BOSTON The state s Supreme Judicial Court on Monday heard its first arguments in a case concerning a New Bedford man and the New Bedford Police Department s use of a gang list.
Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting is alleging his Fourth Amendment rights were violated during a traffic stop in February 2018 in which he was a passenger.
Police stopped a car after it unsafely changed lanes. During the stop, three New Bedford police officers from the gang unit frisked all four passengers and found Bailey-Sweeting, then 18 years old, in possession of a large capacity firearm without a license.
Under the law, police can only frisk someone if they have reasonable suspicion, under articulable facts, that the person is both armed and dangerous.
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