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  • john .e. reid strikes again.....

  • Hey, I want my lawyer

  • What a fucking retard.

  • @KremisLikesPie You are grounded for that comment. Go clean your room now.

  • 0:20 - the guy sounds like Jack Hannah.

  • This is what we call taking advantage of someone with a weak mind, not because he's a weak person, but because he's so young and still growing. They manipulated this poor kid into thinking he did something horrible to his sister member he loved dearly. I can only imagine the mental anguish that kid had/has because of them...

  • I hate seeing stupid people on YouTube posting stupid comments

  • WTF!!

    

  • 10 Hour Interrogation?! Good thing Ted Williams DNA was found at the scene

  • FUCK YEAH MÖTLEY CRÜE!

  • You guy s are so funny. You watch a one-sided tape and believe it. Look at the police tape. Who's pushing this kid to tell this story? Who's feeding him details that he repeats, that match the crime scene? No one.

  • @dmcongram And you're just not well informed. Police later dropped the charges, and investigated a homeless man who was seen by witnesses to be lurking around their backyard. Evidence on him was found that he killed the sister. The family sued the department and won a considerable amount for unfair, coercive investigative methods.

  • @eckofan789 Never mind, I mixed up my info. They didn't sue the department. They sued the psychologist that the police went to in order to ask how to manipulate a suspect in order to confess. The psychologist had to pay up to a million to the family.

  • Who else is in "Introduction of criminology, CRM 1300" at the university of Ottawa?

  • This happened 1998... Not 88.

  • all interrogation officers should be made to study psychology

  • Kids are so easily manipulated. We are so eager to protect our kids from pedophiles/violent media/drugs/sex/anything else that might cause them even a little bit of harm, yet this kind of shit not only is allowed, but considered a good intergation technique? That's fucked up.

  • @ussenterp65 Damn right! And those cops deserve whatever comes their way for manipulating that (then) young kid! They should have all been prosecuted for child abuse and sent to prison!

  • the salem witch trials... people confessed to bullshit to save their lives?

  • Makes me wonder how many innocent people are in jail...

  • @LobsterRoc Let's not forget the ones wrongly put to death. Could you imagine what it might be like having the lethal injection with the final memory of being watched by a crowd of people that hate you for what you didn't do? The very thought makes me ill.

  • bastards.

  • This kid....should have had a lawyer present....

  • @Kyu7 You're right. But the kid knew no better. However, the grown-ups there - the COPS! - did and they should have made CERTAIN there was a lawyer present. The Constitution REQUIRES them to. In any other line of work employees displaying this level of incompetence would be fired on the spot. But for the cops this is par for the course. Its sad that we've allowed the bar to be set so low in "law enforcement" that this type of behavior warrants nothing more than, well, absolutely NOTHING!

  • This is acceptable by our courts. Disgusting. Infuriating.

  • How can they have this on tape and this be ok?

  • We saw the movie based on this case today in my class. I can't believe how they could continue to push this poor boy to feel as if he was the one who murdered his sister. I can only imagine the pressure he went through, and the confusion. He was forced to live with the false possibility that he was the one who killed his sister without any knowledge. This is really sad to think that the police were too focused on getting a confession than finding the actual murderer.

  • omg! what the hell, poor kid!! :( He's only 14 for fuck sakes.

  • Another example of how cops will lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want. Cops throw out ethics and morals. And then they wonder why everyone hates them. If you lie to a cop you get your ass handed to you. If a cop lies to you, he gets a medal. Fuck you cops. Grow a pair of balls and get some ethics and morals.

  • I hope the cops deeply regret doing this

    

  • @droleniacoc They absolutely don't regret it. They think they are geniuses for this type of behavior. They think they have every right to do this crap.

  • @ElGatoLoco698 Well, there is nothing written down that says they don't have the right :(

  • @droleniacoc It doesn't need to be written down. There's a thing called ethics and morals. And when cops become cops, they throw their ethics and morals out the window. These cops didn't need to interrogate this kid. If they were so sure the kid killed his sister then why didn't they throw him in jail and wait for court? Why is it so damn important that the kid incriminate himself? People, I beg you, let's flex our rights and not talk to police. Don't answer their questions. It's your right!

