I mean, depends- if I steal from my employer I go to jail, if my employer steals my wages they get a fine. If I murder someone in cold blood on the street, I m

I mean, depends- if I steal from my employer I go to jail, if my employer steals my wages they get a fine. If I murder someone in cold blood on the street, I might not make it off the scene before getting gunned down; if a government agent summarily executes a protester, they might get a couple days vacation and a heft goFundme payout. Nothing new there, though... if, for instance, in 1955 a random black kid has some white guys think he looked at the wrong woman in the wrong way, he might get violently killed that day; the men who do that killing might never face -any- consequences. So the answer to your question is highly variable and has been for all of the time that anyone I know has been alive. The application of law in the US is and has always been mostly determined by class and race.