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TIL in 2006 a judge in Texas sentenced a 14-year-old black girl who was a first time offender to prison for 7 years for shoving a hall monitor, 3 months earlier that same judge sentenced a 14-year-old white girl,convicted of arson for burning down her family’s house, to probation.

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