One of the last two still on the loose out of the 11 inmates who climbed out of a New Orleans jail last month says he’s being wrongly accused of escaping from the lockup, putting forward the novel defense in the court of public opinion on Monday in a now-deleted Instagram video, Fox 8 reports.
Though not as fascinating as claiming that he was framed for the crime of absconding from pretrial custody given the fundamental laws of physics being what they are and he’s either in the jailhouse or not, Antoine Massey’s assertion that he was “let out” of the joint rather than having deliberately tunneled his way out of the cell block along with 10 other men is still kind of interesting. “I’m one of the ones that was let out of Orleans Parish jail where they said I escaped, right?” said Massey in the video, going on to state that he did not actually threaten to “shank” the jail custodial staffer now accused of colluding with the escapees by shutting off the water to the toilet/sink combo the men ripped out of a cell wall to make good on their flight from justice on the night of May 16th.
Massey, whose facial tattoos depict knives or bones or something, also denied the charges that had led to his incarceration in the first place, holding up some sort of paperwork supposedly proving that his girlfriend had been beaten up by other women from the neighborhood, not him.
“In the posted video clips, Massey also called out to public figures for help, including President Donald Trump and rappers Lil Wayne and Meek Mill. He accuses the State of Louisiana of corruption, arguing he was being unfairly prosecuted and mistreated behind bars,” Fox 8 writes, lol.