All language subtitles for Law & Order s18e05 Driven.eng

NARRATOR:
In the criminal justice system

the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups,

the police
who investigate crime

and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.

These are their stories.

(MUSIC BLARING ON SPEAKERS)

JOSH: You really been
over here before?

Yeah, I copped some weed
from those guys last week.

You copped weed
from those guys?

Don't be
such awuss.

You wanna play with me?

He will.

My mother and your mother
were hanging up clothes.

My mother punched your
mother right in the nose.

What color
was the blood?

It was turquoise.

ANDY: Let's go.

Turquoise.
T-U-R-Q-U-O-I-S-E.

A unit from the 2-5 responded
to a radio run of shots

fired a few minutes
after 8:00.

Unit got here
quick, 8:14.

Looks like she caught
one in the chest.

Any witnesses
come forward?

TURLEY: No, nobody yet.

She's got on a necklace
that says Tanya.

She must be,
like, nine or 10.

Sarge!
We got something!

One in the neck,
one in the shoulder.

The neck looks like
athrough-and-through.

(WOMAN SCREAMING)

Turley. Turley. I want
the street cleared now.

Push those
people back.

It's gonna hit the
fan now, my friend.

VAN BUREN: Move aside, please.

CORMACK: Let's go.
Make a hole. Go.

MAN: Oh! They got
the brass up here now.

It's something now, huh?

You got a white boy down
now it's something.

Back it up, people!

Hey, Lieutenant,
nice night for a walk.

Tell me the story. I
hear two kids were shot.

Yeah. One over there, white
male, mid-teens, no ID,

two shots,
close range.

Yeah, and we got
Tanya Anderson,

10 years old, black,
one shot.

The shooting
took place over here.

There was two
shell casings on the ground,

there's blood
on the curb.

Just two
shell casings?

Well, the boy had
athrough-and-through in his neck.

He got shot first, staggers
on down the block.

The through-and-through hits
the girl in the playground.

You know? This used to
be a free-fire zone.

Rumor has it,
it was cleaned up.

I got news for them.

Boss? Chief of D's is here
with the Deputy Mayor.

If they're here to get a photo
op with the dead girl's mother,

she just left.

Hey,yo? Our John Doe's
prints aren't in the system.

All right. Well, I found
some paint scrapings

in the treads here,

so maybe he was some place
they were stripping paint.

Well, whoever he is,

he spent some of the
last hours of his young life

in a swimming pool.

Smell his hair.

(SNIFFS)

Chlorine.

Like from a pool
at the Y or a school?

No. I'm guessing something a
little more high-end than that.

Test on his hair showed
the pH wasn't as harsh

as what you'd find
in institutional pools.

I noticed there's a couple
of new luxury high-rises

a few blocks
from the shooting.

They advertise
indoor pools on the roofs.

ALICE: Oh, my God!
My God! My baby.

(SOBBING)
I have to see him.

Of course. We'll have
someone drive you there.

I'll go get my coat.

What happened to my son?
Tell me.

He was shot,
Mr. Kendall,

over on 105th Street.

Do you know what he
might've been doing there?

No.

Shot, how can
that happen?

You went to the
theater last night?

Yeah. We came home
about 10:30.

David's door was closed.
We figured he was asleep.

Looks like you
just moved in.

You do any renovation,

strip paint off the wall,
that sort of thing?

What? No.

You know anyone
who is doing renovations?

Someone David would visit?

The Steels are renovating
their brownstone on 109th.

David's friends with
their boys Andy and Josh.

David came over
around 7:00.

He was here maybe,
I don't know, an hour.

Did he tell you guys where
he was going when he left?

No. He just said
he was going home.

Why? Is he okay?

No, ma'am.

He was shot and killed
near the playground on 105th.

Hey, are you
Josh or Andy?

Josh.

How about it, Josh,
David say anything to you?

You know what, boys? Let's
go, we're going be late.

Yeah.

ED: We have more
questions for them.

I'm sorry, it's my
morning to carpool.

And, anyway, they were home
all evening with me, so...

And frankly, I'm not that
surprised about David.

Why's that?

I'd heard he'd been
experimenting with drugs.

SANCHEZ: The schoolyard
used to be a hot spot,

but the developers
moved in,

and brought a bunch
of yuppies with them.

There's fewer places
to sling.

Still, we got
one crew back here.

