1 00:00:06,330 --> 00:00:08,032 In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:08,102 --> 00:00:11,776 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:12,117 --> 00:00:13,709 the police who investigate crime, 4 00:00:13,989 --> 00:00:16,282 and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:16,762 --> 00:00:18,094 These are their stories. 6 00:00:23,270 --> 00:00:25,172 Fourteen out of 20. 7 00:00:25,443 --> 00:00:27,535 I suck at math. 8 00:00:27,615 --> 00:00:29,207 You just need to practice more. 9 00:00:29,687 --> 00:00:31,990 Fourteen out of 20. What's the percentage? 10 00:00:42,883 --> 00:00:44,475 Seventy? That's passing, right? 11 00:00:44,555 --> 00:00:46,577 Don't shoot for passing, Moses. Shoot for 100. 12 00:00:46,718 --> 00:00:48,660 Now, come on. Look at question four again. 13 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:50,462 I know you know how to do that one. 14 00:00:57,180 --> 00:00:58,171 B? 15 00:00:58,251 --> 00:00:59,242 Right on the nose, my man. 16 00:00:59,312 --> 00:01:01,845 Keep it up, and you'll be coming here to school with me next year. 17 00:01:02,626 --> 00:01:04,959 But what would you do if you were in my shoes? Invest it? 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,392 Five years working on Wall Street and you don't know? 19 00:01:07,472 --> 00:01:09,765 Look, the company I worked for nearly destroyed the world economy. 20 00:01:09,835 --> 00:01:11,437 I'm probably the wrong guy to ask. 21 00:01:11,507 --> 00:01:12,498 Hey. 22 00:01:12,808 --> 00:01:13,970 What is that? A garbage fire? 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:15,241 Damn kids. 24 00:01:15,321 --> 00:01:16,312 I got it. 25 00:01:17,694 --> 00:01:20,427 24 Eddie to Central K. Be advised we have a 59 26 00:01:20,497 --> 00:01:22,730 in a vacant lot at 115th near Madison. 27 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,333 I think we can put it out. Just show us 84 at this location. 28 00:01:33,523 --> 00:01:35,255 What's that smell? 29 00:01:41,412 --> 00:01:42,403 Damn. 30 00:01:50,393 --> 00:01:52,485 Some kids ran off when we turned the corner. 31 00:01:52,565 --> 00:01:53,556 Some kids? 32 00:01:53,636 --> 00:01:56,540 We didn't realize what it was. We thought it was garbage burning. 33 00:01:56,670 --> 00:02:00,244 Every available body in the 23 and the 25 is out canvassing right now. 34 00:02:00,414 --> 00:02:02,046 Yeah, well, you might want to join them. 35 00:02:02,957 --> 00:02:05,450 All right, well, get this into evidence. Thanks. 36 00:02:05,530 --> 00:02:07,122 What have you got? 37 00:02:07,202 --> 00:02:09,365 They found an empty can of paint thinner up the block. 38 00:02:09,435 --> 00:02:11,567 Somebody was painting their flower box. 39 00:02:11,638 --> 00:02:13,510 Cesar Ramirez, 16. 40 00:02:13,610 --> 00:02:16,643 School ID from Sunrise Academy, it's a couple of blocks that way, 41 00:02:16,714 --> 00:02:17,985 one of those new charter schools. 42 00:02:18,055 --> 00:02:20,528 Trying to help kids in lousy neighborhoods. 43 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:24,803 Give them a better education to break the cycle of violence. 44 00:02:24,903 --> 00:02:27,396 Looks like they've got a little ways to go. 45 00:03:19,087 --> 00:03:22,651 Who would do this to my baby? 46 00:03:22,731 --> 00:03:23,993 Who? Who? 47 00:03:24,103 --> 00:03:26,005 We're very sorry, Mrs. Ramirez. 48 00:03:26,135 --> 00:03:27,967 He was such a good boy. 49 00:03:28,037 --> 00:03:32,102 You know, he didn't argue with anyone, not even his own father. 50 00:03:32,182 --> 00:03:35,346 I made him come right home from school. No staying on the streets. 51 00:03:35,426 --> 00:03:37,619 Never went nowhere we didn't know where he was going. 52 00:03:38,460 --> 00:03:40,022 And he was at school last night? 53 00:03:40,102 --> 00:03:42,865 Yes! He was helping other students. 54 00:03:42,935 --> 00:03:46,880 He was at that school only a year, and already he was so good 55 00:03:46,950 --> 00:03:49,082 he could be a tutor. 56 00:03:49,152 --> 00:03:52,456 We found him on 115th near Madison. 57 00:03:52,656 --> 00:03:55,189 That's not on a straight route home. 58 00:03:55,530 --> 00:03:56,931 I called him last night to see where he was, 59 00:03:57,002 --> 00:03:58,664 but his phone went to a message. 60 00:04:00,275 --> 00:04:02,578 There was no phone when we found him. 61 00:04:03,079 --> 00:04:04,480 Is that why they killed my boy? 62 00:04:05,822 --> 00:04:06,813 For a phone? 63 00:04:07,023 --> 00:04:08,555 We don't know, sir. 64 00:04:08,996 --> 00:04:10,427 Can you think of anything else? 65 00:04:10,497 --> 00:04:12,260 Was he having any problems at school? 66 00:04:12,340 --> 00:04:13,671 No, no, no, not there. 67 00:04:14,412 --> 00:04:15,874 That was the whole point. 68 00:04:15,944 --> 00:04:16,935 That school... 69 00:04:21,791 --> 00:04:24,093 We waited in line all night to sign him up. 70 00:04:25,765 --> 00:04:28,829 When he got here, Cesar was reading below grade level. 71 00:04:29,340 --> 00:04:30,811 By the end of his first year, 72 00:04:30,881 --> 00:04:34,145 he scored in the top 10% on his English Regents Exam. 73 00:04:34,516 --> 00:04:36,488 He was headed toward a four-year college. 74 00:04:36,558 --> 00:04:37,549 That's pretty impressive. 75 00:04:37,659 --> 00:04:39,652 A lot of these kids have the potential. 76 00:04:39,732 --> 00:04:41,294 We take a holistic approach, 77 00:04:41,364 --> 00:04:44,307 keep them busy after school, coordinate with social services. 78 00:04:44,377 --> 00:04:47,641 Did Cesar need help along those lines? Social services? 79 00:04:47,711 --> 00:04:49,774 No. His parents were doing their part. 80 00:04:49,954 --> 00:04:52,547 They kept him out of trouble and were smart enough to get him in here. 81 00:04:52,627 --> 00:04:55,390 Do your students have any issues with kids from the public schools? 82 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:57,493 We're officially a public school, too. 83 00:04:57,873 --> 00:05:01,678 We just get to operate with our own rules and private support. 84 00:05:02,208 --> 00:05:04,441 One of our donors has offered a reward, 85 00:05:04,681 --> 00:05:07,084 $25,000 to find who did this. 86 00:05:07,154 --> 00:05:10,288 We understand Cesar was tutoring someone last night. 87 00:05:10,458 --> 00:05:12,661 We open our library to other children in the community 88 00:05:12,731 --> 00:05:14,393 and encourage our students to help them. 89 00:05:14,473 --> 00:05:16,445 Is one of those charts a tutoring log? 90 00:05:16,605 --> 00:05:18,638 No, but I can pull one up. 91 00:05:18,718 --> 00:05:19,709 Thanks. 92 00:05:23,393 --> 00:05:26,327 Man... Cesar. 93 00:05:26,667 --> 00:05:28,459 He was really nice to me. 94 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:30,091 Did you see anyone with him 95 00:05:30,171 --> 00:05:31,833 after he finished tutoring you last night? 96 00:05:32,714 --> 00:05:36,479 He just came outside with me, like always, while I waited for my mom. 97 00:05:36,989 --> 00:05:39,582 That boy was waiting with Moses when I got there. 98 00:05:40,023 --> 00:05:41,515 He seemed like a good one. 99 00:05:41,935 --> 00:05:43,096 Moses was so cut up this morning 100 00:05:43,167 --> 00:05:44,798 about what happened, I let him 101 00:05:44,869 --> 00:05:46,571 stay home from school. 102 00:05:46,641 --> 00:05:48,203 It's not fair. 103 00:05:49,214 --> 00:05:51,016 Cesar never hurt anybody. 104 00:05:51,757 --> 00:05:52,878 He just helped. 