For Ahkeem | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to t | dG1fTmVSdE5xUm9xdlk

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00:00Everybody think you are cute and adorable now, but when you grow up it's like they don't look at you different.

00:11How old are you now?

00:1417

00:16What grade are you in?

00:1811

00:20My mom, she did everything she could for me.

00:22This is serious.

00:24I just want to make her proud.

00:25Do you all think that you are the worst kids in the entire United States of America?

00:33I don't want you to get comfortable thinking that this neighborhood is the way of life.

00:38It's so much bigger and better things out here, you wouldn't even believe it.

00:40I'm just demanding answers to the shooting death of 18 year old Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer.

00:47Pierre was first.

00:49Beyond.

00:51Chauncey James.

00:53Two of them didn't count.

00:5512, 18, 14, 9.

00:58Do you all know what the word originates?

01:01That means your start point.

01:03People have been labeling me as a bad kid all my life.

01:06Do y'all understand? Y'all get to fight one more day. Y'all get to do this one more day.

01:17I want you to have an almost perfect childhood.

01:24Not perfect, but close to it.

01:26They determined that no probable cause exists to file any charge against Officer Wilson.

01:33I want you to have stuff that I didn't have when I was a kid.

01:41History repeats itself.

01:43Right now I see your backyard.

01:45You're right in front of the war zone.

01:47I want to look out the window at my house and our house.

01:52Watching you play on the playground.

01:54You wipe your eyes and hold your shoulders up, hold your head up, alright?

01:59We're going to have faith, you hear me?

02:06I just want you to be happy.