oor. This is true for John Coffey, Tom Robinson, Carl Lee Hailey, Rubin Carter, Malcolm Little (X), and Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. The only one it is not true for is Lt. Danny Roman, but even though Roman is the best hostage negotiator around and decorated many times over, the department frames him and he immediately loses credibility with one and all the moment any suspicion whatsoever is thrown on him.
Further, the criminals are mostly young black men, especially in relation to the white law enforcement officials who target them. In The Hurricane, Rubin Carter is a pre-teen boy when he is attacked by a deranged pedophile in the woods. He attacks and robs his assailant, only to invoke the lifelong wrath of the local racist police sergeant, Della Pesca. Pesca will eventually intimidate witnesses and help get Carter wrongly convicted of murder. But there is more behind it than this. One of the biggest reasons Carter invokes Pesca’s wrath is because he w
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