1 00:00:00,712 --> 00:00:03,016 The 22-year-old singer and actor 2 00:00:03,016 --> 00:00:05,755 was charged with shooting two off-duty police officers. 3 00:00:08,393 --> 00:00:12,669 [Shock G] From afar, around the world, and even our families, 4 00:00:12,669 --> 00:00:15,808 there's a point where if you just listened to the radio and watched the news, 5 00:00:15,808 --> 00:00:17,579 Pac seemed a little crazy. 6 00:00:17,579 --> 00:00:19,750 [reporter] His trademark closely-shaved head 7 00:00:19,750 --> 00:00:22,221 made Tupac Shakur easy to spot this morning 8 00:00:22,221 --> 00:00:23,724 in Atlanta Municipal Court. 9 00:00:23,724 --> 00:00:25,562 [Shock G] He did have a short temper. 10 00:00:25,562 --> 00:00:27,331 And he would blow situations, 11 00:00:27,331 --> 00:00:29,035 what I felt, out of proportion sometimes. 12 00:00:29,035 --> 00:00:31,072 But for those of us who were there, 13 00:00:31,072 --> 00:00:32,709 it wasn't about just being a lunatic and being crazy, 14 00:00:32,709 --> 00:00:36,149 it was about never backing down when you know you're right, 15 00:00:36,149 --> 00:00:39,121 like with the police officers who he popped in Atlanta. 16 00:00:39,121 --> 00:00:41,660 [Dante] For one, we didn't know they was off-duty cops. 17 00:00:41,660 --> 00:00:43,363 [reporter] Mark Whitwell of Clayton County 18 00:00:43,363 --> 00:00:45,501 and his brother Scott Whitwell, of Henry County 19 00:00:45,501 --> 00:00:47,505 were partying in Atlanta Saturday night. 20 00:00:47,505 --> 00:00:50,310 While crossing the street, police say, the officers 21 00:00:50,310 --> 00:00:53,483 got into an argument with Shakur and his companions. 22 00:00:53,483 --> 00:00:55,354 [Dante] I knew he had a gun in his hand 23 00:00:55,354 --> 00:00:57,291 and he shot two white people in Georgia. 24 00:00:57,291 --> 00:00:59,328 Back in them days, you'd get hung. 25 00:00:59,328 --> 00:01:01,232 But what drove that? 26 00:01:01,232 --> 00:01:05,742 His military, militant mind to protect a Black man. 27 00:01:05,742 --> 00:01:08,714 The guys punched the Black man in the face. 28 00:01:08,714 --> 00:01:10,818 He could've stayed in his car and been like, "Oh, man, 29 00:01:10,818 --> 00:01:12,087 that's fucked up what they're doing to that nigga," 30 00:01:12,087 --> 00:01:13,189 and kept it on moving. 31 00:01:13,189 --> 00:01:14,660 Like, "Nah, fuck that." 32 00:01:14,660 --> 00:01:16,664 They pull out they shit, he pull out his shit. 33 00:01:16,664 --> 00:01:18,534 Fuck all that talking. [imitates gunfire] 34 00:01:18,534 --> 00:01:20,538 "We'll talk later, nigga." 35 00:01:20,538 --> 00:01:22,542 [Dante] Whether you wanna justify the shooting or not, 36 00:01:22,542 --> 00:01:24,345 but, I mean, he couldn't run from who he was. 37 00:01:26,149 --> 00:01:27,819 [Mike] Yeah, Tupac was a warrior. 38 00:01:27,819 --> 00:01:30,324 You know, his family, they're long lines of fighters, 39 00:01:30,324 --> 00:01:32,161 freedom fighters, you know what I mean? 40 00:01:32,161 --> 00:01:34,432 And nobody scared them. Even went harder. 41 00:01:34,432 --> 00:01:36,604 [Snoop Dogg] And the crazy part is when the nigga got bailed out. 42 00:01:36,604 --> 00:01:39,408 [reporter] Shakur strutted out of court a free man on bond. 43 00:01:39,408 --> 00:01:42,147 [Snoop Dogg] Nigga stepped out that motherfucker like George Jefferson. 44 00:01:42,147 --> 00:01:44,720 "Yeah, nigga, I shot two police officers. Y'all ain't gonna do shit." 45 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:46,857 [reporter] He declined a chance to tell his side of the story. 46 00:01:46,857 --> 00:01:48,628 [Snoop Dogg] That shit was funny, 47 00:01:48,628 --> 00:01:50,197 but you can’t show the courts up like that. 48 00:01:50,197 --> 00:01:51,767 Thug Life. That's my comment. 49 00:01:51,767 --> 00:01:53,336 [reporter] What's that mean? I don't understand. 50 00:01:53,336 --> 00:01:55,140 [Glo] Afeni was really worried. 51 00:01:55,140 --> 00:01:56,309 Leave a message, right, and we'll get back to you. 52 00:01:56,309 --> 00:01:57,512 [Glo] He had a lot of press 53 00:01:57,512 --> 00:01:59,382 around him, but not like this. 54 00:01:59,382 --> 00:02:00,852 Where was y'all at when I got that school play award? 55 00:02:00,852 --> 00:02:03,491 Why y'all always come when it's problems? 56 00:02:03,491 --> 00:02:05,862 [Glo] And I didn't want him pushed to react. 57 00:02:05,862 --> 00:02:08,233 I'm just saying you're blocking my car, though. 58 00:02:08,233 --> 00:02:10,772 I can't say where they was at when I had... 59 00:02:10,772 --> 00:02:13,276 [Glo] And journalists wanted to go on that rough rapper, 60 00:02:13,276 --> 00:02:15,447 that's doing all this violent stuff. 61 00:02:15,447 --> 00:02:17,919 [reporter] The officers claim Shakur's car almost hit them. 62 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:19,823 Hey, y'all got to back off my Benz. 63 00:02:19,823 --> 00:02:21,627 [reporter] Shakur threatened the same treatment 64 00:02:21,627 --> 00:02:24,298 to TV photographers near his Mercedes Benz. 65 00:02:24,298 --> 00:02:26,570 Yeah, I'm about to run y'all down. Back off my Benz. 66 00:02:26,570 --> 00:02:28,406 [reporter] Shakur has been in several movies 67 00:02:28,406 --> 00:02:30,745 in which the character he played went wild with a gun. 68 00:02:30,745 --> 00:02:32,649 Back off my Benz. 69 00:02:32,649 --> 00:02:34,553 [Billy] Afeni pulled me to the side and said, 70 00:02:34,553 --> 00:02:37,458 "You're supposed to be watching him." 71 00:02:37,458 --> 00:02:41,399 [Shock G] Afeni, Leila, and Atron were always asking me, "Can you say something to him? 72 00:02:41,399 --> 00:02:43,269 Maybe he'll listen to you because he don't listen to me." 73 00:02:43,269 --> 00:02:45,273 I say, "He don't listen to me either." 74 00:02:45,273 --> 00:02:47,512 And to tell Pac to calm down was like, 75 00:02:47,512 --> 00:02:49,850 "Calm down? This is what got me where I'm at. 76 00:02:49,850 --> 00:02:51,720 And before, when I was calm, 77 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,291 I had nothing. Now, the whole world loves me." 78 00:02:54,291 --> 00:02:56,597 [Tupac] I'm not finna to act all enlightened. 79 00:02:56,597 --> 00:02:58,701 I'm not finna act like I got this Bible that tell me. 80 00:02:58,701 --> 00:03:00,938 I don't got shit. Never had a daddy. 81 00:03:00,938 --> 00:03:02,776 I had to teach my motherfucking self how to be a man. 82 00:03:02,776 --> 00:03:04,646 You understand me? And I'm still learning. 83 00:03:04,646 --> 00:03:07,519 But can't a motherfucker out there tell me shit 84 00:03:07,519 --> 00:03:09,656 'cause I was on welfare, started with nothing. 85 00:03:09,656 --> 00:03:11,459 Now I got a little bit of something. 86 00:03:11,459 --> 00:03:13,597 I'm on the bright screen. I'm on videos. 87 00:03:13,597 --> 00:03:15,635 Goddammit. That's why I act like this. 88 00:03:15,635 --> 00:03:17,404 Tupac's a really good kid. 89 00:03:17,404 --> 00:03:19,308 He's an educated kid, too, 90 00:03:19,308 --> 00:03:21,212 and I think he was embarrassed that he was educated. 91 00:03:21,212 --> 00:03:22,849 [Watani] He was brilliant, but Pac was the most 92 00:03:22,849 --> 00:03:24,920 intelligent stupid person I've known. 93 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:26,924 Man, we would talk about real progressive stuff. 94 00:03:26,924 --> 00:03:28,694 Pac would get up and use the restroom 95 00:03:28,694 --> 00:03:30,430 and come back talking stupid shit. 96 00:03:30,430 --> 00:03:32,267 [Tupac] All my shit is positive 97 00:03:32,267 --> 00:03:34,639 'cause it tell niggas to swing back. 98 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,545 To take the gun he would use to shoot his brother in a second 99 00:03:37,545 --> 00:03:40,283 and kill the motherfucking cop that's killing you, 100 00:03:40,283 --> 00:03:42,555 your family, and everybody else on the block. 101 00:03:42,555 --> 00:03:44,860 If that ain't positive, crack don't sell. 102 00:03:44,860 --> 00:03:46,830 So fuck 'em. It's all positive. 103 00:03:46,830 --> 00:03:48,366 And it's gonna stay Black. 104 00:03:48,366 --> 00:03:50,003 I'm not finna act white 105 00:03:50,003 --> 00:03:51,974 just ’cause y’all want me to act white, 106 00:03:51,974 --> 00:03:53,343 just 'cause all these other motherfuckers act white 107 00:03:53,343 --> 00:03:54,546 when they get they papers. 108 00:03:54,546 --> 00:03:56,650 I'mma act very Black. 109 00:03:56,650 --> 00:03:58,754 I'mma buy a Benz 'cause that's what niggas do. 110 00:03:58,754 --> 00:04:00,558 I'mma smoke weed 'cause that's what niggas do. 111 00:04:00,558 --> 00:04:02,529 I'mma pack a gat 'cause that's what niggas do. 112 00:04:02,529 --> 00:04:04,465 You understand me? 113 00:04:04,465 --> 00:04:06,570 I'mma get drunk 'cause that's what niggas do! 114 00:04:06,570 --> 00:04:09,041 ["Keep Ya Head Up" by 2Pac playing] 115 00:04:09,041 --> 00:04:10,878 - Tupac Shakur! - [cheering and applause] 116 00:04:16,790 --> 00:04:18,393 ♪ Some say The blacker the berry ♪ 117 00:04:18,393 --> 00:04:19,696 ♪ The sweeter the juice ♪ 118 00:04:19,696 --> 00:04:20,998 ♪ I say the darker the flesh ♪ 119 00:04:20,998 --> 00:04:23,002 ♪ Then the deeper the roots ♪ 120 00:04:23,002 --> 00:04:25,407 ♪ I give a holler To my sisters on welfare ♪ 121 00:04:25,407 --> 00:04:27,979 ♪ Tupac cares, If don't nobody else care ♪ 122 00:04:27,979 --> 00:04:30,685 ♪ And uh, I know they like to beat ya down a lot ♪ 123 00:04:30,685 --> 00:04:31,987 ♪ When you come around The block ♪ 124 00:04:31,987 --> 00:04:34,058 ♪ Brothas clown a lot ♪ 125 00:04:34,058 --> 00:04:36,730 ♪ But please don't cry, Dry your eyes, never let up ♪ 126 00:04:36,730 --> 00:04:39,301 ♪ Forgive but don't forget, Girl, keep your head up ♪ 127 00:04:39,301 --> 00:04:40,805 [Shock G] It was different rolling with Pac 128 00:04:40,805 --> 00:04:43,309 after he started having the big records. 129 00:04:43,309 --> 00:04:45,447 Planes from the studio straight to the commercial 130 00:04:45,447 --> 00:04:48,052 he had to film, straight to the set. 131 00:04:48,052 --> 00:04:50,825 It was stressful 'cause there was a lot of people trying to get Pac. 132 00:04:50,825 --> 00:04:53,531 ♪ Last night my buddy Lost his whole family ♪ 133 00:04:53,531 --> 00:04:56,469 ♪ It's gonna take the man in me To conquer this insanity ♪ 134 00:04:56,469 --> 00:04:58,039 ♪ It seems the rain'll Never let up ♪ 135 00:04:58,039 --> 00:05:00,043 ♪ I try to keep my head up ♪ 136 00:05:00,043 --> 00:05:02,080 ♪ And still keep From gettin' wet up ♪ 137 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,619 [E.D.I. Mean] He was a breakout superstar at this time. 138 00:05:04,619 --> 00:05:06,924 I like the fact that you've shown range as an artist. 139 00:05:06,924 --> 00:05:08,561 Give me some parts, I'll handle it. 140 00:05:08,561 --> 00:05:09,763 [E.D.I. Mean] He was doing a movie. 141 00:05:09,763 --> 00:05:11,500 Above the Rim. Good movie. 