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Into the criminal justice system as the attorneys are talking about earlier or into the medical system where children are -- blacks in general get less proper care. i was looking at before i came in another one of those medical studies, this is pediatricians. they measured subconscious bias and realized a lot of the doctors have subconscious bias. of those who had subconscious bias, for whites against blacks, they were less likely to offer pain management to the children in their care if they were black. that is the most cruel kind of expression, and they're not even aware that they're allowin...

Analyze a case, it has nothing to do with the race of the defendant or the victim. we look at the evidence, the proof and who was the victim. >> you don't believe in our justice system there are inherent biases, that are inherent from who gets stopped more often by police to the way people perceive other people without realizing it? i saw a study that analyzed jury verdicts in florida from 2000 to 2010, all-white juries convict african-american defendants 16% more than a white defendant, and if you have one black juror, that inequity goes away. >> we don't see that the way you're portraying it...

Killing blacks. very hard for blacks in florida or any of the 24 stand your ground states to employ stand your ground when we kill or even shoot into the ceiling as marissa alexander, who is sort of the poster woman for the other side. she was trying to defend herself, to get out -- >> from an abusive -- >> from an abusive husband in her own home. there was no other way to go but to go through him. she shoots into the ceiling and she's doing 20 years. there's a call to pardon her. >> and the same prosecutor is involved in her case. >> so we need relief from these stand your ground laws just as...

Saying so what do we do about this? how do we prepare kids to say you're growing up to be a man, but under these circumstances you have to act like it's 50 years ago. that's not where we want to go in this country. >> anna, as you listen to this, what goes through your mind? >> i think the whole conversation about innocence is really to the point, isn't it? that young black men and probably young brown men are not innocent. they lose their innocence. but all of us have lost our innocence. i wonder if perhaps we fell asleep by even entrusting the justice system to bring back a verdict that we t...

In other cases, bias is built into the criminal justice system as the attorneys are talking about earlier or into the medical system where children are -- blacks in general get less proper care. i was looking at before i came in another one of those medical studies, this is pediatricians. they measured subconscious bias and realized a lot of the doctors have subconscious bias. of those who had subconscious bias, for whites against blacks, they were less likely to offer pain management to the children in their care if they were black. that is the most cruel kind of expression, and they're not e...