Too many people in jail.
Lack of care for quality education for the masses. Hence the many courtroom dramas.
shareQuality education? There are no excuses for someone's bad decisions.
shareDid you watch the movie? Seems like the only bad decisions were made by the Sheriff and prosecutor here. That being said, not even sure what this thread is about, tbh =P
shareThat's all true. This movie is based on true events. The problem is the case was cherry picked where a black man was incarcerated for the crime of a white man which appeals to a liberal audience but it ignores real life statistics.
Well all movies are cherry picked...you seem to think this was picked for a particular agenda, but what agenda would that be, you think? What are the real life statistics its ignoring?
Honestly, the only agenda I saw is one where maybe we reconsider the death penalty. Because if a guy can be prosecuted like this...railroaded, it calls into question our whole justice system and makes me wonder how many people might be unjustly sitting on death row.
Was that murder ever solved? The one he was accused of?
The usual agenda is that people in prison are not responsible for their bad decisions or wholly innocent as in this particularly movie. Movies, tv shows etc. rarely address black on black crime. 90.1% black victims of homicide were killed by other blacks. This is movie was based in 1986 murder. If the events would've happened today he would've been released on DNA quickly avoiding the rigged court system. The murder was never solved.
shareYeah that whole black on black crime thing...you hear a lot about that these days. And I get it, but at the same time you hope that whoever that shooter was at any given drive-by is going to face justice. As far as I know of, we haven't given up on that front so that's hopefully the case lol
Its the cases of injustice that I think might get tiring for people, but also think we need to keep in mind that stuff like this needs to be exposed, that highlighting corruption is a vital part of ensuring our democracy always remains 'for the people'.
This was kind of a double whammy...a black guy being wrongly convicted, but what kind of sucks is that I get the impression many are turned off by it on account of him being black. When hell...white or black, its the system that did this that should be scrutinized. This guy had like two dozen people to verify his alibi...they bribed another felon to testify against him....the Sheriff, the prosecutor...hell, the state was literally fighting its ass off to murder an innocent man, all logic be damned.
And I get it was 30+ years ago, but shit is still the same in the DoJ...we put prosecutor's incarceration numbers in the way of their livelihood..they better get those convictions, you know? I keep thinking that if more shit like this comes to light, eventually they'll do away with that BS and appoint DAs rather than elect them. So kind of have my own subjective opinion here =P
If you watch the credits all the way through they explain that a white man was implicated as the perpetrator, but the authorities never pursued the case.
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