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In the criminal
justice system
sexually-based offenses
are considered
especially heinous.
In New York City,
the dedicated detectives
who investigate
these vicious felonies
are members of an elite squad
known as
the Special Victims Unit.
These are their stories.
Let go, it's mine.
Okay, now it's mine.
Hey, boys, here you go.
Come on, man,
let's go.
Play nice.
Hey, Mama.
Get away from here.
Right now.
What, ***?
I think you need to chill.
Charlie, can you send
Help!
God, please, somebody help!
Oh, Jesus!
Come here.
Help!
Somebody, please!
Help me! Help!
What?
There was a shooting
at P.
S.
387 in East Harlem
six year old girl,
died at the scene.
They're bringing
the shooter up now.
Why did we catch it?
Brass thinks we're
better equipped to handle him.
Good.
Bring on the pervert.
Does that look like
a cold-blooded killer to you?
Where are we on the parents?
Both of them called in sick today.
Nobody knows how to find them.
Well, that fills in
a few blanks for me.
Can you even charge
a 7-year-old with ***?
Technically, he just made
the cutoff.
Det.
Benson?
Yes.
You left a message.
Our son,
Elias, was involved in a shooting?
They gave this address,
not a hospital, is he
Oh, God!
Please say he's alive.
Mrs.
Barrera, I'm sorry
about the misunderstanding.
Elias wasn't the one
who was shot.
Oh, thank God.
He was the shooter.
What?
Sir, do you own a gun?
No.
Does your son have access
to one? I don't know how.
He's either at home, school,
or his sitter's.
And who's that?
Mrs.
Strada.
Where's our son?
We want to talk
to him with you.
But we can't do that
without your permission.
If you would sign
a Miranda waiver
Fine.
That's fine.
Just let us see him.
Okay, come with me please.
You run them through
License Division?
He had no guns registered.
Of course, the serial number
was filed off the gun he used.
Punched them in the system, clean
sheets.
No arrests, no warrant.
We were at the emergency room
all morning.
My baby girl was born
with a respiratory problem.
We had to leave her
at the hospital.
Why don't you
take a seat here.
Elias?
It's okay.
All right.
Elias, why don't we
have you sit right here.
Hi, Elias, I'm Elliot.
How are you doing?
We're going to talk today,
is that okay?
Do you like school?
What grade are you in?
Second.
Second.
That's a good grade.
I like second grade.
What's your favorite subject?
Okay.
We're going to talk a little
bit about what happened today.
Okay?
Do you know Carly Jackson?
Yeah?
What can you tell me
about Carly?
She's a girl.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You like Carly?
No? How come?
She's always bothering me.
How does she bother you?
She chases me.
She tries to kiss me.
Okay.
Can you tell me what happened
to Carly at recess?
She fell down.
What made her fall down?
The gun.
The gun.
Okay.
Who's holding the gun?
Is Carly going to be okay?
Elias, tell me
who had the gun.
I did.
You know what, I think we should
get a lawyer before we go on.
Okay, sir.
That's fine.
You get a
lawyer.
We got a phone out there.
He has to stay with us, okay.
Get Fin.
Check out friends, family,
neighbors, school
anyone he could have
got that gun from.
As slipshod as the screening process
is, I doubt he bought it himself.
Watch it.
Watch your back.
Come on.
Elias and Carly fight a lot?
Neither had been sent
to my office.
Where were you when it
happened? Over there.
I ran to her, called for help,
and then I saw Elias.
Where exactly?
Putting the gun
in the garbage can.
Elias said that Carly
picked on him.
Carly was the sweetest
little girl.
Did we miss something?
He wasn't a troublemaker.
He didn't even talk in line.
He's always been an angel.
What made Elias do this?
That's what we're
trying to find out.
Mrs.
Strada, do you keep
a gun here on the premises?
Please.
The kids you watch, could any
of them have brought one in here?
