Community Violence Intervention (CVI) is a grassroots approach to reducing violence that relies on credible messengers—individuals who have lived the community experience and can speak the community's language—to interrupt violence before it happens, change social norms, and provide holistic support including trauma healing, education, and job training. CVI workers must maintain integrity and full commitment to their mission, as real change comes from within communities rather than outside authorities. The approach requires collaboration between parents, pastors, politicians, and police, and emphasizes that unity and collective action are essential for community transformation.
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your boy Martin G. I'm right here on the mic tonight. This mic is hot and I want you to come on in. We got a lot of community um events that's going on that went on today and I've been interviewing people.
We've been talking about CVI, the community violence um intervention. So, we we people, it's going down. See, a lot of this you won't see on the news.
I'm telling you, we had a nice uh peace march in Inglewood today. It was real nice. I'm going to show you some clippings. We got some CVI workers that's going to be talking about the work that we do. Now, you're not going to see this on the news. You're not going to see it on channel 32, channel 7, channel 5.
All they want is some bodies laying on the ground. They want to hear about some gunfire, some gunshots. But we tried to prevent that. We trying toate that. This is live, uncut, unedited. Come on in people. We're going to educate our people tonight. We definitely going to uh educate us. We need it. We need it people. We got a lot going on. And it's the power of a credible messengers. And that's what we got. Trust currency. All right. Real change don't come from uh outside authority. It comes from people who have lived the life and can speak the community language. Let me repeat that. Real change doesn't come from outside authorities.
It comes from people who have lived the life and can speak the community's language. That's what we talking about.
People, come on in. Share this video.
All right.
All right. My boss old Shang Shango often always emphasized shifting from being a old gene to being a uncle. It's about showing up with wisdom and consistency and not just authority. I love that. I love that. Now, let's talk about this.
To be effective, people and a CVI worker can't be half gangbanging.
Yeah. You have to be fully convinced and committed to the mission to maintain credibility on the block. I want to repeat that. Integrity is the key.
Listen people, integrity is the key to be effective. A CVI worker can't be have gangbanging and you have to be fully com convinced and committed to the mission to maintain credibility on the block. I love that. I I I love that. I love it. We're going to get back with more CVI work, but I got some interviews. Oh my god. I got some some of the peace marges and I'm going to pull up some of the thing that uh was held today by Charles McKenzie, the mayor of Inglewood. Um it went on today people. It went on today. It was live, uncut, unedited. It went on today.
People see you won't see it on the news.
Now was not one media outlet there to show that. But let it have been a mass shooting.
Someone is shooting at the police or something. Oh, they would have been there. But they don't want to see nothing constructive.
See, this is the part that y'all don't see. All you see and know is what the media tells you. That's it. But it's it go deeper than that. It goes deeper than that, people. Trust me, it goes way deeper than what the media shows and tells. Go deeper than that, people. And we had a this is the sixth annual piece.
I remember I was in the first one the very first one with Charles McKenzie.
Very the mayor of Inglewood. I was in the very first one. Oh, this is Listen, we're going to be talking. It's Listen, it's going to go down tonight. I got some real credible messages tonight that's talking that been in the community that been gang banging that been locked up to change theelves. Oh my god. I'm telling you people, I got just Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. This is uh Hold on people. Let me remove some of these uh some of these flyers off here. And I want to show you this one right here. All right. This is uh when we had the uh mass caving in Englewood. All right. Right there, people. The work is being done. Where you at? The work is being done. Where are you? The work is being done. All right. Let's clear the screen on that.
All right. Remove that. All right. Now, let's let's get to this. Let's get to this, people. I I just want to I got a couple of CVI workers I want to talk about. Before we go to this, let me let me just grab some things. This is what I'mma do. Let me This is what I'mma do.
I'mma grab I'mma grab a couple of people and I'm I'm going to show you how committed people are. Listen to this people. I'm gonna show you how committed this brother is. Listen to this. Listen, look, look at this. I just want y'all to see before we get into everything.
Listen to this, people.
Oh, let me get the volume going up. I'm sorry. Let me get the value. I'm sorry, people.
>> Whatever. I can't.
>> All right, let's start over. Get the value.
>> Guys, my name Dion. I'm a street warrior at Urban Roots Alliance. Before this position, as a street worry, I was in the streets doing whatever I can do to make some money, cause harm to people, and do whatever I need to do to survive in the streets.
Recently I lost my brother.
So I changed.
Now I do CVI work. I go out there and stop you young brothers and sisters from doing what I was about to do.
Retaliation. I thought retaliation was okay, but it ain't. You don't get nowhere with that. You don't get no money. You don't get to live to see people. And you hurt other people's families.
So now that I do this CVI work, I want to help you young brothers and sisters do the same thing. I know that this program works because I was on the other side too. I was about to do retaliation the same way, but this program, these young brothers and sisters helped me.
They stopped and talked to me and asked me about my past and my future. And they made me realize that retaliation is not the key to everything.
Now I want to help you do the same thing. Come to our program and I can help you. I can help you think about a better future, not about retaliation.
I know we black and we want retaliation and that's what we think is right, but it ain't. What's right is us preventing the violence and and us preventing the families from getting hurt just like our families got hurt.
I'm a street warrior. This what I do now. I prevent you young brothers and sisters from doing retaliation. Come to Urban Roose Alliance and help fix your mentality.
Peace.
>> Peace. Now, hold it, people. Hold it.
Hold it. Now, here's a brother right here, Dion. Brother Dion.
He's a a CVI worker. And And let me just say this about him. Here's a brother.
His brother just recently got killed this year in the streets on the south side of Chicago. I won't go into detail.
Now, normally when that happens, the siblings take up retaliation.
That's what happened. Here's a brother.
He decided, he ran into some brothers from a CVI organization, Urban Roots Alliance, which I'm a part of. He has been convinced not to go back out there and retaliate against your brother's death.
So, it's real. It's working. You don't see this on the news. You see it on the Crime Chaser show. I put it out there.
This is real. This is not make believe.
Y'all know those that have been following me for years after years, you know I don't stage. Now, I might do a skit here and there, but that's not my that's not my makeup. Y'all know I'm live uncut and unedited. We going to go on to the next CVI work and then we going to get to the peace march. But I want to show you these ARE THE THINGS THAT THEY DON'T SHOW YOU. THEY DON'T SHOW YOU PEOPLE. A BROTHER, HIS BROTHER JUST GOT KILLED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO.
And here's a brother talking about peace, preventing violence, talking to other young brothers.
This is real. Where's channel 7? Where's channel 5, channel 2, Telto, Fox? Where they're NOT GOING TO SHOW you anything like this. I'm showing you stuff that's real.
real and you can relate to it. All right, I got another video. We g we going we going to breeze through these videos, people. We're going to breeze through them. I got a whole lot to show you guys. A whole lot. A whole lot.
Here's a brother, Chris Patterson. This is a good brother right here.
>> Hey everybody, my name is Chris Patterson. I work in the community violence intervention space around funding support. um one of the architects around the current model of uh community violence intervention that includes street outreach, case managed victim service. You know, for the first time in our city, we have vanguards, men and women across the city who are working with people who are impacted by gun violence. Those people are um you know unfortunately mothers who've lost children and sons and daughters, families who've who've gone without their loved ones, children who are missing their parents because they're either dead or in jail. And here we are.
We have men and women across the city of Chicago who don't wear capes, but yet they're heroes. They're in the trenches oftent times before violence even happens to deescalate conflicts before they happen. and then sometimes unfortunately support families and um you know people who are in you know in the midst of everything going wrong in array. So I love CVI. I think it is a an important tool um that is adding to the safety in the city of Chicago. You know the city of Chicago last year has experienced uh a decline in shootings and homicides. So last year gun violence claimed the liv 384 people. Now, while that's not a victory because that's still 384 people who have lost their loved ones, um community violence intervention is one of the pieces that has gotten us down to a lower number.
Right? So, one, the job isn't done. A lot more work to do. Figure out in your community who are the community violence intervention experts. The same way that you would know who the law enforcement people are. Get in with those organizations. Support them. Build them up. Let them know how much you appreciate them. Get involved. It takes all of us to make a safer city.
>> Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. And see, that's what I'm talking about.
Here's a brother that have dedicated his life, been to the joint, been to the joint, come out, hitting the ground running. Now he's part of funding CVI programs. Community violence intervention.
Community violence intervention. We gonna get deep into it. So, I'm bringing you some credible people up here. This is not stage. This is real. This is real. Now, you you're not going to see it on the news now. They ain't going to talk about it on the news, but you going to get it from us. Who could better tell our story story in our community? White folks can't come in our community and tell our story the way we can tell it.
