And... a pocket full of cash.!!!! They TOOK away his life that would have built him and his family a normal life. He could have worked but yet they stole that from him and his family.!! So the least they can do is make sure he’s WELL taken care of.!!!!
The governor not wanting to pardon him after finding out he’s innocent is more telling than anything. He could literally free this man with his signature but refuses too. Vote him out
This happens all the time. Amazing how many people are below this video saying this man has been wronged, but these very same people are below other videos calling innocent people guilty ie; Ronnie O’Neal
Very true. Many times (in less severe cases) people often take a plea deal in exchange for a guilty plea because fighting it would be too costly, time consuming, or it’s just easier to take the deal. Racking up peoples records for literally NOTHING
The fact that the people that actually admitted to and were convicted of actual murders, have served their time and are free is insane while he's still in prison.
💯 yup and how many other innocent ones are in there?? I know the police used to be a big joke about oh yeah everybody in prison or jail they’re all innocent. Well I’m not saying they’re all innocent by any stretch of the imagination, but there are so so many wrongfully accused. My husband was wrongfully accused, stood on what we all believe that the truth will prevail. Sadly, instead of taking a plea deal, he spent 17 years in prison. They just take away lives and they have no remorse for doing it
“I want to go to a beach” How heartbreaking. Let this man free! The killers who confessed are walking around free and this innocent man is sitting in a wheelchair in prison. No words is correct.
@@thehods4 should be the state that covers him with the tax money of ours they already have instead of building something stupid or wasting it on some experimental program.
*MAYBE YOU SHOULD ALL THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU SCREAM SEND THEM TO DEATH* . HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED IN THIS SAME SITUATION? ( not trying to belittle this case)
This is crazy, so the two men who admitted killing the three victims served 10 years and were released from prison, but this innocent man who those two killers said was not involved is still in prison for over four decades?
that is what people get when country and "justice" department is run by commies! and prisons are privitely owned and are here to make money, and prosecutors are getting a cut from it, as well as politions that make the stupid law that will not compensate wrongfully imprisoned. every fkr that made possible that this man is still in prison should be hanged!
Welcome to America…..if you become a part of the system you are forgotten and if you are innocent good luck getting something done about it. I hate my country most of the time.
Smh...I know this kid who was last year of Med school and had never been in any kind of trouble. His neighbors (2 guys) asked him for a ride to McDonald's. They get there the 2 guys went in the McDonald's while he stayed in the car. They come out, get in the car and they all drive back home. A few weeks later the police impound the car its his dad's car who was out of town at the time. Dad comes home, goes to the police to get the car back, has no idea what took place while he was gone, and takes the son with him to drive the car back... The police separate the dad and son and eventually tells the dad that "his car was used in an armed robbery of a McDonald's).. At the end of the investigation, it's determined that the 2 guys Robbed the McDonald's while the son waited in the car as the get-away driver. But the son adamantly denied knowing anything about a robbery, had faith in "the system" and fought it in court. While the 2 guys plead guilty to the armed robbery and got 7 years each. The son lost his case and got...........THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON!! smh.. (still in there as we speak) This crap happens more often than you think.
@@IsraelWillBeFree He has no legal recourse for compensation thanks to Missouri’s draconian laws. It’s not enough to show injury (locked away for 43 years for a crime he didn’t commit). He must show his civil rights/constitutional rights were violated. That will be damn near impossible.
His looks are only in the face 'young' because prisoners stay out of the sun, not by choice, more than other humans. His physical age definitely showing with chronic high blood pressure and several heart attacks. Prison med unit not quick to hand out med care including wheelchairs unless super major symptons repeatedly shown.
Not just being in prison, but surviving. Have you seen some of these prison documentaries or even watched the old HBO show OZ, I know I wouldn't survive 43 yrs even in the prison where Martha Stewart was incarcerated.
I really believe that if he did not do this and had to live out all these years in prison that God will give him an afterlife so joyful and lasting that it will make these 43 years on earth seem like they were a grain of sand on this planet. I know its not much considering we can only measure the here and now... but its something he deserves.
And the Governor says that he was tried fairly with a jury of his peers. Meanwhile, the prosecutor ensured there were no black jurors on the second trial that led to his conviction.
If you decide guilty or not guilty based on if you have the same or different skin color than the person on trial then you shouldnt be a juror. Fucking idiots.
You’re right, as a PARDON is for adjudicating guilty people. This man did nothing wrong, as he is innocent. That said, because he is innocent, he needs a judge or an elected official to have his adjudicated judgment of GUILTY to be VACATED or OVERTURNED, in order to be released. He is still in jail because the judges won’t vacate or overturn the judgment of guilt, and because he is innocent, he doesn’t qualify for a “pardon,” as pardons are for those who are guilty. Mr. Strickland is still in jail due to the fact that an elected official or a judge to VACATE or OVERTURN the judgment of guilty. So, there is a difference between vacating/overturning a guilty judgment and pardoning a guilty judgment, and that’s why he is in jail. It sucks and I hope that someone vacates that judgment. Hope that helps!
Yes!!! Such a miscarriage of justice & someone who deserves protests. But I guess it doesn’t fit with trying to divide races & benefit anybody politically.
This is what Malcolm x was talking about when he said “republicans and democrats will both bite you, one bites you with a smile, and the other bites you with aggression, but don’t forget you’re still being bit”.
@@astonmarton2220 uh well no it sounds as though per Missouri law he's not eligible for lawsuit, they said clearly wrongly convicted and exonerated individuals do not get compensation Missouri law does not allow for it
Biden could pardon this man RIGHT NOW. He could spend a million dollars of our tax money, give this guy a red carpet layout, have a speech prepared to acknowledge his innocence, and send this man to Sandals and let him soak in gods creation…..but he’s not. Because he doesn’t want us to idolize this mans mentality.
This is wicked!! The innocent doesn't need a pardon. The ones who falsely imprisoned him should be begging their pardon! ruclips.net/video/Uq6qkIbcrZk/видео.html
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I can't believe this at all so sad and upsetting emotions foreal. There is never amount of money anyone whose lives are taken away going to be able to heal or repair the damage!! America needs to get it together period! This could be any of us or our relatives and even strangers still has the same effect period! I appreciate your post! # Change# Unity
Is that governor serious? “Not a priority?” This man has lost 43 years of his life already I would think it would be priority number 1 to free him so he can enjoy however much time he has left as a free soul. Very discouraging to have people like him in power. The fact that the two men who admitted to committing the crime served less time & were freed is upsetting. Kevin shouldn’t have to jump hoops for his freedom after all these years. Very heartbreaking.
Disgusting racist also lied saying a jury of his peers found him guilty. How? When all the black jurors were dismissed and it was ALL white jurors. This is America for ya
The hardest thing for politicians, police and judicial members to say is……..Oooops… we made a mistake. We didn’t do our jobs therefore an innocent person goes to prison, better yet, a black man. We managed to keep blacks off the jury to get him there. Yes, we messed up but we cannot say so. We realize the men that did do it have confessed and done their time…but to admit we did something wrong would show us as weak and not knowing what we do. If someone is falsely imprisoned the police and prosecutors should pay the price because chances,are,they withheld important information from the defence. PATHETIC!
@@michellej4289 I'm willing to bet there are more than just black folks sitting in prison for crimes they didn't commit. There most likely are a lot more black and brown folk, but one thing I can guarantee - their economic class would be pretty consistent regardless of race.
@@the_beat_thief I'm sure...im also sure it's more black men than anything! However, anyone falsely locked up and accused need justice and should be released once that has been revealed
Disgusting, they took this guys life and declining to release him. If he is released, he is not given reparation for false imprisonment. He wont be able to just get out and work. To add insult, the people who did the murders got 10 years for triple murder and are out. Unbelievable.
