Woman gets jail time in 'driving while black' case

LINCOLN -- A judge on Monday sentenced a 27-year-old Illinois woman to seven days in jail for failing to obey a lawful order last year.

Alicia Campbell was driving near 91st Street and Nebraska 2 when Trooper Kyle Gress stopped her for going 79 mph in a 65 mph zone.

Campbell is the fiancée of Devin James, who wrote a book about unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after the 2014 shooting of a young black man by police. James is the CEO of the Devin James Group and travels the country training law enforcement agencies on bias-free, colorblind and community-conscious policing.

James, a passenger in the car on Aug. 27, 2015, said they were stopped outside of Lincoln for “driving while black.”

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Cross-posted in the African American Group.