 Hello, what's poppin'? We are on Twitch, we are live. So you can come join us if you want. If not, that's cool. Just leave a like, comment, subscribe. Turn on your post notification bells. Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK. As some of you may or may not know, I do live in Florida right now, South Florida, Miami. You'll soon see why I've mentioned that or you probably know by the title of this. Don't forget we also got the Patreon. Here's a light list. This is not accurate, all the thing. There's more stuff. And we also got the Discord. Now this is, how you say his name? Michael Massentry. This is his documentary on Miami. I'm curious. He is an English man. He does documentaries. So it fits, you know what I'm saying? Let's get into it. I've come to a place that's world famous for being a party town. But I'm going beyond the glitz and the glamour to try and uncover reports of a notorious underworld. All I do is kill, that's all I know how to do. Scared mother. Serious underworld. All I do is kill, that's all I know how to do. Apparently you know how to be a father as well. You got a kid. All right, let me just watch. Scared mother. Oh, it's McIntyre, Michael McIntyre. I don't know why that was so difficult for me to pronounce, McIntyre. This is a place where nearly half the males are arrested of traces of cocaine in their system. 5,894 grams of cocaine. And some parts of town have seen a 40% rise in the murder race. Are each of you prepared to kill? Prepare to kill. I'm in Miami. All the zoos out here is sleuthing. USA, one of the world's toughest towns. World's toughest towns. Miami, a picture postcard tourist destination, famed for its beaches and its nightlife, a mecca for entertainment with a personality to match. Scratch the surface of Miami's blitz and glamour. And it reveals a much done. I'm not gonna lie, everything they show in right now, if you've never been to Miami, it looks exactly the same. Only thing that looks different from this, and now is the cars. Cars are better now. Everything else the same. Darker picture. You'll never have a club where nobody's doing drugs. It's a fact. It's not possible. Anyone that's looking for drugs in South Beach can find the drugs. Facts. Over the last 18 months, there's been an upsurge in gang violence. Giving Miami a higher murder rate than New York and LA. I'm here to find out why. That is a spectacular sight. That's Miami. That's Miami that we all know from Miami Vines. And you talk to the old guards, the old cops, who ran the beat then, and they say that an awful lot of what you see here, the shiny buildings, the great con... Okay, the skyline is a little bit different than now. There's new buildings and those. But an awful lot of that, more than anybody really wants to admit, was built on drug money. I'm on my way to meet someone who knows all about how this city's drug trade operates. A man who single-handedly built an empire from the profits of cocaine. John Roberts was once one of the biggest importers of cocaine in American history. In the 1980s, he imported approximately $20 billion worth of drugs. Damn! Would it be true to say that a lot of the Miami that we... Oh, this guy, okay. See, the glimpse and the glamour, the tourist side of Miami, the beach, was built on cocaine. I would say... And on your business? 80 to 90% of it was built on cocaine. When I came down here, and I used to go to what's now called South Beach, there was nothing but lines of old people and rockers just sitting there waiting to die, you know what I mean? Until God, whoever controls whatever it is, say, your turn to die, they die and the next old person will get in the chair and they'd rock back and forth. So this town was, it's fair to say, was built on cocaine. I wouldn't like somebody to argue the other side and tell me how else it was built because there's no other way. There was no industry in Miami back then. You look back then, you didn't have what you have now. There was no industry. There was nothing back then. Miami was the South. Miami wasn't far from Mississippi, you know? It was really... You see, it's been facts. That's why if you talk to Florida natives or Miami natives, they tell you, I'm not from Florida. I'm from Miami. I'm not from Florida. I'm from Broward County. They don't associate themselves with the rest of Florida. And I kind of get it from being here like a year. Like it ain't the same. Miami and Ivory days is not the same. Like, this is just not... I mean, it's kind of the same but a better example is like Miami and... South Miami, Miami, Miami, and Central Florida, not the same. The southern, southern... It's actually pretty racist here. I ain't even allowed it. Rednecks back then. You paint a picture of the lifestyle that this southern, southern rednecks back then. See what I'm saying? You paint a picture of the lifestyle that this incredible, huge, incredible billion-dollar business gave me. There was nothing you couldn't do or you couldn't buy. We used to eat in a restaurant called The Forge. What we had was our own room. I'd go in there with my friends. We'd get fucked up. Excuse my English. Drunk. Destroy the room. Throw drinks against the wall. Have parties with girls on the table and under the table. Destroy the place. They'd send me the bill the next day. They'd fix the room and I'd come back a week later. We did it every week. It is what it is when you got that much money. The good times and easy money didn't come without its fair share of extreme violence. Cocaine, everybody's nervous. Everybody's uptight. Everybody's looking at everybody's strange. The people I was involved with, unfortunately, Rafa, he would take a mound of coke, he piled it on the table and he'd have one of his guys empty the cigarettes out and he would load it back. So this man was a paranoid