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San Francisco officials let people sue over racist 911 calls

by Janie Har
| October 21, 2020 12:03 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling water bottles, barbecuing or otherwise going about their lives, San Francisco leaders unanimously approved hate crime legislation giving the targets of those calls the ability to sue the caller.

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