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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Kensington, Philadelphia, America's largest open air drug market
and the land of the walking dead. Six months ago,
Philadelphia health officials sounded the alarm for a new drug
on the streets, metatomidine.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
They're getting expired tranquilizer from Africa.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Actually they call it rhino rhino.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, a veterinarian tranquilizer used on rhinos held in captivity
that's now being cut with the fenanyl used on the
streets out here, and it's estimated to be up to
one hundred times stronger than the zilaze new saw on
my video here two years ago.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Just fright.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
I'm hearing it to do it now, has a new
chemical winner or whatever that it's gonna have everybody with Alzheimer's,
of dementia.
Speaker 7 (00:38):
O within a year.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Once you start, you can't stop.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And you here, what have you noticed change? Nothing?
Speaker 8 (00:43):
I see people dying here all the time.
Speaker 7 (00:44):
It's like a pit of hell.
Speaker 9 (00:46):
People streaming, chaos, follering, moaning, fighting, It's it's terrible.
Speaker 10 (00:50):
This is the worst place in America.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So I hit the streets of Kensington at night to
see if this place has gotten better or worse. And
if there's any hope of fixing it, well, Philadelphia, I'll
be calling it Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So you're lighting up the air maxes right now to
say warming, because I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Those are nice shoes. Though, What do you think keeps
so many people here in Kensington? What do you think
the biggest reason to end up on the streets here
in the first place is.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, because I started with marijuana first.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You're saying, we're kind of discriminating on what's okay, hurt
her no sweat, and I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm just curious. We'll get out of your air. That
is poisonous air. You guys a breathing right back. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:31):
Usually they get these big plastic creates they bring like
showed us into the shorts and burn nuts, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Burn for hours. Get what you're doing over here, God
bless you. And that's what he got in. It's all
the marijuana. I'm not you want to know how we differ.
You gotta crack.
Speaker 10 (01:48):
Pipe next to you can't find one.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Shut up marijuana.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I ain't never a base nothing, give a real talk though.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Do you think you get judged differently if you do
fanal versus like weed?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I'm not gonna go ab.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm not getting happy by looking at this. I'm just amazed.
Speaker 11 (02:04):
Yeah, there's one way to stay warm, and like that's
a good half an hour, but heat.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Are their shelters available right now? You guys to go
to sleep and stay warm.
Speaker 11 (02:10):
No sol As we go through our sholter, they're gonna
say that they overfilled.
Speaker 12 (02:13):
So I tried to go to a hospital, tried to
get rehab, and they didn't even do for me.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
If you could get off the streets, you would get
off the streets.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Yeah, I'm right.
Speaker 13 (02:23):
I don't want to be out here getting high anymore.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, even if you had the dope sick, Yeah, I'll
go to the pain. Okay, do you think most people would?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I mean, I know most people would.
Speaker 11 (02:31):
They don't give about nobody, They don't care about anything
itself making money. And it's just really ridiculous at this
point because we cold and there's nothing that we could
do but like clothes that we could get to somebody
else so that they don't have to walk.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
They don't give nothing for homeless people, but they're giving
you guys needles and fennel foil, and we really need that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Though. What I'm saying, who don't use the drugs? What
are your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Streak?
Speaker 13 (02:52):
I think there's a been different between homeless and house.
A lot of people chose to be down here.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
They have services for tell me about them.
Speaker 13 (02:59):
I don't know what they are, but I know they
have them.
Speaker 12 (03:02):
But people choose to stay out here all because they
want to get high, just like the ones who got
them them big strength wounds. Instead of going to the
hospital staying in the hospital like you should be doing,
you come out here and you shoot up in your
wounds and don't take hair of women and clean them,
and then you lose your limbs and you're a why
(03:22):
because you've.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What are your thoughts on? What's going on? What do
we got?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Got?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay? Okay? So the fire's gotta go out.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I think the concerns are you have buildings and structural
integrity under the bridges I would eventually catch fire. But
also it's the catch might do have how do you
stay warm when it gets below freezing? So the fire
is being put out right now the fire is gone,
are there shelters that are available?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Could they sleep somewhere?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Officers? Real Quick Officers host game interview. Real Quick is
your job impossible out here. This seems like a tough scene.
Speaker 13 (03:53):
It's not impossible, but just gotta do what you gotta
do sometimes that's all.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Are you guys putting out literal and metaphorical fires all
night long? Working the speak?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah at night time? Yeah, Nicole, Does Kensington ever become
not Kensington?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I hear they they'll push it one of these days,
or it'll move. We'll move them and then they'll come back.
It's about it.
Speaker 10 (04:10):
A lot of people come out here and they're not
they're not out here.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They just wanted a few drugs. Tell me.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
I got a cry rack around sixteen, right, rolled my car, Yeah, Mountain,
I'm CANNINGE subscribed paying from time about sixteen to thirty
something win and got it from the doctors.
Speaker 10 (04:25):
So you're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You got prescribed fendal.
Speaker 14 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Did that start your addiction that you had to maintain
on the streets? Sixteen years old?
Speaker 10 (04:32):
The doctors give it to me.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I didn't think anything about it. I think I was nineteen.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
I lost my pills one day.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
I got really good ship had when the doctors actually,
oh yeah, well you're addicted going through the draw.
Speaker 10 (04:42):
I lost my trashed the dock.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You out of this, you got the rest, got divorced.
Speaker 11 (04:46):
If I got divorced, became homeless, came out here and
started selling.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I saw using.
Speaker 11 (04:50):
Once you win, you win. You can't get out. It's
like the my field a little bit. It hold you down.
I got out of rehead like four times, keep coming back.
It's a drink. Rehead not working. But they giving you
was the drug? Did they give you? It's not working?
This suff not working.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
I used to clean out here, sweep up and all that.
I got shot, got operated. The big bullet hit me
on my head, being on my knee, and uh, I
went to the hospital, got operated. I'm just a few
months getting my walk up.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Bet.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, so it's pretty recent. Yes, I'm here with Lepracaun.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That is a badass name, Leprachaun. And you're the lady
his girl. How long have you guys been dating?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
For?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Small?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Been together eleven years?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, that is true love. How did you guys end
up out here?
Speaker 13 (05:30):
Marvin was on fire last year.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Insurance did not cover as.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Soon we didn't have runners in charge.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And you ended up out here immediately after?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Or now we spent a year and a half in
the hotel.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You guys currently live in a hotel?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
No, we were back and forth between you know family, Do.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You guys frequent Kensington for drug access or Okay, it's
just the bizarre.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's the Walmart for drugs.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Yeah, Like after I got cut off your pain plain,
it'd be fifty dollars day I could get what I
mean prescribed and could.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Out on the street and buying staff or something like that.
Do you have to come down here and get the
cheap bild?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Come out here?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You're at the point where the only thing that makes
feel better is continuing to use the fendol.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
You know, I don't want to be out here. I
gotta do it. That's the only I want to be.
But I won't be sick.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Can you explain the sort of withdrawal experience how quickly
that sets in once you stop using man like within.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Hours of days, weeks?
Speaker 11 (06:23):
No, that you gotta use it like every six hours.
If you're not using it like that, then it's on
your team. Start to feel like they falling out, You
start to throw up in the stomach, that it's real deep.
