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Is anyone watching this documentary on Kalief Browder? Quite sad! The young man committed suicide and his mom had a heart attack and died a couple of weeks after the documentary was shown in sundance or some viewing.
I didn't know Rikers was this corrupt but also the rampant gang violence is insane.
Awful story. Mass incarceration is an incredible beast. I watched part 1 of this series the other day and it is really sad. They explained how corrupt the bail system, how the police held him with zero evidence ... what a terrible justice system America has.
Wasn't his bail $500? If yes why his family not pay it ?
It may as well been $5 million dollars. o way they could come up with that type of cash that most of us walk around with on a daily basis like it's pocket change.
I wouldn't ask questions without watching. He had bail and it took his mother two weeks to cough it up however they had a hold on him because he violated probation by being arrested (even though he was wrongfully arrested). So bail was moot. There is a lack of justice in this country for the poor.
*waiting for all the racist keyboard gangsters(many of who probably still live in their moms basement) to come on this thread and say he deserved what he got simply bc hes a young black male from the Bronx*
*waiting for all the racist keyboard gangsters(many of who probably still live in their moms basement) to come on this thread and say he deserved what he got simply bc hes a young black male from the Bronx*
I don't see how they can. This kid was just walking back home and was wrongly identified. The victim was not able to provide a positive ID on Kalief. It was a maybe, i am not sure, the crime happened 2 weeks ago etc. The victim's story kept on changing. The case should have been thrown out. The whole issue was made worse by the fact that Kalief was under a 5 year probation for joyriding in a bakery truck which was violated by this new arrest.
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