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Ronnie Long has been awarded $25 million after spending decades in a North Carolina prison for a rape he didn't commit. WCNC's Michelle Boudin reports.
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@todd737 7 месяцев назад

The police officers who lied and set him up, should all be sentenced to prison.

@ltoent419 3 месяца назад

Yup 44 years a piece

@myamya6523 3 месяца назад

yes 44 years. it s just insane 😢

@Jonathon10 7 месяцев назад

44 years gone! No amount of money can fix that. The people responsible should be put in prison themselves.

@b.v3151 7 месяцев назад

They are DEAD. He was 20 at the time and they were much older. It’s been 44 years so yeah..

@myamya6523 3 месяца назад

yes they should go to jail

@vanessak4116 11 дней назад

Well said

@HannibalTheDragon 7 месяцев назад

there needs to be laws to punish cops, DA's and judges who knowingly convict innocent citizens to unjustifiable incarceration

@exquisiteworksllc3659 7 месяцев назад

Amen 🙏🏻

@Jerry-ko9pi 7 месяцев назад

Problem is proving that they knew

@pat_in_va8605 7 месяцев назад

States do have laws. While each state might title the offense differently, it would be a law concerning "Abuse of Power." Any officer or officer of the court lying under oath would also fall under the perjury laws of the state. Any officer (or officer of the court) who arrests someone (or prosecutes someone) they know did not commit an offense could be held accountable under state laws for false imprisonment. The issue with this case would be exactly who is still alive from 45 years ago to prosecute.

@junglekutz5625 7 месяцев назад

Please these individuals *pride themselves in doing the most distasteful things, (doesn't matter who it is), in the name of camaraderie and advancement. I mean, how can one bring themselves to believe that they're being an asset as well as productive, by being a thorn. More than likely in an ar array of individuals lives. As this type of iniative, isn't a one time occurrence.

@adamhuffman3354 7 месяцев назад

Yea! They stole this man’s life. They are the responsible party. They asked for that authority.

@alexanderthejosh6045 7 месяцев назад

Im not even 30 yet and I’ve felt like I’ve lived a long life so far. 44 years is insane. I hope the remainder of his life is amazing.

@edelynquedz7224 7 месяцев назад

They should go immediately and review other prisoners convictions

@wendymudkins8208 7 месяцев назад

No amount of money can give him back the wasted years he spent in prison for something he didnt do

@jackbean7195 7 месяцев назад

Hard to imagine how he felt during all of them years.

@lars2894 7 месяцев назад

Probably like some of those characters in the movie "Shawshank Redemption". There is nothing worse. Wrongfully accusing someone and taking away his/her life IMHO, is worse than murder, and deserves a punishment worse than murderers.

@pahanin2480 7 месяцев назад

Why isnt the justice system holding those people who put him in prison accountable?

@ThePortalTheory 7 месяцев назад

They might already be gone. 44 years plus the several years of fighting for $.

@patwilson1257 7 месяцев назад

This is so wrong, it brings tears to my eyes. It also makes me think about the others they did this to, who didn’t get a settlement. Didn’t get their names cleared. God IS a God of justice. The perpetrators WILL receive payment for their wrong. The books will be balanced.

@Tommy-rf9sw 7 месяцев назад

Now he needs to fend off strangers, family, and friends who thinks they deserve part of that money.

@ThePortalTheory 7 месяцев назад

His poor parents

@Blackrage843 3 месяца назад

@ThePortalTheory Unfortunately, his parents passed away and I think one of them passed right Before he was released

@royaldiadem_ 7 месяцев назад

44 YEARS… let that sink in. Where are the criminal charges for the real criminals involved in this case.

@johnnydoe3603 7 месяцев назад

The Judge, the Jury and the Cops have to be Investigated. These are Dangerous People still Walking Freely in the Society. 😢

@catalinacurio 7 месяцев назад

Emmitt Till springs to mind… 😢

@jonjonesongasstationdickpi6179 7 месяцев назад

There probally dead

@tommas2674 7 месяцев назад

@@catalinacurio and Retired Ofc. David Dorn comes to my mind! ...

@Mr.Atlanta850 7 месяцев назад

Most if not all of those white people are dead that were involved in the state of North Carolina court system. Think about it he was 20 years old and spent 3 1/2 decades in prison.

@obscuremusictabs5927 7 месяцев назад

How can people do this to someone and then go home and sleep at night?

@Machistmo 7 месяцев назад

Racism.

