A new documentary explores California gang laws and the harm they’ve caused to San Diego and beyond.
“California Story” has been seven years in the making. But community members have been living the issue for a lot longer.
“I remember when I was around 12, 13 years old was actually the first time, police would start stopping me and my friends on the street and asking us what gang we were from,” said Khalid Alexander, the film’s executive producer. “And at the time, my friends weren’t any more gang members – more or less of gang members – than I was, but out of a kind of a bravado, they would be like, ‘I’m from such and such and this and this and this and that.’ And they didn’t know that this was the beginning of a process of documenting people that had real severe consequences moving forward.”…