the anger. “It's about how he died. And he died at the hands
of a police officer in circumstances where it should've never happened.” And she catches up with Baltimore photographer Devin Allen five
years after a death in custody of a young black man in that city triggered
violent riots. “You got to release that rage. It has to happen”, says
Devin, but that’s just the first step. “What's important is when the smoke clears, that's when the real
work actually begins.” |
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Episode
teaser |
[singing] |
00:00 |
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SALLY SARA, Reporter: The United States has erupted. |
00:08 |
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Protester:
"The army, that’s the army who just came." |
00:11 |
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SALLY SARA, Reporter: The brutal killing of George Floyd by
police has sparked grief and anger. |
00:13 |
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JC FAULK, Community Organiser: This dude’s smug with his hands in his
pocket and shit, with his knee on somebody’s throat, with his handcuffs on
his back. Something’s very wrong with the police. It doesn't feel like we’re
a democracy and it certainly ain’t a country of freedom. |
00:18 |
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SALLY SARA, Reporter: It’s exposed the racism, violence and
inequality plaguing America. |
00:34 |
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DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: How can you tell people how to release
their own pain when you don’t even notice pain? |
00:40 |
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SALLY SARA, Reporter: Five years ago, we travelled to the US and
into the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, we’re returning to
hear from those battling for justice. |
00:47 |
Title:
NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE |
Crowd:
"No justice, no peace, no justice, no peace, no justice, no
peace, |
00:59 |
Super: |
no justice no peace." Pastor:
"This is not a tourist site. |
01:06 |
Pastor
addressing kneeling crowd at street memorial to Floyd |
This is not a carnival. This is sacred
ground. Say his name. Crowd:
"George Floyd." Pastor: "Say his name." Crowd:
"George Floyd." Pastor: "Say his name." Crowd:
"George Floyd." |
01:10 |
Crowd
at memorial |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: A simple street corner in Minneapolis has
become a shrine. This is where George Floyd was killed by police on May 25th. Protest Leader: "I can’t breathe." Crowd:
"I can’t breathe." Protest Leader: "Say his name." Crowd:
"George Floyd." |
01:24 |
Names
of people killed by police written on road, Chicago Avenue. |
Protest Leader: "Say his name." Crowd:
"George Floyd." Protest Leader: "Say his name." Crowd:
"George Floyd." |
01:40 |
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SALLY SARA, Reporter: His name has been added to a long roll call
of African Americans who have lost their lives to police violence. |
01:43 |
Drone
shot of names on road |
Pastor: I pray first and I cry like a baby
because I’m tired of seeing our brothers and our sisters killed and nobody
cares about it. We need to all be weeping. The country needs to be weeping.
I’m a Jesus man, on Christ I’ll live and on Christ I die. Hallelujah come on
somebody. |
01:55 |
Pastor
at microphone |
Hallelujah, but I have to ask what would
Jesus do? What would Jesus do? He’d be running out here with you. |
02:19 |
Protestors |
Crowd: "Say his name… George
Floyd." SALLY SARA, Reporter: This city has some of the worst levels of
racial inequality in the United States. |
02:27 |
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Woman:
"No justice, no peace. No justice, no peace. No justice, no
peace." SALLY SARA, Reporter: African Americans here are three times more
likely than whites to be unemployed, and |
02:36 |
GFX
Projection on building: '11 times more likely to be in jail' |
11 times more likely to be in jail. |
02:43 |
Max
Graves on street |
Music |
02:47 |
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MAX GRAVES, Police Violence Victim: I didn't get into shit. They got into me.
You feel me? These police got on my tailbone and damn near killed me. SALLY SARA, Reporter: Max Graves is a survivor of police violence
in Minneapolis. He’s lucky to be alive. Just like George Floyd, he was
restrained in a choke hold. |
02:55 |
George
Floyd murals |
MAX GRAVES, Police Violence Victim: Choke
me out, taser me, mace me. |
03:16 |
Max
Graves interview |
Choking me out because I'm screaming I
can't breathe, because you got mace and everything else in me. And I have
asthma and you know, you're, I can't breathe. |
03:21 |
Max
Graves on street |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Max was arrested on this street on a night
out in 2008, despite not committing a crime. MAX GRAVES, Police Violence Victim: Punched me repeatedly all in my head.
