care, they don t have no love, i tell you yes, they do. understand, mr. bill, mr. jackson, mr. washington, this is your opportunity at this time to make a choice. it was almost like a warning, and then as i was listening to him it just got louder and more impassioned as he went. i realized he was making sure that everybody, all the inmates knew what was going on. these three guys were getting a second chance. now, i want you to show them, i want you to show this department that you can stand and make a difference. i know you might say, big sam, i don t think he s talking to me right. i just want you to know, that s just the way it is. nothing personal. this is a jail. you got a life ahead of you. what you do with it is on you. at one point in the speech, big sam was warning these inmates that because they were being let out of the situation, they may be viewed as snitches.
lockdown. everybody in. everybody on lockdown. we re doing our thing, someone walked out there, take [ bleep ] off the cart. if we don t get it back right now, we re going door-to-door, we re taking everything you re not supposed to have. so whoever did it, now, take the punishment so we don t punish the rest of the pod. [ bleep ]. whoever took something, give it up. if you don t, everyone s going to suffer. man [ bleep ]. as minimal as it seems, the fact that somebody stole candy, it s still taken seriously because it s a theft. that s the way it s going to roll. [ bleep ]. jail has to show that they re going to hold everybody accountable for any type of infraction. and they don t tolerate any type of illegal activity.
given direct orders to engage in a riot that will happen at 8:00 on this specified day. every member of the mafia is required to participate, no exceptions. the problem was, we had no way to validate the information given to us. so we didn t know, you know, do we lock down the jail? do we wait and see what happens? what exactly are we going to do at this point? by this time, we were hours away from when he said the riots were going to happen. so we went ahead and put our cert team, special response team, on standby and just as the informant said, 7:45 in the annex, when the first altercation began. and a domino effect occurred. get on the floor. we were not present to cover the riot, the jail did provide us with footage of the aftermath shot by the special response team officers. we don t know the exact reason why the mafia order the
advised. inside san antonio s bexar county jail, two gangs, the mexican mafia and the tango orejones, pose the greatest throat security. but according to gang investigator officer rodriguez, there are only two pieces in a complicated puzzle. in the bexar county jail, there are approximately nine prison gangs, but uncountable number of street gangs. street gangs pop up, literally overnight sometimes. and dissolve as quick lip however, prison gangs have a lot more of a thicker history, it s a larger population, they re actually nationwide. one of the larger gang is the aryan brotherhood. aryan brotherhood is a true prison gang like the mexican mafia. they have a constitution, a hierarchy, a paramilitary structure. at hispanic bexar county jail, the gang is characteristically quiet. the white population is very low.
items from the jail commissary. took all of our stuff. we were with the associate warden when he visited a housing unit in which many of the problems occurred. he put the heartless felons on notice. this my jail. ain t nobody in here going to run nothing in here but me. what you need to do is lay it down. three of the inmates in the unit, however, were pulled aside. they were confirmed by the jail to be heartless felons. but they had not been associated with any of the recent thefts. warden ivy decided they should be placed in general population, freeing themselves for more problematic heartless felons from other housing units. stand in the hallway. one point we were filming and i could hear sam yelling, and i thought he was yelling angrily at somebody. quickly grabbed brian, our cameraman, there was sam. mr. bill, mr. jackson, mr. washington delivering this sermon. when you hear people say the men in black, they don t give a