Transcripts For ALJAZ Daisy And Max 20240711

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The place that used to be called South Central infamous for drive by shootings, gangs and the rodney king riots. But for hundreds of thousands of families that make south l. A. Their home, thats just part of the story. Come up with a week, a thing every day. Daisy grew up here, the middle of 3 sisters in a cluster of small houses, her dad bought about 25 years ago, was a bit weaker up in South Central bottom ol. Away from l. A. Riots started the day with most of us like me. My sister surname freshener. Ation americans and my family comes straight from mexico. My dad brought all his brothers and sisters with the dreams and hopes of them having a Better Future wreck of a cake. But it is less poverty that have been never lock us up with what is thought of her in 2002 when daisy was 15, the security her parents had worked for was shattered. Her older sister, on helicopter was shot and killed in the driveway of the family property and had finished college and was just about to start a great job. She was also raising 2 boys. The shooter was a gang member. And this fact as mark daisys life in more ways than one. Welcome to nothing. Here are what youre doing there. Either really questions for me. To start teaching my little bit about you. I have a bachelors in psychology, a masters in france, the psychology and i in the counseling psychology program. Now i have dedicated my career to working with you that are involved in generational gang involvement. And if we can help more people like that, then maybe we can prevent more victims. So when you consider while shes studying for her doctorate, daisy has been working as a counselor for that risk families and their kids. But its a job that sometimes puts her in danger. See thats not good, but that it will be spending this. And im going to call it live. I couldnt, i couldnt get where they were from. Why therell be here like i like chaos at the park. They were throwing up their gang signs. See, i would be fair. He would know what to do. If daisy could call him max would know what to do. The he had been a gang member for most of his life. Before he became an interventionist part really, really help and they come like hes just not everybody wants to become to get member Florence Crown the lowest estimate is 3 percent. The highest estimate is 15 percent of the kids in those neighborhoods to become gang members. Violent crime and gang membership in los angeles has dropped in recent years as it has in other parts of the country. But people in south l. A. Are still about 3 times more likely to be murdered than in other parts of the city. And summer is the most dangerous time. In the hot months when the tempers flare, even a small class can turn deadly in the city, hires interventionists like max to work in the parks and head off any violence. Gang intervention workers still have credibility with the gas. They cannot go through to have the respect of Law Enforcement and not snitches. So these guys live on their word. They walk a very thin line, did no one else can really fully appreciate what these men and women do. They keep one body bag from becoming 15 body bags to the max. Started trying to reduce the violence about 12 years ago when he was 31. By that point he writes, all i knew was gang life in prison. And all reality, i did never see me getting out. But then one day i could explain to a friends little girl why i couldnt come home for christmas. That broke my heart. And i decided i had to change well max and i would be walking our because i would just join him in his walk. So we would just make our presence known, you know, with the kid, with the people playing basketball inside or, you know, teenagers to like to hang out in the back. That wouldnt be going on if he was here, let me tell you that im here and thats what i meant, daisy. Because the max, he had me talk to her on the phone regarding a client that was that i was service team, but he got shot in their area. The max max would be on the phone, the whole phraselator. And i started doing this job. I was sent out to a lot of crime scenes. I saw a lot of stuff that was very difficult to deal with. Its not easy to see. A kid that youve been working with. You see him at school, and then the you get a call. And you seen with the sheet over him over a couple of years, daisy and max bonded through their passion for community work. He says, i told my go, were going to marry her. And they said, yeah, i believe you, doug. I believe they said no, no, no, no. Ok. What i am, what i did, they just like my pregnancy was the happiest time of my life. I never felt so full of life literally. You know there was this look in his eyes. Just seen him experience something new and it just brought me joy like ive seen a little kid in thanks alina. Oh yes yes. But its and thought nothing of a joke. You know what they say in the though not far media coolmore like this, then thats so youll get out the map. But they will, thats going to say, i meant there by follow. Lets start over on the fact that up there. Yes. He its been 6 months since baby sarah was born. Max is working on the streets. Daisy is studying for her doctorate. And sarah has 2 parents who adore me behind the gates of the family. Property. Life seems to be going pretty well. Until in the middle of the night in late spring, daisy wakes up to loud voices and the sound of her door being smashed in. I couldnt move. I couldnt move. I just stood over my baby because i dont want to know mess with her. Its an f. B. I. Raid and its part of a city wide sweep. The feds cause operation breaking bad. It was very fusing. And they were just like, oh, where is it . Where is where he put. Im like, what are you talking about . Max is hauled outside where he is cuffed, arrested, and taken away. Daisy is left by herself with her baby and several armed f. B. I. Agents. Have some of these agents sad are trying to talk to you