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A black man from Detroit who'd saved $16,000 in hopes of starting his own music-video business had his money seized by DEA agents on the suspicion that it was drug-related. Joseph Rivers, 22, was traveling by train to Los Angeles when agents searched his luggage and seized the cash. "We don't have to prove that the person is guilty," a DEA agent explained. "The money is presumed to be guilty."
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