 TLO what's poppin? We are on twitch. We are live you can come join us if you want if not that's cool Just leave a like comment subscribe turn your post notification bells man Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK. I just woke up. I'm talking two minutes ago But I'm dropping right into documentary Monday is gangland turf war London 2006. This is part two Started this last documentary Monday I Did it in two parts. I said I was gonna do the final part in one take so let's just get into Violence that surrounds it is gripping the streets of London People caught up in it are the collateral damage in this dangerous world I The gang's voices are always strong up because that's what washes your brain up During the course of filming Contributors to this series have been sent to jail for knife possession shot and stabbed to death This isn't a normal life for a teenager. I'm pretty about my grandkids. So like I don't want to go in the area So this is some criminating In the same period 90 teenagers were stabbed in the capital 17 of them lost their lives as a result 16 and I've seen six people Get stabbed and killed and the resulting death and loss is destroying families. They did come to kill my son He's not coming back. This way of gang culture is having a dangerous and devastating effect on the young and impressionable All it takes is that one wrong move To be dragged in the whole new world that you don't want to be And with more and more vulnerable young people falling into the web of this violent culture Where is the system you got to stop this game Growing up in Britain has never been more dangerous Of course you watched it in oh 16. I wasn't even Where was I in 2016 I was nothing it's not around here On September 3rd 2015 Shaquon Farron was tragically stabbed to death in broccoli, South London six weeks before his 18th birthday That'd be the tragic part man. It's not even making it to see legal adulthood nowadays This is 2016 so see the crazier man Shaquon was not in a gang and had a bright future ahead of him But the all-pervasive gang culture that has young people carrying and using knives Made him yet another young victim of the lifestyle At the funeral is like I was literally speaking to him and he was speaking to me One they will all meet you with laughter with joy when it was going on you saying to me mom This is it man. I don't even go to funeral bro. This should be so tragic. That's that's one of the saddest things to see right here No cap. This is one of the saddest things to see Let go I'm going Saying to me mom let go. It's like he was saying let it go. I'm gone. There's heart breaking Chopin rest in peace Jesus name we pray Amen Such a good child from you to last a good child It's really hard Really really hard This part of Southeast London is particularly afflicted by young street gangs with 16 of them said to be active across the borough of Lewisham Shaquon was on his way to this youth club when he was killed Who the fool? Like so he was doing some real like he was going deep just under the youth club at the school program Seeing someone like you always see like and you don't see no more. It's just a weird Shaquon's old school friend Cairo was with him minutes before he was killed His decision to head to a music studio instead of the local youth club with Shaquon still troubles him Yeah, right there is where Died in it like this where they had a little fight and rule on It's where you got stab Stuff for no reason Shaquon's mother Sharon works just a few hundred meters away She rushed over to his side as he lay dying. It was so bad Wasn't a nice thing to stop but he wasn't going to the youth club. Okay. He was going to the music Oh, no, he was going to the youth club and his boy was going to the music studio I'm on the floor. It's so much blood When I seen his eyes going over That's when I start to scream I know my son here when I cried out That cry will never go in vain So his mom seen is accused of murdering Shaquon who were 15 and 16 years old at the time We're known locally for carrying knives Even Cairo had a run-in with them. I had my own little problems with them, isn't it? Had my own little madness as I've had with them Would it mean different if like I never Went to the studio that day if I came up here, it probably wouldn't have happened, didn't it? Because although she told the youths that I can't run in it Oh, I don't know. It could have been me getting stabbed. I don't know man In 2000 it's terrible because you're gonna always think like that, especially if that's your homie Like and you was with him right before and then like separate ways y'all went and then You don't think like that for the rest of your life, huh? 15 there were 81 incidents of knife crime involving young people in the bar of luisham alone He's a rapper. He's having a very real and increasingly dangerous effect on the community Well, I'm 16 and I've seen Six people Get stabbed and killed I don't know how to feel sometimes like it's too normal I've lived it for my whole life. It's it's all I've seen since I've grown up You know