Taking away a license over unpaid fines for minor traffic infractions makes work and family life a misery for low-income Americans. States should reform this punitive, unjust practice.
New task force aims to help drivers with suspended licenses in Miami-Dade
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More than 630,000 Miami-Dade drivers have suspended licenses over unpaid fees
MIAMI – Marq Mitchell received a ticket. He couldn’t afford to pay for car insurance. He couldn’t afford to pay for Miami-Dade County court costs fees. His driver’s license was suspended.
Mitchell couldn’t fix the problem for about five years. It’s a defeating cycle. For some drivers, poverty is to blame. A license suspension makes it impossible for some to get to work.
“If you can’t get to work, you drive your family into poverty,” said Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins.
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Ten months after George Floyd’s murder, Black men still don’t have to watch
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Protesters take to the streets of Kalamazoo, Michigan on Saturday, May 30, 2020. People gathered to speak out about police brutality and demand justice in the recent death of George Floyd who was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020. (Kendall Warner | MLive.com) Kendall Warner | MLive.com
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I didn’t watch.
Correction, in the interest of honesty and transparency: I didn’t watch the whole thing. Not all horrific eight minutes and 46 seconds.
I can’t recall if I watched George Floyd die. If I watched the moments when the last breaths of life squeezed from his body last May as Derek Chauvin, then an officer with the Minneapolis Police, crushed Floyd’s neck beneath his left knee.