For public relations purposes, it would be ideal if every victim of injustice was a person of unimpeachable character. If everyone was caught at the wrong place at the wrong time and was a rebuke to racist descriptors, half the work of reclaiming the victim’s humanity would already be done. But the system isn’t filled with a bunch of doe-eyed innocents, and that doesn’t make them any less worthy of justice. They shouldn’t be discarded as people on the basis of their mistakes.
