Kalief Browder was an African-American youth from The Bronx, New York. He was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, without trial, between 2010 and 2013 for allegedly stealing a backpack containing valuables. Two years after his release, Browder hanged himself at his parents’ home.
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Kalief Browder was an African-American youth from The Bronx, New York. He was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, without trial, between 2010 and 2013 for allegedly stealing a backpack containing valuables. Two years after his release, Browder hanged himself at his parents’ home. His case has been cited by activists campaigning for reform of the New York City criminal justice system. In 2017, Jay-Z produced a television documentary mini-series titled Time: The KaliefBrowder Story. In January 2019, New York City settled a civil lawsuit with the Browder family for USD 3.3 million. Browder’s adoptive mother, Venida Browder, had raised thirty-four children by 2015, including fostered children, adopted children, and her biological children. The family lived in a two-story brick house on Prospect Avenue near the Bronx Zoo. At birth,Browder was placed into the care of Child Protective Services due to his mother’s drug addiction. At the age of 16, he was charged as an adult, which conformed to state law at the time. He pleaded guilty but later said he was only a bystander. In 2010, police apprehended Browder and a friend on Arthur Avenue near East 186th Street in the Belmont section of the Bronx. He said he thought the police were carrying out a routine stop-and-frisk, a police procedure he had undergone on a number of occasions. The police searched Browder but they did not find the backpack.
At he was arrested and charged with robbery, second-degree grand larceny, and assault. Because he was on probation, BrowDer was not released. At his arraignment he was set bail with a bail amount of USD 10,000; the amount needed was USD 900. When his family met with a neighbor to post bail, they were told that, since he was. on probation from his prior felony conviction, his probation officer had placed a probation violation on him so posting bail would not get him out of jail anyway. When he was taken to jail to await trial and resolution of his probation violation pending his probation pending trial he was imprisoned at the Robert Davoren Preet Center on Riker’s Island. He later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a Bronx hospital. He had been in solitary confinement for two years before his death in 2013. The case has attracted widespread attention in the years following his death and has been featured on CNN and HLN. He is survived by his mother, two brothers, and a sister. He leaves behind a wife and two young children, including a son and a daughter who were adopted by the U.S. government in 2009. He also has a brother and a brother-in-law who are now in their 20s and a step-son who is in their early 20s. He attended New Day Academy, whose staff described him as very smart and a “fun guy”
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