We ran a buy-and-bust
a few weeks ago.

You collar anybody?

Just the grunt who
did the hand-to-hand.

The dude who has the corner
goes by Ty'lan.

That's him, over there,
red jacket.

Hey. Why don't
you take a walk?

Hold it down.

So what'd I do?

We just want to talk.

Okay. You think Obama's
gonna go all the way?

You seen this boy
here last night?

That's the kid
that was shot?

What makes you think
I was over here?

Hey, Ed,
look at that watch.

Where'd you get that,
Canal Street?

It's a Patek.

I don't know. It looks
like a knock-off to me.

Oh, so it's gonna
be like that, huh?

Yeah, I guess
it's going to be like that.

Okay.

I seen that boy yesterday,
just before supper.

Came with about two of his friends.
They walked by.

Two friends?

Two white kids,

they look alike,
like brothers.

And they just walked by,
that's it?

That way.
With a basketball.

Then about five
minutes after that,

they walked right by here
again, without the ball.

And one of the brothers
was crying like a baby.

What happened?
He get hurt?

Didn't look it.

I heard some of the ballers that play
down the way took the ball from them.

Can I get my
Patek back now?

Hey, guys?
Let's go. Hop in.

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

Come on.

LUPO: ls there anything
you'd like to add

to what you told us
this morning?

Like the part about you being at the
playground with David yesterday?

You forgot that, right?

We were scared.

Scared of what?

Scared of the dope dealers over there.
They killed David.

We're not sure about that.

What about the guys who took
your ball, made you cry?

It was David's ball, and
it had his initials on it.

Yeah. And there
were four of them,

and they asked to borrow it,
but they never gave it back.

And that's why David went
back there last night,

to get his
basketball back?

Yeah, but there was no way
we were going with him.

These four guys,
can you describe them?

Maybe you heard
their names.

They were black,
17 or 18,

and the one doing
all the talking,

he was wearing a throwback
Earl Monroe jersey.

Number 10?

JOSH: Yeah. But it
wasn't the Knicks.

It was the
Baltimore Bullets.

Yeah.

You remember
anything else?

Yeah. They said if we ever
came around there again,

they were gonna pop a cap
in our white asses.

He's like, 17, 18, wears an
Earl Monroe Bullets jersey.

When I come out here,
I focus on my game.

(SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

YOU, sir?

Called him Black Jesus.

Who? The kid
in the jersey?

Earl the Pearl,

Madison Square Garden, 1969.

I don't know. I mean, a lot
of kids wear throwbacks.

Yeah, but this
one's special.

It's Earl Monroe?
Baltimore Bullets.

Am I keeping you
from something?

I just don't know
anything that'll help you.

What am I, new?

ED: Tanya Anderson spent a lot
of time in this playground.

She wasn't much older
than your daughter.

Tanya was a sweet kid.

You remember her but you
don't remember the boy?

He played ball
here a lot.

Sorry. I don't remember
the young man.

Come on, sweetie.

Man, I'm getting
nothing. You?

Man, let's get out of here
before I lose it.

LUPO: We've been over that
neighborhood three times,

we've rang every bell.

Well, maybe the Steel brothers
were wrong about the jersey.

It's not just that, Loo.

Everybody gives me
that don't-ask-me look

before they even know
what I'm looking for.

Same deal here. Most people I
talked to just don't seem to care.

You really
believe that?

I get the don't snitch thing,
you know, on the white boy.

But the little girl, she's
from the neighborhood.

I got news for you, Detective,
you really don't get it.

We got a report
from ballistics.

Yeah. Both slugs are from the
same weapon, a Raven's Arm .25.

It's a little punk gun. Look,Loo,
we're nowhere on this.

We need somebody
with some weight

that can throw it around,
break things up.

Jonas, both children were
killed with the same gun

by the same man, someone
from the neighborhood.

But no one's talking
to my people.

Self-preservation.

In case you
haven't noticed,

the neighborhood's
turning white and rich.

Families are
being forced out.

My officers can't afford
to live in the city anymore.

That's your
community, Anita.

My community's just trying
to hold on to its own.

Well, if don't snitch is how
you define your community,

maybe it's not
worth saving.

Okay.

What if I get people
to come forward?

Always wheeling
and dealing.

It's how things that
need doing get done.

Saint Rita's on
108th and Amsterdam.

