Suit: Suburban NY police targeted Latinos for traffic stops

Joselo Lucero, center, the brother of an Ecuadorean immigrant killed by a group of Long Island teenagers in 2008, speaks at a press conference, Thursday, April 30, 2015, outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Central Islip, N.Y. Lucero joined advocates for Latinos in announcing a lawsuit that Latinos were unjustly targeted for traffic stop by members of Suffolk County's police department. The Associated Press CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. "' A suburban New York police department that has been the target of Justice Department scrutiny and criticism from a civil rights group is being accused in a lawsuit of systematically targeting Latinos for unfounded, race-based traffic stops, and in some cases, robberies.
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