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(ThyBlackMan.com) I had watched a documentary called “Unjust Justice” where thousands of inner city kids, particularly young inner city brothers are wrongfully incarcerated at the notorious Rikers Island in New York City.
While I was watching this video, I was watching this story about a 16 year old brother named Kalief Browder that was falsely accused by a corrupt NYPD cop of stealing a backpack after he left a party with his friends when the cop had deliberately profiled and arrested him for a crime that he did not commit.
And then these racist prosecutors actually tried to force him to take a plea deal so that he can go home and then the charges would be dropped, but I respected this young brother for refusing to take a
plea deal for a crime that he didn’t even commit. If I was in his situation, I wouldn’t even dare take a plea deal for a crime that I know I didn’t even commit either.
plea deal for a crime that he didn’t even commit. If I was in his situation, I wouldn’t even dare take a plea deal for a crime that I know I didn’t even commit either.His cash bond was set at $10,000. Since his family was poor and couldn’t come up with the bail money, these evil greedy money hungry bigots had basically destroyed this young brother’s life by forcing him to sit in jail for three years (two in solitary confinement) at Rikers Island because they had not only exploited the young brother’s poor impoverished environment by making sure that his family wouldn’t be able to come up with the bail money, but they also economically exploited him by making money off of his unlawful and egregious incarceration.
Because of his unlawful incarceration, this brother had missed the sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school as well as missing the prom and even the chance to go to college. He would’ve been a great husband and father to a beautiful woman that looks just like him.
The mass incarceration epidemic is basically a modern day American holocaust where thousands of inner city brothers (a lot of them are also in the public school system) are being shipped to prison every year and once inside, they go through unspeakable amounts of physical abuse, psychological abuse and trauma as well as the rapes and tortures they often face from not only other inmates, but also racist guards.
I take this mass incarceration issue very personal because I’ve personally had five of my six older brothers, some of my other relatives, and also some of my old homes that I grew up with in my old neighborhood had done hard time in prison. I remember being a little boy when my oldest brother was sent to prison because I remember being angry and crying that day when these bigots had sent my oldest brother off to prison. That day created the psychological pain of seeing my loved ones and friends being incarcerated so often as a kid and that psychological pain and hurt will never ever go away.
There are currently thousands of young brothers like Kalief Browder that are in prison in this country because of crimes that they didn’t commit and also false accusations.
In the eyes of racist mainstream America, when a young brother is falsely accused of a crime, he is automatically guilty until proven innocent and they certainly don’t care very much about what happens to that brother once he is in prison.
And when he got out, he committed suicide because of all the horrible and unspeakable amounts of psychical and psychological trauma that he had experienced while he was incarcerated at Rikers Island from getting assaulted by inmates and racist guards, but also spend two years in solitary confinement which most inmates say is pure torture.
The Conclusion – To The Brothers – If you want to understand how the criminal justice system really works in America, you should take the time to educate yourself of the long history of how the criminal justice system historically has and still continues to systemically oppress us so that you can avoid becoming another victim to the criminal justice system.
Staff Writer; Joe Davis
