I'm Tiny Jay Nina. 6th month, 9th day. You all know what that is - 69th. You hear me? June 9th.
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69th and Main, headquarters, apartments, 6909 [Main Street], that's where a nigga was at.
Alex: The one that they tore down? - Yeah. - So you used to stay in there? Nah. I didn't used
to stay in there. I'd just be in there, regular like gas. You feel me? That's where it was
at. That's headquarters. Alex: Why do you think the city tore them things down? - The city tore
them things down because of snitches, you feel me? Informants, people working with police. You feel me?
No need to say no names, but everybody know who the fuck they is.
That's why the apartments were shut down. That's why the city took the apartments.
'I was shot in the apartments the same year they took the apartments, by the police.
Alex: The police shot you?
Yeah. The police shot me in 2004. April Fool's Day. - Alex: Tell me about that. What happened?
Shit, nothing, it was a regular day, mutherfucka running in the apartments or whatever like that and
shit. The next thing you know, I get shot. When the smoke clear, it's the police.
Alex: They must have said or thought you were armed? - Yeah, that's what the situation was with, they
found the gun, you feel me, on the roof of the apartment building. They [police] said it was mine.
Alex: What was their story? What was their version when they went to court?
What did they say you did? - Nah, their story was it was a shootout. Like I was trying to
shoot at them. It was a big ol' shootout and all type of shit like that. And that wasn't
the case at all. You feel me? I was minding my business on a regular day, and they just
came in and raided the apartments and started shooting. They didn't come in and say, "Police."
Nothing. They just came in, snatching people up, shooting. And I was one of them that happened
to get shot. I'm at the hospital, like getting handcuffed to the bed. I'm like, "what the fuck is this for?!"
Dude, they were like, "Man, they charged you with
attempted murder on the police." What? Attempted murder on the police? I didn't do shit! What
the fuck? Go to jail. I'm like see my paperwork "attempted murder on the police."
Attempted murder? What the hell kind of shit is this? On and
on, go through the case or whatever, and I end up taking a deal. Took the deal, came
home. You feel me? Alex Alonso: What kind of deal did you have
to take? - I ended up taking a deal for possession
of a firearm that didn't have my fingerprints on it. You feel me? Took a deal for possession
of a firearm, 32 months with eight. Alex: That's a big difference from attempted murder
on a police officer. - Yeah, exactly!
Alex: Possession of a firearm. - So when they offered it, I'm going to take
the deal, you feel me? I'm not going to play with y'all. Y'all playing hardball, you feel
me? Big Nina: You want to show him the tat? - Oh, yeah. I got "Fuck the LAPD Newton Division" tattooed
on my hand because those was the punk ass police that shot me.
Big Nina: Police I'll put some dope in your backseat and say, "That's yours."
Yep. They don't do that shit over there on the
west side. They'll shit in Little Egypt though. - Guns and everything.
- Tune in that shit real over here, man. Hey but neighbors don't do no favors, man,
so we gonna that shit down like gum on the ground regardless. - I missed out on a lawsuit.
They made sure I missed out on the lawsuit. Alex: See, the first thing I think about is there
was a dude named Hot Dog from 5-5. -Yeah. - that got shot by the LAPD. He had a gun. - Yeah.
He was running in the alley. They shot him in the back and he got over a million dollars
from them. Yeah. Exactly. Did you hear about that case?
Yeah, I heard about that case. I'm sure a lot of people told you, "Man, sue these
people." - Yeah. No, I know. I tried, but they came with
the came with they go with the judgment of Internal Affairs. Internal Affairs basically
justified it, like oh, you had a gun, whatever, which I didn't have no gun. - What ever happened
to those officers? -They said that the one fool the fool that
shot me, he retired. His dog ass retired. You feel me? He did some other janky shit
and now he retired. They're not here to protect and serve us. You feel me? They got their
kids somewhere else. They ain't got their kids right here on the east side. They ain't
got their kids amongst poverty and they ain't got their kids amongst none of this shit.
They got their kids tucked away, and every time their kids go do some shit, you feel
me, they know the judge. They know whoever. Shit gets swept under the rug. Oh, let little
Johnny get some little community service, some little probation. Whatever the hell.
But when it come to us, it's like, Oh, little Tyrone, he done fucked up! He snatched a purse.
Let's send his ass to juvenile hall. Just give him some probation. Just do this, just
do this. It's different. The police not here to protect and serve us. They're here to protect
and serve theirself. They're like a gang their self.
Alex: Now they're supposed to be rebuilding something there for the community. What do you think's
going to happen when they finally build something there?
-I mean it's something they need to build something there for the community. We need something
for the community, real talk, cause there's nothing around here for the community. There's
no youth centers. There's nothing for the kids. There's nothing! Instead of them focusing
on building more prisons and adding on to prisons and jail facilities and stuff like
that, they need to build places like community centers and youth centers and stuff like that
for the kids to do something. You feel me? Cause you can't do nothin' without education
and you can't do nothin without a trade. If if the kids don't have nothing to help build
them, what else are they gonna do besides join street gangs and learn other ways, how
to make money and hustle or whatever like that.
Left video: You wanna change something? Put some community centers over here, man. Start giving these
muthafuckas jobs. Stop making us go rob mutherfuckas just so we can have some money in our pocket.
Right video: They assume that just because we're from this
area that we're from a street gang. They assume that just because we're from this area, we
don't know our rights. We can't control where we're placed, you know? This is where I was born & raised.