@megapookie22 7 месяцев назад

@@Machistmo bingo 👏🏾

@junglekutz5625 7 месяцев назад

Cause they don't do it by themselves. Compliments of unity, individuals as such come together to achieve the worst!

@obscuremusictabs5927 7 месяцев назад

@@Machistmo Not necessarily. Some prosecutors are obsessed with their win loss record and will do anything to not lose. What really angers me about these stories is you NEVER hear about the people who did this being brought to justice.

@Machistmo 7 месяцев назад

This is totally plausible - NOT@@obscuremusictabs5927

@simonstevenson6686 7 месяцев назад

Honestly it should be at least $40 million because he spent more than 4 decades in prison.

@GuiltyByPigmentation 7 месяцев назад

Should have gotten 1 Billion

@TimeTX 7 месяцев назад

If he would have filed a lawsuit under Common Law jurisdiction then he would have gotten 803,000,000.

@CA-tk8yn 7 месяцев назад

I'm glad he got his sense of justice. I would never want any amount of money or power to have to endure what he and his loved ones did, and its mainly him. He could be given more and it would never be enough. It's sad his life was taken away like this. I hope he lives a long time, but I can't see how someone can go from one extreme to that much money, which is an extreme, and not make terrible mistakes. I pray for God to guide his decision and let him lean on his faith, not the things he can afford.

@brendawiley4967 7 месяцев назад

This is truly sad! All the money in the world is not going to get him his life back

@janisejones6426 7 месяцев назад

This is a prime example that money doesn’t bring happiness. I would rather have 44 years of my life back over any amount of money.

@cxa011500 7 месяцев назад

They really needed to talk about who the prosecutors and officeres were involved in this case? How many more times did they do this? How many more innocent people are behind bars?

@Africansince1992 7 месяцев назад

This

@winniethepoohandeeyore2 7 месяцев назад

Everyone involved should have been in prison, their estates sued

@Check_This_Game-f5m 7 месяцев назад

How did the police make this awful mistake and imprisoned an innocent man?

@mandyharewood886 7 месяцев назад

No mistake. Didn't you listen?

@duckmercy11 7 месяцев назад

Racism

@razorraysolarsavings70 7 месяцев назад

Lol it wasn’t a mistake! It was done with hatred in their hearts. Go seek God and you’ll learn more.

@Cj-en4fj 7 месяцев назад

Nah, no amount of $ is enough, but it should be 1 million per year: 44 years should equal 44 million!

@alanmorris7669 7 месяцев назад

If I had a choice between getting millions of dollars, or the people responsible for my wrongful conviction going to prison... I would say, "Keep the money and send those scoundrels to prison!"

@ClarityDetermination 7 месяцев назад

Where are the charges to the DAs judges and police departments? Please check their bank accounts for that time if possible.

@RollerBladingSuxs 7 месяцев назад

At this point, no amount of money can get back all those years.

@Jerry-ko9pi 7 месяцев назад

Should have been 1 mil for each year at least!

@hadleyslife7351 7 месяцев назад

44 years, went in at 20. So he 64, he ain’t got much time left. They took it all away from him.

@jbmorris2893 7 месяцев назад

I’m glad he was given compensation, but no amount of money is going to pay for the time he lost.

@user-ii3zi5uk7c 7 месяцев назад

Well done City!

@MoonDog991 7 месяцев назад

Everyone that was involved in his wrongful conviction that is still alive today should be thrown in jail.

@TRIPLEDIGITS 7 месяцев назад

Money can't replace time but $25 million WE'LL TAKE THAT!!!!

@maximus1172 7 месяцев назад

Should have been 44 million atleast for the 44 years in prison

@limnian5580 7 месяцев назад

No one will trade 44 years of free life outside for $ 25 millions if have a choice. Sad.

@kirkfrisby 7 месяцев назад

He should have been given a billion

@Blue2crows 7 месяцев назад

I feel so awful about this story. Those involved should be punished. That is not enough money. I hope he can find some peace.

@PsyChoAnaLize 7 месяцев назад

Shameful! SHAMEFUL!

@randalljames3080 7 месяцев назад

Would like to know how much the lawyers cut was.

@jaece1256 7 месяцев назад

Should've doubled that! All those years lost... I sure hope the Award is Tax Free.

@ryanwiler4808 7 месяцев назад

44 years? What good does that do even if he did it? And that Stanford guy only got 6 months or so.

