1:31:00
Once he was brought back here
to our office,
1:31:02
about 15 minutes after
the shooting took place,
1:31:04
I gave him some crayons to kind
of occupy him a little bit.
1:31:07
Michael Caldwell
Police Detective
1:31:09
He came over and drew
that picture for me.
1:31:11
Because at the time, I had
pictures right behind my desk
1:31:13
that my children had drew for me
and he wanted to draw me one.
1:31:16
- This is what he drew for you.
What did he say this was?
1:31:20
- That's him at his house.
1:31:21
- That's him at his house,
right here.
1:31:23
And why did you decide
to hang on to it?
1:31:27
- Because of the gravity of the
situation and what had occurred
1:31:30
and he asked me to hang that
behind my desk,
1:31:33
so I put it in a frame
and that's where it'll stay.
1:31:38
- Tamarla Owens was the mother
of the six-year-old boy.
1:31:41
In order to get food stamps and
health care for her children,
1:31:46
Tamarla was forced to work as
part of the state of Michigan's
1:31:48
Welfare-to-Work Program.
1:31:51
This program was so successful
1:31:53
in tossing poor people
off welfare
1:31:55
that it's founder,
1:31:56
Gerald Miller, was soon hired
1:31:58
by the number-one firm in the
country that states turned to
1:32:01
to privatize
their welfare systems.
1:32:06
That firm was Lockheed Martin.
With the cold war over
1:32:10
and no enemy left
to frighten the public,
1:32:12
Lockheed had found
the perfect way to diversify
1:32:14
and the perfect way
1:32:16
to profit from people's fears,
1:32:18
with an enemy
much closer to home:
1:32:20
poor black mothers
1:32:23
like Tamarla Owens.
1:32:25
- We've got a one-parent family and
the mother's travelling 60 miles.
1:32:28
Sheriff Robert Pickell
Flint, Michigan
1:32:30
An hour, an hour and a half
away to go to work
1:32:33
an hour, an hour and a half
to come home.
1:32:35
How does that help a community?
But that's part of the state...
1:32:37
you know, making parents
responsible, making them work--
1:32:39
- Welfare to work.
- Welfare to work.
1:32:41
That's a program
that ought to be stopped
1:32:43
because it really has no merit.
1:32:45
I think it adds more
to the problem
1:32:47
than it does to solve it.
1:32:49
- Really?
- I do.
1:32:51
- You're the sheriff
and you feel this way.
1:32:53
- I do, I do. I wish I could put
two parents in every home
1:32:57
and make every parent
equally responsible,
1:32:59
but I can't do that.