105 00:05:55,231 --> 00:05:57,293 I'm going to the corner for a Dr Pepper. You want one, Mo? 106 00:05:57,363 --> 00:05:58,354 Nah. I'm good. 107 00:05:58,805 --> 00:06:01,038 I'll get you one anyway. Cheer you up. 108 00:06:06,654 --> 00:06:08,276 It's hard growing up in a neighborhood like this 109 00:06:08,356 --> 00:06:11,190 and getting along with everybody. I know. 110 00:06:12,701 --> 00:06:15,194 Can you think of anyone who may have had a beef with Cesar? 111 00:06:15,605 --> 00:06:19,910 One time, this kid stepped to Cesar while we were waiting for my mom. 112 00:06:20,921 --> 00:06:23,754 A girl was with us. I think Cesar liked her. 113 00:06:23,824 --> 00:06:24,816 A girl? 114 00:06:25,156 --> 00:06:26,147 Yeah. 115 00:06:26,558 --> 00:06:29,431 So the kid tells Cesar to just leave her be, 116 00:06:29,501 --> 00:06:32,304 but she was just talking to us till my mom got there. 117 00:06:32,545 --> 00:06:33,636 You know this kid's name? 118 00:06:33,706 --> 00:06:36,309 No, but he goes to Burr, where my brother goes. 119 00:06:36,379 --> 00:06:39,413 Aaron Burr High? Pretty rough place. 120 00:06:39,593 --> 00:06:41,155 That's where all the kids go, 121 00:06:41,465 --> 00:06:43,257 except the ones that got into that new school. 122 00:06:43,327 --> 00:06:45,170 This girl, do you know her name? 123 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:46,591 Jolie. 124 00:06:47,102 --> 00:06:48,544 She goes to Burr, too. 125 00:06:49,515 --> 00:06:51,807 But she's always at the library at Sunrise. 126 00:06:52,849 --> 00:06:55,652 Yes, I've heard about the murder. Everyone's talking about it. 127 00:06:55,722 --> 00:06:57,594 Anyone talking about who did it? 128 00:06:58,335 --> 00:07:01,429 Most of these kids worship at the Church of Don't Snitch. 129 00:07:01,509 --> 00:07:03,601 Has word gotten out about the reward? 130 00:07:03,671 --> 00:07:05,734 Yeah, $25,000? 131 00:07:06,014 --> 00:07:08,547 Keep that where I can't see it or lose it, Kalani. 132 00:07:08,617 --> 00:07:10,780 You know you shouldn't even have it at school. 133 00:07:11,030 --> 00:07:12,462 You know what kind of reward was offered 134 00:07:12,532 --> 00:07:16,126 when one of my sophomores ran into some gang crossfire last fall? 135 00:07:16,537 --> 00:07:17,528 Zero. 136 00:07:17,608 --> 00:07:20,011 Nobody cares about the ones left behind. 137 00:07:21,152 --> 00:07:22,133 Edison. Yeah. 138 00:07:22,213 --> 00:07:23,685 Did you find Jolie Henderson for me? 139 00:07:23,755 --> 00:07:24,846 Oh, yeah. She's in there. 140 00:07:24,926 --> 00:07:26,218 This way. 141 00:07:27,459 --> 00:07:28,451 Jolie. 142 00:07:29,101 --> 00:07:32,165 Jolie Henderson, Officers Lupo and Bernard. 143 00:07:33,236 --> 00:07:35,038 Uh, hi. You know why we're here? 144 00:07:35,108 --> 00:07:37,101 About that Sunrise kid who got killed. 145 00:07:37,211 --> 00:07:38,442 We heard you knew him. 146 00:07:38,522 --> 00:07:41,286 Enough to say hi. I saw him at their library a lot. 147 00:07:41,356 --> 00:07:44,089 It's a lot nicer than ours. No offense, Ms. Woodside. 148 00:07:44,159 --> 00:07:45,150 You were there last night. 149 00:07:45,431 --> 00:07:47,633 Yeah. I saw him, but we didn't talk. 150 00:07:47,703 --> 00:07:49,676 You have any idea where he went when he left? 151 00:07:50,206 --> 00:07:52,509 Home, I guess. I don't know. 152 00:07:52,579 --> 00:07:55,783 We heard a boyfriend of yours had words with Cesar a while back. 153 00:07:55,893 --> 00:07:58,686 Who, Jay? Jay is not my boyfriend. 154 00:07:58,766 --> 00:08:00,358 He thought he was my boyfriend. 155 00:08:00,428 --> 00:08:03,101 Is he jealous? Possessive? 156 00:08:03,241 --> 00:08:04,403 Stupid. 157 00:08:05,314 --> 00:08:07,216 He saw me with Cesar one night, just standing there, 158 00:08:07,276 --> 00:08:09,379 doing nothing, and he wants to trip. 159 00:08:09,649 --> 00:08:11,211 I set him straight the next day. 160 00:08:11,291 --> 00:08:13,193 I was not his to trip over. 161 00:08:15,266 --> 00:08:17,068 I've got class. Can I go? 162 00:08:17,138 --> 00:08:19,471 Yeah. Uh, what's this Jay's last name? 163 00:08:20,672 --> 00:08:21,663 Spivey. 164 00:08:22,044 --> 00:08:23,375 Thank you. 165 00:08:23,816 --> 00:08:26,549 Maybe we should talk to Jay Spivey while we're here. 166 00:08:26,789 --> 00:08:27,881 All right. 167 00:08:28,491 --> 00:08:31,955 Edison, can you tell me where Jason Spivey is right now? 168 00:08:34,939 --> 00:08:36,811 Not here. Marked absent today. 169 00:08:42,388 --> 00:08:44,830 Look, the only place I've been the past three days 170 00:08:44,901 --> 00:08:47,464 is this couch and that bathroom. 171 00:08:47,634 --> 00:08:48,865 You sure about that? 172 00:08:50,307 --> 00:08:52,439 I got the swine flu. 173 00:08:52,509 --> 00:08:55,113 You don't believe me, you can hit up my doc. 174 00:08:55,353 --> 00:08:57,045 We may do that. 175 00:08:57,956 --> 00:09:02,631 I mean, I don't go around firing people up anyway, you know? 176 00:09:02,802 --> 00:09:06,636 I mean, I didn't like Cesar, but, damn... 177 00:09:06,806 --> 00:09:09,479 And what those kids did to him was sick. 178 00:09:10,180 --> 00:09:12,954 You know, hitting him with a stick when he's already flaming up. 179 00:09:15,527 --> 00:09:17,829 How'd you know about that? Hmm? 180 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:21,534 You got a magical view of 115th Street from your couch? 181 00:09:22,074 --> 00:09:23,476 No. 182 00:09:25,649 --> 00:09:27,180 I heard some kids talking. 183 00:09:27,961 --> 00:09:29,623 They came here to keep me company. 184 00:09:29,823 --> 00:09:34,128 They said that they saw a video going around of what happened to Cesar. 185 00:09:34,609 --> 00:09:36,371 And they saw it on somebody's cell phone. 186 00:09:36,712 --> 00:09:38,373 Yo, can I get that remote right there, man? 187 00:09:42,358 --> 00:09:45,051 Jay Spivey's friends aren't sure whose cell phone they saw it on. 188 00:09:45,131 --> 00:09:47,464 They said it was being MMS'd from one to another. 189 00:09:47,564 --> 00:09:51,008 When I was a kid, we would trade dirty magazines, not snuff films. 190 00:09:51,068 --> 00:09:53,071 Well, any sign of that video online? 191 00:09:53,141 --> 00:09:55,484 Well, not on any of the major sites. 192 00:09:56,114 --> 00:09:57,646 It might not have been uploaded yet, 193 00:09:57,716 --> 00:09:59,518 just floating around on a bunch of phones. 194 00:09:59,588 --> 00:10:02,031 Well, there's a rule against having cell phones in school. 195 00:10:02,131 --> 00:10:03,693 In theory. But at Aaron Burr, 196 00:10:03,763 --> 00:10:05,936 if kids keep them out of sight, they don't enforce it. 197 00:10:06,006 --> 00:10:07,668 Well, they should. 198 00:10:09,050 --> 00:10:11,713 Separating a bunch of kids from their cell phones? 199 00:10:12,053 --> 00:10:14,526 We're going to need reinforcements. 200 00:10:14,586 --> 00:10:15,577 Hey. What are you doing? 201 00:10:15,657 --> 00:10:17,289 Taking your cell phone. You'll get it back later. 202 00:10:17,359 --> 00:10:18,521 Since when that's been a rule? 203 00:10:18,601 --> 00:10:20,533 Maybe if you learned how to read, you could look it up. 204 00:10:20,673 --> 00:10:23,106 Yeah? Maybe you need to learn some lesson yourself. 205 00:10:24,408 --> 00:10:26,080 Aren't you going to be late for class? 206 00:10:32,067 --> 00:10:33,228 You think this is enough? 207 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,333 We found it on three of the phones. 208 00:10:37,543 --> 00:10:39,666 The quality leaves something to be desired. 