schizophrenic. I mean, you could be sitting at dinner and the table next to you would look at you. He decided to kill the whole table and I'm not exaggerating. That's how paranoid the man was. Yeah, at a certain point, when you empty a cigar out, cigarette out, the tobacco out and refill it with a white substance, class A, and then you put a light to it. That's a different drug now. You're on a different level right now. I think you knew that he'd be shooting everybody at the table next to you and you'd be going out the door. You know what I mean? You didn't know it was gonna happen. As cocaine became big business, so did the violence. As Colombian drug dealers, high on their own supply, shot each other up on the streets of the city. This was the era of the cocaine cowboys and it made Miami the murder capital of America. Keep in mind, YouTube, I'm here for educational purposes. This is a documentary. I do not condone. I'm not pushing an agenda. I'm here learning and I'm here taking it in like anybody else and giving my life experiences. But in the 21st century, there are new rules of engagement in Miami's drug trade. Turning parts of the town into a war zone. You take me here. You see this, you live by it, you're gonna die by it. I don't need my child living and dying by this. I'll tell you what, you figure it out. After New York and LA, Miami is the most popular American tourist destination. Not bad for a city that arose from a swampy flatland, a little more than a hundred. Okay, yeah, now this is looking real. I don't think this part of the skyline has changed much. I think that maybe there's a building right here now. Yeah, no, there's a few new buildings. Years ago. Definitely. Miami owes its very existence to the illicit trade in cocaine. A trade whose workforce has been fueled by the flow of immigrants into the city. In the past 50 years, wave after wave of migrants have flooded this city, all looking for an opportunity to flourish. In 1980, Fidel Castro tricked the US into admitting hundreds of Cuba's most violent criminals. Hey, listen, all that migrating, all of that. Hey, that's a lot of bad women here. Salute to that. Before the authorities knew it was going on, Miami's crime rate soared. This was the era immortalized in the firm Scarface. After the Cubans came the Jamaicans who fought deadly battles with the Cuban gangs for control of the city's drug market. The latest wave of migrants, the Haitians, are now major players in Miami's drug trade. I'm with John Roberts, once the largest cocaine importer in American history. I'm interested in his views on Haiti's involvement with today's cocaine trade. It's rampant there now, it's rampant. Now there's mergers because somebody looks the wrong way or something. You know, it's just stupid out there now. What's interesting is when the Haitians came over here, the black African-Americans, they hated them. Absolutely. A hundred percent correct. The Haitians became like what the Jamaicans used to be now the Haitians have taken over. Because their capacity for violence is as great as anybody else's. And they have much more force. There's not that many Jamaicans here compared to Haitians. In numbers alone they outnumber them. Facts. So that's why the Haitians have pushed the memo. My friend, she just moved here from Chicago, or she lived in LA, she moved here from Chicago to LA She keep mistaking Haitians for Jamaicans out here. And I'm like, yo, there's not that many Jamaicans here. What you're seeing are Haitians. Those are not Jamaicans. To the naked eye, you might be confused, but like I'm part of Jamaican and I got a lot of Haitian homies in Iraq. So it's like them ain't Haitians. I mean them ain't Jamaicans, them is Haitians. Look a little closer. In Miami's drug trade, John was a major player, but he wasn't selling the drugs on the street. That was left to the gangs to sort out whose rule is the barrel of a gun. And the ones with the most guns right now and a willingness to use them are a Haitian gang known as the Zo Pound, which roughly translates as Haitian to the Bone. Their notoriety has spanned nearly two decades. I've heard stories of extreme brutality, street executions and voodoo rituals. They reside in the suburb which has become known as Little Haiti, about a 10 minute drive from the tourist areas of South Beach. No, it's not 10 minutes, don't let them lie to you. Even though most visitors to Miami wouldn't dream of going to- It's about 20, 25, maybe 30. 20 with no traffic. This neighborhood, cocaine has an escape of a presence in this city. Little Haiti, what a good food it is. About 38% of all dollar bills Miami contained traces of cocaine. The highest in the entire country. I'm with the city of Miami police and I'm with their gang unit, specialist gang unit. They're gonna take me a tour of the city's gangland hotspots. They're also gonna take me to Little Haiti and they're gonna give me a little insight as to where Zo Pound fit as a matrix of gangland violence in this, the city of exiles. What strikes me almost immediately is just within a few blocks. We leave the glitzy skyscrapers of downtown Miami and enter a whole different world. She was crazy about Miami cause this is the South. You gotta remember as soon as you leave South Beach even downtown Miami is not like your typical downtown. Like you'd like downtown London or something. Like you, like it's still a little bit different. It's sketchy. Like downtown Miami is one of this downtown Miami and downtown LA. Top two sketchiest downtowns that you'll ever touch food in in America. In my opinion, like big city-wise, like they're sketchy. Still daytime, but there's a palpable sense of tension on these streets. This is the kind of New York version of the projects around here. Yeah, this here, yeah, this is the project right here. A lot