Maryland State Police Troopers Are Still Profiling, Lawsuit Claims
The Daily Record (Baltimore) › April 13, 2011
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Echoing decades-old racial profiling allegations, a Philadelphia man says Maryland State Police troopers stopped him three times in two months because he is black, then pursued trumped-up charges that cost him 20 days in jail after he filed a Public Information Act request for details of the stops.
David K. Martin, a 27-year-old radiologic technologist, claims his experiences on I-95 in Cecil County were consistent with the MSP's "long history" of stopping and searching people of color along the East Coast artery.See the full content of this document
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Maryland State Police Troopers Are Still Profiling, Lawsuit Claims
Racial profiling was addressed in a 1995 legal settlement and consent decrees in 2003 and 2008; however, the NAACP and ACLU are in the midst of an open-records case to determine whether the state police are abiding by the settlement.
Martin's a...See the full content of this document
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