  • @ElGatoLoco698 Power is a dangerous thing, if the president/head of state is an asshole in a democracy he/she will lose the power. The policeforce has no such restrictions. The next step in democracy might be to have public elections for the heads of police and the courts. makes government oppression that much harder :) Societies fluent and changing nature is truely beautyfull.

  • @droleniacoc Very well said. Elections for chief of police? Interesting.

  • @ElGatoLoco698 And besides ethics and morals, it doesn't even do what our legal system is ostensibly supposed to do. Cops are supposed to put criminals in jail, not just any little kid or mentally disabled adult they can bully into saying uncle.

  • @DigitaIPhear Not only that my friend, they are probably happy and extremely proud of their interrogation abilities....well guess what "Mr.Interrogator" try that on a man your age not a 14 year old poor kid!!!!

  • I watched the movie about this, surprisingly very accurate to the real thing in most details

  • sometimes when people ask me alot of things i dont want to do or talk about i some how always get lured or a feeling that makes me seem like i have done something

  • This is why you MUST stfu and use your right to remain silent, the police WILL try to set you up and frame you. Don't say anything, don't write any excuse letter to the victims, don't engage in small talk (it's a trick to lure you in and create a bond), avoid eye contact (another trick to lure you in).

    Just stfu.

  • how is it the police can Lie to a person and nothing ever happens to them. but if a person lies to the police they get charged. and in the Casy Anthony case gets 4 years in jail?

  • How are the police allowed to lie to people while they are being interrogated without it being illegal?

  • why does this cop have a hillbilly accent? Is everyone from the south just completely retarded?

  • I don't know if anyone thought of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. This play-write script shows the same torture a higher title gives to Men and Children during the time of the Salem Witch Trials. It's so sad that even to these days, people could still manipulate young and innocent children to admit or confess something they have never done just for the sake of being "Sin-free" or to serve this so-call "Justice" for the dearly departed.

  • If you see what happened to Brenton Butler in the "Murder on a Sunday Morning" case, you can no longer be astonished what kinda idiots must work in the law enforcement in general. To be seen on youtube also.

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  • The cop is a bitch. Clearly child abuse.

  • whose worse? the people that commit crimes or the motherfuckers who "solve" the crimes?

  • someone should charge those cops criminally. i bet this kid will suffer worse than if he'd been raped by those cops. God knows how many people are rotting in jail because of shit like this.

  • the funny thing is that if the police tell you, that you did it enough times. Your own brain may start making up a story, because hey, the police can't be wrong, can they?

  • Oops. The year was 1998. NOT 1988.

  • The cops should have molested the kid. That always gets the answers you require.

  • @StormFetus you better fucking hide

  • @ElementGreen222 From what? All the sexy children?

  • @StormFetus ITS SO YOU CAN AVOID BULLETS IN YOUR FICKING THICK SKULL YOU DIRTY FUCK!

  • @ElementGreen222 Judging by your typing and spelling, I'd say your skull is a great deal thicker than mine, sweetie.

  • This is violent aggrssion

  • Fuck those cops hop they die slow

  • why does this feel like an ad for LA Noire.

  • Here is something FAR more tragic and sad. Look up dark side of serbian mental institutions. It is disturbing and scary as shit

  • That poor boy!!!!!

  • sue them. blame someone else. it was probably one of the police. some racist sick phuck protected by the law. If that was my kid....Theyd be in deep shit.

    Bunch of assholes

  • omg this is child abuse...them bastards

  • i say sue those motherfucking pigs into the fucking breadlines.after those pigs tortured that poor boy i bet the pigs were cornholing eachother in the locker room.

  • @DigitaIPhear that's true

  • lol the narrartor sound like orton

  • well

  • I would hit the guy for accusing me of killing my own sister if i was him, im also fourteen.

  • that poor kid. where is the evidence to suggest that he murdered her in the first place. if he was a girl they never would have suspected it. they wouldn't have arrested a sister. just cause he's a boy, they think he must have done it.

