“12 Seconds” quotes from Law & Order

[about the victim] He had a lot going for him. Handsome, athletic, the best law school in the country. Who would want to kill a guy like that?

Today? Pretty much anybody.

[about Ezra's use of a homophobic slur] Right now, he's just a guy who used a word he wasn't supposed to.

Which is depressing enough.

Yeah, it's a bad word, no doubt, but...

But what?

No one's above having a bad day. The only difference between you or him or anyone else is that he got caught on camera.

It seems that whenever a person of color is on trial, you always bring in some extra evidence to the equation.

Are you trying to say that I make things up? Because that's not how it works.

Quite the contrary. It's simple math. And it adds up to you having a racially motivated axe to grind. There's no other way to explain it.

I'm pretty sure there is. But I'm not a sociologist. I'm a homicide detective. I follow the evidence, and I arrest bad guys, regardless of their race. That's what I do. And in this case, the evidence points at Michelle Nichols.

A Black woman.

No. A murderer.

A man is dead and a family has been destroyed. All because a good man blurted out a stupid, hateful word.