Fugitive from jail escape begs Trump for help: ‘I didn’t break out — I was let out"

Fugitive from NOLA jail escape begs Trump for help via video post: ‘I didn’t break out — I was let out’

A newly surfaced video from what appears to be a New Orleans jail fugitive has sparked an investigation.

The US Marshals Service is investigating the social media post by Antoine Massey, one of two inmates still at large after a group of 10 inmates broke out of Orleans Justice Center last month. The 32-year-old with a long rap sheet, including violent felonies, appealed to President Donald Trump and others in the video in which he declared he “didn’t break out” of jail.

“I’m one of the ones that was let out of Orleans Parish jail where they said I escaped, right?” said the man on the viral video, which was posted on Sunday but then deleted.

In the lengthy message, he pleaded his case and contended he was innocent, even showing what appeared to be court documents.



“They say that I broke out. I didn’t break out — I was let out,” he said.

“The reason why I left the jail is because these people were trying to give me a life sentence in both parishes for something that I did not do,” the man, whose face tattoos match those of Massey’s, said.

“All type of stuff going on and they covering it up … don’t care about nothing in the state of Louisiana. This is something that needs to go under a federal investigation,” he said.