Stephanie Bottom Files Lawsuit Over Traffic Stop
Colin KalmbacherApr 22nd, 2021, 4:45 pm A 68-year-old Black librarian from Georgia has filed a civil rights lawsuit against police officers over a traffic stop gone awry. Stephanie Bottom was admittedly going 10 miles over the speed limit on May 30, 2019 in North Carolina. Traveling north on I-85, she eventually “noticed the blue lights of a Sheriff Deputy’s vehicle” and “began looking for a safe area to pull over,” according to her lawsuit filed in federal court on Wednesday. But she didn’t immediately comply, the lawsuit says, because she “feared the police and did not want t...
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