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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.พ. 2014
- Segment 1: Chiraq
The lethal combination of gangs and guns has turned Chicago into a war zone. To see why the Windy City, now dubbed "Chiraq," had the country's highest homicide rate in 2012, VICE visits Chicago's most dangerous areas, where handguns are plentiful and the police and community leaders are fighting a losing battle against gang violence. In the neighborhood of Englewood, we patrol with police, visit with religious leaders, and hang out with members of gangs -- soldiers in a turf war that has spread into new communities as projects are destroyed and residents are forced to move elsewhere.
Segment 2: Nigeria's Oil Pirates
High unemployment, political corruption, and the unequal sharing of oil resources have turned today's Niger Delta into a hell on earth. Oil theft has become big business in Nigeria, costing oil companies more than $7 billion per year while polluting coastal farmlands and fisheries -- and wrecking the lives and livelihoods of local residents. VICE travels to Africa's oil-producing region to meet with oil thieves who refine and sell oil in West Africa, and follows one farmer's attempt to sue a foreign oil company for poisoning his family's land.
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VICE went back to Nigeria 5 years later to see how the battle is still raging over the control of oil - bit.ly/2GdXsww
You lied. Violent crime is not down in most big cities. Theres only a few........
wow hey
VICE News 2019 “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
hey shane smith u think cos u got a camera and some sort of evil protection you can just you can be a proponent of an evil media propaganda to smear the image of a country rich with most of the worlds natural and intellectual resources?
it says you did not allow the vid for my country (czech)
I read the title as though chiraq and nigeria were pirating oil together. Was so confused LOL
Same
Tyler that would be a deadly mix
what I thought it was like they were actually oiling the pirates like the countries 'oil' the pirates.
Same
Very good
Gangsters: Asking me if I have a gun is a terrible question
Also Gangsters: Let me wave my gun at the camera
Terrible question because you'd already know the answer
It's like asking a man if he has a manhood......reason why it's a terrible question from their perspective
there education is the main problem, if they stop fighting and work together there lives would be amazing
Gangsters are retards that couldn't make it in today's competitive society.
alex goat sadly easier said then done.
"I look at this map and it scares the living shit out of me."
*Goes and talks to em*
*"What used to be the middle class is now the poor"* - Best I've heard it said yet.
Citizen World how does it feel to be so ignorant and neglectful of all those less fortunate than you. Some people only have gangs. Some peoples only choice to make money is selling rock. But of course, your boomer ass wouldn’t understand that.
Citizen World you really thought you was doing something with that statement
Citizen World jesus fucking christ you really only care about people that are the same as you huh.
Welcome to the club, hope you like ramen 🍜
ya those people were never middle class get real
"Are any of you armed?"
..Silence
"was that a rude question?"
Them: "yeah, that's a terrible question"
that shit fucking had me
That was funny as hell too... that's a terrible question
Proceeds to flash a gun half a minute later
Hows it make you feel having the best screen name on youtube?
ZX SaGeS you’re a fucking idiot
Absolutely can't fucking believe this was 6 years ago. Also really sad to think some of the guys in this video are dead
Probably 75% of them at the very least. Tragic stuff
@@Calilou52 Not really.
Or they're in jail. And if they're not dead or locked up now, they will be soon.
Hank Hill they all do it to themselves no pity from me
Most *
Took Shell to court in their own country and won? Straight savage
Knot2goodAtIt how many British citizens knew it happened? None
Well dutch shell company is based in the netherlands where i know quite some people who know about this
@@koibutsu Ofc they don't want their citizens to know they shamefully lost, they're not gonna make it headline news.
“We just use handguns in Chicago, just to point that out, while they try to ban assault rifles.”
There were way too many assault rifles on that evidence table. Propaganda 101
Wouldn't give off the same dramatic effect if they showed a table full of handguns when they could show a table full of scary tactical looking fully semi-automatic 100 round clip assault weapons
exactly... take away the guns all together
Guess that means we have to ban all firearms, thanks for reiterating! Also, "We use handguns in Chicago." Not "We just use handguns." Big difference.
He’s cap Mexican on the west side will hit the block in reverse with automatic ARs then hit it again driving forward he’s cap,
so incredible that you go out and talk to these people. Real journalism here. Much love and respect for these journalists and Vice funding them.
When vice was really vice 👍🏻
OMG... What a world.
