PART A: What connection does the author draw between his appearance and his experiences with the justice system?

A. The author explains how his professional clothing made him a target for
harassment from the other people locked in the cell.
B. The author attributes his short stature and height as the reasons for the officers’
delayed responses to his criminal behavior.
C. The author describes the officers as more reluctant to confront him, a white
man in a suit, than when they interacted with people of color.
D. The author claims that he received a much lighter sentence for his crimes
because of his young age and status as a lawyer.

Respuesta :

The author shows that the police officers were more reluctant to confront him, a white man in a suit, than when interacting with people of color, as shown in option C.

Why did the author have this perception?

  • Because he realized that African Americans were the biggest victims of the legal system.
  • Because he realized that white people were forgiven for criminal situations that caused black people to be arrested.

The author of the text was a white man who worked as an assistant district attorney. He was uncomfortable to see how the justice system treated whites and blacks differently.

For this reason, he decided to provoke small crimes in public places to observe the way he was approached by the police.

He realized that because of his clothing and skin color, the police officers did not approach him as violently and aggressively as they approached young black men.

In this way, he realized how prejudiced and racist the justice system was.

This question is about the article "I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System."

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