Court rules that black men running from Boston police shouldn't be seen as suspicious
 

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.*

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The ruling stems from the Dec. 18, 2011 arrest of Jimmy Warren in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Commonwealth vs. Jimmy Warren

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