@Daniel Kintigh yeah😪
"Chicagos gun laws are actually quite strict"
Politicians: "We don't know why criminals wont comply?!"
If a criminal is willing to break a law, what's the point of even having gun laws?!!1>!!.>?
Literally the next sentence was that the suburbs have lax laws, which are right next to them. Do you hear only anything you want to hear?
Soviet Doge I’ve never had a gun get a mind of its own and kill someone, have you? Stop using the gun as a scapegoat and focus on the cultural and mental problems.
@@Cards646 its pretty funny how the only country with this rampant gun issue in the west is america :) but no Gun Laws Bad buy More guns america.
What about Africa? Or Mexico?... How about when the Nazis invaded? Would you fight or be a prisoner?
I like how the gang member said: "they're trying to ban assault rifles, and we use handguns" then laughs hysterically... pretty much refutes any merit of an assault weapons ban
Ok lol so they should ban both.... Unless you do scrutinized testing that you are stable to purchase 1.
@@rimacidih9350If you have bedbugs, it doesn't do you any good to worry about spiders. You're ignoring the fact that one is more likely to bite you
@@rimacidih9350 That's not how it works. Legal gun owners aren't out there gang banging.
Helen Bell yes they are they just can’t shoot first or be in the car wit a friend with a felony
Joshua Marcano you’re misinformed if you truly believe gang members are taking the time to become legal carrying citizens rather than going down the street and buying a gun from a friend of a friend.
I really appreciate these videos from Vice. They really open my eyes to some of the issues going on in places/other countries that really aren’t covered at all. This in my opinion is the best type of “news” if you’ll call it that
I agree this is journalism are its best going directly to the ppl letting them tell Whats happening in the streets instead of the incompetence we get from local news daily. I have really learned so much from Vice n told others about it
I am happy you know the western government are the modern day pirates with license to steal
Chiraq had me freaked out, that oil in the rivers and fires had me in disbelief
I'm a Nigerian. The chief of the village is very much right. Shell, the Nigerian Government AND the pirates are the main players in this cruel game that affects the people. This issue has been on for decades.
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I like vice's choice of interviewees in the Nigeria oil half. They all seemed very educated and passionate about their communities. It made it easy to feel empathy towards them.
Vice just has the best and most informative content on TH-cam...
U guys are just kick-ass awesome....
That African fisherman,he is amazing,he needs to be a voice actor!
The giant "JESUS" neon sign in the church made may day.
Sounds like more of a parenting problem instead of a gun problem. The older gangters even said it, the way they were raised was raised to fight not shoot
Paul Erricson I didn't ask a question
This is my country, it hurts so much just seeing this.
That priest is one of the realest dudes I’ve ever seen
"So whos strapped" *all question themselves if hes a cop* hahahha
How about the fact that the gangs are fighting over the drug trade? Seems like you overlooked that a bit there
madcuntmcgee best comment here
madcuntmcgee he didn’t exactly bring it up, but I don’t think your looking at the big picture. There isn’t much opportunity for where they live at to acquire a normal and legal job which in turn makes it extremely hard to get a job there. They are so poor it’s harder for them to afford cars and gas as well as upkeep on the vehicles which will allow them to travel for work. Not only that but they’ve grown up in this and see it as their norm, while to us it’s not. So I can see where you’re coming from but you should really try to put yourself in their shoes to try to understand why these people are doing what they do. Besides not every single person who has killed/been killed is fighting over the drug trade. Innocent people have been killed as well as killed to protect themselves/family/property. It’s rough out there.
It's not always drugs especially in Chicago. They'll do you over looking at someone wrong. I lived in the Northside for 1 year and after 7 pm nobody was supposed to be at the park unless they knew u
@@klownmob8894 the northside aint shit
@@dmb8690 im black and, uhhh ur not wrong. but i hope u didnt mean it in a racist way.
Yess Shane!!! Covering Nigerian Pirate, you just made my day
Can't believe it.Another brilliant piece by VICE
"Do you guy have guns?" "Oh sorry is that a rude question?' Haha Gang- "the worst question"
out of all the vice documentaries ive ever watched, that was the one and only time i truly felt worried and scared for our buddy Thomas.
Then they pull it out to show off hahaha.
Stupid ass people they give black people a bad name fucking idiots. Gangs bunch of fucking real pussies. Seriously pussies.