We in it. How can I tell you about what's going on in your house? I'm not in your house.
Real talk.
Got more people. We got more. We got more. Just getting good. Just getting good. Just getting good. Just getting good. Let me bring up my brother, my buddy, man, Rob White. I love him. I love him.
>> Rob White coming to you live, man, from off 87th in the Dan Ryan. A great place where black people could be able to shop supposedly. So while I'm speaking on that man, I really want to speak to the fact of those who are really advocates and of of of downplaying and discrediting those who work in the CBI field on this on behalf of the whole field of CBI. Let me say this, there is not one agency or entity of work or field where you have individuals who are not doing what they supposed to be doing. You got them in the police department. You got them in the public aid office. You got them who even work in docks probably.
Like in every field of work, there are people who are disingenuous on the work that they're supposed to be doing. So don't single CVI workers out as if everybody is fleeing the community. I myself personally, Ron White, am a staunch advocate for the betterment of our communities. And a great deal of our communities are fucked up because of where our households are being ran. CVI workers are not individuals who are got a magic wand who can make everything right in our communities. Like a great deal of this start at home. And what I found is a great deal of people who do a lot of complaining. Y'all the ones and it's y'all kids who out here acting a damn fool. Like we all got to be play our part and bringing some resolve to the way we behave against each other.
Like we not going down in other we not going to Oakan or we not going to River North and acting a fool like that. We doing this shit right in Englewood, West Garfield, Rosland, West Pullman, over East Grand Crossing. Like, we doing all of this harm to ourselves, right? And so, I just want to put some positivity out there. Like, stop complaining so much about who ain't doing what and look at yourself and look in the mirror and ask yourself, what are you doing? And you don't got to be out here on the streets and advocating for peace like I do. But all you got to do really is, and it's your responsibility, make sure those up under your care and those whom you raising know how to act when they bring their ass outside. Cuz one thing for sure, two thing for certain. You don't want to discipline a kid, discipline your kids in at home. But I bet you when they come out here in these streets and they acting a fool, somebody going to get up with their ass, man. So just be mindful about all of this evilness and all this meanness that people are spewing out. It only affects us. And if you're not part of the solution, you damn sure part of the problem.
>> Man, let's deep. I got another brother.
I got a couple more brothers. Get into the peace march we had here today in Englewood. I'm telling you, I had some uh fabulous brothers that this man I I mean just man they they they Here's one brother right here. Here's my my brother work for the nonviolence institute. Or >> Hello, my name is Orion Meadows. I work for the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago. I am a nonviolence trainer and what I do is I teach Dr. King's philosophy of nonviolence, the six principles and the six steps. So I have lived experience. I'm a returning citizen. Uh I was in my late teens when I got locked up and I when I came out I was almost in my mid4s. So I myself I'm an advocate for community violence intervention and for returning citizens or rather re-entry because it's very important. A lot of people they want they want to just focus on the youth which is that's that's great but there are a lot of people who are older have experienced violence. They've been traumatized. They're returning citizens and they also need resources. they need services as far as in helping them be able to reaclimate to society.
I myself am what they call I guess you could say a success story. After being locked up for a long time, I came out. I had a plan and what I did was I I executed that plan. Then I got involved in this work. Since then, uh being out, I've been out five years, a little over five years. I um nationally certified as a nonviolence trainer. I've been a re-entry coach.
I've uh won two national spoken word awards. I performed in various states and I've also trained in several states and all across the city of Chicago. I've trained uh nonprofits such as Chicago Cares. I've trained corporations in the principles and steps of king and nonviolence and violence prevention and intervention is so very important and it works. It's worked for me but it's also worked for some of the people that I have trained such as my our staff members. uh coming from a demographic of people who have experienced violence, it's important for them to learn how to deprogram and then reprogram their minds and practicing nonviolence because it's we've been practicing violence for so long that now we have to learn how to practice nonviolence because it's been a culture of violence that we have been exposed to and immersed in. And so to shift that paradigm, we have to teach people how to practice nonviolence so that we can have what Dr. King called a beloved community. This work is not for the weak. It's difficult. I myself, even though I'm a trainer, I practice nonviolence. I've had to, you know, mediate conflicts out here on the on the on the red line, uh, at McDonald's, out, uh, uh, in the community where I've seen them, uh, there have been conflict. I've had to mediate that. So, because I take this seriously, it's a way of life. It's not just a paycheck. A lot of people look at it as it's just some guys out here.
They're trying to get some quick money.
But when you take this seriously, you are putting yourself at risk. Uh, you could be harmed. I've seen a lot of conflict throughout my my my time out here. I myself I don't I take the red line, I take the bus. So, I see this stuff all the time. And I have to even use restraint.
But the those principles, the things that I learned, they've helped me in my own journey, but they've also helped me with some of my staff and some of my participants that are in the classes that I teach. So, this is not something that people are out here just doing just for fun or just to get a check. This is something that is serious. And there are people that are very invested in this.
For those that don't know, that think that this is just, you know, some type of come up, this is a profession where people are actually going tomies. They have an academy at the University of Chicago that people go to. The uh Metropolitan uh Metropolitan Family Services have what they call the Metropolitan Peace Academy that people they go to and they learn all these tools and these steps to be able to mediate conflict in their communities.
So this is a profession that people are taking seriously. Don't believe the hype that this is just a money grab. There are a lot of people that are seriously invested in this and our people are doing the work in our communities, west side, southside, north side, all over Chicago and even abroad. So all right, that's my brother uh Orion Meadows. Orion has been locked up. Uh he just recently been uh released been out a little bit over five years and he is a product of CVI community violence intervention. It worked with him. Not only work with him, he's teaching it.
He's a trainer at the nonviolent uh institute on the west side. So kudos to you, brother. I appreciate you, brother.
Thank you for the life. Uh the brother also is a certified po poet too as well.
Um, got a couple of books out there. Uh, doing his thing, people. He's doing his thing. You can't be mad at the brother.
Hitting the ground running. Hitting the ground. I'm just letting you know these are story that you guys don't hear.
Y'all don't know. This is real. This is real people. It's real. Let's go to the next one. And we going to get to the peace march. But I wanted to clean it up for y'all. So, help y'all out. Here's one of my favorite Shango.
>> What's going on?
>> One of my boss. This is a great day. But this is a great day. I came on to do this video to talk about the importancy of the work that we do in the CVI community.
See, a lot of people just don't understand what it takes to be in this CVI work. And shouts and shouts out and blessings to all of those who are really in here transforming the lives like we supposed to be, like we all do. See, we have already broke it down of what violence is. Violence is a learned behavior and is learned from role models called by social force, lack of opportunities, poverty, you know, gangs, you name it.
Because see, a cultural norm in subgroup with a higher rate of homicide is what we are dealing with. A cultural norm in subgroups with a higher rate of homicide is what we are dealing with. and we dealing with it. It's a serious event and or interaction between what? Other people and we have to escalate it. See, community mobilization and engagement is what the CVI workers do. Community mobilization and community engagement.
We identify and detect. We interrupt and intervene. We change the social norm and the behavior. But let me tell you this, it's not easy to do.
We have to do this and look at this reducing the risk. Many of the highest risk p people may be people you have seen before on the streets or even in the schools or other place. However, it is not always nowadays easy to go from being the cool person on the street to being someone who is all up in the program participants business trying to get them to confront problems and change their lives. This transition takes work.
See the first step in helping the highest risk to get on a positive path is to take stock of their strengths, the challenges in their lives and the goals for the future. Once we have assessed these aspect of their lives, it will be easier for us to start implementing the things that need to be implemented. We have to do motivational interviewing which is a four key principle of motivating the person. We got to do constructive, watch it, cognitive reconstruction, changing the thinking, changing the mind. At the same time, we not only got to do conflict mediation, we got to do conflict resolution. So, us over here at Urban Roose Alliance taking on Auburn Gresham Ashburn. You know what a blessing it is to be trained up the street warriors the way I done, one of them I got to give it up to is Martin G.
Johnson, the true crime chaser. and they are out there now not only boots on the ground but really engaged in the community. So I just wanted to tell you this is how we do the CVI work and this is why we do it. Get with us and watch what happen.
>> Now see this is what I'm talking about.
