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 a caucasian kid, i ve never 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 believes young black men are unfairly subjected to racial profiling.
man. okay, okay. well, you know, they ll work the justice system does work. 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. the but then i ll see charlton in trouble again. you got the 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, i m going to go straight work, straight to home, you know. for real. i got faith in you. 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.
you do all the things that you believe you should do. you feed them, house them, clothe them, put them in college, you do all 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 thing 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 though killer. i know he knows that. i just really want to talk to him. that s the worst thing in my mind. have my dad think that. 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
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 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 believes young black men are unfairly subjected to racial profiling. carlton has been more or less
bored. carlton was being pulled through the streets, and they had a great way of doing it. solomon says while he was away in the military, his young son fell in with the wrong crowd. they ll find a weakness in a child and exploit the weakness. once they introduce him to alcohol, they give him more alcohol. from that point then, they give him reefer. from that point, they put something in the reefer. next thing you know, he s got a habit. i didn t find out until he was arrested that he had a habit that dealt with a little cocaine. prosecutors allege that carlton jr. was one of three men involved in a robbery and murder. the victim s brother survived and later identified solomon from a mugshot. if found guilty, solomon could be executed. i don t believe that my son has the capability to do something like that.