They're talking about selling
it to a condo developer.

There's nothing
illegal in that.

Saint Rita's is the beating
heart of this neighborhood.

It closes,
and it's game over.

But if the church was
designated a historic landmark,

it would stop the deal.

I know you got
friends downtown.

It's extortion.
Two children were murdered.

Durning should jump at the
chance to do his civic duty.

What, you don't agree?

Twisting a few arms
at City Hall

is something Adam Schiff used
to do with his eyes closed.

He saw it as part
of this job, I don't.

Not yet.

It sets a bad precedent.

Everybody'll have
their hand out.

What, they don't already?

VAN BUREN: There are
more important things

than another high-rise
on the Upper West Side.

Have you ever seen Saint Rita's?
It's a beautiful church.

Okay. I'll do what I can with
the Landmarks Commission.

But I better get
what I bargain for.

I was at little
Tanya's funeral.

I didn't see no players in their "Don't
Snitch" T-shirts paying their respects.

If you want to see more dead
children in our neighborhood,

then keep
your mouths shut,

while the white boy's people cry out
for justice loud and clear. Cry out!

Snitch on killers. Run them
out of our neighborhood.

Way to go, Loo.

Detective Green?

Yeah, yeah. Mr. "I never
take my eyes off my game."

Well, sometimes I do.

The boy in the Earl the Pearl
jersey, his name is Will.

He lives with
his father at 228.

Across from
the playground?

Italked to a kid named Will.
He had a girlfriend.

Yeah. Pretty
Puerto Rican girl?

LUPO: That's the one.

Never took him
for a bad apple.

Thank you, sir,
for coming down.

You need a ride uptown?

No, I'll take the train.

Well!

228, the shell casings were
practically in front of the place.

That won't give us enough to
get a warrant for the gun.

But we might be able to get
one for a stolen basketball.

Let's go.

My son's not a thief.

Right. He just borrowed that basketball.
Ain't that right, Will?

Aren't you a little old
for Snakes and Ladders?

I play with
my cousin, man.

Here we go.

"D.K." David Kendall.

Your son's under arrest.

For what?
Right now, robbery.

Feels like loaded dice.

A Raven Arms .25.

You have the right
to remain silent.

I don't need a lawyer.
I didn't do anything.

Ballistics just
got the gun.

They're ready
to start the tests.

ED: You know what
that means, Will?

In less than 10 minutes, we'll
know if that gun fired the slugs

that killed Tanya Anderson
and David Kendall.

I want to speak
to my dad.

You don't need your dad.

You man enough
to kill two people,

you man enough
to tell the truth.

RAY: My boy's no killer.

Witnesses saw him take
the ball from that boy.

Now maybe one of his
friends did the shooting

and Will's just
hiding the gun.

Can I talk to him?

He's 17.

He's not entitled
to speak to a parent.

It's under
the microscope now.

Look, we already know that
shooting Tanya was an accident.

It was.
ED: Right. Good.

So what happened
with the boy?

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

LUPO: Ah. They got
a match on one slug.

Last chance, kid.

I just need to
speak to my pop.

My wife died
when Will was little.

It's just him
and me now.

You never even dream of
something like this...

I was worried about four different
things that day, not my kid.

Well, any parent would blame
themselves, Mr. Manning.

But your son
got himself into trouble.

(DOOR OPENS)

What did he say?
What'd he tell you?

Nothing. It's time
to call the D.A.

Ballistics got a match
on both slugs.

We're charging
your son with two murders.

No.

No. I got Will into this.

What are you trying
to say, Mr. Manning?

The white boys,
there were three of them.

Those boys came back.
They had baseball bats.

They caught Will
on the basketball court.

They chased him.
I saw them.

They would've
killed him.

You saw them
out of the window?

Were you outside?

What did you do,
Mr. Manning?

I shot that boy.

I shot him so he
wouldn't kill my son.

CONNIE: The defendant
confessed to two murders.

The People
request remand.

Well, my client is
not running anywhere,

not with half the news vans in the
city laying siege to his house.

They are there because
Mr. Chester invited them

for his daily
press conference.

I have no intention of
letting this city forget

that the District Attorney is prosecuting
a man for defending his family.

(ALL SHOUTING)
(GAVEL POUNDS)

Mr. Chester, address yourself
to me. Let's move on.