See black people now you can see it firsthand. None of these are people that's doing the work boots on the ground. You don't see they don't get the credit. The news don't flash this on them. You only see the bodies laying on the ground. You only see the gunshot wounds. You It's all you hear. But you don't hear about CVI, community violence intervention or interruptors. They interrupting violence. They mediating things before it happen. THEY THEY TURNING HOTSPOTS into cool hotspots where people hang at on corners and stuff like that. They coming there transforming people situation. Oh man, we had a great peace walk. Let's get into this y'all. Let's get into finally get into the meat of meat of the pro uh what we want to talk about. We're going to start with my own brother uh Daryl Smitty. Come on, Daryl.
>> All right. We talk about the peace in Englewood. Piece of Inglewood start with these guys you see around us, man.
People who've been here all their life.
Fred here, the boots on the ground. We get a hold of these shorties, man, and talk to them, man. All they need is somebody talk to them. Average shorty walk down the street, person cross over the other side of the street, won't greet them, won't say hello. They don't know what's going through their minds.
So, it start with us, man. Start with boots on the ground. Start with the people who been here forever. And uh we still here do this march right quick.
And uh hopefully next year we get some shorties with us going on. Yeah, that's what it's all about. Peace. Get the shorties. see what's going on. See us 50, 60 year old guys walking the street still promoting peace, then maybe they'll promote peace.
>> It's a good thing. Good thing doc, you've been in talk.
>> I mean, I'm just going to add on to what my brother was saying, man. Um, you know, us being here, being born and raised here, right? It's on us to be the initiative to take the lead on greeting these young brothers, right? And I tell guys, man, even when they don't speak, I said, just make it happen, saying what up, hello. I think because at some point they're going to question why you why you constantly speaking to me and all you got to do is simply respond I see you know what I'm saying and it's that point right there man it change the dynamics of the relationship because most of them walking around here acting like I mean feeling like they ain't being seen so that simple greeting can change that that whole dynamic and build a relationship towards something more peaceful because it has to come to an end but the chain going to start with nobody but us we are the remedy. We are our own medicine and it's not until we start seeing each other in that way that I value you.
>> You know what I'm saying? We let change start to take place.
>> I love you and as always, love on your people. Let me get >> Come on, big bro. Real quick, real quick.
>> Hey, hey, hey, hey. We here with the peace walk. The >> And the birthday guy, the peace walk.
This this dude. Hey, the peace walk.
They do this walk annually every year. I think this is the sixth year. We are here to support and just show Inglewood that they are not alone. You know, they can come out and support these walks.
They can come out and get the suggestions so that we'll know how to help the neighborhoods and help the seniors and help the people in the community. So, this is what we doing.
This is what it is. Hope to see you at the next one. Peace.
>> Peace out. Come on, my brother.
>> Peace. How y'all doing, Chicago? My name is Quy the poet. Yep. Quy the poet. WGCI radio back in the day. I've been invited to the sixth annual peace march by Inglewood's very own Mcken, mayor of Englewood, and he's partnered with us next week for our second third annual ceasefire at Aqua Court 3 to 5 p.m. So if you're a young court, young artist, come out. This ain't just no peace mark about overcoming. We're literally on the block doing the work. We of Matt, he's been doing this work since 2019. He has young people 20 to 24 on the block.
Sunday through Sunday 247 365. So continue to follow the journey up. I am Quy the poet. I wrote mountains to gave the two men who shot and killed my brother to make peace. Follow me on Instagram at Quincy the brand. You ain't going to hit on the news the brand.
Peace and love.
>> You ain't going to hit it on the news people. This is real brother.
>> More science temple of America. Grand Major Temple number one Indianapolis.
Out here supporting our supreme grand chic.
Bless you all. This is the real crime.
out here maring.
>> Yeah.
>> William Ward Bay.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Demonstrating with the brothers.
Demonstrating love. Truth.
>> Martin Johnson.
>> What's your function?
>> I'm a crime chaser, man. That's okay.
Crime real. Put me on camera.
>> Crime chaser.
>> You the real deal crime chaser. I know who you is. We know your worst. We know you for seven years. That's the real crime chaser. We know who the one be talking, >> man. That's the real everybody else copied off here. I said to their face.
And we want to give honor to the crime chaser. Appreciate you. Catch the crime in chasing.
Chasing.
>> Ain't no crime here.
>> That's right. That's right. Peace.
Appreciate you, brother.
>> Yes, sir. Appreciate you. Yes, sir.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Yes, sir.
>> That's a good thing. What's up, young man? Are we live?
>> What's up, bro? What's up, y'all? Yeah, we live, but we pre-recording now. Go ahead. We live on day.
>> Yes, sir. We out here for the peace march today. Trying to push peace in the hood. Y'all know how it is. Y'all come out and support. Come out and support.
888 838 West 67th Street. Come check us out. Come check us out.
>> That's right, bro. Peace out. Peace out, bro.
>> Yeah, we coming through here.
>> Or maybe 20.
>> Yeah. Charles, real quick, real quick.
Tell us what's going on. Mr. Mayorwood and you walk through Eaglewood. It's real pleasure and honor to have everyone out here to join together under one umbrella to make a change of difference throughout our community. That's what it's all about.
>> Reop So what's going on out here, man?
>> How you doing, man? Beautiful day out here, man. Sunshining, >> but we out here pretty much. It's our fifth annual Walk for Peace.
>> The sixth, I think. Sixth, >> huh?
>> The sixth one.
>> The sixth one then. I was at the first one.
>> Okay. Okay. Okay. Start the first one.
Martin got the number. Got the number.
So the six one. A lot of us saying five, but it's really six.
>> Uh walk of peace is is the road to peace. So >> you know we got all type of different organizations out here from religious organizations to community organizations and you know uh we believe that church should be leading the way. So me as the pastor here representing the pastors in the churches of the city of Chicago. We want to thank you know what I'm saying?
like say Martin, we want to thank Midwest Coalition. Want to thank first responders, all the faithful ones, uh, Smitty, you know what I'm saying, who been here every single year and making sure that we can continue this message to our community on how we feel about, you know, how it should get better. We got Joseph William out here tonight, bro. You all right?
>> Jo, real quick. Real quick, real quick.
Talk Peace March. Peace March.
>> Hey, we out here, you guys. Right here on 67. We in Englewood doing a peace march. They do this event annually. They bring folks from all around together.
That's what it's all about. Um I ain't never seen this much unity ever. So big shout out to all the organizers, everybody who do this event. But this is what it look like, man. When our men step up, when we come together, we put everything to the side and say we coming together for the greater cause, which is our people and the community. So thank you. And big shout out to Margie Y'all cuz he every day all day.
>> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
>> Brother Re Smith, real quick. Real Smith, talk to us real quick.
>> Hey, come on out. That's all I can say, man. Put in some work people.
>> Chicago violence.
>> Chicago violence. That's up that James.
>> What's up, man? Talk to us real quick, man. You old school. You've been you you Hey, this this wood to get it in. Get it right. Make it right. Stop all this bullshit going on. French.
>> Okay. That's my man.
>> This my fifth time doing this here. I do it longer than it takes, >> right?
>> What's up, bro? Get you real quick. Come on. Talk to me. I know who you are, >> man. I'm brother Ting. I represent Lowmax Urban Outreach, man. We out here man with the walk and we going to get together with the cavali relations with public equity and uh you understand the rest of these orgs man. We want to enjoy ourselves man and bring peace and harmony to the neighborhood man.
Blessings to you all.
>> Shout out to my buddy Shango about say brother Sho man I love you baby. Hey hey hey thank you brother Sho for introducing me to this work man. You understand me? Telling me to continue to keep doing what I'm doing man. I love you for that my good guy. Let's work together baby. Let's get a collaboration for the weather breaker.
>> That's what I'm talking about.
>> Yeah. I love you go. I love you, baby.
>> All right. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Anyway, y'all want to say something real quick?
>> Y'all good? Y'all good? Okay. I just asked.
>> Yeah.
>> Like getting ready about to start moving.
When yall doing so?
>> All right, man. I ain't going to stay the whole time, but I just came.
>> Yeah.
>> Listen, man.
>> This wood.
>> I know. I know this, baby.
>> Oh. Oh. What's up, Jeff?
>> Yeah. Come on. Talk to me real quick, Jeff.
>> The new Jerusalem. You already know who it is.
>> See, get used to them, man.
They talking >> from from a city from a city of war.
That's what I believe. From a city of war to city brick. What What about the bricks, man? Tell educate us, >> man. Get a brick, man. Become a peace partner, man. Buy a brick, man. It's going We got to rebuild it on peace this time, man. Get a brick, man.
>> Right.
>> Get you a brick. Yeah. You already know.
