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Let's not waste any time Anymore time scenes of drug abuse and discussion of vibe right be prepared right from the very start and throughout I'm too defensive language scenes of drug abuse and discussion of violence, which may distress some viewers in Britain Almost seventy thousand people across all communities under the age of 25 now consider themselves to be gang members Now consider the seventy thousand people across all communities under the age of 25 Now consider themselves to be gang members In London today, there are said to be up to four thousand five hundred people in close to two hundred and fifty street gangs Increasingly gangs recruit younger members as foot soldiers to use in their drug operations In London in 2017, 25 teenagers were killed as a result of gang-related activity They've taken away his life, and it's hard to understand why The pattern of roadbeats and revenge provide a never-ending cycle of unforgiving violence UK gang culture is driven in Fluenced by the infamous American gangs the Bloods and the Crips People in London people in Atlanta people in New York pick up the gang culture of Gang culture is now destroying families from every community in the UK He wasn't just stepped once in the heart of step once in the lung. He was bitchy Fast forwarded My foot hurt y'all I was trying to open the ice pack and it buzzed My bad, I'm gonna edit that out. You probably won't see none of that left to deal with the consequences of their actions I'm trying to feel a void in my life the remorse the regret the guilt and To get the inside story from real gang members. We gave them cameras and allowed them to film their own lives Tell us what it's really like on the streets of the UK today That's pretty dope You gotta fear nobody that be deceased Everybody gotta remember that I know they was I know they was walking around with the knife sharpener like that. That's tough. That's different That's like a Chicago do walking around with a bullet press or something. That's that's crazy In the UK gang violence is on the rise Bloody turf wars between rival gangs has seen nationwide stabbings increased by 22% in the past year With some victims as young as 13 Families across the country are grieving Their loved ones are dying as a result of out of control gang warfare and Increasingly this violence is fueled by a desire for revenge No, man, I'm a mama Texan Many those people that stand in it. I must see mothers and dads And it that's crazy because you know with that same attitude you should be able to think like man I know it comes with this duck come for this But you know, how's this gonna affect the people around me that love me? You know I'm saying that should be the mindset You know as I older as I got older. I just These things come to fruition these things come up in my mind like dang I wouldn't even thinking about nobody around me Until I have my daughter, you know, and then it was like alright This is the route I drove on I dropped him off That day drove around here And I stopped right here and let him out in August 2016 Yemi's 19 year old son Andre was murdered He was killed by a local gang I just drove off Went off to my sisters and he was outside here just hanging out with the young people And he was just walking up and down outside these houses. He never moved from here And the car your son was trapping. It's gonna be cold there for you mom RIP but just so I was trapped God out there. All right when it arrived came from this side and Pulled up right in front of the food and wine where he was And then you can feel in the CCTV his face is like shock horror and he kind of contemplates What he's gonna do and then he decides to just run on the estate where he used to live We did he get a drive by or did he get Andre had a long-running feud with the shrub land boys the gang who killed him He became friends with a young man, but the relationship became bad over a girl that Andre was oh my god, I Tell y'all all the time man. These are all these beasts Almost all the time be over girls You think they care the women they think it's a game to them They don't care Friends with and that's kind of how that started because the boy got upset about Andre being in his business and then that's when the threats first started to come the boy Started sending all these gun and knife emojis to Andre and saying, you know, I'm gonna stab and kill you and I'm gonna shoot you And I remember Andre showing them to me and like they had a few backwards and forwards arguments You know social media and then that's when the Confrontation started So the first major problem I got a phone call from Andre and I was asleep and I was like what's going on He was like you need to come now and I've drove up to the spot And I saw him running towards the car him and his friend and I said to him I've started to drive off what's going on and he said his friend had been shot in the face so I kind of looked behind me and There was this point in the back of my car with his face pouring of blood By the middle of that week, they'd come to the house and their friend in the car I just smashed my car window and then they just started smashing