Michael Celestine
Posted inCriminal Justice

Recently settled suit highlights growth of surveillance-based police stops in New Orleans, advocates and attorneys say

Michael Isaac SteinRich Webster by Michael Isaac Stein and Richard A. Webster

Twenty-five year old Michael Celestine walked outside his friend’s 7th Ward home to take a phone call and smoke a cigarette. Wearing a Tommy Hillfiger puffer jacket on a brisk day in January 2020, he chatted with a friend, walked across the street and then went back inside.  What Celestine didn’t know that is that […]