“Chill, Don’t Kill.” is a mostly billboard-based campaign in Memphis, Tennessee (where I grew up) to try to reduce murders in the city. Sadly, Memphis has a fairly high murder rate, mostly due to pervasive socioeconomic factors. This video is of the seldom-shown TV commercial associated with the same campaign. The campaign is fascinating to me for whatever reason. I hope it has done some good. This is my transcript of the commercial.
“Been your dawg since you was shortys, and you gonna shoot him [gun sound - pap, pap]? She loves you. YOU!! And you gonna cut her? You get mad, so you gonna take it out on a baby? Man up. Call somebody. Your momma. A friend. Anybody! Back the hell up! A man don’t take out people who care about him. Or else, nobody ever care ‘bout him again. Chill. Don’t kill. [prison bars closing shut].”
“Been your
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