Washington Post (April 30)
2015/ 05/ 01 by jd in Global News
It is misleading to compare recent U.S. riots to “the unrest that followed the verdict in the 1992 Rodney King police brutality trial…. The fact is that steep increases in income inequality and mass incarceration, as well as racial disparities in school discipline that start in preschool, mean that the prospects of young African American men are worse now than they were then.”
Tags: Incarceration, Inequality, Misleading, Police brutality, Racial disparities, Riots, Rodney King, U.S., Unrest, Verdict
