Buffalo targets communities of color with discriminatory traffic stops to increase revenue

In a lawsuit against the City of Buffalo challenging the Buffalo Police Department’s (BPD) unconstitutional and racially discriminatory practices, legal and civil rights groups have filed a motion and brief seeking certification of class. According to the case, these aggressive and punitive practices targeting Black and Latinx communities, designed to harvest revenue for the city budget, violate the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. We are joined by Dorethea Franklin, a plaintiff in the case, who joins us from Buffalo, and Anjana Malhotra, senior counsel at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, in New York.