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Barbie. at the time meko rejected the pimp label. he said he offers guidance and protection to women working in the sex trade. >> i have never have one girl ever been hurt being with me. not one. you guys look at it differently, but i truly believe i'm doing a good deed by protecting them. i can see how you would say you're contributing to the problem. i understand where you're coming from, but i look at it like i'm protecting them and doing a good deed, because a lot of the girls only -- no one looks out for them. >> he is like every other pimp. >> police are not impressed by his guardian ang...

Meko spots another woman out in the cold working the corner. >> what's up, how are you doing? >> let me hollar at you for a minute? are you all right? >> meko is surprised by the woman's advanced age and mental condition. >> okay. >> that girl looked to me to be about 50 something. usually, a lot at that age are not playing with a full deck for lack of a better term. they either have extreme drug addiction or mental illness. >> it's hard to imagine a more dismal stretch of concrete on a cold winter night. this is in every imaginable way, a road to nowhere. >> there are very few girls, i mean v...

Akaak aka meko, is arrest pd. he says he doesn't feel like a pimp, he is more of a guardian angel for lost souls. >> yeah, i kind of see myself as a leader in the adult business. i try to guide those that are lost back into the light. i try to teach them martial arts. any girl i'm associated with, i try to build them up. i want them to feel strong, empowered, you know. i want them to eventually do something else, go to school. but i think they need someone

Like me to show them the way. >> it began on the east side in the 1980s. as a teenager into boxing and martial harts, he would hand around the gyms where pimps would hang out. >> i started bouncing for things like that at bachelor parties. i got to know the girls and one thing lead to another. >> meko made a living with his fists as a bouncer and collector. in 1991, he got a little too rough with a debtor and went to the state penitentiary. >> i went to prison because someone was disrespecting one of my relatives on a gambling debt, and he didn't want to pay, and he got kidnapped, beat, and