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Little Tich

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Tue May 5, 2015, 09:48 PM May 2015

Colorado's ACLU says two black men were victims of police bias

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

DENVER (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado will represent two African-American men who were stopped by police and detained in an encounter that was caught on video and which the organization on Tuesday described as racial profiling.

The video recorded by passenger Ryan Brown begins by showing footage of the driver of the car, his brother Benjamin Brown, being placed in handcuffs after a March 25 traffic stop in Colorado Springs.

The ACLU said the incident took place within a block of the brothers' home and began over an apparent cracked windshield.

The Colorado Springs Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/colorados-aclu-says-two-black-men-were-victims-225811126.html

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