Call Your Mother. I Bet It's Been a While

Barbara Cole said she believed policed targeted her son ever since she made a complaint to the FBI in an incident in which she claimed police abused him in Bridgeton jail in 1998. Nothing came of her complaint, she said, but from then on, "Every time a car was stolen, they'd picked him up."

Cole pleaded guilty in St. Louis County Circuit Court in 1999 of auto theft, property damage and misdemeanor assault of an officer. He also pleaded guilty in 1993 in St. Clair County of possession of a stolen vehicle. He bounced back and forth to serve time in prisons in both Missouri and Illinois.

"I'm not saying he's an angel," his mother said.

Is there anything so beautiful as a mother's love, I mean, besides a well-placed quote?