A boy was accused of taking a backpack. The courts took the next three years of his life.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Wow - sigh

Accused because we all 'look alike'.

Browder could not believe what was happening. His battle to prove his innocence had ended. No trial, no jury, no verdict. An assistant district attorney filed a memo with the court explaining that Bautista, the man who had accused Browder, had gone back to Mexico. The District Attorney’s office had reached his brother in the Bronx and tried to arrange for him to return and testify, but then the office lost contact with the brother, too. “Without the Complainant, we are unable to meet our burden of proof at trial,” the prosecutor wrote.

And then the miserable son of a gun who falsely accused him gets to rest on his laurels in Mexico?

He never has to answer for what he's done?

And the D.A. doesn't have to answer either?

Yeah - yet - they will try to beat us over the head about drug sentencing and why black folks need to make the legalization of mary jane our number one priority.

What part of - the black kid didn't even get to go to trial - just sat in jail for three years - do these folks not get?