BROOOOO I MISS THAT PART!!! So the muthuffuccas who ACTUALLY did the crime only got a dime AND they’re released?!?? If this don’t make you tear up idk what will smh bro
This entire situation seems personal and strategic. Got my mind really wandering. They gotta be doing this to HIM for a reason. Why would they let the actual killers go, and not him, with all the proof he’s innocent? They know something he may not even know. It gotta be deeper than this. Because ain’t no way.
I’ve always been amazed at how Esau can take from you never pay you back never apologize destroy your life and then won’t comment I don’t hate nobody but I see how and why people do.
@@MindOfOneKind sadly this isnt the only person who has been wrongfully convicted , then some time (usually alot or rarely alittle) has been found innocent and has remained in prison for years , sometimes never getting out before time runs out. i hope people wake up and see that THIS IS SYSTEMATIC RACISM THIS IS WHY WE NEED CHANGE!!!!!
This had me, a grown man crying. This is not right. He needs to be free and compensated . He should be able to live his life without another worry once he free.
LEGISLATION HAS TO BE PASSED NOW, NOT TOMORROW, NOT NEXT WEEK RIGHT DAMN NOW !! Give Biden a pen and A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON FORM tell him he's sending a candy gram to Putin HE'LL SIGN IT
"If they roll me out today, they'd take the wheelchair, i would literally have to crawl out the front door" , thats deep yall, i mean really what do you say to a man that has lost it all?😥
@@tammyduke4213 HE DOESNT DESERVE TO LIVE!!! TITLE ARE YOU DELUSIONAL. EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN GETTING THIS MAN INDICTED SHOULD GET LIFE IN PRISON!!!!
I feel like the justice system works and all but goveners get lazy so they dont follow the rules a tightly because they have so many cases to skim through 8:17
Keeping a man in prison for 43 years when he's innocent and not letting him go afterwards is as grizzly as the crime he was accused of you made the man anguish for the majority of his life, ruined his reputation, destroyed relationships and took any hopeful future this man had at being happy. Then you won't even release him... the system does not work.How the hell is this a free country?
It’s not, all Americans are nothing more than legalized slaves, yet the system wants to to focus on skin color as a focus of slavery! When it’s EVERY MAN,WOMAN AND CHILD who enslaved! You’re taxed from the day you’re born, to the day you die, on everything you make to everything you spend! You don’t?! The system will imprison or KILL YOU!
@@kennethnielsen9587 north korea doesn't compare. America is was and always will be the worst. How can you call a society just that kills ppl all over the world in the name of democracy. But won't even listen to your own citizens.
This is God's commandments against his chosen people when we don't follow his law's statues and commandments. APTTMHY HalleluYah May The King Reign Forever ♾️.
Missouri governor is such a evil individual for not giving this innocent human being a pardon. God sees what everyone is doing on earth . People stop being evil to one another
This saddens me to my core. How tf is this even STILL going on? How is there NO compensation once he is freed? The governor pardoned all those other ppl, and not Kevin? This is a PRIME EXAMPLE of how EGO supercedes an APOLOGY. START THIS MAN A GOFUMDME so he can be on his feet once he is freed. God Bless him
What's scary is when these prosecutors know they did wrong, they double down instead of admitting their mistake. That is what is scary because your life depends on their ego. This is absolutely horrific story.
Do you know what citizens used to do to people in the government and high positions of power when they did things like this and went against the citizens well being. They were put to death for putting citizens in jeopardy.
The man doesn't need a pardon if he didn't do anything, he should simply be released in freedom! And get some form of restitution for the wrong done to him especially during so many years!
I agree he needs to be released immediately. But without a pardon from the governor or US president, the crime would remain on his record. He needs a pardon to clear his name.
"shouldn't jump the line"... guy's been in line since the governor was a fuckin teenager. what a joke. hopefully this press airs out all those jackasses and gets this guy out, along with a huge payoff and full vindication. they cant give back what they took from this man, but to take anymore is truly unthinkable. the murderers who admitted to it are already out?!? keeps getting more insulting.
I just started working on creating him one but a section in their "Misuse" terms are (for me) are a bit confusing. *Copied from the site: All resolutions are decided by GoFundMe in its sole discretion, and all of its determinations are final.] So to be on the safe side GoFundMe could approve or guarantee the fundraiser and the intended beneficiary... HOW TO GET A STATEMENT OR A SIGNED PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR ?? That's the next BIG QUESTION!!
Quite literally robbed this man of his life, nothing and no amount of time or words can give him all that time he lost. This is very sad and outraging, beyond unacceptable. The moment he was deemed innocent he needed to be IMMEDIATELY released from incarceration. They have falsely imprisoned this man for more than double the amount of time he has been a free man.
If he were caucasian or wealthy he would have been out. Its a two tier injustice system!! They knows he's innocent!! They're hoping he passes away so want pay the lawsuit.
@@Antmanwald0423 Apparently, you cannot sue the State of Missouri for wrongful imprisonment & so that's not even a concern for the 'Powers That Be' or a possibility for this individual who has spent his life behind prison bars. These amoral persons who 'guard the system' thought of everything, including how to protect their financial asses.
This is horrible. No wonder why he’s had two heart attacks. I couldn’t imagine serving time in jail for a crime that I didn’t even commit especially for murder something has to give. no amount of money will give this man his prime years back. no words for this injustice. I’m weak from hearing this. This system is beyond WICKED needs to be completely dismantled & rebuilt but the only way to do that is to have another Civil War and not just vote. Most will never be ready for war.
I would be so angry that no medicine would calm me. I would be so distraught daily that I would likely stop talking except when declaring my innocence.
Talking about a travesty of Justice. How that brother hasn't off himself is mind boggling to me. He is one of the strongest people i have ever heard of. This is absolutely ridiculous...
This is infuriating. The governor MUST be voted out. Or, frankly, I wouldn’t be disappointed if he drops dead and is replaced, so this man can be set free.
I hope you are not referring to Karma. I am convinced that Karma is not a real thing because if it was at least half the politicians in DC would have leprosy.
Imagine your life is ruined for a crime you know you didn’t commit but others think you’d did, never knowing the truth until years or decades later. Just hurts thinking about it.
Valerie Petty, he does not need anyone's forgiveness. It is the people who did or continue to do this to him who need his forgiveness, not the other way around as you suggested. Apart from the word forgiveness, your comment was great
43 years too late, and they still haven't released him? What can he do in his current state of disability? His innocence ignored and his life wasted. Heart-wrenching.
This Gov thinks he's going to live forever down here. What he doesn't know is one-day judgment is coming to him. The same mercy he shows is coming back to him. Hebrews 9:27, And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: James 2:13, For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy.
@@444francisguy Has to do with both. Not being able to afford a good attorney and str8 up racism. Did you not hear they got rid of every black juror to make sure he gets convicted the second time around ?!
@Doppelganger D By your logic it's all the fault of the religious people? 🤔 Nonreligious people don't hate god. Nobody hates what they don't even think is real. Only the religious can hate god. If the problem comes from wickedness in power, and that comes from the hate of god, and that comes from the religious? I think you played yourself.
@Florida Man they will be instances. What a hilarious statement. America has been doing this for generations. Not to just people of colour white men and women too. Do you even know how many people have been executed only to find out later they were innocent. That florida sun has got to your brain. The system is broken, it has been from its inception. Also please don't be telling people to leave the country like you are the authority.
@Florida Man f biden but a quick one. Trump wanted juneteenth to pass when he was in office. Republicans overwhelmingly voted no to it. Confused much.🤣 on a serious note, Republicans say they they back the blue but voted against the jan 6th investigation. You clowns need to choose one thing. Your hypocrisy is at an all time high.
"What does justice look like?" "I don't know, I haven't seen it yet". Powerful!! I'm hoping and praying he gets out, gets to see his mom, the ocean and beyond justice.
People, we need to all get together and put this governor out, apparently releasing innocent men does not fit his agenda, 43 years in a cage , put yourself in his shoes, what kind of human being once the truth was known would continue this injustice, this gov. should be incarcerated,permanently
It made me tear up hearing him talking about wanting to see the ocean, the physical manifestation of freedom nothing but wide open space and direction to travel.
