While it was only the final, fatal traffic stops of black drivers Sandra Bland and Philando Castille that made headlines, both drivers had long suffered in America’s racist system of traffic policing. Both had been frequently stopped and harassed by police for minor violations, issued tickets, and then overwhelmed by traffic fine debt and license suspensions.
Urban Dictionary Should be SFW in American Courts
For years, Urban Dictionary has been thought of as nothing more than a fun, if not crude, website frequented by middle schoolers looking for colorful new ways to insult their friends or refer to NSFW topics. But it is 2022. We are living in a time when the ridiculous has become credible. Where the joke is reality. Internet culture is mainstream culture. And in these modern, changing times, Urban Dictionary has been pulled out of middle school and dropped into the American Court system. Judges across the nation are turning to Urban Dictionary for the definitions of slang terms that appear in litigation.