SCRIPT — Copwatch v.6 NAT KEVIN MOORE — (AT PROTEST) Yeah, you’re a jerk. We’re not scared of ya’ll. I filmed Freddie Gray, I did that. That was me. SOT Kevin Moore I filmed the freddie gray video. If you know Freddie Gray, you know Kevin Moore. They’re synonymous. NAT KEVIN MOORE — (AT PROTEST) “Awww somebody is upset. Look at the baby, look at the baby. SOT Kevin Moore These guys are walking round, beating us like there’s no tomorrow. But we are not afraid. And we will use the weapons that we have in these cameras and record everything and we will show the world, what you do to us. There is going to be no more police brutality because we have Copwatch in Baltimore now. And I’m going to make sure that every single time the police are out there doing something they have no business doing that it’s going to be recorded and it’s going to be documented. I’m going to keep on watching these police, these pigs that laugh in our face. I’m Kevin Moore, I’m the one behind this mask and I’m gonna keep on copwatching. TITLE CARD — WATCHING, WHILE WAITING FOR CHANGE IDEAS: A NEW MOMENT FOR COPWATCH COPS, CAMERAS, AND TENSION SOT — ANDREA PRICHETT The idea of Copwatch is that it’s consciousness. It’s not about hating the police. It’s about recognizing that policing in America is an ineffective method of ensuring community safety. My name is Andrea Prichett and I help to start Copwatch in 1990. COPWATCH VIDEO NAT — Video from Refused to be Abused (COPWATCH OLD VID) “Witnesses, please make sure you get phone numbers. NAT — Andrea talking to students in Berkeley If you walked up on something, you don’t wanna.. i wanna get my camera” (gun sign) NAT — Andrea talking to homeless lady Have the police been coming through? Woman: they’re around. In the 1990s the climate was all about go police.// I think that’s the difference in these 25 years, is that we can’t say it’s not happening. And that’s been the goal of Copwatch all along, We’re being policed by people who have an unbridled privilege, an unlimited privilege, and that they—they’re not being controlled and they’re not being held accountable. SOT JACOB CRAWFORD and back then there was no youtube, there was no twitter. i don’t think you could even put video online at that point. so it was very isolating to go and videotape the police // but over the years you can see copwatch as something that’s transcended a group. NAT — Back in Baltimore. Jacob and David in the projects. SOT Jacob Copwatch in the last year has started to grow and take on a whole new form. And it’s actually being boots on the ground and helping other Copwatchs get started. Like with Ferguson I didn’t know anybody and I made that step and did it. Mike Brown had just been murdered, the cops were pointing rifles at kids. I saw it on live stream, I said this is unbelievable. I didn’t know anybody out there, I didn’t know what I was going to do. SOT DAVID WHITT “My name is David Whitt. I’m from Ferguson, Missouri. I live in the complex where Mike Brown was murdered and killed by the officer. After Mike Brown’s murder and there was no video, I knew that it was time for us to arm ourselves with cameras as citizens. SHOT OF FREDDIE GRAY’S MEMORIAL. DAVID TAKING PICTURES SOT DAVID WHITT “When Jacob came out to Ferguson, I opened my door man, come on in. Jacob: When we find people who are like us, it’s almost like we’re family immediately. SOT JACOB CRAWFORD So in the case of Baltimore, Kevin moore was copwatching and we made contact with him and he’s like, we gotta do this. so of course we were going to go to baltimore. DATE THIS May 2, 2015 NAT JACOB TALKING TO POLICE IN WEST BALTIMORE POLICE: What’s copwatch? it’s a facebook website JACOB: It’s civilians watching the police. How do you feel about everything right now. How does this make you feel? POLICE: Sad makes me real sad. Everyone suffers. JACOB: You guys stop people and break up families. how do you feel looking at what’s happening in the past two weeks and know that you’re part of it. POLICE: This isn’t necessarily a police problem. this is a systemic problem. a lot of people play a role. you actually play a role in it yourself. ABOUT T-SHIRT... COP BEATING SOMEONE UP. THUG RESPONSE FROM POLICE. RAP SCENE HERE + SOT from Kevin: “I did some bad shit” NAT DAVID WHITT WALKING OUTSIDE Projection scene on stoop NAT— WALKING UP TO POLICE AT THE TRAIN STATION/CVS FRIED: You get me a shirt? I thought you said you were going to get me a shirt. KEVIN: Hey, if you’re a good cop we love you. FRIED: I love you guys too. We’re all good cops. DW: This is the fight for our freedom. When Walter Scott got shot.. FRIED: Who is Walter Scott? DW: C’mon stay with me. Walter Scott. South Carolina, This is going on nationwide. POLICE: So you’re from Missouri, and you’re from California, and you’re coming to Baltimore to tell us what we’re going to do? POLICE: So basically you guys just ride around and take pictures of police. POLICE 2: Why don’t you document crime in the community? We’ve had one in custody death this year, and we have 80 deaths murders this year. I think that’s a problem. JACOB: But as long as you guys are pulling people over, jacking them and making people feel bad about themselves, people are going to hate you, like they’ve always hated you. POLICE 2: Let me explain this to you. Baltimore has a violent crime issue. In my career ive probably just written 10 traffic tickets. Ive locked up 60 guys with handguns. We’re going after the bad guys. .. Have a goodnight. DW: Hey we can keep these streets safe together, how bout that? NAT — BACK IN THE HOUSE REVIEWING FOOTAGE DATE THIS — May 3, 2015 NAT Kids running outside. “We can protect our own community. We can protect our own children. We can film our own news. We are not who they say we are. We are not animals, we are not thugs.” DATE THIS — May 4, 2015 JACOB Copwatch creates people that are fearless of oppression and fearless of the police. NAT DAVID Hey brother ain’t none of this money worth it. Brother you know what they doin, you know what they doin. NAT KEVIN Wait we got somebody laughing. Don’t stop laughing. Keep smiling. Yeah. Yeah. Look at this guy, he still eyeballing. Fuck him. Without that badge you’re a bitch and a half. ANDREA WATCHING THE VIDEO SOT ANDREA you know, for someone who has lost somebody. What i see is a lot of grief and a lot of anger around that. I love these guys because they’re willing to stand up when so many people are not. And i really want to implore for anyone who is doing copwatch if there’s an idea of copwatch, it’s about being strategic. That it’s not about my anger, that it’s not about my emotion. NAT PROTEST SCENE If youre out there trying to model good copwatching, it just looks a lot different from this sometimes.” NAT SOT KEVIN MOORE I want my daughters and my son to grow up in the world where there’s some kind of peace you know what i’m saying. because the world is terrible. it’s a terrible place, excuse, im getting a little emotional but my children mean the world to me and excuse me and for them to have to grow up in a place where they’re disliked for no reason. When my children get older i really want them to be able to walk down the streets and to know that the police are there to protect you and not hurt you, and that we have the right to live. JUNE SHOTS SOT KEVIN So this is my newest addition. Her name is Kamiyah, yeah i think it’s worth it. CUT — I said what I said... Yeah girl yeah girl... say im going to live free one day and it’s because of my daddy.