@@stevearmbar Shut up internet thug
As much as you say that people kill eachother and not guns, guns are the ones that make it 100 times easier. I agree that humans kill eachother and the weapons are tools but the firearms are completly different from knifes, baseball bats, axes etc. The possibilites a gun gives you over a person is huge compared to a fucking knife. In my opinion, it is too late to ban guns in the US because of the amount of people that already own them.
And the second amendment prohibits such an action
What these people in the video lack is empathy, that is because they have lived in perpetual violence on their streets for generations. It is a societal problem and has nothing to do with the 2nd Amendment whose purpose is to protect the other rights from tyranny.
hey buddy....
no. that is blaming something else for a sick person's problem.
did you know in the crusades, mid evil and dark ages only had sharp/blunt weapons mostly? not guns....
they wont ban guns in the US because its the first amendment... protects our freedom of speech and many other things the first amendment stands for..
more than I can say about most countries ;)
Sean Perry so shooting up schools and murdering tens of young innocent children is an ethnic problem too huh?.......yep seems legit
kaizer soze
LOL are you stalking me too now haha? The funny thing is that i didn't say ANYTHING about banning guns. I said that a firearm is a much more lethal weapon than a blunt or a sharp weapon and the how it gives you much more possibilites over a person. I said that it was too late to ban firearms.
thank you for the video
9:25 Amen... this man smart as hell
The people in this comment section are so blind to what actually goes on in urban areas that they get on here and act as wannabe macho e-thugs that think its easy breezy to live a normal life in an area where you are socially rejected and treated like second class citizens. This is sickening lol
I didn't grow up in Chicago, but I live near and visit frequently and your comment is spot on. Its fucking disgusting to see how so many people are pushed to the side and brushed off just because they were born in the wrong area. Then we wonder why urban areas are so fucked up...
Mexicans have no problem coming here with no documentation and earning a decent living, even sending money back home. Whereas these blacks get tons of welfare/foodstamps and think life is so bad. Blacks in Africa laugh at these clowns, without slavery they'd be living broke as hell in Africa and we all know how great that is...
kikthecan that's one of the many lies you choose to believe, but okay.
One of the biggest problems with urban areas like this is the community didn't want to call "The Man" the police which is associated with the white man on their own people. Just let them sell dope commit murder and never testify.
Their own community let it get this way and lets blame the government. In my neighborhood if you deal dope the police phone would never stop ringing, they would get tired of the phone calls and take care of it.
Now go ahead and retaliation as an excuse because that's all it is an excuse to blame the government.
Bill Tx I'm black and currently live in a "urban area" and by reading that comment I'm convinced you know nothing about black neighborhoods other than what you see on TV... Everything you just said was a big misconception, sorry.
When I saw "Chiraq" I immedialtly thought about Jacques Chirac, lol
I recently heard from my father that I was born in Chiraq (aka South Side of Chicago). And my ancestourz are from 🇳🇬. 'Tis the phenomenon that makes me African-American! #BlackLivesMatter
Nice thank you VICE!!!
I am not a gun lover, but if you think that the guns are the main problem, you should open your fucking eyes. The main issue is the mentality, the carelessness and lack of hope. These kids expect nothing but jail or death. This is just a product of the system.
My thoughts excactly
Yes sir!
I hope they make a "escape from Chicago" movie....
I hope release day falls the day after you vacate this earth of just a little more bullshit
The Senator has been in office going on 18 years and she just sat there and came up with excuses she was elected to fix that long ago.. it’s shameful
We NEED term limits
I love how when he says al copone was doing WORSER not worse but i love how the sub titles wouldn't register the word worser it just put worse.
I like how he brings up Al Capone ... Does he know he was America's most wanted criminal?
Think that was the point considering al capone was from Chicago
i want to work for a company like vice it looks like something i would love
This video it's about Chiraq (Chicago) and Nigeria Pirates, it's a must watch!
The Vice channel is bad ass!!!
Gun laws don't mean shit. Hand guns are illegal where I live but I can still get one in 2 hours if I got the $
Even in less then 2 hours😂😂😂
Might be a little hot but who cares they need it they need it
@@mikeayres6024 They already have the strictest, if they can't buy them, they'll make them from scrap.
