01x04 - Won't Be Beat

[bunniefuu]

[rain pattering]

[crowd yelling]

[announcer] Backer takes the snap.

[indistinct] Spin move.

And he will be gone.

, , , .

One man to beat. He's gone.

[whistle blows]

And, boy, this is getting ugly early.

A - lead.

Daniels has kicked.

Oh, my God.

Another miscommunication there as it's picked up

at the three-yard line.

And that is not as orderly as [indistinct] right there.

Hill fires downfield.

He's got a man.

It is under-thrown and tipped.

Handoff on the near side.

They need this if they want to stay in the game.

It's down, and they are short.

That might have been the last gasp for the Polars.

And Sam Backer with touchdown number seven on the night.

Chatfield defeats Minneapolis North.

They'll advance and punch a ticket

to U.S. Bank Stadium State Tournament.

[indistinct chatter]

[Charles] Hey, listen up. So y'all know me.

Y'all wouldn't even respect me if I was like,

"Good game, guys. Go get 'em.

Let's give 'em that life."

Y'all know I'm not built like that, right?

They f*cked us up.

It was on us as coaches and it was on y'all as players.

So we gotta eat this as men.

Sometimes sh*t don't go the way we want it to go.

It went our way a lot this year.

Today it didn't go our way.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.

They were more physical, more disciplined than we are.

For y'all seniors, man, next level is something different.

I'ma miss y'all dudes, man. I love all y'all.

But I'm telling y'all, man,

y'all gotta take this pain and know how to channel it,

man, and get better.

We don't lose until we lose.

So all I'm asking y'all,

don't ever f*cking give up on me.

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

[Charles] Don't you ever f*cking give up on me

'cause I won't give up on y'all.

Let's keep this sh*t moving.

[player] Hey, I love y'all, man, for real.

-Love you too.
-Love you too, man.

[person] Dear Lord, the battles we go through life.

[players] Dear Lord, the battles we go through life.

[person] We ask for a chance that's fair.

[players] We ask for a chance that's fair.

[person] A chance to equal your stride.

[Charles] Do I want to win? Absolutely.

I want to win every single game I coach.

Thank you. Thank you.

But I think the difficult conversations

and being honest with these kids, I think it helps them.

Because all you want to do is hold yourself accountable.

I love coaching.

It ain't over, though.

Whenever you need me, let me know, all right?

I don't know what's next, but I got you, man.

So proud of you.

That's the real life lessons that we have to make

these young men understand.

Like, sometimes after football dues,

they don't know what to do because they

don't have that structure.

That's why I always keep these kids

around me as long as I can.

-Day by day.
-[players] Day by day.

[Charles] Get better and better.

[players] Get better and better.

-[Charles] So we can't be beat.
-[players] So we can't be beat.

[Charles] We boys in blue, man, like all of us.

-Won't be beat!
-[players] Won't be beat, whoo!

[rain pattering]

dramatic music



His a*s in the bed.

He asked for you.

Tell him to get his shining face up.

-Little boy.
-[person] Get to class.

[Meiko] Hmm?

Get yo' a*s up and get to school.

[person] Get up, shining face.

We all feeling the pain right now.

So you gotta come feel the pain with us.

Come on.

We're a family. That's what we do.

Come pain with your family.

[Charles] All right, I know y'all gotta go.

I just want to go over a few things.

Chatfield just physically dominated us, man.

That team kicked our a*s, man.

It just seemed like their intensity

was on a whole nother level.

-They were on it.
-[Charles] Mm-hmm.

And they were blitzing the hell out of us.

Every play, they just kind of knew.

You know, and there was one point, it was like,

we can't even get a first down. I'm like--

I done went down the whole playbook.

Lock was making adjustments, Timmy was.

And we're like, sh*t, I mean,

I'm looking at what could work.

The only thing that was working that we didn't go back to

is throwing the short sixes.

We didn't have confidence enough

with Rio to throw those sixes.

And then we put D. Hill in.

