Right of Way

In 1991, two police officers stopped Tupac Shakur for jaywalking.
He said he was knocked unconscious during his arrest, and sued the
city of Oakland for 10 million dollars. His lawyer says many of the
police brutality cases he's worked on started with jaywalking
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