{"id":131588,"date":"2016-09-21T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/black-men-running-from-the-police-doesnt-mean-guilt.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T04:45:08","slug":"black-men-running-from-the-police-doesnt-mean-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/21\/black-men-running-from-the-police-doesnt-mean-guilt.html","title":{"rendered":"Black men running from the police doesn&#039;t mean guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts&#39; Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that black men may have perfectly legitimate reasons for running from cops, given statistical analysis of police harassment and singling out of blacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2016\/09\/20\/mass-high-court-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-flee-police'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/jgb0kRPsXH2vUZAOlrFII0PYMwDf5OCNyYhBWUOmw31_klwd4OeDUEEp_UKjtXVWKaxE_lOFXfw280xKs8aEcy4vCEO0MG8R7UtI21jTmsatCVA=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2016\/09\/20\/mass-high-court-black-men-may-have-legitimate-reason-to-flee-police'>Mass. High Court Says Black Men May Have Legitimate Reason To Flee Police<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIn throwing out the gun conviction of a man in Boston, the state SJC declared that black men who try to avoid an encounter with police by fleeing shouldn&#8217;t be deemed suspicious.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/6hN1CjmbXGq'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts&#39; Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that black men may have perfectly legitimate reasons for running from cops, given statistical analysis of police harassment and singling out of blacks. Mass. 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