He says the police criticize
people who look like him.
He feels judged based on things
other black people may have done.
How would you want
the police to look at you,
and what would you want them to think?
SB: That I'm not no threat.
EA: Why would they think
you're threatening?
What did you say, you're 14?
SB: Yes, I'm 14, but because he said
a lot of black males
are thugs or gangsters and all that,
but I don't want them thinking
that about me.
EA: For folks who look like me,
the easiest and most comfortable
thing to do is to not pay attention --
to assume our criminal
legal system is working.
But if it's not our responsibility
to question those assumptions,
whose responsibility is it?
There's a synagogue here that's taken on
learning about mass incarceration,
and many congregants have concluded
that because mass incarceration
throws so many lives into chaos,
it actually creates more crime --
makes people less safe.
Congregant Teri Hunter says