racial profiling
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‘Because He’s Black’: New Mexico Store Clerk Calls Police on College Student Buying Snacks
Are you as tired of hearing these stories as we are? Do you understand how horrible it is that black people can’t even mind their own business and buy snacks in peace without people weaponizing the police against them? At what point are these phone calls going to be declared a crime? At what point…
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'All I Did Was Be Black': Smith College Employee Calls Cops on Black Student Just Trying to Eat Her Damn Food
Oumou Kanoute was just trying to catch a break—a lunch break to be precise. A rising sophomore at Smith College, Kanoute has been working on the campus this summer as a residential adviser and teaching assistant. On Tuesday, Kanoute was in a campus common room of the women’s college quietly reading and eating her lunch,…
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#OwningABusinessWhileBlack: San Francisco Man Gets Accused of Breaking into His Own Shop
It was the kind of shop that fits right into the San Francisco landscape: Gourmonade, a small, high-end lemonade shop which recently opened in San Francisco’s Mission District. But the shop’s black owner, Vicktor Stevenson, says he’s been dogged by racist acts against him and the shop even before he opened. The worst of these…
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Racial-Profiling Pool Patrol Goes International: Black Canadian Family Say They Were Singled Out at Neighborhood Pool Over Whether They Belong
Don’t look now, but #PoolPatrolPaul appears to have a Canadian cousin out here doing his mayonnaise lord’s work. A black family in British Columbia, Canada, is alleging that they were racially profiled at a pool in their townhouse complex last Thursday. According to them, in the two years since they bought their home, this is…
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#SummerJobWhileBlack: Child Gets Cops Called on Him for Delivering Newspapers
For many kids and their families, summer jobs are a rite of passage: a way of imparting lessons about responsibility and hard work, and finally having a response to the age-old parental question, “you have McDonald’s money?” But one Ohio family says their summer job instead turned into a lesson on racial profiling. As WABC…
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Ohio Bahama Breeze Manager Fired After Calling Cops on Black Sorors Over Bill Dispute
Maybe, sometime soon, people will stop calling the cops on black folks for every single damn thing if the proper repercussions are had. This week, at least, one Orange Village, Ohio, restaurant manager was fired after several black sorority members accused the establishment of racial profiling after the cops were called to make sure they…
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‘Racial Profiling at Its Finest’: White Man Uses SUV to Block Black Doctor From Entering Gated Community Where She Lives
A black doctor coming home from a late-night shift was greeted by the ugly face of racism after a white man used his SUV to block her from entering the gated community where she has lived for about eight years. Dr. Nnenna Aguocha captured some of the encounter on camera. According to WXIA-TV, the good…
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Black Sorors Accuse Ohio Restaurant of Racial Profiling After Police Were Called About Bill Dispute
A member of Delta Sigma Theta—a black sorority—is accusing a Bahama Breeze restaurant in Orange Village, Ohio, of racial profiling after the manager called police on Tuesday toward the end of a sorority gathering. According to Cleveland.com, Chante Spencer was among some 40 people at the restaurant who were celebrating a sorority sister’s book deal…
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Black Women Accuse Walgreens of Racial Profiling After Being Followed Around Store, Stopped by Officers After Paying for Items
Is there anywhere black people can go where they won’t be harassed? Wakanda doesn’t count because technically it’s fictional. Two black women are accusing a Walgreens in Miramar, Fla. (of course it’s Florida), of racially profiling them after they had their bags searched upon leaving the store after paying for their items. Crystal Davis and…
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Actor Darris Love Arrested at Gunpoint, Detained for Hours After Being Mistaken for a Burglary Suspect
A black actor believes that his arrest and subsequent hourslong detainment were a result of racial profiling after cops mistook him for a burglary suspect. According to the Los Angeles Times, actor Darris Love and his girlfriend, Ayesha Dumas, had just finished up a trip to the Apple Store in Glendale, Calif., when the former…