And he was shook up 'cause he was cold and hurt, and so...

And had a broken leg.

That dude played on a broken leg, man.

[Rick] Yeah.

[Charles] I mean, if he would have known it was broken,

would he have played on it? Probably not.

-[Rick] He would have.
-[Charles] You think so?

[Rick] Yeah.

[Charles] It actually gives me a whole different

respect for the kid

because he had a broken leg, man.

And a lot of that has to do with pressure too.

Everybody expects him to do well, family, whatever.

But he's just quiet.

If something's wrong, you may see a tear or two,

but he won't say anything.

[Charles] Yeah.

I think that we should let him,

as he continues to develop, to be him

-and not who we want him to be.
-Yeah, absolutely.

[Claude] Because he's not a big voice.

OK, you don't have a big voice, who cares?

But still commanding, right?

So going down in history, you play Chatfield,

who's the state champions,

you got a tenth grade quarterback,

and it's -something degrees.

And this kid gets out there

and plays with a damn broken leg.

He's right on track to where he can blow this thing up.

He can be one of the top, like, feared guys

in the whole state.

So I would say, going back to this last game,

so, like, Rio,

the one thing that I was really glad

is that he didn't give up.

And he embraced everything that we wanted to do this year.

And I think it helped out Meiko.

Meiko's game was taken to another level

because of Rio's leadership in playing quarterback

but also being a triple threat, you know, do everything.

And their game helped each other out.

And I think Tae showed leadership this year.

And really, when it comes down to it,

that's really all you can ask for.

[Rick] And he got better, too, as the season went on.

He did get better.

From last year to this year, he got a hell of a lot better.

He got better.

Man, not making it to U.S. Bank Stadium, it sucks.

It's probably gonna affect some of my seniors

and their recruitment.

You know what college you're going to yet?

Uh, no.

[indistinct] said [indistinct] texted him--

texted him about me, though.

And then I got...

[Charles] It's just gonna be our job as coaches

to chase the schools to get them interested in our kids

and recruit our kids.

So I gotta kind of put them out there.

I'ma bust my a*s to make sure that I can

get these kids the opportunity to go somewhere.

[Tim] You know, Tae is right at that point,

like, you know, he can go to that next level,

he keeps hitting that weight room, that, you know,

whatever coach gets him next year is gonna have

an amazing athlete, an amazing linemen.

So I'm very, very proud of Tae.

So those are the wins and to have an opportunity

-to play at the next level.
-Exactly.

[Charles] If you got a senior class that every person

that graduates, regardless of how we did,

they have that opportunity to where a coach is coming

to talk to them and saying, "I want you to play

for me at the next level," that's a win for us.

All of this Xs and Os stuff don't matter

if, when they are not with us, they fall into the streets.



[indistinct chatter]

It's too cold. I can't breathe.

All the cold has taken the oxygen out the air.

[player] All right, go.

Set, go.

[indistinct chatter]

Oh!

Set, go.

[person] Drop!

[laughter]

[player] Coach OA and them,

they really do everything they can for us.

[player] And they show that real tough love.

Right, real tough love.

I ain't get no real appreciation out of Coach

until I do something amazing.

-It's more than just--
-It's more than just football.

Anything you're going through, they gonna already know

-before you even tell them.
-[player] Right.

[player] The football team give you somewhere to be safe,

somewhere to feel love,

somewhere that you know you got a place to eat at.

-Yeah, nice support system.
-A great support system.

But then when you go home, that's when everything change.

Football to me, sh*t, I'm trying to--

I'm trying to get out the hood.

That's just it.

[player] "That's just it."

[laughter]

"That's just it."

I just want to, like, make my family happy,

get them out of this.

Like, I don't want--

I don't want to, like, see my family members

go through what I see some of my homeys go through.

Like, that's my biggest thing, like, I just--

I want to make it somewhere where my family

safe, like, you know?

And that's football.

Football is an opportunity for me to do that,

and I'ma take full advantage of that.

