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This is so fucked up and it’s exactly why we keep talking about racial disparities in the justice system. Black people especially Black boys and men, are too often treated like they’re guilty first and expected to prove their innocence later, while white defendants are more often afforded the benefit of the doubt. This young man spent SEVEN MONTHS on an ankle monitor for a carjacking he says he couldn’t have committed because he was at school. Now you’ll clear his record but ONLY if he gives up his right to sue? So he has to choose between having his name cleared and holding the system accountable for what it put him through? That’s not justice. You can’t keep telling Black people the system treats everyone equally when cases like this keep happening.