Harvard Law Review
In 2010, the New York Police Department arrested sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder on suspicion of stealing a backpack.Jennifer Gonnerman, Before the Law, New Yorker (Sept. 29, 2014), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law [https://perma.cc/K3WV-776H]. Browder maintained…
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