the windows downstairs in the living room And then the following night there was a drive-by shooting They both had on silver helmets and white t-shirts and the boy had the shotgun sticking out of a rucksack Even my son was shocked you couldn't understand why they were shooting and where the guns came from and I don't know why he was shocked. He knew what this was That boy sent your son IP once again He sent your son emojis letting him know what he what type of time he was on Shouldn't be a shock to your son to you. Yes, absolutely Back-and-forth issues with this group of boys, but all of a sudden it had got really serious When street feuding and beefs escalate on social media the consequences can be deadly Lyrics and music videos that taunt rival gangs glamorize the idea of violent turf war Moscow 17 has a long-running Moscow 17 gang zone 2 from Peckham Stick videos have been flamed between two gangs They're gonna play the whole song during the summer of 2018 Sadiq Kamara and Raheem Barton both members of Moscow 17 were murdered. I Remember this. I mean I remember hearing about this This endless cycle of online beef is fueled by the need for violent revenge I'm good if you go beef on the road said you're gonna miss you okay, so you come back to looking before hearing about them You know what's crazy about it man This is how a lot of bystanders get involved and whatnot man cuz like in Chicago everybody got every I don't every young person got a every Everybody under 45 45 and under that's the age. I'm not even playing with you even buff Got a gun Like everybody man, so like It's like if you run up on me Mistaken identity or you shooting like I got it like like he just said you got a I Gotta do mine before you do yours, but boy Because if you run up on me, and I'm just walking and you mistake me for somebody like I can't play with you Cuz you're not gonna play with me You're not even gonna think you're gonna be mindless about it I Wish he stopped texting So Andre ran down here And the car chased him so there was two two on foot running along the pavement armed In London in 2016 Yummy son Andre found himself in a dispute with a local guy. Okay, my bad one more time Yeah, me. I know you love your son again. That's what I said was an angel and he might have been But from my experience look how heavy they was they was on yours. They was running broke down On foot and car he called the shrubland boys On the day of his death he was chased by four members of the gang in a planned attack and at this point the car came back round and pulled up over here and There were more witnesses around here that said they saw him trying to get in that door over there They had him up against the wall two of them were on him Witnesses that lived above Said that she could hear him screaming She said like she'll never forget that noise of him actually screaming the way that he was screaming But he still managed to run they stopped and he still managed to run. There was a blood footprint on this wall Where we'd obviously jumped like like jumped up and then he ended up collapsing there in the grass Right here Yeah, right here He wasn't just stabbed once in the heart stabbed once in the lung. He was butchered. He was hit numerous times with a pole stabbed numerous times One of them was pointing the gun at him and saying you deserve this and they were just kicking his head in like a football Just boot in it and it was just His head was just going backwards and forwards like this and he was spinning Around and around in the circle and they was just kicking and kicking and kicking him and then they just left him there This I mean, I ain't gonna go by line like I hear the back story. Oh, it's about a girl somebody good. Nah, bro No, no, no, no, there's too much. There's this is this to this is true personal. I Get it. Okay, some people would be senseless about a girl's stupid, but like they he did some he ran off or so he did something Gotta be a little bit deeper footage filmed by a local resident will never know paramedics trying to save Andre's life And then everybody started to come to aid him and they were saying that he was talking can you get my mom? I want my mom and I was skin for water Which is obviously a sign of a collapsed lung And everybody did what they could to save him, but he had two cardiac arrests It's even at the end He probably knew he was in a bad way. That's still calling for me Get my mom like he was did That sucks. I remember when I got jumped. I was acting for my mom, too As well as my mom was my mom also asking for One chick at a time. Well, it's not one chick, you know, she used to be in my videos if y'all go look them up She's in a Karl Pückhamton video anonymous. She go by anonymous The last one for her too That's deep though imagine your child and his last breaths calling for you If you can't get there fast enough the whole incident the whole deaf wants me to be like Getting jumped the serious man. I don't know if any of y'all ever got jumped In the weeks leading up to the murder the feuding on social media between Andre's group of friends called money habits And the shrubland boys had reached fever pitch Fever pitch Yeah This is most likely one of