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Walking While Black 

Mariah Charles, a young black woman whose arrest and roughing up by New York City police as she walked to high school — without ID on her — was videotaped and went viral online, sued the NYPD and the officers who arrested her for excessive force and false arrest, in Kings County Court.

BROOKLYN — Mariah Charles, a young black woman whose arrest and roughing up by New York City police as she walked to high school — without ID on her — was videotaped and went viral online, sued the NYPD and the officers who arrested her for excessive force and false arrest, in Kings County Court.

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