209 00:10:39,746 --> 00:10:40,737 All right. 210 00:10:40,817 --> 00:10:42,219 Tell me when you're ready. 211 00:10:43,020 --> 00:10:44,011 We're ready. 212 00:10:46,023 --> 00:10:47,325 Stay on the ground. 213 00:10:47,525 --> 00:10:49,587 This apparently originated on the victim's phone. 214 00:10:49,667 --> 00:10:51,900 They got it away from him and started shooting. 215 00:10:51,970 --> 00:10:54,273 Yeah, but can you do any better on the faces? 216 00:10:54,613 --> 00:10:56,846 We already took a shot at enhancing. 217 00:10:56,916 --> 00:10:59,008 If it was just a little lighter. 218 00:11:01,321 --> 00:11:06,327 Oh, God! Help me! Help me! Help me! 219 00:11:06,707 --> 00:11:08,700 Be careful what you wish for. 220 00:11:12,314 --> 00:11:14,647 Can you stop it? That sweatshirt. Zoom in? 221 00:11:16,129 --> 00:11:20,654 ABHS Pep... Pep Band. 222 00:11:20,834 --> 00:11:24,438 That old school spirit. Keep going, but slow. 223 00:11:27,112 --> 00:11:29,144 Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. 224 00:11:30,526 --> 00:11:32,218 Dude looks like a lady. 225 00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:34,350 She doesn't want any part of this. 226 00:11:34,831 --> 00:11:36,062 She knows him. 227 00:11:38,034 --> 00:11:39,937 Maybe we know her, too. 228 00:11:51,741 --> 00:11:54,334 I checked with the office. Jolie's not in the band. 229 00:11:54,404 --> 00:11:56,246 Well, 15, 20 girls. 230 00:11:56,316 --> 00:11:58,839 Which one you figure wore their sweatshirt to the murder? 231 00:11:58,919 --> 00:12:01,051 You take woodwinds, I'll take brass? 232 00:12:01,662 --> 00:12:02,713 What about percussion? 233 00:12:03,364 --> 00:12:04,956 Snare drum. Front row. 234 00:12:05,467 --> 00:12:08,370 Looks like the brother of the boy Cesar was tutoring. 235 00:12:08,510 --> 00:12:09,942 Wonder what happened to his sweatshirt. 236 00:12:10,012 --> 00:12:11,804 Hey, Moses' brother. 237 00:12:12,245 --> 00:12:13,236 Yeah? 238 00:12:15,589 --> 00:12:17,611 Hey. How y'all doing? 239 00:12:17,691 --> 00:12:19,453 All right. Maybe you can help us out. 240 00:12:19,693 --> 00:12:22,567 Any of the girls in the band had a beef with Cesar Ramirez? 241 00:12:22,737 --> 00:12:24,099 Or hang with someone who did? 242 00:12:24,339 --> 00:12:26,902 Nah. Probably most of them didn't even know him. 243 00:12:26,982 --> 00:12:28,274 I only knew him through Moses. 244 00:12:28,514 --> 00:12:30,346 You stayed home from school the day after he was killed, 245 00:12:30,416 --> 00:12:33,119 just like your brother Moses did, because he was so upset. 246 00:12:34,130 --> 00:12:35,462 Were you upset, too? 247 00:12:35,862 --> 00:12:38,265 I was keeping Moses company, bucking him up. 248 00:12:38,636 --> 00:12:40,438 I'm his big brother, you know. 249 00:12:40,508 --> 00:12:41,669 Sure. 250 00:12:42,450 --> 00:12:43,712 Big game tonight? 251 00:12:43,882 --> 00:12:46,585 Morningside. We don't have a chance. 252 00:12:46,725 --> 00:12:48,417 You give up on team spirit? 253 00:12:49,028 --> 00:12:50,360 You're not wearing your sweatshirt. 254 00:12:53,403 --> 00:12:55,235 I lost it last week. 255 00:12:55,375 --> 00:12:57,067 Thirty bucks for a new one. You believe that? 256 00:12:57,148 --> 00:12:59,911 You sure you didn't give it to someone? Maybe a girlfriend? 257 00:12:59,981 --> 00:13:02,454 I just told you, I lost it. What are you getting at? 258 00:13:03,125 --> 00:13:04,616 Just trying to rule something out. 259 00:13:04,827 --> 00:13:07,029 Where were you last Tuesday night, when Cesar got killed? 260 00:13:07,169 --> 00:13:09,362 Here. After-school volunteer. 261 00:13:09,442 --> 00:13:11,534 You can check with the office if you don't believe me. 262 00:13:13,817 --> 00:13:15,479 What do you think? 263 00:13:15,719 --> 00:13:19,163 That I am still a dead-eye with my half-court shot. 264 00:13:21,226 --> 00:13:23,759 Oh! All right! You got some skills! 265 00:13:23,839 --> 00:13:25,271 Abel Dolan? Yeah. 266 00:13:25,341 --> 00:13:29,335 Edison, can you give me that sign-in sheet, please, for the after-school? 267 00:13:30,987 --> 00:13:32,609 Uh... Tuesday, right? 268 00:13:32,719 --> 00:13:33,711 Yeah. 269 00:13:33,961 --> 00:13:36,153 Yeah, here. Edison and Abel. 270 00:13:36,234 --> 00:13:39,758 They were painting over some graffiti. I know, I was here late myself. 271 00:13:40,138 --> 00:13:41,470 They did good work. 272 00:13:41,540 --> 00:13:43,913 The taggers did good work, had this place looking tight. 273 00:13:44,043 --> 00:13:45,775 Would you get me a seat at the game? Yeah, sure. 274 00:13:45,855 --> 00:13:46,876 All right. 275 00:13:47,657 --> 00:13:49,629 They're good kids. They just don't know it. 276 00:13:49,729 --> 00:13:52,563 Did you catch Abel on the snare drum? He's really coming along. 277 00:13:52,863 --> 00:13:56,067 Yeah. Those four guys, they didn't do the graffiti, 278 00:13:56,537 --> 00:13:57,909 but you had them clean it up? 279 00:13:57,979 --> 00:13:59,911 Yeah. Campus beautification. 280 00:14:00,052 --> 00:14:02,484 I try to get them to feel a sense of pride for their school, 281 00:14:02,555 --> 00:14:05,258 so every student gives at least one night a semester. 282 00:14:05,328 --> 00:14:07,420 Even students that don't go here? 283 00:14:07,530 --> 00:14:10,994 Check this out. Cesar Ramirez. 284 00:14:11,205 --> 00:14:14,669 He signed in on the 21st, also the 11th and the 6th. 285 00:14:15,219 --> 00:14:17,242 But look who else signed up on those nights. 286 00:14:17,522 --> 00:14:19,114 Jolie Henderson. Yeah. 287 00:14:19,294 --> 00:14:20,456 Who said she barely knew him. 288 00:14:20,556 --> 00:14:21,887 Do you have her address? 289 00:14:22,098 --> 00:14:23,930 Yeah, Jolie Henderson. 290 00:14:26,743 --> 00:14:30,547 Uh, 115th Street, looks like just west of Madison. 291 00:14:31,378 --> 00:14:35,343 Uh, and the murder occurred on 115th Street, just east of Madison. 292 00:14:35,423 --> 00:14:38,086 Yeah, between her place and Cesar's school. 293 00:14:38,297 --> 00:14:40,830 Wait, do you think that Jolie could have been there that night? 294 00:14:41,140 --> 00:14:42,802 Can you get her exact address, please? 295 00:14:42,872 --> 00:14:43,863 Thank you. 296 00:14:45,645 --> 00:14:47,137 He didn't walk me home. 297 00:14:47,217 --> 00:14:48,919 I don't know where he went. I told you. 298 00:14:48,989 --> 00:14:50,481 Did he ever walk you home? 299 00:14:50,561 --> 00:14:51,923 No. It wasn't like that. 300 00:14:51,993 --> 00:14:54,225 So, every time you stayed after school, 301 00:14:54,335 --> 00:14:55,737 he just happened to show up? 302 00:14:56,168 --> 00:14:59,271 To wash windows. I didn't even always see him. 303 00:14:59,411 --> 00:15:02,385 I bet he didn't wash windows for just any girl. 304 00:15:06,189 --> 00:15:07,631 He had a nice smile. 305 00:15:08,292 --> 00:15:10,324 I didn't know him. I got to go. 306 00:15:12,777 --> 00:15:14,679 The reward just drew a tip. 307 00:15:15,180 --> 00:15:18,814 Someone saw Edison Treadwell with Cesar's cell phone after the murder. 308 00:15:19,025 --> 00:15:20,717 Edison, the principal's helper? 309 00:15:20,787 --> 00:15:25,863 Yeah, who was doing campus beautification with Abel Dolan at the time of the murder. 310 00:15:26,473 --> 00:15:27,805 Or was he? 311 00:15:33,181 --> 00:15:35,784 You know, I'm beginning to take this personally. 312 00:15:35,894 --> 00:15:39,419 You're fishing again, at my school, my kids. 313 00:15:39,729 --> 00:15:41,791 That poor kid, he didn't even go to school here. 314 00:15:41,871 --> 00:15:43,343 Have you checked at the Sunrise Academy, 315 00:15:43,403 --> 00:15:44,705 or are they too busy to see you? 316 00:15:44,775 --> 00:15:46,076 Simple question. 