This is the fear that every black American male has. This is why my father taught me to always get a receipt everywhere that you are in case you need it for court.
As a white guy who knows how to stay out of trouble, receipts, text messages to loved ones telling them what you are doing with pic, being seen with people, is the smartest thing you can possibly do. The receipt because its in a computer system and police can't touch those computer systems. The text messages with pics of what you are doing so no one can ever say you were lying, and being seen with multiple people makes it so if they try to frame you, that group of people will hopefully call BS and let the world know you didn't commit the crime.
White people may have brought Africans to America but they can't keep Africans in America and prevent them from going to Africa and living among their own people their own African brothers and sisters and without being oppressed for their skin color.
@@user-uy1rg8td1v We're not African, we're American. And I bet you don't see anything wrong with what you just said or what you're thinking. They were hoping that type of thinking would be in every jurors mind.
@@user-uy1rg8td1v by the way Africans are oppressed for their skin color. It was called colonization and they still suffer to this date because of its effects. The more that my 11-year-old learns about true history I have to convince him that white people aren't evil. Then he hears about stuff that happens in our present and here I am feeling like a fool trying to convince him that white people aren't evil. And this is an intelligent child. He keeps looking at me while I'm talking as if I'm trying to convince him of something that's not right in front of his eyes.
They were probably hoping he'd lose his mind or pass away quietly in prison. The voice he would have if he was a free man could shake the judicial system to its core.
@@ian-williamfountain608 I never gave it a thought. Figured you couldn't be from USA, as people are found unjustly imprisoned In USA often enough to not be a mistake but more likely purposeful.
THE TWO MEN THAT COMMITTED THIS CRIME ADMITTED THEY DID IT. THEY SERVED THEIR TIME AND WERE BOTH LET FREE, YET KEVIN STRICKLAND IS STILL IN JAIL FOR A CRIME HE DIDN'T COMMIT! THIS IS CLEARLY A RACIAL ISSUE!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Happens all the time. Probably over 1000s. Innocent project freed 100s. I read my local paper everyday for couple years and innocent being let free every other month. Mainly in Texas. Its systemic racism, and the Republicans say it doesnt exist.
I tell u this is America its a racist and they just don't cover it up its been how do these people sleep at night take someone life and you c your family every night ooo but GOD have the last word ....Trust me they will burn in hell ....
The governor said that Mr. Strickland was tried and convicted by a jury of his peers; the governor is living in a state of denial. It shows that the privileged class, only see people of their group.
Myself also I am very heartbroken. I just don't understand why people of color I always mistreated! And I am also so tired of hearing about things when nothing is being done even when the truth is right there no one steps up to the plate and says okay we've been proven wrong let's correct this .
@@quinzellalyons5811 EXACTLY. The men who committed the crime have served time and gone on with their lives and this man who did nothing is serving a lifetime for ABSOLUTELY nothing other than the system's refusal to admit they made an error. But this is apparently not an error but how the system works when you're black. So so so unfair and so so infuriating. This is a grave injustice.
He has now been released with no compensation due to Missouri's laws. The delay in his release cost him the chance to see his mother. She passed away shortly before his release.
This needs to be taken up in a Federal Court. Clearly, the state is conspiring to falsely imprison this man. The state itself is openly committing a criminal act.
@MazterP28, if Kevin Strickland were NOT articulate, your view on his being free would be what? I'm trying to figure out how being articulate is related to deserving justice. Real question. Real question.
@@emilerose1424 he could still be free :) it’s because he’s black. I was just saying this was a very smart interview. Why are you coming for me? You don’t have a picture or videos? Or anything on your page. When you can not hide behind your page, let me know we can have real conversation about race and articulation
Disgusting and disgraceful to do this to a fellow human being... So... He walks in to prison, innocent and on his feet, and will leave prison having served another's guilt, in a wheelchair... Justice???
Truly horrifying! Even IF he manages to get out of there they won’t compensate him! This is just beyond disgusting! I feel so angry! How much more must this man endure? Racism is so vile and outrageous! All of you people guilty of being racist and causing crap like this to happen to innocent people, good luck on the day you meet your maker! You’ll have to account for your actions!
I’m in Canada and this is outrageous. Unbelievable. Surely a Go-Fund-Me page for this gentleman can be started. This is so saddening and my heart goes out to him and his situation. So unfair. ;(
If he thinks he will have nothing when he gets out he is surely mistaken. We will all pitch in and give him a hefty bank account, Lord knows he deserves it.
I’m going to be tracking this one. Hopefully this puts the pressure on the governor to release this man and we can start a fund for him so he can go visit his mother and experience the ocean...
@@ValensBellator I just watched & I'm in tears. My heart breaks into a million little pieces for this man. I'm ready to start a fund for him now because he will get out. Just a matter of time. We may as well get ahead of this because he will need a wheelchair, clothes, food, personal hygiene items & a place to live. If you're serious facebook me so we can work together to make it happen.
Until the folks on Missouri get on their feet and get the bad laws changed this is what they have to live with. We have lost sight of the fact that there is no force on Earth that can stand up to the will of the American people. As a people we can do ANYTHING we want. Well, perhaps we can't catch a fart and paint it green but other than that.....
This is completely unacceptable. The law stopping him from becoming a free man should be null and void in every case like this and anyone who facilitated the prevention of his released from prison should in turn spend time in jail for their own criminal actions against this man. This could never be okay in any universe regardless of what the law says. You know this poor man has gone numb just to avoid going insane in there. Absolutely unconscionable how they justify wasting his life over a stupid, nonsensical law.
It was definitely worse for the 3 Black People that had their heads blown off by His Friends...... Cynthia Douglas never officially recanted her statement and after she died her family members started telling people she lied.
@Renee Why yea no few things wrong with this but not everything to be honest your we are one thing and willingness to go extinct thing is crazy and the it could be u or me is also kinda wrong sense wrongful imprisonment based on race has decreased by a very large amount sense this imprisonment (wish it was completely gone but it will take time) but the choice of the court and governor is idiotic to say the least even when just thinking about the negative impact that refusing a seemingly innocent man his freedom would have on the imagine they have created for themselves. Well that’s my opinion but what do you mean by fighting them back because you could be mean 6-7 different things considering if you mean condensed or broad issues.
Everyone who put this man in prison,and everyone whose refusing to Free him should BE IN PRISON.....
Absolutely.
Agree this such a waste of time
Most are already dead
Yep
Agreed!!
This is them doing their
bull$#!T face saving CYA!
You see... "the state" NEVER makes a mistake😒
You can't put a price on 43 years.. give the man some peace and let him out.
The state doesn't even reimburse wrongful conviction either.
You can put a price on it even if it's the least they could do.. release him and give him 43 million..
@@TunTheOfficial exactly he deserves it 🤍
@@Scarsofevil -Wait, are you sure? Edit: Wow, only if DNA exonerates him, will he be compensated.
And... a pocket full of cash.!!!! They TOOK away his life that would have built him and his family a normal life. He could have worked but yet they stole that from him and his family.!! So the least they can do is make sure he’s WELL taken care of.!!!!
The governor not wanting to pardon him after finding out he’s innocent is more telling than anything. He could literally free this man with his signature but refuses too. Vote him out
This happens all the time. Amazing how many people are below this video saying this man has been wronged, but these very same people are below other videos calling innocent people guilty ie; Ronnie O’Neal
Governor Parson was a cop before he went into politics
@@mrchubner idk man ronnie seem guilty
Yes vote him out.
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This is just 1 man . Just imagine how many more innocent people are sitting in jail for nothing
Could be more then 1000
I read my local paper for 3 years and heard a story like this every other month. Its mainly in Texas.
Very true. Many times (in less severe cases) people often take a plea deal in exchange for a guilty plea because fighting it would be too costly, time consuming, or it’s just easier to take the deal. Racking up peoples records for literally NOTHING
So true
On average 120,000 Americans are falsely incarcerated each year.