At the same time, we got the same dream

that every other kid in the world got.

That's the exact same dream that they got.

So you really just gotta be different at the sport.

Some of the people that's really, like, the best athletes

in the world and they didn't make it because anything

could happen, like, just like death.

That's all I've been thinking about lately.

Like, the way this life sh*t work, it's so weird.

Like, it seem like certain sh*t is set up.

Boom, somebody die. You know, like--

[laughter]

Dogpile! Dogpile!

[laughter]

Get out of here, pig!

[laughter]

What's going on?

Defensive endings ended two months ago.

[laughter]

They just never end.

Bring yo' a*s over here.

-Come here, man.
-All right.

-You was in school today?
-Yeah.

-All day?
-Nah.

Man, I wanna tell you something.

You ain't going to school, you getting bad grades,

-I'm not having you do this.
-I know.

This is a part of the football thing.

You know, so I don't play those games.

-All right?
-All right.

-We gonna holla at you.
-All right.



[laughter]

[person] That's a player right there.

[indistinct] love.

Nothing wrong with that.

I got lucky right there.

[person] Meik, they say anything about you

about any football?

Like, last week, me and Rio

was in OA office.

He said Illinois State called about both of us.

And then he said St. Thomas called and was asking, like,

about my character and stuff.

[pins clatter]

The only time me and Rio go to school

together was, like, elementary.

It ain't gonna be as bad 'cause we know both of us,

like, we're going to handle business.

So it ain't gonna be no sad sh*t or nothing like that.

-Like, he ain't going forever.
-Right.

But if we got the opportunity to go to the same school

and it's actually where we both wanted to play, I'd do it.

Yeah.

It really don't matter where I go.

You know, we just always talk about going D-I, so...

I want to get out of Minnesota, like,

just 'cause, like, we been here--

We been here all our life.

We know everything that go on here and sh*t.

But, like, I don't really be tripping on it,

like, that'll even be a little bit better for us.

Say we both go to college in Minnesota,

whole family could come to all our games

and all that, like--

Right.

It's gonna be like, everything

gonna be set and smooth in here.

-[distant g*nshots]
-Smooth and sh*t like that.

Yeah, I thought-- [indistinct]

I mean, that sh*t--

I ain't gonna lie, that sh*t normal.

-Yeah.
-Living where we live,

we grow up hearing that sh*t so much, man.

Hearing g*nshots is so normal to us.

There's been plenty of times, practice, walking to the store,

like, we done heard stuff like that.

Like, you know, that's why we on the sh*t that we on.

Like, we ain't got sh*t against nobody.

We f*ck with everybody.

So it ain't--I mean, ain't got no reason

to do sh*t that's sus.

I mean, as long as we in the right place at the right time,

we gonna be good.

-[person] Black lives matter!
-[crowd] Black lives matter!

[person] Black lives matter!

-[crowd] Black lives matter!
-[siren wailing]

[chanting indistinctly]

[newscaster] Just within the hour,

we heard from the parents of Amir Locke.

He's the -year-old shot and k*lled

by a Minneapolis police officer Wednesday morning.

Last night, police released some of the body camera video.

We warn you, it could be difficult to watch.

-Police! Search warrant!
-Police! Search warrant!

-Police! Search warrant!
-Hands! Hands!

-Police search warrant!
-Get on the ground!

-Get on the [bleep] ground!
-Show me your hands!

[g*nshots]

[newscaster] We froze the video there,

but the full -second clip shows several g*nshots

going off, k*lling Amir Locke.

Here we go.

[siren wailing]

It's crazy right now.

Just gotta watch my back

now that all this stuff is going down with this sh**ting.

[Rick] So I watched the video.

First thing you hear is, "Police! Search warrant!

Police! Search warrant! Police! Search warrant!"

They get into the apartment, they see him.

"Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands."

Then you see him reach.

And I said, "Oh, the g*n's right there."

