CPS Prosecutor Alesha Phillips in “Unfinished Business”

You know when I was growing up? I saw girls like you. Hanging around the dealers and their shiny BMWs. Getting pregnant before you left school. All of you, thinking “he’s my baby father, he’ll treat me right.” [laughs] Men like Jackson Marshall don’t give a damn about girls like you. They don’t give a damn about their own kids. All they care about is money. Now if you don’t have the guts to stand up, speak out, he’s gonna keep getting away with it, and every time he cocks his gun—every single time some poor kid O.D.s on his drugs that death is on your hands too. That’s three years you’ve missed. Do you want to miss the next twenty? [points to a picture of Tamika’s daughter.] Because unless you’re there to protect her, one day she’s going to be one of those girls, walking through the estate when some dealer swings by in his big shiny car.