NBC’s Morgan Chesky has the story of a wrongfully convicted Florida man, originally sentenced to 400 years in prison, who is now walking out to a fresh start after more than 30 years behind bars.
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he should sue the justice system that wrongfully imprisoned him.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻They should prosecute that DA, no matter where or in what condition that person is in. I am SICK AND FUC*ING TIRED of people suffering for a district attorney’s ambitions.
Free Leonard Peltier!
people responsible for wrongful convictions need to be held accountable
Why is it always ppl that look like him that are the innocent ones ?
@☁POPULATION-_-420🌿 You need to get your online racism skills checked, or maybe grow up a few more years.
@☁POPULATION-_-420🌿 prolly stop smoking what YOUR smoking 😂 sounding pretty racy
there was no confusion he was black that all they needed SMH
Nearly half of wrongful convictions are of black people despite not making up even a quarter of the US population. Blatant racism
@FN LN its petty sad in this day and age that black people are the escape goat for all america! i think the witness whos wrongfully helped get him to prisons needs to full fill some of that 400 years sentence or atleast do the same time he has done!
The US legal and justice system is basically pure evil.
400 year sentence, this only happens in Florida.
Texas: Hold my beer
Both states would rather convict a thousand men then to admit they’ve wrongfully convicted a dozen over the years.
Give him 20 to 50 million bucks$$$
1 million for each year sentenced sounds good to me lol
I’ll bet they’ll put a restriction on how much he can sue for! 400 years 🤦🏻♂️
400 years. Unbelievable. This poor Nan has lost over half his life. He deserves anything.
Why is it that when these things happen it always a black man. This is by Accident all the time??
Because he’s black my brother simply because he’s black thank God he didn’t got shot you know.
Cause blk man commit 60% of crimes, think about it
He’ll be back in prison soon
The coming days are going to be “it’s a whole new world” time. I hope he is able to spend some of it figuring out all the new technology with childish exuberance and some alone time outdoors with privacy. May God bless all the people who fought for his release and may his future be bright.
lol
Cons be like “WHY IS THERE NO DEATH PENALTY.” If Cons were put on 1 side of the country, they would be dead in 1 month LMAO!
Cons conning each other to death. LOVE TO SEE IT LMAO
Now how many more black and white and brown people who are wrongly accused of such crimes are incarcerated?.
Whoever claimed he robbed must serve his 400 year sentence. Also make the false imprisonment a felony to the jury, judge, their families too. Us Americans are tired of this. Time for us to hold courts responsible. Jury included. As they do to us, we’ll give them a peaceful protest. That’s the 14 day notice before we go in gun in hand to take those responsible to jail ourselves
when will people get mad enough to start doing anything (not looting)
remember remember the fifth of november
You can’t expect justice from Egypt.
you’re not the solution you’re part of the problem you assume everyone is guilty so STFU how bout you come to my house and you’ll leave in a box TROLL
White America having a pity committee moment on Black America, carry on!
pathetic
america is trsh
Blks are trsh
He is still guilty
No evidence = guilty.
Genius. Actual brain mold.
Still in prison uniform. Even knowing he was innocent
AMERIKKKA AND ITS ATROCITIES!!
may he be paid unheard of sums of money, as if that could undue all the mental anguish
Stories like this are exactly why the death penalty should not exist
Bless
Write the gentleman a big fat cheque and apologize to the man for killing his soul, wrongfully
“Kidnapping victim released. Kidnappers not prosecuted because they thought they were doing the right thing.”
Imagine how many more black folks are in prison innocently
im sure its not only black folks! likely to have happens to all sorts of different race and gender
@Mark Swift no doubt , but you’re aware the majority of inmates nation wide are blacks , so the percentage of innocent black folks should be higher than whites .
Hope he gets a $400 million settlement
Doubtful he’ll get a dime. Look up people wrongfully convicted like him. It’s very rare the state pays them a settlement,the amount doesn’t justify the decades they lost.
I always think of the time when these people went to jail. They went to jail when a sitting president is now deceased, automobiles changed, the neighborhood they might remember changed, then you have smart phones, and packaging on your favorite snacks changed. It’s the litle things that he will be shocked by, like wireless headsets, and listening to the radio stations, and hearing music from artists you don’t even know. Hopefully, he will get the restitution he deserves and medication to help him cope with today’s America.
See how racist America 🇺🇸 is towards Black People. Only a black man would get a prison sentence for 400 years. Sad but I’m not surprised. The American judicial system is designed to destroy the lives of black people in America 🇺🇸.
It’s like every day I see a black man being released after serving a ridiculous amount of time for a crime he didn’t commit smh.
Whats the point of giving a “100+ years without parole” sentence when they can just say “life without parole”. Like anyone committed crime can live another 100+ years,in prison ? People can’t even do that outside! 😂
Do these guys get retribution from the state?
400 years for a robbery!?! TF!?!
400 years for Robbery ? What is wrong with the justice system in America ? Pretty much everything as far as I’m concerned .
State must pay him $400 million as compensation..
So THATS where he went.
Florida Man!
