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Originally Posted by txdot-guy
This is a hate crime: Black people are 7 times more likely than white people to be wrongly convicted of murder.
“African Americans are only 13% of the American population but a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated,” the researchers write. “They constitute 47% of the 1,900 exonerations listed in the National Registry of Exonerations (as of October 2016), and the great majority of more than 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandals and later cleared in ‘group exonerations.’”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...-prison-racism
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The exoneration rate corresponds to the racial demographic of prison population. This "statistic" doesn't prove any bias, and is presented with the intent to foster hatred. As with all propaganda outlets(vox is this example, but the the NYT is the same), the truth of the statistics are perverted by the need to push and agenda. They didn't mis state facts, but the perversion of the misinformation leads the weak minded to come to a conclusion that is an utter lie.
Are you weak minded or complicit?