Dreadlocked—A college student from Colorado is asking a New Jersey judge to dismantle the Keansburg, N.J., Police Department Street Crimes Unit, claiming two officers illegally profiled and searched him, leading to an arrest for drug possession.
In a suit filed Oct. 30 in federal court in Trenton, N.J., Justin Cooke identifies himself as is a “practicing member of the Rastafarian religion” who uses marijuana “as a food, medicine, and religious sacrament.” He says he wears his hair in dreadlocks as a means of religious expression.
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