It both sickens and saddens me that in the end even though this man gained his freedom. He won’t be getting all those years he lost and it’ll be a very difficult battle to win any compensation from the state for the wrongful conviction. Whenever this kind of bs happens,the state hates to pay up and own the fact that they took years away from an innocent man.
I hope he also gets some sort of retribution for the time served. His life changed for nothing and he’s lost time that cannot be made up.
FSP is a wild world
Jeez I’m crying lol
Beautiful
Cool but where the people that caused it interview them mfs
I would sue all involved 1 million for every decade in prison .
their dark skin is so even and beautiful ☺️.
And I bet white people will say he has a victims mentality 🤣
Florida: “Sowwwy! Bye. 🤗”
Why is no one talking about why he got a 400 year! Conviction in the first place… for robbery.. unless they left something out..
He looks so broken even during those happy moments he is barely smiling. I hope he gets the proper counseling and $$$$$$$$ to assist him with today’s world.
Bless him. The law owes him a rich life from here on out. He deserves to have what he wants at no cost to him. Nothing can replace all the love he had to miss out on. Easy life for him now.
There needs to be laws made against this so the people who convicted him can be punished.
I’m almost certain he was around when the crime happened ! The witnesses were coerced not testify !
Damm Shame how Black are Done just because of color and Hateful ⬜ POS-WS COWARDS Racists
That original prosecutor deserves to spend the rest of their life in prison but that won’t happen.
Remeber it all started with police it’s not the court system it is the police officers and investigators that are the issue
Today, we are all Florida Men and women. This is a victory for us all.
The news should say, who wrongly accused him, who put him in jail and sentenced him…..Imagine if it was you????
If there aint overwhelming evidence they should not be allowed to give out years like it’s nothing or the death penalty!!! How many more innocent people are behind bars??
Of course another innocent African American
Really tired and annoyed about the NBC News App promotion after every single Youtube clip. It’s why I prefer CBS’s Youtube channel clips
400 years prison sentence : Only in America,the land where common sense is in short supply.
400 years for robbery is wrongful imprisonment, violation of civil rights, cruel and unusual punishment, attempted murder, and anything they can come up with. The judge and prosecutors must have been fans of the Roman punishments for crimes.
Let the judgement continue to this nation for the unjust to my people…
No one cares ..poor guy lost his life
They better PAY that man!
I hate the justice system in this country.
400 years for a robbery?! Cmon AmeriKKKa, do better.
The States of Florida now called Holmesland.
Of course it’s Florida 😂. 400 years for innocent person, sounds about right.
Praise the Lord❣️ Thank you, Jesus❣️
He needs to SUE
Remember we’re still slaves, in America, to those who can’t remember where they come from. And the Most High will right the wrong done to his people. BLACK, WHITE, WHATEVER.
400 YEARS for robbery!!!! impossible!
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I hope this guy gets compensation for his horrible life. Poor man.
Southern
He looks just like his mama!! God bless your beautiful souls
Innocent of WHAT???
Its not a perfect world good for him
The Land of the Free 🤡
Even if he was guilty 400 years for robbery is insane
You’re welcome..you are more than welcome my man! WELCOME HOME~WE ALL LOVE YOU BROTHER! So happy you are out breathing THE FREE AIR like our old expression goes. XOXO😉💜😎 #PrisonerANDHumanRights
#INTERNATIONALAdvocate
#JuvenilesTODeathRow
How can they sentence him to 400 years in prison for robbery! When murderers and child rapists literally get nothing for their crimes but someone can get 400 years for robbery!? We dont even live 100yrs …whoever accused him and the judge should do time!
Because he’s a black man no wonder, put him in jail for so long 🙄🙄🙄!!!! If he’s white he will released from jail long time ago!!!!! this is happening around the globe!!!! 🤦
If there was no EVIDENCE, HOW did he spend 34 YEARS in the joint.?
Oh, gosh this man lost 34 yrs of his life for crime he did not even commit 😘
And, it was so powerful that he didn’t even show any bitterness towards people who wrongfully convicted him
Justice system should take care of him rest of his life 🙏
This man deserves it
Kamala Harris Americas 1st token VP, picked for “diversity” and “equity” issues, claims the US border is “SECURE”? Does she identify as a Misinformation Superspreader or a Traitor to the US Constitution? SHE IS BOTH.
34 years = $340,000 the justice system should pay him 💯😡
How many more innocent prisoners are languishing in Florida’s prisons?
12 states, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming do NOT pay compensation to wrongfully convicted innocent inmates. Push your lawmakers to enact a Federal law to require ALL states pay compensation.
Read the case…he did the crime. He had been convicted of the same crime multiple times before. The 400 years was to keep him locked away from civilized people.
Shame american criminal justice
The judge together with dectetives and prosecutors needs to prosecutors all are crap
Reparations for wrongfully convicted persons (especially 34 years) should be federal law.
Gee, I had to hunt into the transcript, not the Details of the video or even in the title of the video, to find the man’s name! Sidney Holmes is mentioned in the audio, but although now free, still a black man in Florida. NBC News should Report, and include names in their articles. Good luck on your release Mr. Holmes.