Tasered me all on my sides. |
03:29 |
Max
interview on street |
I got tasered six times, they maced me in
my mouth. All while I’m hog tied. The crowd is just watching like ‘get off
him’. SALLY SARA, Reporter: Max’s twin brother stepped in just in time. |
03:42 |
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MAX GRAVES, Police Violence Victim: If it weren’t for my brother I would have
died. Every time I think about that shit it really fucks me up. Because If
George had a twin he’d probably have survived. Because it takes a lot of love
for you to go against something you’re scared of. My brother he loved me to
death. |
03:57 |
Max
walking down street |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Max took legal action, alleging the police
violence was solely based on race. The case was settled out of court in 2011. MAX GRAVES, Police Violence Victim: When you're a black man in America |
04:22 |
Max
interview |
and you be trying to do right and do good,
it's like, you always get slapped with the reality that America is built off
of slavery and is racist and is never, ever built for black people to come to
no equal terms with the white man --
with the white man. They got whole barbed wire. These are the real
convicts right here. |
04:35 |
Police
station surrounded by barbed wire |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Minneapolis police have prided themselves
on being progressive, but the city’s own records show they use force against
black people seven times more than against whites. |
05:04 |
Max
at wall surrounding police station |
MAX GRAVES, Police Violence Victim: "They really tried to build a wall
with this bullshit." |
05:17 |
Max
at home in yard with dog |
You know the Minneapolis Police Department.
You know their ways, you know how crooked they are. So to see them doing that
to that brother, just imagine your loved one going through that like. Just
imagine a black man, we just keep catching white folks on TV all the time and
we’re just |
05:27 |
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kneeing them to death. You’re just going to
catch this knee and just fuck ‘em up. And then not only do they – the man
gets to come back and go to work. |
05:45 |
|
Music |
06:06 |
Minneapolis
GVs. Mural of Jamar Clark on city building
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SALLY SARA, Reporter: The killing of George Floyd was not an
isolated incident. |
06:19 |
|
Male newsreader: "Man shot by Minneapolis Police has
died." |
06:23 |
|
Female newsreader: "Families say that
Jamar Clark was taken..." SALLY SARA, Reporter: It was the latest in a long series of
violent, racist arrests by Minneapolis police. Male newsreader: "Philando Castile
shot five times during a traffic stop for a broken tail light." Woman: "My son loved this city and
this city killed my son." |
06:26 |
Protestor.
Fist raised |
Male protester: "Lock them up. If you had started
locking them up then we wouldn’t be dead." |
06:41 |
Protestors
march |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: When no charges were laid, protests began. Newsreader:
"Growing outrage in Minneapolis over the death of a black man in
police custody. |
06:47 |
|
Thousands of demonstrators taking to the
streets, blocking intersections, as police use tear gas to push back the
crowd." |
07:02 |
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Man in crowd: "All we want is justice. Tired of
being sick and tired. All my brothers and sisters last 400 years, tired of
being sick and tired, man." |
07:13 |
Protestors/Burning
buildings |
Crowd:
"Say his name… George Floyd… Say it loud… George Floyd. Say it
proud… George Floyd." |
07:23 |
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SALLY SARA, Reporter: Police responded with violence and the
situation quickly deteriorated. Activists delivered a message. |
07:28 |
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TAMIKA MALLORY, Activist: The reason why buildings are burning are
not just for our brother George Floyd. |
07:42 |
Tamika
addresses protestors |
They’re burning down because people here in
Minnesota are saying to people all across this nation, enough is enough. And
there’s an easy way to stop it. Arrest the cops. Charge the cops. Charge them
in every city across America where our people are being murdered. |
07:47 |
Protests
across America and Europe |
Crowd:
"Don’t shoot. Don’t shoot." |
08:11 |
|
"Racist NYPD. Racist NYPD. Racist
NYPD." |
08:17 |
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"Go home, go home." |
08:23 |
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SALLY SARA, Reporter: The fury over George Floyd's death soon
spread from coast to coast, and around the world. |
08:25 |
Protest.
Australia |
Crowd:
"Aboriginal lives matter. Black lives matter." |
08:40 |
Protests.
