Kalief Browder, The NYC Boy That Was Sent To Rikers For 3yrs On False Pretense KIlled Himself. RIP.

[Cabbage Patch]

Man, fukk you on a personal level, don't be generalizing shyt, when there's just as many white people fukking over Mexicans and Blacks.

I don't see how I can over-generalize facts. Mexican made up a story about his backpack with a bunch of valuables and cash being stolen by random blacks. Kalief lost the coin toss between himself and his friend. Mexican went along with blaming Kalief for a crime that never happened. Mexican fled the US and returned back to Mexico which has a no extradition policy with the US. History shows that those who go back usually come back under other names. Browder's family loses a son.

Anglos fukked over Kalief, but so did Mexicans in this case. Where are Mexicans to protest? Or are you hoping this was going to slide on some 'all white people are the devil ignore everybody else' crap?

Besides, what's in your wallet under race?

If Mexicans were involved in trying to get justice for Kalief, ... were y'all?

 

[Suicide King]

I was almost railroaded before, fortunately the jury found me innocent. This is why I tell everyone I can to take jury summons seriously.

It's not just cops that are fukked up, the entire system is rotten to the core.

With the prosecution it is not about justice, it is about winning.

There are so many examples of people taken to the limit on weak charges.

I've seen cases where people were railroaded, and when the prosecutor was interviewed they seemed so slimy.

Listen to what this scum has to say:

 

[Stir Fry]

With the prosecution it is not about justice, it is about winning. There are so many examples of people taken to the limit on weak judges. I've seen cases where people were railroaded, and when the prosecutor was interviewed they seemed so slimy.

Look what this scum has to say:

The thing with my case was that the prosecution didn't even seem like they cared about winning. The guy they sent in to fight for them was a young black guy that seemed to know that he was being handed a shyt case from the jump. The DA was just backing up the cops by not dropping the charges. All of them were just assuming that I wouldn't be financially or emotionally able to fight the case and that I'd accept a plea. Either that, or they were depending on the jury assuming that because the print looked like mine and the word of the cops saying that I did it, should have been enough to get a conviction. Even when the detective that was handling the case took the stand came to testify, he did so with an attitude that he was pissed that he had to be there. He spoke a couple words, answered one or two questions and then bounced up out real quick.

 

[Suicide King]

The thing with my case was that the prosecution didn't even seem like they cared about winning. The guy they sent in to fight for them was a young black guy that seemed to know that he was being handed a shyt case from the jump. The DA was just backing up the cops by not dropping the charges. All of them were just assuming that I wouldn't be financially or emotionally able to fight the case and that I'd accept a plea. Either that, or they were depending on the jury assuming that because the print looked like mine and the word of the cops saying that I did, that it should have been enough to get a conviction. Even when the detective that was handling the case took the stand came to testify, he did so with an attitude that he was pissed that he had to be there. He spoke a couple words, answered one or two questions and then bounced up out real quick.

Either/or they don't care about justice.

They have other motives whether it is to win or advance their career.

 

[Stir Fry]

Either/or they don't care about justice.

They have other motives whether it is to win or advance their career.

For them it's like collecting and trading baseball cards

 

[goatnole]

Shaun King‏@ShaunKing
Right now, as we speak, at least 6 people have been in Riker's Island FOR OVER SIX fukkING YEARS w/o being convicted


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...at-least-2-years-without-ever-being-convicted

400 people have been imprisoned in Riker's Island for at least 2 years without ever being convicted
This past weekend, Kalief Browder, having served three brutal years imprisoned in Riker's Island took his own life. Beaten and starved and placed in solitary confinement for over two years, the 16 year old Kalief who went into prison for a crime he did not commit was not the same young man who was unceremoniously released without ever being convicted 1,000 hard days later.
As New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and presidential candidate Rand Paul offered their condolences to Kalief's family, the truth about what is happening in Riker's Island is so ugly that it is hard to believe. Kalief Browder was not that one guy who got lost in the system. Far from it.

Currently, in Riker's Island, at least 400 people have been imprisoned for over two years without being convicted. Half a dozen people have actually been waiting for over six years inside of Riker's Island without ever being convicted of a crime. A staggering 1,500 inmates have waited at least a whole year - some of them imprisoned for crimes that wouldn't even have sentences for this long if they actually were convicted.

Even Kalief Browder, who had no criminal record whatsoever when he entered Riker's Island was accused of attempting to steal a backpack. Mind you, the backpack wasn't even actually stolen by anyone, but Kalief was accused of attempting to steal it and he denied having any part in this until the day he could no longer take the brutality of this cruel world we live in.

