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The 22-year-old singer and actor

was charged with shooting two off-duty police officers.

[Shock G] From afar, around the world, and even our families,

there's a point where if you just listened to the radio and watched the news,

Pac seemed a little crazy.

[reporter] His trademark closely-shaved head

made Tupac Shakur easy to spot this morning

in Atlanta Municipal Court.

[Shock G] He did have a short temper.

And he would blow situations,

what I felt, out of proportion sometimes.

But for those of us who were there,

it wasn't about just being a lunatic and being crazy,

it was about never backing down when you know you're right,

like with the police officers who he popped in Atlanta.

[Dante] For one, we didn't know they was off-duty cops.

[reporter] Mark Whitwell of Clayton County

and his brother Scott Whitwell, of Henry County

were partying in Atlanta Saturday night.

While crossing the street, police say, the officers

got into an argument with Shakur and his companions.

[Dante] I knew he had a gun in his hand

and he shot two white people in Georgia.

Back in them days, you'd get hung.

But what drove that?

His military, militant mind to protect a Black man.

The guys punched the Black man in the face.

He could've stayed in his car and been like, "Oh, man,

that's fucked up what they're doing to that nigga,"

and kept it on moving.

Like, "Nah, fuck that."

They pull out they shit, he pull out his shit.

Fuck all that talking. [imitates gunfire]

"We'll talk later, nigga."

[Dante] Whether you wanna justify the shooting or not,

but, I mean, he couldn't run from who he was.

[Mike] Yeah, Tupac was a warrior.

You know, his family, they're long lines of fighters,

freedom fighters, you know what I mean?

And nobody scared them. Even went harder.

[Snoop Dogg] And the crazy part is when the nigga got bailed out.

[reporter] Shakur strutted out of court a free man on bond.

[Snoop Dogg] Nigga stepped out that motherfucker like George Jefferson.

"Yeah, nigga, I shot two police officers. Y'all ain't gonna do shit."

[reporter] He declined a chance to tell his side of the story.

[Snoop Dogg] That shit was funny,

but you can’t show the courts up like that.

Thug Life. That's my comment.

[reporter] What's that mean? I don't understand.

[Glo] Afeni was really worried.

Leave a message, right, and we'll get back to you.

[Glo] He had a lot of press

around him, but not like this.

Where was y'all at when I got that school play award?

Why y'all always come when it's problems?

[Glo] And I didn't want him pushed to react.

I'm just saying you're blocking my car, though.

I can't say where they was at when I had...

[Glo] And journalists wanted to go on that rough rapper,

that's doing all this violent stuff.

[reporter] The officers claim Shakur's car almost hit them.

Hey, y'all got to back off my Benz.

[reporter] Shakur threatened the same treatment

to TV photographers near his Mercedes Benz.

Yeah, I'm about to run y'all down. Back off my Benz.

[reporter] Shakur has been in several movies

in which the character he played went wild with a gun.

Back off my Benz.

[Billy] Afeni pulled me to the side and said,

"You're supposed to be watching him."

[Shock G] Afeni, Leila, and Atron were always asking me, "Can you say something to him?

Maybe he'll listen to you because he don't listen to me."

I say, "He don't listen to me either."

And to tell Pac to calm down was like,

"Calm down? This is what got me where I'm at.

And before, when I was calm,

I had nothing. Now, the whole world loves me."

[Tupac] I'm not finna to act all enlightened.

I'm not finna act like I got this Bible that tell me.

I don't got shit. Never had a daddy.

I had to teach my motherfucking self how to be a man.

You understand me? And I'm still learning.

But can't a motherfucker out there tell me shit

'cause I was on welfare, started with nothing.

Now I got a little bit of something.

I'm on the bright screen. I'm on videos.

Goddammit. That's why I act like this.

Tupac's a really good kid.

He's an educated kid, too,

and I think he was embarrassed that he was educated.

[Watani] He was brilliant, but Pac was the most

intelligent stupid person I've known.

Man, we would talk about real progressive stuff.

Pac would get up and use the restroom

and come back talking stupid shit.

[Tupac] All my shit is positive

'cause it tell niggas to swing back.

To take the gun he would use to shoot his brother in a second

and kill the motherfucking cop that's killing you,

your family, and everybody else on the block.

If that ain't positive, crack don't sell.

So fuck 'em. It's all positive.

And it's gonna stay Black.

I'm not finna act white

just ’cause y’all want me to act white,

just 'cause all these other motherfuckers act white

when they get they papers.

I'mma act very Black.

I'mma buy a Benz 'cause that's what niggas do.

I'mma smoke weed 'cause that's what niggas do.

I'mma pack a gat 'cause that's what niggas do.

You understand me?

I'mma get drunk 'cause that's what niggas do!

["Keep Ya Head Up" by 2Pac playing]

- Tupac Shakur! - [cheering and applause]

♪ Some say The blacker the berry ♪

♪ The sweeter the juice ♪

♪ I say the darker the flesh ♪

♪ Then the deeper the roots ♪

♪ I give a holler To my sisters on welfare ♪

♪ Tupac cares, If don't nobody else care ♪

♪ And uh, I know they like to beat ya down a lot ♪

♪ When you come around The block ♪

♪ Brothas clown a lot ♪

♪ But please don't cry, Dry your eyes, never let up ♪

♪ Forgive but don't forget, Girl, keep your head up ♪

[Shock G] It was different rolling with Pac

after he started having the big records.

Planes from the studio straight to the commercial

he had to film, straight to the set.

It was stressful 'cause there was a lot of people trying to get Pac.