142 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:12,902 And I just remember him just cranking 'em out 143 00:05:12,902 --> 00:05:14,739 effortlessly, man. 144 00:05:14,739 --> 00:05:16,577 He was just, his pen was just really flowing, 145 00:05:16,577 --> 00:05:18,614 and the music went to another level. 146 00:05:18,614 --> 00:05:20,985 ♪ You know, it's funny, When it rains, it pours ♪ 147 00:05:20,985 --> 00:05:24,124 ♪ They got money for wars, But can't feed the poor ♪ 148 00:05:24,124 --> 00:05:27,599 ♪ Said it ain't no hope For the youth And the truth is ♪ 149 00:05:27,599 --> 00:05:29,636 ♪ It ain't no hope For the future ♪ 150 00:05:29,636 --> 00:05:31,874 ♪ And then they wonder Why we crazy ♪ 151 00:05:31,874 --> 00:05:35,480 ♪ I blame my mother for turning My brother into a crack baby ♪ 152 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,919 ♪ We ain't meant to survive, 'Cause it's a setup ♪ 153 00:05:37,919 --> 00:05:39,488 ♪ And even though You're fed up, huh ♪ 154 00:05:39,488 --> 00:05:41,527 ♪ Ya got to keep your head up ♪ 155 00:05:41,527 --> 00:05:43,062 [Man Man] What was special about him? He was exciting. 156 00:05:43,062 --> 00:05:45,066 He wanted to give so much back. 157 00:05:45,066 --> 00:05:47,539 He wanted to do so much for our people and women. 158 00:05:47,539 --> 00:05:50,076 That's how Pac was. He had love, man. He loved kids. 159 00:05:50,076 --> 00:05:53,082 So that case in New York, it hurt him big time. 160 00:05:53,082 --> 00:05:58,092 [reporter] Tupac Shakur, nominee for an NAACP Image Award, is in trouble again. 161 00:05:59,094 --> 00:06:02,969 [reporter 2] Shakur was a nominee for an NAACP Image Award. 162 00:06:02,969 --> 00:06:06,577 If his arrest for allegedly shooting two off-duty police officers 163 00:06:06,577 --> 00:06:10,150 in Atlanta three weeks ago hasn't diminished his role model status, 164 00:06:10,150 --> 00:06:13,591 maybe the charges of sodomy and sexual abuse will. 165 00:06:13,591 --> 00:06:15,460 Excuse me? 166 00:06:15,460 --> 00:06:17,164 [reporter] The rap singer and actor was arrested 167 00:06:17,164 --> 00:06:19,669 for allegedly helping a friend sodomize a woman 168 00:06:19,669 --> 00:06:22,140 at the Parker Meridien Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. 169 00:06:22,140 --> 00:06:24,613 [Karen] I was shocked. I couldn't believe it. 170 00:06:24,613 --> 00:06:26,148 And he just couldn't believe 171 00:06:26,148 --> 00:06:27,619 anybody could believe that of him. 172 00:06:27,619 --> 00:06:29,689 Do I look guilty? 173 00:06:29,689 --> 00:06:32,528 [Karen] And if you knew him, you didn't believe it. 174 00:06:32,528 --> 00:06:35,033 [reporter] Ironically, Tupac's sex abuse charges were filed 175 00:06:35,033 --> 00:06:37,404 as he was hitting the top 10 with "Keep Ya Head Up." 176 00:06:37,404 --> 00:06:39,041 [Tupac] ♪ And since we all Came from a woman ♪ 177 00:06:39,041 --> 00:06:40,578 ♪ Got our name from a woman ♪ 178 00:06:40,578 --> 00:06:42,649 ♪ And our game from a woman ♪ 179 00:06:42,649 --> 00:06:44,586 ♪ I wonder why we take From our women ♪ 180 00:06:44,586 --> 00:06:48,126 ♪ Why we rape our women Do we hate our women? ♪ 181 00:06:48,126 --> 00:06:50,130 ♪ I think it's time to kill For our women ♪ 182 00:06:50,130 --> 00:06:53,537 ♪ Time to heal our women Be real to our women ♪ 183 00:06:53,537 --> 00:06:55,841 ♪ And if we don't We'll have a race of babies ♪ 184 00:06:55,841 --> 00:06:59,181 ♪ That will hate the ladies That make the babies ♪ 185 00:06:59,181 --> 00:07:01,018 ♪ And since a man Can't make one ♪ 186 00:07:01,018 --> 00:07:02,789 ♪ He has no right To tell a woman ♪ 187 00:07:02,789 --> 00:07:04,726 ♪ When and where To create one ♪ 188 00:07:04,726 --> 00:07:06,997 ♪ So will the real men Get up ♪ 189 00:07:06,997 --> 00:07:10,036 ♪ I know you're fed up, ladies But keep your head up ♪ 190 00:07:23,129 --> 00:07:25,635 [Allen] So, Man Man, I can look at all these photos 191 00:07:25,635 --> 00:07:28,139 and all these key points in his career. 192 00:07:28,139 --> 00:07:30,043 Him coming out of the courthouse, 193 00:07:30,043 --> 00:07:31,713 - you're in the background. - [Man Man] Yes. 194 00:07:31,713 --> 00:07:33,016 [Allen] Him at the press conferences, 195 00:07:33,016 --> 00:07:34,118 you're in the background. 196 00:07:34,118 --> 00:07:36,055 Let's just say this. 197 00:07:36,055 --> 00:07:38,226 I started off as investor, 198 00:07:38,226 --> 00:07:40,998 to a-- to a dancer on the stage, 199 00:07:40,998 --> 00:07:43,704 to a road manager, 200 00:07:43,704 --> 00:07:46,910 to, um, security, 201 00:07:46,910 --> 00:07:50,518 to, uh, personal assistant, 202 00:07:50,518 --> 00:07:52,254 to management team. 203 00:07:52,254 --> 00:07:54,024 And I was there during some of the ups, 204 00:07:54,024 --> 00:07:56,863 and I was there during some of them downs. 205 00:07:56,863 --> 00:07:58,734 [reporter] Mr. Shakur, I'd like to talk to you 206 00:07:58,734 --> 00:08:00,938 about the gangster rap controversy, if I may. 207 00:08:00,938 --> 00:08:02,809 I'm not a gangster rapper. 208 00:08:02,809 --> 00:08:04,512 [man] With all due respect, you’ve been charged 209 00:08:04,512 --> 00:08:06,215 with shooting two off-duty police officers. 210 00:08:06,215 --> 00:08:08,520 There's a sexual assault charge against you, sir. 211 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,156 Do you worry about the message this might send out 212 00:08:10,156 --> 00:08:12,194 to the people who buy your music? 213 00:08:12,194 --> 00:08:14,766 [Tupac] No, my people that buy my music should understand 214 00:08:14,766 --> 00:08:18,774 that we have a wonderful judicial system in this country and it works. 215 00:08:21,245 --> 00:08:22,582 [bailiff] Quiet, please. 216 00:08:24,686 --> 00:08:27,190 [Man Man] First time I really met him, Pac was homeless. 217 00:08:27,190 --> 00:08:29,161 Digital had did a tour in Japan. 218 00:08:29,161 --> 00:08:31,098 He was just a roadie, so he still ain't got nothing. 219 00:08:31,098 --> 00:08:33,169 I'm walking around with 10,000 cash in my pocket every day. 220 00:08:33,169 --> 00:08:35,106 So in exchange for some money, 221 00:08:35,106 --> 00:08:36,576 he said, "I'm gonna get you out the game." 222 00:08:36,576 --> 00:08:38,246 I said, "Okay, I like that." 223 00:08:38,246 --> 00:08:39,649 Let's be clear. This is my brother. 224 00:08:39,649 --> 00:08:41,252 I love that man to death. 225 00:08:41,252 --> 00:08:42,922 But I went to jail with him more times 226 00:08:42,922 --> 00:08:44,559 than I went to jail on my own 227 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,095 in doing the stuff that I did. 228 00:08:46,095 --> 00:08:47,699 [Allen] So, Man Man, can you tell us 229 00:08:47,699 --> 00:08:48,967 about the night of the incident? 230 00:08:48,967 --> 00:08:50,303 We were up in New York. 231 00:08:50,303 --> 00:08:51,973 We were filming Above the Rim. 232 00:08:51,973 --> 00:08:53,777 [director] Roll sound. 233 00:08:56,282 --> 00:08:59,321 [Tupac] This is a true acting job 'cause I don't know how to play basketball. 234 00:08:59,321 --> 00:09:02,929 If it wasn't for Michael Jordan, I wouldn't have known what a dunk was. [laughs] 235 00:09:02,929 --> 00:09:05,668 [Man Man] During that film, they were taking care of us out there. 236 00:09:05,668 --> 00:09:07,270 People would take him around, just party, kick it. 237 00:09:07,270 --> 00:09:09,074 New York was just wild. 238 00:09:09,074 --> 00:09:11,112 [Tupac] Here we are, back on the block. 239 00:09:11,112 --> 00:09:13,082 You know what I'm saying? I went to school right here. 240 00:09:13,082 --> 00:09:15,286 ♪ Back in elementary I thrived on misery ♪ 241 00:09:15,286 --> 00:09:17,725 ♪ Left me alone, I grew up Amongst a dyin' breed ♪ 242 00:09:17,725 --> 00:09:19,963 ♪ Inside my mind Couldn't find a place to rest ♪ 243 00:09:19,963 --> 00:09:22,334 ♪ Until I got that Thug Life Tatted on my chest ♪ 244 00:09:22,334 --> 00:09:24,271 ♪ Tell me, can you feel me? ♪ 245 00:09:24,271 --> 00:09:26,108 [Man Man] At this time, Tupac met this guy 246 00:09:26,108 --> 00:09:27,277 named Haitian Jack as they called him. 247 00:09:27,277 --> 00:09:28,747 A street dude. 248 00:09:28,747 --> 00:09:29,949 [Billy] After he shot the cops, 249 00:09:29,949 --> 00:09:31,887 the gangsters is feeling him. 250 00:09:31,887 --> 00:09:34,091 And Pac is walking around strapped to the gill 251 00:09:34,091 --> 00:09:35,761 with double Uzis. 252 00:09:35,761 --> 00:09:38,099 They're taking Pac to hoods 253 00:09:38,099 --> 00:09:39,903 where the cast are getting tanked. 254 00:09:39,903 --> 00:09:42,240 [Watani] And Tupac being a method actor, 255 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,913 if he was around somebody, it was gonna come out through his acting. 256 00:09:44,913 --> 00:09:46,883 So Birdie, the character he was playing... 257 00:09:46,883 --> 00:09:48,921 It's funny what you do pick up, though. 258 00:09:48,921 --> 00:09:51,993 [Watani] ...was based upon Haitian Jack, a real gangster. 259 00:09:51,993 --> 00:09:55,366 [Man Man] That affected me, man, that he was taking on this persona. 260 00:09:55,366 --> 00:09:58,106 To me, in my mind, he wanted that credit to be a G, 261 00:09:58,106 --> 00:10:01,112 but he was overdoing it and was warned by Mike Tyson. 262 00:10:01,112 --> 00:10:03,049 [Mike] You gotta cool out, 'cause by the time I'm coming out, 263 00:10:03,049 --> 00:10:04,151 you're gonna be coming in. 264 00:10:04,151 --> 00:10:05,286 [Man Man] By Biggie. 265 00:10:05,286 --> 00:10:07,324 Everybody told him, 266 00:10:07,324 --> 00:10:09,128 "You have a talent. You don't have to do this." 267 00:10:09,128 --> 00:10:11,933 But Jack became like an idol to him, 268 00:10:11,933 --> 00:10:14,906 and one night, he introduced him to this girl. 269 00:10:19,716 --> 00:10:21,318 He brought her to the hotel. 270 00:10:21,318 --> 00:10:24,091 They had casual sex. 271 00:10:24,091 --> 00:10:27,397 So probably I'm gonna say about a week later, 272 00:10:27,397 --> 00:10:30,336 Jack and a friend of his come to the hotel. 273 00:10:30,336 --> 00:10:34,044 Jack says, "Hey, man, what's up with that little shawty that you had over here?" 274 00:10:34,044 --> 00:10:36,950 And Jack calls this girl. 275 00:10:36,950 --> 00:10:38,186 So next thing you know, she pull up. 276 00:10:39,388 --> 00:10:41,358 I go get her. 277 00:10:41,358 --> 00:10:43,095 We have two adjoining rooms. 278 00:10:43,095 --> 00:10:45,066 I got my room, Pac got his room. 279 00:10:47,103 --> 00:10:49,241 She goes with Pac in his room. 280 00:10:49,241 --> 00:10:52,715 The door's open, so I can see she's massaging Pac. 281 00:10:52,715 --> 00:10:53,951 That's when Jack goes in the room. 282 00:10:55,988 --> 00:10:58,426 Five minutes after that, 283 00:10:58,426 --> 00:11:01,198 Pac come back out the room. 284 00:11:01,198 --> 00:11:04,973 We gotta get up in the morning, so Tupac would go to sleep and just pass out. 285 00:11:04,973 --> 00:11:07,845 Gone. 286 00:11:07,845 --> 00:11:09,348 And now Jack's friend go in the room. 287 00:11:09,348 --> 00:11:11,252 They close the door. 288 00:11:11,252 --> 00:11:12,955 Them two was in there like a real long time. 289 00:11:12,955 --> 00:11:14,358 Next thing I know, door open up. 290 00:11:14,358 --> 00:11:16,796 Light's on. She's crying. 