@Truchrissy76 7 месяцев назад

The people whom was over his case the prosecutor and the cops everyone involved should be charged.

@karmakazi219 7 месяцев назад

$22 million still isn't enough.

@yohancereece2509 7 месяцев назад

Amen he deserves his compensation an apology.

@CourtJustCourt 7 месяцев назад

Hits home!

@MidWestLife2022 7 месяцев назад

The real question os what happened to the officers that lied on the stand, tampered with the jury, and hid evidence???

@natedenomme7774 7 месяцев назад

25 million? That’s insulting. 🤦‍♂️ no amount can make it right but.. that’s such a low number.

@anthonyjohnson5961 7 месяцев назад

He should of get $100M !

@ProfessorBidoof 7 месяцев назад

$25 million? that's what they assumed he would have worked legally to get for those lost years? interesting.

@residentrump3271 7 месяцев назад

No one in this world has demonstrated the capacity for lying and evil acts like the 🐷man. No sense of fairness in those "people" whatsoever...

@Machistmo 7 месяцев назад

The people that did this to him, if alive should forfeit their freedom. Are these city employees that did this to him still getting retirements? This is not Justice

@kevinjenner9502 7 месяцев назад

In 1988 President Reagan paid reparations to the remaining Japanese/American survivors of Executive Order 9066.

@Royale_with_Cheeze 7 месяцев назад

He was 21 at the time, so he's 65 now. It's likely that all of the players involved with his case are in their 70s now or older and very likely on retirement and SS.

@user-le7do6mj1p 7 месяцев назад

And Parents who make false accusations need to be prosecuted along with officers and D.A.

@Edgarto156 7 месяцев назад

What about the real criminal?

@SinCity4o1 7 месяцев назад

They already took his life away

@deet4895 7 месяцев назад

Is the State going to take taxes out of that 25 million?

@bizzyizzy9526 7 месяцев назад

He should get Forty four million dollars One million dollars for each year that he spent in prison And the State should pay 🤔

@ghostmantagshome-er6pb 7 месяцев назад

Act of evil.

@MeadeFatLoss 7 месяцев назад

They felt the need to put his race in the title.

@swancman 7 месяцев назад

Because it's relevant to the issue at hand. White cops put a black man in prison because he was black.

@sterlingsimmons2212 7 месяцев назад

@@swancmanExactly fix this racist justice system, then headlines such as this one will disappear.

@empyrean196 7 месяцев назад

It’s relevant. Black Americans disproportionately makeup wrongful convictions. _---As of August 8, 2022, the National Registry of Exonerations listed 3,200 defendants who were convicted of crimes in the United States and later exonerated because they were innocent;1 53% of them were Black, nearly four times their proportion of the population, which is now about 13.6%._

@MeadeFatLoss 7 месяцев назад

@@swancman how do you know this ?

@MeadeFatLoss 7 месяцев назад

@@empyrean196 They actually commit half the crime and those aren't wrongful convictions. Whites are actually more likely to get wrongful conviction .

@eraofawakening4659 7 месяцев назад

That man needs $44 million, what a shame!!!

@michaelsiengo1 7 месяцев назад

Excellent

@allthingsgood2653 7 месяцев назад

Prison be doing a number on them. Smh. Pray God heals him from the pain, anger and trauma.

@sgu2693 7 месяцев назад

Does this still happen in America, lamd of the free snd home of the brave? 😢

@Beamskii 7 месяцев назад

Would the title say “wrongfully convicted white man” if he was white?

@simonstevenson6686 7 месяцев назад

If whites had been oppressed by blacks then yes.

@AGirlNamedVan 3 месяца назад

WOOOOW . the injustice of it all

@vjones34 7 месяцев назад

What I gotta do to get wrongfully convicted

@demetriusevans4139 7 месяцев назад

Be a BM around a WW

@vjones34 7 месяцев назад

That’s it..I can do that for 25 mil

@residentrump3271 7 месяцев назад

I'm not spending one moment in prison for 💵 It's not worth it

@Pete-da-peter 7 месяцев назад

It's always a black man, then the audacity to give $750k after wrongfully convicted him is insulting

@ronbelanger4113 7 месяцев назад

The for profit prison system thanks him for his billables.