  • @DigitaIPhear This happens in America only. Trust me I am not being ignorant or stereotype.

  • @ThisWorldABitch im not sure what you mean? do you mean police getting false confessions happens only in america? lol go take a look at chinas method at getting confessions? Or how about Iran? Their another place known for that and they use outright torture. And then we have RUssia. Remember stalins trials? IM sure it still happens but not on such a grand scale.

  • @jessica5000000 Agreed ! But America's way is also brutal

  • @jessica5000000

    Funny how you use China, Iran & Russia as comparisons when talking about the US.

    We're supposed to be so "free," but our so-called "justice" system is being compared to nations like China, Iran & Russia & that we're a whole lot better than them. Well, I would certainly hope so. But we should not be anywhere near the same league as those nations, shouldn't even be in the same thought-box.

    We, Americans, are not actually as free as our government wants us to believe we are.

  • i think i remember seeing this and said they found out there was a serial killer who actually killed the sister.

  • I hope they went to jail. That's fucked up.

  • 10 hours? where the hell were the kids parents? why didnt he have a lawyer? what the hell made these cops so sure he did it?

  • this is crap, i see nothing wrong and nothing that would not happen to anybody else accused of murder. How do you not remember any thing? you think you may have done it? are we even getting the full picture? does this kid havea violent past that everyone but stupid youtube viewers are aware of? grow up!!! if it was your daughter, would you want the cops to spend 15min with the suspected killer and if he says "i may have done it but i cant remember" you gonna let that slide as innocent? morons

  • @spchaj someone else was eventually convicted of this crime. this is the interpretation of michael crowe a notorious false confession pressured by the police after 48 hours. this was a 14 year old child after 40 hours of interrogation. he probably couldnt remember anything he done after police broke him down. and remember they are experts at breaking people down. you dont think it cant happen to you? everyone has their breaking point

  • @spchaj

    After 10 hours of continual interrogation, where the police lied & coerced him, he broke & said that he did it & made up a story.

    His sister, whom he was very close to, was just murdered... he was traumatized.

    The police believed he did it.

    The police didn't want to continue looking for another suspect, even though this 14 year old boy, her own brother, repeatedly said he didn't do it.

    The boy had no previous violent past or history of aggression.

    I remember this when it happened.

  • 4:24 epic face palm.

  • This is a joke. Fucking pigs.

  • Tell the fucking cop you want a lawyer, you want your parents, you want to remain silent. GET that on tape. NEVER say you did something you didn't do, not for anything. What is so complex about that? I don't believe a person can be badgered or trapped into admitting something he didn't do. This is bullshit. Kid is being a whiny puss, and I have trouble feeling sorry for him. Be a man, especially if you are in the right, it should be natural.

  • @7mikethebike it happens and Michael didnt do it. It was proven when someone else was convicted of his sisters murder. You dont believe it can happen? lol well it happens. Police are experts at getting confessions. believe it

  • @7mikethebike On the one hand, he had legal rights to request a lawyer. On the otherhand, it's the interrogator's job to refrain him from learning such rights whilst breaking his will, isn't it? If you're sit on an uncomfortable chair for hours with police being constantly confrontational towards you and ramming "You murdered her! Admit it!" into your head non-stop, for hours, I doubt you could still sit and say "I didn't do it". The more you resist, the more pressure they apply until you break.

  • Imagine what goes on in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib behind closed doors.

  • Where was his legal guardian or social worker? He was a minor, he shouldn't have been interigated by himself in the first place.

  • This goes to prove a point that the Police will use any tacktics they see fit to gain a confession. The issue to weather or not this boy is guilty, obviously has no meaning to Interigators. The police use brut force in any way they see fit. I pray this family drain the Police of every cent they have. And pray the courts will see this way to. Police Corruption is everywhere.

  • mother fuckers...

  • It's at a point where it seems police do far more harm in society as they do good. We can live without them.

  • I hope the Crowe family gets every penny from the lawsuit! This is outrageous!

  • Fuckin pigs. All they want is to accuse someone regardless if they did it or not so they can have their paycheck. What has the world come to?

