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Government,
Criminal

Dec. 9, 2014

Watching the idea we are a nation of laws unravel

There has been a troubling trend developing for some time regarding perceptions of who the law serves in our society - and it cuts right down on socioeconomic lines.

Ara R. Jabagchourian

Law Offices of Ara Jabagchourian PC

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There has been a troubling trend developing for some time regarding perceptions of who the law serves in our society - and it cuts right down on socioeconomic lines. Rightly or wrongly, the media has portrayed the grand jury decisions not to indict the officers who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in Staten Island, and the outrage stemming from it, in a racial context.

For many who see these events in the media, questions are resurfacing as to the role of law i...

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