like theyre your friends. Like you, you know, my wife just had a baby, she says the whole time. Im like ok, so you understand how scared i am i really dont know. I just you know why you nicely but they dont leave. And what starts as a bad dream turns into a nightmare for workers coming. And then i look, i already know when you, once you call the social worker, shes not leaving empty handed. She came and said, im going to have to take the baby. You have to kill me to take my child and they were just like if you cooperate, hed everything would be a lot easier. So she was like either make her bad or i could take i dont even remember handing over like it just went from having her to not having her. I dont even remember that i was on it today and its been 4 days since the f. B. I. Was here. Its just hard at the nothing makes sense. Everything is kind of odd. So i feel as saw this has been a big mistake. Max is held in the federal Detention Center in downtown l. A. The charges against him are for a minor drug deal. 3 years ago before he and daisy became a couple the f. B. I. Agents told social workers they found drugs in the house based on that baby, sara has been taken away to a foster home. I have to find a place for her outside of this property and do some major drug tests and pending that and my people be given back to me. Theyre arresting people that are charged with these. You know what in the governments minor, these horrific crimes. And theres kids or so the easiest thing to do is scoop the kids up, put them into what the government considers a safe environment and then let the family court determine what to do with them. And theres one charge against max for a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine with him on a codefendant. 3600. 00 was involved in the transaction and the customer turned out to be a confidential informant for the f. B. I. They arrest happens 3 years later because they dont want to burn the confidential informant. Theres all this is real. Typical max is denied bail. Daisy will not be allowed to see him in person for 3 months. She will only be able to communicate with him by phone and email. Both monitored. The raid does not produce any new charges against max, but the existing charges from 3 years ago could put him away for life. If the case elect a bad dream, if you nightmare like some of the kids started calling would happen, there was hardly last the matter that my brother and her imagine this is happening. How do i handle this . Just feel like theres big boy somehow when i got an intervention worker gets arrested. This sort of when i told you so all mentality from the public. But i know what these men and women do. Theyre amazing human beings. But they do not walk on water. Max is not allowed to discuss his case, but daisy strongly denies. There were drugs in the house on the night of the raid. The f. B. I. Insists there was meth in the house, but is not releasing any documentation to prove. I took a drug test hours after they took zahra, the social worker calls me and says, your urine was too clean. Why did you drink so much water . And i said, you know why, you came into my home, you took my child and it may be my family in this one even know daisy who has no criminal history takes another drug test and passes it. She moved her things to her aunt and uncles house and asked the social workers to inspect it as a new home for sarah, outside her old neighborhood. But as the weeks turn into a month, the baby is still not released to her or to family members like her mother and father who have applied for custody as shes not getting any answers from the county. When max decided to change his life a decade ago, he could have walked away entirely from gangs. But instead he chose to stay in that world to become a gang intervention worker and try to undo some of the damage he had done in his past. Having one foot in one foot out his 1st, getting them in trouble, trying to make peace agreements between gangs. You have to speak to criminals. As speaking to these people will make you guilty of a crime him. I had had many conversations about this work while we were colleagues, and he said that he would give his life in the street if it could save any of these kids. Max writes, if you grew up in a community where theres no violence, you dont see the struggle that kids go to when they see gangs as positive. But like any of us could have been maxs position. There. Everything taken away in. Oh, i feel like he just being targeted its like being in a religion, you have to live in both worlds. You dont have a choice if you want to be effective, you have to in where there were better. Weve done in the past. Were trying to lay a tone for it and its not recognized, and its always the bad whatevers bad. 1st, our past always haunts us. To drive their industrial expansion and european powers colonised, huge areas of the world rich resources. 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It marks a major escalation in the 12 day conflict, which is threatening to destabilize the horn of africa. Well, as the headline, snow is back to days and next month after an f. B. I. Raid toward daisys family apart, baby sarah remains in a foster home. And max remains in a prison cell based on his prior record, the prosecutors are going to seek a life sentence for the small drug deal from 3 years ago. The judge doesnt have to agree to the possibility, but he may theyre destroying gangs workers. Thats the purpose of this is basically the federal equivalent of 3 strokes. Particular judge where were concerned is that he would willingly and force it. And at that point, rex doesnt have a real bright future. Daisy and liz start gathering letters of support for max from families. Hes helped over the years since he became an intervention where the give him just a stronger thank you. Think from the Police Department juvenile impact program. This is from elementary school, thanking him this from the county. Maxs lawyer submit snyman