“Good residents are having their constitutional rights...
“Good residents are having their constitutional rights trampled on by some officers just because they may look scrubby or because of the color of their clothing.”
--Raymond Johnson Jr., president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP, complaining about the recent anti-gang sweeps by police.
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