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A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans:
My jaw fell to the floor reading this story.
Three years ago, a young black woman named Heather Ellis was shopping
with her cousin in a Missouri Wal-Mart. As I’ve done more than once in
my life, Ellis and her cousin split up into two different checkout
lines to see which would go fastest. When her cousin’s line started
moving quickly, she joined him. The clerk accused Ellis of cutting in
line, an argument ignited, security was called, and lo and behold
Ellis, a pre-med honor student, now faces up to 15 years in prison on
charges of disturbing the peace, trespassing, and assaulting a police
officer. ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).