317 00:15:46,146 --> 00:15:49,140 Are you sure Edison Treadwell was here the night Cesar was murdered? 318 00:15:49,220 --> 00:15:50,692 Simple answer. Yes. 319 00:15:50,792 --> 00:15:53,385 We have a tipster that says otherwise. 320 00:15:53,465 --> 00:15:57,990 Well, you have a tipster that wants to make $25,000, or mess with Edison. 321 00:15:58,071 --> 00:16:00,273 These kids do have enemies, you know. 322 00:16:00,573 --> 00:16:02,916 If you don't mind, can I please get back to the game? 323 00:16:02,986 --> 00:16:04,748 Because we're finally winning. 324 00:16:12,167 --> 00:16:15,611 This is something we've been listening to. It's a call to the reward tip line 325 00:16:15,681 --> 00:16:17,043 about the murder of Cesar. 326 00:16:17,313 --> 00:16:19,115 We thought you should hear it, too. 327 00:16:20,817 --> 00:16:22,419 Crime Stoppers, how can I help you? 328 00:16:22,559 --> 00:16:26,494 Hi, um. I think I know something about Cesar Ramirez, the kid who got burned. 329 00:16:26,664 --> 00:16:28,296 Okay. What do you know? 330 00:16:28,366 --> 00:16:31,039 I saw this guy I know messing with Cesar's cell phone yesterday. 331 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,743 I know it's Cesar's because I saw Cesar with it. 332 00:16:34,614 --> 00:16:35,985 His name's Edison Treadwell. 333 00:16:36,326 --> 00:16:37,787 Is that good enough for the money? 334 00:16:38,188 --> 00:16:39,750 We really need the money. 335 00:16:41,502 --> 00:16:43,564 That's you, isn't it, Moses? 336 00:16:43,634 --> 00:16:44,625 Nah, that ain't me. 337 00:16:44,705 --> 00:16:45,727 Child! It isn't. 338 00:16:45,807 --> 00:16:47,038 It's one thing you want to lie to these cops. 339 00:16:47,108 --> 00:16:48,880 But you gonna sit there and lie to me? 340 00:16:49,021 --> 00:16:50,482 You think I don't know your voice? 341 00:16:50,552 --> 00:16:53,526 All the talking you do? Look at me when I'm talking to you. 342 00:16:57,430 --> 00:17:00,604 Okay. It's me. But it's not true about Edison. 343 00:17:01,005 --> 00:17:03,808 You didn't see Edison with Cesar's phone? 344 00:17:04,018 --> 00:17:05,570 No. I lied. 345 00:17:06,791 --> 00:17:08,754 I wanted my mom to have the money. 346 00:17:09,064 --> 00:17:13,019 She works too hard. I never see her. 347 00:17:16,613 --> 00:17:19,877 Please, we need the money, don't we, Mama? 348 00:17:28,767 --> 00:17:29,969 And Moses wept. 349 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:31,631 Wasn't that Jesus? 350 00:17:31,711 --> 00:17:32,832 Yeah, him, too. 351 00:17:32,912 --> 00:17:35,385 So, what do you think? Was the boy lying when he made the call, 352 00:17:35,445 --> 00:17:36,817 or when he talked to you? 353 00:17:36,887 --> 00:17:38,248 I vote for number two. 354 00:17:38,389 --> 00:17:41,192 He saw Edison with Cesar's phone and made his call, 355 00:17:41,262 --> 00:17:43,425 but by the time we got there, his brother got to him. 356 00:17:43,505 --> 00:17:45,968 His brother, the one with the missing sweatshirt 357 00:17:46,038 --> 00:17:48,410 who's on the alibi list at the high school? 358 00:17:48,481 --> 00:17:52,245 Yeah. If that list was doctored, it could be a list of the murderers, 359 00:17:52,325 --> 00:17:54,187 Edison and Abel and two of their friends. 360 00:17:54,327 --> 00:17:57,191 And a high school principal is covering for them? 361 00:17:57,261 --> 00:18:00,064 No. She's covering for her school. It's one of the worst in the city, 362 00:18:00,134 --> 00:18:02,467 it's on the short list for being taken over by the state. 363 00:18:02,707 --> 00:18:05,080 While the Sunrise Academy is everybody's darling. 364 00:18:05,150 --> 00:18:07,953 So she lies for her students when they beat up students 365 00:18:08,024 --> 00:18:11,157 from Sunrise Academy and burn them alive? 366 00:18:11,998 --> 00:18:13,660 Well, that girl would know, Jolie Henderson. 367 00:18:13,730 --> 00:18:15,332 I think Cesar was walking her home 368 00:18:15,402 --> 00:18:17,675 when he ran into trouble, maybe some kids from Burr 369 00:18:17,745 --> 00:18:21,339 who didn't like seeing a charter school kid with one of their girls. 370 00:18:21,419 --> 00:18:22,881 I say we go talk to her again. 371 00:18:25,354 --> 00:18:26,345 Van Buren. 372 00:18:28,027 --> 00:18:29,629 All right. I got it. 373 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:31,391 Where is she? 374 00:18:33,313 --> 00:18:34,645 Okay, thanks. 375 00:18:37,018 --> 00:18:40,612 I'll go talk to Jolie. She's been raped. 376 00:19:01,266 --> 00:19:02,498 Hello, Jolie. 377 00:19:03,479 --> 00:19:07,884 My name is Lieutenant Van Buren. I work with Detectives Lupo and Bernard. 378 00:19:09,085 --> 00:19:11,028 Are they taking good care of you here? 379 00:19:14,532 --> 00:19:16,865 You know, the detective from Special Victims Unit 380 00:19:16,935 --> 00:19:19,207 says that you don't want to talk. 381 00:19:21,180 --> 00:19:23,582 She said there was more than one boy. 382 00:19:23,653 --> 00:19:26,916 And we will catch them, all of them. I promise you. 383 00:19:27,827 --> 00:19:29,990 I just need you to talk to me. 384 00:19:31,872 --> 00:19:32,863 Jolie... 385 00:19:41,994 --> 00:19:44,257 Did it happen because of Cesar? 386 00:19:44,727 --> 00:19:47,401 Because they don't want you to talk about that? 387 00:20:05,712 --> 00:20:07,344 I didn't see them. 388 00:20:08,786 --> 00:20:10,978 I don't know anything. Just... 389 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:12,750 Just leave me alone. 390 00:20:24,785 --> 00:20:27,728 It was a gang-rape. A witness saw three boys running away. 391 00:20:27,828 --> 00:20:29,991 This witness happen to see which three boys? 392 00:20:30,101 --> 00:20:32,594 No. Too dark. And there's no DNA. 393 00:20:32,934 --> 00:20:34,466 The rapists wore condoms. 394 00:20:34,576 --> 00:20:37,600 They planned it. We think it was some of the boys who attacked 395 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,623 Cesar Ramirez, that Jolie was there when it happened 396 00:20:40,683 --> 00:20:42,515 and they were afraid that she might talk. 397 00:20:42,586 --> 00:20:45,649 These boys, they all have an alibi for the time of the murder? 398 00:20:45,729 --> 00:20:47,722 The only one who doesn't is Jolie. 399 00:20:47,902 --> 00:20:49,564 Have you searched her apartment? 400 00:20:49,674 --> 00:20:50,795 No probable cause. 401 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:52,177 If you can sell your theory 402 00:20:52,247 --> 00:20:55,050 that the gang-rape was committed to silence an accomplice, 403 00:20:55,180 --> 00:20:56,712 which makes her an accomplice... 404 00:20:57,193 --> 00:20:58,714 Probable cause. 405 00:20:59,055 --> 00:21:01,898 We use what happened to her to back our way into a warrant? 406 00:21:02,068 --> 00:21:03,901 Damn lucky for us she was gang-raped. 407 00:21:04,842 --> 00:21:06,704 Nobody's saying that. 408 00:21:08,116 --> 00:21:09,908 Just get the warrant. 409 00:21:12,651 --> 00:21:15,024 Why are you looking here? Nothing happened here. 410 00:21:15,094 --> 00:21:18,588 My daughter was violated. Why aren't you finding the animals who did that? 411 00:21:18,668 --> 00:21:20,760 Look, we're trying to do that, Mr. Henderson, 412 00:21:20,841 --> 00:21:22,172 but your daughter isn't able to help us... 413 00:21:22,242 --> 00:21:24,375 What are you looking for here? 414 00:21:24,645 --> 00:21:25,636 Ma'am. 415 00:21:27,588 --> 00:21:29,220 Is this your daughter's? 416 00:21:29,661 --> 00:21:31,994 No, I don't think so. 417 00:21:35,368 --> 00:21:38,371 There's a tear in the shoulder, and this... 418 00:21:39,312 --> 00:21:40,444 Looks singed. 