Civil Rights
Jun. 21, 2007
One Downtown but Two Sets of Rules?
LOS ANGELES - Otis Howard was smoking a cigarette outside a Skid Row mission in December when he was handcuffed, searched and taken to a police station before being released with a citation for "throwing foreign substance (cigarette ash) on the street."
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Otis Howard was smoking a cigarette outside a Skid Row mission in December when he was handcuffed, searched and taken to a police station before being released with a citation for "throwing foreign substance (cigarette ash) on the street."
Howard, who is homeless, is among the thousands of Skid Row residents to be cited in the...
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