#racial profiling

[americanmarketplace]

CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY!!!!!!

PEOPLE WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY WE ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC !!!!!!!!! DEMOCRATS WANT A DEMOCRACY TO TAKE AWAY YOUR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS !!!!!!! DEMOCRACY HAS NO INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS MAJORITY RULES !!!!!! PLEASE STOP THIS DEMOCRACY CRAP ITS A TOTAL LIE < FOR THE LOVE OF GOD START THINKING FOR YOURSELVES DO SOME RESEARCH AND LEARN THE FACTS !!!!!!

[pedrospatch]

i’m a u.s citizen. but because i look a certain way and my skin is a certain color, i’m genuinely so fucking scared of these ice raids. they have been snatching up citizens and documented immigrants based on their appearance. it’s almost like it doesn’t have anything to do with citizenship status.

[political-us]

Racial profiling of Native Americans during Trump immigration raids

[relaxedstyles]

I went to get a loan and they asked my race

I wrote down human inside the space

It's a disgrace how they try to debase

The Beasties pushing back on quotas and racially based business ✌️ #meritocracy

[allthecanadianpolitics]

An Indigenous father and daughter in British Columbia are accusing Canadian Tire and its third-party security company of racial profiling and racism after they say he was singled out at a store in Coquitlam and an employee responded with a racist comment. Dawn Wilson is speaking publicly about the human rights complaint she and her father, Richard Wilson, filed after years of trying to settle the dispute herself, saying she hopes it will lead to systemic change at the retail giant. The complaint alleges that on Jan. 17, 2020, the pair purchased new tires for installation and shopped in-store while they waited. At the checkout, Wilson says a guard with the company Blackbird Security asked to search her father’s backpack, despite other customers also having similar bags.

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[karadin]

while you were sleeping ...

The U.S. Army has told units to prepare for deployment at the U.S.-Mexico border in the next 24 to 48 hours.

Trump declared a 'state of emergency' at the border, despite the fact that we have a fully staffed border patrol and we are not in a wartime footing with Mexico.

National Science Foundation freezes grants in response to Trump executive orders

Native Americans concerned that they may be rounded up in mass deportation efforts due to racial profiling

Trump states that GAZA should be 'swept clean' and over one million refugees to be moved to Egypt and Jordan. (these countries have refused by the way)

Trump also mentions that Gaza has 'great beachfront property' and his son in law Jared Kushner, a friend of Netanyahu since childhood, has made the same statements that Gaza would be great place to build condos (and not for Palestinians)

Despite a 'cease fire' attacks have continued in Gaza, many by settler groups with police esorts, as soon as Trump lifted Biden era sanctions on settler incursions.

some USAID officials were put on leave for not abiding Trump's order to halt all international aid.

Trump has placed all Diversity and Inclusion federal employees across agencies on paid leave for 30 days until their positions are terminated.

The US Air Force took down a video for new recruits showcasing the Tuskegee Airmen, a famous all black fighting force from WW2, as well as the WAVES, women who joined the service during WW2.

The advisory office of DOGE now run solely by Elon Musk, a US government contractor puts him in nominal charge of government programs, a conflict of interest, however he has been booted from an office next to Trump in the White House to another building.

This Department of Government Efficiency now is taking over the US Digital Service in charge of all US gov websites, including the new IRS Free File (where you can do your taxes online for free, a holdover from the Biden Administration.)

Trump is paving the way for the Pentagon to remove transgender service members

The Quaker faith have taken the Trump administration to court over a new policy to enter churches and religious spaces in mass deportation efforts.

Trump puts hold on refugees - hundreds of thousands of people fleeing strife in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Haiti and Venezuela have been stopped from entering the US - the program was bipartisan and many have waited years in a legal process to enter.

Trump has revoked a Biden admin program that allowed 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans and nearly 1 million migrants allowed into the country through an app called CBP One, all of these individuals are now targeted for deportation.

Vice President Vance complained when U.S. Catholic bishops condemned ICE entering places of employment, churches and schools in mass deportation raids (lifting an Obama era restriction)

Vice President Vance states that Big Tech is too powerful in the US, at the same time Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, along with other 'tech bros' were featured at Trump's inauguration, seated in front of his cabinet picks.

Trump fires DOJ employees who worked on Trump's prosecution for insurrection on Jan 6 as well as his stolen US government 'eyes only' documents. Republicans are investigating the bi-partisan Jan 6th investigations under the Biden administration.

