‘Fear Is at an All-Time High’: Black Man Fights Conviction Arguing Running from Police Does Not Give Police Reasonable Suspicion to Stop and Frisk in 2022
A Black Maryland man sentenced to 10 years in prison on a weapons charge is calling on the state’s courts to reverse his conviction, alleging police violated his constitutional rights and had no legal basis to pursue him when he fled a street corner in Baltimore when he saw a patrol car. State prosecutors argued…