>> Sean going to say shout out to y'all, you know, >> all day.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. All right. Hey, this is my man Jeff. May man, matter of fact, I'm going be calling you shortly anyway.
>> Okay, >> I got you.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> All right.
>> How you doing, young lady?
>> What's going on?
>> How you doing? I'm good. I need I need to talk real quick. Come tell talk to my people real quick. Just >> talk to your people.
>> Yeah, >> we are out here in the community today.
We're having a community walk. We're supporting this the community. We're supporting peace. We're supporting nonviolence. And my man right here behind the camera.
>> Live uncut. That's it.
>> Live uncut. That's it. That's it. one.
>> That's it. I appreciate you, baby.
Appreciate you.
>> Come on, man.
>> Hey, my name is Carl and I'm from Indianapolis, Indiana. Even though I'm not, this is not my city, these are my people. So, I come this far to show my support and love to those that are out here doing their self disgenuous and light. Stop the violence, brothers and sisters. It's not necessary. You have a life to live and something to live for in life. If you don't, come over here to the community center and they will give you a hope and something to live for in life.
>> Y'all be peace and be safe.
>> Minister, I just need about two minutes for you. Just talk to us real quick.
>> Well, you out here right now. If you can turn around, I'm quite sure you done gathered all of the footage of everybody out here, all the different organizations, the young and the old.
This is something that we need to be doing all over the city, but not just to walk down the streets, but the work that's going to follow behind the work because it's going to take us to save us. It's going to take the community of all of us to get beyond all of our different religious affiliations and every organization and realize that we have to come together collectively as a uniting front if we want to combat the violence and economics and everything that we suck for our community. Unity can solve 95% of our problems. So, teaching honor Louis fire and that's why we here. Peace.
>> Yes, sir.
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>> All right.
>> Live on cut, unedited, people.
>> All right.
>> All right. We live on cut, unedited.
>> Let me get all the youth in the front.
>> Hey, Dion.
How your sister doing man?
>> Tell her I said hi man say hi. You you in Englewood now?
>> No I'm in project.
>> Oh you project Oh yeah you're with Cory Brook. You're from there. So that's that's right there. They got me in a regression.
>> I'm in a regression. I'm doing the same thing. CBI progression. Yeah.
>> It's been uh it's been a year for me next month.
>> Yeah that's what I'm life changing decisions >> bro. You know hey come on. You know I'm like I already know bro. I know. I already know. Hey, it it was a time that we all couldn't sit out here together.
It's going it's going to be a problem.
>> Yeah, we could do this.
>> Yeah, it could be a problem. But look at it now, baby.
>> Yes, sir. Love. Yes, sir.
>> Yeah.
>> Live on cut. Share the video. People like the video. They're getting ready.
They getting getting ready, people.
>> I'm just here doing a little quick short uh got more to come. So hold on. We got more to come.
>> Live on cut unedit.
>> Appreciate y'all brothers, sisters for watching. I'm going to uh just get a little bit get back on my journey on Instagram. Follow me on Instagram.
>> Close me out. Erica, you my last person.
>> What up y'all? Um yeah, we out here Englewood. Y'all already know. Um starting to feel that summertime shot field. So it's going to take all of us.
It's going to take us all to be out here together, but we really got to br build bridges. We got to build bridges. We are not going to stand if we are divided as a people. So, right, >> we got to figure out how to come together without um letting them divide us up into all types of different factions and frictions and all of that cuz we all we got, baby.
>> We all we got. That's right. We all we got. Thank you. Thank you. This live on cut. Appreciate y'all for tuning in.
I've been telling people my >> bro.
Let me get you the picture.
>> I don't need them to grow up like that.
>> When we do the >> All right, people. We going to go to the next video. We got We we they rolling.
We got these videos out here, people.
It's rolling. Check it out. This is at the Peace March. It's all intertwined with one another. Check this out.
>> Community organizations. We all out here together.
>> Live on cut.
>> Live on cut. that nigga in the street.
>> First stop right here, people. Just showing y'all a little bit right here.
Um, this is the English march 61. Blow your hornace.
Blow your hornace.
of peace. Peace in the streets.
Peace against violence.
Peace against it.
>> That's right. Share the video, people.
>> This is real. This is not fake. This is real.
>> What we doing?
>> What we doing?
>> Push your knees.
>> What we doing? Push your knees.
>> WHAT WE DOING? PUSH YOUR KNEES.
>> WHAT WE DOING? PUSH.
>> What we doing? Push peace.
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>> PEACE.
>> WHAT WE DOING?
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>> WHAT WE DOING?
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>> WHAT WE DOING?
>> PUSH IN PEACE.
>> WHAT WE DOING? PUSHING PEACE.
>> WE WANT IT NOW.
>> PUSH IN PEACE.
>> WE WANT IT NOW.
>> LET THEM.
>> All right. People and we say our first prayer. So we going to have Apostle R to pray for us. Let's all gather under the same mindset because we all out here for the same thing. All right.
>> There you go.
>> All right. If we can have >> we can have attention for one moment.
>> All right.
Eternal God, our father, we come before your throne to give thanks, >> to give praise, >> to give glory, >> to give honor, and to call upon the prince of peace, the peace of God that passes all understanding.
We believe God for peace in this community. We believe God for every person, every home, every mother that has lost a child, every father that has lost a child, every person that believes that there can be peace, that there can be wholeness, that God came that we might have life and that more abundantly. So today, we are speaking peace on every corner of Englewood, sir.
And we're letting our voices go forth from one area to the next, from the north to the south, to the east, and to the west. Amen.
>> All right. All right.
>> Hold up.
>> Uh there's a request for Minister Rico to come to the front.
>> If Minister Rico is here, >> is Minister Rico here?
Huh?
>> All right.
>> Give us a few words, brother.
>> I do this, too, man.
>> I work with that cred lick, but shit. I had to come over and support this cuz the old man wanted me to come do it. I like this.
>> Put it in the mic. Let's put it.
>> Yeah.
>> We got to stick to it. Don't quit.
>> The only way we can do it, show them we love them. Cuff these shorties up.
All right. All right.
>> How's it going everybody? How's it going everybody?
>> Hey, come on. We can make more noise now. How's it going everybody?
>> HEY, this one may come together and make a difference. I appreciate every CVI that came out. give you Nazi bad organizations that came out to this Inglewood community to support our movement and I and it's grateful and honor to have everybody that can come together when we make a call everybody comes that mean a lot. We definitely want to thank our CPD partners that came out here today that always make sure our district safe. We have to work with them too as well. But I'm grateful and honored to have everybody. Let's give everybody a round of applause for coming out today.
>> Appreciate Raheem that always stood with me. Brother Raheem that stood with me every year me doing this. Um John Smitty Smith, um Joseph William, Margie Johnson, some more amazing great guys that's out here. But every year they come with me and we make this happen.
Doc, man, love that guy. My mentor, man, we got some amazing people out here today and let's let's make it happen.
>> Let's go.
>> And I definitely want to make sure I give a big shout out to Minister Ra. He all the way from the west side. When I go to the west side, they they let out the red carpet for the mayor of Eaglewood. And I appreciate that. And that's what it's all about, man.
>> All right. That's the mayor.
>> Back in formation. Back in formation.
>> All right, people. Y'all know what >> everybody.
>> This is real, people. What's no news outlet out there? NO NEWSLET OUT THERE.
THEY DON'T WANT THIS.
>> WHAT WE DOING?
>> THIS IS HEALING. What we doing? This is unity. This is bonding. THIS IS WHAT WE SEE. WHAT WE DOING? WHAT WE DOING? WHAT WE DOING?
>> As long as we doing things like this, they don't want this on the news. See, this all the naysayers say it don't work. We don't do nothing. They just collecting the grand money and no results. What we doing?
>> This boots on the ground.
>> What we doing?
>> Pushing peace.
>> Community.
>> What we doing?
>> Community violence.
>> Pushing peace >> intervention.
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>> All right. We live. I'm cutting. I actually want telling people what's going on. Hey, this we pushing peace. We right here in Englewood. That's why one of the places I got started. Hey, listen. I'm with the man with child mechanism. You already know. I'm checking in. I'm in wood.
push in peace.
>> Push in peace.
>> We love y'all.
>> This is real people. You don't hear nothing about it.
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>> Y'all see it. This is real. THIS IS REAL. MAKE BELIEVE. RIGHT. RIGHT IN WALKING DOWN. WHAT WE DOING? SOUTHBOUND.
>> WHAT WE DOING?
>> WHAT WE DOING?
