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December 5, 2013

Miami Suburb Sued for Police Abuses, Racial Profiling 
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A Miami suburb is being sued for alleged police abuses and racial
profiling. A group of plaintiffs in the predominantly black Miami
Gardens has filed a federal civil rights case accusing police of
unlawful searches and targeting of people of color. One of the
plaintiffs, who is black, says he has been unlawfully stopped, searched
or arrested 288 times since 2008, an average of roughly once a week over
a four-year period.

 

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