291 00:11:16,796 --> 00:11:18,867 And I'm like, "What's going on?" Jack come out. 292 00:11:18,867 --> 00:11:20,871 "Hey, man, she tripping." "She tripping?" 293 00:11:20,871 --> 00:11:22,374 In my mind, "What the hell y'all do?" 294 00:11:22,374 --> 00:11:24,879 She said, "Pac's wrong. Pac's wrong." 295 00:11:24,879 --> 00:11:26,282 "What did Pac do?" "He put me in this position." 296 00:11:26,282 --> 00:11:27,752 - Now... - "This is not what I was about. 297 00:11:27,752 --> 00:11:29,154 This is not what I wanna do." 298 00:11:29,154 --> 00:11:30,290 ...it's a whole different me now. 299 00:11:30,290 --> 00:11:31,826 Now she's crying. 300 00:11:31,826 --> 00:11:33,964 I said, "Just calm down, calm down." 301 00:11:33,964 --> 00:11:35,834 She said, "No, just get out of here! Just get off the bed! 302 00:11:35,834 --> 00:11:37,270 Just get out, get out, get out, get out, get out!" 303 00:11:37,270 --> 00:11:39,141 By the time we got down to the bottom 304 00:11:39,141 --> 00:11:40,678 of the elevator, we're being detained. 305 00:11:41,913 --> 00:11:43,349 Like I said, I don't know what they did in that room. 306 00:11:43,349 --> 00:11:45,019 But I know my brother. 307 00:11:45,019 --> 00:11:46,890 Pac loved women. 308 00:11:46,890 --> 00:11:49,361 He would never take from a woman. 309 00:11:49,361 --> 00:11:52,434 He was upset and hurt because what was done to her was done to her. 310 00:11:52,434 --> 00:11:55,841 But me and Pac didn't do what we were accused of. 311 00:11:55,841 --> 00:11:58,914 The grand jury having charged all three defendants with sodomy... 312 00:11:58,914 --> 00:12:00,784 [Man Man] Me and Pac end up getting 18 charges, 313 00:12:00,784 --> 00:12:03,222 from gun charges to sexual abuse. 314 00:12:04,324 --> 00:12:05,828 We got done bad. 315 00:12:06,930 --> 00:12:08,901 From what I know, Haitian Jack's lawyer 316 00:12:08,901 --> 00:12:11,038 basically worked with the police. 317 00:12:11,038 --> 00:12:13,744 Jack had a record that probably could touch 318 00:12:13,744 --> 00:12:16,115 the top of the ceiling and bring it down to the floor, 319 00:12:16,115 --> 00:12:17,250 but never did a lot of time. 320 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:24,532 Jack's lawyer split Jack from me and Pac's case. 321 00:12:24,532 --> 00:12:26,903 The other guy that was in the room, Jack's friend, 322 00:12:26,903 --> 00:12:29,007 walked right past in the lobby when we got arrested, 323 00:12:29,007 --> 00:12:30,878 and nobody knows who he is till today. 324 00:12:30,878 --> 00:12:33,282 We got left alone. 325 00:12:33,282 --> 00:12:35,086 [Watani] Pac was really upset. 326 00:12:35,086 --> 00:12:39,529 Not just angry, almost insulted by the charge. 327 00:12:39,529 --> 00:12:43,035 [Watani] He felt that maybe he was set up. 328 00:12:43,035 --> 00:12:46,275 [Glo] For me and his mother, it was reliving a time. 329 00:12:47,110 --> 00:12:50,016 Afeni felt sympathy for the woman, 330 00:12:50,016 --> 00:12:52,822 but she never doubted that Tupac was innocent. 331 00:12:52,822 --> 00:12:54,358 [Karen] He just couldn't believe 332 00:12:54,358 --> 00:12:56,095 anybody could believe that of him. 333 00:12:56,095 --> 00:12:57,832 And there was so much press there. 334 00:12:57,832 --> 00:12:59,334 [Tupac] Merry Christmas to the press. 335 00:12:59,334 --> 00:13:01,038 I thank you from the bottom of my heart 336 00:13:01,038 --> 00:13:02,508 for just destroying everything I worked for 337 00:13:02,508 --> 00:13:04,344 for the past 22 years. 338 00:13:04,344 --> 00:13:06,115 And a happy New Year to you, too. 339 00:13:06,115 --> 00:13:08,219 You did your job. I'm out of money. 340 00:13:08,219 --> 00:13:10,824 I'm out of all my resources. 341 00:13:10,824 --> 00:13:13,029 You made me look like the bad guy in my own community. 342 00:13:13,029 --> 00:13:14,499 - And I appreciate that. - [cop] Can you move this down to the left? 343 00:13:14,499 --> 00:13:16,035 [Karen] Interviews were challenging. 344 00:13:16,035 --> 00:13:17,505 There's one he does outside 345 00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:19,207 where he talks about his innocence. 346 00:13:19,207 --> 00:13:20,944 [Tupac] I'm guilty of a lot of things. 347 00:13:20,944 --> 00:13:22,447 I'm guilty probably of being a male chauvinist pig, 348 00:13:22,447 --> 00:13:24,117 but I'm not guilty of rape. 349 00:13:24,117 --> 00:13:25,186 In the report and all these charges, 350 00:13:25,186 --> 00:13:27,123 I didn't do nothing. 351 00:13:27,123 --> 00:13:29,394 I'm charged with being in consort with some guy. 352 00:13:29,394 --> 00:13:30,831 Well, where they at? 353 00:13:30,831 --> 00:13:33,002 All I do is rap and talk loud. 354 00:13:33,002 --> 00:13:34,872 My biggest crime is talking loud. You know what I'm saying? 355 00:13:34,872 --> 00:13:36,910 Y'all don't have nothing else besides that. 356 00:13:38,279 --> 00:13:41,385 [Glo] I can't even describe how stressed we were. 357 00:13:41,385 --> 00:13:43,557 Every day, he would come out, 358 00:13:43,557 --> 00:13:46,462 he would have me go get the car and come get him... 359 00:13:46,462 --> 00:13:48,466 Can you please not block the car? 360 00:13:48,466 --> 00:13:50,971 [Glo] ...and take him away from that whole environment. 361 00:13:51,973 --> 00:13:55,213 We were afraid Tupac was gonna bust a gut. 362 00:13:57,117 --> 00:14:02,260 What he said before the judge with tears coming down his face, 363 00:14:02,260 --> 00:14:06,235 "I should have protected her." 364 00:14:06,235 --> 00:14:07,972 [woman] If you could go back to the night 365 00:14:07,972 --> 00:14:09,575 when the sexual abuse occurred, 366 00:14:09,575 --> 00:14:11,245 is there anything that you would do differently? 367 00:14:11,245 --> 00:14:12,447 - Yeah. - What? 368 00:14:12,447 --> 00:14:14,451 I would not have closed my eyes 369 00:14:14,451 --> 00:14:16,321 until she was out of the room. 370 00:14:16,321 --> 00:14:18,292 Until everybody was out of the room. 371 00:14:18,292 --> 00:14:21,031 [woman] You said that you weren't guilty of the charges, 372 00:14:21,031 --> 00:14:24,171 but you might be guilty of being a male chauvinist pig. 373 00:14:24,171 --> 00:14:26,041 Definitely. In that position, 374 00:14:26,041 --> 00:14:27,310 after I looked at it, 'cause I was like, 375 00:14:27,310 --> 00:14:29,181 "Why is everybody so mad at me?" 376 00:14:29,181 --> 00:14:30,316 And it's like, "You stupid. You're supposed to have done 377 00:14:30,316 --> 00:14:31,553 this, this, this." And I was 378 00:14:31,553 --> 00:14:33,289 like, "Oh, I didn't even know that." 379 00:14:33,289 --> 00:14:34,926 And I like to grow. I wanna be better. 380 00:14:34,926 --> 00:14:36,596 I wanna be able to approach women 381 00:14:36,596 --> 00:14:37,898 and deal with women and communicate with women 382 00:14:37,898 --> 00:14:39,034 and give them respect. 383 00:14:39,034 --> 00:14:40,537 [Shock G] Pac respected 384 00:14:40,537 --> 00:14:41,539 and loved sisters deeply, obviously. 385 00:14:41,539 --> 00:14:43,142 But his inability 386 00:14:43,142 --> 00:14:44,612 to relate to women sometimes, 387 00:14:44,612 --> 00:14:46,281 not much different than a lot of us, 388 00:14:46,281 --> 00:14:48,219 depending on how we were raised. 389 00:14:48,219 --> 00:14:50,557 But his confusion with that was a little stronger, 390 00:14:50,557 --> 00:14:52,595 not 'cause he really wanted to dis, 391 00:14:52,595 --> 00:14:55,199 but because, he even says it in a couple of his songs, 392 00:14:55,199 --> 00:14:57,070 he never had a father figure. 393 00:14:57,070 --> 00:14:59,274 He was raised by the thugs and the drug dealers. 394 00:14:59,274 --> 00:15:01,011 That's why I love niggas. 395 00:15:01,011 --> 00:15:03,550 I know for a fact that had I had a father, 396 00:15:03,550 --> 00:15:06,021 had I had somebody-- And I hate saying this 397 00:15:06,021 --> 00:15:07,925 'cause white people love hearing Black people talk about this. 398 00:15:07,925 --> 00:15:10,096 But so many problems in our community 399 00:15:10,096 --> 00:15:12,501 affect everything. So by me not having that, 400 00:15:12,501 --> 00:15:14,438 I ain't never want to hear nothing about 401 00:15:14,438 --> 00:15:17,310 no kind of relationships between a Black man and a Black woman. 402 00:15:17,310 --> 00:15:19,515 I knew they didn't work 'cause as far as I knew, 403 00:15:19,515 --> 00:15:21,452 my daddy was the coolest dude out there 404 00:15:21,452 --> 00:15:23,657 and my mama was a Panther. So if they didn't work, 405 00:15:23,657 --> 00:15:25,494 it don't work. That's how I felt. 406 00:15:25,494 --> 00:15:28,165 [Glo] This is Legs. He was a nice guy, 407 00:15:28,165 --> 00:15:30,704 a street guy. 408 00:15:30,704 --> 00:15:32,942 That's how Afeni got to know him 409 00:15:32,942 --> 00:15:35,079 when she was on bail because those men 410 00:15:35,079 --> 00:15:36,649 that were in the street had respect 411 00:15:36,649 --> 00:15:38,486 for the Black Panther Party initially. 412 00:15:42,528 --> 00:15:45,266 At that time, she was in the midst of a divorce 413 00:15:45,266 --> 00:15:48,005 from Lumumba and he was just another dude 414 00:15:48,005 --> 00:15:49,274 that Feni liked. 415 00:15:49,274 --> 00:15:50,744 [Tupac] What my mother told me 416 00:15:50,744 --> 00:15:52,013 is that it was a one-night stand, 417 00:15:52,013 --> 00:15:53,415 but he loved the fact 418 00:15:53,415 --> 00:15:54,552 that the Panthers would go to jail 419 00:15:54,552 --> 00:15:55,754 and wouldn't snitch. 420 00:15:55,754 --> 00:15:57,157 [Glo] So Afeni had 421 00:15:57,157 --> 00:15:59,361 sexual relations with Legs, 422 00:15:59,361 --> 00:16:02,233 but he was in and out of jail because he was part of 423 00:16:02,233 --> 00:16:04,404 Nicky Barnes' little crew. 424 00:16:04,404 --> 00:16:07,143 And then she had sexual relationships 425 00:16:07,143 --> 00:16:09,014 with Billy Garland. 426 00:16:09,014 --> 00:16:11,653 He was a Black Panther in the Jersey chapter. 427 00:16:11,653 --> 00:16:13,690 [Jamal] Billy Garland was a good driver 428 00:16:13,690 --> 00:16:16,428 and was assigned to protect Afeni 429 00:16:16,428 --> 00:16:19,167 and to make sure that she got to court on time. 430 00:16:19,167 --> 00:16:21,573 And I remember one afternoon, 431 00:16:21,573 --> 00:16:23,577 Afeni pulled me to the side 432 00:16:23,577 --> 00:16:26,549 and said, "Jamal, I have to tell you something. 433 00:16:26,549 --> 00:16:28,018 I'm pregnant." 434 00:16:28,018 --> 00:16:30,056 [Glo] She said, to be clear, 435 00:16:30,056 --> 00:16:33,395 "I don't know who the father is." 436 00:16:33,395 --> 00:16:37,571 But Tupac always thought Legs was the father. 437 00:16:37,571 --> 00:16:40,376 And he liked that fantasy of the street guy 438 00:16:40,376 --> 00:16:44,317 and her saying she didn't know who the father was, 439 00:16:44,317 --> 00:16:48,459 "Do I know that she said that because she really didn't know? 440 00:16:48,459 --> 00:16:52,433 Or did she say that because she liked that little fantasy, too?" 441 00:16:55,106 --> 00:16:56,609 But I don't really think 442 00:16:56,609 --> 00:17:00,216 Legs thought he was the father. 