Anthony Broadwater was convicted of the rape of author Alice Sebold in 1982 but has been exonerated of the crime after almost 40 years. He spoke with NBC News’ Isa Guttierez.
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#AliceSebold #Exonerated #Prison
In the 70s and 80s, ppl were accused of crimes and fathering ppl they had nothing to do with until modern DNA, thanks to modern technology.
Nothing to do with DNA it’s about racism against black people
@KHALED NYC I’m talking about the 70s and 80s, not about your anger. I’m Latino and went through that process, maybe before you were born. OK ?
Lot of wrongful convictions for black people in the past that part of racism their suffer from it
The fact that she first identified someone else but then went on to insist he was the one that did it makes her as guilty for his wrongful conviction as those corrupt officers. I hope he sues her penniless. She should be ashamed of herself.
She owes him money to get his life on track.
He should sue her for everything that she made in his name. Boycott her books and movie
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@Lucifer Morningstar how can I be racist when I’m speaking to one? You know what you are and can’t hide it. I stated nothing but truth she is mixed.
@Yushua MohamedAli you racists are so dolisional so she isn’t BLK because she is mixed race your being racist by denieing her the fact she has dark skin 😃
@Lucifer Morningstar how old are you? Because it’s always the children who troll like this. You are soulless
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Interesting that the comment section is completely empty. The miscarriage of justice and the utter lack of accountability on the part of the author is shameful. Nothing can give this man the years and quality of life he’s lost, as a result of wrongful conviction. I sincerely hope he bankrupts the woman who falsely accused him.
The comment section is empty because it’s the last Thursday of November. 😂🤣
@Enigma The Gray Man it’s a day of mourning my fellow indigenous brothers and sisters
This will be in news for weeks but already they forget about Democrat Brooks driving into crowd.
Brooks is not democrat. The guys even said horrible things Obama. He neither leans to the right nor left. Please tell the truth always and stop invoking violence
@ify ifemanima
He’s not invoking violence. Please tell the truth always and don’t try to defend people that purposely run over more than 40 human beings. It’s kinda weird, man.
@New Life New Rules hes not defending him. Hes simply fixing a error from the commenter about the dude.
Shame and Ostracize (R)eds like this.
He was just out jogging 🤣
He wasn’t actually, that what makes this flase allegation even more sickening
Believe all women!
All a white women got to do is to point out to a black man and she can have him jailed. Shame on Alice Sebold, she profited of his misfortune. She committed perjury, she and all of the agents that participated in this criminal process have to pay for what they did!
Well done producer Tim Mucciante.
These women need jailing…
The author misled the authorities to the wrong man. Before her in the line up of all black men were the prejudices of a police system mixed into her own prejudices. She must have felt pressured at the time. Be done with it, they are all the same anyway. Mr. Broadwater exonerated after 40 year long imprisonment. Author becomes a successful novelist and screenwriter. Funny how in the present every human act becomes a historical transcript. So important to be conscious of these historical forces in the present but they come disguised as accidentally related when knowledge of their origins is not one of your strengths, and you receive them as expected never aware the contact is a document for some future downfall.
Stop looking for an excuse 😒
@Abdiaziz Haji an excuse for what?
@Abdiaziz Haji she’s sick and so are you
Why is the author some kind of hero
Shout out to George Floyd on 549 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals🖕
Ah, being vile to “own the libs.” You’re a really cool person.
Doing race baiting to own the libs.
@Random Realistic Tone Yep
Shameless (R)ed tearing at the fabric of society.
Yeah it’s been a lot of this lately what is this the fourth this month think of how many more there are this was and still is a business along with cops killing brown people next stop: kim potter
Sooo is she gonna share some of the money she made from her books with him as compensation for literally robbing him of his life orrr…?
And those responsible for falsifying the evidence in his case should be jailed for the amount of time he was with all their 401ks going to this guy…
Alice should go to jail.
This happens far too often
MAN WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE BEING EXONERATED?!
What you think?? So many young men of Minorities in jail for false evidence like this!!!
He deserves at least 1/2 her fortune.
