:19:01
...and the manager saw me,
caught me red-handed.
:19:04
He calls my mom, she comes
to the grocery store and...
:19:07
...you know, my mom must have
lectured me for two or three hours.
:19:12
Lectured you?
:19:14
You didn't get a beating?
:19:17
Not a smack or nothing?
:19:19
His mother's white.
:19:21
She's white, so what?
:19:23
I'm just telling him.
:19:24
Is it relevant?
:19:26
- Your mother's just different.
- You have a problem?
:19:28
No, I don't have a problem.
:19:30
She's different. Our mothers
whup ass. Yours lectures.
:19:33
That's all.
:19:35
- Nothing personal.
- Nothing personal.
:19:36
You're a sensitive,
sensitive brother. Sensitive.
:19:41
What do you do for work?
:19:42
I work with kids at risk.
:19:46
What kind of kids?
:19:47
Gangbangers.
:19:49
Good luck on that, brother.
:19:52
I meet them on my job every day.
:19:54
Trying to get through to them
is like talking to a brick wall.
:19:59
What do you do?
:20:01
I'm a cop.
:20:04
You're a cop?
:20:06
- Where?
- South Central.
:20:08
Let's get this straight.
:20:10
Your daddy got 187'd by a brother...
:20:13
...and you 5-O in South Central?
:20:14
We need cops who ain't looking
for an excuse to smoke a brother.
:20:18
I became a cop because a lot of cops
up here don't give a damn.
:20:23
Call an ambulance, it takes 20 minutes.
Call a cop, it takes two hours.
:20:26
- So when you get the call?
- ASAP, brother.
:20:29
You never pulled a Rodney King?
:20:30
No, and hope I never have to.
:20:33
You hope? What do you mean?
:20:34
I mean there's a lot of brothers
out here who play for keeps.
:20:38
Crips and Bloods are not choirboys.
:20:41
Most white kids ain't choirboys,
but do you whup them at will?
:20:45
If I have to clock a brother
to teach him a lesson...
:20:48
...I'll do it and save his life.
:20:51
You think what you want.
:20:52
All you know about South Central
is what you see at the movies...
:20:56
...brought to you by folks who don't
go south of the Santa Monica Freeway.