New York. Super: |
Male newsreader: "Violence continued in New York, despite
the 11 o’clock curfew that just expired; this violence stretched into the
Bronx." |
08:49 |
Tamika
organising protestors |
Tamika Mallory, Activist: "Anyone that’s standing over there,
what’s going to happen is when we start walking y’all going to be walking,
too. That’s not going to work. We need everybody to get behind." |
09:01 |
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TAMIKA MALLORY, Activist: The violence did not start with
protesters. They were in their homes, actually trying to stay safe from
COVID. |
09:11 |
Tamika
interview. Super: |
The violence began when Chauvin and the
other officers responsible murdered and tortured George Floyd. The violence
began in that moment. And so that's where the focus has to be in order to
stop the after effects of the original sin. |
09:19 |
Tamika
marches at protest |
Crowd:
"What do we want?... Justice. When do we want it?... Now. If we
don't get it?... Shut it down. If we don’t get it?... Shut it down. If we
don’t get it?... Shut it down." TAMIKA MALLORY, Activist: This country was actually built on white
supremacist ideology, |
09:37 |
Tamika
interview |
and therefore it is deeply ingrained in
every single system and institution in America. |
09:57 |
Protestors
march. New York |
What is happening in this moment as we see
people joining this movement, and particularly white people joining the
movement, I think they are now finding out that they have to dismantle the
system that was created by white people. Black folks, can't |
10:03 |
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dismantle a system that we did not design. |
10:23 |
Tamika
marches at head of protest |
Crowd: "I say we all we got… We all we need. I
say we all we got… We all we need." |
10:26 |
New
York protestors |
Music |
10:32 |
|
"Tell me what democracy looks like… This
is what democracy looks like. Tell me what democracy looks like. " |
10:55 |
Protest
outside White House |
"Donald Trump has got to go. Donald
Trump has got to go." |
11:06 |
|
Female newsreader: "The protests are
close enough to the White House that President Trump can see them." |
11:13 |
Trump
addresses Press |
DONALD TRUMP, US President: We are ending the riots and lawlessness
that has spread throughout our country. Mayors and governors must establish
an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled.
|
11:17 |
Protestors
chant outside White House |
Crowd: "You are the threat. You are
the threat." DONALD TRUMP, US President: If a city or state refuses to take the
actions |
11:32 |
Trump |
then I will deploy the United States
military and quickly solve the problem for them. |
11:38 |
Protestors
clash with Park Police, Washington |
|
11:44 |
City
buildings, Houston. Super: |
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11:45 |
Super: |
|
11:47 |
Acevedo
police officers on street |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Art Acevedo represents police chiefs from
the biggest cities across the US and Canada. |
11:51 |
Acevedo
interview |
ART ACEVEDO, Houston Police Chief: The United States has 18,000 – 18,000 –
police departments with 800,000 police officers. |
11:58 |
Houston
Police Dept. exterior |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: In his city of Houston, Chief Acevedo has
his own challenges with police violence – a problem replicated across the
country. ART ACEVEDO, Houston Police Chief: It’s time to have a national standard –
choose our more critical policies, and have a |
12:08 |
Acevedo
interview |
one model policy that needs to be adopted
across the nation. Because as we now know and we’ve always known what happens
in Ferguson impacts the whole department. What happens in Houston impacts the
whole country. What happens in Minneapolis – look at what has happened. We
cannot have places like the Houston Police Department where unless you’re in
a fight for your life you’re not allowed to manipulate people’s necks, to
choke their necks, to put your knee on their necks. But yet in 2020 we have
departments that allow that. That’s unconscionable and it’s time for us to
have a national policy discussion that is one size for every agency – small
and large – because in this department, unless you’re in a fight for your
life you cannot be manipulating the neck like that. |
12:25 |
Police
officers/Police Dept building |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Last year in the US, 89 police were killed
in the line of duty, including 41 from accidents. |
13:07 |
Acevedo
interview |
ART ACEVEDO, Houston Police Chief: The vast majority will never shoot anybody.
