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“’They don’t belong’: police called on Native American teens on college tour”
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Rapid City Judge Openly Disgusted by Racial Profiling by Local Police Could Be Removed by State Supreme Court
Here is the ABA Journal article, with links to both the complaint and the investigator’s report. Of note, the judge allegedly referred to the Rapid City police department as a bunch of “racists” in response to an answer about the reason for the police to stop a vehicle. He also noted it was one of the worst cases of racial profiling he had ever seen.
While the report does mention the comment of a defense attorney that the judge’s comment was justified (and agreed the police had behaved in a racist manner), the report is completely silent on this very serious question of racism. In fact, race is all but absent from the report, and it absolutely missing from the formal complaint. The text of a 2000 U.S. Civil Rights Commission report on South Dakota justice system discrimination against American Indians is here. Rapid City’s police department is featured heavily there.
Much of the investigative report details instances of fairly awful behavior by the judge in other contexts, to be sure.
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal Finds Oji-Cree Man A Victim of Police Racial Profiling – AKA “You Rode That Bike How Far?”
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has determined that Garry McKay, 51, an Oji-Cree man living in Toronto, was the victim of racial profiling. He was stopped by police in a laneway because he was riding a new-looking bicycle. He was then arrested for possession of stolen property, patted down for weapons, handcuffed, and placed in a cruiser for 19 minutes.
However, the color and bicycle type did not match the description of the one he was accused of stealing, which was listed in the police computer as stolen in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The distance between Toronto and Winnipeg is almost 1400 miles (2253 km).
A hearing will be held in the future to determine whether police will be fined.
Aboriginal Racial Profiling or the Key To Being Banned From a Shopping Mall?
In Wilson v. Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc., [2011] B.C.H.R.T.D. No. 37, a British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal rejected Edward Wilson’s claim that he was banned from a Victoria B.C. shopping mall due to racial profiling. Mr. Wilson is Aboriginal.
The shopping mall security personnel claimed he was previously banned from the mall and upon reports that he had been “keying” cars in the parking lot.
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