When They See Us Official Thread

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Powerful shyt.

If I had kids around this age, I'd sit down and watch this with them. Even pre-teens need to see this. Whole time I was watching it I was thinking about my nephews who are only like 10 and 11, just innocent as fukk and growing up in a society that views them as future monsters. I see people giving this film the "slave" movie treatment and calling it torture porn, but this story needs to be told and shared with people who could be faced with this kind of situation today. So much could be learned from watching this with the youth IMO.

My wife was balling throughout each episode

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Mad that I had her watch it, but shyt, we need to watch and support real work like this because it's impactful and it resonates 30 years later.
 

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My pops would NEVER be shook like that.
We'd be in that bytch fighting these pigs.
Smh @ Omar.
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That was awful man
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Deep down, I wonder if some of their parents started believing that they had something to do with it.

What's crazy is how Yusef's moms pulled him out of there before signing anything or making a tape and he still got time. What. The. fukk.

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And that's why muhfukkas need to watch this shyt, parents and kids, cause the main reason they got fukked so hard was because of those bullshyt admissions and confessions

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That was awful man
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Deep down, I wonder if some of their parents started believing that they had something to do with it.

What's crazy is how Yusef's moms pulled him out of their before signing anything or making a tape and he still got time. What. The. fukk.

:wtf:

And that's why muhfukkas need to watch this shyt, parents and kids, cause the main reason they got fukked so hard was because of those bullshyt admissions and confessions

:pacspit:

That's why she wanted a separate case but went with together case which is why her son got time.
 
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Disgusting. Not the series, that's AMAZING, acting, directing, emotions, everything...

But the way these young men were treated. This is an indictment on the judicial system as a whole. Yeah, I'm sure things MAY have gotten SLIGHTLY better now that we have cameras everywhere and can hold them just a hair more accountable. But damn, these cats were done from the moment they all were picked up. Yeah, most of them had good support systems but back then, they didn't have the slightest clue as to what to do for them. All they wanted was to get their kids home, so they gave up a lot just to make that happen. Parents signing forms they had no idea of, kids stressed and in questioning for 18+ hours, it was all apart of the plan.

Have them stressed, under heavy duress, mental and emotional...I got upset at the parents, Raymond and Trons dads'...but then I thought, what did they know? All they wanted was to bring their kids home so they made hasty decisions and suffered greatly with remorse and regret. Hell, Kevin sister felt like she didn't deserve fun or happiness. It was hard on not only the boys but their families and supports.

Disgusting how the legal system betrayed these boys. All because some precious white woman was attacked (which isn't good of course) they went looking for SOMEONE to pin it on. No excuse for what was going on in the park that night, but kids do MAJORLY DUMB things all the time. Just crazy how they realized the dots weren't connecting in their stories so they just MADE UP facts to connect them...problem is, when you build the foundation on lies, everything else has to be lies as well.
I openly cried on episode 3, so much emotions after their release and how they were viewed and had to live smh...I'm scared of number 4, because I KNOW Korey caught it the worst, and he wasn't even there!!! Cops got these boys to say and sign all kinds of ridiculousness.

I'm telling you, Karma will come to those who did this. Everyone involved who treated these young men like that, cops, brass, judicial system. There was a jury member who lives with regret 30+ years b/c she felt she KNEW she should'v fought harder for them. Yuseff and his mom pissed me off, but i understand the sentiment. Moms just wanted HER SON to be free. Korey was 1000% a real one and Yusief moms just dogged him out. Hard place to be in, I honestly don't know what I would've done as a parent. SMH I'm so upset and angry but want to finish this. Sorry for the long rant/post but I had to put this out there...God Bless those men and their families...
 
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