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Red light camera tickets came into being during the early 2000s. The public was outraged and irritated because the cameras eliminated the human element.

There are a bunch more reasons why all of us as taxpayers were annoyed and irritated by the red light camera ticket.

You Eastwood and Beavis Shockock decided to do something about it.

There are civil rights lawyers in St. Louis,

and they filed three separate cases,

all three of which were heard by the Missouri Supreme Court

in one big morning argument.

Here's Beavis Schock and New Eastwood

to tell their story.

I got into civil rights law 25 years ago, early in my practice.

I ended up working on a civil rights case on a referral.

I felt great about it. I won my first civil rights trial,

and I decided that I would vastly focus on that in my practice, which I have done.

So the red light camera tickets cranked up and when they first started,

it was just a little small program and the alderman,

I don't think when they passed it, they had any idea what it would turn into. But in St. Louis, they were issuing

these tickets left and right. And I thought that this idea of giving people tickets for running

through a red light by a tenth of a second, which a cop would have just ignored, shortening the

yellows, which they were doing to increase the revenue.

Early morning, people coming home from coffee or going to coffee, no right on red.

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