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Sometimes you may need an actual police officer, but, honesty, how often? >> everyday in the city of oakland, a city thats 435,000 people there are 2,000 calls a day from people who actually have emergencies, right? and would like somebody to respond and provide them service. >> but, also isnt it a problem that they have one number to call for that general emergency? >> thats the progression, right, what other number is available? may be there is a number specifically for mental health or mental...

No one else is coming to help us. it is on us but, luckily, we are enough. and this art has taken over much of the streets on walls, on boarded up buildings, is about doing for ourselves too. these are our streets. this is our town. we can make sure that it reflects our spirit, our beliefs, our power, our heros and may be most importantly, our god[bleep] youth. stand up oakland! >> yeah. it looks beautiful. >> i have to say that i do have a level of pride knowing that i helped a little bit with ...

>> in okayed oakland, art is activism and activism is art, and claiming that space, as oakland is getting hyphy and ghost riding is whipin the sides show. man, im old. >> just get it all the way across. >> all the way across? >> yeah, all the way across. >> okay. >> so thats 1 # 7 plus 66. >> 263. >> is that oakland public school education? is it was that what it was? >> yeah, thats right.

>> i remember the day oscar grant was killed. i remember how it spread through the bay area. i remember going to those protests. i remember being afraid. i remember when johannes mehserle was found guilty of something called involuntary manslaughter. >> he was murdered. my son was murdered. >> oakland has never been the same. >> right here is where the actual bullet that traveled through oscars body hit the platform floor, bounced back up and went into his chest, collapsing one of his lungs. >> ...

Young women who died. >> its heartbreaking to see anyone killed at the hands of those entrusted to protect us. but, its unthinkable when its kids. and yet, its all too often the case that black children, especially our boys, grow up with targets on their backs from day one. you remember the tamir rice? >> you know, i went to oakland public schools. and when you grow up in a place that is overwhelmingly majority students of color, theres just a different way that the system views kids behavior. t...

And his voice still is heard across this world. >> when oscar grant was killed, it really felt like an oakland story at the time, but its a testament to the bay area, a testament to the activists, a testament to oscars family that they kept his name out there so that he would not be forgotten. ♪ the bay area is a beautiful place. oakland is a beautiful and powerful place. every day, people are creating incredible art and ideas that will change the world, but more importantly, change our world....

Anti-police terror project. not anti-police, but the anti-police terre yore. it scared me at first time i heard it name too. i mean, i think that the thing thaw thats important to remember about oak land is that its the birth place of black panther party. and something that i think people outside of oak land even some people inside of oakland dont realize is that the panther party was formed to fight police violence and that lays, i think the foundation for every single movement that weve seen i...

Theres 41 kids in there. and no one is telling those people to right size the system. >> right. i mean, we want our children to go to safe schools. were not just fighting against something, were fighting for something. >> in 2011, jackie and the black organizing project started the bettering our schools system or boss campaign. because, you got to have an acronym. and in 2020, acronym accomplished and walked the police right out of the oakland public schools. >> we have dismantled an entire poli...

Way different. the city of vaellejo is built around the docks, just like oakland. but, unlike oakland, that industry abandoned vellejo in the 90s, leaving the city with broken economy and dubious distinction of having the deadliest police force in northern california and in case your just joining us, thats saying a lot. >> i came to vellejo because i felt that people werent being heard. >> otis taylor is a journalist who has spent his last three years documenting police violence in vellejo, cali...

And more this. as you can already see, parts of this show will be graphic and hard to watch. but, i really feel like with this episode its important to show whats going on out here. and weve tried to do that with respect to the victims and their families. so, welcome to oakland, california. the town, by adopted home that i hope adopts me back. where the conversation around americas need for fundamental structural change is always in full swing. a part of whats locally known as town business. and...