Flatbush Misdemeanors

Yo, Zay Zay.

Meet me in the bathroom, Zay.

Yo.

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What's something that says, like,

"I love you, but also,

I respect that you're my professional superior"?

Why would you get a gift for somebody

that makes more money than you?

Is she your girlfriend?

She's the vice principal where I teach,

but we have very good chemistry.

She not his girl.

-I know Zayna shit. -Uh-huh.

I was clapping her shit in the bathroom.

This kid Will in your class, you know where he live at?

Mr. Joseph, the Administration for Children's Services

has an open case on one of your students

whose safety may be at risk.

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Keep ignoring me, Lester,

but you're gone tomorrow,

so stop playing and start packing!

What's going on?

Lester, I will call the police!

What's going on?

This doesn't concern you.

Well, we're concerned, so...

An eviction, okay?

Owes too much in rent.

Yo, Lester's lived here forever.

You can't evict him.

I keep seeing you.

Who the hell are you?

-Does he live with you? -Who, Kev? No, he's just--

'Cause I'm charging rent for one person.

If there's two of you, I'm charging more.

It's--it's just me. Kevin is just visiting.

I see him all the time.

I visit a lot.

How 'bout I inspect your apartment?

-You can't do that. -No, no, hang on, hang on.

- Can't I? -Hang on, hang on. No.

He's my trainer. He's just my trainer.

You train him in house slippers?

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Yeah. I'm not the one training.

- -Open this door!

Leave me alone, woman.

Lester ain't done nothing wrong.

-Leave him alone. - Okay, I'm sorry.

Are you gonna pay me

the tens of thousands he owes in rent?

There has to be more to rent than money.

There's been a hole in his roof for a month.

Why you ain't fixed that yet?

That's something he's noticed while training me.

I'm evicting him in the morning,

and then I'm dealing with you two.

Say goodbye, Lester!

Goodbye, you white honky bitch!

- Good riddance! -

Nobody trains in house slippers.

-He's unorthodox. - Oh!

And I'm unconvinced.

Are they really thinking about people,

or they thinking about money?

It has to be the money.

Do you have a place to stay?

I've been trying for that housing lottery.

We'll see what happens.

Don't worry about it, young bloods.

When it's your time, it's your time, right?

Like playing at Minton's...

And fuckin' the same women as Dizzy...

To getting kicked out of my own goddamn apartment.

-Oh, let me help you. -Nah.

You're going to my room, though, so let me just--

No, God damn it.

Okay, well, I'm just gonna help you, so--

No, you honky bitch.

Jesus.

You know, when I moved in, he was the only one

who introduced himself.

This same shit happened to Jasmine grandma,

-but she stopped it. - Call her.

Maybe she can come help.

It's too early for that.

What do you mean, it's early? It's for Lester.

That's worth it.

Plus, you can spend time with her.

Mm-mm...

Did--did you not get groceries yesterday?

Oh yeah, I started to, but then I didn't.

You finished two dozen eggs already?

I'm a growing boy. I don't know what you want.

- Can you get stuff today? -You want me to do that?

Or you want me to call Jasmine and help Lester?

-'Cause... -I mean, can you do both?

Yo, you ruined my podcast.

-What you want? -Damn. I can't get a hello?

Hello.

What you want?

You stay in a Myers building, right?

Yeah. Why?

They trying to evict my neighbor.

How you finesse it when they was getting on your grandma?

It's a lot.

Okay. I'm listening.

All right, so first, you--

Yo, it's kind of early for that; you okay?

When you file a complaint, they gonna ask...

I-I'm getting fired today.

What?

Jess wants me to meet

to discuss the Child Services case

after school, so I'm...

Just play dumb.

It has to be Zayna.

There's no one else it could be.

I already lied about going over to a kid's house,

so I'm just--I'm fucked.

Look, just don't lose your job,

'cause if you lose your job,

then we both gonna be homeless,

and I can't support us on this roti check.

-Like... -Okay. Yeah.

I'll tell her that. That'll mean a lot to her.

- -I'll get groceries

before I have to meet with her at 5:00.

- All right. -Let me know about Lester.

- Mm. - Get a mob.

Do a protest. Do all that shit.

And then if you do all of that,

then maybe he'll be a'ight.

You follow?

Uh, yeah, I follow,

but I ain't really follow.

Can you--can you just come over here and help me, please?

What you think they gonna do?

I don't know.

When we got caught hoppin' the train,

what your uncle do to you?

Man, he said, "Stop getting caught."

You know what my people did to me, bro?

Uncooked rice, my nigga. Straight out the box type shit.

Your mates are inside studying for Harvard.

You, you are jumping trains.

Keep your arms up! Spider-Man.

That's your daughter.

I was there for, like, two hours.

Wait, so...

do they keep extra rice for punishing,

or y'all eat and punish from the same box?

What?

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Evictions must stop!

No landlords, no cops!

Evictions must stop!

-No landlords, no cops! -

-Evictions must stop! - Here we go.

No landlords, no cops!

Say what?

Evictions must stop!

Okay.

No landlords, no cops!

I just can't believe you got

all these people out here so fast.

No landlords, no cops!

Hey, you should make this your thing,

'cause if you could do this in a day,

-you could fuckin', like... -I could what?

Make a living off of other people's pain?

Not like Al Sharpton, but you could do it.

You good at making people care.

Nah, yo, this not even some shit

I would want to make bread off of.

I feel like this is the type of shit

that everybody's supposed to care about.

You could do the same thing.

You just don't know how to talk to people.

You not wrong. I mean...

Evictions must stop!

No landlords, no cops! Evictions must stop!

,Hey yo, thanks for picking that up.

Yeah, no worries. I got extra eggs.

What's going on?

Shit, Shirley Chisholm over here, man.

I'm weak. Not Shirley.

Nah, Jas really went crazy.

Lester gonna have to come down here and thank her,

'cause she given him the only chance he got.

-This is crazy, Jasmine. - Thanks.

You know, we just out here trying to occupy

and put pressure on these shady-ass landlords.

I mean, the Myers, they own

most of the buildings in Flatbush,

and they stay trying to kick out people

who been living here their whole lives.

I'm not gonna lie.