Drinking While Brown is a Mother Jones' article that explains how police in some areas of the country, such as Irving, a suburb of Dallas, have carte blanche by way of liquor laws that are overly broad in how they can be interpreted. The case of the Rainbow Lounge raid (on the anniversary of the Stonewall Inn police raid of forty years ago) is an example of this law being applied to harass certain groups; in this case gays, but it also works for people with black or brown skin.
Yet another example of how someone's rights can be scuttled, so long as they are not your own. Welcome to the banana republic, I mean, err, Texas. (George W. was governor not too long ago.)
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