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09-22-2016, 06:01 AM
Court rules that black men running from Boston police shouldn't be seen as suspicious
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In dismissing a gun crime conviction stemming from a charge in 2011, the highest court in Massachusetts may have set a huge precedent for encounters between black men and police.*
On Tuesday, the Massachusetts*Supreme Judicial Court ruled that black men often have good reason to run away from police when they have **t committed a crime, and that police shouldn't view running as an indicator that a person is suspicious.*
SEE ALSO: Social media captures aftermath of police shooting in Charlotte, N.C. (http://mashable.com/2016/09/21/charlotte-police-shooting-social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The ruling stems from the Dec. 18, 2011 arrest of Jimmy Warren (http://www.wbur.org/news/2016/09/20/mass-high-court-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-flee-police) in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Commonwealth vs. Jimmy Warren (https://www.scribd.com/document/324837512/Commonwealth-vs-Jimmy-Warren#from_embed)
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In dismissing a gun crime conviction stemming from a charge in 2011, the highest court in Massachusetts may have set a huge precedent for encounters between black men and police.*
On Tuesday, the Massachusetts*Supreme Judicial Court ruled that black men often have good reason to run away from police when they have **t committed a crime, and that police shouldn't view running as an indicator that a person is suspicious.*
SEE ALSO: Social media captures aftermath of police shooting in Charlotte, N.C. (http://mashable.com/2016/09/21/charlotte-police-shooting-social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The ruling stems from the Dec. 18, 2011 arrest of Jimmy Warren (http://www.wbur.org/news/2016/09/20/mass-high-court-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-flee-police) in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Commonwealth vs. Jimmy Warren (https://www.scribd.com/document/324837512/Commonwealth-vs-Jimmy-Warren#from_embed)
Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/21/massachusetts-court-rules-black-men-have-reason-to-run-from-police/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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