Aaron Hernandez Quotes

Everyone else makes mistakes, but immigrants can never make mistakes," Rosie said, and she was right.

What we do know is that Aaron Hernandez was an escape artist. On the football field, no one could catch him. In Florida, he was a few steps removed from a terrible shooting that no one had answered for. In Boston, he almost certainly committed a double murder that he got away with. And when Aaron was caught, and convicted, for Odin Lloyd’s murder, he continued to find new ways to escape. By killing himself, he escaped a long life behind bars.

[...] the "explosion" of Mexicans crossing the border without permission was entirely predictable. It was the inevitable consequence of of policies that slashed opportunities to migrate legally without addressing the forces pushing and pulling people across the line. People who had lived their lives across two countries legally and peacefully for decades were suddenly redefined as invaders and threats. The "Illegal immigrant" was thus invented in Washington, D.C., conjured out of contradiction.

For people in Aida's position, "empowerment is not contingent on taking power or security small victories. Empowerment comes from deciding that the outcome of struggle doesn't matter as much as the decision to struggle.

His score on the verbal section of the SAT was below the minimum to even be considered by the University of Florida.

he would later testify, that in the morning he gathered the clothes he was wearing that night and burned them.

Convincing him had nothing to do with it. Once you vouch for a nigga, that’s it! You’re responsible if anything goes wrong. That’s the way of the streets.

They even organized a jersey exchange so fans could trade Aaron’s jersey for that of another player at the team’s pro shop at Gillette Stadium.

I am of the opinion that Aaron was not a killer.

Basically, they kept asking the jurors, could you convict Aaron Hernandez, even though there is no evidence against him and our main witness is a snitch who cut a deal to save himself?

Of course once Aaron was indicted, the police never found this B or G guy who knew so much about everything that happened. After his innocuous conversation with Sherif, he was never seen again at Cure, or anywhere else for that matter.

I think it’s fair to say that a lot happened to Hashem in that year and to remember the exact date of the shootings is an odd coincidence.

Aaron was never shy about getting into fights before this incident and even after.

Think about it. If you were ever accused of a serious crime, how much money could you and your family pool together to not only pay for a good lawyer but also the costs of litigation? Prosecutors have an entire police force and crime labs at their disposal, and tax payers to cover the bill.

Hernandez, on the other hand, was a physical specimen—even at seventeen.

I seriously doubt that any security guard or systems analyst has any clue where the lines between different police districts are.

Aida had spent 316 days in immigration detention. She had committed no crime worse than shoplifing, posed no threat to public safety, and, with her long ties to one hometown, was unlikely to have fled Douglas. Nevertheless, U.S. Taxpayers paid approximately $52,000 to keep her locked down in medium-security prison conditions. That year, Corrections Corporation of America, the company operating Eloy, logged almost $160 million in profits. And the money trail didn't end there.

Judges knew that a negative verdict, made under intense time pressure, might return a person to a war-torn country, to a cartel-controlled neighborhood, or into the arms of an abusive partner. On the flip side, they feared opening the gates of the United States too wide and experiencing blowback if they released someone who later committed a violent crime. In 2009, the head of the National Association of Immigration Judges declared that their work was "the equivalent of death penalty cases... conduct[ed]... in a traffic court setting.

There was dignity, he knew, in the simple act of continuing to live in a world where you were not meant to survive.