Friday, April 19, 2019
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Data shows black people in Oakland are much more likely than white people to be stopped, searched, handcuffed and arrested
“People are damaged. People are heartbroken. People have fear,” the dark-skinned Oakland native said, his voice amplified by outrage and pain. “People are scared of the same people that’s supposed to protect them.”
Like the others sitting with me at the long table in front of the crowd at the Oakland public library, I was part of an advisory board tasked by the California attorney general with helping to quantify and address racial profiling by law enforcement. We listened as speaker after speaker shared hurtful and humiliating stories: traffic stops turned ugly, calls for help ignored, teenage boys hassled by cops for no discernible reason, rude encounters with officers who mistook victims for criminals.
Continue reading...from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2DlOUQk
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