"It was very embarrassing and very traumatizing. I didn't know why I was being treated the way I was being treated." - Fred Johnson, reflecting on his arrest for marijuana possession.
"Miami-Dade's top prosecutor, State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, in 2019 vowed to stop prosecuting such cases... police departments across the county continued to make arrests anyway."
"More than 4,200 people have still been arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession... nearly 60% of the defendants were Black, despite Black people making up just 18% of Miami-Dade's population."
"In at least 97% of the cases, prosecutors ultimately dropped the charges, according to a Miami Herald analysis of data..."
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