MA: Group Files Civil Rights Complaint with the MBTA Alleging Black Teen was Racially Profiled

An advocacy group on Tuesday filed a civil rights complaint with the state Department of Transportation, alleging that an MBTA inspector racially profiled a black teenager when the official ordered him off a Red Line train last month without justification.

The complaint from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice alleged that the inspector “improperly removed our client ... racially profiling him as part of an alleged disorderly group of African-American children.”

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