01x03 - Until We Can't Be Beat

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[indistinct shouts and whistles]

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[engine turning over]



[indistinct chatter]

[OA] Hey, when we get there,

you guys literally got to get dressed and get ready.

The rivalry between North and Southwest

picked up the last few years.

The Southwest community is still Minneapolis,

but it's Southwest Minneapolis,

and it's really a suburb.

Great jobs, big houses, you know, kids got cars there.

[player] Damn, look at. Them mother-- huge.

Damn.

[OA] The petition to remove Minneapolis

police officers from high schools was signed

and developed in the Southwest community.

We got a lot of the white kids from Southwest High School

saying that officers working at the school

traumatize the Black kids.

Maybe the Southwest side don't need the cops in the schools,

so the Northside don't need them either.

So a lot of people in that area, encourage people

to vote against having police officers in the school.

A few days later,

the Minneapolis Public School Board

wanted to discuss the situation about SROs,

school resource officers.

I was at North working as the SRO.

Everybody voted to get rid of us.

[sighs]

Man, I'm gonna be honest with you.

Like...

having the opportunity of being the SRO taken away from me

f*cked me up.

Like, it really did,

because I want to be there for my boys, man,

and their families.

That sh*t was personal to us, the whole hood.

The disrespect out here towards y'all is crazy, man.

So y'all should probably take it really personal--

like, borderline, like, it's crazy.

You got people in the paper picking at you guys

that you don't even have a chance with this team.

So it's up to y'all, man.

Y'all can be disrespected and just be cool with it,

or y'all better come and do something.

They think, you know, ain't nothing but drug dealing,

g*ng bangin', and crime-ridden things going on.

So we're don't get the respect energy.

We getting that "we can't lose to these n*gg*s" energy.



[whistle blows]



[cheers and applause]



[announcer] Touchdown! Polars!



[cheers and applause]

[all, chanting] Let's go Polars! Let's go!

Let's go Polars! Let's go!

Let's go Polars! Let's go!

-[whistle blows]
-[OA] Oh, come on!

Yeah, he's hurt.

God damn it.

Oh, he can't even walk on it.

[Brick] Hey, you're going in at quarterback.

It's gonna be a little bit of backyard football.

I don't care.

You okay, buddy?

You okay?

-[Rio] Ready, set...
-[player] Hup.



[cheers and applause]



[coach] Rio, throw it.



-[announcer] Touchdown!
-[Mario] Touchdown! Let's go!

Let's go!

[OA] Hey, y'all know y'all athletic,

y'all know they can't fool with y'all,

so y'all have to bring it out. You understand what I'm saying?

[all] Yes, Coach.

Sometimes we just got to let y'all go and play.

They're not better than y'all. Show it.



[announcer] Touchdown! Polars!



[announcer] Touchdown!

-[whistle blows]
-[laughter]

[announcer speaks indistinctly]

Hey, good sh*t. Good f*cking sh*t, boy.



Yo, you good, bro?



You'll be back next week.

-Clap it up for yourself.
-[cheers and applause]

[OA] It's how it goes, man.

We gonna have to play some smashmouth football to win.

So get ready. They're a pretty good team.

They wanted to beat y'all. They tried to beat y'all.

Man, I'm proud of y'all. Man, let's go.

[player] "Polars" on three! "Family" on six!

One, two, three!
-[all] Polars!

-Four, five, six!
-[all] Family!

[OA] Way to step up, boy.

Way to step up, man. Way to step up. Way to step up.

-[player laughs]
-All right.

We got to go through adversity, man.

Like, it wouldn't even be a season if we didn't.

So you gonna be good, man.

Like, just rest up, get better, and we gonna be straight.



[indistinct chatter]

[Mauri] So who left me the voice mail?

-You? Thank you.
-That was me.

I appreciate you guys. For real. Thank you.

Not having a police officer as a daily presence

in the school made me feel helpless

in a lot of ways, when it came to student safety.

So I have found parents and community members to help me.

So what we have is-- or what we've been having is

a couple of cars that'll just circle.

And a couple of them have, you know, pulled over

when the kids get about a block away...

-Okay.
-...robbed some of our kids.

And we just need them to know that we're watching them,

-taking down their information.
-Yes, ma'am.

When we first came back to school in the fall,

we had kids that were carrying,

and we'd never had that before.

