African Americans make up 49% of wrongful convictions since 1989.
the Florida mom, was charged with first-degree premeditated murder on May 23 after Miami, Florida, police said that in her initial report her son, who was non-verbal, was abducted by"two black men" during a carjacking was a farce.
Smith, a white woman, and Ripley, who described herself in a police report as a"white Hispanic," were not charged with filing a false police report.Susan Smith is escorted into the Union County Courthouse in Union, SC., on July 27, 1995.
Browne-Marshall maintained that white people jump to blaming African Americans, specifically African American men, for crimes in some cases because they don't want to believe they themselves are"the Boogeyman." It wasn't until Stuart's brother told police that he helped with the murder in an alleged insurance fraud scheme that the truth surfaced. Stuart died by suicide the following year.
"With a serious crime like that, police have to believe the victim, but they also have to check the information," said Wexler, who did not work on the Stuart case."What it did was create racial issues in the city. Police stopped a number of African American men and police got criticized for racial profiling."
"Over the course of generations, some, not all, but some black people start to internalize this notion that 'I don't matter, my life doesn't matter' because the messaging is so pervasive...these narratives gets warped into not only are you not human, you're a violent person," said Walker.
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