#racial profiling?

[satellites-halo]

Sick of posts that say stuff like "all mobility aid users should weaponize their mobility aids"

hey man, I can't do that! I need to bring my mobility aids into places that would deny me entrance for things like spikes and barbed wire! not every cripplepunk is a white skinny cane user, and having something deemed as a 'weapon' on some of us can be genuinely life threatening, even if it's a mobility aid! I don't want to have my rollator taken away from me and have to be searched bc I put some spikes on a seat cover or something!!! let cripplepunks express their punkness however is safe and comfortable for them, don't expect us all to be able to do the same things you can, because we all cant

#cripplepunk #cpunk #c-punk #cripple punk #punk #cripple #disability #physical disability #mobility aids #for the record: #i am not claiming that i am not white #i am a white latino and i acknowledge that i have the privelage to do these things more than BIPOC #however its still important to remember that our BIPOC siblings may be racially profiled #and put in real #genuine harm #for having anything people may deem a weapon #able-bodied people can reblog #but do not derail

[flourinelab2]

Lmao

Nobody sees you but who?

I’m sorry, who?

#yeah yeah yeah #racial profiling?

[turtleinsoup]

the dawning of the hour appreciation post

(this has nothing to do with doth, but its in my brain anyways lmao)

I just saw this screenshot of hidden city holding cell and I think it's funny how none of them even think about tilting Draxum in the right direction lmao

Also look at Draxum's little hoove feeties

#donnie looks so petty #You know for a fact that he's uncomfortable sitting like that but hes too busy dying on a hill to care lmao #“I accidentally blew up a towns square so what” #“its not like they can't fix it with their 'MAgIc'” #Raph got racially profiled #Leo just wanted some skin care jfc #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt leo #tmnt 2018 #tmnt #rise tmnt

[alwaysbewoke]

#florida #false accusation #grocery store #police encounter #racial discrimination #police brutality #black lives matter #systemic racism #violent arrest #save a lot #lakeland #racial profiling #police violence #discrimination #injustice #civil rights #racially motivated incident #police misconduct

[filmnoirsbian]

I've literally seen tsa agents scream into elderly, disabled passengers' faces, scream because passengers didn't understand english, mock passengers' accents, steal things from passengers' luggage under the guise of "confiscating" them even though they were fully allowed, act like vaseline was a bomb but then let actual guns and knives through because they weren't paying attention (because the passengers carrying them were white men), use drug dogs to intimidate passengers, and then they have the nerve to be like "why doesn't anyone respect me :(" well it's because you're a terrorist.

#tcp #work stuff #NOT even getting into the racial profiling and islamophobia specifically which is obviously rampant

[penwrythe]

What's stopping the possibility of a ceasefire is pretty simple. Hamas is holding 239 Israeli civilians hostage including children and the elderly. What's happening in Palestine is a travesty and horrendous. But Israel can't initiate a ceasefire from the position they're in, so we need to be agitating for Hamas to release the hostages and call for a ceasefire instead.

NO GENOCIDE IS JUSTIFIABLE

HOW DOES THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE ON THIS EXTREME LEVEL FORCE HAMAS TO RETURN HOSTAGES??

ISRAEL'S BOMBARDMENT AND INDISCRIMINATE SHOOTING IN GAZA THREATEN EVERYONE THERE INCLUDING DOCTORS JOURNALISTS CHILDREN ENTIRE FAMILIES AND THE HOSTAGES

EVERYONE IS TARGETED

YOU HAVE HOSPITALS BOMBED HOW ANY OF THIS IS JUSTIFIED

@sarroora @fairuzfan @palipunk @wearenotjustnumbers2

You know more about this than I do.

