| Rubin Carter's Boxing Gloves | |
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Origin |
Rubin Carter |
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Type |
Boxing Gloves |
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Effects |
Allows the user to channel their anger into boxing. |
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Downsides |
Any use of the gloves near a murder will get the user falsely convicted. |
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Activation |
Boxing |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
Victim-4151 |
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Date of Collection |
July 16, 2018 |
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Origin[]
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was an American-Canadian middleweight boxer. After a faulty murder conviction in 1967, he became a cause célèbre for miscarriage of justice. His sentence was eventually overturned, and he moved to Canada where he would fight for innocent people who had been wrongly convicted.
A native of New Jersey, he was in and out of trouble as a youth. After his release from prison in September 1961, Carter became a professional boxer. At 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m), Carter was shorter than the average middleweight, but he fought all of his professional career at 155–160 lb (70–72.6 kg). His aggressive style and punching power (resulting in many early-round knockouts) drew attention, establishing him as a crowd favorite and earning him the nickname "Hurricane".
In 1966, Carter and a supposed accomplice were arrested for a triple homicide. In 1967, they were convicted and given life sentences, to be served in Rahway State Prison; a retrial in 1976 upheld their sentences. The sentences were overturned in 1985, and the men were set free.
Carter's autobiography, titled The Sixteenth Round, written while he was in prison, was published in 1974 by Viking Press. The story inspired the 1975 Bob Dylan song "Hurricane", and the 1999 film The Hurricane, starring Denzel Washington as Carter. From 1993 to 2005, Carter served as executive director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (later renamed Innocence Canada).
Effects[]
Directs angers into greater physical ability when engaged in boxing. Increases their base strength and ferocity with each strike to match the intensity of their anger.
Using near a murder, especially recent ones, will often cause the user to be arrested and falsely convicted. Evidence can be flimsy or unrelated, but they are often found guilty by judicial review. Vindication, release or innocence through retrial seems to deactivate it fully, although their accumulated anger still remains.