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An Indictment of [Dope]Boys in Blue and the Blocks They Have Left Empty
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An Indictment of [Dope]Boys in Blue and the Blocks They Have Left Empty

A poetic response to the NYPD planting marijuana on Jason Serrano, and the truth that came from it

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Nov 03, 2021
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In a court decision on Friday, a Staten Island judge vacated a man’s 2018 conviction, citing body camera footage which appears to show an NYPD officer planting marijuana in a car he was riding in.

At the time, police charged the man, Jason Serrano, for drug possession, resisting arrest, and obstructing governmental a…

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