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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1\N0:08\Nbiggest misconception about misdemeanors is that they are minor to start hearing more and more stories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2\N0:14\Nof voter suppression that broke my heart they're the ones that are using the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,3\N0:25\N[Music] system
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,4\N0:32\Nmy grandma was fighting for integration back in her day and i'm fighting for the same thing now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,5\N0:41\Nthe problem is the system is working the way it's supposed to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,6\N1:12\Nwe're recording all right
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,7\N1:17\Nsometimes i feel like my life ended that day my car died on the side of the road a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,8\N1:24\Ncop walked over to my car and asked me if i needed help and i said no john clark was convicted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,9\N1:29\Non a misdemeanor gambling charge and was forced to work on a chain gang i just remember being pushed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,10\N1:34\Nlike being cornered into a wall i was just starting out life and i didn't
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,11\N1:40\Nthink i had anything to hide mary gay was sentenced to 30 days plus court costs for stealing a hat i was arrested that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12\N1:46\Nevening it was a misdemeanor that was the beginning of the nightmare that i had to go through
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,13\N1:52\Nhenry nelson was arrested for using abusive language in the presence of a female and was sent off to the coal mines he
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,14\N1:58\Nsaid you're going to jail and i'm like what for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,15\N2:10\Nmisdemeanors have historically been the chump change crimes that we didn't pay attention to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,16\N2:17\N[Music] i just got beat up by the police last night but i could have lost my life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,17\N2:23\N13 million well that's about 80 percent of all american criminal documents 80
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,18\N2:30\Nof what our criminal courts do is misdemeanors the story of misdemeanors is the story
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,19\N2:37\Nof law enforcement continuing to prioritize african americans mexican immigrants america's so-called
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,20\N2:44\Ncriminal class you act like i really just committed a serious crime i did do something illegal you crossed the crosswalk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,21\N2:50\Nyou might see two or three police standing and waiting cops to jump out the van anytime anywhere
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,22\N2:56\N[Applause] the misdemeanor system has not gotten its fair share of blame misdemeanors
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,23\N3:05\Nare the invidious first step in the racialization of crime in this country too often
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,24\N3:11\Narrests for minor crimes devolve until police violence and death for black and brown people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,25\N3:32\N[Music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,26\N3:44\Nthey got me jaywalking not wearing a seatbelt my taillight was out i was arrested
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,27\N4:03\Nhow far back that goes is a really dark [Music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,28\N4:12\Nstory
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,29\N4:18\Nreconstruction was an error when four million african americans made it out of bondage and were able to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,30\N4:24\Nachieve at really high levels whether it was in business in education
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,31\N4:31\Ndifferent ways of prosperity that really threatened white supremacy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,32\N4:37\N[Music] they elected many black men to positions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,33\N4:42\Nof power [Music] of course that was a sea change from how
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,34\N4:49\Npower had been exercised during slavery and a lot of white folks just didn't like it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,35\N4:58\Nthey were nostalgic for the old days of overt white supremacy and so they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,36\N5:05\Nsubverted reconstruction if you look at misdemeanors and you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,37\N5:10\Ntrack them from the reconstruction area to modern day you see the fingerprints everywhere of white supremacy and control of black
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,38\N5:17\Nbodies the bland owners they had nearly lost everything
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,39\N5:23\Nand the only way to get that back is to somehow corral the black labor force back into the same
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,40\N5:29\Nplantations that they had once worked the most effective way of forcing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,41\N5:35\Nafrican-americans back into this condition that would be so similar to slavery was to begin to criminalize black life
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,42\N5:42\Nitself misdemeanor offenses for incredibly trivial or made-up things
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,43\N5:48\Nwhat should have been tiny penalties for non-existent defenses turn into years of people's lives where
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,44\N5:55\Nwere you taken i was taken out to the camps where did you sleep
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,45\N6:02\Nslept on some hay chain was on me i'm being put into handcuffs i'm being
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,46\N6:07\Ndragged into this cold space i don't have anything to cover myself and i'm asked to sit inside of this tiny
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,47\N6:13\Nlittle room and i have no idea why i'm there was there any jury that tried you no sir
