A half-billion dollar lawsuit against Beverly Hills alleging racial profiling expands to more than a thousand plaintiffs
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Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump said 1,088 black people were cited or arrested during a two-year period, but there were only two convictions.
One of the plaintiffs, Lakesha Swift, said she was detained while leaving a physical therapy appointment in Beverly Hills, "I'm tramatized by the whole ordeal - embarrassed squatted on the last level of the stairs on Wilshire Boulevard. This is just humiliating, and this has to stop," Swift recalled during a conference outside City Hall.
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Though Beverly Hills denies the allegations and says the numbers are inaccurate, they did not offer alternative numbers when requested by KNX News.
Beverly Hills said their police will continue to enforce the law regardless of race.
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