settlement with the family of the victims. not closure. but perhaps closer. we cannot bring back the nine victims. or erase the scars the survivors have. what we do here today is lawyers and the families is we say we stand on justice. sb 2122. illinois becoming the first state to ban police from lying to or deceiving minors during interrogation. a sweeping criminal justice law. a practice that led to wrongful convictions of countless young people. most of them black boys. in the city of became the first in the nation to pay reparations to black residents. whose families had been stripped of opportunity, wealth, and the promises that come with citizen ship in the country. $400,000 will go to qualified applicants. for housing assistance. but the plan was not without controversy. and push back.
shaquille brewster has been looking into all of this. check this out. as the bill was signed, swift was in tears, considering what he lost. this bill, i truly believe, could have saved my life. reporter: swift spent more than 15 years in prison, convicted of a rape and murder he didn t commit. lied to by detectives and coerced into a confession during an interrogation without his attorney or his parents. i was taken advantage of, and manipulated by the police. me being a 17-year-old, i was led to believe that if i worked with them or cooperated, i would go home. because they told you that? because they told me that. reporter: sb-2122, illinois becoming the first state to ban police from lying to or deceiving minors during interrogations. false confessions have played a role in far too many