I feel like you can't move your whole body just
giving out when.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
They prescribe you like oxy cotton or something boxing and uh,
I don't know for the gun would.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Yes, I got operated, it healed up and all that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Has that escalated to using anything a little more hard
out here? Are it does? What are you using right now?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
I usually smoke hard talk sometimes.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Were you familiar with Kensington prior to buying drugs out here?
And you always knew it was like an open air
drug market?
Speaker 13 (07:01):
And no, it wasn't like this.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Tell me how it was like when you were a kid.
Speaker 13 (07:05):
Neigh It was a middle class urban neighborhood. Like it
was normal, like this time of year you would see Christmas,
like the avenue was a place to be and it.
Speaker 10 (07:14):
Was not much stores blocks and blocks stores.
Speaker 13 (07:17):
It was a regular neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So if you're a Fennel user, you're coming to Kensington
just for proximity and access to the drug availability.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
The access, the access, I mean, I got two college degree.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm a home inner, sue, you own a home. Why
are you out here drugs? To get the drugs? Do
you go back home? Yeah?
Speaker 15 (07:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Back home you get tired of being out here and
being a part of this.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
You can't stand it?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 9 (07:39):
It's just help? This is literally I mean it. Close
my eyes and listen. People are streaming chaos, follering, moaning, fighting,
It's it's terrible.
Speaker 10 (07:47):
Was the worst complation in America?
Speaker 11 (07:49):
Just fighting, like I don't know what. Yeah, definitely a curse.
Once you start, you can't stop and you want to
be out here. I started because I was depressed and
now I'm just doing it. Just all won't be sick.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are you gonna sleep out here tonight?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Definitely? Yeah, I don't know where.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
Yeah, niggas like still, just.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Did you guys start using out of like depression after
the house burned down?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Or I started using the bouts in two thousand, I
mean nineteen ninety six, I know. Yeah, no, no, no heroin.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So you graduate from heroin to fendol? Yes? Is that
a pretty commony?
Speaker 13 (08:15):
Really wanted to switch to fedanol? They did it, whoever
it is maker, which they did it. They put it
on everybody like a lobody had a choice.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Too much money be made here, It's gonna get somewhere paid.
Speaker 16 (08:26):
The paid, the gan paid the cartel, getting pay everybody
and paid.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
For everyone's making money off people using and died out here.
Speaker 17 (08:34):
Illuminati Illumnati controls someone else, ol Bro.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
They are real bowls for the president. Autumn they own
the president.
Speaker 13 (08:43):
Started doing this stuff that was patent on it.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
You couldn't go back.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
To Harouin shame corner. You got the heroin from Switched, didn't.
Speaker 13 (08:49):
Use it during that time, so I thought I was
using just heroin and.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Here and even realized that you were using fenol at
the time. Actually, that sounds like a lot of people
would die.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
I think it was half and half.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It was before trying.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, they sneaked into it and then they snuck trank
into the fenanyl.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They snuck already onto you.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yes, no, it actually got real stronger and you just
fell asleep after you did it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The dealers introduced fendol and then they introduced the zine
and the fenol And what do we have now?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I heard niazines is what you called it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
They call they call it rhino trank. Rhino rhino.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, what does rhino trank mean?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's a lot stronger than the regular.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
They're getting expired tranquilizer from Africa. Actually what they expired
like rhino.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And inspired elephants and Rhino tranquilizer. I actually came here
for the healthcare.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
My wife has cancer when we came here because she
wasn't getting treated out South, came here. She's had musciple sugaries.
You know she's doing good. I've had pain problems. My
whole life is.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
How many people have you spoken out here that are
initially prescribed, like let's say Fendyl or Oxy's, and then
end up coming here to buy it for cheap.
Speaker 10 (09:49):
Most of the people we see my age, it's usually
what it is.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
They get driven to it because you get taken it,
you're you're you listen to your doctors.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You get addicted.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
Back in the day, like theydn't they didn't tell me
it was a I was jacking Oxygonten eighties, Like for
day they wouldn't warn me.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I got no warnings and then you're forever addicted. Yeah, exactly,
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How long you've been out here?
Speaker 7 (11:27):
In ten years?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I like your onesie. By the way, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It's very cold out here, it super worm. How do
you deal with the cold out here? It's cold?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
It was great when I had a man and I
had body heat going on, but like now Dinosaur one
to us and Lada blankets and it's us.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
I'm trying to go to rehab real. I can't take
it out. I'm not going. I'm not doing this another Winner.
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I believe in you. That's a badass.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
I'm hearing it to do.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
It now has a new chemic Winner and whatever that
it's going to have everybody with Alzheimer's, a dementia overin
in years.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
It's whatever's making people trip. People are tripping.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And we're not talking about nodding out right, No, we're
talking about.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Like hallucinating again. And it's doing so many people's brains.
And I'm telling people that it's like to try to,
you know, maybe like steer people away from doing this,
you know what I mean, because I didn't want to
get off of it. Like it's just it's really hard
people are dying now, left and right in jail from withdrawal.
My ex woyfriend is dying, and a couple of girls
that I found out just died.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Withdrawal is killing the people.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Holiday busy, he's busy.
Speaker 10 (12:20):
How was yours? I'm so alive.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's heavy.
Speaker 18 (12:23):
Well, every day is a challenge, so you know you're
not gonna treat to live the next day.
Speaker 16 (12:27):
Drug wise, I don't do drugs. That came home from
having my head right over by car two weeks ago,
of course, right out here.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Were you're nodding out on the street, or I.
Speaker 16 (12:37):
Was sleeping the guy stand in a car for twenty
minutes before he pulled off. He pulled off and ran
over my head and kept going.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So he's hitting around you basically.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (12:46):
My first day at the hospital, he sent his wife
over to me and told his wife that he'll pay
me five hundred dollars if I don't take him the
court right in the court. Yeah, I'm taking him the
court now.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, you probably should. I'm right. What's going on?
Speaker 10 (13:03):
You know?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
How did you end up here?
Speaker 15 (13:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I was right here, just hold on right there, you're good.
Speaker 19 (13:09):
Yeah, Me and my friend were coming down here and
I'm coming to something like sixteen and getting dopey.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But remember we.
Speaker 19 (13:17):
Came through this time and then him got too an
argument and he's left me here and someone stole my phone.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I had no phone. I you, I'm in here telling
me you're blind? Is that true?
Speaker 16 (13:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 19 (13:29):
In my left eye.
Speaker 18 (13:30):
I have a bullet in my back. I bought my
wheelchair broke, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So yeah, shot in the back out here, Yeah, out here.
It's a bullet, just a straight bullet. We've heard that
twice today.
Speaker 18 (13:41):
See, I got one. It's stuck in at my spine.
If I get it take an nail, I become paralyzed
waist down. So I had to deal with the paint.
So it's kind of hard for me to walk.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Do you kind of walk around the flossure like this after? Yeah,
that's because the back of the bullet.
Speaker 18 (13:55):
Yeah, because it's ships on your ash that sometimes it
puts me in tears. Ever since Shichob we got killed
and this pandemic happened, this world been fucked.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So I see you kind of nodding out a little bit.