the weapons used to kill Andre Ali Zahawi was one of the three people from the shrubland boys convicted of his murder Today, I'm taking Ali the clothes Because he has one opportunity in a year to get his clothing purchased and taken to him Dunya is Ali Zahawi's mother Libyan jail fresh Ali is now serving a 22-year sentence in prison To deal with having your son in prison for many many years I wish I could have done something about it I take responsibility for any part that I went wrong because he's my son and I'm his mother It's only when he reached the age of 18 to 20. That's when things start to get really out of shape and and worrying He was out of education out of employment and he became a dad at a young age broke him a bug at 18 So the life didn't choose him. He chose the life He felt like he's helpless But the real struggle and the real challenge which which led to this tragedy was when he became friend with a new Group of young people and that's where things Started to go seriously wrong These three young people have been having a problem with another group of young people and then when Ali became their friend He became part of the problem With my daughter Stalman she hit her I Said that don't happen to me. I'm big dog Anytime I see her I Just wish that I Do anything for her that gives her relief even if it's for one minute Because no mother should be experiencing this True. Yeah, your son in jail for 22 years were jumping off the porch at 18 like a dummy. I can't even hold it in there, man stupid, well you 18 Jobless and no edge is no more educated. That's you're an 18 year old. That's what every 18 year old go You not 14 in the trenches that your mom is homeless and you ain't got nothing you had got no choice 18 just graduated high school. You don't have a job every 18 year old goes to The day when he got arrested life really being a follower. This was a don't be a follower people he becomes meaningless Happiness is not there anymore. It's a huge amount of conflict. That's how I'm feeling about him Sorry for young gang members on the road today Violence revenge and retribution are a way of life and they say that carrying a weapon is a necessity Don't want to be crying say she looks this on so we see when you're fucking shit page and Obviously have it with us without safety get me so there's gonna be no fair at all it's necessary to try Oh With weapons and the culture of using them now prevalent on the streets It's not just gang members who are paying the price YouTube remember this is for educational purposes I'm putting up the murder posters for witness appeal from the Metropolitan Police So I'm hoping that we could jog people's memories and maybe get a witness to come forward to help us help to solve my son's murder in February 2017 Michelle son JJ was an innocent victim of gang violence and was stabbed to death in Islington, North London He went on a night out in Upper Street in Islington and then he witnessed six people Come up and surround a car Stab someone and I believe that my son went forward to give help to that person because he was known to him and They stabbed my son in the word to give help to that person because he was known to him because he wasn't he knew them They stabbed my son in the heart This CCTV footage shows the gang moments before and after JJ's murder Witnesses are scared to come forward fearing for their lives and as a result. This is a sketch You see this man right here This is the epitome of minding my business Tell everybody my business man to come forward fearing for their lives and as a result No one has yet been arrested for the killing. I knew the gang that came That night would go undercover and go quiet and that wall of silence would go up I'm angry still because a lot of people know what's happened to my son and they're not coming forward and talking about it I have to keep trying and keep pushing to see what we can do to help this investigation Like I said, man, you got to think of it like this, ma'am If you if you want to put it in the simplest form that was your son's boy I guess he knew him But like he your son died because he didn't mind his business and that's no offense He lost his life because he did not mind his business. I tell people all the time coming from Chicago Minding your business is the best way to stay alive You know I'm saying it's as simple as that. I know you're Sam. He's a human. He wanted to give a helping hand But you know I'm saying you got to make sure they clear areas clear before you go give that helping hand You day you sound see six people, you know Figure eight and somebody and walk up right when they Steal almost figure eight and I'm like That's the harsh reality of it. I know I'm being a little harsh, but I mean that's what it is now Yeah, my business Wait until the area is clear. I mean if you want to be a good citizen, just wait until the area is clear You know said then go Administer CP higher, you know, this is my best. This is the best advice that I can possibly get Can't sit back and do nothing in these situations like this For me to get justice for my son Even the people on the street know who killed my son are not cooperating with the police Because they're