of narcotics, a lot of guns in this area. A lot of drive-by shootings up here. I'm right here in Little Haiti. What's the, what's a weapon of choice among the gangs here and the drug dealers? The AK-47, which the street name for it here is a chopper. That's one thing different about Chicago and Miami. They use, they got the big, Miami got the big things out of it. Miami got big guns. We're on the outskirts of Little Haiti and it feels like anything can happen at any moment. Sure enough, two streets away, a drug dealer is about to have a surprise visit. I feel like it's still like this, but it's a little less. Like they're in Miami at the time where it was real, real crazy. It ain't like this, like, I don't know. It could be, I ain't involved in Miami's stuff like that, but both marijuana in, it's okay. All that for weed, jeep? All this for a little bit of weed. See right there? Now I want it. These simultaneous incidents show that no matter how big or small the quantity, Miami police force has a zero tolerance when it comes to drugs. That's a lie. Now, I'm okay. It wasn't, probably wasn't a lie back then, but now, since the rules at medicinal marijuana is legal in Miami, but like, police are not bothering you if they see you smoking. They're not. You get 100%. Like you can walk past a police officer with a blunt ding almost and they will not say nothing. Like, you got to be doing something like mad, wild. Like they don't care. When people talk to us about zoepound, I got a sense that they were created, you know, from a different DNA, different ingredients to other gangs. The crimes they committed were, you know, hideous. They were really, really, really bad compared to the normal type of crime we're used to seeing as far as the gang aspect goes of it. What's the sense that when the zoepound set us, you know, organizing, was there a sense that they were quicker to pull the trigger than anyone else? I mean, what was it about their crimes that set them apart? They're just letting you know they're ruthless, you know, that's their nature. For what reason? I don't know, but, you know, they're just, they are, you know, a step above the other individuals. They are right here, right here, right here, right here. Patience is like that. Walkin' away, Kevin. To me, these guys look like a bunch of kids hanging out after school, but I'm informed they are, in fact, affiliated to another local street gang, Prey Five. And the gang is part and about to take any chances. Put your shoes on, Kevin. What's wrong with you, brother? Don't do a thing in my shoes. Don't fuckin' put your hands anywhere. I can't see them again. The police informed me that this girl, Jennifer, was a target of a drive-by shooting only last week. So what happened? What was our shooting? No, just shooting at us. Yeah, why do you think they're shooting at you? I don't even know. Who would want to shoot? Are you guys? I don't know. She gotta be like, Colombian, Argentinian, or something. No, punk. Yeah. Punks don't got no life. Are you guys at school? Are you at school? Yeah. Yeah, we go to school. Stay at school. Yeah, I'm... Cuban. And how old are you? Me? Yeah. 15. Yeah. This is CCTV footage of Jennifer and the actual drive-by shooting. Even though the bullets went through the window of a local library, no one was injured. The police investigation revealed Jennifer was selling drugs on someone else's turf. In these parts of Miami, that's a crime punishable by death. What do you want to do? Who do you want to be when you grow up? Graphic designer. Graphic designer? Yes. Yeah? Yeah. I love drawing. Yeah? Yeah. You know what's crazy? If she's still alive, she's probably really a graphic designer right now. In Miami, they get it, like low key. Like I'm trying to say it as a way I can understand it. Like, there's an end goal with a lot of them. Yeah, but I don't think I'm gonna make it then. All the records I got. Too much burning, sir. No, tell me. You gotta remember, you're 15. In America, once you hit 18, that shit. Drive-by's, you're definitely not gonna make it. I don't hope I end up getting killed. Why? I don't like this world. This world getting too hard for me for real. It's too rough out here. It's amazing, a one-to-one, you know, they're just kids, you know, but, you know, you talk to the officers here and, you know, the records. They're something of drive-by shootings, drug deals. She could be Haitian though. Haiti is on the same island as Puerto Rico, ain't it? Not Puerto Rico, I'm tweaking. Cuba. It's on the same island as one of them, I forget, one of the Latin places. I think they're 15. What pictures do they have? Teenagers like... Oh, Dominican Republic. It's on the same island as the Dominican Republic. So, you know. Like Jennifer are being sucked into gang life with little... Teenagers like Jennifer are being sucked into gang life with little prospects of ever getting out. It seems the gangs have a strong grip on the city. I'm on my way to meet one of Miami's top crime journalists. Frank Alvarado to find out more about the influence of Zo Pound. The newest and deadliest to find out more about the influence of Zo Pound. You know what's crazy? A lot of these buildings are finished now, but they're trying to make it seem like this is like... Oh, shit. He's on Biscayne Avenue right now. My understanding is that... Yeah, this is Biscayne Avenue. Frank Alvarado to find out more about the influence... This is the bus depot. I take this every day when I got my daughter. This is the metro train. This is a free train that goes around the inner city of Miami, the inner downtown workings of Miami. So, Zo Pound. And this is like a... I don't know exactly what this is, but it's like a theater or something, something big center or something. The newest and deadliest gang in the city. It's like Brickle. My