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Black Law Student Says FBI Pressured Him to Recant Racial Profiling Claim

John Perkins’ story of being racially profiled by campus police at the University of Virginia prompted outrage in Charlottesville and a visit from the FBI.

March 28th, 2018
Denise Lavoie
March 28th, 2018
By Denise Lavoie
In this Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 photo Johnathan Perkins, an attorney in the office of General Counsel at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in his office in Cambridge, Mass. (AP/Stephan Savoia)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A young law student's story of being racially profiled by campus police at the University of Virginia in 2011 drew outrage in Charlottesville, a liberal college enclave that boasts of its inclusiveness. When he recanted weeks later, he was branded a liar and an example of what's wrong with affirmative action. One editorial

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