A supplemental governmental claim filed on Oct. 24 against the Beverly Hills Police Department alleges racial profiling against a Black driver and passenger in August 2020. The allegations join others as a part of a proposed class action lawsuit that accuses the BHPD of conducting racially biased policing through a task force convened in the late summer of 2020.
“This is about making America live up to its creed that we don’t allow you to treat Black and brown people differently than you treat white people,” said civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump at an Oct. 27 press conference announcing the new claims.