Absolutely not.
You wouldn't happen to have a phone
list for the parents, would you?
Of course I do.
Work and home.
By the phone desk over there.
Yeah, we'll need
a copy of that.
Rudy, it's Buddy's turn.
Ma'am, are you responsible
for every kid around here?
Yes.
They don't talk
to strangers
they don't leave the courtyard
without an adult.
I take my job very seriously,
young man.
Okay, Sammy,
where did Elias get the gun?
From his pants.
Before that?
I don't know.
Did he ever talk about having a gun? No.
When's the first time
you saw the gun?
When he shot Carly.
Why did Elias shoot Carly?
I don't know.
She pick on him a lot?
She kissed him all the time.
What would he do
when she kissed him?
His face would get all red.
Did she try
to kiss him that day?
She was walking over.
Cabot's hell bent
on charging the parents.
Parental responsibility.
It's a
hot-button issue.
That's all it is.
Well, we've got
no ammunition for her.
Nothing about this
makes sense.
Child homicides never do.
What happened to that little boy
to make him want to take a life?
Elliot, you're searching for
a way to make him a victim.
The only victim here
is a dead little girl.
Hi, can we help you?
Yes, I'm Sonia Paredes,
Elias Barrera's teacher.
The limit for class size is supposed
to be 32 students.
I have 40.
It must make it kind of hard to give
each student the attention they need.
Impossible.
I was in the teachers' lounge
when they told us.
When they said it was Elias,
I got physically ill.
Mrs.
Paredes, is there something
that you want to show us?
After 20 years of teaching,
nothing shocks you anymore.
I wish this had.
When did he draw this?
Yesterday.
Carly had a ponytail.
Charge the boy.
With what?
***.
He's seven.
Yes, and if he were six, I would
send him home with his parents
as the law mandates.
But he's not.
The law is
not interpretive, Counselor.
It is to be
very narrowly construed.
He can be charged.
He can,
but you know as well as I do
that the youngest
they've ever convicted was 11.
Yes, but that was
pre-Columbine.
Since then, there's been
an epidemic
of ever younger kids
killing kids
with no consequence.
People are fed up with it.
And you're bored of being
the Chief Assistant DA.
I know you're looking
to replace Lewin next fall
but let me tell you, if you think
you could put a little boy in jail
just so you can prove you're tough
on crime, you've got to be kidding.
He's old enough to know the
difference between right and wrong.
But not to understand the
consequences of his actions.
He brought a gun to school.
He knew what he was doing.
And this,
that gives us intent.
Why don't you just apply
for a change of venue
to Texas so we can
have him executed?
No, Manhattan Family Court
will be sufficient.
Ms.
Cabot,
am I reading this right
you're charging
a 7-year-old with ***?
Yes, Your Honor.
Surely there's an alternative.
One has yet to present itself.
The commission of the crime by
the respondent is undisputed.
And evidence supporting criminal
intent has just come to light.
How does the minor plead?
General denial, Your Honor.
Remand recommendations?
The People have not ruled out the minor's
home situation as a contributing factor.
We therefore ask for the removal
of the minor from his home
and ask that he be remanded
to a detention facility
pending trial.
Your Honor, the Barreras are a
loving, law-abiding, nuclear family.
Elias should be released
into their custody.
The Barreras have ties
outside the country.
Flight risk is a significant
issue with the People
and the victim's family
who is here today.
I'm ordering the minor be remanded
to the Wagner Detention Facility.
I'm further ordering
a clinical evaluation
to determine whether or not he
understands the charges against him
and can help
in his own defense.
No! Please, don't take my baby.
Mommy!
Oh, please!
Olivia, can you believe
they ran this picture?
Already a couple of hundred people
hanging outside the courthouse.
Who'd have guessed
there'd be backlash
against charging a 7-year-old
with ***?
Amnesty International, Children's
Defense Fund.
Alex Cabot.
