September 7, 2008
Fact Finders
Unequal Justice
Cries of racism at a local college campus, after 3 students get locked up after college brawl
Three young men leave the city to attend college upstate, and learn a tough lesson that's not necessarily taught in the hallowed halls of academia: that justice in some places is still separate -and unequal.
The young men, referred to as the "Brooklyn 3" are now in the fight of their lives to clear their names. So why were they arrested, what are they being accused of, and what happens now?
Peter Thorne has more in a Fact Finders investigation, you won't see anywhere else:
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