And so I'm like, well, sh*t, I mean,

what did you want 'em to do?

He's, I mean, literally, literally

maybe three to four feet away from the officer.

So I was going-- I was, you know,

doing devil's advocate, catch- type thing.

And I mean, as horrible as it sounds,

I would have done the same thing because I'm not--

we are already behind the eight ball

'cause we're reactionary cops.

You know, if I have to fight with somebody, guess what.

I have to react to what he's gonna do.

He might--if he lunges at me, now what do I do?

I have to do a move.

If he has a knife, if he lunges at me, now what do I do?

We're always behind everything.

So the suspect or whoever always

have the upper hand on us.

Him reacting to the g*n coming up at him--

I'm not gonna sit and wait until you--

see if you're gonna pull the trigger or not.

I can't do it.

Because guess what.

At the end of the night, I have to go home.

I have to go home.

[horns honking]

No justice!

[buzzing]

[Wes] Did you watch-- did you watch the video?

[Charles] Yeah, I watched the video.

What'd you think about it? What'd you think about it?

[Rick] Man, I'ma go street with you.

If I was on the streets, you know what I mean,

and the cat pulled a gat on me--

[person] Yeah.

You got two choices, you either fight or flight.

[Wes] Would you startle a m*therf*cker out there

-asleep like that, though?
-[Rick] He ain't startle--

I mean, the thing is, you got nine seconds.

If I'm yelling and screaming at you,

you know what I'm saying, "Police! Search warrant!

Police! Search warrant!" and I'm yelling.

-Everybody yelling.
-[Wes] So that's--

-[Rick] That's protocol.
-That's protocol. Understood.

-[Rick] Yeah.
-Understood.

But I'm asking you for your perspective, though.

Yeah, I know exactly where you finna go.

-[Wes] Let me get the sh*t out.
-[person] Let him talk.

-Let him talk.
-[Wes] Let me get the sh*t out.

But what I'm saying from a street perspective,

if I'm at the crib and a n*gga kick in my door,

I'm grabbing my p*stol immediately.

[Rick] Stop right there. Stop right there.

Out your sleep--

out your sleep, you're not hearing police.

You're startled anyway.

He's % right.

[Wes] Nobody wakes up startled out their sleep

knowing it's police officers--

If you hear the sh*t for nine seconds,

you got nine seconds, dog!

He didn't have any time to react.

He didn't. He didn't.

-He didn't.
-[Wes] That's the honesty.

-I'm gonna tell you why.
-[Charles] He didn't.

-He didn't. He didn't.
-I'ma tell you why.

-That's the honesty.
-It was way too quick.

[Wes] That's the honesty I'm talking about.

-Watch this.
-Grab a pole out the sleep?

-Come on, man.
-Watch this.

-I open up the crib, right?
-That look like my house.

-f*ck you talking about?
-I open up the crib,

nine m*therf*ckers is yelling,

"Police! Search warrant!"

Yeah, and you know-- you know how police come in.

[Wes] And protocol is yelling one time.

[Rick] Hold on, let me talk.

[Wes] Yelling one time? Out my sleep, startled.

-I can still--
-The f*ck?

I can show you the video where they said it, like, seven times

-before they even got to him.
-Yep.

They said it seven times. Hold on, wait, hold on.

[Charles] But--

And then they said when they got to him,

"Let me see your hands!

Let me see your hands! Let me see your hands!

Get the f*ck on the ground."

And the first thing you do is grab a pole?

-Yes.
-Stop playing.

You know why? How many robberies--

-Stop playing.
-Just me being--

Stop playing. For nine seconds.

-Just being in Minneapolis--
-For nine seconds,

you telling me you ain't have enough time?

But y'all both right, though.

[Rick] If he would have never went for that pole,

he would have never got shot.

But it was super quick, and the young boy had no chance.

Hey, I'm not finna give him a chance either 'cause I

-gotta go home to my babies.
-[Charles] You do. You do.

-You do.
-I gotta home to my babies.