None of us were prepared for how to respond to that.

Burrell, you got the courtyard.

Not wanting to call 'cause there's people

that are listening to the scanners,

and you don't really want to alarm all your parents,

but then you don't want to not call

and then have something happen.

For me as a principal,

like, I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing right now,

because I just-- I'm used to having

a school resource officer, and I'm never not.

For me right now, the biggest threat is, like,

is our Minneapolis Police Department

gonna be disbanded?

The majority of students

and family in my circle here

do not want to abolish the police,

mostly because they don't know what that would look like.

[indistinct radio chatter]

Our police department needs

people who were really good cops.

If they have officers that do not believe

that these people here are their people,

they need to go.

Instead of losing our police department,

replace bad cops with people who say,

"These are my people. You are my people.

And I would never let anything happen to my people."

That's what our kids deserve to have

when they walk out of here.



[newscaster] To the vote in Minneapolis,

which is dominating the day, getting national headlines,

not the mayor's race, not council races.

All those matter greatly.

They pale in comparison to ending the police force

as we know it

and rolling out a new Department of Public Safety.

And what does that mean?

I can't go this far from me without understanding

the specifics of a plan which just isn't out there.

It's an amazing question coming from the police.

[chuckles]

You know, who decided Daunte Wright's fate?

Who decided George Floyd's fate?

Jamar Clark's fate, Thurman Blevins' fate,

Travis Jordan's fate, Barbara Schneider's fate?

It's an amazing question coming from the police department.

In , a lot of these unarmed police killings

were happening elsewhere.

We were standing in solidarity here.

But when Jamar Clark was k*lled,

there was an immediacy that you feel.

Like, one of our neighbors was k*lled.

His older sister used to braid my sister's hair, right?

North Minneapolis is a small place.

It's a tight-knit community.

I truly felt what it meant

to have no authority over the police in that moment.

And I was really dissatisfied with the response

from, you know, my council member at the time

and local government in general.

Yeah, the hope is that we can have a response

that--you know, keeping people alive,

keeping them healthy, deescalating the situation...

Over the course of the year, getting a little bit more

involved with marches and protests that were going on

sort of showed me that we need better representation

to fight for real change.

[person] When you say we're going to take down

the current police department, and we're gonna create

and we're gonna create this Department of Public Safety,

and that's as far as your explanation goes

for what comes next,

how can I blame anybody for looking at that going,

"Yeah, you know, I'm gonna trust the devil I know

versus the one that I don't"?

And I have no idea what would happen

if Question Two goes yes.

[Jeremiah] In my race,

you're seeing some really skillful narrative

from the opposition, but, ultimately,

I don't think that policing as an institution

can really overcome its problems

until we have more accountability.

[Frank] People know where the th Precinct

and what it represents.

When you ride by and see these barricades,

does that make you think that we are here to help you,

we want you, and we're here to work together?

That's the total opposite.

You want to feel that worth, actually feel appreciated

and recognized as human beings.

This does not reflect that...

I was born and raised

Northside of here, Minneapolis.

I'm a neighborhood voice, a activist,

a community fighter.

Can't wait to fight for the little guy.

Campaign is going really well. It's about / over North.

Folks don't have all the right information.

Right now Question Number Two,

the other side of the aisle,

they're using it as a scare tactic

that we're just gonna just get rid of the police

and abolish everything.

That is the silliest thing I've ever heard.

So the vote for number two

is pretty much gonna give some accountability

and make police the last option and not the first one.

-They do need professionals...
-Yes.

-...for mental health...
-Yes.

...homelessness.

I mean, you're right.

We're not doing away with the police.

We're just adding extra resources.

Resources, exactly.

I knew it was gonna be an uphill battle

last summer when folks on the City Council

constantly pushed that "defund" word.

You can't take the police department

-out of the cities.
-I agree.

-That's suicide.
-I agree.

What happened to George Floyd happened, I don't know,

hundreds of thousands of times everywhere,

all over the country.

People are not gonna put up with this anymore.

[person over police radio] --

received a call about a suspect who made threats

that he is going to sh**t the caller...

[Brick] I get it, 'cause you got some dirty cops.

There should be some reform,

but nobody can tell me what that looks like.

All it is is defund, defund, defund.

We already know what that means to defund.

Okay? You want to defund me?

