racial profiling
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Minneapolis Man Loses His Lease After Going Full Karen on Black Tenants Using Office Gym
At this point, white people just really need to learn how to read the room. Just one day after Amy “Central Park Karen” Cooper became internet-infamous for calling the police on a black man after he asked her to leash her dog—a thing that resulted in her losing her job, her dog and her welcome…
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White Woman Charged With Assault After Putting Hands on an 11-Year-Old Black Girl She Thought Stole Her Mail
Is it just me or are Karens getting more Karen-y by the day? In Aiken, S.C., a white woman has been charged with assault and battery in the third degree after she put her hands on an 11-year-old black girl who she falsely accused of stealing her mail. According to the Augusta Chronicle, Alice Patterson…
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Lawsuit Accuses Missouri Police of Brutalizing Black Mother and Son Falsely Accused of Theft
A 68-year-old black woman is suing the city of Des Peres, Mo., and four white police officers who she accuses of brutalizing her and her 43-year-old son at a Sam’s Club store on March 23 after the officers wrongly suspected them of stealing a TV that they had paid for. The Associated Press reports that…
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Black Man in Vermont Pulled Over and Told to Leave the Entire State by White Man
It has become incredibly apparent over the last few weeks that white people believe it is their divine right to police black people. CNN reports that a black man in Vermont was pulled over by a random white man and told to leave the state. On Friday, the victim was driving with his 11-year-old son…
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Black People Are Still Being Disproportionately Arrested for Marijuana Possession: Report
April 20 (4/20) is widely recognized as the smoker’s holiday. It’s a day when marijuana partakers everywhere celebrate the festivities by…well…doing the thing most of them do regularly anyway, except on this day, they’re doing it for the culture. The American Civil Liberties Union, on the other hand, is using the day to draw attention…
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Black Men Kicked Out of Walmart for Wearing Masks During Pandemic
You really don’t need me to give you the customary “Yo, this pandemic shit is crazy” intro. At this point, I’m sure you’ve realized that this pandemic shit is indeed crazy. What’s even crazier is that cops have still found a way to keep with the bullshit, even as people are doing their best to…
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Ex-Amazon Manager Was Told to Use Social Media to Determine Applicants Race and Gender
At this point, Amazon is just testing how much you love two-day shipping. According to NBC News, Lisa McCarrick, a former regional manager for Amazon, has filed a lawsuit against a unit of the company in California. She filed her suit in the Superior Court of California on claims of retaliation, wrongful termination, failure to…
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Michael Bloomberg Claims He Pushed Racist ‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Policy Because He Wanted to Help Black People
One of the most appalling statistics I’ve ever read about racial profiling comes from a 2012 New York Civil Liberties Union report on the NYPD’s racist “stop-and-frisk” policy. In 2011, the NYPD searched 168,126 young black men (between the ages of 14 and 24). Depending on your knowledge of the relationship between crime, race, and…
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Virginia Beauty Supply Accused of Racial Profiling After Black Teens Are Mistaken for Shoplifters and Locked in Store
Racial profiling in retail environments is unfortunately nothing new; many of us are all too familiar with “extra attention” while innocently browsing a store, and reports of incidents have seemingly been unceasing since the advent of social media. Whether being accused of stealing from the soon-to-be-shuttered luxury retailer Barneys or finding black beauty products locked…
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We Ain’t Surprised: New Study Says Black People in California Are Stopped by Police More Than Other Groups
It’s weird to write news that doesn’t feel like news, but here it goes: A new study confirms what we have always known—black people in California are stopped by law enforcement officers more often than any other racial group. The study, conducted by California’s Open Justice Initiative using “the largest-ever dataset compiled about US police…