They will often keep trying. "OK, so you've requested a lawyer and we won't be able to talk to you after this, we can't help you at all. Are you sure you want to go to jail for life instead of just explaining what happened?" and then it becomes "subject changed his mind." It's harder than it sound sometimes, but you have to stick to it and not say a damn word.

If a pretty bizarre set of circumstances with the PI (operating as a driving instructor) and the non-criminal lawyer hadn't come together these kids would still be incarcerated. How fucking scary is that?

Eleven days after the shooting, Rayford and Glass were at a Highland High School basketball game. A teacher walked up to Glass and took him to a deputy. Rayford walked over to see what was happening. Both teenagers went to jail that night and didn’t get out for nearly two decades.

At the sheriff’s station, Glass remembered seeing a bulletin for his arrest on the wall, devil horns drawn with red ink on his photo. He said there were darts in the poster.

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“I was shocked, confused, scared, nervous. I couldn’t see myself going to jail for something I hadn’t done,” he said. “I always assumed … everything was going to iron itself out. I would have bet a million dollars I was going home that day.”

Prison was tough on the two lifers. As a juvenile, Glass started in county jail and eventually was sent to a Level 4, high-security, state correctional facility. There were nights that Glass went to sleep praying he wouldn’t wake up.

Subjecting two innocent kids to a 20 year nightmare. Imagine yourself at 17 suddenly thrust into this situation. Fuck the police and the prosecutors in this case.

I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I am 100% for recording ALL of your interactions with the police. Up until recently (2020) in my state the police were abusing an anti-wiretapping law to prevent citizens from recording them, but since then:

This right was established in a case brought by ACLUM, Martin v. Rollins, 982 F.3d 813, 827 (1st Cir. 2020), which was consolidated with another case, Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rollins. There, the First Circuit said the Massachusetts Wiretap Statute’s criminalization of the secret recording of police officers in public spaces violated the First Amendment.

You're within your First Amendment rights to record police and your interactions, surreptitiously or not, at any time. State law cannot supersede the Constitution. You benefit because the police are often intentionally slow (see any number of articles posted here in this community) to release their own bodycam footage, and often go weeks if not months or years providing a false narrative to the public. Record it yourself.

Dude, do not get me started on bullshit copaganda shows. I have rants.

Instead it's the opposite. Just this year in my little area of the world, four BPD officers were acquitted of embezzlement basically under the basis that they didn't know it was illegal.

But they love to tell you that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

“These charges are extremely troubling because there is no place for corruption in the NYPD,” Police Commissioner Edward Caban said.

Bruh, corruption is practically all the NYPD does these days.

For example, calling out propaganda is doing something. :) Thanks, @JoJoGAH.

Not everyone is doing nothing. Some people are doing something. You can do something today, too, even if it's small.