worried about being called a snitch or they're worried about what will happen to them Now they're not worried about being called a snitch because them is bystanders. They're not involved They're worried about what's gonna happen to them for facts. I've lived and worked in Islington for 90% of my life always felt safe don't feel safe now And you hear on a daily basis now that people are being attacked and knife crime as a part of it If someone chooses to be in a gang they're choosing a lifestyle My son never chose that lifestyle. You're right. You're right Yes, I was innocent man They took it I've lost my baby He was my only child and They didn't just take my heart They ripped my umbilical cord out for me as well They've taken everything that life was for and now I just feel Why am I here? There's no purpose anymore for me Purpose of my life was to take care of my child and I feel I failed him Honestly, man, you can steal good morals in your son and he was trying to do the right thing But you know in this world, it's a cold world This is a cold world man. The people that do the right things This is what happened to him like now cap like I'm not saying People everybody y'all should do the right thing but make sure you do the right thing at the right moment in time It's not just in London that young people are dying from gang violence Anif Muhammad is a former gangster known for his acts of violence on the streets of Sheffield. I Was a thug I had over 25 convictions. I was at a really bad reputation so I lived outside of law and If you have an issue, how what do you do? Do you tell somebody? Absolutely not you deal with it yourself In a revenge fueled attack over a local dispute and if stabbed to death and armed rival He was sent to prison and served 10 years for manslaughter In he was sent to dispute deal with it yourself In a revenge fueled attack over a local dispute and if stabbed to death and armed rival How did he get manslaughter his lawyers? God, how did he get manslaughter? He was sent to prison and served 10 years for manslaughter Initially, I remember I was a street kid. So my mentality where you live by the sword you die by the sword There was no mercy. There was no remorse initially because I was still in that space Still in the mindset of understanding that this guy was an enemy sit down darling sit down bumble seas, please sit down having kids is It's priceless really because I had a lot of anxiety I'll be totally honest with you because I thought I've done I've done a lot of bad things in my life I don't deserve all this. I got my demons That I'm battling with for the crime that I committed because not a single night goes by where I don't think about my victim, too And now I look at my son and I think imagine someone took his life I mentioned to my life. That's how I look at it How I was then was like these youngers now where we didn't give a fuck consumed by anger hatred You know all in negativity For Hanif the consequences of his actions have been long-lasting and destroyed his victims family and also devastated his own I can't put into words what my parents thought of me back then, you know when I commit that crime And they were ashamed. They were disgusted. I think to be completely honest with you My mom was in a state of denial and I said mom I just sat down one day I said mom I got to break it down, you know, this is gonna hurt you But I orchestrated and I executed as my shit, you know, I mean your son did this. It wasn't them I'm not gonna get away from a slaughter. He's telling us right now. He's just pre-meditated murder Okay, but nobody Guess it's like there's America man. No double jeopardy, man That's tough What can you say to a 15-year-old boy now that is Taking a knife to school every day because he feels like that's the right thing to do life crime affected my life it turned my life upside down I Believe it's my I don't know man because I feel like these parents are first-generation You know I'm saying so it's like like me like I don't know man Like I like I want to put my daughter in a better situation than I was ever in so it's like Hopefully like she would never have to do that, but I'm putting my daughter in like taekwondo and boxing and all that So she could defend herself with hands but like for me it's like Shoot when I was in Chicago, I carry my pole every day every single day So it will be hard for me to tell somebody not to you get what I'm saying because for me It was it was like shoot. I'd rather have it on me than not Because if somebody try to run up on me and take my life, I'm not gonna go period So it's real hard for me to be like, oh man, I don't care. We you don't do nothing. I can't I could never tell nobody that because shoe When I first moved into my last apartment in Chicago the second day it was a drive-by so no I'm carrying that You know saying I've been I've been blicked that so no for no reason too. So no I Doesn't mean duty now to send this message to all the young people since her son Ali was convicted of murder Dunya has been seeking to make amends for her son's crime by working with charities aiming to stop gang violence and knife crime Why I'm doing this I'm not looking for sympathy or