I didn't want to charge him with
***.
I didn't have any choice.
Now that you've got him in
the big house, is he spilling?
Why he did it?
Where he got the gun?
No, he's completely withdrawn.
He
won't even talk to the social worker.
How about spending less time on the kid
we caught, more on the adult we didn't.
What did we send
License Division?
The names of parents of the
other kids Mrs.
Strada watches.
Really? Well, guess
what Reyna McCreary owns?
He did not get that gun
from my son.
The gun registered in your name
is still in your possession?
Yes, it is.
You mind
if we take a peek at it?
Yes, I do.
There.
You satisfied?
Put the gun down on the table.
You carry that around
in your purse?
You know, sometimes I don't
leave the hospital till 3:00 a.
m.
I have to take a subway,
a bus
and walk four blocks through
this neighborhood to get home.
You know, carrying a
concealed weapon is a felony.
I don't.
I leave it here so the
appliances can defend themselves.
You have a child living here.
You
have a safe place to store this gun?
Of course I do.
Raphael.
Get a move on.
We're leaving in 10 seconds.
Coming.
What's up? Raphael, right?
Yeah.
You know Elias?
Yeah.
You heard about what happened?
Yeah, he popped
that little girl.
Lightweight,
compact hammerless.
So simple,
even a 7-year-old can use it.
This one especially.
Safety's
tampered with, hair trigger.
Gangbanger, drug dealer.
Doesn't have the overkill they're
partial to, but not bad as a backup piece.
Chambered round fits.
Add a full clip, they get that
one extra *** for the buck.
And speaking of the ***
the bullet Rodgers sent us,
after the autopsy.
Hollow point?
See the smooth edges where
it peeled apart on impact?
The tip was filed down
in an "X" pattern, by hand.
Little girl didn't have a
chance.
Neither did this guy.
It's hard to compare
the lands and grooves
because of their condition,
but look at the base.
Here's a side-by-side
comparison.
Same right twist,
same riflings.
Where'd you get this one from?
A 23-year-old.
Your gun's got
a second body on it.
Shorty Esposito.
Latino male, 23.
Got smoked in the ticker.
Night
before your case.
Close range.
Got dumped in an alley a couple of
blocks from where your kid lives.
You getting anywhere with it?
No, the case is cold.
We were hoping maybe your
How do we know he didn't?
M.
E.
makes our shooter a good four
inches taller than our stiff, so
Want to swap five's?
Two busts for drug possession, just
short of enough for intent to sell.
Mother swears by all known
saints he wasn't a dealer.
We think drug deal gone south.
Let's canvass the area between these
two.
Got to be a link in there somewhere.
Hold on.
Elliot,
look at his pants.
This can't be a coincidence.
Heck, we might have
just found our link.
Yeah, that guy I maybe seen
around.
Tell me about him.
He likes bubble baths
and long walks.
I don't know jack about him.
I seen him on the block.
With anyone in particular?
You been following this story?
Who hasn't.
Little boy who shot this girl
did it with the same gun
that was used
to whack this guy.
Tell us what you know about this
guy? I know nothing about the guy.
The stuff he was into, I don't want
to know.
And what stuff would that be?
Mumbo jumbo.
Whenever I seen him,
he's coming out of Nestor's.
You Nestor?
Nicky Crow.
Nestor sold me
the business last year.
And exactly what kind
of business is this?
Religious supplies.
For the practice of Santer�a.
Then those would be
sacrificial chickens.
It's legal.
Santeros won
their Supreme Court case.
Relax, we're not
from the ASPCA.
You know him?
Yeah, he's a customer.
Was.
Know anything about it?
Santeros don't sacrifice anything
further up the food chain than goats.
Long Island cheerleader
three years ago.
Mother and sister thought she
was possessed by a demon
and they suffocated her.
Santeras, right?
That was an exorcism got
out of hand, not a sacrifice.
