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Rodney Reed

This is the end (pun intended) result of a big black brute defiling a beautiful, virtuous, white maiden... beauty and the beast... ...the King Kong metaphors converging like thieves in the dark... the dark clutches of whitey engaged in yet another state-sponsored lynching of a black man; an innocent man who will soon breathe a gargled breath as he returns to the warm embrace of the ancestors...

Eric Holder's Parting Remarks On Race: The DOJ's Ferguson Report

A cultural shift has begun in this country with respect to criminal justice policy generally and policing particularly as Ferguson Police Department has become the latest poster child in a long awaited campaign to out rogue law enforcement agencies for unfair extra-judicial processes and procedures that have had catastrophic consequences for those persons of color unfortunate enough to get caught up in “the system.” Unwarranted [pun intended] police contact is a dark portal through which many unwary, law abiding Blacks enter into a hostile, racist and patently unfair criminal justice system. To those brothas and, to a lesser degree, sistas suffering the indignity of false arrest is not the end but very often beginning of an insult that always has unforeseen collateral consequences. Those overcharged for minor often non-criminal offenses, like misdemeanor traffic infractions, possession of small amounts of marijuana, or other “quality of life” violations, these “criminal justice” ...