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Racial Profiling
racial profiling
Mar. 10, 2022
Police Mistook Black Panther Director for a Bank Robber Bank of America has apologized for calling 911 on Ryan Coogler, who is Black.
By Bindu Bansinath
Terrible Woman Reaffirms That She’s Terrible Miya Ponsetto, who attacked a Black teenager and accused him of stealing her phone, gave a jaw-droppingly rude interview to Gayle King.
By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
A Woman Falsely Accused a Black Teenager of Stealing Her Phone Here’s everything we know about the incident involving “Soho Karen,” which is under investigation by the NYPD and the Manhattan DA.
By Amanda Arnold
Anthropologie Accused of Racially Profiling Black Customers Former employees say they were instructed to identify Black shoppers as “Nick” or “Nicky” and follow them around stores.
By Claire Lampen
donald trump
Jan. 10, 2018
Arpaio’s Senate Candidacy Is Not Just a Bad Joke Sheriff Joe Arpaio lost his job in 2016 and then was pardoned by Donald Trump. Now he’s running for the Senate and has some serious support.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump Pondering Pardon for Racial Profiler Joe Arpaio As he dragged his feet on condemning racist violence this weekend, the president was thinking fondly of the nativist demagogue Joe Arpaio.
By Ed Kilgore
Ejected by Voters, ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ Could Wind Up in Prison It’s been a long way down for Joe Arpaio since he lost reelection last year. And now he’s been convicted of contempt of court, and could be jailed.
By Ed Kilgore
Muhammad Ali Jr. Says He Was Detained at Airport Again He was on the way home from speaking to U.S. lawmakers about his first detention in which he was allegedly asked about his name and religion.
By Chas Danner
racial profiling
Feb. 21, 2017
Lindsay Lohan Says She Was Racially Profiled for Wearing a Headscarf “How would another woman who doesn’t feel comfortable taking off her headscarf feel?”
By Dee Lockett
crimes and misdemeanors
Oct. 25, 2016
By Charley Lanyon
Trump: America Needs to Racially Profile Muslims Like They Do in Israel He also predicted more attacks following the NYC bombing and congratulated himself for declaring it a bombing before the NYPD did.
By Eric Levitz
injustices
Sept. 15, 2016
Riz Ahmed Pens a Thoughtful Essay on Airport Detentions and Hollywood Roles “The holding pen was filled with 20 slight variations of my own face, all staring at me — kind of like a Bollywood remake of Being John Malkovich .”
By E. Alex Jung
Maine Governor Suggests People of Color and Hispanics Are the ‘Enemy’ Governor LePage had challenged a state lawmaker to “prove that I’m a racist” just a day earlier.
By Chas Danner
Trump Says Fight Against ISIS Could Require Racial Profiling He also said that he would “throw out” Muslims with “extreme views” like the Orlando shooter’s father.
By Eric Levitz
order in the court
Jan. 20, 2016
By Véronique Hyland
everyday racism
Mar. 30, 2015
By Alex Ronan
legal troubles
Oct. 21, 2014
By Anna Silman
racial profiling
Sept. 17, 2014
TMZ Releases Audio of ‘Kissing While Black’ Stop TMZ accuses the actress of “playing the race card.”
By Nate Jones
racial profiling
Sept. 16, 2014
By Joe Coscarelli
racial profiling
Sept. 14, 2014
Actress Allegedly Cuffed for Kissing While Black Police say they were responding a public indecency complaint.
By E. Alex Jung
new york’s finest
Aug. 4, 2014
By Caroline Bankoff
bill de blasio’s new york
Mar. 5, 2014
De Blasio Drops Another Bloomberg NYPD Lawsuit The new mayor again undoes the work of the old one.
By Joe Coscarelli
racial profiling
Dec. 10, 2013
By Allison P. Davis
shop and frisk
Nov. 23, 2013
By Adam Martin
mister elusive
Nov. 6, 2013
Kanye Wore a Confederate Flag to Barneys Perhaps it’s more shocking that he repeated an outfit twice in one week.
By Charlotte Cowles
shop and frisk
Oct. 30, 2013
By Joe Coscarelli
crimes and misdemeanors
Oct. 22, 2013
By Joe Coscarelli
the third terminator
June 28, 2013
By Joe Coscarelli
stop and frisk
May 13, 2012
NYPD: Sure, Stop-and-Frisks Are Way Up, But Murders Are Down Since January, there were 11 percent more stop-and-frisks than a year ago.
By Andre Tartar
NYPD Training Included a Scary Anti-Muslim Propaganda Film The department denied the movie was widely seen, but that’s not really true.
By Joe Coscarelli
crimes and misdemeanors
Sept. 1, 2011
Court Will Hear Allegations of NYPD’s Racial Profiling Judge refuses to toss lawsuit on “stop and frisk” strategy.
By Joe Coscarelli
crossing over
Feb. 7, 2011
By Dan Amira
Talk Box: Cable News Prefers Profiling to Pat-Downs in TSA Debate But liberal talker Ed Schultz dissents with a Rush Limbaugh/Fox News conspiracy theory.
By Dorsey Shaw
early and often
Oct. 5, 2010
By Nitasha Tiku
racial profiling
Sept. 2, 2010
By Nitasha Tiku