They never kill anybody. They will
never abuse anybody, and they will serve with honour and distinction. |
13:19 |
Police
montage |
Man:
"They take black lives in every way. They just use the gun and
belt once a day." SALLY SARA, Reporter: But last year, police killed more than
1,000 people in the US. African
Americans are three times more likely than whites to be the victims. |
13:23 |
|
Female newsreader: "Federal
prosecutors say they will not bring criminal charges against a New York City
Police officer." Female newsreader: "The jury acquitted a white former
police officer." |
13:40 |
Children
in playground |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: 99 percent of the police who kill, don’t
face criminal charges. REV. AL SHARPTON: "Ever since 401 years ago the reason
we could never be who we wanted and who we dreamed of being |
13:47 |
Rev
Sharpton at George Floyd funeral |
was you kept your knee on our neck. To
stand up in George’s name and say get your knee off our necks." |
14:04 |
Baltimore
GVs |
Music |
14:15 |
Street
murals honouring Freddie Gray. Super: |
|
14:51 |
|
SALLY SARA, Reporter: In 2015, Foreign Correspondent travelled to
Baltimore. The city was reeling after young black man, Freddie Gray, was
killed by police. His death triggered an uprising. |
14:56 |
|
Male newsreader: "Prosecutors in Baltimore dropped all
remaining charges against thee police officers in the Freddie Gray
case." |
15:15 |
Baltimore
protests. |
|
15:23 |
|
Crowd: "Justice for Freddie Gray…
Justice for Freddie Gray… Justice for Freddie Gray." |
15:28 |
Freddie
Gray mural |
Man in street: "Black lives matter. The revolution is
ain’t a revolution without justice for Freddie man. Long live Freddie Gray
man." |
15:35 |
Sara
with Allen |
DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: It was like a movie, like I still can’t
believe it happened. |
15:44 |
|
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Young photographer Devin Allen, was there
when the city erupted. DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: It’s forever changed. |
15:48 |
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Baltimore - it changed me forever. |
15:54 |
Allen
on street with camera |
Newsreader:
"We report from Baltimore where the Governor of Maryland has
declared a state of emergency and the Mayor of Baltimore has announced a week
long curfew beginning tomorrow night." |
15:57 |
GFX:
Allen's photos projected on building wall |
Music |
16:08 |
Allen
walks street with camera, photographing people |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Devin Allen took to the streets with his
camera. His local knowledge put him ahead of the media pack and his images |
16:18 |
GFX:
Allen's photos projected on building wall |
went viral – all the way to the cover of
Time magazine. |
16:25 |
CU
Allen's photos |
They told a much deeper story than many of
the mainstream media outlets. |
16:34 |
|
DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: I understood the
power of photography and I knew that people needed to see the real story and
what was really going on. They were just sticking to the script – if it
bleeds it leads, that’s all they were worried about. They weren’t talking
about |
16:43 |
Allen
interview |
how we took our community back. |
16:54 |
Protestors.
Baltimore. Devin at protest |
Crowd:
"Black lives matter… Black lives matter." SALLY SARA, Reporter: Now, five years later, we’ve come back to
hear from activists who were on the frontline. For Devin, fame and success
have come at a heavy price. |
16:58 |
|
DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: You get to do
the interviews. You get to travel the world and do lectures and stuff like
that. Yes, but every day that I wake up, every day that I make an
accomplishment, |
17:14 |
Allen
interview in park |
anything that I do, in the back of my brain
I know the reason why I am here is because a black man had his spine broke
and was murdered by police brutality. |
17:22 |
Allen
sits on park bench |
I got the Time cover in May. My mother had
to call the police on me |
17:36 |
Allen
interview in park |
to stop me from hurting myself and take me
to the hospital, right? When the police realised who I was, they said,
"You that kid that took the Time cover. Why the fuck you try to kill
yourself? You powerful as shit." The police told me this in the back of
the wagon when they take me to the hospital. |
17:42 |
Allen
sits on park bench |
I woke up handcuffed to the bed, and I
thought it made me weak because I felt like I wasn't a man at that point. |
17:55 |
Allen
interview in park |
My family was like, "Nah, you tough.
You've been through some shit." |
18:02 |
Allen
at protest in park |
Music |
18:05 |
|
DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: I'm my ancestors' wildest dreams. |
18:13 |
Allen
interview |
No one else was on that street that
captured that image or anything close to it. And the universe spoke to me
once I came through those dark times and was like, "This is your
purpose." It is a burden, but it's a burden that I have to bear. I owe
it to my people. |
18:16 |
Baltimore
GVs |
Music |
18:33 |
Faulk
on street with man near Freddie Gray mural |
|
18:38 |
|
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Back in 2015, we met community activist JC
Faulk, trying to rebuild the neighbourhood. |
18:41 |
Faulk
walks to demolished building |
Even today, the legacy of Freddie Gray
looms large. But his shrine has been pulled down. JC Faulk:
"Honestly, I’m a little sad to see this building gone." |
18:53 |
Faulk
talks with couple in street |
Woman in street: "They had an awning
with him." JC Faulk: "Yeah. Right there on the
corner." Woman in street: "They tore that down
too." JC Faulk:
