Sean Gathright Was Sentenced to Life of HARD WORK But Some Say It Just LEGAL SLAVERY

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:02]Hey, hi. How you doing? Welcome back to Born to React. Let's get it. Defendant Shawn Gathwright, verdict form, penalty phase. We the jury unanimously find the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Shawn Gathwright committed the homicide in a cold, calculated, and premeditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification.

[00:00:23]Yes. We the jury unanimously find the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Shawn Gathwright created a great risk of death to many persons. Yes.

[00:00:37]We the jury unanimously find the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Shawn Gathwright was contemporaneously convicted of a felony involving the use of violence to another person. Yes.

[00:00:49]We the jury had unanimous unanimous unanimously found the state proved one or more aggravating factors. Each of us has considered whether one or more of the mitigating circumstances exist. Each of us has weighed whether the proven aggravating factors are sufficient and whether the proven aggravating factors outweigh any proven mitigating circumstances. We have further considered whether Shawn Gathwright should be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole or death. We the jury find Shawn Gathwright should be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

[00:01:26]Dated this 15th day of May, 2026 in Hillsborough County, Florida. CS, foreperson of the jury. Well, well, well, well, well.

[00:01:34]I know you guys have not been living under a rock, so we're going to be doing a reaction to this Shawn Gathwright um case. It's basically the Julio Foolio case, um I believe a couple years ago, maybe 2023 um or 2024, he was gunned down by um a group of thugs.

[00:01:52]And now we're going to be listening we're going to be talking to uh I'm talking about Shawn Gathwright because his sentencing has sparked um a debate basically saying that he is now a slave legally. So, we're going to be going through a few reactions and then I'll I'll give my my two cents.

[00:02:11]But first we're going to go we're going to listen to the sentencing.

[00:02:15]This is what's got people a little upset.

[00:02:20]Mr. Gatrigh's age, physical abilities, things like that, do you think that the prison would benefit from him in a work capacity if he were sentenced to life without parole? I say yes with my experience, not only just in classification but as former warden and even as a jail administrator, he's someone that's young, he's healthy, in reality we need that labor, we need that sweat equity and we will put him out there to work because we do have an aging prison population, jail administration, we have that so we put these young individuals to work and get some sweat equity out of them since they are young and actually can do the work.

[00:02:59]So, I agree with that wholeheartedly. I agree with it. I agree with it. I agree with it. But let's not have me speak. We're going to go through these reactions and then I'll explain to you why I why I agree with it so much. So, let's go to this guy first.

[00:03:21]What happened to Shawn Gatrigh in the trial was necessary for everybody to see.

[00:03:25]It was necessary. It needed to happen because y'all didn't got too laxed when it comes to this pro-black thing. This is why we had a problem with y'all letting that bar slide about Kendrick freeing the slaves. Y'all took that too lightly. And so here we are.

[00:03:40]2026 His lawyer was pleading for his life by basically selling him into state-sanctioned slavery.

[00:03:50]Wrap your mind around that. Y'all needed to be reminded of where you are. You needed to be reminded that you're behind enemy lines.

[00:03:58]That's always been our problem for the last 20 30 years.

[00:04:03]Black folk didn't get too comfortable here.

[00:04:06]They forgot that they was black.

[00:04:09]And now here we are. You just got punched in the stomach where a lot of us was just we knew what this was. We knew what the system has always been. Look up how much it takes to house a prisoner.

[00:04:21]And you can go state by state if you want to. But look how much it costs to house a prisoner. How much federal money they get to house prisoners.

[00:04:30]I'm telling you like this this system told you with the 13th Amendment.

[00:04:36]Go back and look at that documentary.

[00:04:38]It's on Netflix right now. All of y'all got Netflix still.

[00:04:42]It tells you about the new Jim Crow. It tells you that it is all about prison labor, free labor.

[00:04:52]Slavery has not stopped. It just turned from private to public.

