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Louisville police are accused of police brutality against a 21 year old Black man for nothing more than walking in the vicinity of a stolen vehicle.
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Ronnie Long was wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting a white woman by an all white jury over 44 years ago. He was recently exonerated and freed, as well as given a large settlement for his suffering.
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Leonard Allen Cure, who spent more than 16 years behind bars after a wrongful conviction, was shot and killed during a traffic stop by Georgia police just three years after his vacated sentence.
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Unreliable witness identifications along with racial bias and tunnel vision led to Mr. Mack’s wrongful conviction, the longest to be vacated.
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The most recent example of police calls inspired by racism involved a pastor from Alabama who was helping a neighbor on vacation.
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Exoneration cannot erase the trauma caused by a wrongful conviction and time spent in prison, and these Black men pay the price.
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By Noah A. McGee, The Root.com Experts explain why we ‘re seeing so many high-profile exonerations of Black people in the United States during the last few decades. In 2021, a…
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Broadwater’s 1982 conviction was overturned last week after authorities determined there were serious flaws in his prosecution.
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Strickland, 62, has always maintained that he was home watching television and had nothing to do with the killings, which happened when he was 18 years old.
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Detroit-area police officer, Matthew Rodriguez, pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation for punching Jaquwan Smith without cause in June 2023. Rodriguez said Smith, the Black 19-year-old, was not resisting arrest nor attempting escape.
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