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Revisionist History

'I'm Not Doing Anything, I'm Just Sitting Here'

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Baines and his team found evidence that one time officials in ferguson wanted to get rid of an incompetent judge, but the city manager said, we can't get rid of him. Police officers were rewarded and promoted for their productivity, meaning how many tickets they issued. Baines remembers one case of a man who was sitting in his car at a playground, cooling off, playing basket ball. An officer drove up, blocked the man's car and demanded to see an id. The way the incident ends is that the officer writes amut for eight different tickets - including not having a seat belt on h sitting in his vehicle. One of them was for using a false name, because the

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