Shorty Esposito,
religious kind of guy?
Keeping the rituals a secret comes from the
slaves having to hide it from their masters.
That's not an answer.
Sure it is.
It's in the
Constitution.
Freedom of religion.
It's like dogma
not to talk about it.
I'd be violating his rights.
He's
dead.
He doesn't have any rights.
You a priest?
A Babalu?
Babalu.
Atheist.
Businessman.
practice Santer�a in New York.
They need to shop
someplace they can trust.
Hey, maybe someone tried to drive an
evil spirit out of him with a bullet.
My bet? That was his religion.
That guy right there on the
corner, that's the steerer.
He brings the buyer
to the money man.
And him hanging back
with the gold chain
that's the money man.
He never touches the dope.
They're all teens.
Maybe they know
Elias through a little brother.
Somewhere around here.
He's the lookout.
What's your name, man?
Sammy.
Sammy what?
Sosa.
That's Mrs.
Morales' boy,
Jamal.
Shut up, old man.
Hey, Jamal,
you just focus all right.
You know this kid?
No.
What about him?
Nope.
Hey, how old are you?
Ten.
Why don't you talk to him?
Come here a second.
Know his name?
Bobby Cruise.
He's in here all the time.
Yeah, with him?
No, another one of those boys.
Eighteen or 19 years old.
Called Sweetness.
Sweetness?
Real sweet tooth.
We saw Homicide.
They aren't doing any better.
Any luck on our sweet tooth?
Former juvenile offender.
Now 19.
Placed in foster care at age eight.
Truancy.
Shoplifting.
Moving up to drugs, larceny,
gun possession.
Given name is Antonio Strada.
Last person who posted bail
was his great grandmother.
Good old Mrs.
Strada.
My great-grandson has nothing to
do with that little girl's death.
Mrs.
Strada, you know Elias
got hold of a gun.
And you know, as well as we
do, that Antonio has had
gun troubles in the past.
Once.
Twice.
He's changed.
He's getting
his life together.
He helps me with the kids.
Takes them to the park for me.
He buys them candy.
The kids call him Sweetness.
The candy store that he takes Elias
to alone is off a known drug corner.
Did you know that,
Mrs.
Strada?
No, I Sunday night, a
young man named Shorty
was shot and killed with the same
gun Elias used to kill Carly Jackson.
The last time
your great-grandson
was arrested
for gun possession
he was with Shorty.
They did time together.
Mrs.
Strada,
tell us where he is.
You don't understand,
he had a horrible childhood.
His father was in prison,
his mother
who knows where
his mother was.
Please, don't hurt him.
Antonio, police.
We want to talk to you.
Sweetness?
Nobody in here.
Got blood on the walls.
Yeah, we got fresh blood
right here.
We need backup.
Two-five-two, East 132.
Body's down here.
It's him.
I need an ambulance now.
Who did this to you? Who cut
you, Sweetness? Who cut you?
Machete.
What'd he say?
I think he said Machet
Machete.
Machete.
Look at the pants,
they're both camouflage.
This is not Carly,
this is Shorty.
Meaning, Elias witnessed
this ***.
When he drew this, he wasn't
plotting out Carly Jackson's ***.
This was a cry for help.
He wanted
somebody to know what he saw.
He's been through an
interrogation, a court hearing
taken from his family
and placed in detention.
Why wouldn't
he have said something by now?
Look at the players involved.
Drug dealers and killers.
If Elias was drawn into this world
at all, he knows what happens
to people who talk.
So what are we going to do?
When an accused stands mute, the
only thing the system can do
is interpret his actions.
You know our take on it.
Well,
I know what my boss' will be.
He'll still see a bad apple
who likes seeing people dead.
So Elias needs to talk.
His attorney won his motion.
He's back home until the hearing.
Go.
You know, you people
have some nerve!
It's been horrible
for the Barreras.
They're prisoners
in their own home.
