Article 4SCBW 'Like a Prisoner in My Own Home': Black NJ Family Says They Were Arrested for 'Loitering' in Their Own Front Yard

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

by
Anne Branigin
from The Root on (#4SCBW)
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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"

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