We can't move on until we
set the record straight

on these
so-called murders.

Now, I have here with me an
eyewitness, my client's son,

who will testify that his father
acted to save him from lethal harm.

Let's swear him
in right now.

Your Honor,
this is not the time.

Mr. Chester, no one is testifying
today and you know it.

Bail is set
at $1,000,000.

(ALL CLAMORING)
(GAVEL POUNDS)

Next case.

I told my community
their voices counted.

Now I hear you don't care what
an eyewitness has to say.

The Steel brothers deny
that they were there.

And Will Manning refused to talk
to my detectives about anything.

And now Clifford Chester
won't let us near him.

Don't tell me you all
can't get around that.

I suppose we could, if we didn't
mind violating the Sixth Amendment.

Maybe if you talked
to Chester...

What am I,
the official police punk?

I don't think
you all really care

what a young black man
has to say.

I'm not sticking
my neck out for you.

What's it going
to take this time?

You want us
to move a lamp post

or name a park for
your favorite nephew?

These people speak
for Tanya Anderson

as much as they do
for David Kendall.

They don't deserve
your contempt.

Now, Saint Rita's is fast-tracked
for historic preservation.

If you want it
to stay on there,

you'll talk to
Clifford Chester.

Do we understand
each other, Mr. Durning?

I'd say you've got
the hang of this job.

I don't think Mr. Durning's going
to get anywhere with Chester.

Subpoena Will Manning to
testify before the Grand Jury.

The same Grand Jury we're
asking to indict his father?

It may be the only way
to get him to talk to us.

I was on the court
by myself

when these three white
kids came at me.

They had metal bats.

CUTTER:
Did you know them?

They were the same kids me and my friends
kicked off the court earlier that day.

Why did you do that?

I don't know, 'cause
they were new kids.

I mean, we didn't
do nothing wrong.

We just talked trash
and took their ball.

And they came back
that night?

Yeah.

The one kid
who got shot,

he asked me
for his ball back.

I said I didn't have it,
so he took a swing at me.

A swing?
With his bat?

Yeah. I moved out of the way
and he hit the bench.

I tried to take off home,

and they just ran
after me. And...

(sums)

Tell us
what happened next.

I saw my dad
on the stoop.

Then I heard shots.

What happened
after the shots?

One of the kids fell.

My dad grabbed me and
pulled me into the house.

And the other kids, they tried
to help the kid who got shot,

then grabbed his bat and
ran off towards the park.

The park? You mean
the playground?

No, I mean Central Park.

That way?
Are you sure?

I've lived on that block
all my life.

I know where
Central Park is.

Will Manning said the Steel
brothers ran this way,

toward the Park, when
they live west, that way.

Right. If you're in trouble,
why run away from home?

Well, this big dent here
looks fresh.

And it definitely could have
been caused by a baseball bat.

Well, it's consistent
with Will's testimony.

LUPO: Right.

Maybe they were running to a
car parked around the corner?

Yeah. The Steel
brothers are 14, 15.

I'm just saying maybe
somebody drove them.

Maybe, if... Sometimes
the facts are simpler.

There was one boy,
David Kendall, no bats.

And Will Manning shot
him, not his father.

You might be able to sell that
story downtown, but up here,

I wouldn't even try unless
we covered every lead.

Okay. Find me the
friend with a car.

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

ED: You're on the
soccer team, right?

Uh-huh.
With Andy Steel.

You don't hang out with
the rest of the players?

Andy got
kicked off the team.

Why?

Too many red cards.

He...

I've got to
get home, okay?

Okay.

Well, I have been getting the preppie
version of don't snitch. You?

(SIGHS) I found out that Andy got
a lot of red cards in soccer.

He's got
a violent streak.

I'm going to go
talk to the coach.

I didn't kick Andy off.
He quit.

So you would've kept him, even
with all those red cards?

I could've worked with him.
He's not a bad kid.

Well, you don't give red
cards for good behavior.

Yeah, listen. Would
you help us out here?

We've been getting the
brush-off all afternoon.

Andy's not the problem.
It's his mother.

She kept telling him to stand up
for himself, don't back down.

She actually told him to
head-butt another player.

I banned her
from the games.

So she made
Andy quit.

Excuse me.

Soccer mom-Met.

Maybe she told Kendall and
her boys not to back down.

You know what?
Hmm?

