A woman on Long Island is taking action after she says police treated her inhumanely when they pulled her over with her 9-year-old son in the car.
There was a long embrace between Tivia Leith and her sister after filing a $30 million civil lawsuit against the Nassau County Police Department for allegedly racially profiling and discriminating against the single mother from Massapequa during a traffic stop on Sunrise Highway in Bellmore last December.
"I was extremely fearful to tell you the truth, just the whole process of going to jail," Leith said."She goes through these anxiety attacks," Leith's sister Kayon Darwood said. "She's scared to drive so I try to put her in the driver's seat. It's hard for me as well, but it's just heartbreaking." Brewington said Leith's arrest is part of a longstanding disturbing trend of racial discrimination and emotional abuse by Nassau County Police against minorities, specifically Black people.
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