In 2001, black children were four times more likely to be incarcerated than white children. But in 2015, black children were five times more likely than white children to be incarcerated.

According to Rovner of the Sentencing Project, individual actions are not to blame for a higher incarceration rate of black youths.
“It’s not about the differences in behaviors by youth. It’s about the differences in how adults respond to those behaviors,” he said.

Kalief Broeder was 16 when he was arrested after being accused of stealing a backpack. After spending 3 years imprisoned, two of which were in solitary confinement, without ever being convicted of a crime, he killed himself as a result of the trauma. Kalief was vocal about the systemic abuses he suffered, but he believed in the system for as long as he could. In one interview he said: for me to lie and confess to something I did not do is not right, something has to be done about this.
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/27/551864016/fewer-youths-incarcerated-but-gap-between-blacks-and-whites-worsens

 Kalief Browder