Racial Profiling

Despite two recent decisions by grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island not to indict White police officers in the killings of two unarmed Black men and the international protests those decisions sparked, a new NBC News/Marist poll finds that whites are very confident in law enforcement’s ability to police Black and whites equally. In the […]

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The Department of Justice has announced a new set of rules to help curb racial profiling by federal law enforcement officials. These guidelines instruct federal law enforcement agencies to no longer consider: gender national origin religion sexual orientation gender identification While this is good at the federal level, these new practices do not apply to the […]

The federal government is taking broad new steps to ban profiling by law enforcement agencies, bolstering a 2003 policy that previously only addressed the consideration of race and ethnicity in conducting federal investigations, according to a statement released Monday by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (pictured). RELATED STORIES: UPDATED: Cleveland Cops Release Video In Shooting […]

  A former supporter of George Zimmerman (pictured) said Wednesday that he wanted to make amends with Trayvon Martin’s family by testifying before a federal grand jury convened in downtown, Orlando, Fla., the Orlando Sentinel reports. RELATED: Road Rage Victim: George Zimmerman Said He Was Going To Shoot Me Dead! Frank Taaffe, a former Zimmerman neighbor, was […]

“DJango Unchained” actress Daniele Watts (pictured left) said through tears recently that racially charged national events — combined with her own personal experiences — primed her for an explosion at a police officer earlier this fall, the Los Angeles Times reports. RELATED: ‘Django Unchained’s’ Daniele Watts Charged With Lewd Conduct During a panel discussion Monday at University […]

Sara Bennett, who lives in the predominantly White neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York’s Park Slope area, reportedly witnessed a New York City policeman yell over the loudspeaker of his cruiser to a group of strolling Black youths, “Get out of the neighborhood!” states DNA Info New York. SEE ALSO: Mother of 4-Year-Old Girl Vanishes After Cryptic Phone Call To Family According […]

Do you live in one of the states without racial profiling laws? A new report from the NAACP finds out that 20 states don’t have laws explicitly banning racial profiling. Even more, the NAACP reports that  of the 30 states with laws on the books, 17 criminalize racial profiling and just three states –Kansas, Tennessee and Rhode Island — allow […]

Thirteen organizations — which include the ACLU, NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Action Network, and Rainbow Push Coalition — sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding  a “comprehensive federal review” of excessive use of force and racial profiling by police across the country. “As we all mourn the loss […]

When Houston police spotted Landry Thompson (pictured left), a 13-year-old Tulsa, Okla., dancer in the company of two Black men, Josiah Kelly (pictured right), 22, her dance partner, and Emmanuel Hurd (pictured center), 29, instructor, at a convenience store at 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, they reportedly assumed she was in danger, so they handcuffed the crew and […]

Only 1.5 percent of Stop-and-Frisk arrests, the discriminatory policy that racially profiles Black and Brown men on the streets of New York City, have resulted in a jail or prison sentence, according to an in-depth analysis released by the New York Attorney General’s Office. RELATED:  Stop and Frisk Reform Order Blocked, Judge Thrown Off Case […]

The Rev. Al Sharpton (pictured) , along with the National Action Network, met with Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren Monday, demanding the store guard against racial profiling, according to the New York Daily News. RELATED: Shopper Says He Was Racially Profiled By Police The meeting came shortly after a series of racial profiling allegations against Barneys by African-American […]