David Ayers is a really sweet fellow whose life was trashed because he was black.
"The Republican Party's Bone Deep Racism"
"The Republican Party Is Full Of Racists"
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Alan: As a young man, I was involved in a criminal case involving black assailants. The chief detective of the Rochester, New York, police department leaned on me -- literally and figuratively -- to positively identify a man whom I could not positively identify. I assume this used to be standard operating procedure. No doubt, the police assembled a lineup of "the usual suspects" and since they assumed they were guilty of something, why not convict them on any charge they could.
If every such civil rights violation were to be remedied by monetary settlement, I have no doubt the "bill" would be astronomical.
And "the white guys" continue to grumble about blacks ripping them off.
Here is Ayers' "rap sheet" prior exoneration: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2007/07/06/ayers.html
(Notice that Ayers' had previously gone out of his way to help the woman whom he was convicted of murdering.)
And here is an account of Ayers' exoneration: http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/David_Ayers.php
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