What must it do to a man's psyche to wait and wait and wait for a chance at justice, only to languish in a notorious prison overwrought with abuse? Sadly, we know what it did to Kalief Browder. For the next man, the effect may be equally debilitating, but be expressed in an altogether different way.

It's called the "justice system," but those two words don't really seem to belong in the same sentence. It is a system, yes, but what brother Kalief Browder experienced, and what the 1,500 inmates in this prison alone, who have waited years for a chance to have a fair trial have experienced, is not justice.

Call it what it really is - the injustice system, the New Jim Crow, modern slavery, but don't call it justice and don't call it an accident. This system was built on purpose and it is a very real emergency for those men and women who are being held without trial for years on end. Everything in New York City should stop so that these people, these citizens of our land, can have some semblance of justice - if that's even possible. Pardons may even be called for.

Whatever the case, the new plan of Mayor De Blasio to fix the problems of Riker's Island over the next ten years simply isn't good enough or fast enough for those who are suffering right now as you read these words.

 

[ltheghost]

Damnit man....hopefully his family gets a settlement out of this. If not...RIP.

 

[Archimedes]

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence" - 6th amendment

Cacs cant even follow their own rules. Between mass surveillance and militarization of the police, were heading for martial law or civil war.

 

[Stir Fry]

I bet it happens a lot more often than anybody can imagine.

Right now, as we speak, at least 6 people have been in Riker's Island FOR OVER SIX fukkING YEARS w/o being convicted


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...at-least-2-years-without-ever-being-convicted

400 people have been imprisoned in Riker's Island for at least 2 years without ever being convicted
This past weekend, Kalief Browder, having served three brutal years imprisoned in Riker's Island took his own life. Beaten and starved and placed in solitary confinement for over two years, the 16 year old Kalief who went into prison for a crime he did not commit was not the same young man who was unceremoniously released without ever being convicted 1,000 hard days later.
As New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and presidential candidate Rand Paul offered their condolences to Kalief's family, the truth about what is happening in Riker's Island is so ugly that it is hard to believe. Kalief Browder was not that one guy who got lost in the system. Far from it.

Currently, in Riker's Island, at least 400 people have been imprisoned for over two years without being convicted. Half a dozen people have actually been waiting for over six years inside of Riker's Island without ever being convicted of a crime. A staggering 1,500 inmates have waited at least a whole year - some of them imprisoned for crimes that wouldn't even have sentences for this long if they actually were convicted.

Even Kalief Browder, who had no criminal record whatsoever when he entered Riker's Island was accused of attempting to steal a backpack. Mind you, the backpack wasn't even actually stolen by anyone, but Kalief was accused of attempting to steal it and he denied having any part in this until the day he could no longer take the brutality of this cruel world we live in.

What must it do to a man's psyche to wait and wait and wait for a chance at justice, only to languish in a notorious prison overwrought with abuse? Sadly, we know what it did to Kalief Browder. For the next man, the effect may be equally debilitating, but be expressed in an altogether different way.

It's called the "justice system," but those two words don't really seem to belong in the same sentence. It is a system, yes, but what brother Kalief Browder experienced, and what the 1,500 inmates in this prison alone, who have waited years for a chance to have a fair trial have experienced, is not justice.

Call it what it really is - the injustice system, the New Jim Crow, modern slavery, but don't call it justice and don't call it an accident. This system was built on purpose and it is a very real emergency for those men and women who are being held without trial for years on end. Everything in New York City should stop so that these people, these citizens of our land, can have some semblance of justice - if that's even possible. Pardons may even be called for.

Whatever the case, the new plan of Mayor De Blasio to fix the problems of Riker's Island over the next ten years simply isn't good enough or fast enough for those who are suffering right now as you read these words.

 

[Stir Fry]

Let's not forget about the Kids for Cash scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

The "kids for cash" scandal unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges, President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from Robert Mericle, builder of two private, for-profit youth centers for the detention of juveniles, in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles brought before their courts to increase the number of residents in the centers.[1][2]

For example, Ciavarella adjudicated children to extended stays in youth centers for offenses as minimal as mocking a principal on Myspace, trespassing in a vacant building, or shoplifting DVDs from Wal-mart.[3] Ciavarella and Conahan pled guilty on February 13, 2009, pursuant to a plea agreement, to federal charges of honest services fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States (failing to report income to the Internal Revenue Service, known as tax evasion) in connection with receiving $2.6 million in payments from managers at PA Child Care in Pittston Township and its sister company Western PA Child Care in Butler County.[4][5] The plea agreement was later voided by a federal judge, who was dissatisfied with the post-plea conduct of the defendants, and the two judges charged subsequently withdrew their guilty pleas, raising the possibility of a criminal trial.[6]

A federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania returned a 48-count indictment[7] against Ciavarella and Conahan including racketeering, fraud,money laundering, extortion, bribery, and federal tax violations on September 9, 2009.[8][9] Conahan entered a revised guilty plea to one count of racketeering conspiracy in July 2010.[10] In a verdict reached at the conclusion of a jury trial, Ciavarella was convicted February 18, 2011 on 12 of the 39 counts he faced.[11][12]

Following the original plea agreement, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered an investigation of the cases handled by the judges and following its outcome overturned several hundred adjudications of delinquency in Luzerne County.[13] The Juvenile Law Center filed a class action lawsuit against the judges and numerous other parties, and the state legislature created a commission to investigate the wide-ranging juvenile justice problems in the county.[14][15] The Center has maintained a list of related court documents.[16]

 

[aceboon]

Double

 

[aceboon]

Who are you talking about here? Browder? They said he had no prior criminal record.

There was no bail. He was on probation. Any violent felony charges is a violation of probation


His PD worked in Westchester County and BX,he signed his speedy trial paper work for WC and the case was in BX. His PD needs to be sued.

The judge allowed the ADA to push back the court date for shyt like I'm on vacation, give me a day(judge gave a week),give me a week(judge gave 6 weeks) etc

 

[BujuBoombastic]

R.I.P

It's sucks how this corrupted system fukked up a persons life. It's wicked and insanity. I probably will never experience what Mr. Browder had gone through, and it saddens mi to see a black brother fall to this evil in his life time.

 

[HarlemUSA]

Who are you talking about here? Browder? They said he had no prior criminal record.

Arraignment:

The judge released his friend, permitting him to remain free while the case moved through the courts. But, because Browder was still on probation, the judge ordered him to be held and set bail at three thousand dollars.



After the grand jury indictment usually a week after the arraignment:





It no longer mattered whether his mother could find the money to bail him out. The Department of Probation had filed a “violation of probation” against him—standard procedure when someone on probation is indicted on a new violent felony—and the judge had remanded him without bail.

 

[George's Dilemma]

Who are you talking about here? Browder? They said he had no prior criminal record.

See the link below and following excerpt. Not that this justifies his stay for three years, nor does it excuse what happened to him behind bars. Both angles disturb me as on one hand the system is over-burdened which creates these situations where lives are essentially hanging on a shelf for months and years. I have to admit though, the other angle is more disturbing to me. That being, non-violent alleged offenders are being housed in the same places with demonstratively violent offenders. The drug war in itself is a case in point where addicts are being housed with bonafide killers and forced to make choices that can leave them behind bars forever, locked up in solitary for their own safety (as opposed to punishment for the real fukk-ups) , or dead. It's almost like the prison system encourages an offender to to commit more crimes while behind bars.

An even better example is the current national news story regarding the two cons who escaped Clinton Correctional. The one convict is a notably violent and cunning man as described by authorities. He tortured, killed, and dismembered a man here trying to get money out of him. Got locked up for that crime, broke out and fled to Mexico only to kill another man below the border. Did 9 years down there, got extradited back up here to finish his time for the man he originally murdered. The other person who escaped with him most recently shot a sherrif's deputy multiple times and killed him in a botched robbery. What's noteworthy about these two escaped cons is, they were both in the honor ward. Neither one of them should have been in any honor ward. Both are killers, and the one is spoken of as particulary evil and smart. He should have been in a Super Max.

Then you have Kalief Browder, who was a small dude, and one can look at his whole demeanor and tell he's no killer. He ain't really about that sh!t, yet you have him housed with gangsters, and on top of that have staff who are abusing him. This went on for 3 years? Like WTF? He actually reminds me of the kid from a couple months ago who was on a leash with a swolen eye and busted lip kneeling on the floor while two alleged GD's pose for the camera in some prison/jail down south. Neither one should be housed with those kinds of inmates. The system is essentially feeding hardened convicts with food in the form of non-violent offenders. And in Kalief's case, an alleged non-violent offender. The system isn't broken, it's corrupted.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law

Browder had already had a few run-ins with the police, including an incident eight months earlier, when an officer reported seeing him take a delivery truck for a joyride and crash into a parked car. Browder was charged with grand larceny. He told me that his friends drove the truck and that he had only watched, but he figured that he had no defense, and so he pleaded guilty. The judge gave him probation and “youthful offender” status, which insured that he wouldn’t have a criminal record.