Sidney Holmes' case shows how US Criminal Justice System is double-faced | Explainer | Oneindia News

This is a tragic story being told over and over again.

Incidents like this have happened numerous times in USA But unlike stories that are infact fictions, all these incidents are rooted in reality.

No part of this is fiction!

The tropes of all these stories are eerily same.

A black man gets convicted spends 20-30 years in prison and is then set free after it finally dawns upon the criminal justice system that the man had been wrongly convicted and imprisoned.

Just a few days back, a black man named Sydney Holmes was freed after serving 34 years in prison for a crime he did not even commit!

He has joined a long list of the black people who had been wrongfully imprisoned and whose lives were torn apart.

In this video, we bring to you the story of this man Sidney Holmes along with trying to explain what makes the US criminal justice system so heavily loaded against the blacks.

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