In a country that incarcerates Black people at a rate five times that of white people, one thing is uncomfortably clear: The truth matters less than who controls the narrative. The person whose perspective is amplified is more often the one believed. Just ask Kyle Rittenhouse, the white Fox News favorite who walks free despite shooting three people during a protest against police violence. Or Anthony Broadwater, the Black man whose claims of innocence fell on deaf ears during all 16 years of his wrongful conviction for the rape of the writer Alice Sebold.
Sarah Weinman’s latest true-crime book, “Scoundrel,” is about who receives the benefit of our doubt and the privileges that attend that trust, whether or not it is warranted.
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