What's gonna happen when I'm no longer here?

The criminals are getting smarter,

and they're doing a lot more risky sh*t.

We're out here every day risking our lives.

Criminals are who they are, you know?

'Cause if they wasn't, then you wouldn't need us.

The thing that happened with George Floyd

still impacts our community because the wall is up now.

And there's no breaking it down until they see change.

You know, every time we go to a call,

it's--it's, "f*ck , and there's no good cops.

"And Black people this, and Black people that,

and you're a sellout."

You know, all that thrown at me.

But once you break that wall,

you know, they'll open up and, you know,

tell you their life story and all that.

But that's what you need in the community.

You need the community to break down the wall.

[radios beeps, indistinct chatter]

as*ault in progress, meaning that it's happening right now.

Come here for a sec. Come here.

I just got to...

I got a question for you. Come here, come here.

Don't run. Don't run from me.

I am, because I got a call saying that you was assaulting.

I just want to ask you a question.

Just turn around for a second. Just turn around for a sec.

Just turn-- Just turn around for a sec.

I don't want to have to do this.

We don't have to do this. I just want to talk to you.

I just want to talk to you. Come this way. Come this way.

I'm not. I'm just trying to talk to you,

but you keep backing up.

I want to talk to you over here,

'cause if you run, then I don't want to have to chase you.

Huh? What?

I--

-, I'm with the male.

Yeah, I got a call. So what's going on?

-What's going on?
-Nothing.

No, she's been crying about her mom or whatever.

Right, so why am I getting a call

that you dragged her and all this stuff?

-What's-what's--
-I was holding--

I'm asking you a question. I'm asking you a question.

-Don't get--
-It's just really hot out.

Why don't you have a seat? Have a seat.

-Go away.
-Yes.

Stand up right here.

-, go for it.

-Uh-huh. Okay.
-Like...

Are you in any kind of trouble? Let me ask you that question.

Don't look at him. I'm asking you.

She got bipolarism.

Uh-huh.

Just understand,

you know, where officers coming from

when, you know, get a call like that.

Y'all walking down the street.

I see you holding her, you know?

I don't know what's going on. I want to find out.

All right?

All right, I'm gonna let y'all go ahead and do y'all thing.

Y'all go about your business, all right?

A EDP call is an "emotional disturbed person,"

meaning that they're either off their medicine,

they been taking too many drugs.

It's one of those calls where you just have no clue

what state of mind that person is in.

They could be the coolest person.

They just haven't taken their medicines.

Segue into the vote--

they're trying to pass it where the specialist

that deals with EDPs, you know, the "clinical workers"

or whatever you want to call them,

they want them to come to the scene.

Not ride along with us, but come to the scene,

something like that, so they can deescalate the situation.

It very well could be,

but, again, if he has a g*n, he's unstable.

He's mentally unstable,

so now I have to protect your life and my life.

So, if they're thinking that they're gonna make it better

by getting rid of us when that sh*t's going on--

man, it's gonna be...

The Purge sh*t, that's gonna be exactly that.

It's already doing that now.

Ah, sh*t.

[siren wailing]

marching band music



-[whistle blows]
-[OA] Let's go!

Get your lines! Let's go! Let's go!

[Lawrence] You're coming off,

this is your aiming point for hitting him, right?

You're in here like this, okay?

'Cause if you go this, what happens?

-[player] Hold.
-Holding.

-This week's is huge on us.
-[player] There it is. Go. Run.

Trust the guy next to you. Trust the guy next to you.

'Cause if you do your job, he does his job,

the other four guys do their jobs,

they can't stop us, right?

I love what I do. I love coaching North.

I wouldn't want to coach anywhere else,

but it's definitely a difficult time right now.

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A couple years ago, early morning,

I was downtown, got the call-- disorderly on the bus.

This person was nasty on that bus.

So I pull up and get on the bus, and the driver's like,

"Hey, you know, this person's threatening,

and I just don't want him on the bus."

Okay.

Go back, just-- "Hey, here's the deal, man.

"Like, you know, just hop on the next bus.

Just move on with your day."

Nope. Gets off the bus.

As they're getting off,

"F you. I'm gonna hunt you down."

Well, now the driver's like, "They just threatened me.

"I feel for my safety. Blah, blah, blah.

I need your ID."

"F you."

Didn't want to go with the program,

so it had to go hands on.

