Individual who live a positive life . Where does that begin . How will you choose . Before we come to talk to you about it, i think you need to hear this. music . Now is question and answer time. Well done. Make some noise for wild and done. applause . Anybody have questions . Any questions . What we did was i scoured basically the internet and found stories throughout the country and a lot of these stories that we weave together did come from sacramento. For example, jacob over here who was playing bill went in to a store to try to steal some paint and that actually did happen in sacramento, where they broke in, the guy was upstairs, he was the owner, he was being, you know, vandalized or stolen from and the kid got shot just for some containers of liquor. When we say these things happened, we did weave them together. Is there a question back there . I was wondering on your personal opinion on the beating. Our personal on gravanis, the whole thing is its permission based. Now, i know
See a whole lot of schools but he has a whole other job. We used to go out and do two performances a week so we were doing 16 or 18 but its just with the manpower shortage, since 2007 our Theater Department has lost like 40 percent of what we usually do. I know that noels department, hes lost people and programs and hopefully things are going to get better. It says a lot for the program when in rough budget times, were still around. So we meet a lot of students. Success stories of kids who were going the wrong way . As a matter of fact, the first couple semesters, where we did a break out session, where we break out with the teachers and their students and one of the actual kids said, you know, something is going on in my house, my brothers a gang banger, the house is abusive, and that breakout session, that child actually reached out to us. We were able to get dps to actually pull her out of her house so its a good venue for those kids to express that. I had a fourth grader who told m
Were going the wrong way . As a matter of fact, the first couple semesters, where we did a break out session, where we break out with the teachers and their students and one of the actual kids said, you know, something is going on in my house, my brothers a gang banger, the house is abusive, and that breakout session, that child actually reached out to us. We were able to get dps to actually pull her out of her house so its a good venue for those kids to express that. I had a fourth grader who told me, he said if they think i can do better in the world. He was a fourth grader, they can feel sad or they can feel its not good, but i had a fourth grader look at me and say, we are doing a lot of good. My question was also already been answered. Has your presentation had any impact on the level of gravanis . Thats something we have to measure. And thats something, thats when we actually go into the Elementary Schools because, you know, the kids, i dont know about San Francisco but in sacram
This is real. Three of our kids are dead now. A coward would stay home and let you get shot over something stupid. Go home and lead. The rest of us got work to do. You dont have to do this. You dont have to buy this kind of trouble. You can good a little further and do the right thing. Whats that . I dont know, but it aint this. This is negative. Kids die young over this kind of stuff. Were in a war. No youre not. Its a stupid war, then. Go home, all of yall. Go home now . Hey, come back here right now. Come back here right now. Thats it, heat, you aint my folk. I am your folk. You aint my folk. I am your best friend. I can take that but im not going to your funeral, man. I aint going to no more funerals. Come back. Lets look at what happens to inaudible and tibo yo whats up, man . Not much, man. What you been up to since last we talked . I just been thinking a lot about what you said. I didnt mean to come off so hard. Thats just it, you were right. Do the right thing. Im heading to co
From those gangsters. If tivo is right, you better be careful. Some of your best art work is being crossed out. Thats cool, ill move on and do another. The qs, quality and quantity is my game. You better quit, spiderman. Guys like you, they got no backup. True. Ill run with you guys. Look, you cant decide you are kicking with us, we dont bang, we dont want nothing from your gang. You mean to tell me if a gang crossed you out, you do nothing. I do this for the fun, the thrill. You start banging, im quiting. The gang, x1, citywide damage. I dont want any of that. Well see, man, well see. music . inaudible dangerous element but its all about fun, right . Until. Hey, mr. Torrez, are you all right . They ran in, they grabbed all the money out of the register, they even grabbed a case of beer. Ill call the police. What is that going to do . Thats it. You know they are coming back and next time im going to be ready. Im worried about him. He cant sleep. He keeps hoping hopping out of bed every