"You could get hurt or killed so it makes sense to try to keep people safe," says Chole Abercrombie. "But since everybody does it, it also makes sense not to fine people anymore."
"When we looked at the statistics, we looked at the data and the percentages of people of color who are being issued these tickets, and it was overwhelmingly, Black and brown people," says Natalie Peeples, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society.
Now that the fines are going away, advocates believe it will also make a huge difference financially on many communities already struggling to make ends meet.
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