i hate having to post these sort of things as i was raised to be neutral but it seems that there's more of this than you would imagine and no reason is provided. if the 'colors' were reversed i imagine the verdicts would be as well;
When O.J. Simpson was acquitted for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald “Ron” Goldman, White Americans responded with stunned disbelief. According to an NBC poll taken in 2004, 87 percent believed Simpson was guilty of the crimes.
Was the outcome an anomaly? Was it a rare miscarriage of justice? Have there been other Black-on-White homicide cases in which the accused were granted near immunity because they are descendants of sub-Saharan Africans?
Perhaps we could ask Jenny Adkins, the mother of the late Christopher Jones.
- Christopher Jones.
[Parents awarded nearly $1.8 million in 2009 death of Crofton teen, by Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun, March 18, 2012]..........Jones was beaten to death by a group of teens. The 14-year-old was found unresponsive next to his bicycle on a Crofton, Maryland sidewalk. Javel George was 16-years-old when he delivered the final blows that resulted in Jones’ death, reports say. George was tried as a juvenile and was subsequently released to his parents’ custody after being convicted of the murder. The crime occurred in May, 2009...........read and watch more........
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