Whats amusing is that these statistics and this use of technology to quantify racial profiling and show it really happens only confirms what black men and women have been saying for the past X years: [ A convenience store owner in Miami Gardens Florida installed 16 cameras in his Quickstop a year ago. The aim was not to surveil shoppers, but rather the police repeatedly harassing the store’s black workers. One employee, 28-year-old Earl Sampson, has been stopped by cops 258 times in four years, searched more than 100 times and arrested 56 times. The most serious offense Sampson has ever been found to have committed throughout all these stops was low-level marijuana possession. He has even been stopped dozens of times by cops for “trespassing” in the store where he works. “I feel like I can’t even be in my neighborhood,” said Sampson ]
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:55:59 +0000
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