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Bob Dylan "Hurricane"
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The wrongful arrest/conviction of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, 1967 and 1976
Due to racial profiling and shoddy police work, boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was found wrongfully guilty (twice) of a 1966 triple homicide in a New Jersey bar. Ten years before being finally freed in 1985, Bob Dylan commemorated the event with a song, providing a perfect narrative of Rubin's injustice at the hands of the system.