She car-pooled
them to school.

Maybe she car-pooled
them to the fight.

Will told us the Steel boys
tried to help Kendall.

If his blood got on them,
maybe it got in the car.

GRETCHEN: All right, because I
don't want to make any stops

or have to
come back. Okay?

Mr. Steel?
Yes?

We have a warrant
to search your car.

Our car? What for?
It's in the warrant.

But we're going
to our country house.

Not in this car. If you need
anything, you'd better take it now.

Nolan.

What? I got my
briefcase in here.

Something wrong?

No. No.

ED: What's in the box?

Blankets,
for the country. Here.

How about that?

I don't know. Gretch?

It's just some trash.
If you...

It's a little early
for spring training.

Gretch, what
the hell is this?

You don't understand.

You're under arrest, Mrs.
Steel. NOLAN: What?

No, you really
don't understand!

Please, if you would
just allow me to explain.

You don't understand. This is not...
This is not what I...

Gretchen?
Nolan.

What's this all about?
Stay there.

Possession of
baseball bats?

Is there some section of the
penal code I don't know about?

CUTTER: It's not
just the bats.

Your client's
garage confirmed

she took the family car out
the evening of the shooting.

Fine. So, let's even assume that she
drove her boys to 105th Street.

She was parked
around the corner,

she had no idea
what was happening.

Where did she think she was taking
her sons, to batting practice?

No! They were going into
a bad neighborhood...

She had no idea
some maniac

was going to come charging out
of his house, gun blazing.

This is
a respectable woman.

This is the wife of
an investment banker.

There is nothing respectable
about her behavior.

I'm indicting her for riot and
criminal possession ofaweapon

until I can figure out whether
felony charges are appropriate.

Gretchen Steel is an active member of the
Manhattan Valley Improvement Project.

What do they do?

According to one editorial, they're
a group of newly-arrived yuppies

who specialize in filing
nuisance complaints

against the poorer residents
in the neighborhood.

Who are mostly
people of color.

Maybe she used her sons
to send a message.

Maybe Ray Manning used his
gun to send his own message.

He was facing eviction
because of a rent increase.

Maybe he had
a bone to pick

with the white families
who were displacing him.

Or maybe just the white kids
trying to de-brain his son.

While you two get
on the same page,

what do you want to do
about Gretchen Steel?

Her sons are being charged with
attempted assault in family court.

How about charging her with two
counts of reckless manslaughter?

Two irresponsible parents
contributed to this tragedy.

Well, if Ray Manning gets
convicted and she doesn't,

I don't want to
be in this city.

We could just stick them both in
a room and let them duke it out.

Maybe you can, at least
in the same courtroom.

Try them together,
you mean?

Him for murder,
her for manslaughter.

Can we do that?

CUTTER: It's a single
criminal incident.

One trial,
two legal theories.

And one jury, who will be loathe to
acquit one while convicting the other.

It's absurd!

Trying my client with this
self-confessed murderer?

It's prejudicial.
CHESTER: Yes, to my client.

Why should Mr. Manning be tainted
by this sorry excuse for a mother?

GRANICK: And why
would Mrs. Steel

want to be lumped together with
this trigger-happy hothead?

Easy, counselors.

CHESTER: Your Honor,
my client and his

have completely
different defenses.

Which isn't grounds for
severance, Your Honor?

People v. Mahoubian?

He's right. The shooting
was a single event.

And there's no inherent factual
conflict between their defenses.

Motion for separate trials
is denied.

No. David wasn't swinging
at the black kid.

He smashed the bench
just to scare him.

Then what happened?

Then the black kid started
running across the street.

And we chased him, like I
said, just to scare him.

I mean, that was...
That was the whole point.

Just to let him and his friends know
that they couldn't push us around.

And then we saw this black
guy coming down the stoop.

It was that man
right there.

He just fired.

He killed my friend
and that little girl.

Now, Andy, you testified that it was
David's idea to go get his ball back.

And what did your mother
think of that idea?

I don't know.

CUTTER: Did your mother
object to David's idea?

Did she forbid you and
Josh from going with him?

No.

She encouraged you,
didn't she?

Objection,
leading the witness.

He's testifying
against his mother.

He should be considered
a hostile witness.

Quite right.

Overruled.
Mr. Cutter.

My thanks to
defense counsel.

