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What this man went through is horrible, the kind of living nightmare that most people in polite society never experience or even see.

Now consider: there are hundreds (if not thousands) of people just like him, going through the exact same thing, right now. Their only differences: the overwhelming majority are poor and brown, and not all survive[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalief_Browder



Considerably more than thousands. It's not acceptable to treat anyone this way.




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