Are you on fenyl or trank? Yeah? How much do
you use a day anywhere?
Speaker 19 (14:12):
From three six bags.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So I know it's cold.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It's it's so cold out here when you not out,
are you concerned that you might die in the cold
if you yeah.
Speaker 19 (14:21):
Because I don't do that outside.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You don't do it outside.
Speaker 19 (14:26):
No, people run your pockets, it's steal bring you it's
in jungle.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Do people steal when you're nodding out? Is that what happens?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, do you have fenel on you? I see what
it looks like. And I'm curious if you quantify how
much this cost too?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Once the show? Thank you for showing us. How much
does that cost? Something like that? Here? Five bucks? Five bucks?
Speaker 19 (14:46):
That's it I'm from It was like twenty bucks a bag.
I was on Ian looking Cock the other day and
I was doing lookout for a block.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You got shot right in his throat about one in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Question for you guys, when you see someone in the
street like that, they get moved or can you guys
not kind of touch them.
Speaker 17 (15:04):
I mean, we can only advise them to get out
of the street, even if they end up getting hit.
You guys can't do anything about it. I put my
hands on somebody, you can't physically remove somebody.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I mean no, it makes sense. I'm just curious, you know.
I ride around and make sure that they're still alive.
We came here two years ago. As it gotten better
or worse.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Me there's improvements.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
If you feel like your hands are tied as a
cop bit here in the sense of what you wish
you could do versus what you can do.
Speaker 17 (15:23):
No, I mean with the new regime, one hundred percent,
they definitely have our back. They allow us to do
what we have to do. The public doesn't like some
of the things. We gotta do what we gotta do.
It happens almost once once or twice a night. They
walk into people's cars because there's they're just not you know,
there's not coherent, they're not with it or you know,
like this year they set up an entire encampment. But
they don't realize is there's people that live upstairs. They're
blocking their way out. God forbid, there's a fire. Sure
(15:45):
it's not about get off the corner, get away. You know,
you have rights, but your rights can't circumsede someone else's rights.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
They den't by the shelters. They don't want the shelters.
They want, you know, they want to light a fire cancers.
Speaker 17 (15:55):
Light a cardboard blocks on the sidewalk and sit there,
and I want you to stay warm your has Now,
I know what I do when I'm out here. If
one person lives tonight, I did my job. Unfortunately, people,
you know, they don't want to help.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
What's one big misunderstanding the public might have about your
job as a police officer out here in Kensington?
Speaker 17 (16:11):
They think all we want to do is just lock
people up. It's not it's not the case. We have
the business curfew. Stores got to close at eleven o'clock
mail you know why because somebody was killed inside the
store playing video games and in the in the casino games,
which they shouldn't be in there to begin with, believe
it or not. You know who who gets more upset
because the stores are closed to people out here because
now they have Where am I going to go for
my mounchies?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And it's not my problem? All right? Be safe? Okay,
things just got real there.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It sounds like the cock was screaming on the camera
there he's getting straight up with assaulted on the other line.
But what do lifetime locals here in Philly think about
the current state of the streets.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Who am I here with.
Speaker 20 (16:50):
My name is Blieve love Killing.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They call me.
Speaker 20 (16:52):
I'm from now here. I got a little insight. I've
been out here in my whole life, so so.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I came here two years ago. I was told it
was going to get cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I see needles all on the ground right now. Doesn't
look cleaned out.
Speaker 20 (17:02):
They do try, especially when the summertime, you will see
a clean up crews come. But it's so bad out here,
to the point that days we're for litter will look
like this.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
How did Kensington become the Disneyland of drugs? Out here?
At teams?
Speaker 20 (17:13):
The conveniency of the transportation.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
This transportation get you.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Anywhere in the public transportation transportation.
Speaker 20 (17:20):
Yeah, this train is everywhere. So it ain't like, oh
we all got a train station. Our stops not like this. Yes,
we understand that, but there was a problem close to
Kensington and the world in Somerset. Summerset is one stop down.
It's more room. As you can see, the streets are bigger.
It was just a just a habitat of drugs and
it's like they ain't leave.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We're driving past here. I saw this guys slumped over
in the sidewalk basically in the street. We noticed the
police walking on their beat. What do they do out here?
Speaker 20 (17:43):
So they ignore it because they do get tired, like
tired or sleep or odd or whatever the case may be.
But normally when you walk up to them, they will
give you some type of motion they let you know
that they is alive or they is somewhat awake.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Are we seeing people dying here every single day?
Speaker 20 (17:57):
I'm not seeing them literally, but there is od every
single day. But when I was a child, this Walgreens
used to be a blockbuster. It used to be a
lot of stores right here, to the point where look
forward to going to the store for my mom and
come down to the avenue and buy my sneakers and
droll medicine and stuff like that. And I used to
just look forward to come out and shopping feel me.
But at this point you can't do that no more.
(18:18):
I noticed the transformation in the conditions of the drug
addicts that was doing dope. My mother used to be
a drug addict. The most I think to my mother
was track marks. And nowadays it's more than track marks.
I they got limbs falling off, getting cut off and
swollen and busting and anything you can name.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You fel what I'm saying.
Speaker 20 (18:34):
It's like whatever they put in their body is forcing
themself out of their body. I'm here because I'm witnessing
the problem that I'm living in the problems.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
I'm not gonna run from it.
Speaker 20 (18:42):
I didn't ever run for my mother and Dixon. I
remember running down G Street chasing my mother while she
was on doping press.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And as we were talking, this guy in a pickup
truck pulled up out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Can you tell us what you're up there?
Speaker 14 (18:52):
We're handing out some clothes and stuff for the people.
We're just here trying to help people. We know what's
called outside. I'm a pastor. We got our churches and
people donate stuff. We just gave a bunch of stuff
out over there, and we got a little bit of
stuff left for just trying to get rid of what
we have before it gets dark.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And this is our first time back in two years.
What if you noticed changed nothing? I see people dying
here all the time.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
It's like a pit of hell.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's getting much colder now. Is this is this gonna help? Ultimately?
Speaker 14 (19:16):
We had the whole thing piled up.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, is it so cold. People are dying on the streets.
Oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
People.
Speaker 14 (19:22):
You'll watch if you stay here a few minutes, people
will come out of the woodwork. You know, they grab
whatever they can. You know, you gotta you gotta remember
the people here that have no way to wash their clothes,
They have no place to take a shower, they have nothing.
We hand out hygiene kitch you could see. You can
look at pure Vita condios dot com.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You donate, this will go towards closes food for local
community out here.
Speaker 14 (19:40):
Yeah, pure Vita, Come deals dot com.
Speaker 20 (19:42):
Give these people a resource, like, give them somewhere to stay,
give them something to do, and also give them a
fixed income so they can be motivated that they won't
be homeless if you stop helping them. And I know,
like who wants to be giving out free things to people.
That's doing things on anybody's own choice. But you will
see more positive stories and negative.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
How are people affording the drugs in the first place? Here?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Right now?
Speaker 20 (20:00):
He's done it from the businesses and they've reselling it
and then the businesses went out of business.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
We're talking Walgreens and CBS's or local mom and pop
shops went out of business.
