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  2. Family of Chicago man fatally shot by police files federal ...

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    The 81-page, 17-count lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, alleges the officers carried out an unlawful and pretextual traffic stop and ...

  3. Whren v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), was a unanimous United States Supreme Court decision [1] that "declared that any traffic offense committed by a driver was a legitimate legal basis for a stop."

  4. Family of Dexter Reed, killed after Chicago police fired 96 ...

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    CHICAGO (AP) — The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the ...

  5. Terry stop - Wikipedia

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    When police stop and search a pedestrian, this is commonly known as a stop and frisk. When police stop an automobile, this is known as a traffic stop. If the police stop a motor vehicle on minor infringements in order to investigate other suspected criminal activity, this is known as a pretextual stop. Additional rules apply to stops that occur ...

  6. List of Terry stop case law - Wikipedia

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    United States — pretextual stop; Maryland v. Wilson, 519 U.S. 408 (1997) — applies to passengers of car; Illinois v. Wardlow, 528 U.S. 119 (2000) — inference of suspicion from flight (can be extended to any evasive movement)

  7. California police required to state reason for traffic stops ...

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    The law seeks to curb 'pretextual stops,' in which police use a minor infraction as the basis to make a stop and investigate other possible crimes.

  8. Family of man killed when Chicago police fired 96 times ...

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    The family of a Chicago man killed when plainclothes police officers fired their guns nearly 100 times during a traffic stop filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the department of ...

  9. A police officer orders you to exit your car during a traffic ...

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    Research shows that Black drivers are more likely to be subject to pretextual stops than their white counterparts. In many cases, these traffic stops for minor infractions have turned combative or ...