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| Racial Profiling and Police Brutality Against Hispanics |
| 2018-02-21 |
| [ThoughtCo] Police brutality is hardly just a black issue, as Hispanics all over the country increasingly face police abuse, racial profiling, and hate crimes. Often this misconduct stems from xenophobia and rising concerns about undocumented immigrants. Across the nation, police departments have made headlines for their mistreatment of Latinos. These cases have not only involved undocumented immigrants but also Hispanic Americans and permanent legal residents. In states as varied as Connecticut, California, and Arizona, Latinos have suffered at the hands of police in egregious manners. Latinos Targeted in Maricopa County Racial profiling. Unlawful detainment. Stalking. These are some of the inappropriate and illegal behaviors that officers in Arizona have allegedly engaged in, according to a 2012 complaint the U.S. Justice Department filed against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. MCSO deputies stopped Latino drivers anywhere from four to nine times more than other drivers, in some cases only to detain them for long periods. In one instance, deputies pulled over a car with four Latino men inside. The driver hadn’t violated any traffic laws, but the officers proceeded to force him and his passengers out of the car and make them wait on the curb, zip-tied, for an hour. The Justice Department also detailed incidents where the authorities followed Hispanic women to their homes and roughed them up. The federal government alleges that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio routinely failed to investigate cases of sexual assault against Hispanic women. The aforementioned cases refer to police interaction with Latinos on the streets of Maricopa County, but inmates in the county jail have also suffered at the hands of law enforcement. Female prisoners have been denied feminine hygiene products and called derogatory names. Hispanic male inmates have been on the receiving end of racial slurs and put-downs such as "wetbacks" and "stupid Mexicans." Cruz, Cruz, Cruz.... where have I heard that Latino sounding name before ? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #19 Can't all cop shops be like Baltimore. Got to be some which are more or less straight. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2018-02-21 23:49 |
| #18 Medea to Hay Wain and Whittier, Our brave new cave craves hypnopaedia. Sure, candy and brandy And Gandhi are handy, But modern mass media's speedier. Yet another classic... |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2018-02-21 20:07 |
| #17 Medea to Hay Wain and Whittier, Our brave new cave craves hypnopaedia. Sure, candy and brandy And Gandhi are handy, But modern mass media's speedier. Or something. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2018-02-21 19:53 |
| #16 You know which governments REALLY treat Hispanics poorly? Those in Latin America. The treatment down there is so bad, many prefer the mistreatment here in the US. Pray we don't decide to make home a more attractive place. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-02-21 19:51 |
| #15 mistreatment of Latin grom, Mrs. Bellart would have thought all her HS Latin students belonged in jail for their mistreatment of the language... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-02-21 18:38 |
| #14 far better that you fear the media Tiny, I appreciate the sentiment but doubt the veracity - was 'media' even a term used in the 19th century? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2018-02-21 18:36 |
| #13 Across the nation, police departments have made headlines for their mistreatment of Latin |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-21 17:00 |
| #12 This is an ongoing attack on America. Every effort is made to destabilize our society. Media being willing accomplices and any other willing. Funding is from primarily out of this country(people who are intended beneficiaries only receive legislation they are not a donation source). This has been done for many years. If we fight among-st each other we are weakened. |
| Posted by: Dale 2018-02-21 16:39 |
| #11 My load of crap meter just pegged out on my mental dashboard. Boo F'ing Hoo, get over it! Minorities are disproportionately represented in crime statistics because they COMMIT a disproportionate number of crimes. And yes, after decades of that a certain number of the justice system members have a somewhat jaundiced view of some of these folks, but not to the level of bias that is alleged. Fix fatherless families and welfare dependency to end this cycle by reintroducing the ideas of shame and self-reliance to our society! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-02-21 13:24 |
| #10 Article written by Nadra Kareem Nittle. i.e. translated from Eubonics into English. ORIGINAL TEXT Yo, mah Niggas! De Greys be getting tie-yad hearin 'bout hows we be oppressed an need mo' "bling for our sting" (Ya knows wat Iz sayin?). So weze need to change it up a lil' an talk 'bout Lateenos. Like they be brown so dat's ALMOST like Niggas, so we say da same thing as befo but thro in some Espanol (Ya know wat I mean?). Den, we give the "wetbacks" a quarta wat we take from de Grays an tell 'em ta SHUT DA **** UP. If da 'Teenos complain we go medieval on 'em an send back where deys came from. Am I right? Am I Right! (Iz such a genius!) Later y'all |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2018-02-21 13:24 |
| #9 There is a competition with "African Americans"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-02-21 11:02 |
| #8 Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse -Mark Twain |
| Posted by: Tiny Cleater9439 2018-02-21 10:58 |
| #7 Across the nation, police departments have made headlines for their mistreatment of Latinos. I don't see these 'headlines' very often, and I know that's not because of the media's unwillingness to print them. If this is happening on the scale they'd want us to believe is happening, we'd see these 'headlines' every other day. Even articles like this are few & far between. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-02-21 10:03 |
| #6 Oh, I almost forgot. A quick reading of Marx or Hegel will demonstrate that oppression of a group is primary for communism. This article could have been written in 1968 and has the Alinsky playbook all over it. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-21 09:51 |
| #5 Aye |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-21 09:49 |
| #4 Look at the stats (remember |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-02-21 09:29 |
| #3 Motion to declare bullshit seconded and put to the floor for a vote. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-02-21 08:51 |
| #2 Ditto that #1. |
| Posted by: Dale 2018-02-21 08:20 |
| #1 B.S. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-02-21 06:46 |