The American criminal justice system, according to National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President and Chief Executive Officer Benjamin Todd Jealous, is “broken.” Kenneth Lee, a Korean-American who, the last I knew, lived in the Baltimore area, would probably agree with Jealous, but not for the same reason.
After Troy Davis was executed in Georgia last week for killing an off-duty Savannah police officer in 1989, Jealous, according to news stories, tweeted this statement:
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