Andy, your mother
encouraged you, didn't she?

Yes.

CUTTER: She told you
the same things she did

when you were
playing soccer,

to stand up
for yourself?

Yes. She said that

if we didn't do anything, they'd push
us right out of the neighborhood.

Was it her idea to
bring baseball bats?

Yes. She said that those kids,
they probably had knives.

Mr. Granick goes first.

Andy, your mother told you
to bring those baseball bats

for self-defense, not
to hurt anybody, right?

Yes. That's right.

Young man, show me how
you were holding the bat

when you were chasing
my client's son?

Get up. Show me.

Like that?

Okay.

So, when you were
chasing my client's son

and you were holding
the bat like that,

did you yell something like, "Don't
worry, kid, we're not going to hurt you.

"These bats are just
for self-defense?"

No.

Will was running
toward me.

I saw one of the white boys
right behind him,

he had his bat up.

He looked like
he was about to swing,

so I shot at him.

You thought your son was in
mortal danger, didn't you?

Yes. I honestly thought that
boy was going to kill my son.

And I'm sorry
about the little girl.

I knew her from the
neighborhood, she was...

I can't sleep at night
thinking about that.

I was just trying
to save my son.

How far away from you was your son
when you fired at David Kendall?

Maybe from here
to the table.

Ten feet.

He was running toward you, so he was
one or two seconds away from safety,

when you fired, correct?

I don't know about
one or two seconds.

My boy was in danger,
so I reacted.

Well, why didn't you react by yelling
stop or firing a warning shot?

There wasn't time.

Because it looked like Kendall was
about to swing, that's what you said.

What was I supposed to do,
wait for my boy to get hurt?

You didn't want
to wait, did you?

Isn't it a fact you'd been building
up a head of steam all day?

I don't know what
you're talking about.

You told the police you were worried
about four different things that day

including an eviction
notice, correct?

You couldn't afford arentincrease?
Yes, but...

All those white people moving
in to your neighborhood,

driving up
property values.

Didn't that make you mad, sir?
Wasn't it unfair?

Sure it was unfair. But...

That's what was going
through your mind

when you saw that white boy chasing
your son, the injustice of it all.

L---

(STUTTERING) I don't know.
I was... I just...

I don't know.

No more questions.

My sons and their
friend were scared.

My sons said that they wanted to
move out of the neighborhood.

But I said that that was out of the
question, that we weren't moving.

That this was
our home now.

What, if anything, did
you suggest they do?

Well, I let them
decide what to do.

I did tell them what
I've always told them,

and that is that you have
to stand up to bullies.

My sons had
just as much right

to use that basketball court as Mr.
Manning's son.

What happened after you got
to 105th Street?

Well, l...

I dropped the boys
off around the corner,

and I told them to come right back to
the car at the first sign of trouble.

Then I heard these
popping noises,

and Andy and Josh
came running back.

And they were terrified.
They...

They said that
David had been shot

and that somebody
with a gun was after them.

And we drove away.

You know? I was going to call the
police, but then I thought...

I thought about my sons, and, you know,
the trouble that they would be in.

I don't know.
All I could do...

All I could do was think
about protecting them. So...

Is that why you lied
to the police after?

Yes. Yes, it was. It was to
keep my boys out of trouble.

It's what any mother
would do for her sons.

Out of trouble? Didn't you drive them
into trouble in the first place?

She doesn't have
to answer that.

(STUTTERING) No. You know? I
would like to answer that.

My parents always taught us that
you have to stand up to bullies.

Isn't going
to the authorities

the appropriate way
to deal with bullies?

Well, if this was
my sons' school, absolutely.

I would go to the principal and I would
let him deal with the bully's parents.

But the kids on this
basketball court,

I mean, who knows if
there's a parent at home?

How do you even begin
to find them? It...

We're right here, lady!
Talk to us!

(GAVEL POUNDS)

Get him out of here!

Get off me.

You don't like your new
neighbors, do you, Mrs. Steel?

That's not true.

People's 22. You filed grievances
against them for littering, correct?

(STUTTERING) Yeah, but they
leave fast food wrappers

and beer bottles
on my steps, so...

For disturbing
the peace.

They congregate
outside of their homes,

and they drink
and they play music

and they talk very loudly until
all hours of the night. I mean...

Look, I understand that there
are cultural differences,

but I think that all of us want
a decent, safe place to live.

