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Ayyub Ama was 14 years old when he was stopped by a police officer for the first time. The officer asked him for identification, and Ama gave him the only one he had: his middle school ID card. When he asked why he’d been stopped, Ama said that he was told that he fit the description of a suspect involved in a crime at a nearby 7-Eleven. When Ama tried to tell the officer that he was walking home directly from school, he said he was told to wait as more and more police cars pulled up.