Mackenzie's Mom Calls Police For 'Mean Post' on Social Media- "There Are 2 Girls Bullying Mackenzie"

**Stephanie Soo** (0:00)
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Badabing, badaboo. Sometimes shutting up is the best answer. And I say this with full irony, just ironically as someone who posts hours and hours of footage every week of herself yapping to no end. But sometimes, yes, the answer is being quiet. The answer is no answer. The answer is in staying silent. It's probably the reason why so many defense attorneys spend a great deal of energy convincing their client, who's probably kind of dumb, of everything that they could mess up if they testify on the stand at their own trial. A lot of defense attorneys believe that how the person comes across to the jury is arguably way more important than what they actually testify to. Which is why more often than not, it's not worth it in most cases for clients to testify. I mean, I guess it's just a thing humans do. You would think that no, when you're on the jury for a major case, you want to make sure that you're just listening to the judge. But once someone involved starts yapping, it becomes less about the facts and more about, do I like this person? Do they seem trustworthy? I don't know if they do.
In 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla's case, she does not testify.
July 31st, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie crashes a car going nearly 100 miles per hour straight into a brick building. Her boyfriend Dom in the front passenger seat is killed. Their friend Davion in the back seat is killed. And the only survivor is Mackenzie. And she is now a convicted murderer. She didn't testify during her murder trial, although I will say it wasn't a jury trial. She opted for a bench trial, meaning it's the judge that's going to be determining if her testimony is trustworthy. But even after being convicted, Mackenzie and her parents do not believe she's a murderer. They think that this is an accident. All three of them, Mackenzie and her parents, Natalie and Steve, they sit down with Netflix for the very viral documentary, The Crash. They try to explain their side. And the reaction is probably not what they were hoping for. The reaction that they receive to this whole thing of yapping on Netflix ranges anywhere from, Oh my god, I hate the dad. What's wrong with his shirt? All the way to people spreading rumors that they think Mackenzie and her dad have an inappropriate relationship that was happening in odd hours of the night. Steve Shirilla, the dad, even gets placed on leave from his job. He's an art teacher at a Catholic school because of the comments that he makes on the Netflix documentary.
And one might think that it would probably be in everyone's best interest for Natalie and Steve to let things quiet down after this Netflix documentary goes live, after Steve loses his job because maybe just shut up for a second, right? But no, they do not. They want to keep quote clearing the air. They want to keep sharing their side of things and every time they open their mouths it feels like they're just making it worse.
Since the release of the Netflix documentary, Steve Shirilla has done a few sit down interviews and it's just the point that he's trying to make doesn't feel like it's being made on a large scale. People just seem to hate him more. Steve passionately rants in a more recent interview, there was no evidence to support the charges. There's none. There was none. The prosecution came up with that she's a danger to society, blah, blah, blah. And there was no proof of that. You know, they said she has no remorse. They never spoke to her, which, I mean, I guess, sure. But one could also argue that taking photos and videos getting high in her car likely driving, that's very dangerous to society, considering she also just did kill people in a car crash. And as for the no remorse, she did go to a Kid Cudi concert in a wheelchair and dressed up for Halloween and went out in a ripped corseted outfit with corpse-like makeup. So I don't know if they necessarily have to talk to her to gather in their opinion that she has no remorse.