On Wednesday, Republican Senator Tim Scott gave a moving floor speech describing his personal history of being targeted by law enforcement as a black man, from the first time he was pulled over by police to an encounter with an officer on Capitol Hill just last year.
A Los Angeles Police Department officer is suing the city alleging he was retaliated against for reporting that he was racially profiled while off-duty, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The Washington Post has a stomach-churning report on an app upper-crust types in one of D.C.’s wealthiest neighborhoods use for racial profiling. GroupMe is a messaging app, and while it is ostensibly being used in Georgetown to protect businesses from shoplifting, its regular use is, unsurprisingly, devoted to…
America’s self-styled “Toughest Sheriff” has a bit of a problem with authority, according to his ex-lawyer.
Yesterday, WNYC reported that four former employees of New York City CVS stores filed a federal lawsuit against the pharmacy chain, alleging that they were directed to focus their attention on black and hispanic visitors when rooting out shoplifters. This comes as no surprise to anyone who as ever worked in retail, or…
New York Times columnist Charles Blow says his son, Tahj, was leaving the Yale campus library this weekend when police officers held him at gunpoint because he "fit the description" of a burglary suspect.
A female soldier visiting the North Miami Beach police department's shooting range last month was reportedly horrified to discover officers were using her brother's mugshot for target practice.
A new report from Reuters details an ongoing problem within the New York Police Department: off-duty black cops are often targets of racial profiling by white NYPD officers.
Macy's has reached an agreement with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to pay $650,000 to settle an investigation into accusations of racial profiling. Schneiderman's investigation was launched last February after several complaints were made by minority customers against the company's flagship store in…
Barneys New York has reached a settlement—in the form of $525,000 in fees and penalties—in an investigation launched last year following accusations that the company was targeting minority customers. The nine-month investigation led by New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman found a "disproportionate number of…
Expanding a limited 2003 ban, the Justice Department will soon prohibit federal agents from profiling suspects based on national origin, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The Bush administration's ban applied only to race, allowing federal agents to specifically target Muslims in terrorism cases and Latinos…
A dream weekend of fun and dancing with top industry professionals turned into a waking nightmare for 13-year-old Landry Thompson when she was suddenly seized by police and forcibly removed from the care of her legal guardians for no reason other than that they are two black men.
A police officer arrested three teens last week as they were standing outside a store in downtown Rochester, New York. Their crime: Waiting for a school bus.
A shocking case of racial profiling has emerged in Florida after it was revealed that a black convenience store employee had been arrested dozens of times for trespassing in and around the store where he works — during work hours.
Former NYPD officer Jenny Mendez just wanted to get a good deal on some nice clothes last Black Friday. Instead, she got arrested, lost her job, and is now filing a lawsuit alleging that the shoplifting accusations against her were caused by racial profiling.
The New York Daily News is reporting this morning that a local teen is suing the NYPD and Barneys after he was handcuffed and detained for buying an expensive belt that police officers couldn't believe a "young, black male" like him could afford.
A year ago, cottonheaded Washington Post heartthrob Richard Cohen wrote a column on the contentious issue of "stop and frisk" that took no position whatsoever. That column was absolutely worthless. Amazingly, his writing on the issue has gotten worse since then.
In 2008, journalist Brian Beutler was shot three times in an attempted robbery in DC. Today, at Salon, he tells that story for the first time. Read it.
Dozens of people gathered Tuesday outside the Towne East Square mall in Wichita to protest the arrest of a black man who was charged with criminal trespassing for walking around the mall in a black hoodie with a sign around his neck that read "If I don’t stand for something then I will fall for anything #RIPTrayvon…
The NYPD's public safety policy of "Harass all young minority males who show themselves in public," politely dubbed "Stop and frisk," is currently on trial for its legal life. Hilariously (unless you are a young minority male), police officials are still able to insist with a straight face that such a program does not…