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,48\N6:20\Ndid the recorder ask you whether you wanted a lawyer no sir and i thought that i would have time to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,49\N6:25\Ntalk to a court appointed attorney so we could talk about what happened i can ask them to get other you know pieces of evidence that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,50\N6:31\Nwould prove that hey i'm poor it wasn't like i was trying to run off with this money did they furnish any copy of the charge
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,51\N6:37\Nagainst you no sir they did not did they give you any opportunity to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,52\N6:43\Nplead to any accusation it never gave me anything at all when they asked me how i played i played no
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,53\N6:49\Ncontest i didn't understand that no contest is the same as guilty and that i would walk away with a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,54\N6:55\Nmisdemeanor that would affect my ability to get hired
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,55\N7:06\Nthe justice system after emancipation was weaponized against black people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,56\N7:11\Nit perpetuated slavery by making the mechanisms of enslavement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,57\N7:17\Npretty much the same family separation back-breaking labor people having no rights
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,58\N7:24\Nyou could be sold on the steps of the courthouse that you were convicted in and given to the highest bidder a whole
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,59\N7:32\Nseparate criminal code that applied to african americans
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,60\N7:37\Nwas established many misdemeanor offenses are best understood as mechanisms of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,61\N7:44\Nsocial control they're not designed to catch dangerous or guilty people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,62\N7:49\Nbut rather they are tools we give them to police as additional ways of exercising their authority
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,63\N7:57\Nsome of these laws were overtly race-based and with others then and now the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,64\N8:03\Nunderstanding was that the laws would look race neutral but they would be applied and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,65\N8:08\Nenforced almost exclusively against black people for these governments to sell prisoners
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,66\N8:14\Ninto slavery you first have to arrest lots of people there's a big problem with that though
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,67\N8:20\Nthere's just not enough crime for this system to work and for it to be profitable the state
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,68\N8:26\Ngovernments of the south had to invent new crimes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,69\N8:33\Nsouthern legislatures which are essentially run by confederates at that time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,70\N8:38\Nare trying to re-inscribe a form of slavery through a system of laws called black codes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,71\N8:47\Na whole category of new statutes passed in almost every southern state that attached these enormous penalties
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,72\N8:54\Nto what were in reality very minor thefts those were laws and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,73\N9:00\Nmany others like it that were only ever enforced against african americans
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,74\N9:05\Nand so it became a way to have a basis for arresting huge numbers of black people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,75\N9:11\Ni don't remember much about writing the check john owen was caught taking six years of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,76\N9:17\Ncorn from a cornfield and was arrested under the black codes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,77\N9:23\Nthis is four dollars and we have one two three four five six seven seven times
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,78\N9:30\Nfour is twenty eight dollars so just this pile right here is how much i went to jail for owen was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,79\N9:36\Nput in jail for months until he was finally tried for theft i have a theft charge it's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,80\N9:42\Ndeath by check i had money in the bank but i didn't know how long it took for checks to process like i know better now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,81\N9:50\Ni could have donated plasma gotten 25 under a sentence owen was leased in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,82\N9:57\Nconvict labor and sent to the chain gang where he served two years for the corn and a third year for the court costs i
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,83\N10:04\Nwas in the hayes county jail for a total of 45 days for 25 worth of food michael brown
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,84\N10:13\Nwho was the teenager who was killed by police in ferguson whose death led to the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,85\N10:18\Nexplosion of the black lives matter movement he was stopped for jaywalking he stepped
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,86\N10:26\Noff the sidewalk and was walking in the street and there was a local criminal ordinance that made it a crime
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,87\N10:32\Nto do so african americans are being cited for jaywalking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,88\N10:38\Nat three five ten times the rate of white pedestrians the legislatures of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,89\N10:44\Nthe white south make it a crime to walk alongside a railroad in an era which there are no paved roads the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,90\N10:50\Neasiest way for a poor person to get from one place to another is to walk alongside a railroad that law
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,91\N10:56\Ndidn't say this only applies to black people but those were laws that were only ever enforced against
