Legal Opinion
Jones v. Clark
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 14, 2011No. 09-3574PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Christina Jones is an employee of Commonwealth Edison (“ComEd”), which is the major electricity provider in the Chicago area. One day, while working in her job as a meter reader in Braidwood, Illinois, she was stopped and then arrested by Officers Craig Clark and Donn Kaminski. The officers were responding to a report that a “person of color” was taking pictures of houses in Braidwood. (Jones is an African-American, and Braidwood is almost entirely white. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Braidwood’s population in 2000 was over 97% white. See http://www.census.gov.)…
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