Speaker 20 (20:08):
Stores and even something like DTLR Olympia Sport never opened
back up. Rainbow got caught on fire due to a
homeless person trying to burn a censor off a tag.
There's still something.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I'm out here trying to get some fentol. How long
would it take to get some fentol? Like two minutes?
What us here for?
Speaker 21 (20:24):
Scott Perks, I've been on boxing for ten years. I'm
all about that subway surfer. But I do start doing
fetanol a year ago because I didn't know what it was.
I stopped doing dope. My fedol came out because it's
so strong. I just got done doing like three years
in recovery living, and so I got kind of burned
out because it was mandatory from jail. But now I'm
(20:44):
maxed out and it's like I did three years and
I got kicked out for trying to get some gushiet
inside the halfway.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
There you bro oh yo, we got some updated gamble
machines here you are, sir. I was trying a business
out here. Stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah, s'all do a good job.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Thank you, by the way, thank you.
Speaker 22 (21:05):
The whole little eleven o'clock thing they did affecting.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Business, Tell me, tell me out for the worst.
Speaker 22 (21:10):
It's doing something that we have nothing to do with.
Like as far as like the gambling machines, that's what
they wanted to crack down on.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I don't have no gambling machines as you can.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
See, so they can you tell me when they implemented
the eleven o'clock curfew.
Speaker 22 (21:21):
That's been about a few months.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Now, and the goal for that was to reduce I.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Have no idea.
Speaker 22 (21:26):
I mean, I don't know what it has to do
with the business. But as far as the curfew at
eleven o'clock for businesses, I mean they want people is
gonna be outside no matter what regardless, What does it
have to do with the business being open?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I never have as you can see, I have a buzzer.
You can't come in here. Let's allow you in and you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Guys have pretty good relationships with the people who do
use on the outside and maybe come in or knock
or whatever.
Speaker 22 (21:45):
I mean, yeah, I'm not you know, I don't discriminate
against everybody, like especially like people with addictions, you know
what I mean. Everybody has problems, man, but you're not
going to bring it to me though.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I'm here with an og years then I'm really from Baltimore, right,
and I can't bit you down sixteen slip under the bridge.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
When they got this cold last year, they would open
up places where you can go and get heat, somewhere
to sleep for tonight.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That's not there now when they what is it? It's
a bed, it will help you sleep. Blankets would oh, food,
that's pretty smart. So what you do with this.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Actually, oh, you just sell the trash can smart someone
like you know where the hell's my trash can?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Right now? That was stuff full of swarming with firewood. Okay,
so you've already sold quite a bit of firework.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah, they do help you, but they don't want help.
Each l stop had people with the yellow vessels own.
All you got to do is say you want help,
take your name and a van come pick you up
with fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
So they are here to help.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
But all they got to do is go and act,
but they don't want to help it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
How many people not out with the fire on and
end up burning themselves.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Because because when they know out the blanket the blanket
catch fly.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I saw blankets fire with there in it last year.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Is he a shrink? Yeah? Is that that standard out
here right now?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Still? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
How do you not freeze to death out here? Starting
a fire just on the street out here?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah, but I'd be like going down the road, you're fucking.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
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(23:28):
I wanted to speak with someone who had escaped this
cycle of addiction and is now trying to help others
get clean too.
Speaker 15 (23:33):
You're able to Salama, and I signed found the Soldiers
for Recovery. I've been boots on the ground since I
got cleaned ten years ago, pride to ten years ago.
I was once homeless on have one now here on
the streets, sleeping on the streets, doing whatever I can
to make a buck to get high on these streets.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Man, you're living on the streets. You lost your family,
You're addicted, where are you sleeping?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I used to sleep in this park right here, Needle Park, which.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Is notorious for needles being on the ground and people
doing drugs. Absolutely, was it always known as a needle No,
did you help create it as needle Park.
Speaker 15 (24:03):
I would hate to think that I, you know, pay
a part in it, but I believe I did.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Look at that street cleaner, they're cleaning up, and tomorrow
it'll be just as dirty again, right.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Actually gonna be dirty. And the next two hours two
to three hours, two hours.
Speaker 15 (24:14):
Eventually I got tired of going in and out of rehab.
I got tired of sleeping on the streets. I got
tired of just being nothing.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I just woke up one day, so I said, I'm
going to rehab.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Or here at Needle Park. We're here two years ago almost.
You see the needle caps on the ground, and we
got a spoon there. Definitely not for any soup. What
goes through your mind when you come back here.
Speaker 15 (24:33):
I never stopped coming out here. What comes to my
mind is is I got I got more work to do.
All these benches I rested on at some point in.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Time, even out here in the winter. It's cold in the.
Speaker 15 (24:42):
Winter, I would go to the moss to sleep in
the mass jed. If the mons was opened, then I'll
go to the mass Jit. I slept on that bench.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It's bench right here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Did anything happen in particular to where you're like, I'm
over this.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I gotta get clean.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
No. I mean you think about them, but you want
that drug.
Speaker 17 (24:56):
Man.
Speaker 15 (24:57):
The drug literally talks to you and tell you don't worry.
Just next week. Next week, you're gonna show people who
you are. You're gonna You're gonna get back. It literally
talks to you mentally. How did you stop that? I
just was burnt out, man. I wanted more out of life,
you know. I stopped playing games with God because really
I knew that this was a spiritual battle. I woke
up one day and I said, I'm gonna rehab. God
(25:18):
answered my prayers ten years ago. I did about forty
five days. They told me not to come back to
come and talk because you could come and talk. You know,
because while I was in there, alls I can always
think about is how can I help the other people?
When I got out, I got out on a Sunday.
I came back the following Sunday and I wasn't supposed
to come back there for thirty days.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I was back in six days. I was back there
talking and help it.
Speaker 15 (25:38):
And I've been doing it consistently for the past ten years.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You know, doubt your organization to work. He gets there.
Speaker 15 (25:43):
I send people to rehab across the country, real discreet.
So if anybody needs help, go to my social media
DM me Soldiers for Recovery. I don't care where you
at in the world. I'm gonna get you out of here.
We can get you on a plane. I don't care
where you at in this country to get you out
of here to go get some good resources that's going
to help you get you back to life. If you
have anything you would like to help with Soldiers for Recovery,
(26:05):
feel free to donate.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
It's definitely a tax right off.
Speaker 15 (26:08):
I'm registered and y'all can definitely play a role in
helping me doing God's work.
Speaker 10 (26:12):
I'm a chef, I'm a licensed barber.
Speaker 17 (26:14):
Would you work if someone had a job for you, Yeah,
anywhere in Philly. Yeah you'll show up.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (26:18):
Okay, when I say something, I do it. I'm not
I beat around a buscher. I have a straight shooter.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
But then an Instagram. I can show some though.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Ladies out there showing boy Harold some love if you're single?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Is that fair?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Employers out there, any local restaurant owners justin love to Harold?
You got the credentials. You're good man.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Damn you got a handshake. That's for sure, too, Holy,
that's a man shake.
This is Kensington, Philadelphia, America's largest open air drug market
and the land of the walking dead. Six months ago,
Philadelphia health officials sounded the alarm for a new drug
on the streets, metatomidine.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
They're getting expired tranquilizer from Africa.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Actually they call it rhino rhino.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, a veterinarian tranquilizer used on rhinos held in captivity
that's now being cut with the fenanyl used on the
streets out here, and it's estimated to be up to
one hundred times stronger than the zilaze new saw on
my video here two years ago.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Just fright.
