In November of 2002 at the tender age of 16, I was arrested and charged with being involved in the senseless murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. At the time I was unaware of the severity of my situation and wholeheartedly believed the police had made a mistake
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Little did I know it, that cool November afternoon would be the last time I would be a free human being. Life as I knew it had come to a screeching halt and I had been forced to become a number, a slave, a statistic!
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You see unbeknown to me I was already being framed and my face was plastered all over the news and the front page of all the papers, as being a monster that needed to be thrown in a dungeon to rot for all of eternity.
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The district attorney/head prosecutor of Hennepin County Amy Klobuchar, had been under fire by the community of color in her district for the injustice and racist Minneapolis Police Department. she vowed to cause a change in these communities by giving harsh sentences to juvenilepic.twitter.com/mZ7dnWbLO0
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Needless to say I had just become a political pawn in her campaign to take the negative attention that she had been receiving for her racist, bias ways and her failure to address the terrible police brutality that was taking place on her watch.
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She set out to give the heartbroken people of Minneapolis a monster they could direct their frustrations and anger towards Transforming herself into the kind lady that aggressively pursued the juvenile gang banger that killed the 11-year old black girl locking him away foreverpic.twitter.com/uLPicKS7jJ
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The theory the prosecution used to convict me was there was a gang war in South Minneapolis between the Family MOB and Blood street gangs. The bloods saw Oliver an associate of the Family MOB gang and started shooting at him.
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Tyesha was struck and killed by a stray bullet that went through the wall of her home as she did her homework.pic.twitter.com/gf3NqA0jY8
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The detective Rick Zimmerman arrested the alleged intended victim Timothy Oliver. Leaving the scene of another shooting He was wanted for a semi-automatic firearm that was recovered from the Edwards crime scene, that the tenant said belonged to Oliver.
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Oliver told the detectives he had been the intended target in the Tyesha Edwards murder and that he had been standing outside the duplex when a car drove by occupied with Isaiah Tyson and Hans Williams.
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A few minutes later he heard gunshots and said they were aimed at him. He claimed this whole senseless act of violence was because he had been in blood neighborhood and they had mistaken him for a Family MOB gang member.
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This theory was false Oliver had shot at Hans a few weeks before and from what his family told investigators when asked Hans wasn't even a blood still this whole gang war theory played right into Amy Klobuchars agenda of "locking up the gangsters for killing the communities kids"
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She decided to ignore the facts and take Oliver's word. After giving this initial statement his story changed several times. Subsequently turning into him claiming I was the person that committed this crime and he saw me do it.
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he claimed to have heard the shots looked across the street where he was standing and saw me pointing a gun at him that would not discharge another lie that when thoroughly investigated proved to be impossible
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This is a copy of the crime scene photos revealing where the shooter was standing.pic.twitter.com/jSxRU75mWe
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