🚀 go-pugleaf

including
*  the Police Chief and the Mayor.
*  
*  The plaintiffs include a handyman at a local church and the mother
*  of two young boys, all of whom say they or their families were
*  singled out because of their race.
*  
*  The handyman who works at an Episcopal church here, said that on
*  one occasion he pulled into a parking lot and a police officer
*  stopped him, pointed a gun at his head, called him a derogatory
*  name and warned, "If you move, I'll shoot you." The handyman
*  said he had been unlawfully stopped, harassed and interrogated
*  by the police eight times since he started working there.
*  
*  Another plaintiff, the co-captain of the Beverly Hills High School
*  football team, asserted that he had been pulled over at least 20
*  times in the last 18 months.
*  
*  The Mayor and Police Chief were named in the suit because they had
*  ignored numerous written and oral complaints of mistreatment.

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Think Rodney King was an isolated event?

*   The New York Times, May 13, 1997, snipped
*   "Police Chief Says Officers