[VIDEO] Protesters Blockade Rikers Island Prison

Friday, the protest moved to Rikers Island Prison calling for the prison to be shut down.

Rikers is notorious for brutality, most recently making headlines when 16-year-old Kalief Browder who committed suicide of Juune this year.  Kalief was imprisoned in Rikers for three years, two in solitary confinement, before being released for  a lack of evidence to press charges. Kalief cited his traumatic experience in Rikers for the suicide.

Watch video from the protest:

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