Hate crimes consciousness...groups, crime victims movement
The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States Article
Ryken Grattet & Valerie Jenness
Race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, etc...
Notes: Black Lives Matter
Racism and injustice...mass movement...no charsimatic leader, just citizen, social media and the movement.
In Baltimore they've lost 100,00jobs have been lost sense the 50s and a third are in jail
survivalists and fighters
Devin Allen Photographer...see glimpses of his own life, grew up in Baltimore, lost 20 friends to shootings and violence
Freddy Grey died the 19th of April of spinal injuries, 2015
Neglect of Baltimore's neighborhoods, boarded up, thousands living in scwaler
1968 Baltimore burned, now a new generation is raising
Trey Vonne Martin 12 yrs old in Fla has terrified the country
The cops don't get persecuted
Unarmed man was killed...unarmed blacks are twice as likely to be shot by police than whites
Marylen Moslee demanded the police to be indicted on behalf of Freddy Grey
Tyrone West was driving with a friend. He wasn't drinking or drugging. There was no reason to pull him over. They said he was acting suspiciously, drug him out of the car by his hair across the street, he screamed Help Help Someone Help me,
He was tazered pepper sprayed and beaten and he stopped breathing and died.
Michael Woods was in the police dept in Baltimore who explains the incredible racism in the governmental and local system. He said it was corrupt, making it worse, refusing to change.
Senator Cory Walker is trying to get legislation to change and keep low lever offenders out and get them help and education.
Collateral consequences
Chicago:
There is south side/Black residences and north side/whites
These are all our kids regardless of race, ethnicity, or any other thing, they are ours. What are we teaching them?
Timuel Black is 96 and civil rights activist. There's no sense of hope anymore.
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