low income community like north pulse. then, and now, if you are a 17 year old black teenager, like malcolm was in 1994, you are on the police radar. whether you are in a gang, or not. i frequently heard complaints from kids about being arrested for no reason. or being hassled and being stopped. being called gang members when they have worn certain color. ziva branstetter was an investigative crime reporter for the tulsa news paper for 22 years. i think the vast majority were good cops, doing their job, trying to keep up. going from call to call. but there were other reports of you know, indiscriminate arrests. she says what she saw in tulsa, reflected the stark reality all across the country. tulsa was roughly 10% african american, but the u. s. arrest rate among african americans, was 43%. if you are a kid back then, it was easier to grow pencil tulsa, the north. absolutely. i raised two kids in south
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