From wrongly accused to attorney Jarrett Adams talks about race — Transcript

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1. 0:00ah Floyd's death has inspired a
2. 0:02worldwide reckoning over racial
3. 0:03injustice one local man has a unique
4. 0:06perspective on that issue
5. 0:08Jared Adams was wrongfully accused and
6. 0:11in prison he shares it with local fives
7. 0:13Rhonda Fox so he went from prisoner to
8. 0:15attorney with unique perspective on race
9. 0:18relations too far away from where you're
10. 0:21recording this I was incarcerated with
11. 0:24the number of 385 0 7 3 as an inmate
12. 0:28Jared says he learned firsthand how
13. 0:31divisive race can be when I was falsely
14. 0:35accused and had my first interaction
15. 0:37with the criminal justice system I
16. 0:38thought that justice was applied equally
17. 0:42across the board and it was because of
18. 0:44how I look because of how you know my
19. 0:48accuser looked who was white I never got
20. 0:50the presumption of innocence that is
21. 0:53supposed to be constitutionally afforded
22. 0:54to everyone Jared Adams not only spent
23. 0:58ten years of his life here at the Green
24. 1:01Bay Correctional Institute for a crime
25. 1:03he was later exonerated from but here he
26. 1:07also began his career as a lawyer it
27. 1:21wasn't easy and it wasn't able to be
28. 1:24done without the help of health care
29. 1:27were very few people have suffered and
30. 1:30overcome the criminal justice system
31. 1:32like Jared so he has a unique
32. 1:35perspective about the wave of protests
33. 1:38this is what black lives matter means we
34. 1:43have been depicted historically in a
35. 1:46barbaric way that continues to reach us
36. 1:50it was the narrative that was created
37. 1:52that you should be terrified of all
38. 1:54black men and men of color
39. 1:56now black lives and blue lives find
40. 1:59themselves at an impasse in a protracted
41. 2:02struggle this didn't just happen you
42. 2:05know it's been going on now you get the
43. 2:07opportunity to see it play out now on
44. 2:09camera where someone's life is it's
45. 2:12nothing
46. 2:13their last gasp of breath interaction is
47. 2:17happening you have to understand that
48. 2:19it's not isolated I'm a black man who
49. 2:23has faced the worst for the worse the
50. 2:24criminal justice system and I happen to
51. 2:26get out and become an attorney even
52. 2:28though I left there's a piece of me
53. 2:32still incarcerated in Green Bay
54. 2:35Correctional Facility in Green Bay
55. 2:38Rhonda Fox local 5 News thanks Rhonda
56. 2:42Jarrett was exonerated with the help of
57. 2:43the Wisconsin Innocence Project his
58. 2:46license to practice law in New York and
59. 2:48Illinois while turning