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Sheriff’s Departments in California Under Investigation for Treatment of Black Residents

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Sheriff’s deputies in the Los Angeles area are accused of unlawfully targeting black residents in public housing, the Associated Press reports. Deputies for the Lancaster and Palmdale Sheriff’s Departments are under investigation for allegedly making unnecessary stops, seizures and force. The findings follow a two-year investigation, the AP reported. “While our investigation…

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Border Patrol Agents Accused of Targeting Latinos

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com U.S. Border Patrol agents in Northern Ohio are accused of targeting Latinos and using racial slurs to describe them, WXYC NBC 3 reports. The station reported that two federal lawsuits claims Latinos are targeted solely based on their race or appearance. “Agents…are engaged in a pattern or practice of restraining, interrogating, and…

ACLU: FBI Is Secretly Profiling Muslims, Latinos, African-Americans and Others

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ACLU is blasting the FBI for using an alleged secret racial and ethnic mapping program to profile Muslims in Michigan, black people in Georgia, Chinese-Americans in California and Latinos in several states, Huffington Post reports. “What we’ve uncovered through over 15,000 documents from 34 states around the country already shows, as…

Police in Georgia Prepare to Enforce Show-Me-Your-Papers Law

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police in Georgia are prepared to start enforcing the state’s controversial “show-me-your-papers law” after a federal judge lifted an injunction on it, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The law allows police to check the immigration status of suspects. Anyone believed to be in the country illegally can be detained, the Journal-Constitution reported. Aimed…

California Champions Bill to Protect Illegal Immigrants

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com While Arizona and Alabama impose tough crackdowns on illegal immigration, California lawmakers are creating a bill that would protect many illegal immigrants, Reuters reports. California lawmakers are crafting a bill that would bar local police from referring a detainee to immigration officials unless he or she has been convict of a serious…

Hispanics in Arizona worry about racial profiling

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Hispanics in Arizona protested outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office, expressing concern that they’ll be subjected to racial profiling following Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Bloomberg reports. While the court struck down three provisions of the Arizona immigration law, the justices left intact the requirement that local police check the immigration…

Concern Over San Fran Police Cooperating With FBI

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By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The relationship between the FBI and the San Francisco Police Department is coming under some scrutiny by civil rights advocates and local legislators, reports the San Francisco Examiner. Supervisor Jane Kim introduced an ordinance Tuesday to prohibit police that work with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force from collecting information about…

Fla. Cop Gets Three Years for Targeting, Stealing From Hispanic Drivers

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By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Racial profiling might seem lucrative, but the cost of doing business will eventually catch up. A Florida police officer who was arrested for stealing cash from Hispanics he pulled over was sentenced to three years in prison on Tuesday, reports the Miami Herald. Mark Ott’s sentence comes eight months after a…