Trump pardoned more than 1,500 individuals for their crimes during the Jan 6th insurrection, this has lead to backlash among a bi-partisan Congress as well as the public. One of the insurrectionists was killed by police at a conflict on his day of release, another was re-arrested for breaking his parole for previous convictions.

[jazzandother-blog]

Miles Davis being kissed by his wife Francis as he is released from jail, in 1959.

Photo by Stanley Hall

Miles Davis siendo besado por su esposa Francis cuando es liberado de la cárcel, en 1959. (Foto: Stanley Hall).

(English / Español / Italiano)

In August 1959, the famous jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was brutally assaulted by a police officer outside the Birdland club in New York. Davis had just finished recording his iconic album "Kind of Blue" and was at the height of his fame when he was stopped and beaten for no reason. This incident was widely reported and Davis recounted the experience in his 1989 autobiography.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ En agosto de 1959, el famoso trompetista de jazz Miles Davis fue brutalmente agredido por un oficial de policía fuera del club Birdland en Nueva York. Davis había acabado de grabar su icónico álbum "Kind of Blue" y estaba en la cima de su fama cuando fue detenido y golpeado sin motivo. Este incidente fue ampliamente reportado y Davis relató la experiencia en su autobiografía de 1989.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nell'agosto del 1959, il famoso trombettista jazz Miles Davis fu brutalmente aggredito da un agente di polizia fuori dal club Birdland di New York. Davis aveva appena finito di registrare il suo iconico album "Kind of Blue" ed era all'apice della sua fama quando fu fermato e picchiato senza motivo. L'incidente fu ampiamente riportato e Davis raccontò l'esperienza nella sua autobiografia del 1989.

[idiot-mushroom]

me: *gets racially profiled by another student for the fifth time this week* ah maybe i should tell the school that shitty stuff is happening

me: *emails school abt shitty stuff*

school: *doesn’t do anything/doesn’t even reach out*

me: damn

[gwydionmisha]

US military to send additional 1,500 troops to border

It is illegal for them to detain anyone or help in detention. Some of this is optics, but there is a real slippery slope feel to it. Since SCOTUS abolished rule of law and laws no longer constrain the president, I don't like or trust this.

After all Hegseth has promised to purge any generals with ethics and they confirmed him with Vance breaking the tie. Generals with ethics were what constrained Trump from turning the military loose on peaceful protesters last time he tried to do it.

I was always against raids and the general shittiness of our immigration/CBP militarized system even before I heard the story I'm going to tell here. This has haunted my since the early '90's when a prof told it to me.

So she and her husband are Native Americans, with four tribes between them. The tribes were all Northern plains ones. I can't remember which of them was Lakota, but they were enrolled members of different tribes. As indigenous to the United States as it's possible to be.

So they get jobs teaching down in L.A. and one day, the husband is taking a bus home and the bus gets raided and he has no proof of citizenship on him just normal ID, so they are going to deport him to Mexico even though he speaks no Spanish and his Ancestors have been here since they walked over the land bridge.

She had to rush home and dig through the moving boxes, trying to find all his documentation and she manages to rescue him and bring him home. It was terrifying. They didn't know that they could be deported for looking native to the country in which they and their ancestors had always lived. They started looking for jobs in the North right away.

I've been thinking about it multiple times a day all year. I assumed it would start happening in large amounts as soon as the "mass deportation" sweeps started, that they'd try to deport Native Americans and natural born citizens. Likely even on purpose as they were saying that was what they were going to do since at least the election.

Quakers sue to keep US immigration agents out of houses of worship

[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.

[blacksapphicguide]

The Bold Type (TV series).

2010s TV show | 5 seasons (Cancelled) Fashion, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Politics, Social Commentary.

