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Black Grad Student Accused of Stealing His Own Car and Beaten by Police Gets $1.25 Million Settlement
The police tackled him for “stealing” a car that was his—now they may have to run him his money for the trouble to the tune of over a million dollars. In 2015, police pulled over then-doctoral candidate Lawrence Crosby after an incorrigibly nosy and probably racist woman saw him fixing what turned out to be…
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How a Nosy Woman Got a Doctoral Candidate Beaten and Arrested
Lawrence Crosby, a black man and an engineering doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, was fixing his car in a suburb outside Chicago on Oct. 10, 2015, when a woman passing by called police. “Hi, somebody’s trying to break into, somebody’s trying to break into a car,” the woman told the dispatcher, according to Fox 32.…