just being living a normal life for a teenager, but then again This is normal life of a teenager To gain further insight into this culture and its harsh realities A current london gang member shared with us why he believes in the need to carry a knife I love my life Slap that because if I'm not So that love my life often to get married to it engaged Backing up on that thing I could get money for it They have them out from them. I get full top I've seen death coming to would be and I'm pretty smart about it. I've needed to wait for the car And they say go they put one last one That's the easy now why If you're on these roads, then obviously you can't be scared People are beefing if you're scared when they come to move to them We're gonna do you just gonna be sitting there fried The old game poor talking up down But these roads are mad It's been months since Shaquan Fearon was murdered and his mother Sharon still has her own memorial to him in his room She wants to keep his presence close to her at all times This is Shaquan rule Man, it's a hard thing to say man, but like Everybody's gonna grieve their own way, I guess But like holding on to a memorial inside your house I don't want to say the wrong thing, but like hold it on to a memorial inside of your house Like you're never gonna get over it like I mean, of course you're never gonna get over it Of course as a parent, you'll never get over it but like Oh no Hey, y'all see anything new in the chat over there? Like y'all see any new buttons around y'all screen y'all see a new subscribe button y'all see anything new that y'all can press It's a shock Like a rule So this is my temple. This is where I come and pray It just surprised me myself to know that My son is gone And I'm standing here Think my son is coming back This is part two. I've seen part one. So I'm only eight minutes into this So you know what I'm saying? Every time you walk into there, you're gonna feel that It just happened just like that I'll say you do see new stuff on there. Okay Knife crime is becoming normalized and a gateway for young people to enter into gangs Ruining lives across the capital with teenagers. Yeah, I'm gonna start having um, so I just figured some uh, man I'm okay do that. I'll tell y'all a minute responsible for an estimated 130,000 knife attacks in london over the past five years These street gangs are spreading fear in their communities When you see the parents crying for their son because the son's dead He said don't think about if I dad look at my mama. We make my mom cry like this It's like Because I've been in some of these situations where I've nearly got stabbed and that my mom's you see Like she's scared because it keeps them getting to a point as she said the next time it happens She just knows I'm gonna get stabbed and something's going to happen Cairo lives with his mother shireen and at 16 years old has seen six of his friends stabbed and killed I've always thought about my normal life over 16 year old but I've never seen it because Most of all of my friends live the same life as me. This is normal for us. I've grown up Knowing like my life is to deal with what I have to deal with Life's getting girl trying to convince me Me ain't free Okay, I hear the tion wang flow tion wang touched the generation and now they all wanted to be I see it. Cairo knows a further nine people who have survived stabbings Gang culture and the resulting knife crime has him and his friends fearing for their lives He makes up now. I do have a question that do y'all see a sub button Do y'all see on y'all side do y'all see a subscribe button? Person not want to be outside no more don't want to do stuff anymore like Places I go For being my house or being my girl's house, you know, you just have those little places where You go to keep yourself out of certain places So there's more but less a chance of you getting stabbed or killed Is even like on your way go into studio. You could have someone capping on your way go into my girl's house. There's something happening There's areas where they can't go. What do you mean you can't go there? Nah, not going there. It's all right They don't want to go there. Maybe there's people there that don't Like them because of the area they come from so there's certain areas. No, he won't go to Shireen is aware of how difficult it is for her son crazy But struggles to come to terms with just how commonplace of violent death has become for his generation I figured out how much people do we know that's died. Yeah, there was those neef There's neef in this shack. There's Muhammad and Jamal that died. I'm trying to remember there's a couple more people that I know See that's the sad part when you get so many people, you know around you that died you can't even remember them all That's time. That's way too much. No, not in my lifetime I've been of that age and people just dropping dead around me. You like you have to wonder Who's gonna die next you have to look at each other and say you're wrong man Now they might if you're nice or not do you do this because everybody just trying to