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Oregon county rescinds racial profiling mask exception

| June 26, 2020 12:03 AM

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — A coastal county in Oregon has rescinded a face mask policy that made exceptions for people of color worried about racial profiling after a backlash spurred by an article in the New York Post that went viral.

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