Yuuuup
Guns are damn near illegal in mexico but its very safe there
I saw Chiraq and I was like:
Yo my home
That cop had a little prideful smirk on his face when the reporter said the map scared the shot out of him. It was almost like he was saying “that’s the way we want it.”
I live in the Chicago area and I would never go to the southside, so props to that journalist, he's brave!
love me some vice...
Thomas likes the term “pizza pie” when looking at confusing maps🤓
Your the man Thomas
3:45min in... the face on the chief face of total sadness too see what his city has become... it’s heartbreaking
13:58-14:20 man he said some REEAALLL shit right there! 🙏🙏🙏
"Are you guys armed ?" What a dumb ass question lmao
hes a journalist, they're supposed to ask questions genius, its their job to make it interesting. dumb ass
i like how he said they're losing close to $7.8 billion dollars in oil to pirates and spills but they donate only $250 million to the communities its really effecting
There should be a VICE tv channel in every country
"He's like 14, yea something like that"...
poor obama can't change a damn thing
Hes a failure
The Senate is a roadblock.
what was Obama suppose to do? he wasnt the mayor of Chicago or the Gov of Illinois??!!!!!
The Obama's just bought ANOTHER $15 million house, as did the Biden's, and Bernie Sanders... Call Democrat politicians a lot of things, but poor sure isn't one of them. Look how that has worked out over the last 60 years for the people who keep voting for them. :-/
Poor trump can’t change a damn thing
Thank you Rahm Emanuel.
I miss old school vice.
lol they were playing a bit from chief keefs music vid at the beginning😂😂😂
It's 2019 now I wonder how many of those kids from Chicago are still alive that were in this video. We got to break this cycle lose our egos clout ain't worth it.
Seer-of-things If that’s what you got from that segment then you need to re-evaluate your life bud
Seer-of-things Nice one buddy but you still don’t fucking understand at all what the segment was about. It’s about the clear socio-economic issues that are driving gang violence and gang activity in the first place. You only see what you wanna see and if somebody tells you there’s more to it you get all defensive, nice buf
ILike Mushrooms No I agree, but there’s wayyyy more to that segment than that. The entire segment is on the socio-economic issues that are driving gang activity, yet all anybody wants to talk about is guns guns guns.
how the fck can there be a health care system where hospitals say we stop treating gun wounds because it costs to much money. honestly shocking
I miss content like this from Vice
Okay 3 episodes into season 2. I'm ready to call this my favorite show on all of television.(period)
*5:00* for all the politicians
I love the old vice
Yall should have never lost this format. Especially sending reporters to fucking crazy places to talk to crazy people. Remember the cannibals episode? I remember.
4:48, that guy's voice sounds a lot like Ryder from GTA SA
to me, the guy sounds like sweet
what are you two hearing? that didn't sound anything like Ryder OR Sweet
@@L00NEYTUNE_
He slighty kinda sounds like sweet
Big smoke more
Look out ole boys face at 7:06 i cant shake that image 🤣
David Deleon Deleon looool
love how he says despite the insistence that tonight was a good night the calls come it
me: if no1 was murdered that night it was a good night if there were less then 10 murdered that week it was a great week
"That's a terrible question" - LMFAO!
how is a hospital allowed to just stop taking gun shot wounds.
there is something wrong with that.
BettysRoom no it's actually the only choice they had or either close the doors. Someone has to pay the bills. Hospitals are not exempt from expenses. What do you think it costs to keep a hospital operating , just the power bill alone is probably $15-$20k per month? That's just one expense of many many more like Payroll for 200-300 staff members , medical equipment maintained and updated Etc etc
You can't stay in business if you provide your service for free. A Hospital is not exempt from having to make a profit to stay open , pay their bills , pay their employees upgrade/improve the facility.
I'm my opinion This is a great idea. Im going to say the majority of GSW victims in that area have ZERO respect for law enforcement or the criminal justice system. So if the threat of going to jail is no longer an effective deterrent then maybe it will
Cross their mind that "I will most likely bleed out on the way to the hospital 30 minutes across town if I start this shootout and happen to get hit."
Jamey Campbell so being hit by a stray bullet is a conscious choice? Did u even pay attention to the segment? The little girl who was w her friends until a gunman shot into the croud?
