Vintage Free Rubin Carter and John Artis End Police Repression Button Pinback

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Vintage Free Rubin Carter and John Artis End Police Repression Button Pinback. Measures 1 3/4 inches in diameter and is in good condition. Free Shipping
John Artis, the co-defendant of the prizefighter Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, whose triple murder convictions became an international cause célèbre before they were overturned — a reversal that became an indictment of the criminal justice system itself.
In 1966, Mr. Artis, who was 20, and Mr. Carter, a ranking middleweight boxer who was 29, were pulled over by the police in Paterson, N.J., because Mr. Carter’s white Dodge supposedly resembled the getaway car used hours earlier in the murder of two men and a woman in a local bar.