Atlanta Police must pay Black, transgender woman $1.5M

By JOYCE LUPIANI

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    ATLANTA, Georgia (WGCL) — The Atlanta Police Department must now pay a Black, transgender woman $1.5 million because of a false arrest.

In October 2015, Ju’Zema Goldring says she was walking with two friends on Piedmont Road when two officers stopped and questioned the group.

The officers then accused her of jaywalking and arrested her.

During the arrest, they found Goldring’s stress ball in her purse, which officers claimed had cocaine inside of it.

Despite a test by the GBI coming back negative, she spent 6 months in jail.

Only after the GBI tested the substance a second time was she released.

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