By representing two African-American drivers claiming a Miami-Dade police officer separately pulled them over and pointed a gun at their heads without good cause, Fort Lauderdale civil rights litigator Yechezkel Rodal said he hopes to start a conversation.

“What do we think, as a society, should be the role of police? That’s a conversation that I really want to get started with this complaint, and to just have a real, honest, open conversation about the role of race, the role of implicit bias and the role of police in society,” Rodal said.