From prison to pandemic
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Harrington was exonerated last month after spending 17 years in prison for a murder conviction. He and his family are overjoyed, but the coronavirus pandemic means freedom looks a little different right now.
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| 0:00.0 | It was Saturday in October of 2002. |
| 0:03.0 | Kevin Harrington was at a bus stop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| 0:06.0 | And he was feeling pretty good. |
| 0:08.0 | I was going to go on a date with his girl named Leah. |
| 0:12.0 | They usually just hung out with a group of friends, |
| 0:14.0 | but Kevin had finally built up the courage to ask her out. |
| 0:17.0 | You know, she was really cool. |
| 0:19.0 | We all just been like friends, you know what I mean? |
| 0:21.0 | We never went on like a date before. |
| 0:23.0 | And do you know what you were going to do that night? |
| 0:25.0 | I think we were supposed to go to the career law officer or something. |
| 0:31.0 | Kevin was 20 at the time. |
| 0:33.0 | He'd been traveling all day and was waiting for the bus to take him home |
| 0:36.0 | so he could change his clothes and freshen up before the date. |
| 0:40.0 | But suddenly, he saw some police officers approach him. |
| 0:44.0 | He'd like, gank me up and slap the cuff on me and say, |
| 0:47.0 | I'm like, what? |
| 0:48.0 | It was so fast. |
| 0:50.0 | It looked like they just jumped out the sky. |
| 0:53.0 | I was just stuck. |
| 0:54.0 | I would say my mom was just open my wood to... |
| 0:57.0 | Kevin was confused and in complete shock. |
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