[person] Yeah, that's not fair.

Right!

[person] And she's on her way to work.

-I said I don't like people.
-[person ] Thank you.

-Stop.
-[person] Hey, hey.

-Stop fighting.
-[person screams]

[person] You hurting her.

[person ] You are hurting her, man.

You hurting her. Hold on.

[person] Yeah, you hurting her, f*ck!

-[screaming continues]
-[person] You stupid.

-Back off!
-[screams]

[person] She didn't do sh*t!

[person ] All he asked is for the ID.

[person ] I got his badge number.

[person] Just 'cause he a f*cking cop!

This what the f*ck they do!



[Lawrence] I spent my whole career

trying to not be in this position.

Like, I am going to be part of the change.

I've strived to be the opposite of who that is.



Right away I call OA.

Like, "Hey, if you don't want me to show up,

I won't show up."

But he's like, "Get your a*s to practice."

It was the hardest thing. It almost crushed me.

The whole incident did.

On anything, on the loosies, you come down like that on him,

and you just take him out like that, right?

Get to my players,

and, you know, a few of them had heard.

And, "I'm sorry this happened."

And they kind of all like, "Why are you sorry?

"You did nothing wrong.

We know who you are, and we got your back."

Man, that's huge.

Rio, work yourself in at receiver.

[OA] I know Tim. He's so laid-back.

And so, if Tim is yelling, you f*cked up.

If he's yelling at you, you f*cked up.

So, when he had to put hands on somebody,

I'm like, "Okay, well, let me see what happened."

He did his job, though.

You can't be mad at a police officer

for doing their job if you're wrong.

Go. Come on.

[Rio] He was taking somebody to jail,

and they was, like, resisting, trying to fight and all that.

I thought he was doing the right thing.

Like, he was trying to take the dude off the bus,

take him to jail.

All right, hey, basics, basics. Ready?

-[all] Yeah.
-[OA] Hey, hey...

[Tae] After the situation happened,

it never really changed the way I view him.

[Rio] Go.

[Lawrence] You know, they say they want

to defund the police.

Well, I get there does need to be change,

but people need to feel safe as well.

I just hope the pain stops--

pain of the city, the pain of the Northside,

the pain of the cops,

'cause, really, who's winning right now?

[people cheer]

[OA] Good, good, good. Let's go. We moving.

[Frank] Not all police are bad,

and they have a really f*cked-up job.

I'm sorry. It's not cool. It's not fair.

But it has to be done right.

So for the yes vote, this'll be a benefit for the whole city,

not just the Northside,

because it'll set the standard for what's acceptable

and how people are able to use their own voices

and their own platform to make sure

that we can have safe streets on a regular basis.

[person] What happens here changes not only what we see

in Minneapolis in terms of community safety,

but it gives other folk around the country hope

that they can change their police system, too,

-from Milwaukee to Chicago...
-[Frank] Yeah.

...all the way up in--

I was talking to some folks from North Carolina

who looking to see what they can do

to do the same thing that we're doing here.

Yeah, setting the foundation for everybody to jump off of.

[person] 'Cause right now it's, like, a lot at stake.

[Frank] Yeah, it is, but I'm gonna start right here

with this door. [laughs]

[person] Let's do it.

I'm gonna start right here with this door right here.

It's calling my name. We just need to go and head up...

We are the blueprint.

We've been the blueprint for this country since day one.

[knock on door]

[person] Did he knock this door?

Yeah, there's one of our flyers.

-Oh, wow. Right next door.
-Yeah, Jeremiah.

- Jeremiah for--
-Yeah.

[Frank] We'll continue to be the positive blueprint

to show and prove how we want to be treated

and how everybody should be treated.

[knock on door]

[police radio chatter]

[Lynne] I've been over here for over years--

lifelong Northsider, North High graduate,

class of '.

It's a whole different time.

It's not as comfortable as it was.

People live in their house in fear.

They don't want to come outside.

[police radio chatter]

I have the scanner on all the time,

and I can guarantee you ten calls a minute.

We don't have enough police.

We don't even have an officer

to answer the door at the th Precinct

because he's so short-staffed.

Get some more money, find some more police,

figure out a way to make some more cadets.

Never defund the police.

We got way too much going on for that.

If we defund the police, what do we get--vigilantes?