understanding is that Zo Pound... In the woods. Like some of the other gangs, they started really coming over after 92, after the military coup in Haiti, forced the max exodus of Haitians over here to Miami. And I guess shortly after they arrived here, Zo Pound, through fear and intimidation, they were just taking over the streets of Little Haiti. And it's not unusual when the police show took homicide scene to find 50 casings on the floor because the modus operandi behind Zo Pound is to empty their guns. Everybody that's in the car has to empty their guns. Frank has an idea about a possible route into the Zo Pound, through an ex-gang member called Bulldog. Bulldog has made a name for himself in Miami after appearing in a number of low-budget feature films. Ah, yes. Here's our boy, Bulldog. He'll get you the Zo Pound for sure. I don't know if anybody's ever noticed, but now people don't really shoot movies in Miami anymore or Florida because there's no tax breaks, like New York, Cali, you get tax breaks. So say you shoot in a movie and the budget is a million dollars, you would only get, because of the tax breaks, you would only be paying like 750,000 or half a million. That don't exist in Miami no more. So if you come to Miami and you're shooting, you payin' the full price. Boom. In every city, I represent my present stop arguments. Bulldog has agreed to meet me, but there's a catch. He wants to do it in the heart of Little Haiti, and I've been told to come alone. Here at the streets are run by numerous Haitian gangs, the Zo Pound being the most feared and dominant. This area is rife with unemployment and the perfect place for gang culture to flourish. It's disconcerting to think that I'm only 10 minutes away from the affluent tourist trip of South Beach. No, you ain't. I don't know if he knew, but he's, that's not a 10-minute drive. I guess maybe with no, no, I'm not even with no traffic. That's not 10 minutes. The chef Caryl restaurant is a focal point for the community here, serving traditional Haitian food. Bulldog, Mac, everyone calls it, it's Donal, everyone calls me Mac. How you doing? Hi, Mac. Hi, Mac. Keela. Keela, how you doing? What's up? What's up? How you doing, man? Hey, hey. It's all good. Hey, you know, you're my passport, you know, to this world. You know, I'm like the ghetto president they called me, you know, I was real wild in the streets, you know, bullet holes everywhere. Where? Here, here. Went in here, come out back there. I wasn't, I was under my legs. I was paralyzed for six months. Yeah, the guys were shooting at you. How are they doing? Are they still alive? They're not doing that good, you know? Yeah, I mean, but I can criminalize yourself. You know, are they breathing oxygen or are they? Mr. McIntyre, what do you mean without incriminating yourself? Are they breathing oxygen? That's incriminating this bulldog. Don't you do it. Are they taking nitrogen? Yeah, it's a long time ago, though, you know? Way to dodge. Way to duck and dodge. All of that got dealt with. You have to earn your respect on these streets. Well, that's bulldog and, you know, see whether he kind of opens the door for us into this whole world of zoopound. Yo, blind. This bulldog, man. Got a film crew here, man, from the U.K. Try to bring him into zoopound, man. I need you to open some doors for me to get into zoopound. All right? So I'm gonna meet you a little bit and then we'll do some introductions with you, all right? I want you to bring it on. Bulldog tells me to follow him to an undisclosed location. Road's blocked by the police car up here, but that guy more or less said, I'm a killer. And this story by zoopound is more complex than the amount of bodies and the amount of drugs that have shifted over the years. I hope this gang will give me an insight into how the city's drug economy works. Hardly driving or more prowling. And he's waving at people he knows and he's making his presence felt. You gotta remember, man, when you're in the hood, it's a certain way you gotta drive, man. I don't know if a lot of people know that, man. But when you cutting down these one-way streets, these little streets, where all the neighborhoods is, you gotta be moving. You gotta, it's a certain speed at which you can't drive overly fast. You can't drive super slow. Now, because he's known, he can do that. He can ride around like the president. But if you're a civilian, you gotta, you better go the speed limit, the exact number on the speed limit. You better go that fast. And his presence means that our presence is no threat to anybody. So that man's our passport and also he's our safety net. Too slow means possible drive by too fast means you're not really supposed to be there. You're scouting, quick drive through. In a quiet back street in Little Haiti, we wait. Some members of the zoo pound will come and find us. It's blind. Suddenly, the zoo pound appear almost out of nowhere and they keep coming. I hadn't expected to see them in such numbers. These guys have earned their reputation as one of Miami's most violent gangs by using deadly force to control this neighborhood, prime real estate for lucrative drug dealing. I was soon about to see for myself why this gang is so feared. Why would you want to torture me? Color your eyes. I don't like the way you look. I might not like the way you smell today. I'm just an angry motherfucker. I'm in Miami investigating the deadly drug trade, a black market economy that has helped to build this city into a glamorous world destination. Bro, just say I don't like the color of your eyes. I've gone to Little Haiti, only a 10-minute drive north from Miami's iconic beaches, but here at the city has a very different feel. My contact bulldog has brought me face to face with zoo pound. The latest in the long line of immigrants who have