... in criminal activity. These officers have no legal cause for carrying out the stop besides enforcing traffic regulations. Being subjected to a driving while black stop is, according to House Representative John Conyers Jr., "an experience that virtually every African-American male has been subjected to." Even African-American actors, athletes, business professionals, and Congressmen, are not immune. In Christopher Darden's book ... of race or ethnicity as a substitute for suspicion, is hardly a new problem. While investigating the causes of the urban riots that detonated across the coun...

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