racial profiling
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Lawsuit: Miss. Sheriff’s Department Illegally Targeted Black Population for Decades
Betty Tucker had invited a few guests over for a cookout in the garden of her Canton, Miss., home when two plainclothes sheriff’s deputies walked into her home. Even though they didn’t have a warrant, they came in, checked her pockets and the pockets of her guests, searched her patio on their hands and knees,…
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United Airlines Accuses Passenger of Crime Literally Because of the Color of His Skin
Either United Airlines is trying to rebrand itself as a whites-only airline, or its employees must have the IQs of sand slugs. In today’s “United drags a person of color off an airplane” news, United Airlines detained a Mexican passenger because the airline thought he might be “trafficking” the little girl who was traveling with…
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Drake Accuses Coachella Country Club of Racial Profiling
Drake isn’t officially on the Coachella lineup, but he did make an appearance over the weekend to perform with Future. But it seems as though a Coachella country club wasn’t too welcoming to the rap-singer. Drake posted an Instagram message to the Madison Club, a country club a few miles outside of the festival venue.…
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Wyclef Jean Requests Formal Investigation Into Racial Profiling
On Tuesday morning, Wyclef Jean was pulled over by Los Angeles County deputies when they mistook him for an armed robber they were pursuing. Jean documented the incident and streamed it on Twitter and Instagram. Now Jean is requesting a “formal investigation into racial profiling.” Jean, who was driving a Toyota and wearing a red…
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Retired Police Chief Detained by Customs Agents at JFK Because His 1st Name Is Hassan
A retired police chief was detained and questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport upon his return from a trip abroad earlier this month because his first name is Hassan. Hassan Aden, 52, is a retired Greenville, N.C., police chief and a former deputy chief with…
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Lindsay Lohan Says She Was ‘Racially Profiled’ at London’s Heathrow Airport for Wearing a Headscarf
Lindsay Lohan recounted for Good Morning Britain hosts how she was “racially profiled” at London’s Heathrow Airport while traveling to New York. Lohan said that the incident stemmed from her wearing a headscarf, which she said an airport agent asked her to remove. “When I was flying to New York recently, I was wearing a…
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Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio Charged With Criminal Contempt of Court
Longtime Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio was officially charged with criminal contempt of court Tuesday for ignoring a judge’s order to stop profiling Latinos in his signature immigration patrols, the Associated Press reports. Although prosecutors promised two weeks ago to prosecute Arpaio, the charge was not officially filed until U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton…
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Video Footage Shows Questionable Arrest of Black Teenage Girls in Texas
Vanae Wright, 17, and her friend Leilani Green were eating at a Whataburger restaurant in San Antonio on Friday when sheriff’s deputies arrested them because of what the lawyer for one of the teens is calling racial profiling, according to the Huffington Post. Deputies were responding to reports of a fight in the Whataburger parking…
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Iowa City Police Release Body-Cam Footage of Encounter With Football Player
Remember Faith Ekakitie? The University of Iowa defensive end was playing Pokémon Go in an Iowa City, Iowa, park last week when officers came up on him and drew their guns because he supposedly fit the description of a bank robber. Ekakitie described his experience with the officers in great detail in a post that…
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Report: Philando Castile Was Pulled Over Because He Matched Description of Suspect With ‘Wide-Set Nose’
Philando Castile, the 32-year-old St. Paul, Minn., man who was shot and killed by Officer Jeronimo Yanez on July 6, and who has been the impetus for a dozens of police protests across the country, was apparently pulled over by police because he matched the description of a robbery suspect with a “wide-set nose.” “I’m…