empathy. I need to tell my story So parents look out for signs and do something and it's the ordinary people who need to come together to put an end to this Since speaking out publicly on radio about her situation, Dunya has received a large amount Like she's first generation she says it's important for parents to see sign How would you see signs if this is your first time being in this country? You would know like What's going on in the streets? You know what's going on the streets of where you're from but in here this street You don't know so Well, how would those signs become apparent? So I get it like she's trying to teach people what the signs are that she might have missed But you know and in that moment that's when she was living that moment and seeing things. She didn't know She couldn't have negative backlash It was on Twitter and Facebook. I think it was about 122 comments something like that and almost all of them are Negative you must be so proud love you are part of the problem Rotten hell you piece of crap These comments keeps me awake at night when I'm trying to give explanations of What happened how it happened how can we avoid this is? Gets interpreted as a mother coming up with excuses for her son's crime and that's exactly not what I'm doing perpetrators Side of the story needs to be told Because they know why things can go wrong That's why I'm putting myself out there. You're gonna accuse me. You're gonna call me names You're gonna blame me and I'm accepting that because the purpose is much higher Things went wrong I Take responsibility if you blame me I take responsibility, but there's more into it if you keep on I don't think sitting here. I don't I might be contradicting myself. I don't even know but like I don't think I ever once blamed her I'm just saying she wouldn't have no idea What the signs are until afterwards? So I don't really I can't you can I can't put no blame on blaming me. Nothing's gonna change out there She ain't never been in the streets never been attached to the streets. She put like this. Maybe her first time She by the move to London like she don't know I don't like being in a position that makes me feel scared and frightened. I don't like that We were not my man for food. I come superman When you go in life, you don't have to do fear that in this day I don't want to die for the current my one More much of UK gang culture has been influenced by America The notorious feud between the Los Angeles gangs the Bloods and the Cribs is often cited as the beginning of modern gang warfare as we know it I'm gonna get killed by somebody from a another Gang or whatever Straight up. That's it. That's all we couldn't go handle that Now you killed the humming we couldn't go knock one of you niggas off I feel like YouTube might interpret my reactions as that's how I be getting blacklisted on YouTube for sure A lot of y'all don't see my videos, but they there but I've definitely be getting black ball black ball, but like you can't they don't they don't you don't see them And I feel like they be interpreting me as like perpetuating or glorifying this but now I'm just telling my I'm just telling like I'm here on the side and I'm really just dissecting it And telling you what's really happening And like how to avoid this why I should be doing this on twitch Better be caught with it than caught without it. That's the fact. You're killed killed I'm going to get my man Not all that but you know the first part this birthday's june 4th And um, I get out here so I can uh, it's a Gemini I Former police officer stinson brown has witnessed first hand the shocking gang violence on l.a. Streets In 2009 his son unwittingly got caught in the crossfire of warring gangs and was killed I come out here Takes you back and opens up that wound and as a parent you always blame yourself For the passing of your children. It's never their fault Oh, what could I have done? It was better The night of his son's murder will forever be ingrained on his memory About 6 30 in the morning on a dot by doorbell ring It wasn't my son and it was the detectives. Well, now I know something's wrong They said stinson. Uh, do you have a son named stinson amir broncos? Yes, I do they says well Do you know he went to a party last night? I said, well, no, he's 21. He's entitled to go to a party They said was stinson your son was shot And he didn't make it now understand with that pause Your son was shot in my mind. I'm thinking okay. What hospital I got to go to But when he said he didn't make it Man everything in me went to the floor. I was empty. I was confused Yeah, did I feel hatred? Yeah, I felt hatred, but I was confused On different various levels, various levels I had an opportunity to cut up to see blood for blood on the streets To live a life of a vengilante It would have been understood Me being a police officer being being a man who I am To go out and they say somebody's got to pay I don't care who somebody this is a club That I don't wish on nobody But particularly when you bury your kids that don't I don't wish to don't nobody man I'm my worst enemy. There's other things you can suffer from but not that Yeah, that's a nightmare Some of y'all might not have