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Default Tomatoes - faulty measurements?

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 12:33:52 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2021-03-01 11:27 a.m., Taxed and Spent wrote:
>> On 3/1/2021 8:24 AM, Graham wrote:

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>>>>
>>> OTOH, the son of a black friend of mine was carded, pulled over while
>>> driving. The cops picked a wrong one there! At the time he was a prof at
>>> Osgood Law School:-)
>>>

>>
>>
>> And he insists he was pulled over for absolutely no reason at all,
>> right?Â* uh huh.Â* Even law professors make traffic infractions.
>>

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>
>A few years back a "study" looked at the race of people who had been
>pulled over by Toronto police and the charges laid. It jumped to the
>conclusion that black drivers were being profiles because of the high
>number of charges for "blind offenses", the things that cops could not
>have known when they pulled them over, like driving without a license,
>driving under suspension and driving without insurance.
>
>That was a crock.


Oh, ok. Glad you set that straight.

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