that made that point, too. is that what push is trying to say. yeah, he is the messenger. you better be careful how you do it. up next, the supreme court, same-sex marriage and fast-changing politics, and first, politics say the darnedest things, and his young interview takes issue with a run-on sentence. even the best writers usually, it s not that good the first time they write it. i think you sort of covered everything about that. you think i just you think i have been talking too long? no, i just think no, let s move it along.
into a officially administered injustice and then revulsion and reform requires the presentation of sympathetic victims to a large audience which the central park five does. this is from a conservative columnist. does. you might expect to be on the other side of this issue. this is not a left-to-right issue, this is an issue of justice. if we say liberty and justice for all, we ought to mean it. it shouldn t be for people who can afford it or for people who are unaware of their miranda rights. it shouldn t be a 14-year-old spends 30 hours in interrogation and the cops still insist 24 years later this week that they were acting in good faith. you don t coerce a confession and call that good faith. it s time for the mayor to wake up and say, look, as part of my legacy let s put a period at the end of this long run-on sentence of injustice and say liberate not only the five and their families but the cops and everybody else. ken, always great to see you. congratulations on this.
16-year-old kids. good kids who had never been in the system before. didn t know how to lawyer up. they were trying to satisfy the cops. the cops had them without their parents for most of the time. no food, no lawyer, no drink. they re saying things like, we know you didn t do it. you re a good kid. but if you say that ken did it, we ll let you go home. even when they coached them on what to say, there were phenomenal contradictions in their confessions. at some point, we have to just say, stop, put an end to this long run-on sentence of injustice but we have to say, how does this happen? this film was put together not without controversy. the city of new york tried to subpoena some of your footage. so talk about that and talk about what happens again when it s released on pbs. we spent years making this film. and we pleaded with the city, the cops and the prosecutors to be interviewed for our film. and they, i think in a cowardly fashion, hid behind the ongoing civil suit and sai
why did they confess so readily? were they coerced? yes, they were definitely coerced. these were 14, 15 and 16-year-old kids. good kids who had never been in the system before. didn t know how to lawyer up. they were trying to satisfy the cops. the cops had them without their parents, no food, no lawyer, no drink. they re saying things like, we know you didn t do it. you re a good kid. but if you say that ken did it, we ll let you go home. even when they coached them on what to say, there were phenomenal contradictions in their confessions. at some point, we have to just say, stop, put an end to this long run-on sentence of injustice but we have to say, how does this happen? this film was put together not without controversy. the city of new york tried to subpoena some of your footage. so talk about that and talk about what happens again when it s released on pbs. we spent years making this film. and we pleaded with the city, the cops and the prosecutors to be interviewed for
trial. they re hoping to outlast the five. why did they confess so readily? were they coerced? yes, they were definitely coerced. these were 14, 15 and 16-year-old kids. good kids who had never been in the system before. didn t know how to lawyer up. they were trying to satisfy the cops. the cops had them without their parents, no food, no lawyer, no drink. they re saying things like, we know you didn t do it. you re a good kid. but if you say that ken did it, we ll let you go home. even when they coached them on what to say, there were phenomenal contradictions in their confessions. spoi at some point, we have to just say, stop, put an end to this long run-on sentence of injustice but we have to say, how does this happen? this film was put together not without controversy. the city of new york tried to subpoena some of your footage. so talk about that and talk about what happens again when it s released on pbs. we spent years making this