kids, but that's like I don't know man. I'd be having thoughts like ah man That'd be rough man when I got jumped many gang members across the uk Losing a friend in a revenge attack is becoming all too commonplace Of course, lots of people from this Whether you're a courier, b4, gun violence, gun landmurder, it's hard It's laughter, it's not fun, it's not games I've lost people to this laughter I'm a young man, and I know tomorrow what I can do with my life I know tomorrow what I can do with my life I was gonna say when I got jumped they called my mom My mom came back from the hospital My little brother thought I was dead You know what I'm saying? That's a feeling that I didn't know that at the time but like knowing that like I found out like a couple years ago That that was the that that happened and I I don't know good feeling to me You know what I'm saying? So that that alone made me like nah, bro My little brother Thought I was dead thought he was gonna have to go to my funeral That ain't nothing cool. That ain't cool It's like when I'm enough people with this part of the chance Roll the dice, you win, you win if you're done, then you're free As you can see, this is someone that's just moved into a house It's madness really, absolute madness Nine months after her son JJ was murdered by a London gang Michelle is still trying to come to terms with her grief She has decided to move out of London and away from the shadow of gang violence That hangs over the Capitol This is JJ's stuff, paperwork mainly This was given to me, the day my son died The criminal justice system Coping with grief when someone close to you has been killed That's as much help as I got I've got nothing nice to say about victim support because They haven't been supportive at all They offered me counselling But said that I would have to wait six months Well my son had already been dead four months So I just told them not to bother Because it makes you feel like that unfortunately I went to victim support They sent me a voucher for £50 for Tesco's And that's what I received from victim support It's not why I needed, what I needed was some help And I don't know what help I need I've never lost my child before And I've never had somebody murdered in my family before So how do I know what help I need? As soon as I've seen my son, I've seen him I've seen him, I've seen him I've seen him, I've seen him I've seen him, I've seen him I've seen him, I've seen him So how do I know what help I need? As soon as I feel I should have my son's stuff Packed up like this His stuff should be hanging in a wardrobe Waiting for him to come and wear it Side note, remember man, I just did a podcast I think it was a good podcast It was a good little interview man It's on a channel called The Blueprint Mastermind And it's episode 11 If y'all, any of y'all get a chance And y'all are interested in what I got to say Go check it out, there will be a part two So leave comments in there The link will be down in the description So it should I said nothing, I can't do nothing with it It should, it should It shouldn't be like this I've moved to a house Which was going to be a family home And I haven't got my family anymore My family's gone And especially when it was so brutally done For no reason No one can find a reason why my son's murdered None Being a good citizen, there ain't no reason With the gang who killed JJ yet to be brought to justice Thoughts of retribution are never far from Michelle's mind I could pick up a knife and walk round going I'm going to start killing people Because somebody killed my son But I know right from wrong And I know that's not going to achieve anything In the long run What I need to happen is For people to pay justice And someone needs to pay for murdering my son I feel very angry That they're still alive Because they're the people that went out and did wrong Even if they give him life for life Even if he gets a death penalty It still wouldn't be justice The justice for me would have been My son being allowed to finish his life No one can ever give me back that No one That's what I tried to tell, man People would be like, oh, time heals are not Time don't heal or a closure do And this lady need closure for sure Time does not heal When I'm going to start We know our parents ain't going to do nothing They're not going to go out there And go and shoot someone for us Or, you know, get revenge We try to get anywhere They can't It's impossible So we write that for each other We write that for our family The way we do In Sheffield Former gangster Hanif Mohammed Is still coming to terms with the lasting impact Of a violent act of retribution So where I'm about to go now Is the edge of my exclusion zone So basically, if I were to cross another few feet into that Technically, I could go straight back to prison Having served ten years in jail for manslaughter He is now out on parole And forbidden to return to parts of his hometown I feel like I'm banished from my home But understandably so It's justified, absolutely And there's a reason for it and all, you know It's about respecting the victim's family How they feel, they'll feel just to say it and done So, you know At the time of the death Both