Bipartisan effort would end driver's license suspensions for unpaid tickets [View all]
On a recent Friday night, Lamont Fondern Jr. was driving to Walmart in Bloomington when he noticed a cop car behind him. He got nervous.
The cop’s lights flashed as Fondern took an exit. He turned on Facebook Live. As a Black man getting pulled over, he said,“I needed someone to watch.”
The officer told him his vehicle registration tabs recently expired. Fondern didn’t know, because he hadn’t gotten a letter from the state. (Mail is notoriously slow these days.) When asked for his insurance, Fondern said he didn’t have it.
“I had to let it go for a little bit because of the pandemic,” he told the cop. “I couldn’t afford to keep paying it.”
Read more: https://minnesotareformer.com/2021/03/02/bipartisan-effort-would-end-drivers-license-suspensions-for-unpaid-tickets/
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