"Did they keep that shit or did they throw that shit in the trash
like it’s nothing?" Man in street: "I think they threw it away. I’m not
sure." |
19:07 |
Fault
with young woman at site of demolished building |
JC Faulk:
"You know the mural they had there, did they even try to keep
that shit? Or did they just throw it in the trash? Young woman in street: "Threw it away. It was a fuck you to
us. That’s what it was." JC FAULK, Community Organiser: You’ve got people saving Confederate
monuments and storing them in buildings and shit |
19:19 |
Faulk
on demolition site |
and they tear down an iconic thing like
this and then hold it for us. It’s an indicator of how little this system
thinks about black people and the things that are important to them. |
19:34 |
Baltimore
GVs |
Music |
19:46 |
|
SALLY SARA, Reporter: In the 2016 presidential election, Donald
Trump only won 10 per cent of the vote in Baltimore city. Last year the
president labelled Baltimore as a ‘disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess’. |
19:51 |
Faulk
walks |
JC FAULK, Community Organiser: He's been an asshole his entire life, and
everybody has known it. It's not something new. |
20:09 |
Faulk
interview |
It's not like he became an asshole
yesterday. He'd been his asshole, his whole life. And he was still elected to
the office of president of the United States. |
20:14 |
Baltimore
GVs |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Decades of racism and neglect have left the
average black family here, earning only half what whites do. JC FAULK, Community Organiser: I think most white people fail to get that |
20:22 |
Faulk
interview |
it’s them. It’s you. It’s not Trump, most
of you are fucking that happy that Trump is there so you can say I’m not like
that. It’s you. It’s you. |
20:34 |
Faulk
walks Baltimore streets |
Like for me, I feel sad and sorry for
fucking white person right now that they need racism in order to exist. |
20:48 |
Faulk
interview |
That is some sad ass living. I don’t need a
hand up, I just need you to move. I 'll find some way around you or through
you if I need to, but just get the fuck out of the way. |
20:56 |
Minneapolis city skyline |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Back in Minneapolis, the future is
uncertain. |
21:06 |
Tracking
shot past Minneapolis shops |
Newsreader:
"Breaking news in the killing of George Floyd, the Minnesota
Attorney General has announced charges will be filed against all four
officers." |
21:12 |
Scott McDonald dancing on street |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: From the ashes of the riots, there are
signs of hope. Scott McDonald turned
local business Pimento Jamaican Grill into a community support hub. SCOTT MCDONALD, Business Owner: We’ve been waiting 500 years and there
hasn’t been a white saviour yet that’s coming to help us. |
21:25 |
McDonald
interview |
Anytime, we’ve pulled ourselves up, we’ve
pulled ourselves up. |
21:44 |
Volunteers
providing supplies to community |
Female volunteer: "Two bags, do you need paper towel or
toilet paper?... Okay we’ll give you…" SCOTT MCDONALD, Business Owner: What we’ve got going out here today |
21:48 |
McDonald
interview on street |
is what we’ve been doing for the last ten
days. We’re giving out goods and groceries to our community. This is definitely galvanising this and
many of the neighbourhoods in the city. You know what I mean - you’re forced to deal with
each other at this point in time because it’s us against the world. Do you
know what I mean? |
21:53 |
Community
volunteers clean up park |
It’s people with their house brooms and
dust bags. It’s the community taking part in everything and taking care of
itself. It would be really nice to be able to turn the news on every now and
then |
22:08 |
McDonald
interview |
to see us helping each other instead of
seeing one of us choke to death. |
22:20 |
George
Floyd street memorial |
Male newsreader: "Officer Chauvin, the officer who has
his knee on the neck of George Floyd for nine minutes, his charges have been
upgraded to second degree murder." |
22:23 |
|
Woman:
"Nine minutes is a long time to think about doing the right
thing. |
22:34 |
Woman
addresses protest crowd |
I’m telling y’all it is our duty to fight
for our freedom. We must love and serve one another. We have nothing to lose
but our chains." |
22:38 |
|
Crowd:
"What do we want?... Justice? When do we want it?... Now. Let’s
get it." |
22:49 |
|
Music |
22:55 |
Protest
crowd marches |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Time has come for change. Not satisfied with the charges against
police, the protesters want the Minneapolis police department completely
dismantled. |
22:58 |
McDonald
interview |
SCOTT MCDONALD, Business Owner: The talks of defunding the police and
dismantling the police – that's beautiful. That's exactly what needs to
happen. |
23:12 |
Protestors
dance |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: The city council has voted in favour of
de-funding the city police and diverting that money into social services
instead. George Floyd's death has left a lasting mark on this city. |
23:19 |
Baltimore
GVs sunset |
Radio announcer: "And in greater
Baltimore on FM 101.5. Alright welcome to the show, we continue to see
protests across the nation, following..." |
23:42 |
Faulk
loading truck, driving |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: In Baltimore, JC Faulk is on a new
mission. |
23:51 |
Faulk
distributes food to community |
He’s feeding the vulnerable as COVID-19
grips the community. Up to 300,000 people across the city can’t get the food
they need. |
24:01 |
Faulk
interview |
JC FAULK, Community Organiser: That's half
of the population of Baltimore, struggling with food insecurities, you know?