Hanif and the victim were local rivals Who became embroiled in a dispute I've got absolutely no animal to turn towards him Hatred or anger now Is replaced by regret A sense of humbleness, a sense of A fucked up man What can I do, what can I do to change it I can't do anything and I'm trying to feel a void in my life The void is the remorse The regret The guilt It's something that I did on my own And I have to carry that burden At the end of the day, I deserve everything I got And to be completely honest with you If I were being a judge, I would give myself more You know, I don't feel ten years is long enough To take somebody's life One thing I can't do is compensate for that error In an attempt to break the cycle of hatred and revenge That you live in the UK The victim's family through his probation officer Hoping this would be the first step On the road to forgiveness Unfortunately, it's something that they weren't interested in Which I have to respect obviously They weren't prepared to engage with me So it is what it is But I left myself open and to be honest with you Deep down inside, I'm kind of glad Because that would have been the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life Looking into the eye of the person who's You know, I've took that kid away from him This is the time to reflect This is the time to take account Of my life The 57 years that God has allowed me to be on this planet In Los Angeles following his son's murder Stinson Brown found himself at a crossroads No parent ever shafted barely on children Had to make a decision Do I seek retribution Or do I start taking a path And the test steps towards forgiveness I don't need to walk the life Being bitter and angry and wondered You know, caused harm to other human beings God is the one that will repay It's in his word So I saw it forgiveness I said so as a Christian And it's a true believer in God and Jesus Christ I want to forgive Pierre White who was the name of the defendant For murdering my son I can't go on living life With hatred in my heart And the cloak of hatred around my neck I gotta let it go here and now In London, when violence escalates And someone dies Forgiveness is not an option for gang members First of all, the anger My brother is gone Now when my class guy is gone The same thing the Christian man is killed I lost a couple people To last term and that A couple men that are all being shot And that obviously you're not pissed at it That losing a brother that has came from his rage Obviously you're not going to start dying out and dying out Forgiveness, that's an emotion We don't deal with emotions It makes us weak It makes us look like we're surrounded We're giving up Now if I came up In one occasion And other people were there about Making the thing we're weak They don't want forgiveness in the street You don't need forgiveness I feel it man When I first moved here One of my boys in Chicago He got shot And I was so tempted to go back I was this close I was this close But I talked to him He said he was cool I was very close though So it's easy to feel out of your heart like dang The devil's tempted me Hi How are you? I'm fine, thank you Nice to meet you It's Omar I think I remember this story Yeah I wanted to talk to you face to face Remember I said earlier Mistaken identity I ain't gone To get your story from you But I do feel that there is also a lot of parents That do need to be accountable If their kids are getting up to mischief Or they're not coming home on time You as a parent have to step in And take the right measures to safeguard your kids In my son's case And when often I talk about this I get criticized a lot for it But honest to God this is a reality My son wouldn't kill a spider So it's the same question of Why, what is happening inside of their mind To make such a huge mistake Did your son take responsibility For what he did in terms of what happened It's a vague situation Lillian He's been convicted And what I'm saying is not going to change anything about No, no, I'm just asking because For me part of rehabilitation starts from when Someone can take responsibility regardless Of course So how does he feel now a year and five months down the line Still in the shocking atmosphere of Is this real And why it happened I didn't have anything to do with this And he is very upset for the mother Of the old person And the whole understanding You know when you come to realize that What you were thinking was wrong Honestly man I'm not going to keep it real With our son again man 18's he jumped off the porch 18, when you come to a gang And you come at the age of 18 They know you're a goofy They know for 100% fact At the age of 18 This grown man is coming into me Trying to be accepted He's a goofy He'll do anything for me So for the simple fact That he went and did that For that gang that he didn't even have no Didn't even have no qualms Didn't even know what was going on They knew that he would do that You're an 18 year old Joining a gang at 18 You're automatically a goofy In the members eyes That been there since 10, 9 That had no choice You're automatically That's what you labeled Even if that's not the terminology They leave it Using they looking at