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Poverty Is Not a Crime, Whether You Live in DeKalb County or Ferguson or Anywhere Else
Kevin Thompson, a black teenager in Georgia, was jailed for five days in December 2014 because he could not afford to pay court-ordered fines and company fees related to a traffic ticket.
A Lesson From Ferguson: Driving While Black Leads to Jailed for Being Poor
The tragic killing of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last August has brought much needed attention to the epidemic of racialized policing in America. In Ferguson and cities throughout the country, police stop, search, and arrest black people and other communities of color at rates grossly disproportionate to their population.