@junglekutz5625 7 месяцев назад

This is not only sick!!!.....but sickening. What makes this story even more disturbing is how most have educates themselves to think and behave in the same manner......to this day. When did this hapoen 1840 what?!?! To bee told "stories" in school as a child only to grow up in thw same exact madness. Meanwhile a high percentage of thw individuals that engage in such foolery refer to themselves as reilgious and claim to be christ like. No amount of money can bestow to this man the Life, that Life gifted to him.

@debraa.155 7 месяцев назад

God bless you!!!

@wilmabacchus7935 7 месяцев назад

This is still going on

@djxcel23 7 месяцев назад

Im glad he was released but he better protect his money...

@moali68 7 месяцев назад

How many others?

@Thesoggybuiscuit 7 месяцев назад

Why does it say “black” in the title? if it were a person that was white, Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, or any combination of those, they wouldn’t say anything 😂

@dyfox3856 7 месяцев назад

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@swancman 7 месяцев назад

Because he is black and he was imprisoned because he was black.

@simonstevenson6686 7 месяцев назад

Because blacks have been oppressed in America.

@doppled 7 месяцев назад

consider the context of the time period he was convicted during

@tropicalrelaxation9874 7 месяцев назад

He will have kids smh messed up his life

@ronwade5646 7 месяцев назад

How many others? I WANT AN ANSWER!

@rockrasheed7507 7 месяцев назад

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@laho6649 3 месяца назад

One look at him and a knee he was gulty

@Desertfox14 7 месяцев назад

That money isn't going to give him his life back though. He's lost 44 years of his life over a lie. This is terrible. Police are still like this today.

@FC-qe1wl 7 месяцев назад

And once again a governor pardoned a convict thus overriding a complex legal system. This is why the entire pardon system needs to be abolished from the President and Governors to pardon boards. If any so calld new evendance comes up hold another trial and have a jury decide

@lembk 7 месяцев назад

The pensions of all parties involved in the coverup should be seized and they should be jailed made to pay with their current salaries and pensions and assets

@killgoretrout877 7 месяцев назад

they were just believing women like you said they should do when it was trending on twitter

@xrismanessa3993 7 месяцев назад

This guy should not drive or drink outside his house and on a serious knot this guy should move out of that state and go and leave somewhere where the police don’t know him. Otherwise they are going to retaliate.

@sandramcgill_glorytoGod 7 месяцев назад

NEVER! #ourfuturematters #sendthemhome

@ericpaulthompson1386 7 месяцев назад

How many more blacks done like this ive seen over 117 cases

@Cyrus943 7 месяцев назад

Let all my people go

@DavidRodriguez-wp7zi 7 месяцев назад

He's right. 750.000 dollars or whatever the money is isn't enough for 44 years in prison. That's an entire life. It's sickening. Black lives matter ! From Spain

@lars2894 7 месяцев назад

25 million? Are you kidding? There are millions of people in the United States that make more than that in a year. Make it several Billion $$$ and charge it on the assets of families of all the perpetrators involved.

@FC-qe1wl 7 месяцев назад

When asked where he will go after release he said Where the white women at

@angelaraines8732 7 месяцев назад

May GOD bless him. How many more black men. I am glad he's not pretending he not angery. Anyone would be. The bad actors need to go jail.

@MarcBienenfeld 7 месяцев назад

it should be 1 billion dollars and the police and all who lied during his trial should have to pay it out of pocket

@akatv3864 16 дней назад

It's crazy 😢to see this buh as a man he will be extra careful Dealing with women 😮

@lelandgaunt9985 7 месяцев назад

Free Viper

@SB-kq3td 7 месяцев назад

😆😆

@hiltonlive32grnrngr 7 месяцев назад

I can't help but wonder how these cops, investigators, and prosecutors are able to sleep at night knowing they put away an innocent man for 44 long years knowing good and well he was innocent. It's all good though because karma has it's ways of catching up with people.

@ThePortalTheory 7 месяцев назад

Karma always collects

@cvaline 7 месяцев назад

Why not list the officers/detective/prosecuters who where responsible? Why not show up at their doorsteps if any are alive? Given qualified immunity a question may be the only accountability.

@leviticus7457 5 месяцев назад

That city owned up awesomeness for that city, N.C they recognized ❤

@charleskagaba8747 7 месяцев назад

There is a God who vindicates

@carloszamudio4492 7 месяцев назад

Wouldn't saved dat if he was free this whole time, palabra...

@joey5532 7 месяцев назад

Yes he was wronged and deserves what's he's owed but at whose cost? tax payers? 25 million needs to come out of the people that wronged him us everyday citizens that had nothing to do with that case.