very clear idea. he would only give me a year. a year from now, i ll be collecting my tax return from working my two jobs, one under the table and one on the books, and i ll take this and i ll buy cars. you buy a car for $1,000 and put a price tag on it for $1,300. sell all five of those cars, you just made, what, 12? $1,200 profit. and keep doing it. it s just like selling dope, but you re selling a do modty. everybody needs a car. a lot of the guys i talk to, a tax-paying citizen is a good citizen. someone living on the right side of the law. and he was one of the rare people that referenced that as a goal. a year from now, that s where i see myself. and talk to me in a year and we can talk about five years. as i spoke with him more, i found out what he liked to read. a lockup sound mixer shares an interest with ezekial taylor.
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 told me what supposedly happened
reason, he s the only man who s got my back. i am my brother s keeper. and we ve lived by that motto since we was kids. the last 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.
it s [ bleep ], all right? who was danielle, that s my daughter s mom. but, yeah, i mean, just for [ bleep ] entertainment purposes, i m going to tell you, it says daniel, and it says, daniel s world. and where is this located? oh, man, right above my [ bleep ]. gabriel had a lot of tattoos, but one he had on his back, and that was his brother s ezekial name, because ezekial always had his back. he constantly told me about him and spoke about him as if they were best friends. i can t say he s my everything, he s more than that. i don t know, man, he s my mom, my dad, my brother, my son. he s everything that i got in this world. he s my reason for being. it s a lockup show, msnbc. we got to the jail one morning and we had a plan in mind of what we were going to do and a deputy comes up and tells us that gabriel, his brother, ezekial has been booked in. so immediately, our plans had changed for the day. we went into a holding cell where he was at and started
the cities of mow sol and at the create. president obama is considering a range of options to help iraq. and former pittsburgh stealers coach chuck noll has died. he helped the steelers to four super bowl wins in the 1970st. back to lockup. we ve covered dozens of gang stories on lockup. but the ones that really stay with us are about the young men who have tremendous potential, that they ve squandered away by joining a gang. the story of two brothers in oakland struck us that way. and their story had a deeper impact on our crew and our staff than possibly any story we ve ever told. gabriel and ezekial taylor