arrived in the city chasing the American dream through violence. So, did the police come around by here all the time? Looking for you guys? They're giving you guys a hassle. I'm over here trying to house the most period point blank. This is the hood, man. He fucks with us every day, man. I've been getting stuck on this. Where is the money to be made? It's a deal inside the community with the crackheads, the Hispanics, doing with the Jamaican. Business is being conducted on all levels, all types of people of all walks of life. Business is business. So, when I say business is business, for all the people that understand that, you understand business is business. Evidence of recent drive-bys are apparent when some gang members patrolling the area arrive. ZP for life, sir. That's handy, man. It's real? That's real, little sir. Bullet hole. Is that real? No, just forward some metal through the pillar of my car. It's not too real. Oh, sir. Top of bullet, sir. ZP, baby. AK-47 live, sir. The hot boy. Don't let the people know what happened. Right here, man. You can easily get click-clack. Ain't no coming back from that. Now, you've been in the wars. Your mommy asked you if it disguised that. Well, this happened before I got with the family. This happened when I was young. I don't want my son being 15 to have to endure what I endure. This year, I was in a wheelchair. My mom cried days and nights. And I had to witness my homeboys' mama crying by never ever seeing their children again, so I wouldn't want that for mine. You take me here. You see this here? You live by it, you're going to die by it. I don't need my child living and dying by this. That's the choice I made, and trust me. That's the choice sometimes I go to bed with, can't sleep about sometimes, because I got a conscience like any other man has a conscience. Oh, for real, oh, God, let's go, let's go, man. With the evolution of zoopound, it ain't going to be what it thought of. We started off as gangsters, but we ain't going to end up as gangsters. But at the same time, no process, because you will get fucked up. I did, Mac. I'm introduced to another gang member who has turned up with his son. And what's zoopound about? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. And what's zoopound about? Killing pussies. All I do is kill. That's all I know how to do. Eat, sleep, shit, and kill. Really? Simple. I do what I do best. And is that, is that, obviously it's for business. You're not just doing it for kicks. For pleasure. You're not doing it for just for pleasure. For pleasure. It's there for pleasure. Do I believe that? I take pleasure in the torture, motherfuckers. Really? Yes, I would take pleasure in getting out right now and torturing you if I could. Why would you want to torture me? Color your eyes. I might don't like them, you know. I might like them like the way you see them. That is not funny, but it is funny. It's male today. How many do you think you've taken down over the years, if you don't mind me asking? I lost count. By the time I turned 21, I lost count. Personally, I like to use my knife. I like to be personal with it. It's nothing more siding than watching the person take their last breath, you know, to look in their eyes when they realize their life is over. And this is your son here? This is my son. And you don't mind to hear him? Does he know about your lifestyle? He know what I do. And what do you want for him? Would you mind to be followed in your footsteps or do you want something different for him? I prefer a better life for him. That's what I do what I do. So he can have a better life. I feel if I exterminate enough of you pussies out there, by the time he grow up, he wouldn't have no problems. I'm just an angry motherfucker. Angry. There's avenues where you can get help. There's counselors. There's AA meetings for murderers. Like, come on out. Well, it's hard to get a sense that Zo Pound is just a gang or a rough dealing business. It seems to have a huge amount of support right across the community here in Little Haiti. And here, these are some of the senior figures in the community. And one of the guys just showed me a gun. And that's five or 10 years. I think they're pretty open about their street activities, which are about drugs and everything associated with that. That's murder. It's five or two years back then. July 1st, anybody can carry a gun in Florida. No license, no training, no nothing. As long as you're not a convicted felon or something. Just killings and revenge and retribution. Do you know what? Some of them are scary fucking motherfuckers. I noticed a t-shirt being worn proudly by a gang member. And I was about to find out who's pulling the strings. You're going to tell me who this is. Maca-Zoo. This is Mac Lowe. Maca-Zoo. This is a tough man, isn't it? Yeah, a good man, you know? And where's he now? Locked down. Locked down, yeah? He's in jail. I'm told Maca-Zoo, the gang's leader, has been charged with four counts of murder. I don't know why I thought that he at the end of zoe was uh-oh, Maca-Zoo. To understand what makes this gang so ruthless on the streets of Miami, it's important to understand where they've come from. These are the streets of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. One of the most dangerous places on earth. This is where the zoe pound were forged. Ever since the Haitians freed themselves from slavery and gained their independence over 200 years ago, the country has been in a constant state of chaos and violent unrest. In September 1991, thousands of Haitians were killed in so I didn't get no better right now. Vicious street battles after the country's newly elected president was overthrown. It was a ferocious and bloody coup, causing a mass exodus of refugees seeking asylum in the US. They were not welcome. Those that didn't get into the country bound together and settled in what was to become known as Little Haiti. Blind has decided he wants to show me a different side of Haitian culture, away from the gangs. He wants to take me to meet his mother-in-law, a voodoo priestess. Oh, my God. Lucy would be in love. Lucy, they probably invite you with open arms. The Miami 54th Street is like the first place you come to in Miami. If you Haitian, Little Haiti 54th Street. 