Cultural differences?

Yes. You know, between
our culture and theirs.

Us and them,
Mrs. Steel?

You know what I mean.

I'm afraid I do.

No more questions.

Hello! I was
over at 1PP.

I thought
I'd track you down.

That case goes
to the jury tomorrow.

I'm worried
about the outcome.

You, me
and the whole city.

This was found on
the basketball court

this morning,
105th Street.

I was at 1PP for
atactical meeting.

They're talking about mobilizing
the department for the verdict.

When's the last time we
offered plea bargains here?

My summation's ready.
I can win this.

Famous last words. I've even
said them myself a few times.

Two guilty pleas solves
a lot of problems.

Expediency
instead of justice.

Justice doesn't only
happen in the courtroom.

There's too much on the
line here to go all in.

Make a deal.

Why should my client
talk about a plea?

I know I have three, maybe
fourjurors, leaning his way.

And I definitely have
four leaning our way.

CUTTER: And if you're wrong,

will you serve the 15 to 25
years your clients are facing?

Well, just to be polite,
what's the offer?

Five. Ten.

GRETCHEN: Five?
Five what, five years?

You expect me to spend five
years of my life in jail?

I didn't hurt anybody.

This is all
your fault, lady!

Your son started it. You
shot two children, not me!

I was protecting my own!

I didn't do anything.

Enough! Do we have
a deal or not?

Hell no.
No. Not a chance. No.

My client
didn't kill anybody.

Nor did she tell her sons
to kill or attack anybody.

Nor did she have
any reason to believe

that her actions would bring
about someone's death.

Then why, you may ask, is she here
charged with two counts of manslaughter?

Simple answer.

She's here because of political
pressure on the District Attorney

to put a white face
at that defense table.

You may not
like my client,

you may not
like her opinions,

but that's no reason to
convict an innocent person.

CHESTER: We all
wantjustice.

We all want someone punished
for these tragic deaths.

Now you can
punish this father,

who acted in defense
of his son

who was seconds away
from being beaten to death,

a father who told the truth
because he had nothing to hide,

a man who is truly remorseful
for these tragic deaths.

Or you can
punish this woman,

who armed her sons and took
them on a vengeful mission,

who lied and lied again
to the police,

an unrepentant racist

who thinks that might and
money make her right.

The decision is yours,
ladies and gentlemen.

Justice is in your hands.

This was a playground dispute between
teenage boys over a $30 ball.

We expect teenage boys to be
impulsive and irresponsible.

But teenage boys didn't turn
this dispute into a tragedy.

Their parents did.

Gretchen Steel,
who bullied her boys

into going back
to get their ball,

who in defiance
of common sense

carpooled them to a street
fight with baseball bats.

Ray Manning,
who, on impulse,

ran out of his house
with a loaded gun,

who without warning,
without thinking

and with callous disregard,
fired into a public street.

Any reasonable adult would
have kept their kids at home.

Any reasonable adult
would have found away

short of lethal force to get
his son out of harm's way.

You may think that this white woman
and black man have nothing in common.

But they share blood,

the blood on their hands.

Now you've watched them point
the finger at each other,

shirk responsibility,
acting like children.

No more,
ladies and gentlemen.

Make them
take responsibility.

JUDGE: Has the jury
reached a verdict?

We have,
Your Honor.

Mr. Manning,
please rise.

On the first count
of the indictment,

in the death
of David Kendall,

murder in the second degree,
how do you find?

We find the defendant
not guilty.

(AUDIENCE EXCLAIMING)

(GAVEL POUNDS)

Let's have order in here.

On the second count, in the
death of Tanya Anderson,

murder in second degree,
how do you find?

We find
the defendant guilty.

JUDGE: Mrs. Steel,
please rise.

On the first count
of the indictment,

in the death
of David Kendall,

manslaughter in the second
degree, how do you find?

We find the defendant
not guilty.

(AUDIENCE GROANS)

On the second count, in the
death of Tanya Anderson,

manslaughter in the second
degree, how do you find?

We find the
defendant guilty.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

JUDGE: I understand the jury has
a statement they'd like to read.

FOREMAN: Yes, Your Honor.

We, the jury,

think this terrible event
never would have occurred

without both
defendants causing it,

and we recommend they should
get the exact same sentence.

Justice.

Who would
have thought it?

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