  • horrific!

  • you dont sit in a room 4 10 hours and tell someone they did it over and over. its going to make them breakdown, they cant handle it, they are either going to confess, retaliate by striking them (getting charged with another crime), hurt themself, or shutdown. its just not right

  • waaaaait, was he proven guilty? i dont get the last sentence...

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  • @Vegetrize No the kids involved in this case were not convicted, however they did have a trial. The prosecution dropped the charges without prejudice, which means they can reopen the case anytime they want. Which stinks for the kids. They have a movie out on this case, very sad. If your interested in this type of stuff, check out the west mem. 3. That case is even more horrible, for the 3 yng victims of course, as well as the convicted. Which btw, everyone knows they are innocent. FREE THE WM3!

  • He didn't do it. I can tell.

    They're saying if he tells them he's innocent, he goes to jail. But, if he says he KILLED his own sister, he's gonna get HELP?!?? He's obviously in depression, and the interrogators are accusing him of murdering his beloved sister.

    They're saying it's okay to kill, but to tell the truth is WRONG. He admitted to the crime he didn't commit, because he obviously wanted it to end. He didn't want to go to jail, especially in depression.

    Wouldn't YOU say so, to end it?

  • @GracieTehNoobz No shit Sherlock. Everyone knows that he didn't kill her, that was the whole point of the video, to tell you how interrogaters get people to commit crimes they didn't commit.

  • This video is very sad. Where were his parents? This issue was handled very poorly by the cops. who killed his sister?

  • This video is very sad. Where were his parents? This issue was handled very poorly by the cops.

  • This is the country with the proportional biggest prison population in the world (more than 2 million people, more than the entire population of small countries) . Any guesses as to why??

  • they made a movie out of this on lifetime

  • his parents where fucking assholes for allowing this to go on for one second.

  • @dicktheguncheney

    i suppose that cops were assholes as... usual.

    acab

  • bring me these kdis so i can fuck em hard ;)

  • He's psychologically tortured, it's clearly child abuse. Where are the Human Rights?? Are they only turned on Middle-East??

  • if this was me i would've killed myself of that fucking cop. asshole 

  • I hope those cops all die horrible painful deaths and until then I hope they never know a single moment of happiness, not a single day where people don't treat them like the scum they are.

  • I can't say anything but i want to smack the FUCK outta the interrogators 

  • "What's your job?" "I'm a fucking intorregation expert!"

  • STAN B WALKER SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DESERVE TO BURN IN HELL

    HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF YOU ARE THE ONE BEING INTEROGATED

    YOU FUCKING MORON.

  • @sparkyrocky12131963 Calm - Stan B. Walker is the "expert" on interrogation, yes, but I doubt it says anywhere in the clip that he was the one that interrogated this child in specific. Not to mention, ofcourse, he was simply doing his job (professional interrogators are paid to be unempathetic, narrow-minded bigots and trained to put themselves into that mindset) - so, really, it's the police force that should receive your condemnation.

    By the way, spirituality is subjective. Just sayin'.

  • @sparkyrocky12131963 Did you watch the video? He's the one supporting the idea that false confessions happen and are bad. Pay attention you goddamn illiterate ADD monkey.

  • SEND THAT COP TO ME AND I WILL HANDLE THAT FUCKING BASTERED.

    IF HE HAD DONE THIS TO MY SON I WOULD HAVE SEEKED HIM OUT AND CUT HIM UP

    TO THE POINT OF MAKING HAMGURGER MEAT.

  • THAT FUCKING COP THAT INTERVIEWED THAT KID SHOULD BE HANGED DRAWNED AND QUARTERED I HATE THESE FUCKING THUGS DAMM JERKS.

    THAT POOR KID WAS COERSED TO TELL A LIE ABOUT SOMETHING TO WICH

    HE DID NOT DO.

  • @sparkyrocky12131963 I tried to give your comment thumbs up, but for some reason I couldn't:/ But, I couldn't agree more!!

  • god damn pigs

  • Just imagine what they would have done to him if he was a Muslim!