♪ Last night my buddy Lost his whole family ♪

♪ It's gonna take the man in me To conquer this insanity ♪

♪ It seems the rain'll Never let up ♪

♪ I try to keep my head up ♪

♪ And still keep From gettin' wet up ♪

[E.D.I. Mean] He was a breakout superstar at this time.

I like the fact that you've shown range as an artist.

Give me some parts, I'll handle it.

[E.D.I. Mean] He was doing a movie.

Above the Rim. Good movie.

And I just remember him just cranking 'em out

effortlessly, man.

He was just, his pen was just really flowing,

and the music went to another level.

♪ You know, it's funny, When it rains, it pours ♪

♪ They got money for wars, But can't feed the poor ♪

♪ Said it ain't no hope For the youth And the truth is ♪

♪ It ain't no hope For the future ♪

♪ And then they wonder Why we crazy ♪

♪ I blame my mother for turning My brother into a crack baby ♪

♪ We ain't meant to survive, 'Cause it's a setup ♪

♪ And even though You're fed up, huh ♪

♪ Ya got to keep your head up ♪

[Man Man] What was special about him? He was exciting.

He wanted to give so much back.

He wanted to do so much for our people and women.

That's how Pac was. He had love, man. He loved kids.

So that case in New York, it hurt him big time.

[reporter] Tupac Shakur, nominee for an NAACP Image Award, is in trouble again.

[reporter 2] Shakur was a nominee for an NAACP Image Award.

If his arrest for allegedly shooting two off-duty police officers

in Atlanta three weeks ago hasn't diminished his role model status,

maybe the charges of sodomy and sexual abuse will.

Excuse me?

[reporter] The rap singer and actor was arrested

for allegedly helping a friend sodomize a woman

at the Parker Meridien Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

[Karen] I was shocked. I couldn't believe it.

And he just couldn't believe

anybody could believe that of him.

Do I look guilty?

[Karen] And if you knew him, you didn't believe it.

[reporter] Ironically, Tupac's sex abuse charges were filed

as he was hitting the top 10 with "Keep Ya Head Up."

[Tupac] ♪ And since we all Came from a woman ♪

♪ Got our name from a woman ♪

♪ And our game from a woman ♪

♪ I wonder why we take From our women ♪

♪ Why we rape our women Do we hate our women? ♪

♪ I think it's time to kill For our women ♪

♪ Time to heal our women Be real to our women ♪

♪ And if we don't We'll have a race of babies ♪

♪ That will hate the ladies That make the babies ♪

♪ And since a man Can't make one ♪

♪ He has no right To tell a woman ♪

♪ When and where To create one ♪

♪ So will the real men Get up ♪

♪ I know you're fed up, ladies But keep your head up ♪

[Allen] So, Man Man, I can look at all these photos

and all these key points in his career.

Him coming out of the courthouse,

- you're in the background. - [Man Man] Yes.

[Allen] Him at the press conferences,

you're in the background.

Let's just say this.

I started off as investor,

to a-- to a dancer on the stage,

to a road manager,

to, um, security,

to, uh, personal assistant,

to management team.

And I was there during some of the ups,

and I was there during some of them downs.

[reporter] Mr. Shakur, I'd like to talk to you

about the gangster rap controversy, if I may.

I'm not a gangster rapper.

[man] With all due respect, you’ve been charged

with shooting two off-duty police officers.

There's a sexual assault charge against you, sir.

Do you worry about the message this might send out

to the people who buy your music?

[Tupac] No, my people that buy my music should understand

that we have a wonderful judicial system in this country and it works.

[bailiff] Quiet, please.

[Man Man] First time I really met him, Pac was homeless.

Digital had did a tour in Japan.

He was just a roadie, so he still ain't got nothing.

I'm walking around with 10,000 cash in my pocket every day.

So in exchange for some money,

he said, "I'm gonna get you out the game."

I said, "Okay, I like that."

Let's be clear. This is my brother.

I love that man to death.

But I went to jail with him more times

than I went to jail on my own

in doing the stuff that I did.

[Allen] So, Man Man, can you tell us

about the night of the incident?

We were up in New York.

We were filming Above the Rim.

[director] Roll sound.

[Tupac] This is a true acting job 'cause I don't know how to play basketball.

If it wasn't for Michael Jordan, I wouldn't have known what a dunk was. [laughs]

[Man Man] During that film, they were taking care of us out there.

People would take him around, just party, kick it.

New York was just wild.

[Tupac] Here we are, back on the block.

You know what I'm saying? I went to school right here.

♪ Back in elementary I thrived on misery ♪

♪ Left me alone, I grew up Amongst a dyin' breed ♪

♪ Inside my mind Couldn't find a place to rest ♪

♪ Until I got that Thug Life Tatted on my chest ♪

♪ Tell me, can you feel me? ♪

[Man Man] At this time, Tupac met this guy

named Haitian Jack as they called him.

A street dude.

[Billy] After he shot the cops,

the gangsters is feeling him.

And Pac is walking around strapped to the gill

with double Uzis.

They're taking Pac to hoods

where the cast are getting tanked.

[Watani] And Tupac being a method actor,

if he was around somebody, it was gonna come out through his acting.

So Birdie, the character he was playing...

It's funny what you do pick up, though.

[Watani] ...was based upon Haitian Jack, a real gangster.

[Man Man] That affected me, man, that he was taking on this persona.

To me, in my mind, he wanted that credit to be a G,

but he was overdoing it and was warned by Mike Tyson.

[Mike] You gotta cool out, 'cause by the time I'm coming out,

you're gonna be coming in.

[Man Man] By Biggie.

Everybody told him,

"You have a talent. You don't have to do this."

But Jack became like an idol to him,

and one night, he introduced him to this girl.

