"Why show them compassion?": Five Points South suspect appears in crime documentary

SHOOTING STILL HAUNTS BIRMINGHAM SOUTH SIDE. MORE. THAN A MONTH LATER. WVTM 13 S BRYCE OSELEN SPOKE WITH AN INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKER ABOUT WHAT HE DISCOVERED WHILE WORKING HERE IN THE STATE. AND WOULD YOU SAY PEOPLE IN THE STREETS ARE GOOD MEMBERS OF SOCIETY? I’LL TRY TO SINGLE US OUT. EVERYBODY WANT TO KILL SOMEBODY. THE FOOTAGE YOU’RE SEEING IS FROM THE YOUTUBE DOCUMENTARY THIS CITY EATS PEOPLE ALIVE. THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE IN ALABAMA. THEY FIND IN THE FRONT YARD. YEE HOPPEL. TRY TO GO GRAB ME A DRACO, BUT THE SHOT GO OFF. THE DOCUMENTARY, RELEASED ON OCTOBER 18TH, HAS NEARLY 500,000 VIEWS ON YOUTUBE AND AN APPEARANCE FROM A TO DO THE SAME THING TO YOU. SO WHY NOT DO IT TO THEM? WHY SHOW THEM COMPASSION WHEN THEY AIN’T GONNA SHOW YOU NO COMPASSION? NIC KWON LAWLER AND DAMIEN MCDANIEL, THE SUSPECT CHARGED IN THE FIVE POINTS SOUTH MASS SHOOTING. FOR WHAT? THEY AIN’T GONNA SPARE ME. YOU GONNA PUT IT LIKE THAT WHEN THEY SON AIN’T NO DEAD AND THEY COME TO COURT. THEY AIN’T GONNA SPARE ME IN THE COURTROOM. HEY, I KNOW YOU HEAR ME? THE CREATOR OF THE DOCUMENTARY, AARON SINGH, IS BASED OUT OF LONDON AND TRAVELS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES HIGHLIGHTING THE COUNTRY’S MOST DANGEROUS COMMUNITIES. THE REASON I’VE COME TO ALABAMA, BECAUSE I HEARD IT’S ONE OF THE MOST MURDEROUS STATES ALONGSIDE MISSISSIPPI IN AMERICA. SINGH SAYS HE WASN’T COMFORTABLE WITH AN INTERVIEW, BUT GAVE US PERMISSION TO USE HIS FOOTAGE. WHY IS IT SO BAD, IN YOUR OPINION? I AIN’T GONNA LIE. LIKE I SAY, LIKE, BE FOR REAL. LIKE HOOD BEEF. AUTHORITIES CONTINUE THEIR INVESTIGATION, LISTING MCDANIEL AS A KEY SUSPECT. THE BIRMINGHAM POLICE DEPARTMENT COULDN’T BE REACHED FOR A COMMENT ON THE DOCUMENTARY.