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Inmate who escaped New Orleans jail posts video begging Trump for help: ‘I didn’t break out — I was let out’

One of the 10 inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail has posted a video while still on the run, begging President Trump for help.

The US Marshals Service  that it is investigating the video, which was first posted on Instagram Sunday by a man confirming he was accused kidnapper and rapist Antoine Massey, 32, one of two escapees still at large.

“They say that I broke out. I didn’t break out — I was let out,” insisted the man, whose distinctive face tattoos also match those of the fugitive who escaped with nine others last month.

“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,” said the man claiming to be Massey, who was being held on domestic abuse involving strangulation and was wanted elsewhere on suspicion of kidnapping and rape.

In his video, the tattooed man implores Trump to investigate apparent corruption.

“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,” the man says to the camera.

“I’m asking, please, for help … I’m saying people that been through the system that know it’s corrupt. Lil Wayne, Donald Trump, please, I’m asking for help. You know what I’m saying?”

Surveillance footage of inmates escaping from jail.
Surveillance footage shows the inmates breaking out of the jail. OSPO

The video was first published on Instagram on Sunday and then deleted, before later being  with the same username on Monday.

Deputy US Marshal Brian Fair and another law enforcement source confirmed to NOLA.com that they were investigating the video, which appeared to be the fugitive.

Massey was jailed in March on charges of motor vehicle theft and domestic abuse battery involving strangulation, and is also wanted by St. Tammany Parish authorities on suspicion of kidnapping and rape, law enforcement officials said.

President Trump at a White House press conference.
In the video, Massey begs President Trump for help. REUTERS

He was among the 10 who broke free last month — his fifth escape, including twice cutting off ankle monitors, NOLA said.

So far eight of the escapees have been arrested, with the only other still on the run being Derrick Groves, 27, a convicted double murderer who was jailed last October.