if any time they look like no one does nice Just use their hand. Everybody wants to always Do the coward thing. I don't know but it's because you know that someone else is gonna have it Like you have the what's it say when you click it? You can say yes or no, too It's like you have to be about that life like don't go through with it. Let me when is it saying just tell me you're just gonna get bullied mom But shireen is also aware that given the increasing danger on the streets Young people are taking drastic measures to protect themselves I'm not naive to what's going on out there. I know what these boys do. I just I know I'm a person. No, I check my knife for my draw like some people don't you ask them? They don't know I'm how many knives or what's going missing? I know what's missing? I'm going to draw see something missing. I'm cool even a weather knife Shireen is trying desperately to keep fire away from gangs and knives I don't know. I just act like I'm the detective in my house. I always just go around Looking searching to me if I wanted if I feel like Something don't do that one before I will go in your room. I will turn it upside down and look for everyone What I need to look for I know every hole every corner in my as a parent man Like you want to get your kid privacy? You want to give them like You know a certain level of respect because they're growing up, but hey, I feel that Why don't I know I fucked up when I got that intuition. I gotta go check it out I got to Because I know where we live. I know what's been happening. I gotta check it out But see I'm a different type of thing like you feel me like like I feel like See if you you got to protect yourself out here. Hey, I want you to come home. I really Hey as a parent. Hey, listen, I'm sorry. You feel I don't condone it but I really You come home. You make it home. God damn it my house. We think it might hide it. I know it Mother's like Shereen are rare in understanding how street life gangs and violence work But she is desperate. It does not impact on her son All it takes is that one wrong decision That one wrong move that that's all it takes for you to be dragged in the whole new world that you don't want You don't want to be involved in you never thought you'd be involved in Nowadays kids are getting involved because they're becoming someone's younger Like I could see someone out there and say Uh, I'm gonna like you can become become my younger and do this one around for me And that's how people are getting involved So that way if a man can't get me you see he's my younger. He's gonna stop up my younger That's a fact street life. We can't get you. I gotta get what's closest to you. I'm not condoning the youtube. I'm just saying that's what that's what Three months after Shaquann's violent death Sharon finally faced the teenagers accused of murdering her son It's a hard thing to do. You see you see ball for them. Yeah How did they look? I'm come out like Really cocky. It's like there was laughing It's like They come in like they're a bully. You could see that should have run me the wrong way I had to go man listen. You could see turn them. They are trouble maker. I really feel like I didn't want to Just look in their face and ask them why What far why when I look at them to see these two boys Yeah, two child when I look at them properly as a mom I feel so bad to know that two child charged for murder. I'm just coming out like it's a fun like it's a joke I feel so good What was their plea though not guilty all for them. Yeah Do you know what though that we worked out better because they'll both get murdered and attempted murder them If one of them said guilty I wanted to not guilty then the charge was to come both But now they've both gone guilty not guilty. They handed themselves in They will pay for it. They have to go down Well, don't get too bent on that man. The judicial system is all It's all friends and Most lawyers friends with this judge and the lawyers friends with this home Prior to shakwan's death Well having already known multiple friends murdered and afraid of being targeted by gangs himself Kyra made a fateful choice To no longer live like a victim in his own neighborhood I got cool with uh As they a knife, but as they say your article Sharp point article blade. They never quit on me. They quit like Down the road, but I knew it was mine and they had my fingerprints on it. So there was no I am Then I got cool again Rather be rather it on me did not god damn it You know, I'm slayer with the same thing at the age of 14 Kyra was given a 12 month supervision order for Kerry. They got stopping first there, right? So if they even suspect you of doing anything they could just stop you and not even care. They just gone Frisk you Bring a knife Well, that's a question. I'm not sure is that is that what it is out there at that moment in my life, I was Getting threatened and all of those things there. So I was like, you know, I have to have this my car Anyone not any moment in my life. Someone could try to kill me Kyra was Is a means of protection by the older boys