Implicit Bias - Lester Young and Steven Buggs
In 2012, Lester Young, a 34-year-old church handyman, was gunned down in his East Oakland home in front of his teenage nephew. The only eyewitness identified a specific shooter—but the lead detective, Phong Tran, had other plans. Ignoring the witness, Tran pivoted to Steven Buggs, a truck driver who had grown up with the victim. What followed was a 15-hour interrogation filled with racial threats, a decade behind bars, and an 82-year-to-life sentence based on "investigative work" that was rotting from the inside out.
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In 2012, Lester Young, a 34-year-old church handyman, was gunned down in his East Oakland home in front of his teenage nephew. The only eyewitness identified a specific shooter—but the lead detective, Phong Tran, had other plans. Ignoring the witness, Tran pivoted to Steven Buggs, a truck driver who had grown up with the victim. What followed was a 15-hour interrogation filled with racial threats, a decade behind bars, and an 82-year-to-life sentence based on "investigative work" that was rotting from the inside out.
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