“The moral crisis is that the welfare of the people is the supreme law, but it’s not a law for all people,” said the Rev. Kim Woodruff with Missouri Faith Voices, a multi-racial, multi-faith and non-partisan group. “African Americans are twice as likely to have incomes below the federal poverty rate, and many times vehicle stops result in black and brown people being ticketed for minor violations and they go unpaid because of income constraints. That leads to arrests and bonds to get out of jail.”

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