The fact that the people that actually admitted to and were convicted of actual murders, have served their time and are free is insane while he's still in prison.
This is often the plight of the convicted innocent. If the system says you're guilty and you deny it, it treats you even more harshly.
Not Only That.
Non-Violent Individuals Get Life, While Violent Individuals Get Lighter Sentencing, And Even Time Served.
And any lawmaker, judge or government worker who does not work to change this is saying they are a white supremacist.
Don’t make any sense
Exactly
This is fucking horrible absolutely awful, they've confirmed he's innocent; yet they're not releasing him. This is disgusting.
This is USA
This is the far Riechwing Amerikkka.
God is watching these people there ending wll not be good their children will be paying for their sins to the 4th generation God Almighty Bless you
Oh theirs so much more brothas like these locked up. Slavery in America ain’t over, people like him contribute to rural area prisons
💯 yup and how many other innocent ones are in there?? I know the police used to be a big joke about oh yeah everybody in prison or jail they’re all innocent. Well I’m not saying they’re all innocent by any stretch of the imagination, but there are so so many wrongfully accused. My husband was wrongfully accused, stood on what we all believe that the truth will prevail. Sadly, instead of taking a plea deal, he spent 17 years in prison. They just take away lives and they have no remorse for doing it
“I want to go to a beach” How heartbreaking. Let this man free! The killers who confessed are walking around free and this innocent man is sitting in a wheelchair in prison. No words is correct.
Just heartbreaking. Is there a GoFundMe for him? There should be one. I'd sure donate.
@@thehods4 should be the state that covers him with the tax money of ours they already have instead of building something stupid or wasting it on some experimental program.
@@thehods4 Yes! www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction
*MAYBE YOU SHOULD ALL THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU SCREAM SEND THEM TO DEATH* . HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED IN THIS SAME SITUATION? ( not trying to belittle this case)
@@dr1flush I believe we were all taking his side. I know for sure I was. His story is extremely sad and unjust.
This is crazy, so the two men who admitted killing the three victims served 10 years and were released from prison, but this innocent man who those two killers said was not involved is still in prison for over four decades?
that is what people get when country and "justice" department is run by commies! and prisons are privitely owned and are here to make money, and prosecutors are getting a cut from it, as well as politions that make the stupid law that will not compensate wrongfully imprisoned. every fkr that made possible that this man is still in prison should be hanged!
Welcome to America…..if you become a part of the system you are forgotten and if you are innocent good luck getting something done about it. I hate my country most of the time.
Smh...I know this kid who was last year of Med school and had never been in any kind of trouble. His neighbors (2 guys) asked him for a ride to McDonald's. They get there the 2 guys went in the McDonald's while he stayed in the car. They come out, get in the car and they all drive back home.
A few weeks later the police impound the car its his dad's car who was out of town at the time. Dad comes home, goes to the police to get the car back, has no idea what took place while he was gone, and takes the son with him to drive the car back...
The police separate the dad and son and eventually tells the dad that "his car was used in an armed robbery of a McDonald's)..
At the end of the investigation, it's determined that the 2 guys Robbed the McDonald's while the son waited in the car as the get-away driver. But the son adamantly denied knowing anything about a robbery, had faith in "the system" and fought it in court. While the 2 guys plead guilty to the armed robbery and got 7 years each. The son lost his case and got...........THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON!!
smh.. (still in there as we speak) This crap happens more often than you think.
@@vanoknt you do know that under communism the government would own and run the prisons. You kind of have it backwards by calling them commies. Lol
@Mrs a luuuu luuuu hii hii good mornings wtf...
He looks young for his age. What a reprehensible, heartbreaking story. He should be freed immediately and compensated millions.
That's why they don't release him..they don't want to pay
@@IsraelWillBeFree He has no legal recourse for compensation thanks to Missouri’s draconian laws. It’s not enough to show injury (locked away for 43 years for a crime he didn’t commit). He must show his civil rights/constitutional rights were violated. That will be damn near impossible.
@@IsraelWillBeFree governor.mo.gov/contact-us
His looks are only in the face 'young' because prisoners stay out of the sun, not by choice, more than other humans. His physical age definitely showing with chronic high blood pressure and several heart attacks. Prison med unit not quick to hand out med care including wheelchairs unless super major symptons repeatedly shown.
Is anyone surprised that under Republican laws and politicians that democracy and the truth is suffering?
Makes me sick. I can’t imagine being in prison that long and being innocent. Time you cannot get back, heartbreaking
Right 💔
@Marcus Summers pale faces and star of david followers are hypocrites.
From Pakistan
Not just being in prison, but surviving. Have you seen some of these prison documentaries or even watched the old HBO show OZ, I know I wouldn't survive 43 yrs even in the prison where Martha Stewart was incarcerated.
I really believe that if he did not do this and had to live out all these years in prison that God will give him an afterlife so joyful and lasting that it will make these 43 years on earth seem like they were a grain of sand on this planet. I know its not much considering we can only measure the here and now... but its something he deserves.
Steven Arce, I agree but in the meantime he needs to be compensated for his imprisonment.
just release him, its against the laws of humanity to jail an innocent man
"Laws of humanity"? Oh brother have we got alot to learn...HAHAH WOW GROW UP!
@@shodanzuniga we have basic human rights. It’s not “grow up” be compassionate, it’s s sad he spent 43 years behind bars.
@@MarbethMonster who’s we? Where is this place you speak of?
@@shodanzuniga STFU
@@MarbethMonster governor.mo.gov/contact-us
And the Governor says that he was tried fairly with a jury of his peers. Meanwhile, the prosecutor ensured there were no black jurors on the second trial that led to his conviction.
Exactly! His peers were struck out
yes i heard.he was lyiny .he is an evil person how he sleeps at night knowing a poor innocent soul is in prison.
If you decide guilty or not guilty based on if you have the same or different skin color than the person on trial then you shouldnt be a juror. Fucking idiots.
Exactly! He is literally sitting there to pay the prison bills and investors. So sick! I'm heartbroken for this man🥺 his life is gone over nothing!
It's Simple the Governor don't care..
Why does he need a pardon? He is innocent. They should just release him.
You nailed it 💯. He doesn’t need pardon. What he needs is to be released, and then sue them.
I was thinking the same thing like wtf
I said the same thing
You’re right, as a PARDON is for adjudicating guilty people. This man did nothing wrong, as he is innocent. That said, because he is innocent, he needs a judge or an elected official to have his adjudicated judgment of GUILTY to be VACATED or OVERTURNED, in order to be released.
He is still in jail because the judges won’t vacate or overturn the judgment of guilt, and because he is innocent, he doesn’t qualify for a “pardon,” as pardons are for those who are guilty. Mr. Strickland is still in jail due to the fact that an elected official or a judge to VACATE or OVERTURN the judgment of guilty.
So, there is a difference between vacating/overturning a guilty judgment and pardoning a guilty judgment, and that’s why he is in jail. It sucks and I hope that someone vacates that judgment.
Hope that helps!
Agree if innocent why pardon so much injustice done to black ppl
If people want to protest for someone, here is your man.
But they won’t. It’s not propagandized and positioned for division
Facts but people only do what’s popularized
They won't because it's not trending smh
YESSSSS
Yes!!! Such a miscarriage of justice & someone who deserves protests. But I guess it doesn’t fit with trying to divide races & benefit anybody politically.
This is what Malcolm x was talking about when he said “republicans and democrats will both bite you, one bites you with a smile, and the other bites you with aggression, but don’t forget you’re still being bit”.
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Facts
I don’t disagree. But here and now, it’s Republicans who are keeping an innocent man in jail. They have the power in Missouri.
@@ambriaashley3383
It,s the governor who's Republican.
Several Republican and Democrat lawmakers have written a letter to the moron to pardon the man.