The protesters, death threats, the
media trying to sneak into the building.
You know, we try
to be good parents, we do.
Social services is threatening
to remove their baby girl.
Mr.
Barrera, it is imperative
we talk to Elias.
Why, so you can find something
else to charge him with?
Mrs.
Barrera,
we believe that your son
witnessed a ***
the night before the shooting.
What?
Oh, my God!
Stay back.
Elias, you remember me,
Elliot?
How are you doing?
We got a problem here,
big man.
I hear you've been
dragged into something bad.
Me and Sweetness, we talked.
Now, he says he's got you all
hooked up and slinging for him.
What do you do with all
the money that he gives you?
Well, you buy games,
new kicks, what?
Crayons?
Okay, Elias.
Your parents
know about everything.
But you and me, right now
Elias, you and me
have got to fix this.
He puts little bottles
in my pockets.
Okay, that's good.
You're
doing great.
Now, you and me
let's talk about
the gun, okay.
Tell me about this.
He told me
to stay in the room.
I didn't.
I saw him
shoot the man.
Okay.
What's that
at the end of the gun?
A pillow.
You could hardly
hear the ***.
Why did Sweetness
shoot Shorty?
He didn't.
Isn't that him
holding the gun?
Well, who is it?
Machete.
What did you say?
Machete.
Do you know Machete?
Well, how do you
know his name?
I heard Shorty say, "Stop, Machete,
don't, please, don't.
Stop.
"
And then what happened?
I heard sirens,
and Machete ran away.
And what happened to the gun?
Sweetness hid it in the couch.
And then he got
a big suitcase.
And I hid in the closet
because I was scared.
Then what happened?
I heard him leave.
Why did you take the gun?
I didn't want him
to kill me, too.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, this is very
important.
Where did this happen?
My sister was in the hospital.
And you were at Mrs.
Strada's?
Mrs.
Strada?
What is going on?
No one is telling me anything.
Mrs.
Strada, where were you
Sunday night?
Sunday between 10:00 and
midnight.
I was asleep.
Are you a sound sleeper?
Well, I take meclizine
at night.
It knocks me out.
Hey, anything?
Dried pee, Cheerios.
Old lady got kids?
She takes care of them.
Our guy apparently
cleaned up after himself.
Make sure you check sinks,
drains, traps, sponges.
Trash cans, light switches,
even lifted a few base boards.
No trace of blood yet.
Pillow's missing.
Okay, close the curtains.
We got blood.
Wheel marks.
Yeah.
Like the kind
on a big-*** suitcase.
They just stuffed old Shorty
in there and wheeled him on out.
Elias was right about the suitcase.
He also said he heard sirens.
Let's find out
what that problem was.
Party out of hand.
Somebody pulled out a knife.
Somebody else pulls out
a Louisville Slugger.
Brawl spilled out
into the courtyard.
You take any statements?
Thirty-five.
Stopped everyone
leaving the building.
If that's when our guy left the
building, he might be one of them.
Mind if we borrow these?
Great.
Off Elias' description, we've eliminated
Which were brought down to eight
suspects, five of whom have records.
And mug shots.
Already there, we put together a
photo array, showed it to Elias.
He recognize any of them?
Yeah, two.
Unless I'm one of them, I don't
know why you're still standing here.
Because he's positive
neither of them is Machete.
So who do we have left?
The three who didn't
have records, so no photos.
Kyung Kwon, Nicky Crow,
and Bobby Cruise.
We've met them all,
all on the selfsame corner.
So one of them's Machete.
Kwon owns a market, and was pretty
helpful in getting us some IDs.
Yeah, maybe too helpful.
Crow profits off the piety
of the local Santeros.
Cruise is a dope dealer.
Elias needs some points
with the DA's office.
Call his attorney, s ee if
he'll let him do some walk bys.
Okay.
Okay.
Are you up
for this, champ?
Is he gonna see me?
