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Published on Jul 15, 2015
As many as 95 percent of elected prosecutors are white, according to a new report by the Reflective Democracy Campaign.
With blacks making up a disproportionate number of incarcerated Americans, the project is raising questions about how the lack of minority prosecutors is impacting racial disparities in the justice system at large.
RT’s Anya Parampil speaks with defense lawyer Kenneth Montgomery about the inequality in prosecution practices.