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fromCalifornia Post
20 hours ago

Exclusive | Top LA pol emotionally claims police stopped him for being black - but cops tell very different story

LA City Council President Harris-Dawson claimed racial profiling during a traffic stop, but police revealed he was stopped by school police for a school zone violation, not LAPD.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Court Case That Is Allowing ICE to Stop Just About Anyone It Wants

In 1996, the Supreme Court decided Whren v. United States, which came about when plainclothes vice officers patrolling in the District of Columbia passed a truck in a "high drug" area and "their suspicions were aroused." They had a hunch that the truck was involved in a drug operation. They chose to wait until it had violated a traffic ordinance (turning without a signal) and then used that violation as an excuse to stop the truck. In the course of searching the truck, they found crack cocaine.
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