Keep your mask down.
Don't say anything, okay?
If you recognize any of these men as
Machete, just squeeze my hand, okay?
Okay.
All right.
Come on.
Hello.
I'll be with you in a second.
Hey.
Hey.
Take him outside.
Nicky Crow, you're under
arrest What're you doing?
for the *** of
Shorty Esposito.
Hold it.
You have the right to remain
silent.
Look in the refrigerator.
Yeah, we're not hungry.
I never met one who wasn't.
Go.
In the fridge?
Behind the box.
Behind the box.
What do we got?
I'm a business man.
Take it.
Leave.
Call it
cost of doing business.
Call it Class B felony.
It's okay to talk now.
Machete can't hurt you.
He's in jail.
I hear you're
a very good artist.
Do you draw all the time?
Yeah.
Can you draw me a picture of how
you felt that day in the schoolyard?
You were really scared.
Why?
I saw them behind the fence.
Who?
Machete and them.
What were they doing there?
They came to hurt me, too.
Elias
who were you shooting at?
Machete.
I didn't mean to shoot Carly.
What's going to happen to me?
What do you think
should happen to you?
What's that?
Hell.
You think you're going to burn
in Hell for what you did?
I know why you're here.
Well, forget it.
I already gave Machete to McCoy.
You should have seen his face.
It was the same look my dog
I'm not here to pick up a
case, I'm here to drop one.
Oh, no, we can't give
that kid a free ride.
We only got Machete
because of Elias' drawing.
That doesn't bring
Carly Jackson back.
Her death is a tragedy, yes,
but it was self-defense.
The vice principal at the
school corroborates his story.
Machete and his gang
were there.
Did she see them attack him?
Draw a weapon?
This is what he thinks
is going to happen to him.
Well, I think that
makes your case
and proves that he knows the
difference between right and wrong.
No, we are the ones who
don't know the difference
I'll be right there.
Fine, amend the charges
to manslaughter.
I don't want to prosecute a child at
all for a series of society's mistakes.
The Barrera's HMO wouldn't
cover their baby's condition
forcing them to work two jobs.
They had to find affordable daycare for
Elias which we both know is nonexistent.
So they put him in Mrs.
Strada's illegal daycare.
An 82-year-old woman
looking after 15 children
whose great-grandson was
using Elias as a drug runner
and giving him access to a
loaded semi-automatic handgun.
And don't get me started on the
accessibility of handguns to minors.
This boy should not
be put away.
Nobody in Sing Sing had
a great childhood, Ms.
Cabot.
You start killing at seven,
it's not a bad predictor.
You are unbelievable.
No, I am second-in-command and I
have Lewin's full support in this.
Now, listen, people know what
happened.
They want justice.
I need someone
held responsible.
The death of Carly Jackson
is the ultimate tragedy.
There are no easy solutions,
but we in the DA's office
have a moral imperative
to do the right thing
and I assure you that justice
will be served.
I am placing full authority
in the worthy hands
of a person who has been intimately
involved with every aspect
of the case
from the beginning.
Assistant District Attorney
Alex Cabot.
Will you be prosecuting
A Latino boy killed
an African-American girl.
Are you at all concerned
that if you don't prosecute
it may ignite tensions
in the neighborhood?
We know this was in no way
racially motivated.
I'm sure no responsible
member of the press
would even think to put
that kind of slant on it.
He hung her out to dry.
No matter what she does
to Elias, it's lose, lose.
Half the city's going
to hate her.
The other half
won't be turning back flips.
I talked to the Barreras, Elias
was formally expelled from school.
The State sent a tutor.
Don't let that get out.
The
state of our educational system
people will be
killing to get one.
Is there anything
we can do for Cabot?
We've exhausted the pool of
sacrificial heads for the platter.
It's out of our hands.
She needs
to look at alternate solutions.
Liz, my career's
on the line here.
And a little boy's future.
