Blacks, Whites and Access to Justice
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The mass of conflicting evidence released by prosecutors is feeding heated arguments about how and why Officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown last August in Ferguson, Missouri. But there’s a broader debate about equal access to justice for black Americans.
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| 0:35.3 | To the Point. |
| 0:40.7 | Blacks, whites, and access to justice. |
| 0:47.7 | Hello again, I'm Aronaldi, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:50.2 | The daily look at the issues Americans get about most. |
| 0:55.0 | Street protests spread from Ferguson, Missouri to 170 cities last night. The non-indictment of Officer Darren Wilson has sparked frustration and anger. |
| 0:59.0 | Wilson says he'd have shot Michael Brown even if he had been white, but polls show black |
| 1:04.0 | and white Americans sharply divided. |
| 1:06.0 | Do America's multiple justice systems provide equal treatment under the law, or do they perpetuate the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow? |
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