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Sometimes you may need an actual police officer, but, honesty, how often? >> everyday in the city of oakland, a city that's 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 isn't it a problem that they have one number to call for that general emergency? >> that's the progression, right, what other number is available? may be there is a number specifically for mental health or mental illness related issues. >> or a number to call if a black guy is looking at birds in central par...

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 this. like, in my oakland card, this is a punch. >> it's all love, and it's oakland that brought thi...

>> 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, i'm old. >> just get it all the way across. >> all the way across? >> yeah, all the way across. >> okay. >> so that's 1 # 7 plus 66. >> 263. >> is that oakland public school education? is it was that what it was? >> yeah, that's 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 oscar's body hit the platform floor, bounced back up and went into his chest, collapsing one of his lungs. >> mama wanda is oscar grant's mother, uncle bobby his uncle, beatrice is his aunt, and latifah simon ...

Young women who died. >> it's heartbreaking to see anyone killed at the hands of those entrusted to protect us. but, it's unthinkable when it's kids. and yet, it's 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, there's just a different way that the system views kids' behavior. the education system and system that is supposed to be sort of a great equalizer is actually of...