Legal Opinion
Goolsby v. Dist. of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 13, 2018No. Case No. 16-cv-2029 (CRC)PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
It is a sad reality of American life that a white citizen of Washington, D.C. would feel a need to report an African American teenager and his friends to the police for simply congregating in a public establishment. It is also lamentable (but thankfully not tragic in this instance) that the young man, having committed no crime, would feel the urge to run when the police arrived to investigate. Both actions are born of fear on either side of the country's racial divide. But while those fears may animate this case, they do not decide it.
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