1992

Yeah, there you go.

Move out back.

Nah, you can't park there.

Mercer, all I can tell you is,

it's not about what anybody else does,

it's about what you do.

How you react, how you behave,

and you know that's a decision

that you're gonna have to make every day.

Conditional custody is a good first step, all right?

Be happy.

I'll see you at 8:00 a.m. Friday.

Ready to piss in that cup.

Thank you.

It's dramatic

and it's devastating

to the Los Angeles police officers

involved in the March 13 beating

of that Black motorist.

One of the two officers...

...partially cloudy

with 65 degrees the KFI radio.

In the beating of Rodney King,

the District Attorney has indicted the four Los...

Wake up.

Twan, wake up, man, it's time for school.

Come on, man, wake up.

School doesn't start for another hour and a half.

Yeah,

I used to hate waking up for school

in the mornings, too.

Made you some breakfast, man.

Better get up.

Come on.

Weren't you the one that said never again?

There were reasons for that.

He doesn't leave witnesses.

I know you're not defending that motherfucker.

You know I hate him.

Grew up with the fucker.

This job, it's just...

too big for us to handle alone.

If you want out, this is our shot.

Let me handle the old man.

All right.

All right, last one. But for real this time.

Come on.

-Love you, bro. -Love you, too.

Hit me up later.

It began as a high-speed chase

and ended early Sunday morning with

the motorist, a Black male, being thrown...

Breakfast of champions right here.

...struck as many as 56 times

and suffered several broken bones.

Fifty six times,

that's what the American public

will be hearing of today.

The suspect, identified as Rodney Glenn King.

King who is married and has two stepchildren was on parole

after serving time for armed robbery.

Doctors said he suffered a concussion...

So you just gonna ignore me every morning?

What do you want me to say?

...from the blows to his face

that would require reconstructive surgery.

And for what I've seen,

none of the prison...

I feel like you got me locked up in a cage.

At least at Ma and Grandma's

they let me hang and kick it with my friends.

I don't have no type of freedom here.

So, what do you want?

You wasn't there for my childhood,

and you wasn't there for their accident.

This is something that never should

have happened.

These procedures...

Look, I know it's hard not having them around anymore.

It's hard for me, too.

But you're with me now.

The difference this time is that...

Look at me when I'm talking to you.

It's not an isolated incident.

I know we've been running around

up in this small space,

trying to feel each other out.

The Black community is not buying that.

About 300...

But we got this.

...marched on police headquarters today.

We in this.

This is an aberration...

We just gotta stay the course.

...never have happened.

The incident early Sunday morning is not

an isolated incident. The difference this time

is that we have the proof.

Right, right,

do you have any idea how many guys...

What do you remember about that?

Shit might get a little crazy out there today.

So you need to come straight home from school.

And I'm announcing today

that we have obtained indictments...

against four Los Angeles police officers.

LAPD Officer Laurence Powell...

That's some bullshit.

What did you say?

You better watch your tone.

You a boy

that I'm trying to raise to be a man.

In this house,

you're gonna respect me.

I'm going to tell you.

You're going to have a police department

not going to be the kind to deprive...

I gotta get to school, Pop.

If I or other members of the...

Yeah. Yeah! It's parked over there!

Mamma! Mamma, let me in!

Still watching me, man.

Still watching me.

I love you, baby.

-You get the old man? -Yeah.

Car looks good, Dad.

Yep.

Taking her up to the classic this Friday night at Bob's.

-Nice. You ready? -Yep.

-You look good. -You look good.

Let's see what your brother's got for us.

- How you doing, son? - What's up, Dad?

Where's Copeland?

He couldn't make it.

Couldn't make it? If he's doing the job with us

he should be casing it with us.

I'll fill him in.

Yup, that's it right there.

Hey, what's up, man?

What up. What up.

Yo! Let me just see this right quick.

Huh! Young man.

Get a pack of Phillies.

Phillies. Not Backwoods.

- Backwoods? - Phillies!

Phillies! Are you deaf?

- No have. - You speak English, bitch?

I said Phillies, nigga.

-I don't want this shit. -Watch your mouth.

The fuck you say, nigga?

Said watch your mouth.

No, you watch your fucking mouth, nigga.

What the fuck wrong with you?

Huh?

How the fuck that feel, nigga?

Familiar.

Hey!

What the fuck you doing, nigga?

Hey, fall back.

I said, fall back. Fall the fuck back!

When I tell you to move, you fucking move.

You hear me?

Motherfucker was talking shit.

You know who the hell that is?

Fix your face. Don't fucking look at him.

That's OG Merc.

You wouldn't have a flag to fly

if it wasn't for that brother right there.

That cold-hearted motherfucker woulda dropped you dead

before you could even pull the fucking trigger.

So you better fucking recognize.

Don't do that shit again.

Yo, Merc.

It's been a minute, man.

When you get out?

Oh, six months ago.

Six months?

My phone ain't ringin'.

How come I ain't know?

Been laying low, bro.

You know what it is out here.

It's tucked away, man.

Stay up, D.

All right. Stay up, bruh.

Let's go.

Pluton Metals.

Tell me what they do again?

Catalytic converters.

Yeah, he explained it to me, like, five times.

It's like something about pollution.

But I don't really understand it.

Catalytic converters, they need platinum.

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

and platinum is like more money than gold.

-Right? -How much they got in there?

Ten million in bullions.

Whoa. That's beach money.

Yeah.

Beach money.

All right, run it for me.