in the community who were on the fringes of gang life The way they It seemed like it was the right thing to do. They never ever said to us like, you know, we shouldn't do this This is not good. You'll go get arrested. Go jail. They never told us that Made it seem like this life was decree and everything was going great for them With the added fear and pressure of older voices Some vulnerable young people are all too easily inducted into the world of gangs Some people just want to be part of something and then you just step into it. You don't know what it's going to take you I stepped into it by accident and it took me Places I didn't want to go and then it's a test of character as well some people get caught up in the wrong life and then It don't end well for them If you don't want to see ads if you do see that subscribe button just subscribe I you don't have to I don't care. But just if you don't want to see ads A test of character that former gang member Geordi knows all too well As a member of the Woolwich boys gang he set up a drugs network selling heroin and crack cocaine in london and hamshire Okay What is that That looked like a uh, uh, uh, if you squeeze i'm a gem What the fuck Before his empire came crashing down his lifestyle brought him both money and respect awful I was gonna get 2,200 every day into it. I died facts A year after the fall of his drug operation the police finally brought charges against geordian 2015 for intent to supply class A drugs Though he thought he might still beat the rap I'm trying to threaten me that I'm possibly looking at two to four years and all that. I don't want to be hearing that I'm sure I'm gonna bust it I'm sure I'm gonna bust it. But yeah, man is this I'm not even gonna lie. I watched this last week and he was talking about how he was gonna be this case And then he was like, oh, I went in and they was telling me a whole bunch of stuff that I didn't know And da da da da da, but I still think I'm gonna bust it. I I think this nigga's gonna lose his case He just I just don't believe Like I think they felt like I don't I don't believe it It's not looking healthy in it For almost a decade geordi enjoyed the proceeds of his criminal exploits But the reality of his lifestyle has finally caught up with him I do I do regret it though about shutting to the people Selling death because I realized that these people are killing people The stakes have been raised and geordi now has to face charges at crown court Yeah, I've just pdg with some people see it and some people don't uh two counts of uh professional intent So, yeah Basically, I'm looking at joe in it. No matter what I said is I'm looking at joe Maybe Maybe I do music after all the documentaries that I want to watch have been watched But that could be for hours now He now faces the prospect of a serious jail time for his years of gang activity It's a path that was determined by the choices he made as an impressionable teenager The voices of the gangs are always stronger than The family's voices because if the gang's voices were the stronger half of the things that your family were telling you You would listen, but the gang's voices are always stronger because That's what washes your brain out I will man. I would say like That's true and not true at the same time, you know, Sam you you just You're destined to not listen to what the fuck your family is saying Like because they've been there all the time. Are you like, oh whatever. I'm a growing teenager. I'ma do what the fuck I want to do Like let me forge my own path type shit. So you're gonna listen to whatever else is being told They wash your brain with lies and this and that and that's what that's supposed to do because that's their job In the borough of lewisham new cross known as ghetto to some young locals Is one of the toughest neighborhoods in london and has a long history of gang related problems She says you want to That's crazy, bro, I just said it all up yesterday So I don't I'm not sure how any of any of it works It says some of you see some of y'all are seeing that button like the subscribe button. Some of y'all aren't Just let me know if y'all see it or not I mean, I'm not sure either um But I'm not anyway young people regrettably caught up in the slipstream of the culture Music plays a pivotal role in them finding a way to escape its pull Oh, that's IQ Some road man says you wanna flex with me Music is my life and That's how it's always gonna be Music is a thing that will calm me down and get me hyped. Music is emotional thing It can bring you to certain places music can bring around the world When you start hanging with people that are doing good and see them going for places You're like, man, I want to be a part of this. I want to be part of the change Cairo is part of a music collective called phsb Along with one of his best friends. Myron also known as m dot Roachie for the tantrum I don't want to do it just face time I'm sorry. Be out got Sam for Cairo and Myron. This studio is represented as safe haven I'm sorry. Be out got Sam Cairo and Myron This studio is represented