He brought her to the hotel.

They had casual sex.

So probably I'm gonna say about a week later,

Jack and a friend of his come to the hotel.

Jack says, "Hey, man, what's up with that little shawty that you had over here?"

And Jack calls this girl.

So next thing you know, she pull up.

I go get her.

We have two adjoining rooms.

I got my room, Pac got his room.

She goes with Pac in his room.

The door's open, so I can see she's massaging Pac.

That's when Jack goes in the room.

Five minutes after that,

Pac come back out the room.

We gotta get up in the morning, so Tupac would go to sleep and just pass out.

Gone.

And now Jack's friend go in the room.

They close the door.

Them two was in there like a real long time.

Next thing I know, door open up.

Light's on. She's crying.

And I'm like, "What's going on?" Jack come out.

"Hey, man, she tripping." "She tripping?"

In my mind, "What the hell y'all do?"

She said, "Pac's wrong. Pac's wrong."

"What did Pac do?" "He put me in this position."

- Now... - "This is not what I was about.

This is not what I wanna do."

...it's a whole different me now.

Now she's crying.

I said, "Just calm down, calm down."

She said, "No, just get out of here! Just get off the bed!

Just get out, get out, get out, get out, get out!"

By the time we got down to the bottom

of the elevator, we're being detained.

Like I said, I don't know what they did in that room.

But I know my brother.

Pac loved women.

He would never take from a woman.

He was upset and hurt because what was done to her was done to her.

But me and Pac didn't do what we were accused of.

The grand jury having charged all three defendants with sodomy...

[Man Man] Me and Pac end up getting 18 charges,

from gun charges to sexual abuse.

We got done bad.

From what I know, Haitian Jack's lawyer

basically worked with the police.

Jack had a record that probably could touch

the top of the ceiling and bring it down to the floor,

but never did a lot of time.

Jack's lawyer split Jack from me and Pac's case.

The other guy that was in the room, Jack's friend,

walked right past in the lobby when we got arrested,

and nobody knows who he is till today.

We got left alone.

[Watani] Pac was really upset.

Not just angry, almost insulted by the charge.

[Watani] He felt that maybe he was set up.

[Glo] For me and his mother, it was reliving a time.

Afeni felt sympathy for the woman,

but she never doubted that Tupac was innocent.

[Karen] He just couldn't believe

anybody could believe that of him.

And there was so much press there.

[Tupac] Merry Christmas to the press.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart

for just destroying everything I worked for

for the past 22 years.

And a happy New Year to you, too.

You did your job. I'm out of money.

I'm out of all my resources.

You made me look like the bad guy in my own community.

- And I appreciate that. - [cop] Can you move this down to the left?

[Karen] Interviews were challenging.

There's one he does outside

where he talks about his innocence.

[Tupac] I'm guilty of a lot of things.

I'm guilty probably of being a male chauvinist pig,

but I'm not guilty of rape.

In the report and all these charges,

I didn't do nothing.

I'm charged with being in consort with some guy.

Well, where they at?

All I do is rap and talk loud.

My biggest crime is talking loud. You know what I'm saying?

Y'all don't have nothing else besides that.

[Glo] I can't even describe how stressed we were.

Every day, he would come out,

he would have me go get the car and come get him...

Can you please not block the car?

[Glo] ...and take him away from that whole environment.

We were afraid Tupac was gonna bust a gut.

What he said before the judge with tears coming down his face,

"I should have protected her."

[woman] If you could go back to the night

when the sexual abuse occurred,

is there anything that you would do differently?

- Yeah. - What?

I would not have closed my eyes

until she was out of the room.

Until everybody was out of the room.

[woman] You said that you weren't guilty of the charges,

but you might be guilty of being a male chauvinist pig.

Definitely. In that position,

after I looked at it, 'cause I was like,

"Why is everybody so mad at me?"

And it's like, "You stupid. You're supposed to have done

this, this, this." And I was

like, "Oh, I didn't even know that."

And I like to grow. I wanna be better.

I wanna be able to approach women

and deal with women and communicate with women

and give them respect.

[Shock G] Pac respected

and loved sisters deeply, obviously.

But his inability

to relate to women sometimes,

not much different than a lot of us,

depending on how we were raised.

But his confusion with that was a little stronger,

not 'cause he really wanted to dis,

but because, he even says it in a couple of his songs,

he never had a father figure.

He was raised by the thugs and the drug dealers.

That's why I love niggas.

I know for a fact that had I had a father,

had I had somebody-- And I hate saying this

'cause white people love hearing Black people talk about this.

But so many problems in our community

affect everything. So by me not having that,

I ain't never want to hear nothing about

no kind of relationships between a Black man and a Black woman.

I knew they didn't work 'cause as far as I knew,

my daddy was the coolest dude out there

and my mama was a Panther. So if they didn't work,

it don't work. That's how I felt.

[Glo] This is Legs. He was a nice guy,

a street guy.

That's how Afeni got to know him

when she was on bail because those men

that were in the street had respect

for the Black Panther Party initially.

At that time, she was in the midst of a divorce

from Lumumba and he was just another dude

that Feni liked.

[Tupac] What my mother told me

is that it was a one-night stand,

but he loved the fact

that the Panthers would go to jail

and wouldn't snitch.

[Glo] So Afeni had

sexual relations with Legs,

but he was in and out of jail because he was part of

Nicky Barnes' little crew.

And then she had sexual relationships

with Billy Garland.

He was a Black Panther in the Jersey chapter.

[Jamal] Billy Garland was a good driver

and was assigned to protect Afeni

and to make sure that she got to court on time.

And I remember one afternoon,

Afeni pulled me to the side

and said, "Jamal, I have to tell you something.

