The docu-series titled “Kalief Browder’s Story” tells the story of a young man caught up in a failing justice system. Sentenced to the harshest prison in New York, and never convicted of an actual crime, a twenty-three-year-old Browder is ready to tell his story to the fullest extent. Deposition day for Browden was Dec. 2014, and within that day there were many questions. Questions that not only delved into what happened the night of the supposed crime but into the early life of Kalief. Born to an addicted woman, and a broken system, Kalief, and his two older brothers were eventually adopted by Venida and Everett Browden. Everett walked out on the family some years later, and sister Nicole explained that it left a hole in the family.
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They were both approached by two New York City cops and eventually arrested. He was sent to Rikers Island for over one thousand days. One thousand days, eight hundred or so in solitary confinement can and will break a person. The arrest was not only unlawful but baseless as according to the multiple errors in the police reports. The gentleman who accused Kalief was sitting in the back of a police car, and it sounded as if they decided to pick someone off of the street. As soon as there was reasonable doubt, Kalief and his friend were both in handcuffs. The dates and stories of the “crime” changed three times. There was never once a search of either person’s home, car, etc. to find the actual backpack. The abuse on Rikers Island is something that is unfathomable. Inmates are abused and tortured until they least guilty to a crime; even if they never committed said crime. Men are beaten to a bloody pulp, they fight, and possibly die. Former corrections officer Darryl Bryant says he feels bad for any adolescent who ends up there. They will be violated, and that sounds like something totally normal. What is happening alone should lead to a breakdown and reconstruction of the prison system. Although Rikers is one of the worst prisons in the United States, it is not the only …show more content…
According to NBC and MSNBC, the statistics were disproportionally African-American and Latino. 53% for the prior and 34% for the latter. Now, going back up into details about Kalief’s early life, he was born into the peripheral. A system that many know exists, but choose not to do anything to help fix. This feeds into the issue that police and others within the public choose to peg whoever they want for situations. Situations that result in another Kalief Browder story. Stopping and Frisking a person means that no matter what that person is doing, crime to no crime, they can be subject to a pat down. Not only is that wrong, but in the opinion of this girl, stupid. The only reason this can happen is that there are loopholes, there are always. It doesn't make sense that for example, I went on a school trip from students here at FSU. We, students, are evenly split between all ethnicities. Just by looking at us, police already have it out for 25-33% of us. That is baseless discrimination to say, “Oh you look like an issue to me, so let me just check
They were both approached by two New York City cops and eventually arrested. He was sent to Rikers Island for over one thousand days. One thousand days, eight hundred or so in solitary confinement can and will break a person. The arrest was not only unlawful but baseless as according to the multiple errors in the police reports. The gentleman who accused Kalief was sitting in the back of a police car, and it sounded as if they decided to pick someone off of the street. As soon as there was reasonable doubt, Kalief and his friend were both in handcuffs. The dates and stories of the “crime” changed three times. There was never once a search of either person’s home, car, etc. to find the actual backpack. The abuse on Rikers Island is something that is unfathomable. Inmates are abused and tortured until they least guilty to a crime; even if they never committed said crime. Men are beaten to a bloody pulp, they fight, and possibly die. Former corrections officer Darryl Bryant says he feels bad for any adolescent who ends up there. They will be violated, and that sounds like something totally normal. What is happening alone should lead to a breakdown and reconstruction of the prison system. Although Rikers is one of the worst prisons in the United States, it is not the only …show more content…
According to NBC and MSNBC, the statistics were disproportionally African-American and Latino. 53% for the prior and 34% for the latter. Now, going back up into details about Kalief’s early life, he was born into the peripheral. A system that many know exists, but choose not to do anything to help fix. This feeds into the issue that police and others within the public choose to peg whoever they want for situations. Situations that result in another Kalief Browder story. Stopping and Frisking a person means that no matter what that person is doing, crime to no crime, they can be subject to a pat down. Not only is that wrong, but in the opinion of this girl, stupid. The only reason this can happen is that there are loopholes, there are always. It doesn't make sense that for example, I went on a school trip from students here at FSU. We, students, are evenly split between all ethnicities. Just by looking at us, police already have it out for 25-33% of us. That is baseless discrimination to say, “Oh you look like an issue to me, so let me just check