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Did the NYPD use social media to jail an innocent teen?
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The untold story of Jelani Henry, who says Facebook likes landed him in Rikers.
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This is grounds for a lawsuit the law says we have the right to a speedy trial unless he gave up the right for a deal which it seems he didn’t.
then cops should be guilty by association as well and governments and businesses but nooooooooooooooooo they wear suit and ties and all ain’t black… so they get away with it but because you dark skin and associated, you guilty?
sue nigga sue… fuck the D.A, fuck the police, fuck the government!!!
The verge is trying to be like Vice now..? O.o
The comments left by these people who grew up in great neighborhoods are killing me. They really think it’s that simple to avoid problems. I always stood out of trouble yet got harassed by cops a handful of times in my teenage years just for standing on a certain street dressed a certain way. I respect cops. But to think they are all good is just stupid. Are all teachers good? Are all priest good?
What did Jelani say at the end ?
Classism at its best
Thank You Verge.
Thank You.
Verge went 2012–2013 Vice on us, this is a great video!
That’s Some Fucked Up Shit!!!! So Basically He Served A Nearly 2‑Year Prison Sentence For Absolutely Nothing?! Man I’m So Fucking Outraged Right Now & The Judge Knowing The D.A. Had No Case Still Left Him In There For 19 Months!! I Guaranfuckintee You If His Skin Was White, He Wouldn’t Of Even Been There For 1 Damn Month?! I’m Not Black, But I’m Brown & We Go Through The Same Fuckin Shit, But On The West Coast Of Cali! My Ex-Brother In-Law Did 9 Fuckin Years For Supposedly Slapping His Ex-Girlfriend. He Didn’t Do It & She Even Admitted To The Cops Later That She Was Just Angry With Him, But No, They Didn’t Care. The D.A. Said That She Was Just Lying To Protect Him, So They Went Ahead With Trail. They Offered Him A 2‑Year Plea Deal, But He Thought, Are You Crazy, I’m Not Doing 2 Fuckin Years! And So He Hired A Lawyer & Went To Trail, With An All-White Jury Mind You & He Ended Up Getting A 9‑Year Prison Sentence, Serving All 9 Of Those Years Too!! But Even If He did Slap Her Ass, Which I’m Not Condoning, 9 Fuckin Years, Really?! 9 Years, That’s Outfuckinrageous!!!! Oh’ & The Reason He Even Got Found Guilty, Was Because The D.A. Was Allowed To Use His Past Record As Evidence. Which I’ve Seen A Lot’ve Court Room Dramas To Know, That If It Ain’t Relevant To The Case, They Shouldn’t Of Been Allowed To Use It! And For Those Of You That Are Curious, He Was The Driver For A Drive By Shooting When He Was Just 19 Years Old. Which Nobody Died & 1 Guy Got Shot With A Flesh Wound. And Get This, He Only Got 5 Years For That, But 9 Years For Supposedly Slapping Someone, Where’s The Justice In That?! And What’s More Fucked Up, Is That He Almost Gave Up & Ended It All A Couple’ve Times! My Point Is That Those In Charge’ve The Justice System, Have A Lot’ve Power & Sometimes They Unfairly Abuse It. And Most Often Then Not, It’s The Minorities That Pay For It!!!! So I Hope With All My Heart That Things Change & The People With The Power To Devastate Lives & The Lives Of Their Families, Think Twice & Make For Damn Sure That They Have The Right Person Before They Decide To Ruin Someone’s Life?!!!! P.S. I Hope To God, That That Boy & His Family Sue Their Asses For Wrongful Imprisonment? Cause They Deserve The Money & The Humiliation Of That D.A. & Judge!!!! They Should Be FIRED & Serve 19 Months Themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bravo
Excellent report!
from the UK & just shows how fucked up your system. In tons of cases people are arrested for crimes they clearly didn’t commit kept in prison & left their effectively untill they take a plea deal for a crime they didn’t commit as they either can’t afford bail or bail isn’t offered. Once they take the plea deal their freedom is gone even if they do get released becos they’re under that DA or states control for the rest of life effectively
Ffvsf
This piece is more appropriate for VICE unless it actually featured intensive discussion of use and visual description of this “intelligence gathering”.
Police need more understanding of what’s going in black neighbourhoods because not everyone is a criminal. You have people that don’t choose to live in such conditions but have no where else to go.
it upsets me that this video only has 20k views.…
Real talk? This is why #BobbyShmurda is locked up in NYC.
This is so touching I kind of wish that I was a lawyer so I could defend people like this.
Smh
Is seems like invading people’s privacy and harassment to minorities just to make a number and another thing who waits for a trial there is nothing to wait they just want you to wait they just wave it out they target racial profiling it has happen to me many times that’s why I quit being a cop I didn’t want to be like these bozo cops