12 O’Clock Boys

I wanna know what we're doin' about these little scumbags...

on these dirt bikes in our downtown.

I want to know. If anyone out there has seen this, please call.

I mean, these kids are just little bastards.

These aren't, like, nice kids.

And the problem is... I'm gonna throw it out there...

'Cause they're African-American.

Nobody wants to say it because nobody wants to take action.

'Cause you got young black kids... They're misbehaving.

They're riding on the sidewalks all up and down Pratt Street.

Fifteen, 20, 30. Vroom, vroom. Everywhere.

And we don't do anything about it.

You gotta do something. You gotta do something.

I don't care if they get hurt. Frankly, I don't care if one of them dies.

Here, done.

Oh, he... He on the bike.

Right, I know.

Hey, yo. Keep watchin' out right there, yo.

I do the same thing. I hate when I do that.

Yeah, I keep doin' it.

Like I get... Fuck, yeah.

She be chokin' up, like...

Come on! Hop in! Hop in, 'cause they...

They call 'em the 12 O'Clock Boys...

because they drop the bike straight back.

Like the hands on the clock.

If you get to 12 o'clock, you the shit.

You know you in the pack.

That's when you can really shine.

It's a dangerous and illegal Baltimore tradition... dirt bikes on city streets.

Weaving through traffic, 20 people riding through Baltimore city...

YouTube sensations post their renegade riding online.

Police have a no-chase policy to prevent accidents,

- outraged at the recklessness... - A 6-year-old boy is in the hospital...

claims to show city cops chasing dirt bikers.

on the street, but defend their right...

The dirt bikers are so worried about being nabbed by the police,

so they're taking even more chances.

We're not out there trying to terrorize anybody.

'Bout to go get some gas for the bike.

Pullin' out. See the police down there, probably waitin' for me.

Shut up!

The boy comin' up with the dirt bike. He comin' up wheelie'n'.

Hittin' it down. Goin' straight. He smacked the police car.

Next thing you know, got his bike.

Hell. He didn't even have no papers either.

Right. Ain't had no papers on his bike. Papers.

Now, how did you run into a police car when you got brakes?

I know. People just be geekin' these days.

Maybe that's it now, sucker. I'll still go on.

Some people fall and hop off their bike and takin' an out.

But if I fall, I'm gonna still hop back on my bike.

No matter if I fall and break my thumb... anything. I'm hoppin' back on this bike.

Sunday, we ride with the pack... wheelies gang.

I don't even care. I'm ridin' down there.

Have you ever done it before? No.

It's our tradition, our culture.

This is what we do. Can't nobody take it from us.

This is our release.

Baltimore City, Sunday!

Swept through the crowd, so fuck the police.

Any of y'all gonna try to stop us. This is our shit!

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

Bravo! Bravo!

I definitely don't wanna ride down this bitch with this bike on the truck...

with the police down here.

Another police right there.

- Just sit back, look casual. - I'm tryin'.

Go, go!

Hurry up! Hurry up!

You may wanna...

Good.

I'm tellin' you what's goin' on. You keep tellin' me some other shit.

I'm tellin' you what's what.

We just intercepted my man. His bike broke down at the park.

Police ran right up on him.

Scony pulled in front of him to tow him.

He grabbed right on to the back of the grab bar, and they got outta there.

I got his bike in the back of the truck now.

And a fuckin' bird is on us, watchin' us now.

I don't ride on the street no more like that, so I play the supportive role.

Police must be down here chasin' him.

See the police over there? Yeah.

Coverin', watchin' them at the gas station?

Yeah.

Watch it. Watch it, guys.

See that shit?

That's Shahib he chasin', man. He chasin' Shahib 'cause he got a girl.

Gettin' it. Gettin' it. Gettin' it.

Gettin' it! Gettin' it! Get it! Get it!

Now you see how... I'm tryin' to school these young niggas on the back.

I tell 'em, "You gotta be relaxed."

If you panic, that would have been his ass. He'd have fell.

The police would have laughed at him,

and left while he was all on the ground all fucked up.

All right, I'm on my way up there, 'cause I'm at your house now...

with these niggas' bike on the back of the truck... I'm on my way up there.

Right. I know. The chopper keep following me now.

