Summary

SINGER BOBBY BROWN HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL EARLY THIS MORNING (FRIDAY) AFTER GETTING 10 DAYS CREDIT FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR. HE HAD BEEN SENTENCED TO 75 DAYS IN JAIL AFTER REPEATEDLY VIOLATING PAROLE ON A DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION IN 1996.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 187710
Story Slug Brown Released
Location Pompano Beach, Florida
Format PKG*
Date 7/7/2000
Archive Time 44:40
TRT 2:50
Supers Pompano Beach, Florida Bobby Brown, Singer Chris Rock, Comedian Brian Andrews, Reporting
Video Description BOBBY BROWN WALKING OUT OF PRISON, TALK TO REPORTERS, WHITNEY HOUSTON IN LIMOUSINE WAITING FOR BROWN, HOUSTON CALLING OUT, HOUSTON GIVING BROWN A BIG HUG, TWO GET INTO LIMOUSINE, BROWN MUG SHOT, BROWN IN HANDCUFFS, WALK SHOT, SOT, OVERHEAD SHOT OF ACCIDENT SCENE (NOT LICENSABLE), SOUND FROM BROWN TALKING WITH REPORTERS, BROWN SOT ABOUT USING DRUGS, CHRIS ROCK THERE WHEN BROWN RELEASED, ROCK SOUND, FAN SOTS, BROWN SOT, LIMOUSINE DRIVES OFF
Description SINGER BOBBY BROWN HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM JAIL EARLY THIS MORNING (FRIDAY) AFTER GETTING 10 DAYS CREDIT FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR. HE HAD BEEN SENTENCED TO 75 DAYS IN JAIL AFTER REPEATEDLY VIOLATING PAROLE ON A DRUNK DRIVING CONVICTION IN 1996.
Script LEAD: SINGER BOBBY BROWN IS A FREE MAN TODAY (FRIDAY). HE HAD 10 DAYS KNOCKED OFF HIS 75 DAY SENTENCE FOR VIOLATING PAROLE ON A DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE. BRIAN ANDREWS WAS THERE WHEN BROWN GOT OUT AND HAS MORE. (TAKE PKG) SCRIPT: JUST AFTER THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT... BOBBY BROWN WAS A FREE MAN.. (insert sot) "(You happy to be out of jail Bobby?) Very much so. Very much so. (What has this experience taught you? Any message to the community?) Big message. Don't mess up in Broward County." IN A WAITING LIMOUSINE... BOBBY'S WIFE.. MEGA STAR WHITNEY HOUSTON. (insert sot) "Bobby Brown" WAITING WITH A BIG SMILE.. (insert sot) "Hi beautiful... Hi! Hi Beautiful. Hey.. Hey.. come here..." (embrace) THE TWO HAPPY TO BE REUNITED. "Beautiful... Guys.. bye bye.. we've got to go... Whitney any thing you'd like to say to the people at home? Happy to have your husband back? uh huh... Thank you all." AND WITH THAT THEY WERE OFF INTO THE NIGHT. JAILED LAST MONTH FOR REPORTING LATE TO HIS PROBATION OFFICER AND REFUSING TO TAKE A DRUG TEST.. BOBBY BROWN ON HIS WAY TO JAIL ADMITTED HE HAD A PROBLEM. (insert sot) "I do have a disease which is.. I'm an addict. I have alcoholism.") BROWN'S WELL PUBLICIZED TROUBLES STEM FROM A 1996 DRUNK DRIVING INCIDENT IN WHICH HE TOTALLED HIS WIFE'S PORSHE. SENTENCED TO FIVE DAYS IN JAIL AND THEN PROBATION... TESTS WOULD LATER SHOW THAT HE WAS DRUNK AGAIN THE DAY HE TURNED HIMSELF INTO THE JAIL. BUT BROWN SAYS HE'S CHANGED. (insert sot) "I finished my time.. I just want to be with my family, my friends, uhm, and that's it. Where do you go next? I go home to enjoy summer with my kids, to work on my life." HIS MESSAGE TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LOOK UP TO HIM AS A CELEBRITY? (insert sot) "After everything I've been through, I can pretty much say that you don't want to mess around with alcohol. you don't want to mess around with marajuana either... drugs... period." FRIEND AND FELLOW ENTERTAINER CHIS ROCK THERE TO WELCOME HIM. (insert sot) "I just hope Bobby gets his life together, that's all, that's all, Bobby doesn't owe anything to anybody but himself.. and I'm here for bobby." AND SO WERE THE FANS... SEVERAL DOZEN... ASSEMBLING AT THE POLICE BARRICADES NEAR THE JAIL. "I think Bobby is a human being who has made some mistakes ok? Bobby's a good dude." "He shows me that with a lot of determination.. a black man does have a chance to make it." "I just think he should be home with whitney and the kid." ("Do you think Bobby Brown is a good role model for people your age?) No." [bb released 20:35] "I'm not here to be a role model for other people's childrens. I'm here to be a role model for my kids.. and be a good man in general... and I'm hoping I can move on with my life." IN POMPANO BEACH, I'M BRIAN ANDREWS, 7-NEWS. 1500
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