The Body Politic | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

With unfettered access, THE BODY POLITIC follows Baltimore's idealistic young mayor into office where he puts his person | dG1fTzN1bUhFVk9zUHM

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00:00violence is what's dominated our city for the 37 years that I've been alive.

00:11I grew up in the 1980s and 90s.

00:13If you were black and you were outside, you could be taken to jail for any simple thing.

00:18We've been doing this all my life, but violence is still here.

00:23We have to police better.

00:24We have to change things for ourselves because no one's going to do it for us.

00:30The youngest mayor in the city's history trying to restore trust in government.

00:34You cannot go anywhere in Baltimore without seeing the aftermath of gun violence.

00:40We've seen other strategies that are rooted in penalty.

00:45We are going to be reimagining public safety in Baltimore.

00:49We take guys who used to be shooters and killers and they're now interceding in the violence.

00:53We're the peacemakers.

00:54Many of us have been to prison, but now we work to defuse violence in our community.

00:59Governor today insisted the city's cure will not work.

01:03Trying to reduce crime by defunding police is dangerous, radical, far-left lunacy.

01:09You can't beat on trying to clean up the streets what you want to say about this past weekend.

01:14Can you handle this crime situation right now?

01:16The blood of 300 will be on your hands, Mr. Mayor.

01:20If the forces come to get me in four years, so be it.

01:23But I know when I'm done, I'll be able to say that I never compromised myself or my city.

01:31This is about building systems so that young boys and girls don't have to live through what I lived through.

01:37We want murder to understand it cannot have the last say.

01:40Just because you showed up, love is showing up behind you.

01:43Fifty years from now or however long it takes, people will know we must have been doing a lot of good work

01:49in order for it to get that way.