Heather Ann Thompson

And his dad is killed.

Someone steals his truck.

He tries to protect the truck.

He ends up killed.

He ends up, you know, it's a horrible incident of crime and violence that puts him in public housing in the first start.

That's just an example.

These are kids that had a very, very difficult time growing up.

And what they did was they were breaking into the video arcades.

They were jumping the turnstiles because they didn't have any money to ride the subway.

So they had actually accumulated a whole lot of misdemeanor citations.

And what was so incredible was once they get shot, they are in the ICUs.

They are having surgery.

They are in really, really bad shape.

And two judges in the Bronx suddenly decide to go back.

They look at all of these old misdemeanor citations, and then they issue a blizzard of warrants against

against these teenagers on the basis of these misdemeanor charges.

So suddenly overnight, the media grabs hold of this and says they are dangerous criminals.

Look at all the charges they have mounted against them.

Mind you, these are nonviolent misdemeanor citations.

And one of the judges actually calls them, it says this is evidence that they are violent criminals.