as safe haven for them and others in an area unfortunately renowned for gang related violence And local beefs When did I say that? I said anybody you said many buddy. Let me solo it. No All right So apparently m dot is gone already. All right Ha Many buddy Shut up, man She said I'm too rolled but I'm as expected from two teenagers The boys are immersed in the fun of future dreams in their hopes of becoming music stars I'm sorry. Be out got Sam. So many buddy fact Fam I keep saying it now because you said that However, the presence of gangs outside of the four walls of this studio Still pose a clear and present danger to the lives of young people like Cairo To the people that are dying around you. It's getting too close. So you're fair. That's going to be you next Or someone like one of my best friends like I don't know man. I don't know what I would do if like one of my guys died like Probably flip out go crazy I messed up a couple part like let me go again. Let me go again It's the first day of the murder trial for the two teenagers accused of killing Shaquon Fearon For the first time Sharon heard explicit details of how her son Shaquon was killed Did you see the knife? Yep, but when we're coming out it was on the desk Okay, maybe two year up to the front more. That's all I'm going to get to see it And that was horrible when I see the glimpse of knife and see the knife Ben Oh my god I've looked at the knife and I've cried I've cried and I've said why When I saw that knife and I was selling myself Why is it I'm shaking My body was just literally shaking and I'm trying to Calm myself and I'm just imagining the knife going inside my son For a child to be carrying a knife like that Like what let me see that's just like a gun Oh, you know respectfully let's not say that man For teenagers in this environment carrying a knife is deemed essential But it's governed by a code of silence and secrets Your kid could be in the house all smiling and joking when he leaves the house is a completely different thing So and that's that's a lot of people that used to be me when I'm in the house All right, my mom never knew what I was up to my dad never knew what I was up to Like I was just a perfect child in the house But as soon as I left all my mates and that going to that party's at 2 3 in the morning. What are that? Man, that's that that's real tough Be the best actors when you're in the crib, man the best Parents don't know what's going on in that joint As soon as you step out, you know, you a hardest nigga on earth Stuff you're stabbing people down here all over the place going back home eating sunday dinner and all of that No, when you're any different and that's that's how it is Rue Oye used to be in a gang He's now a leading mentor who helps active gang members reassess their lives Despite a legal case looming Jordi is trying to turn his life around and step away from his checkered past Where'd you think you're right in terms of like your transition from Roadman to a real man so to speak. I'm a better man. I don't do them things no more I think I think definitely you come a long way That's happened. You're you're still on that I'm a bare man now. I'm a civilian. I ain't doing none of that Have changed so there are certain people that you can't have around you and that's just not honest truth The only person that's made a significant change in my life will probably be I think like Juro Juro inspires change by helping gang members to get legitimate jobs and set up their own businesses The reason why I stopped I was thinking Rob. Do I want to get nicked again? Do I want to keep getting I don't want to do this no more I'm trying to be someone I'm trying to be different. I want to be a different. I want to I want to make an impact I don't want to do a lot of things in life Speak of what he is and will tell you of things to come He will give me glory Because he will take what with these new influences in his life Jordy feels he's now on the right path as he knows that escaping gang Goes down to two choices. You need to chew zero frames drop. So it shouldn't be like what you want to do That's what I'm saying to you. It's not from my side. Yo or yo dead in it Is where it is. That's the road. That's that's what is that's what's gonna happen Despite his efforts to make a change his lifestyle and choices eventually caught up with him As Jordy was sentenced and sent to prison for just over two and a half years So I'm saying man, if you in that life, man, you got to have a way out. You can't think that life is going to support you till you till you fucking Decide to be 60 years old retired. I'm like, no You're not gonna make it to 60 doing that type of shit that they're gonna get you For intent to supply class a drugs the reason why I don't regret it Living that gang lifestyle is because I want to show people that it wasn't worth it I survived it and now this is my time to tell everyone. Yo, this ain't worth it I feel like I've got a message in the story to tell now To stop other people going in there. I can say so many laughs From just my story Jordy