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Brother, we are never going to Fontana.
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Thomas Perez Junior was wrongfully accused of his father's murder.
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And the tactics used by the Fontana police to attract a confession
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were not ethically questionable,
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but they were high key insane.
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Yeah, they interrogated him for 17 hours,
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threatened to have his dog euthanized and even withheld medication from him
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So it's no surprise.
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They got a confession.
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They literally mine fucked him for 17 hours and gave the second
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what they wanted a murder confession,
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which is insane because I don't know if at the time like
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like my father, my father just got killed or like like
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you know, it's like he was,
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there was a lot going on and he was so distraught that
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even he tried to hang himself with the drawstring from his shorts
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after being left alone in interrogation room says Espero.
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the detective's forced confession backfired as Perez's father wasn't dead or even
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So apparently Thomas Senior was at LAX waiting for a flight to
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see his daughter in Northern California.
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But police didn't immediately tell Perez Junior that detail.
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Perez attorney filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court against the
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City of Fontana alleging that police psychologically tortured,
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Perez, enforced a false confession without determining that his father had
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actually been slain. So the suit was recently settled for nearly
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$900,000. So, I mean,
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I do think that's enough money I would ask for more.
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It's like you 17 hours get literally getting him saying a false
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confession when his dad was at the airport.
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It is insane. And I have questions.
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It's like, how the hell did they come up with the
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assumption that his father was murdered in the first place?
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it's just insane to me.
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It's just like the lack of what is it?
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Not professionalism but, well,
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professionalism. But like,
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how bad do you fuck up to this extreme homeboy almost killed
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himself? He could have.
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Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
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It's like 900,000. I think the family has to try to
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push for a little more.
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And this is right here.
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Fontana. Oh, that's crazy.
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