Speaker 5 (00:32):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
I'm hearing it to do it now, has a new
chemical winner or whatever that it's gonna have everybody with Alzheimer's,
of dementia.
Speaker 7 (00:38):
O within a year.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
Once you start, you can't stop.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And you here, what have you noticed change? Nothing?
Speaker 8 (00:43):
I see people dying here all the time.
Speaker 7 (00:44):
It's like a pit of hell.
Speaker 9 (00:46):
People streaming, chaos, follering, moaning, fighting, It's it's terrible.
Speaker 10 (00:50):
This is the worst place in America.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
So I hit the streets of Kensington at night to
see if this place has gotten better or worse. And
if there's any hope of fixing it, well, Philadelphia, I'll
be calling it Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So you're lighting up the air maxes right now to
say warming, because I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Those are nice shoes. Though, What do you think keeps
so many people here in Kensington? What do you think
the biggest reason to end up on the streets here
in the first place is.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Well, because I started with marijuana first.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You're saying, we're kind of discriminating on what's okay, hurt
her no sweat, and I'm just curious.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm just curious. We'll get out of your air. That
is poisonous air. You guys a breathing right back. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (01:31):
Usually they get these big plastic creates they bring like
showed us into the shorts and burn nuts, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Burn for hours. Get what you're doing over here, God
bless you. And that's what he got in. It's all
the marijuana. I'm not you want to know how we differ.
You gotta crack.
Speaker 10 (01:48):
Pipe next to you can't find one.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Shut up marijuana.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I ain't never a base nothing, give a real talk though.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Do you think you get judged differently if you do
fanal versus like weed?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
I'm not gonna go ab.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I'm not getting happy by looking at this. I'm just amazed.
Speaker 11 (02:04):
Yeah, there's one way to stay warm, and like that's
a good half an hour, but heat.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Are their shelters available right now? You guys to go
to sleep and stay warm.
Speaker 11 (02:10):
No sol As we go through our sholter, they're gonna
say that they overfilled.
Speaker 12 (02:13):
So I tried to go to a hospital, tried to
get rehab, and they didn't even do for me.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
If you could get off the streets, you would get
off the streets.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Yeah, I'm right.
Speaker 13 (02:23):
I don't want to be out here getting high anymore.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, even if you had the dope sick, Yeah, I'll
go to the pain. Okay, do you think most people would?
Speaker 5 (02:30):
I mean, I know most people would.
Speaker 11 (02:31):
They don't give about nobody, They don't care about anything
itself making money. And it's just really ridiculous at this
point because we cold and there's nothing that we could
do but like clothes that we could get to somebody
else so that they don't have to walk.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
They don't give nothing for homeless people, but they're giving
you guys needles and fennel foil, and we really need that.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Though. What I'm saying, who don't use the drugs? What
are your thoughts?
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Streak?
Speaker 13 (02:52):
I think there's a been different between homeless and house.
A lot of people chose to be down here.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
They have services for tell me about them.
Speaker 13 (02:59):
I don't know what they are, but I know they
have them.
Speaker 12 (03:02):
But people choose to stay out here all because they
want to get high, just like the ones who got
them them big strength wounds. Instead of going to the
hospital staying in the hospital like you should be doing,
you come out here and you shoot up in your
wounds and don't take hair of women and clean them,
and then you lose your limbs and you're a why
(03:22):
because you've.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
What are your thoughts on? What's going on? What do
we got?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Got?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Okay? Okay? So the fire's gotta go out.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I think the concerns are you have buildings and structural
integrity under the bridges I would eventually catch fire. But
also it's the catch might do have how do you
stay warm when it gets below freezing? So the fire
is being put out right now the fire is gone,
are there shelters that are available?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Like?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Could they sleep somewhere?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Officers? Real Quick Officers host game interview. Real Quick is
your job impossible out here. This seems like a tough scene.
Speaker 13 (03:53):
It's not impossible, but just gotta do what you gotta
do sometimes that's all.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Are you guys putting out literal and metaphorical fires all
night long? Working the speak?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah at night time? Yeah, Nicole, Does Kensington ever become
not Kensington?
Speaker 8 (04:05):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I hear they they'll push it one of these days,
or it'll move. We'll move them and then they'll come back.
It's about it.
Speaker 10 (04:10):
A lot of people come out here and they're not
they're not out here.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
They just wanted a few drugs. Tell me.
Speaker 9 (04:15):
I got a cry rack around sixteen, right, rolled my car, Yeah, Mountain,
I'm CANNINGE subscribed paying from time about sixteen to thirty
something win and got it from the doctors.
Speaker 10 (04:25):
So you're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You got prescribed fendal.
Speaker 14 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Did that start your addiction that you had to maintain
on the streets? Sixteen years old?
Speaker 10 (04:32):
The doctors give it to me.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I didn't think anything about it. I think I was nineteen.
Speaker 10 (04:35):
I lost my pills one day.
Speaker 9 (04:37):
I got really good ship had when the doctors actually,
oh yeah, well you're addicted going through the draw.
Speaker 10 (04:42):
I lost my trashed the dock.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You out of this, you got the rest, got divorced.
Speaker 11 (04:46):
If I got divorced, became homeless, came out here and
started selling.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I saw using.
Speaker 11 (04:50):
Once you win, you win. You can't get out. It's
like the my field a little bit. It hold you down.
I got out of rehead like four times, keep coming back.
It's a drink. Rehead not working. But they giving you
was the drug? Did they give you? It's not working?
This suff not working.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
I used to clean out here, sweep up and all that.
I got shot, got operated. The big bullet hit me
on my head, being on my knee, and uh, I
went to the hospital, got operated. I'm just a few
months getting my walk up.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Bet.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Okay, so it's pretty recent. Yes, I'm here with Lepracaun.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That is a badass name, Leprachaun. And you're the lady
his girl. How long have you guys been dating?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
For?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Small?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Been together eleven years?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Okay, that is true love. How did you guys end
up out here?
Speaker 13 (05:30):
Marvin was on fire last year.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Insurance did not cover as.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Soon we didn't have runners in charge.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And you ended up out here immediately after?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Or now we spent a year and a half in
the hotel.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You guys currently live in a hotel?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
No, we were back and forth between you know family, Do.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You guys frequent Kensington for drug access or Okay, it's
just the bizarre.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's the Walmart for drugs.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Yeah, Like after I got cut off your pain plain,
it'd be fifty dollars day I could get what I
mean prescribed and could.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Out on the street and buying staff or something like that.
Do you have to come down here and get the
cheap bild?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
Come out here?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
You're at the point where the only thing that makes
feel better is continuing to use the fendol.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
You know, I don't want to be out here. I
gotta do it. That's the only I want to be.
But I won't be sick.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Can you explain the sort of withdrawal experience how quickly
that sets in once you stop using man like within.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Hours of days, weeks?
Speaker 11 (06:23):
No, that you gotta use it like every six hours.
If you're not using it like that, then it's on
your team. Start to feel like they falling out, You
start to throw up in the stomach, that it's real deep.