419 00:21:40,784 --> 00:21:41,775 Yeah. 420 00:21:42,686 --> 00:21:45,249 Help me! Help me! Help me! 421 00:21:45,329 --> 00:21:47,592 There. He brushes against her left sleeve, 422 00:21:47,662 --> 00:21:50,035 exactly where the sweatshirt we found has burn marks. 423 00:21:50,706 --> 00:21:52,067 So Jolie was there. 424 00:21:52,137 --> 00:21:53,369 Or the sweatshirt was. 425 00:21:53,449 --> 00:21:57,043 Theoretically, Jolie could have been hiding it for a girl who wore it that night. 426 00:21:57,123 --> 00:21:58,585 Come on. We know what happened. 427 00:21:58,655 --> 00:22:00,087 Yeah, but we still can't prove it. 428 00:22:00,157 --> 00:22:01,859 We could always arrest Jolie for murder. 429 00:22:01,929 --> 00:22:03,631 That might persuade her to talk. 430 00:22:03,701 --> 00:22:06,695 Under the circumstances, Mike, that's not exactly my favorite way to go. 431 00:22:08,006 --> 00:22:10,409 Well, I'm open to other ideas. 432 00:22:11,650 --> 00:22:14,524 Moses Dolan. You know, the kid Cesar was tutoring. 433 00:22:14,594 --> 00:22:16,756 He called in a tip, and then retracted it. 434 00:22:17,297 --> 00:22:19,630 Somebody pressured him. Maybe we can pressure him back. 435 00:22:20,901 --> 00:22:24,906 He's studying. You can't talk to him unless I say so, and I don't say so. 436 00:22:25,377 --> 00:22:27,109 Look, we'll only be a few minutes. 437 00:22:27,219 --> 00:22:29,782 He already told the police he made it up about that phone. 438 00:22:30,062 --> 00:22:31,424 He's sorry, and that's that. 439 00:22:31,494 --> 00:22:33,466 Then, Mrs. Dolan, Mrs. Dolan... 440 00:22:33,536 --> 00:22:36,129 Maybe you can help us? Uh, 441 00:22:37,471 --> 00:22:39,003 have you ever seen 442 00:22:40,214 --> 00:22:41,205 this sweatshirt? 443 00:22:43,258 --> 00:22:44,519 A lot of kids have those. 444 00:22:44,589 --> 00:22:47,723 We thought it might be Abel's. It has a rip in the shoulder, there. 445 00:22:47,793 --> 00:22:51,097 He's a big guy. Maybe he burst a seam? 446 00:22:51,167 --> 00:22:52,609 Now you're asking about Abel? 447 00:22:53,580 --> 00:22:55,102 You think he's mixed up with this? 448 00:22:55,182 --> 00:22:56,513 We don't know, Mrs. Dolan. 449 00:22:56,583 --> 00:22:59,887 Well, I do. He's a good boy. He's going to go to college, 450 00:23:00,228 --> 00:23:01,719 to be a businessman. 451 00:23:01,789 --> 00:23:04,923 Sometimes parents don't know their children as well as they'd hope to. 452 00:23:05,364 --> 00:23:08,167 Last year, he failed a course he needs to graduate, 453 00:23:08,237 --> 00:23:11,741 but he would not give up. He's taking it over in night school, 454 00:23:11,811 --> 00:23:14,304 every Tuesday and Thursday night. 455 00:23:15,255 --> 00:23:18,019 Every Tuesday night? Including last Tuesday? 456 00:23:18,099 --> 00:23:21,793 He never misses. At a community center up in Mott Haven, 457 00:23:22,073 --> 00:23:23,935 7:00-9:00. 458 00:23:26,348 --> 00:23:29,682 So, Abel Dolan couldn't have murdered Cesar on Tuesday night 459 00:23:29,752 --> 00:23:32,886 because he was busy beautifying Aaron Burr High School 460 00:23:32,956 --> 00:23:36,130 and he was at a night school class in Mott Haven. 461 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,232 Well, maybe he has an evil twin. 462 00:23:38,302 --> 00:23:41,246 Two alibis, it's an embarrassment of riches. 463 00:23:41,947 --> 00:23:44,480 Well, if he was at night school, that means he wasn't at Aaron Burr, 464 00:23:44,550 --> 00:23:46,082 and maybe the other boys weren't either. 465 00:23:46,152 --> 00:23:48,094 We can use one alibi to break the other. 466 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:53,330 Abel seemed like a good kid to me, 467 00:23:53,410 --> 00:23:55,403 but he doesn't come anymore. 468 00:23:55,673 --> 00:23:57,405 He dropped the class last month. 469 00:23:57,485 --> 00:24:00,218 It's a required course. Did he give up on graduating? 470 00:24:00,318 --> 00:24:04,163 No. He told me that he didn't need to take it over after all, 471 00:24:04,263 --> 00:24:07,096 that he'd just found out that he'd passed the first time. 472 00:24:07,206 --> 00:24:10,871 What? He thought he'd failed, but he'd actually passed? 473 00:24:10,981 --> 00:24:12,603 Did he read the letter grade wrong? 474 00:24:12,683 --> 00:24:14,745 No. He did fail. 475 00:24:15,086 --> 00:24:18,079 But there are circumstances where a failing grade can be changed to passing. 476 00:24:19,130 --> 00:24:21,493 What were the circumstances in Abel's case? 477 00:24:21,904 --> 00:24:22,895 I don't know. 478 00:24:22,965 --> 00:24:24,637 Was the change warranted? 479 00:24:24,737 --> 00:24:26,469 Not based on anything I saw. 480 00:24:26,679 --> 00:24:29,152 Who can make these retroactive changes? 481 00:24:29,252 --> 00:24:31,485 His principal. Ms. Woodside. 482 00:24:33,998 --> 00:24:37,452 Here. It's Abel Dolan's grade report from last spring. 483 00:24:37,532 --> 00:24:42,238 English 3, F. But then, it's marked "CR" for "Credit Recovery." 484 00:24:42,308 --> 00:24:43,339 That means he passed. 485 00:24:43,519 --> 00:24:44,681 Was any reason given? 486 00:24:44,851 --> 00:24:46,753 Yeah. Home instruction. 487 00:24:47,394 --> 00:24:49,226 We met Abel's mother. I don't think so. 488 00:24:49,326 --> 00:24:52,930 And check out Edison Treadwell's transcript. 489 00:24:53,641 --> 00:24:56,504 Fails sophomore math, makes it up in summer school, 490 00:24:56,575 --> 00:24:58,477 and then gets credit for passing it twice. 491 00:24:58,947 --> 00:25:00,880 Courtesy of Principal Woodside again? 492 00:25:00,950 --> 00:25:05,325 All four boys she's giving an alibi to have benefited from altered transcripts. 493 00:25:05,495 --> 00:25:07,868 Not to mention dozens of other students at that school, 494 00:25:07,938 --> 00:25:09,099 maybe even hundreds. 495 00:25:09,169 --> 00:25:12,203 If Abel and his friends knew what Woodside was doing, 496 00:25:12,273 --> 00:25:16,878 maybe they asked for a little favor in exchange for keeping their mouths shut. 497 00:25:17,189 --> 00:25:19,021 Giving them a bogus alibi? 498 00:25:19,221 --> 00:25:20,783 You think she'd cop to that? 499 00:25:20,963 --> 00:25:22,655 Let's ask her nicely. 500 00:25:23,196 --> 00:25:25,168 If that doesn't work... 501 00:25:27,711 --> 00:25:30,184 One of my students was just brutally raped, 502 00:25:30,254 --> 00:25:33,448 and you are harassing me about a year-old transcript? 503 00:25:33,528 --> 00:25:37,463 Not just one. You've been manipulating grades, test scores, and graduation rates 504 00:25:37,533 --> 00:25:39,725 to make this school look better than it is. 505 00:25:39,805 --> 00:25:44,181 I can support any adjustment I've made by the letter or spirit 506 00:25:44,251 --> 00:25:46,243 of sound educational policies. 507 00:25:46,413 --> 00:25:47,975 Do you think the mayor would agree? 508 00:25:48,085 --> 00:25:49,817 Or the Department of Education? 509 00:25:49,887 --> 00:25:52,801 They'd split this school into six charter schools 510 00:25:52,861 --> 00:25:56,495 and make you assistant principal of some middle school in Staten Island. 511 00:25:56,575 --> 00:25:58,167 You know, with all due respect, 512 00:25:58,247 --> 00:26:00,540 you really don't know what you're talking about. 