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Protesters pulled over by police, searched on way home from Saratoga Springs BLM march | The Daily Gazette
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Saratoga Springs native Alexus Brown and her boyfriend Marcus Filien, both 21, were heading back to Brown’s mom’s house after a Black Lives Matter protest Wednesday when they passed a Saratoga Springs police car with its lights turned off.
As they passed, the police car turned on its lights, turned around and started to follow them for multiple blocks. As the couple neared Brown’s mom’s home, and the Saratoga Springs border, the police pulled them over.
“All I could think of – we saw the police car – was come to a complete stop, don’t commit any traffic violations, don’t give them a reason to stop us,” said Filien, who grew up in East Greenbush and is now a student-athlete at Cornell University. “As soon as we passed them, we saw them start the car, the brake lights came on, they pulled out, and I can’t even remember what I was