had the support to transition away from being in a gang But for the majority leaving the lifestyle behind it's not as simple and straightforward It's not that easy for everyone to say you can just get up and leave Can't drop everyone, you know anywhere I go everywhere. I know somebody And all that I constantly think of is have I done something to that person? Now he didn't get splashed. He got um He got caught by like the police Police jam them I've seen a few of my friends try leave this life or go do their musical whatever Like they think they're safe two Tuesdays now. They come back to London come back to wherever And that's just it. They're just dead In broccoli despite the harrowing experience of having to sit through the trial of her son's murder Normal life has had to continue for Sharon What are you coming? I think it's a All right Sharon and others in the community Are desperately trying to understand what can be done to stop the serious gang inspired violence that is cutting these young lives short I'm fretting about my grandkids. I do not want to get that phone call That all comes quicker grand. I don't want that and you're wondering who is next I'm just wondering why is it so much weapon going into school? So there is no rules It seems like the school them just let the kids everybody just get on with what happening. So this is what happening now It's too much The net is open. So the kids don't do what they want to do It's like kids is growing on their own The fear and frustration that mothers like Sharon feels stemmed from the acceptance and prevalence of knife use in the community The gang is going on but the system is not doing anything to stop these come on You know gang is here. You need to sit out here To see when the gang them come out in the daytime summer Socially in the summertime to see in areas where you know It's going on like that. You need to come out and to see where the route is And then try to pull it down Where is the system? Where is the system? You got to stop these gang But teens are still being drawn into gangs With the problem being that once they're in Many feel it's simply too difficult to get out Last side note man like hold on now Now hold on look at this This is this is what like when y'all pat like when y'all in these shit and something go wrong Like this is this is I know probably some of y'all sink this already This is the phone call y'all get This is the phone call you get So just imagine when y'all doing all that out there and this this and that and when y'all life get took that's what y'all parents go through You want to ask basically getting short From back in the day, I've been on this road One of them others to know man stop I couldn't eat y'all Awareness That's two deaths you dying your friends die inside nobody wants to outlive their kids period Cairo and vulnerable young boys like him are entangled in the lifestyle Get a close proximity to this dangerous world in turn creates doubts about exactly where they stand Hello, you're not in a gang you might you might Call yourselves something or you got you might you got a music group That's that's called something but it's not a gang thing. Just got a lot of people that are friends It's not a thing like we're going out causing trouble. It's a thing like with normal friendship, but then after You know police and everyone else will call it gangs because With those young black boys in the group man, what does it look like to you? Cairo's music collective phsb have assembled on the woodpecker estate to film a new music video for the artist Wallace Dantes featuring M.Doc the video shoot settings for um a new song not my song but Um M.Doc and he's in my group. So I support him for his video shoot. Oh, yeah Though they are just teenagers Phsb have an impressive following on social media They're hoping success will get them out of their environment and challenge many stereotypes. That's how we bring the hood together That's how we got everyone together All right, bring us out on pussy. See there's success going to get you out the hood or haters going to take you out So and even though some people might not think it's positive It's not positive because we're not out there doing a madness without making music My definition of a friday Choosing to shoot a scene inside one of the blocks They come face to face with the stereotyping that still condemns any gathering of young black boys as potential trouble Believe it Okay, Karen like like if they're just shooting a music Thira and Myron are used to being insulted in this way when seen together with their friends She was just probably on a bad day or something. I don't know It's because some people in the block share when they see all of us in a block They don't like it because that's what they live in it. Everyone has their mouth to talk in it So they're free to talk where they want to but we know what we know and we're gonna go as far as we want to go Probably go further than her in there. She was terrified. She was terrified. She walked. Hold on. Go back Didn't they even say like hey like they