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#LivingWhileBlack: New laws could outlaw racially motivated 911 calls

The hashtag "Living While Black" went viral on social media in the last two years as videos proliferated of incidents around the nation in which white people called police on black people going about their everyday activities.

The most well-publicized episodes came last year, including two black men confronted by Philadelphia police after asking to use a Starbucks bathroom without first having made a purchase; a black Yale graduate student questioned by cops for napping in a dorm common room; and a black man in Oakland, Calif. whose wife filmed his encounter with a

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