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,92\N11:02\Nafrican americans all of us engage in what would be considered to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,93\N11:08\Nminor crimes and for some people it's crossing the street at the wrong time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,94\N11:13\Nbut if you're black or brown then it becomes categorized as something that's criminal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,95\N11:19\Nso what are you doing didn't use the crosswalk all i'm trying to do is go home man i'm tired i just got off of work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,96\N11:26\Nnandi kane says he was walking home from work when it happened since i felt like they were going to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,97\N11:31\Ndraw a gun out and shoot me in my back i'm tired of all this [ __ ] man
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,98\N11:54\Num vagrancy laws were passed that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,99\N12:00\Nessentially meant any black person who was found on the streets unemployed and couldn't show evidence of work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,100\N12:06\Nwas a criminal a vagrant trespass laws originate from this idea that african americans only belong
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,101\N12:13\Nin certain spaces and at certain times and so they give police officers the ability under the guise of law to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,102\N12:21\Ndictate where an african-american person can be what time they can be there and how they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,103\N12:26\Ncan operate in certain spaces my kids daycare was inside of one of the buildings to the um skyway
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,104\N12:33\Nso i figured i'd take a walk find somewhere to sit down and um wait on them to get there i'm going to new horizons to pick up my kids i was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,105\N12:39\Nsitting there for 10 minutes monroe dolphis was standing in the train yard when he was grabbed by the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,106\N12:45\Nsheriff's deputy monroe stated that he had not committed any crime why are you going to go to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,107\N12:50\Njail i'm not doing anything wrong hold on hold on can you hold on please i'm not no no come on brother brother this is the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,108\N12:56\Nfault at this moment i saw my children's daycare class and their teachers and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,109\N13:01\Neverything um walking past while this was happening he took the taser and drove it into my leg and pretty much
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,110\N13:08\Nat that point it lost all control of the leg the deputy later claimed that the crime committed by dolphus
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,111\N13:14\Nwas taking a 25-cent tent of fish from the lunch pail of a southern railway worker unable to provide any evidence to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,112\N13:20\Nsupport this the charge was changed to vagrancy and i kept asking them what i was being
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,113\N13:26\Ncharged with they'll create false charges just to make sure that everything is perpetuated judge
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,114\N13:34\Nlongshore found dolphis guilty of misdemeanor vagrancy and sentenced him to five months and 20
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,115\N13:40\Ndays of hard labor and the minds of tennessee coal iron and railroad
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,116\N13:46\Ngoing back to the vagrancy laws of the late 19th century the people who make those laws have in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,117\N13:52\Nmind another group of people for whom there is an inherent threat to their livelihood like breaking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,118\N14:00\Nbarbecue ordinances and public parks or sleeping in dormitories that white people don't think you live there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,119\N14:06\Ni have every right to call the police it allows law enforcement to regulate whether or not certain
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,120\N14:12\Nbehavior for one group of people is deemed a criminal and another group of people is just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,121\N14:19\Nfrivolous activity many people remember the starbucks debacle in philadelphia there were two
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,122\N14:25\Nafrican-american men at a starbucks the employee had them arrested for loitering where they're clearly not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,123\N14:31\Nengaging in that behavior
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,124\N14:37\Nloitering is a police tool of choice it's the go-to offense that police often use to impose
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,125\N14:43\Ntheir authority in the misdemeanor system there is no conduct to minor no act too small that the state cannot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,126\N14:51\Nrender a crime black people charged with a misdemeanor are 75 percent more likely to be locked
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,127\N14:58\Nup than white people you have to realize that these laws didn't happen by chance they were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,128\N15:03\Npart of a a system to continue to oppress black bodies our misdemeanor system
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,129\N15:10\Nincludes all kinds of offenses and some of them can be quite serious domestic violence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,130\N15:16\Ndui but most of the time we treat minor harmless conduct
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,131\N15:22\Nas misdemeanors traffic offenses jaywalking order maintenance offenses spitting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,132\N15:29\Ndriving on a suspended license for failure to pay a fines and yet these minor meaningless
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,133\N15:35\Nmisdemeanors can have terrible consequences for individuals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,134\N15:43\N[Music] to understand the misdemeanor system
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,135\N15:50\Nfollow the money the accused are paying for the judges