I'm pregnant."

[Glo] She said, to be clear,

"I don't know who the father is."

But Tupac always thought Legs was the father.

And he liked that fantasy of the street guy

and her saying she didn't know who the father was,

"Do I know that she said that because she really didn't know?

Or did she say that because she liked that little fantasy, too?"

But I don't really think

Legs thought he was the father.

He knew he couldn't have kids.

So that's all myth shit with the men.

But I always knew or thought it was Billy Garland.

[Billy] It wasn't no magical words. It wasn't no flowers.

It wasn't "Let's go to the movie" shit.

It was a very tense situation in the Panther Party

and you tend to search for relief

and I, uh...

you know, saw a beautiful, strong sister, a fighter.

And because maybe we felt that we might not

be alive in a week or two,

all the subtleties of getting together just vanished.

You know, she had this charge

that could put her away for the rest of her life.

[reporter] Thirteen members of the Black Panthers Party

are on trial in New York, charged with conspiring to bomb

department stores, police stations and other public buildings.

Most of them have been held in high bail

and have been in prison since they were picked up

almost a year and a half ago.

No peace in my community!

[Glo] During the time Feni was on trial,

she never held her head down.

And I wasn't afraid for her

because she never was afraid for herself.

They have no right to try us.

They have no right to accuse us of anything.

[Glo] So, when I would go to court

and see all these people in front of it,

I'mma tell you how I felt.

Energized. That's my sister.

[Afeni] I haven't done anything.

And if the people wanna put me on trial,

that's some... [indistinct]

[Jamal] There were massive rallies

of people coming out protesting,

but the situation in court

had become difficult because the division between

not just Afeni and Lumumba,

but the brothers who were still inside,

not speaking to any of the Panthers who were out on bail.

[E.D.I. Mean] The way the trial was set up, the DA was on one side

and the defense were on the other.

In front of the jury were all of the weapons the cops captured,

so it was the first thing they saw every morning for the whole trial.

[Glo] When all the defendants come out

and seein' my sister,

I was awestruck again.

She always came to court looking good.

She had a yellow pad, a little outfit on,

and you see her doing what the lawyers were doing.

She would walk up to the stand with the witnesses

and ask these questions.

[Jamal] And that's how we found out that the trial was based

primarily on the testimony of two Panthers

who were part of an elite police unit

called the BOSS Unit.

The Bureau of Special Services.

And they would use spies to gather information.

And the first name that's revealed is Gene Roberts.

Malcolm X's bodyguard.

When Malcolm was killed,

Gene Roberts joined the Panther Party

as a security lieutenant

and he brought guns to the Black Panther Party

and would train folks.

He was a regular Panther. He did everything we did.

He sold the papers...

but I never trusted in Gene.

Turns out that Malcolm X drew his last breath...

[slow exhale]

...from an undercover cop.

[Glo] That man that ran to give him mouth-to-mouth

was a snitch.

And the second person that was revealed

to be an undercover cop was...

Yedwa Sudan.

Another snitch.

That man was slick, looked just like everybody else,

down, boy, with the revolution.

[Jamal] My section leader, mentor,

the person that taught me how to use a bayonet,

how to shoot a gun, was an undercover cop.

[Shaba] When he came out as a witness,

we was like, "Oh, shit."

Whoa.

[Jamal] I don't think we realized the level

of surveillance or that military drills,

political education class, confrontations with the police

were being bundled into this big case

and that they had seen weapons

or overheard Panthers planning attacks.

So it was real insidious.

They exaggerated shit so much.

I used to have an expression of like, "Damn, she dynamite."

which means beautiful, attractive, desirable.

But they made that mean that we were

literally talking about dynamite.

[Jamal] Back then, "Brother Ruggie" was our code name for weed.

In our indictment, Brother Ruggie is mentioned

as a co-conspirator in the case.

The police were actually looking for this Brother Ruggie

'cause he seemed to be everywhere and know everything.

Now, go back to Yedwa, what you talking about?

[Jamal] Feni's cross-examination of Yedwa

was a moment to hold your breath for.

[Glo] And remember, she's defending herself.

Prosecutors were like, "She didn't go to law school.

She's just a little ghetto girl.

What the fuck she know about this?

[Jamal] Yedwa's arrogant as hell. He's the undercover cop

who's about to get promoted to detective

and he's surrounded by all of his boys. The men in blue.

She's face-to-face with an enemy.

Feni said, "You testified, Detective,

that you were a police officer.

You also testified that you were a Panther.

So when you seduced all of these women

in the Panther Party, were you being

a police officer... or a Panther?"

He had no answer.

"When you would stand up in meetings,

out of control and wild-eyed,

talking that people should go off and lynch someone

and shoot someone, police officer or Panther?"

He had to say, "I don't know.

Well, if you saw me do it

or if you know I did it, remind me."

"When you taught adolescent boys

how to slit somebody's throat with a bayonet,

cop or a Panther?"

[Shaba] She got him flaming angry to the extent

that he was spitting, trying to get his point across.

She said, "Did you ever see me with a gun?" "No."

"Did you ever see me with a bomb?" "No."

"Organizing in the community?" "Yes."

"Fighting for tenants." "Yes."

"Liberation school." "Yes."

He was banking on Afeni getting enflamed.

But apparently she had done her homework on herself

to such an extent like, "No.

You're on trial, not me."

And she literally put him on trial.

And you saw this woman take down the system.

[Glo] She aced that, but even that for me was awakening

because I'm learning about undercover police.

And I say, "Wow, what kind of country is this?

What kind of people are these?"

You know, and "Who does that?"

be still.

And that was part of the problem.

