Showing posts with label racial profiling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racial profiling. Show all posts

Saturday, May 23, 2026

An Arizona Sheriff’s Office Misused $163M Related to Racial Profiling Case — ProPublica

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was misattributed or misappropriated...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-sheriff-audit


 

Saturday, April 11, 2026

US conservatives sue to dismantle Native Hawaiian healthcare scholarships

Other Hawaiian educational initiatives have been targeted through legal challenges aimed at diversity programs. The Kamehameha Schools, a private school system established with the inheritance of Hawaiian princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, was specifically created to boost educational outcomes of Native Hawaiians...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/native-hawaiian-healthcare-scholarships


 

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Trump Keeps Losing (Find Out podcast)

The Find Out crew is back for Episode 40, and there's no shortage of chaos to unpack. Trump in the headlines (again): From the Supreme Court greenlighting racial profiling in LA to the E. Jean Carroll judgment holding firm, we break down the highs and lows of Trump's latest legal and political drama. The grift never ends: Trump's long history of stiffing contractors and dodging payments gets a fresh look as he continues to grift billions while refusing accountability. Economic storm clouds: With tariffs fueling stagflation, farmers begging for relief, and a jobs report in free fall, we dive into how Trump's policies are hammering working people while Wall Street insiders cash in. Media capture: From CBS courting Bari Weiss to the mainstream press normalizing lies, we call out how right-wing narratives keep bending the media landscape. International recklessness: Trump and JD Vance's saber-rattling in Venezuela exposes the dangers of a MAGA foreign policy that abandons rule of law. RFK Jr. unhinged: The Senate hearing circus showed just how deep the anti-vax conspiracy rabbit hole goes. It's a mix of outrage, dark humor, and sharp analysis as Tim, Luke, Zak, and Rich cut through the noise and ask the big question: how do we fight back against a system rigged for liars, grifters, and authoritarians?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPPWpbIzDIE 

Friday, June 16, 2023

Black teacher sues school after alleged firing over book complaints, racial profiling - ABC News

The 2017 New York Times bestselling novel by Nic Stone follows the story of a Black teenager who was thrown to the ground and handcuffed during an encounter with police. The Ivy League-bound teen writes 10 imaginary letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. imagining what the civil rights leader would have done in his position. 

Gray contends that he got permission from the school to teach the book, however in January white parents complained about that book claiming it "was divisive and injected what they regarded as unwelcome political views on systemic racial inequality into their children's classroom," according to the lawsuit…



Saturday, August 20, 2022

Chicago officer charged after allegedly pinning boy down while off-duty

Sgt. Michael Vitellaro faces charges of official misconduct and aggravated battery in connection with the July incident in Park Ridge, police in the Chicago suburb said Thursday...

Monday, June 15, 2020

Black pastor arrested after calling 911 for help after assault - The Washington Post

A Virginia sheriff has apologized to a black pastor who was arrested this month after calling 911 for help when a white family allegedly threatened and assaulted him after trying to dump a refrigerator on his property. Shenandoah County Sheriff Timothy Carter said in a statement Friday that he apologized to Pastor Leon K. McCray Sr. of Woodstock, Va., and that prosecutors dropped a charge against McCray for brandishing a licensed handgun in self-defense. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-black-pastor-was-arrested-after-he-called-911-for-help-after-an-assault-and-threats-the-sheriff-has-apologized/2020/06/14/a88d04f8-ae4b-11ea-8758-bfd1d045525a_story.html

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Handcuffed: Black Miami Doctor Who Works with Homeless Says He Was Racially Profiled by Police

We continue our conversation with Dr. Armen Henderson, an African-American doctor in Miami who was handcuffed outside his home while preparing for a volunteer shift to help protect homeless people from the spread of COVID-19. The encounter has sparked widespread outrage, and Miami’s police chief has now tested positive for COVID-19 and is in self-isolation. Dr Henderson has taken a test himself and is waiting for results — and accountability. ...
Interview:
https://youtu.be/7a3USeMKWpY

Saturday, March 23, 2019

100 million traffic stops show massive racial bias in policing - Daily Kos

There is racial bias in policing, and a team of Stanford University researchers has erased any shadow of reasonable doubt about it. (Facts can't do much about unreasonable doubt.) The Stanford Open Policing Project data includes nearly 100 million police stops over six years from 50 state and municipal police departments, finding powerful evidence of bias not just in who gets stopped but in what happens next...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1842101

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

San Francisco police targeted only black residents in drug arrests, lawsuit claims - the guardian

ACLU says the arrests of 37 people for selling small amounts of drugs part of a pattern of racial profiling in the department San Francisco police exclusively targeted black residents during undercover drug arrests as part of a pattern of racial profiling, according to a new lawsuit. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/04/san-francisco-police-black-residents-aclu-lawsuit

Thursday, August 16, 2018

Trump admin claims ICE is targeting so-called 'bad hombres,' but the numbers say otherwise - Daily Kos

Campaign Action Multiple times this past spring and summer, Donald Trump claimed that he watched Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents "liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13," saying in May that "the people are dancing and they're waving and they're looking out their windows and they're waving at the ICE people."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1788217

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Off-duty cop and apartment manager force 'only black dude in pool' to leave -- even though he lives there - Raw Story

An Indianapolis man said a woman confronted him at an apartment pool in a case of racial profiling. Shane Holland was sitting at the pool Friday at River Crossing Apartments, where he lives, when a white woman demanded to know where he lives and asked him to leave, reported WRTV-TV. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/off-duty-cop-apartment-manager-force-black-dude-pool-leave-even-though-lives/







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