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Driving While Black, East Texas Style

The City of Tenaha and Shelby County have agreed to implement a new “neutral” policy for traffic stops and pay attorney fees for shaking down mostly minority drivers with threats of “civil asset forfeiture.”  In one year, drivers who allegedly “met the profile” of drug smugglers forked over $800,000 in exchange for leniency in criminal […]