I've notice that, all those wrongfully convicted men who serve decades in prison and recently got out are always black men, never any other race of men or women or black women.

AirSailer · 2023-03-17T02:32:04+00:00

I'd say it happens to white men as well though I don't know the stats, but given society's negative views towards white men means less interest and therefore less click-worthy and less news-worthy. Plenty of unarmed white men are killed by the police each year but that's not worthy of the news either.

ScaryHitchhikerStory · 2023-03-17T00:49:11+00:00

It's probably at least partly (if not majorly) about economics. Blacks tend to be lower on the socioeconomic scale than other ethnic groups. Thus, they tend to be less able to afford quality legal representation. If anyone thinks that most court-appointed attorneys / public defenders who represent defendants who can't afford to hire an attorney give a shit, well, they're not paid enough to give a shit. Lots of innocent people (of all colors) end up in prison due to shitty legal representation.

OJ, on the other hand, had lots of money to hire good defense attorneys and we know how that verdict came down. Even without lots of extra money, "celebrity status" often persuades juries (and maybe even judges). In 2022, former Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute (who is black) was found not guilty of all charges in the beating death of a Blacksburg resident following an online catfishing scheme.

Read the case of Tommy Ward, a good ol' white boy in Oklahoma, who spent decades in prison after being wrongly convicted.

Standard_Web_4937 · 2023-03-17T08:02:47+00:00

not to mention that 56% of black men are exonerated from prison for crimes they didn’t do, as well as being 7.5 times more likely to be wrongfully convicted, but people still want to play dumb, the info is out there

The_Bearded_Cyclist · 2023-03-17T06:42:03+00:00

Steven Avery?

Itouchkiids · 2023-04-28T09:03:27+00:00

Black represent 13% of the population while white 60% of it.

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