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of washington. this was an attempt to type bicycle infractions to instances of racism policing. saddle in king county as a whole, a $30 ticket if not wearing a helmet riding your bike. after the first couple of years, pretty much wasn't enforced. and yet the king county board of health decided to look into the ticket distribution as part of their commitment to what they defined as equity because they were inspired by the blm movement. this report says black bicyclists are taken nearly four times more than white bicyclist for not wearing a helmet. but the data represents under 300 total tickets to black cyclists given out over 13 years. and some of the people who were ticketed were homeless, most likely riding stolen bikes, which a cop at the moment that they gave out the ticket. nevertheless, it was enough for the whole king county board of health by a vote of 11-2 to repeal the law because they say the research cited that "racism