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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finished Episode 2 and saddened by how the evidence (or lack thereof rather) was totally ignored and the conviction of these boys came down to confessions that even Stevie Wonder could see were totally coerced.
Saddened to even imagine how many people of color over the years were bullied and brutalized into making admissions of guilt during unlawful interrogations and ultimately railroaded by a corrupt criminal justice system that totally ignored their Constitutional rights as the Fifth Amendment commands that no person “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
[b]Saddened to think of just how many people of color over the years have been beaten and threatened into giving involuntary confessions[/b] all because of [b]How They See Us.[/b]

In 1989 the first DNA exoneration took place.  There have been 365 DNA exonerees to date.  28% of those 365 exonerees were pressured into false confessions and 33% of those false confessors were 18 years old or younger at the time of arrest.  And of those 365 exonerees, 225 (62%) were African American.  
I’m glad that we live in a time now where forensic science is available and widely accepted.
DNA evidence was the key to overturning the convictions of those boys, but they still spent years locked up before that happened.
Saddened to think of how many people of color spent so many years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit but were coerced into confessing and never got out and never saw justice prevail because in their day there was no forensic science.
Whole thing is saddening.[/quote]

Yep, only happens to people of color  :roll: [/quote]

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