[00:05:00]This was necessary. I hate it had to come to this, but this was necessary.

[00:05:05]And this dude is a fool.

[00:05:07]Um This dude killed someone.

[00:05:13]Followed him, stole a gun from his military appearance, and killed someone.

[00:05:20]And secondly, black people aren't the only one that are forced to do free labor or do labor nowadays in prison. And we're not.

[00:05:28]>> [laughter] >> There's many of people who go and have to do hard labor or any type of labor when it comes to when they get incarcerated. And I completely agree.

[00:05:38]But continue. Let's continue.

[00:05:41]John Gayther when you got up on that stand and started speaking, I immediately was like, how did he get caught up in this whole Julio Foolio situation?" Because the way that you got up there and you spoke and everything like that, I said this boy had the potential to go to school and be a lawyer, could have been a doctor, could have been anything he wanted to be, accountant, something like that. How did you get caught up in this Julio Foolio situation? I genuinely watched him and I felt bad for him, but then I remembered, okay, they allegedly said he the one who put the whole thing together, allegedly, allegedly.

[00:06:13]So, either you got some master manipulation skills going on to where you can make people believe what you want them to believe or somebody put you up to this. Like, it's just I don't know. I just felt so bad. I was like, he seems like he genuinely realizes the weight of what he has done.

[00:06:30]And I I'll just say this.

[00:06:32]No [ __ ] he's going to prison for life.

[00:06:35]He'd be talking a completely different way as well. Come on now.

[00:06:40]It's y'all Don't None of this stuff is worth it.

[00:06:43]None of this stuff that they were talking about going back and forth with Julio Foolio about, none of that is worth it. I always think about The Color Purple whenever something happens, you know, when Oprah said to Miss Celie, she said, "Don't do it, Miss Celie. It ain't worth trading places with where I've been, okay?" And if you know the story of The Color Purple, you know she was in jail.

[00:07:00]It's not worth it. Like, the boy's only 20 years old.

[00:07:03]Please don't watch The Color Purple. It ain't that good.

[00:07:07]Don't watch it.

[00:07:08]>> He's thrown his life away. He's about to be in prison potentially for the rest of his life or allegedly they said something about facing the death penalty.

[00:07:15]Um yeah, y'all, that just makes me so sad. We got to do better as a society.

[00:07:19]We got to literally sit down, talk to our kids and be like, "Hey, the streets is not the way."

[00:07:24]This comment is [ __ ] This comment right here is basically what she was saying. She was attracted to him, that's why she felt bad for him. [ __ ] You don't think this There's going to be some women that that that want to marry him.

[00:07:39]>> [laughter] >> Don't get it twisted.

[00:07:41]Um but now let's listen to this lady.

[00:07:44]The We need that youngness. We need that labor. We need that sweat equity.

[00:07:52]Sean Gathright at his sentence, his lawyer.

[00:07:56]That is the words his lawyer used to save his life. For him not to get the death penalty, then this is what we need. He We could get a lot out of him.

[00:08:06]That is the Do you want him dead or do you want him, you know, do you want him to still live? What what do you want? Come on now. He's going to jail either with the death penalty, which a bunch of people are are against, or he's going to be going to jail. And I would much rather slave or slaves I would much rather hard labor than him going and chilling at um at a maximum security prison or a minimum security prison and he got a boyfriend and a TV and [ __ ] and he get and he get all these damn all this commissary. I don't like that [ __ ] when it comes to people that are that got life in prison.

[00:08:41]You shouldn't be sitting up there showing us your entire prison spread, how you got all this all this food, all you got all your your deodorants, your soap. I don't like seeing that [ __ ] Y'all Them [ __ ] Them Them dudes got more more stuff in their cabinets than we do.

[00:08:57]No. They should be doing hard labor, my personal opinion.

