#CrimingWhileWhite: why white tweeters are confessing crimes

Grand jury decision to clear white NYPD officer for killing black man prompts wave of confessions

NEW YORK - DECEMBER 3: Demonstrators walk together during a protest December 3, 2014 in New York. Protests began after a Grand Jury decided to not indict officer Daniel Pantaleo. Eric Garner
(Image credit: 2014 Getty Images)

White people are taking to Twitter to confess crimes they have got away with after a US grand jury cleared a white NYPD officer for choking an unarmed black man to death.

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