This is a prime example of how the government and law enforcement has used one isolated incident to justify its institutional racism against African Americans. While this particular situation happened 30 years ago, similar tactics and injustices are still happening today.
Thirty years ago, on Jan. 4, 1990, Charles Stuart leaped to his death off the Tobin Bridge in Boston after he was named the prime suspect in his pregnant wife’s murder. The suicide put an end to an ugly hoax that unleashed months of fear and fury from Boston’s […]
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