[Glo] It wasn't the media per se.

It was more than that.

[indistinct chatter]

[spitting]

[Karen] I hate the scene of him spitting at the camera.

[Tupac] That's my new style.

[Karen] I could be wrong, but I think that was done out of fear...

[Tupac] Have a good summer, biatch!

[Karen] ...of knowing what the possibilities were

for him to be sent to jail.

[Watani] I'm not sure exactly what was going on,

but most of my time as a manager

was spent dealing with attorneys in courts.

[man] Maybe it's helpful to go through all the charges over your lifetime.

- Let's just go through the charges. - I don't remember,

but I’m sure you can find out.

[Man Man] Marin City, then Lansing, Michigan.

[Watani] There was one with the limo driver.

There was the one at the club.

He had a gun charge, assault, battery,

but we was catching cases all over the country,

every place he went.

He was spiraling out of control.

Remember, I'm the manager, so I'm dealing with the finances.

Like, my American Express bill is just blowing up.

[Man Man] We struggling for money because at this time, shoot,

we got cases. Money's just hard for us.

♪ Now that I'm struggling in This business by any means ♪

♪ Label me greedy Getting green ♪

♪ But seldom seen And fuck the world ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm cursed I'm havin' visions ♪

♪ Of leavin' here In a hearse ♪

♪ God, can you feel me? ♪

♪ Take me away From all the pressure ♪

♪ And all the pain ♪

♪ Show me some Happiness again ♪

I'm goin' blind ♪

♪ I spend my time ♪

♪ In this cell Ain't livin' well ♪

♪ I know my destiny is hell ♪

♪ Where did I fail? ♪

♪ My life is in denial And when I die ♪

♪ Baptized in eternal fire I'll shed so many tears ♪

[reporter] Next up on Tupac's jail tour,

he must serve ten days in an East Lansing, Michigan jail

for an attempted assault on another rapper

at a 1993 concert.

He's keeping every police department in the country busy.

[reporter] This year alone, Tupac has also

served seven days in a Los Angeles jail

for assaulting filmmaker Allen Hughes.

I have a lot of remorse. I understand

that it was wrong for me to do that.

He's a one-man crime wave.

[reporter] Shakur's legal battles are just beginning.

Aside from this conviction, he still faces

two charges of aggravated assault

on a police officer in Atlanta, Georgia.

[Dante] Now, that just leads to the Atlanta thing.

[indistinct chatter]

[man] He pleads not guilty on all charges.

[Dante] Atlanta, Georgia, downtown.

After he bailed out,

he went back to court.

Everybody saw what he did.

Everybody looking nervous and scared.

Tupac was the only one who was calm.

You can see him standing there, just listening.

But, I paint this pretty picture. It was very pretty.

This is a weapon which he had no right to have.

When they found out the cops had taken the guns illegally

out of the evidence room or whatever...

A weapon he seized

that was supposed to be in the property room.

...that sunk their case right there.

[Shock G] Pac was completely cleared in Atlanta,

'cause the cops had nothing.

[E.D.I. Mean] Yeah, it was an unlucky day for them,

but New York was different.

[reporter] Hi, Tupac.

Can you tell me how you're doing today?

Well, I just had to listen to the, uh, prosecution's

closing argument, and it was just so far from the truth

that it really just has me drained at the end of the day.

But I'm leaving it in the hands of the jury.

I'm learning a lot about people's innermost fears

in this trial, because as far--

It's not even about my trial no more.

It's just about loud rap music, tattoo-having thugs,

you know, some nightmare that these people having.

I'm already convicted. My whole life has been turned around.

I lost every job. I lost every opportunity.

I can't buy cars, can't get rent,

can't get none of that. But I'm still a survivor.

You know, I'm still coming to court, still smiling,

still signing autographs, but soon, I'ma go crazy.

You know what I'm saying? And it's up to the world,

you know, America eats its babies.

We, um, no matter what y'all think about me,

I'm still your child. You know what I'm saying?

You can't just turn me off like that.

[Man Man] I remember one day, we were leaving the court

- from dealing with this case. - [phone ringing]

Pac got a call from Lil Sean,

I think that's what his name was.

They was talking, like, $7,500 for Pac

to just do a little special on one of his songs.

And brother was stressed out. He's taking care

of a lot of people, and then we got court cases.

So, Pac said, "Now I'm finna go get this money."

Make the songs that make the money.

It was chump change. But he said,

"I need to get all I can get."

That evening, Pac pull up, up to Quad Studios.

He goes in the lobby.

These guys are waiting.

- Like they knew he was coming. - [guns cocking]

- [Man Man] They draw down on him. - [men shouting]

[Man Man] Tell him to get down on the floor.

If someone has the jump on you, you gotta play by the rules

till a position has opened up where you can defend yourself.

- Pac didn't get down. - [reporter] Tupac resisted.

- [gunshots] - [reporter] He was shot at least twice in the head.

Once in the left arm, once in the thigh,

- once in the groin area. - [gunshots]

[Man Man] He was shot five times, man.

But you know, Pac's a trooper, man.

[reporter] Reportedly, the first thing Tupac Shakur did

after being shot Wednesday morning

was call out for his mother.

[Glo] We were shocked.

[Man Man] Yeah, he's conscious. He can give fingers.

[laughs] He gave the finger. [laughs] So he's conscious.

[Watani] He's just gotten shot. The rape allegation is there.

And the detective that arrested Tupac at the hotel

comes to the scene of the shooting,

and he asks Tupac, "How's it hanging?"

[Glo] That was the beginning of the real paranoia.

[reporter] While Shakur is nursing his gunshot wounds,

a jury is still deliberating in his sexual assault trial.

