#Crimingwhilewhite: White people are confessing on Twitter to crimes they got away with

On Twitter, white Americans are responding to a grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer in the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island by tweeting about crimes they claim to have committed, but got in little to no trouble for.

In a way, it's a digital version of the protest movements taking hold across the country, with the Staten Island grand jury's decision coming shortly after a St. Louis County grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the shooting of Michael Brown. There's no way to verify the confessions in the tweets, which reached over 600 per minute at one point, but the hashtag represents an expression by whites who are disturbed by the continuing racial disparities in the criminal justice system.