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American Gangster
The Right Thing to Do
00:00 - 02:25
In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East. Both individuals make their case on the type of support and evidence they have that will help them win the ruling.
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Video Transcript
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I was talking to
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my lawyer is the system to me I can't believe
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did you really
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find a million dollars in the trunk of the car
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intended indeed yeah
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you did it for real
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you
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you know Johnny law got it over
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maybe
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now I know maybe baddest which
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you know we
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you turn that money and
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he took it
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and you ain't got nothing for
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it
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why you do it
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was the right thing to do
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as truth
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possibly drinks was writing into
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question I have
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question I'm asking myself is would you do it again
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I mean that's a lot of money that's a long time ago
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any copying it's ago many
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child support payments ago
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so
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I said to myself only as we find out
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bribery
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extortion
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murder
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racketeering
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give me an address
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make sure because they'll make sure that money is in the trunk
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tax
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you show
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one of which which thing that impresses me
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you think that you better do not really know better and then the mother
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key to same [censored]
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you are
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them
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let me ask you this
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do you really
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think
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that put me behind boss
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change anything
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streets
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them dope bays go shooting or steal from the big one doubtful
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put me in on how they want change one
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that's the way this past just the way it is so what we got rich
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we got me and you sittin' here
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we got that little snitch [censored] driver
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from my brother
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got a little bit of powder
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you need more numbers
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I got possession
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plot
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conspiracy
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driving along office
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people touch to see you can call
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attach offshore bank accounts
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the real estate
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business
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mobile with money from heroin
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I know hundreds
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tactic that kids
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addicts who loaded onto a product that's my story for the jury that's how we make adults
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this man murdered thousands of P.
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that from a penthouse driving a link
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aside from that
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you got nothing
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as pretty good
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but that's why we go to court it reached
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because I got witnesses
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I got celebrities
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I got sports figures
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I got hollom which
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I took care homes or homes can take care
