"We all know who will be stopped -- Black people like me or my brothers."
Next month, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation
Authority will become the first transit agency in the nation to
institute a permanent policy of randomly inspecting passenger bags and
packages on subway and commuter trains, MBTA police officials disclosed
Monday. The stop-and-search procedure will involve
explosive-sniffing dogs and all 247 uniformed MBTA police officers, and
is set to be in place for July's Democratic National Convention. [more] and [""From
Nazi Germany, to Stalinist Russia, to South Africa under apartheid, the
phrase: 'Your papers, please' is alien to a free society." "]
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