When this young man should be preparing for college, he's stuck behind bars. The district attorney recently offered to release Pedro, giving him time served and five years of probation, if he would simply plead guilty, but he bravely refused the offer.
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In spite of it all, Pedro Hernandez has been a star behind bars - not only earning his GED, but also getting nominated for a full college scholarship from the Posse Foundation and winning several academic awards for his own achievements as well as his support helping other students earn their GEDs. It's no wonder, in previous interviews, that Pedro's mother, Jessica Perez, said that Pedro sometimes tells her he "wants to die."Īliya Donn holds a photo of Kalief Browder at 2015 Times Square rally with families from across America who have lost loved ones to police violence. Hernandez was at a juvenile facility at the time, on charges that were later dropped. Security officer Gregory Hyman, a full 20 months after brutally beating Hernandez, was finally arrested and charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal obstruction of breathing and blood circulation, and harassment after a video of his assault against Hernandez was obtained by Pix11 News. What has happened to Pedro Hernandez has only proven that. And it forces a child to grow up in incarceration, which should be avoided at all costs. It violates his constitutional right to a speedy trial. So, in spite of the suspension of the arresting officer and numerous eyewitnesses including the victim each saying Pedro Hernandez didn't commit this crime, he remains behind bars. Like Kalief, Pedro could be bailed out of jail right this very moment, but his family, like my family or yours, does not have the tens of thousands of dollars they are requiring for his release. Kalief was never the same and struggled with depression, eventually killing himself in 2015. Except the young boy who went in was not the battered man who came out.
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After nearly three years, the charges were dropped and Kalief was free to go.
While there, he was beaten and mistreated by both guards and inmates, but refused to plead guilty for a crime he did not commit. Falsely accused in 2010 of stealing a backpack, Browder was arrested and sent to Rikers Island not for days or weeks, but for years without ever being convicted for a crime. What New York did to Kalief Browder and his family is criminal. Our reputation does not match our reality. Yet, in spite of all of that, the justice system here continues to chew people up and spit them out every single day, ruining families and futures in the process. The state has a truly liberal attorney general.
We have a Democrat in the governor's mansion. The city is so firmly anti-Trump that it seems he's literally afraid to come home nowadays.
New York City loves to brag about its liberal reputation.
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