>> GOT LAWYERS OUT THERE.
>> WHAT WE DOING?
>> MENTORS.
>> What we doing?
>> MINISTERS. WHAT WE DOING?
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>> This is real people.
>> All right, people. This is it for me. I just wanted to give you a little cute bit.
>> We got a lot going. I'mma bring up another uh >> That'll be my last stop.
>> Another another speaker and I want y'all to listen and uh I'm going to bring up another one.
And I I got more too. So I got more.
Here we go. This myself out here.
Listen up.
Listen up people.
>> Hey now, I know y'all got to give it up to for my buddy, my brother, my big brother. He he keep us up with a lot of information. What's going on with our people? So y'all give it up for Mark Johnson, the original crime chaser.
>> Let me go a little further. The only crime chaser.
I I want to preach a little bit. I'm 57 years old, so I can talk like this.
>> I remember it was a time >> when the five and the six couldn't do this.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Be at each other's throat.
>> Yes, sir.
>> We'll be LIKE CATS AND DOGS.
>> I want the young folks to witness this.
You got all STREET TRIUMPHS OUT HERE.
>> United on for peace.
>> It can be done.
>> Yes, sir.
>> It can be done. THIS IS PROOF RIGHT HERE.
>> YES, SIR.
>> It can be done.
>> Yes, sir.
>> We was AT EACH OTHER'S THROAT AND NECKS ALL KINDS OF WAY. BUT IT LOOK HERE. WE HERE.
>> We didn't know. WE DIDN'T SEE THIS 20 YEARS AGO, >> 30 years ago. WE DIDN'T SEE IT, BUT WE SEE IT NOW. IT'S A WITNESS. SO PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, I'M SPEAKING TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE. It can be done.
>> Yes, sir.
>> Yes, sir.
Black man. Yes, sir. All right, that was Martin Johnson there, y'all.
>> I'm gonna play it again since I'm the host.
>> All right, let me play it again. Come on. Listen up, people. Listen up.
>> Hey, now I know y'all got to give it up to for my buddy, my brother, my big brother. He he keep us up with a lot of information. What's going on with our people? So, y'all give it up for Mark Johnson, the original crime chaser.
>> Let me go a little further. The only crime chaser that came from the milk I I want to preach a little bit. I'm 57 years old, so I can talk like this.
>> I remember it was a time >> when the five and the six couldn't do this.
>> Yes, sir.
>> We'll be at each other's throat.
>> Yes, sir.
>> WE'LL BE LIKE CATS AND DOGS.
>> I want THE YOUNG FOLKS TO WITNESS THIS.
You got all STREET TRIUMPHS OUT HERE.
>> United on one for peace.
>> It can be done.
>> Yes, sir.
>> It can be done. THIS IS PROOF RIGHT HERE.
>> YES, SIR.
>> It can be done.
>> Yes, sir.
>> We was AT EACH OTHER'S THROAT AND NECKS >> all kinds OF WAY. BUT IT LOOK HERE. WE HERE.
>> We didn't know. We didn't see this 20 years ago, >> 30 years ago. WE DIDN'T SEE IT, BUT WE SEE IT NOW. IT'S A WITNESS. SO PEOPLE, young people, I'M SPEAKING TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE. IT CAN BE DONE.
>> YES, SIR.
>> BEAUTIFUL. BEAUTIFUL. BEAUTIFUL.
BEAUTIFUL.
>> BEAUTIFUL. I I got I got something else for you guys, too. That ain't all I got.
Let's pull up pull up another one. And I I I appreciate you guys for tuning in. I think that's all I have right now. Uh we might can take some calls for the next 20 30 minutes and let me open up the phone lines and call in. I haven't had I listen people, I I listen, I really appreciate you guys coming on here tonight sacrificing and this is real.
This is real people because CVI work is real. So don't let nobody tell you it's not real. It's not working. It's working. It's working. And and we got to focus. We got to focus. People stay focused. We got to focus. Now, the CVI organizations aren't the police. They never They don't cover the whole city.
I'll let y'all know that. They work in specific high-risk areas like Arvin, Gresham, Inglewood to build deep roots.
All right. Now, we going to talk about mediations. Now, the goal isn't to arrest, but to mediate and diffuse by focusing on community workers can identify specific conflicts before they lead to gunfire. I like that. Let me read that again. Precision and mediation. The goal is isn't to arrest, but to mediate and diffuse. By focusing on community, workers can identify specific conflicts before they lead to gunfire. I love that. Now, sticking to the model is Shango. OG Shango always said, he said, "Success comes from following the proven threeprong approach.
Identify and detect. Find those at the highest risk. Number two, interrupt, intervene, stop the violence on the forefront." Let me read that again. Number two, interrupt, detect, stop the violence on the forefront.
Number three, change the norm.
Renew the mindset and behavior through consistent presence. Let me read that again. Number three, change the norm.
Renew the mindset and behavior through consistent presence. I like that holistic wraparound support addressing trauma. You often highlight that violence is a public health issue. One community at a time means addressing trauma and hang-ups that leads to conflict. I like that my brother. Real resources. It's about more than just peace.
is proving tangibles paths out GED programs, job skills and training and resume workshops and even therapeutic outlets like Shango always talk about.
It's a yoga. All right. victim services, providing immediate support like funeral assistance or emergency resources for those affected by violence within the specific zip code creates a safety net that government programs often miss. Go ahead, my brother. Number four, mobilization.
The units of Chicago. That's my brother.
That's my brother. Hold on, callers.
Hold on. Hold on, caller.
The four pillars. He said, he said, hold on, caller. Hold on, caller. Hold on, caller. Hold on. I got to get to you.
The four pillars. You have You've dis discussed the need for parents, pastors, politicians, and police to work as a unit. Let me say that again. The four pillars. You've discussed the need for parents, pastors, politicians, and police to work as a unit. The one community approach tries to bring these four groups back into alignment at the neighborhood level. That's beautiful.
Junior warriors, empowering the next generation through youth councils. If the young people see leadership mobile mobilized in their own backyard, they stop looking for it in the streets.
My goodness. Visibility.
Documentation beats conversation. By showing up for mass canvasing and peace marches, you make the presence of the street warriors known, which naturally shifts the social norm toward peace.
Look at that. Actionable insight for your content. All right, here we are.
Listen people, one community at a time.
One community at a time, people. And we want to highlight success stories and we did that today. We want to be boots on the ground like the press circles in Englewood. Mass uh canvasing people.
This is real. This is real. Let me uh get my phone lines open. I'm going to open up my phone lines so we can really get into it. And see, the news is not going to show you this stuff. They're not going to show you. I I'm trying to tell my people, the news is not going to show you. And y'all don't believe me.
They want gunfire. They want to see somebody laying on the ground. That's what they want to see. They want to see that. They want to see that. And we signing in people. We fa to sign in so we can have uh have our uh thing done and calling a call in number 8722990808.
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Let me log in. I'm going to log in real quick on the phone line. Get it open so we can talk talk about this. Talk about this. Now, this something to talk about.
Now, y'all talking about uh we we don't march until one of us gets shot by the police. And police haven't shot nobody today. We was out there marching. Police haven't shot no one today. Not at least in the city of Chicago. Not that we know of.
All right. We logging in. All right. All right. Now I need you to call this number uh old time. Call 8722990808.
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I want you guys to come on in but we can talk and I appreciate you guys coming on in. CVI means community violence intervention. That's what it means and we broke it down tonight. We broke it down. We're not blaming nobody. If we want to make this thing work, we got to make it do it ourselves. So hold on people. We going we going to All right.
We gonna get it get it on there. I think my first call is oldtimer. Oldtime, can you hear me? Oldtime, can you hear me?
Go ahead.
>> Come on. Yes, sir.
>> Come on. What What's your comments?
>> Okay.
>> Well, I just want to say, you know, I want to try to um challenge and try to find out what the solution. I'm going try to stay away from the negative, you know, like you say. Okay. Um, but I'm just trying to think that it, you know, just so much individual individual assertion that that everybody has to assert themselves to that where we where a person might might be missing it at because when um you you years ago you had you had you had the Temptations, you had Barry White. I mean, nobody was in competition with nobody. You had people on the West Coast singing, making songs. You had people on the East Coast singing, making songs. Then all of a sudden, and it was and the gold was supposed to be the the the model thing.
And Tina Turner, people got gold records. Now you got people squabbling.
Oh, y'all can't rap. You know, I you can't rap on the East Coast. You can't then you got to throw up hand. See, we don't know what we >> Where you going with this?
>> Okay, go ahead.
