Ohio sheriff’s deputies waited an entire year after pulling over a Black man for minor traffic infractions before they filed felony charges of drug possession against him, claiming they had found drugs in his car during the traffic stop.

But that only happened after Henry Ray filed a lawsuit against the Cuyahoga County sheriff’s deputies, accusing them of racial profiling — indicating the felony drug charges were an apparent attempt to intimidate and retaliate against the 32-year-old Black man for filing the lawsuit.

Those charges were dismissed, and now Ray’s attorney is suggesting the deputies planted the drugs on him.

“You know you don’t get rid of drug charges if drugs were present in that car,” attorney Scott Ramsey told News 5 Cleveland.

“So if that’s what happened, if the drugs

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