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Brickbat: Flying in My Taxi

Charles Oliver | 6.21.2013 6:00 AM


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Austin, Texas, cab driver Akbar Amir-Akbari has sued the city and five police officers after he was attacked by a drunk passenger. He says the officers forced him to drive the man home after he'd been kicked out of a bar for fighting and that the police regularly force cab drivers to take drunks home.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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