443 00:17:00,216 --> 00:17:03,222 He knew he couldn't have kids. 444 00:17:03,222 --> 00:17:06,295 So that's all myth shit with the men. 445 00:17:08,199 --> 00:17:12,741 But I always knew or thought it was Billy Garland. 446 00:17:12,741 --> 00:17:15,413 [Billy] It wasn't no magical words. It wasn't no flowers. 447 00:17:15,413 --> 00:17:17,350 It wasn't "Let's go to the movie" shit. 448 00:17:17,350 --> 00:17:19,622 It was a very tense situation in the Panther Party 449 00:17:19,622 --> 00:17:22,460 and you tend to search for relief 450 00:17:22,460 --> 00:17:24,364 and I, uh... 451 00:17:24,364 --> 00:17:27,605 you know, saw a beautiful, strong sister, a fighter. 452 00:17:30,811 --> 00:17:33,850 And because maybe we felt that we might not 453 00:17:33,850 --> 00:17:36,121 be alive in a week or two, 454 00:17:36,121 --> 00:17:39,427 all the subtleties of getting together just vanished. 455 00:17:39,427 --> 00:17:41,431 You know, she had this charge 456 00:17:41,431 --> 00:17:42,801 that could put her away for the rest of her life. 457 00:17:47,745 --> 00:17:50,283 [reporter] Thirteen members of the Black Panthers Party 458 00:17:50,283 --> 00:17:53,489 are on trial in New York, charged with conspiring to bomb 459 00:17:53,489 --> 00:17:56,295 department stores, police stations and other public buildings. 460 00:17:56,295 --> 00:17:58,365 Most of them have been held in high bail 461 00:17:58,365 --> 00:18:00,537 and have been in prison since they were picked up 462 00:18:00,537 --> 00:18:02,240 almost a year and a half ago. 463 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,146 No peace in my community! 464 00:18:05,146 --> 00:18:07,150 [Glo] During the time Feni was on trial, 465 00:18:07,150 --> 00:18:09,254 she never held her head down. 466 00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:11,124 And I wasn't afraid for her 467 00:18:11,124 --> 00:18:13,362 because she never was afraid for herself. 468 00:18:13,362 --> 00:18:14,865 They have no right to try us. 469 00:18:14,865 --> 00:18:17,170 They have no right to accuse us of anything. 470 00:18:17,170 --> 00:18:18,707 [Glo] So, when I would go to court 471 00:18:18,707 --> 00:18:20,476 and see all these people in front of it, 472 00:18:20,476 --> 00:18:21,846 I'mma tell you how I felt. 473 00:18:21,846 --> 00:18:24,451 Energized. That's my sister. 474 00:18:24,451 --> 00:18:25,887 [Afeni] I haven't done anything. 475 00:18:25,887 --> 00:18:27,658 And if the people wanna put me on trial, 476 00:18:27,658 --> 00:18:29,294 that's some... [indistinct] 477 00:18:29,294 --> 00:18:30,797 [Jamal] There were massive rallies 478 00:18:30,797 --> 00:18:32,835 of people coming out protesting, 479 00:18:34,505 --> 00:18:37,343 but the situation in court 480 00:18:37,343 --> 00:18:39,915 had become difficult because the division between 481 00:18:39,915 --> 00:18:41,653 not just Afeni and Lumumba, 482 00:18:41,653 --> 00:18:43,690 but the brothers who were still inside, 483 00:18:43,690 --> 00:18:46,261 not speaking to any of the Panthers who were out on bail. 484 00:18:46,261 --> 00:18:48,332 [E.D.I. Mean] The way the trial was set up, the DA was on one side 485 00:18:48,332 --> 00:18:50,469 and the defense were on the other. 486 00:18:50,469 --> 00:18:53,610 In front of the jury were all of the weapons the cops captured, 487 00:18:53,610 --> 00:18:57,150 so it was the first thing they saw every morning for the whole trial. 488 00:18:57,150 --> 00:18:58,620 [Glo] When all the defendants come out 489 00:18:58,620 --> 00:18:59,689 and seein' my sister, 490 00:18:59,689 --> 00:19:01,826 I was awestruck again. 491 00:19:01,826 --> 00:19:04,665 She always came to court looking good. 492 00:19:04,665 --> 00:19:07,270 She had a yellow pad, a little outfit on, 493 00:19:07,270 --> 00:19:10,577 and you see her doing what the lawyers were doing. 494 00:19:10,577 --> 00:19:13,349 She would walk up to the stand with the witnesses 495 00:19:13,349 --> 00:19:15,554 and ask these questions. 496 00:19:15,554 --> 00:19:18,292 [Jamal] And that's how we found out that the trial was based 497 00:19:18,292 --> 00:19:21,899 primarily on the testimony of two Panthers 498 00:19:21,899 --> 00:19:24,505 who were part of an elite police unit 499 00:19:24,505 --> 00:19:26,642 called the BOSS Unit. 500 00:19:27,377 --> 00:19:29,782 The Bureau of Special Services. 501 00:19:29,782 --> 00:19:32,888 And they would use spies to gather information. 502 00:19:32,888 --> 00:19:35,827 And the first name that's revealed is Gene Roberts. 503 00:19:35,827 --> 00:19:37,831 Malcolm X's bodyguard. 504 00:19:37,831 --> 00:19:39,635 When Malcolm was killed, 505 00:19:39,635 --> 00:19:40,771 Gene Roberts joined the Panther Party 506 00:19:40,771 --> 00:19:42,541 as a security lieutenant 507 00:19:42,541 --> 00:19:44,277 and he brought guns to the Black Panther Party 508 00:19:44,277 --> 00:19:45,914 and would train folks. 509 00:19:45,914 --> 00:19:47,818 He was a regular Panther. He did everything we did. 510 00:19:47,818 --> 00:19:48,920 He sold the papers... 511 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:50,757 but I never trusted in Gene. 512 00:19:50,757 --> 00:19:53,630 Turns out that Malcolm X drew his last breath... 513 00:19:53,630 --> 00:19:55,199 [slow exhale] 514 00:19:55,199 --> 00:19:57,504 ...from an undercover cop. 515 00:19:57,504 --> 00:20:01,946 [Glo] That man that ran to give him mouth-to-mouth 516 00:20:01,946 --> 00:20:03,583 was a snitch. 517 00:20:03,583 --> 00:20:05,419 And the second person that was revealed 518 00:20:05,419 --> 00:20:08,225 to be an undercover cop was... 519 00:20:09,461 --> 00:20:10,831 Yedwa Sudan. 520 00:20:10,831 --> 00:20:12,801 Another snitch. 521 00:20:12,801 --> 00:20:15,574 That man was slick, looked just like everybody else, 522 00:20:15,574 --> 00:20:17,310 down, boy, with the revolution. 523 00:20:17,310 --> 00:20:19,347 [Jamal] My section leader, mentor, 524 00:20:19,347 --> 00:20:21,652 the person that taught me how to use a bayonet, 525 00:20:21,652 --> 00:20:23,857 how to shoot a gun, was an undercover cop. 526 00:20:23,857 --> 00:20:25,660 [Shaba] When he came out as a witness, 527 00:20:25,660 --> 00:20:28,533 we was like, "Oh, shit." 528 00:20:28,533 --> 00:20:30,369 Whoa. 529 00:20:30,369 --> 00:20:32,708 [Jamal] I don't think we realized the level 530 00:20:32,708 --> 00:20:34,745 of surveillance or that military drills, 531 00:20:34,745 --> 00:20:37,684 political education class, confrontations with the police 532 00:20:37,684 --> 00:20:39,855 were being bundled into this big case 533 00:20:39,855 --> 00:20:41,626 and that they had seen weapons 534 00:20:41,626 --> 00:20:43,295 or overheard Panthers planning attacks. 535 00:20:43,295 --> 00:20:44,765 So it was real insidious. 536 00:20:44,765 --> 00:20:46,702 They exaggerated shit so much. 537 00:20:46,702 --> 00:20:49,542 I used to have an expression of like, "Damn, she dynamite." 538 00:20:49,542 --> 00:20:52,648 which means beautiful, attractive, desirable. 539 00:20:52,648 --> 00:20:54,852 But they made that mean that we were 540 00:20:54,852 --> 00:20:56,856 literally talking about dynamite. 541 00:20:58,793 --> 00:21:01,566 [Jamal] Back then, "Brother Ruggie" was our code name for weed. 542 00:21:01,566 --> 00:21:03,636 In our indictment, Brother Ruggie is mentioned 543 00:21:03,636 --> 00:21:05,540 as a co-conspirator in the case. 544 00:21:05,540 --> 00:21:07,611 The police were actually looking for this Brother Ruggie 545 00:21:07,611 --> 00:21:10,382 'cause he seemed to be everywhere and know everything. 546 00:21:11,986 --> 00:21:16,929 Now, go back to Yedwa, what you talking about? 547 00:21:16,929 --> 00:21:19,568 [Jamal] Feni's cross-examination of Yedwa 548 00:21:19,568 --> 00:21:21,438 was a moment to hold your breath for. 549 00:21:21,438 --> 00:21:23,810 [Glo] And remember, she's defending herself. 550 00:21:23,810 --> 00:21:26,348 Prosecutors were like, "She didn't go to law school. 551 00:21:26,348 --> 00:21:27,718 She's just a little ghetto girl. 552 00:21:27,718 --> 00:21:29,989 What the fuck she know about this? 553 00:21:29,989 --> 00:21:32,426 [Jamal] Yedwa's arrogant as hell. He's the undercover cop 554 00:21:32,426 --> 00:21:34,765 who's about to get promoted to detective 555 00:21:34,765 --> 00:21:37,771 and he's surrounded by all of his boys. The men in blue. 556 00:21:37,771 --> 00:21:40,075 She's face-to-face with an enemy. 557 00:21:40,075 --> 00:21:43,048 Feni said, "You testified, Detective, 558 00:21:43,048 --> 00:21:44,952 that you were a police officer. 559 00:21:44,952 --> 00:21:46,789 You also testified that you were a Panther. 560 00:21:46,789 --> 00:21:48,827 So when you seduced all of these women 561 00:21:48,827 --> 00:21:50,462 in the Panther Party, were you being 562 00:21:50,462 --> 00:21:52,734 a police officer... or a Panther?" 563 00:21:52,734 --> 00:21:54,505 He had no answer. 564 00:21:54,505 --> 00:21:56,809 "When you would stand up in meetings, 565 00:21:56,809 --> 00:21:58,680 out of control and wild-eyed, 566 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,550 talking that people should go off and lynch someone 567 00:22:00,550 --> 00:22:03,422 and shoot someone, police officer or Panther?" 568 00:22:03,422 --> 00:22:05,627 He had to say, "I don't know. 569 00:22:05,627 --> 00:22:06,929 Well, if you saw me do it 570 00:22:06,929 --> 00:22:09,033 or if you know I did it, remind me." 571 00:22:09,033 --> 00:22:11,004 "When you taught adolescent boys 572 00:22:11,004 --> 00:22:13,075 how to slit somebody's throat with a bayonet, 573 00:22:13,075 --> 00:22:15,379 cop or a Panther?" 574 00:22:15,379 --> 00:22:16,916 [Shaba] She got him flaming angry to the extent 575 00:22:16,916 --> 00:22:19,688 that he was spitting, trying to get his point across. 576 00:22:20,857 --> 00:22:23,128 She said, "Did you ever see me with a gun?" "No." 577 00:22:23,128 --> 00:22:24,932 "Did you ever see me with a bomb?" "No." 578 00:22:24,932 --> 00:22:26,802 "Organizing in the community?" "Yes." 579 00:22:26,802 --> 00:22:28,372 "Fighting for tenants." "Yes." 580 00:22:28,372 --> 00:22:29,808 "Liberation school." "Yes." 581 00:22:29,808 --> 00:22:33,482 He was banking on Afeni getting enflamed. 582 00:22:33,482 --> 00:22:36,154 But apparently she had done her homework on herself 583 00:22:36,154 --> 00:22:39,862 to such an extent like, "No. 584 00:22:39,862 --> 00:22:41,966 You're on trial, not me." 585 00:22:41,966 --> 00:22:44,404 And she literally put him on trial. 586 00:22:45,472 --> 00:22:49,648 And you saw this woman take down the system. 587 00:22:50,984 --> 00:22:55,059 [Glo] She aced that, but even that for me was awakening 588 00:22:55,059 --> 00:22:58,465 because I'm learning about undercover police. 589 00:22:58,465 --> 00:23:01,004 And I say, "Wow, what kind of country is this? 590 00:23:01,004 --> 00:23:02,808 What kind of people are these?" 591 00:23:02,808 --> 00:23:04,578 You know, and "Who does that?" 592 00:23:09,822 --> 00:23:11,592 be still. 