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Black Women Wrongfully Accused Of Shoplifting In Hershey Were Detained For Hours: Report Black Women Wrongfully Accused Of Shoplifting In Hershey Were Detained For Hours: Report
Black Women Wrongfully Accused Of Shoplifting In Hershey Were Detained For Hours: Report A pair of sisters and their cousin have filed a civil suit saying they were racially profiled and wrongly accused of stealing while shopping at an outlet mall in Hershey, then held for hours by police, PennLive reports. Sisters Quashae and Quanae Brown, and their cousin Trinity Reid, had just left The Gap and Old Navy at the mall in when a pair of Derry Township officers stopped them and accused them of stealing a $6 onesie on Dec. 22, 2020, the outlet says.  Police found no stolen items but held the women — who were never charged — for hours, according to PennLive. The sisters f…

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45 York County Prisoners File Suit Over 'Unjustified Terror' 45 York County Prisoners File Suit Over 'Unjustified Terror'
45 York County Prisoners File Suit Over 'Unjustified Terror' York County and several of its correctional officials are facing a class action suit by more than 45 current and former prisoners alleging a "toxic culture" of "excessive and unjustified terror," as first reported by the York Daily Record. Filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg on Dec. 13, the suit says that the county hired a “full-service High-Risk Corrections Special Operations Mitigation Unit” that fosters “a toxic culture where excessive and unjustified terror and violence is perpetrated with impunity." The complaint is specifically filed …

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