Three foreign-born men now living in Japan have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government over racial profiling. Each of the men claims to have been targeted by police because of his race, ethnicity or national origin. The lawsuit highlights issues of racism and racial identity in the country that appear to grow as Japan […]
Another employee, standing nearby, said Curry was “using the race card.” “So we got an Uncle Tom saying ‘I’m doing the race card,’ but he’s hanging with this dude,” the comedian said as he showed both employees on camera. As the standoff continued, Curry expressed he felt threatened by the two employees standing near him. […]
SOMERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man whose violent arrest for alleged traffic violations is under investigation by state police said Monday that he was stopped because he was a young Black man driving a nice car. Brandon Calloway and some of his family members spoke with an Associated Press reporter outside a courthouse in […]
A Kroger security guard lost their job after three Texas women, on different instances, were allegedly racially profiled by him. All three incidents was captured on video, showing how the women were discriminated against them. Shelondra Peavy, Stephanie Teel, and Teel’s cousin Kamesha Sterling allege that a security guard hired by Allied Universal Security but […]
A California city has agreed to pay a Black couple $150,000 after police officers racially profiled them in their store in 2020. Yema Khalif and his wife were putting up inventory in their store in August 2020, when Tiburon Police officers demanded that Khalif put his key in the door of his store and show ID […]
A Kentucky man has filed a lawsuit against the LaRue County Sheriff’s Department, claiming he was racially profiled when he was pulled out of his car, thrown to the ground and detained for nearly an hour. 38-year-old Anthony Freeman from Elizabethtown, says the incident took place on July 31, 2021, at around 9:30 p.m., when he […]
Conners told officers in a video according to WSBTV, “I ain’t never shoplift a day in my life. You got the wrong man.” Once Conners was shown security surveillance video of the “Wright” person stealing at the store, he told them to look, “that is not me.” He told them to look at his tattoos […]
A Florida judge has ordered a white man to watch the Netflix documentary 13th after he aggressively questioned a Black teen last summer. Around 5:30 a.m. on June 9, 2020, 56-year-old Luis Orlando Santos Santiago spotted a Black teen riding his bike as he was leaving his home and heading to work, the Tampa Bay […]
An locksmith recorded his interaction with several police officers who confronted him as he was changing a lock what he said was a predominantly white neighborhood. The video was shared on TikTok on May 23 and has been viewed over one million times. An officer tells the man and his colleague they because someone called […]