And if he's convicted, Shakur faces 25 years in prison.

Shakur's attorney hinted that the robbery and shooting

may be related to the trial.

[Man Man] We don't know what this was.

[Glo] We didn't know what to do and how to handle it.

[Dante] I'm trying to make sure ain't nobody coming back

trying to finish the job.

[Glo] 'Cause it's a whole lot of people

coming in to see him, and he's paranoid.

[E.D.I. Mean] I used to think, "Who's responsible for this?"

And I'm in New York, place where I'm from,

and systematically goin' through the list, like,

where's my friends, or who's my friends?

You know, you go through a lot of confusion laying up in the hospital.

You wonder, "How the fuck did I get here?"

[Glo] He said "Somebody set me up."

[man] Biggie and them was up studio B.

"Why the fuck niggas ain't tell me

this was gonna happen to me?

What, y'all had something to do with it?

Somebody gonna pay."

[Glo] I don't know who created that beef

because before he got shot,

they were friends.

[Snoop Dogg] Pac didn't hate Biggie like that.

They was friends while me and Pac was friends.

And now that it's all out in the air,

Biggie had nothing to do with Pac getting shot

at the fucking studio. Nothing to do with it.

[Allen] Right. Right. Now we know he got shot multiple times.

But I also understand

Tupac may have shot himself once in the groin?

I won't confirm or deny that.

But I will say with-- a Glock doesn't have a safety, you know.

[Allen] It doesn't have a safety.

No, you have to take-- keep your finger off the trigger.

You have to put your finger outside the trigger guard.

So if you grab the Glock, you're frantic,

you gonna shoot yourself in the nuts.

[Jasmine] When Tupac was shot in New York

and I got off the plane and went to Bellevue

and the whole time, I'm thinking,

"What's this gonna be like?"

It's not like a lot of my friends get shot.

You know what I mean?

And when I got there, the security guard was like,

"He's not here. He left last night."

[reporter] Rap star Tupac Shakur checked out of

a New York hospital just hours after undergoing surgery

for multiple gunshot wounds.

While doctors at Bellevue said that

by leaving there in his condition,

he risked his health, possibly losing a testicle.

[Karen] He called me the night before.

Said, "I'm checking myself out of the hospital."

I said, "Why?" I said, "Are you ready to leave?

Are you okay?"

"No, I was asleep and I woke up

and I thought I had died

and I was looking at myself as a grown-up."

His father showed up to see him.

[Billy] I never knew where Pac was for about 15 years.

And then I heard he got shot in New York.

I knew where he was.

I get in my car, drive over,

walk up to the security guard and I said,

"I'm here to see Tupac Shakur."

And he said, uh, "Relationship?"

I said, "I'm his father."

He said, "I heard his father's dead."

[Watani] Either Billy said "I'm your father" or Pac realized

that's his father because he never met somebody else

- look like him. - [Tupac] Trust nobody.

- [Watani] Tupac was pissed off. - [Tupac] Trust nobody.

[Watani] Venom toward his mother.

The day your father show up

is the day that you are in this vulnerable position.

[Billy] He had just came out of anesthesia, still sleeping.

And next thing I know, Pac got his clothes on.

He's leaving. He's had enough.

[Watani] We take him away.

Myself and Jamal move him.

[Afeni] My son didn't feel safe in that place.

He says, "Ask Jasmine if I could recover at her house."

[Jasmine] That's where he was hiding.

No one knew he was there

because no one knew that we were friends.

So Tupac was laying on the couch.

Bandage around his head, literally laid up.

[Glo] And Billy Garland rolled blunts for the star.

I was happy...

that I had reconnected with my son.

[Afeni] Billy Garland was trying to reenter his life as his father.

Well, I said to him that "I'm here now for you."

[Afeni] Telling Tupac explanations for why he wasn't there.

We were still friends, but we weren't... together.

And you know and I know when you don't see someone,

you just unfortunately go different ways.

[Afeni] This was very difficult for me, with Tupac asking me

questions about things that he just discovered.

...understand that COINTEL shit the government did

when they got us killing one another,

shooting at one another.

It was time, it was time to, uh, to split.

1971...

Afeni continued to work hard as she got bigger with Tupac.

But things continued to get harder and harder

within the party.

[reporter] In all of New York City today,

there are fewer than 100 members

of the Black Panther Party.

The ones who are left have avoided police arrest

on the one hand, and the party's own purge

on the other.

The purge, which is nationwide,

has lasted a year to weed out police informers

who made the Panthers one of the most infiltrated groups

in the whole country.

Second, a purge of lawbreakers

who used Panther weapons for personal crimes.

And third, backsliders,

who didn't have the commitment the party demands.

[Jamal] In this atmosphere, tensions between

east coast and the west coast chapters

had reached a point where

we had to watch our backs,

know that a bullet might come from a cop

or it might come from another Panther.

COINTELPRO had people falsely accusing people

of things and also wanted to discredit our organization

in the eyes of the people.

[reporter] So the party is small,

partly because it wants to be for now,

but mostly because there are not enough

young or older Blacks

who have been willing to take the risks involved

in being Panthers.

The big revolution against what?

[reporter] At this point, the question is

not what are the Black Panthers saying.

The real question is, "Who is listening?"

A group of us were in New Haven, Connecticut...

at a rally that Huey Newton spoke at.

Afeni wasn't there that day.

After the rally, we were escorting

Huey Newton to his car

and this young white reporter

slipped and the flash went off.

Guns came out from everywhere.

East coast and west coast Panthers

were pointed at each other.

This is how intense it had gotten.

Huey was hustled into the car

and we were supposed to head to a hotel to meet Huey Newton,

but we didn't feel safe.

