He's definitely not a threat to anyone, and he has no criminal record. But the second time he couldn't pay it, and he was evicted owing eight months' rent. He had a terrific job. He doesn't fit the profile of a bank robber. But he was always in some kind of financial trouble.
Some people are obnoxious when they owe rent.
They try to tell you something is wrong in the apartment. But he was very nice, very soft-spoken. When he couldn't come up with the money, he was very apologetic. On a recent afternoon, before his most recent arrest put him back in jail, Smith answered the phone at his parents' Queens home. Academics and politicians love to tell us the answer to this question, but we're interested in how Canadians see themselves.