[person] The question we're all talking about here

is Ballot Question Two.

And that's basically saying whether we're gonna eliminate

the police department

and create a department of public safety or not.

[Jeremiah] Hi. My name's Jeremiah Ellison,

current Ward Five City Council member,

and I'll be supporting Question Two.

Absolutely has everything to do with our safety right now.

You don't see people out here protesting Public Works.

You don't see people out here protesting the fire department.

-[person] That's right.
-There's been one department

that has one boss.

Still has one boss, despite all the distraction,

and that is the Minneapolis Police Department.

[Lynne] This whole situation's so complicated

on so many layers, and everybody kind of

talks in slang which sits up here somewhere.

If the Council can't have legislative control,

if policy can be changed quietly without public debate,

that is not how you create a safer city.

[Lynne] And because we don't want to seem stupid

or like we don't know, we do what everybody else--

bobbleheads all around the table.

And they go, "I'm sorry. What'd they just say?"

You be like, "I have no idea."

I think that to create a safer city,

when we're able to debate and go to the people and say,

"Should we ban chokeholds?"

And the Council can vote on that.

Right now we have no legal authority to do so.

And so I'm urging folks who wrote yes on Question Two--

I'm happy to get deeper into the weeds,

but I know that my four minutes are up.

-So thank you very much.
-[applause]

[person] Thank you.

Did anyone in the audience have questions?

[Shavon] I have a question

because I'm one of them Black mothers.

[audience] Mm-hmm.

I'm also a second-grade schoolteacher.

I want to know, what's the plan?

I want to know--my kids-- I have a ten- and -year-old

that have not been able to go outside

because you guys, whoever it is,

decided to cut police funding.

So every time my kids go outside,

I got to stand there to make sure they don't get shot.

No. I'm sorry.

I am telling the truth.

You don't know unless you live in my community.

Our kids are the ones at risk.

I'm the one that's standing out there vigilant

when a six-year-old gets shot.

And that's not the police. That's our community.

[applause]

[Jerry] We got a breakdown in communication.

[audience] Mm.

'Cause ain't nobody talked to us.

That's right.

If you gonna help us, talk to us first.

How do you know we couldn't have came and sat down

and come up with a plan together?

We understand the issues.

I need you to be able to tell me,

"Rev, here's what this yes thing is gonna do--

A, B, C, D, E, F, G."

I might be able to roll with it, but, hell,

you ain't even gave me a A.

-[person] Right.
-[person ] Amen.

Oh, hell, I got one of the biggest Black churches

-in the Northside.
-[person] That's right.

I represent a whole lot of people.

All across, from St. Paul to Northside to Southside,

we push the beast.

We been the ones out there standing in the gap!

We been shot at and all kinds of stuff!

Where these folk at that care about me?

[applause, audience murmurs]

This is one of the greatest forms

of white supremacy that I've ever seen in my life.

To define my reality

and then try to force me to live up under it,

and I got a problem with that.



[OA] I'm a simple guy.

When I say "play football," my definition of play football

is, I want y'all to line up and play.

That's how you make it to the bank.

If Question Two is approved,

it could really change the dynamic of our coaching staff.

See where the hands are? Not on his hips.

You come down, and this is your mark--

between ribcage and hip.

And you just come down, and you knock him on his butt.

[OA] We're talking about, you know,

guys that are coaches that probably gonna have to go

somewhere else for employment,

and it can conflict with their coaching.

D Hill and Rio, so, you guys, just take your time.

When you go up to your cadence, they're gonna start creeping.

There's nobody in this city that's gonna creep up

and then have the athleticism to get back.

-[player] Yep.
-Nobody's gonna do that.

[OA] Oh, you know, you got Brick.

He probably gonna have to go to another department

in a different city and then not be able

to have the flexibility to coach.

We're crossing our fingers to see how things will be.

[indistinct chatter]

[Brick] If I do leave the program,

D Hill's gonna shut down,

'cause he already opened up,

so he's not gonna open up to nobody else.

And that hit me so hard, because I'm like, "sh*t.

"I want this young man to succeed

and get up out of North and to get him somewhere."

Gonna be worse.

[laughs]

-[D Hill] All right.
-[indistinct chatter]

marching band music



[OA] Before, we used to say,

"Well, you know, we're here. You're safe."

