12 O’clock Boys is a documentary about street gangs riding dirt bikes in Baltimore. It was released last year and has been constantly receiving awards at the various festivals where it has been shown. Its director and producer, Lotfy Nathan, secured funding for his project through Kickstarter. Finally, something that was of great help to its popularity, it was distributed by the laboratories of the late “Beastie Boy” Adam Yauch, “Oscilloscope.” The documentary 12 O’clock Boys, tells the story through Pug, a young black boy from a lower-middle-class family in Baltimore, of the furor of these groups on enduro bikes, motocross bikes, or quads doing “wheelies,” drifts, or anything else the law does not permit within a city. Of course, license plates are something this gang does not deal with, as they are inconvenient for getting the bike completely vertical on the rear wheel (12 o’clock). Once you manage to pull off this feat, you can join the gang, among other requirements that are also illegal. Sundays are the day for gatherings, and hundreds of bikes meet up, taking over the city on one wheel; in the event that a police car appears, the best option is to ride towards it and kick its trunk while on the bike. Many of these gangs use these bikes because, in their drug distribution business, it is almost impossible for the police to hunt them down while riding their Harley Davidsons. Pug, the protagonist, wants to be a 12 O’clock Boy no matter the cost and will not stop until he achieves it, despite seeing members of the gang die in accidents. Aside from the biking scene, the documentary narrates and denounces the situation of one of the most economically depressed cities in the United States and how they cope with death, with the passing of one of Pug's brothers and some members of the gang. [fvplayer src="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOMQY6k16TU" width="686"]
