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Did your parents know where you were? Had they been worried?
My arresting officer called them about four hours after I was taken into custody and told them I was safe and O.K. Yeah, they were very worried and at first they were extremely angry at me. They said it was “anger produced of fear” — you know, not wanting their son in jail, wondering if it would affect my college applications.
"— my interview with Ben Koatz, a 17-year-old Stuyvesant senior who was arrested on saturday.