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,136\N15:56\Nthe prosecutors and three and a half million dollars off phone commissary at the jail it's a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,137\N16:02\Nknown money maker they call it the 20. family member transferred money
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,138\N16:21\Ntoday's system is estimated at 80 billion dollars
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,139\N16:27\Nthe misdemeanor side of it it is a way of saddling people with fines and fees
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,140\N16:32\Nthat will put money in the pockets of the administrators of that system the first time i got a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,141\N16:38\Nticket my insurance had lapsed so i got the speeding ticket and i got a no insurance ticket at the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,142\N16:44\Nsame time the next time i got pulled over i was arrested for driving with a suspended license i paid the tickets
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,143\N16:50\Npay the court costs paid my fees and fines but they said we're driving with a spinner license the punishment for that is we're going
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,144\N16:56\Nto suspend your license for two years i would often have to choose between paying my inspection or my registration
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,145\N17:02\Nor paying my light bill or other bills that i had i had to drive my car to get to work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,146\N17:08\Nbecause i had a construction job if i needed to take material to the job i couldn't take plywood or two by fours on a bus
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,147\N17:20\Ni felt like there was no way i was going to be able to take care of the kids on my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,148\N17:26\Nown while you were out because i didn't know how long you were going to be in jail this officer saw me a young hispanic guy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,149\N17:33\Ndriving a 63 impala and said you know what that guy he's up to something i was trying to go to work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,150\N17:39\Ntrying to pay bills and he's treating me like a hardened criminal that misdemeanor charge ended up becoming something that i
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,151\N17:46\Ncouldn't get rid of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,152\N18:00\Nthey are being treated as revenue sources charged daily fees for being in jail
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,153\N18:07\Nsupervision fees tether fees drug testing fees database fees to fund bail bondsmen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,154\N18:14\Nprivate probation companies electronic monitoring companies drug testing companies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,155\N18:19\Nit is disturbingly similar to the way that we saw african-americans being exploited in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,156\N18:25\Npost-war south
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,157\N18:47\N[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,158\N18:54\Ni'm the mario davis uh linebacker of new orleans saints i was born and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,159\N18:59\Nraised in mississippi pretty much raised by a single mom entering into my second year of college
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,160\N19:05\Nme and a teammate were caught shoplifting groceries from from walmart it kind of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,161\N19:11\Nfelt a lot more like a drug bust than uh us having stole some groceries
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,162\N19:18\Nthe bail was set at ten thousand dollars and you know i have ten thousand dollars the football coaches bailed us out a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,163\N19:25\Nmisdemeanor is supposed to be able to uh be in front of the judge within 90 days but this is not happening this is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,164\N19:32\Nnot happening in our country we have people who are spending seven eight months in jail who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,165\N19:37\Nhave not even been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,166\N19:44\N[Music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,167\N19:50\Nsentenced cop arrested me and i was charged with the misdemeanor the term chain gang
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,168\N19:56\Nwas coined on account of the shackle worn by convict laborers they said okay listen we're gonna let you go home now
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,169\N20:02\Nbut scram's gonna come and uh put a monitor on you they were taken to an anvil where a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,170\N20:08\Nrivet was pounded into the ankle cuffs to keep them closed then the cuffs were chained together the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,171\N20:13\Ninitial fee to get on this ground was 250 that's just to have it put on then after
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,172\N20:20\Nthat they charged me 220 a month for the actual monitor many of the convicts suffered from shackle sores
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,173\N20:27\Nulcers were the iron ground against their skin gangrene and other infections were also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,174\N20:32\Ncommon right after they put it on me you start causing these really severe sores and rashes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,175\N20:38\Nand their attitude pretty much is it's court-ordered it's by a judge and you'll wear it or you can go back to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,176\N20:45\Njail the emaciated convict laborers worked their entire days barefoot but the shackles were always on their
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,177\N20:51\Nankles they mined in them slept in them and those who died of disease or beatings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,178\N20:57\Nwere buried in them what they're doing is unjust what they're doing is profiteering because you you're paying
