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Contains some violent scenes and some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.
Available for over a year
Damion Cooper tells 5 live's Dotun Adebayo of the moment where he was told that "if you shut your eyes, you'll never open them again" after he had been shot on his mother's doorstep in Baltimore by a teenage boy was being initiated into a gang in 1992. He now runs a Project Pneuma that works with black boys in Baltimore, teaching them the art of forgiveness, self control and discipline.
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