didn't even say hey See look he tried to say hey like Good rap She made an immediate right said hood rats. She bold because if they was really hood rats, they would have been on her ass Oh my god It's because some people in the block share when they see all of us in a block They don't like it because that's what they live in it. Everyone has their mouth to talk in it So they're free to talk where they want to talk but we know what we know and we are gonna go as far as we want to go Probably go further than her in there She's living in the block man. We're trying to get out the block. She's still in the block Let me Get out of the block Yeah, run them in famous. That's makes me feel good in it. I could do something good. So yeah We just need to keep on doing it One day we'll be there one day we'll get everyone out of the hood. That's all it is man. Consistency in like, you know Keeping a low ass profile low key Because man, you you doing music you're gonna get known that somebody gonna be hating somebody gonna hate So you got to keep a low profile and stay consistent one day. We're gonna do it The boys are in good spirits But just a day earlier things were very different for kairou and his friends Me i'ma wait to video shoot to doggy them It was the first day of filming for the music video The shoot was in catford also in the borough of lewisham and an area they know has dangerous gangs I'm young and I go with my friends. I'll go over there because I know That if there's a chance of anything happening I got my friends there to back me up and Ah, that's a bogus way to think man if your friends leave you Just as fast as you You can count to three money Y'all hear it in the songs. Why'd you leave your bro like niggas is run on your ass Don't think as you with your homies you say You got to keep yourself safe Like baby said I always got my shit on me. So I'm never So I'm never nervous It's not because we're a gang or we're take care of ourselves. That's just because you know something might happen And you just want to be able to protect ourselves and anything that happens His mother shireen suspects the lengths kairou and his friends will go to protect one another Kairou has carried knives He carried knives in new medication He'd have a waltz feeling for his knife. He hasn't told he didn't am told me feeling for his life But obviously why are you carrying a knife for? But she is accepting of the harsh reality that kairou's life is regularly in danger And that in his world different rules apply I'm not one of those parents that are no not my son Not my child. We never do that. No because really truly when he is outside Yeah, they can get up to anything that you don't know they can hide things from you Be who nice when they come home. Yes mom did it mom and then Yeah on the road and you're some gunman She's speaking real real facts. That's a mom who is not oblivious to what the hell is going on out here The video shoot is in a multi-story car Like if you have that attitude as a parent like you you can do more To keep your kid out of trouble Like if you just want to ignore the facts that it's a possibility then hey, you can't do nothing for your kid A park in the town center My As kairou and his friends look on everything is running smoothly But something soon look at the cameraman the cameraman seen them pull up like oh man look man listen That ain't what I'm more. I'm just here to shoot the video man. Damn Damn But something soon has them sensing danger Boys are circling Where we were filming and we kept on seeing them circling and felt like they were they kept on seeing them Like someone was plotting on us. No, it's not used to the circuit. They're standing there The group get more nervous as people disappear into the shadows and then reappear They're still standing over there just standing around there From a certain one team standing right here Something was happening. So we kept on going out to check and like in the middle of a video show we kept on Moving about moving where because we didn't know what these boys were planning because we could see them just circling And true, we know that certain boys don't like us We just know that we have to always keep on point always be wary of us around me The boys were fearful that they were being set up to be attacked by a local gang. With Cairo and his friends seemingly trapped, the situation takes a dramatic turn. In Catford, Cairo and his friends fear that they were being set up to be attacked by a gang, watching them at their video shoot. Feeling under threat, a flick knife was quickly produced. Eventually the boys looking on, back off, and Cairo and his friends finally relax, but Cairo's readiness to use a knife after his preview. This conviction for carrying one is a worrying sign. Even though he was compelled by fear and danger, it was one bad choice too many. Four months after the music video incident, Cairo is arrested for a third time for possession of an offensive weapon. In March 2016, he is sentenced to six months in youth custody. This is the first time Cairo has been sent to jail, but