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,179\N21:02\Nthem you're their slave with their shackle on your foot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,180\N21:28\Ni remember this hopeless feeling just overcome me i couldn't take care of my family the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,181\N21:34\Nbiggest misconception about misdemeanors is that they are minor the full consequences of getting a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,182\N21:41\Nmisdemeanor can be astronomical it hurt me for 10 years and it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,183\N21:47\Ncompletely disrupted my life and i have been trying to figure out how to get my life back on track
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,184\N21:53\Nthis will be a part of my story for the rest of my life when people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,185\N21:58\Nare booked into jails for a week or a year or even a day you just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,186\N22:06\Ncannot avoid the trauma that inflicts upon you the moment you hit the jail you don't
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,187\N22:12\Ncome out of that unchanged or untouched you witness trauma you witness violence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,188\N22:18\Nand it changes you it changes your community i tried to get a job at amazon where my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,189\N22:23\Nroommate worked i called to walmart and i called to several other retail stores
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,190\N22:29\Ni got turned away because i had a misdemeanor charge for theft not enough people talk about what it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,191\N22:35\Nmeans to have a misdemeanor on your record it can determine the kind of job that you get to the kind of housing that you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,192\N22:41\Ncan qualify for to the kind of schools that you can go to a lot of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,193\N22:46\Nare harmed for life because of the smallest infractions they're being rendered homeless they're
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,194\N22:52\Ngoing without food without medication their children are suffering due to misdemeanors i lost my housing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,195\N22:59\Nshortly after that i lost my vehicle which led to me losing my job and it was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,196\N23:05\Njust one thing after another like like kicks to the face
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,197\N23:10\Ni had full custody of my children they had to get to school we had to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,198\N23:18\Nsleep in the car waking up at like four in the morning getting to a laundromat to make sure that they have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,199\N23:25\Nclean school uniforms and work so hard and all of that was ruined by one charge
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,200\N23:31\None misdemeanor ruined my ability to get even just basic work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,201\N23:43\Nthey can't get a job if they have to check a box that says they've been convicted of a crime they can't even
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,202\N23:51\Nrent housing because they got poor credit when they received a ridiculous
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,203\N23:57\N500 dollar speeding violation so this system was designed both to extract
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,204\N24:03\Nfrom people but also to marginalize their presence in society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,205\N24:24\Nit's going to be a mass grave site this is the dormitory we stupid crowd
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,206\N24:30\Nthese are the beds they're right beside each other and this is the space everybody just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,207\N24:36\Ndying and getting sick and [ __ ] like this [ __ ] serious as [ __ ] bro you all right
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,208\N24:42\Nyou want me to go get the police no what have you done this [ __ ] you ain't gonna do nothing about it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,209\N24:49\Nthis [ __ ] literally in this [ __ ] dying bro i don't know what to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,210\N24:55\None of the worst places to be during this pandemic is locked up in jail the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,211\N25:02\Nsame horror story is emerging of the unchecked spread of infection and inmates essentially being left to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,212\N25:07\Ndie now jaywalking or theft of a small amount or any sort of vagrancy type of behavior
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,213\N25:16\Ncan lead to your incarceration and eventual contracting of the virus and death
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,214\N25:21\Ni've been in jail for two and a half months for a ready death a non-violent crime that carries a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,215\N25:27\Nmisdemeanor charge for the price value of um less than a hundred dollars there's been three deaths
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,216\N25:33\Ntwo being inmates one being a guard as far as like people who are working for the facility
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,217\N25:38\Nthey're like intertwined they could easily be catching it that's how one of the guards caught
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,218\N25:43\Nit my life is in danger
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,219\N25:56\N[Music] these human beings aren't valued enough
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,220\N26:04\Nfor us to apply the same kinds of safety measures there that we are in other sectors of society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,221\N26:10\Nif it wasn't already bad enough that you are booked into jail because you didn't have the money to pay
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,222\N26:16\Nthe ticket and your license is suspended that is now life threatening to you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,223\N26:22\Nsheriff's office is now releasing non-violent inmates as a next step in mitigating the spread of copenhagen
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,224\N26:28\Nhundreds of inmates have been released from shelby county's jail in an effort to put fewer people at risk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,225\N26:33\Nfor coronavirus
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,226\N26:41\N19 thousands of misdemeanor defendants are rightly being released it's clear that these individuals should