54th Street every day. And met it in Haitian culture. I don't practice it, but it's part of my culture, man. Looking around, it seems that voodoo and Christianity have merged to become one religion. How important is it here, you know, that it's a voodoo? It's very important to us, especially the Haitian people. And what does it mean, is it kind of the spirit within the Haitian community is voodoo? It's very strong. Now, you're a voodoo priestess, would that be sure enough? OK, now, it seems to me you must carry a lot of stress, because if you're trying to take a lot of pain from other people, it's going to go somewhere. Not me. I do not take it. My spirit take it. My spirit do the work, not me. Because if there was for me, how you think I could do? I work like that. I have to call my spirit first to do the work. So what can you do? You can heal, you can nurture, can you? Me, I do everything. Only thing I don't do, I do not kill people. OK. Anybody who's sick, they're welcome. So if we want to get a voodoo blessing, a sense from you, you can do it for you? Yes. It's nothing bad, only if you say stop. If you could smell it, it's very strong, but it's good. It's obviously been decided that everyone could do with a good-look top-up, and I can see why. When you live on the main streets of Little Hazy, you're going to need all the luck you can get. Oh, God, God. That's right. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it with a good-look top-up. That's my girlfriend. That's your girlfriend? Because you don't have to do it. My 86th Donner voodoo good-look charm, the spell has been cast. But you know what? It's, um, I can feel it. I ain't even going to lie. Mac and Tire, Mike Mac and Tire, you deep in there. You deep in there. Danny Dyer ain't got nothing on you, my boy. You deep in here. Real or imaginary, in my head or in the spirit world, I don't know. It makes me feel good. For a moment, I have to remind myself that I'm still in Miami. Back amongst the tourists in South Beach, it's hard to imagine that the Zoo Pound are only 10 minutes up the road. But this short journey makes me think that there are two cities within Miami. And I wanted to understand how the two worlds came together. We're visitors to Miami inadvertently mixing with gangs like Zoo Pound by Luftham Mangoes, still there, looking for a good time amongst the bars and clubs of South Beach. Miami Beach is an interesting place because you'll see a little bit of everything from the street level stuff to the high-end nightclub designer party drugs. You'll never have a club where nobody's doing drugs. It's not possible. You'll have some dope peddlers that'll come over. They'll take the bus or they'll drive over from some of the areas on the mainland like Little Haiti. And they'll end up here and they'll sell their marijuana and their cocaine and stuff. Street level sales to people here in South Beach. I think that's the whole reason a lot of these clubs exist is because of coke and meth. That's the drug people are going to be on. And they're going to be awake and they want to party. Because of the recent rise in fentanyl, I wouldn't say this is that accurate anymore. I mean, it's still accurate to a certain extent, but shrooms are popular here. Bulldog's been in contact. He tells me the gang are keen to show me what life is like when they're selling drugs on the street. They insist I must meet them tonight. My rendezvous is outside an unlikely English pub in the middle of Little Haiti called Churchill's. To my surprise, I find an unexpected friendly face in the form of the local door. You a lie. I ain't no way this bar is over here. Churchill, Churchill, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me open the window because I don't know. Oh, yeah, OK. Churchill, Churchill. That's hilarious. Oh, wow, this thing's still here. Guys, I'll never go here. That's wild. Poor man. You don't want me to say it's a bit bizarre to hear an English accent in the middle of Little Haiti. When I first started, the first six months here, I'll be honest, I was scared of shit. I'd be sitting here like this, cars would pull up with tinted windows, and I'd be thinking about it, like, oh, God, you know, they could go on a window down. Because we've been with some of the Zopan love. And let me tell you, they're packing. Yeah. But I mean, they're carrying, right? Every night again, like I said, it will go off wherever it's just shooting, shots fired. A lot of it is what I call territory. We have a nice car park here. They're trying to muscle in on the car park, charging the people a dollar or two. I live in the hood. I live just a few blocks up the street, even when I drive home. Even though I know people know me, I'm always like, I've got my key ready to go in my gate. Once I'm in my gate, I feel safe, but I'm always alert. Chris's views on Little Haiti only reinforced a sense of tension I've been in this neighborhood. Double decades, I might pop up low key. Until I get the call I've been waiting for. We've been dragged to the back streets of Little Haiti. It's their part of the hood. It's their part of the world. And I don't know what's going to go on. But they're keen to bring us to a house, I think, across there, and they're having a big meeting. And I think they're keen just to say that their talk has not been cheap and that they are the real deal. You know, I