system doesn t want to acknowledge that they made a mistake, but you made a mistake. the detective was like you re gonna tell us who did this and i was like, i didn t do anything. to hear the judge say guilty. everything just froze. two brothers convicted of murder their fight back against the justice system. twice is a pattern, pattern of how to gain a conviction. they knew they were innocent and the question was do we have enough. you have several witnesses saying their testimony was coerced, can they all be lying? if i have to die in this situation, let it be said that i died trying to prove that i was an innocent man, never that i gave up. never. hello and welcome to dateline, imagine spending nearly your entire adult life for a crime you did not commit, the minute the man you re about to meet say that that nightmare felt all too real to a decades long journey to prove their innocence they face roadblocks, giving up was not an option but would their fi
low income community like north pulse. then, and now, if you are a 17 year old black teenager, like malcolm was in 1994, you are on the police radar. whether you are in a gang, or not. i frequently heard complaints from kids about being arrested for no reason. or being hassled and being stopped. being called gang members when they have worn certain color. ziva branstetter was an investigative crime reporter for the tulsa news paper for 22 years. i think the vast majority were good cops, doing their job, trying to keep up. going from call to call. but there were other reports of you know, indiscriminate arrests. she says what she saw in tulsa, reflected the stark reality all across the country. tulsa was roughly 10% african american, but the u. s. arrest rate among african americans, was 43%. if you are a kid back then, it was easier to grow pencil tulsa, the north. absolutely. i raised two kids in south
being arrested for no reason. or being hassled and being stopped. being called gang members when they have worn certain color. ziva branstetter was an investigative crime reporter for the tulsa use papered for 22 years. i think the vast majority were good cops, doing their job, trying to keep up. going from call to call. but there were other reports of you know, indiscriminate arrests. she says what she saw in tulsa, reflected the stark reality all across the country. tulsa was roughly 10% african american, but the u.s. arrest rate among african americans, was 43%. if you are a kid back then, it was easier to grow pencil tulsa, the north. absolutely. i raised two kids in south tulsa, and i did not have to worry about my boys being pulled over for no reason. i did not worry about the safety of my friends. how bad was the gang problem, in tulsa? the gang problem was bad.