Wednesday, December 24, 2014

24 of 25 Black NY Police officers said they were racially profiled and/or threatened while on the force.

http://www.alternet.org/black-nypd-cops-say-theyre-profiled-and-threatened-white-cops

The wire service interviewed 25 black male officers, ten current cops and 15 retired. With just one exception, they said that they have been victims of racial profiling by police, both when wearing the uniform and while off duty. For its article, Reuters identified racial profiling as “using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime.”
In the article, Reuters equates what they experience as the same type of racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life after he was swarmed by police officers and one applied a choke hold to him.

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