  • water-board him until he remembers

  • @kilox10001

    You don't have to answer their questions period.

  • they should have executed him anyways, for being a little bitch during the interview.

  • @kilox10001 Detectives are barely cops, and address themselves as such. I would know from personal experience. Those too assholes interrogating this are for one...the worst examples of any type of investigator I've ever seen...and thankfully...FIRED. The family flipped around and sued, and got their way and now these assholes are out on the street...thank god for that. Its what you deserve for picking such an asinine choice of occupation.

  • Kind of scary how people can be manipulated in this way. You may say "oh he's just a kid", but adults aren't invulnerable to this either.

  • That was the worst trained cops ever! 10 hours geez the humanity

  • so what the fudge happened????? did the cops get punished or what??????? DX

  • these cops need to be killed

  • This made me cry. Poor baby. Glad he was found innocent. When he cries at the end I felt so sad for him. RIP his sister.

  • In America, cops teach children how to act like a criminal !!!

  • Throw those idiot, useless cops in jail It's too bad they don't spend as much time wsolving crime, as they do in the line up at Tim Hortons..

  • @CrossoverBeast You sound like an abused child yourself.

  • @starbright0381 No way.

  • @adiostraitorobama But this has nothing do about court. I was asking why they can't use lie detectors in interrogation. Second, how are they unreliable ?

  • wait so who killed his sister. wheres the rest of this video?

  • @lvaliav86 some dude u jus hav to look it up on google

  • Lazy freemason pigs. They mentally torture this innocent kid while the real killer escapes to kill agian....too common a tale in the good ole' US of A....

  • WHY DON'T THEY USE A GOD DAMN F***ING LIE DETECTOR !?!?! If theres a reason why they don't then please explain it to me

  • @EmoBoyWhoLuvsEmoGrls OMG THAT IZ EXACTLY WAT I SED ISNT THAT LIKE THE BEST WAY TO FIND OUT IF SUM1 KILLED SUM1 or u cudd jus ask and pray they sed "yea i did it"

  • When you reach the point of causing permanent psychiatric of physical harm it has clearly gone beyond any kind of judicial use. This clearly relates to torture. Confessions extracted under such circumstances are categorically unreliable.

  • Snyper- I'm sure his rights were not explained to him. At 14 in a highly stressful situation, nobody can think clear. If you think you're better than him, you're lying to yourself and call others weak to cover your own weakness. I pray you find yourself in a similar situation and let's see you be strong.

  • @hychang5

    They weren't abusing the kid. I never said I was better than him. How did you even infer that? I am calling others weak, because I don't believe it was abuse. People are acting like the kid was held down and water boarded or something.

    The funny thing is that these same people, had the cops gone light on interrogating him, would be leading the charge at police incompetence had the kid actually been guilty. They would be complaining that they weren't tough enough interrogating him.

  • @snyper1982 - abuse can be mental; based on your argument, because they did not touch him physically, it does not count as abuse. Yes, they were hard on him because they thought he did it, but that's the problem. They questioned a young boy as if he were already convicted of being guilty. I am inferring what I did because you put it upon yourself to judge others as weak when you have no idea what it's like to be in that situation and say it's not abuse.

  • @hychang5

    How do you know I don't know what it is like to be in that situation? I have actually been questioned by the cops, and been guilty, and didn't crack from them trying to get me to confess. I was only around 16 at the time as well. Obviously it wasn't murder, but still. If I thought I might have been in trouble, I would have just asked to have my parents or a lawyer present. But I wasn't sweating it because the cops had nothing on me. That kid MADE himself look guilty.

  • You guys are all a bunch of weak idiots. I didn't see any from of child abuse. All the kid had to do was ask for a lawyer, at ANY point, bam interrogation over. You guys act like they took him in a back room and beat him with a rubber hose.

  • @snyper1982

    Easy for you to say. He was probably a good kid who was raised to trust adults and not talk back to authority figures. Add to that the fact that back in the 80's most people had no idea that cops are allowed to lie to suspects, so he naturally just believed everything the cops said. After all the lies and leading questions they subjected him to, they could have convinced him that up was down and down was up if they wanted.

