00:00Before the storm came, me and my cousin, we ride our bikes through the Trumet area.
00:08It never crossed my mind that would be my last bike ride in my community.
00:19Hurricane Katrina is now a Category 5 storm.
00:23They've built the levee system now to withstand a Category 3.
00:30I woke up.
00:33My neighborhood had 20 feet of water.
00:39I put my first granddaughter on the roof, turned around to get her two sisters, and she fell into the water and disappeared.
00:49We survived Katrina.
00:51When them levees broke, that's what did us in.
00:57The government's levees failed, and they left us.
01:02And to say that clear, they left us.
01:06Federal, state, and local officials just were completely unprepared for something they knew was going to happen.
01:12We predicted that people would be trapped in their homes.
01:16I couldn't live.
01:1820,000 people showed up at the Superdome.
01:21We didn't have any food, any water.
01:23The governor said that she's ordered our National Guard to shoot, to kill if somebody's looting.
01:29I'm not sure if you call that looting. I call that survival.
01:32The American people only knew what they saw on television.
01:36TV news loves a crime story more than anything else.
01:41We were treated as criminals.
01:44Why are these people holding us against our will in here?
01:48You can look and see that this shit was racial.
01:52Is anybody going to come help us?
01:54We're a part of a culture that we want a hero.
01:56There's no blueprint for 80% of a major city being underwater.
01:59There's no blueprint for that.
02:0220 years later, this shit is still real.
02:0520 years to life, the time should fit the crime.
02:08Human lives cut down and out, left in waters to rot.
02:1320 years to life, and my stomach still holds a knot.
02:26So that would be all a metal part.
02:27Something like that is.
02:28Getting a joke.
02:29The type of infection.
02:30The city is still alive.
02:31It's absolutely impossible.
02:32That's right.
02:33It's a real thing.
02:34In which the city has been dispersed.
02:35The city has been abandoned until the city.
02:36The city has been abandoned at home.
02:37The city can only see that.
02:38The city is willing to go.
02:39The city has been abandoned for the city.
02:40The city has been abandoned.
02:41It's still alive.
02:43It's a real problem.
02:44We really have been abandoned for the city to run.
02:46The city has been abandoned for the city to ask for the city.
02:48So this is my favorite place.
02:51It's a real reason for the city to be a VOX site.
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