'Like a Prisoner in My Own Home': Black NJ Family Says They Were Arrested for 'Loitering' in Their Own Front Yard

The definition of loitering, as it relates to criminal offense, generally runs along the lines of this: to hang around a public place with no expressed-particularly, legal-purpose. It follows then, that one place you can't loiter in, by definition, is your home; a very not public place where the expectation is you do"