At 16, Brian Banks was one of the best high school linebackers in America. USC had offered him a full scholarship. Pete Carroll personally called him.
One afternoon at school he made out with a classmate. Consensual. By the end of the day he was in jail, charged with kidnapping and rape.
She said he dragged her into a stairwell. It never happened.
The DNA came back negative. His mother sold her house and her car to pay for a lawyer.
He couldn’t make bail. He spent a year behind bars waiting for trial.
His lawyer told him: plead no contest, or risk 41 years in prison. He was 17. He took the deal.
He did 5 years in prison. Then 5 more on parole. Registered sex offender. GPS monitor on his ankle. Couldn’t go near schools or parks. No one would hire him.
Meanwhile, the girl and her mother sued the school district for not keeping her safe. They won $1.5 million.
In 2011, a Facebook friend request popped up on his screen.
It was her.
She wanted to “let bygones be bygones.”
Brian went to a private investigator. They hid cameras in the office and invited her to talk. She came by bus.
On tape, she admitted it. He never raped her. He never kidnapped her.
Then she said she still wouldn’t tell prosecutors the truth. Because she’d have to give back the money.
In May 2012, a judge cleared his name. The hearing took less than a minute.
10 years of his life. Gone in one lie. Erased in 60 seconds.
A few days later his phone rang. “I’m looking for a linebacker. You know where I can find one?”
It was Pete Carroll. The same coach who recruited him 10 years earlier.
He finally signed with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. At 27. The dream he had at 16.
She was ordered to pay $2.6 million back.
What should happen to someone who steals 10 years of your life with one lie?
The last Bagel Caucus of the 119th Congress was a resounding success! I am pleased to pass the Bagel Caucus gavel to Rep-Elect @MicahLasher, and trust he will continue the tradition of spreading NY bagels around Capitol Hill.
Sickening.
Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim were murdered by Elias Rodriguez in the name of “free Palestine.” Gunned down in cold blood in the capital city of America.
When Sarah tried to crawl away, Rodriguez executed her.
Just days before their murders, Yaron had purchased a ring for his marriage proposal to Sarah. Two beautiful lives cut short and the communists are celebrating.
Shawn Mendes, known for a hit song from over half a decade ago and Lyle Lyle Crocodile, is now singing to the tune of "Free Palestine" to his 68M followers.
He claims he is being educated, yet fails to mention anything about Hamas' crimes against Jews and Palestinians.
My only assumption is that he is planning to announce a tour or album soon, since that seems to work for failing and uninspired artists.
@NadavPollak Well you could be spending more time fighting the antisemitic lies of the left but I constantly see you worried about Netanyahu. The issue, is the horseshoe right/left antisemitic alliance. We need to fight their propaganda
Greta Thunberg laughs hysterically when told Fridays for Future, climate change group she founded, still protesting: 'They still do that?' https://t.co/E2jm8gsKIU
The fact that they spam these x-rays kind of proves how fraudulent the genocide hoax is.
Where's the entry wound?
If there was a "silver bullet" proving that Israel was shooting kids, wouldn't there be at least one example that isn't extremely questionable?
“Targeting the Nasser Hospital”
Not targeting Hamas leaders committing the war crime of using hospitals as cover, you wouldn’t say?
Shameful reporting. Hamas’s account given primacy, every single time.
“New York City was a major outlier and reported more violent crime in all four categories, including 24.5% more homicides and 14.2% more robberies. Its combined violent crime total was up 5.1%.”
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Hi @LewisHamilton, perhaps next time go little further to southern Israel, to see the carnage Hamas wrought on Oct 7th, or ask your Egyptian hosts why their border closed to Gazans. The Middle East isn’t a Grand Prix. A brief pit stop doesn’t make you an expert.
As Israel becomes a uniquely capable military power in a world where US leadership is less secure, American military ties to Israel will and must intensify.
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About 20-30% of the Bosnian Muslim population of Srebrenica was killed in a matter of days, all males.
We don’t weigh that to the totality of the Bosnian Muslim population, nor did the ICTY chambers.
NEWS: Following reporting that JD Vance was emerging as lead negotiator with Iran, President Trump says he’s asked Vance to “focus his complete and total attention” on blue state corruption, saying: “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”