the inmates that we had signed, and lo and behold, his name was on there. two months later, police arrested the prime suspect in ezekial s death, michael souter. he was charged with murder and pled not guilty. we had known this man. i watched this man holding hands with the brothers during a prayer circle. y all ain t brothers. home video we were able to acquire showed ezekial and souter together on the day of ezekial s death. they were friends. and according to witnesses, they got into an argument later that day. i think finding out about ezekial, particularly being shot and killed, was so disturbing to me. i have to be honest, my initial reaction was, he must have gone back to his old ways of robbing drug dealers. i was able to reach out to one of the taylor brothers close friends and he was the one who
said call me. i don t know if he read the book. did you say good-bye to your brother? yeah, i kind of teared up. i hate that he s leaving. i used to sit in here every day and get the paper and we would go straight to the local section and you ll find in briefs, shootings in oakland. and i always read to see if i see my brother s name there. i don t know what i would do. that would devastate me. i d probably lose my mind. while i was on the road, working out in grand rapids, i was in bed one night at the hotel and my phone started going off. and i woke up and i grabbed my phone and i had gotten a text message from a deputy in oakland telling me the news that ezekial had been murdered. i immediately grabbed my computer and started searching for news articles online and, unfortunately, i was able to
told me what supposedly happened to ezekial. and when i learned that, in fact, it was over an argument, over something insignificant like a card game, i was even more devastated. it just seemed like such a horrible mistake and a true tragedy. he was so empowered by becoming a father. his whole motivation for changing was because he was going to have a child. that this just, just, just seemed like such a tremendous loss and a tremendous waste. it s been fun, but i gotta run. right? give you guys a mic. i need to get a parting shot of you leaving. all right. no problem with that. this is the kind of bull [ bleep ] that happens, you know? you know, i can t really understand it, because it s not an environment that i ever grew up in, but, yeah.
i am my brother s keeper. and we ve lived by that motto since we was kids. the last connection i got blood relation to my father. i m my brother s keeper. i m my brother s keeper. before i met ezekial, the way gabriel used to talk about him, i just assumed the two were twins. and then when i actually saw them together, the way they were together, they would finish each other s sentences, they knew each other s histories, they just had such a bond together, that i was very surprised when they actually told me they were a year apart. keeping up with the kardashians ain t got nothing on us. i tell y all. both brothers have had a revolving door relationship with the jail since they were juveniles, growing up in oakland foster homes. i just did the math the other day. and so far, i ve done 8 years and 2 months. i ve been in jail over 20 times, from juvenile hall time as well. first time i was in juvenile hall, when i was 12 years old.
why would hannibal ride clear across the globe to go conquer rome when you live way the [ bleep ] over in africa. like, you come in way in the hell over like, why? it all boils down to greed and it helps you understand people. because, me, i m really into sociology too. i just finished a book that was called king leopold s ghost, about leopold ii and his exploitation of the congo. seemed like it was right up his alley. i was done with the book and figured i would just give it to him and help him kill a little bit of time while he was in jail. come to find out, i couldn t give it to him because of jail rules. paunch would have to wait until ezekial was released from jail to give him to the book. he was housed in the protective custody with his brother gabriel. i ll be out the day before my birthday. happy birthday. how you feeling about that? ready to go back to work. ready to go back to work. every time, right off the center of that square.