Va. teen’s case focuses on autism, race
Washington Post / July 12, 2010
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WASHINGTON — The mother of a Virginia teenager has launched an Internet campaign that has attracted wide public support by linking her son’s arrest to two social flash points: autism and racial profiling.
Reginald C. Latson, 18, was sitting outside a library in Stafford County, Va., last spring, waiting for it to open. To someone, he looked suspicious. The confrontation with police that followed prompted his mother, Lisa Alexander, to start her campaign to help exonerate her son.
The effort has spread to Facebook, Twitter, and an online petition that has collected more than 1,500 signatures. Some supporters are parents of children with autism like Latson, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in eighth grade, and others are African-Americans drawn to the story of a black teenager
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