DR. BEAU GROSSCUP: Since the 9/11 attacks, racial profiling has become an accepted component of the War on Terror. Given that the perpetrators of 9/11 were assumed to be members of Al Qaeda, anyone looking “Middle Eastern” or Arab or Muslim was/is racially profiled as suspicious. But in combating domestic terrorism, racial profiling of people of color makes no objective sense.
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Illegal Arrests: Getting Beyond Rights
SARAH K. LOOSE: What’s to be done when people’s basic constitutional and human rights are violated by the very folks whose job it is to protect them?