mean, the casualties on these streets tell us they're the real deal. I'm still shocked that there's a UK, there's a British pub in the middle of Little Haiti. There's no one else as shocked as me. The rest of the drug dealers and the ex-drug dealers in this town tell us they're the real deal and they're keen to let us know. But what we're going to see and what's going to happen, I don't know. Bulldog appears. I want to put y'all in there, OK? Bulldog's not comfortable with the situation. He doesn't think it's safe for us to go inside. But this is what I've come for, and I'm not keen to turn back now. Hey, Mason, hey, McIntyre, whatever his name is, Mason Tree or McIntyre, he is really out here thugging. Hi, buddy. No one's going to be seen. We're not going to show any faces. There has been a change of mind. They don't want us to enter. Bulldog seems tense as we return to the car. But out of the darkness, J-Dog, a gang member I've met earlier in the day, approaches. He has some new instructions to take me to an unknown destination. While we're traveling. J-Dog wanted a free ride. That's what he wanted. I take the opportunity to ask him about the Zo Pounds leader, McIntyre. You know, what makes him so special? I mean, he's just a guy that just don't give a fuck. He's 100% Giko. Giko, what does that mean? Gangster. Gangster. You know, I mean, all the boys 100% gangster. There is, you know, there's no flawed niggas in our camp, I can say, you know, because everybody keep a gangster and keep it 100%, 100% gangster all day, every day. And does that mean sticking together and having no fear? Sticking together, having no fear, getting money. I mean, all around the board. What makes you gangster is what you're doing, how you do what you do, you know what I'm saying? So side note, is there any Rose Camp that I have not done? Like, I know we just covered the Millennium Dome, Heist Rose Camp one. Like, is there anything else that we can watch that right now, too? Mackazzo, he's doing his time. And, you know, with no pressure on his back, he's just doing it, you know? I'm not sure what kind of place I've been brought to. Even Bulldog is on edge. I overhear one of the gang members talking on the phone to Mackazzo. Whatever they have planned, it seems it has to be run past their leader for him to endorse from his own prison cell. Some of the Zopan foot soldiers have agreed to meet with me. A quick glance tells me these guys are different from the other gang members I've met so far. These are the guys that sell dope directly onto the streets and have to protect their patch with the barrel of a gun. But needless to say, they wouldn't tell me any details of that evening's operation. So guys, Zopan, what's the need for the political movement or is it just a family? I mean, tell me what it means to you. 360, good answer. So what does it mean to you? For you, Zopan, you know. What it means to me? Beans life. Without Zopan, it would have been no name for nobody in my life. But for the Zos that are, it brought unity for us. It was a time where Haitians couldn't even walk these streets. You feel me? For you to walk these streets, you have to have balls and you have to represent where you're from. Without representing where you're from, you ain't shit. You feel me? So we had to come up with a clique. You know what I'm saying? They came up with a clique, Zopan. Couple of areas, we had to go and do what we do. You feel me? Because without respect, you ain't shit. You feel me? And I hear a lot of people say, hey, you know, respect don't make a man and this and that. You know what I'm saying? I tell you what, you figure it out. Without Zopan, you feel me? I mean, it's like that. You feel what I'm saying? If you carry a gun, it seems to me, in this neighborhood, you have to either kill or be prepared to kill. Be prepared to kill. OK, is that true? If you carry a gun in this town, on this block, you have to be prepared to kill. Are each of you prepared to kill? Prepare to kill. Yeah, have any of you killed? Are you going to say? Hey, Mac, chill. That's not that. I'm going to say. It's not. It's not. That's not emotion. But you have, if you're on the block with a gun, you've got to be prepared to kill. Yeah, all day. Just as suddenly as they made their appearance, I'm told my time is up and I have to leave. You got up out of there like no problem. I'm gone. Just come out of the meeting with the guys, AK-47s, Glock, you know, these are guys who are killed. Shotguns. I mean, it's probably, you know, fun hysterical assumption that we have. Yeah, you know, those guys. He's back on Biscayne. Glock, you know, just come out. You know, it's crazy as Biscayne looks exactly the same. This gas station, still there. Guys, AK-47s. There's Taco Bell now. He's about to cross the street. These are guys who... Still there. Oh, this is not here. That's for pizza. This is gone. Killed. Oh, yes it is. No, the Taco Bell's still there. I mean, it's probably, you know, fun hysterical assumption that we have. Yeah, you know, very likely those guys have, you know, body-bagged, you know, four or five people. Maybe more. A lot of tropical still there. And there, it feels all cartoon. It feels like a performance art. And, you know, because I've seen so much of that in the movies. I'm thinking I'm seeing another part of a movie set. That's fucking real. They were there tonight. That performance was put on, on The Orders by Maccazo. And he's the main man. He's a serpent's head who's locked up. To try and really understand Miami and how a gang like Zopound works, I need to get access to Maccazo inside his prison cell. But he's serving a double life sentence for murder. So this isn't going to be easy. Miami, a city built on the profits of cocaine and propelled by a constantly shifting underclass of immigrants, all