Heather Ann Thompson

And of course, everything just flows from that.

They then

are no longer able to be victims.

Yeah, that's right.

This trial is an extraordinary example of a jury hearing evidence and Americans hearing a story unfold right before their eyes and nevertheless deciding

in favor of the shooter, nevertheless deciding that he should be vindicated.

It is a dramatic trial.

Bernie Goetz manages to get one of the most flashy, incredibly smart, really brilliant defense lawyers, Barry Slotnick, to defend him.

This is a guy who

has defended the mob.

I mean, he knows how to really spin a yarn and get the jury on his side.

But he has this extraordinary moment in the trial where he persuades the judge.

to reenact what happened on that subway.

But what he does is he brings in these four burly-looking, kind of menacing-looking black men, puts them surrounding a white guy who's playing Bernie Getz.

And, you know, it's a whole theater, a whole charade of what no witness testified to that never happened.

It all plays out right there in the courtroom on the floor.

in front of the jurors.

It's just it's really kind of amazing to watch.

And then we switch gears later.

And, you know, Shirley Cabe, Daryl's mother, is refusing to let this be the last word on her son.