1:34:01
I shake my head and wonder why.
1:34:04
- How long you been riding
the bus?
1:34:07
- I've been working here
1:34:08
just about three years now.
- About three years?
1:34:11
- Yeah. My brother...
I got my brother working here,
1:34:14
half of my neighbourhood
works out here.
1:34:16
Just about everybody I know
personally works in the mall.
1:34:20
In Flint, doing the same thing
I'm doing now,
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they only pay minimum wage
in Flint. I come 40 miles
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to make three or four
dollars more an hour.
1:34:28
- How much do you make an hour?
- I make 8.50 now.
1:34:31
- Is that enough
to pay the bills?
1:34:33
- No.
1:34:35
- So did you know Tamarla Owens,
1:34:37
the woman whose son
shot the little girl?
1:34:40
I think she rode this bus.
- I knew her a little bit.
1:34:43
Not real good.
- Nice lady?
1:34:45
- Yeah, she was okay. She came
to work every day, did her job.
1:34:49
She worked two jobs, so...
- She worked two jobs?
1:34:51
- She was trying
to make ends meet.
1:34:54
"We're going hopping
We're going hopping today
1:34:56
"Where things are popping...
1:34:58
- This is Dick Clark's
American Bandstand Grill,
1:35:00
where Tamarla worked
one of her two jobs.
1:35:03
"On the Bandstand
Bandstand"
1:35:05
- I think she worked in this room
here, as a bartender,
1:35:09
fountain-person making drinks,
making shakes, desserts.
1:35:13
- Was she a good employee?
- Yeah, she was.
1:35:15
She also worked at the Fudgery,
in the mall here.
1:35:21
- Dick Clark is
an American icon,
1:35:24
the man who brought rock'n'roll
into our homes every week
1:35:27
on American Bandstand.
1:35:28
- Every part of your life,
you can link up
1:35:31
to a part of music, usually.
So, as Dick says,
1:35:33
"It's the soundtrack
of our lives."
1:35:35
Music's the soundtrack
of our lives.
1:35:38
- His restaurant and the
Fudgery, here in Auburn Hills,
1:35:40
applied for special tax breaks
because they were using
1:35:43
welfare people as employees.
1:35:45
Even though Tamarla worked
up to 70 hours a week
1:35:47
at these two jobs
1:35:49
in the mall, she did not earn
enough to pay her rent.
1:35:53
And one week before
the shooting,
1:35:55
was told by her landlord
1:35:57
that he was evicting her.
1:35:59
With nowhere to go
and not wanting to take