Whites did what they could to push blacks as much out of their community as possible and blacks tended to avoid areas where their presence could create conflict. ... The African American boy subsequently died from his injuries, but police refused to arrest the white man who initially threw the stones, igniting a race war between the whites and blacks of Chicago. Participants of the Chicago race riots, on both sides, (white and black), took to the streets ready for violence, and anything in between. ... Police officers arrested "twice as many blacks as whites and they were considered bia...

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defines racial profiling as the discriminatory practice by police of treating blackness or brownness as an indication of possible criminality. ... In contrast, the Daily Illini cites that racial profiling is generally thought of as the targeting of blacks more than whites in traffic stops or accusing blacks of crimes on the basis of race alone. ... There is the incident with the boy shown on video being punched in the face by a police officer in California, while he was handcuffed. ... Meanwhile its not just youth who adhere to this type of treatment, but its majority of black males as a whole...

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In the two-year period from January 1995 to December 1997, 70% of the drivers stopped and searched by the police were black, while only 17.5% of overall drivers " as well as overall speeders " were black.6 To look at similar case in Volusia County , Florida, in 1992, nearly 70% of those stopped on a particular Interstate highway in central Florida were black or Hispanic, although only 5% of the drivers on that highway were black or Hispanic. ... The car filled with young black men was stopped by the police several times; the white group was not stopped once, despite observing polic...

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For example, if an officer in a fairly rich neighborhood pulled over a black male wearing a nice business suit in a very expensive car and doesn't think anything of it. But then pulled over a younger black male wearing a FUBU sweat shirt in the same expensive car but did a back round check on him. ... Massey and Denton note, "no group in the history of the United States has ever experienced the sustained high levels of residential segregation imposed on blacks." ...

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The jurors didn't care about the boy's age and his family - most of them only wanted him to be sent to the electric chair because he was a foreigner who also lives in one of the worst parts of town. ... The most recent statistics show that blacks are arrested and incarcerated for drug use at a much higher rate than can be accounted for by their rate of drug use. Blacks constitute some 35% of those arrested for drug possession, 55% of those convicted of possession, and 74% of those sentenced to prison for possession. ... The study also found that black-on-black crime or Latino-on-Lati...

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