#do you really think this will work on me; like hell I'm gonna stay silent for you #I hoard bookmarks like a dragon so guess what I have been saving from the posts I had reblogged to this blog and my sideblog #firefox bookmarks manager are a blessing oh my gods #how does one block anons #sorry for going full Black here on this post but yeah I'm a little livid #the entirety of Western media heavily propagandized for Israel and the US #how the US media covered this look at how our politicians keep funding Israel with money that could have gone to #our schools healthcare housing etc; my tax payer money is being used to kill innocent people and silence protesters #tw death #tw racial profiling #palestine #update: changed a few tags because I mistakenly compared Al Jazeera's coverage to Western Coverage #Al Jazeera has the best coverage of what is happening in Gaza and unfortunately also lost journalists #They deserve respect for what they are doing #thank you for the corrections wearenotjustnumbers2 (see their response in the notes pls) #genocide

[killsandthrills]

andor is CRAZY for giving us what is essentially space miami and then having cassian be implicated in a crime just for standing there because florida man decided to run by him.

#andor said ‘racial profiling… yeah we’ve heard of it’ #andor #andor spoilers #star wars

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #acab #racial profiling #racism #shasta county #fuck cops #fuck police #fuck the cops #fuck the police #war on drugs

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Montreal resident who was captured in a viral video last fall showing him in handcuffs while trying to enter his own vehicle is suing the police for $125,000.

The online video showed part of the police intervention when the two arresting officers couldn't find the keys to the handcuffs so that they could release the innocent man, Brice Dossa.

Dossa, who is Black, filed a civil lawsuit in Superior Court on Tuesday, alleging the two arresting officers abused their authority, had no information to suggest Dossa's Honda CRV SUV was stolen or that he was not the owner, and that they "engaged in racial profiling."

"Based on Mr. Dossa's race and skin colour, they assumed that he was a thief, without doing any verification to confirm their intuition," reads part of the allegations in the document. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: Members of my family have personally been witness to this tactic being used at the location this happened to this man in. This is not just accidental. This is routine racial profiling taking place in a community known to have a large Black population. This is deliberate arrest of Black folks on no basis. Do not let them pretend this is an accident or a mistake.

#cdnpoli #racism #anti blackness #policing #racial profiling #SPVM #Montreal #Quebec

[yugocar]

russians in belgrade are truly destroying spy myths all over the place. you see a man in a neon puffer jacket midday city center and you dont have to wonder for a second where that bitch is from

#saw a blond ass bitch in his 20’s walking with a fanny pack on the side #he was so obviously russian that it made me feel like i was doing racial profiling #its not my fault you can be spotted from outer space!!!! #logs

[accras]

A married couple who fled Haiti for Virginia achieved their American dream when they opened a variety market on the Eastern Shore, selling hard-to-find spices, sodas and rice to the region’s growing Haitian community.

When they added a Haitian food truck, people drove from an hour away for freshly cooked oxtail, fried plantains and marinated pork.

But Clemene Bastien and Theslet Benoir are now suing the town of Parksley, alleging that it forced their food truck to close. The couple also say Parksley Town Council member Henry Nicholson cut the mobile kitchen’s water line and screamed, “Go back to your own country!”

“When we first opened, there were a lot of people” ordering food, Bastien said, speaking through an interpreter. “And the day after, there were a lot of people. And then … they started harassing us.”

A federal lawsuit claims the town passed a food truck ban that targeted the couple, then threatened them with fines and imprisonment when they raised concerns. They’re being represented by the Institute for Justice, a law firm that described a “string of abuses” in the historic railroad town of about 800 people.

“If Theslet and Clemene were not of Haitian descent, Parksley’s town government would not have engaged in this abusive conduct,” the lawsuit states.

#racism #racial profiling #anti immigrant #virginia #hey it's 2024 in the good ole USA and guess what? #America still sucks #America was never great

[gwydionmisha]

"A single state trooper logged 1,350 fraudulent traffic tickets into a Connecticut database meant to detect racial profiling. The finding is key to a damning new audit of the Connecticut State Police, which reveals pervasive trooper malfeasance, including at least 26,000 false tickets logged over seven years, that masked racial bias in the force’s policing. Now, the CSP refuses to discuss the audit — or even reveal if the most-prolific ticket faker still has a badge."

