Marquita Jackson stands for a portrait on Sunday, February 28, 2021, near her home in Tacoma. Credit: KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer
She was a pregnant teen when a cop knocked on the car window. That encounter echoes 20 years later By
Until that September evening, Marquita Jacksonâs interactions with law enforcement had been unremarkable.
She had positive interactions with a friendly resource officer at Decatur High School, in Federal Way, just south of Seattle, where she was a student. As a child, she had collected stickers from officers handing them out at carnivals and near the housing community where she lived.
But now Jackson was 19, no longer a child and eight weeks pregnant. This next encounter with Federal Way Police would leave a lasting impression, she said.
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