At the age of 12, I caught my first case.

And that was originally a kidnapping slash robbery, but they dropped the charges down.

At 12 years old.

At 12, yeah.

I had seen rapes, I had seen murders, I had seen stabbing, fighting.

I learned how to fight there.

They call it Gladiator School for a reason.

Meaning if you feel

disrespected within two seconds, you have to handle it, whether it's stabbing them, fighting them,

beating them up.

I would say my childhood was kind of like miserable filled with distrust.

My father was drunk, alcoholic.

My mom was Taoist Buddhist, so, you know, it was kind of ran like a dictatorship.

And we were really young and my dad would actually beat us me and my

brother and my mom I sent my mom to the ICU a lot of times bunch of times so it was very very

chaotic as a kid and I think uh you know grew up around that type of environment where there was

gangs drugs violence um you know we're up around that type of environment where there was gangs, drugs, violence.

You know, we're low income, not stereotypical Asian, but we didn't really have much money.

We grew up around a lot of Hispanics. There was a lot of culture shock as well. Our parents are

immigrants, so they didn't really, you know, know how to fit in. So we kind of had to learn everything from the streets.

You know, when I was young, I had a very peculiar mindset.

I trusted myself a lot because I felt like I couldn't trust my parents.

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