three weeks after officer yip praised the efforts of lesean barry stevens, barry stevens is no longer on the youth tier >> i heard he got kicked out of youth program so i was up on the fourth floor and he was there. he came right up to me and i said, what happened? and he said that he messed up. it was fighting. you know you can't fight in the program. so he's in the regular housing unit. >> got into a little incident, a little problem, altercation with somebody. i wasn't built for the youth tier. it was too much stress. too much stress. too much stress in my head. always worrying about the other kids around because they get on on your nerves so bad and the type of person i am, i like to fight. you can't do that so everything is built up. it's stressful. >> i'm disappointed. i put a lot of man hours into him talking about his future, he could go, what he could do, and it was all right here. for him to make this choice to try to beat somebody up, such a short vision to the long term picture. that's the hard part with kids. they're incapable of addressing the future. they live for here

>> officer yip is not part of the youth tier program he has come to see potential in barry stevens chargedrial. >> uno. >> what inspired you today? >> he's got potential in him. he has talent. smart. so i took it upon myself to say let's play a game. >> you think you will see this young man again after he leaves here? >> always better on the outside but i prefer not to see him here. don't think he belongs here. >> we take the time to talk to them and have a conversation. when i came to jail i had the same -- might as well i got to survive it. so i became just like that. they want to fight i'm going to fight. i just didn't care. >> just returned from a court hearing on charges of first degree gang related assault. he pled guilty. >> place better than this. >> which is what? >> hope house. >> hope house is one of dozens of outside agencies that work with the youth tier initiative. it provides housing, education and transition for young offenders back into society. he could have gotten up to seven years in state prison he will now spend the next three years at hope house. >> congratulations.

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. >> film pioneer steven spielberg is co-producing this haunting new drama that unearths this strange new phenomenon gripping children in the nation's capital. he talked with barryan, a defense department operative who is trying to figure out what is trying to tell the children to do the unthinkable. >> it takes a fresh and somewhat eerie look at imaginary friends. >> we don't know what that entails and we don't know if they're supernatural extraterrestrial, we don't know what any of this is coming from, but we do know that the voices make them do very bad things. >> you can catch the premiere of "the whispers" tonight at 10:00 on abc 7. >> it's a little eerie. >>> aibt 7 news at 4:00 continues and owecontinue up next the firestorm of controversy, why the threat of wildfires is causing so much outrage. >> when the ceo of goldman sachs says he'd be fine with either bush or clinton that should be a wake-up call for all of us. >> democrat versus democrat the man challenging hillary clinton comes out swinging against the former live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. >>> here are the headlines of the day where you live as we approach 4:30. a thief