Teen Filmed His Own Crime
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So, this judge has had enough.
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This teenage actually filmed his own heinous crime.
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Really?
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Yep.
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Check this out.
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He's had enough.
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And then you're on a video saying this is the type of shit we do roll up on this at the goddamn barbershop.
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You're just hitting me here.
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Are you in a gang or something?
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Is that what you do?
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No, I'm good.
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So, why did this occur?
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I'm talking to you.
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It was an incident.
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Huh?
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It was an incident.
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I can't hear you.
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It was an incident.
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What'd you say?
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It was an incident.
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It was an incident.
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Is that your answer to that question?
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In this town, this is what you're doing?
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He's just waiting to get a haircut, and you walk in, punch him, and say.
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The co defender punched him.
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My client was a bibliotheca.
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Well, that's how I don't see it.
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It's not, you know, not in those ways.
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Okay, so this is under the law parties that he's here?
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Yes.
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Okay, so you're working with him.
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This is so this is on a video.
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You just walk in, yeah.
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A person just sitting there waiting to get a haircut, and he gets pummeled.
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And then you're on a video saying, This is the type of shit we do roll up on this at the goddamn barbershop in this city.
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Are you kidding me?
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Hey, this subculture within the black community, this is so foreign to white people.
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Yeah.
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But this is a subculture within the black community, and it's very common.
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This is not considered art.
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It's all over websites like World Star Hip Hop.
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Yeah.
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I mean, this is black culture.
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Yeah.
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City?
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Are you kidding me?
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In this city?
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People.
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I mean, what kind of.
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Irresponsible behavior is that?
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And then the vulgarity.
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Do you find that odd, what you did?
Judge Demands Accountability
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Yes, sir.
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We don't put up with this in this town.
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First of all, you start using the English language, not trash talk.
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That didn't get anybody anywhere.
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I prosecuted the James Burden murders.
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I don't put up with this.
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This is just vulgarity and it's bigotry.
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And it's not sophisticated thinking.
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You understand?
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Yes, ma'am.
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What did we do with the other guy that was beating him?
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Is he being prosecuted?
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I have to look at the case.
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I think it's still offended.
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Don't just even assign to me, but I have to look at the sentence.
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You better fix this.
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You understand?
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Yes, sir.
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She won't do anything like this.
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Act responsibly.
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Finally, he ends my directive.
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Follow this agreement, you have no right of appeal of your case.
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Do you understand?
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Yes, sir.
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This isn't what this city stands for in this county.
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We're better than this.
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How do you plead in this guilty or not guilty?
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Dawkins, do you?
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Yes, sir.
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Are you pleading guilty voluntarily and because you are guilty of what this alleges?
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Yes, sir.
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Okay.
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Indictment's been read to you, and you've read it.
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You are guilty of the crime charged and any lesser included offenses.
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You are giving up your rights to a jury trial.
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If nothing further, I'm going to find you are pleading guilty voluntarily.
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You are mentally competent to do so.
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You understand and appreciate the consequences of pleading guilty.
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There's sufficient evidence supporting your guilty plea from State's Exhibit 1 admitted here to find you guilty beyond reasonable death.
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But I'm going to defer any finding of guilt and place you on deferred or unadjudicated probation for 10 years.
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There will be terms and conditions of probation.
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The way you spoke when.
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You were videoing this.
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It makes it sound like this is something you do regularly, which is not part of what the United States of America stands for.
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You're going to jail.
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I can put you in jail for 180 days, six months.
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I don't put up with this.
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Anyone who tries to do this, they're going to be sent a message the same way.
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They're going to jail.
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Yes.
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This puts us back in time.
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And that's not where we are.
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We've progressed.
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We're better than this.
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Do you understand?
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Yes, ma'am.
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It's a condition of your probation.
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You're serving 180 days in the county.
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Your Honor, could I ask one thing concerning that?
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He's a high school senior graduating in May of this year.
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He's being held accountable as an adult under the law, and that's the way we're going to deal with it.
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If we could postpone any general time until weekends or until he graduates, which would be.
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This is the problem you have when you do something like this.
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It spouses up everything, including your education and your future.
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That's why you don't try not to make foolish decisions like this.
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And this is about as foolish as it gets.
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No.
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He's wanted you.
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Yeah, man.
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I'm with the judge.
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Can't be lenient with people this vicious in public.
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This is how we roll up on ends.
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It's funny how that, you know, like you listen to the white judge speak with this ghetto lingo.
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It sounds so funny.
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And his look on his face while he's saying it's like, this doesn't sound odd to you.
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That's what I love so much about this video.
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Yeah, that made me laugh so much.
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Hold him accountable.
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I thought at first, looking at this video, he was just going to give him 10 years probation.
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No, but no, he gave him 180 days and 10 years probation.
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Yeah, because he already knows.
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I need to trap this dude now in probation.
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Because as soon as you mess up once on their probation, they're pretty much going to start throwing a book at you.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Because this judge has seen this a million times with young, teenage kids behaving like freaking animals.
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Yeah, but that kid, he's already done.
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He's done.
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He hasn't even graduated high school.
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And he's behaving like this.
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He's got a chance to turn it around.
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No, he doesn't.
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He's going to jail.
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He's not graduating.
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You think he's going to go back to school and get his diploma?
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He's going to get his GED.
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Nah, he ain't getting that.
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Well, we've seen kids like this in school when we were growing up, and they, you know, you're right.
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They all went to jail and stayed there.
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Yeah, every last one of them.
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That GED don't mean anything.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, half the time when these kids get this GED, they just give it to them because it feels awful.
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It's a DEI diploma.
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Exactly what it is.
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Yeah, you can't teach your conscience.
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Yeah, and this kid does not have one.
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He said, This is how we do it.
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We roll up on somebody, get the haircut.
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No, said what he said.
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This is what we do.
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We roll up on in the goddamn barbershop.
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And you film that.
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Yeah, you film yourself committing a crime, a vicious crime, a felony.
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And then you probably upload it to the internet.
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Of course he did.
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That's crazy.