Born a Crime

for squashing a family to death with
his bare hands, but it wasn’t
anything like that. He’d been
arrested for shoplifting PlayStation
games. He was out of work and
needed money to send to his family
back home, and when he saw how
much these games sold for he
thought he could steal a few and
sell them to white kids and make a
lot of money. As soon as he told me
that, I knew he wasn’t some
hardened criminal. I know the
world of pirated things—stolen
videogames have no value because
it’s cheaper and less risky to copy
them, like Bolo’s parents did.