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    This isn’t the first time Torrance Police Department has been accused of widespread racism

    LOS ANGELES — When Torrance police officers saw Black people in their city in the 1990s, they had two special phrases to describe them, according to a federal lawsuit. A pair of acronyms — “NIT” and “NITAD” — both used a racial slur to note that a Black person was either “in Torrance” or “in Torrance after dark,” according to the testimony of former Torrance police officers contained in U.S. ...
    by James Queally, Los Angeles Times Dec 10, 2021 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — When Torrance police officers saw Black people in their city in the 1990s, they had two special phrases to describe them, according to a federal lawsuit.

    A pair of acronyms — “NIT” and “NITAD” — both used a racial slur to note that a Black person was either “in Torrance” or “in Torrance after dark,” according to the testimony of former Torrance police officers contained in U.S. Department of Justice filings.

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