The concerns and complaints that Jackson et al have are that they believe that the system , generally speaking, is applied differently when the victim is African-American and the perpetrator is not.
That belief is why Jackson et al state that if the places were reversed- if TM was a white teenager and GZ was an African-American- that GZ would not have been presumed to have acted in self-defense and not charged with any crime but instead would have been arrested for murder, with the implication being that GZ would have been found guilty of murder or at least manslaughter.
The specific issue of black-on-black murder is a completely separate matter. I do not know of Jackson et al efforts regarding that issue. I presume that they have been, are, and will continue to be involved in addressing that and similar African-American centric issues. It's just that those efforts are conducted in a lower profile manner.
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