James Byrd Case

June 7, 1998, 49 year old James Byrd Jr. was murdered in the most notorious and gruesome, stomach turning, hate crimes in recorded history. Late one summer night, as he was walking home from a friend’s house after a party, John William King, along with Lawrence Russell Brewer and Shawn Allen Berry pulled up in a pickup truck offered Mr. Byrd a ride home. He jumped into the bed of their truck and was driven to an isolated wooded area, severely beaten, urinated on, and chained to the back of a truck by his ankles and dragged for over three miles on a bumpy road before the men, later identified as white supremacists, threw what was left of his body- a shredded torso- into a cemetery. Byrd’s severed head, neck and right arm were found nearly a mile away from the cemetery. Police reports indicate that that there was a trail of blood, body parts and personal effects that stretched for more than two miles and that Brewer spray-painted Mr. Byrd’s face with black paint before he was killed.

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On June 29, 2009, the last day of the United States Supreme Court’s 2008–09 term, the Court rendered the much anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, 129 S. Ct. 2658, 174 L. Ed. 2d 490 (2009). Ricci was quickly dubbed the “white firefighter’s case” by many, however, the case involved much more than the firefighters’ asserted right to a promotion.

During the trial, businesses put out jars to collect money for the defense of the two murderers. This shows that everyone was on the murderers side. The community views the white race as the superior race, and that is why the murderers were not guilty. Society then, was not a time that we should be proud of. Those murderers should have been

While in prison criminals become part of the gang or a member of the gang's victim pool. Race and culture seem to be the major factors in the victimization of inmates. The inmate may not be racist when he enters the system, however the need for survival against other inmates may force these characteristics to become more prominent. In the summer of 1998, a young man named William King was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of James Byrd Jr. Byrd was a black man from Jasper County, Texas, whom was bound at the ankles and dragged to death behind a truck. Why would this young man commit such a terrible and seemingly racist crime? Most would agree that it was his time spent in prison that led William King to take the life of

On April 25th, 2018 Erick Davila a 31-year-old black male was executed in the Texas State Prison for two murders. The victims were two black females, one a five-year-old named Queshawn and her Grandmother Annette. The killings happened at a children’s birthday party in Fort Worth Texas with intended target of Jeffery Stevenson a local gang rival of Erick. Erick was on death row 9 years prior to his execution doing everything he could to get the ruling overturned due to his claims of drug use. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected his pleas due to evidence of him having intentions to kill a various amount of people. Erick claimed to mistakenly kill the two victims while intending to kill two other gang rivals.

Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Sean Bell and unfortunately so much more were senselessly murder because of the color their skin. “Garner, an asthmatic father of six, was seen yelling, “I can’t breathe!” 11 times before losing consciousness and No one have been charged criminally” (Citation). In this quote from Eric Garner, he is fatally choked to death by a police officer , he yelled that he couldn't beneath and officer continued to applying pressure to his neck. George Zimmerman, had been found not guilty of shooting dead an unarmed black 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin (Citation). In this quote from cnn a unarmd teenage was walking home and George shot him dead and George Zimmer was acquitted from all criminal charges. The destruction of black lives needs to stop immediately. African Americans are being hunted down and they are using the color of their skin as a way of avoiding responsibility of their actions. African Americans should not worry about being killed when they walk down the street to buy some

Many of these crimes were committed by white people against black people, ranging in severity of being falsely accused of a crime to being brutally assaulted to being needlessly murdered. Willis Fowler was

5.) I agree with the Supreme Court’s decision. The officers were merely doing their job and attempting to look out for their safety while doing so.

People of color has been discriminated on for centuries by Caucasians. No matter the predicament a person who is consider a minority do; that individual will potentially receive a harsher punishment than a Caucasian. There are many instances where a person of color was given a maximum penalty or even no justice for a Caucasian actions that cause harm to the colored person. For an example, a young black woman who is thirty years of age drove to South Carolina to take down a racist flag after the church shooting. She was arrested with hand cuffs and potentially will have to pay a five thousand dollar fine and three years in prison. On the other hand, a young white male who is twenty-one years old went to a church and killed nine African Americans walked out in the situation with a bullet proof vest and no hand cuffs. Another example of unfairness is black

Crimes are committed every day, and convictions are processed every week. Racism is played into account when dealing with the law; therefore, many civilians are prosecuted depending on the color of their skin. Brock Turner is your average middle-class, white male who attended Stanford University with a scholarship for being a swimmer. This teen was accused of sexual assault, and his charges were very minor. This case lead to a whole deal of controversy throughout media because any other minority man who would have committed this crime would have faced up to ten or plus years in jail. Brock Turner has only received a couple months of jail time, and he was let off with a warning. There are

Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a gentle, loving child according to his mother. She’d said “He was really neat about he’s appearance, He also love cooking and told his mother that he wanted to be a motorcycle police officer.” Emmett Till was on this earth for fourteen years before his life was tragically torn from beneath him.

Catastrophically, the assassination of Doctor Martin Luther King was devastating. The prosecution built their theory that James Earl Ray was a racist. Luckily, James Earl Ray pled guilty to the murder, so there would be no trial. On April 4, 1968, Doctor King was fatally wounded by a single shot in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on the balcony of his second-story hotel. Subsequently, that evening a Remington .30-06 hunting rifle was found one block away from the Lorraine Motel. Over the next several weeks the prosecution was building their case, which consisted of the rifle, eyewitness reports, and fingerprints on the rifle all pointed to a single assailant, James Earl Ray. Furthermore, James Earl Ray was an escaped convict that was on the

In the case of Rodney king, I believe that justice was not served, because 4 officers viciously assaulted King with their night sticks after a car chase in L.A. out of the three men that were caught that night, the police claimed that king was the most “aggressive out of the three men. They also claimed that the force they used on king was “justified”. If you look at the video (recorded by George Holliday) the so called “justified” action didn’t look so justified, it appeared brutal as if they were beating animal. If you watch the video you can see Rodney King on his knee’s imploring the officer’s to stop striking him with their nightsticks, but they refused to do so. That night Rodney absorbed fifty six hits from a night stick and seven kicks from two officers. Nevertheless, the four officers’ that did the beating were prosecuted for assault but were not found guilty, which caused outrageous riots in L.A. I feel if Rodney King was Caucasian he wouldn’t have been assaulted the way he was, because you could never pay a white person to brutally

In March 1906, Tennessee native Ed Johnson was sentenced to death for the rape of eighteen-year-old Nevada Taylor. Mr. Johnson supposedly choked the victim with a leather strap and subsequently sexually assaulted her. When testifying, the woman only had one adjective to describe the perpetrator, a word that damned the twenty-six-year-old to a guilty verdict; black. Although he had never been in possession of a leather strap, had a sound alibi verified by countless testimonies, and the rape victim never definitively identified Mr. Johnson during the trial, the all-white jury came to the conclusion that the African-American man was undeniably responsible for the cold-blooded atrocity. A day later, while sitting in his cell, a mob of white men dragged Ed Johnson out of the jailhouse, paraded him around the streets, and ultimately hanged the guiltless man at Walnut Street Bridge. The men then began to fire round after round at his lifeless body for the amusement of townsfolk who had gathered to watch the lynching, until, “one stray bullet severed the rope,” (Yellin 1). As the bloody corpse fell to the ground to the delight of the white children, “ one of the men put the barrel of his gun to Mr. Johnson 's head and fired five times,” (Yellin 1). The men faced no charges and nearly one hundred years later the Supreme Court found the viciously murdered man innocent. Unfortunately, when it comes to promoting justice for non-white Americans, the United States’ criminal justice system