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Police 'Pretext' Traffic Stops Need to End, Some Lawmakers Say [pewtrusts.org]

 

By Marsha Mercer, Pew Stateline, September 3, 2020

On a family vacation in Virginia in 2017, Democratic Maryland state Del. Charles E. Sydnor III was driving in the left lane on a nearly empty, unfamiliar highway when a state trooper pulled him over.

Sydnor’s wife and three daughters — ages 9, 10 and 13 — were in the car.

“Are you going to jail?” one of his girls asked.

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