I asked the same question. I get it.

[Rick] I gotta go home to my babies.

And guess what. You know what I'm saying?

[Charles] But not everybody sees it that way, though, Rick.

That's what it is. That's what it is.

[Wes] Listen to me.

The whole f*cking point, you what I'm saying,

is cop perspective.

[Charles] Yeah, yeah.

It's easy for you to tell what you should do

in that situation because that's what we doing.

-But he's not, though.
-Mm-mm.

And he hasn't been in that position.

So from his perspective, it's like, it's f*cked up

'cause dude didn't have an opportunity at all.

-You f*cking hear me?
-Listen, listen.

Take your officer perspective--

So you gotta listen to what he's saying.

I am. I am.

-Because for us--
-I am.

For us, we're trained to be like,

-we gotta get back to the crib.
-Watch this.

I probably wouldn't have shot him because I would have

been like, is he pointed at--

I would have--I would have second-guessed myself.

I would have second-guessed myself.

We see things differently, though.

So I gotta pause to make sure that you don't sh**t me?

Is that what you're telling me?

I'm not finna do that, because I've been there.

[Charles] I'm seeing every little n*gga that I coach

when I come up in that room.

-That's me.
-[Rick] That's you.

-That's me.
-That's you.

-That's your perspective.
-[Charles] That's me.

That's what the f*ck I'm saying.

My mentality is different.

I've been shot at.

My mind goes, I'm not finna go--

I'm not finna get shot at no more.

I've been shot at before.

So if you show me a g*n,

I'm not finna wait to see if you're gonna sh**t me, man.

I can't do it.

[Charles] Hey. I'm gonna be honest with you.

n*gga, you better not take an hour on my hair.

I don't give a f*ck what y'all arguing about.

g*dd*mn! He nice, but--

Hey, you had a two and a half hour b*mb fade, boy.

-Man, you better get--
-Look at him.

-sh*t.
-Get him! Get him!

Hey, the arguing stops right the f*ck now.

How about that?

Man, the arguing stops right now when I get

in this m*therf*cking chair.

[Tim] So this is the Mississippi River

we're going over.

Yeah, like, I never knew this bridge existed in Minnesota.

-Yeah. Yeah.
-That one either.

It's crazy 'cause it's like, you only know

about what you see every day.

Oh, absolutely.

Until you actually experience--you know?

And that's huge, and, you know, I tell, you know, not just you

but all the other guys, I say, man,

if you get an opportunity to go, go.

Like, you know, the north side will

be there when you come back.

Get out and see the frickin' world.

It's so much bigger than just where you're at.

This is my alma mater, the old Bethel Royals.

It's a good school, and...

You know, I graduated here years ago.

I think the craziest of it all is,

any third down, the whole student section,

they'd jump and jump.

And literally you thought the fricking stands

were gonna come down.

This is probably best four years, dude.

I loved it here at Bethel.

It's a small D-III school.

But like I said, I wouldn't give it up for the world,

-you know?
-Yeah.

[Tim] When I was , I didn't know what the heck

I wanted to do when I grew up.

I knew I wanted to play football, right?

What do you want to do when you're done with football?

Honestly, I've just been thinking about making

-a personal business.
-OK.

You know?

'Cause business, you can do so much stuff with business.

It's like, you could use it for so many

-different opportunities.
-[Tim] Oh, yeah.

Like, what was, like, your best memory

on this field, though?

Beating St. John's. [laughs]

Yeah, my freshman year, I was over in those bushes

puking my brains out after two days.

And, oh, man, it's funny.

[Jessica] I didn't look, but I put in a request

for a four-bedroom house.

But it's five minutes away from Lucy Laney.

[Cash] It's further from the school?

[Jessica] So yeah, so we'd be further away.

But with that being said--

[Cash] My aunt had applied for Section back in .

And her name got called in .

But back then, the landlords, they weren't

taking Section vouchers.

You got something for us to pack?

