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Seattle drops bike helmet law because study showed cops unfairly targeted people of color and homeless

Seattle officials have overturned a decades-old mandatory law for bicycle riders to wear helmets after a study that there was discriminatory enforcement showed of the rule against people of color and homeless people and found that black cyclists were four times as likely to be stopped as white cyclists  Seattle is the largest city in the country to enforce a bike helmet requirement.

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