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groundloop

(11,518 posts) Thu Jul 14, 2016, 09:48 PM Jul 2016

Luckovich - Driving While Black

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Luckovich - Driving While Black (Original Post) groundloop Jul 2016 OP

Philando Castile had been pulled over at least 52 times. Racial profiling? jtuck004 Jul 2016 #1

You can add so many blaze Jul 2016 #2

Luckovich has really been on a roll lately. groundloop Jul 2016 #3

Great cartoon Gothmog Jul 2016 #4

Lukovich has been doing some really good ones on this issue. nt tblue37 Jul 2016 #5

jtuck004

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1. Philando Castile had been pulled over at least 52 times. Racial profiling?

Reply to groundloop (Original post)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:18 PM

Jul 2016

MINNEAPOLIS — When Philando Castile saw the flashing lights in his rearview mirror the night he got shot, it wasn't unusual. He had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including speeding, driving without a muffler and not wearing a seat belt.

He was assessed at least $6,588 in fines and fees, although more than half of the total 86 violations were dismissed, court records show.
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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/07/philando_castile_had_been_pull.html

We have too much policing.