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Racial profiling by police is an “everyday occurrence” in Japan, one of three foreign-born residents who sued the government over the issue on Monday said. In the first lawsuit of its kind, the three men accused the police of having repeatedly questioned them because of their ethnicity or appearance. They are each seeking 3.3 million yen ($22,300) in compensation. “A lot of apathy here has allowed people like me to be abused and mistreated,” one […]
The three men — one born in Pakistan, an African American, and a Pacific Islander — have been repeatedly questioned by police because of their ethnicity or appearance, their lawyers said in a statement. “It would be the first lawsuit over operation of racial profiling by police in questioning,” even though suits over police’s excessive questioning have taken place in the past, one of their lawyers, Moe Miyashita, told AFP. Despite rising immigration, foreign-born residents […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump said Sunday he is open to racial profiling, touching another raw nerve on the issue of race in America. African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and other minorities in the United States have complained bitterly for decades about the practice in which police use a person’s race, religion, national origin or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting them of committing a crime. Trump, the free-talking presumptive Republican presidential nominee, came close to […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Stephen Curry’s father-in-law was nearly arrested ahead of Golden State’s ill-tempered defeat to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday in Game Six of the NBA Finals, in what the player’s wife decried as a case of racial profiling. Curry’s wife Ayesha said her father was detained in Cleveland in the mistaken belief he was a well-known con artist who was thought to be attempting to attend the game using bogus […]
