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‘I was let out’: New Orleans man who escaped jail pleads case on social media

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A screengrab shows a person inside the Orleans parish justice center, from where the prisoners escaped. Photograph: Orleans Parish Sheriff’S Office/Reuters

A man still at large after escaping from a New Orleans jail last month appears to have taken to social media to plead his case to the public.

In a video that quickly went viral, the man identifying himself as Antoine Massey – one of 10 prisoners who fled from the Orleans Justice center (OJC) on 16 May – said he was wrongfully accused and held up papers he said corroborated his innocence.

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