Innocent teenager just 'wanted to go home'
Update: The interim Waukegan police chief publicly apologized yerterday to 15-year-old Martell Williams, who was wrongly charged with attempted murder, and said his department "must do better.," reports Lake and McHenry County Scanner, See also colossal clusterfuck at WGN.
Martell Williams is a 15-year-old teenager who was playing a high school basketball game during the exact time a crime, with which he no involvement, occurred in Feb. about a half-mile away, (WGN News, Newsweek, ABC7 Chicago, Chicago Tribune).
In the United States, being-innocent presents a dangerous set of circumstances because police have no remorse about tricking, lying and manipulating anyone, especially children, into uttering words presented as confessions.
Police do not care if you are innocent in the United States.
Williams was charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery in a Feb 4 shooting at a local Dollar store.
That Williams was completely innocent of any crime presented a problem for the Waukegan Police.
Waukegan Police pulled the freshman at Waukegan High School out of class and arrested him.
"Once I reached the office, there were two officers there," Williams told WGN News. "As soon as I got in, they didn't tell me nothing. They just said, 'you're under arrest.'"
Police offered Williams McDonald's food, and told he could go home in ten minutes, if he confessed (falsely) to being at the Dollar store, although, to be clear, Williams was not at the Dollar store, much less committing a violent crime at the Dollar General store in Waukegan.
Let's get this kid. Williams, to confess, was the order of the day of the Waukegan Police.
Happens. Every. Day. https://t.co/vWrmknrYu5
— Laura Nirider (@LauraNirider) February 22, 2022
"Happens every day," as Wisconsin's Brendan Dassey's attorney, Laura Nirider, pointed out in social media.
Police tricking innocent children is not supposed to happen anymore in Illinois because the state passed a law that bans police lying to innocent children to trick them into false confessions.
Illinois legislators cited the infamous Wisconsin case of Brendan Dassey in debate last year, an infamous injustice defended by Gov. Tony Evers (D), running for reelection this year.
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