But then now if Question Two is passed,

not having police

is gonna jeopardize the lives of our kids.



[whistle blows]

This gonna get out of hand.

Real quick, Council Member Ellison,

with Number Two being passed,

what is the plan for public safety?

Because, obviously, you've clearly stated

that it shouldn't be involved with police

and erase the police department.

So then what is the plan? Just say what it is.

Yeah, thank you for the question.

I really appreciate it, Coach.

First off, we need to be able to define

the scope of the police department.

Everything from minor conflicts between neighbors,

noise complaints, clearing homeless encampments,

active-sh**ter situation is gonna get a police response.

[OA] Good job. Let's keep it going.

[Jeremiah] So how do we create the right response

to the right emergency?

That's the proposal.



-[whistle blows]
-[OA] Hey.

Y'all playing football, man.

Just be straight up with the folks that are here, man.

Like, say what you got to say.

I'm gonna ask you the same.

You're not being straight up right now.

If you don't want police and your recommendation says

that we don't have police, say that.

[Jeremiah] You are insinuating I'm not--

[OA] I didn't even say anything, sir.

All I said is, just be straight up

of your intentions.

That's it. That is not being disrespectful.

If you are being offended

from me telling you to tell people how you really feel,

then you shouldn't be where you're at.



[Brick] Most folks sit behind the f*cking desk,

writing up policies and sh*t like that about us,

and they ain't never been out there.

Take a ride-along.



[whistle blows]

See what the f*ck we get into.

[OA] Y'all deserve it. Enjoy this.

But it's business time, and we got to run

through everything that's in front of us like we did today.

We know exactly what we get with a no vote, right?

This is the status quo of Minneapolis.

This is the status quo of public safety.

Quit saying words that don't make any sense to us,

because status quo means what?

It means that bad policing, bad white cops,

all cops gone-- what does that mean?

Say what you mean so people in this community can understand.

What the f*ck is status quo?

I don't even know what it is. What is the status quo?

What is it? Because the status quo here at North is

me servicing these kids.

[announcer] Touchdown, Polars.

-[whistle blows]
-Let's keep it going.

[announcer] Touchdown.

Touchdown, Polars.

[player] D Hill's gonna come in for QB position.



[announcer] Touchdown!



[person] It is Senior Night

for our Polars here on the field.

[OA] I mean, obviously, if it passes,

we got to deal with it, but how do I convince

these families that their kids are safe?

Parents, I just wanted to say

thank you for letting me be a part of their lives.

And what I want you guys to understand is, it don't end.

It don't end. I'm Coach forever.

[indistinct chatter]

[OA] Oh, so the person that grabs it wins.

-[person] Yes.
-[person ] Yes.

You're the winner.

[both] On your mark, get set, go.

Come on, Poo-Poo.

[OA] Get in there. This bowl is bigger...

[Brittney] Whoo.

[cheering]

So what y'all got going on this week, then?

So this week we have nighttime patrol ops,

where it's the active-sh**ter scenarios.

Once you are done with all of this, it's you.

You're gonna be able to determine

what type of cop you want to be.

Mm-hmm.

But with that Question Two,

I don't even know what Tuesday's gonna bring.

Like, we don't know what it is, like...

That's what has a lot of the other recruits kind of nervous,

because they don't know what's gonna happen.

Have they said anything to you at your job?

How do you see it, being in the social work, in that field?

Because I think there's a lot of stuff

that cops shouldn't do,

but, like, you're in the profession.

Like, how do you look at it?

The ones that we have here are trained so well.

Like, our community social workers here are top-notch.

Like, they're seeing that day in and day out.

When you got, you know, the shelters out here.

Social workers, like, we're already dealing with it.

They're putting both together. It makes % sense.

Yeah, to me, it makes sense to be a partnership.

[OA] Yeah.

You gonna be the new commissioner.

Yeah.

[Brittney] It's gonna be a family affair.

It is gonna be a family affair.

You gonna be the new commissioner.

[Brittney] Us riding together, girl.

[OA] You g*dd*mn right,

because I swear, if a m*therf*cker touch her

all you got to go is say, "Hey, my uncle's OA."

Okay, well, hold on. Let's have a conversation real quick.

[laughs]

I feel like I something like a G up in this m*therf*cker.

