When Chaz was 14 he got caught up in
an incident with a stolen car.
Chaz was driving, he led the cops on a high speed chase
for about 20 minutes.
I went on a little ride in a car.
My cousin let me drive it.
I loved it, I went like 80, 90,
first time driving it took like seven blocks.
They charged me for unlawfully
driving around in a motor vehicle.
I didn't steal it though.
If they aint got me on camera,
no face, no case.
Well Dana says she doesn't know where her son Chaz
is getting his stacks of money,
especially when he is facing five felony charges
for carrying a concealed weapon,
assault with a dangerous weapon,
assaulting a police officer, escape from lawful custody,
and assault and battery.
Now Chaz asked me before the break what I would do
if I had five felony charges against me.
The first thing I would do is understand
that there are certain expectations of me as a young man.
And I would do everything I could do to project two things.
Remorse and a new path.
You see where I'm at though.
No, listen to me.
You asked the question, hear the answer.
Okay, okay.
I wouldn't be cavalier about it.
I wouldn't be smug about it.
I wouldn't be doing rhymes like no face no case.
I wouldn't be saying things like I'm not afraid of prison.
I mean, I'm not afraid of prison.
I'm just scared of the time I'm gonna lose
while I'm in there.
You're just not smart enough to be afraid of prison.
You see,
I'm very intelligent. (audience applause)
No I know you are.
I'm very smart.
I'm a very smart young man.
No, I think your raw intellect is really very good.
Have you ever been to prison, Dr. Phil?
Do you know what it's actually like in there?
Have you ever been locked up?
Have I ever been in prison?
Have you ever been locked up?
At all.
Have you ever been detained?
No.
Okay, you don't know what it's like in there.
Yeah let me tell you, I've spent more time in prison
than you have spent in school.
That's a lot. (audience applause)
I would, number one, have my butt
back in school tomorrow morning.
You see, but I actually am enrolled in school--
No no, you have to listen to me.
I would have myself back in school tomorrow morning.
I wouldn't be enrolled, I would be there.
And I would be a model student.
I would be doing everything I could possibly do
to demonstrate to a judge that if you take me out
and put me behind bars, you are disrupting momentum
that I have created a positive way in life.
I would be looking at everything I could do
to demonstrate remorse,
I would be looking at everything I could do
to volunteer with kids,
I would be looking at everything I could do
to create a positive impact on my community,
I would be living at home with respect,
I would be mowing the yard,
I would be out planting flowers in the flower bed,
I would be going to school in the morning,
I would be staying there and pounding erasers
at the end of the day,
I would be going to the boys club and asking
if there's things I could do to volunteer,
I would be down at the church seeing
if there's something I could do down there
with those less fortunate than myself,
I would keep myself off of the streets,
I wouldn't be out after dark,
I wouldn't be anywhere that things could
even happen around me that would create problems.
I would make a choir boy look like a thug.
(audience laughs)
(audience applause)
All right, all right.
And I tell you that because I have spent
most of my professional career as a litigation consultant
and I was trained as a forensic psychologist
and I have made recommendations to the court
about what they should do with people exactly like you,
and that's exactly what I look for
and that's exactly what I base my recommendations on,
and that's exactly what's gonna happen to you.