The Kalief Browder Story: SPIKE TV Docu-Series Premiers Tonight at 10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri73Dkttxj8Seven years ago, a 16-year-old boy named Kalief Browder was plucked off Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, after being misidentified as a suspect in the theft of a backpack. Though he denied wrongdoing, he was taken to Rikers Island after a brief interrogation. There, he was held without trial for three years despite having never been convicted. Most of that time was spent in solitary confinement. He was finally released in 2013, but by all accounts he was irrevocably changed. On June 7, 2015, at the age of 22, Kalief Browder died by suicide.
http://themuse.jezebel.com/everyone-must-watch-time-the-kalief-browder-story-1792872886
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Watching now
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Some real gut wrenching ? to say the least.
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Must watch! I'll have catch it YouTube or something though
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Man this is a tragedy.....
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Prison for three yrs with no trial over a backpack...
A right to a speedy trial is in the Constitution -
Must watch! I'll have catch it YouTube or something though
Yeah, Spike TV? I thought they were rebranding that channel after Comcast gave them the ? hand by dropping them from basic cable package -
This got my emotions all over the place
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Elzo69Renaissance wrote: »This got my emotions all over the place
empty, angry, melancholy -
They are running it back right now
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playmaker88 wrote: »https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri73Dkttxj8
Seven years ago, a 16-year-old boy named Kalief Browder was plucked off Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, after being misidentified as a suspect in the theft of a backpack. Though he denied wrongdoing, he was taken to Rikers Island after a brief interrogation. There, he was held without trial for three years despite having never been convicted. Most of that time was spent in solitary confinement. He was finally released in 2013, but by all accounts he was irrevocably changed. On June 7, 2015, at the age of 22, Kalief Browder died by suicide.
http://themuse.jezebel.com/everyone-must-watch-time-the-kalief-browder-story-1792872886
Gotdamn the ? had collared shirt on under a sweater, who the ? is he gonna rob???!!! -
? got me so heated smh
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watched part 1 last night. Its a very well produced doccumentary. im suprised its a 6 part series, i'll be watching next week.
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? was real ? up when his family said that Kalifs dad had the 3000$ but refused to bail him out or help wit any money smh.
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wait, how did I not know he was dead?
that ? it up a lot worse for me.....I was heated when I was watching but Im thinking hey this ? is getting attention, he may have a break coming smh
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I learned some stuff about his situation in that first episode. I didn't know he was adopted. Normally that wouldn't matter but when dude said he was being watched all his life I was like damn. that was some real ? he said. I didn't know they held him on probation violation. I know they do that but a juvenile being held for 3 years on a violation is crazy. I waiting to see the rest of this ? . its gonna make me mad as hell but I gotta watch it. R.I.P. Kalief
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? _i_look_like wrote: »? was real ? up when his family said that Kalifs dad had the 3000$ but refused to bail him out or help wit any money smh.
$900.00 -
for an idea of what he prolly had to go through on Rikers
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That's how crackers ? over poor folk and minorities... oh u can't make bail take our evil plea or sit Years until trial which may never come.
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I aint watching this.. I rather keep my spirits up.. I read the article in the New Yorker. And I watched his interview with Marc Lamont Hill.. I heard when he committed suicide.. I aint trying to go there emotionally.. Dude is from my city,.. From my borough.. It's too much..
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Elzo69Renaissance wrote: »? _i_look_like wrote: »? was real ? up when his family said that Kalifs dad had the 3000$ but refused to bail him out or help wit any money smh.
$900.00
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? _i_look_like wrote: »Elzo69Renaissance wrote: »? _i_look_like wrote: »? was real ? up when his family said that Kalifs dad had the 3000$ but refused to bail him out or help wit any money smh.
$900.00
what was the $3000 they kept mentioning?
That was the actual bail amount......going thru a bondsman they could do it with $900 -
every story I have ever read has always said he was stuck in there because his family could not afford that bail. the documentary last night showed that was not true. his family could not make that 3k bail but it was bondable so they borrowed money for a neighbor to get him out. when the bail bondsmen called they said there was no bail. he was being held on a probation violation and therefore he had no bail on that. he and his family were at the mercy of the system then. the violation should not have taken 3 years to clear up.
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EmM HoLLa. wrote: »I aint watching this.. I rather keep my spirits up.. I read the article in the New Yorker. And I watched his interview with Marc Lamont Hill.. I heard when he committed suicide.. I aint trying to go there emotionally.. Dude is from my city,.. From my borough.. It's too much..
U from the Bronx? I was born there and lived on the concourse before moving to bama -
Yea, I can't watch this right now...I'll get too damn angry.
