Shawn "Jay Z" Carter came to the Sundance Film Festival — not with his wife Beyonce on his arm, but Harvey Weinstein.
The entertainment moguls set off a frenzy as
they appeared on an arrival line in Park City, Utah Wednesday for the
world premiere of "TIME: The Kalief Browder Story," a six-part
documentary series about the African-American teenager who spent three
years locked up in New York's Rikers Island jail despite never being
convicted of a crime or even getting a trial.
Browder committed suicide in 2015, two years after the case — which
centered on allegations of a stolen backpack — was thrown out and he was
released from Rikers. His family blamed his mental anguish on the harsh
treatment he endured at the jail, including two years spent in solitary
confinement.
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