Thousand have taken to the streets to protest racial inequality in the US, while thousands more whites have joined a Twitter campaign to publicly confess their sins before the law, in an effort to shatter the criminal stereotyping of African-Americans.<\/p>\n
In an attempt to expose police racial prejudice across the United States, Caucasian Twitter users spilled their wrongdoings to the world in a series of confession they have got away with that they believe African-Americans probably would not.<\/p>\n
Using the #CrimingWhileWhite, some people recalled them getting away with a number of offences, including grand theft auto, driving violations, and drugs abuse.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, for the second night in a row, thousands of protesters overran the streets of New York, shutting down several major arteries of the city as they expressed outrage over a grand jury decision not to indict an officer for the death of an unarmed black man.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath of racial violence that erupted\u00a0in Ferguson, the latest\u00a0social media campaign follows other\u00a0recent high-profile incidents of police’s lethal brutality against black men and the perceived lack of punishment for the\u00a0white\u00a0officers responsible.<\/p>\n
Michael Brown was shot six times by a white policemen in Ferguson, Missouri in August.<\/p>\n
The cases involve Eric Garner who was killed by a chokehold by an NYPD officer in July and 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed in Cleveland in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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