Kalief Browder locked up for 3 years WITHOUT being convicted...
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Homie was 16 when they grabbed him.
http://newsone.com/2791485/kalief-browder-prison-rikers-island-the-bronx/
Homie was 16 when they grabbed him.
Kalief Browder (pictured) was walking home after a party in The Bronx in May 2010, when he was suddenly accused of theft.
“This guy comes out of nowhere and says I robbed him,” Browder said. “And the next thing I know they are putting cuffs on me. I don’t know this dude. And I do over three years for something I didn’t do.”
Watch a news report about Browder here:
With his family unable to afford his $10,000 bail, Browder was trapped behind bars for a crime he apparently did not commit. He is being represented by a civil rights firm in a lawsuit; the attorney claims the person who accused Browder did not even know him or if he’d actually robbed him.
“[This was] someone who did not know Kalief Browder, and simply told the police officer, ‘Officer I was robbed two weeks ago and that kid did it’, that’s where it ended. That was the identification,” said lawyer Paul Prestia.
Browder missed his sister’s wedding, his nephew’s birth and many other family occasions while he was locked up. He also contemplated suicide from all the stress he was enduring.
“I was feeling so much pain, and it was all balling in my head, and I just had to grab my head and I can’t take it,” he said.
After serving 33 months in jail, Browder was offered a plea deal in January, which he turned down.
“The judge was trying to give me time served, and she is telling me if I am not taking it and I lose at trial I can get 15 years,” he said. After rejecting the offer, he returned to prison before suddenly being released in June with no explanation, which didn’t sit well with him.
“They just dismissed the case and they think it’s all right. No apology, no nothing,” he said. “They just say, ‘Case dismissed, don’t worry about nothing’. What do you mean, don’t worry about nothing? You just took 3 years of my life.”
The 20-year-old is taking GED classes to make up for lost high school years, but he says he’s already missed out on other milestones as well.
“I didn’t get to go to prom or graduation. Nothing,” he said. ”Those are the main years. They are the main years. And I am never going to get those years back. Never. Never.”
Browder sued the Bronx D.A., NYPD, New York City Department Of Corrections, a number of state-employed individuals and the city, in October.
Per the complaint, Browder was ”physically assaulted and beaten” by officers and inmates while at Rikers. It also claims he was placed in solitary confinement for over 400 days and refused meals. Officers also allegedly kept him from pursuing an education.
“The city needs to be held accountable for what happened. [Browder] had a right to a fair and speedy trail, and he wasn’t afforded any of that. He maintained his innocence the entire time, and essentially got a three year sentence for that.” Prestia told the Huffington
http://newsone.com/2791485/kalief-browder-prison-rikers-island-the-bronx/
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this ? here infuriates me.
all that cuz hes black.
its ok tho. those people that did him wrong will be judged accordingly on judgement day. -
Hope he wins a big fat settlement.
I wonder why did they suddenly just drop the charges and let him go? -
I'm ? disgusted by all this whole ordeal. A pissy witness identification and no evidence...? No trial!!! ? ain't even have a trial.
Like there's so many constitutional violations, this is why it's important to know your ? rights man. How his family didnt learn about his right to trial? You really let your kid, a teenager sit in prison for who the ? knows how much time? Makes no damn sense man, none.
I hope this brother does good things in the future and I hope he gets a huge cut of money and the county District Attorney fired. -
You ? better stop crying, when people like me warn you fools about white people/the system and what we need to do to change things you don't want to listen. Instead some of you call claim i am just a racist, nothing more than the black kkk,YOU weak ? need to know ? loves the fighter and if you let people abuse you then you are telling ? you have no faith. ? waiting on judgement day judge these people now.
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He'll get paid.
3 years sucks but he should be glad that's all it was and not more. -
This guy won't be getting paid anytime soon the central park five have not even gotten their money yet
and they were in jail much longer. -
Hope he wins a big fat settlement.
I wonder why did they suddenly just drop the charges and let him go?
They probably couldn't even get in contact with the person that accused him. -
He's talking like he did 15 years and is now middle aged.
He's about to be a 20 year old millionaire. Those milestones are nothing compared to the potential lavish future ahead of him.
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Scust
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crakkkas aint ?
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Hannibal 5150 wrote: »He's talking like he did 15 years and is now middle aged.
He's about to be a 20 year old millionaire. Those milestones are nothing compared to the potential lavish future ahead of him.
? ? .
If you aren't a criminal you don't belong in jail. There is no amount of money that will make up for what was taken from him.
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That previous post was hillarious..
Yo i seen this ? , this is sad...He should write a film on his experience. -
Hannibal 5150 wrote: »He's talking like he did 15 years and is now middle aged.
He's about to be a 20 year old millionaire. Those milestones are nothing compared to the potential lavish future ahead of him.
nigaa it dont matter if he served 30 days
if there was no evidence he should not have been jailed
eyewitness testimony is the least credible in court for the most part
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Not even surprised by this ?
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He'll get paid.
3 years sucks but he should be glad that's all it was and not more.
Nah, he shouldn't be glad about ? .
Ole silver lining looking ass.
I hope he gets a ? load of money. -
Sour. He needs to go find that man.
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He'll get paid.
3 years sucks but he should be glad that's all it was and not more.
Full of ? . -
HE AINT EVEN DO NOTHING!
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Finish it! -
? be having wack lawyers yo.
I walked away from a drug case back in the day cause my lawyer was a beast.................. on the golf course when golfing with the judge. -
? be having wack lawyers yo.
I walked away from a drug case back in the day cause my lawyer was a beast.................. on the golf course when golfing with the judge.
What movie was this? -
DafuqYo part 1 -
I wanted to do a thread about this when I saw this on sunday. people wake up he's not the only one this has happened to this is the fuckery America is capable of. we need to get together and lobby. theres also a lot of bulshit civil laws that can easily get you jail time also.
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america
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lol @ trying to commit suicide several times, son was gettin molested for sure...sad.