She should surrender as much as to where she is uncomfortable giving imo
She made a whole career out of destroying this mans life. He deserves her fortune. Especially for ‘Lucky’. The fact that she’s made so much money knowing she sent the wrong man to prison for so long is truly evil and despicable. What a vile racist horrible woman.
@OysterHunter she even wrote in her book that Anthony had seen her in the street and that he was laughing at her, pure lies.
@OysterHunter your comment makes no sense. Did you watch the video? Because she was sexually assaulted it’s ok that this man was falsely imprisoned for 16 years? He couldn’t get a decent job because of a record he didn’t deserve, he refused to have children with his wife because he didn’t want to raise kids that might find out. The point of “justice” is to punish the guilty party. Not just punish anyone.
The oyster girl is jus a weirdo agitator and provoker trying to upset ppl with her comment . She’s probably reading the comments with a grin on her face.. real weirdo miserable activity 🥴👎🏾
I just want to add that I completely sympathize with the sexual assault victim. No one should have to experience that under any circumstances and I’m sure it’s effected her in ways we couldn’t even imagine. Also, As a young adult she probably was confused when the officers told her she picked the wrong person in the line up, but that’s ok and she didn’t know that wasn’t ok. However, as she got older she didn’t realize the “evidence” that convicted this was weak and maybe she should speak up? Or was she too worried about her pockets? Because don’t tell me she didn’t want to relive the past…. When she has books and movies about it
@OysterHunter she picked out the wrong person in the line up and her team told her to just lie?? and then she did!! she’s so clearly in the wrong, plus she saw him 5 MONTHS later. did you even watch the video?
such a sad story, if that lady could not even correctly pick him during police line up, why did this man even go to the jail to begin with? Too late to turn that event around, but hope this man finds peace in himself.
No one should be convicted based on the eye witness testimony of one person. How many more innocent people are rotting in jail right now? If DNA evidence could prove it wasn’t him, she should go to prison or at least be forced to pay (millions) in reparations.
I’m guessing quite a few.
She made her millions from the horrible experience she went through. All the while taking away this man’s life. She owes him something and so does the corrupt process that got him locked up.
And his BLK everyone should care 😃
Believe all women
LOL
She is a rosewood white women who see nothing or cares for no one!
I can’t think of the words to describe this!
Blessings
Cash payments only! Wow what a shame.
She needs to cut that man a check.
God the righteous judge will make sure that woman receive her due
He is only one of countless men rotting in prison because of corrupt prosecutors and false accusers. Will his accuser give him all the money she made after falsely accusing him? Will the prosecutor go to prison or be sued? Of course not. Men have no protection, no due process of law and there are no repercussions for prosecutors who lie just to get a conviction. I hope he sues his accuser for everything she’s got and more.
This is stunningly sad. My heart breaks for Mr. Broadwater, who shows incredible resilience and grace. The state of New York and Alice Sebold owe him everything–they can start with millions of dollars.
“she had a feeling” this was the guy. Law should not be based on “feels.”
If one is Black, Brown or poor in the US the law will usually not work in their favor
40 years. FORTY. 21 years old to 61 years old. This is abhorrent.
There are gonna be alot of so-called liberal “allies” dismissing Alice’s responsibility, saying “don’t blame her-blame the system that incarcerated that poor man! She was a victim, too!”. You can’t participate in and benefit from systemic racism and get to claim you’re not at fault. White supremacy is a helluva drug
He should file suit against the woman and her publisher. He should be entitled to ALL of the profits made PLUS the financial interest.
Hope this lady will treat him right, say sorry, as a first step.
It’s disgusting how she hasn’t even said sorry .
“Amerikkka” all day long. Go get paid my brother.
She should be in jail for the rest of her life.
The accuser MUST be PUNISHED! If she is not punished then the United States Justice system is TRASH and US should stop talking down on the rest of the world like they are upright people, when the legal system is just are awfully corrupt as the police i the Ghettos of Lagos.
SMH karma is coming…stole this man’s entire life!
Alice Sebold needs to be criminally held accountable, I want to see her in jail permanently.
