He said he felt helpless and quit wearing his Duke lacrosse apparel. Used to go to Rick’s Diner, his favorite restaurant. There had never been racial tension with the black staff there. One day they walked in and there was one of the infamous wanted poster on the wall. “And the woman who swiped your card in everyday suddenly wouldn’t look you in the eye.”
Went to the gym and a girl on a treadmill had a shirt on that said “Speak Up, We Know What You Did.”
Says they knew things were so transparently false that nothing would come of this, especially after no DNA matches. As time wore on we realized that Nifong said “they were going to do things the old-fashioned way.” Then everyone started to realize “something was going to happen.” They figured it would be the three seniors who lived at the house and Mangum was alleging three people. “I never thought in a million years that I would be a suspect.” “I felt it could never be me because I had left the party.”