593 00:23:13,529 --> 00:23:16,101 And that was part of the problem. 594 00:23:16,101 --> 00:23:18,840 [Glo] It wasn't the media per se. 595 00:23:20,944 --> 00:23:22,581 It was more than that. 596 00:23:22,581 --> 00:23:25,085 [indistinct chatter] 597 00:23:25,085 --> 00:23:29,695 [spitting] 598 00:23:30,697 --> 00:23:33,603 [Karen] I hate the scene of him spitting at the camera. 599 00:23:33,603 --> 00:23:35,974 [Tupac] That's my new style. 600 00:23:35,974 --> 00:23:38,713 [Karen] I could be wrong, but I think that was done out of fear... 601 00:23:38,713 --> 00:23:41,151 [Tupac] Have a good summer, biatch! 602 00:23:41,151 --> 00:23:43,856 [Karen] ...of knowing what the possibilities were 603 00:23:43,856 --> 00:23:45,727 for him to be sent to jail. 604 00:23:48,198 --> 00:23:50,102 [Watani] I'm not sure exactly what was going on, 605 00:23:50,102 --> 00:23:51,973 but most of my time as a manager 606 00:23:51,973 --> 00:23:55,045 was spent dealing with attorneys in courts. 607 00:23:55,045 --> 00:23:59,120 [man] Maybe it's helpful to go through all the charges over your lifetime. 608 00:23:59,120 --> 00:24:00,924 - Let's just go through the charges. - I don't remember, 609 00:24:00,924 --> 00:24:03,095 but I’m sure you can find out. 610 00:24:03,095 --> 00:24:06,201 [Man Man] Marin City, then Lansing, Michigan. 611 00:24:06,201 --> 00:24:07,804 [Watani] There was one with the limo driver. 612 00:24:07,804 --> 00:24:09,975 There was the one at the club. 613 00:24:09,975 --> 00:24:12,814 He had a gun charge, assault, battery, 614 00:24:12,814 --> 00:24:14,585 but we was catching cases all over the country, 615 00:24:14,585 --> 00:24:16,121 every place he went. 616 00:24:16,121 --> 00:24:18,760 He was spiraling out of control. 617 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,697 Remember, I'm the manager, so I'm dealing with the finances. 618 00:24:20,697 --> 00:24:22,834 Like, my American Express bill is just blowing up. 619 00:24:22,834 --> 00:24:24,972 [Man Man] We struggling for money because at this time, shoot, 620 00:24:24,972 --> 00:24:27,476 we got cases. Money's just hard for us. 621 00:24:27,476 --> 00:24:30,482 ♪ Now that I'm struggling in This business by any means ♪ 622 00:24:30,482 --> 00:24:32,119 ♪ Label me greedy Getting green ♪ 623 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:34,123 ♪ But seldom seen And fuck the world ♪ 624 00:24:34,123 --> 00:24:35,827 ♪ 'Cause I'm cursed I'm havin' visions ♪ 625 00:24:35,827 --> 00:24:37,129 ♪ Of leavin' here In a hearse ♪ 626 00:24:37,129 --> 00:24:38,833 ♪ God, can you feel me? ♪ 627 00:24:38,833 --> 00:24:40,035 ♪ Take me away From all the pressure ♪ 628 00:24:40,035 --> 00:24:41,772 ♪ And all the pain ♪ 629 00:24:41,772 --> 00:24:42,808 ♪ Show me some Happiness again ♪ 630 00:24:42,808 --> 00:24:43,943 I'm goin' blind ♪ 631 00:24:43,943 --> 00:24:45,714 ♪ I spend my time ♪ 632 00:24:45,714 --> 00:24:47,016 ♪ In this cell Ain't livin' well ♪ 633 00:24:47,016 --> 00:24:48,185 ♪ I know my destiny is hell ♪ 634 00:24:48,185 --> 00:24:50,055 ♪ Where did I fail? ♪ 635 00:24:50,055 --> 00:24:52,126 ♪ My life is in denial And when I die ♪ 636 00:24:52,126 --> 00:24:53,863 ♪ Baptized in eternal fire I'll shed so many tears ♪ 637 00:24:53,863 --> 00:24:55,934 [reporter] Next up on Tupac's jail tour, 638 00:24:55,934 --> 00:24:58,506 he must serve ten days in an East Lansing, Michigan jail 639 00:24:58,506 --> 00:25:00,543 for an attempted assault on another rapper 640 00:25:00,543 --> 00:25:02,146 at a 1993 concert. 641 00:25:02,146 --> 00:25:04,785 He's keeping every police department in the country busy. 642 00:25:04,785 --> 00:25:06,689 [reporter] This year alone, Tupac has also 643 00:25:06,689 --> 00:25:08,626 served seven days in a Los Angeles jail 644 00:25:08,626 --> 00:25:10,530 for assaulting filmmaker Allen Hughes. 645 00:25:10,530 --> 00:25:12,066 I have a lot of remorse. I understand 646 00:25:12,066 --> 00:25:13,301 that it was wrong for me to do that. 647 00:25:13,301 --> 00:25:15,673 He's a one-man crime wave. 648 00:25:15,673 --> 00:25:17,611 [reporter] Shakur's legal battles are just beginning. 649 00:25:17,611 --> 00:25:19,915 Aside from this conviction, he still faces 650 00:25:19,915 --> 00:25:21,919 two charges of aggravated assault 651 00:25:21,919 --> 00:25:24,023 on a police officer in Atlanta, Georgia. 652 00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:26,629 [Dante] Now, that just leads to the Atlanta thing. 653 00:25:26,629 --> 00:25:30,637 [indistinct chatter] 654 00:25:30,637 --> 00:25:33,108 [man] He pleads not guilty on all charges. 655 00:25:33,108 --> 00:25:35,847 [Dante] Atlanta, Georgia, downtown. 656 00:25:36,882 --> 00:25:38,886 After he bailed out, 657 00:25:38,886 --> 00:25:41,224 he went back to court. 658 00:25:41,224 --> 00:25:43,763 Everybody saw what he did. 659 00:25:43,763 --> 00:25:46,736 Everybody looking nervous and scared. 660 00:25:46,736 --> 00:25:48,639 Tupac was the only one who was calm. 661 00:25:48,639 --> 00:25:51,912 You can see him standing there, just listening. 662 00:25:51,912 --> 00:25:54,117 But, I paint this pretty picture. It was very pretty. 663 00:25:54,117 --> 00:25:56,321 This is a weapon which he had no right to have. 664 00:25:56,321 --> 00:25:58,960 When they found out the cops had taken the guns illegally 665 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,930 out of the evidence room or whatever... 666 00:26:00,930 --> 00:26:02,701 A weapon he seized 667 00:26:02,701 --> 00:26:04,805 that was supposed to be in the property room. 668 00:26:04,805 --> 00:26:06,876 ...that sunk their case right there. 669 00:26:06,876 --> 00:26:08,679 [Shock G] Pac was completely cleared in Atlanta, 670 00:26:08,679 --> 00:26:10,583 'cause the cops had nothing. 671 00:26:10,583 --> 00:26:12,253 [E.D.I. Mean] Yeah, it was an unlucky day for them, 672 00:26:12,253 --> 00:26:14,992 but New York was different. 673 00:26:15,994 --> 00:26:17,697 [reporter] Hi, Tupac. 674 00:26:17,697 --> 00:26:19,668 Can you tell me how you're doing today? 675 00:26:19,668 --> 00:26:23,643 Well, I just had to listen to the, uh, prosecution's 676 00:26:23,643 --> 00:26:26,949 closing argument, and it was just so far from the truth 677 00:26:26,949 --> 00:26:29,320 that it really just has me drained at the end of the day. 678 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,992 But I'm leaving it in the hands of the jury. 679 00:26:31,992 --> 00:26:35,065 I'm learning a lot about people's innermost fears 680 00:26:35,065 --> 00:26:37,369 in this trial, because as far-- 681 00:26:37,369 --> 00:26:39,207 It's not even about my trial no more. 682 00:26:39,207 --> 00:26:44,918 It's just about loud rap music, tattoo-having thugs, 683 00:26:44,918 --> 00:26:47,356 you know, some nightmare that these people having. 684 00:26:47,356 --> 00:26:50,028 I'm already convicted. My whole life has been turned around. 685 00:26:50,028 --> 00:26:52,299 I lost every job. I lost every opportunity. 686 00:26:52,299 --> 00:26:54,638 I can't buy cars, can't get rent, 687 00:26:54,638 --> 00:26:56,675 can't get none of that. But I'm still a survivor. 688 00:26:56,675 --> 00:26:58,679 You know, I'm still coming to court, still smiling, 689 00:26:58,679 --> 00:27:00,884 still signing autographs, but soon, I'ma go crazy. 690 00:27:00,884 --> 00:27:02,721 You know what I'm saying? And it's up to the world, 691 00:27:02,721 --> 00:27:04,357 you know, America eats its babies. 692 00:27:04,357 --> 00:27:06,294 We, um, no matter what y'all think about me, 693 00:27:06,294 --> 00:27:07,998 I'm still your child. You know what I'm saying? 694 00:27:07,998 --> 00:27:10,035 You can't just turn me off like that. 695 00:27:10,035 --> 00:27:11,839 [Man Man] I remember one day, we were leaving the court 696 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:13,074 - from dealing with this case. - [phone ringing] 697 00:27:15,078 --> 00:27:16,949 Pac got a call from Lil Sean, 698 00:27:16,949 --> 00:27:18,753 I think that's what his name was. 699 00:27:20,422 --> 00:27:22,359 They was talking, like, $7,500 for Pac 700 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,232 to just do a little special on one of his songs. 701 00:27:25,232 --> 00:27:27,203 And brother was stressed out. He's taking care 702 00:27:27,203 --> 00:27:30,242 of a lot of people, and then we got court cases. 703 00:27:30,242 --> 00:27:33,683 So, Pac said, "Now I'm finna go get this money." 704 00:27:33,683 --> 00:27:34,918 Make the songs that make the money. 705 00:27:39,761 --> 00:27:41,264 It was chump change. But he said, 706 00:27:41,264 --> 00:27:42,801 "I need to get all I can get." 707 00:27:45,472 --> 00:27:49,948 That evening, Pac pull up, up to Quad Studios. 708 00:27:49,948 --> 00:27:53,021 He goes in the lobby. 709 00:27:53,021 --> 00:27:55,927 These guys are waiting. 710 00:27:55,927 --> 00:27:58,699 - Like they knew he was coming. - [guns cocking] 711 00:27:58,699 --> 00:28:00,369 - [Man Man] They draw down on him. - [men shouting] 712 00:28:00,369 --> 00:28:03,743 [Man Man] Tell him to get down on the floor. 713 00:28:03,743 --> 00:28:05,847 If someone has the jump on you, you gotta play by the rules 714 00:28:05,847 --> 00:28:08,351 till a position has opened up where you can defend yourself. 715 00:28:08,351 --> 00:28:10,990 - Pac didn't get down. - [reporter] Tupac resisted. 716 00:28:10,990 --> 00:28:14,397 - [gunshots] - [reporter] He was shot at least twice in the head. 717 00:28:14,397 --> 00:28:18,038 Once in the left arm, once in the thigh, 718 00:28:18,038 --> 00:28:20,977 - once in the groin area. - [gunshots] 719 00:28:29,026 --> 00:28:31,899 [Man Man] He was shot five times, man. 720 00:28:31,899 --> 00:28:34,437 But you know, Pac's a trooper, man. 721 00:28:34,437 --> 00:28:36,508 [reporter] Reportedly, the first thing Tupac Shakur did 722 00:28:36,508 --> 00:28:38,011 after being shot Wednesday morning 723 00:28:38,011 --> 00:28:39,815 was call out for his mother. 724 00:28:39,815 --> 00:28:41,885 [Glo] We were shocked. 725 00:28:41,885 --> 00:28:44,023 [Man Man] Yeah, he's conscious. He can give fingers. 726 00:28:44,023 --> 00:28:46,327 [laughs] He gave the finger. [laughs] So he's conscious. 727 00:28:46,327 --> 00:28:48,365 [Watani] He's just gotten shot. The rape allegation is there. 728 00:28:48,365 --> 00:28:51,170 And the detective that arrested Tupac at the hotel 729 00:28:51,170 --> 00:28:53,041 comes to the scene of the shooting, 730 00:28:53,041 --> 00:28:55,012 and he asks Tupac, "How's it hanging?" 731 00:28:55,012 --> 00:28:58,853 [Glo] That was the beginning of the real paranoia. 732 00:28:58,853 --> 00:29:01,491 [reporter] While Shakur is nursing his gunshot wounds, 733 00:29:01,491 --> 00:29:05,032 a jury is still deliberating in his sexual assault trial. 734 00:29:05,032 --> 00:29:09,273 And if he's convicted, Shakur faces 25 years in prison. 735 00:29:09,273 --> 00:29:12,479 Shakur's attorney hinted that the robbery and shooting 736 00:29:12,479 --> 00:29:14,985 may be related to the trial. 