@Allen Iverson🇯🇲🇯🇲
BS. If he is innocent. LET HIM GO. You owe him millions for stealing his life... HE MATTERS TOO.☘️🇺🇸✝️
Yes he do and now is the time for protest
Agreed 👍🏿
They are scared of the lawsuit! That’s why he’s not coming out
@@astonmarton2220 uh well no it sounds as though per Missouri law he's not eligible for lawsuit, they said clearly wrongly convicted and exonerated individuals do not get compensation Missouri law does not allow for it
Biden could pardon this man RIGHT NOW. He could spend a million dollars of our tax money, give this guy a red carpet layout, have a speech prepared to acknowledge his innocence, and send this man to Sandals and let him soak in gods creation…..but he’s not. Because he doesn’t want us to idolize this mans mentality.
This is insane. He needs to be exonerated and compensated.
This is the worst case of injustice.
This is false imprisonment.
This is wicked!! The innocent doesn't need a pardon. The ones who falsely imprisoned him should be begging their pardon! ruclips.net/video/Uq6qkIbcrZk/видео.html
+Unknown -X : Sadly this isn't the long false imprisonment case of a black man the longest sentence I've seen was 49 look him up. After he was released they only rewarded $750,000.00 Dollars in compensation for his 49 years jail sentence he's fighting this matter as we speak. He lost both parents behind bars went in as a 20 year old young man and now he's a 69 year old senior citizen. The Modern-day Descendants of The Ancient Children of Yisrael Abraham, Issac and Jacob/Yisrael need to "WAKE UP" to who we REALLY are as The Most High OUR Elohim Yahuah's True "CHOSEN PEOPLE" REPENT of our Wicked ways and return to him with all of our "HEARTS, MINDS, BODIES & SOULS....!!! Because these WICKED "PURE EVIL" Carass 🗻 Mountain 🏞️ people "NEANDERTHALS" are killing the Modern-day Descendants The Ancient Children of Yisrael like wild fire. O'Ye Children of Yisrael "WAKE UP" and return to (OUR) Covenant with (OUR) Elohim The Most High Yahuah and his only begotten Son (OUR) Lord Savior and Bridegroom Yahusha Hamashiach . Our Ancient Ancestors where The Covenant Keepers of The One True Living Elohim The Most High Yahuah and his only begotten Son came to redeem ONLY the Lost 🐑 Sheep of Yisrael. Come back to "YAH" my Hebrew Yisraelite Misphacha. Shalom, Salaam. 💋💞💖🥰🕎😍💕💗👄
No this is modern day slavery, those police officers and the woman who bore false witness against this man should forever be ashamed of themslves.
I can't believe this at all so sad and upsetting emotions foreal. There is never amount of money anyone whose lives are taken away going to be able to heal or repair the damage!! America needs to get it together period! This could be any of us or our relatives and even strangers still has the same effect period! I appreciate your post! # Change# Unity
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So technically at this point in time- he's a kidnapped u.s. civilian with 0 rights for doing nothing wrong. Sad times we live in..
This is what should be protest
Just because of him being BLACK
Exactly ,we should call like it is !
That's EXACTLY what it is. Yet, the people responsible will never serve 1 year for being guilty out of the 43 years he has served for being innocent.
Totally disgusting
Is that governor serious? “Not a priority?” This man has lost 43 years of his life already I would think it would be priority number 1 to free him so he can enjoy however much time he has left as a free soul. Very discouraging to have people like him in power. The fact that the two men who admitted to committing the crime served less time & were freed is upsetting. Kevin shouldn’t have to jump hoops for his freedom after all these years. Very heartbreaking.
The governor should be doing everything just shy of getting in a time machine to go back and fix this!
The govenor is a f*cking idiot!
Disgusting racist also lied saying a jury of his peers found him guilty. How? When all the black jurors were dismissed and it was ALL white jurors. This is America for ya
@@yodaddy2619 Yeah but it was a black woman who knowingly lied on him so you can't just blame the all white jurors.
Bcus they don’t want to pay that money they will owe him, for 43 years of his innocence.
This is a disgrace, Missouri. Overturn this innocent man's conviction!
So everyone agrees he innocent but he's still in prison doesn't make sense.
It make alot sense when you black
Actually it does.
Makes perfect sense. The people who have the power to set him free are racist and want him to rot. They are evil
Republicans
This government filled with Rules & laws don't make this world a better place like they say. If anything it makes this world much worse.
The hardest thing for politicians, police and judicial members to say is……..Oooops… we made a mistake. We didn’t do our jobs therefore an innocent person goes to prison, better yet, a black man. We managed to keep blacks off the jury to get him there. Yes, we messed up but we cannot say so. We realize the men that did do it have confessed and done their time…but to admit we did something wrong would show us as weak and not knowing what we do. If someone is falsely imprisoned the police and prosecutors should pay the price because chances,are,they withheld important information from the defence. PATHETIC!
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Prideful!! And it happens way to often to black folks!
@@michellej4289 I'm willing to bet there are more than just black folks sitting in prison for crimes they didn't commit. There most likely are a lot more black and brown folk, but one thing I can guarantee - their economic class would be pretty consistent regardless of race.
@@the_beat_thief I'm sure...im also sure it's more black men than anything! However, anyone falsely locked up and accused need justice and should be released once that has been revealed
Agreed and well said! 👏🏾
Disgusting, they took this guys life and declining to release him. If he is released, he is not given reparation for false imprisonment. He wont be able to just get out and work. To add insult, the people who did the murders got 10 years for triple murder and are out. Unbelievable.
BROOOOO I MISS THAT PART!!! So the muthuffuccas who ACTUALLY did the crime only got a dime AND they’re released?!?? If this don’t make you tear up idk what will smh bro
WOW!!!
This entire situation seems personal and strategic. Got my mind really wandering. They gotta be doing this to HIM for a reason. Why would they let the actual killers go, and not him, with all the proof he’s innocent? They know something he may not even know. It gotta be deeper than this. Because ain’t no way.
I’ve always been amazed at how Esau can take from you never pay you back never apologize destroy your life and then won’t comment I don’t hate nobody but I see how and why people do.
@@MindOfOneKind sadly this isnt the only person who has been wrongfully convicted , then some time (usually alot or rarely alittle) has been found innocent and has remained in prison for years , sometimes never getting out before time runs out. i hope people wake up and see that THIS IS SYSTEMATIC RACISM THIS IS WHY WE NEED CHANGE!!!!!
These people are treating Mr. Strickland’s freedom like it’s some game. Unfortunately this is one of many.
Yep
This had me, a grown man crying. This is not right. He needs to be free and compensated . He should be able to live his life without another worry once he free.
And so many more just like him😢
LEGISLATION HAS TO BE PASSED NOW, NOT TOMORROW, NOT NEXT WEEK RIGHT DAMN NOW !!
Give Biden a pen and A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON FORM
tell him he's sending a candy gram to Putin HE'LL SIGN IT
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Me too I have tears this is crazy
Yea I’d cried I couldn’t phantom being him all those years hours n seconds. Watching ur body age.. n then not give him anything unbelievable
"If they roll me out today, they'd take the wheelchair, i would literally have to crawl out the front door" , thats deep yall, i mean really what do you say to a man that has lost it all?😥
*had everything taken from him
@slim Dawg That's the thing, they dont want to give him any money.
Imagine people who DID crimes being released and u proven innocent still incarcerated. America needs to stop saying their system works
I hear it on tv all the time. But I am an American and I've never heared someone say the system works in person.
Most parts of the American system are broken.
Everyone stopped saying that when Casey Anthony was found Not Guilty...
Our system works correctly half the time, and the other half doesn't
The system is fine. He's just playing the "race card".
Repoter: "What does justice look like?"
Strickland: " I don't know, I haven't seen it yet."
Damn for the prosecutor to apologize is rare as hell and he still isn't out.
The governor could pardon him and refuses. He’s disgusting.
Yes he is!!! He don’t deserve his title
@@tammyduke4213
HE DOESNT DESERVE TO LIVE!!! TITLE ARE YOU DELUSIONAL. EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED IN GETTING THIS MAN INDICTED SHOULD GET LIFE IN PRISON!!!!
