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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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José Olivares

US police officer resigns after wrongfully arresting undocumented teen

barbed wire on fence and outside of building
Barbed wire lines a recreation area at the Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, in November 2019. Photograph: David Goldman/AP

A Georgia police officer resigned from his job on Friday after erroneously pulling over a teenager, causing her to spend more than two weeks in a federal immigration jail, and leaving her facing deportation.

The officer, Leslie O’Neal, was employed at the police department in Dalton, a small city more than an hour north of Atlanta.

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