VERIFY EVIDENCE

“Yeah. And, I mean, I I knew that I didn't do anything wrong, and so in the beginning, I tried to explain that to them. Like, I was I was trying to explain it to them, and I was I was trying to, like, work out what happened. Like, where was like, was this a prank? Is this, like, miscommunication? What's going on? And they didn't care about that in any way, shape, or form.”

“Do you think it went more viral when Vitaly apologized? Because what's funny is that's how I found out about it was when he said delete the video. And then me being the idiot that I am, I'm like, what's the video? And then I look it up. But just him saying delete the video is enough for a lot of people to be like, let me find the video. And then everyone started reposting the video when he wants it taken down. It's like the Streisand effect.”

“There's two types of people in life. The first person, something really bad happens to them, and they want the whole world to feel the way they did. The second person, something bad really bad happens to them, and they never want anyone to go through what they did ever again. And I'm the second guy. If even one person donates to the Innocence Project because of this, at least something good will have happened.”

“What's interesting is that we Jack and I were doing some research on this, and we came across someone who was doing something similar. And they said in the way that people go about catching these people, there's so many errors that actually prosecuting is next to impossible with the way that they do it. And that out of, like, a 100 cases where the cops have been called, I think they said only, like, two or three. So it's like, the people are getting publicly shamed, but it's not actually doing Justice.”

“Then they came, and I was like, take my phone. Look through everything. Go through everything. I waived my like, any normal person, if you've watched any type of lawyer TV show. We worked together, in conjunction to comb through all the evidence from both sides, and I wasn't able to comb through some of the evidence from the other side. But they did it, and they found me fully innocent and completely clear of doing all wrongdoing to the point where these officers, inside the interrogation room were profusely apologizing.”

“I was falsely accused by Vitali live in front of millions of people. The racism, the bullying, the threatening of physical harm, all the time while I'm completely and fully innocent. They didn't care about the truth. I'm the one who called the cops. I'm the one who gave them my phone. And within a few hours, the police proved that I was completely innocent.”

“The decoy, who her job is to talk to as many guys as possible on dating apps and then move them over to Snapchat, tell them her fake age, and, like, get them to meet up. That never happened. She never told me anything. Like, if you check the video, I added her on Snapchat, and I sent, three messages and never got a response back. And so then we kept texting on the dating app. And she was texting a bunch of guys at the same time because, like, that's what she was being incentivized to do, and she mixed up.”

“The first time that I called them, and got to talk to them because I wasn't allowed to, you know, talk to anyone, because I didn't have my phone until after I got fully proven innocent. And so I was call like, I was talking to my parents, and they were just like, we love you. We support you. We know you didn't do anything wrong. The first time I cried was when I heard the cop say I was innocent for the first time.”

“Let's say that I have a date planned out with a girl, and I've never met this girl before. And I Googled your name. And the first five pages of Google all have to do with this case. And even if it says that you are wrongfully accused of it, I don't think that matters, unfortunately. If I were to Google a girl's name and it said wrongfully accused of, you know, like, her ex boyfriend. I'm like, I'm not getting anywhere near this girl.”