I feel like you can't move your whole body just
giving out when.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
They prescribe you like oxy cotton or something boxing and uh,
I don't know for the gun would.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
Yes, I got operated, it healed up and all that.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Has that escalated to using anything a little more hard
out here? Are it does? What are you using right now?
Speaker 8 (06:51):
I usually smoke hard talk sometimes.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Were you familiar with Kensington prior to buying drugs out here?
And you always knew it was like an open air
drug market?
Speaker 13 (07:01):
And no, it wasn't like this.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Tell me how it was like when you were a kid.
Speaker 13 (07:05):
Neigh It was a middle class urban neighborhood. Like it
was normal, like this time of year you would see Christmas,
like the avenue was a place to be and it.
Speaker 10 (07:14):
Was not much stores blocks and blocks stores.
Speaker 13 (07:17):
It was a regular neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
So if you're a Fennel user, you're coming to Kensington
just for proximity and access to the drug availability.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
The access, the access, I mean, I got two college degree.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm a home inner, sue, you own a home. Why
are you out here drugs? To get the drugs? Do
you go back home? Yeah?
Speaker 15 (07:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Back home you get tired of being out here and
being a part of this.
Speaker 7 (07:38):
You can't stand it?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 9 (07:39):
It's just help? This is literally I mean it. Close
my eyes and listen. People are streaming chaos, follering, moaning, fighting,
It's it's terrible.
Speaker 10 (07:47):
Was the worst complation in America?
Speaker 11 (07:49):
Just fighting, like I don't know what. Yeah, definitely a curse.
Once you start, you can't stop and you want to
be out here. I started because I was depressed and
now I'm just doing it. Just all won't be sick.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Are you gonna sleep out here tonight?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Definitely? Yeah, I don't know where.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
Yeah, niggas like still, just.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Did you guys start using out of like depression after
the house burned down?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Or I started using the bouts in two thousand, I
mean nineteen ninety six, I know. Yeah, no, no, no heroin.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So you graduate from heroin to fendol? Yes? Is that
a pretty commony?
Speaker 13 (08:15):
Really wanted to switch to fedanol? They did it, whoever
it is maker, which they did it. They put it
on everybody like a lobody had a choice.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Too much money be made here, It's gonna get somewhere paid.
Speaker 16 (08:26):
The paid, the gan paid the cartel, getting pay everybody
and paid.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
For everyone's making money off people using and died out here.
Speaker 17 (08:34):
Illuminati Illumnati controls someone else, ol Bro.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
They are real bowls for the president. Autumn they own
the president.
Speaker 13 (08:43):
Started doing this stuff that was patent on it.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
You couldn't go back.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
To Harouin shame corner. You got the heroin from Switched, didn't.
Speaker 13 (08:49):
Use it during that time, so I thought I was
using just heroin and.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Here and even realized that you were using fenol at
the time. Actually, that sounds like a lot of people
would die.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
I think it was half and half.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It was before trying.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, they sneaked into it and then they snuck trank
into the fenanyl.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They snuck already onto you.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yes, no, it actually got real stronger and you just
fell asleep after you did it.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
The dealers introduced fendol and then they introduced the zine
and the fenol And what do we have now?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I heard niazines is what you called it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
They call they call it rhino trank. Rhino rhino.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, what does rhino trank mean?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's a lot stronger than the regular.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
They're getting expired tranquilizer from Africa. Actually what they expired
like rhino.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
And inspired elephants and Rhino tranquilizer. I actually came here
for the healthcare.
Speaker 9 (09:33):
My wife has cancer when we came here because she
wasn't getting treated out South, came here. She's had musciple sugaries.
You know she's doing good. I've had pain problems. My
whole life is.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
How many people have you spoken out here that are
initially prescribed, like let's say Fendyl or Oxy's, and then
end up coming here to buy it for cheap.
Speaker 10 (09:49):
Most of the people we see my age, it's usually
what it is.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
They get driven to it because you get taken it,
you're you're you listen to your doctors.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
You get addicted.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
Back in the day, like theydn't they didn't tell me
it was a I was jacking Oxygonten eighties, Like for
day they wouldn't warn me.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I got no warnings and then you're forever addicted. Yeah, exactly,
real quick.
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How long you've been out here?
Speaker 7 (11:27):
In ten years?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I like your onesie. By the way, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It's very cold out here, it super worm. How do
you deal with the cold out here? It's cold?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
It was great when I had a man and I
had body heat going on, but like now Dinosaur one
to us and Lada blankets and it's us.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
I'm trying to go to rehab real. I can't take
it out. I'm not going. I'm not doing this another Winner.
I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I believe in you. That's a badass.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
I'm hearing it to do.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
It now has a new chemic Winner and whatever that
it's going to have everybody with Alzheimer's, a dementia overin
in years.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
It's whatever's making people trip. People are tripping.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
And we're not talking about nodding out right, No, we're
talking about.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Like hallucinating again. And it's doing so many people's brains.
And I'm telling people that it's like to try to,
you know, maybe like steer people away from doing this,
you know what I mean, because I didn't want to
get off of it. Like it's just it's really hard
people are dying now, left and right in jail from withdrawal.
My ex woyfriend is dying, and a couple of girls
that I found out just died.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Withdrawal is killing the people.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Holiday busy, he's busy.
Speaker 10 (12:20):
How was yours? I'm so alive.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
That's heavy.
Speaker 18 (12:23):
Well, every day is a challenge, so you know you're
not gonna treat to live the next day.
Speaker 16 (12:27):
Drug wise, I don't do drugs. That came home from
having my head right over by car two weeks ago,
of course, right out here.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Were you're nodding out on the street, or I.
Speaker 16 (12:37):
Was sleeping the guy stand in a car for twenty
minutes before he pulled off. He pulled off and ran
over my head and kept going.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
So he's hitting around you basically.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (12:46):
My first day at the hospital, he sent his wife
over to me and told his wife that he'll pay
me five hundred dollars if I don't take him the
court right in the court. Yeah, I'm taking him the
court now.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, you probably should. I'm right. What's going on?
Speaker 10 (13:03):
You know?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
How did you end up here?
Speaker 15 (13:06):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I was right here, just hold on right there, you're good.
Speaker 19 (13:09):
Yeah, Me and my friend were coming down here and
I'm coming to something like sixteen and getting dopey.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
But remember we.
Speaker 19 (13:17):
Came through this time and then him got too an
argument and he's left me here and someone stole my phone.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I had no phone. I you, I'm in here telling
me you're blind? Is that true?
Speaker 16 (13:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 19 (13:29):
In my left eye.
Speaker 18 (13:30):
I have a bullet in my back. I bought my
wheelchair broke, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
So yeah, shot in the back out here, Yeah, out here.
It's a bullet, just a straight bullet. We've heard that
twice today.
Speaker 18 (13:41):
See, I got one. It's stuck in at my spine.
If I get it take an nail, I become paralyzed
waist down. So I had to deal with the paint.
So it's kind of hard for me to walk.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Do you kind of walk around the flossure like this after? Yeah,
that's because the back of the bullet.
