Mississippi Senate Passes Bill To Kill Sanctuary Cities
Days after the Trump administration issued a report aimed at scaring “jurisdictions into becoming deportation agents,” is poised to enact an anti-sanctuary cities law.
Days after the Trump administration issued a report aimed at scaring “jurisdictions into becoming deportation agents,” is poised to enact an anti-sanctuary cities law.
“You’ve known my plans all along and I’ve been proven to be right,” Trump said Wednesday.
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(ANALYSIS) — President-elect Donald Trump's plans for a Muslim ban or registry are still on the table, he suggested Wednesday afternoon, implying that the deadly attacks this week in Turkey and
I went to the ground I kept saying, ‘I’m the police, I’m the police.’ There were two other officers there. I felt their presence and they placed me in handcuffs, and then somebody hit me in the right side of my face.”
An off duty D.C. police officer says he was brutalized by a Prince George’s County police officer who profiled him as a suspect after a shooting at Iverson Mall on Tuesday. A few minutes after a man was shot and wounded at the mall, Prince George’s County police descended on the Temple Hills neighborhood looking for a suspect who was only
While the video is indeed hilarious, it highlights the troublesome and dangerous problem of racial profiling.
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Randolph County, NC — In a scathing case of racial profiling, a Randolph County sheriff’s deputy harassed two innocent young black men — because they were in a neighborhood apparently too rich or too white for their skin color. The entire interaction was caught on
As the FBI has expanded its activities to include generalized monitoring and surveillance, unconnected to any suspected criminal activity, it is critical that records related to those broad surveillance programs be available for public scrutiny.
Craig Monteilh, who says he infiltrated Southern California mosques as an FBI informant and wants to clear his name of suspicions he might have promoted terrorist activities, is reflected in a computer-screen image of an e-mail from Ahmadullah Sais Niazi titled "Jihad Taboo and Muslim Pussycat Peaceniks," in Irvine, Calif., Tursday, Feb. 26,
A jump-out is typically described as multiple officers patrolling in an unmarked car, who at some point see something suspicious, and jump out of the car at once on unsuspecting pedestrians, with the intent of catching them off guard. Overwhelmingly, the jump-outs that have been reported involve at least one black male.
Iman Hadieh was standing outside a bar smoking with some new friends on the evening of October 6 when the police cars came. It was about eight young black men, and her, a woman of Palestinian origin who describes herself as white. “I can’t tell you how many vehicles descended upon us because it all happened so fast,” she said. The cars were
The U.S. Department of Justice is considering expanding its rules against racial profiling in order to protect more Americans from having their civil rights violated, an unnamed government official said Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice is considering expanding its rules against racial profiling in order to protect more Americans from having their civil rights violated, an unnamed government official said Wednesday. Encouraged by civil rights groups who say that law enforcement unfairly targeted Latinos when it came to immigration cases and
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