Plot points:

Career women and challenges they may face

Fashion industry

Dating within the workplace

Ethnic and gender diversity

Feminism

Identity: social and political

Politics

Friendship

Loyalty

Ups and down of life and love

Gun politics

Conversations about abortion, miscarriages, reproductive health and breast cancer

Reconnecting with absent parents

Relationships and conversations about monetary, class and career positional differences

Marriage and divorce

Coming out, discovering sexuality

Conversations about being racially profiled

New York City (NYC)

Multiple queer relationships

Sapphic relationships (joint main)

Black sapphic characters:

Kat Edison [bisexual] (Aisha Dee) Tia Clayton [lesbian] (Alexis Floyd) Chloe Blair [transwoman] (Ianne Fields Stewart) Daniella [lesbian] (Gabrielle Graham)

Connections:

Kat x Adena (interracial sapphic: mixed [black x white] x middle eastern) x Tia (black sapphic) x Ava (interracial sapphic: mixed x white) x Ellie (interracial sapphic: mixed x white) x Daniella (black sapphic) x Gina (interracial sapphics: mixed x white) x Michelle (interracial sapphics: mixed x white)

Sex & Nudity - Moderate

Characters make out: fully clothed and in underwear

Suggestive scenes , preluding offscreen sex

Both heterosexual and homosexual partially explicit sex scenes

Moaning, movements

Heavily implied oral sex

Hookups

Sexts

Sex toy usage

Conversations about sexual health and freedom

Conversations about climbing the corporate ladder through sex

Violence & Gore - None

Profanity - Moderate

Use of the word ‘fuck, shit, crap, hell, etc’.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking - Moderate

Scenes in bars.

Social drinking at both social and networking events

Character gets visibly drunk

Use of a cigarette.

Mentions of being drugged

Frightening & Intense Scenes - None

[lokiinmediasideblog]

STOP THE NC MASK BAN

Even if you're outside of NC, please call and say that you'll NEVER set foot or spend money in North Carolina!!!

Call these 3 reps as they may be swayed!

Call to stop the mask ban Representative Tim Reeder (he's a doctor!): Timothy.Reeder@ncleg.gov/ 919-733-5757

Representative Kristin Baker: Kristin.Baker@ncleg.gov/ 919-733-5861

Representative Donny Lambeth: Donny.Lambeth@ncleg.gov/ 919-733-5747

[benandstevesposts]

State Police Were Sent To Help - Beatings Followed!

SAGINAW, MI – John Haynes wasn’t having it.

The 69-year-old Saginaw handyman, who is Black, let Michigan State Police troopers know precisely how he felt when they pulled him over in his van a few years ago, according to a video of the encounter obtained by MLive.

“I have been getting stopped all damn week,” Haynes says irately after he’s placed in a patrol vehicle. “For what? You looked through my van; you didn’t find any drugs. You (are) just interrupting a good person’s life, and I’m tired of getting stopped … Is that what we’ve got to go through to live in America?”

Haynes ultimately filed a complaint and a lawsuit. His complaint is one of more than 80 filed in the last two years against the Michigan State Police in so-called “Secure Cities” like Saginaw and Flint – cities with existing police forces but not enough resources. Troopers, like those Haynes encountered, were brought in to help as part of a multi-million-dollar statewide program.

Complaints, criminal charges and lawsuits have piled up against state troopers in cities that participate in the Secure Cities Partnership, many of them racial in nature. Experts and law enforcement officials interviewed for this story said it’s the result of sending officers from an outside agency – mostly white state troopers – into predominantly Black cities, stoking existing, well-documented conflicts between Black people and white police officers.

Since the program launched in 2012, three residents have been killed in high-speed crashes and a teen died after being Tased while riding his ATV. At least six lawsuits have been filed, costing Michigan more than $27 million in payouts. And most recently in Saginaw, three white state troopers were criminally charged in two separate beatings of Black men caught on camera.

Related: Michigan State Police trooper pleads to beating handcuffed Saginaw man, agrees to stop being cop

Residents and activists have told MLive they want Michigan State Police out of their towns.

“Personally, I think it should it end,” Jeffrey Bulls, president of the Saginaw nonprofit Community Alliance for the People, said about the Secure Cities program. “If I truly believed more police equaled more safety, I would increase Saginaw police, the ones we know.”

But elected and law enforcement officials say local departments are underfunded and their cities wouldn’t be able to function without their help.

“State police is doing a great job,” Saginaw police Chief Robert M. Ruth said. “We work together as a team. The resources they provide to us are tremendous to keep citizens safe.”

‘He was calling me ‘boy’ the whole time’

In 2022, two disturbing videos of white police officers beating Black men in Saginaw emerged. Three Michigan State Police troopers were charged in the two separate beatings – criminal cases that are still winding through the court system. Resignations and reassignments of superior officers followed.

You can visit the originating site here if you'd like to read the complete report.