Speaker 18 (13:55):
Yeah, because it's ships on your ash that sometimes it
puts me in tears. Ever since Shichob we got killed
and this pandemic happened, this world been fucked.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So I see you kind of nodding out a little bit.
Are you on fenyl or trank? Yeah? How much do
you use a day anywhere?
Speaker 19 (14:12):
From three six bags.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So I know it's cold.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
It's it's so cold out here when you not out,
are you concerned that you might die in the cold
if you yeah.
Speaker 19 (14:21):
Because I don't do that outside.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
You don't do it outside.
Speaker 19 (14:26):
No, people run your pockets, it's steal bring you it's
in jungle.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Do people steal when you're nodding out? Is that what happens?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, do you have fenel on you? I see what
it looks like. And I'm curious if you quantify how
much this cost too?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Once the show? Thank you for showing us. How much
does that cost? Something like that? Here? Five bucks? Five bucks?
Speaker 19 (14:46):
That's it I'm from It was like twenty bucks a bag.
I was on Ian looking Cock the other day and
I was doing lookout for a block.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
You got shot right in his throat about one in
the morning.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Question for you guys, when you see someone in the
street like that, they get moved or can you guys
not kind of touch them.
Speaker 17 (15:04):
I mean, we can only advise them to get out
of the street, even if they end up getting hit.
You guys can't do anything about it. I put my
hands on somebody, you can't physically remove somebody.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I mean no, it makes sense. I'm just curious, you know.
I ride around and make sure that they're still alive.
We came here two years ago. As it gotten better
or worse.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Me there's improvements.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
If you feel like your hands are tied as a
cop bit here in the sense of what you wish
you could do versus what you can do.
Speaker 17 (15:23):
No, I mean with the new regime, one hundred percent,
they definitely have our back. They allow us to do
what we have to do. The public doesn't like some
of the things. We gotta do what we gotta do.
It happens almost once once or twice a night. They
walk into people's cars because there's they're just not you know,
there's not coherent, they're not with it or you know,
like this year they set up an entire encampment. But
they don't realize is there's people that live upstairs. They're
blocking their way out. God forbid, there's a fire. Sure
(15:45):
it's not about get off the corner, get away. You know,
you have rights, but your rights can't circumsede someone else's rights.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
They den't by the shelters. They don't want the shelters.
They want, you know, they want to light a fire cancers.
Speaker 17 (15:55):
Light a cardboard blocks on the sidewalk and sit there,
and I want you to stay warm your has Now,
I know what I do when I'm out here. If
one person lives tonight, I did my job. Unfortunately, people,
you know, they don't want to help.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
What's one big misunderstanding the public might have about your
job as a police officer out here in Kensington?
Speaker 17 (16:11):
They think all we want to do is just lock
people up. It's not it's not the case. We have
the business curfew. Stores got to close at eleven o'clock
mail you know why because somebody was killed inside the
store playing video games and in the in the casino games,
which they shouldn't be in there to begin with, believe
it or not. You know who who gets more upset
because the stores are closed to people out here because
now they have Where am I going to go for
my mounchies?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And it's not my problem? All right? Be safe? Okay,
things just got real there.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
It sounds like the cock was screaming on the camera
there he's getting straight up with assaulted on the other line.
But what do lifetime locals here in Philly think about
the current state of the streets.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Who am I here with.
Speaker 20 (16:50):
My name is Blieve love Killing.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They call me.
Speaker 20 (16:52):
I'm from now here. I got a little insight. I've
been out here in my whole life, so so.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I came here two years ago. I was told it
was going to get cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
I see needles all on the ground right now. Doesn't
look cleaned out.
Speaker 20 (17:02):
They do try, especially when the summertime, you will see
a clean up crews come. But it's so bad out here,
to the point that days we're for litter will look
like this.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
How did Kensington become the Disneyland of drugs? Out here?
At teams?
Speaker 20 (17:13):
The conveniency of the transportation.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
This transportation get you.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Anywhere in the public transportation transportation.
Speaker 20 (17:20):
Yeah, this train is everywhere. So it ain't like, oh
we all got a train station. Our stops not like this. Yes,
we understand that, but there was a problem close to
Kensington and the world in Somerset. Summerset is one stop down.
It's more room. As you can see, the streets are bigger.
It was just a just a habitat of drugs and
it's like they ain't leave.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
We're driving past here. I saw this guys slumped over
in the sidewalk basically in the street. We noticed the
police walking on their beat. What do they do out here?
Speaker 20 (17:43):
So they ignore it because they do get tired, like
tired or sleep or odd or whatever the case may be.
But normally when you walk up to them, they will
give you some type of motion they let you know
that they is alive or they is somewhat awake.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Are we seeing people dying here every single day?
Speaker 20 (17:57):
I'm not seeing them literally, but there is od every
single day. But when I was a child, this Walgreens
used to be a blockbuster. It used to be a
lot of stores right here, to the point where look
forward to going to the store for my mom and
come down to the avenue and buy my sneakers and
droll medicine and stuff like that. And I used to
just look forward to come out and shopping feel me.
But at this point you can't do that no more.
(18:18):
I noticed the transformation in the conditions of the drug
addicts that was doing dope. My mother used to be
a drug addict. The most I think to my mother
was track marks. And nowadays it's more than track marks.
I they got limbs falling off, getting cut off and
swollen and busting and anything you can name.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
You fel what I'm saying.
Speaker 20 (18:34):
It's like whatever they put in their body is forcing
themself out of their body. I'm here because I'm witnessing
the problem that I'm living in the problems.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
I'm not gonna run from it.
Speaker 20 (18:42):
I didn't ever run for my mother and Dixon. I
remember running down G Street chasing my mother while she
was on doping press.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And as we were talking, this guy in a pickup
truck pulled up out of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Can you tell us what you're up there?
Speaker 14 (18:52):
We're handing out some clothes and stuff for the people.
We're just here trying to help people. We know what's
called outside. I'm a pastor. We got our churches and
people donate stuff. We just gave a bunch of stuff
out over there, and we got a little bit of
stuff left for just trying to get rid of what
we have before it gets dark.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And this is our first time back in two years.
What if you noticed changed nothing? I see people dying
here all the time.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
It's like a pit of hell.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's getting much colder now. Is this is this gonna help? Ultimately?
Speaker 14 (19:16):
We had the whole thing piled up.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, is it so cold. People are dying on the streets.
Oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
People.
Speaker 14 (19:22):
You'll watch if you stay here a few minutes, people
will come out of the woodwork. You know, they grab
whatever they can. You know, you gotta you gotta remember
the people here that have no way to wash their clothes,
They have no place to take a shower, they have nothing.
We hand out hygiene kitch you could see. You can
look at pure Vita condios dot com.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
You donate, this will go towards closes food for local
community out here.
Speaker 14 (19:40):
Yeah, pure Vita, Come deals dot com.
Speaker 20 (19:42):
Give these people a resource, like, give them somewhere to stay,
give them something to do, and also give them a
fixed income so they can be motivated that they won't
be homeless if you stop helping them. And I know,
like who wants to be giving out free things to people.
That's doing things on anybody's own choice. But you will
see more positive stories and negative.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
How are people affording the drugs in the first place? Here?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Right now?
