‘Police Officers Are In the Habit of Being Obeyed’: Court Rules Deputies Violated Black Man’s Constitutional Rights When They Arrested Him Because He Wouldn’t Show ID
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Virginia sheriff’s deputies violated a Black man’s constitutional rights when they arrested him in April 2017 for refusing to identifying himself. On Feb. 4, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially overturned a lower court’s ruling that held that the arrest of George Wingate by Stafford County deputies…