deep 3 pages of support letters to the court, and everyone waits to hear what the judge will decide. In the meantime, daisy has to keep working through the Family Court System to get her baby sarah back. Daisy has made every condition the social workers have given her, but without success. So max will speak to me. He would be like, oh no. They said that, you know, you should have the baby backs on but it is not know whats going on out here. And over a monitor phone line. If theres so many so much you can say at this point, daisy think she might get sarah out of foster care. If her younger sister, claudia, can get temporary custody. Maybe maybe we had an appointment at 8 at 750, but cloudier will need to apply for custody from a new house away from the family property. So daisy and cloudier. I going to pool their resources to rent a house east of the city. Since sarah was taken, daisy is only allowed to see her twice a week. Her mommy loves mommy miss you are my son please dont take my son, son there wit goodnight mumma. 7 mom, i love, 000. Could you send me a picture . Ok. Ok, thank you. Ok. Bye bye. I think you are serious. They will kill us and they are this books very unthinking and this happens. Im going to get her back real fast. Look how pretty you look and looks like from them will leave her alone. My sister living in a nice neighborhood and they have no more excuses. They cant give me any more excuses. Its been about 6 weeks now. Daisy still cant understand why shes not been allowed to bring sarah home and its looking possible that max may never get out. We had filed everything about max and our social services are worthless and the community judge was not real receptive. Chargers not known for his compassion. I wish the best, not everybody, but were talking about a lot of time and i have families dont survive as families. Sara daddy writes you this letter with tears in my eyes. Im sorry, im not with you. To see your 1st steps. You say daisy, there are no words in the can express what i am feeling. Knowing our daughter was taken from us. I never meant to put you and sarah in the situation that i did. I dont want you to feel incarcerated with me. No matter what happens to max. Daisy has to keep Going Forward to bring sarah home. So she, her sister claudia and cloudy as husband jerry get ready to leave the family property for the big house. He was there if at any point i feel that im not fighting for my family if i i dont know what that would do to me. So yeah, every day is looking to today looking to be here in town. Right there. Thats all for joyce. During those times or i feel like losing it. I remember when mom and i realized that there is no way that i could every marriage she must of felt toward my dad with they must have felt to user 20 year old daughter this is like elica yak, one of the nest, the men of iraq, a a hawk almost every bit of us you want, well call a hero. So my sister had to endure the message violence and kept it a secret with a gang member. After a few years, she decided to, you know, make a life 1st went back to school. Full time job and he couldnt accept that. He said youre not. Youre not going to see another another birthing of our son. I was 15. I was with her when this happened he waited for us to come home. And i said, we dont mean that our doors. I just heard what i thought were firecrackers and i looked over at my sister was covered in blood asking for air this is why i am who i am. Is not who i am, but is why i am not really the good little oh oh oh check system out there by bringing joy to let that happen here. See read it. This is yes. Yes. Yes. Its like that i feel violated is absolutely not the way that i wanted my daughter to get to know the world. I wanted her to believe in fairy tale is a unicorn set up leave ever after him. Were going to have to hold the hopes its been almost 2 months since the raid daisy knows, the f. B. I. Claimed max had drugs in her house on the night he was arrested but now daisys public defender and family court blindsides her with a new accusation. The day i think im getting sarah back, my public defender tells me that theyre going to take me to trial. Just like the public defender tells daisy the social workers think she must have been hiding something because she took too long to answer the door for the f. B. I. And i say, why was this question asked of me before i was a you dont know me, you have no idea what ive been through. I dont know how im going to do it, but i need another lawyer. Quick me. Close like daisy sister, claudia, borrow several 1000. 00 from her boss. And daisy uses the money to hire a firm of attorneys who specialize in family law. I went to go meet with my lawyer and he was like, they have in place here with family. Im like, no why approached the court and he was like, ive been clean else like i dont use drugs. So then he was even more and then he asked me, is your husband in state or federal custody . I said federal and they sit. All he said ok, i see this going is like theyre using your child as leverage. Theyre trying to pressure your husband into cooperate. I felt as though someone with knowledge was on my side now. They cannot be making them and they have nothing against me. They can even say i have a child walking ticket. Daisys new attorney talks to the judge who also questions why sarah was not placed with family. The judge says she sees no reason for doozie to be separated from sarah any longer but the county social workers still have the final say. Good, good for us. Because normal friday, saturday, sunday, and monday. Have you guys try to win over the net or boyhood home . There were many years after her 5th visit to family court. Daisy finally gets a meeting at the county social workers offices for daisy to get sarah back. The social workers tell her max has to give up his parental rights. Since daisy is still not allowed to visit max in person, she has to tell him over the phone, calling from prison. Oh, he said, you do and you