[Jessica] Oh, yeah, the kitchen, up here.

[Cash] It was stressful, and it was a lot of work,

but now we're moving into something

better for our family.

See, pays to be tall.

[Cash] It's more of a quiet spot.

And it will be more peaceful for us.

'Cause there's nights where, like,

you know, I couldn't get no sleep

after hearing some g*nshots right outside the alleyway.

Like, that type of stuff just sits on your mind.

I think all this can go in the garbage.

I broke the glass to it.

[Jessica] You broke the glass?

[Cash] Football is my way out.

And I know eventually I'm gonna get to the level

where I will be able to repay my family

for everything that they've done for me.

-How many?
-Six with a lot of damage.

[Cash] I'm gonna get my family out of these areas.

[both] He said six with a lot of damage.

-Come. Come.
-[laughter]

I didn't leave yet.

[Jessica] Stop it.

[distant siren wailing]



[D. Hill] Playing the rest of the season, it felt good.

It didn't hurt or nothing.

It just felt like a little bug right there.

Couple weeks after the season,

I was playing, like, basketball.

My ankle was still messed up, so I went to the hospital.

And they told me it was broke.

I was just surprised and shocked.

When I get able to take this boot off

in, like, six weeks

and I'm gonna do, like, rehab and all that,

I'm gonna get ready for the next season.

What y'all gonna eat?

I don't even know.

I haven't been there before.

Probably get some cheesecake, though.

Treat her to the spot.

Make her feel happy.

All right.

[indistinct chatter]

[laughter]

-I'm getting what you get.
-[Bonita] Why?

I don't know what to get.

Mm.

Look.

I'm getting this.

What?

[D. Hill] Number nine.

Meatballs, tomato sauce.

D. Hill, you picked number nine off appetizers.

That's not food, that's an appetizer.

What's an appetizer?

It's, like, something you eat before your food comes.

[laughter]

I don't know.

I don't know what to talk about.

I know you don't.

What you want to be when you grow up?

I'm already grown up.

I'm just kidding.

I want to start my own business.

Your own business?

[Bonita] It's time to start my own clothing line,

open up a shop or something.

Mm-hmm.

What you wanna be when you grow up?

I already know.

NFL. NFL.

NFL.

I would be super happy.

-Super happy?
-[Bonita] For you. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Why wouldn't I be?

-[D. Hill] I don't know.
-Mm.

I don't know what I'm gonna do if that don't work, though.

-[Bonita] Huh?
-If that don't work, I don't--

I don't got, like, no plan B.

Get it, like, what I'm saying?

Well, you need to start thinking of a plan B.

Might do what you do.

Do my own clothing line.

[laughs]

I don't know.

[D. Hill] I don't know what I'ma do, though.

I'll get a nine-to-five.

[Bonita] A nine-to-five job?

[sucks teeth]

They're driving too slow.

[siren wailing]

Are we sharing tonight?

[Bonita] Ooh-ee, that look good.

You want some extra side plates?

-[Bonita] Mm-mm.
-[server] No? OK.

D. Hill, stop eating like that.

Everything's good.

[D. Hill] I'm gonna record my food.

If I look ugly, don't post it, thank you.

[laughter]

Next time we go on a date,

we gonna go to Cheesecake Factory.

Huh?

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.

That's in nine days, OK.

-Happy?
-[Bonita] Huh?

-Is you happy?
-Yeah, I am.

Kiss me.

I'm not gonna kiss you on the show.

-Why?
-[Bonita] I'm not kissing you.

'Cause my grandma gonna see it.

[laughs]

Come on. Take our selfie.

-Come on.
-[laughs]

I like that even though my face looks--

It's just a--

-Little--
-Yeah.

-High five.
-High five?

[laughs]

[newscaster ] This morning, a Minneapolis community

looking for answers after more g*n violence,

a -year-old left fighting for his life.

[newscaster ] Minneapolis police say

just before :, a North High student

was shot at the corner of Penn Avenue

and Golden Valley Road.

