“You want me to stipulate that the cops violated her constitutional rights?”

—  Michael Nava

"This is the LAPD we're talking about, Kim. It would be shocking if they hadn't violated her rights."
Source: Henry Rios series of novels, Rag and Bone (2001), p.225

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