Southeast, Washington, D.C.

Cross is pulled away from a high profile murder case in his own neighborhood.

Which is a predominantly Black working class community in Southeast DC, right?

Correct.

And he is pulled from that to investigate a completely different crime, the kidnapping of two wealthy children from an exclusive elite private school.

Maya told Front that she hated having sex with these strangers but wanted to keep the pimp happy.

One morning three months after she first met the man, Front says that Maya was found by a passerby, lying crumpled on a street in Southeast DC, half-naked and confused.

The night before, Maya told her a sex buyer had taken her somewhere against her will, and she later recalled being gang raped there for hours before being dumped on the street.

She was traumatized and blamed herself for what happened.

This is about people who die or go bankrupt because they don't have healthcare

healthcareThis is about young Black men in cities like Chicago, uh, Compton, Watts, Harlem, Southeast DC, who don't have opportunities other than what they see is available in the underground economy.

I am tired of people calling our ideas radical.

There is nothing radical about wanting your children to have a high quality education.

He's sitting over here in the passenger seat.

And I said, what are you talking about? And he said, well, who's doing all the drive-bys and carjackings in Southeast? He was referring to Southeast Washington, D.C., which is predominantly Black.

There are some whites who live there.

It is very high crime-ridden.

It was incredible.

Like everybody was buzzing as we walked back to the subway in Southeast D.C. For a long time, fans of the W have been shouting from the rooftops about the league.

Like we're trying to get everybody in.

We're not gatekeeping at all.

We're riding around, whatever, and we got on the topic of, uh, of Black crime, which is really a crime of opportunity because we don't hear about white-on-white crime, right? But anyway, he said, he made, he made the statement, which I've heard again a million times from these people, um, uh, that, uh, that Black people are born with a gene that makes us violent.

Um, you know, "What are you, what are you talking about?" He says, "Well, who's doing all the carjackings and drive-bys in Southeast?" He's referring to Southeast Washington, DC, which is predominantly Black.

There's some whites that live there, but it's predominantly Black, and yes, it's very high crime-ridden.

I said, "Okay." I said, "It's Black people, but you're not considering the demographics.