[00:09:01]words that his lawyers used. Now, we already know, yeah, that the prison system is really, you know, the new age slavery, okay? But I'm going to say this to parents that have young people out there acting a fool who keep up with these people. They They keep up with the rap music, not just the rap music. They keep up with the lifestyle style, but they don't pay attention to the news.

[00:09:24]You know how we don't like watching the news. Y'all need to play that clips.

[00:09:28]Y'all need to go find that clip of that lawyer stating, "Now that he's been found guilty, we could use him for the rest of his life cuz we could use that sweat equity.

[00:09:39]That is all the prison system is about.

[00:09:44]Well, if you watch the video of his mom in court and his family in court, you see one thing lacking, a father, a dad.

[00:09:54]Cuz he was a good kid, apparently.

[00:09:56]They said that he was going on trips to Africa or whatnot. He was a good kid and from 16, those were the videos that they were showing when he was, you know, having fun, going on vacation, up until 18, he fell into the wrong crowd.

[00:10:10]He's a follower. Seems like that's his problem.

[00:10:14]And when it comes to this whole set sweat equity thing and people complaining about, you know, state-sanctioned slavery, come on now. Black women are okay with with state-sanctioned murder when it comes to their babies.

[00:10:26]>> [laughter] >> Come on now. What's worse? Really, what's worse?

[00:10:31]But when it comes to this whole this whole hard labor or this labor thing, I think we should use prisoners who got life in prison. They should I don't think that you guys should be able to be in prison with people who can get out in 5 years, get out even in 15 years because you guys end up trying to bully them and they end up they end up sometimes catching charges and making them stay there even longer. So, I believe people that are in prison, death penalty or prison for life, maybe even 25 to life, I think you should go to a different prison and all of your all of your time should be doing hard labor, period, point blank, hard labor. We don't pay them a dollar a day, $2 a day, whatever.

[00:11:09]Give them a little bit more I don't I don't know whatever you need to do for so, you know, they can have their little their little fan pages and stuff like or whatever the little commissary they they can have that. I don't I don't think they should have an abundance of supplies like how you see it on some of the some of their TikToks. I don't even know how they got phones and [ __ ] but I don't think that we should be letting these these just sit on the yard, talk about, you know, their life stories, reminisce and stuff. No, we should be getting work out of them because Democrats are crying that we need immigrants to do these jobs, do jobs Americans don't want to do. Well, do make the prisoners do the jobs you say Americans don't want to do.

[00:11:49]Make them do it. We can pay them a lot less than we're paying the illegals anyway.

[00:11:54]And we know where they're at.

[00:11:55]>> [laughter] >> We We know the hardened criminal that that that's that's in the field is going right back to his to his to his cell to his cell block.

[00:12:04]I think that that makes the most sense.

[00:12:06]We need to stop stop allowing these people to to to to sit on our tax dollars and have a not a good life, but a better life than they should in prison, especially doing life, especially when you took someone's life.

[00:12:20]You know what I mean? Yeah, it it is sad, you know what I'm saying? Because a kid that was on the straight and narrow literally went left and now he's in prison for the rest of his life. Didn't even get to Boy didn't even go be able to hit the club.

[00:12:36]You don't even really got any stories, homie.

[00:12:38]You don't even got You have no life stories. All you got is being a child and now you're going to prison with grown ass men. And I don't I know you seen him. He got that good hair.

[00:12:48]He got that good hair.

[00:12:50]He going to be somebody's boyfriend.

[00:12:52]>> [laughter] >> He [clears throat] going to be somebody's boyfriend, you already know.

[00:12:56]But, um, that's all I got for this. I'm just saying everybody over here trying to make it seem like, "Oh, it's so sad.

[00:13:01]This is slavery. It's slavery." It's not. And black women, don't complain about state state sanctions and slavery when you're all for state sanctioned abortions by killing your children. Cut the [ __ ] But, anyway, y'all have a good night.

[00:13:15]That's all I have to say. Peace.