his journey to prison was insignificant compared to what was about to happen to his close friend Myron just six weeks later. Two boys aged 15 and 16 are being questioned by detectives investigating the fatal stabbing of a 17 year old during a fight in New Cross. He's been named by friends as aspiring rapper Myron Yade, known as M.Dot. Damn, this is what happened. In a too familiar tale following an altercation with a group of boys, Myron was stabbed whilst on Campion Street, New Cross. One fatal blow was all it took to end his young life. So tell me, how you made this two inches? R.I.P. On the Woodpecker estate, a community once again gathers to remember and celebrate a young life lost. Hold up to something's happened right now. Grab something. Hold up to something's happened. Just think up. We're a community. Grab on to something's happened right now. The minute silence please. Moment of silence. Make sure I can see. As a talented artist, Myron attended a performing arts college, a world away from knives, guns, and gangs. This one thing is dropping off? Magnums? I know a homeless person came to drink them. Positive. But this inescapable culture in his environment was the root cause of his death. This culture makes a leader man alone, man. To use knives to settle the most minor of quarrels, Myron's friends are still struggling to come to terms with his senseless killing. Hello. How you feeling about the whole Myron situation? That as a whole, the whole thing. You ever need regrets? Yeah, you can regret going to Joe. That's even worse when your man loses life and you in behind bars, you can't do nothing about it. In the wake of Myron's death, conflicting voices in the community highlight the difficult choices that these young people have to make. There's that M.Dots family that want justice and things like that, and then there's the oldest telling us, yeah, you've got to do this, you've got to do that. It's the environment, isn't it, that if we're going to start, if we're coming, we're going to come back to the hood every day, we're going to come back to the door every day. We're going to hear the oldest and I'll tell us what, you man ain't done nothing. Go do this. 2016. We're going to go on the roads and then there's going to be parents like, raw. Like, don't go out there, don't do the same, cherish that, there's too much messages through our head that it's too much to do. Myron's friends can see how his murder is affecting the community and they fear for the future. Everyone's scared, I swear everyone's scared. People are just not thinking and that, that. When one person dies, everyone from that. People are just not thinking. I repeated that man too, man. When one person dies, everyone from that side of things, it's time for retaliation. They're going to retaliate. You're going to hear someone from them side die. You know what I'm saying? That's how you just want to keep on getting shot. She's going to look like her too. I didn't even say it's going to get worse. The cost of gang culture is not just being felt in terms of lives lost, but also families being shattered. After seven months and three attempts to convict those accused of killing her son, Sharon has been given the news she has been hoping to avoid. The liaison officer called me and said to me that the CPS was saying that I cannot go for another child. They think we don't need a third child because the jury failed twice to reach the verdict. Damn! No, I can't live with it. I can't live with it. These two boys supposed to be just walked through the door just like that. And my child life is gone from the start to the end. It's on the CCTV street. Oh boy. Shorty. Like this is the real reality of it. This little boy can go one of two ways. He could be plotting to get back in the century, or he could be going the lawyer way to go fix the judicial system, man. An eyewitness was there who saw them and the jury failed twice to reach the verdict. That's that you did, man. I'm tempted, man. This team also fails. Where is the justice? Is that the law? Is that the rule? I am here, and I will fight for my son. I need justice. Justice. It has to happen for my son, for Shaquan. It's a massive blow to a mother's sense of meaning in the tragic loss of a child, but her resolve is unwavering. Justice has been done, but she wants a better outcome. All of the problem, it's about guns. Who is there talking about? You understand? So it will continue if it doesn't have a solution. It has to have a stop. Because if you have kids, you will never want your kids to die in vain just like that. Come on. Enough is enough. I swear everyone's scared. God forbid, but who's he gonna take next? That's just what I think. It's like we're losing everyone that was close to us. R.A.P. Yeah, nigga, let's zoom in, okay, lad? August 5th, 2016, 11 months after Shaquan and four months after Myron was stabbed and killed. When Lorando's chokey was stabbed to death, huh, man. Not even a lie. That was one of the better documentaries that I've watched, man. T.L.O. 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