Friday, June 09, 2006
Hikind bill calls for ethnic profiling
State legislation proposed Thursday would allow law enforcers to consider race and ethnicity in identifying potential terrorism suspects - a move decried by a civil rights advocate.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, noted that the 19 men who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks all were Muslims from either the Middle East or Asia - backgrounds he said resembled those of the terror suspects arrested in Canada last week.
"Let's get real. There is a terrorist profile," Hikind said.
Hikind said further, that if Hasidic Jews were the one's committing terrorist acts, he would have no problem with Police profiling Hasidic Jews in the City.
The proposed legislation would authorize law enforcement officials to "consider race and ethnicity as one of many factors that could be used in identifying persons who can be initially stopped, questioned, frisked and/or searched."
The proposed bill drew the wrath of Donna Lieberman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, who compared it to the alleged racial police profiling of blacks in New York.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060609/4033484.asp
State legislation proposed Thursday would allow law enforcers to consider race and ethnicity in identifying potential terrorism suspects - a move decried by a civil rights advocate.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind, D-Brooklyn, noted that the 19 men who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks all were Muslims from either the Middle East or Asia - backgrounds he said resembled those of the terror suspects arrested in Canada last week.
"Let's get real. There is a terrorist profile," Hikind said.
Hikind said further, that if Hasidic Jews were the one's committing terrorist acts, he would have no problem with Police profiling Hasidic Jews in the City.
The proposed legislation would authorize law enforcement officials to "consider race and ethnicity as one of many factors that could be used in identifying persons who can be initially stopped, questioned, frisked and/or searched."
The proposed bill drew the wrath of Donna Lieberman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, who compared it to the alleged racial police profiling of blacks in New York.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060609/4033484.asp
Comments:
Hey Dov, where were you with the police brutality (10 complaints have been filed with CCRB) and the non stop ticketing
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: June 09, 2006 1:25 PM
: June 09, 2006 1:25 PM
YAY!!! Someone finally woke up to reality.
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: June 09, 2006 2:42 PM
hikind is barking up the wrong tree
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