One, two, three, four five, six, seven, eight …
21, 22, 23, 24.
That’s 25 knives, yeah, from Leytonstone today.
Hello my darling, how are you? Thank you so much.
Very kind of you, ta.
Binning knives saves lives! Come and bin all your excess knives people
and make your family safer.
It’s like every single day this stuff is happening.
You talk to your friends You go in the group chat and be like.
Yeah someone else got chef’d.
On this road, in this place, I'm just tired of it.
Exactly, that’s why we come out
get into people’s faces and talk to people.
That’s why I’m talking to you now.
These knives here are knives that these people’s sons,
or grandsons, could come in their house,
because they are scared, and take them out of their drawer.
So that’s why these good people are making themselves safe,
making their kids safe.
They check their kids' bags every day
and that’s what you all need to start doing.
We’re going to stick up posters to make everyone know
that we’ve got a knife amnesty bin
at Leytonstone station tomorrow.
We got 19 knives from Leytonstone last time.
- 19? Yeah.
They was all naughty looking knives as well.
We were really glad to have got them off the streets.
Hopefully we’ll make the place a safer place, you know?
Hiya. We’re having an event at Leytonstone tomorrow
can we get that in your window just until tomorrow?
Afternoon young lady.
– Am I getting my picture taken? Yeah.
I’m glad I got my hair done then. Haha you look beautiful.
You take care.
– So why are you doing this? Cos someone has to start doing it.
It was just apparent that someone has to do something.
This is my area man, you know?
And all this is going on,
and people are scared to even let their kids out.
– I've seen you on Facebook. How you doing my friend?
– Keep doing what you're doing, yeah? Yeah man, give me a shout brother. Nice one.
See the public just come up to me
and always thank me for what I’m doing.
which keeps me going man.
It’s good to see people notice.
When we've got our knife amnesty bin,
we stop youths on the streets, ask them if they’ve been in trouble.
And we refer them to ongoing activities
such as boxing, martial arts,
dance therapy, MCing, DJing, football.
– I respect what you're doing man. Carry on, carry on.
We’re trying man. We’re trying.
– Keep going we need less knives on the streets.
Enough love. Thanks for the support.
Take care. – Take care.
Man’s looking sharp in his suit.
– Is this something new, what you guys are doing here?
I believe this is something new that's never been done before.
Obviously we all know of knife amnesty bins.
that are in police stations at certain designated areas.
But I don’t think anyone's ever brought one out
onto the streets in the faces of the public.
The people that are dropping knives the in our bins?
You get some youths and gang members
as everyone expects,
but you’ve got to remember that
most knife crime is committed by using kitchen knives,
What’s happening at the moment is that
all the kids are arming themselves
from their kitchen drawers.
So what we’re doing is getting all the parents
to bin their excess knives,
know how many knives you’ve got in your drawer.
– Taking knives off the streets should be the police’s job?
Yes. It should be the police’s job.
Listen, everyone is saying 'the police aren’t doing this’,
and blaming the police, but there’s only a few of them now.
It’s not the police’s fault. They're doing brilliantly
considering there’s so few police.
It’s the government. They are just sitting there watching everyone die
and they don’t care.
For the amount of crime and the stuff that’s going on
they are doing an absolutely amazing job
for the few of them there are.
So I keep them in my safe now but the safe is running out of room.
Hopefully we can get them melted down soon.
I’ve got a big machete in here somewhere as well.
I want to count them but I can’t be bothered. There's too many.
That’s the knives we’ve got off the streets.
That’s probably in about five events.
So that’s in less than 20 hours, we’ve got all these knives.
I hope we’ve saved a life with the knives
I’m sure we’ve saved one life at least.
Make sure you check your kids' bags.
Make sure you talk with your kids.
And make sure you’ve only got a few knives in your kitchen drawers.
Enough love everyone. Stay safe. Wicked.
Supporting the ting all the time. Big up my man.
You dun' know.
We’ll try and do our best. We’ll bin as many knives as we can.
We’ll refer as many kids as we can.
We’ll change as many kids' mindsets as we can.
That’s all we can do.
[rapping]
– ... murder the boy? Who killed my son right there?
In a year who knows?
Hopefully we will have cracked the whole of London.
And knife crime will be reduced by then, hopefully.
[rapping]
– Dun' know. Bless up.
[clapping]