Jamey Campbell you sound really stupid problem with capitalism is it’s all about profit and not about humility
a larkin you call him stupid yet you can’t construct a proper sentence. he gives a go through of basic economics and you think he is stupid? explains why you also hate capitalism
It's a fucked up situation.. in an average year there are between 3,000 - 3,500 Shooting victims (most who have NO medical insurance at all) now take 3,000 gunshot victims and times that by an average of $30,000 for each victims hospital stay that is $90,000,000 a Year that those area hospitals are losing just on these gunshot victims alone. They cant stay open with numbers like that not being reimbursed in any way.
14:35 for Nigeria Oil Pirates.
Shane Vice is best Vice.
7:15 says alot, but when you see this kinda activity it's because it was just left alone for a long time.
I love how much life that nigerian fish farmer guy has hahaha.
4:57 Higgs sounds like sweet , CJ's bro
Holy shit that's crazy. If you look away from the screen it's literally like sweets talking
I wish all would do a long balanced program on Chicago
this is the content vice should produce not that bs that they make now a days
Criminals dont follow gun laws shocking.
gotta love liberals
Guns ain't the problem its the mentality of society
27:37 Barclays, that shirt say 1000 words
i like how they stay objective... most media are try hard to shove their opinion. Nice documentary Vice.
5:25 bruh they got a joestar in chiraq
Damn oil companys I live in FL and that one oil spill FUCKED everything up here. I'm glad to sell lil' homie sue Shell in his own country and win and try to make things better. I had to go through so much BS to get a compensation in fucking America for christsake, for loosing my job and still never got it even when my co-workers did. The little guy wins sometimes and that is fucking dope.
Documentaries like this are great but it just dropped dime
chicago was like this back in the al capone days
Pleace can Vice investigate about the Biafran genocide.......wanna know what realy happen
"we're fighting wars just like the army" unbelievable, seems you think your street shootout somehow compares to war
Right. I guess they havent looked at the civilian casualties in war zones....
i saw THE FISH guy from north korea labor camp at the opening
Here we are, 2020.
The biggest company in the world.....shell.....one of the most evil in the world...
Ill agree with you there but its the people running the company and the governments that are allowing them to operate the way they are.
Crack induced psychosis
"There are three hospitals in the neighbourhood, all of which used to treat gunshot wounds but stopped because it was costing them too much money" I'm a European and this sickens me.
Sounds like you're a little butthurt seeing as how your hospitals are just like any other company after your money :D Maybe you should do the same thing to your law enforcement, that's probably a good idea, no?
Kimi N Please ignore the Phil King's statement... I am American and I hate the way our system works...
Guy sounds like Sterling Archer
Love the GTA style map of Chicago XD
The problem is misdirected, unemployment is the main issue here. Minimum wage laws and high tax rate discourage business to hire or even start. Create a tax free zone for all business in these areas, deregulate red tape laws and abolish minimum wage, which will give huge incentive to create value in these communities.
abolish all taxes already ^^
You can't remove minimum wage it's the base for all prices increasing it increases the prizes
how do you put a price tag on a life? thats easy, we do that everyday, we have done it since the beginning of time and will keep on doing it until the day the human race ceases to exist. basically if you are not like me then your life is worth less than mine, thats how humans think, all of us. no matter how good you think you are we all think this way, 1 way or another. coming up next you will see 100 ppl trolling me for pointing this out, making comments about how they are nothing like this and how I see everything so black&white, blah blah blah. dont be afraid to admit that humanity is not as good as it think it is.
There is a limit to the value of life. It's basic logic and math.
No price tag = infinite worth per life. Mathematically, 1 infinity = 2 infinity, therefore 1 life = 2 lives = 5000 lives. And that doesn't make sense.
Alkan i like your coment, But sometime
There is also No limit to the value of life,to save the live of 1 rich person we have to take the kidney ,liver or a heart from other person for example
do you think ppl are capable of valuing life equally (at least human life)? it would be great if we could, but as of right now it seems kind of impossible to be honest. We find so many excuses to hate one another wether its religion, nationality, color, ect. One can only hope right... :'(
He is right, people at the insurance company do that for a living
It comes down to money. If everyone was rich and could live comfortably there would be far less conflict. Corporations are ruining the world before our very eyes and we let it happen.
Love your neighbors.
Fun fact: That Roland guy sounds so much like the tribal you can get as a companion in Fallout 2 I almost expected him to mention in passing he has done some voice acting work...