seeking their own slice of the American dream. For many in this underclass, crime and gangs offer the fastest way out of the ghetto. The real heyday of crime in this city was in the 80s when these tourist areas around here were practically no-go areas. Now the police clamped down and moved the crime and they dispersed the criminals and the muggers and the drug dealing from this tourist area and just moved it back into the inner city. The crime hasn't gone away. It's just relocated. I'm here investigating. That's Carmen. It's called gentrification. I've heard some of the drug dealing from this tourist area and it just moved it back into the inner city. The crime hasn't gone away. It's just relocated. I'm here investigating the latest immigrant gang to have stamped its mark on the city, a deadly Haitian gang known as the Zopound. I've learned that they're major players on the distribution side of the drug trade in this city. Last night, I met with some of their foot soldiers, the guys that worked the streets and protect their turf. I'm now about to meet their leader, MacAzo. MacAzo is currently serving a live sentence for four counts of attempted murder and two counts for conspiracy to commit murder. He's appealing these convictions. He got double life for four, okay, well, okay. Let me calm down, let me reiterate. But double life for conspiracy and for two counts of conspiracy and four counts of attempted double life seems, I don't know. Like, it sounds fitting, but it also sounds a little excessive at the same time. I don't know, I could be wrong. That could be tweaking. I don't know. This is Dade County prison. This is the pre-trial detention years. I'm about to meet MacAzo, the head of Zopound. Now, we know last night, when they put on a show of force for us, MacAzo had arranged an entire event here in prison. We're about to meet his lawyer and himself. He's gonna be very sensitive because he's facing some serious charges. MacAzo has already spent the last six years behind bars. I've been granted an interview on the condition that I meet him in the presence of his lawyer. Mac, how you doing? Mac, how you doing? Yeah, very well, Mac. Obviously, his lawyer doesn't want MacAzo to say anything that would endanger his appeal. As you know, we're over doing a story about Zopound. First of all, how's jail? How is jail? It's all, I mean, what you know, hanging in there. Yeah. It's hell, but you know, got to survive. What does Zopound stand for you? The meeting. This meeting is gonna be over really quick. I mean, pride thing, to be proud of movement, of cause, you know, that's what we fought for. I mean, I know you got, you know, a lot of things, a negative thing that they say about Zopound and for me to sit here, you know, like I'm a Saint Lord angel, you know, I'd be fooling myself and fooling y'all, which I'm not, but I mean, I had my little run-ins or whatever and, but manly of movement was more for cause, fighting for our people and just standing for them, you know, just wanting to see them be proud of who they are, you know. Well, growing up on the streets, what you have to go through, it surprises me that so many of you canakers are still alive because sometimes it's a dangerous place there. Yeah, it's a rough life, you know. Wouldn't wish this life on the low one. With his appeal looming, I understand that Maccazo has to be on his best behavior, but it's difficult for me to marry the man I've just met to the roots of gangster the police believe he is. He asked two questions. Before I leave Miami, I head back to Little Haiti to meet Bulldog. I ask him to fill in the blanks for me. Now, on the subject of Maccazo, he's at the top of the tree, he's a God, OG, a regional gangster, he's in for three attempted murders any number of days, so they say, right. But anybody gets what I hear on the streets, that guy. It's not to be fucked with. Not to be fucked with, of course. Is that nobody gets the top of the tree like that. That's a long body count to his name. Lots of, but the notches on your gun, but to be realistic with you, ain't too many fucking people running these streets that don't have a lot of body counts. Maccazo is a living legend out here. If it wasn't for Maccazo and his generation, man, this Haitian community still be running around and getting kicked in the ass. It's bad being black and poor in America, but being black, Haitian and poor, there's nothing worse than that, man. For some, the only way to Miami's riches is through the illicit drug. Haitians got good food too, man. You should try some food from them while you was here. Ain't even gonna lie. Straight. The Haitians are the latest arrivals, and it's their struggle for a market share that's given rise to the murder rate. It's a dangerous world, and the ones at the bottom, the foot soldiers, often pay the ultimate price. When opportunities are sparse, many feel they have no alternative. Right here, man, you can easily get a click-clack. Ain't no coming back from that. You ain't lying. Ain't no coming back from the click-clack. I came to Miami to investigate why this town has such a spiraling murder rate, but I can't help feeling that Miami skyline stands testament to the fact that crime does sometimes pay. In this city of Exiles, that message does not go unnoticed as everyone looks for a fast track out of the ghetto. This is the gang culture mentality in the USA, and it's not about to change anytime soon. Yeah, it's funny that he says, like, if he looks at the skyline, money crime does pay, but look at all the people that are committing the crime. Look where they at. Well, the little foot soldiers that's doing all the work, they in the ghetto. His name is Dono. T.L. O'Leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post, man. Interesting stuff, man, especially since I'm here. I'm gone.