What If? Real Choices in Unreal Moments

What If?

What if your friend was shot by police while running from the scene of a crime where a police officer had been killed?

You were there.

You know your friend did not shoot the officer.

Your friend is taken into custody, and you find a lawyer to represent him. The lawyer arrives while your friend is being questioned, but the police quickly force him out of the room.

Before they do, he sees something horrifying.

Your friend is wounded, and the police are deliberately pushing objects into his gunshot wound while questioning him.

The interrogation goes on for 20 hours.

Twenty hours of pain.Twenty hours of questioning.Twenty hours of pressure.

Finally, your friend breaks.

He confesses to killing the officer.

The next day, he retracts his confession. He says he admitted to something he didn't do because he could no longer endure the torture.

Then everything changes.

The police arrest you.

They tell you they know you were there, and now they give you a choice:

Say that you saw your friend shoot the police officer, or you could be charged with the crime yourself.

If you refuse to cooperate, you could face life in prison.

You know the truth.

But telling the truth could cost you your freedom.

Lying could help send an innocent friend to prison, possibly for the rest of his life.

You have only two choices, and either one could destroy a life.

Would you tell the truth and risk spending the rest of your life behind bars?

Or would you lie to save yourself?

It is easy to say what we should do when nothing is at stake.

But what would you actually do if the life you were trying to save was your own?