>> Where you going with this old time?
>> What I'm trying to say, what I'm trying to say, everybody going to have to individualize to see what they want to do. You can make a solo career. I mean, there's so many things you can do in this world for yourself. This is about what you doing for yourself, unless you working as a group. That's what it comes down to. It's going to come down to what does Reggie want to do for himself? Even though I have to work with other people, I have to work within the system. I have to work with whatever the system gives me. But it can't be to where you have any type of >> oldtime. Did you watch did you watch his video in in its entirety? Did you hear some of these testimonies of these guys coming out of prison telling how these things work? Did you hear some of these testimonies or you just came in late?
>> I just came in late.
>> Okay. Well, you >> talking I used to work in the jail system. So, what's going on with >> Oh, okay. Listen, we talking about CVI, community violence intervention. We talked about the peace march that we had in Ingwood today. That's what we're talking about. Working as a unit.
Working as a unit. We're not talking about individually. We had a bunch of street tribes out there today from from under the five, from under the six, and we was out there. Normally, when you catch people from the five and under six point star, they they like cats and dogs. You put a cat and dog in the same room that don't know each other, they going to fight to the end. But these gentlemen that came out there today, came out there today with a new mindset, with a mindset for unity, a mindset for oneness, a mindset, hey, we tired of all this violence and all this killing.
Those brothers came out there and showed up and showed out and they meant what they said.
>> And I got on the microphone and I said, "You don't see this type of stuff.
>> You don't see it. So if anybody is going to solve our problem, it's going to be black people. Why? Black people is like me coming into your home, oldtimer. I'm only looking in as an outsider. I don't know what's going on in your house. Who can better solve a problem in your house than me? Than you. You. So we don't need no outside entity coming in our community telling us what we should do.
And we know that they don't care nothing about us. We need to talk to the brothers that been through this life.
They experienced. They have served in prison. They've been on drugs. They got the self right. They didn't shot people.
They been shot and they didn't lost brothers. You, it was a brother on here tonight, a coworker of mine. His brother just recently got killed on the south side of Chicago. He decided not to retaliate because some brothers from my organization came and talked with him and convinced him, "Hey man, it's a better way to do things." That's a real testimony. Here's a young man. Okay, >> Chris. Brother Chris, I believe he's still on here.
Patterson that been to the Fed joint that's right now is fully transformed helping different organizations with funding that's an advocate of community violence interrupted. Here's a person Charles McKenzie, the mayor of Inglewood that's boots on the ground that's doing the work with the young people.
I'm telling you, this is real. Uh uh minister, you got some ministers out there, boots on the ground, some different uh religious organizations, boots on the ground. They putting down their religious beliefs. They come together. Not saying they saying forget about God or anything, but they saying, "Hey, our common goal, we got one common goal. We want to stop the violence in our community. We want to stop it. And that's one common goal that every person that looks like you and me should have.
And we're not expecting every black person to be on board of what we talking about. We're not expecting that. But if we can get the majority of black folks to come together on one accord, just like the Tower of Babel, God had to confuse them because he knew they was of one heart and one mind. They would have did what they was planning on to do. And so I'm saying to our people out here, >> we have to be on one accord if we want to change.
This can't be the same old thing.
In the conscious world, we say if you want change and you continue to do the same thing, that's insanity.
You have to change if you want a different results.
So, I suggest you oldtime maybe you need to go back and listen to the video and I I don't want you to comment because I don't want you to throw up. But let's go to the next call. 8665 8665. Come on, caller. 8665.
Come on, caller.
Come on, caller.
8665.
Last four digits of your uh telephone number.
Telephone number. And we saving one community as a time at a time.
At a time. Real talk. What's up, Charles Matthysse? I see you. I see you. Peggy Gay, I see you. So that's what it if you want to call in a comment about the videos, anything that was done or said, 8722990808.
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We know it's late, but come on in, people. We want to talk. This is real talk. This is real work. News is not showing you what I'm showing you.
They're not telling you what I'm telling you tonight.
They want bloodshed. They want a mass shooting. They want a drive by shooting.
They want They want some domestic violence stuff. That's what they want.
Because stuff like this, what I'm talking about tonight, it doesn't sell.
It makes us look too good. And they can't stand when black folks come together. The brother said it in the uh live today in the video. He said, "Ununityity is 95% of our problem."
Solution.
Unity.
Unity. Unity.
People. We got to do this ourselves.
Nobody's come to save us people at all.
I believe that's Buck. Um 8665. Caller.
Are you there? Are you there? Nobody.
>> Me? I'm 6650, man.
>> Is it 650? Okay. My eyes. Okay. Buck.
Buck.
Hey Buck. Hey Buck. To be real honest with you, it say 8665.
So I don't know what phone you call from. I'm telling you where to call from me. Yeah.
>> My same phone always.
>> Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. You're right, B. You're right. You're right. You're right. They got a number. You're right, B. Go ahead.
>> Go ahead, bro. Go ahead.
>> I commend you, man. It's always got to take one step to get to get to one point. And and for old time other people that know when you address the people and you said when the six star six star and five can get together and ain't going to be no violence and we working on the same accord that's about love.
The one thing we got to learn how to love each other cuz we've been always trained to hate each other and the media don't want to see that kind of when we get together and we trying to promote uh peace and harmony and try to grow our community. They don't want that stuff.
They want us in chaos all the time. They want us following their example, which is violence. The white man taught us this stuff. We didn't know most of we was wasn't this violent. Not like this.
This is crazy where people killing each other every day. A woman stabbing a baby. It's a time when we got with unity when y'all get together marching and people recognize that. And hopefully that can go some way to affect young people to give them some insight that this can be done. You ain't got to have no beef with people. No matter what you may think, you got to sit on it and try to work it out and see if y'all can come to some agreement. Cuz the killing each other, we only killing each other.
>> And the people we the people the other people cheering on the sideline watching our demise until we understand like y'all doing now. All them Morris brothers and other people are all together on one accord trying to get us to think that this is possible. We've been taught forever to hate each other since slavery. Fight each other because we we've been brainwashed to believe that they ideal and begging white man for this. Like I was watching a cook Muhammad Ali earlier today and he was up there talking about how I'mma beg y'all for somebody some give me some justice and y'all going to give y'all let somebody from a foreign country even in those days in the 60s and 70 come from Vietnam and come over here and open a business and a negro as he addressed at that time couldn't do nothing. So these people and our friends that we call the media and all them I bet you not one station they if they call and say oh they have an event over here on any oh man we ain't that we ain't interested in none of that ain't nobody oh no we ain't got no time for that >> so I'm good I'm glad this worked out a blessing I can hope for more of this to continue as the summer go on we get we can grow this how they say like how Mark car always say we try to grow something and build something but y'all doing is a positive image and I'm glad y'all was doing it and I just had to say that for those who don't know just be quiet and just sit up there and enjoy the ride.
But this is about about blessing black people need to starve one place at a time and build from there cuz we've been put behind for so long and I'm glad y'all got to do that. So I'm going sit back, man.
>> Thank you, brother. But we're going to take the next caller. Um 0904 0904. Hey caller 09.
>> Okay. Hey, Dr. K. How you doing, Doc?
>> Listen, um, do I need to set an awesome plate?
>> I saw you today.
>> Yeah, it's it's been it's been a rough journey. Um, Martin, um, so much has gone on and when, as the Bible say, if two or three gather together in his name, he will appear. you know, um, when you when you set that tone and I'm I'm praying that callers will listen. This is not an entertainment for Martin. This is a passion.
Passion means this is something that you love because first of all, Martin loves the Lord. He loves God. and to sacrifice your life, your time, your energy to reach out in your community. You know, you're not all the way in somebody else community doing it. You're doing it in your community.
>> That's important to come together. The younger people need, one of the things that is a distressful method to our young people is the is the entertainment, the you know, the violence.
All Mother's Day. And all the last few months, I've seen nothing but fighting, fighting, fighting, women tearing their hair out each other's head and seeing takeovers. Um DC is now moving into a bill right now where if the teens take over acting crazy, guess what they're doing? The parents going to jail.
>> They do. I just read that today. And when you come together as a community, you're coming together for a solemn purpose. And that is to bring everything to a kind of hush where the violence can't stop to see you today because a lot of times I'd be in place of mine, you don't even know I'd be there.
