Within seconds, nearly a dozen teenage detainees pour out of their cells and converge on Kalief Browder.
Surveillance footage from 2010 captures the relentless beating inside a Rikers Island housing unit. The attack was possible in part because the cell doors, like hundreds of others throughout the city’s jail system, had failed to lock.
Browder, who was 16 at the time of the beating, became a tragic icon for jail reform after he spent three years jailed on Rikers Island awaiting trial for allegedly stealing a backpack. He died by suicide after his release…