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In many of the states that have passed SB 1070 "copycat laws," local police are authorized to check an individual's immigration status during a traffic or any other lawful stop; during an investigation of petty offenses like open container laws, underage drinking, jay-walking, or smoking in an elevator; even during domestic violence incidents where often both the perpetrator and victim are initially arrested.
Abraham H. Foxman: The Road Ahead for Immigration Reform Abraham H. Foxman 2012
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I really hope they don't have an accident, trains zig-zagging back and forth, jay-walking peds around PSU, poorly-designed bicycle lanes, confusing intersections ...
One thumb down on the new transit mall (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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To add insult to injury, the police later justified his detention by accusing him of not paying an old jay-walking fine.
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In many of the states that have passed SB 1070 "copycat laws," local police are authorized to check an individual's immigration status during a traffic or any other lawful stop; during an investigation of petty offenses like open container laws, underage drinking, jay-walking, or smoking in an elevator; even during domestic violence incidents where often both the perpetrator and victim are initially arrested.
Abraham H. Foxman: The Road Ahead for Immigration Reform Abraham H. Foxman 2012
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In many of the states that have passed SB 1070 "copycat laws," local police are authorized to check an individual's immigration status during a traffic or any other lawful stop; during an investigation of petty offenses like open container laws, underage drinking, jay-walking, or smoking in an elevator; even during domestic violence incidents where often both the perpetrator and victim are initially arrested.
Abraham H. Foxman: The Road Ahead for Immigration Reform Abraham H. Foxman 2012
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Sentient@4: So librarians also universally object to jay-walking, and driving in excess of speed limits?
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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Attending a demonstration, or even jay-walking, are so far outside of my comfort range I cannot even tell you.
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Attending a demonstration, or even jay-walking, are so far outside of my comfort range I cannot even tell you.
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Pedestrian jay-walking also played a role in KwaZulu-Natal's fatalities, the Western and Eastern Cape, Free State and Limpopo.
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It's a cacophony played by an orchestra of phlegm-hocking, jay-walking, coffee-slurping pedestrians, moronic bike salmon, malicious cellphone-cradling delivery truck drivers, deranged cab drivers in exotic religious headgear, doughy endomorphs in drifting SUVs, and riders for whom the highest expression of cycling is the crosswalk trackstand during which they stare deep into space in a desperate attempt to maintain their precarious balance like candy-colored pointers locking on to birds.
The Indignity of Living in New York: Big, Fat, Lazy Egos BikeSnobNYC 2008
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