And Cetewayo Tabor said,

"It doesn't make sense to voluntarily walk back

into the courtroom knowing that we're gonna get 300-plus years.

We're going underground."

He said, "Everyone knows and is prepared."

But Afeni didn't know.

The next day, I found out that Afeni and Joan

had gone into the courtroom.

[Afeni] I'll never forget that day.

When I walked in the courtroom,

it was enough for me to realize that there was something wrong.

I didn't know why

they had split like that and not told us.

We was in jail from that minute.

[gavel bangs]

[Jamal] Afeni's bail was taken away and she was remanded.

[buzzer sounds]

[Glo] She had been betrayed in a way I cannot imagine

by her comrades.

They disappeared and gone to some country called Algiers.

That had a deep effect on Afeni.

[buzzer sounds]

[Afeni speaking]

[Tupac] My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison.

[Afeni speaking]

So I am five months pregnant

and there is no prenatal care.

I ate powdered eggs and boiled potatoes

and had to get a court order

just to get one egg and one glass of milk.

[Tupac] She was her own attorney, never been to law school,

facing 300 and something odd years.

[Afeni] I lost weight.

My son, however, gained weight.

[Tupac] So I was not born in prison,

but I was cultivated in prison.

[Afeni speaking]

[Glo] Afeni already said to me,

I was to take her baby

and that was hard to accept,

that she may go away for the rest of her life.

[Jamal] This is a trial that lasted for 13 months.

Now they want the same rallies, the same support.

They want the same articles in the Panther paper.

We just felt that we had failed. But then...

Recent events have given more indication

of the extent of government snooping on civilians.

[Jamal] We found out the existence of COINTELPRO.

Last month, more than 1,000 documents were stolen from

the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania.

[Billy] In Media, Pennsylvania,

some white radicals broke into FBI offices.

[reporter] They went down this corridor

and somehow got through this door

and stole all the files...

[Billy] And they leaked physical evidence

of COINTELPRO to the press.

[reporter] The FBI once distributed

a Black Panther coloring book

that depicted the police as saber-toothed pigs.

These and many other dirty tricks

carried out by the Bureau

were revealed by the FBI files

on its counterintelligence program,

codenamed COINTELPRO.

They caught the lies and how diabolical this nation was.

[Jamal] You know, we used to just think we were paranoid.

But now we could see how COINTELPRO

was at the center of most of our division.

[Shaba] Planting lies, planting evidence, planting informers

then killed us, incarcerated us, tortured us,

humiliated us.

So all of that hard work, going to prison,

being beat, being killed,

losing our families...

what was that all about?

[Afeni] Tupac was not supposed to be here.

I had had only miscarriages after the third month of conception.

Because this womb does not carry children that easily.

And this child stayed in my womb...

healthy... through hell.

Clearly, God had a reason

for this child to live.

So the only question was, what was that reason?

[indistinct shouting]

[man] Mr. Shakur, how are you this morning?

[Glo] Tupac was feeling betrayed by everybody.

He was paranoid to the ninth degree.

He never thought for once in his whole life

that a Black person would shoot him.

[Tupac] They shot me.

I really did believe that

I didn't have to fear my own community.

I was their representative,

but as proven by this false rape charge,

as proven by the gunshots,

as proven by a lot of the comments you read in the media,

that's not true.

[Glo] He's on trial for something he did not do.

He feels vulnerable.

100 Centre Street in 1994.

The same courthouse as the Panther 21 trial

when Feni looked at those jurors and she goes into that,

in summation,

I'll read this for you because I think it's marvelous.

But I am not fucking with Afeni Shakur's words

or her feelings,

because honest to God,

she was not emotional when she did this.

Her son, same thing.

[Shock G] They said, "Does the defendant have

any last words or anything to say?"

And it's the first thing you've heard him say

in, like, two weeks of court.

He said, "You know, Your Honor,

throughout this entire court case...

you haven't looked me or my attorney in the eye once."

[Glo] "I have very little to say

because it has all been said.

Forgive me then if I stray from legal jargon,

for I am not a lawyer."

[Shock G] "It's obvious that you're not here in search of justice.

So there's no point in me asking for a lighter sentence."

[Glo] "I'm tired, I'm sick.

I'm sick of all of this.

The district attorney has not proven

any of the charges against me."

[Shock G] "I'm pretty sure you're gonna throw the book at me."

[Glo] "A lie has to be supported by lies

and more lies,

but the truth carries its own weight."

[Shock G] "So I say, 'Do what you gotta do.'"

[Glo] "So you do what you have to do."

[Shock G] "Give me whatever time you want."

[Glo] "All we ask of you

is that you judge us fairly."

[Shock G] "Because I'm not in your hands.

I'm in God's hands."

Whew!

Brave motherfucker, y'all.

[Glo] And then...

judge discharged the jury,

with a hundred and something hours

to come back with a verdict, "guilty" or "not guilty".

Mr. Fox, as foreman of the jury...

The jury foreman, who had a melodic,

educated West Indian accent, said...

We, the members of the jury,

have considered...

all the counts and charges against the defendants

and have found them not guilty.

[cheering]

[with accent] "As to count number two, not guilty."

He repeated it every time.

- "Not guilty." - [Fox] Not guilty.

- [Jamal] Shakespearean. - Not guilty.

It was like a symphony. It was beautiful.

- [Jamal] Symphonic. - It was awesome.

And the courtroom, of course, erupted.

- Not guilty. - [Fox] Not guilty.

[Fox] Not guilty.

[Glo] You couldn't help but erupt.

[Fox] Not guilty.

[Glo] Because you didn't expect that that would happen.

