Judge calls out racial bias after black man faces 15 years behind bars -- but white man faces just 1 year for same crime
Judge calls out racial bias after black man faces 15 years behind bars -- but white man faces just 1 year for same crime: In 2017, Mario Silas, who is black, and Jared Weatherly, who is white, tried to sell an undercover cop 100 ecstasy pills for $800, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports. Silas and a woman stayed in the car, while Weatherly delivered the drugs to the cop. Yet after they were caught and tried, the two men faced very different outcomes. Silas got 15 years, while Weatherly is serving one year in prison. That case and others …
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