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That year also witnessed the death of 85-year-old former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and the passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act that abolished the xenophobic quota system put in place in the 1920s.

One of the officers under suspicion alleged in a lawsuit that commanders had for years enforced a de facto quota system that rewarded cops who identified and arrested alleged gang members and punished those who didn’t, creating an incentive for officers to level false allegations.

It was a simple demand for reform of a quota system which reserved some public sector jobs for the relatives of war heroes, who fought for the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971, that sparked the protest movement in the first place.

About 300 people have been killed since protests broke out a month ago over a quota system for government jobs.

The quota system has now been scaled back by the government following a Supreme Court ruling, but students have continued protesting - now demanding justice for those who died or have been injured or detained.