737 00:29:14,985 --> 00:29:17,022 [Man Man] We don't know what this was. 738 00:29:17,022 --> 00:29:19,293 [Glo] We didn't know what to do and how to handle it. 739 00:29:19,293 --> 00:29:20,462 [Dante] I'm trying to make sure ain't nobody coming back 740 00:29:20,462 --> 00:29:22,433 trying to finish the job. 741 00:29:22,433 --> 00:29:24,403 [Glo] 'Cause it's a whole lot of people 742 00:29:24,403 --> 00:29:27,009 coming in to see him, and he's paranoid. 743 00:29:27,009 --> 00:29:29,013 [E.D.I. Mean] I used to think, "Who's responsible for this?" 744 00:29:29,013 --> 00:29:31,050 And I'm in New York, place where I'm from, 745 00:29:31,050 --> 00:29:33,388 and systematically goin' through the list, like, 746 00:29:33,388 --> 00:29:36,060 where's my friends, or who's my friends? 747 00:29:36,060 --> 00:29:39,935 You know, you go through a lot of confusion laying up in the hospital. 748 00:29:39,935 --> 00:29:41,505 You wonder, "How the fuck did I get here?" 749 00:29:41,505 --> 00:29:43,542 [Glo] He said "Somebody set me up." 750 00:29:43,542 --> 00:29:45,412 [man] Biggie and them was up studio B. 751 00:29:45,412 --> 00:29:47,149 "Why the fuck niggas ain't tell me 752 00:29:47,149 --> 00:29:49,086 this was gonna happen to me? 753 00:29:49,086 --> 00:29:50,222 What, y'all had something to do with it? 754 00:29:50,222 --> 00:29:51,357 Somebody gonna pay." 755 00:29:53,996 --> 00:29:57,102 [Glo] I don't know who created that beef 756 00:29:57,102 --> 00:29:59,407 because before he got shot, 757 00:29:59,407 --> 00:30:01,377 they were friends. 758 00:30:01,377 --> 00:30:03,481 [Snoop Dogg] Pac didn't hate Biggie like that. 759 00:30:03,481 --> 00:30:06,354 They was friends while me and Pac was friends. 760 00:30:06,354 --> 00:30:09,060 And now that it's all out in the air, 761 00:30:09,060 --> 00:30:11,130 Biggie had nothing to do with Pac getting shot 762 00:30:11,130 --> 00:30:14,236 at the fucking studio. Nothing to do with it. 763 00:30:14,236 --> 00:30:16,307 [Allen] Right. Right. Now we know he got shot multiple times. 764 00:30:16,307 --> 00:30:18,111 But I also understand 765 00:30:18,111 --> 00:30:21,017 Tupac may have shot himself once in the groin? 766 00:30:21,017 --> 00:30:23,889 I won't confirm or deny that. 767 00:30:23,889 --> 00:30:26,829 But I will say with-- a Glock doesn't have a safety, you know. 768 00:30:26,829 --> 00:30:28,599 [Allen] It doesn't have a safety. 769 00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:30,536 No, you have to take-- keep your finger off the trigger. 770 00:30:30,536 --> 00:30:32,339 You have to put your finger outside the trigger guard. 771 00:30:32,339 --> 00:30:34,010 So if you grab the Glock, you're frantic, 772 00:30:34,010 --> 00:30:35,145 you gonna shoot yourself in the nuts. 773 00:30:40,923 --> 00:30:44,230 [Jasmine] When Tupac was shot in New York 774 00:30:44,230 --> 00:30:47,403 and I got off the plane and went to Bellevue 775 00:30:47,403 --> 00:30:50,008 and the whole time, I'm thinking, 776 00:30:50,008 --> 00:30:51,512 "What's this gonna be like?" 777 00:30:51,512 --> 00:30:53,649 It's not like a lot of my friends get shot. 778 00:30:53,649 --> 00:30:55,520 You know what I mean? 779 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,524 And when I got there, the security guard was like, 780 00:30:57,524 --> 00:30:59,494 "He's not here. He left last night." 781 00:30:59,494 --> 00:31:01,965 [reporter] Rap star Tupac Shakur checked out of 782 00:31:01,965 --> 00:31:05,405 a New York hospital just hours after undergoing surgery 783 00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:07,176 for multiple gunshot wounds. 784 00:31:07,176 --> 00:31:08,646 While doctors at Bellevue said that 785 00:31:08,646 --> 00:31:10,650 by leaving there in his condition, 786 00:31:10,650 --> 00:31:12,352 he risked his health, possibly losing a testicle. 787 00:31:12,352 --> 00:31:14,290 [Karen] He called me the night before. 788 00:31:14,290 --> 00:31:15,960 Said, "I'm checking myself out of the hospital." 789 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,530 I said, "Why?" I said, "Are you ready to leave? 790 00:31:17,530 --> 00:31:19,100 Are you okay?" 791 00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:21,505 "No, I was asleep and I woke up 792 00:31:21,505 --> 00:31:24,143 and I thought I had died 793 00:31:24,143 --> 00:31:26,648 and I was looking at myself as a grown-up." 794 00:31:26,648 --> 00:31:29,588 His father showed up to see him. 795 00:31:29,588 --> 00:31:32,694 [Billy] I never knew where Pac was for about 15 years. 796 00:31:32,694 --> 00:31:35,533 And then I heard he got shot in New York. 797 00:31:35,533 --> 00:31:37,336 I knew where he was. 798 00:31:37,336 --> 00:31:39,206 I get in my car, drive over, 799 00:31:39,206 --> 00:31:41,144 walk up to the security guard and I said, 800 00:31:41,144 --> 00:31:43,348 "I'm here to see Tupac Shakur." 801 00:31:43,348 --> 00:31:45,051 And he said, uh, "Relationship?" 802 00:31:45,051 --> 00:31:46,588 I said, "I'm his father." 803 00:31:46,588 --> 00:31:48,993 He said, "I heard his father's dead." 804 00:31:48,993 --> 00:31:51,164 [Watani] Either Billy said "I'm your father" or Pac realized 805 00:31:51,164 --> 00:31:52,934 that's his father because he never met somebody else 806 00:31:52,934 --> 00:31:54,671 - look like him. - [Tupac] Trust nobody. 807 00:31:54,671 --> 00:31:58,077 - [Watani] Tupac was pissed off. - [Tupac] Trust nobody. 808 00:31:58,077 --> 00:31:59,514 [Watani] Venom toward his mother. 809 00:31:59,514 --> 00:32:02,052 The day your father show up 810 00:32:02,052 --> 00:32:06,227 is the day that you are in this vulnerable position. 811 00:32:06,227 --> 00:32:09,100 [Billy] He had just came out of anesthesia, still sleeping. 812 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:11,070 And next thing I know, Pac got his clothes on. 813 00:32:11,070 --> 00:32:12,439 He's leaving. He's had enough. 814 00:32:12,439 --> 00:32:13,676 [Watani] We take him away. 815 00:32:13,676 --> 00:32:15,680 Myself and Jamal move him. 816 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,485 [Afeni] My son didn't feel safe in that place. 817 00:32:18,485 --> 00:32:21,592 He says, "Ask Jasmine if I could recover at her house." 818 00:32:21,592 --> 00:32:23,261 [Jasmine] That's where he was hiding. 819 00:32:23,261 --> 00:32:24,998 No one knew he was there 820 00:32:24,998 --> 00:32:27,102 because no one knew that we were friends. 821 00:32:27,102 --> 00:32:28,572 So Tupac was laying on the couch. 822 00:32:28,572 --> 00:32:30,676 Bandage around his head, literally laid up. 823 00:32:30,676 --> 00:32:34,049 [Glo] And Billy Garland rolled blunts for the star. 824 00:32:34,049 --> 00:32:35,586 I was happy... 825 00:32:35,586 --> 00:32:37,657 that I had reconnected with my son. 826 00:32:37,657 --> 00:32:40,630 [Afeni] Billy Garland was trying to reenter his life as his father. 827 00:32:40,630 --> 00:32:43,234 Well, I said to him that "I'm here now for you." 828 00:32:43,234 --> 00:32:46,140 [Afeni] Telling Tupac explanations for why he wasn't there. 829 00:32:46,140 --> 00:32:49,581 We were still friends, but we weren't... together. 830 00:32:49,581 --> 00:32:52,252 And you know and I know when you don't see someone, 831 00:32:52,252 --> 00:32:54,624 you just unfortunately go different ways. 832 00:32:54,624 --> 00:32:58,131 [Afeni] This was very difficult for me, with Tupac asking me 833 00:32:58,131 --> 00:33:00,670 questions about things that he just discovered. 834 00:33:00,670 --> 00:33:03,208 ...understand that COINTEL shit the government did 835 00:33:03,208 --> 00:33:04,678 when they got us killing one another, 836 00:33:04,678 --> 00:33:06,414 shooting at one another. 837 00:33:06,414 --> 00:33:09,320 It was time, it was time to, uh, to split. 838 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,531 1971... 839 00:33:15,465 --> 00:33:19,306 Afeni continued to work hard as she got bigger with Tupac. 840 00:33:19,306 --> 00:33:22,145 But things continued to get harder and harder 841 00:33:22,145 --> 00:33:23,749 within the party. 842 00:33:23,749 --> 00:33:25,452 [reporter] In all of New York City today, 843 00:33:25,452 --> 00:33:27,289 there are fewer than 100 members 844 00:33:27,289 --> 00:33:29,260 of the Black Panther Party. 845 00:33:29,260 --> 00:33:31,464 The ones who are left have avoided police arrest 846 00:33:31,464 --> 00:33:33,268 on the one hand, and the party's own purge 847 00:33:33,268 --> 00:33:34,504 on the other. 848 00:33:34,504 --> 00:33:36,440 The purge, which is nationwide, 849 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,779 has lasted a year to weed out police informers 850 00:33:38,779 --> 00:33:41,585 who made the Panthers one of the most infiltrated groups 851 00:33:41,585 --> 00:33:43,154 in the whole country. 852 00:33:43,154 --> 00:33:44,758 Second, a purge of lawbreakers 853 00:33:44,758 --> 00:33:47,396 who used Panther weapons for personal crimes. 854 00:33:47,396 --> 00:33:49,466 And third, backsliders, 855 00:33:49,466 --> 00:33:51,337 who didn't have the commitment the party demands. 856 00:33:51,337 --> 00:33:53,441 [Jamal] In this atmosphere, tensions between 857 00:33:53,441 --> 00:33:55,613 east coast and the west coast chapters 858 00:33:55,613 --> 00:33:57,216 had reached a point where 859 00:33:57,216 --> 00:33:59,053 we had to watch our backs, 860 00:33:59,053 --> 00:34:00,590 know that a bullet might come from a cop 861 00:34:00,590 --> 00:34:02,326 or it might come from another Panther. 862 00:34:02,326 --> 00:34:04,463 COINTELPRO had people falsely accusing people 863 00:34:04,463 --> 00:34:07,169 of things and also wanted to discredit our organization 864 00:34:07,169 --> 00:34:08,606 in the eyes of the people. 865 00:34:08,606 --> 00:34:10,275 [reporter] So the party is small, 866 00:34:10,275 --> 00:34:12,279 partly because it wants to be for now, 867 00:34:12,279 --> 00:34:14,584 but mostly because there are not enough 868 00:34:14,584 --> 00:34:16,555 young or older Blacks 869 00:34:16,555 --> 00:34:18,358 who have been willing to take the risks involved 870 00:34:18,358 --> 00:34:19,460 in being Panthers. 871 00:34:19,460 --> 00:34:21,230 The big revolution against what? 872 00:34:21,230 --> 00:34:22,700 [reporter] At this point, the question is 873 00:34:22,700 --> 00:34:25,272 not what are the Black Panthers saying. 874 00:34:25,272 --> 00:34:28,646 The real question is, "Who is listening?" 875 00:34:28,646 --> 00:34:32,252 A group of us were in New Haven, Connecticut... 876 00:34:32,252 --> 00:34:35,125 at a rally that Huey Newton spoke at. 877 00:34:35,125 --> 00:34:37,563 Afeni wasn't there that day. 878 00:34:37,563 --> 00:34:40,268 After the rally, we were escorting 879 00:34:40,268 --> 00:34:42,272 Huey Newton to his car 880 00:34:42,272 --> 00:34:43,809 and this young white reporter 881 00:34:43,809 --> 00:34:45,780 slipped and the flash went off. 882 00:34:45,780 --> 00:34:47,517 Guns came out from everywhere. 883 00:34:47,517 --> 00:34:49,253 East coast and west coast Panthers 884 00:34:49,253 --> 00:34:50,790 were pointed at each other. 