But I enjoy the unity and the pastors should come out more than just entertainment in the church. Come and help Martin because the Bible said go into the h, you know, go into the highway and hedges and compel them. They need help. Our communities are battling on Bunker Hill. You got so much going on with the the presidential system. You got so much going on with the school system. You have too much. And killing our young people and our babies, these little bitty people who come into this society in this world helpless and don't know what to do. Um the vision that's taking place in our communities. Um, you can't say nothing to nobody because everybody want to pop off, you know.
Somebody wanna over here they they broken my car last year in August and they tour and broke my neighbor's car window out. Yeah. And my other neighbor I mean and they just breaking car windows out. Uh, somebody got hijacked with their car. This is this is in our community. There's a problem. The devil is loose >> and it's time to know how to come together. Talking is one thing, but action puts a whole lot of talking to rest because this is our community. It It bothers me when other suburban areas come together when one thing happened and they make it happen. But in our communities, my prayer, Martin, and and I preach to the choir because I do a lot of the community work, but I do a lot of stuff where I'm not being noticed. I don't like being noticed. You already know that, Martin.
>> But when you come out here, you're doing it for your heart.
You're doing it from your heart. Because Martin, when he when you're on here, and you a lot of times I listen and I may not say nothing, but I want your listeners to listen to this. Martin is not playing.
This is a life, a man, a real man who loves his family, loves his children, and he's passion for the community, and he's sick and tired of drama.
>> Sick and tired of drama.
>> Truth.
>> He teaches us weekly about everything that we need to know. Not want to know, need to know. And the media is not going to talk about the reality of what's killing our community. The media can give a rest behind. Michael Jackson wrote a song and it went popular. He said, "I don't really All I want to really say is they don't really care about us."
>> That's right.
>> We kill each other. We sell each other out. Games, why are you fighting? You have no job. Get a job. All the programs that the community colleges have, a lot of the programs are free. But if you want to buy your community, why don't you take the drug money, go to school in a community, and go learn how to be a freight broker for $100.
>> Right. That's right.
>> There are programs out here that you can utilize for for free. And some of them are cheap. One day to be a freight broker.
become productive. Larry Roberts Jr., my my best boy. He's got HE'S A TOP BARBER.
BUT GUESS WHAT HE ADD? If you don't have your GED, you can go to his school, his barber college, get your D in the interim, get your cosmetology, barber license, HD, HVAC, mechanic. He's noted in the US Department of Education. He opened up his barber in the prison. See, that's what that's what he's doing. He ain't talking to me. He's doing it. So when Martin get out here, Martin is not babbling his mouth. M he's not looking for a Golden Globe award.
>> No, >> he's not looking for a Oscar.
>> No, >> these are lies. We're burying babies every time I look up. I'm sick and tired of seeing babies being in the news out there. Mama and daddy fighting. Young people, you you got these beasts with each other and you're doing it in front of your kids. YOU SETTING A black man up for failure in the court system. This is reality. Martin is not doing this for no money. He not doing this to be famous.
He's not trying to be the president of the world. He loves his people. That's what love is. And Martin, I love you.
>> You're my brother. You already know that. I look out for you. You look out for me. You a part of my family. But when you step out like this all the time, this ain't no once in a-lifetime deal. You take your time where a a a social media platform such as Facebook has a a a what do you call him? He's an atheist man. But you would take your stuff down and leave pouring up there.
That means something wrong.
>> That means something wrong. So all of this is love. And if you don't understand what love is, you better ask God how to give you love. But Martin, you I put you up against any bishop across any world because you do the work. You're not walking around bragging about your your bling bling, all that kind of stuff because you lose sleep.
Martin loses sleep. You all >> I could talk to Martin at 12 OR 1:00 AT NIGHT. HE DOZING OFF because he's sacrificing.
He sacrificed.
And young people, if you don't want to listen, then you're never going to grow up because you'll be 40 years old, still act like you 12. When Martin is out here, we all sleeping and snoring and and breaking wind. When Martin gets something going on, he jumps up in the middle of the night and got a hold of God, too.
That's that's called ministry. He's doing ministry. And my prayer is that one of these days soon that we get together, we find a permanent location for Martin away from his home in the boat and give him what he needs to continue to be productive. I don't want him running nothing out of his place of dwelling. His place of dwelling is a sanctuary of peace. But he loves you all. All of y'all crazy ones. all y'all fussing and fighting and hustling and cussing and tearing off and all that. He talks about stuff that the media dare not discuss >> cuz they don't care.
>> That's right.
>> So when you get a man like Martin Johnson that's out here, he is and will always be the crime chaser. I don't care who tried to duplicate it. You won't be >> because this is a sacrifice.
>> Yes.
>> This is a sacrifice.
>> Preach. It's his real fault because for a man of his caliber to go and try to work and come out here in the streets and deal with Pooky Ray Ray and all of that AND Y'ALL GOT WHAT YOU BEEFING FOR?
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR?
>> For fighting too much respect.
What Martin does is respect.
He not out there going to jail just, oh, somebody stole my candy mirror. It's about THE RESPECT. IF MARTIN GO TO JAIL, HE'S GOING TO JAIL TO GET LOCKED UP LIKE DR. KING DID FOR OUR FREEDOM.
>> For a righteous cause, that's what you go to jail for.
That's what JAIL IS FOR. WHEN YOU ARE OUT HERE TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT STOPPING CRIMES, guning the the the GANGS, THE WOMEN, ALL OF THAT. We don't HAVE TO STEAL FROM EACH OTHER. WE DON'T HAVE TO TAKE FROM EACH OTHER. IT'S TOO MUCH OUT HERE FOR YOU TO DO. But Martin GET LOCKED UP THAT TIME OF FREEDOM. Eric Russell came to his rescue.
>> I'mma say it again. I listen the church folk ain't going to hear me and the black won't either. BUT WHEN MARTIN HAD AND IT WAS NO situation with no foolishness. IT WAS ABOUT JUSTICE.
Eric Russell Gar came and shot by Mike.
>> Yes, he did. That's what WE DO. THAT'S THAT'S what unity is. Y'all going to jail for stupid stuff.
>> What about the color your hair? I don't like that. D.
WE COMING UP WITH WORDS to to demean one another.
We get on social media. Oh, you a hoe.
Oh, you better know that. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO CHANGE THE LANGUAGE barrier from custard to talking?
>> Cuz Martin don't do none of that.
>> No.
>> As long as years I've been knowing Martin, I never heard him say a cuss word because he has language. Cussing don't do nothing but tell you you don't even know what you're talking about because you can't find a word as Malcolm X said to replace what you really want to say.
>> It doesn't sound good. and Martin get out here and he's interchangeably doing ministry. He don't have no big church like John Hannah. He ain't got no big church like me. He don't have none of that. But if we came together to know the solemn purpose of unity and ministry is to go farther and farther and farther. Martin went all the WAY TO MINNESOTA FOR A MAN HE HAD EVEN KNOWN that was KILLED BEFORE OUR VERY EYES.
MARTIN GO places that you all don't know he did. That's ministry.
Is that a popularity contest but he went to see GEORGE GEORGE FLOYD MARTIN. I'M ON MY WAY. DOC SANDERS. I'm I'm going up here. Martin is in the BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, PEARL HARBOR, AND Beirut >> in a city that he don't even know too much.
But what are you all doing? Why he going up there? Why don't you go >> for a thing? Take it on.
Take it on. Jesse Jackson, he's gone. He serves his purpose. He served his time.
He may should have let us know him, the late Malcolm X, Dr. King, Marcus Garvey.
See, when you look at documentaries on YouTube and Netflix, listen to what they're saying. It's the message in the saying.
Martin is not trying to compete for no image award.
>> This is ministry. This is outreach. And Martin And I'm I'm I'm closing. I know you're getting a little teeyed because the purpose that you serve, my God, young man, if you lost, you can't find your way.
I'm the Martin.
He has resources to help you get together.
Black men, take your place.
Be the man that God created you to be.
He didn't make no man to be no punk.
>> And he didn't make no man to be no coward.
God made you first.
First and up. No more excuses. Oh, my daddy wasn't there. Oh, my uncle wasn't there.
or a mama and dad. But you guess what?
Guess what? There I serve a God >> that is everything that you need him to be. Don't use no excuses.
No more excuses. Oh, okay. I did this to my parents. I DISOBEY AND WHATNOT.
MARTIN TELLS US EVERY DOG ON TIME. We we we reap WHAT WE SOW AND WE DON'T DO RIGHT. But men, my prayer is to you all to stop making excuses and be the man to take over his territory, over his neighborhood. MAKE THESE YOUNG BOYS GET SOMEWHERE AND SIT down and listen.
OLD SCHOOL WITH YOUR BUTT. And they knew how to do it in love.