Whats the name of the racist governor!!
Governor you're a goddamn jerk!!
Republicans Are Authoritarian Racist Scum.
Imagine how many others like him are actually innocent and can't get out? Man this is disgusting
It’s probably millions of them,especially if you are black
@@gloriapeterson9754 facts
There's a lot, look up "Innocence Project".
Hmmpphh. You just don't know..
This land is your land this land is our land
Our "justice " system needs a complete overhaul. This is such a heartbreaking story.
I feel like the justice system works and all but goveners get lazy so they dont follow the rules a tightly because they have so many cases to skim through 8:17
He was jailed at the age of 19. His entire adult life behind bars because the "justice" system needed a win! Disgusting.
Exactly!!!!!
Damn man 😤😤😟😟🤯🤯
justice system worked
metoo movement says women have to be believed.
cynthia lied. did you miss that point?
@@danielmanahan692 yes, actually. I got incoherent, unrelated sentences, but didn't get the point. 🙁
I hope he went to church and prayed a lot
Keeping a man in prison for 43 years when he's innocent and not letting him go afterwards is as grizzly as the crime he was accused of you made the man anguish for the majority of his life, ruined his reputation, destroyed relationships and took any hopeful future this man had at being happy. Then you won't even release him... the system does not work.How the hell is this a free country?
It’s not, all Americans are nothing more than legalized slaves, yet the system wants to to focus on skin color as a focus of slavery! When it’s EVERY MAN,WOMAN AND CHILD who enslaved!
You’re taxed from the day you’re born, to the day you die, on everything you make to everything you spend!
You don’t?! The system will imprison or KILL YOU!
USA is a shithole country like North Korea
@@kennethnielsen9587 north korea doesn't compare. America is was and always will be the worst. How can you call a society just that kills ppl all over the world in the name of democracy. But won't even listen to your own citizens.
This is God's commandments against his chosen people when we don't follow his law's statues and commandments. APTTMHY HalleluYah May The King Reign Forever ♾️.
metals99, All American legalized slave status state is NOT the same. There's definitely a hiarcery.
Missouri governor is such a evil individual for not giving this innocent human being a pardon. God sees what everyone is doing on earth . People stop being evil to one another
They will do anything to maintain close proximity to power! Even if it means looking and acting like a Racist
The scumbag is probably thinking how will this look when elections come around
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People? You mean politicians?
TRUMP SHOULD HAVE PARDONED HIM INSTEAD IF KODAK BLACK IJS#TEAM NIP!!!
This saddens me to my core.
How tf is this even STILL going on?
How is there NO compensation once he is freed? The governor pardoned all those other ppl, and not Kevin?
This is a PRIME EXAMPLE of how EGO supercedes an APOLOGY.
START THIS MAN A GOFUMDME so he can be on his feet once he is freed. God Bless him
There's no compensation big enough to pay this man back for what he's lost...💔
What's scary is when these prosecutors know they did wrong, they double down instead of admitting their mistake. That is what is scary because your life depends on their ego. This is absolutely horrific story.
Do you know what citizens used to do to people in the government and high positions of power when they did things like this and went against the citizens well being.
They were put to death for putting citizens in jeopardy.
Laws like these were made just for us.
@@hollyyotiwahhe9888 that's why they made us docile
@@agonleed3841 absolutely.. dont drink the tapwater
The man doesn't need a pardon if he didn't do anything, he should simply be released in freedom! And get some form of restitution for the wrong done to him especially during so many years!
He needs exoneration and full compensation
I agree he needs to be released immediately. But without a pardon from the governor or US president, the crime would remain on his record. He needs a pardon to clear his name.
@@nerodiamante9441 the state does not provide compensation
@@richardgourdine2756 i know that, I stated what he needs
Fact!!!
This is sickening. The hubris of the governor is killing me too.
That’s a republican for you
Fucking republicans trump worshippers. They are demons in human flesh.
@@jonjones3841 absolutely
"shouldn't jump the line"... guy's been in line since the governor was a fuckin teenager. what a joke. hopefully this press airs out all those jackasses and gets this guy out, along with a huge payoff and full vindication. they cant give back what they took from this man, but to take anymore is truly unthinkable.
the murderers who admitted to it are already out?!? keeps getting more insulting.
How come the two guys who actually did the murder got released after 10 years and this dude somehow has been in prison for 40? System needs a rework.
Probably paroled because they admitted guilt and showed remorse
@@ByteMwen .......so kinda like "This is not who I am" after racist comments.......fake like that I guess.
Bro, where's this guy's GoFundMe? We gotta let this man live his remaining years worth living
@Lauren A…
I googled and here is the link
www.gofundme.com/f/help-kevin-strickland-after-wrongful-conviction
I just started working on creating him one but a section in their "Misuse" terms are (for me) are a bit confusing. *Copied from the site: All resolutions are decided by GoFundMe in its sole discretion, and all of its determinations are final.]
So to be on the safe side GoFundMe could approve or guarantee the fundraiser and the intended beneficiary...
HOW TO GET A STATEMENT OR A SIGNED PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR ?? That's the next BIG QUESTION!!
This people in power thinks that they are god at the same time that they are getting paid with our taxes...
Quite literally robbed this man of his life, nothing and no amount of time or words can give him all that time he lost. This is very sad and outraging, beyond unacceptable. The moment he was deemed innocent he needed to be IMMEDIATELY released from incarceration. They have falsely imprisoned this man for more than double the amount of time he has been a free man.
Man, poor guy. Hope this story gets him the justice he deserves
Looks like only money lots of it could get him freedom. Governor on the take,wander what's his asking price
What justice?
There is no justice for this
It would have to be repaid in next life.
They don’t want to pay his lawsuit. He might never get out.
Anthony Heft, RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL....B1
If he were caucasian or wealthy he would have been out. Its a two tier injustice system!! They knows he's innocent!! They're hoping he passes away so want pay the lawsuit.
@@sc1bossedup567 I don’t think they care if he’s white or black, bud. It’s all about money.
@@Antmanwald0423 Apparently, you cannot sue the State of Missouri for wrongful imprisonment & so that's not even a concern for the 'Powers That Be' or a possibility for this individual who has spent his life behind prison bars. These amoral persons who 'guard the system' thought of everything, including how to protect their financial asses.
@@dessean1 well, what a waste of life.
They are trying to let him die in there, that is the hold up.
They did him wrong. Heartbreaking. Let him out.
Tell him to call blax lies matter. 😂
They’re doing him wrong
If this man is truly innocent and it's been proven, keeping him there is despicable !!! What a horrendous injustice.
he IS innocent!
There is no “IF”, he is innocent.
That's America
What the F--K do you mean "If"?
This is horrible. No wonder why he’s had two heart attacks. I couldn’t imagine serving time in jail for a crime that I didn’t even commit especially for murder something has to give. no amount of money will give this man his prime years back. no words for this injustice. I’m weak from hearing this. This system is beyond WICKED needs to be completely dismantled & rebuilt but the only way to do that is to have another Civil War and not just vote. Most will never be ready for war.
They need to let this man go home
I would be so angry that no medicine would calm me. I would be so distraught daily that I would likely stop talking except when declaring my innocence.
Damn shame this is unbelievable. I can’t cope with this story. Nobody knows wut this man feels like inside.
That's straight up bullshit,who wrote this law,and why hasn't it been abolished...
Because this is america
America, the beautiful...
Land of the FREE..........
EVIL MEN GODLESS,NO MORALITY.NO EMPATHY.INHUMANE.LAWLESS.NO JUSTICE.
Man that's sad. They did him wrong.
Thay are killing him.
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Facts
They continue to do wrong by this man.
It happened to a LOT of black men in that generation. My cousin was locked up the same way and served the whole sentence.
Talking about a travesty of Justice. How that brother hasn't off himself is mind boggling to me. He is one of the strongest people i have ever heard of. This is absolutely ridiculous...
