Please share your thoughts and make sure you watch until the very end. We must educate and provide treatment of the black men that are coming out of Prison.
A young man imprisoned for three years at Rikers Island jail in New York without charge has committed suicide. Kalief Browder was a 16-year-old high school sophomore when he was detained on suspicion of stealing a backpack. Browder never pleaded guilty and was never convicted. He maintained his innocence and requested a trial, but was only offered plea deals while the trial was repeatedly delayed. After enduring nearly 800 days in solitary confinement and abuses from guards, Browder was only released when the case was dismissed. Browder died Saturday at his home in the Bronx. He was 22 years old. We are joined by Jennifer Gonnerman, a staff reporter for The New Yorker who was the first to report Kalief’s suicide. She originally recounted Kalief Browder’s story last year in her article, “Before the Law: A boy was accused of taking a backpack. The courts took the next three years of his life,” and later published exclusive surveillance footage of him being beaten by guards and fellow prisoners.
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What are your thoughts on ways that the black community can help themselves fight this type of injustice against our race? We need to home grow our very own law organization that will house some of the most viscous and tenacious law strategies when it comes to situations like this. Â The city of New York should have been sued for compensation of not following his constitutional right to have a fair trial.
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