"61st Street" sparks debate on America's criminal justice system

"61st Street" sparks debate on America's criminal justice system

In the new American television drama "61st Street" produced by AMC, actor Courtney B. Vance, an Emmy and Tony award winner, is the role of attorney Franklin Roberts, who has decided to move forward with a case that could shake the criminal justice system.

Roberts defends Moses Johnson (played by British actor Tosin Cole), a black high school student and promising runner in Chicago who was waiting for a bright future in college. Johnson is unjustly accused of killing a police officer, leading to unexpected events leading to a broader debate on public issues in a marginalized society, including the community's relationship with the police, drug wars, prison conditions and resource utilization.

The first two seasons were filmed in Chicago, where author Peter Moffat and executive producers Michael B. Jordan and Alana May and J.David Shanks show the original spirit of the Southside neighborhood, highlighting his suffering by representing residents, community advocates and police officers.

Shanks, a former policeman who grew up in the Southside neighborhood, said he hopes the series will encourage discussion of "some of the really serious issues that I think we as a country should address with regard to the police and the criminal justice system, and the relationship between law enforcement and marginalized communities."

Immigrants in the United States of America who migrated from Europe, particularly Irish, Poles and Italians, often suffered from the exclusion of foreigners and other forms of discrimination in American society until the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In addition, U.S. Groups from the Middle East have faced continued discrimination in the United States, and as a result, some of the people belonging to these groups have not been identified as white. Immigrants from South, East and South-East Asia also faced racial discrimination in the United States.