Cenk Uygur
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Study: Driving While Black Is A Crime
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January 31, 2016
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January 31, 2016
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Jan 31, 20166:54Now PlayingThe ACLU looked into the notion that driving while black is a crime. As it turns out, in some places, it is. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"White and black Floridians wear their seat belts at roughly the same rates. One would think, then, that black drivers are about as likely to get ticketed by police officers for not wearing a seatbelt as white drivers.
Nope. According to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union, police in Florida were nearly twice as likely in 2014 to stop and ticket black drivers for seat belt violations — and that may be an underestimate, since at least one county with a history of racial disparities in seat belt citations stopped reporting its stats altogether.”*
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