#Connecticut #Police Crime #Police Racism #Racial-profiling #News

[reasoningdaily]

A Black couple have sued the city of Beverly Hills, alleging their arrest was part of a campaign by its police to arrest Black people for trivial reasons and at disproportionate rates.

The couple’s lawyers, Bradley Gage and Benjamin Crump, said the Beverly Hills police last year set up a task force — dubbed Operation Safe Streets and the Rodeo Drive Task Force — that arrested 106 people, 105 of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino. Gage said the sources of the arrest figures were unidentified retired Beverly Hills police officers who were appalled by the task force’s actions and so shared with him the alleged racial breakdown of who had been arrested.

The impetus for the task force, Gage said, was both the protests over the death of George Floyd and what Beverly Hills police believed were transactions at retail stores using suspected proceeds of unemployment benefit fraud. Gage described the Police Department’s approach to rooting out suspected fraud as, “Gee, that’s suspicious — Black people shopping in Beverly Hills.”

Gage and Crump, who has represented the families of Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others killed by police, raised their allegations Wednesday on the steps of Beverly Hills City Hall. “There is something terribly wrong here,” Gage said, citing what he called the city’s legacy of biased policing.

Gage and Crump are seeking class-action status for their lawsuit, which was filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The only named plaintiffs are the couple, who were arrested on suspicion of riding scooters on a sidewalk and resisting arrest; it does not appear that Gage or Crump has identified the 104 other people who they contend were arrested.

In a statement, Police Chief Dominick Rivetti said his department created a “Rodeo Drive Team” in response to complaints by businesses and a rise in burglaries, shoplifting, “street gambling, public intoxication, marijuana smoking and more.” The team seized 13 firearms carried by people on Rodeo Drive, said Rivetti, who called this “unprecedented in the history of Beverly Hills.”

Rivetti said the Rodeo Drive unit rooted out fraudulently obtained state unemployment benefits, seizing $250,000 in cash and ill-gotten debit cards. Most of the people arrested by the unit were not California residents, Rivetti said, but they nonetheless possessed debit cards loaded with state funds.

The Times asked the Beverly Hills police for a total number and breakdown by race of the people arrested by the Rodeo Drive unit. Capt. Max Subin, a department spokesman, said officials were gathering the figures Wednesday and would provide them once they had finished.

Gage and Crump on Wednesday highlighted the experience of the Black couple, Khalil White and Jasmine Williams of Philadelphia, who said they were visiting Beverly Hills on vacation in September when they were stopped, arrested and eventually jailed by police.

As five officers handcuffed White, Williams said, she asked an officer for her purse to retrieve their hotel key. Two officers pushed her to a police car, handcuffed her and took her to jail, she said.

“I was scared,” Williams said. “I’ve never been to jail in my life.”

White, who said he was jailed overnight and forced to post a $25,000 bond, was charged in Los Angeles County Superior Court with resisting arrest and falsely identifying himself to police. Williams was charged with falsely identifying herself to police. The charges were dismissed in February, records show.

Crump and Gage alleged that White and Williams’ arrests were part of a campaign to target Black people in the city through its recently formed task force.

The Beverly Hills police “had made up their mind that this Black man was going to jail because this is Operation Safe Streets,” Crump said.

In his statement, Rivetti said police had warned White and Williams earlier the day of their arrest that it was illegal to ride a scooter on the sidewalk, without taking action against the couple. In their second encounter with police, White and Williams provided officers with false information, Rivetti said.

“Our department’s practice is to contact and question individuals when we believe they may be involved in criminal activity or another violation of the law,” he said.

Beverly Hills officials faced criticism last summer for insisting on charging protesters with misdemeanor curfew violations; by comparison, prosecutors for the city and county of Los Angeles declined to charge similarly minor violations of curfews and dispersal orders.