-That's right.
-[Brittney laughing]



[newscaster] Eyes across this country

are on the city of Minneapolis,

specifically for Question Number Two,

where voters will be asked

whether to replace the city's police department

with a new Department of Public Safety.

[newscaster ] Canvassers are making a final push

to encourage people to vote yes

on Ballot Question Number Two in Minneapolis.

[Frank] We're calling people today

because there's an election,

actually, right now today.

[speaking Spanish]

That's right. If you want to expand public safety,

you vote yes on Question Number Two.

[newscaster ] Voters in Minneapolis

are deciding the fate of their police department.

[newscaster ] This is a decision voters say

they are taking extremely seriously.

We saw--

[person] All over the country,

they're watching Minnesota,

watching Minneapolis and what we're doing.

Well, I don't know what my role will be,

if I were to have a job, you know?

'Cause they can come in and completely change

the whole police administration with civilians

because there'll be commissioner positions.

They could probably put a civilian in charge

-of the th Precinct.
- Right.

So--but where does that leave me?

I don't know. So I'll probably be done.

-Right.
-You know.

-Like, in general?
-Yeah, I'll retire.

-Mm-hmm.
-Yeah.

[newscaster] You think about the outcome

and what that could mean to your city?

Because the world really is watching this.

[Jeremiah] I think that justice is gonna come

in the form of some really needed change,

and that no matter what the outcome is,

we've got to be ready to fight for that.

If I lose an election because I tried to hold

the police accountable, I can live with that.

The goal is not to be a council member.

The goal is to do the work that only a council member can do.



[news anchor] Thanks for joining us tonight.

It is election night in the Twin Cities.

Not only are the mayor and city council up for election,

but the ballot question

receiving the most attention is Question Number Two.

The last few hours, we have been watching the results

roll in for some very important races.

This is something that the whole world has been watching.

We are here to fight for our village.

We will swing for our people first

and ask questions later.

[applause]

[Jennifer] I've talked

with Minneapolis police officers today

who tell me they're feeling anxious and nervous about...

Oh, man.

That's the important one right there.

Everybody's making a decision

about how to transform law enforcement,

but you never sat down with law enforcement and asked,

"Well, how can we do this?" Right? You know?

And so it's a big vote, you know?

[news anchor] And in that Ballot Question Number Two

watched around the country...

[Brick] The vote is very important for safety.

We need to have safety and protection in our community.

On the ballot initiative determining the future

of the police force in Minneapolis,

CNN projects that the ballot initiative

in terms of changing the police force is going to fail.



[newscaster ] This one failed, and it failed in a big way--

-% to %.
-[cheers and applause]

We're sending a message...

that real and serious government

and true change in our society

is not about a hashtag or a slogan.

The fight now is,

how do we keep people in this community safe?

How do we keep them safe,

and how do we hold cops accountable?



[Jeremiah] It was a close race.

You know, Question Two failed.



One of the great pains

that I'm having to sit through right now is,

people who didn't support Question Two,

they're saying, "All right, well,

now that Question Two is done with, let's get to work."

And I'm saying, "Well, there's less room to do work."

The door in order for me

to be able to enact change is closed.



[Lawrence] You know, to be honest,

I'm super excited that it didn't pass.

I'm all for change. I'm all for helping people.

I'm all for getting people, you know, to help us.

Help the cops-- It's like, you know,

we aren't social workers.

We aren't medical professionals.

We aren't all these things.

Let's get the people out here with us.

[indistinct chatter]

[newscaster] And the big question will be,

what is the direction of the city now?

[newscaster ] As for the City Council,

they have a big job ahead.

There has been police officers

who have left the MPD--

huge issue there.

It will be their job to figure out what to do there.

[OA] We need police,

but nobody ever wanted to say that.

Question Two--I think that vote failed

because people just didn't understand

what the question was.

So, from the law-enforcement side,

it was, they're trying to get rid of all the cops.

And from the community side, it was,

they're trying to make us pick if we want cops or not.

Why can't this be done in conjunction with the police?

Go play number one.

On two. Play number one on two.

[Brick] The only thing that's gonna work--

if you educate both sides.

Educate the community, educate the police officers.

We need to build that community engagement back.

It's a long road. It's a long road.

So there's no trust there right now,

and that's the biggest thing.

If there's no trust, then how can you build anything?

[coach] Going one-on-one, all right?

Listen, all they're going to do

is try to run the ball down our throat.

