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Heavy is the Crown follows Milwaukee community activist and violence interrupter Vaun Mayes as he works alongside individuals and neighborhoods most affected by cycles of violence, systemic neglect, and contested approaches to policing. The film examines what it means to care for a city from the inside out, foregrounding the resilience and forms of care that sustain communities from within.
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00:01But it's for y'all to start. We're not the ones that's killing us.
00:05He's a well-known community activist.
00:08He speaks for a lot of people in this community.
00:10One of my major concerns is being numb.
00:14Some people know me from the youth program.
00:16Some people know me from the activism.
00:19Some people know me from music.
00:26That the young people lead it because this was an initiative for today that they wanted it that went right
00:32in the line where we found the community.
00:35If you can't read, if you can't write, if you can't do math, you can't do anything.
00:41So I need y'all to understand that school is important. Y'all feel me?
00:46Do y'all feel me?
00:47He's new!
00:51Some people know me from assisting their family or loved one in a tragedy.
00:57You see these things, you see them on the news.
00:59He had a gun, so you're like, well, you know what?
01:03You play stupid games, you win stupid prize.
01:05So you see them, you hear about them, but you hear them the way the news persisted.
01:12There are officers on this department that you could not pay them a million dollars to live in the area
01:21that they're being paid to protect.
01:24That's a problem.
01:26They say that people can't come together.
01:29We can't unify, we can't do anything.
01:32And this is an example of unifying, coming together.
01:37We try to keep the community uplifted and empowered.
01:39This is a new day and age.
01:41We are done hating each other.
01:45I'm just a person that has dedicated my life to try and be of service however I can in trying
01:54to build a better Milwaukee.
01:57Heavy is the crown, right?
01:59It most definitely is.
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