Black Law Student Says FBI Pressured Him to Recant Racial Profiling Claim

John Perkins’ story of being racially profiled by campus police at the University of Virginia prompted outrage in Charlottesville and a visit from the FBI.

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作者 Denise Lavoie
In this Monday, Jan. 8, 2018 photo Johnathan Perkins, an attorney in the office of General Counsel at Harvard University, poses for a portrait in his office in Cambridge, Mass. (AP/Stephan Savoia)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A young law student's story of being racially profiled by campus police at the University of Virginia in 2011 drew outrage in Charlottesville, a liberal college enclave that boasts of its inclusiveness. When he recanted weeks later, he was branded a liar and an example of what's wrong with affirmative action. One editorial

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One In Five Brits Swept Up In Immigration Spot Checks

Britain’s Home Office is accused of “racial profiling” by human rights lawyers as MPs call for review.

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作者 Charles Boutaud , Adam Cantwell-Corn & Donato Paolo Mancini
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Members of Parliament and human rights lawyers are calling on the Home Office to review how immigration officers carry out spot checks after data suggested that they were using racial profiling and stopping Britons. The Bureau, working with the media co-operative, The Bristol Cable, has obtained new Home Office data. The data shows that over

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‘An Endorsement Of Racism’: Trump Hints At Pardon For Joe Arpaio

Human rights groups and advocates swiftly respond to Trump’s reassurance that America’s so-called “toughest sheriff,” a convicted criminal awaiting his sentence, will be “just fine”

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作者 Jessica Corbett
Joe Arpaio, who proclaimed himself ‘America’s toughest sheriff’, showing detainees at the Tent City facility to the media in 2009. (Photo: Ross D. Franklin/AP)

Human rights groups and advocates were outraged when President Donald Trump, from his controversial rally in Arizona Tuesday night, strongly implied he would pardon Joe Arpaio, the notorious former sheriff of Maricopa County who has been convicted of violating a federal court order to stop discriminating against Latinos in his county. "So was

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Oregon Decriminalizes Cocaine, Meth, Heroin And More

The new law reduces possession of illegal drugs to misdemeanors rather than felonies as long as the person in possession does not have prior drug convictions.

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作者 Carey Wedler
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Oregon’s state legislature just reduced penalties for drug possession in a bill also intended to reduce racial profiling by law enforcement agencies. H.B. 2355 passed both the House and Senate last week and reduces possession of illegal drugs to misdemeanors rather than felonies as long as the person in possession does not have prior drug

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Proposed Sandra Bland Act Would Change Processes For Police, Jails

The bill’s proposals include limiting police searches during stops, adding reporting requirements for racial profiling and creating an independent ombudsman to monitor inmates’ rights and services.

Johnathan Silver
作者 Johnathan Silver

(REPORT) — State Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, on Thursday filed House Bill 2702, dubbed the Sandra Bland Act. The exhaustive piece of legislation would expand what qualifies as racial and ethnic profiling; mandate people experiencing a mental health crisis and substance abuse be diverted to treatment over jail; and create more training and

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NYPD Officer Disciplined For Not Profiling Enough Black And Latino Youth

The officer is filing a federal lawsuit, contending that he was punished by his commanding officers for not engaging in racial profiling.

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Reagan Ali | Counter Current News
作者 S. Wooten
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Det. Anthony Mannuzza, left, and Police Officer Robert Martin, right, simulate a street stop during a training session on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at the New York Police Department's (NYPD) training facility in Rodman's Neck, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Colleen Long)

Many have claimed that various police departments throughout the United States engage in the illegal practice of racial profiling. Now, a federal lawsuit has been filed by an NYPD cop. That suit claims that he was punished by his commanding officers for not engaging in racial profiling and “stopping enough” African American and Latino teenagers on

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