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The Heartbreaking Story About Kalief Browder Essay

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Jennifer Gonnerman, a New Yorker writer explains , the heartbreaking story about Kalief Browder, an eighteen years old who spent three years inside New York’s Riker Island jail for stealing a backpack of a Mexican guy. Later charges were ultimately dropped. Kalief Browder , who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He was arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery but he insisted he had not committed.

On May 15, 2015 , when he was returning home with his friends , somebody reported police that he and his friends robbed him. So police came to arrest him and his friend for their crime. Police searched them but found nothing , meanwhile victim replied police that they robbed him a week before. And they were taken to police custody where they had their finger printed. Earlier on he was accused of taking delivery van and crashing a parked car but he said it was done by his friends. After seventeen hours he was taken to court where he was charged with robbery , grand larceny, and assault but his friends were set free from guilt. Judge set bail of three thousands dollar, as he was he was from poor a family they couldn’t afford that much amount and he was sent to Rikers Island where most of the criminals were confined. Since he couldn’t afford any attorney judge appointed O’Meara as his active attorney. His mother used to come visit him every weekend , in exchange he would give his dirty clothes for

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