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,227\N26:47\Nhave never been incarcerated in the first place we can tell by the fact that after these
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,228\N26:53\Nreleases we haven't seen any sort of crime wave
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,229\N27:01\Nthere's a different type of crime wave that should concern us though and that's the crime of violence against black
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,230\N27:06\Npeople post civil war [Music] [Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,231\N27:15\Nstate violence has historically been used to intimidate people of color especially black people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,232\N27:21\Nwe see this all throughout history
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,233\N27:30\Nmisdemeanors they have almost nothing to do with public safety
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,234\N27:36\Nwhat misdemeanors do is give police an extraordinary amount of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,235\N27:42\Ndiscretion with any minor offense premised on the idea that the black man is a threat
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,236\N27:53\Nmisdemeanors are a very specific mechanism that legalize violence toward black
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,237\N27:59\Npeople and keep them in a very particular place not just as individuals but as an entire community of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,238\N28:08\Nwhen we look at so many cases in history often what started as an investigation or a claim of a petty misdemeanor
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,239\N28:14\Noffense led to police officer supported and sanctioned racial terrorism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,240\N28:21\Nall too often we see police exercising that terrible authority of violence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,241\N28:27\Nagainst people who have only been suspected of the most minor of crime
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,242\N28:35\Nthe problem isn't bad apple cops the problem is the system is working the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,243\N28:41\Nway it's supposed to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,244\N28:51\N[Music] police shot this boy outside my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,245\N28:57\Napartment they kill him
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,246\N29:15\N[Music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,247\N29:36\Npretty good
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,248\N29:42\N[Music] i'm so sorry
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,249\N30:06\Nwhy gray appeared to be unable to walk and was screaming as he was carried
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,250\N30:12\Nfeet dragging on the ground to a police van
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,251\N30:18\N[Music] i know i know you just on your job
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,252\N30:43\N[Music] please
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,253\N30:50\Nmy life could have so easily been taken in that skyway
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,254\N30:56\Ngeorge floyd goes to show further that the most minor offenses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,255\N31:03\Neven no offense at all could result in death the very purpose of racial terrorism is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,256\N31:11\Ncontrol is social control what we have seen in the killings of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,257\N31:18\Nthose accused was that misdemeanors became the gateway for police violence and murder
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,258\N31:32\N[Music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,259\N31:41\Nwe are seeing decriminalization we are seeing citations instead of arrests we are seeing people let out of jail we are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,260\N31:48\Nseeing pushback against fines and fees but at the same time there is so much more work that needs to be done
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,261\N31:56\Nwho defined what a misdemeanor is the whole thing was built on exploitation on racial violence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,262\N32:04\Non building up industrial capitalism we should not be locking up people who speed who are too poor
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,263\N32:12\Nto pay a fine or a fee who loiter or trespass or jaywalk they're not dangerous they're
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,264\N32:19\Nnot scary there's never been a good reason to lock
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,265\N32:24\Nup anybody for petty offenses like slavery back in the day the law
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,266\N32:30\Nitself is doing the work of oppression the criminal law is providing the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,267\N32:36\Nauthority to arrest black people to punish black people to kill black people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,268\N32:44\Nand ultimately the real crime is that we're black
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,269\N32:56\N[Music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,270\N33:34\Nwhen officers use their discretion and still choose to arrest low-level offenders instead of siding and releasing them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,271\N33:40\Nthey are choosing to lock a human into a cage we wouldn't even put our dogs in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,272\N33:55\Nwe got 123 people out of the hayes county jail yesterday
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,273\N34:06\Nit eliminated the penalty for being caught driving with a suspended license from another two-year suspension to a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,274\N34:12\N90-day suspension
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,275\N34:22\Ndon't allow the outside world to corrupt you don't don't allow the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,276\N34:28\Noutside world to tell you who you are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,277\N34:37\Ni wanted to be a voice for those who are not able to be a voice for themselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,278\N34:48\N[Music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,279\N35:53\Nyou\N