It’s terrifying how any random black man can just be picked off the street by law enforcement and have their life destroyed just because they were black at the wrong place and wrong time. She stole 40 years of his life and literally made a fortune off it.
This may have been the reason he decided he didn’t want children. To not bring children into a world that has the, higher than normal, likelihood to destroy them with just a momentary thought.
Racist system
Boycott the book and movie. Sue her
What the beautiful FB
I will never watch that movie or read her books ever again! That was a great movie,but it was made by the suffering of an innocent person and lies.
I wonder how can someone be so remorseless and evil? You knew that you sent someone to prison that doesn’t even know why he was there! How can you sleep at night knowing that another human being is in jail!!!! ( English isn’t my first language,so i apologize..) I just want to say that this evil woman should go to jail!
Something tells me that mr Broadwater will not be getting the same level of media coverage as when he was first accused and found guilty.
Is Alice going to be approached and held accountable for at least some of this? I was curious to see if she had any social media. Nope she doesn’t. I wonder why /s
Broadwaters needs to take her to court if he wants anything to happen!
Apparently she had a twitter but disabled it. We all know why.
She deserves to be arrested and the royalties from that book deserves to be given to this man. #INDICTSEBOLD!!!!
Alice Sebold….the original ‘Karen’!
Sebold needs to be accountable.
Poor man
God bless him
Don’t by the Book
Alice should donate her 6M house to Broadwater for lying, sending an innocent man to jail and benefiting financially.
In the page of her book it showed on screen. It’s says “number 4 and 5 of the lineup look like identical twins”. They looked nothing alike. She needs to pay this man and make a public apology. It wouldn’t be enough. But she won’t even do that. She’ll still be able to keep her fortune she made off his back.
She identified the right guy? But the corrupt police didn’t do thier jobs
Is this lady gunna get any jail time?
The definition of INJUSTICE.
Where is the justice in this cruel world
This is why believe women doesn’t work. This is why the lack of due process is a problem. This is why innocent until proven guilty is–as of this writing–still the law of the land.
ALICE SEBOLD NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL FOR FALSE ALLEGATIONS. SHE DESTROYED THIS MANS LIFE AND GOT RICH OFF OF HIM. SUE THE IS OUT OF HER
God bless him and all the wrongly convicted.
She should give up all the money she made off his tragedy and her lies to him.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Amen.
That’s why I wouldn’t even lay with one 🤮🤮
This is heartbreaking
Not that he would want to but does double jeopardy apply?
Miss Sebold? 🎤……………………………………😐
Welcome to America boys and girls there’s millions of cases like these against black men here is just two… 1989, five men were wrongfully convicted of raping and beating a woman in Central Park and they weren’t released until 2002,👁👁. On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
Sue HER. You more than deserve that money. She lied from the get go.. What a bi$h
Jesus this is so unfair
Sue her for all the money she made on that book.
She needs to pay him financially
She destroyed the poor guy life , what a horrible person she is
Sue her into the poorhouse
I hope he would
Have a good life
With the rest of his life.
Bro shout out to that film producer!!!
I hope he can sue her for lying on him and dragging his name in her book
She’s so brave a real hero. Believe all women.
Prosecutors judges lawyers police prisons and now authors grow rich off of pure human misery
She’s disgusting!!! You picked a totally different person in the lineup but this poor man was arrested and thrown into jail instead and you said NOTHING!!!
I hope she personal apologises to Anthony I say this was racistism I should no this I grew up in South Africa during apartheid. Alice Sebold should be ashamed stealing 16 years of this mans life.
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Prosecution and accuser should be jailed for this.
The tolerant left strikes again!!! the evil left honestly hates black people and live out all their racist and sexist prejudices whilst accusing others of their crime.
Lol what? It’s the same awful criminal justice system they have been saying is corrupt and racist
And as usual. Another false accusation. Another exoneration. Another innocent man’s life ruined…….and barely any views.
And you can’t use visibility as an excuse because the accuser was a famous author.
Has Black Lives Matter found out her address yet? She might want to go on a lengthy vacation.