sapphi_snake said:
shio said:
Tigerlure said:
I got to thank the innocence project for doing such good work. Sometimes this kind of news makes me sad,seeing how America was so easy to throw black men in jail without even the slightest care for his human life.
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What you said is racist. So white men can't be wrongfully convicted? It doesn't matter if this happened 30 years ago, because what would set him free would be a DNA test, and that has been available since the 80's.
You can't blame racism for him being locked up 30 years. Blame the american judicial system, which made him serve 30 years for just rape and robbery (truly excessive), and for taking so long to give him a DNA test.
Let me ask you this, why wouldn't you just say "men" instead of "black men"?
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Black men being falsely accused of rape (or any other crime for that matter), and being convicted with very little evidence was (and possibly is) really not that uncommon in the South of the US. You can be sure that the judge and jury had a bias against him.
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Do you have proof that such bias existed in this man's case? You can't assume that racism clouded the judgement of all 12 juries without some evidence.
Until there's evidence of racism, let's just say that a inocent man went to jail because of a bad trial, not that a black man went to jail because of racism.
