U.S. police have begun collecting DNA of innocent people with new ‘stop and swabs’

‘As America continues its descent into authoritarianism, police are now taking advantage of a lack of legal restrictions so that they can collect DNA samples from innocent people.
More and more police forces in Florida and other states have initiated a practice nicknamed “stop and swab” or “stop and spit,” which involves using mouth swabs to collect samples to build DNA databases – and they are collecting these samples at random from people who often have committed no crime or who are not even considered suspects in a crime.’
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