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Punishment is a fine not being yanked out of the car by your hair, thrown to the ground and having your shoulder dislocated. >> scott holmes is supervisor opportunity for the civil litigation clinic and one of bottom's attorneys, he later discovered bottom was charged in the incident. >> she was charged with speeding, 10 over, failure to heed blue lights and resisting an officer. >> reporter: why do you think they treated you this way? >> really? >> reporter: real talk. >> old black woman. and because of the fact that i did not stop right away. i truly believe that if i was white i wouldn't ha...

In nashville over a seven year pe period, found no relationship over the number of stops and the rate of crime there. >> i talked to a number of kplees chiefs. >> reporter: unc chapel hill researcher says these type of stops do not net police a lot of guns or drugs. >> only find contraband about 1/4 of the time, that means 3/4 of the people are searched fruitlessly. >> reporter: we now know felando castile was a pretextual stop. >> have reason to pull it over, driver looks like one of our suspects because of the wide-set nose. >> reporter: five years later and about 20 miles north of where cas...

Freshener hanging on his rear view mirror and an expired tag. wright tried to flee when officers tried to arrest him for outstanding warrant, ended in his death, shot by an officer who says she confused her gun for her taser. also near minneapolis, officer killed felando casteel after a minor traffic violation, broken tail light, saying he reached for his identification and informed the officer he had a gun which he had a legal permit to carry, but the officer claimed casteel's hand was on the gun. >> don't pull it out -- don't pull it out -- >> reporter: then, there was walter scott, pulled o...

Of bottom's attorneys. he later discovered bottom was charged in the incident. >> she was charged with speeding 10 over and failure to heed blue rights and resisting an officer. >> why do you think they treated you this way? >> really? >> really. real talk. >> old black woman. and because of the fact that i did not stop right away. i truly believe that if i was white i wouldn't have been treated that way. >> you refused to stop. >> it was a traffic stop of a black person like many you've heard about in the news over the past several years. there is the case of 20-year-old dante wright, initial...

>> no to be pulled over for minor traffic stops it's systemic racism. it's a way for police officers to have a reasoning to pull somebody over. and it ends up in death or incarceration that doesn't need to have happened. >> once police learned write had a warrant, they tried to arrest him. wright tried to flee. >> i'll taser. i'll taste err taser. taser, taser. >> my god i just shot him. >> what were your hopes and dreams for dante? what did you hope for him. >> to get married one day, to watch him raise a son, so become successful. he didn't have that opportunity. >> up next, will ticket for ...