To admit he's innocent is to admit the law did something wrong.
This is a trajedy.
This is infuriating. The governor MUST be voted out. Or, frankly, I wouldn’t be disappointed if he drops dead and is replaced, so this man can be set free.
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Unfortunately it would be the deputy governor and wouldn't want to overturn the decision.
Vote out by who the system is not working for the black man
Haley that man needs to sue the state for his wrongful conviction.
I hope you are not referring to Karma. I am convinced that Karma is not a real thing because if it was at least half the politicians in DC would have leprosy.
Imagine your life is ruined for a crime you know you didn’t commit but others think you’d did, never knowing the truth until years or decades later. Just hurts thinking about it.
This man has my DEEPEST SYMPATHIES AND FORGIVENESS AND APOLOGIES
Valerie Petty, he does not need anyone's forgiveness. It is the people who did or continue to do this to him who need his forgiveness, not the other way around as you suggested. Apart from the word forgiveness, your comment was great
The prosecution don't care if the person is innocent, they only want the conviction to boost their careers.
They want to avoid giving a black man money for wrongful incarceration.
@@jermsbestfriend9296 nah that's the Missouri state law. Everyone in that state should force the law to change
@@djhowell5273 are you serious. What a fkin joke.
43 years too late, and they still haven't released him? What can he do in his current state of disability? His innocence ignored and his life wasted. Heart-wrenching.
If he is proven now innocent. WHY IS HE STILL IN PRISON?!!!
He’s black
@@dav0n exactly. I’m sure that if he was white, he’d be out by now.
@@selmaferdjioui -“By now,” is relative, as he has been in prison the longest, as a result of wrongful conviction. However, it is disproportionate.
That's a GOOD FUCKIN QUESTION!!
If they let him out he will sue the state and they don’t want to pay.
This Gov thinks he's going to live forever down here. What he doesn't know is one-day judgment is coming to him. The same mercy he shows is coming back to him. Hebrews 9:27, And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
James 2:13, For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath showed no mercy.
absolutely my brother. But it is sad that Black men get this type of judgement all the time
This country is a joke , I bet if he had money he wouldn’t still be in jail
Absolutely. It's a crime to be poor in this country
If he had money he never would have been to jail.
Has nothing to do with money but the color of his skin.
@@444francisguy has everything to do with money but yes sadly the color of his skin plays a part in this smh
@@444francisguy Has to do with both. Not being able to afford a good attorney and str8 up racism. Did you not hear they got rid of every black juror to make sure he gets convicted the second time around ?!
When the wicked is in charge, the people mourn. It's biblical.
@Doppelganger D 😒
Your right about that!
@Doppelganger D By your logic it's all the fault of the religious people? 🤔
Nonreligious people don't hate god. Nobody hates what they don't even think is real. Only the religious can hate god.
If the problem comes from wickedness in power, and that comes from the hate of god, and that comes from the religious?
I think you played yourself.
@@willkoestner4159 shut up geez! Someone always has to come along and complicate simple.. it’s not that hard to understand.
@@allmoneyboog "just don't think about it too much bro"
Words you have to live by to be religous
They are afraid of the money that they'll have to pay him.
I agree.
it says he wont get a penny from the state he lives in .
Not only will he not get a penny but the state of MO doesn't even owe him an apology😔
@T mac More then the life if a black man.
They pay everyone else!
This should go viral. He needs to be released! It's been 43 years man!!!!
The “Land of the free” they said. The U.S. has no moral rights to talk about human rights abuses in Iran, China, Philippines, North Korea etc.
Facts.
Good point and 100 percent not an opinion but a fact
@Florida Man they will be instances. What a hilarious statement. America has been doing this for generations. Not to just people of colour white men and women too. Do you even know how many people have been executed only to find out later they were innocent. That florida sun has got to your brain. The system is broken, it has been from its inception. Also please don't be telling people to leave the country like you are the authority.
@Florida Man who even brang perfection into the conversation. Is that your get out clause. You sound like mitch McConnell.
@Florida Man f biden but a quick one. Trump wanted juneteenth to pass when he was in office. Republicans overwhelmingly voted no to it. Confused much.🤣 on a serious note, Republicans say they they back the blue but voted against the jan 6th investigation. You clowns need to choose one thing. Your hypocrisy is at an all time high.
Boycott the governor's house office and family members
43 years doesn't get him a skip in the line. Then don't skip him add a new line on the paper and add his name.
"What does justice look like?" "I don't know, I haven't seen it yet". Powerful!! I'm hoping and praying he gets out, gets to see his mom, the ocean and beyond justice.
People, we need to all get together and put this governor out, apparently releasing innocent men does not fit his agenda, 43 years in a cage , put yourself in his shoes, what kind of human being once the truth was known would continue this injustice, this gov. should be incarcerated,permanently
I'd say check that list they showed of people he has already pardoned I bet there is little to no black Americans pardon from him
He probably pardoned people who actually committed a crime
We have a race issue in this country that needs to be solved!
It's not "we the people"... It's the "system" that needs finality.
2021?! It’s never going to be fixed. Joe Biden himself said blacks ruin this country the so-called president.
@JagBrit i can agree about critical race theory but the system is not fine...lol
@JagBrit they want us trapped in the "all or nothing" mentality
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It made me tear up hearing him talking about wanting to see the ocean, the physical manifestation of freedom nothing but wide open space and direction to travel.
This innocent man's story should be featured in major news headlines. He should be freed sooner and not later!
This is the fear that every black American male has. This is why my father taught me to always get a receipt everywhere that you are in case you need it for court.
That is very good advice that I will start telling my sons. Thank you for sharing and Thank pops for the knowledge
As a white guy who knows how to stay out of trouble, receipts, text messages to loved ones telling them what you are doing with pic, being seen with people, is the smartest thing you can possibly do.
The receipt because its in a computer system and police can't touch those computer systems. The text messages with pics of what you are doing so no one can ever say you were lying, and being seen with multiple people makes it so if they try to frame you, that group of people will hopefully call BS and let the world know you didn't commit the crime.
White people may have brought Africans to America but they can't keep Africans in America and prevent them from going to Africa and living among their own people their own African brothers and sisters and without being oppressed for their skin color.
@@user-uy1rg8td1v We're not African, we're American. And I bet you don't see anything wrong with what you just said or what you're thinking. They were hoping that type of thinking would be in every jurors mind.
@@user-uy1rg8td1v by the way Africans are oppressed for their skin color. It was called colonization and they still suffer to this date because of its effects. The more that my 11-year-old learns about true history I have to convince him that white people aren't evil. Then he hears about stuff that happens in our present and here I am feeling like a fool trying to convince him that white people aren't evil. And this is an intelligent child. He keeps looking at me while I'm talking as if I'm trying to convince him of something that's not right in front of his eyes.
They were probably hoping he'd lose his mind or pass away quietly in prison. The voice he would have if he was a free man could shake the judicial system to its core.
Not really, there are and has been so many innocent men locked up for years.
Word
An innocent man should not be behind bars!
You should visit USA
@@wadestanton where exactly do you think I am from?
@@ian-williamfountain608 I never gave it a thought. Figured you couldn't be from USA, as people are found unjustly imprisoned In USA often enough to not be a mistake but more likely purposeful.
THE TWO MEN THAT COMMITTED THIS CRIME ADMITTED THEY DID IT. THEY SERVED THEIR TIME AND WERE BOTH LET FREE, YET KEVIN STRICKLAND IS STILL IN JAIL FOR A CRIME HE DIDN'T COMMIT!
THIS IS CLEARLY A RACIAL ISSUE!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Happens all the time. Probably over 1000s. Innocent project freed 100s. I read my local paper everyday for couple years and innocent being let free every other month. Mainly in Texas. Its systemic racism, and the Republicans say it doesnt exist.
The only honest answer to why is he still in prison is simple...”it’s because this is America, and been that way for ages now.”
