Kalief Browder. Kalief Browder (May 25, 1993 – June 6, 2015) was a black youth from The Bronx, New York , who was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, without trial, between 2010 and 2013 for allegedly stealing a backpack containing valuables. During his imprisonment, Browder was in solitary confinement for two years.
Brendan O'Meara was appointed as Browder's public defender. Browder always maintained his innocence. Although the assistant district attorney, Peter Kennedy, called Browder's a "relatively straightforward case", his trial was delayed by a backlog of work at the Bronx County District Attorney 's office.
Arrest. On May 15, 2010, police apprehended Browder and a friend on Arthur Avenue near East 186th Street in the Belmont section of the Bronx . Browder said he was going home from a party. He thought the police were carrying out a routine stop-and-frisk, a police procedure he had undergone on a number of occasions.
Browder was jailed at the Robert N. Davoren Center (RNDC) on Rikers Island. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the RNDC had a "deep-seated culture of violence", in which inmates suffered "broken jaws, broken orbital bones, broken noses, long bone fractures, and lacerations requiring stitches".
Browder's communication with O'Meara was mostly through Browder's mother. O'Meara said Browder was "quiet, respectful, he wasn't rude", but he appeared "tougher and bigger" over time. Browder told O'Meara that he wanted to go to trial; he was offered a plea bargain of 3.5 years in prison if he pleaded guilty.
examination and later enrolled at the Bronx Community College (B.C.C.). He participated in the City University of New York 's "Future Now" program, which offered a college education to previously incarcerated youths. Browder completed 11 credits and finished his semester with a grade point average of 3.56.
Nobody from the Bronx DA's office was held personally accountable for keeping Browder incarcerated for 3 years without a trial or a conviction.
Khalif Quadree Mitchell (born April 7, 1985) is a professional Canadian football and American Football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He has played for the B.C. Lions, Toronto Argonauts in the CFL and San Francisco 49ers in the NFL. In 2011, he won a Grey Cup with the BC Lions.
Mitchell for the season played in 16 games, recording 32 tackles, five sacks (team high for the season) and one fumble recovery. He was named a CFL East All-Star and a CFL All-Star. On March 10, 2014, Mitchell was released by the Argos.
After going undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft, Mitchell was signed by the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent on May 1 , 2009. He was waived on September 5, and subsequently signed to the practice squad on September 6. He was released from the practice squad on September 8 and later re-signed to the practice squad on October 13. He was released in early September 2010.
Mitchell and the Storm lost the United Bowl against the Arizona Rattlers on July 7, 2017.
Save this story for later. Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed. Then he spent more than one thousand days on Rikers waiting for a trial that never happened.
Technically, Kalief died by suicide. But when you look at the years of abuse he faced at the hands of the justice system his death starts looking more and more like a murder. Had The NYPD, the DA, Rikers, and the state done its job properly, Kalief would be still with us.
Netflix’s ‘Time: The Kalief Browder Story’ recounts every aspect of the story of Kalief Browder and how he was incarcerated for over 3 years in one of the toughest jails, Rikers Island Jail, in New York City, without even being convicted. The case of the minor theft, his struggles, his death got the attention of personalities like Jay-Z ...
On March 30, 2017, it was announced that New York City will close Rikers Island Jail by 2027 and in the meantime, will ensure that no one goes through what Kalief had gone through there.