So, so that's always been there. It's not new. It's just got worse because of
COVID-19 and it got spotlighted because of COVID-19. And now, because of that
spotlight, we can bring B’more community food into that spotlight, point out
the problem, and then do something about the problem. |
24:14 |
Faulk
with women offering foo |
JC Faulk: "We got meats and stuff, you
need some more meat? No, you good? Okay. How about you over there, you need
more stuff?" JC FAULK, Community Organiser: It’s the weird ass thing to say man, but
like Freddie Gray, |
24:36 |
Faulk
interview |
he changed my life man. I never knew the dude. He changed me, man. He changed me into something
different. You know, that we have --
think about it in this country right now.
There are people protesting in all 50 American states, because a black
man was killed. People are protesting because one black man was killed by
police. Something's shifting. |
24:49 |
Baltimore
protests |
Male Newsreader: "We’ve got protests going on now in
Columbia, Roland Park, and Baltimore city leaders are thanking demonstrators,
especially the youth for rallying peacefully." |
25:17 |
Allen
at protests with camera |
Crowd:
"Black trans lives matter… Black trans lives matter… Black trans lives matter… Black trans lives matter." DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: Baltimore has
been peaceful, |
25:28 |
Allen
interview |
because the activists that are on the
ground have evolved so much. Have grown so much, we’re way more wiser and
smarter. |
25:37 |
Protester
makes speech about flag |
Protester:
"Here in Baltimore the first USA flag was made. This flag is a
flag of abomination. Because that flag has yet to acknowledge the ones that built
this country." DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: When people think about change, they think |
25:49 |
Allen
interview |
it’s like flipping a new coin. It’s like oh
change, we going to go from bad to good. |
26:00 |
Allen
at protest |
Protester:
"Real truth, real justice." |
26:06 |
|
DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: Change doesn’t work like that. Change is a
slow grind. Protester:
"We cannot be stopped. And we shall not stop. Black power… Black
power." |
26:08 |
|
DEVIN ALLEN, Photographer: What I can say
with Baltimore – the people change. It’s sad that it took Freddie Gray, |
26:20 |
Allen
interview |
but he gave voices to so many people. |
26:29 |
Allen
takes photos at protest |
Freddie Gray created warriors. |
26:33 |
Protestors
sit on road. Allen takes photos |
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Devin Allen continues to capture the
uprising. |
26:43 |
GFX:
Allen's photos projected on building walls |
Music |
26:47 |
|
SALLY SARA, Reporter: Once again, his photography has made the cover
of Time magazine. |
26:54 |
Credits
[see below] |
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27:11 |
Outpoint
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27:46 |
Reporter
Sally
Sara
Producer
Matt
Davis
Editor
Nikki
Stevens
Stuart
Miller
Location producers
Julia
Carpenter
Katie
Sadler
Lomi
Kriel
Camera
Bruno
Federico
Timothy
Wolfer
Carissa
Henderson
James
Costello
Greg
Nelson
Matt
Davis
Assistant editor
Tom
Carr
Research
Victoria
Pengilley
Archival research
Michelle
Boukheris
Additional footage
Mediakite
AP
Sky
Candy Studios
Ben
Garvin/Twitter
ScottBrinton1/Twitter
National
Action Network/AP
Special Thanks
JC Faulk – An End to Ignorance
Music
George Grease
“Down
So Long”
deM atlaS (Rhymesayers)
“All
We Got”
“Bad
Days Are Over (feat. Atmosphere)”
Keets
“Antidote”
“Pareidolia”
“Forest
Green”
Noel Price
“My
Black is Beautiful”
Matt Riggens Brass Quartet
“The
Inalienable Right to Draw Breath (for George Floyd)”
Monkey Marc
“Yaad N Abraad Version”
Filmore Beats
“saytheirnames”
Dua Saleh w Psymun
“Body
Scan – (instrumental)”
Senior Production Manager
Michelle
Roberts
Production Co-ordinator
Victoria
Allen
Digital Producer
Matt
Henry
Supervising Producer
Lisa
McGregor
Executive Producer
Matthew
Carney
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