race. the fact we were lifers, we were probably going to have to stab people. first thing that got into my head was, we better get some knives. living on the street, you learn one thing. you survive by any means necessary. you do whatever it takes to get out of a situation like that. so if that means i have to become an accomplice, so be it. i'm not going to die. you know, i'm just too young. it became -- it came from there. one day they came up to me and said, you're going on a mission in ad seg. my mission was to stab a man who came from another yard who was supposedly no good because they wouldn't have jump off in a riot after they got attacked. the woods on that yard was no good because they didn't attack the blacks after they got attacked. i stabbed this man three times and i got away with it. i walked off into the middle of the yard before the buzzer went off on the yard for everybody to get down. i had blood all over my hands.