Korey Wise - respect to that brother. The amount of pain and trauma he's had to experience is incredible. Seen a couple people say it implied he was raped in jail, thought they just beat him up. I was speaking to someone about this movie and they mentioned he lived in their building, they had nothing but kind words.
Need an Elizabeth Lederer interview, she is the only person involved in the case who doesn't speak. Fully expect Linda Fairstein to speak at some point.
Saw an interview with Yusef where he mentioned the cops took Korey to the crime scene and told him his shoes were untied. As he went to bend down he tried kicking him to the ground so they use his clothes as evidence.
Did black parents teach their kids its okay to talk to the police in the 80s or just say "I didn't do it".
I didn't grow up in the 80s. The 90s rather, and my parents said shut the fukk up.
So I shut the fukk up.
You can at least teach kids to be mute until you or another guardian gets there.
Yusef mentioned he thought cops were his friends, he didn't see the big deal in talking to the cops because he didn't do anything. His mother mentioned the cops were mainpulating the boys and their parents a lot.
This was 80s/90s NY; they were getting those kids no matter what. In the space of months, you had this case, Yusef Hawkins. On the night of this attack, a black woman was raped and thrown off a building