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Miami Suburb Sued for Police Abuses, Racial Profiling

HeadlineDec 05, 2013

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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