The sentencing of young Blacks to life without parole for minor, non-violent offenses is a human rights crime of monumental proportions & has been a crisis in the US for decades. Compare that to the 10-year sentence received by the Dallas police officer who shot her Black upstairs neighbor in his own apartment while he was sitting on his sofa eating ice cream.

(This report is from 2013 but it is as relevant in 2019 as it was in the 1980s.)

https://www.democracynow.org/2013/11/15/jailed_for_life_for_stealing_a?fbclid=IwAR3O2cW2I14qC27SiRJnvHV2zLH0ta-KnpJdbvIBgpvhNhVEqYGq_gzFS2c