LA County sheriff's unit that stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on 5 Freeway is suspended
by Joel Rubin and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times
Dec 07, 2018
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has suspended a team of deputies that stopped thousands of innocent Latino motorists on a stretch of the 5 Freeway in search of drugs and other contraband, an agency spokeswoman said Friday.
The move comes amid accusations of racial profiling by deputies after a Los Angeles Times investigation in October found that 69 percent of drivers stopped by the team were Latino
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