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It Wasn’t Ebola

A federal court in Rhode Island denied a hospital’s motion to dismiss a woman’s civil rights claims that it detained her and her two-year-old daughter with her ill brother for several hours and suspected he had Ebola solely because he is black and from Africa. He did not have Ebola.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal court in Rhode Island denied a hospital’s motion to dismiss a woman’s civil rights claims that it detained her and her 2-year-old daughter with her ill brother for several hours out of suspicion he had Ebola solely because he is black and from Africa. He did not have Ebola.

Categories / Civil Rights, Health

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