Stop killing black people! BLAM!

Here's to you Mr. Shoot at a TV News Crew and Tell 'Em Your Name Man!

Most people wouldn't do that when the camera is running, and most people wouldn't have the sheer guts to say "My name is Shawn Sweet" and dare The Man to come and arrest your gunslingin' butt. I know people will say you're just the Idiot of the World, but I think you're fearless.

But I have a question, Mr. Shoot at a TV News Crew and Tell 'Em Your Name Man. I want to know how it is that the KMTV reporter and photographer are the ones "killing black people on the north side" when it's mostly black people like yourself who've been driving around north and south Omaha neighborhoods firing handguns out of car windows . . . at other black people.

Just curious. I mean, please correct me if there's been an unreported epidemic of Ku Klux Klan members going on midnight rides through the 'hood.

Here's the story from the Action 3 News web site:

An Action 3 News crew comes dangerously close to violence on the streets of Omaha. We were reporting on a triple shooting, when someone drove up and fired a gun.

Shawn Sweet's decision to fire a gun in the air and yell profanity at our news crew on Sunday landed him a not-so-sweet situation. The police picked him up that night. Tuesday we met him face to face in jail, where he says he's ready to face the consequences.

Here's some of what he said to Action 3 News Reporter Dave Roberts.

Dave: "Do you understand what you did scared the life out of my friends and co-workers on Sunday?"

Shawn: "And I'll suffer for that. I am not trying to get anything out of nothing. I told you before they come in here, I knew what I did was wrong."

Dave: "Do you think that my friends have ever seen a gun go off in a neighborhood? Do you understand what's going through their heads?"

Shawn: "They haven't but now they have. That's good because they see what we go through everyday."

Dave: "What are you trying to tell us?"

Shawn: "What I am trying to say is on the north side they black ball us. They bring all the crime out to the north side when there's crime happening all around Nebraska."

Dave: "You said (while fire you gun on Sunday) stop killing black people on the north side. How is the media killing black people?"

Shawn: "By exploiting their business. If you go somewhere else they'd shoot you for putting their business out there like that. Where I come from, what happens in the streets, stays in the streets because it's considered, it's telling."

Shawn: "I apologize to channel 3. I'm telling you I apologize. I will do anything, community service, donate money, whatever."

Sweet also tells us that he was on something when he decided to act violently towards our news crew on Sunday. However he wouldn't tell us exactly what he was on.

CLICK ON A PICTURE to see the Channel 3 video report.