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In America, people of color are poorly treated by police, the justice system, and the healthcare system. It is important to point out examples of this when we see it, because our system usually starts treating marginalized groups unfairly as a test to see how badly they can treat everyone.
It is very common for police to look for chargabe offenses they pin on a Black person, but not so much for white people. Once there are charges, prosecutors typically focus on conviction at all costs, especially for Black defendants.
Here we have the trifecta: a Black woman has a miscarriage and call for help, and the police show up and immediately look for reasons to arrest her. While she's recovering from a miscarriage, she's hit with charges of abusing a corpse because she had the audacity to miscarry in a toilet. Now she's facing felony charges related to a miscarriage in a state that has passed such draconian anti-abortion laws that even miscarrying could lead to murder charges.
So we absolutely have to say exactly what is happening, because if we don't, this woman and countless others will end up locked in cages with their rights stripped away from them for daring to exist in a way that didn't satisfy the white supremacist / christofacist factions in this country.