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Water, weed and racism: why Asians feel targeted in this rural California county

An inquiry into the pattern of discrimination revealed that Asian drivers have been pulled over at disproportionate rates to the population

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Hasnain says:

“The traffic stop records, which were obtained by the ACLU and the Asian Law Caucus, showed that though Asians make up just 2.6% of the population in the county, they accounted for 27.4% of all traffic stops in 2021 in which officials identified the people stopped.”

Posted on 2022-04-09T22:42:03+0000