513 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,174 All we want to know is the night Abel Dolan and his friends 514 00:26:04,254 --> 00:26:05,726 were painting over graffiti, 515 00:26:05,796 --> 00:26:08,729 are you sure you can vouch they were here the whole time? 516 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,802 Yes, I'm sure. 517 00:26:11,343 --> 00:26:13,075 Now, if you'll excuse me. 518 00:26:13,175 --> 00:26:15,477 Well, actually, we won't excuse you. 519 00:26:15,918 --> 00:26:16,909 Detectives? 520 00:26:19,052 --> 00:26:20,924 Martha Woodside, you're under arrest. 521 00:26:20,994 --> 00:26:22,255 What for? 522 00:26:22,326 --> 00:26:23,317 Grand larceny. 523 00:26:24,568 --> 00:26:27,161 Grand larceny? What did she steal? 524 00:26:27,311 --> 00:26:29,874 Well, how about a decent education for her students? 525 00:26:30,015 --> 00:26:31,877 Their integrity, their potential. 526 00:26:32,217 --> 00:26:34,810 I don't think there's a law against stealing potential. 527 00:26:34,890 --> 00:26:36,622 So we'll make the one we have fit. 528 00:26:36,692 --> 00:26:38,855 Look, we need some leverage over this woman 529 00:26:38,935 --> 00:26:40,927 to make her tell us what happened the night of the murder. 530 00:26:41,007 --> 00:26:43,571 If this gets kicked to the Department of Education, 531 00:26:43,641 --> 00:26:46,975 it'll disappear into a bureaucratic maze for 20 years. 532 00:26:47,055 --> 00:26:48,847 So we won't let that happen. 533 00:26:51,630 --> 00:26:53,122 Your Honor, this is a matter for review 534 00:26:53,192 --> 00:26:56,105 by the Department of Education, not a criminal prosecution. 535 00:26:57,006 --> 00:27:00,210 The grand larceny statute was concerned with the theft of property. 536 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,212 The People don't even allege that my client stole any property. 537 00:27:02,283 --> 00:27:05,486 More than two million dollars of educational funds 538 00:27:05,556 --> 00:27:09,261 were funneled to her school on the basis of performance records 539 00:27:09,331 --> 00:27:12,394 that were effectively forged by Ms. Woodside. 540 00:27:12,475 --> 00:27:14,377 That money didn't go into her pocket. 541 00:27:14,647 --> 00:27:18,081 It went for the benefit of the students, who, if Mr. Cutter is correct, 542 00:27:18,151 --> 00:27:21,055 needed that extra help it bought even more than anyone suspected. 543 00:27:21,295 --> 00:27:25,560 A $10,000 performance bonus Ms. Woodside received did go into her pocket. 544 00:27:25,670 --> 00:27:30,005 That was for improving her school's graduation rates from 32% to 57%, 545 00:27:30,075 --> 00:27:31,106 a remarkable achievement. 546 00:27:31,177 --> 00:27:34,811 Why, it's not quite so remarkable if it's based on bogus course credits. 547 00:27:34,891 --> 00:27:38,225 Excuse me, but these people don't know anything about running a high school. 548 00:27:38,295 --> 00:27:41,098 Ms. Woodside... No. It's just some kind of tactic 549 00:27:41,168 --> 00:27:44,472 to try to get me to help them scapegoat some of my students 550 00:27:44,542 --> 00:27:47,245 for a murder and a rape that they can't be bothered to actually solve. 551 00:27:47,316 --> 00:27:51,581 Ms. Woodside, let your lawyer do the talking. Okay? 552 00:27:52,492 --> 00:27:54,294 Your Honor, this is simply the wrong forum. 553 00:27:54,364 --> 00:27:56,797 I refer you to Section 3020 of Education Law 554 00:27:56,867 --> 00:27:58,298 and its provision for hearing boards. 555 00:27:58,369 --> 00:28:02,744 Those boards are notoriously lethargic and inefficient, Your Honor. 556 00:28:02,814 --> 00:28:05,347 I believe some people would say the same thing about us. 557 00:28:06,088 --> 00:28:09,792 I am dismissing the grand larceny charge 558 00:28:09,862 --> 00:28:14,738 pending a review and a resolution of the matter under the Education Law. 559 00:28:14,908 --> 00:28:16,400 Nice try, Mr. Cutter. 560 00:28:18,883 --> 00:28:21,356 She said we were after her students for murder and rape, 561 00:28:21,426 --> 00:28:24,189 but we never told her we suspected them in the rape. 562 00:28:29,736 --> 00:28:31,337 Maybe she did. 563 00:28:35,652 --> 00:28:37,485 So, that principal flunked you again. 564 00:28:37,555 --> 00:28:40,728 She won't give it up. She's sticking to her alibi for our suspects. 565 00:28:40,799 --> 00:28:42,531 It doesn't even make sense anymore. 566 00:28:42,601 --> 00:28:45,194 If they were blackmailing her by threatening to go public 567 00:28:45,274 --> 00:28:47,577 with her grade tampering, we've done that now. 568 00:28:47,647 --> 00:28:49,639 The Department of Education is investigating. 569 00:28:49,719 --> 00:28:51,912 So what's she protecting? 570 00:28:52,022 --> 00:28:53,013 Her ego? 571 00:28:53,193 --> 00:28:54,485 Maybe her conscience. 572 00:28:54,565 --> 00:28:57,799 She said her students were rape suspects during the motion hearing, 573 00:28:57,969 --> 00:29:00,161 but Detectives Lupo and Bernard never told her that. 574 00:29:00,241 --> 00:29:04,777 But they were in her office when they realized that Jolie Henderson had lied to them. 575 00:29:04,847 --> 00:29:08,481 They asked Woodside for Jolie's address so they could talk to her. 576 00:29:08,862 --> 00:29:11,224 A few hours later she was raped. 577 00:29:11,495 --> 00:29:15,229 You think the principal tipped the murderers to rape the girl to keep her quiet? 578 00:29:15,309 --> 00:29:17,101 No, not necessarily meaning to. I mean, 579 00:29:17,181 --> 00:29:18,773 if she believed those boys were innocent 580 00:29:18,843 --> 00:29:21,406 and she told them, you know, "Good news. 581 00:29:21,486 --> 00:29:24,009 "The police have found a witness who can clear you." 582 00:29:25,661 --> 00:29:27,754 She didn't realize what she was doing. 583 00:29:28,465 --> 00:29:29,866 But now she does. 584 00:29:29,936 --> 00:29:33,140 And she feels guilty, or she's afraid she's criminally liable. 585 00:29:33,210 --> 00:29:34,742 Either way, she doesn't want to talk. 586 00:29:34,812 --> 00:29:36,114 Nobody wants to talk. 587 00:29:37,185 --> 00:29:39,157 The rape victim is still scared silent? 588 00:29:40,659 --> 00:29:43,653 Maybe you've been asking them both too nicely. 589 00:29:43,833 --> 00:29:45,365 Convene a Grand Jury. 590 00:29:49,549 --> 00:29:51,282 I remind you that you are under oath 591 00:29:51,352 --> 00:29:53,484 and there are criminal penalties for perjury. 592 00:29:53,554 --> 00:29:54,615 I understand. 593 00:29:54,696 --> 00:29:57,359 Then please tell us of any conversations you had 594 00:29:57,429 --> 00:30:00,993 with your students concerning the murder of Cesar Ramirez. 595 00:30:01,073 --> 00:30:02,765 I had many conversations, 596 00:30:02,845 --> 00:30:06,109 because I opened my door for anyone who wanted to talk about it, 597 00:30:06,580 --> 00:30:08,051 who needed reassurance. 598 00:30:08,121 --> 00:30:10,454 Did Abel Dolan need reassurance? 599 00:30:10,524 --> 00:30:14,799 Or Edison Treadwell, or Marvin Coyne, or Andy Mews? 600 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,763 Not that I recall. Nothing stands out. 601 00:30:17,943 --> 00:30:21,347 Do you recall altering the transcripts for those four boys 602 00:30:21,417 --> 00:30:23,049 to give them better grades? 603 00:30:23,289 --> 00:30:27,454 Well, I'm constantly adjusting transcripts for a variety of reasons. 604 00:30:27,534 --> 00:30:28,656 That's part of my job. 605 00:30:28,736 --> 00:30:32,931 And those constant adjustments of yours are currently under investigation 606 00:30:33,011 --> 00:30:35,103 by the Schools Department, aren't they? 607 00:30:35,213 --> 00:30:37,346 I expect to be fully exonerated. 