Vulnerable and Valued: Protecting Youth from the Perils of Custodial Interrogation
Kristin Henning* & Rebba Omer** Full Article. Introduction It had been four long days since the baby died and Lacresha Murray had last been allowed to see or talk to her grandparents, who adopted her when she was two.[1]Now she was sitting in a small room with an angry police officer looming over her, the gun at his waist directly at her eye level. She did not have much experience talking to police officers, but she had seen the police stop and search other Black people, and she had heard her grandparents tell her older sister that she should always do exactly what officers say. “Get home safe,” Lacresha remembered her grandparents telling her sister every time they talked about the police. Now, Lacresha did not know how she would…