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“The officer that we talked to would say his father was a cop, he loved his father, he thought his father contributed to the community, he made the community safer and that’s what he wanted to do, to contribute to the community,” O’Brien says.

“What we’re interested in that intersection of how do you keep crime out of the community and not criminalize and trample on the rights of people who are minding their own business,” she says. “The young man that has been stopped a hundred times has never had any legal issues. He just so-called ‘fits the description.’”

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