i don t want my son locked up nowhere. i want you to stay encouraged. i want you to keep your head up. i am keeping my head up. i want you to know i had nothing to do with this. so i m trying to keep my head up the best i can. yeah. yeah, i know. being in here sucks, you know? i know. i know. i know. it s like being in captivity. i know it suck. it s just a modern form of slavery. carlton s had a little past, and everything is based upon the past. but i see this with many of our minority kids. they ll be locked up, they ll be searched 15, 20, 30 times. but if a cajun kid, i ve never seen searched 15, 20, 30 times. i don t want my son harassed and bothered. i don t want my son pushed on a car and people searching him for nothing. i don t want that. though carlton sr. acknowledges his son s problems with the law and drugs, he
so, if you re innocent, they ll prove you innocent. for his sake, i hope that it s true because i want to see him live a prosperous life. i talked to him a lot of time about changing his ways. he ll give you that classic smile of his and say, yes, sir. but then i ll see charlton in trouble again. you got to stop doing this to your dad, man. you putting more and more gray hair in his head. you make a promise, you get out this time, that s it. man, i m going to make a promise. if i get out this time, i m going to go straight work, straight to home, you know. for real. i got faith in you. i m going to shake on that. you can tell deep inside he is a good person. i want him to learn from his mistakes and make his dad proud. today, solomon s father, carlton sr., has come to the jail to visit his son. hey, stranger. how you doing? been a long time, long time. haven t seen you in a long time, man. i ve met his father from visiting at juvenile and spoke with him a lot. i know he c
i want you to know i had nothing to do with this. so i m trying to keep my head up the best i can. yeah. yeah, i know. being in here sucks, you know? i know. i know. i know. it s like being in captivity. i know it sucks. it s just a modern form of slavery. carlton s had a little past, and everything is based upon the past. but i see this with many of our minority kids. they ll be locked up, they ll be searched 15, 20, 30 times. but if a cajun kid, i ve never seen searched 15, 20, 30 times. i don t want my son harassed and bothered. i don t want my son pushed on a car and people searching him for nothing. i don t want that. though carlton sr. acknowledges his son s problems with both the law and drugs, he believes young black men are unfairly subjected to racial profiling. carlton has been more or less searched some 30-plus times.
he does a lot with the youth in his community. so it s not only carlton and his own children, he looks out for other kids. i talked to your boy. i talked to him as usual. thank you. i appreciate it. any time. for you, any time. i know you re a good dad. i know you look out for him. that s why i talk to him also. my son has been accused of a horrific crime. and i m here in support of my son. not to find out what s going on because i can t do it here. but i need to let him know let him be assured that his family s here to support him. i d like to see my son, carlton solomon. yes, sir. i m a little ashamed that i have to come in this type of environment to see my son behind bars. go to number 18 thank you very much. carlton come from a family that don t drink, don t smoke, don t gamble, don t dope, he came from that kind of family. he came from a family that went to church. he came from a family that was independent. i couldn t understand why carlton was drawn to the street.
the things you re supposed to but you never know. even right now i still don t know. i went off to the military. somewhere down the line, some things shifted in his life. how it shifted, i don t know. i wasn t in the presence. why it shifted, i still don t know. i didn t know. i wasn t in the presence. but some things changed with him, but he s my son. he is my son. be right or wrong, he s still going to be my son. i know my dad knows in his heart that i ain t no killer. i know he knows that. i just really want to talk to him. that s the worst thing like in my mind having my dad think i m a killer. though carlton sr. couldn t meet with his son, in a few days he will return to visit him. but with carlton jr. denied bail, it could be years before he touches him again since murder trials rarely move quickly.