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

[Concerning VIolence]

Can't even describe the meddling of anger and bleakness from this.

Cacs and c00ns won't say shyt because this case is so point-blank. If this doesn't set the truth for anyone, nothing will.

 

[Theraflu]

@Brooklynzson and @cook can we please get one of those photoshop banner things for this young NYC brehs story ? This could have been any of us. Literally any of us.

This needs to be on the front page.

Here are photos for the banner

 

[SmoothOperator88]

Do you think this is incompetent public defense or shytty paperwork and the city not giving a fukk? If was a PD, I'd file for an immediate trial and if I didn't get the date scheduled charges should be dropped. Now, NYC might have some bureaucratic BS in place to cover theyre ass, but this is crazy

A combination of all three, although I'd say a better description is overworked, understaffed and incompetent public defense. Nobody really wants to be a public defender. It's extremely long hours, terrible pay (magnified when you compare it to other areas in law) and a completely thankless job. If you're in law school and you're any good, if you say you want to be a public defender your advisors will give you the and steer you in another direction. I have a homegirl who just finished her first year of law school right now. She wanted to be a public defender going in. Her advisors threw that idea in the bushes and now she's specializing in patent law. I say this to say public defenders are, for the most part, the bottom of the barrel anyway.

 

[King Jove]

rest in peace

i couldn't even imagine the mental suffering he must have went through

the shocking thing is this could have happened to any of us

america is just a frightening place for black people

 

[Xtraz2]

Rest in Peace

 

[Theraflu]

He was born in 1993. 1993 brehs.

That could have been so many people we know.

 

[KingTut]

My point is that maybe if he wasn't abused by his own kin he would still be alive.

I don't blame him or judge him for killing himself it's just sad to know those teens abused him that bad.

So you read his story and this is the conclusion you come up with?

I mean it's not like it gives a reason as to why he was paranoid and possibly suicidal.

Browder's mother spoke with her son the night before, when he told her he worried authorities were still after him and confided, 'Ma, I can’t take it anymore.'

 

[Truth200]

So you read his story and this is the conclusion you come up with?

I mean it's not like it gives a reason as to why he was paranoid and possibly suicidal.

Creating dialog to find out what's the solution in regards to the prison industrial complex and the behavior inside it that caused this tragic suicide?

 

[KingTut]

Creating dialog to find out what's the solution in regards to the prison industrial complex and the behavior inside it that caused this tragic suicide?

Better oversight, actual rehabilitation programs. Separation of violent criminals and low level offenders. Preparing inmates with job skills, education, and counseling to help them succeed on the outside.

 

[EA]

Same age as me

Very rarely does stories on the Internet get to me but I'm genuinely saddened by this. Everyone feels alone in the world at times and it's hard enough getting by during normal day-to-day life but the dark place he must have been in scares me to even think of.

R.I.P Kalief Browder

 

[Truth200]

Better oversight, actual rehabilitation programs. Separation of violent criminals and low level offenders. Preparing inmates with job skills, education, and counseling to help them succeed on the outside.

Do you think this is possible under the system of capitalism which has no moral basis?

Honest question when considering the profit made off prisons.

 

[verbalkint]

This kid was broken in every way imaginable. To everybody saying this is just what happens in Riker's, maybe so, but it shouldnt happen to a a 16 y/o boy.

 

[The Jewnited States]

Man that shyt was basically torture. Pisses me the fukk off. The system has to change.

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

This shyt has me ode livid . R.I.P to him smh another black person failed & swindled by the system , but one thing that has me baffled is why didn't his parents bail him out in that 3 year time span ? Thats one thing I can't seem to rationalize because the bail couldn't have been that astronomical because that was his first offense & you only have to pay 10% of the actual bail money so his whole fam could have easily chipped in and throughout this whole event I've seen zero input from his parents .. something isn't right .

 

[Theraflu]

This shyt has me ode livid . R.I.P to him smh another black person failed & swindled by the system , but one thing that has me baffled is why didn't his parents bail him out in that 3 year time span ? Thats one thing I can't seem to rationalize because the bail couldn't have been that astronomical because that was his first offense & you only have to pay 10% of the actual bail money so his whole fam could have easily chipped in and throughout this whole event I've seen zero input from his parents .. something isn't right .

His parents failed him. I said that too. His bail was 10k.