Posted on 02/24/2022 3:36:38 PM PST by algore
Martell Williams and his attorney told reporters on Monday that the Waukegan teen was only let go after his sister produced a photo proving that he had an ironclad alibi for the time of shooting because he was taking part in a basketball game 20 miles away from the crime scene.
'I was scared. I just wanted to go home,' Williams said of his harrowing ordeal last week, reported CBS Chicago.
Williams, flanked by his family and his attorney Kevin O'Conner, said that on February 16, he was sitting in class at Waukegan High School, where he is a freshman, when police arrived and took him away The teen said the officers did not tell him why they were arresting him, leaving him 'confused.'
'He’s dragged to the police station by a detective who doesn’t even do basic detective work to see where he was on the day,' O’Connor said.
The attorney added that there was no advocate or attorney to speak on the minor's behalf, and Williams was not allowed to call his mother.
Over the course of several hours, Williams said detectives asked him to confess to a crime, without telling him what that crime was.
Williams said he did not know at the time that he was being accused of an attempted murder in connection with the February 4 shooting of 19-year-old Elvis Ramos, a clerk at a Dollar General store.
Williams said that after his arrest, a detective told him that multiple people have come forward and identified him as the suspect.
The teen and his attorney said that detectives then allegedly tried to bribe him with a McDonald's he said he ultimately broke down and made a confession after he said police promised to release him within 10 minutes
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These officers need to put be put on trial for violating this kid’s rights.
Cops like this should quickly see a long prison sentence. I’m thinking 10 years. Scum.
Agreed. When you accept power, you accept consequences.
You should be pretty well set provided that you get a good attorney.
Kid’s dad and uncles should invite the pigs over for a reconciliation picnic.
You’d think that by now the cops would have realized that it’s not the first half of the 20th Century any more.
Some people will do anything for a free handout 🤪
Obviously affirmative action hires or their race would have been splattered all over the place.
Besides no self interested white cop wants to even talk to a black person these days.
Back the Blue!! Muh cops are friends!!
Happens all the time. A lot of people in a bad spot like that will say anything to get out of it.
Not saying the kid is the perp, but this story doesn’t have the ring of truth to it.
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A timestamped photo of the kid somewhere else is rock solid proof. All modern phones not only timestamp each photo, but geolocate the photo. And to make the proof even more solid, whatever photo system involved will upload and timestamp the photos to the cloud server.
Four words you don’t want to hear out of a cop’s mouth. “Can I help you?”
“Look, I do not care if you offer me a five star restaurant Filet Mignon three course meal, with Samual Adams Utopias on taps and a blow job from an actual girl super model afterwards … I’m not agreeing to anything you say.”
(Then get ready to either explain Utopias, because most people don’t seem to know about it, or get harangued for being transphobic.)
It is trivial to edit metadata on photos
(i think this kid is probably innocent)
It would require proof to convince me otherwise
This kid shouldn’t have to work a day in his life.
“A timestamped photo of the kid somewhere else is rock solid proof.”
Proof that the cops did what his lawyer, who is considering a lawsuit, said they did?
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