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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My girldfriend is a public defender in Orlando.  She has often mentioned that when police pull over young white teenagers who have pot on them, they are given a warning.  Sometimes the parents are called.  However, when black teenagers are pulled over and there is a scent of pot swirling through the air, the police call in a dog for a probable cause search.  That kid is arrested.

Anybody been following that case in Miami about the Black man arrested 42 times for trespassing.  He has been arrested for trespassing at a convenience store.  The kicker is he works at the store.  I wonder if he can sue and win against Miami PD for false arrest and harassment.  [/quote]

How would she know that, since if they were supposedly let off by the cops, PDs would never even be involved.  I call BS on that story.  Probably just some made-up swirl that goes around the PD's office to try and explain why it's mostly non-whites who end up there, while also glibly ignoring the fact that a.) Orlando has a lot of AA and Latino which together outweighs white so the demographics alone would support the fact that more non-whites are arrested - and b.) that the white folks who get busted (and they do indeed get busted in Orlando) probably try and get their own defense attorney rather than go to a PD, which is also why they wouldn't show up there.[/quote]

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