From now on,

this is what you're gonna see in the playoffs.

Let's go. Go!

Ooh, good. Good.

[OA] You know, this game against St. Agnes--

it's win or go home.

Have them back up.

We've played this team the last five years,

either in the championship or in the playoffs,

and this is a well-coached, physical team,

and we have to prepare our boys that way.

[coach] Go!

-[all] Oh!
-[coach] Come on, Scotty!

The more you put it over there,

the more it's gonna get intercepted.

Keep it over here.

- Uh-huh.
-All right?

Towards the end of the season going into the playoffs,

my mind be going.

And 'cause D Hill was out for a couple games,

I wanted to take the pressure off of D Hill,

I started experimenting with Rio during practice.

[coach] Go.

He was making these throws and so they was like, "sh*t."

Quicker. Quicker, quicker.

Then D Hill came in. He was doing the same thing.

I had the best of both worlds.

-[coach] Outside! Outside!
-[Brick] Good. Good. Good.

We want to f*ck teams up a little bit.

If we put you out there at quarterback

and Rio in receiver, that's your best playmaker.

You want to get him the f*cking ball.

It's important that we do what we got to do.

Otherwise we're not gonna make it to the state tournament,

which is imperative for these seniors

for the college exposure.

[coach] Yo, we ready. Yo, we ready.

And that's the goal.

[Brick] Yep, you ready!

We kicking y'all's a*s now!

We have to get to U.S. Bank Stadium.

We're gonna play four quarters of football,

and we're not pulling the dogs off until I say so.

And that's when the game's over and y'all get your medals.

St. Agnes is gonna try not to lose bad.

We're trying to kick their a*s so we can win.

-Do you understand?
-[players] Yes, Coach.

[OA] They ain't scored a f*cking touchdown on us

in three years, man.

Shouldn't nobody score no more.

So you need to turn it up.

You understand that this could be the team

that keeps you from getting to where you want to go,

and that's U.S. Bank Stadium.

This is the championship, fellas.

This is the championship.

This is all business. Do you understand?

[players] Yes, Coach.

Tell J'von to get ready.

They gonna probably come to his side.

[crowd chanting]

-Whoo! sh*t!
-[whistle blows]

[cheers and applause]



[whistle blows, cheers and applause]

[Brick] Trips right, stretch.

Trip right, stretch.

Set, go!



[whistle blows]

You going option. option. Yes.

[OA] Brick, you want D Hill running the option?

D Hill's over on the sideline.

-[OA] My guy.
-Thank you.

[OA] You see how easily I shut the f*ck up?

Ready, set...



[announcer] That's a Polars touchdown!

[whistle blows]

[Rio] Set, go.



[OA] Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, take off!



Whoo! Take off! Whoo!

[whistle blows]



Y'all warmed up now, huh? Y'all warmed up?

Let's go!



They ain't scored a f*cking touchdown on us

in three years, man.



[whistle blows]



-[whistle blows]
-[coach] Okay, now we only got

seconds, so we got to be careful.



[whistle blows]



[OA] I said zero points. I said zero.

They done already got six.

This is where y'all prove if y'all have what it takes

to make it to U.S. Bank Stadium.

So, come on, man, y'all owe me. Let's go.



[crowd chanting]

[coach] Oh, he got out of there.

Wow! Wow!

[announcer] Touchdown!

[laughs] Yeah.

-[person] Let's go!
-[whistle blows]



[announcer] Touchdown!

[Lawrence] We're gonna get in trouble for this,

but tell Gunn you're gonna fire it.

f*cking get the two points right now.

-Fire right now?
-Yeah.

Set.



Yeah!

-Did y'all call that?
- Hey, Brick, I did.



[person] Oh, sh*t.

[announcer] And now will the captains

of your Minneapolis North Polars

please come forward

and receive your Section Four AA championship trophy.

[cheering]



[OA] Hey, hey, real quick--

we got to run through m*therf*ckers, man.

And we gonna handle our business

and get ready for the state tournament.

I love all y'all. Thank you.

God bless y'all. Let's win this ring. Let's go.



[players shouting indistinctly]



-Day by day!
-[all] Day by day!

[Rio] We get better and better!

[all] We get better and better!

-[Rio] We can't be beat!
-[all] We can't be beat!

[players shouting indistinctly]