Evaristo Salas Jr. (Junior)

I was literally getting beat up almost all the time.

And then, you know, this started the process of, you know, the cops always coming to my house, you know, that kind of stuff.

And anything that happened within my neighborhood, if there was a broken window, if down the street somebody did something at the store, 7-Eleven that I lived by, they would literally just come to my house and pick me up.

And don't get me wrong, I did a lot of stupid things as a kid.

I used to tag up.

I used to break windows because I was bored.

We'd get to fight with other gang members, those kind of things, you know what I mean?

So I stole stereos, those kind of things.

I stole from the store at times.

So I'm not trying to say, oh, I never did anything wrong, you know?

Maybe by me acting the way I was, that I brought so much, you know, maybe people were calling about things that were missing, that kind of stuff, that it brought so much heat to the community that these cops had to act that way.

But they took it kind of further than that, you know?

They...

not only harassed us, but I think that they treated us with not only a sense of indifference, but they looked at us as if we're going to grow into be something terrible, so they got to get rid of us in one form or another.

And whatever way they have to do that, they're going to do that.

And so they would come to my house and pick me up for this and that, say, oh, you did this and did that.

My dad, he was like, there was times they would come to the house.

One time they came to the house and they're like, you're under arrest.

I was sitting in the back watching TV.

And I said, for one, they won't even tell me.