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HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — A 25-year-old Alabama woman returned home late Saturday after being the focus of a 2-day search by police & family members who reported her missing after she stopped to check on a child who was walking along a highway.

Police said Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell had returned to the home she shares with her parents in Hoover Saturday night.

Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis said Russell arrived home alone & was brought to a hospital for evaluation.

Russell’s whereabouts were not immediately clear since around 10:45 p.m. Thursday when she called 911 & a family member to say she saw a young child walking on the side of Interstate 459.

Police found Russell’s car & her cellphone but were unable to find her or a child in the area.

Hoover Police Lt. Daniel Lowe said the family member on the phone with Russell lost contact with her even though the line remained open. A single witness reported possibly seeing a gray vehicle and a man standing outside of Carlee’s vehicle.

Talitha Russell said her daughter was headed home in the community about 10 miles south of Birmingham after leaving work & stopping to get food. She was on the phone with her brother’s girlfriend when she said she saw a child on the roadside.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Comedians Eric André & Clayton English are challenging a police program at the Atlanta airport they say violates the constitutional rights of airline passengers through racial profiling & coercive searches.

The 2 men filed a lawsuit in Atlanta alleging that they were racially profiled & illegally stopped by at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

They say officers singled them out during separate stops roughly 6 months apart because they are Black & grilled them about drugs as other passengers watched.

Officers blocked them as they entered the jet bridge & asked if they were carrying illegal drugs. Both were asked to hand over their boarding passes & identification. An officer said he wanted to search English’s bag & he agreed, not believing he had a choice.

The police department calls the stops “consensual encounters” & says they are “random,” but in reality the stops “rely on coercion & targets are selected disproportionately based on their race,” the lawyers argue.

From Aug. 30, 2020, to April 30, 2021, there were 402 jet bridge stops & the passenger’s race was listed for 378 of those stops. Of those 378 passengers, 56% were Black & people of color accounted for 68%.

Those 402 stops resulted in 3 reported drug seizures: about 10 grams of drugs, 26 grams of “suspected THC gummies” & 6 prescription pills without a prescription.

Those stops yielded more than $1 million in cash from 25 passengers. 8 challenged the seizures & Clayton County returned much of the money.

Carrying large quantities of cash doesn’t mean someone is involved in illegal drug activity, the lawyers argue, noting that people of color are less likely to have bank accounts & are more likely to carry large sums when they travel.

The 2 seek a jury trial & ask that the jet bridge interdiction program be declared unconstitutional. They also seek compensatory & punitive damages, as well as legal costs.

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Former Louisville Metro Police Detective Kelly Hanna Goodlett pleaded guilty Tuesday to 1 count of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Breonna Taylor for helping falsify an affidavit for the search of her apartment that ended in her death in March 2020.

Goodlett is expected to against 2 of her ex-colleagues, Joshua Jaynes and Kyle Meany, when they are tried on civil rights charges in connection with Taylor’s death. A third ex-detective, Brett Hankison, is also charged in a separate federal indictment.

Goodlett, 35, admitted the charge before U.S. District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings with Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, among those present in the courtroom.

She faces a sentence of no more than 6 years in prison, plus up to a $250,000 fine & 3 years of supervised release. 

Goodlett admitted she falsely claimed a postal inspector had verified Taylor was receiving packages for her ex-boyfriend, convicted drug dealer Jamarcus Glover, at her apartment before the raid. In fact, postal inspectors said there was no evidence Taylor was receiving packages at her apartment.

The indictment of Jaynes alleges Goodlett met with Jaynes in his garage so they could “get on the same page” after a postal inspector said the claim that Taylor was receiving Glover's packages was bogus.

Jaynes, 40, & Meany, 35, also face civil rights charges for the search that ended in Taylor's death, while Hankison, 46, is charged with violating the civil rights of Taylor; her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker & 3 of Taylor’s neighbors; by blindly firing shots into her apartment.

Taylor was 26 when she died.

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Source: Courier Journal

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