‘A Quintessential Racial Profiling Case’: Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Massachusetts Police Officer Who Arrested a Black Man While Searching for White Suspect
A federal lawsuit alleges members of a Massachusetts police force violated a Black man’s civil rights by arresting him for a crime, he knew based on a description from the victim, he did not commit. The law enforcement had a photograph of the person of interest, still, the African American was violently detained, cuffed, and…