say whatever you have to do to get babe yonder stance is not something that can be stopped with any paper. Its been 9 weeks since the raid max is still in detention, waiting for his trial and facing a possible life sentence. He has agreed to give up his parental rights. And the moment has come for the county to make a decision about sarah like, i dont know what the process is very, very, to leave you just why do they have exactly when you saw one of them called me back. Hello. Ok, great. So where do i oh ok, thank you so much and all this means to me. Ok, thank you. Ok, bye bye. So im picking her up at one. I guess you need to take some time to get her stuff ready. All right, and we can put this behind coerced and were in a better place. Were in a better place for her with for months to come. Almost all would be with us as we took 10 beliefs. Walk around, free to be nothing more. You know you think this is a step step that been a journey of a 1000 miles im thinking be thankful for what you have just after sarah comes home, daisy is allowed to start visiting max in person for the 1st time since the raid and tell her were going to go see daddy, but that good news is short lived. Out of the blue max gets hit with a new set of charges. This time, its in a federal racketeering case with 30 other people, alleging that he is still active in a gang. Is the indictment on its face, going to have a potential for a life in prison. But this is the type of thing where once again, they can add that career criminal enhancement of this toast. The federal government has used record tearing laws against organized crime for years. Recently, the f. B. I. Has been using the same laws to sweep alleged gang members off the streets and somewhere like, oh my god. So rejoice that was my 1st thought. Then i realized what this presented to me as an opportunity to be in front of a different judge. The new judge gives max a chance. If he pleads guilty to 2 of the new charges, he can escape a life sentence. So like 97 percent of people facing federal drug charges max enters into a plea bargain. He is thankful to have a release date. He is just optimistic that things will work out for us and hell be out some and for some reason i, i believe him. Right after sarahs 1st birthday, max was sent to a federal prison, a few hours outside l. A. To start serving a 15 year sentence. Daisy texeira to visit him every saturday as he finishes writing access to these deals. So i can go back to be with my family and prove i am a good person. I dont want to kid to see that mistakes, condemn a person forever. The reason for change if you want to change your you know, i guess something something wrong have to want your life for something that comes next and will help me get it. I graduated and im, im working thanks to them. Other brother they had told me, even if youve got a sure way youre going to have something a rock in the way you gotta get up and keep on long enough here today to talk about a communication. Oh boy here has been, has ever been put down. What i do comes from the heart in the midst of your storm. You meet other people that just survived their own earthquake. You admire this person soul in me, hoping them they help me where there is life we can survive it all the head of the latest storm system is just blown out of the Eastern Mediterranean and its showing itself as showers and a cooler air stream in for example jerusalem 60 degrees and that cold wind blows down through the red sea and i think will induce some showers in eastern sudan. Weve got the same potential in the high ground in southwest, saudi and western europe. And then this rain, probably the 4th and so wandered around through kuwait and just heading into eastern side. I dont think it will affect bahrain or qatar, but i wouldnt rule it out entirely. But this is a change of season should hardly surprising this time the year. The seasonal rain proper has gone south. Now its really a line through tanzania, the congo, back to something about northern gola and its there in the forecast. There are still a few showers in south sudan and a little bit of rain in the fast as a somalia. Basically, the northeast monsoon setting in now, which is largely a dry picture for the horn of africa. And it tends to, in hearts the rains for the south as well. Weve seen significant rain recently, as you can see from the satellite in northern madagascar. And the same is true in south africa in the next day or so. I think were going to be in juice, rain all along the cape coast, and up to the suitors. You have this book looks recently found the moment. Portal is both so not so windy and sherry but moved out of his parents house after he got married. He says he found more space living in this case. After a run of eating it last year. Its now his home, along with his wife, to turn around and help. But the Israeli Government said that he will speak with structed. Weve gotten permits and issued as a militia and ordered last month. Our interview would cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with a bulldozer, residents say soldiers gave them one minute to get home. It took the found me months to build their brick and dust than an hour to see it get demolished. Do you feel validated in south way . Is a type of performative activism. Lets go back to specifically you calling a white supremacist. The lights are on the. Theres nowhere to hide. Join me Richelle Carey is up at the front questions to my special guests and challenge them to some Straight Talk and political debate from retirements on aljazeera aljazeera from the out is here in london through a path and in conversation the day the american states that theyve unprompted uninterrupted, all of these, these divisions of the working class of working people, and they keep us from realizing our collective power. Morally, crapo, me, homemade. Then if you obey them all through the 30 years, you begin to work with them. 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