I want you to listen to me closely. You need to let these hostages go. If you do that, there's still a way out of this. There's some good news. The corrections officer that you shot is still alive. We've got the video, so we know that you two were wrestling over the weapon, and that he is the one who actually pulled the trigger. That's good news, too. But you've got to let these people go, Troy. You do that, you'll be able to tell your side of the story.
BBooker
I've been trying to explain myself for 18 months! I didn't kill him! I saw the real killer. I was there at the scene. I was trying to help the dude who got shot. That's why I had blood on my clothes. I tried to save his ass, but no one wants to hear any of that!
Booker never intended to kill anybody. He and Foster were fighting to gain control of the gun. The actual bullet wound wasn't even life-threatening. The CO ultimately died of a secondary infection.
The system failed him, over and over again. So why on Earth should we punish him for not believing in something that he had no credible basis to believe in?
I understand. Elements of this case are highly unusual, and troubling. We act on the facts as presented, and Randall Foster is dead because the defendant tried to escape. That's felony murder, all day long. So make peace with the past, and get your head into the game, understand?
You know, I thought I could help people by going to law school, fight the system that way. It didn't work out for me the way I thought. So I joined the Police Academy. I thought I could do more good on the streets, have more of a direct impact. I became a cop to keep innocent Black men out of prison, not put them in there.
