Race is an issue i touch on almost every post, but how can one ignore such a vast difference between black and white in a country like this one.
The difference between black and white is obviously jail time, the sentencing one recieves, how lenient the judge is of you and what prison you will go to.
After watching the BIO.TV channel, that is a hosted station from AandE tv. I noticed the vast difference between the sentencing among white and black.
The show i watched was a new show that has just aired called "I ran" which entails young peole who have been involved in a police pursuit in car and by foot.
What i really noticed was how similar each person's case was but how different the black man's sentencing was.
The show interviewed 4 young adults.
The first of which was a white female high on meth, she led the police on a 50 mile chase by freeway, hit 3 cars, which was reported in police terms as 3 hit and runs. Got up to speeds of 150 miles per hour, And before the chase began was attempting to sell stolen chanel and prada shoes back to the store for cash, after she had broken into a car and stolen them out of it.
Not only did she run from the police, break into a car, have 3 hit and runs, she was also high on meth and had meth on her.
Her sentence: 3months prison time, 2 years probation.
The second was a white male, who led police on a 13.5 mile pursuit, and got away 3 times. He also was highly intoxicated and had 2 previous DUI's.
During his chase, he went thru stop signs, red lights and ultimately totalled his car. He got away on foot and the police thought they had lost him until they later found him asleep on the road and made their arrest.
His sentence: 3months prison time, 2 years probation and the loss of his licence for 5 years.
The third was a white female, who led police on a 30 mile car chase, getting up to speeds of 115 miles an hour, she had broken into a gas station and stolen beer and cigarettes, was high on cocaine and under the influence.
The pursuit had a police helicopter following them also.
Not only had she ran from police, she had broken and entered, stolen, and also had drugs on her.
Her sentence: 6months prison time,though was released after 3 months and 5 years probation.
The last was a black male, who led police on a 14 mile car chase by freeway, which resulted in him totalling his car and running by foot. He reached speeds of up to 100 miles an hour and had small amounts of marijuana on him, though he was not high himself.
With the small amount of drugs that was found on him, the police charged him with, possesion with the means to distribute. C'mon, SERIOUS??
Although the amount that was found was that of what is called on the streets as a "dime" bag. Enough to distribute to 2 other people if they were to smoke a cone each.
His sentence: 15 years prison time. He is still serving his sentence.
Now look at that picture and tell me that, thats not racial prejudice?
Why the others who had worse rap sheets than the black man, only got a few months. Whilst the brother gets years.
The law system is backwards, and so was the judge for judging someones sentence obviously by the color of their skin.
You can watch this show at http://www.biography.com/
It is under the tv section, Why i ran. The episode is Episode 6
Tell me what you think..
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