608 00:30:37,416 --> 00:30:41,521 So, did any of those boys, all of whom benefited from your grade adjustments, 609 00:30:41,591 --> 00:30:44,394 come to you after the murder of Cesar Ramirez 610 00:30:44,464 --> 00:30:47,197 and ask you to give them a false alibi? 611 00:30:47,267 --> 00:30:48,669 No. So they didn't threaten 612 00:30:48,739 --> 00:30:51,302 to go public with your grade manipulations? 613 00:30:52,183 --> 00:30:55,487 We don't threaten one another at Aaron Burr High School. 614 00:30:56,028 --> 00:30:59,222 We are all working together in a very difficult situation. 615 00:30:59,532 --> 00:31:02,435 Our students have been labeled losers, and they know it. 616 00:31:02,505 --> 00:31:05,169 Right. And they get blamed for things, don't they? 617 00:31:05,249 --> 00:31:08,583 For anything bad that happens in the neighborhood. 618 00:31:09,223 --> 00:31:10,445 Yeah, all the time. 619 00:31:10,525 --> 00:31:13,258 So when Cesar Ramirez was burned to death, 620 00:31:13,328 --> 00:31:17,533 the police automatically assumed that some of your students did it. 621 00:31:17,944 --> 00:31:18,925 As usual. 622 00:31:19,105 --> 00:31:23,851 So did some of your students come to you and say they were being scapegoated again, 623 00:31:23,921 --> 00:31:27,385 as usual, and asked you to get the police off their backs 624 00:31:27,465 --> 00:31:29,127 by giving them an alibi? 625 00:31:30,328 --> 00:31:32,961 I don't need to lie for my students. 626 00:31:33,041 --> 00:31:35,164 Is that a yes or a no? 627 00:31:36,345 --> 00:31:37,677 It's a no. 628 00:31:43,293 --> 00:31:45,526 Did you tell those boys that the police had identified 629 00:31:45,596 --> 00:31:48,770 Jolie Henderson as a potential witness to the murder 630 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,332 and that they were going to talk to her? 631 00:31:50,412 --> 00:31:52,314 Oh, here we go. 632 00:31:52,815 --> 00:31:55,408 First they're murderers, and now they're rapists? 633 00:31:55,488 --> 00:31:57,120 What you are going to accuse them of next? 634 00:31:57,190 --> 00:32:00,063 I think you would defend them whatever I accused them of. 635 00:32:00,964 --> 00:32:03,958 Because I trust them, when no one else does? 636 00:32:07,011 --> 00:32:09,985 Because I work with them, when no one else wants to. 637 00:32:10,886 --> 00:32:12,358 Charter schools, magnet schools, 638 00:32:12,428 --> 00:32:14,160 they take all our best students, 639 00:32:14,230 --> 00:32:16,392 and then we're blamed for having the worst. 640 00:32:16,462 --> 00:32:21,568 Kids from poverty, from broken families, a hundred years of neglect, 641 00:32:21,809 --> 00:32:25,753 and we have to get them ready for college with just a few hours a day. 642 00:32:26,755 --> 00:32:30,559 Some charter school that gets $20 million from Bill Gates 643 00:32:30,629 --> 00:32:34,073 and they get a few students into Dartmouth, it makes front page news. 644 00:32:35,675 --> 00:32:38,378 You want to know what the real success stories are? 645 00:32:38,949 --> 00:32:42,443 When a student from Aaron Burr, who couldn't even read in the ninth grade, 646 00:32:42,523 --> 00:32:46,057 manages to graduate and get a job at an auto parts store 647 00:32:46,127 --> 00:32:47,619 instead of becoming a drug dealer. 648 00:32:48,170 --> 00:32:50,643 That's a success story, our success story. 649 00:32:51,043 --> 00:32:54,808 But no one cares, no one wants to hear about it. 650 00:33:09,615 --> 00:33:11,878 Jolie, we're ready. 651 00:33:12,558 --> 00:33:13,680 This isn't right. 652 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,492 One of us should be able to go in there with her. 653 00:33:15,562 --> 00:33:16,864 It's not allowed, sir. 654 00:33:16,934 --> 00:33:18,926 Why are you people doing this? 655 00:33:21,239 --> 00:33:22,230 Jolie? 656 00:33:23,011 --> 00:33:24,603 Ms. Woodside. 657 00:33:24,813 --> 00:33:25,804 How are you? 658 00:33:28,457 --> 00:33:31,721 I'm going to be okay, Ms. Woodside. I'm going to be back in class. 659 00:33:32,302 --> 00:33:34,234 I won't let you down. 660 00:33:42,424 --> 00:33:45,758 I can't believe you're dragging her in there after what she's been through. 661 00:33:57,822 --> 00:34:00,124 It was dark, and 662 00:34:01,997 --> 00:34:03,428 I closed my eyes, 663 00:34:03,498 --> 00:34:06,202 and somebody knocked me down. 664 00:34:07,673 --> 00:34:12,018 And somebody else got on top of me and... 665 00:34:16,364 --> 00:34:20,228 Before you closed your eyes, Jolie, you must have seen something. 666 00:34:22,811 --> 00:34:24,333 Did you hear anything? 667 00:34:28,818 --> 00:34:31,792 Were they the same boys who attacked Cesar Ramirez? 668 00:34:33,794 --> 00:34:35,466 I don't know who did that to Cesar. 669 00:34:35,536 --> 00:34:37,228 Weren't you with him when it happened? 670 00:34:37,769 --> 00:34:38,800 No. 671 00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:42,745 But you were friends with him, weren't you? 672 00:34:43,956 --> 00:34:45,358 A little. 673 00:34:46,289 --> 00:34:48,852 I mostly saw him at the library when he was tutoring Moses. 674 00:34:50,003 --> 00:34:54,238 You must have talked to him there, otherwise how would you know Moses' name? 675 00:34:57,452 --> 00:34:59,544 I know Moses' brother from school. 676 00:35:00,526 --> 00:35:01,517 Abel Dolan. 677 00:35:03,299 --> 00:35:05,321 How well did you know him? 678 00:35:06,433 --> 00:35:07,904 We're in the same grade. 679 00:35:09,376 --> 00:35:11,008 Did you ever go out with him? 680 00:35:12,780 --> 00:35:13,911 We hung out some. 681 00:35:13,981 --> 00:35:16,114 Was he jealous of you and Cesar? 682 00:35:16,625 --> 00:35:18,927 No. Not Abel. 683 00:35:19,328 --> 00:35:22,862 So, it wouldn't have bothered him to see you walking home with Cesar? 684 00:35:25,175 --> 00:35:26,736 He wasn't that into me. 685 00:35:27,778 --> 00:35:31,122 He had tickets to see a Jay concert at the Garden on my birthday, 686 00:35:31,822 --> 00:35:33,885 and he took his brother instead. 687 00:35:34,195 --> 00:35:35,497 Moses? 688 00:35:37,669 --> 00:35:39,662 It was all about being the big brother. 689 00:35:43,516 --> 00:35:45,819 Moses was supposed to go to Cesar's house for dinner once, 690 00:35:45,889 --> 00:35:48,152 and Abel said no. 691 00:35:48,933 --> 00:35:51,365 He didn't even like Moses going to the tutoring. 692 00:35:52,066 --> 00:35:54,059 He said Moses should just go to Aaron Burr, 693 00:35:54,910 --> 00:35:55,901 like us. 694 00:35:58,013 --> 00:36:00,887 Abel was a loser kid from a loser school. 695 00:36:00,957 --> 00:36:02,619 He saw Moses going another way, 696 00:36:02,689 --> 00:36:04,721 studying hard to get into the charter school, 697 00:36:04,801 --> 00:36:08,536 being mentored by a smart kid there, getting invited to the smart kid's house. 698 00:36:08,606 --> 00:36:13,011 So, maybe Abel wasn't jealous over Jolie, he was jealous over Moses. 699 00:36:13,081 --> 00:36:15,284 Yeah, I mean, he was losing his little brother. 700 00:36:15,354 --> 00:36:16,545 Maybe that's what sparked it. 701 00:36:16,625 --> 00:36:19,418 Well, if Abel feels that strongly about his brother, 702 00:36:19,499 --> 00:36:21,291 there might be a way to appeal to him. 703 00:36:21,771 --> 00:36:24,234 You think Abel's going to listen to anything we have to say? 704 00:36:24,304 --> 00:36:27,868 Probably not. But we know someone he trusts. 