Word: taillights
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...Every time I watch Sheriff Joe unleash his 'posse' on another neighborhood with a high Hispanic population, arresting people with brown skin for the most stupid of offenses - honking their horn, having a taillight out, not signaling when they change lanes - I have to wonder how anyone could not see this as an assault on an entire race of people." - Columnist Jana Bommersbach (Phoenix
...officer was dispatched to the Peabody Terrace Visitor’s Parking Lot to take a report of damage done to a motor vehicle by another motor vehicle that left the scene. The first vehicle had a damaged rear quarter panel and taillight. There was no description of the second vehicle or any suspicious individuals in the area. Dec. 30: 8:18 p.m.—Officers conducted a field interview with a suspicious individual who was inside the Science Center. The officers checked the individual for wants and warrants with positive results. Patrick Langley, 34, was then placed under...
...work electrician who admitted in a suicide note found in his minivan that he was responsible for the murders of the mother and husband of U.S. District Court Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow two weeks ago; by a self-inflicted gunshot after police pulled him over for a broken taillight; in West Allis, Wis. Lefkow last year dismissed Ross's rambling lawsuit seeking damages from the government for his pain and disfigurement from cancer treatments. His murder confession was corroborated by DNA evidence...
...police activity, it is hard to say whether the police force is as bad as some claim. But several facts about the force may help explain why many blacks feel that cops are biased--why they may believe they were racially profiled during a traffic stop even if their taillight was burned out. First, the police division is only 28% African American, while the city is 43% black. Cincinnati is the 10th most segregated city in the nation, according to the 2000 Census. That segregation is reflected in the police division, many of whose ranking officers graduated from the same...