885 00:34:50,790 --> 00:34:52,860 This is how intense it had gotten. 886 00:34:52,860 --> 00:34:54,731 Huey was hustled into the car 887 00:34:54,731 --> 00:34:58,137 and we were supposed to head to a hotel to meet Huey Newton, 888 00:34:58,137 --> 00:34:59,507 but we didn't feel safe. 889 00:34:59,507 --> 00:35:01,878 And Cetewayo Tabor said, 890 00:35:01,878 --> 00:35:04,116 "It doesn't make sense to voluntarily walk back 891 00:35:04,116 --> 00:35:07,255 into the courtroom knowing that we're gonna get 300-plus years. 892 00:35:07,255 --> 00:35:08,826 We're going underground." 893 00:35:08,826 --> 00:35:11,263 He said, "Everyone knows and is prepared." 894 00:35:11,263 --> 00:35:13,234 But Afeni didn't know. 895 00:35:13,234 --> 00:35:17,242 The next day, I found out that Afeni and Joan 896 00:35:17,242 --> 00:35:19,313 had gone into the courtroom. 897 00:35:19,313 --> 00:35:20,816 [Afeni] I'll never forget that day. 898 00:35:22,252 --> 00:35:24,189 When I walked in the courtroom, 899 00:35:24,189 --> 00:35:27,730 it was enough for me to realize that there was something wrong. 900 00:35:27,730 --> 00:35:29,466 I didn't know why 901 00:35:29,466 --> 00:35:31,638 they had split like that and not told us. 902 00:35:31,638 --> 00:35:33,676 We was in jail from that minute. 903 00:35:33,676 --> 00:35:36,782 [gavel bangs] 904 00:35:36,782 --> 00:35:39,688 [Jamal] Afeni's bail was taken away and she was remanded. 905 00:35:39,688 --> 00:35:41,892 [buzzer sounds] 906 00:35:41,892 --> 00:35:46,568 [Glo] She had been betrayed in a way I cannot imagine 907 00:35:46,568 --> 00:35:48,839 by her comrades. 908 00:35:48,839 --> 00:35:53,782 They disappeared and gone to some country called Algiers. 909 00:35:53,782 --> 00:35:59,193 That had a deep effect on Afeni. 910 00:35:59,193 --> 00:36:02,667 [buzzer sounds] 911 00:36:07,409 --> 00:36:08,846 [Afeni speaking] 912 00:36:11,918 --> 00:36:14,657 [Tupac] My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. 913 00:36:14,657 --> 00:36:17,764 [Afeni speaking] 914 00:36:29,988 --> 00:36:31,925 So I am five months pregnant 915 00:36:31,925 --> 00:36:34,497 and there is no prenatal care. 916 00:36:34,497 --> 00:36:37,369 I ate powdered eggs and boiled potatoes 917 00:36:37,369 --> 00:36:39,239 and had to get a court order 918 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,912 just to get one egg and one glass of milk. 919 00:36:41,912 --> 00:36:44,651 [Tupac] She was her own attorney, never been to law school, 920 00:36:44,651 --> 00:36:47,389 facing 300 and something odd years. 921 00:36:47,389 --> 00:36:48,726 [Afeni] I lost weight. 922 00:36:48,726 --> 00:36:51,665 My son, however, gained weight. 923 00:36:51,665 --> 00:36:53,702 [Tupac] So I was not born in prison, 924 00:36:53,702 --> 00:36:56,742 but I was cultivated in prison. 925 00:36:56,742 --> 00:36:58,679 [Afeni speaking] 926 00:37:06,026 --> 00:37:08,297 [Glo] Afeni already said to me, 927 00:37:08,297 --> 00:37:09,667 I was to take her baby 928 00:37:09,667 --> 00:37:11,571 and that was hard to accept, 929 00:37:11,571 --> 00:37:15,278 that she may go away for the rest of her life. 930 00:37:15,278 --> 00:37:18,418 [Jamal] This is a trial that lasted for 13 months. 931 00:37:18,418 --> 00:37:21,558 Now they want the same rallies, the same support. 932 00:37:21,558 --> 00:37:23,962 They want the same articles in the Panther paper. 933 00:37:23,962 --> 00:37:27,970 We just felt that we had failed. But then... 934 00:37:27,970 --> 00:37:29,841 Recent events have given more indication 935 00:37:29,841 --> 00:37:32,580 of the extent of government snooping on civilians. 936 00:37:32,580 --> 00:37:35,719 [Jamal] We found out the existence of COINTELPRO. 937 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:38,592 Last month, more than 1,000 documents were stolen from 938 00:37:38,592 --> 00:37:40,830 the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. 939 00:37:40,830 --> 00:37:42,600 [Billy] In Media, Pennsylvania, 940 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,737 some white radicals broke into FBI offices. 941 00:37:44,737 --> 00:37:46,373 [reporter] They went down this corridor 942 00:37:46,373 --> 00:37:48,444 and somehow got through this door 943 00:37:48,444 --> 00:37:50,048 and stole all the files... 944 00:37:50,048 --> 00:37:51,518 [Billy] And they leaked physical evidence 945 00:37:51,518 --> 00:37:52,920 of COINTELPRO to the press. 946 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,323 [reporter] The FBI once distributed 947 00:37:54,323 --> 00:37:55,860 a Black Panther coloring book 948 00:37:55,860 --> 00:37:58,532 that depicted the police as saber-toothed pigs. 949 00:37:58,532 --> 00:38:00,468 These and many other dirty tricks 950 00:38:00,468 --> 00:38:01,771 carried out by the Bureau 951 00:38:01,771 --> 00:38:03,675 were revealed by the FBI files 952 00:38:03,675 --> 00:38:05,880 on its counterintelligence program, 953 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,917 codenamed COINTELPRO. 954 00:38:07,917 --> 00:38:11,892 They caught the lies and how diabolical this nation was. 955 00:38:11,892 --> 00:38:14,329 [Jamal] You know, we used to just think we were paranoid. 956 00:38:14,329 --> 00:38:16,601 But now we could see how COINTELPRO 957 00:38:16,601 --> 00:38:19,473 was at the center of most of our division. 958 00:38:19,473 --> 00:38:23,014 [Shaba] Planting lies, planting evidence, planting informers 959 00:38:23,014 --> 00:38:25,820 then killed us, incarcerated us, tortured us, 960 00:38:25,820 --> 00:38:27,557 humiliated us. 961 00:38:27,557 --> 00:38:29,627 So all of that hard work, going to prison, 962 00:38:29,627 --> 00:38:31,565 being beat, being killed, 963 00:38:31,565 --> 00:38:34,804 losing our families... 964 00:38:34,804 --> 00:38:36,508 what was that all about? 965 00:38:42,085 --> 00:38:44,891 [Afeni] Tupac was not supposed to be here. 966 00:38:48,799 --> 00:38:53,809 I had had only miscarriages after the third month of conception. 967 00:38:54,409 --> 00:39:00,088 Because this womb does not carry children that easily. 968 00:39:00,823 --> 00:39:04,964 And this child stayed in my womb... 969 00:39:06,568 --> 00:39:10,509 healthy... through hell. 970 00:39:13,582 --> 00:39:17,590 Clearly, God had a reason 971 00:39:17,590 --> 00:39:20,563 for this child to live. 972 00:39:20,563 --> 00:39:23,802 So the only question was, what was that reason? 973 00:39:23,802 --> 00:39:26,407 [indistinct shouting] 974 00:39:26,407 --> 00:39:28,110 [man] Mr. Shakur, how are you this morning? 975 00:39:28,110 --> 00:39:31,383 [Glo] Tupac was feeling betrayed by everybody. 976 00:39:34,724 --> 00:39:37,597 He was paranoid to the ninth degree. 977 00:39:37,597 --> 00:39:40,769 He never thought for once in his whole life 978 00:39:40,769 --> 00:39:43,441 that a Black person would shoot him. 979 00:39:43,441 --> 00:39:45,445 [Tupac] They shot me. 980 00:39:45,445 --> 00:39:47,583 I really did believe that 981 00:39:47,583 --> 00:39:50,121 I didn't have to fear my own community. 982 00:39:50,121 --> 00:39:51,858 I was their representative, 983 00:39:51,858 --> 00:39:54,463 but as proven by this false rape charge, 984 00:39:54,463 --> 00:39:56,433 as proven by the gunshots, 985 00:39:56,433 --> 00:39:58,572 as proven by a lot of the comments you read in the media, 986 00:39:58,572 --> 00:40:00,576 that's not true. 987 00:40:00,576 --> 00:40:03,147 [Glo] He's on trial for something he did not do. 988 00:40:03,147 --> 00:40:05,451 He feels vulnerable. 989 00:40:05,451 --> 00:40:09,126 100 Centre Street in 1994. 990 00:40:09,126 --> 00:40:12,800 The same courthouse as the Panther 21 trial 991 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,675 when Feni looked at those jurors and she goes into that, 992 00:40:16,675 --> 00:40:18,679 in summation, 993 00:40:18,679 --> 00:40:21,618 I'll read this for you because I think it's marvelous. 994 00:40:21,618 --> 00:40:25,491 But I am not fucking with Afeni Shakur's words 995 00:40:25,491 --> 00:40:26,761 or her feelings, 996 00:40:26,761 --> 00:40:28,799 because honest to God, 997 00:40:28,799 --> 00:40:32,472 she was not emotional when she did this. 998 00:40:32,472 --> 00:40:34,911 Her son, same thing. 999 00:40:37,048 --> 00:40:38,752 [Shock G] They said, "Does the defendant have 1000 00:40:38,752 --> 00:40:41,023 any last words or anything to say?" 1001 00:40:41,023 --> 00:40:42,493 And it's the first thing you've heard him say 1002 00:40:42,493 --> 00:40:44,631 in, like, two weeks of court. 1003 00:40:44,631 --> 00:40:46,635 He said, "You know, Your Honor, 1004 00:40:46,635 --> 00:40:48,605 throughout this entire court case... 1005 00:40:51,010 --> 00:40:54,617 you haven't looked me or my attorney in the eye once." 1006 00:40:55,986 --> 00:40:58,190 [Glo] "I have very little to say 1007 00:40:58,190 --> 00:41:00,061 because it has all been said. 1008 00:41:00,061 --> 00:41:03,669 Forgive me then if I stray from legal jargon, 1009 00:41:03,669 --> 00:41:06,073 for I am not a lawyer." 1010 00:41:06,073 --> 00:41:09,179 [Shock G] "It's obvious that you're not here in search of justice. 1011 00:41:09,179 --> 00:41:11,785 So there's no point in me asking for a lighter sentence." 1012 00:41:11,785 --> 00:41:14,524 [Glo] "I'm tired, I'm sick. 1013 00:41:14,524 --> 00:41:16,828 I'm sick of all of this. 1014 00:41:16,828 --> 00:41:19,132 The district attorney has not proven 1015 00:41:19,132 --> 00:41:22,205 any of the charges against me." 1016 00:41:22,205 --> 00:41:24,811 [Shock G] "I'm pretty sure you're gonna throw the book at me." 1017 00:41:24,811 --> 00:41:28,885 [Glo] "A lie has to be supported by lies 1018 00:41:28,885 --> 00:41:30,689 and more lies, 1019 00:41:30,689 --> 00:41:33,294 but the truth carries its own weight." 1020 00:41:33,294 --> 00:41:35,799 [Shock G] "So I say, 'Do what you gotta do.'" 1021 00:41:35,799 --> 00:41:37,570 [Glo] "So you do what you have to do." 1022 00:41:37,570 --> 00:41:38,805 [Shock G] "Give me whatever time you want." 1023 00:41:38,805 --> 00:41:40,208 [Glo] "All we ask of you 1024 00:41:40,208 --> 00:41:42,947 is that you judge us fairly." 1025 00:41:42,947 --> 00:41:44,684 [Shock G] "Because I'm not in your hands. 1026 00:41:44,684 --> 00:41:46,554 I'm in God's hands." 1027 00:41:46,554 --> 00:41:48,157 Whew! 1028 00:41:48,157 --> 00:41:49,861 Brave motherfucker, y'all. 1029 00:41:51,865 --> 00:41:53,100 [Glo] And then... 1030 00:41:53,100 --> 00:41:55,238 judge discharged the jury, 1031 00:41:55,238 --> 00:41:57,242 with a hundred and something hours 1032 00:41:57,242 --> 00:42:00,616 to come back with a verdict, "guilty" or "not guilty". 1033 00:42:00,616 --> 00:42:03,722 Mr. Fox, as foreman of the jury... 1034 00:42:03,722 --> 00:42:06,026 The jury foreman, who had a melodic, 1035 00:42:06,026 --> 00:42:08,598 educated West Indian accent, said... 1036 00:42:08,598 --> 00:42:10,969 We, the members of the jury, 1037 00:42:10,969 --> 00:42:13,240 have considered... 