I tell u this is America its a racist and they just don't cover it up its been how do these people sleep at night take someone life and you c your family every night ooo but GOD have the last word ....Trust me they will burn in hell ....
They don't want to change!
It's in America's heart and it's sad sad ...
Exactly people are wondering why why. Get the F out to the people who assume the system are fair to B.
@@debragreen9596 they sleep just fine because to the powers that be believe people of color aren’t human.
The governor said that Mr. Strickland was tried and convicted by a jury of his peers; the governor is living in a state of denial. It shows that the privileged class, only see people of their group.
Also its fucking Missouri
Why are we standing for this where is the protest
Vote this racist anti God governor out and that racists Supreme Court no justice
@@dross759 True. Where is BLM?
Because then they would have to admit to the truth . The whole truth .
This is EVERY Black Mans biggest fear… Once you’re behind those bars, the world forgets about you!
Remember George Stinny? EXECUTED an innocent child and the government was never held responsible
@@keepinitkawaii oh yes I do…
@@keepinitkawaii They originally arrested George's older brother but released him because George really did murder two small children.
Not black and women ,men that sleep out side their race they fear nothing until it's to late..smh
Its not every Black man fear. Many of us don’t even know this kinda life.
The federal government should be involved in this case. The state of Missouri violated this man's civil rights by denying him a fair trial.
Sad he'll still be looked at as a thug in the eyes of some.
Little fact. He doesn’t care about opinions.
@@Teddy_Graham little fact: it’s exactly that opinion (he’s a thug!) among other things that got him locked away.
A NYONE THAT LOOKS AT THIS MAN AS A THUG HAS SOME SERIOUS ISSUES.THEY NEED INTENSIVE THERAPHY.
@@deloresking8620 thug is just their way of saying nigger but too coward to say it.
@@luvitluvitbaby What are the other things that got him locked up? I haven't seen anything that says he has a record or anything.
What does justice look like? "I don't know. I haven't seen it yet." The most meaningful words in this video. I hope you get out, my friend.
I'm watching this literally in tears. My heart is broken in so many pieces for this man. 💔💔💔💔
Myself also I am very heartbroken. I just don't understand why people of color I always mistreated! And I am also so tired of hearing about things when nothing is being done even when the truth is right there no one steps up to the plate and says okay we've been proven wrong let's correct this .
@@quinzellalyons5811 EXACTLY. The men who committed the crime have served time and gone on with their lives and this man who did nothing is serving a lifetime for ABSOLUTELY nothing other than the system's refusal to admit they made an error. But this is apparently not an error but how the system works when you're black. So so so unfair and so so infuriating. This is a grave injustice.
Absolutely!!
Tell him to call blax lies matter 😂
@@IT.DOSENT.MATTER... Why are you so obsessed with us tho lol we're so important to your life huh. Goofy ass racist.
And these people sleep fine at night knowing they ruined someone's life .crazy
Of course they sleep weel at night , cause they know where the thugs they put away where they are .
9:07 - The prosecutor can't answer why they won't let him out because she would have to admit that the system is racist.
Wow let’s get rid of the black Jours and send this man to prison for a crime he didn’t do🥺
Free Kevin now !!! Impeach the governor
The American justice system in a nutshell..
Yup that’s why Trump (the biggest criminal of all) is free as a bird
@@dav0n he will reap what he sows on earth and on judgement day!
Yep this is what they do to black men in this country.
@@Angel-tw3ko when? 🤷🏼♀️
Angel 1973, Heck, it may before judgement day.
He has now been released with no compensation due to Missouri's laws. The delay in his release cost him the chance to see his mother. She passed away shortly before his release.
This needs to be taken up in a Federal Court. Clearly, the state is conspiring to falsely imprison this man. The state itself is openly committing a criminal act.
No apology or amount of money can buy back this man’s time.
This man is in a wheel chair and basically can’t stand. He’s very articulate, let this man go. 2021, still keeping black people in jail for no reason
@MazterP28, if Kevin Strickland were NOT articulate, your view on his being free would be what? I'm trying to figure out how being articulate is related to deserving justice. Real question. Real question.
@@emilerose1424 he could still be free :) it’s because he’s black. I was just saying this was a very smart interview. Why are you coming for me? You don’t have a picture or videos? Or anything on your page. When you can not hide behind your page, let me know we can have real conversation about race and articulation
@@MazterP28 what they can do to an articulate man, now imagine what they would do to a black person that isn't smart and can't defend themselves.
@@emilerose1424 that's exactly what I was thinking. What does how articulate he is have to do with anything???
Literally, no reason at all
When he said he just wanted to see the ocean, my heart broke. Jesus, somebody get this guy out! This is an absolute travesty of justice.
Disgusting and disgraceful to do this to a fellow human being...
So... He walks in to prison, innocent and on his feet, and will leave prison having served another's guilt, in a wheelchair... Justice???
How many people is this happening to. This is heartbreaking.
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I'd like to know as well.
This is so horribly wrong they need to realease this man with a large compensation
@Jit 8 but when that imperfect system realizes it’s wrong doing, shouldn’t it try to amend?
Truly horrifying! Even IF he manages to get out of there they won’t compensate him! This is just beyond disgusting! I feel so angry!
How much more must this man endure?
Racism is so vile and outrageous! All of you people guilty of being racist and causing crap like this to happen to innocent people, good luck on the day you meet your maker! You’ll have to account for your actions!
God is the answer. They will have to answer to him for all yheir wrongdoing to the less fortunate.
I’m in Canada and this is outrageous. Unbelievable.
Surely a Go-Fund-Me page for this gentleman can be started. This is so saddening and my heart goes out to him and his situation. So unfair. ;(
If he thinks he will have nothing when he gets out he is surely mistaken. We will all pitch in and give him a hefty bank account, Lord knows he deserves it.
Right.
I’m going to be tracking this one. Hopefully this puts the pressure on the governor to release this man and we can start a fund for him so he can go visit his mother and experience the ocean...
@@ValensBellator I just watched & I'm in tears. My heart breaks into a million little pieces for this man. I'm ready to start a fund for him now because he will get out. Just a matter of time. We may as well get ahead of this because he will need a wheelchair, clothes, food, personal hygiene items & a place to live. If you're serious facebook me so we can work together to make it happen.
I would like to help him these people are racist wtf after knowing he’s innocent they still wouldn’t let him go this is absurd I’m so mad
If there is an account where we can fund him please let us know
Can't get Any worst than this.... just horrible sad for this Gentleman....
Until the folks on Missouri get on their feet and get the bad laws changed this is what they have to live with. We have lost sight of the fact that there is no force on Earth that can stand up to the will of the American people. As a people we can do ANYTHING we want. Well, perhaps we can't catch a fart and paint it green but other than that.....
This is completely unacceptable. The law stopping him from becoming a free man should be null and void in every case like this and anyone who facilitated the prevention of his released from prison should in turn spend time in jail for their own criminal actions against this man. This could never be okay in any universe regardless of what the law says. You know this poor man has gone numb just to avoid going insane in there. Absolutely unconscionable how they justify wasting his life over a stupid, nonsensical law.
Its all about the money!
It was definitely worse for the 3 Black People that had their heads blown off by His Friends...... Cynthia Douglas never officially recanted her statement and after she died her family members started telling people she lied.
@Renee Why yea no few things wrong with this but not everything to be honest your we are one thing and willingness to go extinct thing is crazy and the it could be u or me is also kinda wrong sense wrongful imprisonment based on race has decreased by a very large amount sense this imprisonment (wish it was completely gone but it will take time) but the choice of the court and governor is idiotic to say the least even when just thinking about the negative impact that refusing a seemingly innocent man his freedom would have on the imagine they have created for themselves. Well that’s my opinion but what do you mean by fighting them back because you could be mean 6-7 different things considering if you mean condensed or broad issues.
43 YEARS
there is nothing anyone can do to bring that time back, no amount of money or apologies could even begin to compensate for this.
disgusting.