In a summary of the Beverly Hills protests, a police sergeant wrote that for residents who survived the Holocaust and Iranian revolution, the demonstrations over Floyd’s death were “not merely an intrusion of their peace” but “a terrifying reminder of their past.”

The department’s previous chief, Sandra Spagnoli, retired in 2020, beset by allegations that she made racist comments and had sex with subordinates who were later promoted. Spagnoli denied the claims, which she said were raised by disgruntled employees, but the city paid out millions of dollars to settle many of the lawsuits. Gage, who represented several officers who sued Spagnoli, estimated at the time that the city paid about $8 million in settlements, attorney fees and other costs.

#hollywood #racial profiling #hollywood pd #los angeles #ben crump #Black Lives Matter #Beverly Hills accused of creating police task force that disproportionately arrested Black people #beverly hills racial profiling #Black LIves are Over Policed

[vyeoh]

Having been through the exact airport they likely flew in through makes Jimmy's customs story infinitely funnier

#vio.txt #like i went through customs there as a us citizen will a full us passport omw back from an international flight #the agent is like why are you in this country. im like i live here. agent goes oh really where do you work? i say im a student #and my parents say they work in reseach. agent goes so what were you doing in [country] is there a lot of research there???? #i go. i was on vacation? we were literally there to see family??? at no point in the process did we ever say we were there for work???? #hate tsa so much ive never felt more racially profiled #the way its organized for non citizens was like infinitly worse as well #i think customs just attracts every high school bully that wants to live out their power fantasy #theyre treating u like a criminal for no reason 😭

[alwaysbewoke]

#white supremacy #anti-Semitism #police bias #systemic racism #law enforcement #protest brutality #government complicity #racial inequality #white nationalism #hate groups #police infiltration #racial profiling #social injustice #hate crimes #institutional racism #police brutality #social inequality #racial justice #systemic oppression

[intersectionalpraxis]

i was stopped by a security guard earlier at walmart today because she wanted to check my receipt (i shop as local as much as i can, but it's one of the only affordable options for me to get groceries).

it came a little out of left field, but i sensed there was a reason why she was doing this. it didn't take me long to realize that she only 'asked to see my receipt' because she initially demanded to see the receipt of the Black woman in front of me. when i asked if everything was okay, the woman told me that she was questioning her as to why she was being stopped.

i'd first like to state -par Canadian law NO employee of any business has the right to stop you if they THINK you stole something -they also have NO right to search your bags or check you receipt unless they witnessed you putting something in there in the first place. it's illegal, and you have every right to refuse.

while i stood there, i watched the security guard keep escalating the situation, not the customer -all on her own. then when the guard stated that they always have people stealing and they check from time to time as her only line of defense, i could only laugh because it's just so absurd. like important side note but you work for a multi-billion dollar corporation, and even if the censors went off -employers will not protect you outside of their walls if you ever tried to run after someone if they stole right in front of you (because why the fuck do i care -am i gonna risk my life over someone taking something? absolutely no).

when i tried to tell the security guard that her actions were not warranted, there were already 2 more male security guards approaching and i was so done at that point. i told them it was excessive to have 3 guards here for one woman who was definitely racially profiled in the first place to show her receipt, but to keep her here for this was inappropriate. i also emphasized how this woman was not a threat to the security guard and that she was just defending herself.

moments later, the security guard who started it all walked away after giving a shit ton of attitude to this woman -giving out her name and saying she should go to customer service. shortly after, i told the other 2 security guards that if there was nothing else we would be leaving, and just before we left they had the audacity to say that they didn't mean to offend this woman...

i spoke with this woman for a short time before we went opposite ways to get home, but we spoke briefly about the situation. she will continue going to this store, as she told them not to stop her next time and istfg this racist bigot better leave her alone.

#feminist #social justice #antiblackracism #antiblackness #walmart #canada #racial profiling