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Research Paper On African American Crimes

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Throughout history, African Americans have been wrongfully convicted of crimes. The Jim Crow era made it extremely hard for African Americans to live a peaceful life. Today, if African Americans are wrongly convicted about a crime or an issue, they do not make it to trial. Their trial beings when they are assaulted by law enforcement, the new lynch mob, Police corruption and brutality has been an ongoing problem within the United States frequently. Though African American youth have been targeted by the police, these events are happening all too often. With the killings of Eric Garner, an unarmed African American father of six being choked to death by security guards, and Walter Scott, an unarmed African American father being killed with numerous

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