705 00:36:32,794 --> 00:36:35,457 So, what? Did the Grand Jury indict him, or are you arresting him? 706 00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:37,259 No. The Grand Jury's in recess, 707 00:36:37,330 --> 00:36:39,602 but we think we have a shot at getting a confession. 708 00:36:39,702 --> 00:36:41,034 Why would he confess? 709 00:36:41,104 --> 00:36:42,506 Because he's guilty. 710 00:36:44,148 --> 00:36:46,120 This is your opportunity to tell us the truth. 711 00:36:46,190 --> 00:36:48,182 I told you the truth. I didn't do nothing. It's all right. 712 00:36:48,262 --> 00:36:50,355 He can't see you. What do you want from me? 713 00:36:50,525 --> 00:36:54,630 Come on, man. Only three boys raped Jolie, Abel. 714 00:36:55,271 --> 00:36:56,502 We don't think you were one of them. 715 00:36:56,572 --> 00:36:57,563 Then why is he here? 716 00:36:57,643 --> 00:37:01,308 We do think he was one of the boys that attacked Cesar Ramirez. 717 00:37:01,858 --> 00:37:06,824 You saw him walking with Jolie, didn't you, you and your friends? 718 00:37:07,335 --> 00:37:10,499 He was wearing his foolish little charter school uniform, 719 00:37:10,809 --> 00:37:12,711 the same uniform that your brother wants to wear, 720 00:37:12,781 --> 00:37:15,975 because he wants to be like Cesar, 721 00:37:16,586 --> 00:37:17,577 not like you. 722 00:37:18,188 --> 00:37:20,320 Did you say something to Cesar about that? 723 00:37:21,231 --> 00:37:23,063 Did he smart-mouth back to you? 724 00:37:23,364 --> 00:37:24,355 You're making all that up. 725 00:37:24,535 --> 00:37:25,937 Abel, you don't need to respond to this. 726 00:37:26,007 --> 00:37:27,479 Your little brother was telling the truth 727 00:37:27,539 --> 00:37:29,601 when he called about the reward, wasn't he? 728 00:37:29,681 --> 00:37:30,913 Leave my brother out of this. 729 00:37:31,113 --> 00:37:32,785 He didn't even know what he was talking about. 730 00:37:32,855 --> 00:37:34,517 What are you saying? Your brother's stupid? 731 00:37:34,587 --> 00:37:36,890 He's not stupid, and I'm not stupid either. 732 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,492 Abel, stop. Now. 733 00:37:39,473 --> 00:37:41,165 If he's not under arrest, we're leaving. 734 00:37:41,335 --> 00:37:42,606 Give us a minute. 735 00:37:48,824 --> 00:37:52,258 Funny. He didn't mention that alibi you gave him this time. 736 00:37:52,668 --> 00:37:54,571 Will you stop talking about that? 737 00:37:54,671 --> 00:37:56,863 One of those boys is going to break. 738 00:37:57,274 --> 00:38:01,048 They always do. It's just best all around if it's Abel. 739 00:38:01,148 --> 00:38:02,139 Why? 740 00:38:02,220 --> 00:38:05,553 There's a $25,000 reward on the table. 741 00:38:06,465 --> 00:38:07,486 So? 742 00:38:07,596 --> 00:38:11,040 Abel's brother claimed that reward, and then changed his story. 743 00:38:11,370 --> 00:38:13,533 If he could get that money for his college fund, 744 00:38:13,773 --> 00:38:15,906 one good thing would come out of this. 745 00:38:16,016 --> 00:38:20,010 Abel might see things that way, if we can get someone to talk some sense to him. 746 00:38:20,191 --> 00:38:22,894 Why haven't you considered that he's innocent? 747 00:38:23,865 --> 00:38:25,797 They're all innocent? What... 748 00:38:26,738 --> 00:38:28,671 Maybe you're wrong. 749 00:38:28,811 --> 00:38:31,444 Tell him not to confess if he's innocent. 750 00:38:31,514 --> 00:38:33,847 Tell him to do whatever's right. 751 00:38:36,159 --> 00:38:37,151 Me? 752 00:38:39,303 --> 00:38:42,597 You care about those kids, all of them. We've seen that. 753 00:38:44,379 --> 00:38:45,440 Just talk to him. 754 00:38:52,198 --> 00:38:53,180 Hey, Abel. 755 00:38:55,903 --> 00:38:57,334 Ms. Woodside? Who's she? 756 00:38:57,435 --> 00:38:58,426 My principal. 757 00:38:58,506 --> 00:38:59,707 How do you do? 758 00:39:00,849 --> 00:39:02,410 How you doing, man? Good. 759 00:39:02,581 --> 00:39:04,172 All right? Yeah. 760 00:39:09,799 --> 00:39:13,964 We have to be sure everything we're saying is totally the truth. 761 00:39:16,417 --> 00:39:18,539 I don't know, Ms. Woodside. 762 00:39:18,650 --> 00:39:19,641 Yeah. 763 00:39:21,122 --> 00:39:22,554 Yeah, I was thinking, 764 00:39:23,766 --> 00:39:27,400 too, how many times you start out thinking you're doing just the right thing. 765 00:39:28,141 --> 00:39:31,344 And then, uh, I don't know, you end up doing something else completely. 766 00:39:32,986 --> 00:39:34,608 You lose your way. 767 00:39:35,289 --> 00:39:36,551 You lose perspective. 768 00:39:37,392 --> 00:39:39,955 Maybe we should have this conversation somewhere else. 769 00:39:40,936 --> 00:39:42,127 Actually, 770 00:39:43,008 --> 00:39:45,531 I think we're in exactly the right place. 771 00:39:46,713 --> 00:39:48,184 What about you, Abel? 772 00:39:56,834 --> 00:39:58,807 What's going on in there? 773 00:39:59,007 --> 00:40:01,099 Can somebody tell me what's going on? 774 00:40:01,180 --> 00:40:03,442 Principal Woodside is just talking to your son. 775 00:40:04,283 --> 00:40:05,445 No police in there? 776 00:40:05,525 --> 00:40:08,318 No police. Would you like a cup of coffee? 777 00:40:08,488 --> 00:40:09,980 We can get you something. 778 00:40:12,002 --> 00:40:14,475 Mrs. Dolan, would you send Moses in here for a moment? 779 00:40:26,329 --> 00:40:30,034 Ms. Woodside, what is going on in there? 780 00:40:31,105 --> 00:40:33,237 I'm sorry, Mrs. Dolan. 781 00:40:34,879 --> 00:40:36,441 I'm really sorry. 782 00:40:43,870 --> 00:40:44,861 Go ahead, son. 783 00:40:45,842 --> 00:40:46,833 Do it. 784 00:40:53,521 --> 00:40:55,353 I know who killed Cesar. 785 00:40:55,794 --> 00:40:57,626 What are you talking about, Moses? 786 00:40:59,408 --> 00:41:02,932 Abel told me, Mama. He told me to tell them. 787 00:41:03,583 --> 00:41:04,804 Tell them what? 788 00:41:07,257 --> 00:41:08,719 What is happening here? 789 00:41:10,631 --> 00:41:11,623 He did it. 790 00:41:13,765 --> 00:41:15,827 Him and his friends. They did it. He told me. 791 00:41:17,580 --> 00:41:21,014 No, no, no, no! No, no, no, no! 792 00:41:22,185 --> 00:41:26,060 Don't take him! Abel! No, Abel! 793 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:31,736 Don't take him from me, please! Abel, don't go! Abel! 794 00:41:34,249 --> 00:41:36,242 So Moses gets the reward? 795 00:41:36,322 --> 00:41:39,415 He gave us his brother, and his brother gave us the rest. 796 00:41:39,495 --> 00:41:42,359 Abel and his friends ran into Cesar with Jolie. 797 00:41:42,429 --> 00:41:44,371 They already hated the kids from the charter schools, 798 00:41:44,431 --> 00:41:47,034 and some of the boys were jealous over Jolie. 799 00:41:47,745 --> 00:41:49,267 Abel was upset over Moses. 800 00:41:49,347 --> 00:41:51,479 And Cesar made the mistake of being a smart guy, 801 00:41:51,550 --> 00:41:53,181 and trying to impress the girl. 802 00:41:53,522 --> 00:41:54,513 Bad mistake. 803 00:41:54,653 --> 00:41:57,827 Well, with Abel talking, Jolie will, too. It's all over. 804 00:41:57,897 --> 00:42:00,600 We're negotiating pleas for both the murder and the rape. 805 00:42:01,301 --> 00:42:02,502 What about the principal? 806 00:42:02,573 --> 00:42:04,565 Riding a desk in Schools Administration until 807 00:42:04,645 --> 00:42:05,946 they figure out what to do with her. 808 00:42:06,087 --> 00:42:08,349 You could prosecute her for lying to the Grand Jury. 809 00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:11,553 Well, she... She helped us in the end. 810 00:42:13,365 --> 00:42:16,199 Is that enough extra credit to make up for an F? 811 00:42:19,983 --> 00:42:21,605 Now you're grading like she did.