  • @logik316

    Sure they could. If he was retarded. Barring that, I don't think so. I like how you people act like you personally know this kid. LULZ. Now he is a good kid raised to trust adults. You don't know shit about him.

  • @snyper1982

    Well, he wasn't retarded, and he wasn't guilty. So what explanation do you think that leaves, oh wise one? Care to offer a theory of your own as to why he confessed to a crime he didn't commit, or do you have nothing better to do than just shit on everybody else's?

  • @snyper1982 They probaly did out of camera range. Fucking, useless , pieces of trash.

  • @MySnaz

    Oh yeah. Now all the sudden it jumps to physical torture. Get real man.

  • @snyper1982 Oh shut the fuck up. I'm not a man, you dummy.

  • @MySnaz Then would you say that you are a typical Canadian woman, to the shame of decent Canadian women??, Foul mouth!!

  • @frbjoernLA You don't know a thing about me, and who the hell is talking to you, anyway?I

  • @MySnaz Well, like everyone else who can read these comments, I do indeed know something about you, Sleazy Foul Mouth!

  • @frbjoernLA Why don't you take a long walk on a short pier. Fucking idiot, tes, there is that language again, oh my, oh my. Who the fuck cares about language, when a child is being abused, by the very people who are supposed to protect him, no less!!!!

  • @snyper1982

    So the only type of abuse to you is physical abuse? It must be nice to have such a small brain. >_>

  • @pinkshinobi1

    Or it must be nice to just not give a shit what people have to say... You can only be psychologically abused if you allow it. If you just let the shit people say roll off you like water off a duck, then you don't have anything to worry about. I didn't see anything approaching psychological abuse anyways. I saw some cops trying to get a confession out of a kid who was saying some pretty weird shit...

  • @snyper1982 Hmmm, you sound like you would fail the Sally-Anne test. Egocentric much?

  • that is child exploitation.. it is in his right to have a lawyer and his legal guardians present during interrogation and in a murder trial they should of followed practice.. this is bullshit

  • Id tell them to suck it, i didnt do it >3 but i feel extreamly sorry for the little guy, i just have a feeling he wasnt a part of it...

  • This is why all interrogation suspects should be given a stun gun......... or at least a way out of the room. xP

  • dam these cops are sof ull of themselves. thats why stubborn cops should be kept off duty. these guys just wanted to go and leave.

  • @KiNGZeDDi3x

    pedobear

  • And they Tell me that Religion forces 'belief' down peoples throat... down here i see no difference.

  • You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will be used against you in a court of law.

    You shouldn't say any thing to a cop even with a lawyer present. There job is to put you away Guilty or Not.

  • omg this is like this kind of interrogation is like there is only one path, YOU DID IT AND ARE GOING TO JAIL....... WTF?!

  • Fucking useless policemen pathetic pigg. That is exactly why so many people end up hating them.

  • this is child abuse pure and simple the police shouldnt be allowed to do this

  • this is child abuse pure and simple

  • Fuck the police, much pain and suffering to them all

  • i cannot believe the cops didn't get done for this. It's true get told enough uve done something for long enough u will admit to it. even adults would if ur stressed enough. I say the cops should be locked up for this was upsetting to watch the boy obviously very upset

  • having read the comments here i dont think i can watch this video. the comments say it all. if its as bad as they discribe. thanks for posting them to warn people. not all cops are bad. people are becoming more aware of what goes on in this world. and cops are trained to use aggression and force like predators do. tehy have a lot in common but are supposed to be using it in different ways and for different reasons. theres good and bad people in every job. see whats real and put a . to abuse.

  • In Britain any child who is being interviewed has to have a parent, carer or social worker present. Is that not the case in America?

  • @BigBleedinSteve My son was 15 when arrested, he was alone when given his miranda rights, it's not his signature.

  • @BigBleedinSteve My son was 15 when arrested, he was alone when given his miranda rights, it's not his signature. By the time they were through with my child. ... he hardly knew who he was. Now, he will tell you he did almost everything he has been accused of... almost, you see, they