Heather Ann Thompson

And the most chilling part of this story is that he then walks over to Daryl Cabe, who at this point is cowering on his seat.

And, you know, not a single one of these teenagers was taller than a five feet six.

These are slight, small teens.

And he's sitting there cowering and he says, you look all right.

Here's another.

And he shoots him point blank range, severing his spinal cord.

So he is immediately paralyzed.

And that story will grow far grimmer when he then has a terrible episode of pneumonia because, of course, if you don't have the muscles thanks to paralysis, your lungs do not clear as easily or regularly.

He has pneumonia.

He goes into a life-threatening coma.

and emerges brain damaged.

And it is an incredibly poignant story of what the wreckage of allowing rage to be unleashed really looks like.

So, yeah, the thing about his confession that he will eventually make after being on the lam for nine days on the run from the law is an extraordinary piece of video.

He is confessing to everything he did audaciously, aggressively, and it all comes down to, for him, he didn't like the look.

in Troy Canty's eyes, or as he put it, the gleam in his eye.

And he ultimately decides not to go over there and gouge his eyes out after he's already shot him in the chest because he had changed the look in his eye.

Well, the look in his eye was terror.

And bewilderment.

And so the confession is this astonishing piece of tape that also really resonated with me in terms of the contemporary moment we are in because we are watching someone tell us exactly who they are, exactly what they did, and it will not matter.

Up will become down.