1038 00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:17,182 all the counts and charges against the defendants 1039 00:42:17,182 --> 00:42:20,288 and have found them not guilty. 1040 00:42:20,288 --> 00:42:22,292 [cheering] 1041 00:42:22,292 --> 00:42:25,766 [with accent] "As to count number two, not guilty." 1042 00:42:25,766 --> 00:42:27,636 He repeated it every time. 1043 00:42:27,636 --> 00:42:29,139 - "Not guilty." - [Fox] Not guilty. 1044 00:42:29,139 --> 00:42:30,743 - [Jamal] Shakespearean. - Not guilty. 1045 00:42:30,743 --> 00:42:33,615 It was like a symphony. It was beautiful. 1046 00:42:33,615 --> 00:42:35,151 - [Jamal] Symphonic. - It was awesome. 1047 00:42:35,151 --> 00:42:37,355 And the courtroom, of course, erupted. 1048 00:42:37,355 --> 00:42:38,959 - Not guilty. - [Fox] Not guilty. 1049 00:42:38,959 --> 00:42:40,763 [Fox] Not guilty. 1050 00:42:40,763 --> 00:42:42,198 [Glo] You couldn't help but erupt. 1051 00:42:42,198 --> 00:42:44,604 [Fox] Not guilty. 1052 00:42:44,604 --> 00:42:46,140 [Glo] Because you didn't expect that that would happen. 1053 00:42:46,140 --> 00:42:48,010 [Fox] Not guilty. 1054 00:42:48,010 --> 00:42:50,649 [Jamal] People began to cheer, they began to cry. 1055 00:42:50,649 --> 00:42:52,018 [Fox] Not guilty. 1056 00:42:52,018 --> 00:42:53,755 [Jamal] The jurors actually 1057 00:42:53,755 --> 00:42:54,891 started celebrating with the Panthers. 1058 00:42:54,891 --> 00:42:56,026 [Fox] Not guilty. 1059 00:42:56,026 --> 00:42:57,930 [man] Come on over! 1060 00:42:57,930 --> 00:43:00,101 The jury, the defendants, everybody, we're all here. 1061 00:43:00,101 --> 00:43:01,638 [reporter] Thirteen Black Panthers 1062 00:43:01,638 --> 00:43:03,107 charged with conspiracy to bomb... 1063 00:43:03,107 --> 00:43:05,178 When they announced the verdict, it was... 1064 00:43:05,178 --> 00:43:06,781 [Fox] Not guilty. 1065 00:43:06,781 --> 00:43:08,317 I was shocked. 1066 00:43:08,317 --> 00:43:10,689 - [Fox] Not guilty. - But extremely happy. 1067 00:43:10,689 --> 00:43:12,258 [people chanting] 1068 00:43:12,258 --> 00:43:14,329 Power to the people! 1069 00:43:14,329 --> 00:43:16,768 [Glo] I looked at the world through rose-colored glasses. 1070 00:43:16,768 --> 00:43:18,805 - [Fox] Not guilty. - [Glo] Everything's gonna be okay. 1071 00:43:18,805 --> 00:43:20,308 [Fox] Not guilty. 1072 00:43:20,308 --> 00:43:22,847 [Glo] Our will alone will make it so. 1073 00:43:22,847 --> 00:43:24,049 [Fox] Not guilty. 1074 00:43:24,049 --> 00:43:25,652 [Glo] Whatever this trouble is, 1075 00:43:25,652 --> 00:43:26,888 we gonna get through it. 1076 00:43:27,957 --> 00:43:29,392 Not that day. 1077 00:43:29,392 --> 00:43:31,096 - [gavel bangs] - [judge, echoing] Guilty. 1078 00:43:39,747 --> 00:43:42,252 This is the Week in Rock, or the week in Tup 1079 00:43:42,252 --> 00:43:44,055 as in Tupac Shakur. 1080 00:43:44,055 --> 00:43:45,893 On Thursday night, the rapper and actor 1081 00:43:45,893 --> 00:43:48,097 was cleared of 12 sodomy and weapons charges 1082 00:43:48,097 --> 00:43:50,869 and found guilty of three lesser counts of sexual abuse, 1083 00:43:50,869 --> 00:43:54,009 for which Shakur could get up to seven years in jail. 1084 00:43:54,009 --> 00:43:56,748 The jury had evaluated the evidence and found 1085 00:43:56,748 --> 00:43:59,754 that it was quite lacking on the more serious counts. 1086 00:43:59,754 --> 00:44:02,125 We had hoped that we would get a clear sweep, 1087 00:44:02,125 --> 00:44:03,962 but we certainly are gratified 1088 00:44:03,962 --> 00:44:06,835 that the jury came up with the verdict that they did. 1089 00:44:06,835 --> 00:44:08,939 [clamoring] 1090 00:44:08,939 --> 00:44:12,145 [Glo] Tupac was found not guilty of rape, 1091 00:44:12,145 --> 00:44:14,917 but he got convicted of assault. 1092 00:44:14,917 --> 00:44:18,324 And after that conviction, he went back to Jasmine's house. 1093 00:44:18,324 --> 00:44:21,263 I think the most significant thing is that Mr. Shakur, 1094 00:44:21,263 --> 00:44:24,102 even in a state of extreme pain, 1095 00:44:24,102 --> 00:44:26,273 came here and stayed as long as he could 1096 00:44:26,273 --> 00:44:28,678 to indicate his continued statement of not guilty. 1097 00:44:28,678 --> 00:44:31,283 Do you know where your client is right now, Mr. Warren? 1098 00:44:31,283 --> 00:44:32,987 Have you spoken to him? 1099 00:44:32,987 --> 00:44:35,324 Uh, no, we haven't. Th-that's personal. 1100 00:44:35,324 --> 00:44:37,963 [reporter] Shakur is still recovering from gunshot wounds, 1101 00:44:37,963 --> 00:44:40,001 and when the judge ordered that he be taken to a secured hospital, 1102 00:44:40,001 --> 00:44:42,005 his lawyers brought in a surgeon from Harlem Hospital 1103 00:44:42,005 --> 00:44:44,175 to testify that any attempt to move him right now 1104 00:44:44,175 --> 00:44:48,183 could be life-threatening due to a still-bleeding leg wound. 1105 00:44:48,183 --> 00:44:51,290 [Jasmine] After a few weeks, as he was getting better, 1106 00:44:51,290 --> 00:44:54,697 it must have just hit him, because, "Now what? 1107 00:44:54,697 --> 00:44:56,734 Now I'm getting ready to go to prison?" 1108 00:44:56,734 --> 00:44:59,272 He didn't see much ahead. 1109 00:44:59,272 --> 00:45:01,476 But he wouldn't talk to me. 1110 00:45:01,476 --> 00:45:03,113 He just wanted to be alone. 1111 00:45:03,113 --> 00:45:05,084 [reporter] Tupac Shakur has been sentenced 1112 00:45:05,084 --> 00:45:07,121 to a maximum of four and a half years in prison 1113 00:45:07,121 --> 00:45:09,192 for sexually abusing a fan. 1114 00:45:09,192 --> 00:45:11,463 [Glo] It's cold, there's snow on the ground. 1115 00:45:11,463 --> 00:45:15,071 Me and Afeni went to Jasmine's apartment. 1116 00:45:15,071 --> 00:45:20,114 And Tupac is sitting on the couch, holding a rifle. 1117 00:45:20,515 --> 00:45:24,857 And he got "fuck the world" written across his face 1118 00:45:24,857 --> 00:45:27,897 and there's a tear coming down. 1119 00:45:27,897 --> 00:45:30,268 There was a force around him. 1120 00:45:30,268 --> 00:45:34,510 I have seen a demon as if it was on his shoulder. 1121 00:45:34,510 --> 00:45:39,152 Tupac was so depressed 1122 00:45:39,152 --> 00:45:41,991 that he said, 1123 00:45:41,991 --> 00:45:45,298 "Look, I'm not gonna turn myself in." 1124 00:45:45,298 --> 00:45:49,205 Then he said to the boys, "This is what we're gonna do. 1125 00:45:49,205 --> 00:45:52,045 You're gonna take me in the Cadillac. 1126 00:45:52,045 --> 00:45:54,884 You're gonna drive me someplace. 1127 00:45:54,884 --> 00:45:57,422 I'mma smoke a lot of weed 1128 00:45:57,422 --> 00:45:58,825 and then... 1129 00:46:00,061 --> 00:46:02,967 tell Mutulu 1130 00:46:02,967 --> 00:46:05,004 that one of us got away." 1131 00:46:05,872 --> 00:46:07,175 [gun cocks] 1132 00:46:09,145 --> 00:46:10,348 [gunshot] 1133 00:46:12,485 --> 00:46:15,024 I cried my guts out. 1134 00:46:15,024 --> 00:46:18,063 I cried my guts out 1135 00:46:18,063 --> 00:46:21,136 at the utter despair 1136 00:46:21,136 --> 00:46:23,073 that I see my nephew in. 1137 00:46:23,073 --> 00:46:25,077 [Tupac] I just can't take it out here no more. 1138 00:46:25,077 --> 00:46:27,583 He was talking about killing hisself. 1139 00:46:27,583 --> 00:46:31,289 [Tupac] I feel like I'm losing it and I wanna die. 1140 00:46:32,526 --> 00:46:34,362 [Glo] Feni went to her son 1141 00:46:34,362 --> 00:46:37,970 and got on her knees in front of her baby. 1142 00:46:37,970 --> 00:46:39,874 "I don't care what anybody calls you 1143 00:46:39,874 --> 00:46:41,476 or tells you you are. 1144 00:46:41,476 --> 00:46:44,182 You must never believe that. 1145 00:46:44,182 --> 00:46:47,422 You put one foot in front of the other." 1146 00:46:47,422 --> 00:46:52,131 In our weakness, we can create strength. 1147 00:46:57,108 --> 00:46:59,045 Just write. 1148 00:46:59,045 --> 00:47:01,283 ♪ Now I'm lost and I'm weary So many tears ♪ 1149 00:47:01,283 --> 00:47:03,354 ♪ I'm suicidal So don't stand near me ♪ 1150 00:47:03,354 --> 00:47:05,424 ♪ My every move Is a calculated step ♪ 1151 00:47:05,424 --> 00:47:07,997 ♪ To bring me closer To embrace an early death ♪ 1152 00:47:07,997 --> 00:47:09,900 ♪ Now there's nothin' left ♪ 1153 00:47:09,900 --> 00:47:11,571 ♪ There was no mercy On the streets ♪ 1154 00:47:11,571 --> 00:47:13,374 ♪ I couldn't rest I'm barely standin' ♪ 1155 00:47:13,374 --> 00:47:15,144 ♪ Bout to go to pieces, Screamin', "peace" ♪ 1156 00:47:15,144 --> 00:47:17,181 ♪ And though my soul Was deleted ♪ 1157 00:47:17,181 --> 00:47:18,585 ♪ I couldn't see it I had my mind full of demons ♪ 1158 00:47:18,585 --> 00:47:20,454 ♪ Tryin' to break free ♪ 1159 00:47:20,454 --> 00:47:21,624 ♪ They planted seeds And they hatched ♪ 1160 00:47:21,624 --> 00:47:23,394 ♪ Sparkin' the flame ♪ 1161 00:47:23,394 --> 00:47:25,264 ♪ Inside my brain like a match, Such a dirty game ♪ 1162 00:47:25,264 --> 00:47:27,135 ♪ No memories Just a misery ♪ 1163 00:47:27,135 --> 00:47:28,571 ♪ Paintin' a picture of My enemies ♪ 1164 00:47:28,571 --> 00:47:30,942 ♪ Killin' me in my sleep ♪ 1165 00:47:30,942 --> 00:47:32,646 ♪ Will I survive till the Mornin' to see the sun? ♪ 1166 00:47:32,646 --> 00:47:34,282 ♪ Please Lord, forgive me For my sins ♪ 1167 00:47:34,282 --> 00:47:37,088 ♪ 'Cause here I come, God ♪ 1168 00:47:37,088 --> 00:47:38,190 ♪ Lord ♪ 1169 00:47:38,190 --> 00:47:39,359 [Glo] Just write. 1170 00:47:39,359 --> 00:47:40,629 ♪ Lord knows I tried ♪ 1171 00:47:40,629 --> 00:47:42,966 ♪ Been a witness to homicide ♪ 1172 00:47:42,966 --> 00:47:45,271 ♪ Seen drive-bys takin' lives Little kids die ♪ 1173 00:47:45,271 --> 00:47:47,375 ♪ Wonder why as I walk by ♪ 1174 00:47:47,375 --> 00:47:50,549 ♪ Broken-hearted as I glance at The chalk line, gettin' high ♪ 1175 00:47:50,549 --> 00:47:53,320 ♪ This ain't the life for me I wanna change ♪ 1176 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,892 ♪ But ain't no future right for Me, I'm stuck in the game ♪ 1177 00:47:55,892 --> 00:47:57,663 ♪ I'm trapped inside a maze ♪ 1178 00:47:57,663 --> 00:48:00,234 ♪ See this Tanqueray influenced Me to gettin' crazy ♪ 1179 00:48:00,234 --> 00:48:02,539 ♪ Disillusioned lately, I've Been really wantin' babies ♪ 1180 00:48:02,539 --> 00:48:05,444 ♪ So I could see a part of me That wasn't always shady ♪ 1181 00:48:05,444 --> 00:48:09,018 ♪ Don't trust my lady 'Cause she's a product of This poison ♪ 1182 00:48:09,018 --> 00:48:11,958 ♪ I'm hearin' noises, think She's fuckin' all my boys, I can't take no more ♪ 1183 00:48:11,958 --> 00:48:14,162 ♪ I'm fallin' to the floor, Beggin' for the Lord To let me in ♪ 1184 00:48:14,162 --> 00:48:16,534 ♪ To Heaven's door, Shed so many tears ♪ 1185 00:48:16,534 --> 00:48:18,505 ♪ Dear God, please let me in ♪ 1186 00:48:18,505 --> 00:48:20,040 ♪ Lord, I've lost So many peers ♪ 1187 00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:22,946 ♪ And shed so many tears... ♪ 1188 00:48:22,946 --> 00:48:24,984 Whatcha y'all doin'? Y'all got quiet and shit, right? 1189 00:48:24,984 --> 00:48:26,554 [laughs] 1190 00:48:26,554 --> 00:48:29,025 Allen over here, tryin' not to cry. 1191 00:48:29,025 --> 00:48:31,463 [laughs] 1192 00:48:32,599 --> 00:48:34,503 ♪