The -year-old was shot near a bus stop

and then rushed to the hospital

in grave condition.

[newscaster ] A member of the Polars football team

is fighting for his life at North Memorial Hospital

right now.

[Rio] Got a call.

It was in a group FaceTime.

[Cash] They were, like, saying,

"Oh, there was a sh**ting by Wally's."

[Tae] I'm looking at my phone,

like, broken hearts, broken hearts,

broken hearts, crying emoji.

I'm like, what's going on?

So I'm scrolling up.

D. Hill?

[newscaster] High school quarterback

Deshaun Hill was just blocks from his football field.

Minneapolis police say someone shot him

at the corner of Penn Avenue North

and Golden Valley Road.

[Tae] They're like, "We just seen the video."

I'm like, "How y'all know that's D. Hill?"

They was like, "Because of the boot."

So we just like, damn, that could be him.

[Rick] He was walking in this direction.

And the other guy, whoever he was,

was walking this direction.

So as you can see, it's kind of icy

right up in here in this area.

So as they were walking, they were walking.

They're crossing each other's path.

They bumped into each other.

And as he got to the corner, the man

took the g*n out and just fired on him

as he was trying to get to the bus stop.

[Rio] The football team, everybody gathered up

in the weight room.

We just kept praying and praying.

[newscaster] We have learned

from the school's football coach

that Deshaun Hill has died from his injuries.

[Charles] We were just in the weight room

with this kid on Monday.

We were just, like-- he was just right here

on this bench.

Like, no, like, this can't be true, man.

[sighs]

[Tae] All he used to do is just play football

and smile and crack jokes.

He never banged.

He never got in a fight in school.

He never did none of that.

He was strictly a high school quarterback.

That's it.

It just didn't seem real 'cause I ain't never

had a death where it's somebody I talk to every day,

shake their hand, goof around.

It's just never been that close.

[Charles] Every day, I sit and I think

about that walk that he took--

him minding his own business and doing

what he's supposed to do and...

him not even seeing that coming.

[Charles] It's easy just to kind of wipe it off

and say, "Well, what was he involved in

or who was he beefing with?"

No, no, this ain't the circumstance.

Like, this isn't what happened.

This was a random act.

[newscaster] On Tuesday, prosecutors charged

Cody Fohrenkam with second-degree m*rder.

Court documents suggest the -year-old

might have brushed shoulders

with the North High standout student athlete

and starting varsity quarterback.

Surveillance video captured three g*nshots

in the cold-blooded sh**ting of Deshaun Hill.

[Charles] How do I convince these families

that their kids are safe

if a kid can't even walk to the bus stop?

Who are we to say, "Oh, everything's gonna be OK"?

That's sh*t's not gonna be OK.

I can't even lie to no kid like that,

'cause I can't even--

how do I--how do I promise them or keep that promise

that it's gonna be OK?

We said the same sh*t to D. Hill:

"It's gonna be all right.

Everything's gonna be cool."

You know, this is a kid that ain't even do sh*t.

Walking down the street, got smoked by a m*therf*cker

that don't even know him.

That's f*cking tough.
[sniffles]

That's tough.

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[person] Heavenly Father, we stand before you today.

We're grieving.

We're hurting.

God, we know that you are able to sustain this family,

this hurting community.

God, all the comfort comes from you

as we ask you, Lord God, to receive D. Hill.



So help us today, Lord,

to become a community of hope and love and support.



We ask you, Lord, that we need your help.

There's nothing we can do without you.

But through your help, Lord, we can do everything

because of your glory.



Help us today!

Give us hope and love and peace

that passes all understanding

to the glory of Jesus Christ!



Help us now, Lord.

Bless this family now, Lord.

In Jesus' name, we pray.

-Amen.
-[person] Amen. Amen.



[Chris] We all out here

to celebrate my man,

my ace,

my quarterback.



I wanted to do this here because it's where

D. Hill sharpened his skills,

where he cried,

where he bled on this dirt.

