Black men in Shreveport, Louisiana, for example, comprised 96% of the arrests from 2017 to June 2019 for wearing sagging pants. These legislations reportedly led to police chasing down and killing ...

There can be fatal consequences to being Black and selling loosies: Eric Garner. There are fatal consequences to being a Black man wearing sagging pants: Anthony Childs. The Bridgeport City ...

Others went full-on sag, tying their pants mid-thigh, a sartorial maneuver that made them "look like they were pooping themselves while they walked," one critic observed.

His pants were sagging. This officer chased him through a field because his pants were at a certain length," Anthony Childs' sister, Tyren Pucker, said before the Council voted to abolish the law.

What the advocates of the menthol cigarette ban do not realize is that they are picking up the saggy pants ban torch. And just like sagging pants were used as a pretext to stop, question and frisk ...

Black men made up 96 % of the 726 arrests for sagging pants in Shreveport since the law passed 2007, according to Shreveport Police Department data.

South Carolina is the latest state attempting to outlaw the controversial sagging pants style. According to Yahoo Lifestyle, South Carolina lawmakers recently introduced a new bill that seeks to ...