Speaker 20 (20:00):
He's done it from the businesses and they've reselling it
and then the businesses went out of business.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
We're talking Walgreens and CBS's or local mom and pop
shops went out of business.
Speaker 20 (20:08):
Stores and even something like DTLR Olympia Sport never opened
back up. Rainbow got caught on fire due to a
homeless person trying to burn a censor off a tag.
There's still something.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I'm out here trying to get some fentol. How long
would it take to get some fentol? Like two minutes?
What us here for?
Speaker 21 (20:24):
Scott Perks, I've been on boxing for ten years. I'm
all about that subway surfer. But I do start doing
fetanol a year ago because I didn't know what it was.
I stopped doing dope. My fedol came out because it's
so strong. I just got done doing like three years
in recovery living, and so I got kind of burned
out because it was mandatory from jail. But now I'm
(20:44):
maxed out and it's like I did three years and
I got kicked out for trying to get some gushiet
inside the halfway.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
There you bro oh yo, we got some updated gamble
machines here you are, sir. I was trying a business
out here. Stuff.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yeah, s'all do a good job.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Thank you, by the way, thank you.
Speaker 22 (21:05):
The whole little eleven o'clock thing they did affecting.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Business, Tell me, tell me out for the worst.
Speaker 22 (21:10):
It's doing something that we have nothing to do with.
Like as far as like the gambling machines, that's what
they wanted to crack down on.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I don't have no gambling machines as you can.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
See, so they can you tell me when they implemented
the eleven o'clock curfew.
Speaker 22 (21:21):
That's been about a few months.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Now, and the goal for that was to reduce I.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Have no idea.
Speaker 22 (21:26):
I mean, I don't know what it has to do
with the business. But as far as the curfew at
eleven o'clock for businesses, I mean they want people is
gonna be outside no matter what regardless, What does it
have to do with the business being open?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
I never have as you can see, I have a buzzer.
You can't come in here. Let's allow you in and you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Guys have pretty good relationships with the people who do
use on the outside and maybe come in or knock
or whatever.
Speaker 22 (21:45):
I mean, yeah, I'm not you know, I don't discriminate
against everybody, like especially like people with addictions, you know
what I mean. Everybody has problems, man, but you're not
going to bring it to me though.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I'm here with an og years then I'm really from Baltimore, right,
and I can't bit you down sixteen slip under the bridge.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
When they got this cold last year, they would open
up places where you can go and get heat, somewhere
to sleep for tonight.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
That's not there now when they what is it? It's
a bed, it will help you sleep. Blankets would oh, food,
that's pretty smart. So what you do with this.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Actually, oh, you just sell the trash can smart someone
like you know where the hell's my trash can?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Right now? That was stuff full of swarming with firewood. Okay,
so you've already sold quite a bit of firework.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah, they do help you, but they don't want help.
Each l stop had people with the yellow vessels own.
All you got to do is say you want help,
take your name and a van come pick you up
with fifteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
So they are here to help.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
But all they got to do is go and act,
but they don't want to help it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
How many people not out with the fire on and
end up burning themselves.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Because because when they know out the blanket the blanket
catch fly.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I saw blankets fire with there in it last year.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Is he a shrink? Yeah? Is that that standard out
here right now?
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Still? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
How do you not freeze to death out here? Starting
a fire just on the street out here?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah, but I'd be like going down the road, you're fucking.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
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(23:28):
I wanted to speak with someone who had escaped this
cycle of addiction and is now trying to help others
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Speaker 15 (23:33):
You're able to Salama, and I signed found the Soldiers
for Recovery. I've been boots on the ground since I
got cleaned ten years ago, pride to ten years ago.
I was once homeless on have one now here on
the streets, sleeping on the streets, doing whatever I can
to make a buck to get high on these streets.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Man, you're living on the streets. You lost your family,
You're addicted, where are you sleeping?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I used to sleep in this park right here, Needle Park, which.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Is notorious for needles being on the ground and people
doing drugs. Absolutely, was it always known as a needle No,
did you help create it as needle Park.
Speaker 15 (24:03):
I would hate to think that I, you know, pay
a part in it, but I believe I did.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Look at that street cleaner, they're cleaning up, and tomorrow
it'll be just as dirty again, right.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Actually gonna be dirty. And the next two hours two
to three hours, two hours.
Speaker 15 (24:14):
Eventually I got tired of going in and out of rehab.
I got tired of sleeping on the streets. I got
tired of just being nothing.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
Man.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I just woke up one day, so I said, I'm
going to rehab.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Or here at Needle Park. We're here two years ago almost.
You see the needle caps on the ground, and we
got a spoon there. Definitely not for any soup. What
goes through your mind when you come back here.
Speaker 15 (24:33):
I never stopped coming out here. What comes to my
mind is is I got I got more work to do.
All these benches I rested on at some point in.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Time, even out here in the winter. It's cold in the.
Speaker 15 (24:42):
Winter, I would go to the moss to sleep in
the mass jed. If the mons was opened, then I'll
go to the mass Jit. I slept on that bench.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It's bench right here. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Did anything happen in particular to where you're like, I'm
over this.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I gotta get clean.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
No. I mean you think about them, but you want
that drug.
Speaker 17 (24:56):
Man.
Speaker 15 (24:57):
The drug literally talks to you and tell you don't worry.
Just next week. Next week, you're gonna show people who
you are. You're gonna You're gonna get back. It literally
talks to you mentally. How did you stop that? I
just was burnt out, man. I wanted more out of life,
you know. I stopped playing games with God because really
I knew that this was a spiritual battle. I woke
up one day and I said, I'm gonna rehab. God
(25:18):
answered my prayers ten years ago. I did about forty
five days. They told me not to come back to
come and talk because you could come and talk. You know,
because while I was in there, alls I can always
think about is how can I help the other people?
When I got out, I got out on a Sunday.
I came back the following Sunday and I wasn't supposed
to come back there for thirty days.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
I was back in six days. I was back there
talking and help it.
Speaker 15 (25:38):
And I've been doing it consistently for the past ten years.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
You know, doubt your organization to work. He gets there.
Speaker 15 (25:43):
I send people to rehab across the country, real discreet.
So if anybody needs help, go to my social media
DM me Soldiers for Recovery. I don't care where you
at in the world. I'm gonna get you out of here.
We can get you on a plane. I don't care
where you at in this country to get you out
of here to go get some good resources that's going
to help you get you back to life. If you
have anything you would like to help with Soldiers for Recovery,
(26:05):
feel free to donate.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
It's definitely a tax right off.
Speaker 15 (26:08):
I'm registered and y'all can definitely play a role in
helping me doing God's work.
Speaker 10 (26:12):
I'm a chef, I'm a licensed barber.
Speaker 17 (26:14):
Would you work if someone had a job for you, Yeah,
anywhere in Philly. Yeah you'll show up.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (26:18):
Okay, when I say something, I do it. I'm not
I beat around a buscher. I have a straight shooter.
Speaker 10 (26:22):
But then an Instagram. I can show some though.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Check it out.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Ladies out there showing boy Harold some love if you're single?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Is that fair?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Employers out there, any local restaurant owners justin love to Harold?
You got the credentials. You're good man.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Damn you got a handshake. That's for sure, too, Holy,
that's a man shake.
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