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Suit alleges racial profiling in 2021 Louisiana traffic stop
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Sat,03/26/22-10:24AM , 103 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two Black men claim in a new federal lawsuit that they were subjected to an illegal, racially motivated and humiliating traffic stop and search last year by deputies in Louisiana's St. Tammany Parish.
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In this March 26, 2016, file photo, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson chats with campaign volunteers in Baltimore. A Louisiana police officer injured when violence broke out over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge in 2016 has grounds to pursue a lawsuit against a protest organizer, Louisiana's Supreme Court said Friday, March 25, 2022. The 6-1 opinion was not a ruling in a case, but an answer to questions posed by a federal appeals court considering whether an officer identified as John Doe, can continue his federal lawsuit against Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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Louisiana court: Protest leader can be sued for cop's injury
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Fri,03/25/22-1:58PM , 84 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana police officer injured when violence broke out over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge in 2016 has grounds to pursue a lawsuit against a protest organizer, Louisiana's Supreme Court said Friday.
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US judge upholds 'need review' for child care service
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Tue,03/22/22-4:41PM , 77 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit filed by a woman claiming a Louisiana regulation unconstitutionally blocked her from running a business providing needed care and educational services to disabled children was dismissed Tuesday by a federal judge.
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A collection of flowers and a cross with a halo are seen at the location where the body of Linda Frickey was recovered after she was carjacked and dragged to her death a day earlier on N. Pierce Street in New Orleans, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Shaun Ferguson announced that four teenagers allegedly involved in the death of Frickey, 73, have been arrested. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

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Woman's arm severed in deadly carjacking; 4 teens arrested
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Tue,03/22/22-2:05PM , 85 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Four teenagers face murder charges in connection with a carjacking that left a 73-year-old woman dying on a New Orleans street, her arm severed after she was dragged a block by her own car while neighbors looked on helplessly, officials said Tuesday.
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