“My father, he fought a long time when he came home—he fought a long time, he fought a very long time,” remembers Ibn Khalil Islam, the eldest son of the now-exonerated Khalil Islam (the former Thomas 15X Johnson).
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“My father, he fought a long time when he came home—he fought a long time, he fought a very long time,” remembers Ibn Khalil Islam, the eldest son of the now-exonerated Khalil Islam (the former Thomas 15X Johnson).