Walking While Female
Monica Gonzalez; a 40-year-old grandmother and resident of Brooklyn is fighting her arrest for prostitution 
last November. Gonzalez, who suffered an asthma attack earlier that day, was on her way to the hospital a few blocks from her house when cops stopped her and arrested her on charges of prostitution, claiming that she was carrying a condom and had previously been arrested for prostitution. Gonzalez had no prior history of arrest and says that she was not carrying a condom. But what does the officer who arrested her care? Women of color don't have medical issues that warrant late-night walks to emergency rooms!
Another shining example of the criminalization of poverty, womanhood, and POC-ness.
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