Times The U.S. Justice System Failed The Black Community

Source: Pacific Press / Getty Throughout American history, Black people have endured systemic injustices that continue to manifest in devastating ways. The criminal justice system, rather than serving as a equalizer, has too often functioned as an instrument of oppression, from racial profiling that subjects Black individuals to unwarranted suspicion simply for existing in certain spaces, to acts of police brutality that have claimed countless innocent lives with little to no legal consequence. When Black Americans fall victim to racially motivated violence and hatred, the scales of justice . . .