This is how I moved the handcuffs
from behind me to in front of me.
And I got out that cop car and escaped.
So I took my thumb and I pulled as much as I
can to the side like this, until it took.
And I just did it until I heard it pop.
And I moved the handcuffs as much
down my wrist as I could,
so I could get a little better hold.
And I went just like this.
(dramatic music)
Put 'em in front of me.
There sas a fire extinguisher right here.
And I pulled the handle and the whole car
started filling up with smoke.
I took off running towards the fence.
Went like this.
And did like a front flip over the fence.
I swear, I was running like 15 to 20 miles per hour.
Could not catch me.
(dramatic music)
Chas says, he's just hustling and doing
what he has to do to get money.
I might be only 17, but people know me on these streets.
I'm a gang banger, I'm an organization.
I do whatever I gotta do to make that money.
If you ain't got street cred,
nobody know you in Muskegon.
I know everybody on this block, that block and that block.
You gotta know your blocks.
Muskegon's dangerous; people crazy out here.
THere's only like 32,000 people and we got
one of the top crime rates in America.
How does that happen?
This is my cousin ManMan's memorial.
This is a sad story actually.
He passed away, he got shot, right here in this alley.
This flower right here symbolizes
my cousin's Jamar memorial.
This is where he passed away over some petty (bleep)
that they call a robbery.
My mom is very worried about me.
She don't want me to be a statistic.
See how I turned out, skipping school, smoking weed,
getting in stolen cars, getting locked up.
And I just look at it now and I'm like,
damn, I'm fixin' to go to prison.
As long as you know how to use your hands,
you can always make money.
Ain't no fun when you're broke.
If you're broke, that's how you get locked up,
'cause you get locked up trying to make money.
I do want more than just street credit.
Got to have goals.
You gotta have a plan,
'cause if you don't got a plan, it's not gonna work.
Don't jump in these streets, and try to make money,
if you ain't gonna stick to the street code.
You see what this say?
Hear no evil, see no evil, say no evil.
If you're doing street crime, you do street crime code.
What I learned in the streets was a smart person
learns from their mistakes,
but a wise person learns from other people's mistakes.
What would Dr. Phil do if he was in my shoes?
If he had to grow up how I did.
If he had to grow up poor.
Some people grow up not having no money at all,
'cause I know, my dad, he came from the struggle.
My mom, she came from the struggle.
I'm used to seeing it.
That's normal to me.
On Dr. Phil, a lot of people that claim they
in that street life, lotta people that trying
to play that tough road.
I can actually back up what I'm talking about.
This ain't just a TV show, like, this is real life.
This is how it is in the hood.
(audience applauding)
You look beautiful, Mom.
Thank you.
It's nice to meet you, Dr. Phil.
Good to meet you.
I'm glad you're here, for a variety of reasons.
You've decided that you'll get outside
the main stream and just hustle the streets
and that's where you'll make your fortune.
No, not at all.
That's just, you know, it's like,
how do I put it in words that you understand,
'cause you, we don't have the same point of view
or the same opinions.
So I'm gonna try to say it like this.
Okay.
I'm not trying to say that's how I'll make
my fortune or anything like that,
it's just how I make my money right now.
That's not a plan, that's not something I plan to do.
Tell me what you're thoughts are.
Don't let the suit fool ya, boy.
(audience laughing)
You ain't fooling nobody,
you a regular person, just like me.
Yeah, see, but you don't know here I've been
or what I've done.
Just tell me what you think.
What do you do out on the streets?
Make money. How?
Does it really matter?
I'm on bond, bro.
Yeah.
I'm not gonna incriminate myself on TV.
It's obviously something you don't wanna say.
Of course, yes. So, it's illegal.
Yeah, you could say that.
You say I don't understand.
You have a whole language system that
you can help me understand.
I kind of made a list of your Chas-isms, here.
Damn.
Y'all are really, you know what I'm saying?
You said,
"I sell motivational speaking and happiness."
Oh yeah, I'm a good person.
I'm like one of the best people to talk
to if you need to vent.
"I know I'm cute, everybody knows my name."
"I'm legal now, I'm grown as hell.
"My tee-up time." Tee-up time, tee-up.
What's that? Tee-up time is like,
you know what I'm saying, like you 'bout to go up,
like you about to have fun.
Okay. You just lose
all the house training.
Okay.
"I'm a goat."
That's like-- "Greatest of all time.
"I'm a hood legend."
Only reason I said that, I said I was a hood legend
because I outran the whole 10th precinct of Detroit.
And everybody talks about how tough Detroit police are.
How y'all let a 16-year old boy escape that long though?