When two black brothers were pulled over by a cop in the city of New London, the officer frisked them both, allegedly touching their genitals and their buttocks. When one of them protested and turned around during the pat down, he was arrested for interfering with the police officer.
Now four years later after that October 2011 traffic stop, U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall has ruled that there is enough evidence to to go to trial on the allegations that what happened to Donald Gilbert, the driver of the vehicle pulled over by Officer Roger Newton, and Andre Gilbert, the passenger in his brother’s vehicle, were part of policy by New London police to arbitrarily stop motor vehicles and arbitrarily arrest people.
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