Officers in this Northern California county stop Asian drivers at 12 times the rate of other drivers, lawsuit claims
Officers in rural Siskiyou County, fueled by racial prejudice and drug fear-mongering, are stopping the county’s small population of Asian American drivers at 12 times the rate of other drivers, according to a new lawsuit in federal court. County supervisors are also restricting Asian American residents’ access to water and illegally placing liens on their property, in a policy “designed to drive a disfavored racial minority from the county,” the suit said. It was filed Wednesday in Sacramento by the American Civil Liberties Union and Asian Americans Advancing Justice as a proposed class action on behalf of the county’s 1,200 Asian American residents.
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