my interrogation started the very next evening along with korey wise.an to question me, i would hear them beating korey wise up in the next room. he was 16 years old by the way. i was not supposed to be interrogated without a parent but because he was 16, the american judicial system, the 16—year—old is adultified and therefore responsible for themselves. the problem with that is that he had a lower capacity to understand, and so his mental capacity may have been still on the fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade, even though he was 16 years old. they would beat him up and then they would come back in the room that i was in and tell me i was next. all the while they were asking me "tell us what happened in the park" and i would tell them. everything that i saw, everything that i remembered happening, and then i would say that we left and we hopped on the train he came home. and they would get so frustrated with me because in their minds, i was concealing something and the truth of the matter is that we weren't concealing anything. we didn't know anyth

actually the only person that i knew in the group was korey wise.nt into the park thinking that we were going to be hanging out — it was young people hanging out with older people and as you can imagine, that is something that usually never happens. most of the time, when you are a young person, if you have older siblings and your mother or father says "you can go outside but you have to take your younger brother or sister with you". there is this desire not to want them to be with you but in this particular case, there was young people hanging out with all the people for the first time and we thought it would be cool to see what it is like and what made those people so cool. and of course, one thing led to another and then almost all of us who were not involved in any of the mayhem in the park, were like deers in the headlights as we began to witness the terrible things that were going on — people being beaten up, people being robbed and people being assaulted. there were actually individuals who are convicted of those crimes that never became know