Racial profiling

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring filed a lawsuit against the town of Windsor after accusations of its police department racially discriminating.

In August 2019, trooper John Darcy pulled over a Black motorist. Moments before, he said the man looked like a "thug," pointing out his dreadlocks and shirt.

Mary MacCarthy said she was traveling to Denver with her 10-year-old daughter after her brother died suddenly.

The woman falsely accused Joshua Black fit the description of an individual who was breaking into people's cars.

"Riding my bike around Google's campus and somebody called security on me because they didn't believe I was an employee," Angel Onuoha said.

Lawyer Jelle Klaas said the court's decision "leaves open the door for ethnic profiling," and one of the plaintiffs is expected to continue to appeal the case.

Following the vote to expel him, John Thompson said he would continue representing his district despite calls from the Legislature for him to quit.

Several additional videos showing some of the build-up and another angle of the altercation have also surfaced

Police released 47 minutes of body camera footage of the incident. The realtor, Eric Brown, has accused the police department of racial profiling.

Lamya Robinson's parents say they are considering legal action after the incident in Livonia, Michigan.

"The driver, an elected official who does not dispute driving without a front license plate, owes our sergeant an apology," Police Chief Todd Axtell said.

Scott's family is "extremely disappointed" by a Texas grand jury's decision not to charge the detention officers involved in the Black man's death, its attorney said.

A Paris appeals court ordered the state of France to pay reparations in the form of 1,500 euros to three young men who were racially profiled in 2017.

Footage of a white police officer confronting a Black man in a diner has gone viral, with some even insinuating the officer was inebriated at the time.

St. Cloud Police Chief Blair Anderson is calling for police reform but says the current proposals are leaving out the voices of law enforcement officials and are "going to get people killed."

A study found that state police agencies upheld only 49 of the nearly 3,500 racial profiling allegations submitted from 2016 to 2019.

A viral TikTok video shows the woman being questioned by officers, who she said then held for 72 hours before releasing her without charge.

"We want all Target guests to feel welcome and respected whenever they shop in our stores; we're deeply sorry for what happened, and we've terminated the security team member who was involved," said a Target spokesperson.

The three boys, aged 16 and 17, were detained by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy officers inside a Target in Westlake Village, Los Angeles.

The video was shared on Twitter by civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who said it showed racism is "a worldwide pandemic."

Keller Williams real estate broker Kim Barnhart was recorded confronting people at a neighborhood swimming pool in North Carolina.

"We are shocked and appalled at the volume of horrifically racist commentary we have received regarding this policy exception," officials said in a statement.

Lincoln County exempts "people of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public" from mandatory mask order.

Tom Austin told Newsweek he is no longer CEO of the F2 Group after a video went viral accusing him of racially profiling a group of black men inside an office building's gym.

Tom Austin, the managing partner of F2 Group, told Newsweek that he "should have handled it differently," but insisted the incident had nothing to do with race.

Deputy Eli Max stopped Phillip Colbert and kept him for 40 minutes over the pine tree air freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror.

"I call ICE in a minute. I have no problem calling ICE," said Hamilton County judge Robert Ruehlman.

Abdelhaq Sari, the vice chairman of Montreal's Public Security Committee, was barred from attending a Montreal police conference, and says he was outraged by his treatment.

Black and Latino drivers were also more than three times more likely to be removed from the vehicle, twice as likely to be handcuffed and faced higher odds of arrest than their white counterparts.

"We hope the new policies make sure that other people aren't stopped and harassed just because they look Latino," said Stephanie Martinez, who says she and her family were wrongly targeted by deputies.