I will be out here on this field

on this day for every one of his birthdays from now on.

So we're gonna say

happy sweet .

And we're gonna let these joints go.

On the count of three.

One, two, three.

[all] Happy sweet , Hill!

[person] We love you!

-We love you, boy.
-[person] We love you so much!



[Charles] As we watch those balloons go,

you will never see the number nine

again worn by any person

in the history of North High.

That was his number.

And it's gonna stay with him.



[D. Hill] When I die, I want people to remember me

as, like, something good,

something positive, basically,

not like, he was mean,

he was this and that, something good.

Yeah, and my family, they good.



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[Tae] I know D. Hill.

He wouldn't want me to just be so sad all the time.

I just gotta keep pushing, that's it.

I gotta keep pushing for him.

[Jessica] Do you want cheese for your grits or sugar?

[Cash] Sugar.

[Jessica] Sugar.

You want to stir the eggs for me?

Make sure they don't burn.

[Cash] They look like hotel eggs.

[Meiko] What happened to D. Hill, it hurt me,

but it gave me more motivation to just go harder.

I'm not trying to let it break me.

I'm trying to make it make me.





[Charles] Put this on there.

There we go.

There we go.



[indistinct chatter]

-How are you?
-Living the dream.

Yeah, you know it. You already know.

[person] Hey, we back focused.

This is our day one road to the bank.

You ready for this?

You gonna conduct this?

OK.

[person ] Let's go.

[person ] Lunges, lunges!

Ready?

[person ] You know beautiful that sounds?

[whistle blows]

They're running on the track.

[all] Oh!

[applause]

[Rick] Let me see your first step.

[person] Ready.

[Rick] Good.

[person] Set. Go.

[person] Let's go. Running back.

Get on him. Put it on him.

[Rick] Hit him in the stomach, quarterback.

[person] Outside! Outside!

[Rick] Good. Good.

Good. Get your hands up.

Get your hands up. Get your hands up.

Hands up, right here. Just like this.

[Charles] Today, you know, it's a lot of emotions going.

But one thing we don't do is, we don't give up.

[Rick] Good.

Get out. Make sure you get out.

Make sure you get out.

[groaning]

[whistle blowing]

It's all in your-- it's your footwork, it's quick.

I mean, that linebacker's coming at you.

So you gotta be quick.

[person] Ready.

Fire, fire, fire!

[Rick] Turn your hips.

Yeah.

Good.

[Charles] The North side is our home.

And we're a product of this community.

We'll just do a stop.

And then we'll flip it up and then we'll do

what we just did down there.

[Charles] The fight in adversity that we face,

the don't give up, that's what we are.

[Rick] Get out. Get out. Get out.

There it is! Oh!

Oh!

[Charles] We've always been fighters.

[indistinct chatter]

[Rick] You gonna do it again.

Just get over it. OK?

[person] Get to the ball!

[Rick] Set. Go.

-Good job!
-[person] Good!

[Rick] Good job! Good job!

[Charles] Dear Lord, the battles we go through life.

[players] Dear Lord, the battles we go through life.

[Rick] We ask for a chance that's fair.

[players] We ask for a chance that's fair.

[Tim] A chance to equal your stride.

[players] A chance to equal your stride.

[Tim] A chance to do or dare.

[players] A chance to do or dare.

[person] If we should win.

[players] If we should win.

[person] Let it be by the code.

[players] Let it be by the code.

[person] Faith and honor held high.

[players] Faith and honor held high.

-[player] If we should lose.
-[players] If we should lose.

[player] We stand by the road.

[players] We stand by the road.

[Meiko] And cheer as the winners go by.

[players] And cheer as the winners go by.

-[Tae] Day by day.
-[players] Day by day.

[Tae] We get better and better.

[players] We get better and better.

[player] Till we can't be beat.

[players] Till we can't be beat.

[Charles] Won't be beat!

[players] Won't be beat! Whoo!

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