Black Couple's Children Taken into Custody After Traffic Stop

Five children of a couple from Georgia were taken into custody by the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS) after their parents were pulled over in Coffee County, Tennessee, and charged with a misdemeanor. The kids range in age from 4 months to 7 years old. The parents were traveling from Georgia to Chicago for a funeral when they were pulled over for having dark-tinted windows and using the left lane without actively passing. The state trooper smelled marijuana and found about 5 grams of it in the car. The parents' attorneys said they don’t believe this would’ve escalated in the same way if his clients looked different or were from a different background.