With no ‘reasonable suspicion’ required, black people are 23 times more likely to be targeted. The courts must address this…
Archive for February, 2014
Sikh groups have criticised the scope of a Whitehall review into whether British SAS soldiers were involved in the 1984 Amritsar massacre. They are concerned that the review only covered any British complicity in the first part of 1984 – not in the latter half of the year at the time of the massacre, in early June 1984. David Cameron launched the probe last month after archive documents suggested that a British officer helped the Indian authorities with plans to remove Sikh separatists from the city’s Golden Temple…
Obviously, deeply ingrained racial inequality has a wide range of consequences here in the United States. Some of them, like issues of criminal justice and voting rights, are perhaps more starkly evident than others. But racial divides also impact other areas that haven’t traditionally been associated with civil rights. Structures of racism and privilege continue to put a serious toll on the African American community’s health — and contribute to the fact that black Americans are still dying younger than white Americans…
See: Think Progress, 3rd Feb, 2014