NYC man who spent 27 years behind bars for ex-cop's slay is exonerated thanks to DNA: 'Lucky to be free'
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"I'm lucky to be free," Velazquez told reporters after the proceeding. "Even though I spent 27 years wrongfully convicted, I asked myself, who am I? I am a man who is free only because of a documentary, several podcasts, a movie and a book…"
"We should not have a system where it's so much easier to imprison the poor than it is to free the innocent," he said. "It has always been this way, but it doesn't have to be, because we deserve better. Why? Because we are better."
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