Believe
me, I haven't forgotten about him.
I can't believe my boss
did this to me.
That's what they do at the boy's
club.
Why do you think I left?
What would you do?
I really shouldn't discuss
the particulars with you
while I'm on retainer
by the defense.
Hypothetically.
I wouldn't make him another
throw-away kid and just warehouse him.
I'd put him
in supervised counseling.
That's not going to sate the public's
bloodlust.
Someone has to be punished.
You know, I had a political
future at one point.
Alex, the historical figures
I respect the most
aren't the ones who started wars,
but those who brought about peace.
You have a real
opportunity here.
The respondent clearly
understands the difference
between right and wrong.
At the time he pulled the
trigger, he knew what he was doing.
He intended to cause physical injury
or death to the boys at the fence.
Yes, he absolutely knows
what's going on here.
He understands the role
of the court
he understands the role
of the Judge
he knows his attorney
is here to help him.
He has the capacity to assist
in his own defense.
Dr.
Olivet, have you reviewed
the State examiners' reports?
I have.
Well, do you concur with their
findings? They're absolutely right.
He does understand
the procedures of the court
and he knows
his conduct was wrong.
But in my assessment,
the minor
he knows it was wrong, but at the time
he pulled that trigger, he did not.
I have no more questions.
Dr.
Olivet, you're familiar
with the People's exhibit "H"?
Very familiar.
I had him draw it.
And what exactly
did you ask him to draw?
A portrait of himself
at the time of the crime.
There was no mention of fire
in the police report.
He added that to the picture when I asked
what he thought should happen to him.
And what do
the flames represent?
Hell.
That's taking the consequences
of his actions
to the ultimate extreme,
isn't it?
Obviously, he has
the capacity to understand.
All children have some grasp
of right and wrong.
I've seen children
younger than seven
who believe they're going to
hell because they told a fib.
How do you explain
his lapse in judgment
at the time
he pulled the trigger?
He was in mortal fear.
Not only that,
he was imitating behavior.
He had seen these men wave a gun to
scare people, and he did the same.
He just wanted them
to go away.
He was imitating behavior
without understanding it
the danger, risks,
or morality.
And on what exactly do you base
your findings on his capacity?
Solely on his age
and development.
He's 7 years old.
Thank you.
You may step down.
Your Honor
the People defer
to Dr.
Olivet's findings
that the minor
lacked the capacity
to understand the consequences
of his actions
and therefore should not
be held responsible.
The People
are withdrawing charges?
It's clear the respondent lacked
the mens rea to commit a crime.
Therefore, we will
not pursue the case.
I know some of you are not
happy with today's decision.
But there's something
I'd like you to hear.
We heard you loud and clear.
The killers of black children
get off scot-free!
This cycle of violence
has got to stop somewhere.
Let it be here.
I'm Carly Jackson's mother.
I know you're all here
out of concern.
And I thank you.
But I have a favor to ask.
Go home.
Take care of your children.
Teflon.
I'm just glad the city
isn't burning.
You more than survived,
you're a hero.
Congratulations.
Thanks.
Actually, my boss is so happy,
he said I could take Sunday off.
We were on our way
to McMullen's.
How about we buy you
a congratulatory drink?
Sure.
Great.
Hey, Cap, you coming?
Police, coming through.
Neighbors jumped him.
Would have killed him if
we hadn't been a block away.
Who is he?
A relative?
Outraged citizen.
How old is he?
Twelve.
Name's Thomas James.
Goes
by TJ.
Anyone see it happen?
Best we can put together, he tried
to join a group of kids playing ball.
They shunned him.
He walks off, alone.
That's when TJ shows up.
Get off me, man.
Hey, leave me alone.
Can't kill a sister
and just walk.
Hey, come on, man.
Leave me
alone, man.
I ain't do nothing man.
Cycle never ends, does it?
Welcome to the Gaza Strip.