This isn't surprising. Even before the Civil War, the justice system was used to target and disrupt the black community as well as line the pockets of the loca

This isn't surprising. Even before the Civil War, the justice system was used to target and disrupt the black community as well as line the pockets of the local white community. We see this historical in this story where they trawl for charges that fit, and when they can't find one, they make one up "criminal responsibility for conduct of another.". Even the filter system they use is inconsistent in it's verbiage of "TRUE threat" and "TRUE threat" having no actual meaning. Meanwhile, the judge and jailers keep their jobs and the cops involved serve a weekend's worth of leave. >...At another meeting a commissioner said it would be “cool” if, instead of being a cost center, the jail could be a “profit center.” To folks outside of the US, turning jails into profit centers would be abhorrent and incompatible with a country that claims to be "the freest in the world" or what have you. But when you look at the history of the country and it's actual principles, this is very much in line with history.