Trigger Warning: The article mentions gun violence and details of injustice towards people of color.
Negligence and false crime stories are two sides of the same coin. One stems out of the other. Maybe people of color know about this much more than others. In 2021, Albert Jackson Jr., a Black father from Florida, and his 14-year-old son were falsely accused of robbing a bank and detained at gunpoint.
One of Jackson’s neighbors, Paula Thompson Rappe, allegedly told another neighbor, George Guthrie III, that Jackson matched the description of the bank robber even though he had been on his roof with his son during the scene…