108: $150. Five Convictions. She's Dead.

Eddimar Paola Hernández was seven years old, walking with her big sister on a Saturday afternoon in Chicago, when a stranger stabbed her in the back. Bystanders chased the attacker down and held her until police came. Court records say the woman charged had an outstanding felony warrant for more than 18 months. Today I read the Department of Justice numbers nobody will put on television. BJS Table 1: 540,360 violent incidents a year with a white victim and a Black offender, against 92,810 with a Black victim and a white offender. Almost six to one, out of a population a quarter the size. We will say it every day with the receipts. Plus a 76-year-old Baltimore artist dead over $150 at the hands of a man with five prior convictions and lifetime sex offender registration. A convicted child rapist charged in a Planet Fitness locker room eight weeks after prosecutors dropped his failure-to-register case. 98 years for a man who abused a girl from age seven. 37 people shot in Vienna, Georgia. Four teens charged in the killing of 16-year-old Cameron Frierson. A 20-year cold case where the suspect was 14 at the time. And the rabbit hole: hundreds of North Carolina arrest records allegedly coding Black defendants as white, including "White African." Here is the paper trail that would prove it. Today's Scripture is Judges 19, the chapter nobody preaches, and the sentence that diagnoses all of it: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. Faith and Fire: God and Country airs weekdays.