you Like bro what are you Alright you just Alright bet watch this You going to crash out first Cool crash out then That's how they looking at you That's him come to that stage He is I don't know how complete It's sad Thank you for being honest Yeah I don't know how complete It's sad For me rehabilitation starts from him And his acceptance of what he's done Whereas if someone's just going to Feel sorry for the situation That they've landed themselves in It's a completely different thing From feeling sorry for what they have done On the streets of the UK When gang violence erupts And someone dies The strict code by which Gang members live Overrules everything Forgiveness is not an option why Because you've done stuff to them They want you dead So you can't forgive them To get them before they get hit I mean how do you forgive someone Who's taking their life from you On the other hand now you've got The person who's on the radar Feel stupid in his life And not being killed by If you can still see his kids He's family Now that's going to offend for me Because my friend's gone My brother's gone So you told me How do I forgive that How do I forgive that It's nothing on the road to do to them You're not in the place The brutality of gang activities Destroys the normal lives of families Yemi's son Andre was murdered Following a feud with a local gang Dunya is the mother of Ali Sahawi One of those convicted of Andre's murder Having lived in the same area And passed each other on the streets many times Dunya and Yemi have finally agreed to meet Live on air to try and find a way forward Yemi, when you see Dunya What do you see? Who do you see? I see Ali's mum She's the mother of somebody that killed my child Oh, this is... Wow, have I not? I didn't even know this was going on Her son killed her son She's also a human being She's not my friend, no We're two people fighting for the same cause And Dunya, when you see Yemi What do you see? I see a heartbroken mum who Who shouldn't go through what she went through And I was so desperate to speak to her Just to explain that I don't know what happened exactly And I'm... End of the day, I'm very sorry That was a very important step to take Because I needed to see this lady And I needed to speak to her It was something I wanted to do When I was seeing her in the Old Bailey To apologize to her And express what I feel Dunya didn't... She didn't kill my child No So even when she said to me I want to apologize to you for... I said to her, you do not need to apologize to me Because this is not what you've done Your son made his own choices Like young people do They're making the choice, good or bad And they need to take responsibility For what's going on Some days I feel angry Very angry Some days I feel... Nothing We killed my child, that's it There's no explanation for that There's no reason why you Did what you did, there's none And there's nothing they could say That would make me think, oh, okay Maybe I can simplify to understand why you Did what you did, you know There's no reason None We've come together to remember before God To have brother JJ To give thanks for his life One year after the murder of her son By a local gang Michelle has arranged a remembrance service For him at a local church JJ, the one who put a smile on your face The man that always lit up the place Light up the path that your little girl's walk And give your mum the strength when she needs to I think the people that killed her son are They bogus, that's what I like to... Talk Help her win this battle that you never started Against these cowards that left us all broken high Exactly, there's the word, cowards Light up the cult for the jury to see That people using knives should never walk free With witnesses still refusing to speak out For fear of their lives No one has yet stood trial for JJ's murder If you're in a gang and if you do know someone That's murdered someone By being quiet You're making them into a hero Who thinks he can use a knife at every... That's not the mentality though If you're in a gang and they all in that together They all caught that body After they've gone on the scoreboard No offence but the people that did take their life Of this lady's child They're weak, they're huff But you know what I'm saying The argument, so how do you know you're not his next target? Gang members know they're not worried About what happens to us because it doesn't Immediately affect them We need to take away their power The endless roadbeats and tit-for-tat violence Mean that there is little end in sight To gang warfare Forgiveness, it can only change so much The proof in this official cycle Is going to go on for generations My kids are going to have problems with your kids So this is one of those things that never ends It's going to keep going around and around And for gang members today There is no way out of this cycle of revenge What does it feel like to be stabbed? What happens when you die? Obviously what does force come to your head Because you see everybody else dying around you It's going to have to turn to you To be next to you Feel a little even like, comment, subscribe Turn on your post notification bells Y'all heard what I had to say