>> Be the husband that you need to be to your wives.
Dr. Martin, I'm sorry. Cut out the fornicating.
>> Mhm.
>> CUT OUT THE ALL THIS OTHER STUPID STUFF.
Be the man that GOD CALLED AND MADE YOU TO BE IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW. TALK TO A GOOD MENTOR THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE BAD TO YOU. MARTIN IS a heck of a mentor that can lead you in a way. HE BEEN THAT, DONE THAT. HE WROTE THE BOOK ON IT. HE OWNED THE RIGHTS.
And no more excuses.
BOY SAID, "MY WAY, BROTHER, FOLLOW." I follow Martin every day. I be at work.
I've been on disability with my knee.
And I'm watching everything Martin go.
And I'm standing there and I'm looking say, "Where the preachers at? Where the preachers at?
Seriously, it's good to have fun. Martin will go all the way to the lakefront look filming all of the house music dance that was done back in the 80s."
He's giving you culture. He's showing you what you can do in the community.
You don't have to have guns. You ain't got to go beat up somebody or smack somebody's head off their head. What is all that about? Women need to go up to be young women to be productive women.
Be a mother that love her children, not using her children for a pawn to get money. This is reality.
Martin helped me.
He helped me. And my daughter went for the post office.
Martin gave mine that I want to call the man in the middle of the night when he I know he got to get his REST BUT HE SAID I GOT YOU. That's the kind of man that I support.
So Martin you continue the battle.
>> Thank God.
>> Continue the fight.
This journey is a tedious journey that you not going to have another Martin Johnson. You won't have it no more. Cuz when he say he always say this, I'm half of a hundred and my days are are numbered.
>> Let this man be an an ideal person in your world. You don't have to tell the world about what's going on. Go to Martin. He not going to spread your business.
>> Not at all.
>> He's not going to talk about you and throw you out there on social media.
The media will beat your butt up and give a rest behind how you think about it.
It's what it is. I appreciate you, Mark.
>> Thank you, sister.
>> I love you. Chillers is always ready for you.
>> All right.
>> God bless you, B.
>> Thank you so much. I I um I thank you sister for those words that sometime the encourager need to be encouraged sometime cuz you know and and I say this out of all honesty and sincerity from I stand before God and man I love what I'm doing and I want to see black people be great. Great in the church, great in the streets, great on the job, great in their personal life, great. I'm tired of looking at all these negative images that don't represent the body. We got a few a few people few people that's not acting right and the whole body get blamed for it. And some of y'all believe that. You believe that? If you if Dr. Sanders, if I didn't know no better by looking at social media and looking at the news that I think black people the only ones out here doing something wrong. If I didn't know no better.
>> Uhhuh. if I didn't know no better. That show you how powerful imagery is. It shows you they put the propaganda out on us. And I told you there's no such thing as black on black crime. If if that's the case, it is why they never use the term white-on-white crime, Latino Latino crime, OR MEXICAN ONXICAN CRIME. WHY THEY DON'T USE IT? THEY ONLY USE IT FOR BLACK PEOPLE, melanated people.
>> Ain't something wrong with that?
>> Mhm.
>> Since we so since we so chimpanzeee, how about of every invention that we brought to this country, we take it away.
>> Where would this country be at?
>> TAKE ALL OUR INVENTIONS. STARTING WITH THE stoplight that you that you use every day. Starting with the stoplight is so many wonderful things that we have done.
>> And if you got a problem with the skin complexion that you in, shame on you.
>> I ain't a Listen, ain't nothing ain't no video Dr. Sanders, >> no social media status going to stop me from loving on black folks and loving myself.
>> That's it.
>> I'm in love with my full lips, my broad nose, and my kinky hair and my beautiful caramel complexion. I'm in love with it.
You better be in love with yours, too.
>> Period.
>> Better.
>> Period. And it was a beautiful thing to see those men out there.
>> Mhm.
>> Normally, they'll be fighting like cats and dogs. But they laid down their tribe organization, even some of their religious beliefs, and said, "Hey, let's get together. We got a problem. Our young people are destroying each other, >> and we have to do something."
And that's why I said young people, you see the older people are doing, you can do it too. It's example.
>> Yes, there are blood shed between the five and the six. Yes, there was a deadly war back in the 90s between the black disciples and the gangster disciples. It was hurt on both sides.
But they came together today >> and said, "Hey, I know my brother was killed by such and such. I know my sister was killed such. But you know what? We got to stop the bleeding amongst our young people.
>> People, it's not about likes and views with me. Trust me, I'm well respected."
>> The Bible said, Dr. S, a good name is better than great rich.
And that's what I want. That's that's my heart desire. Trust me. Because everything that we own in this life is only temporarily is lent to us for a little while. Your wife, your education, your car, your home, your clothing, your bank account, all of that is lent to us for a little while. It's just lent for even that body that you looking at me and hear me in, it's going to be gone, too.
>> You got what that sister said? It's a leak in this old building. and I got to get out of it. And that's real talk.
>> But I want to thank you, Dr. Sanders. I wasn't expecting that, but I appreciate it. I receive it. I receive it >> from my heart.
>> I receive it. I receive it. For all those of you that support me.
>> I appreciate you. I'm not saying that I am the Christ or I'm super perfect. I'm not saying that. But listen people, I'm gonna give it all my best to do what's right. Not only by you, but by myself and be example of what I teach and believe in.
>> That's what make my ministry so effective. That's it. I show love, people. I show love when I when I don't really have to, but I do it anyhow.
Compassion.
>> We serve a God that's slow to anger.
slowed to anger >> and plentiful in mercy.
>> In mercy. Lord have mercy.
>> And you know what? One thing I'll say, Dr. Sanders, I'mma close out with this.
I'm going to try. I never make home uh fun of a homeless person cuz that could be me.
>> Some of you guys don't know what it's like to sleep on somebody couch and you know they really don't want you there.
>> You don't know what it's like to feel like to be homeless when you can't pay your rent. on the verge of homelessness >> and you can't pay your rent and you you in eviction court and the judge gave you seven days or 14 days >> and you ain't got no money.
>> No money. All your worldly possessions going to be set outside.
That's something people >> outside the door.
>> So we got to be careful people what we laughing at, who we laughing at because it may be him today and you tomorrow.
The tides can turn just like that. Trust me, they can.
>> And I leave y'all with this. The scripture said, "My sheep hear my voice and a stranger they would not follow."
>> A stranger.
>> Go in peace.
>> Thank you guys for tuning in. Oh, I got one more video to show. I'm sorry. I got to show this one video OG.
>> We need unity. We got to get out here.
is a lot of people ain't out here because I don't know why, but we need to start bringing our loved ones out here.
See, all these people ain't going to come. We have to bring the people. You dig? We going to have to bring our own sons and daughters, our mothers, grandmother, fathers. We got to bring new peoples up here CUZ THE OTHER PEOPLES AIN'T GOING TO COME. They scared. They wearing masks and they ought to make a law against the people running around with mask on because them the peoples that doing harm. If they stop the masses, they'll stop the fight.
Trust me, you know, because they can't hide now, you know, but we have to find unity amongst ourselves. Peace.
>> All right, y'all. Arrest my case. Good night. I appreciate you guys. and or good morning to his midnight hour.
Whenever you may see it, please share the video, like the video, comment on it. People come, this is good content because Channel 7 wasn't out there or they didn't show it or whatever. That don't mean it don't happen. I tell you people, it's a lot of things that you don't see and don't even know about that's happening every day. Good in our community.
>> Good in our own community.
Some of those same brothers that was out there today, >> they was trying to kill each other back in the 70s, in the 80s, in the 90s, even some 2000s.
>> They was trying to kill each other >> and look at them. And they came out there and laid their differences. Yes, it's a lot of bloodshed on both sides, but they said, "We got to stop the bleeding. It didn't gone too far. It didn't get out of hand. People, this is serious. This is real serious.
It's not about me getting down on your neck and all that. Is about us doing better, progressing.
>> That's what it's about, >> right?
>> You already know what it is. Live, uncut, unedited, tell the truth. And what? Shame the devil. I love being black. All right. Go in peace. do something great in the community. Talk to somebody. If you don't feel like going on the red line, the the green line, go right on in your house. Go to your little niece, your nephew, your uh your cousin, talk to them. Your neighbor, talk to them. Speak to them.
It don't cost you nothing to say hi.
Because this very same person that you speak to every day might might save your life one day or save you from being a victim of a violent crime or a robbery.
Peace out people. Thank y'all for calling. Share the video. Share the video.
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