I'm gonna get this bike the fuck off my fuckin' truck.

Sittin' ducks right now.

Kai, many of you who drive on city streets

have seen these dirt bikes before,

but it is difficult for police to enforce the law.

see cops chasing dirt bikes,

but police say their policy is not to chase.

Baltimore police are not allowed to chase

dirt-bike riders because it's too dangerous.

Instead they use police helicopters to track the bikers.

They fuck my kids. Well, let's fuck them. So we...

She ain't leavin' off this block, bitch.

It's gonna be a bad fuss with this motherfucker,

'cause they my motherfuckin' kids.

She out of order, gonna fuckin' try to run the kid off...

Bitch gonna run her mouth. She don't know who in the car.

- Bitch, you don't know where you at! - Here we go.

Come on and do that, Mom!

This bitch right here is not leavin'.

I'm tellin' her, don't hit the girl's head. Just mark the face, bitch.

Prepare your stuff! You ain't leavin'.

They callin' the po po.

They can call the C.-fuckin'-I.A.!

Get out of the way. I'm callin' the police.

They're callin' her bluff.

It ain't really safe in Baltimore.

Then kind of it is and kind of is not.

'Cause every, like, every other night, you gonna be hearin' about,

oh, somebody tell and got shot.

Or somebody got stabbed or...

It's always somethin'.

I like Baltimore because we don't get no floods.

We don't get no hurricanes...

and none of that like all them other states.

That's why I like Baltimore.

I don't wanna be in the front or in the middle of the pack.

I'd rather be in the back or on the sidewalk.

'Cause you... You're stuck in the middle and the police come,

you gonna get hit off your bike,

or you gonna fall and they gonna run you over.

I got a lot of money.

In my pocket.

Look!

And money! Money!

And money. Money! Money.

Money. Money.

Pug my brother.

Oh, please.

Yep. He's my brother.

And I already know what you all gonna do.

You all gonna videotape him too small, too big.

Every time I open my door, he gone.

I have to call his phone five or six times a day.

"Where you at? Where you at?"

He everywhere where he don't have no business to be. He too little for that.

Even though he up there in age a little bit. But he's too small in size.

Somebody could have snatched him up. They crazy out here.

They crazy.

But it's about to seriously be about me. It's about to be my show.

My reality show. No.

Coco's Show. Coco and the Kids.

No. It's about there be a Baltimore reality show.

Oh, really?

I was a exotic dancer...

before I got pregnant with Pug.

His father was so proud to have his first son,

he went out and bought Pug a pit bull.

Pug been lovin' pit bulls ever since.

Pug in the tub. He's tryin' to figure out,

"What do I wanna do in life?

Who am I? What do I wanna be?"

That's what those little eyes are sayin'.

He's not... Where are you?

Well, get up here then. You shouldn't even be down there.

You always somewhere. Okay, I see you now.

Why you always leavin'? Shut the door.

You hardheaded. You always leavin'. Get over here.

Oh, you about to get slapped. Get over here.

You be 13 tomorrow. Act your age, please.

I do. Act your age.

You don't have no business goin' nowhere.

When I tell you to stay somewhere, that's where you supposed to stay at.

Do you know you can get locked up for certain things?

You need to really get yourself together and stop worrying about bikes.

Bikes is not everything.

You have to have a education to be able to ride a bike.

Growin' up in the city, you will see it all.

You will learn the right way to do all the wrong shit in Baltimore City.

I have a Ph. D. in it. If you walk outside on the corner,

you see motherfuckers hustlin', shootin', sellin' drugs, killin', sellin' pussy.

One of the first things you see that you actually wanna do is ride a dirt bike.

It's one of the first things you see that's positive,

sittin' on a step with your buddies, sayin',

"In a couple more years, I'm gonna have that dirt bike.

I'm gonna be wheelie'n' like this nigga. I'm gonna be doin' it.

I'm gonna be wallin' out. I'm gonna be the next 12 O'Clock Boy."

Pug just got on a bike, knew what to do.

He could tell you every bike, and how to work it and all of that.

He's an interesting person.

Like, you know, some of the things that you ask him about an animal,

he can just come out and tell you, like...

He can tell me stuff about an animal that I can never imagine to even know about.