[Fox] Not guilty.

[Jamal] People began to cheer, they began to cry.

[Fox] Not guilty.

[Jamal] The jurors actually

started celebrating with the Panthers.

[Fox] Not guilty.

[man] Come on over!

The jury, the defendants, everybody, we're all here.

[reporter] Thirteen Black Panthers

charged with conspiracy to bomb...

When they announced the verdict, it was...

[Fox] Not guilty.

I was shocked.

- [Fox] Not guilty. - But extremely happy.

[people chanting]

Power to the people!

[Glo] I looked at the world through rose-colored glasses.

- [Fox] Not guilty. - [Glo] Everything's gonna be okay.

[Fox] Not guilty.

[Glo] Our will alone will make it so.

[Fox] Not guilty.

[Glo] Whatever this trouble is,

we gonna get through it.

Not that day.

- [gavel bangs] - [judge, echoing] Guilty.

This is the Week in Rock, or the week in Tup

as in Tupac Shakur.

On Thursday night, the rapper and actor

was cleared of 12 sodomy and weapons charges

and found guilty of three lesser counts of sexual abuse,

for which Shakur could get up to seven years in jail.

The jury had evaluated the evidence and found

that it was quite lacking on the more serious counts.

We had hoped that we would get a clear sweep,

but we certainly are gratified

that the jury came up with the verdict that they did.

[clamoring]

[Glo] Tupac was found not guilty of rape,

but he got convicted of assault.

And after that conviction, he went back to Jasmine's house.

I think the most significant thing is that Mr. Shakur,

even in a state of extreme pain,

came here and stayed as long as he could

to indicate his continued statement of not guilty.

Do you know where your client is right now, Mr. Warren?

Have you spoken to him?

Uh, no, we haven't. Th-that's personal.

[reporter] Shakur is still recovering from gunshot wounds,

and when the judge ordered that he be taken to a secured hospital,

his lawyers brought in a surgeon from Harlem Hospital

to testify that any attempt to move him right now

could be life-threatening due to a still-bleeding leg wound.

[Jasmine] After a few weeks, as he was getting better,

it must have just hit him, because, "Now what?

Now I'm getting ready to go to prison?"

He didn't see much ahead.

But he wouldn't talk to me.

He just wanted to be alone.

[reporter] Tupac Shakur has been sentenced

to a maximum of four and a half years in prison

for sexually abusing a fan.

[Glo] It's cold, there's snow on the ground.

Me and Afeni went to Jasmine's apartment.

And Tupac is sitting on the couch, holding a rifle.

And he got "fuck the world" written across his face

and there's a tear coming down.

There was a force around him.

I have seen a demon as if it was on his shoulder.

Tupac was so depressed

that he said,

"Look, I'm not gonna turn myself in."

Then he said to the boys, "This is what we're gonna do.

You're gonna take me in the Cadillac.

You're gonna drive me someplace.

I'mma smoke a lot of weed

and then...

tell Mutulu

that one of us got away."

[gun cocks]

[gunshot]

I cried my guts out.

I cried my guts out

at the utter despair

that I see my nephew in.

[Tupac] I just can't take it out here no more.

He was talking about killing hisself.

[Tupac] I feel like I'm losing it and I wanna die.

[Glo] Feni went to her son

and got on her knees in front of her baby.

"I don't care what anybody calls you

or tells you you are.

You must never believe that.

You put one foot in front of the other."

In our weakness, we can create strength.

Just write.

♪ Now I'm lost and I'm weary So many tears ♪

♪ I'm suicidal So don't stand near me ♪

♪ My every move Is a calculated step ♪

♪ To bring me closer To embrace an early death ♪

♪ Now there's nothin' left ♪

♪ There was no mercy On the streets ♪

♪ I couldn't rest I'm barely standin' ♪

♪ Bout to go to pieces, Screamin', "peace" ♪

♪ And though my soul Was deleted ♪

♪ I couldn't see it I had my mind full of demons ♪

♪ Tryin' to break free ♪

♪ They planted seeds And they hatched ♪

♪ Sparkin' the flame ♪

♪ Inside my brain like a match, Such a dirty game ♪

♪ No memories Just a misery ♪

♪ Paintin' a picture of My enemies ♪

♪ Killin' me in my sleep ♪

♪ Will I survive till the Mornin' to see the sun? ♪

♪ Please Lord, forgive me For my sins ♪

♪ 'Cause here I come, God ♪

♪ Lord ♪

[Glo] Just write.

♪ Lord knows I tried ♪

♪ Been a witness to homicide ♪

♪ Seen drive-bys takin' lives Little kids die ♪

♪ Wonder why as I walk by ♪

♪ Broken-hearted as I glance at The chalk line, gettin' high ♪

♪ This ain't the life for me I wanna change ♪

♪ But ain't no future right for Me, I'm stuck in the game ♪

♪ I'm trapped inside a maze ♪

♪ See this Tanqueray influenced Me to gettin' crazy ♪

♪ Disillusioned lately, I've Been really wantin' babies ♪

♪ So I could see a part of me That wasn't always shady ♪

♪ Don't trust my lady 'Cause she's a product of This poison ♪

♪ I'm hearin' noises, think She's fuckin' all my boys, I can't take no more ♪

♪ I'm fallin' to the floor, Beggin' for the Lord To let me in ♪

♪ To Heaven's door, Shed so many tears ♪

♪ Dear God, please let me in ♪

♪ Lord, I've lost So many peers ♪

♪ And shed so many tears... ♪

Whatcha y'all doin'? Y'all got quiet and shit, right?

[laughs]

Allen over here, tryin' not to cry.

[laughs]

♪

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