Walking While Black

Mariah Charles, a young black woman whose arrest and roughing up by New York City police as she walked to high school — without ID on her — was videotaped and <strong><a href="https://jjie.org/2018/06/25/mariah-charles-arrest-is-yet-more-proof-of-injustices-against-youth-of-color/">went viral</a></strong> online, sued the NYPD and the officers who arrested her for <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Walking.while_.black_.pdf"><strong>excessive force</strong></a> and false arrest, in Kings County Court.

BROOKLYN — Mariah Charles, a young black woman whose arrest and roughing up by New York City police as she walked to high school — without ID on her — was videotaped and **went viral online, sued the NYPD and the officers who arrested her for excessive force and false arrest, in Kings County Court.

Categories / Civil Rights, Government, Personal Injury

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